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Question: B.C. man charged with repeat kidnapping dies while in custody

Trial was due to begin this month, family of victim said
A Langley man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting the same woman two times in the span of a week has died in jail just weeks before he was scheduled to stand trial.
Multiple sources have confirmed that the death of 42-year-old William John Bassett Jr. occurred near the end of March while he was being held at the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, a high-security remand centre that manages offenders who the court has ordered to remain in custody pending trial.
In response to a Times query, the BC Coroners Service said it was investigating the death of a “male in his early 40s” at the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre in March but could not name him because of the Coroners Act and provincial privacy legislation.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
The family of the victim said they were notified by police that the trial, expected to get underway this month (May), would not be proceeding because of Bassett’s death.
The family said they had been advised the trial would take at least a week of court time because of the number of witnesses and amount of evidence.
Bassett, a resident of the Brookswood area of Langley Township, was charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count each of kidnapping and unlawful confinement in connection with the May 2014 incidents.
The first charges were laid after Langley RCMP officers responded to a sexual assault where the victim had been confined overnight.
She was able to escape her captor and contact police.
Bassett was arrested at the time, charged, and released with conditions to have no contact with the victim.
A week later the same woman was reported missing to police.
Langley RCMP located her two days later, showing obvious signs of a beating, and saying she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted a second time.
She told police a number of people had taken part in the kidnapping itself as well as the confinement.
Three others were also charged in connection with the second kidnapping and sexual assault.
Court records suggest at least one of the three has since pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful confinement.
Court documents show Bassett, who graduated from a Langley high school, had a lengthy criminal history that included a previous conviction for forcible confinement.
On April 9, 1991, in Youth Court at Surrey, Bassett was convicted of assault causing bodily harm and sentenced to 35 days open custody and probation for 12 months.
On March 1, 1993, in Youth Court at Surrey, B.C., he was convicted of possession of stolen property over $1,000 and sentenced to pay restitution of $1,170.31 and to probation for 12 months.
On Nov. 2, 1995, he was convicted of possession of a narcotic and sentenced to pay a fine of $100.
On June 13, 1997, he was convicted of assault causing bodily harm, the passing of sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for one year.
On Nov. 25, 2005, in Red Deer, Alberta, he was convicted of four offences and sentenced to seven months for forcible confinement, uttering threats, obstructing a police officer, and failing to comply with recognizance.
During a previous provincial court appearance, the court heard Bassett was on a disability pension after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition in 2006.
“His condition will require surgery, but that cannot be done until he is cured of the hepatitis C disease, which he apparently contracted while in custody,” the judge noted.
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The man arrested in the South Okanagan on a Canada-wide warrant after allegedly severely injuring two people at an Aldergrove RV park made an appearance at the Penticton courthouse on Wednesday.
Thomas Charles Brydges, 73, was arrested on Tuesday in Oliver after being recognized by police from a bulletin sent across the province. He is now facing four charges including two counts of assault with a weapon, aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm.
Related: Suspect in double-attempted murder manhunt arrested near Oliver
RCMP described Brydges as known to be extremely violent. In a news release police said the woman injured at the RV park was in critical condition while the male was expected to be released from hospital on Tuesday.
Brydges said in court that he had not spoken to a lawyer yet so Crown counsel adjourned the bail hearing. Brydges was remanded to the Okanagan Correction Centre and will be sent to a Lower Mainland jail to appear in Surrey court via video on June 6 at 9:30 a.m.
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Question: Prosecutors release Nikolas Cruz videos where he says he's going to be next school shooter

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1. 'I'm going to be a professional school shooter'
Nikolas Cruz left a comment on a YouTube video back in September using his own name that simply read: 'I'm going to be a professional school shooter'
2. FBI was warned about the comment but couldn't identify him
Vlogger Ben Bennight alerted the FBI to the comment shared by Cruz. The FBI was quick to respond, arriving at his office the next day but only after Bennight called a local field agent, revealing his initial attempts to send in a screengrab of the comment failed when the email address he found listed on the agency's website came back with a domain error saying it did not exist. The FBI was unable to identify the person who posted the comment.
3. Bought an AR-15 age 18
After Cruz's mother died, he eventually moved in the the family of a former classmate, where he brought his AR-15 which was kept in a locked cabinet that he had the key to. He was able to purchase the rifle in the past year and passed a required background check. Federal law allowed people 18 and over to legally purchase long guns. At 21, people can legally buy handguns from a license dealer. Cruz was also studying marksmanship in the Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
4. Troubling Instagram page
Cruz's Instagram page is filled with disturbing posts of what appears to be himself showing off with weapons with his face covered, asking for advice on buying firearms, and making racist comments about Muslims.
5. Was a member of a white nationalist group and came to training exercises
Jordan Jereb claims that Cruz was a member of the Republic of Florida, which aims to make Florida its own white-entho state. Jereb claimed Cruz, who was adopted, was brought up in the organization by another member and he reportedly carpooled to at least two training exercises held by the group.
6. Boasted about hurting animals
Students who say they knew Cruz claimed he liked to kill animals.
'He was crazy because he liked to kill small things, like little animals - frogs and other animals like that and he just had a crazy mind,' one told 10ABC news.
Another classmate claims he would tell him he shot rats with a BB gun.
7. Took knives and bullets to school
Former classmate Joshua Charo, 16, said all he 'would talk about is guns, knives and hunting'.
Another student said he started selling knives out of a lunchbox when he started high school, while he was also found to be carrying bullet casings in his bag.
8. Was banned from carrying a backpack
Jim Gard, a math teacher, who had Cruz in his class last year, said he believes the school sent out an email warning teachers he shouldn't be allowed on campus with a backpack.
'There were problems with him last year threatening students and I guess he was asked to leave campus'.
9. Expelled for fighting
The deeply troubled 'loner' was expelled last year for 'fighting over his ex-girlfriend' with her new boyfriend.
10. Abusive to his ex-girlfriend
Students claim the gunman was abusive to his girlfriend
11. Stalked another girl
Mr Gard also claimed that he was taken with another student 'to the point of stalking her', while another student who claims to have been friends with Cruz said he had to cut him off because he started 'going after' and 'threatening' a female friend of his.
12. Peeping Tom
Neighbor Christine Rosburgh said she, and all the other neighbors, were terrified of the teen who would bang his head against a cement wall if his legal guardians tried to send him to school.
She also claims she caught him peeking in her window and when she confronted him, he said he was looking for golf balls.
'I said, "This isn't the golf course".
13. Stopped his mental health treatment
Cruz had been getting treatment at a mental health clinic, but stopped about a year ago and dropped off the radar. He was showing signs of depression.
Broward County Mayor Beam Furr said: 'It wasn't like there wasn't concern for him. We try to keep out eyes out on those kids who aren't connected... In this case, we didn't find a way to connect with this kid.'
14. Possible fetal alcohol syndrome
Natalie Brassard, a program director at the non-profit FASCETS, which works with FASD children, said some of Cruz's characteristics 'suggest that he might have been living with an invisible brain-based condition - it could have been FASD or many others.'
Conditions of FASD can range from mild to severe but can include learning disabilities, intellectual disability or low IQ, poor reasoning and judgment and a host of other issues.
15. Orphaned
Cruz's adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, 68, died of pneumonia in November last year. She was one of the only people that was remotely close to Cruz. His adoptive father Roger Cruz died of a heart attack several years ago.
After his mother died, he and his brother were left in the care of family friend Barbara Kumbatovich, of Long Island, New York.
He is believed to have lived for a few weeks at the Lantana Cascade mobile-home neighborhood with a different family friend before moving in with a former classmate's family in Parkland around Thanksgiving.
16. Disturbing posts on Snapchat
Cruz was investigated by state authorities in 2016 after he filmed himself cutting his own arms on Snapchat and saying he wanted to buy a gun.
He posted the video on the social media app in September 2016, 17 months before he allegedly committed the school shooting.
He posted the Snapchat clip just days after turning 18 year of age and shortly after he broke up with his girlfriend ‘who was cheating on him,’ his mother told investigators.

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Officials were so concerned about the mental stability of the student accused of last month's Florida school massacre that they decided he should be forcibly committed.


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Question: Ont. towns struggle to pay for infrastructure

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As communities age and money for big projects dries up, top municipal officials are saying “something has to give.”
A report on the perspective of chief administrative officers (CAOs) — by Strategy Corp. — found that just as Toronto is struggling to find ways to pay for much-needed infrastructure work, smaller communities, too, are finding it increasingly difficult to come with badly-needed cash.
“You thought Toronto was just having these problems,” said John Matheson, report co-author and a principal at Strategy Corp. “Actually, the report indicates it’s the municipal sector as a whole ... These problems are fairly common across Ontario which is why it’s important people pay attention to them.”
The group interviewed 26 CAOs — the top bureaucrats of towns, counties or cities — to get their views on the future of municipal government. The report focuses on small- to medium-size communities, and was provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun.
The report says CAOs are seeing a gap between what the public expects of local government and what they are prepared to pay for has grown. One participant told the authors “something has to give.”
The report says councillors in those communities are hesitant to raise taxes or create new revenue streams to pay for the work which isn’t surprising, he added.
“There’s a lot of infrastructure put in the ground between 50 and 75 years ago,” Matheson said, adding that years of deferring infrastructure work are catching up with communities.
The CAOs also expressed concern about the rise of a divisive brand of populism in city halls across Ontario. A number of councillors are mimicking U.S. President Donald Trump’s brash style, often publicly attacking bureaucrats and questioning their work.
“(Municipal governments) are not designed to have a somebody on council who is structurally opposing everything,” he said. “It’s contributing to only half of them saying they had good relations with their councils.”
The interviews used for the report were conducted confidentially. The findings offer a rare, unvarnished view of major issues taking place in these towns and cities, said Ron Shaw, a senior advisor with Strategy Corp who co-authored the report.
Shaw, a former CAO with over 30 years experience in Stratford and Kincardine, said top municipal bureaucrats don’t want to be critical of their communities publicly.
“They’re not going to say much different than what their councillors may be saying,” he added. “They want to make sure they represent the views of the municipality. Speaking confidentially, they can speak to us ... and give honest, open feedback.”
Releasing the report at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s annual meeting in Ottawa this week will help bring the concerns of the CAOs into focus, he said.
Matheson added that the concerns raised in the report will need to be addressed through a variety of means, including the provision of more cash to municipalities.
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The city needs to find millions of dollars to separate rail from roads in the southern suburb now that the Barrhaven Rail Safety Program has council’s endorsement.
The first step is to free up money in the 2018 municipal budget, possibly in the $3-million range, to order environmental assessments for the crossings at Woodroffe Avenue, the southwest Transitway, and Fallowfield, Merivale and Jockvale roads.
The next step is to convince the upper-tier governments and Via Rail to help cover the construction tabs.
Building overpasses or underpasses at five rail crossings could cost $430 million, but that estimate is highly preliminary and doesn’t take into account the complete scope of work that might be required.
Council’s vote Wednesday means the city has a general blueprint to do the work, including a priority list for the crossings.
Woodroffe Avenue and the southwest Transitway — the site of the fatal collision between an OC Transpo bus and a Via Rail train in 2013 — are at the top of the list. The city would build a road and Transitway overpass there.
Jockavale Road is last on the priority list, but the city wants to advance a study in the shorter term to build a $6-million pedestrian and cycling underpass at the intersection.
Via wants to increase the number of trains passing through Barrhaven as part of its regular service plans, but it also has dreams of running additional trains through the corridor through a high-frequency train proposal to the federal government.
Council puts more money into asset repairs, trying to close a major funding gap
Some councillors batted around the idea of a separate tax to pay for asset repairs, but there was no way an infrastructure levy was going to fly in the current political climate.
Kitchissipi Coun. Jeff Leiper brought up a staff position from 2012 that suggested an infrastructure levy might be required if there isn’t more upper-government funding for asset maintenance.
City treasurer Marian Simulik said she doesn’t support an infrastructure levy, largely based on history.
A levy was attempted during Larry O’Brien’s mayoral term but it fizzled out.
The levy “created too much pressure on your taxpayers,” Simulik told council Wednesday.
The city is short $70 million to keep the assets in good condition. It will try making up the difference over the next 10 years.
Council voted in favour of spending $10.5 million more in the 2018 budget on asset maintenance and $7.8 million annually starting in the 2019 budget for nine years. There will also be inflationary increases to the spending.
College Coun. Rick Chiarelli, who’s skeptical about the city’s approach to funding repairs, voted against the strategy.
Watson highlights ‘extraordinary’ efforts by city on drug overdose prevention, calls for sustained effort
Mayor Jim Watson promoted the “extraordinary” efforts by the city to prevent opioid drug overdoses, announcing a larger effort this summer during the festival season.
Watson said the health unit will be working with festival organizers again to distribute “party safe information.” The city ramps up its public awareness campaign about substance abuse around this time of year before the festival season begins.
Ottawa Public Health learned this week that it will receive $350,000 more in base funding from the provincial government for opioid response programs.
“We’re ready to turn this funding into support on the ground,” Watson said.
All Ottawa firetrucks now carry naloxone kits and the city is preparing to train police on administering the drug antidote.
Watson said more help from the federal and provincial governments is “badly needed.”
The city will continue to work with community agencies on public education.
“Ongoing and sustained efforts will be required,” Watson said.
Late-night patios get consideration for Canada Day weekend
Restaurant patios on city sidewalks have a shot at staying open until 4 a.m. during the Canada Day weekend.
According to the bylaw, patios on city-owned property and within 30 metres of a residential zone must close by 11 p.m. No one can be on the patio after that time.
The Fox and Feather on Elgin Street asked to extend its patio hours until 2 a.m., instead of the mandated 11 a.m. cutoff, between June 30 and July 2.
Council on Wednesday agreed to the pub’s request and it also gave the planning department the authority to assess any other requests from businesses with patios on city-owned property. The drop-dead closing time for a patio would be 4 a.m., but only for the Canada Day weekend.
Alcohol at licensed establishments can only be served until 2 a.m. under provincial law.
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Question: Head coach Uwe Rosler's reaction to Fleetwood 2 Scunthorpe 3

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Fleetwood Town boss Uwe Rosler says the club will appeal Ash Eastham's red card after Town's epic fight-back was extinguished by a late Ivan Toney free-kick.
Josh Morris gave Scunthorpe the lead and he netted his second from the spot three minutes before the break after Eastham was ruled to have deliberately handled Toney's header in the box.
Eastham was sent off but Fleetwood rallied with Ash Hunter's 45th minute strike and Bobby Grant's 67th minute effort levelling the scores.
Nathan Pond was ruled to have fouled Toney just outside the box and he whipped home a goal Rosler says his side should not be conceding in the 78th minute.
The German is confident the straight red card will be overturned on appeal.
He said: "I went in there and spoke to the referee (Mark Heywood) after the game.
"I am not disputing the penalty, it was a penalty but I am disputing the red card because it was not a deliberate handball.
"People will see that because we will appeal, I cannot see another outcome other than Ash Eastham being available for Rochdale (next Saturday)."
Though Rosler praised his men for fighting back and getting themselves level.
He said: "We got double punished (by the red card and the penalty) and it set them up in a very good position but I think we dealt with it, we got on with it and it is great credit to the players.
"We got the equaliser but then they cannot score from that free-kick, it is as simple as that.
"I am very proud of the performance of our players.
"The start of the game was very good, the whole second half when we were down to 10-men I could not ask for any more from that.
"I'm just disappointed with the free-kick, they should not have scored from that."

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Chesterfield were staring relegation to League Two in the face prior to their trip to play Scunthorpe United, but that didn’t stop many travelling Spireites fans make the journey to Glanford Park to support their team on Bank Holiday Monday.
A 3-1 defeat to the Iron brought an end to Chesterfield’s three-year stay in League One with two games of the season remaining, starting with Charlton Athletic at the Proact Stadium on Saturday and finishing with a trip to Sheffield United on April 30.
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Question: The best money lessons I learned as a personal finance writer

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Everyone gets anxious when they get their first big professional break. For me, the sense of imposter syndrome at my first big media job was particularly acute: Here I was about to start exhorting readers to save, invest and budget. Meanwhile, I didn’t have a credit card or an emergency fund. In a defunct retirement account from my first job, I’d saved about $700.
In my defense, it’s tough out there for young people trying to save up. According to the latest Federal Reserve report on the economic well-being of U.S. households, 40% of Americans can’t come up with $400 in an emergency. I graduated from college, and have always had good jobs with health insurance and benefits, but like three-quarters of my peers, I’ve had to turn to the bank of Mom and Dad once or twice.
In the two years I’ve spent writing about money, a lot has changed for me financially. I have more than a month’s worth of expenses saved, a “very good” credit score and two retirement accounts for tax diversification. Here are the three best things I’ve learned as a personal finance writer who was, at least at the start, pretty clueless when it came to my own personal finances.
1. You don’t need to know much about stocks to invest
Even before this job, I knew the stock market pretty well. I wrote daily about the markets, and had a sense of why a stock went up or down on a given day. I also had strong opinions on the virtues of the prince earnings ratio.
And yet, my stock market knowledge wasn’t all that useful when I wasn’t making enough money to invest any of it. And more importantly, when I did start investing a lot, I realized that the stocks or mutual funds I picked out didn’t really matter, compared to the amount and continuity of my contributions. That will change, hopefully, as my nest egg starts to get bigger, my risk profile changes and I get closer to retirement. But by investing all of my money in low cost index funds, 40 years from now I’ll have also saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment fees alone, according to one estimate.
It’s difficult to overstate the personal finance benefits of using inertia to your advantage. But the same force that makes getting off the couch feel like a Herculean task can be used to your advantage by creating roadblocks against your spending, as behavioral economists like Richard Thaler have often shown. Of all the advice I’ve offered over the last two years, automating my saving and investing with recurring payments is what’s helped the most.
2. It pays to pick up the phone
Despite all the progress I’ve made setting up my financial life, my proudest non-work achievement over the last two years was winning a war with my landlord. As is customary in a competitive housing market, I’ve been asked for an extra month’s rent up front to make up for an unsatisfactory “credit check.”
Most personal finance “advice” really isn’t rocket science, as NerdWallet’s Liz Weston once told me. The exception may be credit scores: complex formulas that are used by lenders to figure out how trustworthy you are before deciding whether to give you a loan.
Because credit scores are so complicated, most of the “free scores” offered through referral sites like CreditKarma are just estimates. For serious transactions like applying for a loan, you almost always have to use what’s called a FICO score, named for the company that’s all but cornered the market for assessing creditworthiness. Some 90% of lending decisions use a FICO score, according to one estimate.
As you might expect, whether someone’s a good bet to rent an apartment is a different question than whether someone is a sound prospect for a boat loan. When you’ve just charged your plane tickets to Europe also plays a role, since you have less money to borrow in an emergency. In short, we have lots of different FICO scores, and therefore, it’s an important figure to pay attention to.
Fortunately for me, my landlord didn’t know any of this, so he had nothing to say when he got my phone call demanding to know what kind of FICO scores he’d used in our credit check. He backed down, saving my roommates and me $3,000 and giving me a practical lesson in the value of picking up the phone to solve a problem. Research backs this up: 8 in 10 people who call their credit card company to request fees or a higher limit receive one.
3. You have more control over your finances than you think
Aside from simply not having the cash, another reason why it’s hard to start saving and investing for retirement is that the financial services industry doesn’t exactly have the strongest incentive to make things clear and simple. If piling up a nest egg was so easy, why would bankers need to make so much money?
The average terms agreement for a bank account or credit card is around 5,000 words of legalese, and written beyond the typical American’s reading level. Even the simplest investing tools still require you to wrap your head around fairly abstract concepts like “risk tolerance.”
Finance people love to use fancy words to describe pretty simple things. Debt, for example, cannot be divided into “pieces,” it’s divided into “tranches” — a much more intimidating word.
But the truth is you don’t need to know very much about the components of your mutual fund or how the VIX is doing or how housing depreciation or the price of soy should be affecting your investing strategy. The guys who’ve made bets on the wisdom of their stock picking strategies usually fall on their face. Knowing what you can control — where your paycheck goes, how much you pay for financial advice, the price you pay to acquire skills — is what really counts.
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Financial illiteracy and financial insecurity are two common issues facing people of color today.
Julien and Kiersten Mitchell Saunders did not realize how common this problem was until they started considering their futures and what it would take to achieve their financial goals. In the process, they discovered a generation of older millennials sharing the life lessons they learned with others.
Following the birth of their first child, the Saunders launched the website rich & Regular, a project as a means of assisting other young, African-Americans in understanding the importance of financial well-being and wealth. After being under development for two years, it is designed to be a web-based platform where the two share tips on eliminating debt and personal finance through personal experiences.
“We launched the site because we wanted to serve as a relatable example to regular people like us,” Julien, 37, told NBC News. “Often times, conversations about money are delivered in a way that feeds into the discomfort, shame, or fear people feel when talking about money.”
Julien and Kiersten Mitchell Saunders, co-founders of richandregular.com on their wedding day. Courtesy Afolabi Sogunro / via NBC News
African-American household wealth, according to a recent report, is on a path to hit $0 by 2053. According to a 2016 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, nearly 24 percent of African-Americans live below the poverty level.
“A lot of this is the lingering effect of Jim Crow, domestic terrorism and institutional racism that has held us back from making progress at the same rate as other groups,” Julien said. “Black folk are far behind and in some cases, trending in the wrong direction concerning wage growth, unemployment, net worth, business ownership, graduation rates, homeownership etc.”
By the time Julien turns 40 in the next few years, he and Kirsten will have paid off the mortgage on their home. Not long after that, if things go as planned, they hope to retire completely from the corporate world.
Bryant Eubanks, 24, did not have anyone teaching him about personal finance, saving, and debt when he was younger. However, he did have examples. An Atlanta native and Morehouse College graduate, Eubanks, remembers waking up on early Saturday mornings and finding his uncle sitting at the kitchen table with his glasses, shuffling through papers with his calculator.
“I really didn’t know what he was doing and never seemed to ask,” Eubanks told NBC News. “However, once I got older, I soon realized that he was budgeting and trying to find a way to manage the bills.”
The first in his immediate family to attend college, Eubanks graduated with a degree in business administration with a focus in management. He quickly realized that prior to college, he didn't know much about accounting, marketing, and formulating a business plan.
“This made me think that if I, valedictorian of my high school, wasn’t knowledgeable of this information; I could only imagine how many other African-American boys and girls were unaware,” he said.
Since graduation, Eubanks has continued his work as a trainer for Chick-fil-A as well as working part time as a teller for Wells Fargo. He does not want to become a prisoner to the same paycheck-to-paycheck cycle his loved ones experienced, so he created a spreadsheet listing variable and fixed expenses as a way to manage his finances. He also entered into the Executive MBA Program in the Terry School of Business at the University of Georgia and hopes to help others achieve their financial goals.
“I believe that my initial reason to major in business led me to a greater purpose of mentoring and educating the next generation of becoming more financially literate and business savvy,” he said.
Marcus Garrett and Rich Jones, founders of the podcast Paychecks & Balances, are also helping younger people through their life experiences. They describe the podcast as a personal finance and career advice resource geared toward millennials interested in the intersection of work, money, and life.
Marcus Garrett, left, and Rich Jones, hosts of the podcast, Paychecks & Balances at FinCon2016. Courtesy Paychecks & Balances / via NBC News
“We started this podcast because we couldn’t find a show that made conversations about work and money fun, informative and relatable to people that look like us,” they told NBC News via email. “We leverage our decade of professional experience as a Recruiter & HR Generalist and Certified Internal Auditor to provide entertaining insights and helpful tips on money management, professional growth, and other topics relevant to 20 and 30-somethings trying to get ahead.”
Trial and error, said Garrett and Jones, is how they learned much of the information they share on P&B. Their misfortunes are what they believe draw their listeners to the podcast.
“It’s easy to feel like you’re the only one messing up. We make it clear that’s not the case,” Jones said. “We’ve each done some financially reckless stuff. But most importantly, we’ve learned from the mistakes.”
Saunders, Garrett, and Jones said this is why they are doing what they can to help others not fall into the same traps.
“Understanding these topics is very important. You can’t be financially free if you don’t understand the components,” Garrett said. “I’ve found that the millennials who are best with money often have a story that involves what they learned growing up. You don’t know what you don’t know and for many of us that’s a lot.”
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Question: Celebs Who Renew Wedding Vows

Remy Ma and her husband Papoose are expecting their first child together.
The couple revealed their big news on Instagram on July 3, 2018, as they shared video and photographs of their vow renewal, which they used to surprise their guests with a baby announcement.
Addressing their wedding guests, Remy said, “Although we told you guys that we were renewing our vows, which we are, we also wanted y’all out here when we told you guys…” she trailed off as she handed the microphone to her husband.
“We having a baby!” Papoose said with his hand rubbing Remy’s stomach.

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Question: Apple smartphones outsold Samsung's in Q4

Apple has overtaken Samsung Electronics in smartphone sales for the first time in two years, but don't count on it staying ahead for long.
Samsung sold 76.8 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, giving it a market share of 17.8 percent, but it was just beaten by Apple, which sold 77 million iPhones for a 17.9 percent share, according to figures from market research firm Gartner.
The fourth quarter is usually a strong one for Apple, boosted by holiday sales of the new generation of iPhones it releases each September, said Anshul Gupta, a research director at Gartner.
For Samsung, though, 2016 ended particularly badly, dominated by the fiasco around the recall of its incendiary Galaxy Note7.
Super-phones like the Note7 could have accounted for 10 to 15 percent of Samsung's smartphone sales in the period before its recall, said Gupta, but Samsung lost more than that: There was also the damage to its brand.
It could bounce back sooner rather than later, though, as it has a new flagship phone coming out at the end of March.
Apple, meanwhile, is expected to wait until September before unveiling new iPhones. This year will mark the iPhone's 10th anniversary, and the next model is widely expected to be something special, so Apple fans may delay replacing phones until then, said Gupta. That would leave the way clear for Samsung to move back into the lead from this quarter.
That pattern showed up last year too: Although it dominated the fourth quarter, Apple was a distant second over the full year, with market share of just 14.4 percent over the year, far behind Samsung's 20.5 percent, and the situation was similar the previous year.
While the giants slug it out, a more interesting battle is going on just beneath them, as the next three companies in the fourth-quarter smartphone rankings are all Chinese.
Huawei Technologies is in third place with a worldwide smartphone market share of 9.5 percent, with fourth and fifth taken by Oppo (6.2 percent) and BBK Communication Equipment (5.6 percent), two companies that many consider to be part of the same conglomerate.
Gartner treats them separately because, whatever their shareholding structure, they operate independently, each with their own product team, Gupta said.
BBK, almost unknown in the West, is now the number one smartphone brand in China, he said. A year ago, that honor went to Oppo, and the year before that, Huawei. Previous years saw the Chinese market topped by Xiaomi and Samsung.
These Chinese companies have pushed Apple and Samsung aside in their home market and are expanding across South Asia.
"Even in their current expansion, Oppo is not focusing just on emerging markets, but also on developed markets like Australia," said Gupta, so we may soon see them climbing up the rankings in Europe and the U.S too.
The key ingredients for that are already in their products, he said. "Oppo and BBK make great phones in terms of feature set. They have integrated high-end features like dual cameras and fast charge."

Apple Watch Series 3 is under pressure to recapture a larger share of the wearables market after Apple was overtaken by Xiaomi and Fitbit last quarter. Despite wearables shipments increasing 8 percent year-over-year in the second quarter of 2017, Apple fell to third place, shifting just 2.7 million units. Figures published by Canalys reveal that []
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Question: Explosion damages UPS freight hub in Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - An explosion damaged a UPS freight hub Wednesday morning in Kentucky's second-largest city, sending multiple people to the hospital in what fire officials described as an accidental blast.
Lexington Battalion Chief Jason Wells said a truck and trailer with an acetylene tank exploded in the building, news outlets reported. The cause of the explosion was not yet known, but the blast wasn't suspicious.
"Nothing leads us to believe this is anything other than an accidental explosion," the fire department tweeted.
The building on Blue Sky Parkway sustained significant damage, which was visible in the back of the building. The facility had been evacuated and everyone was accounted for, fire officials said.
Eight people received medical attention following the blast, Wells said. Two people taken to the hospital suffered from burns and possible concussions, and six others in the vicinity of the explosion were taken to the hospital for observation as a precaution, Wells said. Fire officials initially said about a dozen people received medical attention.
Lexington fire department spokeswoman Jessica Bowman said the building's structural stability was being checked as part of an effort to determine what happened and how.
Businesses near the site reported a loud explosion shortly before 8 a.m. EDT. Emergency crews rushed to the scene and restricted access to the area.
The blast was felt inside other buildings.

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At least two people were reported dead after an employee opened fire in a United Postal Service warehouse and customer service center in San Francisco on Wednesday, reports said.


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THE jobless 30-year-old American who still lives in his parents' home is scrambling to pack up his mess of a room as eviction day looms.
Michael Rotondo is coming off a whirlwind week of media interviews and a trip to Texas to appear on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show for $3,000 ($A3960) after the story of his parents suing to evict him went viral.
But now, Rotondo has only two days - Friday at noon - to leave his parents' place in Camillus, New York, which he's called home for the past eight years.
"Looking around my room and stuff, how much more is all this going to take to pack?" Rotondo told Syracuse.com after schlepping to a Lowe's store to buy $30 ($A40) worth of boxes and tape.
He'll keep his belongings - piles of books, crumpled clothing, a computer and a bed, according to a photo of his dishevelled room - in a self-storage unit until he finds a new place to stay.
"There's no more urgency after that," he added. "Everything else is just finding a long-term place."
Rotondo said he's looking for "someplace inexpensive, with internet."
Rotondo’s parents’ home in Camillus, New York. Picture: WSTM TV
The unemployed father of one has been mooching off his parents, Mark and Christina, for the past eight years and showed no signs of moving out until they sued him earlier this month.
The familial spat garnered international headlines and Rotondo shot to overnight infamy, appearing on Fox News, CNN and even earning a paycheck from Jones last Friday.
A Home Depot employee also offered to pay for Rotondo's moving expenses after he complained he was too broke to fly the coop, but he declined.
"Alex Jones makes money for having me on his show," Rotondo explained.
The woman "does not," he told Syracuse.com.
But with his new-found celebrity have come "harassing" phone calls, Rotondo claimed.
On Monday, someone with a blocked phone number called his cell and muttered, "Loser," before hanging up. Rotondo called 911.
"I can't have my phone getting jammed up with nonsense like that," he said. "I can't have that happen."
Police responded to his complaint that afternoon, but it's unclear what, if any, action was taken.
This article was originally published by the New York Post and is republished with permission.

Phil Keoghan of “The Amazing Race,” which amazingly left CBS-TV’s longtime Sunday slot and is now back on Thursdays:
“This week’s episode is 22 diverse strangers who’ve never met, no husbands and wives, no friends, and have nothing to do with each other and take days just to learn everyone’s names. They line up in LA, then race around the world and vie to win $1 million.
“Filming in Zanzibar, this ‘Roadblock’ episode had one team make a kitchen implement. Sounds easy, but they had to cut a ladle from a mass of tin, mould the actual metal, turn it, shape it, forge it. It was earsplitting sounds of unending clanging metal among people who knew how to do it, and it was in an African industrial area.
“Many had headaches. There was desperation. I can’t give away what happens.”
So why did the show leave its Sunday berth?
“I don’t know. It was a lovely time slot. But TV habits are changing. No longer a three-network system. Now viewers watch not by appointment but by whenever they choose to watch. This new 10 p.m. Thursday period is, I think, to help CBS with that hour that’s sometimes slow. Ours is a family show so we’ll see how it works for us.”
Busier than a three-armed ladle-maker, Keoghan’s also pushing “Le Ride.”
“It’s a documentary about the first Tour de France. I re-created it on the same vintage 1928 bike which then had no gears and weighed twice what today’s bikes do. I duplicated the same journey — over the Alps and Pyrenees.”
It screens 7 p.m. Tuesday at 42nd’s Regal Cinema.
And the wheels he’ll take to get there?
Taxi.
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Gay Talese and family had their Easter chicken at Rotisserie Georgette . . .
CBS launching “48 Hours: NCIS,” a six-parter about Naval Criminal cases . . .
What’s cuddly about the frozen tundra, I don’t know, but Keanu Reeves is making “Siberia.” A romantic film. Maybe they stroke each other’s parkas . . .
And excuse me, but Inane Fonda, who once pimped for Hanoi, now promo-ing vibrators? . . .
How to stay gorgeous and skinny? Superstunner Heidi Klum, from the days of her favorite special treat growing up in Germany, is still into McDonald’s Big Macs.
Lifestyle that’s hard to leave
I remember Marla Maples when she was the newly ex Mrs. Donald Trump who opened an eatery that closed fast, and was “nervous . . . mourning . . . breaking even” and said it ain’t easy “leaving planes, helicopters, Vegas casinos, Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago.”
What a difference a life makes. Today, daughter Tiffany has her own Secret Service protection.
Time travel
Techie expert: “No longer just phones, credit cards, banks and Internet devices. Graduation classes now exist, a four-year course, which teach the operation of surveillance. Our future Waldorf’s elevators, rooms, floors, hallways, lobby, johns, escalators, banquet spaces will all be wired. It’s goodbye to faxes, Wite-Out, carbon paper, Tamron Hall, plastic bags, maybe soon Macy’s, a near bye-bye to drive your own car, and a forever ta-ta to privacy.”
My longtime housekeeper, near 70, sees poorly, messes up messages, can’t hear and forgets her grandkids’ names. She watered a fake plant four months and reset clocks backward so at 2 p.m. our house read high noon.
Nazalene’s been summoned for Jury Duty. Look, I applaud the American system. And I love her — but topping Judge Gorsuch with Nazalene in our justice system? I mean, please . . . she’d make the Son of Sam a bowl of curry.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.


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Question: Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker reiterates support for contraception coverage as new Trump administration rule rolls back mandate

As the Trump administration rolled out new rules allowing companies to opt out of providing contraception coverage on religious and moral grounds, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker reiterated his support for such coverage.
The rules, an effort to roll back a mandate under Obamacare, would allow companies to claim an objection for religious or moral reasons and deny contraception coverage for women. Before the Trump administration's revision, federal rules called for most companies to cover contraception at no additional cost to the employee.
The new rule could cost women across the country $25 million a year in out-of-pocket expenses for birth control, according to Maura Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general who pledged to sue the Trump administration over the move.
"The Baker-Polito Administration fully supports access to women's health and family planning services and will protect access to these services in Massachusetts," Lizzy Guyton, Baker's communications director, said in a statement.
Baker, a Republican, said in March he would use state funds to cover any federal cuts to Planned Parenthood if necessary.
Employers can now opt out of providing low cost birth control by citing religious, moral objections
Legislative proposals under review at the Massachusetts State House would maintain the contraception coverage.
"Governor Baker also supports compromise language submitted this week by Massachusetts' insurers, Planned Parenthood and legislators to protect health care access for women," Guyton added Friday.
The Massachusetts Medical Society released a statement from its president, Henry Dorkin, condemned the Trump administration's new rules and said they have legislation that would blunt the impact of the rules.
Birth control is "essential medical care," he said.
"In the face of a federal rollback of these important protections, the Massachusetts Medical Society is grateful to our elected officials, who are pursuing innovative approaches toward expanding birth control access for women and families across the state," he continued.
Insurers, reproductive health advocates reach compromise on no-copay birth control for Mass. women
The State House legislation they support would "actually take steps to ensure greater access to a range of forms of contraception for both men and women, including emergency contraception and highly effective long-acting reversible contraceptives," according to Dorkin.
Healey, a Democrat who has filed multiple lawsuits against the Trump administration, said she's filing a lawsuit Friday and called President Donald Trump's new rules an "attack on women's health care."
"We're suing to stop this rule and protect access to birth control," Healey told reporters on a conference call.
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(CNN) In a blow to Obamacare's controversial contraceptive mandate, employers may now have more leeway to withhold birth control coverage on religious grounds, according to new rules issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services on Friday.
The rules would let a broad range of employers -- including nonprofits, private firms and publicly traded companies -- stop offering free contraceptives through their health insurance plans if they have a "sincerely held religious or moral objection," senior agency officials said on a call about the implementation and enforcement of the new rules.
This could apply to the roughly 200 entities that have participated in about 50 lawsuits over birth control coverage, according to the agency, which said that "99.9% of women" who currently receive birth control through the contraceptive mandate would not be affected. At the time of the call, it was unclear how the administration arrived at this data point.
But policy experts argue that this could open the door to hundreds of employers dropping coverage.
This is the latest in a series of moves that undermine an Obamacare mandate requiring that birth control be covered with no co-pay as a preventive essential health benefit.
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Question: Leadership on defense makes quick night for Springfield

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SPRINGFIELD >> On homecoming Friday, Springfield proved a dangerous team against an overwhelmed opponent.
Whether it was the four turnovers Springfield forced from Harriton — restricting their opponent to a solitary first down before halftime — or putting up five touchdowns prior to the break, the Cougars played a clean, physical game on both sides of the ball.
Harriton never stood a chance in a 42-8 Springfield victory Friday night.
The Cougars broke out of the gate with a touchdown run by Ja’Den McKenzie less than two minutes into the game. McKenzie later one-upped himself with a 40-yard rush on the first play from scrimmage following a Harriton turnover. Springfield scored twice on Harriton turnovers as the team racked up a 28-0 lead with 4:47 left in the first quarter.
Springfield coach Chris Britton attributed much to the success to a core group of defensive seniors who were honored at the homecoming ceremony.
“I don’t need to worry about having four captains, we have 16 captains,” Britton said. “They do the right thing whether I’m around or not.”
Quarterback Jack Psenicska tacked on two touchdowns for a total of 13 this season. Friday night he was 4-for-4 for 66 yards and two touchdowns in less than two quarters of work before giving way to junior Ben Konah, who tallied a rushing touchdown in the second half.
Defensively, the Cougars forced four turnovers in the first half — two fumbles were snatched by middle linebacker Patrick Clemens, another by Donovan Dyitt, and an interception by free safety Ian Deal ended the first half.
Britton called his defensive seniors “the backbone of the team” but praised the underclassmen, like the junior Clemens and sophomore Dyitt.
“Our defense is led by our seniors, but we have some really nice juniors that back it up and (Clemens) is one of them,” Britton said.
Clemens’ two fumble recoveries came within the first three Rams possessions.
“The first one was a missed handoff and the second was a caused fumble, and they both fell right to me,” Clemens said. “I kind of got lucky.”
Britton attributed it to more than luck.
“He seems to be in the right place at the right time,” Britton said. “He’s got a knack for that.”
Tackle Dan Pennestri, who was crowned Homecoming King, said the strong defensive effort this season can be attributed to the close-knit group of seniors he plays amongst.
“I think we work so well together because we’re all friends, we’re playing out there for each other,” Pennestri said. “It’s great, I love it out there, we’re always having fun and that’s what it’s all about.”
Harriton struggled to get going offensively, relying heavily on quarterback Jack Rosenfeld, who rushed 15 times for 41 yards and tacked on a two-point conversion to his 29-yard touchdown throw to Markee Marshall.
The Cougars were off a 6-0 start coming into Friday, having scored 41-plus points in the previous three games. Thanks to the shellacking the Cougars served Friday, they’re now 7-0, with a Delco-leading 18 touchdowns for McKenzie and 21 turnovers forced for the season.
“Since the summer we’ve been working every day, getting better, pushing everybody in the weight room, then on the field my lineman are doing their thing,” McKenzie said. “Once they did their job, I just finish it.”
The second half for the Cougars’ consisted heavily of handing the ball off to junior running back Geo Dotsicas, who carried 19 times for 41 yards and capped it with a 1-yard touchdown in the fourth.

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Anyone wondering whether David Platt’s Corrie rape storyline was just ITV chasing ratings may have got their answer on This Morning yesterday.
As Coronation Street’s executive producer Kate Oates fended off claims the soap has become too dark, she argued ratings have gone up, implying that’s all that matters.
Ratings are indeed up. But they were worryingly low last year. And Kate has to stop using the fact Dolly-Rose Campbell (Gemma Winter) won Best Comedy Performance at the 2017 British Soap Awards as proof Corrie is still fun.
That was mainly for 2016’s episodes. Since then, Gemma’s fling with Tyrone has made her a potential home wrecker.
However great the acting – and Jack P Shepherd (David) and Ryan Clayton (Josh Tucker), have been excellent – Corrie is now relentlessly dark and gratuitously violent.
I half-expect Ken Barlow’s French lessons to take a dark turn, with him spiking Toyah’s croissants.
Corrie should still tackle tough subjects, but it should also accept viewers might be more interested in the Gazette’s latest front page, “Lucky The Labrador Is Found”.
Corrie needs to cater for its bread-and-butter viewers, too – or risk losing them forever.

Coronation Street boss Kate Oates has confirmed a big return for popular character Carla Connor this Christmas as Alison King has signed on the dotted line to reprise the role.
Carla, who was last seen leaving the Street after being shamed at her disastrous wedding to Nick Tilsley for a night of passion with Robert Preston, is set to arrive back with a bang and find herself going to loggerheads with Michelle.
Kate has declared that she doesn’t intend to force Carla back into the destructive cycle of misery that the character became accustomed to but will instead reinvigorate her feisty side.
Speaking to Radio Times, she explained: ‘Ever since I got here, it’s been rumoured that Carla’s coming back. But it was never true. Even the latest indications of it. Ali has only just signed her contract and she’ll be back around Christmas.
‘It’s time to break new ground with Carla. I didn’t want to put her on that familiar cycle of self-destruction, recovery, followed by more self-destruction.
‘What we’ll have instead are these two strong Connor women – Carla and Michelle – on opposing sides and in conflict for a change. It’ll be a refreshing dynamic for us to see.’
The news is already going down a storm with the army of Carla and Alison fans on social media, who have been hoping for this news since the day the Underworld queen left the cobbles.
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Question: Trump Calls Out KKK, White Supremacists After Charlottesville: 'Racism Is Evil'

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Almost 48 hours after violence engulfed Charlottesville, Va., President Trump called out white nationalist groups by name. Trump's remarks on Monday followed criticism that his initial statement about the clash of protesters did not condemn racist groups specifically.
"Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," the president said from the White House.
Trump began his remarks talking about his economic accomplishments and plans for trade negotiations before turning his attention to the events over the weekend in Virginia. After the Charlottesville City Council had voted earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from one of its parks, white nationalist groups — including white supremacists, the alt-right, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis — descended on the city for a "Unite the Right" rally.
On Friday night, they marched on the normally sleepy college town, home to the University of Virginia, carrying torches. On Saturday conditions turned deadly as hundreds of the white nationalists, some carrying Confederate flags and shields and others in militia-like gear, clashed with counterprotesters in the city streets.
At one point a silver Dodge Challenger, allegedly driven by 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio, rammed into a street filled with counterprotesters. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed, and at least 19 others were injured. Fields was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run.
President Trump expressed sympathy to Heyer's family as well as to the families of Virginia State Troopers Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Berke M.M. Bates, who died when their helicopter that was patrolling Saturday's event crashed.
"These three fallen Americans embody the goodness and decency of our nation," Trump said. "In times such as these, America has always shown its true character, responding to hate with love, division with unity, and violence with an unwavering resolve for justice."
Trump spoke after meeting with newly installed FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the White House. He said that the Department of Justice had opened a civil rights investigation into the car attack.
"To anyone who acted criminally at this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered," the president said.
Sessions told ABC News on Monday morning that the car crash that had killed Heyer "does meet the definition of domestic terrorism."
"You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation towards the most serious charges that can be brought, because this is unequivocally an unacceptable, evil attack," he said.
The president's condemnations may be too little, too late for those who criticized Trump's initial remarks — and Trump may have missed a critical moment to be the nation's healer in chief. On Saturday, Trump claimed that the clashes were a result of "hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides." Top Republicans, among others, quickly criticized him for not calling out by name the white supremacists, alt-right, KKK and neo-Nazi groups that began the protests.
"Mr. President — we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism," Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., who heads up the GOP Senate campaign committee, tweeted on Saturday.
The White House put out an unsigned statement on Sunday morning, saying that, "The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white Supremacists, KKK, neo-nazi and all extremist groups. He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together."
Vice President Pence had gone further than the president in his own comments, telling reporters Sunday night while traveling in Colombia, "We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK. These dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms."
Trump has been blamed for being slow to criticize white supremacist groups in the past — even as he regularly attacks other targets on Twitter. During the 2016 campaign, Trump came under fire for not immediately disavowing the endorsement of David Duke, a former KKK grand wizard.
Duke, who attended the march in Virginia, said on Saturday that participants' aim was "to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That's what we believed in. That's why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he's going to take our country back."
Duke later responded to one of the president's tweets condemning the violence by saying, "I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists."
Read Trump's full remarks, delivered Monday afternoon at the White House:
Thank you. I'm in Washington today to meet with my economic team about trade policy and major tax cuts and reform. We are renegotiating trade deals and making them good for the American worker and it's about time. Our economy is now strong. The stock market continues to hit record highs, unemployment is at 16 year low and businesses are more optimistic than ever before. Companies are moving back to the United States and bringing many thousands of jobs with them. We have already created over one million jobs since I took office. We will be discussing economic issues in greater detail later this afternoon but based on the events that took place over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, I would like to provide the nation with an update on the ongoing federal response to the horrific attack and violence that was witnessed by everyone.
I just met with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack that killed one innocent American and wounded 20 others. To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered. As I said on Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. It has no place in America.
And as I have said many times before, no matter the color of our skin, we all live under the same laws. We all salute the same great flag. And we are all made by the same almighty God. We must love each other, show affection for each other, and unite together in condemnation of hated, bigotry and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.
Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans. We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. We are equal in the eyes of our creator. We are equal under the law. And we are equal under our constitution.
Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.
Two days ago, a young American woman, Heather Heyer, was tragically killed. Her death fills us with grief and we send her family our thoughts, our prayers and our love. We also mourn the two Virginia state troopers who died in service to their community, their commonwealth and their country. Troopers Jay Cullen and Berke Bates exemplify the very best of America and our hearts go out to their families, their friends and every member of American law enforcement.
These three fallen Americans embody the goodness and decency of our nation. In times such as these, America has always shown its true character, responding to hate with love, division with unity, and violence with an unwavering resolve for justice.
As a candidate, I promised to restore law and order to our country and our federal law enforcement agencies are following through on that pledge. We will spare no resource in fighting so that every American child can grow up free from violence and fear. We will defend and protect the sacred rights of all Americans and we will work together so that every citizen in this blessed land is free to follow their dreams in their hearts and to express the love and joy in their souls.
Thank you, god bless you and god bless America.

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Good morning, here are our early stories:
-- International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons Wins 2017 Peace Prize.
-- Las Vegas Shooter's Life Comes Into Focus, But Not His Motive.
-- Speaking Freely, Retiring Sen. Corker Warns GOP He Could Oppose Tax Plan.
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Trump's Cryptic Reference To "Calm Before The Storm". (NBC)
Nate Predicted To Hit U.S. Gulf Coast As A Hurricane. (NHC)
U.K. Leader Says She Has Support After Speech With Mishaps. (BBC)
Questions About Catalonia's Independence Effort. (New York Times)


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ALSIP, Ill. – Police shot and killed a pit bull that mauled a 77-year-old woman to death in the yard of a suburban Illinois home Monday afternoon, according to WGN.
Officers responded to Komensky Ave and 116th St in Alsip after a young man walking his dog saw the attack and called police.
When they arrived, police say the dog was still aggressive and they were forced to shoot it. Officers tried to give the woman first aid but it was too late. Police said the woman lived at that address and that the 6-year-old pit bull was a pet in the home.
"It was pretty horrific," Alsip Deputy Chief Shawn Schuldt told Alsip Patch. "If I go through the rest of my career without seeing something like this, that would be a good thing. I feel extremely bad for the family and we offer them our condolences."
Schuldt said the dog appeared well cared for and that the department had never received any prior calls from residents or neighbors reporting the animal behaving aggressively.
No word yet if anyone else was at the home when the attack happened.

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Authorities say a 7-year-old girl and 23-year-old man were both shot in North Philadelphia Tuesday.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Whitney Houston's mother had no clue about allegations that her son and superstar daughter were molested as children until the making of the new documentary "Whitney," says the film's executive producer.
Patricia Houston, the sister-in-law of Whitney, is responsible for getting the film, out Friday, to screen. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, "Whitney" paints an intimate portrait of the Grammy-winning pop queen and movie star through interviews with her brothers, her mother, friends, and behind-the-scenes footage. Houston's regal image over the decades was eroded by erratic behavior due to her drug use; she died in 2012, on the eve of the Grammys, after being discovered unresponsive in a hotel bathtub. She was 48.
It's the second documentary on Houston: "Whitney: Can I Be Me" was released earlier this year.
FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2011, file photo, singer Whitney Houston performs at the pre-Grammy gala & salute to industry icons with Clive Davis honoring David Geffen in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Whitney" executive producer Patricia Houston had to tell her mother in-law Cissy Houston that the allegations that her daughter and son were molested would be in an upcoming documentary. The film is out Friday, July 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Patricia Houston, wife of Gary Garland-Houston, said it was difficult making "Whitney" because it hit so close to home - and because she was the one who had to tell Cissy Houston not only that there were abuse allegations, but they would be in the film.
"It was deeply a revelation for her. You think about her, and it being a bit overbearing for her to hear - and her kids not telling her. That's pretty tough to have to deal with," said Houston.
Dee Dee Warwick, the niece of Cissy Houston and sister to Dionne Warwick, was the alleged abuser. The alleged incidents took place when Gary and Whitney were between the ages of 7 and 9 and Cissy was touring. Warwick, who was 18 years older than Whitney Houston, died in 2008.
The documentary suggests that the sexual abuse endured by the children was a significant contributor to their struggles with drugs as adults.
"I don't think you can explain anyone's life from one particular event that's happened to them. But I think that it's certainly fair to say that it's maybe, in my opinion, the major contributor to Whitney's unhappiness," MacDonald said. "That and the fact that she never talked about it, and that nobody in the family talked about this and clearly it happened as you'd learned in the film."
MacDonald says the secrets in Houston's life took their toll on the Grammy-winning singer. He cites a clip in the film shot in the mid-2000s that shows her in conflict.
"I think there's an amazing piece of home movie footage in the film, which was from the early 2000s where Whitney is sort of really looking despairing. ... she's talking to herself, really going, 'Nippy calling Whitney. Whitney calling Nippy.' And Nippy was her sort of nickname that everybody close to her knew her as Nippy. And Nippy was the real her, as it were, the intimate her. Whitney was the persona," Macdonald said.
"I think what you see in that home movie clip is this confusion that she has. I think it got progressively worse as she got older. The confusion between what's the real me, and what's not the real me. And obviously, the drugs didn't help with that," Macdonald said.

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Question: Families sue Chiquita over deaths of Americans in Colombia

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MIAMI (AP) — The families of six Americans kidnapped and killed in Colombia during the 1990s by the terrorist organization known as FARC are seeking potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages from banana giant Chiquita Brands International because of payments the company made to the group.
Trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection Monday in West Palm Beach federal court in lawsuits that accuse Chiquita of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act. Chiquita has admitted paying FARC — a Spanish acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia — about $220,000 but insists it did so only to protect its employees and interests from violence.
One $10,000 payment to the guerrillas was hidden in a spare tire on the back of a Jeep, according to court documents.
The families claim Chiquita's financial support of FARC, as a known terrorist group, means it should be held responsible for the Americans' deaths and pay damages. The families must prove that Chiquita executives knew FARC was engaged in violent terror acts that could affect Americans and that the deaths of their loved ones were foreseeable when the payments were made, said plaintiffs' attorney Gary Osen.
"These are folks who have been through an enormous amount in their lives. They've waited 10 years for their day in court," Osen said.
In a statement issued in January, Switzerland-based Chiquita said its only motivation in paying FARC was protecting its own employees from violence.
"We have been clear that, at all times, the company prioritized the safety of its employees and their families, and acted accordingly," the statement said.
FARC and other paramilitary groups were engaged in a decades-long civil war in Colombia that took thousands of lives. The bloodshed finally ended in 2016 when a peace accord was signed. Chiquita also admitted paying $1.7 million to a right-wing group opposed to FARC, eventually pleading guilty in 2007 to a U.S. crime and paying a $25 million fine.
It was only after that case became public that family members of the six Americans slain by FARC learned that Chiquita had also paid FARC, leading to the lawsuits.
Five of the Americans killed by FARC were members of a missionary group based in Sanford, Florida, called New Tribes Mission: David Mankins, Rich Tenenoff, Mark Rich, Stephen Welsh and Timothy Van Dyke. The sixth, Frank Pescatore Jr., was a geologist for an Alabama company working on a project in Colombia who was shot trying to escape his kidnappers, according to court documents.
Tania Julin of Winter Springs, Florida, was married to Rich the night he was kidnapped on Jan. 31, 1993 in the village of Pucuro, Panama, about 15 miles from the Colombian border. She said armed men burst into their home — where their two young daughters were sleeping — tied Rich up and ordered he, Mankins and Tenenoff to march into the jungle.
She never saw her husband again.
"It was so terrifying. I just never imagined. It was so out of the blue and unexpected. I was only 23 years old, with two little kids," said Julin, who now teaches kindergarten. "I was just terrified of what might happen and so confused about why anyone would do this to us. We were only there to help people."
"I have never been so afraid in all of my life."
Later, FARC demanded a $5 million ransom for the three, but it soon became apparent the men had likely been killed, Julin said. It took years for the families to find out for sure, and they never received any remains.
"The years of not knowing were so difficult. Christmases would go by and the one thing the girls wanted for Christmas was for their dad to come home. It was lots of years of disappointing heartaches and hard to watch to girls grow up without their dad," she said.
Well before their deaths in the 1990s, Chiquita had established about 35 banana farms in the Uraba region of Colombia that employed about 3,000 people. It was well known that FARC was active in the area and routinely used extortion and threats to obtain payments from people and businesses — a practice called "vacuna," which is Spanish for "vaccine."
FARC's initial payment demand from Chiquita came in 1989, when the group sought $10,000. Court papers show Chiquita executives decided to make the payment, the first of 57 it would give to FARC over the next decade.
A consulting company called Control Risks that worked with Chiquita outlined the dire nature of the issue in a memo at the time, court documents show:
"You have to pay. These people are serious. The military is not able to control them," the memo said. "You can't just turn them in, give their names to someone. Because they will take retribution for that, and you can expect violence."
Ultimately, a Chiquita executive traveled to Colombia with $10,000 in cash, exchanged it for Colombian pesos and arranged to deliver the money hidden in the Jeep spare tire to a FARC guerrilla, court documents show.
Despite their insistence the money was paid to protect employees, Chiquita executives at the time discussed it in terms of a cost of doing business — and the company had no intention then of ending its banana operations in Colombia, the documents show.
"We're not going to stop doing business in Colombia because, you know, we're going to have to spend an extra $25,000. That's not realistic. Right?" one executive was quoted as saying.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra, who will preside over the estimated four-week trial, ruled in January that Chiquita cannot use a defense that the payments were made solely under duress.
"There is no evidence of a specific ultimatum or threat from a FARC commander at any time during the nine-year continuum in which it paid money to the FARC," Marra wrote. "Chiquita had reasonable, legal alternatives to maintaining and expanding its fruit operations in Colombia. It could have withdrawn and could have sought government intervention in Colombia or the United States."
Although the lawsuit asks for no specific damages, plaintiffs' attorney Osen says other similar cases have resulted in verdicts in the tens of millions of dollars — in part because any damages awarded are automatically tripled.
"Family members of terror victims suffer uniquely because of the shocking and unexpected nature and the malice and cruelty involved," Osen said.
Julin said after all this time she is anxious but also optimistic now that the case is heading for trial.
"I finally am going to get my day in court," she said. "There's a sense of a little bit of nerves but a sense of some wrongs being made amends for."
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A court in Panama has sentenced American William Dathan Holbert to 47 years in prison for robbing and killing five other Americans in a Caribbean tourist destination.
Holbert’s ex-wife, Laura Reese, was sentenced to 26 years for her role.
Authorities say Holbert admitted killing five people between 2007 and 2010 in Bocas del Toro province in order to steal their property.
Holbert and Reese were arrested trying to enter Nicaragua from Costa Rica in 2010.
The bodies of four adults and one child were found buried on the property of a hostel Holbert owned. Holbert and Reese had fled North Carolina where he had sold his landscaping business and filed for bankruptcy.


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Guys, your longtime boyfriend Paul Rudd got some mad love on Friday and showcased a rather busty look.
The 48-year-old Clueless and Ant-Man star was honored as the 2018 Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals group.
At a ceremony on the famed Cambridge, Massachusetts campus, Rudd received a golden Hasty Pudding Pot and kisses on the cheek from male performers dressed in drag and was made to wear a bedazzled bra over his shirt, as per tradition.
"It's a nice fit," he joked.
"The day has been a blast. It's been great getting to meet a lot of people and see Harvard," he told students and reporters. "I've never been here before."

Perhaps the first sign that something was amiss at the Golden Globe nominations this morning was that neither Get Out nor Call Me by Your Name—both considered Oscar front-runners—received nominations for their lauded screenplays. Instead, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association opted for more mainstream fare like The Post and Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game. Or maybe the real sign of trouble was Get Out’s Jordan Peele and Lady Bird’s Greta Gerwig getting passed over in the best-director category in favor of famous old white guys Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg. I’d say it’s baffling, except, come on, it’s the Golden Globes.
The real first sign that something was amiss at the Golden Globes probably came at the first Golden Globes, back in 1944. It’s a weird awards ceremony, and almost always has been. Presided over by some 90-odd international journalists who make their living in Hollywood, the Globes are often used as a predictor of the Oscars, or at least a temperature-taker of the season—despite the fact that they consistently do wild things that aren’t repeated at the Oscars.
Part of that has to do with the division of categories. Separating films and leading performances into drama and musical/comedy introduces plenty of chaos into the season. This year, that comes in the form of Helen Mirren in The Leisure Seeker, a Sony Pictures Classics comedy that very few people have seen, or even know exists. More instructive for our Oscar-predicting purposes (see, we’re still doing this, even though we know we shouldn’t, because the Globes are nuts) is that Saoirse Ronan was listed in the comedy category, freeing up a spot in the highly competitive best actress in a drama pool.
Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Meryl Streep for The Post are all likely to repeat when Oscar nominations are announced in the middle of next month. But that leaves two spots open, one of which Ronan presumably will swing into. The other one? Well, conventional wisdom at the moment suggests it will be Ronan’s fellow best actress in a comedy nominee Margot Robbie for I, Tonya. But check out that Jessica Chastain nomination for Molly’s Game, in drama. She seemed like a potential front-runner when the film premiered back in Toronto, but has since fallen out of the conversation. She’s back in now, to some extent. Again, the Globes are nuts.
How nuts? Well, the fifth nominee for drama actress this year is Michelle Williams for Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, a beleaguered film which almost nobody has seen. Whether the H.F.P.A. really loves the movie or is just bragging that it’s seen it is unclear, but they also—in the shadiest of nominations—gave a supporting actor nod to Christopher Plummer, who eleventh-hour replaced the heavily touted Kevin Spacey in the wake of the latter actor’s alleged sexual misconduct scandal. Perhaps that’s a message to the industry’s myriad abusers: not only will we replace you, we’ll nominate the new guy for awards. Or maybe it’s just the Golden Globes being nuts again.
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Nominated for Best Actor, Comedy Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out From Universal Pictures/Everett Collection. Nominated for Best Actor, Comedy Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver Courtesy of TriStar Pictures. Nominated for Best Actress, Comedy Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Courtesy of A24. Nominated for Best Actress, Comedy Margot Robbie, I ,Tonya Courtesy of Neon. Nominated for Best Actress, Comedy Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. Nominated for Best Actress, Comedy Judi Dench, Victoria and Abdul Courtesy of Focus Features. Nominated for Best Actress, Comedy Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name Courtesy of Sony Picture Classics. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. Nominated for Best Supporting Actor Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. 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Nominated for Best Acress, TV Drama Caitriona Balfe, Outlander Courtesy of Starz. Nominated for Best Acress, TV Drama Katherine Langford, 13 Reasons Why By Beth Dubber/Netflix. Nominated for Best Actor, TV Drama Sterling K Brown, This Is Us By Ron Batzdorff/NBC. Nominated for Best Actor, TV Drama Freddie Highmore, The Good Doctor By Jack Rowand/ABC. Nominated for Best Actor, TV Drama Jason Bateman, Ozark By Jackson Davis/Netflix. Nominated for Best Actor, TV Drama Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul By Michele K. Short/AMC/Sony Pictures. Nominated for Best Actor, TV Drama Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan By Jeff Neumann/SHOWTIME. Nominated for Best Actress, TV Comedy Issa Rae, Insecure Nominated for Best Actress, TV Comedy Alison Brie, Glow Erica Parise/Netflix Nominated for Best Actress, TV Comedy Frankie Shaw, Smilf Colleen Hayes Nominated for Best Actress, TV Comedy Pamela Adlon, Better Things Copyright 2016, FX Networks. All rights reserved. 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We can maybe actually extract some real insight from the H.F.P.A.’s broad list of honorees. Last year, the supporting-actress category at the Globes matched up five-for-five with the Oscars later in the season, so maybe Lesley Manville not getting a nomination for Phantom Thread and The Big Sick’s Holly Hunter being overlooked should tell us something. On a larger scale, the Globes were supposed to be where The Big Sick flourished—there’s a whole separate comedy category! But that lauded and successful film—a Sundance breakout turned summer counterprogramming hit—failed to get any nominations this morning. That may mean dire things for its Oscar campaign (which has been subtle but consistent so far). Or it could just mean that the Globes have five fewer screenplay nominees than the Oscars or Writers Guild of America awards, which divide adapted and original—and that’s where The Big Sick will find its recognition down the road. Who knows!
That’s often the dominant feeling one has looking at Golden Globe nominations each year: a half-amused, half-annoyed shrug emoticon. Maybe there is some method to the H.F.P.A.’s apparent madness for The Greatest Showman and All the Money in the World. Or maybe this erratic group of people—at least some of whom have honored Angelina Jolie in The Tourist or Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nocturnal Animals in the past—are just weird outliers who’ve muscled their way into the Oscar conversation despite there often being a distinct lack of overlap between how the two shake out. The less exciting guild awards are surely better indicators of Oscar fortunes. If only they gave nominations to Ansel Elgort, maybe more people might pay attention.
Oh, and there’s also TV, of course! Over on that cluttered side of things, Amazon picked up a nice nomination for the truly great Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in the best-comedy category, while Jessica Biel scored big for USA’s The Sinner, as we predicted she would. The Sinner also picked up a nod in best-limited series or TV movie, which may have contributed to the surprising denial of Twin Peaks in that category. Kyle MacLachlan’s limited-series actor nomination is that critically praised, esoteric curiosity’s lone nomination. Another surprise is Katherine Langford beating out This Is Us star Mandy Moore for her leading role in the Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why. Both shows were huge this year, but 13 Reasons is very teen, whereas This Is Us seems to have had broader appeal. But, hey, the Globes are nu—well, you get it.