Yes, really.
During last night's debate, Gabbard took Harris to task for her role in "putting over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations" then laughing about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
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Yes, really.
During last night's debate, Gabbard took Harris to task for her role in "putting over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations" then laughing about it when asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
Saikat Chakrabarti, was the chief of staff and also managed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upstart 2018 campaign. He is leaving office after a series of controversies, and high profile fights with other democrats in the house of representatives.
Comment: AOC's brain? Not exactly what you would want to be known for.
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The shakeup comes as the congresswoman's office has been engulfed in controversy since Chakrabarti attacked more moderate members of the House majority.Saikat Chakrabarti, and the organization Justice Democrats has some interesting history:
In June, Chakrabarti took to social media to air his frustration with moderate Democrats for forcing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to abandon a $4.6 billion emergency border appropriation bill favored by progressives. In a series of tweets, Chakrabarti likened the moderates to old Southern Democrats, many of whom were avowed segregationists.
He stood by the comparison even when a progressive activist noted Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS), the first openly LGBT Native American woman elected to Congress, was one of the moderates that wavered on the bill.
"I think the point still stands. I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system. And the same could even be said of the Southern Democrats," Chakrabarti said in a now deleted follow-up tweet. "I don't believe Sharice is a racist person, but her votes are showing her to enable a racist system."
Although Breitbart News reported on the controversial comments at the time, neither Ocasio-Cortez nor House leadership acknowledged that Chakrabarti may have crossed a line. The situation, though, changed sharply in July when Ocasio-Cortez accused Pelosi of "singling out newly elected women of color."
After the rebuke, Pelosi's allies within the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) moved simultaneously to defend the Speaker and attack the freshman congresswoman. A number of the CBC's members, including Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), directed their anger at both Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff.
"It shows you how ignorant and little history [Chakrabarti] knows, how ignorant he is to American history. How dare he," Clay toldThe Hill.
The Missouri Democrat extended his criticism to Justice Democrats, the group started by Chakrabart to support left-leaning primary challenges to establishment Democrats.
"I find it juvenile, their tactics, I find their ignorance to be beyond belief about American history and about who are really segregationists," Clay said. "And so how dare they try to play the race card at this point, it shows you the weakness of their arguments."
Other moderates appeared to echo the sentiment, with some even anonymously calling for Chakrabarti's ouster.
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In this Thursday photo provided by Naomi Hayes, a fire burns after an explosion near Junction City, Ky. A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion.
In this Thursday photo provided by Naomi Hayes, a fire burns after an explosion near Junction City, Ky. A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion.
Some structures were completely consumed by the blaze, and five to seven people were unaccounted for when firefighters extinguished the flames hours later, Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Don Gilliam said.
"The part of the area that has been compromised, there's just nothing left," Gilliam said when asked whether residents might return to their trailer homes. "The residences that are still standing or damaged will be accessible. There doesn't really look like there's any in-between back there. They're either destroyed or they're still standing."
Kentucky State Police spokesman Robert Purdy said at least five homes were completely destroyed and structures within 450 metres had damage. He said a handful of people who were missing after the blast have now been accounted for.
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The lawsuit seeks damages for alleged defamatory comments by 12 individuals — lawmakers, journalists and social media personalities, Law & Crime reported Friday.
The individuals include presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.
The field trip drew international headlines after Covington High student Nicholas Sandmann, wearing a MAGA hat, was filmed directly facing a Native American activist near the Lincoln Memorial.
Just days ago, a lawsuit Sandmann and his family brought against The Washington Post over its coverage was dismissed by a Kentucky federal judge.
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Most of the robots coming off the assembly line are white, and this is problematic, according to a team of researchers from the Human Interface Technology lab in New Zealand. While there are legitimate reasons for this color choice - white shows dirt and foreign objects more readily and is less likely to retain heat than other colors - the self-styled sentinels of sensitivity jumped right to announcing that humanity's inherent racism has been reproduced in the bots we've built. And CNN, for one, is extremely concerned.
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NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
On Aug. 14, the Child Victims Act takes effect, giving people one year to sue over allegations of sexual abuse, regardless of when they said it occurred.
Under the law signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in February, New York has gone from one of the toughest states to bring a case because of its strict statute of limitations to one of the easiest, potentially unleashing decades of unresolved claims.
"It's going to be a tidal wave of litigation," said lawyer Mitchell Garabedian, best known for representing victims of child abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.
Cases will cut across society, illustrating the systemic nature of the abuse, victims' lawyers said, although they expect many of the lawsuits to be against Catholic organizations and the Boy Scouts of America. Both the scouts and the church said they were cooperative with people making allegations of abuse against their organizations.
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Mubarek Ali
Mubarek Ali
Ali, 34, was then captured as part of a police investigation called Operation Chalice in 2013, and was jailed for 22 years. However, he is now reportedly set to be released on licence as early as November. Telford MP Lucy Allen said that Ali's release was 'wrong', and could lead to him rejoining the community where his victims continue to live.
A Dallas County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, saying Timpa died of sudden cardiac arrest, secondarily caused by the effects of cocaine and stress from being restrained.
On Friday, Timpa's family is expected to hold a news conference in response to the release of the body cam video. It will be streamed live at the top of this article at about 10:30 a.m.
High on cocaine, according to an autopsy, Timpa ran out of the store and into traffic before security guards handcuffed him. With Dallas police officers and Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel on scene, Timpa died.
A Dallas County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, saying Timpa died of sudden cardiac arrest, secondarily caused by the effects of cocaine and stress from being restrained.
Nearly €1 billion worth of cocaine has been seized in the German port city of Hamburg. The drugs were found in 211 sports bags.
The drugs were discovered two weeks ago during a routine check, resulting in the largest cocaine shipment ever seized in Germany.
More than 4,200 packages in 211 sports bags were discovered in a freight container which claimed to be full of soybeans. The shipment was being transported from Montevideo in Uruguay, via Hamburg, to Antwerp, Belgium.
"This enormous amount represents the largest individual seizure of cocaine in Germany," the Hamburg Customs agency said in a statement.
"Assuming that this likely high-purity cocaine can be cut to triple the amount for street sale, the 4.5 tons has a street value of approximately €1 billion."
The cocaine has already been destroyed under strict secrecy and extensive security measures.
Habte Araya, 40, was pictured by a Swiss labour agency which found him a job and gave an interview in which he said he 'liked almost everything about Switzerland'
Habte Araya, 40, was pictured in 2017 by the Swiss labour agency which had found him a job, and gave an interview in which he said he 'liked almost everything about Switzerland'.
'When I first came communication was difficult because of the language. But that is no longer the case. I like the fact that everyone is helped here regardless of whether they are rich or poor,' he said at the time.
He praised the Swiss education system and said: 'I want a better and easier life for my children than I had.'
According to the brochure, the labour agency helped him find a job as a fitter for the Zurich transport authority, where he said he hoped to work for 25 years.
However, his life appears to have unravelled since then as Swiss police said he was on the run in Germany after a separate incident of violence last week.
Comment: Germany's response:
Days after a foreigner killed a young boy by pushing him and his mother under a train, the German interior minister has recommended stricter checks at the country's Swiss border and advanced security measures at all rail stations.Too little, too late?
"I will do everything in order to put intelligent controls in place on the border," Horst Seehofer told Spiegel magazine in a follow-up to the harrowing incident at Frankfurt station, in which a 40-year-old Eritrean man assaulted an eight-year-old boy and his mother.
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Now, Seehofer wants to introduce "occasional, temporary checks at the border with Switzerland" to screen foreigners. Both Germany and Switzerland are in the visa-free Schengen area, but travelers crossing their border aren't subjected to any controls.
The issue needs to be dealt with immediately, Seehofer warned, mentioning that a total of 43,000 unauthorized arrivals had been registered in Germany last year. The conservative politician was once at odds with Angela Merkel over imposing limits on incoming immigrants, but this time the Chancellor "is fully on my side on the issues of security."
Border checks aside, Seehofer also urges ramping up security at railway stations. He didn't expand on that but said it could involve installing safety barriers or locks on the platforms - similar to those already in use in London and Paris. Such countermeasures could potentially cost billions of Euros, the minister acknowledged
Comment: Idiots indeed.
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