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Georgia I-85 bridge to re-open 1 month ahead of schedule


Sputnik
Thu, 11 May 2017 14:45 UTC
Interstate 85
© AP Photo/ WSB-TV
The bridge, which has been closed since it caught fire in late March, will be reopening fully on May 15 instead of the previously announced date of June 15.

The northbound lanes are to open on Saturday and the southbound on Sunday, according to Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) commissioner Russell McMurry. This means Monday rush hour traffic will be allowed to resume as before.

Comment: UPDATE - Huge fire causes Atlanta, Georgia highway to collapse (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Delinquent US car loans hit 8-year high, drawing parallels with 2007 mortgage meltdown

Kristian Rouz
Sputnik
Thu, 11 May 2017 12:54 UTC
US traffic
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Non-performing loans (NPLs) in the auto finance segment have become a systemic threat to the US debt market, with delinquencies rising rapidly in subprime borrowing.

Volumes of car loan delinquencies have risen to an eight-year high last month, and auto loan-backed bonds look increasingly toxic, with skyrocketing yields and plummeting value. The next big threat to the US financial system has materialized in one of the hottest segments of the lending market, which is car loans, and now commercial banks have started to pull out of the toxic debt.

The question is, however, if it's too late to swerve away from the looming car loan crash, and if the rising volumes of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the automotive sector have reached the point of no return.
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Westminster terror suspect refuses to recognize charges against him


RT
Thu, 11 May 2017 12:15 UTC
Westminster police arrest UK London
© Toby Melville / ReutersA man is held by police in Westminster after an arrest was made on Whitehall in central London, Britain, April 27, 2017.
Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday after being arrested just yards from Downing Street on April 27, allegedly in possession of a backpack full of knives.

Omar Ali, 27, was arrested following a police 'stop and search' operation outside the Treasury. He had reportedly been followed by undercover officers throughout the day after a tip-off by his family. Three knives were discovered at the scene.

The incident occurred just over a month after Khalid Masood launched a combined car and knife attack on Westminster Bridge and the Parliamentary Estate, killing six people including police officer Keith Palmer. Masood was shot dead moments later by firearms officers.
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Quenelle

Dublin Council flies Palestinian flag over city hall in 'gesture of solidarity'


RT
Tue, 09 May 2017 15:04 UTC
Palestinian flag over city hall in Dublin
© David Fleming / RT
Dublin City Council, in Ireland's capital, has voted to fly the Palestinian flag over city hall until the end of the month "as a gesture of our solidarity with the people of Palestine."

The motion, passed Monday, was proposed by left-wing People Before Profit Councillor John Lyons, who said the move would support communities living under a form of "apartheid, worse than South Africa." It was carried with the support of Sinn Féin and left-wing parties by 42 to 11, with seven abstentions. Center-right parties Fine Gael and Fine Fail opposed the motion.
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29 defendants charged with scores of historical sex offences appear in court


RT
Thu, 11 May 2017 11:25 UTC
child in the dark
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Twenty-nine people charged with dozens of historical sexual abuse offences against children and women in Huddersfield have been met by protesters outside Leeds Crown Court. One man alone is facing 21 charges of rape.

The alleged offences took place in the town between 2004 and 2011, and involved girls aged between 11 and 17, the BBC reports. Most of the defendants are from Huddersfield, but others came from Bradford, Dewsbury, Dudley, Manchester and Sheffield.
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Smiley

US Media Loses The Plot Over Lavrov Meeting With Trump


RT.com
Thu, 11 May 2017 08:04 UTC
Trump Lavrov White House
In response to US media hysteria over Russian outlets obtaining photos of Donald Trump's closed-door meeting with Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, the White House says both a Russian and an American photojournalist were present.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with US President Donald Trump was widely anticipated by the media, and while it happened behind closed doors, it was the Russian Foreign Ministry that first publicized Lavrov's visit to the Oval Office to the world.

What made the photo shoot even more intriguing was the attendance of Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak - a key figure in the investigation of the Trump administration's ties to Russia.

After the pictures taken by a TASS correspondent became public, American journalists were quick to look for conspiracy theories.
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Big child webcam sex bust reveals rising abuse

Martha Mendoza and Jim Gomez
Associated Press
Tue, 09 May 2017 03:35 UTC
webcam sex bust
© AP Photo/Aaron FavilaDeakin's arrest reveals one of the darkest corners of the internet, where pedophiles in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia pay facilitators on the other side of the world to sexually abuse children, directing their moves through online livestreaming services.
The suspected pedophile could see people banging on his front door through his security cameras. Were they neighbors? Cops?

One had letters on her jacket. As David Timothy Deakin googled "What is NBI?" from the laptop on his bed, the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation smashed their way into his cybersex den.

Children's underwear, toddler shoes, cameras, bondage cuffs, fetish ropes, meth pipes and stacks of hard drives and photo albums cluttered the stuffy, two-bedroom townhouse. Penciled on the wall, someone had scrawled "My Mom and Dad love me" and a broken heart. In his computer were videos and images of young boys and girls engaged in sex acts.

"Why is everyone asking about children coming into my house?" said Deakin, 53, his wrists bound with a zip tie.
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Fraternity booted off U of Arizona campus after members threaten to kill hazing 'rats'

Joshua Rhett Miller
New York Post
Wed, 10 May 2017 10:11 UTC
Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity
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A fraternity at the University of Arizona has been booted off campus for at least four years for allegedly hazing pledges by forcing them to assemble puzzles while boozed-up and blindfolded — and witnesses were warned that "rats" would be killed.

Pledges of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity at the university in Tucson were blindfolded by frat brothers during a "puzzle night" in March designed to bond prospective members by having them work together in groups of three. The lined-up pledges were then led down a hallway to a dark room while one student was violently shoved into a pillar, causing serious injury, according to a letter to the fraternity from the school's dean of students.

"A witness was allegedly told by members of the fraternity the night of the assault, that 'we kill rats,' and stated that new members were forced to consume alcohol and placed in a room where music was blaring," the letter reads.

The pledges had been playing a game that required them to drink alcohol during a game called "Don't F— Your Brother" during the March 23 event that violated the university's code of conduct and led to the arrest of a 19-year-old student identified by the Arizona Republic as 19-year-old Cody Ward.
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Bad Guys

83-year-old man critical after unprovoked attack in Bronx, New York


CBS News - New York
Wed, 10 May 2017 06:42 UTC
Suspect in NYC assault
© New York Police Department
The search for a suspect continues in what police called "an unprovoked attack" on an 83-year-old man in the Bronx.

Valentine Hernandez had just crossed Westchester Avenue at Fox Street Monday afternoon when police said he was sucker punched by a much younger and much larger man.

The entire incident was captured on surveillance video. Hernandez fell to the ground and lost consciousness, suffering a laceration to his forehead and fractures to his nose and face.

Miguel Santos is now desperate to speak to his elderly father, who is in critical condition in Lincoln Hospital. "Never seen him that way. He was just there unconscious," he said. "It seems like he's trying to wake up but he can't. He can't open his eyes, can't open his left eye at all. It's swollen shut."

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Smoking

Pennsylvania considers new bill expanding fascist smoking ban


WKBN
Tue, 09 May 2017 19:13 UTC
Woman smoking
© WKBN
Lawmakers are considering a new bill that would end indoor smoking at bars, casinos, clubs and hotels that still allow it in Pennsylvania.

House Bill 1309 was introduced Friday by House Health Committee Chairman Matthew Baker, R-Tioga County.

According to CBS affiliate KDKA, the bill would get rid of a list of exemptions in the 2008 Clean Indoor Air Act that lets businesses continue to allow smoking under certain conditions.

Bars can still allow smoking under the 2008 law if 20-percent or less of its sales come from food. Casinos can allow smoking on a portion of their gaming floors but not the whole floor, and hotels can designate up to 25-percent of their rooms as smoking rooms.

The bill says that smoking will still be allowed in private homes.

Comment: Lies, Damned Lies & 400,000 Smoking-related Deaths: Cooking the Data in the Fascists' Anti-Smoking Crusade

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