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CNN's Fareed Zakaria appeared on Don Lemon's show to talk about Trump's wiretap claim when he had an absolute meltdown.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, folks!
Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, folks!
© Fox 5 AtlantaDeputies arrested Monical Pascual Brito and teacher Karla Alvarez Thrusday in a $6 million drug bust in Georgia.
The teacher Karla Alvarez, 28, and two others are facing drug trafficking and gun charges following Thursday's drug bust by local authorities in Hall County.
Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday that Alvarez is a teacher at Chestatee Middle School Academy in Gainesville. She also coaches the girls soccer team. She teaches Spanish, according to the school's website.
Whatever is free is squandered. When water is free, it's freely wasted. When electricity is free, there's no motivation to use it wisely.
The same principle holds true for money. If money is free, or nearly free, there is no motivation to invest it wisely, or consider the opportunity costs of spending it versus investing it or preserving it as savings.
Money that can be borrowed for next to nothing is essentially "free" because the costs of interest are negligible. Money that can be borrowed in virtually unlimited quantities is also "free," as whatever funds are squandered or lost to malinvestment can be easily replaced with more borrowed money.
Nothing enduringly productive can be built without discipline and a steady focus on the bottom line of production costs, revenues, overhead expenses and opportunity costs, i.e. what else could have been done with this capital and labor?
These dynamics are scale-invariant, meaning they apply to individuals and households as well as to companies, institutions and nation-states.
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The death of Mohammed Sahwan from "natural causes" was announced by the government on Thursday. He is reported to be the first activist who has died in Jau prison, south of Manama, following the 2011 protests that were violently suppressed by the Gulf island's monarchy.
While the death of the activist, who was serving a 15-year term has been attributed to a heart failure, his relatives claimed that the 45-years old inmate died as a result of a serious head injury he suffered back in April 2011. Over the years, Sahwan's family insisted that he never received proper medical treatment for the 80 birdshot pellets which struck him during the violent crackdown, and which remained in his head.
A surgeon implants a pacemaker into a patient.
In Pennsylvania, authorities dismissed rape charges after data from a woman's Fitbit contradicted her version of her whereabouts during the 2015 alleged assault.
Vast amounts of data collected from our connected devices—fitness bands, smart refrigerators, thermostats and automobiles, among others—are increasingly being used in US legal proceedings to prove or disprove claims by people involved.
In a recent case that made headlines, authorities in Arkansas sought, and eventually obtained, data from a murder suspect's Amazon Echo speaker to obtain evidence.
The US Federal Trade Commission in February fined television maker Vizio for secretly gathering data on viewers collected from its smart TVs and selling the information to marketers.
The maker of the smartphone-connected sex toy We-Vibe meanwhile agreed in March to a court settlement of a class-action suit from buyers who claimed "highly intimate and sensitive data" was uploaded to the cloud without permission—and shown last year to be vulnerable to hackers.
Allan Beswick
Allan Beswick, host of the Late Night Phone-In programme on BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire, engaged in conversation with the man - who said he was calling from prison - for four-and-a-half minutes without cutting him off.
Listeners were horrified to hear the man repeat details of his alleged crimes and to argue that DVDs of "child sex" should be supplied to adults as a substitute for them abusing children.
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On Thursday the White House released its 2018 budget proposal seeking approval from Congress, which among other things seeks to fortify the US-Mexican border. Overall Donald Trump wants $4.5 billion to achieve his promised measures against illegal immigration.
To get the wall pledge rolling, the US Customs and Border Protection released two "Requests for Proposal" for the design and construction of first prototypes in the project that according to Department of Homeland Security might eventually cost $21 billion.
One of Philadelphia’s most prominent Latin American events, El Carnaval de Puebla, has been canceled this year because of what one organizer called “the severe conditions affecting the immigrant community.”
Edgar Ramirez told a local NBC affiliate that as many as 15,000 people gather for the annual parade through South Philadelphia, marking the city's largest Cinco de Mayo celebration.
Ramirez told NBC the decision was "sad but responsible" amid reports of more immigration enforcement arrests on the part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Hundreds of undocumented immigrants have been detained or arrested since President Trump took office. Trump campaigned on a pledge to strengthen enforcement of immigration laws.
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Police 911 dispatchers are often a lifeline in an emergency and are required to return every call that's hung up. Unfortunately, a problem with T-Mobile that began in November resulted in massive amounts of hang-ups, or ghost calls, that dispatchers had to manually return. As a result, two people died last week after being unable to reach a Dallas police dispatcher.
While T-Mobile is bearing the brunt of the responsibility for the poser in Dallas, AT&T had similar 911 issues earlier this month in 14 states, according to the New York Times. On March 8, some AT&T customers were unable to get through to their local police departments for five hours. The telecommunications giant did not specify the cause of the snag or how many people were affected.
Col. William Jones
Col. William Jones, former 20th Fighter Wing vice commander, was sentenced on Shaw Air Force Base. It took Judge J. Wesley Moore less than 2 1/2 hours to hand down the sentencing. Jones' wife and daughter hugged each other as the judge read the verdict.
Jones had pleaded guilty to wrongfully possessing images and videos of child pornography in violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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