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"U.S. settles Russian money laundering case" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-prevezon-idUSKBN18904I

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The settlement brings an end to a case that raised many of the elements of distrust between Moscow and Washington, such as economic sanctions and allegations of political corruption.

U.S. authorities said the elaborate tax fraud and money laundering allegations were first uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, Russian accountant for investment firm Hermitage Capital.

After accusing Russian officials of the $230 million tax fraud, he was arrested on tax evasion charges and died in prison a year later, prosecutors said.

The Kremlin's human rights council found that Magnitsky likely died from a beating delivered by guards and medical neglect. Russian authorities have said Magnitsky death was caused by heart failure, not foul play.

In 2012, at the urging of Magnitsky's former employer, Hermitage Capital CEO William Browder, Washington passed a law freezing any U.S. assets of Russian investigators and prosecutors said to have been involved in the accountant's detention. In retaliation, Moscow barred Americans from adopting Russian children

In the settlement agreement, prosecutors stated that none of the defendants had a role in the death of Magnitsky.

Katsyv's attorney Gay said the current controversy over allegations of Russian meddling in U.S. elections had likely motivated both sides to settle before trial. "It's such a heated political environment right now," she said. "I'm sure that was a factor."

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http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/the-3-reasons-may-called-an-election-and-the-reasons-you-should-thwart-her-plan-1-5000292?utm_medium=email&utm_source=eshot&utm_campaign=newsletterlink

Anyone who votes for the May gang of 4 stumblebums must be fucking nuts.

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>Published on May 11, 2017
>If you ever have ice cream at the White House, expect President Trump to be served two scoops while everyone else gets one. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEahmx0Btw

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http://gizmodo.com/massive-lava-waves-detected-on-jupiter-s-moon-io-1795088666

http://www.space.com/36788-lava-waves-jupiter-volcanic-moon-io.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/giant-waves-lava-lake-size-170002492.html

>A rare cosmic alignment has allowed scientists to observe a never-before seen phenomenon on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io—two huge waves sweeping across the surface of a lava lake the size of Wales.

>Io is the most volcanically-active object in the whole solar system. It is the innermost of Jupiter’s Galilean moons—the four largest of the planet’s 64 known moons—and has the highest density of them all.

>Changes to the brightness of Io’s surface have been documented for almost 50 years and in 1979, when NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 flew past, scientists realized this was due to volcanic activity on the moon.

>One spot in particular stood out—a region named Loki Patera after the Norse god, Loki.

>The patera—a bowl-shaped volcanic crater—brightens every 400 to 600 days and there is an ongoing debate about what causes it. Either it is a massive lava lake being churned up, or regular and massive eruptions causing lava to flow over a huge area.
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http://www.trunews.com/article/cancer-survivor-develops-ai-for-medical-advancements

MIT professor Regina Barzilay’s breast cancer scare has shifted her focus to applying artificial intelligence to improve medical treatment and diagnosis

>(VERO BEACH, FL) Professor Barzilay teaches a popular course on machine learning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and is known for her work on natural language processing, or rather, teaching computers to understand human speech.

>In 2014 Professor Barzliay’s work was interrupted by an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis, which showed her both a major technological shortfall in the medical sector and a way to apply her skill set to improve the way the aliment is treated.

>"Going through it, I realized that today we have more sophisticated technology to select your shoes on Amazon than to adjust treatments for cancer patients," Professor Barzilay told CNBC in an interview at her office in Cambridge. "I really wanted to make sure that the expertise we have would be used for helping people."

>"Looking back, there was clearly no tumor on the previous mammograms, but was there something in these very complex images that would hint at... a wrong development?" Barzilay said. "It clearly didn't just appear. Biological processes are in place to make a successful growth and it clearly impacts the tissue. So for a human who looks at it, it's very hard to quantify the change, but a machine may look at millions of these images. This should really help them to look at these signs."

>Professor Barzliay has since founded a group to apply AI to the cancer treatment field in a collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital.

>"The potential is perhaps the biggest in any type of technology we've ever had in the field of medicine," the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute Dr. Eric Topol told CNBC. "Computing capability can transcend what a human being could ever do in their lifetime."

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Two scientists resigned from a key Environmental Protection Agency science advisory board on Friday in an act of protest against a decision this week removing the board's co-chairmen, according to a resignation letter sent by one of the scientists.

>"It is with certain regret and concern — and in protest — that we submit our resignations as members of the Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee of the Board of Scientific Counselors" for the EPA, says the letter from scientists Peter Meyer and Carlos Martin.

>Martin tweeted the letter, saying, "Just resigned from EPA subcommittee to protest removal of [Robert Richardson] @ecotrope & Courtney Flint," who headed the board. "Painful professional decision," Martin added.

>The Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group representing environmental scientists, said the resignations were "largely due to the administration's efforts to water down credible science and the recent removal of the subcommittee's co-chairs," according to spokesman Seth Michaels.

>EPA officials have been adamant that the departure of the co-chairmen and several others earlier this week was not a dismissal or firing. The agency simply did not seek to renew a number of scientists' terms on the board and allowed them to expire, the EPA said.

>The board is comprised of outside advisers from business and academia who make scientific recommendations on proposed EPA research and regulations.

>"Advisory panels like [the Board of Scientific Counselors] play a critical role reviewing the agency's work," EPA spokesman J.P. Freire told the Washington Examiner in an email. "EPA received hundreds of nominations to serve on the board, and we want to ensure fair consideration of all the nominees – including those nominated who may have previously served on the panel – and carry out a competitive nomination process."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/epa-science-advisers-resign-in-protest/article/2622950

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The Lincoln Tunnel became the tunnel of self-love when a man high on PCP blocked traffic with his minivan to take time to pleasure himself, officials said Friday.

Port Authority police busted Ismael Esquilin, 48, of Passaic, N.J., about 7:15 p.m. Thursday when his Dodge minivan was found stopped in the middle of the New Jersey-bound side of the Hudson River tunnel, holding up traffic.

When cops approached the car, they found Esquilin removing his clothes and “performing a lewd act,” Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo said. The idling minivan was running and the keys were in the ignition, officials said.

Cops also found a glass pipe and small glass bottles containing PCP on the passenger seat floor.

After cops covered Esquilin with a blanket he admitted that he had smoked PCP, but refused to take a Breathalyzer test.

Esquilin was taken to Hoboken Hospital for observation.

Cops seized the drugs and impounded the minivan. Esqulin was charged with drug possession, driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving and impeding traffic, officials said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/n-man-pcp-busted-masturbating-van-lincoln-tunnel-article-1.3159660

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"North Korea missile rose more than 2,000 kilometers in altitude: Japan defense minister" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-inada-idUSKBN18A00V

A missile fired by North Korea on Sunday morning reached an altitude of more than 2,000 kilometers (1,245 miles) and could be a new type of a missile, Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said.

Inada also said the missile is estimated to have fallen in the Sea of Japan about 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the east coast of North Korea.

"North Korea fires missile days after new South Korea leader pledges dialogue" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN1890UO

North Korea fired a ballistic missile early on Sunday that flew 700 kilometers (430 miles), South Korea's military said, days after a new leader took office in the South pledging to engage in dialogue with Pyongyang.

The missile was fired from the region of Kusong, northwest of Pyongyang, where the North in February successfully test-launched an intermediate-range missile that it is believed to be developing.

Japan said the latest missile reached an altitude of more than 2,000 km (1,245 miles) and flew for 30 minutes before dropping into the sea between North Korea's east coast and Japan. The North has consistently test-fired missiles in that direction.

Sunday's launch, at 5:27 a.m. Seoul time (4:27 p.m. ET), came two weeks after North Korea fired a missile that disintegrated minutes into flight, marking its fourth consecutive failure since March.

The U.S. Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was "not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile".

"U.S. Pacific Command is fully committed to working closely with our Republic of Korea and Japanese allies to maintain security," a spokesperson said, referring to South Korea by its official name.

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http://honisoit.com/2017/05/protesters-clash-one-arrested-outside-the-red-pill-screening/

Happened near the University of Sydney

>Protesters clash, one arrested, outside The Red Pill screening
>The societies independently organised and funded the event after the USU withdrew support. Additional reporting by Bianca Farmakis
>Police have arrested one person at a protest outside an on-campus screening of The Red Pill, a documentary about the Men’s Rights Activist (MRA) movement which has been banned in various cinemas around the world.
>University of Sydney Union (USU) clubs BROSoc, Students for Liberty and the Conservative Club organised the event, though the USU withdrew funding and resources from the film following complaints from other students.
>The Board said, “We believe that there is the distinct possibility that the planned screening of this documentary would be discriminatory against women, and has the capacity to intimidate and physically threaten women on campus”.
>Student political group Fascist Free USyd organised the protest, which attracted over 50 students.
>University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council (SRC) Wom*n’s Officer, Katie Thorburn, told Honi, “If BroSoc, the Libertarian Club and the Conservatives were so interested in feminism, and they’re willing to put so much money behind those A3 posters and stickers that they put up around campus and in women’s bathrooms, why have they never approached the Wom*n’s Collective to help with the sexual assault campaign?”
That's not a joke, they actually call it the "Wom*n's Officer" and "Wom*n's Collective"
>“I find it interesting that the University says they have a zero-tolerance approach to sexual assault and yet are supporting pro-rape ideology by housing the screening in a lecture hall.”

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-trump-idUSKBN1890T0

Pope Francis said on Saturday he would be "sincere" with U.S. President Donald Trump over their sharp differences on subjects such as immigration and climate change when the two hold their first meeting at the Vatican later this month.

But the pope also told reporters aboard a plane returning from Portugal that he would keep an open mind and not pass judgment on Trump until first listening to his views at their meeting on May 24.

"Even if one thinks differently we have to be very sincere about what each one thinks," Francis said in a typically freewheeling airborne news conference.

"Topics will emerge in our conversations. I will say what I think and he will say what he thinks. But I have never wanted to make a judgment without first listening to the person."

The pope's meeting with Trump could be potentially awkward given their diametrically opposed positions on immigration, refugees and climate change, which he told reporters on the plane "are well known".

Last year, in response to a question about then-candidate Trump's views on immigration and his intention to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, Francis said a man with such views was "not Christian".

Trump, who grew up in a Presbyterian family, shot back saying it was "disgraceful" for the pope to question his faith.

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"Trump plans likely to aggravate U.S. inequality: Nobel winner Deaton" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g7-ministers-deaton-idUSKBN1890L3

U.S. President Donald Trump's economic policies risk creating growth that mostly benefits the rich and aggravates income inequality in the United States, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton said.

Trump was swept to power on promises of help for poorer Americans but Deaton said his proposals to roll back regulations on finance and industry and cut healthcare benefits would mostly help corporate groups with political influence.

Trump's plans to cut taxes and raise trade barriers, if enacted, might give a short-term income boost to some workers but would not deliver the long-term growth that is essential for mitigating the effects of inequality, he said in an interview.

"I don't think any of it is good" for addressing income inequality, said Deaton, a Princeton University professor, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2015 for his work on poverty, welfare and consumption.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2017-05-09/trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey-on-sessions-recommendation

>President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, the White House said in a statement Tuesday.

>"Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office.," according to the statement. "President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions."

>Comey, who has led an investigation into Russia’s meddling during the 2016 election and possible links to Trump aides and associates, is only the second FBI chief to have been fired.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUgVlAMInKg

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A man was indicted Thursday for "masturbating vigorously" outside of New Avenues for Youth in downtown Portland on May 3.

Court documents say that when a Portland police officer responded to a complaint of public indecency at the location, the officer saw Terry Lee Andreassen, 59, "with his erect penis exposed to the public."

When Andreassen saw the officer, he "put his penis back in his pants and began to walk away." Documents say that when the officer asked Andreassen whether or not it was appropriate to masturbate in public and why he was doing it, Andreassen told the officer that he was on meth and wanted to go back to prison, because he "f--ing hates Portland."

This is not Andreassen's first time acting inappropriately in public. He has convictions for public indecency going back to at least 2001.

An affidavit from a 2014 felony conviction for public indecency says that on Aug. 30 of 2014 Andreassen was observed "laying on the sidewalk on NW Couch between 1st and 2nd Ave...across from the exit of Jones Bar."

The affidavit says Andreassen was observed "stroking his penis outside of his pants" and that he was "staring at several females in the bar that were standing in line." Andreassen was observed doing this for two nights in a row.

Andreassen is currently booked at the Multnomah County Inverness Jail.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/man_arrested_after_masturbatin.html

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American diplomats in Estonia honoured those who fell on the fields of WWII, reported the US embassy in Estonia.

But there is one small detail: military attache of the US saluted those who fought on Hitler’s side: 20th Estonian Grenade Division which was created in February 1944. That was the unit which took part in exterminaition of civilian population in Belorussia.

Иcтoчник: http://rusvesna.su/news/1494577183