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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out setting an upper limit on refugees coming to Germany, defying her long-term coalition partner on an issue that threatens to open up a rift between the country's ruling political parties just two months before federal elections.

"On the issue of an upper limit, my position is clear," Merkel said in an interview broadcast live on Germany's ARD on Sunday. "I won't accept one."

"The cap is and remains a goal of the CSU," Seehofer said, although he refused to make the issue a red line in a coalition deal -- a softening of his previous stance.
In an interview in December, Horst Seehofer, head of the CSU, promised a cap of 200,000 refugees per year if his party is in a coalition government after the election.

A survey conducted last September found that 47% of those polled were in favor of an upper limit on the number of refugees, including 69% of CSU supporters.
Refugees and integration continues to top the list of concerns among German voters. Nearly half of Germans surveyed on July 7 in a weekly poll by Forschungsgruppe Wahlen said that the issue is among the most important for them, with the next most common issue (social inequality) mentioned by just 14% of respondents.
Some Germans have expressed their frustration with Merkel's latest comments on social media.
"Whoever votes for the CDU with Merkel is supporting further flooding of Germany," wrote Twitter user Anny's World.
or others, a cap doesn't go far enough. "No upper limit," wrote Gerd Luck. "If there was an upper limit for refugees in Germany, it wouldn't solve the problem."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/17/europe/germany-refugees-merkel/index.html

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/us/australian-woman-minneapolis-police-fatal-shooting-body-cameras.html

Happened 5 minutes from my parents house. It's a really nice neighborhood, pretty shocking.

>An Australian woman who was about to get married was fatally shot overnight Saturday by a Minneapolis police officer who did not have his body camera turned on, officials said.

>The woman, Justine Damond, was shot as the officers were responding to her 911 call of an assault near her home in the Fulton neighborhood. Ms. Damond, 40, who is from Sydney and who also went by the name Justine Ruszczyk, was engaged to be married next month to an American man, according to Australian news reports.

>Police officials said they were looking into the circumstances of the shooting and why the officers were not using their body cameras, as required in such encounters.

>“Two Minneapolis police officers responded to a 911 call of a possible assault just north of the 5100 block of Washburn Avenue South just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday,” a statement by the State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said. “At one point an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman.”

>“The officers’ body cameras were not turned on at the time and the squad camera did not capture the incident,” the statement added.

>Betsy Hodges, the mayor of Minneapolis, said, “I have questions about why the bodycams weren’t on.”

>“As mayor of our city, a wife, and a grandmother, I am heartsick and deeply disturbed by what occurred last night,” she posted on Facebook

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/17/us/minneapolis-woman-killed-by-police/index.html

>The officer involved in the shooting, Mohammed Noor, extended his condolences to the family in a statement through his attorney. Noor came to the United States at a young age and is thankful to have had so many opportunities, attorney Thomas Plunkett said.

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A Republican lawyer who reported Democratic U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife to federal officials was passing on information he heard from a GOP lawmaker who said he didn't have direct knowledge of the allegations.

>The lawyer, Brady Toensing, sent letters to the U.S. attorney for Vermont and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. alleging that Sen. Sanders pressured a bank to approve a loan to a now-closed college run by Sanders' wife.

>The source of that information was Republican State Rep. Don Turner, the minority leader of the Vermont House.

>Turner told WCAX-TV that friends at the bank described pressure from Sanders' office, but he says those friends didn't have direct knowledge of the negotiations. Turner says he told Toensing about it in May 2016, adding that he would not have brought it to the attention of federal investigators.

>Toensing, an attorney who served as Donald Trump's Vermont representative during last year's presidential campaign, said Monday he was standing by the allegation.

>"This was not a country store, cracker-barrel rant," Toensing said. He noted that hearsay is used by investigators to develop direct evidence.

>Turner did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press on Monday.

>The Vermont weekly newspaper Seven Days first reported late Friday that Turner was the source of Toensing's information.

>In early 2016, Toensing sent a more extensive letter to federal authorities alleging that in 2010, when Jane O'Meara Sanders was president of Burlington College, she made fraudulent claims while seeking $10 million in financing for a real estate deal.

>The college, which closed last year, later sold the property. Officials cited debt from the land deal as a major reason.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/source-of-fraud-allegation-vs-bernie-sanders-wife-says-info-was-hearsay/

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Why can't she admit it

http://949thebull.iheart.com/featured/otis-the-o-show/content/2017-07-11-did-kim-k-forget-about-the-cocaine-on-the-table-in-her-selfie/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=postplanner&utm_source=facebook.com

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Chinese researchers have teleported a photon from the Gobi desert to a satellite orbiting five hundred kilometres above the earth.

This is achieved through quantum entanglement, a process where two particles react as one with no physical connection between them.

Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at Oxford University Ian Walmsley tells the World At One how quantum entanglement works and how teleportation could be utilised.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-40573621/first-object-teleported-to-earth-s-orbit

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>https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/07/17/Caitlyn-Jenner-considering-run-for-US-Senate/9821500304987/

July 17 (UPI) -- Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner said over the weekend she is considering running for the U.S. Senate, to represent California.

Jenner, a transgender activist formerly known as Bruce Jenner, said she planned to make a decision within six months.

"I have considered it. I like the political side of it," Jenner said in an interview Sunday with radio host John Catsimatidis on New York's AM 970 that aired Sunday. "I gotta find out where I can do a better job. Can I do a better job from the outside, kind of working the perimeter of the political scene, being open to talk to anybody? Or are you better off from the inside, and we are in the process of determining that."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/trump-officials-order-15000-new-visas-for-low-wage-workers/

>The Department of Homeland Security on Monday announced a one-time increase of 15,000 additional visas for low-wage seasonal workers for the remainder of this fiscal year, a seeming about-face from President Trump's "Hire American" rhetoric, following heavy lobbying from fisheries, hospitality and other industries that rely on temporary foreign workers.

>The increase represents a 45 percent bump from the number of H-2B visas normally issued for the second half of the fiscal year, said senior Homeland Security officials in a call with reporters.

>The visas are for workers taking temporary jobs in the seafood, tourism, landscaping, construction and other seasonal industries — but not farm laborers.

>Businesses can begin applying for the visas this week, but must first attest that their firms would suffer permanent "irreparable harm" without importing foreign workers. They will be required to retain documents proving that they would not otherwise be able to meet their contractual obligations, or provide other evidence of severe financial loss, the officials said.

>Asked how allowing more foreign workers aligns with Trump's America First policies — especially as the White House kicks off what it has promoted as "Made in America" week — one of the Homeland Security officials said the increase "absolutely does" fit in with Trump's campaign promises.

>"We're talking about American businesses that are at risk of suffering irreparable harm if they don't get additional H-2B workers," he said. "This does help with American businesses continuing to prosper."

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http://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-process-begin-al-green-622349

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For online publishers, more advertising typically means more revenue. It’s why websites are often crammed full of flashing banners, auto-playing videos, content-blocking overlays and widgets recommending sponsored story links.

But some publishers say they’re now taking a “less is more” approach when it comes to placing ads across their sites. Stripping out irritating ad formats and limiting the number of ads forced on visitors can actually result in more engaged consumers and ultimately increased ad revenue, they say.

In early 2016, for example, female-focused publisher LittleThings set a challenge for itself: to remove at least one form of advertising from its site every quarter, but without sacrificing revenue.

Over the course of the next year, it proceeded to remove from its site clickbait-heavy content recommendation ads, interstitial ads that pop up and cover users’ screens, and autoplay video ads. Now the site mostly relies on just display ads, user-initiated video ads and sponsored content.

The result: There are now fewer ads on each page, and the website generates less revenue from each individual page that users view. But overall ad revenue has increased.

“Users view more pages, share more content and are generally more engaged,” said Justin Festa, chief digital officer at LittleThings. He said revenue generated from each user’s session grew 38% in June, compared with a year earlier.

What’s more, having fewer ads on each page actually helped boost the performance and value of the advertising that remained, said Mr. Festa. The ads were more likely to be seen and clicked on because there was less clutter, he explained.

Publishers’ moves to cut out annoying ads could also be driven by more than just improving the user experience.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-publishers-try-reducing-ads-to-boost-revenue-1499940061

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>Sessions is required to fill out SF86 and list all his contacts with foreigners in order to become AG
>This document is a government record which is subject to FOIA requests
>Activists make FOIA request for session's foreign contacts section after he lies under oath about his meetings with Russians
>Judge issues a court order compelling DOJ to release form within 30 days
>Sessions ignores court order and refuses to release the form, letting 30 day deadline expire

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/536982193/justice-department-defies-court-deadline-to-release-sessions-contacts-with-russi

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You trolls trolled yourselves. Lets see if you are as powerful as you think you are in fighting the government you helped create

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/12/even-4chan-is-opposing-the-republican-plan-for-net-neutrality/

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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholding-surveillance-videos-of-crime-to-avoid-stereotypes/

>In the last three months, there have been at least three robberies on BART involving groups of teenagers.

>April 22: Forty to sixty kids boarded a train at the Coliseum stop and robbed seven passengers, beating up two;

>June 28: A group of four kids assaulted a passenger and made off with a cell phone at Dublin; and

>June 30: A woman on a train with about a dozen teenagers had her phone snatched by one them before the group got off at the Coliseum stop. Thankfully, a good Samaritan was on hand to retrieve the phone.

>So far, BART has refused to turn over surveillance video for any of these incidents. Allen (who is a member of the BART Board of Directors) told us the agency issued an explanation for why it is being tight-lipped about the thefts. “To release these videos would create a high level of racially insensitive commentary toward the district,” she was told. “And in addition it would create a racial bias in the riders against minorities on the trains.”

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by Hannah Osborne, newsweek.com

> Yellowstone supervolcano has been hit by a series of earthquakes, with more 30 recorded since June 12. The latest was recorded on Monday, June 19, with a magnitude 3 earthquake striking 8.6 miles north north-east of West Yellowstone, Montana.

> The swarm began last week, and on June 15 saw a magnitude 4.5 earthquake take place in Yellowstone National Park. “The epicenter of the shock was located in Yellowstone National Park, eight miles north-northeast of the town of West Yellowstone, Montana,” scientists from the University of Utah, which monitors Yellowstone Volcano, said in a statement.

> This earthquake was the largest to have hit Yellowstone since March 30, 2014, when a magnitude 4.8 earthquake was recorded 18 miles to the east, near the Norris Geyser Basin.

> “[The 4.5] earthquake is part of an energetic sequence of earthquakes in the same area that began on June 12,” the statement continued. “This sequence has included approximately thirty earthquakes of magnitude 2 and larger and four earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger, including today's magnitude 4.5 event.”

> As of June 16, 235 events had been recorded. Most of these ranged in the magnitude of 0 to 1, with five less than zero.

> The probability of a large eruption at Yellowstone in the next year is currently calculated at one in 730,000.

> But what would happen if it did erupt? In 2014, scientists with the USGS published a report where they modeled what would happen if a large, explosive eruption took place at the supervolcano. Their findings showed most of the country would be covered in a blanket of ash, with some areas being buried up to a meter deep.

http://www.newsweek.com/yellowstone-supervolcano-earthquake-swarm-eruption-risk-627189?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

THEY SAY IT STARTS WITH AN EARTHQUAKE...

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Meet Tabatha Lehman and Craig Schultheis.

The Florida couple was having sex in public around 3 AM yesterday when a patrolman interrupted their tryst (which was taking place outside a closed business in Largo).

Lehman, 45, and Schultheis, 46, were not pleased to be interrupted by Officer Logan Ward, who reported spotting both defendants “naked from the waist down performing sexual activities on each other."

Schultheis, Logan noted, repeatedly explained that he was "just trying to get a piece of ass."

For her part, Lehman repeatedly declared that she was "getting her pussy eaten out," according to a criminal complaint.

Alcohol may have played a role in the pair’s public display of affection, which resulted in the arrest of Lehman and Schultheis for exposure of sexual organs, a misdemeanor. The pair was released from jail Monday after spending about nine hours in custody.

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/florida/cop-interrupts-couples-tryst-274803

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Three men were arrested on suspicion of selling avocados illegally, causing a Ventura County business to lose more than $300,000.

Ventura County sheriff's deputies arrested the three suspects Wednesday after serving search warrants at their workplace, a Mission Produce facility on Dufau Road, and their homes.

Detectives said the warrants resulted in the arrests of the men who were identified as 38-year-old Joseph Valenzuela, of Santa Paula, 28-year-old Carlos Chavez, of Oxnard, and 30-year-old Rahim Leblanc, also of Oxnard.

An investigation began in late May, authorities said, over allegations that employees at the Mission Produce facility were conducting unauthorized cash sales of avocados. Detectives obtained evidence that confirmed the claims.

Detectives also learned that the illegal sales may have been happening for several months. Mission Produce estimates the value of the stolen produce to be more than $300,000.

Authorities believe the suspects sold the avocados to customers who thought they were paying Mission.

The investigation was ongoing.

http://abc7.com/news/3-men-arrested-for-illegally-selling-avocados-totaling-$300k/2113701/