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Protesters and police clashed<\/a>in some of the most densely populated neighborhoods of the island Wednesday night and into early Thursday morning, as Hong Kongers expressed their opposition to the bill they claimed would threaten the region's semi-autonomous rule.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International blamed police, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets, for allegedly using a heavy hand in cracking down on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\"The police have taken advantage of the violent acts of a small minority as a pretext to use excessive force against the vast majority of peaceful protesters,\" Amnesty International Hong Kong director Man-Kei Tam said.<\/p>\n<p>Police action fueled \"tensions and is likely to contribute to worsening violence, rather than end it,\" according to the local Amnesty International leader.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6672\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3959730//400x267_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg/" alt=\"A protester is arrested by police officer during a protest on June 12, 2019 in Hong Kong.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/384x256_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/640x427_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/750x500_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/828x552_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/1080x721_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/1200x801_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959730\/1920x1281_nbc-190612-hong-kong-protest-al-1341_8e8ded451177be348b98db97bc1e28d3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A protester is arrested by police officer during a protest on June 12, 2019 in Hong Kong.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Anthony Kwan<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The protesters' presence appeared to secure at least a temporary victory. The government had been <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//hong-kong-push-ahead-extradition-changes-sparked-huge-protest-n1015656/">due to debate the extradition bill Wednesday<\/a>, but with the masses gathered outside, legislators announced in the morning that discussions on the bill would be postponed \"to a later time to be determined.\"<\/p>\n<p>The law would allow suspected criminals to be extradited to mainland China, Taiwan and Macau. Supporters say it's necessary to stop Hong Kong from becoming a haven for fugitives, but critics argue it is the latest step in China's attempts to erode Hong Kong's freedoms, and making them subject to Beijing's murky legal system.<\/p>\n<p>A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to Chinese rule in 1997. 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He began his career in 2010 and was a nine-year veteran of the Madison Fire Department, occasionally serving as an aid to the Chief, the statement said. He is survived by his wife and three young sons.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our members grieve the loss of their beloved colleague. MFD would also like to thank members of Fire Fighters Local 311 for supporting the Mahoney family during this time,\" said the fire department in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough, an area resident, was found in the water an hour before Mahoney and was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to a nearby hospital, authorities said. Preliminary autopsy results confirm that his death \"was consistent with an accidental drowning due in part to a medical event,\" according to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.jsonline.com//story//news//local//wisconsin//2019//06//11//madison-firefighter-dies-after-ironman-triathlon-second-athlete-death//1426046001///">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He survived by his wife and daughters, according to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cityofmadison.com//news//statement-of-madison-mayor-satya-rhodes-conway-on-recent-deaths-of-half-ironman-competitors/">statement by Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway.<\/p>\n<p>\"My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of the two athletes who died while competing in the Half Iron Man on Sunday. 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miniseries creator asks tourists to show 'respect' when taking photos","path":"\/culture\/2019\/06\/12\/chernobyl-miniseries-creator-asks-tourists-show-respect-when-taking-photos-n1016871","lastModified":1560403203},{"id":785334,"cid":3959602,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"'Real justice' would have put O.J Simpson in prison, Ron Goldman's father says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"'Real justice' would've put OJ Simpson in prison: Ron Goldman's father","titleListing2":"'Real justice' would have put O.J Simpson in prison, Ron Goldman's father says","leadin":"\"Every day, I miss my son,\" Fred Goldman tells Lester Holt, 25 years after the killings of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.","summary":"\"Every day, I miss my son,\" Fred Goldman tells Lester Holt, 25 years after the killings of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.","keySentence":"","url":"real-justice-would-have-put-o-j-simpson-prison-ron-n1016636","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/real-justice-would-have-put-o-j-simpson-prison-ron-n1016636","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nTo Fred Goldman, he will always simply be \"the killer.\"Twenty-five years ago Thursday, shortly after midnight, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were discovered stabbed to death in Los Angeles, setting in motion one of the most sensational legal cases of the 20th century.Police quickly suspected Simpson's former husband, O.J. Simpson, the Pro Football Hall of Famer, broadcaster and TV pitchman, of murder. After a bizarre, 50-mph chase along Los Angeles' freeways three days later, O.J. Simpson was arrested &mdash; only to be acquitted the next year.Watch Lester Holt's interview with Ron Goldman's father tonight on \"NBC Nightly News\" at 6:30 p.m. ET \/ 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local station).Many Americans believe to this day that Simpson's criminal trial was a travesty of justice &mdash; a perception bolstered in 1997, when a civil jury found Simpson \"responsible\" for the homicides and ordered him to pay millions of dollars in damages. The wrongful death suit was brought by Ron Goldman's parents, Fred Goldman and Sharon Rufo.Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the slayings &mdash; for which no one has ever been criminally convicted &mdash; Simpson says that \"life is fine\" and that \"we focus on the positives.\"It's harder for Fred Goldman.In a 35-minute interview with Lester Holt, the anchor of \"NBC Nightly News,\" Goldman, 78, still can't bring himself to utter Simpson's name. He is just \"the killer.\"Simpson's home, where a vital piece of evidence is widely believed to have been planted by a rogue Los Angeles police detective, is \"the killer's house.\" Simpson's lawyers are \"the killer's attorneys.\"\"I was pretty certain, all the way through the trial, that there was going to be a guilty verdict,\" Goldman says. \"The evidence was overwhelming. I never had any doubts.\"When jurors returned with a verdict of not guilty, \"it was hard to comprehend, at that moment, what had just been said,\" he says. \"It wasn't possible. It wasn't possible that that was their decision. It just didn't seem possible.\"While Goldman and Rufo, who were divorced in 1993, won their civil suit, they have only managed to collect on little of their share of the tens of millions of dollars Simpson was ordered to pay, Goldman says. In any event, he says, \"it wasn't about the money &mdash; it was about justice.\"But his preference always would have been \"an appropriate verdict during the criminal trial,\" he says. Sending Simpson to prison, or even death row, for murder \"would have been real justice.\"Goldman recalls listening to messages on his son's answering machine just days after his death &mdash; calling it a \"crushing\" experience.In never-before-heard voicemails he shared with NBC News, Ron's friends call to inquire about his whereabouts, and one caller can be heard saying: \"We heard something on the news. I just want to make sure it's not you.\"The voicemails start out as general messages seeing if he's available to meet up, trying to figure out where he is but turn progressively panicked and concerned as the news began to spread.\"Ron, this is Jeffrey. If you're dead man, you'll hear me from up above. I love you man. I just heard on the news right now. My fingers are crossed and I'm hoping it's not you,\" one friend said.By the final message, the news seems to have been confirmed, \"Hey Ron, uh just wanted to hear your voice one more time. And uh hope everything works out for you. Um goodbye, Ron.\"\"Just thinking about it is disturbing to me,\" Goldman said.A quarter of a century later, Goldman says Ron's absence is still felt everyday.\"You know, every day, I miss my son. Every day, I'm aware of what I've been missing. Every day, I'm aware of what Ron didn't get to do in his life, all of his goals, his future,\" he says.\"I'm aware of the times we don't get to spend together. I don't know how you can not be aware.\"http:\/\/newscms.nbcnews.com\/node\/1016636\/edit\n","htmlText":"<p>To Fred Goldman, he will always simply be \"the killer.\"Twenty-five years ago Thursday, shortly after midnight, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were discovered stabbed to death in Los Angeles, setting in motion one of the most sensational legal cases of the 20th century.Police quickly suspected Simpson's former husband, O.J. Simpson, the Pro Football Hall of Famer, broadcaster and TV pitchman, of murder. After a bizarre, 50-mph chase along Los Angeles' freeways three days later, O.J. Simpson was arrested \u2014 only to be acquitted the next year.<em><strong>Watch Lester Holt's interview with Ron Goldman's father tonight on \"NBC Nightly News\" at 6:30 p.m. ET \/ 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local station).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.3531799729364005\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3959602//400x541_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg/" alt=\"Ron Goldman was found dead in Los Angeles on June 13, 1994.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/384x520_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/640x866_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/750x1015_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/828x1120_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/1080x1461_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/1200x1624_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/1920x2598_nbc-190611-ron-goldman-1994-ac-842p_8d38955f260659b5775942a03e9f4e74.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ron Goldman was found dead in Los Angeles on June 13, 1994.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP file<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many Americans believe to this day that Simpson's criminal trial was a travesty of justice \u2014 a perception bolstered in 1997, when a civil jury found Simpson \"responsible\" for the homicides and ordered him to pay millions of dollars in damages. The wrongful death suit was brought by Ron Goldman's parents, Fred Goldman and Sharon Rufo.Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the slayings \u2014 for which no one has ever been criminally convicted \u2014 Simpson says that \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//25-years-after-murders-o-j-simpson-says-life-fine-n1015681/">life is fine<\/a>\" and that \"we focus on the positives.\"It's harder for Fred Goldman.In a 35-minute interview with Lester Holt, the anchor of \"NBC Nightly News,\" Goldman, 78, still can't bring himself to utter Simpson's name. He is just \"the killer.\"Simpson's home, where a vital piece of evidence is widely believed to have been planted by a rogue Los Angeles police detective, is \"the killer's house.\" Simpson's lawyers are \"the killer's attorneys.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.8104\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3959602//400x324_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg/" alt=\"O.J. Simpson, with his attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran, right, as the verdict is read finding Simpson not guilty of killing his Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles County Superior Court in October 1995. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/384x311_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/640x519_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/750x608_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/828x671_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/1080x875_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/1200x972_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959602\/1920x1556_nbc-140911-simpson-verdict-740a_538a064437bfdb89791cb80ee4368d14.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">O.J. Simpson, with his attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran, right, as the verdict is read finding Simpson not guilty of killing his Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles County Superior Court in October 1995. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Myung Chun<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I was pretty certain, all the way through the trial, that there was going to be a guilty verdict,\" Goldman says. \"The evidence was overwhelming. I never had any doubts.\"When jurors returned with a verdict of not guilty, \"it was hard to comprehend, at that moment, what had just been said,\" he says. \"It wasn't possible. It wasn't possible that that was their decision. It just didn't seem possible.\"While Goldman and Rufo, who were divorced in 1993, won their civil suit, they have only managed to collect on little of their share of the tens of millions of dollars Simpson was ordered to pay, Goldman says. In any event, he says, \"it wasn't about the money \u2014 it was about justice.\"But his preference always would have been \"an appropriate verdict during the criminal trial,\" he says. Sending Simpson to prison, or even death row, for murder \"would have been real justice.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-medium\nwidget--align-left\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//embed//nbcu?url=https:\/\/playback.nbcnews.com\/videoredirect\/h264\/low\/a_mtp_flashbackoj_160304.mp4\%22 width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Goldman recalls listening to messages on his son's answering machine just days after his death \u2014 calling it a \"crushing\" experience.In never-before-heard voicemails he shared with NBC News, Ron's friends call to inquire about his whereabouts, and one caller can be heard saying: \"We heard something on the news. I just want to make sure it's not you.\"The voicemails start out as general messages seeing if he's available to meet up, trying to figure out where he is but turn progressively panicked and concerned as the news began to spread.\"Ron, this is Jeffrey. If you're dead man, you'll hear me from up above. I love you man. I just heard on the news right now. My fingers are crossed and I'm hoping it's not you,\" one friend said.By the final message, the news seems to have been confirmed, \"Hey Ron, uh just wanted to hear your voice one more time. And uh hope everything works out for you. Um goodbye, Ron.\"\"Just thinking about it is disturbing to me,\" Goldman said.A quarter of a century later, Goldman says Ron's absence is still felt everyday.\"You know, every day, I miss my son. Every day, I'm aware of what I've been missing. Every day, I'm aware of what Ron didn't get to do in his life, all of his goals, his future,\" he says.\"I'm aware of the times we don't get to spend together. I don't know how you can not be aware.\"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////newscms.nbcnews.com//node//1016636//edit/">http:////newscms.nbcnews.com//node//1016636//edit/n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560362416,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560362411,"firstPublishedAt":1560403317,"lastPublishedAt":1560403317,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Myung Chun AFP - Getty Images file","altText":"IMAGE: F. Lee Bailey, O.J. Simpson and Johnnie L. Cochran in 1995","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"O.J. Simpson, with his attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran, right, as the verdict is read finding Simpson not guilty of killing his Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles County Superior Court in October 1995. 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Now.\" The New York Democrat noted it had been a battle to get the victim's fund off the ground initially, as well as to maintain it in the years since.\"After years of struggle we eventually passed a health care program, but initially it wasn't even permanent,\" Schumer said. \"And we have to fight every time when there's a problem, every time we need an extension, every time it needs more funding. Every single one of those times those brave first responders have had to come here to testify, wheeling through the halls of Congress, their bodies riddled with cancer, to beg senators and congressman to help them get their health care.\"\"It's shameful.,\" Schumer said, echoing comedian Jon Stewart, who has championed the legislation. \"There's no other word for it.\"The House committee's action came a day after Stewart ripped Congress' treatment of those who responded to the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.\"They responded (to the 9\/11 attacks) in five seconds. They did their jobs, with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. ... 18 years later, do yours!\" Stewart told a House subcommittee.Stewart testified after retired New York Police Department detective Luis Alvarez, who is battling cancer and was set to undergo a 69th round of chemotherapy on Wednesday.Schumer spoke minutes after the House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill &mdash; which would provide funding for 70 years &mdash; in a unanimous vote. He predicted the full House will pass the measure \"soon.\"\"As soon as the House passes this bill, it should be on the floor of the Senate immediately as a stand-alone bill,\" Schumer said. \"I am imploring, pleading and even begging to [Majority] Leader [Mitch] McConnell to put this bill on the floor as soon as it passes the House.\"If Kentucky Republican does so, Schumer predicted the measure \"would pass with bipartisan support, the president will sign it, and the brave first responders can breathe a sigh of relief.\"Asked earlier Wednesday if he supported reauthorizing the fund &mdash; which is in danger of running out of money &mdash;McConnell told reporters, \"Gosh, I hadn't looked at that lately. I'll have to. We've always dealt with that in the past in a compassionate way, and I assume we will again.\"House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that some members of Congress slowed down the process of passing the bill because they viewed it as a \"New York issue\" or said it was too costly. But Nadler said the whole country was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, not just New York.\"This was an act of war,\" Nadler said. \"These people are victims of the war that was created against us. And whatever it costs should be borne, as in any war.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>A bill to ensure that a fund to compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks doesn't run out of money passed a key hurdle in the House on Wednesday, prompting Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to plead with his chamber's GOP leadership take up the measure as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will reach the point soon, most likely this year, where more will have died from 9\/11 related illnesses than from 9\/11 itself,\" Schumer said on the Senate floor. \"Let's take care of them. Now.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1138821341367472128\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The New York Democrat noted it had been a battle to get the victim's fund off the ground initially, as well as to maintain it in the years since.<\/p>\n<p>\"After years of struggle we eventually passed a health care program, but initially it wasn't even permanent,\" Schumer said. \"And we have to fight every time when there's a problem, every time we need an extension, every time it needs more funding. Every single one of those times those brave first responders have had to come here to testify, wheeling through the halls of Congress, their bodies riddled with cancer, to beg senators and congressman to help them get their health care.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"It's shameful.,\" Schumer said, echoing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//jon-stewart-lashes-out-mia-lawmakers-9-11-victims-fund-n1016356/">comedian Jon Stewart<\/a>, who has championed the legislation. \"There's no other word for it.\"<\/p>\n<p>The House committee's action came a day after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//jon-stewart-lashes-out-mia-lawmakers-9-11-victims-fund-n1016356/">Stewart ripped Congress' treatment of those who responded to the deadliest terrorist attacks in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>\"They responded (to the 9\/11 attacks) in five seconds. They did their jobs, with courage, grace, tenacity, humility. ... 18 years later, do yours!\" Stewart told a House subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart testified after retired New York Police Department <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//jon-stewart-lashes-out-mia-lawmakers-9-11-victims-fund-n1016356/">detective Luis Alvarez<\/a>, who is battling cancer and was set to undergo a 69th round of chemotherapy on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer spoke minutes after the House Judiciary Committee advanced the bill \u2014 which would provide funding for 70 years \u2014 in a unanimous vote. He predicted the full House will pass the measure \"soon.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"As soon as the House passes this bill, it should be on the floor of the Senate immediately as a stand-alone bill,\" Schumer said. \"I am imploring, pleading and even begging to [Majority] Leader [Mitch] McConnell to put this bill on the floor as soon as it passes the House.\"<\/p>\n<p>If Kentucky Republican does so, Schumer predicted the measure \"would pass with bipartisan support, the president will sign it, and the brave first responders can breathe a sigh of relief.\"<\/p>\n<p>Asked earlier Wednesday if he supported reauthorizing the fund \u2014 which is in danger of running out of money \u2014McConnell told reporters, \"Gosh, I hadn't looked at that lately. I'll have to. We've always dealt with that in the past <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//9-11-first-responders-sen-mcconnell-stop-blocking-bill-n473071/">in a compassionate way<\/a>, and I assume we will again.\"<\/p>\n<p>House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that some members of Congress slowed down the process of passing the bill because they viewed it as a \"New York issue\" or said it was too costly. But Nadler said the whole country was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, not just New York.<\/p>\n<p>\"This was an act of war,\" Nadler said. \"These people are victims of the war that was created against us. And whatever it costs should be borne, as in any war.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560360026,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560359040,"firstPublishedAt":1560359040,"lastPublishedAt":1560359040,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"NBC News","altText":"Sen. 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He's now donating their correspondence to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In their exchanges, Cooper says Otto counselled him on his own personal struggles. \n\n\"Well, we met in 1973, after I had written to him a few months before that,\" Cooper explains. \"And we experienced many interesting things, including him letting me see Anne's original diary.\" \n\nAnne wrote most of her diaries while she and her family were in hiding in Amsterdam. \n\nHoping to avoid deportation they hid from the Nazis in Otto Frank's office in the city. But they were discovered and sent to concentration camps, where Anne, her sister and mother were killed. Otto was the sole survivor and eventually died in 1980 aged 91. He published Anne's diaries after the war and dedicated his days to speaking about the atrocities of the Holocaust \n\nCooper says despite everything Otto was an optimist by nature, as Anne's diaries revealed her to be. \n\n\"His focus was to teach about the Holocaust - not so much about the Holocaust, but about tolerance and mankind. He based his hope on the young people. And he got inspiration from the letters that he received, mostly from young people.\" \n\nOtto and Ryan exchange more than 80 letters in their long-distance friendship. \n\nWant more news?\u00a0 \n\n","htmlText":"<p>To coincide with what would have been the 90th birthday of World War II teenage diarist Anne Frank, a trove of letters is being released.<\/p>\n<p>As a young man, Ryan Cooper became a pen pal of Anne&#039;s father Otto. He&#039;s now donating their correspondence to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. In their exchanges, Cooper says Otto counselled him on his own personal struggles.<\/p>\n<p>\"Well, we met in 1973, after I had written to him a few months before that,\" Cooper explains. \"And we experienced many interesting things, including him letting me see Anne&#039;s original diary.\"<\/p>\n<p>Anne wrote most of her diaries while she and her family were in hiding in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to avoid deportation they hid from the Nazis in Otto Frank&#039;s office in the city. But they were discovered and sent to concentration camps, where Anne, her sister and mother were killed. Otto was the sole survivor and eventually died in 1980 aged 91. He published Anne&#039;s diaries after the war and dedicated his days to speaking about the atrocities of the Holocaust<\/p>\n<p>Cooper says despite everything Otto was an optimist by nature, as Anne&#039;s diaries revealed her to be.<\/p>\n<p>\"His focus was to teach about the Holocaust - not so much about the Holocaust, but about tolerance and mankind. He based his hope on the young people. And he got inspiration from the letters that he received, mostly from young people.\"<\/p>\n<p>Otto and Ryan exchange more than 80 letters in their long-distance friendship.<\/p>\n<h2>Want more news?<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////wb.messengerpeople.com//?widget_hash=3638143e4a3b4fbd5787ac11bc1b3c6d&lang=en&wn=0\%22 width=\"80%\" height=\"300px\" style=\"border:0;\" data-iframe-tracking=\"whatsapp\"><\/iframe> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n 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May.","keySentence":"","url":"fbi-investigating-3-deaths-same-dominican-republic-resort-more-tourist-n1016726","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/fbi-investigating-3-deaths-same-dominican-republic-resort-more-tourist-n1016726","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nThe FBI is investigating the recent deaths of three Americans at the same resort in the Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. embassy in the Caribbean nation.Dominican authorities asked the FBI for assistance investigating the deaths of Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, and of a couple, Nathaniel Edward Holmes and Cynthia Ann Day, over a five-day period in late May at the Bahia Principe resort in La Romana, according to the embassy.The FBI said further toxicology results on the three Americans could take up to 30 days. \"We ask everyone to be patient while these investigations run their course,\" said a statement from the embassy.Schaup-Werner and her husband checked into their room at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville on May 25, and after having a drink from the mini bar, she fell ill, according to the resort and her family. She died a short time later.On May 30, Holmes and Day were found dead in their hotel room at the Grand Bahia Principe La Romana on the day they were supposed to check out.Since news of the mysterious deaths was reported, families of three other people reported to have died at Dominican Republic hotels since 2018 have come forward. One died at a Bahia Principe property in Punta Cana, and two died at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, their families said. Two died after taking a drink from the minibar, families said.In addition, at least six other people have reported getting sick while staying in the Dominican Republic. All of them said they stayed at Bahia Principe properties. At least one reported drinking from the minibar.A statement from Bahia Principe Resorts released Friday said, \"We completely disagree with the dissemination of false information issued publicly which threatens the image and reputation of the company and the integrity and rights of our employees and their families, reserving, where necessary, the right to take appropriate legal action.\"The statement didn't say which information hotel officials considered false, and it said the resort is collaborating with authorities' investigations.The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino issued a statement Tuesday that said, \"We can assure you, the safety and health of our guests is now, and has always been our highest priority.\"The statement continued, \"Our team members are trained to inspect all supplies, equipment and products that enter the property. Of course, we will continue to evaluate and recalibrate our protocols to strengthen and enhance guest safety.\"Like tourism officials in the Dominican Republic, the Hard Rock hotel statement suggested that the reported illnesses and deaths were isolated incidents.\"Seven million tourists visit the Dominican Republic annually and Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Punta Cana hosts approximately a half million guests each year. We will continue welcoming guests to enjoy our beautiful destination and resort, as we have for the past eight years,\" the statement said.Internet searches for flights to the Dominican Republic decreased by 14 percent between June 3 and June 4, and continued to decrease between June 4 to June 10, according to travel company Kayak. On June 6, searches for flight to the Dominican Republic plummeted by 22 percent.Jarris Herrera told NBC News she had booked a trip to the Dominican Republic with her husband that she had been planning for years to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. But she canceled their plans after hearing reports of the recent deaths. \"We just didn't think it was worth it,\" Herrera said. \"It wasn't worth the risk.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>The FBI is investigating <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//maryland-couple-dies-respiratory-failure-dominican-republic-after-pennsylvania-woman-n1013981/">the recent deaths of three Americans at the same resort<\/a> in the Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. embassy in the Caribbean nation.Dominican authorities asked the FBI for assistance investigating the deaths of Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, and of a couple, Nathaniel Edward Holmes and Cynthia Ann Day, over a five-day period in late May at the Bahia Principe resort in La Romana, according to the embassy.The FBI said further toxicology results on the three Americans could take up to 30 days. \"We ask everyone to be patient while these investigations run their course,\" said a statement from the embassy.Schaup-Werner and her husband checked into their room at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville on May 25, and after having a drink from the mini bar, she fell ill, according to the resort and her family. She died a short time later.On May 30, Holmes and Day were found dead in their hotel room at the Grand Bahia Principe La Romana on the day they were supposed to check out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7037037037037037\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3959356//400x281_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg/" alt=\"Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/384x270_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/640x450_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/750x528_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/828x583_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/1080x760_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/1200x844_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/1920x1351_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">via Facebook<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since news of the mysterious deaths was reported, families of three other people reported to have died at Dominican Republic hotels since 2018 have come forward. One died at a Bahia Principe property in Punta Cana, and two died at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, their families said. Two died after taking a drink from the minibar, families said.In addition, at least six other people have reported getting sick while staying in the Dominican Republic. All of them said they stayed at Bahia Principe properties. At least one reported drinking from the minibar.A statement from Bahia Principe Resorts released Friday said, \"We completely disagree with the dissemination of false information issued publicly which threatens the image and reputation of the company and the integrity and rights of our employees and their families, reserving, where necessary, the right to take appropriate legal action.\"The statement didn't say which information hotel officials considered false, and it said the resort is collaborating with authorities' investigations.The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino issued a statement Tuesday that said, \"We can assure you, the safety and health of our guests is now, and has always been our highest priority.\"The statement continued, \"Our team members are trained to inspect all supplies, equipment and products that enter the property. Of course, we will continue to evaluate and recalibrate our protocols to strengthen and enhance guest safety.\"Like tourism officials in the Dominican Republic, the Hard Rock hotel statement suggested that the reported illnesses and deaths were isolated incidents.\"Seven million tourists visit the Dominican Republic annually and Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Punta Cana hosts approximately a half million guests each year. We will continue welcoming guests to enjoy our beautiful destination and resort, as we have for the past eight years,\" the statement said.Internet searches for flights to the Dominican Republic decreased by 14 percent between June 3 and June 4, and continued to decrease between June 4 to June 10, according to travel company Kayak. On June 6, searches for flight to the Dominican Republic plummeted by 22 percent.Jarris Herrera told NBC News she had booked a trip to the Dominican Republic with her husband that she had been planning for years to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. But she canceled their plans after hearing reports of the recent deaths. \"We just didn't think it was worth it,\" Herrera said. \"It wasn't worth the risk.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560355205,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560354480,"firstPublishedAt":1560354480,"lastPublishedAt":1560354480,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"via Facebook","altText":"Image: Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day","callToActionText":null,"width":540,"caption":"Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959356\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190605-nathaniel-holmes-cynthia-day-al-0920_45bb8ccff387822b7119726707cccea8.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":380}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","titleRaw":"news","id":11940,"title":"news","slug":"news"},{"urlSafeValue":"world-news","titleRaw":"World News","id":12984,"title":"World News","slug":"world-news"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.world"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.just-in"},{"path":"euronews"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News World News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Elisha Fieldstadt","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_facebook','gv_death_injury','neg_facebook_2021','neg_bucherer','gt_mixed','gs_health','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','neg_mobkoi_feb2021','neg_pmi','shadow9hu7_pos_pmi','gs_law_misc','gs_health_misc','gs_law','gs_entertain'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"FBI investigating three deaths at same Dominican Republic resort","path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/fbi-investigating-3-deaths-same-dominican-republic-resort-more-tourist-n1016726","lastModified":1560354480},{"id":785160,"cid":3959308,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Trump asserts executive privilege over census citizenship question info as Dems prepare contempt vote","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"AG William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defied House Oversight Committee subpoenas issued in April to produce documents on the census citizenship question.","summary":"AG William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defied House Oversight Committee subpoenas issued in April to produce documents on the census citizenship question.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-asserts-executive-privilege-over-census-citizenship-question-info-dems-n1016721","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/trump-asserts-executive-privilege-over-census-citizenship-question-info-dems-n1016721","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON &mdash; President Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over information related to his administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census as the House Oversight Committee prepared to hold two of his Cabinet members in contempt for defying its subpoenas on the issue.Trump's move, which the Justice Department announced in a letter to the committee's chairman, Elijah Cummings, came as the panel began a meeting to vote on a resolution to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on the decision to add the question to the census.The resolution would allow Democrats to pursue both civil and criminal contempt of both Cabinet officials for defying subpoenas issued by Cummings, D-Md., on April 2 to produce the documents. Democratic leadership would then decide which avenue to pursue.To take action in criminal contempt, the House would need to hold a full floor vote. For civil contempt, Democrats would seek authorization from a bipartisan group of House leaders, in which Democrats hold the majority, to file a lawsuit to enforce the committee's subpoenas.The Justice Department had warned Cummings in a letter Tuesday that it would recommend the president assert executive privilege if the House voted to hold the officials in contempt of Congress.Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the Committee, also sent a letter to Cummings Tuesday charging that the chairman had rushed to hold a contempt of Congress vote, and had violated committee rules in scheduling the vote. He argued that \"both Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross have cooperated &mdash; and continue to cooperate &mdash; with your investigation.\"The planned committee vote comes a day after the House approved a resolution to authorize the House Judiciary Committee and other panels to go to court to enforce their subpoenas of the Trump administration.That measure, which was adopted 229-191 along party lines, allows the Judiciary Committee to sue Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn for refusing to comply with its subpoenas related to former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.The Judiciary Committee voted in May to advance a measure to hold Barr in criminal contempt of Congress, but Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Monday that he would hold off on that threat after reaching an agreement with the Justice Department to obtain some underlying evidence from the Mueller report related to possible obstruction of justice by Trump.Cummings said the House vote Tuesday \"marks a pivotal moment for Congress in our ability to conduct oversight as an independent branch of government.\"The White House, Cummings said, has \"not turned over one single shred of paper in response to any of our requests\" about such things as the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; executive branch security clearance concerns; efforts to transfer nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia; and hush money payments that the president's former longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to women who allege past affairs with Trump, which he has denied.\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over information related to his administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census as the House Oversight Committee prepared to hold two of his Cabinet members in contempt for defying its subpoenas on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's move, which the Justice Department announced in a letter to the committee's chairman, Elijah Cummings, came as the panel began a meeting to vote on a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////oversight.house.gov//sites//democrats.oversight.house.gov//files//2019-06-12.Census Contempt Resolution and Report.pdf/">resolution to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on the decision to add<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//trump-administration-misled-courts-about-origin-plans-add-citizenship-question-n1012096/">the question<\/a> to the census.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution would allow Democrats to pursue both civil and criminal contempt of both Cabinet officials for defying subpoenas issued by Cummings, D-Md., on April 2 to produce the documents. Democratic leadership would then decide which avenue to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>To take action in criminal contempt, the House would need to hold a full floor vote. For civil contempt, Democrats would seek authorization from a bipartisan group of House leaders, in which Democrats hold the majority, to file a lawsuit to enforce the committee's subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department had warned Cummings in a letter Tuesday that it would recommend the president assert executive privilege if the House voted to hold the officials in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the Committee, also sent a letter to Cummings Tuesday charging that the chairman had rushed to hold a contempt of Congress vote, and had violated committee rules in scheduling the vote. He argued that \"both Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross have cooperated \u2014 and continue to cooperate \u2014 with your investigation.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3959308//400x267_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg/" alt=\"Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends an event in Washington on June 6, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/384x256_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/640x427_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/750x500_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/828x552_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/1080x720_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/1200x800_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/1920x1280_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends an event in Washington on June 6, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Leah Millis<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The planned committee vote comes a day after the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//house-approves-enforcing-subpoenas-court-against-trump-officials-n1016321/">House approved a resolution<\/a> to authorize the House Judiciary Committee and other panels to go to court to enforce their subpoenas of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>That measure, which was adopted 229-191 along party lines, allows the Judiciary Committee to sue Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn for refusing to comply with its subpoenas related to former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary Committee <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//justice-department-set-ask-executive-privilege-mueller-report-n1003146/">voted in May to advance a measure to hold Barr in criminal contempt of Congress<\/a>, but Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Monday that he would hold off on that threat after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//nadler-reaches-deal-doj-over-key-mueller-report-documents-n1015796/">reaching an agreement with the Justice Department<\/a>to obtain some underlying evidence from the Mueller report related to possible obstruction of justice by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Cummings said the House vote Tuesday \"marks a pivotal moment for Congress in our ability to conduct oversight as an independent branch of government.\"<\/p>\n<p>The White House, Cummings said, has \"not turned over one single shred of paper in response to any of our requests\" about such things as the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico; executive branch security clearance concerns; efforts to transfer nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia; and hush money payments that the president's former longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to women who allege past affairs with Trump, which he has denied.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560351627,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560351180,"firstPublishedAt":1560351180,"lastPublishedAt":1560351180,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Win McNamee Getty Images file","altText":"Image: Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary ","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"The resolution Wednesday allows for Democrats to pursue both civil and criminal contempt of both Attorney General William Barr, above, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190612-william-barr-cs-906a_35410b9fac2fab25806bdf5bd11916db.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1667},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Leah Millis Reuters file","altText":"Image: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends an event in Washington on Jun","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends an event in Washington on June 6, 2019.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959308\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190612-wilbur-ross-cs-908a_8a0a05d2a6d73f9b4db79bc7e798122d.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1667}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"us-politics","titleRaw":"US politics","id":13406,"title":"US politics","slug":"us-politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Rebecca Shabad and Alex Moe","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','neg_facebook_2021','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_law_misc','gs_politics_misc','gs_law','gs_politics_american','gt_negative','neg_mobkoi_fb-weareonit_fs_28feb2019','neg_facebook_q4','neg_mobkoi_castrol','castrol_negative_uk','neg_nespresso','gt_negative_anger','gs_business','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"Trump asserts executive privilege over census citizenship question info as Dems prepare contempt vote","path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/trump-asserts-executive-privilege-over-census-citizenship-question-info-dems-n1016721","lastModified":1560351180},{"id":785164,"cid":3959312,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"House hearing asks questions Mueller left unanswered about Trump, Russia ties","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"House Intel Committee chair Schiff said Wednesday's hearing is meant to address unanswered questions from the Mueller report about Russian influence.","summary":"House Intel Committee chair Schiff said Wednesday's hearing is meant to address unanswered questions from the Mueller report about Russian influence.","keySentence":"","url":"congress-raises-questions-mueller-left-unanswered-about-trump-russia-n1016761","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/congress-raises-questions-mueller-left-unanswered-about-trump-russia-n1016761","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON &mdash; Special counsel Robert Mueller's report failed to address crucial questions about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia that the FBI may still be investigating, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday as he kicked off a hearing designed to spotlight those issues.\"Of all the questions that Mueller helped resolve, he left many critical questions unanswered &mdash; what happened to the counterintelligence investigation?,\" Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said as he opened a hearing on counterintelligence issues. \"Were there other forms of compromise, like money laundering, left out, uninvestigated or referred to other offices? Were individuals granted security clearances that shouldn't have them? And are there individuals still operating in the administration that leave America vulnerable?\"Schiff said he is determined to get to the bottom of those questions, but he wasn't likely to do so at Tuesday's hearing, which featured testimony from two former FBI counterintelligence officials and a conservative commentator.The former FBI officials, Stephanie Douglas and Robert Anderson, each ran the FBI's National Security Division, a job that entails hunting for Russian spies in the United States. Neither of them is in a position to know what the FBI is doing now, but they sought to interpret the spare language of Volume One of special counsel Mueller's report, the section that details more than 100 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians.Douglas, for example, said that when then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort handed polling data to a person the FBI said was linked to Russian intelligence, that amounted to the Russians \"tasking\" Manafort, a term spy hunters use to describe the actions of people under the influence of a spy service.Manafort was charged with acting as an unregistered agent for Russian-backed Ukrainian politicians, but Mueller made no allegation against him or any other American of acting on Russia's behalf in Russia's operation to interfere in the 2016 election. To the contrary, Mueller did not find enough evidence to file criminal charges in any of the contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians.But Mueller's report was a prosecutor's brief, written under strict Justice Department regulations. It did not render a judgment on the propriety of a major political campaign flirting with a foreign adversary that was offering assistance. Nor did it assess whether U.S. national security was harmed, or whether Trump or anyone else was compromised by his dealings with Russia, including his effort to build a hotel tower in Moscow that would have required the approval of Vladimir Putin.\"It may not be a crime to build a Trump Tower in Moscow,\" Schiff said. \"Or for [former Trump attorney] Michael Cohen to seek the Kremlin's help to do so. It may not be a crime to try to enrich yourself with a foreign business deal even while running for president, or to lie about it to the American people. But it is deeply compromising.\"Schiff and the former FBI officials noted that the Mueller report says FBI agents who worked alongside the Mueller team sent counterintelligence reports back to headquarters, the contents of which are not included in the Mueller report.The Republican witness, Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who writes for National Review, testified that members of the Trump campaign should have called the FBI when Russians approached them with offers of assistance.But Republican lawmakers dismissed any notion that the Trump campaign behaved inappropriately. The real scandal, they said, was that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into an American political campaign.Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the ranking Republican on the committee, called the Mueller report \"a shoddy political hit piece.\"Schiff sees it much differently.\"Volume I of the report outlines a 'sweeping and systematic' effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election for the benefit of Donald Trump,\" he said. \"It establishes that the Trump campaign welcomed the Russian interference because it 'expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian effort.' It shows how the Trump campaign built the theft and dumping of the Russian stolen documents into its campaign messaging and strategy. And as the special counsel made clear, it sets out in great detail why the conduct in his report should concern every American.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Special counsel Robert Mueller's report failed to address crucial questions about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia that the FBI may still be investigating, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday as he kicked off <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//justice-department//house-will-call-spy-hunters-testify-about-trump-campaign-russia-n1015111/">a hearing designed to spotlight those issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"Of all the questions that Mueller helped resolve, he left many critical questions unanswered \u2014 what happened to the counterintelligence investigation?,\" Rep. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//schiff-says-justice-department-agrees-turn-over-mueller-documents-n1008771/">Adam Schiff<\/a>, D-Calif., said as he opened a hearing on counterintelligence issues. \"Were there other forms of compromise, like money laundering, left out, uninvestigated or referred to other offices? Were individuals granted security clearances that shouldn't have them? And are there individuals still operating in the administration that leave America vulnerable?\"<\/p>\n<p>Schiff said he is determined to get to the bottom of those questions, but he wasn't likely to do so at Tuesday's hearing, which featured testimony from two former FBI counterintelligence officials and a conservative commentator.<\/p>\n<p>The former FBI officials, Stephanie Douglas and Robert Anderson, each ran the FBI's National Security Division, a job that entails hunting for Russian spies in the United States. Neither of them is in a position to know what the FBI is doing now, but they sought to interpret the spare language of Volume One of special counsel Mueller's report, the section that details more than 100 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas, for example, said that when then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort handed polling data to a person the FBI said was linked to Russian intelligence, that amounted to the Russians \"tasking\" Manafort, a term spy hunters use to describe the actions of people under the influence of a spy service.<\/p>\n<p>Manafort was charged with acting as an unregistered agent for Russian-backed Ukrainian politicians, but Mueller made no allegation against him or any other American of acting on Russia's behalf in Russia's operation to interfere in the 2016 election. To the contrary, Mueller did not find enough evidence to file criminal charges in any of the contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians.<\/p>\n<p>But Mueller's report was a prosecutor's brief, written under strict Justice Department regulations. It did not render a judgment on the propriety of a major political campaign flirting with a foreign adversary that was offering assistance. Nor did it assess whether U.S. national security was harmed, or whether Trump or anyone else was compromised by his dealings with Russia, including his effort to build a hotel tower in Moscow that would have required the approval of Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\"It may not be a crime to build a Trump Tower in Moscow,\" Schiff said. \"Or for [former Trump attorney] Michael Cohen to seek the Kremlin's help to do so. It may not be a crime to try to enrich yourself with a foreign business deal even while running for president, or to lie about it to the American people. But it is deeply compromising.\"<\/p>\n<p>Schiff and the former FBI officials noted that the Mueller report says FBI agents who worked alongside the Mueller team sent counterintelligence reports back to headquarters, the contents of which are not included in the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican witness, Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who writes for National Review, testified that members of the Trump campaign should have called the FBI when Russians approached them with offers of assistance.<\/p>\n<p>But Republican lawmakers dismissed any notion that the Trump campaign behaved inappropriately. The real scandal, they said, was that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into an American political campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the ranking Republican on the committee, called the Mueller report \"a shoddy political hit piece.\"<\/p>\n<p>Schiff sees it much differently.<\/p>\n<p>\"Volume I of the report outlines a 'sweeping and systematic' effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election for the benefit of Donald Trump,\" he said. \"It establishes that the Trump campaign welcomed the Russian interference because it 'expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian effort.' It shows how the Trump campaign built the theft and dumping of the Russian stolen documents into its campaign messaging and strategy. And as the special counsel made clear, it sets out in great detail why the conduct in his report should concern every American.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560351633,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560350940,"firstPublishedAt":1560350940,"lastPublishedAt":1560350940,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mandel Ngan AFP - Getty Images file","altText":"Image: House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., outside of","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., outside of the Supreme Court on April 2, 2019.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959312\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190512-adam-schiff-cs-1104a_8c1c3738ded88861ae4af107638ce8fd.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1572}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"us-politics","titleRaw":"US politics","id":13406,"title":"US politics","slug":"us-politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Ken Dilanian","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','sm_politics','neg_facebook_2021','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_law_misc','gs_law','gs_politics_misc','gt_negative','castrol_negative_uk','gs_politics_american','neg_mobkoi_castrol','gv_crime','neg_facebook','neg_facebook_q4','neg_mobkoi_fb-weareonit_fs_28feb2019','gt_negative_anger','gs_business'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"House hearing asks questions Mueller left unanswered about Trump, Russia ties","path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/congress-raises-questions-mueller-left-unanswered-about-trump-russia-n1016761","lastModified":1560350940},{"id":785082,"cid":3959172,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Mysterious blob discovered under moon's crater","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Scientists say the blob may be remnants of the metallic asteroid that smashed into the lunar surface billions of years ago.","summary":"Scientists say the blob may be remnants of the metallic asteroid that smashed into the lunar surface billions of years ago.","keySentence":"","url":"huge-mysterious-blob-discovered-under-moon-s-biggest-crater-ncna1015966","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/huge-mysterious-blob-discovered-under-moon-s-biggest-crater-ncna1015966","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nA huge mysterious blob has been discovered lurking far beneath the solar system's largest crater, a vast depression on the moon known as the South Pole-Aitkin basin.Scientists aren't sure what the blob is, but they think it could be a colossal mass of metal left over from the asteroid that created the crater billions of years ago when it smashed into the lunar surface.Whatever it is, it's big: the scientists who found the blob estimate its mass to be at least 2.18 quintillion kilograms (about 4.8 quintillion pounds on Earth). That's roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings &mdash; or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.\"This is a very large mass of a scale that is difficult even for geologists to recognize,\" said Paul Byrne, an assistant professor of planetary geology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and a member of the team of scientists who made the discovery.The researchers made the discovery with help from data from a trio of moon-orbiting NASA spacecraft. They compared gravitational maps of the moon made by the pair of washing-machine-sized Grail spacecraft that orbited the moon in 2012 with topographic maps of the lunar surface obtained by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009.As the scientists say in a paper published April 5 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they noticed a \"large excess of mass\" more than 100 miles beneath the basin &mdash; a vast, oval-shaped depression on the lunar far side as wide as 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) with a depth of more than 5 miles (8 kilometers).The finding indicated the presence of something massive beneath the surface.Byrne said the mass concentration, or mascon, was likely a metal-rich remnant of the asteroid that struck the moon at least 4 billion years ago. \"It's the best explanation we have with the data we have,\" he said.Another possibility, Byrne said, is that it's a blob of metal-rich lunar minerals that melted when the asteroid struck and then sank beneath the surface and resolidified. Or it could be metal-rich minerals from the ocean of molten rock that's believed to have covered the moon in its early days before it cooled and hardened to form the surface we see today.Scientists are eager to learn more about the object, as it could hold clues about the formation of Earth as well as of the moon.\n\"It lets us see a time when we have nothing [similar] preserved on Earth,\" said Walter Kiefer, a senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston who was not involved in the new research. \"Everything on the Earth is younger than that because of all the geology\" that has taken place on our planet in the billions of years since it formed &mdash; a reference to tectonic activity, volcanic eruptions and other processes that have erased evidence of similar impact craters on our home planet.Byrne said future missions to the moon could explore the object in greater detail and discounted any notions that the metal within the blob would be mined. \"It's too deep,\" he said, adding that if earthlings were looking for an off-planet source of metal, \"it would be much easier to go and mine asteroids.\"Want more stories about the moon?NASA's Artemis program will return astronauts to the moon and give us the first female moonwalkerMystery of moon's formation may have been solvedNASA photos show crash site of Israel's Beresheet moon landerSIGN UP FOR THE MACH NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM.\n","htmlText":"<p>A huge mysterious blob has been discovered lurking far beneath the solar system's largest crater, a vast depression on the moon known as the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nasa.gov//mission_pages//LRO//multimedia//lro-20100709-basin.html/">South Pole-Aitkin basin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists aren't sure what the blob is, but they think it could be a colossal mass of metal left over from the asteroid that created the crater billions of years ago when it smashed into the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, it's big: the scientists who found the blob estimate its mass to be at least 2.18 quintillion kilograms (about 4.8 quintillion pounds on Earth). That's roughly <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.bluebulbprojects.com//MeasureOfThings//results.php?amt=2000000000000000000&comp=weight&unit=kgms&searchTerm=2000000000000000000%20kg\%22>6 billion Empire State Buildings<\/a> \u2014 or <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.baylor.edu//mediacommunications//news.php?action=story&story=210457\%22>five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a very large mass of a scale that is difficult even for geologists to recognize,\" said Paul Byrne, an assistant professor of planetary geology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and a member of the team of scientists who made the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers made the discovery with help from data from a trio of moon-orbiting NASA spacecraft. They compared gravitational maps of the moon made by the pair of washing-machine-sized <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.nbcnews.com//id//46826969//ns//technology_and_science-space//t//nasa-probe-snaps-new-moon-photos-students-earth///">Grail spacecraft<\/a>that orbited the moon in 2012 with topographic maps of the lunar surface obtained by the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//shrinking-shaking-wrinkling-new-study-shows-moon-racked-moonquakes-it-ncna1005626/">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>, which has been circling the moon since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>As the scientists say in a paper published April 5 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they noticed a \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com//doi//pdf//10.1029//2019GL082252/">large excess of mass<\/a>\" more than 100 miles beneath the basin \u2014 a vast, oval-shaped depression on the lunar far side as wide as 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) with a depth of more than 5 miles (8 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>The finding indicated the presence of something massive beneath the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne said the mass concentration, or mascon, was likely a metal-rich remnant of the asteroid that struck the moon at least 4 billion years ago. \"It's the best explanation we have with the data we have,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another possibility, Byrne said, is that it's a blob of metal-rich lunar minerals that melted when the asteroid struck and then sank beneath the surface and resolidified. Or it could be metal-rich minerals from the ocean of molten rock that's believed to have covered the moon in its early days before it cooled and hardened to form the surface we see today.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are eager to learn more about the object, as it could hold clues about the formation of Earth as well as of the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\"It lets us see a time when we have nothing [similar] preserved on Earth,\" said Walter Kiefer, a senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston who was not involved in the new research. \"Everything on the Earth is younger than that because of all the geology\" that has taken place on our planet in the billions of years since it formed \u2014 a reference to tectonic activity, volcanic eruptions and other processes that have erased evidence of similar impact craters on our home planet.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne said <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//nasa-s-artemis-program-will-return-astronauts-moon-give-us-ncna1015341/">future missions to the moon<\/a> could explore the object in greater detail and discounted any notions that the metal within the blob would be mined. \"It's too deep,\" he said, adding that if earthlings were looking for an off-planet source of metal, \"it would be much easier to go and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//space//next-frontier-space-miners-are-universe-s-future-tycoons-n698711/">mine asteroids<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Want more stories about the moon?<\/h2><ul>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//nasa-s-artemis-program-will-return-astronauts-moon-give-us-ncna1015341/">NASA's Artemis program will return astronauts to the moon and give us the first female moonwalker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//mystery-moon-s-formation-may-have-been-solved-ncna999726/">Mystery of moon's formation may have been solved<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//nasa-photos-show-crash-site-israel-s-beresheet-moon-lander-ncna1006151/">NASA photos show crash site of Israel's Beresheet moon lander<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SIGN UP FOR THE <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////link.nbcnews.com//join//5cj//mach-signup/">MACH NEWSLETTER<\/a> AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//NBCNewsMACH/">TWITTER, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//NBCNewsMACH///">FACEBOOK, AND <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//NBCNewsMach///">INSTAGRAM./n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560349217,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560348679,"firstPublishedAt":1560348679,"lastPublishedAt":1560348679,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"NASA \/ Goddard Space Flight Center \/ University of Arizona","altText":"Image: This false-color graphic shows the topography of the far side of the","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"This false-color graphic shows the topography of the far side of the moon. The warmer colors indicate high topography and the bluer colors indicate low topography. The South Pole-Aitken Basin is shown by the shades of blue. The dashed circle shows the loc","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3959172\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190610-mass-anomaly-moon-cs-404p_f63eeff3c6d86efa9975421e8cd3acac.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1406}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"technology","titleRaw":"Technology","id":389,"title":"Technology","slug":"technology"},{"urlSafeValue":"science","titleRaw":"Science","id":10245,"title":"Science","slug":"science"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.techscience"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Tech and Science News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"David Freeman","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"","primaryVertical":{"id":0,"slug":"","urlSafeValue":"","title":""},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"science_technology","id":"science_technology","title":"Sci-tech","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"science_technology","title":"Sci-tech"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gs_science','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_science_space','gt_positive','gt_positive_curiosity','gs_science_geology','neg_facebook','eap_cx_innovation','gs_science_misc','gv_death_injury','neg_facebook_2021'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"Mysterious blob discovered under moon's crater","verticals":[],"path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/huge-mysterious-blob-discovered-under-moon-s-biggest-crater-ncna1015966","lastModified":1560348679},{"id":784962,"cid":3958980,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Bernie Sanders has upped his game, but does it matter?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"First Read is your briefing from \"Meet the Press\" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.","summary":"First Read is your briefing from \"Meet the Press\" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.","keySentence":"","url":"bernie-sanders-has-upped-his-game-does-it-matter-n1016706","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/bernie-sanders-has-upped-his-game-does-it-matter-n1016706","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON &mdash; Both can be true: Bernie Sanders is running a better campaign than he did four years ago, and he's in worse shape to win the Democratic nomination than in 2016.The better campaign: Sanders has more aggressively worked on his shortcomings with African-American and Latino Democrats.And today he delivers a speech on why democratic socialism is the only way to defeat to oligarchy and authoritarianism (more on that below).But here's how he's in worse shape: He's one of some 20-plus Democrats running instead of Hillary Clinton's main competition.He and Elizabeth Warren are competing on much of the same turf (see Data Download below).The 2018 midterms proved that Democrats can win tough races without democratic socialism &mdash; look at Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, or Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan or Abigail Spanberger in Virginia.And maybe most important of all, the Democratic memories about 2016 - the fights with the DNC, the chaos at the Philly convention, the dispute over superdelegates &mdash; make it harder to win over a party that wants to move on from that last presidential campaign.\"Loser\" vs. \"Childishness\": Trump and Biden brawl in IowaTrump vs. Biden in Iowa yesterday pretty much played out as expected.Before departing for the Hawkeye State, Trump called Biden a \"loser\" and someone who never won \"more than 1 percent except Obama took him off the trash heap.\"More: \"Now, I have to tell you, he's a different guy. He looks different than he used to, he acts different than he used to, he's even slower than he used to be.\"And when Trump got to Iowa: \"Sleepy Joe. He was someplace in Iowa today, and he said my name so many times that people couldn't stand it anymore.\"Meanwhile, here was Biden on Trump: \"By the way, I was pleased to know that his alliance with Kim Jong Un where he and Kim Jong Un thought that maybe I shouldn't be president.\"Also: \"Whoa. You know, he doesn't do any of the right things. Instead he gets up in the middle of the night while he is at Normandy and tweets an attack on Bette Midler? The mayor of London because he's Muslim. The Speaker of the House who is there with him at Normandy. Stunning display of childishness and the whole world watched.\"Buttigieg makes his caseAs Trump and Biden traded verbal punches yesterday, Pete Buttigieg took on both men &mdash; directly regarding Trump, indirectly regarding Biden &mdash; in his foreign policy speech at Indiana University.\"Faced with this moment of great challenge and possibility, it's not enough just to say we won't conduct foreign policy by tweet,\" Buttigieg said, per NBC's Jonathan Allen.\"Nor would it be honest to promise that we can restore an old order that cannot, in any case, meet the realities of a new moment. Democrats can no more turn the clock back to the 1990s than Republicans can return us to the 1950s.\"As Allen reminds us, Biden served as ranking member and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1990s and early 2000s.2020 Vision: FDR = democratic socialist?At 2:00 pm ET, Bernie Sanders will give a speech from DC on democratic socialism - and how it's the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism.Sanders ties Franklin Roosevelt to democratic socialism, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks.\"It is the path that I call democratic socialism. Over eighty years ago Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped create a government that made huge progress in protecting the needs of working families,\" Sanders is expected to say, per NBC's Shaquille Brewster.\"Today in the second decade of the 21st century we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion. This is the unfinished business of the Democratic Party and the vision we must accomplish.\"Historians, however, point out that FDR was a capitalist, though he believed capitalism needed to be saved after the Great Depression.FDR also was criticized from the left &mdash; hello, Huey Long &mdash; for the New Deal not going far enough.And as the New York Times' Jonathan Martin reminds us, Roosevelt had a socialist opponent in 1932 and 1936: Norman Thomas.On the campaign trail todayJoe Biden remains in Iowa, traveling to Eldridge and Clinton before hitting a fundraiser in Chicago&hellip; Bernie Sanders delivers his address on democratic socialism in DC&hellip; Jay Inslee stumps in New Hampshire&hellip; Beto O'Rourke appears on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert&hellip; And Eric Swalwell discusses gun violence in Las Vegas.Data Download: The number of the day is &hellip; 29 percentTwenty-nine percent.That's the share of support that both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are pulling from Democratic primary voters who describe themselves as \"very liberal\" in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.That's compared with 16 percent of very liberal Democrats who say they support Joe Biden and 12 percent who support Pete Buttigieg.It's been apparent that Warren and Sanders are battling over voters in the same progressive lane, but the fact that they've got exactly the same share of support in the progressive wing of the party hammers home that neither has a lock on them yet.Sanders does lead Warren and the rest of the Democratic pack among voters under 50, pulling about 32 percent support, compared with 18 percent for Biden and 16 percent for Warren.Tweet of the day The Lid: The times &hellip; they are a-changin'Don't miss the pod from yesterday, when we took a look at new polling that shows how Americans' views of gender and transgender rights are evolving (fast.)ICYMI: News clips you shouldn't missTrump may be having second thoughts about his proposed choice of Patrick Shanahan as the next Defense Secretary.Representatives of 22 different foreign governments have spent money at Trump properties, according to a new NBC News review. What's going on with the protests in Hong Kong?Donald Trump Jr. will be interviewed behind closed doors by the Senate Intelligence Committee.And Jon Stewart is in the news for his criticism of no-show lawmakers at a 9\/11 victims fund hearing.Trump agenda: What's going on?Trump has been boasting about a new deal with Mexico. The New York Times lays out what we know and don't know about what's going on.AG William Barr says he'll tell the president to assert executive privilege for documents in the Census fight if the House holds him in contempt.POLITICO profiles new White House counsel Pat Cipollone.The Washington Post asks: What does Trump really think about what he calls \"the I-word.\"2020: Beto's new planBeto O'Rourke is proposing a new plan to protect LGBTQ rights.Kamala Harris says her DOJ would have \"no choice\" but to pursue obstruction charges against Trump.Pete Buttigieg says he's work for repeal of the post-9\/11 war powers resolution.Democratic candidates are joining striking fast-food workers this week.\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Both can be true: Bernie Sanders is running a better campaign than he did four years ago, and he's in worse shape to win the Democratic nomination than in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The better campaign: Sanders has more aggressively worked on his shortcomings with African-American and Latino Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>And today he delivers a speech on why democratic socialism is the only way to defeat to oligarchy and authoritarianism (more on that below).<\/p>\n<p>But here's how he's in worse shape: He's one of some 20-plus Democrats running instead of Hillary Clinton's main competition.<\/p>\n<p>He and Elizabeth Warren are competing on much of the same turf (see Data Download below).<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 midterms proved that Democrats can win tough races without democratic socialism \u2014 look at Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, or Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan or Abigail Spanberger in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe most important of all, the Democratic memories about 2016 - the fights with the DNC, the chaos at the Philly convention, the dispute over superdelegates \u2014 make it harder to win over a party that wants to move on from that last presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<h2>\"Loser\" vs. \"Childishness\": Trump and Biden brawl in Iowa<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//trump-existential-threat-biden-take-aim-president-they-cross-paths-n1016126/">Trump vs. Biden in Iowa<\/a>yesterday pretty much played out as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Before departing for the Hawkeye State, Trump called Biden a \"loser\" and someone who never won \"more than 1 percent except Obama took him off the trash heap.\"<\/p>\n<p>More: \"Now, I have to tell you, he's a different guy. He looks different than he used to, he acts different than he used to, he's even slower than he used to be.\"<\/p>\n<p>And when Trump got to Iowa: \"Sleepy Joe. He was someplace in Iowa today, and he said my name so many times that people couldn't stand it anymore.\"<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here was Biden on Trump: \"By the way, I was pleased to know that his alliance with Kim Jong Un where he and Kim Jong Un thought that maybe I shouldn't be president.\"<\/p>\n<p>Also: \"Whoa. You know, he doesn't do any of the right things. Instead he gets up in the middle of the night while he is at Normandy and tweets an attack on Bette Midler? The mayor of London because he's Muslim. The Speaker of the House who is there with him at Normandy. Stunning display of childishness and the whole world watched.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Buttigieg makes his case<\/h2><p>As Trump and Biden traded verbal punches yesterday, Pete Buttigieg took on both men \u2014 directly regarding Trump, indirectly regarding Biden \u2014 in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//buttigieg-vows-seek-repeal-post-9-11-war-powers-resolution-n1016331/">his foreign policy speech<\/a> at Indiana University.<\/p>\n<p>\"Faced with this moment of great challenge and possibility, it's not enough just to say we won't conduct foreign policy by tweet,\" Buttigieg said, per <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//politics-news//biden-trump-battle-trenches-buttigieg-attacks-higher-ground-n1016476/">NBC's Jonathan Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"Nor would it be honest to promise that we can restore an old order that cannot, in any case, meet the realities of a new moment. Democrats can no more turn the clock back to the 1990s than Republicans can return us to the 1950s.\"<\/p>\n<p>As Allen reminds us, Biden served as ranking member and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1990s and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<h2>2020 Vision: FDR = democratic socialist?<\/h2><p>At 2:00 pm ET, Bernie Sanders will give a speech from DC on democratic socialism - and how it's the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders ties Franklin Roosevelt to democratic socialism, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is the path that I call democratic socialism. Over eighty years ago Franklin Delano Roosevelt helped create a government that made huge progress in protecting the needs of working families,\" Sanders is expected to say, per NBC's Shaquille Brewster.<\/p>\n<p>\"Today in the second decade of the 21st century we must take up the unfinished business of the New Deal and carry it to completion. This is the unfinished business of the Democratic Party and the vision we must accomplish.\"<\/p>\n<p>Historians, however, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////millercenter.org//president//fdroosevelt//domestic-affairs/">point out<\/a> that FDR was a capitalist, though he believed capitalism needed to be saved after the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>FDR also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////millercenter.org//president//fdroosevelt//domestic-affairs/">was criticized from the left<\/a> \u2014 hello, Huey Long \u2014 for the New Deal not going far enough.<\/p>\n<p>And as the New York Times' Jonathan Martin <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//jmartNYT//status//1138559507234271233/">reminds us<\/a>, Roosevelt had a socialist opponent in 1932 and 1936: Norman Thomas.<\/p>\n<h2>On the campaign trail today<\/h2><p>Joe Biden remains in Iowa, traveling to Eldridge and Clinton before hitting a fundraiser in Chicago\u2026 Bernie Sanders delivers his address on democratic socialism in DC\u2026 Jay Inslee stumps in New Hampshire\u2026 Beto O'Rourke appears on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u2026 And Eric Swalwell discusses gun violence in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<h2>Data Download: The number of the day is \u2026 29 percent<\/h2><p>Twenty-nine percent.<\/p>\n<p>That's the share of support that both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are pulling from Democratic primary voters who describe themselves as \"very liberal\" <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////poll.qu.edu//national//release-detail?ReleaseID=2627\%22>in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That's compared with 16 percent of very liberal Democrats who say they support Joe Biden and 12 percent who support Pete Buttigieg.<\/p>\n<p>It's been apparent that Warren and Sanders are battling over voters in the same progressive lane, but the fact that they've got exactly the same share of support in the progressive wing of the party hammers home that neither has a lock on them yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders does lead Warren and the rest of the Democratic pack among voters under 50, pulling about 32 percent support, compared with 18 percent for Biden and 16 percent for Warren.<\/p>\n<h2>Tweet of the day<\/h2><div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1138600777562374144\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Lid: The times \u2026 they are a-changin'<\/p>\n<p>Don't miss <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////podcasts.apple.com//us//podcast//wave-change-new-poll-shows-spike-in-americans-support//id1359927030?i=1000441164797\%22>the pod<\/a> from yesterday, when we took a look at new polling that shows how Americans' views of gender and transgender rights are evolving (fast.)<\/p>\n<h2>ICYMI: News clips you shouldn't miss<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//national-security//trump-may-be-having-second-thoughts-about-shanahan-defense-secretary-n1016326/">Trump may be having second thoughts<\/a> about his proposed choice of Patrick Shanahan as the next Defense Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of 22 different foreign governments have spent money at Trump properties,<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//reps-22-foreign-governments-have-spent-money-trump-properties-n1015806/">according to a new NBC News review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//hong-kong-braces-more-protests-over-proposed-extradition-law-n1016156/">What's going on<\/a>with the protests in Hong Kong?<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.politico.com//story//2019//06//11//trump-jr-senate-intelligence-committee-1360664/">Donald Trump Jr. will be interviewed<\/a> behind closed doors by the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>And Jon Stewart <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//jon-stewart-lashes-out-mia-lawmakers-9-11-victims-fund-n1016356/">is in the news<\/a> for his criticism of no-show lawmakers at a 9\/11 victims fund hearing.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump agenda: What's going on?<\/h2><p>Trump has been boasting about a new deal with Mexico. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nytimes.com//2019//06//11//us//politics//trump-mexico-deal.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage\%22>The New York Times lays out<\/a>what we know and don't know about what's going on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//world//national-security//barr-will-ask-trump-to-assert-executive-privilege-over-materials-on-added-census-question-if-lawmakers-dont-back-off-contempt//2019//06//11//ce4fd3dc-8c7d-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html?utm_term=.7d93e153e967\%22>AG William Barr says<\/a>he'll tell the president to assert executive privilege for documents in the Census fight if the House holds him in contempt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.politico.com//story//2019//06//12//pat-cipollone-trump-1361506/">POLITICO profiles<\/a>new White House counsel Pat Cipollone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//politics//trump-doesnt-want-to-be-impeached--but-he-is-fascinated-by-the-i-word//2019//06//11//1a230480-8b95-11e9-b162-8f6f41ec3c04_story.html?utm_term=.21778d4d6dd8\%22>The Washington Post asks:<\/a> What does Trump really think about what he calls \"the I-word.\"<\/p>\n<h2>2020: Beto's new plan<\/h2><p>Beto O'Rourke<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.politico.com//story//2019//06//12//orourke-protections-lgbtq-2020-1361253/">is proposing<\/a>a new plan to protect LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>Kamala Harris <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//politics//sen-harris-says-her-justice-department-would-have-no-choice-but-to-pursue-obstruction-charges-against-trump//2019//06//11//c29310f2-8ca7-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?utm_term=.d710a78879f6\%22>says her DOJ<\/a>would have \"no choice\" but to pursue obstruction charges against Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//buttigieg-vows-seek-repeal-post-9-11-war-powers-resolution-n1016331/">Pete Buttigieg says<\/a>he's work for repeal of the post-9\/11 war powers resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic candidates <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//card//democratic-presidential-candidates-join-striking-workers-early-nominating-states-n1016191/">are joining<\/a> striking fast-food workers this week.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560343221,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560342780,"firstPublishedAt":1560342780,"lastPublishedAt":1560342780,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"David McNew Getty Images file","altText":"Image: Sen. 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Trump promised to donate any profits from foreign governments, and the Trump Organization has sent $343,000 to the U.S. Treasury for 2017 and 2018. The company did not release underlying numbers to support that figure.Amid two lawsuits accusing Trump of accepting illegal foreign payments, NBC News sought to compile the most comprehensive possible list of foreign spending at Trump properties based on information in the public record. In June 2018, a report by the watchdog group Public Citizen came up with 10 foreign governments that had spent money at Trump venues. More information has since become public.A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News.Donald Trump is the first president in modern history to retain ownership of a business empire while in office. He says the company is being run by his sons, but he continues to derive income from the various businesses, including his hotel in Washington, his federal financial disclosure forms show. But Trump has refused to release his tax returns, which would present a fuller picture of his business dealings.Some experts have long argued that foreign payments to Trump's companies are illegal under the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits a president from accepting gifts or \"emoluments\" from foreign states lest they influence policy. Two lawsuits &mdash; one by the District of Columbia, the other by Democratic members of Congress &mdash; allege that Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause. Trump argues that the ban on emoluments doesn't cover regular business payments.The clause has not previously been the subject of lawsuits, so there are no judicial rulings interpreting what the founders meant when the Constitution was written and ratified more than 230 years ago.In the Federalist Papers No. 73, published in 1788, one of the Constitution's authors, Alexander Hamilton, wrote that the emoluments ban would insure that foreign governments \"can neither weaken (the president's) fortitude by operating on his necessities, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice.\"#embed-20190611-trump-emolument-violation-world-map iframe {width: 1px;min-width: 100%}Trump-owned properties &mdash; including his D.C. hotel and his Mar-a-Lago golf club &mdash; have been the frequent recipients of foreign money.According to news accounts and other public records:At least nine foreign governments were involved in hosting events at a Trump property: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and TurkeyAt least nine foreign governments rented or purchased property in buildings or communities owned by Trump businesses: Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, Slovakia, Thailand, India and the European Union.Representatives of at least five foreign governments &mdash; Georgia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Romania and Saudi Arabia &mdash; have stayed at a Trump property.Foreign governments have improved infrastructure in a way that benefited Trump properties in Indonesia and Panama.At least eight foreign governments or their representatives attended parties or gatherings at Trump properties: Brazil, Dominica, Georgia, Nigeria, Russia, Turkey, Malaysia and QatarAn event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington last May exemplifies the risk of a conflict of interest, or the risk of an appearance of such a conflict.A delegation from the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus hosted a \"Justice for Cyprus\" conference at the hotel. The group opposes Turkish influence in a breakaway region of Cyprus once occupied by the Turkish military.The purpose of the gathering, as first reported by journalist Zach Everson, was described in a report in the Cyprus News Agency, which gets funding from the government. The group was examining \"ways of exerting influence on US President Donald Trump with a view to avert the Islamization of the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus,\" the report said.In February, the investigative reporting site ProPublica observed that Nigerian presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his entourage were staying at the Trump Hotel in Washington, despite Abubakar reportedly having been barred from the U.S. for his alleged involvement in corruption while he was Nigeria's vice president.And last week, The Washington Post reported that a wealthy Iraqi sheikh who was trying to influence the Trump administration spent 26 nights in a suite at the hotel at an estimated cost of tens of thousands of dollars.In a court ruling last year denying Trump's motion to dismiss an emoluments lawsuit, a federal judge in Washington, Peter Messitte, raised the seminal question: When \"a President maintains a premier hotel property that generates millions of dollars a year in profits, how likely is it that he will not be swayed, whether consciously or subconsciously, in any and all of his dealings with foreign or domestic governments that might choose to spend large sums of money at that hotel property?\"Trump has appealed the ruling, arguing he should be immune from such claims. A panel of appeals court judges heard arguments in March.\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Representatives of at least 22 foreign governments appear to have spent money at Trump Organization properties, an NBC News review has found, hinting at a significant foreign cash flow to the American president that critics say <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//appeals-court-hear-arguments-trump-emoluments-lawsuit-n984586/">violates the U.S. Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The extent and amount of foreign spending at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//hotel-investor-trump-evaded-taxes-panama-n1013546/">Trump's hotels, golf clubs and restaurants<\/a> is not known, because the Trump Organization is a private company and declines to disclose that information. Trump promised to donate any profits from foreign governments, and the Trump Organization has sent $343,000 to the U.S. Treasury for 2017 and 2018. The company did not release underlying numbers to support that figure.<\/p>\n<p>Amid two lawsuits accusing Trump of accepting illegal foreign payments, NBC News sought to compile the most comprehensive possible list of foreign spending at Trump properties based on information in the public record. In June 2018, a report by the watchdog group Public Citizen came up with 10 foreign governments that had spent money at Trump venues. More information has since become public.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3958452//400x267_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg/" alt=\"The Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 11, 2018.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/384x256_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/640x427_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/750x500_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/828x552_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/1080x720_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/1200x800_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/1920x1280_nbc-190610-mar-a-lago-cs-111p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Jan. 11, 2018.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Joe Raedle<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump is the first president in modern history to<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//ig-report-rips-gov-t-punting-possible-trump-emoluments-violation-n959531/">retain ownership of a business empire<\/a> while in office. He says the company is being run by his sons, but he continues to derive income from the various businesses, including his hotel in Washington, his federal financial disclosure forms show. But Trump has refused to release his tax returns, which would present a fuller picture of his business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts have long argued that foreign payments to Trump's companies are illegal under the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits a president from accepting gifts or \"emoluments\" from foreign states lest they influence policy. Two lawsuits \u2014 one by the District of Columbia, the other by Democratic members of Congress \u2014 allege that Trump is violating the Emoluments Clause. Trump argues that the ban on emoluments doesn't cover regular business payments.<\/p>\n<p>The clause has not previously been the subject of lawsuits, so there are no judicial rulings interpreting what the founders meant when the Constitution was written and ratified more than 230 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the Federalist Papers No. 73, published in 1788, one of the Constitution's authors, Alexander Hamilton, wrote that the emoluments ban would insure that foreign governments \"can neither weaken (the president's) fortitude by operating on his necessities, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice.\"<\/p>\n<p>#embed-20190611-trump-emolument-violation-world-map iframe {width: 1px;min-width: 100%}<\/p>\n<p>Trump-owned properties \u2014 including his D.C. hotel and his Mar-a-Lago golf club \u2014 have been the frequent recipients of foreign money.<\/p>\n<p>According to news accounts and other public records:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least nine foreign governments were involved in hosting events at a Trump property: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Ireland, Japan, Philippines, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey<\/li>\n<li>At least nine foreign governments rented or purchased property in buildings or communities owned by Trump businesses: Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, Slovakia, Thailand, India and the European Union.<\/li>\n<li>Representatives of at least five foreign governments \u2014 Georgia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Romania and Saudi Arabia \u2014 have stayed at a Trump property.<\/li>\n<li>Foreign governments have improved infrastructure in a way that benefited Trump properties in Indonesia and Panama.<\/li>\n<li>At least eight foreign governments or their representatives attended parties or gatherings at Trump properties: Brazil, Dominica, Georgia, Nigeria, Russia, Turkey, Malaysia and Qatar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington last May exemplifies the risk of a conflict of interest, or the risk of an appearance of such a conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation from the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus hosted a \"Justice for Cyprus\" conference at the hotel. The group opposes Turkish influence in a breakaway region of Cyprus once occupied by the Turkish military.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the gathering, as first reported by journalist Zach Everson, was described in a report in<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.cna.org.cy//WebNews-en.aspx?a=50a0b30311544cc69c78e88a97da7c97\%22>the Cyprus News Agency<\/a>, which gets funding from the government. The group was examining \"ways of exerting influence on US President Donald Trump with a view to avert the Islamization of the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus,\" the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the investigative reporting site <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.propublica.org//article//trump-inc-podcast-nigerian-presidential-candidate-atiku-abubakar/">ProPublica observed<\/a> that Nigerian presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar and his entourage were staying at the Trump Hotel in Washington, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.reuters.com//article//us-nigeria-election-atiku-exclusive//exclusive-nigerian-candidates-us-visit-was-temporary-reprieve-from-graft-ban-idUSKCN1PT0TR/">despite Abubakar reportedly having been barred from the U.S.<\/a>for his alleged involvement in corruption while he was Nigeria's vice president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.8623435722411832\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3958452//400x345_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg/" alt=\"Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov poses for a photo in the lobby of the Trump International Hotel.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/384x331_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/640x552_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/750x647_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/828x714_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/1080x931_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/1200x1035_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/1920x1656_nbc-180807-anatoly-antonov-instagram-trump-hotel-njs-1951_0d2c18c8f620968592c6b968e154a31b.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov poses for a photo in the lobby of the Trump International Hotel.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">@eleonoramovs<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And last week, The Washington Post reported that a wealthy Iraqi sheikh who was trying to influence the Trump administration<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//politics//a-wealthy-iraqi-sheikh-who-urges-a-hard-line-us-approach-to-iran-spent-26-nights-at-trumps-dc-hotel//2019//06//06//3ea74c5e-7bf9-11e9-a66c-d36e482aa873_story.html?utm_term=.88c1171e6fa5\%22>spent 26 nights in a suite at the hotel<\/a>at an estimated cost of tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In a court ruling last year denying Trump's motion to dismiss an emoluments lawsuit, a federal judge in Washington, Peter Messitte, raised the seminal question: When \"a President maintains a premier hotel property that generates millions of dollars a year in profits, how likely is it that he will not be swayed, whether consciously or subconsciously, in any and all of his dealings with foreign or domestic governments that might choose to spend large sums of money at that hotel property?\"<\/p>\n<p>Trump has appealed the ruling, arguing he should be immune from such claims. A panel of appeals court judges heard arguments in March.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560328833,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560328230,"firstPublishedAt":1560328230,"lastPublishedAt":1560328230,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"George Rose Getty Images file","altText":"Image: A thunderstorm builds over the Trump International Hotel in Washingt","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"A thunderstorm builds over the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 5, 2018.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958452\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190610-trump-hotel-washington-dc-cs-110p_997d9d27eff3f7a336da7c78bc3e6c60.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1667},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"@eleonoramovs Instagram","altText":"Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov poses for a photo 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of 22 foreign governments have spent money at Trump properties","path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/reps-22-foreign-governments-have-spent-money-trump-properties-n1015806","lastModified":1560328230},{"id":784724,"cid":3958450,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Tiny plastic particles have been found in the deep ocean \u2014 and animals are eating them","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"At depths of 200 to 600 meters, the concentration of plastic particles was found to be roughly four times what it was near the surface.","summary":"At depths of 200 to 600 meters, the concentration of plastic particles was found to be roughly four times what it was near the surface.","keySentence":"","url":"tiny-plastic-particles-have-been-found-deep-ocean-animals-are-ncna1016526","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/tiny-plastic-particles-have-been-found-deep-ocean-animals-are-ncna1016526","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nThe ocean's plastic problem goes deeper than you might have realized.Scientists using underwater robots in the waters off California's central coast found that plastic debris has infiltrated the deep ocean, with evidence of microscopic plastic particles extending from the surface all the way to the seafloor.\"It's a longstanding question: How much plastic is in the ocean?\" said Anela Choy, an assistant professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and lead author of the new study. \"That question has mostly been answered from looking at the best available data at the surface of the ocean, but we know the ocean is a very large three-dimensional space, so we have to account for the plastic below the surface.\"It's estimated that 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year. Choy said the study, which was conducted at two locations within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, could account for what's known as the \"missing plastic in the ocean.\" The term refers to the significant discrepancy that researchers have found between the total amount of plastic that has been produced and the amount of plastic that has been seen in the environment.For their research, Choy and her colleagues used remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, designed to sample the water at depths ranging from five to 1,000 meters. The scientists found evidence of microplastics throughout the water column, with the highest concentration of the particles seen at depths between 200 to 600 meters. The concentration at those depths was roughly four times what it was near the surface, according to Choy.\"We weren't necessarily surprised to find plastic in the deep sea, but what was surprising was that the highest concentrations were not at the surface and not at the deepest depths that we sampled, but somewhere in the middle,\" she said, adding that the plastic particles were also found in crabs, tadpole-like larvaceans and other marine animals that live at those depths.The study provides further evidence that plastic is getting into marine food webs, but scientists don't yet know the implications for humans who subsequently eat the seafood.Environment\"In the last couple of years, the [Environmental Protection Agency] has done studies to look at whether or not there's a concern for human health,\" Emily Woglom, executive vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, said. \"To date, they haven't been able to find evidence that is cause for concern, but much more research needs to be done.\"Woglom added that previous research has shown ocean plastic to be a worldwide problem, but by revealing the true extent of the plastic pollution, the new research could guide more effective cleanup programs.\"There are efforts to try to skim plastic off the first couple of meters of the ocean's surface, but this study shows that it's really throughout the water column and in deeper waters,\" she said. \"So this raises questions about if we'll be able to reach a significant portion of the plastic.\"Late last year, a young Dutch inventor named Boyan Slat attempted to use a 2,000-foot-long screen deployed more than 1,000 miles off the coast of California to trap plastic debris from the surface of the ocean. But, the Ocean Cleanup device broke apart from punishing winds and waves, and the project has since been sidelined.Choy said similar studies should be done in other bodies of water to better understand the extent of the problem and how to deal with it. She said evidence like this should serve as a wake-up call for people across the globe.\"Whether or not you live by the ocean, we're impacting that environment,\" Choy said. \"The deep sea is so important for human society, and our work is showing that we're leaving traces of ourselves in that system.\"Want more stories about the environment?Scientists find 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islands. That's even worse than it sounds.This floating city concept is one way to cope with climate changeClimate change may be dissolving the ocean floor. Here's why we should be worried.SIGN UP FOR THE MACH NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM.\n","htmlText":"<p>The ocean's plastic problem goes deeper than you might have realized.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists using underwater robots in the waters off California's central coast found that plastic debris has infiltrated the deep ocean, with evidence of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//fight-against-plastic-pollution-targets-hidden-source-our-clothes-ncna1000961/">microscopic plastic particles<\/a> extending from the surface all the way to the seafloor.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a longstanding question: <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//video//large-garbage-patch-floating-in-the-pacific-ocean-318824003814/">How much plastic is in the ocean?<\/a>\" said Anela Choy, an assistant professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and lead author of the new study. \"That question has mostly been answered from looking at the best available data at the surface of the ocean, but we know the ocean is a very large three-dimensional space, so we have to account for the plastic below the surface.\"<\/p>\n<p>It's estimated that 8 million metric tons of plastic <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//nightly-news//video//plastic-a-big-part-of-human-life-and-a-major-source-of-pollution-1267783235694/">end up in the ocean each year<\/a>. Choy said the study, which was conducted at two locations within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, could account for what's known as the \"missing plastic in the ocean.\" The term refers to the significant discrepancy that researchers have found between the total amount of plastic that has been produced and the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//science//environment//millions-tons-scientists-tally-plastic-pollution-oceans-n304956/">amount of plastic that has been seen in the environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For their research, Choy and her colleagues used remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, designed to sample the water at depths ranging from five to 1,000 meters. The scientists found evidence of microplastics throughout the water column, with the highest concentration of the particles seen at depths between 200 to 600 meters. The concentration at those depths was roughly four times what it was near the surface, according to Choy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3958450//400x300_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg/" alt=\"The scientists used underwater robots to collect samples at various ocean depths.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/384x288_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/640x480_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/750x563_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/828x621_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/1080x810_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/1200x900_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958450\/1920x1440_nbc-190611-choy-anela-carson-al-1144_370d7af6cbf8565fb84ee74c152ff825.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The scientists used underwater robots to collect samples at various ocean depths.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We weren't necessarily surprised to find plastic in the deep sea, but what was surprising was that the highest concentrations were not at the surface and not at the deepest depths that we sampled, but somewhere in the middle,\" she said, adding that the plastic particles were also found in crabs, tadpole-like larvaceans and other marine animals that live at those depths.<\/p>\n<p>The study provides further evidence that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//plastic-straws-clog-ocean-hurt-fish-now-there-s-growing-n877356/">plastic is getting into marine food webs<\/a>, but scientists don't yet know the implications for humans who subsequently eat the seafood.<\/p>\n<p>Environment<\/p>\n<p>\"In the last couple of years, the [Environmental Protection Agency] has done studies to look at whether or not there's a concern for human health,\" Emily Woglom, executive vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Ocean Conservancy, said. \"To date, they haven't been able to find evidence that is cause for concern, but much more research needs to be done.\"<\/p>\n<p>Woglom added that previous research has shown ocean plastic to be a worldwide problem, but by revealing the true extent of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//living-plastic-free-one-activist-fights-rising-tide-pollution-n972106/">plastic pollution<\/a>, the new research could guide more effective cleanup programs.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are efforts to try to skim plastic off the first couple of meters of the ocean's surface, but this study shows that it's really throughout the water column and in deeper waters,\" she said. \"So this raises questions about if we'll be able to reach a significant portion of the plastic.\"<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, a young Dutch inventor named Boyan Slat attempted to use a 2,000-foot-long screen deployed more than 1,000 miles off the coast of California to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//pacific-ocean-has-plastic-problem-here-s-bold-plan-fix-ncna867456/">trap plastic debris from the surface of the ocean<\/a>. But, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//ocean-cleanup-device-breaks-down-well-ridding-pacific-plastics-n954446/">Ocean Cleanup device broke apart<\/a> from punishing winds and waves, and the project has since been sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Choy said similar studies should be done in other bodies of water to better understand the extent of the problem and how to deal with it. She said evidence like this should serve as a wake-up call for people across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\"Whether or not you live by the ocean, we're impacting that environment,\" Choy said. \"The deep sea is so important for human society, and our work is showing that we're leaving traces of ourselves in that system.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Want more stories about the environment?<\/h2><ul>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//scientists-find-414-million-pieces-plastic-debris-remote-islands-s-ncna1007931/">Scientists find 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islands. That's even worse than it sounds.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//floating-city-concept-one-way-cope-climate-change-ncna995081/">This floating city concept is one way to cope with climate change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//climate-change-may-be-dissolving-ocean-floor-here-s-why-ncna935261/">Climate change may be dissolving the ocean floor. Here's why we should be worried.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SIGN UP FOR THE <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////link.nbcnews.com//join//5cj//mach-signup/">MACH NEWSLETTER<\/a> AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//NBCNewsMACH/">TWITTER, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//NBCNewsMACH///">FACEBOOK, AND <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//NBCNewsMach///">INSTAGRAM./n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560328822,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560328100,"firstPublishedAt":1560328100,"lastPublishedAt":1560328100,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (c) 2002 MBARI","altText":"Image: Larvacean","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"Researchers found microplastic particles in all of the animal specimens they surveyed, including these tadpole-like giant 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plastic particles have been found in the deep ocean \u2014 and animals are eating them","verticals":[],"path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/tiny-plastic-particles-have-been-found-deep-ocean-animals-are-ncna1016526","lastModified":1560328100},{"id":784722,"cid":3958448,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"NATO member Turkey to get Russian missiles within weeks despite U.S. anger","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"\"There is no future for Turkey having both Russian weapons and American F-35s,\" the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs said.","summary":"\"There is no future for Turkey having both Russian weapons and American F-35s,\" the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs said.","keySentence":"","url":"russia-plans-deliver-s-400-missiles-turkey-within-weeks-n1016666","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/russia-plans-deliver-s-400-missiles-turkey-within-weeks-n1016666","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nMOSCOW &mdash; Russia said on Tuesday it plans to deliver its S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey in July, setting the clock ticking on a U.S. threat to hit Ankara with sanctions if it goes ahead with a deal that has strained ties between the NATO allies.Turkey and the United States have sparred publicly for months over Ankara's order for the S-400s, which are not compatible with the transatlantic alliance's systems.Washington has threatened to remove Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet program unless it drops the deal, and has set its own deadline of July 31. If Ankara accepts delivery of the S-400s, that would trigger U.S. sanctions that could prolong Turkey's economic recession and prompt a re-evaluation of its 67-year membership of NATO.AnalysisTurkey said that a U.S. House of Representatives' resolution on Monday condemning the S-400 purchase and urging sanctions was unacceptably threatening.Later on Tuesday in Moscow, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters: \"The agreements reached between Russia and Turkey are being fulfilled on time in the given context. There are no bilateral problems.\"Asked if the surface-to-air missiles will be delivered in July, he said: \"Yes, that's what we plan somehow.\"The comments came days after the head of Russian state conglomerate Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said Moscow would start delivering the S-400s to Turkey in two months. Turkish officials have said the delivery could take place as soon as June.The U.S. resolution, introduced in May and entitled \"Expressing concern for the United States-Turkey alliance,\" was agreed in the House on Monday.It urges Turkey to cancel the S-400 purchase and calls for sanctions if Ankara accepts their delivery. That, the resolution said, would undermine the U.S.-led transatlantic defense alliance.In response, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that its foreign policy and judicial system were being maligned by \"unfair\" and \"unfounded\" allegations in the resolution.\"It is unacceptable to take decisions which do not serve to increase mutual trust, to continue to keep the language of threats and sanctions on the agenda and to set various artificial deadlines,\" it added in a statement.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government faces a balancing act in its ties with the West and Russia, with which it has close energy ties and is also cooperating in neighboring Syria.The United States is also pressuring Turkey and other nations to isolate Iran, including blocking oil exports.U.S. officials said on Monday the training of Turkish pilots on F-35 fighter jets had come to a faster-than-expected halt at an air base in Arizona, as Ankara's involvement was wound down over the S-400 controversy.NewsThe United States says Turkey's acquisition of Russia's S-400 air defenses poses a threat to Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 stealth fighters, which Turkey also plans to buy.\"We rarely see it in foreign affairs, but this is a black and white issue. There is no middle ground. Either Mr. Erdogan cancels the Russian deal, or he doesn't,\" Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said on the House floor on Monday.\"There is no future for Turkey having both Russian weapons and American F-35s. There's no third option,\" he said.Turkey appeared set to move ahead with the S-400 purchase despite the U.S. warnings. Erdogan said last week it was \"out of the question\" for Turkey to back away from its deal with Moscow.\n","htmlText":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 Russia said on Tuesday it plans to deliver its S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey in July, setting the clock ticking on a U.S. threat to hit Ankara with sanctions if it goes ahead with a deal that has strained ties between the NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey and the United States have sparred publicly for months over <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//turkey-snubs-nato-allies-buys-missile-systems-russia-n828641/">Ankara's order for the S-400s<\/a>, which are not compatible with the transatlantic alliance's systems.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//u-s-blocks-turkey-s-f-35-equipment-over-s-n989896/">threatened to remove Turkey from its F-35 fighter jet program unless it drops the deal<\/a>, and has set its own deadline of July 31. If Ankara accepts delivery of the S-400s, that would trigger U.S. sanctions that could prolong Turkey's economic recession and prompt a re-evaluation of its 67-year membership of NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis<\/p>\n<p>Turkey said that a U.S. House of Representatives' resolution on Monday condemning the S-400 purchase and urging sanctions was unacceptably threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Tuesday in Moscow, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters: \"The agreements reached between Russia and Turkey are being fulfilled on time in the given context. There are no bilateral problems.\"<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the surface-to-air missiles will be delivered in July, he said: \"Yes, that's what we plan somehow.\"<\/p>\n<p>The comments came days after the head of Russian state conglomerate Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said Moscow would start delivering the S-400s to Turkey in two months. Turkish officials have said the delivery could take place as soon as June.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. resolution, introduced in May and entitled \"Expressing concern for the United States-Turkey alliance,\" was agreed in the House on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It urges Turkey to cancel the S-400 purchase and calls for sanctions if Ankara accepts their delivery. That, the resolution said, would undermine the U.S.-led transatlantic defense alliance.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that its foreign policy and judicial system were being maligned by \"unfair\" and \"unfounded\" allegations in the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is unacceptable to take decisions which do not serve to increase mutual trust, to continue to keep the language of threats and sanctions on the agenda and to set various artificial deadlines,\" it added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government faces a balancing act in its ties with the West and Russia, with which it has close energy ties and is also cooperating in neighboring Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is also pressuring Turkey and other nations to isolate Iran, including blocking oil exports.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials said on Monday the training of Turkish pilots on F-35 fighter jets had come to a faster-than-expected halt at an air base in Arizona, as Ankara's involvement was wound down over the S-400 controversy.<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>The United States says Turkey's acquisition of Russia's S-400 air defenses poses a threat to Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 stealth fighters, which Turkey also plans to buy.<\/p>\n<p>\"We rarely see it in foreign affairs, but this is a black and white issue. There is no middle ground. Either Mr. Erdogan cancels the Russian deal, or he doesn't,\" Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said on the House floor on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is no future for Turkey having both Russian weapons and American F-35s. There's no third option,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey appeared set to move ahead with the S-400 purchase despite the U.S. warnings. Erdogan said last week it was \"out of the question\" for Turkey to back away from its deal with Moscow.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560328805,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560327924,"firstPublishedAt":1560327924,"lastPublishedAt":1560327924,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Alexandr Kryazhev","altText":"Image: A Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system rolls down Lenin squar","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"A S-400 surface-to-air missile system during a parade in Novosibirsk, Russia.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958448\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190612-turkey-s400-mc-9132_073dc52aeda8c96152577a9ee1966710.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1667}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","titleRaw":"news","id":11940,"title":"news","slug":"news"},{"urlSafeValue":"world-news","titleRaw":"World News","id":12984,"title":"World 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connection with the shooting of famed former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic over the weekend has been charged as an accomplice to attempted murder, a spokesman for prosecutors said Tuesday.The Public Ministry of Santo Domingo East said in a statement it is seeking to keep Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, who authorities have said was arrested at the scene of the Sunday night shooting at Dial Bar and Lounge in the eastern part of the city, in detention. Police have said he was beaten by several bar patrons after the shooting.Some earlier reports had identified Garcia as the suspected shooter, but Tuesday's statement does not say Garcia is accused of firing the single shot from behind that wounded Ortiz, 43, known as \"Big Papi,\" and which injured a television host who was with the former Red Sox player.There was a second arrest in the case, a spokeswoman for the national prosecutor's office reportedly told journalists via WhatsApp, but there was no indication that the person arrested was the suspected shooter, according to the Associated Press.Police have said that two men showed up on a motorcycle and one of those people shot Ortiz. Garcia was captured by bar patrons and beaten before being handed over to police, while the other escaped on foot.Garcia's family told NBC Boston that he is a fan of Ortiz and had nothing to do with the shooting.His lawyer, Deivi Solano, said Garcia had no idea who he picked up or what was about to happen when he stopped to take a fare, the AP reported.\"He didn't know what they were going to do. He's a fan of David's,\" Solano said.A motive in the shooting is unclear. Ortiz, who is from the Dominican Republic, was flown back to Boston Monday and is being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital.Ortiz's spokesman, Leo Lopez, said earlier Tuesday that the baseball star was doing well after surgery, and that \"He is walking, a few steps this morning, but its step by step.\"\"We are really excited about it because it's just one day after surgery,\" Lopez said.Ortiz' wife, Tiffany Ortiz, said in a statement released Tuesday by the Red Sox that he underwent a successful second surgery in Boston and \"he is stable, awake, and resting comfortably.\"She said her husband is expected to remain in the intensive care unit for the next several days. He had his gallbladder and part of his intestine removed by surgeons in the Dominican Republic hours after the shooting.Ortiz played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball, 14 of them for the Red Sox. He led the team to World Series titles in 2004, 2007 and 2013. That 2004 title was Boston's first world championship since 1918.The baseball star was widely hailed for a speech he gave at Fenway Park days after the Boston Marathon bombing, in which he declared: \"This is our (expletive) city, and nobody going to dictate our freedom! Stay strong!\"The Red Sox have said they would offer all available resources to his family to aid in his recovery.The Dominican public ministry said in Tuesday night's statement that other people who might be connected to the shooting have been identified.It added that it and the national police would be working without rest to get to the bottom of what occurred and to hold those responsible accountable.\n","htmlText":"<p>A man arrested in connection with the shooting of famed former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the Dominican Republic over the weekend has been charged as an accomplice to attempted murder, a spokesman for prosecutors said Tuesday.The Public Ministry of Santo Domingo East said in a statement it is seeking to keep Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, who authorities have said was arrested at the scene of the Sunday night shooting at Dial Bar and Lounge in the eastern part of the city, in detention. Police have said he was beaten by several bar patrons after the shooting.Some earlier reports had identified Garcia as the suspected shooter, but Tuesday's statement does not say Garcia is accused of firing the single shot from behind that wounded Ortiz, 43, known as \"Big Papi,\" and which injured a television host who was with the former Red Sox player.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.716\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3958298//400x286_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg/" alt=\"Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, in custody in connection with the shooting of former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, is transferred by police to court in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on June 11, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/384x275_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/640x458_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/750x537_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/828x593_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/1080x773_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/1200x859_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/1920x1375_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, in custody in connection with the shooting of former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, is transferred by police to court in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on June 11, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Erika Santelices<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>There was a second arrest in the case, a spokeswoman for the national prosecutor's office reportedly told journalists via WhatsApp, but there was no indication that the person arrested was the suspected shooter, according to the Associated Press.Police have said that two men showed up on a motorcycle and one of those people shot Ortiz. Garcia was captured by bar patrons and beaten before being handed over to police, while the other escaped on foot.Garcia's family <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcboston.com//news//local//Suspect-in-David-Ortiz-Shooting-to-Face-Judge-in-Dominican-Republic-511152251.html/">told NBC Boston<\/a> that he is a fan of Ortiz and had nothing to do with the shooting.His lawyer, Deivi Solano, said Garcia had no idea who he picked up or what was about to happen when he stopped to take a fare, the AP reported.\"He didn't know what they were going to do. He's a fan of David's,\" Solano said.A motive in the shooting is unclear. Ortiz, who is from the Dominican Republic, was flown back to Boston Monday and is being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital.Ortiz's spokesman, Leo Lopez, said earlier Tuesday that the baseball star <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//us-news//former-red-sox-star-david-ortiz-resting-comfortably-boston-after-n1016311/">was doing well after surgery<\/a>, and that \"He is walking, a few steps this morning, but its step by step.\"\"We are really excited about it because it's just one day after surgery,\" Lopez said.Ortiz' wife, Tiffany Ortiz, said in a statement released Tuesday by the Red Sox that he underwent a successful second surgery in Boston and \"he is stable, awake, and resting comfortably.\"She said her husband is expected to remain in the intensive care unit for the next several days. He had his gallbladder and part of his intestine removed by surgeons in the Dominican Republic<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//former-red-sox-slugger-david-ortiz-shot-ambush-dominican-republic-n1015616/">hours after the shooting<\/a>.Ortiz played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball, 14 of them for the Red Sox. He led the team to World Series titles in 2004, 2007 and 2013. That 2004 title was Boston's first world championship since 1918.The baseball star was widely hailed for a speech he gave at Fenway Park days after the Boston Marathon bombing, in which he declared: \"This is our (expletive) city, and nobody going to dictate our freedom! Stay strong!\"The Red Sox have said they would offer all available resources to his family to aid in his recovery.The Dominican public ministry said in Tuesday night's statement that other people who might be connected to the shooting have been identified.It added that it and the national police would be working without rest to get to the bottom of what occurred and to hold those responsible accountable.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560321605,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560317280,"firstPublishedAt":1560317280,"lastPublishedAt":1560317280,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Erika Santelices","altText":"Image: Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"Eddy Vladimir Feliz Garcia, in custody in connection with the shooting of former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, is transferred by police to court in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on June 11, 2019.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3958298\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190611-eddy-vladimir-feliz-garcia-ac-1156p_1a51fe1d1789e1794fd9ae4e3ad2ac8d.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1790}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","titleRaw":"news","id":11940,"title":"news","slug":"news"},{"urlSafeValue":"world-news","titleRaw":"World News","id":12984,"title":"World News","slug":"world-news"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.world"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.just-in"},{"path":"euronews"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News World News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Phil Helsel and Associated Press","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'neg_facebook_2021','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_facebook_q4','gs_sport_baseball','neg_saudiaramco','neg_nespresso','gs_sport','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','neg_mobkoi_feb2021','gv_arms','gv_crime','gs_health','gs_law_misc','gs_health_misc','gs_law','gv_death_injury'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"Man held in shooting of David Ortiz charged as accomplice to attempted murder","path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/man-held-shooting-red-sox-star-david-ortiz-charged-accomplice-n1016651","lastModified":1560317280},{"id":784422,"cid":3957562,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Protesters jam Hong Kong streets to rally against China extradition bill","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Demonstrations again erupted over the measure that would clear the way for Hong Kong to send people to mainland China to face charges.","summary":"Demonstrations again erupted over the measure that would clear the way for Hong Kong to send people to mainland China to face charges.","keySentence":"","url":"protesters-jam-hong-kong-streets-protest-china-extradition-bill-n1016641","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/protesters-jam-hong-kong-streets-protest-china-extradition-bill-n1016641","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nHONG KONG &mdash; Thousands of demonstrators, dressed in black, swarmed the area surrounding Hong Kong's central government complex on Wednesday morning to protest legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China for trial.Police in riot gear monitored the protest as demonstrators equipped with police barriers, street signs and trash barrels blocked off Harcourt Road, a major thoroughfare in the government district.Many of the protesters, who carried medical masks and goggles expecting police to use tear gas, said they were taking part in a territory-general strike, which has been endorsed by more than 1,000 small businesses and the 190,000-member Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, which called on \"all workers to suspend work and join the assembly.\"Michael Vidler, a human rights lawyer based in Hong Kong, said he told his employees that the firm would back them if they chose to join the strike.Vidler told NBC News that \"people are terrified, in my view rightly so,\" that the legislation would remove the \"fire wall\" between Hong Kong and China.The broadly disliked measure would amend extradition laws to allow Hong Kong to send people to mainland China to face charges. It was scheduled for further debate in the Legislative Council, which is controlled by a pro-Beijing majority, later on Wednesday.The new protests come three days after as many as 1 million people took to the streets in what was described as the largest demonstration in the semi-autonomous territory since China assumed control from Britain in 1997.At one point on Wednesday, dozens of protesters opened colorful umbrellas in what appeared to be a call back to the so-called Umbrella Revolution protests of 2014, when changes in Hong Kong's electoral laws were rammed through that were seen as highly favorable to Beijing.Under the principle of \"one country, two systems,\" Hong Kong is to retain its own economic and administrative system free of interference from Beijing until 2047, but critics say the legislation would represent another step on the road to Beijing's seizing premature control over the former colony.NewsThe chief executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, has tried to allay concerns by introducing amendments that she says would add safeguards to the legislation. Supporters say the bill would help stop Hong Kong from becoming a haven for fugitives from China, which doesn't have an extradition agreement with Hong Kong.Morgan Ortagus, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said Monday that the United States had expressed \"grave concern\" about the measure, which she said could \"undermine Hong Kong's autonomy and negatively impact the territory's longstanding protections of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values.\"\"We are also concerned that the amendments could damage Hong Kong's business environment and subject our citizens residing in or visiting Hong Kong to China's capricious judicial system,\" she said.Justin Solomon reported from Hong Kong. Alex Johnson reported from Los Angeles.This is a developing story. Refresh this page for updates.\n","htmlText":"<p>HONG KONG \u2014 Thousands of demonstrators, dressed in black, swarmed the area surrounding Hong Kong's central government complex on Wednesday morning to protest legislation that would allow extraditions to mainland China for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Police in riot gear monitored the protest as demonstrators equipped with police barriers, street signs and trash barrels blocked off Harcourt Road, a major thoroughfare in the government district.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957562//400x267_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg/" alt=\"Protesters gather in Hong Kong on Wednesday for another day of demonstrations against proposed extradition laws.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/384x256_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/640x427_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/750x500_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/828x552_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/1080x720_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/1200x800_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/1920x1280_nbc-190611-harcourtroad2-ac-1002p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Protesters gather in Hong Kong on Wednesday for another day of demonstrations against proposed extradition laws.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Justin Solomon<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many of the protesters, who carried medical masks and goggles expecting police to use tear gas, said they were taking part in a territory-general strike, which has been endorsed by more than 1,000 small businesses and the 190,000-member Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, which called on \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//HongKongCTU//status//1138377812803444738/">all workers to suspend work<\/a> and join the assembly.\"<\/p>\n<p>Michael Vidler, a human rights lawyer based in Hong Kong, said he told his employees that the firm would back them if they chose to join the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Vidler told NBC News that \"people are terrified, in my view rightly so,\" that the legislation would remove the \"fire wall\" between Hong Kong and China.<\/p>\n<p>The broadly disliked measure would amend extradition laws to allow Hong Kong to send people to mainland China to face charges. It was scheduled for further debate in the Legislative Council, which is controlled by a pro-Beijing majority, later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The new protests come three days after as many as 1 million people took to the streets in what was described as the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//hong-kong-push-ahead-extradition-changes-sparked-huge-protest-n1015656/">largest demonstration in the semi-autonomous territory<\/a> since China assumed control from Britain in 1997.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957562//400x267_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg/" alt=\"Protesters gather at Tamar Park in Hong Kong on Wednesday for another day of demonstrations against proposed extradition laws.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/384x256_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/640x427_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/750x500_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/828x552_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/1080x720_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/1200x800_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/1920x1280_nbc-190611-tamar-park-ac-959p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Protesters gather at Tamar Park in Hong Kong on Wednesday for another day of demonstrations against proposed extradition laws.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Justin Solomon<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>At one point on Wednesday, dozens of protesters opened colorful umbrellas in what appeared to be a call back to the so-called <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//storyline//hong-kong-protests//very-civil-disobedience-inside-hong-kongs-umbrella-revolution-n215796/">Umbrella Revolution<\/a> protests of 2014, when changes in Hong Kong's electoral laws were rammed through that were seen as highly favorable to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Under the principle of \"one country, two systems,\" Hong Kong is to retain its own economic and administrative system free of interference from Beijing until 2047, but critics say the legislation would represent another step on the road to Beijing's seizing premature control over the former colony.<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, has tried to allay concerns by introducing amendments that she says would add safeguards to the legislation. Supporters say the bill would help stop Hong Kong from becoming a haven for fugitives from China, which doesn't have an extradition agreement with Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Ortagus, a spokeswoman for the State Department, said Monday that the United States had expressed \"grave concern\" about the measure, which she said could \"undermine Hong Kong's autonomy and negatively impact the territory's longstanding protections of human rights, fundamental freedoms and democratic values.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We are also concerned that the amendments could damage Hong Kong's business environment and subject our citizens residing in or visiting Hong Kong to China's capricious judicial system,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Justin Solomon reported from Hong Kong. Alex Johnson reported from Los Angeles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Refresh this page for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560307204,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560306540,"firstPublishedAt":1560306540,"lastPublishedAt":1560306540,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Justin Solomon","altText":"Image: Hong Kong Protesters","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"Protesters gather in Hong Kong on Wednesday for another day of demonstrations against proposed extradition laws.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957562\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190611-harcourtroad1-ac-1003p_bfc247bce5dc69c0ec5ad24f48dbd5f8.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1667},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Justin Solomon","altText":"Image: Hong Kong Protesters","callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"caption":"Protesters gather at Tamar Park in Hong Kong on Wednesday for another day of demonstrations against proposed extradition 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health care, education, a \"decent job,\" affordable housing, a secure retirement and living in a \"clean environment,\" according to the excerpts.Trump has repeatedly criticized Sanders for his views, labeling him as \"Crazy Bernie\" and inaccurately comparing his vision to the version of socialism that was put in place in trouble-plagued Venezuela.\"Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,\" Trump said at his State of the Union address in February. \"America was founded on liberty and independence &mdash; not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.\"Sanders will also call on voters to reject Trump's attacks on his ideology, claiming that the president and his \"fellow oligarchs\" don't \"really oppose all forms of socialism.\"\"They may hate democratic socialism because it benefits working people, but they absolutely love corporate socialism that enriches Trump and other billionaires,\" Sanders will say, citing the Great Recession bailouts from the federal government that he said made Wall Street \"big government socialists.\"Sanders' campaign said that the speech will also call on the American people to reject Trump's \"xenophobic and authoritarian policies\" and \"instead complete the unfinished business of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.\"\"The speech is not just about Trump,\" Sanders' chief of staff Ari Rabin-Havt told NBC News. \"There's a collection of interests taking a bigger stand to control politics while working people feel pain and hurt. Democratic socialism is part of the answer for that.\"Sanders' identification as a democratic socialist has ignited within the crowded field of Democrats running for president a discussion over what it means to be a socialist and whether the philosophy can coexist with capitalism.Sanders delivered a similar speech during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when he was battling against eventual-nominee Hillary Clinton, saying then that \"real freedom must include economic security\" and comparing his vision to Roosevelt's.\n","htmlText":"<p>Bernie Sanders will outline his vision of \"democratic socialism\" on Wednesday, explaining his view that all Americans are guaranteed certain rights, including housing, a job, a secure retirement and more, according to excerpts of the speech released by the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\"We must recognize that in the 21st century, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights,\" Sanders will say, according to the excerpts of what his campaign is billing as a major address. \"This is what I mean by democratic socialism.\"<\/p>\n<p>The Vermont independent senator will urge voters to \"take the next step forward and guarantee every man, woman and child in our country\" rights to health care, education, a \"decent job,\" affordable housing, a secure retirement and living in a \"clean environment,\" according to the excerpts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly criticized Sanders for his views, labeling him as \"Crazy Bernie\" and inaccurately comparing his vision to the version of socialism that was put in place in trouble-plagued Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>\"Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,\" Trump said at his State of the Union address in February. \"America was founded on liberty and independence \u2014 not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sanders will also call on voters to reject Trump's attacks on his ideology, claiming that the president and his \"fellow oligarchs\" don't \"really oppose all forms of socialism.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"They may hate democratic socialism because it benefits working people, but they absolutely love corporate socialism that enriches Trump and other billionaires,\" Sanders will say, citing the Great Recession bailouts from the federal government that he said made Wall Street \"big government socialists.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sanders' campaign said that the speech will also call on the American people to reject Trump's \"xenophobic and authoritarian policies\" and \"instead complete the unfinished business of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"The speech is not just about Trump,\" Sanders' chief of staff Ari Rabin-Havt told NBC News. \"There's a collection of interests taking a bigger stand to control politics while working people feel pain and hurt. Democratic socialism is part of the answer for that.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sanders' identification as a democratic socialist has ignited within the crowded field of Democrats running for president a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//meet-the-press//how-socialism-plays-poorly-middle-electorate-n978861/">discussion over what it means to be a socialist<\/a> and whether the philosophy can coexist with capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders delivered a similar speech during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when he was battling against eventual-nominee Hillary Clinton, saying then that \"real freedom must include economic security\" and comparing his vision to Roosevelt's.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560291619,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560291610,"firstPublishedAt":1560291610,"lastPublishedAt":1560291610,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Scott Olson Getty Images","altText":"Image: 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Sanders turns the tables on Trump over 'democratic socialism'","path":"\/2019\/06\/12\/bernie-sanders-turns-tables-trump-over-democratic-socialism-n1016611","lastModified":1560291610},{"id":784376,"cid":3957464,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Biden, Yang feud over former VP's absence from candidate forum","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"\"To me, I have to admit to you, this particular person said he would've been there,\" Biden said Tuesday of Yang. \"Well, I have different values than him.\"","summary":"\"To me, I have to admit to you, this particular person said he would've been there,\" Biden said Tuesday of Yang. \"Well, I have different values than him.\"","keySentence":"","url":"biden-yang-feud-over-values-kerfuffle-stemming-iowa-candidates-forum-n1016591","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/biden-yang-feud-over-values-kerfuffle-stemming-iowa-candidates-forum-n1016591","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nFormer Vice President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang continued to trade barbs Tuesday in a feud that began with Yang blasting Biden for skipping a major Democratic event in Iowa on Sunday.It was at that event, the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame dinner in Cedar Rapids, where Yang criticized Biden for failing to be in attendance. Biden said he skipped the gathering to attend his granddaughter's high school graduation.\"When I saw the program for today, I thought the same thing you all did, which is this: Joe Biden must really not like to travel,\" Yang said.Nearly 20 Democratic candidates were at the event, and Biden has come under some criticism early in the cycle for having a lighter campaign schedule than some of his Democratic rivals. In response to Yang's remark, Biden said his family was more important than a brief speaking engagement.\"One of my competitors criticized me for not going to Iowa to talk for five minutes,\" Biden said Monday, not mentioning Yang's name. \"My granddaughter was graduating. It was my daughter's birthday. I would skip inauguration for that.\"Biden continued the back-and-forth on Tuesday during his own Iowa event.\"To me, I have to admit to you, this particular person said he would've been there,\" Biden said. \"Well I have different values than him. It's family, family, family. I make no apologies for not showing up and speaking for five minutes. Especially when I have almost eight months to come and talk to you all. But I would not miss my granddaughter's graduation. I think all those of you of Iowa values, you wouldn't all either.\"Yang responded on Twitter soon after, saying that missing family obligations is \"what happens when you run for President.\" Biden is the early Democratic frontrunner, while Yang is polling at around 1 percent in most surveys. However, Yang, a businessman who has never held public office, has run a surprising upstart campaign. He qualified for the initial debate by hitting both fundraising and polling requirements and faring better in the primary's early months than some of his more notable competitors.\n","htmlText":"<p>Former Vice President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang continued to trade barbs Tuesday in a feud that began with Yang blasting Biden for skipping a major Democratic event in Iowa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was at that event, the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame dinner in Cedar Rapids, where Yang criticized Biden for failing to be in attendance. Biden said he skipped the gathering to attend his granddaughter's high school graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\"When I saw the program for today, I thought the same thing you all did, which is this: Joe Biden must really not like to travel,\" Yang said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 Democratic candidates were at the event, and Biden has come under some criticism early in the cycle for having a lighter campaign schedule than some of his Democratic rivals. In response to Yang's remark, Biden said his family was more important than a brief speaking engagement.<\/p>\n<p>\"One of my competitors criticized me for not going to Iowa to talk for five minutes,\" Biden said Monday, not mentioning Yang's name. \"My granddaughter was graduating. It was my daughter's birthday. I would skip inauguration for that.\"<\/p>\n<p>Biden continued the back-and-forth on Tuesday during his own Iowa event.<\/p>\n<p>\"To me, I have to admit to you, this particular person said he would've been there,\" Biden said. \"Well I have different values than him. It's family, family, family. I make no apologies for not showing up and speaking for five minutes. Especially when I have almost eight months to come and talk to you all. But I would not miss my granddaughter's graduation. I think all those of you of Iowa values, you wouldn't all either.\"<\/p>\n<p>Yang responded on Twitter soon after, saying that missing family obligations is \"what happens when you run for President.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1138520393814167552\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Biden is the early Democratic frontrunner, while Yang is polling at around 1 percent in most surveys. However, Yang, a businessman who has never held public office, has run a surprising upstart campaign. He qualified for the initial debate by hitting both fundraising and polling requirements and faring better in the primary's early months than some of his more notable competitors.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560288019,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560287460,"firstPublishedAt":1560287460,"lastPublishedAt":1560287460,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Joshua Lott Getty Images","altText":"Image: Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Ottumwa, Iowa, on June 1","callToActionText":null,"width":2368,"caption":"Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Ottumwa, Iowa, on June 11, 2019.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957464\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190611-joe-biden-cs-446p_c59b8593f87eeb9951f9a041c76edb69.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1554}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"us-politics","titleRaw":"US politics","id":13406,"title":"US politics","slug":"us-politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Allan Smith","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"Biden, Yang feud over former VP's absence from candidate forum","path":"\/2019\/06\/11\/biden-yang-feud-over-values-kerfuffle-stemming-iowa-candidates-forum-n1016591","lastModified":1560287460},{"id":784354,"cid":3957422,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"House approves enforcing subpoenas in court against Trump officials","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"The vote is part of the Democrats' larger oversight strategy, which they are ramping up this week.","summary":"The vote is part of the Democrats' larger oversight strategy, which they are ramping up this week.","keySentence":"","url":"house-approves-enforcing-subpoenas-court-against-trump-officials-n1016321","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/house-approves-enforcing-subpoenas-court-against-trump-officials-n1016321","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON &mdash; The House approved a resolution Tuesday to authorize the House Judiciary Committee and other panels to go to court to enforce their subpoenas of the Trump administration.The measure, which was adopted 229-191 along party lines, allows the Judiciary Committee to sue Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn for refusing to comply with its subpoenas related to special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.Judiciary Committee Democrats have been seeking the unredacted version of Mueller's report and underlying evidence from Barr as well as documents and testimony from McGahn, a key figure in the report.The resolution also reaffirms that other committee chairs, with the approval of a bipartisan group of House leaders and assistance of house general counsel, can take civil legal action to enforce their subpoenas without having to hold votes in committee or on the House floor.The Judiciary panel voted in May to advance a measure to hold Barr in contempt of Congress, but Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said Monday that he would hold off on that threat for now after he reached an agreement with DOJ to obtain some underlying evidence from the Mueller report related to possible obstruction of justice by Trump.GOP leaders criticized their Democratic counterparts on Tuesday for proceeding with the vote on the resolution.\"You're seeing on the floor again this week Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi wasting her majority on presidential harassment rather than focusing on the priorities of the American people,\" House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said at a news conference.Democrats have issued more than two dozen subpoenas this year targeting the Trump administration. Administration officials again defied Democrats' subpoena power late last week when Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed to produce documents to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on the planned addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.The Oversight panel is scheduled to hold a vote Wednesday on whether to hold Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress.In a letter to Cummings on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said the administration has cooperated extensively with the committee, but the Justice Department would advise Trump to assert executive privilege over some of the subpoenaed documents if lawmakers proceed with the contempt vote.The votes on the floor and in committee are part of the Democrats' larger oversight strategy, which they are ramping up this week. The Judiciary Committee held the first in a series of hearings on the Mueller report Monday and the House Intelligence Committee is holding a rare open hearing Wednesday on the counterintelligence implications of the special counsel's findings.The moves come as a quarter of House Democrats have voiced support for opening an impeachment inquiry against Trump, with many expressing frustration with the administration's refusal to comply with their subpoenas.Pelosi, D-Calif., was asked at an event Tuesday about whether she thinks opening an impeachment inquiry would allow greater access to information.\"That's a question to be asked &mdash; if you open an impeachment inquiry, do you get more information?\" she said at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation 2019 Fiscal Summit. \"I don't have a straight answer on that, but even if you could, you can't do it without going to the courts.\"Pelosi said the Mueller report \"clearly spells out at least 10 or 11 instances of obstruction of justice\" by Trump when asked if she believes the president committed a crime, but she said \"you must have the strongest possible case, iron-clad,\" before pursuing impeachment.\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The House approved a resolution Tuesday to authorize the House Judiciary Committee and other panels to go to court to enforce their subpoenas of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, which was adopted 229-191 along party lines, allows the Judiciary Committee to sue Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn for refusing to comply with its subpoenas related to special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Judiciary Committee Democrats have been seeking the unredacted version of Mueller's report and underlying evidence from Barr as well as documents and testimony from McGahn, a key figure in the report.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution also reaffirms that other committee chairs, with the approval of a bipartisan group of House leaders and assistance of house general counsel, can take civil legal action to enforce their subpoenas without having to hold votes in committee or on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary panel <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//justice-department-set-ask-executive-privilege-mueller-report-n1003146/">voted in May to advance a measure to hold Barr in contempt of Congress<\/a>, but Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said Monday that he would hold off on that threat for now after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//nadler-reaches-deal-doj-over-key-mueller-report-documents-n1015796/">he reached an agreement with DOJ<\/a> to obtain some underlying evidence from the Mueller report related to possible obstruction of justice by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders criticized their Democratic counterparts on Tuesday for proceeding with the vote on the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\"You're seeing on the floor again this week Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi wasting her majority on presidential harassment rather than focusing on the priorities of the American people,\" House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have issued more than two dozen subpoenas this year targeting the Trump administration. Administration officials again defied Democrats' subpoena power late last week when Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed to produce documents to the House Oversight and Reform Committee on the planned addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p>The Oversight panel is scheduled to hold a vote Wednesday on whether to hold Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Cummings on Tuesday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said the administration has cooperated extensively with the committee, but the Justice Department would advise Trump to assert executive privilege over some of the subpoenaed documents if lawmakers proceed with the contempt vote.<\/p>\n<p>The votes on the floor and in committee are part of the Democrats' larger oversight strategy, which they are ramping up this week. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//democrats-launch-trump-investigative-offensive-watergate-figure-john-dean-testimony-n1015876/">The Judiciary Committee held the first in a series of<\/a><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//democrats-launch-trump-investigative-offensive-watergate-figure-john-dean-testimony-n1015876/">hearings on the Mueller report Monday<\/a> and the House Intelligence Committee is holding a rare open hearing Wednesday on the counterintelligence implications of the special counsel's findings.<\/p>\n<p>The moves come as a quarter of House Democrats have voiced support for opening an impeachment inquiry against Trump, with many expressing frustration with the administration's refusal to comply with their subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, D-Calif., was asked at an event Tuesday about whether she thinks opening an impeachment inquiry would allow greater access to information.<\/p>\n<p>\"That's a question to be asked \u2014 if you open an impeachment inquiry, do you get more information?\" she said at the Peter G. 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Scientists have said that the anomaly beneath what is considered the largest crater in our solar system, may contain metal from an asteroid that crashed into the moon and formed the crater. \n\nThe oval-shaped crater itself is roughly 2000 kilometres wide and several miles deep. The crater, which is believed to have been created about 4 billion years ago, is on the far side of the moon. Despite its gigantic size, we cannot see it from Earth. \n\n\u201cImagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That\u2019s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,\u201d said lead author Peter B. James in a press release. James is assistant professor of planetary geophysics at Baylor\u2019s College. \n\nThe research study titled \"Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin\u201d, was published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The study was supported by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) science team. \n\nThe dense mass \u2014 \u201cwhatever it is, wherever it came from\u201d \u2014 is weighing the basin floor downward by more than half a mile, James said. \n\n\u201cWe did the math and showed that a sufficiently dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the Moon\u2019s mantle until the present day, rather than sinking to the Moon\u2019s core,\u201d James said. \n\nScientists say that a large concentration of dense oxides associated with the last stage of lunar magma ocean solidification could also be a probable reason behind the anomaly. \n\nJames called the basin \u201cone of the best natural laboratories for studying catastrophic impact events, an ancient process that shaped all of the rocky planets and moons we see today.\u201d \n\nWant more news? \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A large and mysterious mass of material has been discovered under the Moon&#039;s South Pole-Aitken basin, a study by the Baylor;s College of Arts and Sciences in Texas shows. Scientists have said that the anomaly beneath what is considered the largest crater in our solar system, may contain metal from an asteroid that crashed into the moon and formed the crater.<\/p>\n<p>The oval-shaped crater itself is roughly 2000 kilometres wide and several miles deep. The crater, which is believed to have been created about 4 billion years ago, is on the far side of the moon. Despite its gigantic size, we cannot see it from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That\u2019s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,\u201d said lead author Peter B. James in a press release. James is assistant professor of planetary geophysics at Baylor\u2019s College.<\/p>\n<p>The research study titled \"Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin\u201d, was published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The study was supported by NASA&#039;s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) science team.<\/p>\n<p>The dense mass \u2014 \u201cwhatever it is, wherever it came from\u201d \u2014 is weighing the basin floor downward by more than half a mile, James said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did the math and showed that a sufficiently dispersed core of the asteroid that made the impact could remain suspended in the Moon\u2019s mantle until the present day, rather than sinking to the Moon\u2019s core,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say that a large concentration of dense oxides associated with the last stage of lunar magma ocean solidification could also be a probable reason behind the anomaly.<\/p>\n<p>James called the basin \u201cone of the best natural laboratories for studying catastrophic impact events, an ancient process that shaped all of the rocky planets and moons we see today.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Want more news?<\/h2><div class=\"widget 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helm.He didn't have to name his targets, neither of whom served in the military, to hit them.\"Faced with this moment of great challenge and possibility, it's not enough just to say we won't conduct foreign policy by tweet,\" Buttigieg said at Indiana University in Bloomington. \"Nor would it be honest to promise that we can restore an old order that cannot, in any case, meet the realities of a new moment. Democrats can no more turn the clock back to the 1990s than Republicans can return us to the 1950s.\"Biden, who began his service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1975, was the top Democrat on the panel for the latter part of the 1990s, later serving as its chairman.What it amounted to Tuesday was a little bit more of a triptych than the split-screen imagery hoped for by Biden and Trump, another data point in a trend of Democratic candidates starting to paint the two front-runners in the similar &mdash; fading &mdash; hues of yesterday's news.Trump and Biden, who they spent parts of the day exchanging insults, are treating each other as the main combatants in the fight for the presidency.Trump has no real competition for re-nomination, and Biden, despite a couple of missteps and slippage in recent polls, remains the leader of the pack for the Democratic nod. He has steadfastly avoided criticizing his Democratic rivals, preferring to run a campaign focused on the idea that Trump is the only obstacle in his path to the presidency.Early excerpts of remarks Biden planned to deliver Tuesday night in Davenport, Iowa, were a full-on assault on Trump's presidency, his character and his competence.\"America's farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with China,\" Biden was expected to say. \"No one knows that better than Iowa. He thinks he's being tough. Well, it's easy to be tough when someone else is feeling the pain. ... How many sleepless nights do you think Trump has had over what he's doing to America's farmers?\"In addition to trade, Biden planned to go after Trump on climate change, income inequality, his response to the fatal clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.\"This isn't who we are,\" Biden will say, according to the excerpts released by his campaign. \"We hold these truths self-evident &mdash; that all men &mdash; and all women &mdash; are created equal. It's the American creed. But Trump sneers at it. He thinks it makes us weak. He has no idea it's what makes us strong.\"Before departing for Iowa, Trump called Biden a \"loser\" and said he didn't think much of the former vice president's brainpower, verve or chances of winning the Democratic nomination.\"I'd rather run against, I think, Biden than anybody,\" Trump said. \"I think he is the weakest mentally. I like running against people that are weak mentally. I think Joe is the weakest up here. The other ones have much more energy.\"He also said of Biden that \"it looks like his friends from the left are going to overtake him pretty soon.\"With many Democratic voters viewing Biden as their best shot to tackle Trump, fellow Democrats have been somewhat reluctant to risk a backlash by taking shots at the former vice president. Despite a contentious 2008 Democratic primary leading to a party victory in that year's general election, the experience of losing in 2016 after a rough primary fight has made many Democratic voters wary of negativity in their own ranks.But in recent days, after a long honeymoon period for Biden in which his poll numbers soared following his April launch, his Democratic rivals are starting to become more comfortable making the case that his brand of politics &mdash; more centrist and less disruptive than much of the field &mdash; isn't the right solution for the party or the country.Enter Buttigieg on Tuesday.His critique of modern foreign policy included a call to repeal the 2001 authorization for the use of military force in Afghanistan that underpins the continued U.S. presence in that country and was used by President Barack Obama's administration &mdash; the one in which Biden served as vice president &mdash; as well as a vow to pull funding from Israel if it expands into Palestinian areas.\"If Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu makes good on his promise to annex West Bank settlements, he should know that a President Buttigieg would take steps to ensure that American taxpayers won't help foot the bill,\" he said.Trump has applauded Israeli settlements and recognized Israel's claim to the Golan Heights region, while Biden, who much earlier in his career reportedly talked about cutting U.S. aid to Israel over expansion, did not repeat that threat when he condemned Israel's announcement of new settlements while he was visiting the country in Obama's first term.Buttigieg is hardly alone in wanting to repeal the 2001 AUMF and replace it with something much more limited. All of the senators seeking the Democratic nomination voted in 2017 against killing an amendment by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would have repealed both that authorization and the one that covered the U.S. invasion of Iraq and given lawmakers six months to draft a replacement.But as often happens in the midst of a presidential campaign, the calendar, the moment in time and a candidate's message conspired to create an opportunity.In this case, it was the mayor of a small Midwestern town taking advantage of a slugfest between two titans with top-level foreign policy experience to try to make his vision for national security seem bigger &mdash; \"to master change rather than be made small and fearful by it.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 As President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden prepared for the equivalent of high-profile trench warfare on the political battlefield of Iowa Tuesday, a third 2020 candidate found the high-ground vantage point he needed to strike both of them at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who hopes to defeat Biden and nearly two dozen other Democrats for his party's nomination and then oust Trump from the Oval Office, delivered a wide-ranging foreign policy and national security speech with a simple point: the U.S. would be hopelessly stuck in the past with either the current president or the last vice president at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>He didn't have to name his targets, neither of whom served in the military, to hit them.<\/p>\n<p>\"Faced with this moment of great challenge and possibility, it's not enough just to say we won't conduct foreign policy by tweet,\" Buttigieg said at Indiana University in Bloomington. \"Nor would it be honest to promise that we can restore an old order that cannot, in any case, meet the realities of a new moment. Democrats can no more turn the clock back to the 1990s than Republicans can return us to the 1950s.\"<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who began his service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1975, was the top Democrat on the panel for the latter part of the 1990s, later serving as its chairman.<\/p>\n<p>What it amounted to Tuesday was a little bit more of a triptych than the split-screen imagery hoped for by Biden and Trump, another data point in a trend of Democratic candidates starting to paint the two front-runners in the similar \u2014 fading \u2014 hues of yesterday's news.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Biden, who they spent parts of the day exchanging insults, are treating each other as the main combatants in the fight for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has no real competition for re-nomination, and Biden, despite a couple of missteps and slippage in recent polls, remains the leader of the pack for the Democratic nod. He has steadfastly avoided criticizing his Democratic rivals, preferring to run a campaign focused on the idea that Trump is the only obstacle in his path to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Early excerpts of remarks Biden planned to deliver Tuesday night in Davenport, Iowa, were a full-on assault on Trump's presidency, his character and his competence.<\/p>\n<p>\"America's farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with China,\" Biden was expected to say. \"No one knows that better than Iowa. He thinks he's being tough. Well, it's easy to be tough when someone else is feeling the pain. ... How many sleepless nights do you think Trump has had over what he's doing to America's farmers?\"<\/p>\n<p>In addition to trade, Biden planned to go after Trump on climate change, income inequality, his response to the fatal clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>\"This isn't who we are,\" Biden will say, according to the excerpts released by his campaign. \"We hold these truths self-evident \u2014 that all men \u2014 and all women \u2014 are created equal. It's the American creed. But Trump sneers at it. He thinks it makes us weak. He has no idea it's what makes us strong.\"<\/p>\n<p>Before departing for Iowa, Trump called Biden a \"loser\" and said he didn't think much of the former vice president's brainpower, verve or chances of winning the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\"I'd rather run against, I think, Biden than anybody,\" Trump said. \"I think he is the weakest mentally. I like running against people that are weak mentally. I think Joe is the weakest up here. The other ones have much more energy.\"<\/p>\n<p>He also said of Biden that \"it looks like his friends from the left are going to overtake him pretty soon.\"<\/p>\n<p>With many Democratic voters viewing Biden as their best shot to tackle Trump, fellow Democrats have been somewhat reluctant to risk a backlash by taking shots at the former vice president. Despite a contentious 2008 Democratic primary leading to a party victory in that year's general election, the experience of losing in 2016 after a rough primary fight has made many Democratic voters wary of negativity in their own ranks.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent days, after a long honeymoon period for Biden in which his poll numbers soared following his April launch, his Democratic rivals are starting to become more comfortable making the case that his brand of politics \u2014 more centrist and less disruptive than much of the field \u2014 isn't the right solution for the party or the country.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Buttigieg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>His critique of modern foreign policy included a call to repeal the 2001 authorization for the use of military force in Afghanistan that underpins the continued U.S. presence in that country and was used by President Barack Obama's administration \u2014 the one in which Biden served as vice president \u2014 as well as a vow to pull funding from Israel if it expands into Palestinian areas.<\/p>\n<p>\"If Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu makes good on his promise to annex West Bank settlements, he should know that a President Buttigieg would take steps to ensure that American taxpayers won't help foot the bill,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has applauded Israeli settlements and recognized Israel's claim to the Golan Heights region, while Biden, who much earlier in his career reportedly talked about cutting U.S. aid to Israel over expansion, did not repeat that threat when he condemned Israel's announcement of new settlements while he was visiting the country in Obama's first term.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg is hardly alone in wanting to repeal the 2001 AUMF and replace it with something much more limited. All of the senators seeking the Democratic nomination voted in 2017 against killing an amendment by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would have repealed both that authorization and the one that covered the U.S. invasion of Iraq and given lawmakers six months to draft a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>But as often happens in the midst of a presidential campaign, the calendar, the moment in time and a candidate's message conspired to create an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it was the mayor of a small Midwestern town taking advantage of a slugfest between two titans with top-level foreign policy experience to try to make his vision for national security seem bigger \u2014 \"to master change rather than be made small and fearful by it.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560279633,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560278940,"firstPublishedAt":1560278940,"lastPublishedAt":1560278940,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Reuters, AP, Reuters","altText":"Donald Trump, Pete Buttigieg, and Joe Biden.","callToActionText":null,"width":1200,"caption":"In his foreign policy speech, Afghanistan conflict veteran Buttigieg didn't have to name his targets, Trump and Biden \u2014 neither of whom served in the military \u2014 to hit them.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957352\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190611-2x1-trump-buttigieg-biden-ew-143p_cc593614156408fafe2dda1b3d28d448.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":600}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"us-politics","titleRaw":"US politics","id":13406,"title":"US politics","slug":"us-politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Jonathan Allen","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"world news","online":1,"url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":1,"title":"News","slug":"news"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"news","id":"news","title":"World","url":"\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','sm_politics','neg_facebook_2021','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_politics_misc','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_facebook_q4','gs_politics_american','gt_negative','neg_nespresso','neg_facebook','gt_negative_anger','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"daletEventName":"As Biden and Trump battle in the trenches, Buttigieg attacks from higher ground","path":"\/2019\/06\/11\/biden-trump-battle-trenches-buttigieg-attacks-higher-ground-n1016476","lastModified":1560278940},{"id":784342,"cid":3957408,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Never used Zelle? Scammers can still use it to drain your bank account","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"The digital payment service embedded in banking apps has made it easier for thieves to access funds in personal checking and savings accounts, experts say.","summary":"The digital payment service embedded in banking apps has made it easier for thieves to access funds in personal checking and savings accounts, experts say.","keySentence":"","url":"instant-fraud-consumers-see-funds-disappear-zelle-account-scam-n1015736","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/consumer\/instant-fraud-consumers-see-funds-disappear-zelle-account-scam-n1015736","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nChrysanthi Rausch was taking a nap on her couch two months ago when she got a call from a number she didn't recognize.On the other end of the line was a woman who said she worked for KeyBank, Rausch's local bank, calling to alert her of fraud in her account.\"They wanted me to verify my identity through a text code. So they sent me a text, and then I read the six numbers back,\" said Rausch, 30, of Columbus, Ohio.That was all it took, she said, for the fraudsters to create a Zelle account in her name and gain access to both her checking and savings accounts &mdash; all within hours of their phone call.The scammers had tricked Rausch into providing them with the code that the bank had sent her to confirm her identity.\"I woke up &hellip; and they had taken about $1,500 from my account,\" Rausch said.For more on this story, tune in to NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET\/5:30 p.m. CT or check your local listings.Her case is hardly unique. NBC News talked to several consumers who said hackers stole anywhere from $190 to $6,400 from their bank accounts using Zelle.The service is a digital payment network that is pre-built into many banking apps such as Chase Bank and Bank of America. Zelle links to a user's bank account and allows customers to send money to other people instantly using an email address or phone number.But it turns out that Zelle's simplicity and speed, the features that make it attractive to consumers, have also drawn in a sophisticated pool of scammers. Thieves use spoofed calls, phone calls that look like they're coming from an individual's bank, and traditional hacking to access people's Zelle accounts, experts say.\"The fraud we're talking about today is a totally different kind of fraud,\" said Bob Sullivan, an author who tracks online bank scams, \"where someone's access has been stolen just like if someone stole your username or password to your online bank.\"\"It's a simple proposition: the quicker the transaction is, the quicker a criminal can steal,\" Sullivan added. \"This is almost engineered for crime.\"All banking-related websites and apps are vulnerable to scammers. But experts say Zelle is a particularly appealing target because, unlike other peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo, it's embedded within banking apps and automatically connected to user accounts.\"When it launched, there were ads screaming on TV over and over saying, 'You can trust Zelle. It's backed by the banks. It's safe.' I mean they really traded on the safety of being associated with large banks,\" Sullivan said.Zelle's popularity has soared since it launched an instant payment service in 2017. It's now the largest player in the person-to-person payment market by partnering with hundreds of financial institutions through their banking apps and even offering a standalone app.Just last year, the Zelle network saw $119 billion transferred among its users, according to company data provided to NBC News.Zelle and a number of smaller competitors have become the tech world's answer to a consumer market looking to pay from the convenience of their phones, one industry expert said.\"I think consumers want something that serves them in the same way that cash does,\" said Dayna Ford, senior director analyst for digital commerce payments at the research and advisory firm Gartner.Ford said social experiences such as splitting the check at dinner offer an ideal scenario to use digital payment services, especially since paying someone through cash creates issues of exact change.\"You have the same sense of security as if I had handed you a $10 bill,\" Ford said, adding that the popularity of the smartphone has propelled the demand for quick payment options.Many of the victims NBC News contacted said they were shocked to find fraud on their Zelle account because they hadn't even heard of the service before getting hit with sham charges.\"I have never used Zelle,\" said Troy Hopkins, of Vancouver, Washington, who says he lost $6,400 to scammers who used Zelle to hack his account. \"I didn't know about Zelle until I went on to my account and kind of searched around a little bit about how the money was taken out of my account, and I noticed Zelle there.\"Cases like Hopkins' are exactly what Sullivan said is most disturbing about this new wave of scammers.\"A year ago, for you to fall for a Zelle scam, you had to be a Zelle user,\" he said. \"But this new scam, you've never heard of Zelle &mdash; you can still be a victim.\"Fortunately for consumers, federal regulations require banks to fully reimburse any customer whose money is fraudulently stolen from an account. All the victims NBC News spoke with, including Rausch, were fully reimbursed by their banks, but many reported they had to make several calls and wait weeks for the money to be replaced.In a statement, Early Warning Services, LLC., the network operator behind Zelle, said that the \"potential for fraud\" is a risk associated with all digital payment technologies.\"In cases where a consumer's bank account or debit card have been compromised, and unauthorized Zelle payments made, consumers have rights under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. We recommend they contact their bank immediately to determine an appropriate resolution,\" the statement read.While Zelle also emphasized its current security features, such as identity verification and multifactor authentication, Sullivan said he isn't convinced they will completely deter future attacks on consumer accounts.\"Criminals right now are trying to get around this second factor [authentication], so they have to hack your online bank account access, and they have to somehow essentially hack your text messages to get the answer,\" he said. \"They can do that through social engineering like a phone call where they pose as the bank.\"KeyBank, where Rausch is a customer, said it \"has made the client's funds whole again\" after she was victimized by a \"phone call scammer who convinced her to provide information that enabled access to her account.\"\"KeyBank is taking proactive steps to help our clients prevent fraud attempts similar to this case by educating through direct email communications, investment in our security systems, and multifactor authentication,\" the bank added in a statement.Chase said in a statement: \"As with any other fraud, we reimburse our customers for fraudulent activity on their accounts. We've made significant investments in fraud detection and prevention technologies as well as customer education to help stay ahead of fraudsters.\"Bank of America did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Zelle and the American Bankers Association shared the following tips to prevent the fraud:&bull; Change your security settings to enable multifactor authentication &mdash; a second step to verify who you are, like a text with a code &mdash; for accounts that support it.&bull; Don't provide any personal information to anyone who calls or emails you out of the blue. Instead, use a trusted channel to contact the bank or company, like the phone number on the back of your credit or debit card.&bull; Sign up for text or email alerts offered by your bank to warn of suspicious activity on your account. Contact your bank immediately if you suspect fraud.Sullivan said that last tip is the most important.\"We all get so many of these warnings that we ignore them, or they end up in spam,\" he said. \"But right now, in particular, pay attention to those notes because if someone attaches a phone number to your bank account, that could very well be the first step to one of these Zelle frauds.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>Chrysanthi Rausch was taking a nap on her couch two months ago when she got a call from a number she didn't recognize.<\/p>\n<p>On the other end of the line was a woman who said she worked for KeyBank, Rausch's local bank, calling to alert her of fraud in her account.<\/p>\n<p>\"They wanted me to verify my identity through a text code. So they sent me a text, and then I read the six numbers back,\" said Rausch, 30, of Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>That was all it took, she said, for the fraudsters to create a Zelle account in her name and gain access to both her checking and savings accounts \u2014 all within hours of their phone call.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers had tricked Rausch into providing them with the code that the bank had sent her to confirm her identity.<\/p>\n<p>\"I woke up \u2026 and they had taken about $1,500 from my account,\" Rausch said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on this story, tune in to NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET\/5:30 p.m. CT or check your local listings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957408//400x225_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg/" alt=\"Chrysanthi Rausch, 30, said she saw $1500 drained from her bank account after fraudsters used the digital payment service, Zelle to gain access to her checking and saving accounts.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/384x216_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/640x360_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/750x422_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/828x466_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/1080x608_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/1200x675_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/1920x1080_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Chrysanthi Rausch, 30, said she saw $1500 drained from her bank account after fraudsters used the digital payment service, Zelle to gain access to her checking and saving accounts.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">NBC News<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Her case is hardly unique. NBC News talked to several consumers who said hackers stole anywhere from $190 to $6,400 from their bank accounts using Zelle.<\/p>\n<p>The service is a digital payment network that is pre-built into many banking apps such as Chase Bank and Bank of America. Zelle links to a user's bank account and allows customers to send money to other people instantly using an email address or phone number.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out that Zelle's simplicity and speed, the features that make it attractive to consumers, have also drawn in a sophisticated pool of scammers. Thieves use spoofed calls, phone calls that look like they're coming from an individual's bank, and traditional hacking to access people's Zelle accounts, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\"The fraud we're talking about today is a totally different kind of fraud,\" said Bob Sullivan, an author who tracks online bank scams, \"where someone's access has been stolen just like if someone stole your username or password to your online bank.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a simple proposition: the quicker the transaction is, the quicker a criminal can steal,\" Sullivan added. \"This is almost engineered for crime.\"<\/p>\n<p>All banking-related websites and apps are vulnerable to scammers. But experts say Zelle is a particularly appealing target because, unlike other peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo, it's embedded within banking apps and automatically connected to user accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\"When it launched, there were ads screaming on TV over and over saying, 'You can trust Zelle. It's backed by the banks. It's safe.' I mean they really traded on the safety of being associated with large banks,\" Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelle's popularity has soared since it launched an instant payment service in 2017. It's now the largest player in the person-to-person payment market by partnering with hundreds of financial institutions through their banking apps and even offering a standalone app.<\/p>\n<p>Just last year, the Zelle network saw $119 billion transferred among its users, according to company data provided to NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Zelle and a number of smaller competitors have become the tech world's answer to a consumer market looking to pay from the convenience of their phones, one industry expert said.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think consumers want something that serves them in the same way that cash does,\" said Dayna Ford, senior director analyst for digital commerce payments at the research and advisory firm Gartner.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said social experiences such as splitting the check at dinner offer an ideal scenario to use digital payment services, especially since paying someone through cash creates issues of exact change.<\/p>\n<p>\"You have the same sense of security as if I had handed you a $10 bill,\" Ford said, adding that the popularity of the smartphone has propelled the demand for quick payment options.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the victims NBC News contacted said they were shocked to find fraud on their Zelle account because they hadn't even heard of the service before getting hit with sham charges.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957408//400x225_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg/" alt=\"Several consumers told NBC News that they saw anywhere from $190 to $6,400 stolen from their bank accounts through the digital payment service, Zelle. This is part of a sophisticated trend of scammers who have been able to break into consumers\\&apos; accounts by creating accounts in their name and stealing money.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/384x216_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/640x360_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/750x422_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/828x466_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/1080x608_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/1200x675_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/1920x1080_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-2-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Several consumers told NBC News that they saw anywhere from $190 to $6,400 stolen from their bank accounts through the digital payment service, Zelle. This is part of a sophisticated trend of scammers who have been able to break into consumers\\&apos; accounts by creating accounts in their name and stealing money.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">NBC News<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I have never used Zelle,\" said Troy Hopkins, of Vancouver, Washington, who says he lost $6,400 to scammers who used Zelle to hack his account. \"I didn't know about Zelle until I went on to my account and kind of searched around a little bit about how the money was taken out of my account, and I noticed Zelle there.\"<\/p>\n<p>Cases like Hopkins' are exactly what Sullivan said is most disturbing about this new wave of scammers.<\/p>\n<p>\"A year ago, for you to fall for a Zelle scam, you had to be a Zelle user,\" he said. \"But this new scam, you've never heard of Zelle \u2014 you can still be a victim.\"<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for consumers, federal regulations require banks to fully reimburse any customer whose money is fraudulently stolen from an account. All the victims NBC News spoke with, including Rausch, were fully reimbursed by their banks, but many reported they had to make several calls and wait weeks for the money to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Early Warning Services, LLC., the network operator behind Zelle, said that the \"potential for fraud\" is a risk associated with all digital payment technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\"In cases where a consumer's bank account or debit card have been compromised, and unauthorized Zelle payments made, consumers have rights under the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. We recommend they contact their bank immediately to determine an appropriate resolution,\" the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>While Zelle also emphasized its current security features, such as identity verification and multifactor authentication, Sullivan said he isn't convinced they will completely deter future attacks on consumer accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\"Criminals right now are trying to get around this second factor [authentication], so they have to hack your online bank account access, and they have to somehow essentially hack your text messages to get the answer,\" he said. \"They can do that through social engineering like a phone call where they pose as the bank.\"<\/p>\n<p>KeyBank, where Rausch is a customer, said it \"has made the client's funds whole again\" after she was victimized by a \"phone call scammer who convinced her to provide information that enabled access to her account.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"KeyBank is taking proactive steps to help our clients prevent fraud attempts similar to this case by educating through direct email communications, investment in our security systems, and multifactor authentication,\" the bank added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Chase said in a statement: \"As with any other fraud, we reimburse our customers for fraudulent activity on their accounts. We've made significant investments in fraud detection and prevention technologies as well as customer education to help stay ahead of fraudsters.\"<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Zelle and the American Bankers Association shared the following tips to prevent the fraud:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Change your security settings to enable multifactor authentication \u2014 a second step to verify who you are, like a text with a code \u2014 for accounts that support it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Don't provide any personal information to anyone who calls or emails you out of the blue. Instead, use a trusted channel to contact the bank or company, like the phone number on the back of your credit or debit card.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sign up for text or email alerts offered by your bank to warn of suspicious activity on your account. Contact your bank immediately if you suspect fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan said that last tip is the most important.<\/p>\n<p>\"We all get so many of these warnings that we ignore them, or they end up in spam,\" he said. \"But right now, in particular, pay attention to those notes because if someone attaches a phone number to your bank account, that could very well be the first step to one of these Zelle frauds.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560283219,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560277980,"firstPublishedAt":1560277980,"lastPublishedAt":1560277980,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"NBC News","altText":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"Chrysanthi Rausch, 30, said she saw $1500 drained from her bank account after fraudsters used the digital payment service, Zelle to gain access to her checking and saving accounts.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957408\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190610-zelle-app-fraud-1-ew-1201p_15e855c18de198afe4ec4c64750167d9.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1080},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"NBC News","altText":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"Several consumers told NBC News that they saw anywhere from $190 to $6,400 stolen from their bank accounts through the digital payment service, Zelle. 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Among them are Afro-Colombian activists, indigenous leaders and human rights defenders, among others. Authorities believe that the remaining illegal armed groups and drug networks are responsible for many of the deaths. \n\nThe United Nations warned in May that the deaths of activists continue at an astonishing rate, with 51 dead in the first four months of 2019. \n\nSalcedo has become one of the most prominent voices in Colombia, helping the nation heal through art, as it implements the peace agreement. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The artist Doris Salcedo directed an exhibition of public art in Bogot\u00e1 in tribute to dozens of human rights leaders killed in Colombia, after the signing of the peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The participants broke glass rectangles and then used the fragments for each of the names of 165 main activists murdered in the South American nation.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors and human rights groups claim that up to 506 activists have been killed since the beginning of 2016. Among them are Afro-Colombian activists, indigenous leaders and human rights defenders, among others. Authorities believe that the remaining illegal armed groups and drug networks are responsible for many of the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations warned in May that the deaths of activists continue at an astonishing rate, with 51 dead in the first four months of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Salcedo has become one of the most prominent voices in Colombia, helping the nation heal through art, as it implements the peace 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COLOMBOA MURDERED ACTIVISTS","path":"\/video\/2019\/06\/11\/exhibition-s-tribute-to-human-rights-activists-killed-in-colombia","lastModified":1560277804},{"id":784288,"cid":3957340,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Everything you need to know about the first Democratic debate","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"The first debate will take place on June 26 and June 27 in Miami.","summary":"The first debate will take place on June 26 and June 27 in Miami.","keySentence":"","url":"2020-presidential-democratic-debate-everything-you-need-know-n1013761","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/2020-presidential-democratic-debate-everything-you-need-know-n1013761","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nIt's crunch time for candidates who are hoping to make it on stage for the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election.With a total of 20 spots available on stage over two nights, some of the 24 candidates vying for a spot won't make the cut.Here's what you need to know about the first face off of the Democratic presidential primary.When and where is the first Democratic debate?The debate will take place on June 26 and June 27 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Miami.The two-night event is hosted by NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo, and will air live across all three from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m ET both nights. The debate will also stream online free of charge on NBC News' digital platforms, including NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News Mobile App and OTT apps, in addition to Telemundo's digital platforms.Who are the moderators?Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and Jos&eacute; Diaz-Balart will moderate the debate, NBC announced Tuesday.Both debate nights will have the same format. Holt, the anchor of \"NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt\" and \"Dateline NBC,\" will moderate the first hour with Guthrie, the co-anchor of \"TODAY\" and NBC News' chief legal analyst, and Diaz-Balart, the anchor of \"Noticias Telemundo\" and \"NBC Nightly News Saturday,\" appearing alongside him.Holt will also appear in the second hour, with Todd, NBC News' political director and the moderator of \"Meet the Press with Chuck Todd,\" and Maddow, host of \"The Rachel Maddow Show\" on MSNBC, moderating.Who will likely qualify for the debate?The Democratic National Committee, which is sanctioning the debate, set two ways for candidates to qualify &mdash; fundraising and polling. While their fundraising information still needs to be vetted by the DNC for them to be confirmed for the stage, the candidates whose campaigns say they've qualified under both criteria include:Former Vice President Joe BidenSen. Bernie Sanders of VermontSen. Elizabeth Warren of MassachusettsSen. Kamala Harris of CaliforniaSen. Cory Booker of New JerseySen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New YorkSen. Amy Klobuchar of MinnesotaSouth Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete ButtigiegRep. Tulsi Gabbard of HawaiiWashington Gov. Jay InsleeFormer Housing secretary Juli&aacute;n CastroFormer U.S. Rep. Beto O'RourkeEntrepreneur Andrew YangAuthor Marianne WilliamsonWho appears to be on the bubble?Candidates who appear to have qualified by polling at 1 percent or above in three different surveys recognized by the DNC include:Rep. Eric Swalwell of CaliforniaRep. Tim Ryan of OhioSen. Michael Bennet of ColoradoFormer Colorado gov. John HickenlooperNew York City Mayor Bill de BlasioFormer Rep. John Delaney of MarylandOne of the last entrants into the race, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, has hit one percent in two qualifying polls, but needs one more to qualify. If he does, that would bring the total number of candidates who've qualified to 21, one over the DNC's candidate limit.Three other candidates, Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam and former U.S. Senator from Alaska Mike Gravel have not hit one percent in any qualifying polls, an NBC News review found.How will the DNC decide who makes the cut?The DNC has said that if necessary, it will whittle down candidates on the bubble by looking at their polling averages. To date, that would benefit Hickenlooper and Ryan, whose highest average standing in the polls is 1.3 percent, according to an unofficial analysis by NBC. The others all have an average of one percent.When will the DNC make the call?The qualifying deadline for the candidates is Wednesday. Then, the DNC says campaigns must provide the committee with \"verifiable evidence\" that they've met the fundraising threshold of at least 65,000 donors, with a minimum of 200 donors per state from 20 states.It's unclear how long it will take for the DNC to reveal who made the cut, but it's expected to move swiftly.How will the candidates be divided over two nights?The DNC is trying to avoid the \"kids' table\" complaints that were lodged against the Republican National Committee in the run up to the 2016 election &mdash; where front-runners in the large field of candidates were given one forum and lower-tier candidates another.Each night of the Democratic debates will feature 10 candidates. According to the DNC, the participants for each night will be chosen at random but will be done in a way to ensure that both night's groups feature an even mixture of candidates.Will the rules change for later debates?The DNC says it will use the same criteria for the second two-night debate on July 30 and 31 in Detroit, which will be hosted by CNN.The benchmarks will change for the third debate on Sept. 12 and potentially a second night on Sept.13, which will be hosted by ABC and Univision. To take part in that debate, candidates will have to show they've received donations from 130,000 different donors, including at least 400 from 20 different states. They'll also have to hit at least 2 percent in four different qualifying polls.These changes are guaranteed to reduce the size of the field.\n","htmlText":"<p>It's crunch time for candidates who are hoping to make it on stage for the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>With a total of 20 spots available on stage over two nights, some of the 24 candidates vying for a spot won't make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>Here's what you need to know about the first face off of the Democratic presidential primary.<\/p>\n<h3>When and where is the first Democratic debate?<\/h3><p>The debate will take place on June 26 and June 27 at the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.arshtcenter.org///">Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts<\/a> in downtown Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The two-night event is hosted by NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo, and will air live across all three from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m ET both nights. The debate will also stream online free of charge on NBC News' digital platforms, including NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News Mobile App and OTT apps, in addition to Telemundo's digital platforms.<\/p>\n<h3>Who are the moderators?<\/h3><p>Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and Jos\u00e9 Diaz-Balart <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//nbc-announces-five-moderators-first-democratic-debate-n1016106/">will moderate the debate<\/a>, NBC announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Both debate nights will have the same format. Holt, the anchor of \"NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt\" and \"Dateline NBC,\" will moderate the first hour with Guthrie, the co-anchor of \"TODAY\" and NBC News' chief legal analyst, and Diaz-Balart, the anchor of \"Noticias Telemundo\" and \"NBC Nightly News Saturday,\" appearing alongside him.<\/p>\n<p>Holt will also appear in the second hour, with Todd, NBC News' political director and the moderator of \"Meet the Press with Chuck Todd,\" and Maddow, host of \"The Rachel Maddow Show\" on MSNBC, moderating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6664\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957340//400x267_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg/" alt=\"Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., May 18, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/384x256_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/640x426_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/750x500_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/828x552_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/1080x720_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/1200x800_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/1920x1279_nbc-190604-joe-biden-mc-1310_a38cffa99147ccec86b988ef9506bd24.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., May 18, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mark Makela<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Who will likely qualify for the debate?<\/h3><p>The Democratic National Committee, which is sanctioning the debate, set two ways for candidates to qualify \u2014 fundraising and polling. While their fundraising information still needs to be vetted by the DNC for them to be confirmed for the stage, the candidates whose campaigns say they've qualified under both criteria include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Vice President Joe Biden<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Kamala Harris of California<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii<\/li>\n<li>Washington Gov. Jay Inslee<\/li>\n<li>Former Housing secretary Juli\u00e1n Castro<\/li>\n<li>Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneur Andrew Yang<\/li>\n<li>Author Marianne Williamson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who appears to be on the bubble?<\/h3><p>Candidates who appear to have qualified by polling at 1 percent or above in three different surveys recognized by the DNC include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. Eric Swalwell of California<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Former Colorado gov. John Hickenlooper<\/li>\n<li>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/li>\n<li>Former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the last entrants into the race, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, has hit one percent in two qualifying polls, but needs one more to qualify. If he does, that would bring the total number of candidates who've qualified to 21, one over the DNC's candidate limit.<\/p>\n<p>Three other candidates, Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam and former U.S. Senator from Alaska Mike Gravel have not hit one percent in any qualifying polls, an NBC News review found.<\/p>\n<h3>How will the DNC decide who makes the cut?<\/h3><p>The DNC has said that if necessary, it will whittle down candidates on the bubble by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////democrats.org//press//dnc-announces-details-for-the-first-two-presidential-primary-debates///">looking at their polling averages<\/a>. To date, that would benefit Hickenlooper and Ryan, whose highest average standing in the polls is 1.3 percent, according to an unofficial analysis by NBC. The others all have an average of one percent.<\/p>\n<h3>When will the DNC make the call?<\/h3><p>The qualifying deadline for the candidates is Wednesday. Then, the DNC says campaigns must provide the committee with \"verifiable evidence\" that they've met the fundraising threshold of at least 65,000 donors, with a minimum of 200 donors per state from 20 states.<\/p>\n<p>It's unclear how long it will take for the DNC to reveal who made the cut, but it's expected to move swiftly.<\/p>\n<h3>How will the candidates be divided over two nights?<\/h3><p>The DNC is trying to avoid the \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.vox.com//2015//8//6//9114283//kids-table-Republican-debate-brutal/">kids' table<\/a>\" complaints that were lodged against the Republican National Committee in the run up to the 2016 election \u2014 where front-runners in the large field of candidates were given one forum and lower-tier candidates another.<\/p>\n<p>Each night of the Democratic debates will feature 10 candidates. According to the DNC, the participants for each night will be chosen at random but will be done in a way to ensure that both night's groups feature an even mixture of candidates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7128\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957340//400x285_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg/" alt=\"Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses a rally at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California on May 31, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/384x274_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/640x456_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/750x535_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/828x590_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/1080x770_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/1200x855_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/1920x1369_nbc-190605-bernie-sanders-ac-607p_d21daa9b7eace3a01d0c2cdf0a348405.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses a rally at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California on May 31, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Frederic J. Brown<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Will the rules change for later debates?<\/h2><p>The DNC says it will use the same criteria for the second two-night debate on July 30 and 31 in Detroit, which will be hosted by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmarks <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//meet-the-press//winnowing-2020-dem-field-will-begin-3-months-n1011311/">will change<\/a> for the third debate on Sept. 12 and potentially a second night on Sept.13, which will be hosted by ABC and Univision. To take part in that debate, candidates will have to show they've received donations from 130,000 different donors, including at least 400 from 20 different states. They'll also have to hit at least 2 percent in four different qualifying polls.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//meet-the-press//winnowing-2020-dem-field-will-begin-3-months-n1011311/">guaranteed to reduce the size of the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1560278425,"updatedAt":1660121131,"publishedAt":1560277200,"firstPublishedAt":1560277200,"lastPublishedAt":1560277200,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Reuters \/ AP","altText":"Image: Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Steve Bullock.","callToActionText":null,"width":1402,"caption":"Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Steve Bullock.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957340\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190611-joe-biden-steve-bullock-2x1-cs-1202_cacc89af231aa2fefbd7722fd8c6d3b4.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":701},{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Frederic J. 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But the White House has yet to formally submit Shanahan's nomination to the Senate.While in Normandy last week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Trump asked at least three people what they thought of Shanahan and if they had any suggestions for different candidates, the four people familiar with the conversations said.They said Army Secretary Mark Esper was discussed as a possible replacement nominee should Trump decide to pull back his Shanahan announcement. Esper was among the candidates that Trump had previously considered for the defense secretary job.Asked by NBC News Tuesday about Shanahan's nomination, Trump said he \"put it out officially\" weeks ago and now the acting secretary \"has to go through the process.\"A spokesperson for Shanahan declined to comment.White House officials told allies last month that Shanahan's formal nomination would be sent to Congress on May 18. Shanahan's team at the Pentagon expected it late last week, according to two defense officials.The people familiar with the president's conversations about Shanahan last week said he didn't articulate what is giving him pause about his decision. But, they said, he made it clear he's wondering if there's another option.\"He has no champion,\" one person close to Trump said of Shanahan. \"No one is fighting for him.\"One U.S. official said the FBI process for updating Shanahan's security clearance is not yet complete. Shanahan has had a security clearance as acting secretary and deputy defense secretary prior to that. The FBI's current review is an update of his existing clearance, officials said.Trump's private solicitation of opinions about alternatives for Shanahan doesn't mean he will ultimately choose a different nominee. The president often asks aides and confidants for their thoughts on a staffer he's second-guessing at the moment without that individual being immediately forced out.But a time lag between an announcement that Trump intends to nominate someone for a job and a formal nomination has sometimes meant the end for a would-be nominee. Trump publicly announced he'd recommended former 2016 presidential rival Herman Cain to serve on the Federal Reserve Board but later backtracked after questions about Cain's qualifications for the job.Other times, the White House has submitted a formal nomination to the Senate, and Trump has later withdrawn the pick, such as in April when he reversed course on Ron Vitiello as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he wanted to go in a \"tougher direction.\"Six Trump picks are awaiting formal nomination, according to the Partnership for Public Service's Political Appointee Tracker. The list includes Shanahan, Barbara Barrett as secretary of the Air Force, and Mark Morgan as the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Shanahan was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday meeting with some of the senators on the Armed Services Committee, including Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.Shanahan was not Trump's first choice for the nomination, administration and congressional officials have said. Among Trump's concerns was that Shanahan lacks the strong presence in person and on television that he believes a defense secretary should convey, according to people who have discussed the matter with the president. Trump vacillated for months on whether to pick Shanahan, officials said.They said he settled on Shanahan after several of Trump's allies in Congress and outside the White House urged him to permanently fill the role because an acting secretary is not seen as having the full confidence of the president.The May 9 announcement of Shanahan's pending nomination came from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Twitter. \"Based upon his outstanding service to the Country and his demonstrated ability, President Trump intends to nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be the Secretary of Defense,\" Sanders wrote. \"Acting Secretary Shanahan has proven over the last several months that he is beyond qualified to lead the Department of Defense, and he will continue to do an excellent job.\"While Shanahan has struggled to gain allies in Congress or completely win over the president, he has enjoyed the support of at least one senior White House official, National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton has backed Shanahan in part, officials said, because he views him as someone who will go along with whatever Trump wants. Bolton clashed with former Defense Secretary James Mattis over a host of issues and welcomed his departure from the administration.\"Bolton is the big winner if Shanahan gets it,\" said the person close to Trump.A spokesperson for Bolton said he still supports Shanahan.A former senior administration official who remains close to the White House said one of the reasons for the delay in Shanahan's nomination is it's been tougher than expected to detangle Shanahan from his time as an executive at Boeing and his other previous business relationships.Shanahan's defense of the Pentagon's contracting process for a $10 billion federal contract to build its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, program, could also be raising questions both on Capitol Hill and with the president, the official said.Members of Congress have raised concerns about the contract, which critics say has been tailor-made for only one company &mdash; Amazon, a company Trump has routinely criticized. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is waiting for answers from the Defense Department on the contracting program. \"The JEDI thing is definitely on people's minds,\" said a former administration official.In the nearly five weeks since Trump announced Shanahan as his choice, some daylight has emerged publicly between the two men.Shanahan differed from the president in his assertion that North Korea's recent short-range ballistic missile tests violate United Nations resolutions. \"These were short range missiles, and those are a violation,\" Shanahan recently told reporters.Two days earlier at a news conference in Japan, Trump said the tests were not a violation. \"My people think it could have been a violation,\" Trump said. \"I view it differently.\"Around the same time, Shanahan also announced that his staff would investigate a White House request that the Navy keep the USS John McCain out of the president's sight during his visit to Japan. \"I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Senator McCain,\" Shanahan said.Trump, however, called the request \"well-meaning\" and made clear, as he has many times, how he feels about the late Arizona Sen. John McCain. \"I was not a big fan of John McCain in any way, shape or form,\" Trump said.Shanahan, who has no military experience, later announced he would not order an inspector general's investigation into the matter.Shanahan served as former Secretary Mattis' deputy until Mattis resigned at the end of December over a string of policy differences with Trump. At the time, Trump hailed Shanahan's elevation to acting secretary, calling him \"very talented.\"\"Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, &amp; previously Boeing,\" Trump wrote on Twitter. \"He will be great!\"\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump appears to be having second thoughts about his choice of Patrick Shanahan as his next secretary of defense and asked several confidants last week in Normandy about alternative candidates, according to four people familiar with the conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced on May 9 that Trump had decided to nominate Shanahan, who has served as acting defense secretary since January. But <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//white-house//trump-nominate-shanahan-defense-secretary-despite-reservations-n1001226/">the White House has yet to formally submit Shanahan's nomination<\/a> to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>While in Normandy last week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Trump asked at least three people <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//national-security//report-clears-shanahan-pushing-boeing-fighter-jets-air-force-marines-n995231/">what they thought of Shanahan<\/a> and if they had any suggestions for different candidates, the four people familiar with the conversations said.<\/p>\n<p>They said Army Secretary Mark Esper was discussed as a possible replacement nominee should Trump decide to pull back his Shanahan announcement. Esper was among the candidates that Trump had previously considered for the defense secretary job.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by NBC News Tuesday about Shanahan's nomination, Trump said he \"put it out officially\" weeks ago and now the acting secretary \"has to go through the process.\"<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Shanahan declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials told allies last month that Shanahan's formal nomination would be sent to Congress on May 18. Shanahan's team at the Pentagon expected it late last week, according to two defense officials.<\/p>\n<p>The people familiar with the president's conversations about Shanahan last week said he didn't articulate what is giving him pause about his decision. But, they said, he made it clear he's wondering if there's another option.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6972\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957326//400x279_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg/" alt=\"President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump react in the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Normandy, France, June 6, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/384x268_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/640x446_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/750x523_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/828x577_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/1080x753_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/1200x837_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/1920x1339_nbc-ss-190606-twip-11_447377308cbe54215d274850d69e9655.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump react in the Normandy American Cemetery to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Normandy, France, June 6, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Carlos Barria<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"He has no champion,\" one person close to Trump said of Shanahan. \"No one is fighting for him.\"<\/p>\n<p>One U.S. official said the FBI process for updating Shanahan's security clearance is not yet complete. Shanahan has had a security clearance as acting secretary and deputy defense secretary prior to that. The FBI's current review is an update of his existing clearance, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump's private solicitation of opinions about alternatives for Shanahan doesn't mean he will ultimately choose a different nominee. The president often asks aides and confidants for their thoughts on a staffer he's second-guessing at the moment without that individual being immediately forced out.<\/p>\n<p>But a time lag between an announcement that Trump intends to nominate someone for a job and a formal nomination has sometimes meant the end for a would-be nominee. Trump publicly announced he'd recommended former 2016 presidential rival Herman Cain to serve on the Federal Reserve Board but later backtracked after questions about Cain's qualifications for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Other times, the White House has submitted a formal nomination to the Senate, and Trump has later withdrawn the pick, such as in April when he reversed course on Ron Vitiello as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he wanted to go in a \"tougher direction.\"<\/p>\n<p>Six Trump picks are awaiting formal nomination, according to the Partnership for Public Service's Political Appointee Tracker. The list includes Shanahan, Barbara Barrett as secretary of the Air Force, and Mark Morgan as the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday meeting with some of the senators on the Armed Services Committee, including Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan was not Trump's first choice for the nomination, administration and congressional officials have said. Among Trump's concerns was that Shanahan lacks the strong presence in person and on television that he believes a defense secretary should convey, according to people who have discussed the matter with the president. Trump vacillated for months on whether to pick Shanahan, officials said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3957326//400x267_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg/" alt=\"Secretary of the Army Mark Esper speaks to soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on April 15, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/384x257_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/640x428_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/750x501_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/828x553_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/1080x721_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/1200x802_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3957326\/1920x1283_nbc-190611-mark-esper-cs-1238p_e544753ff49846ed4a10f3cfa6c47d6a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Secretary of the Army Mark Esper speaks to soldiers at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on April 15, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Chuck Burton<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>They said he settled on Shanahan after several of Trump's allies in Congress and outside the White House urged him to permanently fill the role because an acting secretary is not seen as having the full confidence of the president.<\/p>\n<p>The May 9 announcement of Shanahan's pending nomination came from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Twitter. \"Based upon his outstanding service to the Country and his demonstrated ability, President Trump intends to nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be the Secretary of Defense,\" Sanders wrote. \"Acting Secretary Shanahan has proven over the last several months that he is beyond qualified to lead the Department of Defense, and he will continue to do an excellent job.\"<\/p>\n<p>While Shanahan has struggled to gain allies in Congress or completely win over the president, he has enjoyed the support of at least one senior White House official, National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolton has backed Shanahan in part, officials said, because he views him as someone who will go along with whatever Trump wants. Bolton clashed with former Defense Secretary James Mattis over a host of issues and welcomed his departure from the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\"Bolton is the big winner if Shanahan gets it,\" said the person close to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Bolton said he still supports Shanahan.<\/p>\n<p>A former senior administration official who remains close to the White House said one of the reasons for the delay in Shanahan's nomination is it's been tougher than expected to detangle Shanahan from his time as an executive at Boeing and his other previous business relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan's defense of the Pentagon's contracting process for a $10 billion federal contract to build its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, program, could also be raising questions both on Capitol Hill and with the president, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress have raised concerns about the contract, which critics say has been tailor-made for only one company \u2014 Amazon, a company Trump has routinely criticized. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is waiting for answers from the Defense Department on the contracting program. \"The JEDI thing is definitely on people's minds,\" said a former administration official.<\/p>\n<p>In the nearly five weeks since Trump announced Shanahan as his choice, some daylight has emerged publicly between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan differed from the president in his assertion that North Korea's recent short-range ballistic missile tests violate United Nations resolutions. \"These were short range missiles, and those are a violation,\" Shanahan recently told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Two days earlier at a news conference in Japan, Trump said the tests were not a violation. \"My people think it could have been a violation,\" Trump said. \"I view it differently.\"<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, Shanahan also announced that his staff would investigate a White House request that the Navy <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//navy-acknowledges-request-was-made-hide-uss-john-s-mccain-n1012731/">keep the USS John McCain out of the president's sight<\/a> during his visit to Japan. \"I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Senator McCain,\" Shanahan said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, called the request \"well-meaning\" and made clear, as he has many times, how he feels about the late Arizona Sen. John McCain. \"I was not a big fan of John McCain in any way, shape or form,\" Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan, who has no military experience, later announced he would not order an inspector general's investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Shanahan served as former Secretary Mattis' deputy until Mattis resigned at the end of December over a string of policy differences with Trump. 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