Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes Near Addis Ababa, Killing All Onboard
An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying at least 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said, killing everyone onboard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/africa/ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash.html?2
An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying at least 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said, killing everyone onboard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/africa/ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash.html?2
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Ethiopian Airlines Plane Is the 2nd Boeing Max 8 to Crash in Months
The flight that killed all 157 people on board was en route from the Ethiopian capital to Nairobi, Kenya. It lost contact six minutes after take off, the airline said.
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Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Is Crushed by Parliament, Sending Britain Into Uncharted Waters Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday suffered a humiliating defeat over her plan to withdraw Britain from the European Union, thrusting the country further into political…
Theresa May’s Brexit Deal Fails Again in Parliament, Sowing Confusion
Britain’s Parliament on Tuesday soundly defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to exit the European Union, a 391 to 242 vote that is likely to delay Brexit and could derail it entirely. It is a devastating blow to Mrs. May that threatens her hold on power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/world/europe/brexit-vote.html?2
Britain’s Parliament on Tuesday soundly defeated Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to exit the European Union, a 391 to 242 vote that is likely to delay Brexit and could derail it entirely. It is a devastating blow to Mrs. May that threatens her hold on power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/world/europe/brexit-vote.html?2
Nytimes
The Brexit Plan Failed Again: What Happened, and What’s Next?
The 391 to 242 vote left Britain in limbo, without a clear way forward on Brexit, and threatens Prime Minister May’s hold on power.
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight Crashes Near Addis Ababa, Killing All Onboard An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying at least 150 people crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline…
Boeing 737 Max 8 Jets Are Grounded Nearly Everywhere
Roughly two-thirds of the 737 Max 8 aircraft in the world have been pulled from use by airlines and aviation regulators after the model crashed twice in just five months. An estimated 6,000 of the 8,600 flights that use the plane in a typical week of travel were affected, according to an analysis based on data from Flightradar24, a flight tracking service.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/11/world/boeing-737-max-which-airlines.html
Roughly two-thirds of the 737 Max 8 aircraft in the world have been pulled from use by airlines and aviation regulators after the model crashed twice in just five months. An estimated 6,000 of the 8,600 flights that use the plane in a typical week of travel were affected, according to an analysis based on data from Flightradar24, a flight tracking service.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/11/world/boeing-737-max-which-airlines.html
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From 8,600 Flights to Zero: Grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8
China was the first major country to ground the jets. The U.S. was last.
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Paul Manafort Is Sentenced to Less Than 4 Years in 1 of 2 Cases Against Him Paul Manafort, the political consultant and Trump presidential campaign chairman whose lucrative work in Ukraine and ties to well-connected Russians made him a target of the special…
Paul Manafort Is Sentenced to 3.5 More Years in Prison
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman who was sentenced last week to nearly four years in prison, was ordered on Wednesday to serve an additional three and a half years for conspiracy, closing out the special counsel’s highest-profile prosecution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/politics/paul-manafort-sentencing.amp.html?2
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman who was sentenced last week to nearly four years in prison, was ordered on Wednesday to serve an additional three and a half years for conspiracy, closing out the special counsel’s highest-profile prosecution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/politics/paul-manafort-sentencing.amp.html?2
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Paul Manafort’s Prison Sentence Is Nearly Doubled to 7½ Years
President Trump’s former campaign chairman’s total prison sentence is now 7½ years after a second judge ruled in one of the special counsel’s highest-profile cases.
New York Charges Paul Manafort With 16 Crimes
Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been charged in New York with mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., said Wednesday, an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if Mr. Trump pardons him for his federal crimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/nyregion/manafort-indictment.amp.html
Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been charged in New York with mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., said Wednesday, an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if Mr. Trump pardons him for his federal crimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/nyregion/manafort-indictment.amp.html
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New York Charges Manafort With 16 Crimes. If He’s Convicted, Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
The charges are part of an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if President Trump pardons him for his federal crimes.
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Boeing 737 Max 8 Jets Are Grounded Nearly Everywhere Roughly two-thirds of the 737 Max 8 aircraft in the world have been pulled from use by airlines and aviation regulators after the model crashed twice in just five months. An estimated 6,000 of the 8,600…
U.S. Grounds Boeing Planes, After Days of Pressure
After days of mounting pressure, the United States grounded Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft on Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision in which American regulators said the planes could keep flying after a deadly crash in Ethiopia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/business/canada-737-max.amp.html?4
After days of mounting pressure, the United States grounded Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft on Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision in which American regulators said the planes could keep flying after a deadly crash in Ethiopia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/business/canada-737-max.amp.html?4
Nytimes
Boeing Planes Are Grounded in U.S. After Days of Pressure
The American agency was the last major holdout as other countries grounded or banned Max planes from their airspace after the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash this weekend.
Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks
Forty-nine people have been killed and 48 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the nation's deadliest attack.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand's "darkest days".
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Forty-nine people have been killed and 48 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the nation's deadliest attack.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described it as a terrorist attack and one of New Zealand's "darkest days".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-47578798?4
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Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks
PM Jacinda Ardern condemns the "terrorist attack" in Christchurch, which was live-streamed by a gunman espousing far right, anti-immigrant views.
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Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico on Friday in order to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there, transforming…
Trump Issues First Veto After Congress Rejects Border Emergency
President Trump on Friday issued the first veto of his presidency, rejecting legislation that opposed his declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the southern border. The bill blocking Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration had attracted significant Republican support in Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/us/politics/trump-veto.amp.html
President Trump on Friday issued the first veto of his presidency, rejecting legislation that opposed his declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the southern border. The bill blocking Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration had attracted significant Republican support in Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/us/politics/trump-veto.amp.html
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Trump Issues First Veto After Congress Rejects Border Emergency
The veto will send the legislation back to Congress, which most likely doesn’t have enough votes for an override, meaning the declaration of an emergency at the Mexican border will remain in effect.
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Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has delivered a report on his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William P. Barr, according to the Justice Department, bringing to a close an investigation that has consumed the nation and cast a shadow over President Trump for nearly two years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/politics/mueller-report-release.amp.html?2
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has delivered a report on his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William P. Barr, according to the Justice Department, bringing to a close an investigation that has consumed the nation and cast a shadow over President Trump for nearly two years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/politics/mueller-report-release.amp.html?2
Nytimes
Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General
Now the attorney general must decide how much of the report — one of the most highly anticipated documents in Washington in a generation — to make public.
Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy, but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction
The investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government’s 2016 election interference, according to a summary of the special counsel’s key findings made public on Sunday by Attorney General William P. Barr.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/mueller-report-summary.amp.html?4
The investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government’s 2016 election interference, according to a summary of the special counsel’s key findings made public on Sunday by Attorney General William P. Barr.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/mueller-report-summary.amp.html?4
Nytimes
Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy, but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction
The attorney general released the main findings of the closely watched investigation into Russia’s election interference and whether Trump associates conspired.
Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed
Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/william-barr-mueller-report.amp.html
Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/william-barr-mueller-report.amp.html
Nytimes
Some on Mueller’s Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed
Members of the special counsel’s team have told associates that their findings are more troubling for President Trump than the attorney general indicated.
Black Hole Picture Revealed for the First Time
Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had seen the unseeable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.amp.html?2
Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had seen the unseeable: a black hole, a cosmic abyss so deep and dense that not even light can escape it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.amp.html?2
Nytimes
Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole
Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.
Israeli PM Netanyahu poised for 5th term as rival concedes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival conceded defeat Wednesday, promising to wage a robust battle from the opposition after the ruling Likud party and its nationalist allies won a solid majority in parliamentary elections.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main rival conceded defeat Wednesday, promising to wage a robust battle from the opposition after the ruling Likud party and its nationalist allies won a solid majority in parliamentary elections.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu poised for 5th term as rival concedes
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival conceded defeat Wednesday, promising to wage a robust battle from the opposition after the ruling Likud party and its nationalist...
WikiLeaks' Assange arrested in London; US charge unveiled
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was forcibly bundled out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and into a waiting British police van on Thursday, setting up a potential court battle over attempts to extradite him to the U.S. to face charges related to the publication of tens of thousands of secret government documents.
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WikiLeaks' Assange hauled from embassy, faces US charge
LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the U...
Fire Mauls Beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
Notre-Dame cathedral, the symbol of the beauty and history of Paris, was scarred by an extensive fire on Monday evening that caused its delicate spire to collapse, bruised the Parisian skies with smoke and further disheartened a city already back on its heels after weeks of violent protests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/world/europe/notre-dame-fire.amp.html?4
Notre-Dame cathedral, the symbol of the beauty and history of Paris, was scarred by an extensive fire on Monday evening that caused its delicate spire to collapse, bruised the Parisian skies with smoke and further disheartened a city already back on its heels after weeks of violent protests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/world/europe/notre-dame-fire.amp.html?4
Nytimes
Fire Mauls Beloved Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
Video filmed by onlookers showed flames and smoke billowing from the building. The cathedral was evacuated, and the fire’s cause was not known.
Alan García, Ex-President of Peru, Is Dead After Shooting Himself During Arrest
A former president of Peru died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head when the authorities tried to arrest him in connection with one of the biggest corruption scandals in Latin American history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/world/americas/alan-garcia-dead-peru.amp.html
A former president of Peru died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head when the authorities tried to arrest him in connection with one of the biggest corruption scandals in Latin American history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/world/americas/alan-garcia-dead-peru.amp.html
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Alan García, Ex-President of Peru, Is Dead After Shooting Himself During Arrest (Published 2019)
Mr. García was under investigation on accusations of bribery in connection with the construction company Odebrecht, which is at the center of Latin America’s biggest graft scandal.
Mueller Reveals Trump’s Efforts to Thwart Russian Inquiry in Highly Anticipated Report
Robert S. Mueller III revealed the scope of a historic Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential election in a much-anticipated report made public on Thursday, and he detailed a frantic monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart a federal investigation that imperiled his presidency from the start.
Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, laid out how his team of prosecutors wrestled with whether Mr. Trump’s actions added up to a criminal obstruction-of-justice offense. They ultimately chose not to charge Mr. Trump, citing numerous legal and factual constraints, but pointedly declined to exonerate him and suggested that it might be the role of Congress to settle the matter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.amp.html
Robert S. Mueller III revealed the scope of a historic Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential election in a much-anticipated report made public on Thursday, and he detailed a frantic monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart a federal investigation that imperiled his presidency from the start.
Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, laid out how his team of prosecutors wrestled with whether Mr. Trump’s actions added up to a criminal obstruction-of-justice offense. They ultimately chose not to charge Mr. Trump, citing numerous legal and factual constraints, but pointedly declined to exonerate him and suggested that it might be the role of Congress to settle the matter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/trump-mueller-report.amp.html
Nytimes
Mueller Reveals Trump’s Efforts to Thwart Russian Inquiry in Highly Anticipated Report
The Mueller team ultimately decided not to charge the president, citing numerous legal and factual constraints, but pointedly declined to exonerate him.
Easter Sunday bomb blasts kill more than 200 in Sri Lanka
Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago.
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Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka’s deadliest violence since a devastating civil war in the South Asian island nation ended a decade ago.
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Easter Sunday bomb blasts kill more than 200 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Nine bombings of churches, luxury hotels and other sites on Easter Sunday killed more than 200 people and wounded hundreds more in Sri Lanka's deadliest violence since a...
Russia says at least 40 dead on burning jet
A fiery airliner accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport killed 41 people, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee says.
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A fiery airliner accident at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport killed 41 people, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee says.
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The Latest: Dozens killed on Russian burning jet
MOSCOW (AP) — The latest on an airplane that landed in flames at a Moscow airport (all times local): 1:05 a.m. Russian officials have given out conflicting numbers on a fiery airline...
U.S. Seizes North Korean Ship for Violating Sanctions
The United States has seized a North Korean shipping vessel that was violating American law and international sanctions, the Justice Department announced Thursday, a move certain to escalate tensions already on the rise between the two nations because of recent North Korean weapons tests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/politics/wise-honest-north-korea-ship-seized.amp.html?2
The United States has seized a North Korean shipping vessel that was violating American law and international sanctions, the Justice Department announced Thursday, a move certain to escalate tensions already on the rise between the two nations because of recent North Korean weapons tests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/politics/wise-honest-north-korea-ship-seized.amp.html?2
NY Times
U.S. Seizes North Korean Ship for Violating Sanctions
The Justice Department said it was the first time the United States has seized a North Korean cargo vessel for international sanctions violations.
Alabama governor signs strict abortion ban into law
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed a bill to ban all abortions in the state, even in cases of rape and incest, in the latest bid by political conservatives challenging the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1SL1QU
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed a bill to ban all abortions in the state, even in cases of rape and incest, in the latest bid by political conservatives challenging the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.
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Reuters
Alabama governor signs strictest U.S. abortion ban into law
(Reuters) - Alabama’s governor signed a bill on Wednesday to ban nearly all abortions in the state, even in cases of rape and incest, in the latest challenge by conservatives to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing a woman’s right to terminate…