| | Officials from countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America have been expressing concern about comments by presidential contender and reality-television star Donald Trump in private conversations with U.S. authorities. Reuters reports that most of the leaders have expressed worries over the xenophobic nature of Trump’s stump speeches and debate points. “As the [Trump] rhetoric has continued, and in some cases amped up, so, too, have concerns by certain leaders around the world,” one of the U.S. officials told Reuters. They added that it is very unusual for foreign diplomats to communicate those kind of feelings in the midst of a presidential campaign. Foreign officials have been particularly disturbed by the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim themes that the contentious Republican frontrunner has pushed. In January, British Prime Minister David Cameron said: “What Donald Trump says is, in my view, not only wrong, but actually it makes the work we need to do to confront and defeat the extremists more difficult.” | |
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| | Following a weekend exposé that used leaked internal data to claim that thousands of customers claimed rape and sexual assault, app-based car service Uber rejected the report and said the numbers are overblown. BuzzFeed published a screenshot of a search for “tickets” sent to its customer-service team that showed 6,160 hits for the search term “sexual assault” and 5,827 for “rape.” The company claimed in a post that, in reality, it received five complaints alleging rape and 170 with a “legitimate claim of sexual assault” between December 2012 and August 2015. Uber has also maintained that BuzzFeed’s published numbers include anyone who misspelled the term “rate,” anyone who wrote a phrase such as “you raped my wallet,” or even those had an account with the letters R, A, P and E consecutively. Uber also countered that the five rape allegations, their official number, represent 0.0000009% of customer experiences during the period in question, while the sexual-assault claims accounted for one in every 3.3 million trips. | |
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| | North Korea threatened “indiscriminate” nuclear strikes on the United States and South Korea on Monday as the two countries commenced their annual joint military drills. Pyongyang’s threats are not uncommon during the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises. South Korea said the drills would be the largest ever after North Korea’s fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch last month. The joint military command said it had notified the Hermit Kingdom of the “the non-provocative nature of this training,” which involves 17,000 U.S. troops and more than 300,000 South Koreans. | |
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| | Police in Idaho have launched a manhunt for a 30-year-old man who is suspected of shooting and critically wounding a pastor just one day after he delivered a prayer at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz. Tim Remington, the senior pastor of the nondenominational Altar Church in Coeur d’Alene, was in critical condition late Sunday, hours after relatives said a gunman shot him four times in the back in the church parking lot. The alleged shooter, Kyle Odom, fled the scene in a silver car and remains at large and is considered armed and dangerous, according to Police Chief Lee White. Remington gave the opening prayer for Cruz at a campaign stop Saturday at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds. He’s considered a prominent spokesman for conservative issues. | |
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| | In Manhattan, people accused of committing low-level crimes, including public consumption of alcohol, littering, public urination, or taking up two subway seats, will no longer face arrest. The change, which takes effect Monday, means officers will distribute summonses instead of taking offenders away in handcuffs. The law will not apply to those who are deemed a public-safety risk and remain arrestable offenses in the city’s other boroughs. City officials say the decision will mean 10,000 fewer cases each year, freeing up the city’s officers and courts to investigate more serious offenses. | |
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| | Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic presidential caucus in Maine on Sunday. There are a total of 30 delegates at stake, but it was unclear how many rival Hillary Clinton had taken. Over the weekend, Sanders won the Kansas and Nebraska caucuses while Clinton claimed the Louisiana primary. However, Clinton actually won more delegates, with 65 compared to Sanders’s 47. The former secretary of state leads Sanders overall with 1,121 to 479, including pledged and superdelegates. | |
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| | Hillary Clinton echoed rival Sen. Bernie Sanders’ call for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to resign during CNN’s Democratic presidential primary debate in Flint on Sunday. “Amen to that,” Clinton said after the Vermont senator urged the governor’s resignation. The former secretary of State’s remarks are her first in calling for the governor to step down and come hours after her press secretary Brian Fallon questioned what Snyder’s resignation would accomplish. Late Sunday, Snyder released a statement responding to Clinton and Sanders’ attacks. “In the coming days, political candidates will be leaving Flint and Michigan. They will not be staying to help solve the crisis, but I am committed to the people of Flint,” the statement read. “I will fix this crisis and help move Flint forward.” | |
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| | Hackers are targeting Apple customers with ransomware in the first successful attack against Mac computers, researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc. told Reuters on Sunday. With ransomware, hackers demand users pay a stiff fee in hard-to-trace digital currencies to get an electronic key so they can regain access to their stolen data. Hackers used malware known as KeRanger, the first functioning ransomware to breach Apple’s Mac computers, through an infected copy of the program Transmission, according to Palo Alto. When users downloaded the 2.90 version of Transmission, their Macs were infected. Transmission removed the malicious version of its software from the site and released a version Sunday that automatically removes the ransomware from infected computers. | |
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| | Mexican authorities said on Sunday they have detained a 59-year-old American man over the death of his girlfriend at a resort in Playa del Carmen. The victim, Missouri native Tamra Turpin, 36, was found dead Wednesday in a condo the couple had rented, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She allegedly died of asphyxia by strangulation, according to a forensic examination. Authorities said the man, identified as John Loveless, was arrested at the Cancun airport airport as he attempted to board a flight to Atlanta. Family members told the Post-Dispatch that the boyfriend said she had been taken to a hospital with seizures. He reportedly told them she was released but “still wasn’t right,” and that she died at the hotel Wednesday morning. | |
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| | ISIS militants claimed responsibility for a truck bomb at an Iraqi checkpoint that killed at least 60 people and injured more than 70 others on Sunday. The suicide attack took place in Hilla, about 73 miles south of Baghdad. ISIS claimed the attack on the Amaz news agency website. “A martyr’s operation with a truck bomb hit the Babylon Ruins checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Hilla, killing and wounding dozens,” the statement said, according to Reuters. The deadly blast is the second deadliest attack this year after the Feb. 28 explosion that killed 78 people in Sadr City, a Shiite district of Baghdad. | |
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