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If there’s any generation that doesn’t like to talk about aging, it’s the baby boomers. It’s understandable. They’ve made it through the swingin’ ’60s, wild ’70s, outrageous ’80s, and go-go ’90s. Along the way, 40 became the new 30, 50 became the new 40, and so on. This generation is still vibrant and full of life, and the last thing boomers want to be called is old. But many boomers are now well into retirement age, and that usually means some big life changes — including new cars. Don’t expect this bunch to shuffle down to Florida and buy Cadillacs like their parents. This is the generation that reaped the benefits of the muscle car era and later made Japanese and European brands commonplace on American roads. Thankfully, the best cars for retirees no longer scream “blue-plate special.” They’re simply some of the safest and most reliable models on the roads. We came up with a list of the 10 best cars for baby boomers to buy. Don’t worry: None of them will make you look a day over 40. We promise. 1. Subaru Forester Subaru Forester XT | Micah Wright/The Cheat Sheet For aging drivers who deal with snow at least a few months out of the year, the all-wheel drive Subaru Forester is a perfect crossover. Its low ride height makes for easy entry and exit. And great visibility paired with a standard reverse camera makes being aware of your surroundings that much easier. On top of the $22,595 base price, Subaru’s StarLink package adds blind spot detection, rear cross-traffic alert, and automatic braking. It makes this already safe crossover even safer. Next: This luxury car is criminally underrated.

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The 2017 Toyota Corolla (facelift) had its global opening in Russia earlier this month. A video was posted on YouTube illustrations the new Corolla Toyota Altis 2017 at its launch event. The 2017 Toyota Corolla features a reshaped front-end with shiny new LED headlamps, heater grille and plentiful; new design 16 and 17inch compound wheels, and solvent chrome boot applique and new taillamps. There will be 3-new exterior colour varieties have been introduced: Platinum Bronze, Earth Bronze, and Tokyo Red. The Toyota Corolla 2017 hasn’t altered much from interior facelift. New HVAC controls on the middle comfort and openings on the console, better quality resources and fabric and new standard Touch 2 infotainment system with steering round up the interior changes. The quality, electronic power steering and sound insulation have been enhanced with Toyota Corolla 2017 facelift. Toyota hasn’t exposed much about the engine options of the 2017 Toyota Corolla Altis yet. That, laterally with pricing, will be exposed earlier to launch in the summer 2016 (expected to be in June-August 2016). The facelifted Toyota Corolla 2017 is predictable to spread the Indian Automobile shores till next year. Toyota Corolla 2017 Expected Launch Date Toyota claims that developments and improvements have been made to the postponement to recover the car’s excellence with a laxer damper location as well as new spring design, it revealed a video of launch in Russia, recently and we can expect it to be launched in India till Next Year Summer or soon. Toyota Corolla 2017 Specification The electric control navigation has also been sophisticated to offer sharper turn-in as well as offer response from the highway. Overall developments have also been complete to the hut lining for a lower driving experience. Politeness of the facelift, the new Toyota Corolla 2017 has a more violent and modern front-end than before, which includes of new LED headlamps with daytime consecutively light strips. The upper grating is smaller while the lower radiator grille has been broadened, and comprises round fog-lamps. Rear-end have amazing features as new LED bunches for tail-lamps and a diluter chrome enhancer. Inside, the design of the dashboard is similar to that of the outgoing model. Toyota Corolla 2017 Exterior Toyota Corolla 2017 Variations to the exterior that comprise new LED headlamps, daytime running light floorings, reformed upper grating as well as an extensive radiator grille that stocks round fog-lamps. At the spinal, the new Corolla 2017 will feature new LED clusters for the tail-lamps and a stripper chrome garnish. Toyota has also amplified the ground consent from 135 mm to 150 mm. Toyota Corolla 2017 interiors The Interior decoration is black with black-cherry inflections for the console and door boards, plus black-cherry sewing decorating the seats, navigation wheel, center support, and shifter wader. For the 2017 Corolla, Toyota has fortified a new Touch 2 system with steering as normal, while the tool cluster features a 4.2 inch MID show with modernized software. The 50th Anniversary logo is recurrent on the floor mats. Tech structures embrace Toyota’s Entune Audio Plus structure with united navigation, a 7.0-inch high-resolution color touchscreen on the center stack, and a 4.2-inch color info exhibition pushed in between the foremost gauges. The HVAC panels have been fully re-designed with improved lighting, while the HVAC outlets on either side are now overweight in shape. Shape quality of the materials and fabric have also been improved. Toyota Corolla 2017 Engine and Mileage Toyota Corolla 2017 will disclose the features of engine possibilities of the new Corolla earlier to its launch this summer. They prerogative refinements have been complete to the ride quality, electric control steering, and noise lining in the cabin. Upright its launch in Russia this time, the Corolla facelift is predictable in the Indian market next year. Under the hood, may the 2017 Corolla facelift will continue with the similar engine options including the 1.8-litre petrol and the 1.4-litre diesel. Everything will be more cleared when Toyota will expose the news about Engine and Corolla 2017 Mileage. Toyota Corolla 2017 Price and competition Toyota Corolla 2017, brands its worldwide unveiling in Russia, The car comes with new exterior fashioning and feature trappings. The car may initiates with same 1.8-litre petrol & 1.4-litre diesel motors that have no news about Pricing but it may price between Rs.18.50/- Lakh to Rs.20.00/- Lakh. And after it’s’ launch there may be competition among Toyota Corolla 2017 and Hyundai Elantra.

From left: Michael Brown, Jack Greening, Eric Pol, Owen Carso, Dr. Botzman, Jillian Robinson, Rozlyn Jones, Alina Kanet (Photo by Peg Snure) MILFORD — We started our day arriving at Misericordia University and meeting Mr. Brian Carso, who gave us a tour of Misericordia. We went and interviewed the President, Dr. Thomas Botzman. Dr. Botzman started out going to Yale for engineering. He then taught in Europe and Mexico. He has been the President of the University for five years now. He is the 13 president of the university. He told us that Misericordia is almost 100 years old. When asked about any news building plans for the school, he told us that $38 million will be spent on the science building. The university is known for its music and arts programs. The best part of his job is seeing the students realizing their dreams. The hardest part of being president is when students or their family gets injured, or passes away. He goes to 5 to 10 meetings a day. He tries to fit in lunch when he can with the students. When asked if they have had any students 16 or younger, Dr. Botzman said yes, there have been 15- to A 16-year-old students that have attended. They’ve had a professional soccer player and many students who have become famous locally who have attended Misericordia. He also mentioned that there are approximately 3,000 students, including commuter students. We asked Dr. Botzman what he liked to do outside of the university and he touts himself a good video player! He also said that their dining hall is very good. We thanked him for the interview and continued with our tour with Brian Carso. A peek backstageNext we went ate in the dining hall and had a great lunch. We then went to see the school’s TV studio, where we met Dr. Melissa Sgroi and Dan Kimbrough. Dr. Melissa Sgroi was an anchorwoman and reporter for a CBS affiliate. Mr. Kimbrough showed us the studio and their green screen. We checked out the TV studio/communications lab. We then met Mr. Jeff Kelly, theater director, who explained stage lighting and the light control room. He brought us back stage and showed us the green room where people have make-up put on and wait until called to stage. Misericordia University had a Rodin Art Exhibit, where we met Alexandra Isaac, who told us more about Rodin. We also met up with previous DVE-News/TV reporter Michael Bell. Last up was Dr. Serine, Science Professor, who showed us many different mammal skulls, like a giraffe alligator, crocodile, and cougar. He had preserved timber rattlers and copperheads. He even showed us tapeworms! We really enjoyed our trip and learned a lot about Misericordia University. By DVE-News/TV reporters Owen Carso, Jillian Robinson, Alina Kanet, Michael Brown, Jack Greening, Eric Pol and Rozlin Jones.

NBC News this morning confirmed to Deadline it has terminated Mark Halperin’s contract. News comes days after CNN first reported claims of five women, who spoke on condition of anonymity, that veteran journalist Halperin had sexually harassed them when he was working for ABC News. He had been suspended from NBC News since that late Wednesday report. Late Friday, Halperin issued an apology in which he acknowledged his “aggressive and crude” behavior towards women while at ABC. But, insisted Halperin, who joined MSNBC as senior political analyst in 2010 after working for Time and Bloomberg, he has had a “very different reputation than I had at ABC News because I conducted myself in a very different manner” – the result of “several years” of “weekly counseling sessions to work on understanding the personal issues and attitudes that caused me to behave in such an inappropriate manner.” MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski set the stage for the unraveling of Halperin’s empire Thursday morning when she addressed the absence of the show regular at the top of the broadcast: Now to a story that broke overnight involving someone you see around this table every day. CNN is reporting allegations regarding our friend Mark Halperin during his time at ABC News over a decade ago, unnamed sources detailing unwanted advances and inappropriate behavior. Halperin apologized for the pain his actions caused and said “I will take a step pack from my day-to-day work while I properly address the situation.” Since then: -Showtime, the network for which Halperin has co-hosted the buzzy political docu-drama series The Circus, announced it was “reevaluating” its relationship with him and the future of the program, then updated to say that if the show comes back, he won’t. -HBO dropped plans to develop a project based on Halperin and and John Heilemann’s 2016 election post-mortem, explaining, “HBO has no tolerance for sexual harassment within the company or its productions.” –Halperin’s publisher stuck a shiv in the book itself, saying “In light of the recent news regarding Mark Halperin, Penguin Press has decided to cancel plans to publish a book he was co-authoring on the 2016 election.” Penguin Press had, in March announced it would publish the book, on the heels of its success publishing their 2008 and 2012 campaign autopsies, “Game Change” and “Double Down.” -UltraViolet, the women’s advocacy group that targeted Fox News’ advertisers after the NYT report on the millions spent by Bill O’Reilly and his employer to settle women’s harassment claims, took a victory lap after similarly urging Penguin and HBO to walk away from Halperin. -CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward tweeted that Halperin’s alleged behavior “was an open secret when I was at ABC for years – brave of these women to speak up.” Twenty four hours later, the number of women making claims having more than doubled, Brzezinki updated Morning Joe viewers, ominously, telling them, “Over the past 24 hours there have been more disturbing reports regarding Mark Halperin’s treatment of younger female workers. Behavior in these reports allegedly occurred one to two decades ago and now we’re looking at it.” Brzezinski said, “But we’re also witnessing a larger movement of women speaking up about sexual harassment, because the fear of being dismissed, or not believed, is melting away.” CNN’s initial report documented claims of five women. Halperin had responded in that CNN report with a statement, saying, “During this period, I did pursue relationships with women that I worked with, including some junior to me.” He continued, “I now understand from these accounts that my behavior was inappropriate and caused others pain. For that, I am deeply sorry and I apologize. Under the circumstances, I’m going to take a step back from my day-to-day work while I properly deal with this situation.” According to CNN, the harassment accusations from the anonymous women include propositioning employees for sex, kissing, and grabbing one’s breast without consent. Three women claimed that Halperin pressed his erection against their bodies. Halperin denied grabbing a woman’s breasts and pressing his genitals against these three women. Halperin may be best known for co-authoring the bestselling book Game Change that was later adapted by HBO, with Julianne Moore playing Sarah Palin. He previously worked as the political director at ABC News, and these days is a frequent panelists on Morning Joe as well as Showtime’s The Circus. The Halperin scandal capped an extraordinary week in which the number of women accusing screenwriter/director James Tobak of sexual harassment topped 300, while the number of women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, abuse, and rape,topped 70, both United Talent Agency and WME announced they have dropped Bill O’Reilly in wake of a New York Times report he had personally settled a sex harassment allegation for $32 million, and the White House declared all of the women who accused President Trump of sexual harassment during the presidential campaign to be liars.

The Good The 2018 Mercedes-Benz E400 Coupe exhibits excellent driving feel, and includes very distinct drive modes from Eco to Sport Plus. Driver assist features can take over in stop-and-go traffic, and a new infotainment interface makes for a big improvement. The Bad A small thing, but it would be nice if the LCD instrument cluster automatically changed theme for different drive modes. The navigation system lacked points of interest that were easily found in a search of Google Maps, and the E400 Coupe's onboard internet would not connect. The Bottom Line The 2018 Mercedes-Benz E400 Coupe is a gorgeous car with exceptional driving characteristics, along with driver-assist technology that becomes near self-driving in stop-and-go traffic. Seating for four limits the overall practicality, but who wants to sit in the rear seat of a coupe? Cars have improved dramatically compared to 20 or 30 years ago, with better reliability, ride quality and safety, but they also tend to feel pretty similar from behind the wheel. Mercedes-Benz, however, manages to distinguish itself, even where other premium brands fail. The S-Class leads the luxury pack, and my recent week in the 2018 Mercedes-Benz E400 Coupe made me want more drive time. From my first moment in the driver seat, maneuvering the E400 Coupe out of our parking garage, the car's feel impressed me. The throttle was powerful and smooth, while suspension, body and steering all felt perfectly synchronized. Over many miles, as I got used to the incredible drive feel, the car continued to engage me with its many useful features. Caught in stop-and-go traffic, Mercedes-Benz's adaptive cruise control literally drove for me. The digital instrument panel let me explore different styles, and the new COMAND interface, Mercedes-Benz's infotainment system, proved much more intuitive than its past versions. And what's that pleasant aroma? A glance in the glovebox reveals the Air Balance cabin fragrance system, a vial of scented liquid that plugs into the climate control. This E-Class Coupe pampered me, while remaining an engaging driver. Mercedes-Benz offers the E-Class as a sedan, coupe, convertible and even a wagon. In sedan form, it seats five and, designated E300, comes with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine good for 241 horsepower. Figuring E-Class Coupe buyers might prefer a more sport-oriented car, Mercedes-Benz sells it as the E400 Coupe, equipped standard with a turbocharged three-liter V6 making 329 horsepower and 354 pound-feet of torque. New for the 2018 model year, the E400 Coupe also comes with a nine-speed automatic transmission, complete with paddle shifters. The version I drove came with Mercedes-Benz's 4Matic all-wheel-drive system, adding $2,400 to the price. With less of a practical focus than the sedan, the E400 Coupe's two fewer doors also mean a rear seat only made for two, as a center console negates a third occupant. Given the pillarless side window opening, I wouldn't regret the loss of passenger space. The E400 Coupe's fluid body lines give it an absolutely gorgeous look. I knew I was in for a technical treat when, digging into the car set-up menus on the center dashboard screen, I found three different styles for the LCD instrument cluster panel. Classic and Sport gave me traditional and realistic looking virtual gauges, while Progressive showed an integrated tachometer and speedometer along with a driving efficiency coach. My only complaint was that I couldn't program each style to come up when I engaged a particular drive mode. I've previously written many words criticizing Mercedes-Benz's COMAND system, the acronym standing for Cockpit Management and Data, which encompasses navigation, stereo and connected features. The E400 Coupe shows off a whole new -- and much improved -- interface for COMAND. Doing away with the former hodgepodge of drop-down menus and icons, the new system goes to an easier-to-understand icon format with sidebar menus, all showing on a wide, 12.3 inch LCD. It remains a non-touchscreen system, relying on a console-mounted dial and touchpad, both of which have some duplicative functions. The onboard navigation system looks good, with rich graphics on the maps showing terrain and rendered buildings. Destination entry uses a one-box interface where I could enter place names or street addresses, which is nice. However, when the system failed to find a regional park that came up on my Google Maps app, I turned to its online search function, and the car failed to establish a data connection. That may have been a service issue, but I would check that capability out at the dealership before making a purchase. Bypassing the onboard systems, the E400 Coupe supports both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. I plugged in my iPhone and found the nontouch interface to work well, after I figured it out. My only complaint with Apple CarPlay integration is that, unless you set it to connect automatically, it takes a number of steps to switch between it and the onboard systems. The E400 Coupe supports the usual audio inputs, such as USB and Bluetooth, and I was very impressed with the Burmester stereo, with its 13 speakers and 590-watt amp. Surprisingly, I was listening to the base system in the car, as Mercedes-Benz offers an upgrade to what it calls the Burmester High-End 3D Surround system, with 23 speakers, for $5,400. As if the sounds and scents in the E400 Coupe weren't enough, the ride quality proved very comfortable in three of its four drive modes. Although particularly chunky pavement jarred the ride, most of the time it was smooth sailing. It felt just second to the bigger S-Class, which is the most comfortable car I've experienced in a long time. The easily modulated throttle let me take off leisurely or quickly, while the transmission shifted through its nine gears seamlessly, never intruding on my driving pleasure. In Eco and Comfort mode, the suspension felt nicely soft while never feeling loose, as with other adaptive suspension cars I've driven. The steering felt sure and natural. An idle-stop feature shut down the V6 when I stopped for traffic lights, helping to save fuel, and never delayed when I hit the gas. In fact, the limited vibration and noise made it difficult to tell when the engine was actually idling when I was stopped. Sport stiffened the ride quality and appreciably sharpened the throttle, but I didn't find it very impressive as I ran the E400 Coupe down a winding back road. It made for a comfortable sport ride, but I felt there should be more. Then I switched it to Sport Plus. The driving character changed drastically as the car willingly sacrificed my comfort for handling prowess. The ride quality became rough, but the E400 Coupe remained very flat in the turns, maximizing its grip on the road. The transmission made itself felt with abrupt downshifts, a distinct difference from how smoothly it works in other drive modes. In Sport Plus, the E400 Coupe became a hard sports car, and I embraced it by making the tires sing in the turns. Back to Comfort mode, the car's default, and Eco, where I spent the majority of my drive time, I averaged 23 mpg in a mix of city and freeway driving. That's a little better than its 22 mpg combined in EPA testing, where it also achieves 20 mpg city and 26 mpg highway. In general, low 20s may seem pretty poor fuel economy for a modern car, but 22 mpg average comes in on par with the BMW 640i xDrive and Lexus GS 350 all-wheel-drive sedan. Cruising down a country highway, I really came to appreciate Mercedes-Benz's adaptive cruise control technology, which has always been leading edge. Taking this feature closer to self-driving, I found the E400 Coupe automatically adjusting the speed I had set for lower speed limits. For example, cruising down a 55 mph highway, the car slowed down to 35 mph when passing through a town with those limits posted. That feature was very cool, with one caveat. Mercedes-Benz also gave the E400 Coupe the ability to read traffic signs, and it dutifully displayed the current speed limit in its head-up display. In the US, unfortunately, we aren't very good at posting and maintaining traffic signage, and I found plenty of road segments where the car thought the limit was 35 mph, but had actually gone back up to 55 mph. I was able to turn off the traffic sign recognition feature. Adaptive cruise really paid off in stop-and-go traffic, where the E400 Coupe kept a close following distance to the car ahead, so I didn't have to touch the pedals at all. Even better, at those painfully slow traffic speeds, the car's lane-keeping assist basically becomes self-steering, so I could even take my hands off the wheel. That feature was very cool, with one caveat. Mercedes-Benz also gave the E400 Coupe the ability to read traffic signs, and it dutifully displayed the current speed limit in its head-up display. In the US, unfortunately, we aren't very good at posting and maintaining traffic signage, and I found plenty of road segments where the car thought the limit was 35 mph, but had actually gone back up to 55 mph. I was able to turn off the traffic sign recognition feature. Adaptive cruise really paid off in stop-and-go traffic, where the E400 Coupe kept a close following distance to the car ahead, so I didn't have to touch the pedals at all. Even better, at those painfully slow traffic speeds, the car's lane-keeping assist basically becomes self-steering, so I could even take my hands off the wheel. I've largely been impressed by Mercedes-Benz's lineup, and the 2018 E400 Coupe is no exception. The cars show excellent driving dynamics, even in the sort of urban and suburban cruising that takes up most people's drive time. Mercedes-Benz is a true leader in driver assistance features, reflected in how comfortably the E400 Coupe handled stop-and-go traffic. And while the infotainment interface was a point of contention in the past, the update contained in the E400 Coupe is a welcome change. Add in the first-rate Burmester stereo system, and this car made driving more joy than task. The E400 Coupe also occupies interesting ground in the market, as it is the only true coupe in the luxury midsize market. BMW dropped its 6-series coupe, only offering the four-door Gran Coupe, and Audi's A7's four doors and hatchback also rule out coupe purity. Most luxury coupes come in smaller, from the BMW 4-series to the Lexus RC. While not as practical as the Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan or wagon, the E400 Coupe is a very stylish, remarkable car. I would start with the rear-wheel-drive version, at $58,900, because I don't think all-wheel-drive would make as big a difference in slippery conditions as basic traction control. I would forgo the AMG package, which is mostly cosmetic, but add the $10,200 Premium 3 Package, which brings in a host of electronics, including adaptive cruise control, head-up display and the LCD instrument cluster. That package also adds heated and ventilated front seats, for $450, and automatic high-beams, for $250. And if I had an extra $950 in my pocket, I would throw in the massage seats, because those can be a real comfort on a long trip. That puts my total at $71,495, a big chunk of money but a thoroughly enjoyable car.

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Editor's note: This first appeared in The Hill. Okay, you are covering the White House. What do you do when a retired four-star general who is now White House Chief of Staff tells lies in an on-the-record briefing? You stick to the facts, and let readers and viewers realize the alarming dereliction of public trust from a high government official. Then comes a response from Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary. "If you want to go after General [John] Kelly that's up to you, but I think that if you want to get into a debate with a four-star Marine general, I think that's something highly inappropriate," Sanders said. Let’s review this effort to normalize lying by a White House official. In a democracy — government by the people and for the people — it is now “highly inappropriate” to tell the truth about a Chief of Staff who tells confirmed falsehoods? Trump’s appetite for shutting down the free press is a reminder of his open admiration for strong men dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan and the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte. That appears to be President Trump’s opinion. He said in the Oval Office this month that it was “frankly disgusting” that the press is “able to write whatever they want to write.” Clearly the president has an authoritarian bent when it comes to journalism. His latest comments fit with past labeling of straight news reporters as “dishonest,” “scum” and the “enemy of the American people.” “I hate some of these people, I hate 'em,” Trump said about reporters at a Michigan rally late last year, a month after he won the presidency. “I would never kill them. I would never do that.” He then paused smiled and joked, “No, I wouldn't. I would never kill 'em.” But he did direct tirades at straight news reporters covering his campaign and have his supporters turn to curse and threaten them at rallies. And Trump did ask his Twitter followers: “With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for the country.” A corrupt President Nixon expressed similar thoughts about going after television stations owned by The Washington Post during the paper’s probe into the Watergate scandal. Trump’s appetite for shutting down the free press is a reminder of his open admiration for strong men dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan and the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte. Those strongmen limit the freedom of the press and, in some cases, kill and jail journalists. Earlier this year, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., responded to Trump calling the press the “enemy” of the American people by saying that is “how dictators get started.” Trump, like those dictators, wants to control what the public knows. His goal is to shape reality in order to manufacture public approval of his leadership — which is at an all-time low for a president during his first year. And as brazen as that strategy is in a country with constitutional protections for freedom of the press, the bigger shock is that it is having some success. This is especially true among Republicans. A Vanity Fair/60 Minutes poll from April found 36 percent of Republicans say they believe freedom of the press “does more harm than good.” Recently, the president called attention to a Politico/Morning Consult poll that found 46 percent of Americans believe the media “fabricates stories” to damage him and his administration. In the same poll, 37 percent said the media does not fabricate and 17 percent said they didn’t know. Trump’s desire to make the American news media into his version of Pravda — the Russian government’s propaganda sheet — is being criticized even by some on the right. “This isn’t a game. It isn’t just Trump being Trump. It is a new front in his endless attack on a central pillar of our liberties — a free press,” GOP strategist Rick Wilson, a longtime critic of the president, wrote recently in the Daily Beast. Bernie Goldberg, a Fox News commentator, wrote this rebuke on his website: “As with so many things, this president is just plain wrong. Journalists have biases; they make mistakes; sometimes they’re sloppy; and worst of all, sometimes they have a political agenda. But fabricating stories that they know are not true, inventing fake news sources: that is so rare as to be virtually nonexistent.” Bret Baier, the Fox News anchor and my colleague, said last week that Trump’s criticism of the press is now “way over the top.” Another colleague, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, said in a separate interview he dislikes media personalities who join Trump in “bashing the media, because oftentimes what they are bashing is stuff that we on the news side are doing.” As a journalist, I have been critical of President Trump. That has led to Twitter taunting against me by Trump. And then there are the countless racist and hateful comments posted to my social media pages by self-described Trump supporters. When National Public Radio (NPR) fired me in 2010 for speaking my mind about fear of Muslim terrorism, principled conservatives — even those who disliked me — rose to my defense and called NPR out for their censorship and thug tactics to stifle free speech. When the Obama administration’s press shop waged a campaign to delegitimize Fox News by excluding it from a White House pool interview in 2009, journalists — even those who didn’t like Fox — stood up and said that was wrong. If people were outraged by what NPR did to me and what the Obama White House did to Fox, then their principles must dictate that they are similarly outraged by Trump’s treatment of the press. Recall what President Jefferson wrote in his famous letter to Edward Carrington: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” How far we’ve come from Jefferson’s wisdom to Trump’s ugly, ignorant threats.

CARS.COM — For 2017, Cars.com has revamped its longstanding American-Made Index for the first time. Over the AMI's 11-year history, the number of models meeting our original criteria has fallen due to the globalization of automobile manufacturing — from more than 60 vehicles in the AMI's inaugural year to eight last year. By the original requirements, only three 2017 models would have qualified this year. Related: 2017 American-Made Index: The People Behind the Jeep Plant With that, witness the new AMI: an analysis of cars assembled in the U.S. with high domestic-parts content, predominant U.S. sourcing for engines and transmissions, and high U.S. manufacturing jobs supported per vehicle. This year, the index de-emphasizes overall sales — a factor that reflects the economic impact of a given model line — to focus on the domestic impact of a single buyer purchasing one model versus another. Cars.com analyzed light-duty passenger vehicles built in the U.S. (more than 120 in total) to arrive at the top 10. Methodology The 2017 American-Made Index ranks cars based on five factors: assembly location, domestic-parts content, U.S. factory employment adjusted by sales to reflect how many employees each sale supports, engine origin and transmission origin. (Additionally, curb weight is used in the event of a tie, favoring the heavier vehicle.) The changes in methodology mean current results can't be compared to those of past indexes. Domestic-parts content comes from the American Automobile Labeling Act, which requires automakers to report overall parts content on the window stickers of every new light-duty car and truck sold in the country. The AALA lumps the U.S. and Canada into the same "domestic" pool — a critical obstacle to reporting only U.S. content — but is the most specific domestic-content rating system. To further pinpoint U.S. parts origins and not Canadian ones, the AMI now factors the countries of origin for engines and transmissions, which automakers are also required to report. These are two of the most expensive and labor-intensive components in any vehicle. The final piece is labor. Except for engines and transmissions, the AALA excludes costs associated with final assembly, distribution and non-parts costs. To account for some of those costs, AMI now factors each automaker's direct U.S. factory employment relative to its sales footprint. As in previous years, a few disqualifications remain. Discontinued cars, or cars in their final model year before discontinuation, are ineligible. So are any models produced exclusively for export. Rather than a hard cutoff at 75 percent domestic-parts content, as the AMI did in past years, the index now disqualifies cars below the top 40 percent of all domestic-parts content ratings among U.S.-built models. To maintain a consumer focus, the index disqualifies cars that shoppers are unlikely to find — anything that sold fewer than 2,500 units in the first quarter of 2017 or models sold only to fleets. Note, as well, that heavy-duty vehicles (anything with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 8,500 pounds) are ineligible for the AALA and thus not considered in the AMI. Why It Changed In redesigning the index, we sought to bolster the factors that address what makes each car American. There is still no easy way to determine that. Many factors exist, and no single one offers a comprehensive answer. But the revamped AMI scores five key components into its index ranking. It's more comprehensive than ever. In a politically charged era of build-American sentiment, a sizable portion of shoppers still care where their car comes from. Cars.com surveyed 1,023 respondents in June 2017 to find about 25 percent would only consider an American manufacturer. That's nearly double the percentage that answered the same way in 2016. The largest block of this year's respondents (again, about 25 percent) thought that between 31 percent and 40 percent of cars sold in the U.S. are "American made." That's accurate if it's strictly automakers fully headquartered in the U.S. — namely Ford, GM and Tesla, whose combined sales through May account for about a third of all U.S. auto sales, per Automotive News. But if you're looking at all cars built here regardless of automaker headquarters, it's about 60 percent. That's according to a Cars.com analysis in January, which found that around 3 in 5 U.S. light-duty vehicle sales in 2016 were from cars assembled in America. As the AMI continues to demonstrate, the badge on the hood doesn't always tell the whole story. The cars on this year's list hail from automakers headquartered in Europe and Asia as well as North America. Indeed, cars built and bought in the U.S. hail from automakers headquartered the world over, with nameplates as diverse as a Toyota Corolla sedan and Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class SUV. The Jobs Factor When it comes to the total impact of a global auto industry on U.S. jobs, direct employment at automakers' plants is just one piece of the pie. That piece amounted to 322,000 Americans directly employed by automakers, according to the Michigan-based Center for Automotive Research. That's from a 2015 study by CAR that analyzed the industry's total impact on the U.S. economy. Another 521,000 Americans worked at automotive suppliers. And new-car dealers employed another 710,000 Americans. Put another way: For a given 20 people employed by the U.S. auto industry, about four work directly at automakers. About seven work at suppliers, but the biggest chunk — roughly nine — work at new-car dealerships. If that's the pie, a gravy train follows it. Myriad additional jobs exist — from used-car dealers and independent repair shops to finance and insurance companies. Scale it all out and CAR estimated in 2015 that the U.S. auto industry directly contributed to the creation of another 5.7 million private-sector jobs. That's 7.25 million private-sector jobs attributable to the auto industry, CAR found, with some $500 billion in annual compensation — nearly $70,000 apiece. In sum, CAR noted the auto industry supported some 3.8 percent of all private-sector jobs and has historically accounted for 3 percent to 3.5 percent of U.S. GDP. Which Cars Are Built in the U.S.? What if you just want to buy a car that's built in the U.S. regardless of any other AMI factors? We have you covered. Tap the link below to see a full list of 2017 models currently assembled in the U.S. Cars.com American-Made Index: Which 2017 Models Are Built in America?

White House scandals have a way of turning nobodies into unfortunate somebodies. So it was 45 years ago in October with Donald Segretti, whom The Washington Post exposed as a major cog in a White House dirty tricks program to destroy Maine Senator Ed Muskie, the leading Democratic candidate for president. Segretti’s reported role added startling new context to what became known as the Watergate scandal. It showed that the June 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee was part of a much larger campaign of surveillance and sabotage against targets on President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list”—from reporters to liberal think tanks to dissident government officials like Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Now comes George Papadopoulos, another nobody whose name could soon be memorialized on a Trivial Pursuit card for political scandals. The 30-year-old was yet another enabler in the Kremlin’s multipronged campaign to destroy Hillary Clinton, according to the grand jury indictment unsealed by special counsel Robert Mueller on October 30. Donald Trump once called Papadopoulos, his former foreign policy adviser, “an excellent guy,” but now dismisses him as “a low-level volunteer” and a “liar.” Not so much, judging by his guilty plea. With that, Papadopoulos became just the latest name to surface in the widening list of Trump associates under scrutiny by the special counsel—including former campaign chair Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates; Trump’s erstwhile national security adviser Michael Flynn; and oil consultant and Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page (who met with Russians close to President Vladimir Putin, according to the controversial dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele). Page has denied any collusion with Kremlin figures and said he has nothing to fear from Mueller’s probe. Manafort and Gates pleaded not guilty after they were arrested on money-laundering and other charges a few hours before the Papadopoulos indictment and plea deal were unsealed. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now Former FBI Director Robert Mueller (front), the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, leaves the Capitol building after meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill. Robert Mueller meets with Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington DC, USA - 21 Jun 2017 Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock "The big one is the Papadopoulos thing,” former CIA and National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden told me hours after the Manafort-Gates arraignments, following a Washington, D.C., panel he led on “Truth Tellers in the Bunker,” a reference to both the media and intelligence agencies that have reported on Russian interference in the 2016 election. For Hayden, the Papadopoulos indictment underscored yet again how eager Team Trump was to collude with the Kremlin when its emissaries came bearing gifts of Clinton “dirt.” Over the past year, Trump and his associates had repeatedly dismissed such interactions and their failures to report them as mere oversights. Before Papadopoulos, the most damning case had been a meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Manafort and a Kremlin-connected lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. The meeting occurred after an intermediary promised Trump Jr. documents that “would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia.” (“If it’s what you say,” Trump Jr. replied, “I love it.”) At first, Trump Jr. denied a report of the meeting. Later, he insisted that “no details or supporting information was provided or even offered.” Likewise, top Trump campaign aide and current U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress under oath in June that he had “no knowledge” of any conversations by anyone connected to Team Trump about "any type of [Russian] interference with any campaign." Later, The Washington Post reported that Sessions had failed to disclose two contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential race. Four days after the Papadopoulos plea deal surfaced, NBC reported that Sessions and Trump had both heard out a proposal from their young foreign policy adviser in March 2016 to use his “Russian contacts” to try to set up a meeting between the candidate and Putin. Sessions “rejected” the idea, NBC said. “Trump didn’t say yes and he didn’t say no,” CNN reported, citing “a person in the room” during the meeting. Asked about that as he prepared to leave for his Asia swing on November 3, Trump told reporters he “didn’t remember much” about the meeting, which he called “unimportant.” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the U.S. attorney general January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sessions was one of the first members of Congress to endorse and support President-elect Donald Trump, who nominated him for Attorney General. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Mueller may yet get a chance to refresh the president’s memory. He has Papadopoulos’s sworn statements that a Trump campaign official encouraged him to pursue Russian “dirt.” That person was unnamed in the Papadopoulos indictment but soon outed by The Washington Post as Sam Clovis, a former conservative talk radio host and co-chair of the 2016 Trump campaign. A self-proclaimed former “Russia expert while serving in the United States military in the Pentagon,” Clovis withdrew his name from consideration for a top Agriculture Department post after his conversations with Papadopoulos were revealed. Instead of recognizing the Russian offers as a classic enemy intelligence ploy—and calling the FBI—Trump’s minions welcomed alleged Kremlin agents into their inner circle. “How stupid can you be?” Hayden said of the campaign’s actions. George Papadopoulos and Dr. Michael Katehakis- Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Management Science & Information Systems at Rutgers University, on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at a pre-election meeting at the Stathakion Center in Astoria, NY. Εθνικός Κήρυξ/The National Herald/Kosta Bej Getting access to Team Trump was a big score for Putin, an ex-KGB officer, says former CIA officer Jason Matthews, who served in Moscow and did battle with its secret agents for decades. “Just like the meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and the female Russian lawyer, the goal of these encounters was simply contact,” he explains in an email. “Of course, there was an element of baiting”—the Russians offered “thousands” of Clinton emails to Papadopoulos—“but Kremlin expectations for such meetings were modest. They just wanted to assess young, inexperienced green sticks like the Trump boys, Jared Kushner and Papadopoulos. The name of the game is assessment and looking for an opening.” Matthews, now a spy novelist, says the Russians didn’t expect to damage Clinton enough to tilt the election to Trump. “They simply wanted to put a turd in the punch bowl” by getting private audiences with associates of the New York real estate mogul. All the better for the Russians that their discreet meetings with Trump’s people, who failed to report them on their security-clearance forms, were leaked to the press. Emails showing the supposedly neutral Democratic National Committee favoring Clinton over Senator Bernie Sanders, stolen by Russian hackers and published by WikiLeaks, sowed further disenchantment with American politics. Reports of Kremlin agents messing with voters’ heads via Facebook in Michigan, Wisconsin and elsewhere added yet another layer of distrust in the system. And now comes evidence that the Kremlin’s mani[CENSORED]tion of Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms was far faster than previously known. Carter Page, former foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign, speaks to the media after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. The committee is conducting an investigation into Russia's tampering in the 2016 election. Mark Wilson/Getty “It’s the greatest covert influence program in history,” Hayden said. “If their goal was to make our society more dysfunctional, to exploit the dysfunction in American society, they succeeded.” If their goal was “to foster the notion that there are fundamentally no differences between their system and our system, they succeeded.” But Putin’s influence campaign backfired in other ways, Hayden told me. “If their plan was to get someone into office who would warm relations between us and Moscow, that was a disaster.” The scandal not only handcuffed Trump from acting on his oft-stated desire to have closer relations with Moscow, but also prompted Congress to pass more sanctions against Russia and some of its leading officials and businessmen. Seen from that angle, Putin’s triumph looks self-defeating, says Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international relations at the New School in New York City and the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. “I am not sure he is a big winner, actually—maybe in a small, tactical way,” she says. “It was a dream of all Soviets before him—to embarrass and undermine the U.S., so he proved his point.” To Putin and his circle, “Russia's relationship with the West is a zero-sum game,” the Russian-born journalist Leonid Bershidsky observed earlier this year. If America is succeeding, then Russia must be losing. Thus, Putin has tried to stoke political disarray in the United States with a variety of ploys, ranging from compromising Trump’s aides with Kremlin meetings to flooding Facebook and Twitter with fake news fanning racial divisions. In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA) Donald Trump, President of the USA (left), meets Vladimir Putin, President of Russia (right), at the opening of the G20 summit on July 7, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany. The G20 group of nations are meeting July 7-8 and major topics will include climate change and migration Steffen Kugler /BPA/Getty But he may come to regret it, Khrushcheva argues. “He needs U.S. power. He needs cooperation in so many areas across the globe,” she says. “[Putin] can't possibly think that taking down the U.S. fully is good for him or the world.” ” That’s why Papadopoulos, a 2009 college graduate who listed his participation with the Model U.N. as foreign policy experience on his résumé, may pose a threat to both Russia and Trump. His cooperation with the feds—perhaps for several months—gave Mueller a pipeline into much of what Trump and his advisers were saying and doing about the Russians in private. A hint of those conversations has already emerged, in the form of an email Papadopoulos sent to his Kremlin-linked contact in July, which Bloomberg News discovered in an FBI affidavit supporting the charges against the young man. Papadopoulos wrote that a meeting between “my national chairman and maybe one other foreign policy adviser” with the Russians “has been approved by our side.” Manafort was not named in the email, but he was Trump’s national campaign chairman at the time. The candidate’s top foreign policy advisers then were Sessions and Flynn, the former Defense Intelligence Agency chief who had developed ties with Moscow’s ambassador to the U.S. and its state-backed Russia Today TV channel. Richard Gates arrives at the Prettyman Federal Court Building for a hearing November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. Gates and former business partner and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort both pleaded not guilty Monday to a 12-charge indictment that included money laundering and conspiracy. Chip Somodevilla/Getty It’s unclear if Papadopoulos’s account in that email was correct, but his cooperation with the feds appears to incinerate over a year’s worth of assertions by the president that he had “nothing to do with the Russians.” “Indeed, when the history books are written on the Trump-Russia investigation, it’s quite likely that the plea deal between special counsel Robert Mueller and...George Papadopoulos may be seen as the crucial moment,” Boston Globe columnist Michael Cohen wrote. “This is the first piece of [official] evidence that there was an ongoing effort within the Trump campaign to collude with the Russian government.” That Trump’s associates were so careless in meeting with agents of a hostile power astonishes Hayden, who called it national security “malpractice.” Papadopoulos’s engagement with Kremlin emissaries was, “at best, reckless,” says a former CIA Russia analyst, who asked for anonymity in exchange for discussing such a sensitive issue. The young, inexperienced player “didn't realize how potentially dangerous this situation was, both in a counterintelligence sense and in the sense of political optics back in the United States,” says the analyst, a longtime student of the espionage wars between Moscow and Washington. Papadopoulos at first lied to FBI agents about his Russia contacts—another amateur move, which resulted in his indictment. But now that he’s talking, he likely won’t do much time. In that, he’s very much like Segretti, the Nixon trickster who ended up serving four months of a six-month sentence after he pleaded guilty to three charges of distributing illegal campaign literature. In the mid-1990s, Segretti, a lawyer, ran for a judgeship in Orange County, California, where his Watergate notoriety trailed him. “The reaction to his candidacy was so negative that he decided to drop out,” the Los Angeles Times reported. The only thing people “wanted to talk about,” Segretti told the paper, “was Nixon and Watergate.” So it will likely go for George Papadopoulos. Only three weeks ago, the young man was looking for “a prominent publisher” on his LinkedIn page. As it turned out, however, he’d already told his story to the feds. One possible title? “Dupe.”

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Waymo's first product will be a driverless taxi service in the Phoenix area. Driverless cars are here. Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car company, now has cars driving on public roads in the Phoenix metropolitan area with no one in the driver's seat. Waymo CEO John Krafcik plans to announce the news today in a speech at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. For the last year, Waymo has offered free taxi rides to ordinary people who live near the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. Until recently, the company's modified Chrysler Pacifica minivans had a Waymo employee in the driver's seat ready to take control if the car malfunctioned. Waymo is now confident enough in its technology to dispense with a safety driver. The company has released a video showing Waymo cars driving around the Phoenix area with no one in the driver's seat: At first, most of Waymo's driverless cars will have an employee in the back observing the vehicle's behavior. If something goes really wrong, they'll be able to push the "pull over" button to stop the car. In the coming months, participants in Waymo's early rider program will start getting the option to ride in fully driverless vehicles. Some time after that, Waymo will launch a commercial driverless taxi service that's open to members of the general public in the Phoenix metropolitan area and beyond. Waymo’s first product will be a taxi service Industry watchers have long assumed that a Phoenix taxi service would be Waymo's first product. But as recently as last week, Waymo was still playing coy about the question, suggesting that it might get into the trucking business instead. Now, Waymo is officially announcing that its first commercial product will be a driverless taxi service. There's a dichotomy in the industry when it comes to autonomous cars. On the one hand, you have companies like Tesla and Volvo that want to sell you a car that drives you around. Others, including Waymo, want to operate fleets of robotaxis themselves. Some car companies—including GM, BMW, and Volkswagen are pursuing both strategies simultaneously. Companies selling cars to customers envision a future where today's driver-assistance systems—like lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control—gradually evolve into more sophisticated self-driving software, with human drivers intervening less and less frequently over time. Google initially considered this same gradualist approach, which could have led to licensing partially self-driving technology to automakers. But early tests convinced the company that it was a bad idea. Google employees who got to test early prototypes started trusting the technology way too quickly. Google captured videos of test drivers looking at their smartphones, putting on makeup, and even napping in the driver's seat while cars zoomed down the freeway. So Google changed its strategy. The company decided that instead of selling cars, it would build a taxi service built around cars designed from the ground up for driverless operation. Customers would never be required—or even allowed—to take the wheel. This strategy allows Google—now Waymo—to pursue a different kind of gradualism. In the old model, cars could go anywhere, but at first the software would only drive some of the time. In the new model, the software drives all the time, but at first the cars can only go certain places. Specifically, Waymo's fully driverless cars will initially only navigate in a small portion of the Phoenix metropolitan area around the southeastern suburb of Chandler. Within this zone, the cars are able to go anywhere a conventional taxi can go. But the cars will refuse any trip that would take them outside of this carefully chosen area. To aid with navigation, Waymo has built high-resolution three-dimensional maps of its service area. Self-driving software in each car can compare the objects identified by sensors to objects on the map, allowing it to quickly distinguish stationary objects like trees and buildings from mobile objects like cars and pedestrians. As Waymo expands its map and acquires more vehicles, it will also expand its service area. Before too long, Waymo expects to offer service across the entire Phoenix metropolitan area. Eventually, Waymo will extend service to other metropolitan areas using the same incremental approach. Why Waymo is launching first in Phoenix A big advantage of starting in Phoenix is the region's excellent weather. It's warm and sunny there almost every day. Tricky situations like rain, snow, and ice are rare—though Waymo says its cars are able to drive safely in light rain. Waymo recently expanded its testing into Detroit to prepare for an eventual expansion of the service into colder parts of the United States. In addition to nice weather, the Phoenix area has wide, well-maintained streets and less traffic congestion than most major cities. "I'm not going to say Phoenix drivers are the best drivers, but the Phoenix metro area is an easy place to drive," Phoenix resident Eric de Gaston told Ars last month. Perhaps the most important factor is the regulatory climate. Arizona's leaders have bent over backward to attract Waymo and other self-driving car makers to the Phoenix area. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a two-page executive order in 2015 designed to encourage self-driving car testing in the state. Besides that, Arizona doesn't have any special legislation or regulations related to self-driving cars. Last month, I asked Ryan Harding, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation, if there were any legal barriers to launching a fully driverless self-driving taxi service in the state. "I'm not aware of any current law that would prohibit" fully driverless taxis on public streets, Harding said. "We don't have a problem with that." In the last year, Waymo's minivans have become a common sight in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. "I live in Chandler. You see Waymo units all over the damn place," a Redditor wrote last month. "When it first started, a lot of people I think were kind of afraid," said Scott Suaso, who lives near Chandler and sees Waymo cars on a daily basis. "That was a year ago. These days, no one really seems to care. Everybody has become so used to seeing them." Ars got a preview of Waymo’s fully driverless cars last week Last week we were invited to visit Waymo's secretive test facility in the California desert to see Waymo's fully driverless cars in action. In a conventional car, the main user interface is the steering wheel, pedals, and other controls on the dashboard. But no one will be allowed in the driver's seat in Waymo's cars. So the company has had to think about building a user interface for a car where everyone is a passenger. Customers hail cars with an Uber-style app, so the car itself barely needs a user interface at all. There's a pair of video screens mounted on the backs of the front seats, and a row of four buttons on the ceiling above the middle row of seats. The main function of the video screens is to increase passengers' confidence in the safety of the self-driving software. The screens show a stylized map of the area immediately around the car, with outlines of pedestrians, other cars, bicycles, and so forth marked. Passengers will be able to compare what they see on the screen to what they see out the window and confirm that the car really does understand the road situation. The leftmost button initiates a call to Waymo's customer service center. The second button locks and unlocks the doors. The third button causes the car to pull over—though Waymo says the car won't stop in an unsafe place, like in the middle of an intersection. The rightmost button tells the car to start the ride.

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Trump speaks with Vladimir Putin The United States Congress has approved a bill placing new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea. The measure passed both houses of Congress this week. The vote in the House was 419-3, while the Senate approved it 98-2. If President Donald Trump signs the bill, it becomes law. If he vetoes it, Congress is likely to override the veto to allow it to become law. White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci left open the possibility that Trump could reject the new sanctions. He told CNN on Thursday the president might decide to veto, then try to “negotiate an even tougher deal against the Russians.” In this file photo, White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci speaks to members of the media in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, July 21, 2017. Top lawmakers from both parties criticized a possible presidential veto. “I think that would be a very bad mistake,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, told VOA. “What would be better is if they [White House officials] worked with us on the legislation.” Democratic Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland said the bill gives Trump a better negotiating position with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “If he vetoes it, it means he doesn’t want a stronger hand in dealing with Mr. Putin,” Cardin said. The bill places economic restrictions on many Russian industries. Russia’s economy has already felt the effects from 2014 sanctions placed in response to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. The new sanctions are meant to punish Russia for that action. They are also a response to U.S. intelligence findings that Russia took steps to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. President Putin has repeatedly denied his government had any involvement in trying to influence the American election. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a ballistic rocket launching drill of Hwasong artillery units of the Strategic Force of the KPA on the spot in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang March 7, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS In addition to Russia, the bill places sanctions on North Korea for its continued nuclear program. The measure bars North Korean ships from operating in American waters or docking at U.S. ports. The ban extends to ships from nations not following United Nations resolutions against North Korea. The bill bans goods produced by North Korea’s forced labor from entering the U.S. Also, the legislation punishes people involved in Iran's ballistic missile program and anyone doing business with them. It also places restrictions on Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Russia was quick to criticize passage of the bill and answered with its own diplomatic measures. The Russian foreign ministry said the sanctions were evidence of “extreme aggression of the U.S. in international affairs.” Russian officials called in outgoing U.S. ambassador John Tefft in Moscow to inform him of its own countermeasures. In this file photo, a Russian policeman stands in front of an entrance to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Moscow, Russia, on May 14, 2013. Russia ordered the U.S. to cut hundreds of diplomatic positions in the country to match the number of Russian diplomatic workers in the United States. In addition, Russia said it would block entry to two diplomatic properties in Moscow. The European Union expressed its concerns, saying the new sanctions could harm Europe’s energy industry. Several nations – including Germany and France – said the sanctions might harm businesses that carry Russian natural gas through pipelines. Senior Republicans said they had responded by making changes to the bill to deal with some of the European concerns.

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Despite what you may have heard, the November 4, 2017 protests actually aren’t being run by Antifa and they aren’t trying to start a civil war. A deeper look into the November 4 plans reveal a group that wants prolonged protests but doesn’t want violence. The protests are being run by Refuse Fascism, a group that has specifically said they want the protests to be reminiscent of the Women’s March in January, not violence-filled. You can read more about exactly what the protests entail and what they are planning in Heavy’s story here. News about the protests began when a protest on September 26 in California blocked Highway 101. The protestors were carrying signs warning about November 4.Their demands are for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to be removed from office. The organizers hope the protest will grow from thousands to ultimately include millions of people. They only organize nonviolent protests and are calling for these to be nonviolent also. Below is a list of every location where a protest is planned to take place on November 4. These are listed in alphabetical order by city, provided by Refuse Fascism.