Oywn Hong Kong Protesters Spread Democracy Messages on Animal Crossing. Now It s Gone From a Huge Chinese E-Commerce Site By Sam FrizellAugust 24, 2015 12:33 PM EDTThe French-American professor who was praised by President Francois Hollande for trying to bring down an AK-47-wielding gunman on a high-speed train on Friday was shot during the scuffle, according to his wife.Mark Moogalian saw a man walk into a bathroom with a suitcase for a suspiciously long time, said his wife Isabella Moogalian in an interview with Europe1 radio. Mark Moogalian then rushed toward the man after he emerged with an AK-47.He then saw the suspect being grabbed fro m behind by a different person, his wife said. That person is thought to be a 29-year-old French banker who has chosen to stay anonymous, according to NBC.I did not see my husband get shot, it happened too quickly and I was pretty much hiding behind seats, Isabella Moogalian said. But I look at my husband through the seats at an angle and he looked straight at me and said, I ;m hit! ; 8230; There was blood everywhere. I ran towards him and I could see that he a wound on his back, I then saw another wound by his neck.The gunman was finally subdued in the neighboring car by a British businessman and three vacationing Americans, one of whom sustained moderate injuries. Spencer Stone, a 23-year-old U.S. airman who was among the Americans called heroes by Pre sident Hollande, helped staunch the bleeding from Moogalian neck.[Europe1]More Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in Lbdq Portland s Mayor on Protests, Riots and the Missing Middle People sign up at the booth for the National Rifle Association NRA at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC at National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 23, 2018.Joshua Roberts鈥擱eutersBy Alana AbramsonUpdated: March 2, 2018 4:20 PM [ET] | Originally published: March 2, 2018 3:35 PM EST;The National Rifle Association and its allies have found their political influence under fresh scrutiny as gun control advocates push for new restrictions and corporations sever their ties in the wake of the deadly high school shooting last month in Parkland, Florida. But outside the gun control debate in Washington, membership in the NRA and gun rights groups across the country, which includes more than five million Americans, is spiking, according to people familiar with the numbers.The spike isn ;t a surprise, as such increases happen whenever people feel their Second Amendment rights are under threat, a nd many groups reported similar surges after the 2012 shooti ng at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. But as gun control groups seek to use the anti-NRA backlash to mobilize their grassroots, recruitment this time seems to have taken on a more urgent tone.Wake up people and see what happening!!!!, 8 221; Charles Cotton, a member of the NRA Board of Directors, wrote on a message board, TexasCHLforum, a site described as the focal point for Texas firearms information and discussions, earlier this week. [Former New York Mayor Michael] Bloom
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Yvip How the World Economic Forum Plans to Bring Leaders Together in the Metaverse DigitalGlobe imagery of the nearly completed construction within the Fiery Cross Reef located in the South China Sea.DigitalGlobe鈥擲capeWare3d/Getty ImagesBy Rishi IyengarMay 5, 2016 5:16 AM EDTChina has aired the first official footage of ongoing construction on a disputed reef it claims in the restive South China Sea.Footage of buildings, roads and lighthouses under construction at Fiery Cross Reef mdash; known by the Chinese as Yongshu mdash; were seen in a report by China Central Television CCTV on Tuesday, according to the state-run Global Times newspaper. The report was about a navy song and dance troupe from China People Liberation Army PLA that performed on the reef.Fiery Cross is also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.China treats virtually the entire South China Sea mdash; a major international shipping lane that sees billions of dollars of trade pass through annually mdash; as its sovereign territory, despite Vietnam, Brunei, Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia all claiming parts of the waterway. The Chinese government has justified its rapid military buildup on several disputed islets, saying it is simply defending its own territory, while also condemning U.S. Navy patrols in the area as acts of aggression.More Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing St atesHarris Battles Fo r the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 ElectionMel Robbins Will Make You Do ItWhy Vinegar Is So Good for YouYou Dont Have to Dread t Jrni Typhoon Melor Hits the Philippines, 750,000 People Evacuated By Maya RhodanJune 13, 2014 8:47 AM EDTIt appears Facebook has withdrawn its ban on female nipples in photos of breastfeeding mothers.Facebook has drawn heat from feminists for considering images of topless women as violations of their policies against nudity and obscenity mdash;even when the photographs depict breastfeeding mothers.Feminist writer Soraya Chemaly brought attention to the policy change on The Huffington Post, noting that the social media company had quietly changed its policy on obscene content in regard to breastfeeding mothers. Images that include the exposed nipples of breastfeeding can now be posted on the site without the risk of removal.The female nipple ban no longer exists for breastfeeding mothers, which should make many people who have been pushing the company to address a nudity double standard at least partially happy, Chemaly wrote on Monday.The ban drew the attention of women last year who took the site to task over the policy, which they s aid is an example of gender-based discrimination. A campaign led by Chema ly called on Facebook to combat both hate-speech and obscenity double standards. It garnered over 60,000 tweets, 5000 emails, and a bundle of disgruntled advertisers, and led Facebook to respond with an explanation of its policy.A year later, the breastfeeding ban has been lifted, though bans on artistic displays of female nipples remain in place. Facebook has not yet acknowledged that the ban was lifted for br
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Mmbm Bullied Teens Twice as Likely to Consider Suicide Martin Poole/Getty ImagesWriting down notes using a pen and paper scratches an itch that typing text doesnapos;t. Studies have shown that physically jotting down notes is a better way to retain information. However, by writing stuff down, you miss out on the perks of digital notes. ChatGPT helps you get the best of both worlds.When OpenAI supercharged the free version of ChatGPT with GPT-4o in May 2024, users gained the ability to upload files, including images and documents, and interact with images in multiple ways, such as extracting text. xA0;Also: How to use Chat GPT to analyze PDFs for freeThis feature means you can upload handwritten documents, from sticky notes to meeting and class notes to packing lists, and convert them into text. Then, you can use that text to create new content by copying and pasting it into presentations, emails, outlines, essays, Quizlets, and more.Sounds too good to be true I thought the s ame, but after testing the tool, I can assure you that it works efficiently and quickly. Getting started is simp le, and you will not want to stop once you start.How to use ChatGPT to digitize your handwritten notes Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET 1. Log in to your OpenAI account Even though you can access ChatGPT without xA0;creating an OpenAI account, you need to sign in to access GPT-4o and its many perks, including image uploads. The good news is that creating an account is easy, and the perks are well worth it. xA0;Also: Want to try GPT-4o mini 3 ways t Jsuf The rise and fall in programming languages apos; popularity since 2016 - and what it tells us Spellers compete in The Denver Post 72nd Annual Colorado State Spelling Bee at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver on Mar. 10, 2 012.Kathryn Scott Osler鈥擠P / Getty ImagesBy Stan Carey / History TodayFebruary 17, 2016 2:00 PM ESTHistory TodayThis post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday. Note: Usually, History Today posts appear on TIME with American spellings. For this post, the original British spellings have been retained.Le circonflexe est mort, vive le circonflexe. Last week all hell broke loose when a story e merged that the French language was about to lose its circumflex ndash; the lsquo;circ;rsquo; symbol that appears above some letters. Never mind that the change applied only to certain vowels, in certain words, that it was decided 26 years ago and that the ruling was optional. For many people, this was madness: This! Is! Spelling!Social media adopted JeSuisCirconflexe lsquo;I am circumflexrsquo; as a protest hashtag, and words like massacre were trotted out. This might seem a touch extreme, but it is nothing new: similar reactions followed Waterstonesrsquo; decision to drop the apostrophe from its brand name and the erroneous belief that Oxford University Press had abandoned the Oxford comma.Reports of the circumflexrsquo death are exaggerated, but they point to the intensity of feeling aroused by orthography mdash; how personally we relate to something with so arbitrary a connection to
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Ujnu This Is Pope Francis First Instagram Post Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, at federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on June 26, 2017.Victor J. Blue鈥擝loomberg/Getty Images By Brendan Pierson / ReutersJune 28, 2017 1:05 AM EDTJury selection in the New York trial of former drug company executive Martin Shkreli will enter its third day Wednesday, after some potential jurors said they could not be fair to a man who gained notoriety by raising the price of a life-saving drug more than 5,000%.U.S. prosecutors have accused Shkreli, d ubbed the pharm a bro, of running a Ponzi-like scheme at his former hedge fund and a drug company he once ran. Shkreli has pleaded not guilty to charges of securities and wire fraud.The difficulty of finding a jury became apparent on Monday, with potential jurors variously describing Shkreli as evil and a 8220 nake. More jurors cited the length of the trial, expected to last up to six weeks, as a hardship.The ensuing headlines prompted Shkreli 8216 lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, to ask U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning to declare a mistrial. She refused.The trouble continued Tuesday, as Matsumoto asked potential jurors left over from Monday whether they had been exposed to negative media reports about the previous day. Several who said they had were dismissed.Shkreli, 34, rose to fame in 2015 by raising the price of anti-parisitic drug Daraprim to $750 a pill, from $13.50, when he was chief executive of Turing P Cxja Uber Drivers Say a Racist Algorithm Is Putting Them Out of Work By Abby VesoulisMay 17, 2019 8:05 AM EDTSen. Elizabeth Warren says it time to fight back against restrictive a bortion laws recently passed in several states around the country mdash; and has presented her plan for how to do it.On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill that essentially outlaws all abortions, including in cases of rape and incest. On Thursday, Missouri state Senate passed a bill that would ban abortions at eight weeks gestation. Earlier this year, Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi passed heartbeat bills that effectively prohibit abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which is when doctors can normally begin to detect a fetal heartbeat. Additionally, Arkansas and Utah voted to limit abortions to the middle of the second trimester.In a post published on Medium Friday morning, Warren argues that access to quality reproductive health services, including safe and legal abortion, is essential to a womanrsquo health and economic security, but systemic barriers have made it especially difficult for low-income women and women of color to get the access to reproductive care they need.Part of her strategy to fix that, she explains, is for Congress to pass new laws to make it harder for states to pass stricter legislation.Congress should pass new federal laws that protect access to reproductive care from right-wing ideologues in the states. Federal laws that ensure re al access to birth cont
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Kqye NASA: California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink BATTLE CREEK, Mich.ndash; Environmental protection specialists from the Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services office at Camp Pendleton set out across the hilly, oceanside Marine Corps installation in December in search of used batteries.The customer visits lasted four days as the disposal team reached 31 locations and netted four truckloads of lead acid batteries weighing a total of 65,000 pounds. A DLA contract sale of that hazardous material later returned $10,000 to DOD coffers.A lead acid battery removal partn ership with DLA helped the Marine Corps avoid an estimated $117,000 in disposal costs on the removal of 324,980 pounds of batteries during fiscal 2022, according to Bryan Osborn, a DLA customer and official with the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Environmental Security Department. Osborn said that, prior to turning to DLA Disposition Services in 2016, the base was directly paying contractors for disposal. A DLA Disposition Services hazardous waste sales contract worker moves a pallet of lead acid batteries at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California in December 2022. Used batteries are picked up directly from the waste generators, saving the installation about $117,000 in disposal costs during the most recent fiscal year. Ayzs DSCC celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander month; engineer wins annual award Johanna Meneses, 32, grabs supplies for her patients at Twilight Gardens in Norwalk, Ohio on March 4, 2023. Meneses is the first inte rnational nurse working at Twilight Gardens, a nursing home and long term acute care facility. She was recruited from the Philippines to fill in the nursing shortages in Norwalk. Currently, she is t he only nurse with a RN license at night so she has an expected advisory/overseeing role for the LPNs on top of her 16 patients for her night shift. Rosem Morton-The Washington Post/ Getty ImagesIdeasBy Kristie De Pe帽a and Robert LeonardSeptember 6, 2023 6:00 AM EDTDe Pe帽a is the senior vice president for policy and director of immigration at the Niskanen Center in Washington, D.C.Leonard s Substack is Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture and he lives in Knoxville, IowaThere are more than 11 million job openings and only 6 million unemployed workers in the United States, and employers have struggled for more than a year to hire enough people to fill their ranks.This shortage is having a great impact on our healthcare system. In particular, Americas aging population is exploding and the unmet demand for the caregivers elderly citizens rely on is becoming increasingly pronounced in rural areas and smaller cities and towns where nearly half of all Americans live. The Association of American Colleges AAMC predicts a shortfall of as many as 124,000 physicians by 2034, with geriatricians facing a particularly severe shortage. According to a 2021 AAMC repor
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Oenv I Did Conversion Therapy for 5 Years鈥擭ow I m Working to End It KEFLAVIK AIR BASE, Icelandndash; U.S. aircraft often fly to the farthest reaches of the globe. To sustain this, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps created small, speciali zed teams that move mountains to make that flight possible.One of those teams, comprised of Sailors from Navy Cargo Handling Battalion NCHB 1 and Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron MWSS 271, trained to support, refuel, rearm and build infrastructure for military aircraft, is currently supporting the 22nd Naval Construction Regiment NCR for exercise Northern Viking 22 onboard Keflavik Air Base, Iceland. To support Northern Viking - a military exercise designed to refine and showcase the benefits of partnership between Iceland, the United States, and other allies in the high north - this team adapted their usual operations and built a Fixed Wing Refueling Point onboard the air base to refuel U.S. P-8A Poseidon aircraft.In real-world operations, the deployable unit is a force multiplier that increases U.S. and Allied refueling capabilities; in the exercise environment, it was established in response to a simulated attack on Keflavik Air Basersquo refueling infrastructure. The simulated attack grounded any aircraft requiring support in the immediate region, and the fuels team quickly established their position as a secondary refueling option. Establishing the refueling point also accomplished a secondary mission; extending the reach of allied aircraft across the Baltic and Nort Vigc 5 reasons why DVDs still have their place, especially for serious movie buffs IdeasBy Nick GillespieNovember 11, 2014 11:32 AM ESTNick Gillespie is the editor in chief of Reason and Reason.tv and the co-author with Matt Welch of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix Whats Wrong with America.So President Obama has announced that the Internet should effectively be regulated as a public utility along the lines of the old-time Ma Bell phone system. He asking the Federal Communications Commission FCC to reclassify internet traffic from information services or Title I services u nder current Communications A ct rules to telecommunication services or Title II services .Obama is old enough to know better. If you think cable companies and internet service providers ISPs absolutely suck at customer service and they pretty much do , theyrsquo;re simply faint echoes of the old Bell system, which set the standard for awfulness. We donrsquo;t care. We donrsquo;t have to. Wersquo;re the phone company, joked the comedian Lily Tomlin back in the late ;60s and early ;70s. Public utilities and government-granted monopolies mdash; the only sort that actually stick around for very long mdash; are rarely famous for the ir customer service and innovative practices. The Phone Company was enough of a cultural shorthand for all that was bad, rotten, and bureaucratic in American life that it was the super-villain in the 1967 black comedy The Presidentrsquo Analyst. As bad as Comcast or Veri
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Yxph Zika Funding Bill Fails as Congress Is Unable to Reach Compromise Saudi Arabia s Minister of Petrole um and Mineral Resources Ali al-Naimi attends the opening day of 10th Arab Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 21, 2014Kamran Jebreili鈥擜PBy Elizabeth BarberDecember 22, 2014 12: 48 AM ESTSaudi Arabia will not cut oil production to boost depressed prices, a reversal in the kingdomrsquo usual policy of moderating supply to control prices and sending a strong message about the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countriesrsquo; OPEC strategy for dealing with a slumped oil market.Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali al-Naimi told reporters on Sunday that even if non-OPEC countries cut production, Saudi Arabia would not follow them, Reuters reports. Other ministers, including from Kuwait and Iraq, repeated the Saudi ministerrsquo insistence on retaining steady production levels.A boom in U.S. shale-gas production has flooded the global oil market and sent gas prices tanking.The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Arabiarsquo refusal to cut oil production has led to speculation that the worldrsquo to p petroleum exporter could be seeking to knock gas prices even lower, testing U.S. shale-gas producers resolve to keep pumping. Saudi Arabia has denied any such plot and American officials have reiterated that the U.S. maintains close and friendly relations with the kingdom.[Reuters]More Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing StatesHarris Battles For the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 Yocj A Former Chilean General Has Been Found Liable for the Murder of Singer Victor Jara Getty ImagesBy Geoffrey JamesMarch 13, 2014 7:27 AM EDTA few years ago, I interviewed several dozen highly successful CEOs. In the post The 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses, I provided a summary of what I learned. That post, however, was missing something important: the implementation plan.With t hat in mind, here where you start:1. Encourage diversity of viewpoint.Average bosses create teams where everyone thinks the same way. Extraordinary bosses seek to draw upon a multitude of viewpoi nts and opinions, and thereby better understand what happening in the market and what can be done to take advantage of the market conditions. They don ;t set artificial quotas but instead hire and promote in a way that avoids uniformity of thought.2. Kill and eat your cash cows.Average bosses cling to the products and processes that made them successful. Extraordinary bosses know most products and services have a relatively short lifetime before being replaced by something else. They know that the next generation will probably use a totally different technology and be sold and marketed a completely different way. They are therefore more than willing to sacrifice and replace current products and services, especially when those products and services are selling really well.3. Speak from the heart.Average bosses try to be businesslike and remote, hiding their emotions behind jargon and weasel words. By contrast, extraordinary bosses speak hon
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Ouuy Inside Preparations for the Pope s Visit Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a public gathering at his residence in Tehran, Jan. 7, 2015.APBy Naina BajekalJanuary 22, 2015 8:53 AM ESTIran supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has appealed to youth in North America and Europe to seek out their own understanding of Islam and ignore prejudice in the media.In the letter published on his Twitter account Wednesday night, Khamenei said he was addressing Western youth because the future of your nations and countries will be in your hands.Writing about Islam and its image as presen ted to the Western world, Khamenei said: Many attempts have been made over the past two decades 8230;to place this great religion in the seat of a horrifying enemy.The histories of the United States and Europe are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians 8230;.You know well that humiliation and spreading hatred and illusionary fear of the other have been the common base of all these oppressive profiteers. Now, I would like you to ask yourself why the old policy of spreading phobia and hatred has targeted Islam and Muslims with an unprecedented intensity .In the 900- word letter, Khamenei set out certain requests for those reading the letter. Study and research the incentives behind this widespread tarnishing of the image of Islam, he said, encouring them to try to ga Fawe Christian Marijuana Dispensary Reconciles Dogma and Dope While Battling the IRS The HSBC logo is displayed in Street, England, on March 3, 2008.Matt Car dy鈥擥etty ImagesBy Simon LewisJuly 21, 2016 12:07 AM EDTA senior British banker at HSBC has been arrested in New Yor k City and charged, along with a colleague, over allegations they fixed foreign exchange rates to defraud a client and subsequently wove a web of lies to cover up their actions.The Department of Justice DoJ said in a statement that Mark Johnson, the head of global foreign-exchange-cash trading at HS BC Bank, was arrested by federal agents at JFK International Airport on Tuesday night. Stuart Scott, the bank former head of foreign exchange cash trading for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, who is also a British citizen and resides in the U.K., was also charged, it said.The allegations arise from investigations involving the FBI in connection with the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force set up by President Obama in 2009. The charges are the first leveled against individuals relating to revelations that bankers at some of the world biggest financial institutions rigged the $5 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market by coordinating their trades over private online chats. U.S. authorities fined four major banks, not including HSBC, nearly $6 billion in 2015 over the scandal.Johnson, 50, and Scott, 43, are alleged to have conducted a scheme of so-called front running, which involved purchasing British currency ahead of a client transaction in late 2011 in
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Zkse Budget, cost-saving approaches discussed at DLA Cost Summit The solution for protecting the planet from some of the suns rays could be a space umbrella. A study published the聽scientific journal PNAS in June outlines a University of Hawaii researchers plan for hitching an umbr ella or shield onto an asteroid to block some of the suns rays. Istv谩n Szapudi, an astronomer at t he University of Hawaiis Institute for Astronomy, explained in the study that a shield attached to an asteroid could be developed in the future to mitigate climate change. According to the study, this could shield the planet from 1.7% of sun rays, which could slow down planetary warming. In Hawai驶i, many use an umbrella to block the sunlight as they walk about during the day. I was thinking, could we do the same for Eart h and thereby mitigate the impending catastrophe of climate change Szapudi said in a press release. During a call with Earther, Szapudi described the asteroid umbrella like kite surfing. Instead of wind, the force that moves the sail will be the radiation from the sun that hits the shield and transfers enough momentum to move it. Though it catches the imaginatin, Szapudis idea isnt possible just yet. Our current rockets cannot exert enough force to carry a large shield out into our solar system. If a method for doing this becomes possible in a few decades, then this theory could maybe, possibly, theoretically, become a realistic climate solution. Szapudi told Earther that the paper released at the end of July could be the start of future inn Xjew Cult-Beloved Animated Series Clone High Returns in 2023 Illustration By Gwenda Kaczor for TIMEIdeasBy Stephanie H. MurrayDecember 29, 2021 12:18 PM ESTMurray is a public policy researcher turned freelan ce journalist.What does it mean to be a good mother For most of my life, Irsquo;ve received conflicting answers to this question. Growing up, my parents revered mothers like mine, who walked away from a career in medicine to stay at home with me and my four siblings. On our way to school and soccer practice, we listened to T he Dr. Laura Program, which opened with a kind of battle cry for stay-at-home mothers: I am my kidrsquo mom. My dad once bought my mom a hat embroidered with the tagline. Damn right, she said as she popped it on over her graying brown hair.Elsewhere, I heard the opposite message: that stay-at-home mothers squander their talents by taking on a role of dependency in their households. Or, as Elizabeth Wurtzel once wrote in The Atlantic, that stay-at-home motherhood is a failure of feminism. Real feminists earn a living, have money, and means of their own, she wrote.Read More: My Kids Can ;t Get Vaccinated Yet, and I ;m Barely Keeping It TogetherWhen I became a stay-at-home mother, no one accused me of being an anti-feminist, but antipathy manifested in offhand comments and dismissive remarks. Once, while discussing my decision to stay at home full-time, a pregnant friend told me she sympathized with the idea but couldnrsquo;t imagine herself doing noth
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Yrip Ebola Death Toll Surpasses 5,000 Worldwide Burning vehicles, set on fire by opposition demonstrators, are pictured during violent protests in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Jan. 6, 2015STRDEL鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesBy TIME StaffJanuary 15, 2015 2:34 AM ESTThe Bangladeshi capital Dhaka was hit by fresh violence on Thursday morning, w ith antigovernment protestors torching at least two vehicles a day after an opposition politician was shot and injured in what was reported to be a botched assassination attempt.The attack on Riaz Rahman, a close aide to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, drew international condemnation, with U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf condemning the use of violence for politica l objectives. The U.S., she said, was ldquo hocked and saddened by the attack on the former Bangladeshi Foreign Minister.A 20-party alliance led by Ziarsquo Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNP has called for a general shutdown today to protest the attack, the Daily Star, a local newspaper, reported.Earlier, on Wednesday, antigovernment protesters firebombed a packed bus, killing four passengers, including a young child, according to the news agency Agence France-Presse.Violence in the South Asian nation flared earlier this month when the government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blocked opposition plans to hold antigovernment demonstrations on the anniversary of national polls that are disputed by Zia and her supporters. Authorities also confined Zia to her office in Dhaka, where she remai Xwut Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio Face an Evangelical Test By Brian Bennett an d Chris Wils onJanuary 5, 2022 3:30 PM ESTFor millions of Americans, Jan. 6 was a jarring day that ended their nationrsquo 150-year streak of peaceful transitions of power.For Donald Trump, it was a windfall.Ever since his supporters stormed the Capitol as Joe Bidenrsquo victory was being certified, Trump has continued to falsely insist he won in 2020 and paint the unrest as the result of a stolen election. In December, Trump said that the real insurrection took place on Nov. 3, recasting the violence that left five dead as an unarmed protest of the rigged election.It has proved to be a potentmdash;and lucrativemdash;lie. Nearly half of Republicans in the country believe Trump won in 2020, according to recent polling. For months, fundraising emails from Trump that claim that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen have pointed readers to a bright red button that reads DONATE TO SAVE AMERICA. Trumprsquo political machine raked in at least $50 million in the six months that followed the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission, an unusually high figure for a defeated former President during his first year out of office and nearly eight times what Trump raised in outside funding while seeking the GOP nomination in 2015.The fallout from Jan. 6 has also allowed the former President to strengthen his grip on the Republican Party. Lawmakersrsquo; reactions to the attack have
