Category Archives: US News

Harvey Weinstein to face charges in Los Angeles after guilty verdict in New York

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LA case, announced before Manhattan trial began, focuses on charges for two alleged attacks over two days

The verdict in the New York case against Harvey Weinstein is only the beginning of the movie mogul’s prosecution, with separate charges against the disgraced producer ahead in Los Angeles.

In the most high-profile trial of the #MeToo movement yet, a New York jury on Monday found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape for an attack in a New York hotel and guilty of a criminal sex act for forcing oral sex on a former television production assistant. The fallen titan of Hollywood, who was taken away in handcuffs, could face 25 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender.

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Trump holds rally in India while Steyer qualifies for South Carolina debate – live

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Coming off his landslide Nevada victory, Bernie Sanders is now investing in South Carolina, which will hold its primary on Saturday.

Seeing an opening in South Carolina after their big win in Nevada, the @BernieSanders campaign is upping their presence here. They’ve launched a five day statewide ad buy, investing $500k in the closing days of the primary.

The latest numbers are in, and Mike Bloomberg has spent more than $500 million so far on his presidential campaign.

.@MikeBloomberg's current total for all media types: $509,512,884 or, in other words, half a billion dollars. #Election2020

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Democratic party grapples with rising likelihood of Sanders as the nominee

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In the aftermath of Bernie Sanders’ victory in Nevada and as the South Carolina primary looms, the Democratic party establishment continues to grapple with the increasing likelihood that the Vermont senator, a self-proclaimed socialist, will be its nominee for president.

Related: Trump holds rally in India while Steyer qualifies for South Carolina debate – live

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Katherine Johnson, Nasa mathematician portrayed in Hidden Figures, dies at 101

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Johnson overcame racial and gender-based discrimination to become an integral part of Nasa’s work in space exploration

Katherine Johnson, one of the trailblazing African American mathematicians whose story was told in the hit film Hidden Figures, has died, Nasa announced on Monday. She was 101.

Related: How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race

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Barbara B Smith, groundbreaking model and lifestyle guru, dies aged 70

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  • Author and entrepreneur had early onset Alzheimer’s
  • Eponymous Manhattan restaurant achieved society success

The groundbreaking model, restaurateur and lifestyle guru Barbara B Smith, known to many as “the black Martha Stewart”, has died, her family announced on Sunday. She was 70.

Smith died on Saturday evening after suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease, which she was found to have in 2013. Following her diagnosis, Smith and her husband, Dan Gasby, raised awareness of the disease and particularly its impacts on the African American community.

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New Orleans: two people killed by Mardi Gras floats in one week

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  • Man appears to fall underneath large tandem float on Saturday
  • Woman, 58, was run over and killed on Wednesday

A man was hit and killed by a Mardi Gras float in New Orleans on Saturday evening, the second such death in a week.

The individual, who was not immediately named, was killed at around 7pm after he appeared to fall underneath a large tandem float during the Krewe of Endymion parade near the city centre.

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Auschwitz Memorial criticises Amazon for Hunters show and antisemitic books

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  • Prime show stars Al Pacino as head of band of Nazi hunters
  • Memorial wants books by Nazi Julius Streicher removed

The Auschwitz Memorial criticised Amazon on Sunday, for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its TV series Hunters and for selling books of Nazi propaganda.

Related: Outcry after MSNBC host compares Sanders’ Nevada win to Nazi invasion

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Trump’s approval rating rises, boosting chances of winning second term

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New Gallup poll gives Trump a 49% rating, first net positive for the president since January 2017

Donald Trump’s popularity rating is improving at a key moment in election year – boosting his chances of winning a second term in the White House.

Related: Nevada caucuses: Bernie Sanders wins in resounding victory

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Bernie Sanders’ rivals applaud his Nevada caucus win – video

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Strong results in New Hampshire and Iowa helped the senator achieve a landslide victory. He is clearly in the lead to win the democratic nominations and take on Donald Trump in a presidential election. Sanders’ rivals congratulated him but galvanised their supporters as they looked ahead to the South Carolina race and Super Tuesday in March, when 14 states will vote

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Wisconsin’s dairy farmers see bleak future for ‘America’s Dairyland’

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Collapsing prices, the rise of mega farms in warmer states and fluctuations in demand have led to a spate of bankruptcies

The Goodman family has been milking cows in Wisconsin since 1889. Jim Goodman is the last of his line. The 66-year-old farmer has sold his herd and the land where they grazed. His children have chosen other careers.

Related: Why America’s cheese capital is at the center of Trump’s trade war

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Bernie Sanders celebrates thunderous Nevada caucuses win – video

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Bernie Sanders has celebrated a huge win at the caucuses in Nevada, putting him clearly in front of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination a week before the South Carolina primary and then Super Tuesday on 3 March, when 14 states will vote.

Sanders, who had already moved on to San Antonio Texas, celebrated a win that 'brought together a multigenerational, multiracial coalition' after winning in Nevada, a state that is nearly 30% Latino, 10% black and has a rapidly growing Asian American community

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Buoyed by Latino voters in Nevada, Sanders cements his frontrunner status

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Saturday’s caucuses were the first real test of Latino support in the Democratic primary – and the result was promising for Sanders

The senator from one of the whitest states in the US on Saturday trounced his rivals in the first primary of the 2020 election cycle that actually reflects the racial diversity of the country and the Democratic party.

The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won a resounding victory in Nevada, buoyed by strong support among Latino voters. Sanders’ victory in the desert state strengthens his position as the party’s frontrunner and sends him into the next, high-stakes phase of the primary with a burst of momentum.

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Bernie Sanders’ Nevada win is a breakout moment. The others are toast

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The Vermont Senator will soon be going toe to toe with Donald Trump

There are no second prizes in presidential contests. No silver medals. No participation trophies.

There are, however, endless numbers of delusional candidates and campaigns who insist that they will sweep the later states, or take their delegates to the convention, or contest the legitimacy of the nomination process.

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Harry Dunn’s family want Julian Assange’s extradition stopped

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US ‘hypocritical’ to seek Wikileaks founder’s extradition but not send Anne Sacoolas back to UK for trial over son’s death

The family of Harry Dunn has called for Julian Assange not to be extradited as long as the United States refuses to send the suspect in the teenager’s death back to Britain.

The family has have accused the US government of “demonstrating an extraordinary amount of hypocrisy” in seeking the Wikileaks founder’s extradition but rejecting a request for Anne Sacoolas to return to Britain.

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California street shut down after 40,000 bees swarm from hotel

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Several people hospitalized in Pasadena after Africanized bees emerge from hotel’s eaves: ‘Something set them off’

A swarm of as many as 40,000 Africanized bees sent several people to hospital and closed a street in California, after swarming from the eaves of a Howard Johnson Inn.

Related: Ursus urbinus: 'elderly' 400lb bear spotted roaming Los Angeles suburb

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Portland: man convicted of murder in stabbing deaths of two men on train

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  • Jurors found Jeremy Christian, 37, guilty of the deaths
  • Victims tried to stop his racist tirade against two black women

A man accused of fatally stabbing two people who prosecutors said tried to stop his racist tirade against two young black women on an Oregon commuter train was convicted of murder on Friday, after an emotional trial that featured testimony from both women and the sole survivor of the attack nearly three years ago.

Jurors found Jeremy Christian, 37, guilty of the deaths of Taliesin Namkai-Meche and Ricky Best.

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Trump reportedly calls John Bolton a ‘traitor’ and wants to block his book

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  • President said book shouldn’t be published before election
  • Key impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch to release memoir

John Bolton is “a traitor” and his book should not be published before the election in November, Donald Trump reportedly told aides and media figures.

The president’s views on news of a book deal for Marie Yovanovitch, another key figure in the Ukraine scandal which led to Trump’s impeachment, were not immediately clear.

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Amazon to donate to drug charity linked to Scientology

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Exclusive: experts have queried methods of Narconon, which has given talks in UK schools

Amazon has agreed to channel funds to a controversial drug rehabilitation charity linked to the Church of Scientology, the Guardian has learned.

The web giant will make donations to Narconon – which runs programmes for drug addicts based on the teachings of the Scientology founder, L Ron Hubbard – when supporters buy products through the site, with shoppers able to pledge 0.5% of purchases to selected charities under Amazon’s “Smile” feature.

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Nevada caucuses: Bernie Sanders wins in resounding victory

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The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won the caucuses in Nevada, solidifying his frontrunner status in the race for the Democratic nomination.

“We’ve brought together a multigenerational, multiracial coalition that is not only going to win Nevada, it’s going to sweep this country,” Sanders told supporters in San Antonio, Texas, after the Associated Press and several US networks projected his win.

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