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Teacher fired over topless photo, threatens $3M federal lawsuit, alleges gender discrimination: report

A middle school teacher in one of New York City's Long Island suburbs claims she was fired last week for an old topless selfie and is now threatening to sue her former school district for gender discrimination.

Lauren Miranda, 25, a former math teacher at Bellport Middle School, took a topless selfie in 2016 and sent it to her then-boyfriend, who also works at the school, Miranda’s attorney, John Ray, said during a news conference Monday. In January, a student somehow obtained the selfie, and the image circulated through the school, Ray said.

Miranda said she had no idea how the student obtained the photo. She was subsequently placed on paid administrative leave and then fired. She said she plans to file a $3 million federal lawsuit alleging gender discrimination unless she’s reinstated, WPIX-TV reported.

"I loved my job, I never woke up in the morning and didn't want to go. I loved my students, my faculty. I really thought this is where I was going to spend the next thirty years of my life," she said.

WOUNDED TEACHER EXPECTED SHOTS AT SCHOOL, NOT ON DRIVE HOME

According to court documents provided by Ray’s law firm, the district had said Miranda was not a good role model because of the photo.

“My career has been ruined, my reputation has been tarnished, I have been stigmatized,” Miranda said. “Everything I have worked so hard for since I was 18 years old has been stolen from me because of one innocuous selfie.”

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Ray accused the school district of sexism, arguing that a male teacher would not have been fired had the same thing happened to him.

“Anytime a man has ever exposed his chest, no one has ever commented or had any problem with it whatsoever. But when a woman displays her chest, as happened here, she gets fired from her job,” he said.

The school district has not commented on the litigation.

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Fed’s Clarida: U.S. jobless rate may have room to fall without inflation

FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Clarida boards a bus to tour South Dallas as part of a community outreach by U.S. central bankers in Dallas
FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida, boards a bus to tour South Dallas as part of a community outreach by U.S. central bankers, in Dallas, Texas, U.S., February 25, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Saphir

April 9, 2019

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – The U.S. unemployment rate may have room to fall further without leading to excessive inflation, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida said on Tuesday in comments that could further solidify the central bank’s hesitancy to raise rates further.

The traditional tie between falling unemployment and rising inflation has clearly weakened, Clarida said, and the recent influx of workers returning to the labor force indicates there may be more “slack” in the economy than the headline 3.8 percent unemployment rate indicates.

The low unemployment rate “has been interpreted by many…as suggesting that the labor market is currently operating beyond full employment,” Clarida said in prepared remarks for a Minneapolis Federal Reserve bank conference on monetary policy and income inequality.

But the actual level of “full employment” is difficult to determine, Clarida said, and “the range of plausible estimates likely extends at least as low as the current level of the unemployment rate.”

The degree to which falling unemployment requires higher interest rates to guard against higher inflation is central to Fed analysis. Many, including President Donald Trump as well as many Democratic analysts, argue that the risk of inflation is so weak right now the Fed has no reason to intervene as unemployment falls.

Clarida’s remarks point in that direction as well, and suggest the Fed will look closely at measures of labor market slack beyond the unemployment rate as they determine their next move on interest rates. The Fed is currently taking a “patient” approach to further rate increases, in part because of the weak state of inflation.

Clarida is overseeing a broad review of the Fed’s system for setting monetary policy, and said that better understanding the nature of full employment would take an equal priority alongside assessing how to better achieve its 2 percent inflation goal.

For example, the number of workers returning to the labor force, whether previously discouraged from seeking work, retired, or just taking a break, surprised Fed officials and suggests a larger potential pool of workers for employers to draw on, he said.

Clarida noted that recent job gains also have helped narrow the elevated gap in unemployment rates between whites and racial and ethnic minorities, and have helped lower income groups make up ground economically.

“Wage increases in the past couple of years have been strongest for less-educated workers and for those at the lower end of the wage distribution,” Clarida noted.

(Reporting by Howard Schneider; editing by Diane Craft)

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GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Cut Immigration, Reform System

Three Republican senators on Wednesday introduced legislation that would cut down overall immigration levels to limit low-skilled workers from entering the country, The Hill reported.

The legislation, called the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act, would replace the current employment-visa system with a skills-based framework that gives priority to immigrants who are more educated, speak English and have a history of achievement.

Such a reform, its supporters say, would boost the wages of the working class and create jobs.

“For decades, our immigration system has been completely divorced from the needs of our country and has harmed the livelihoods of working-class Americans,” said Sen. Tom Cotton, one of the sponsors of the bill along with  Sen. David Perdue and Sen. Josh Hawley.

Cotton's office said the bill would sharply curtail visa allotments by 41 percent in its first year, the Washington Examiner reported.

Although the act would prioritize the legal entry of immediate family members of US residents, it would end preferences for extended family members and adult children, according to The Hill.

The act is also an attempt to stymie current attempts from inside the White House, led by senior adviser Jared Kushner,  to boost  the number of workers permitted to enter the U.S. to fill needed job vacancies, especially in the agriculture and hospitality industries, according to Politico.

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Netanyahu falls behind in Israel polls but still holds path to stay in power

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with NATO countries' ambassadors to Israel in Jerusalem
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with NATO countries' ambassadors to Israel in Jerusalem January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo

April 5, 2019

By Rami Ayyub and Stephen Farrell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen behind his main challenger in opinion polls ahead of next week’s Israeli election but still has an easier path to form a government that would keep him in power for a record fifth term.

Netanyahu, who has dominated Israeli politics for a generation, is fighting for his political survival against former top general Benny Gantz, a political novice.

The outcome is unlikely to be decided on election day, when voters cast ballots for party lists. No party has ever won an outright majority in the 120-seat parliament, meaning days or even weeks of coalition negotiations will lie ahead.

And looming criminal indictments against Netanyahu, who has denied any wrongdoing in three cases of alleged bribery and fraud, could cloud his political future and that of any government he might head, possibly leading to a new election.

On Friday, the last day polling is allowed, Gantz’s centrist Blue and White party was projected to take 30 seats, more than the 26 forecast for Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud, according to a poll in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

But the poll also projected a combined total of 63 seats for the parties in Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc, a slim but workable majority. Other polls showed similar results. The coalition arithmetic for Gantz appears far more difficult.

Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, will consult with the leaders of every party represented in parliament and choose whoever he believes has the best chance of forming a coalition. The nominee has up to 42 days to form a government before the president asks another politician to try.

In the final stretch of the campaign, Netanyahu cautioned his right-wing supporters against over-confidence: “It’s a close race between right and left,” he told Israel Radio on Thursday.

Gantz appeared invigorated by the polling numbers on Friday, telling his backers they were “a few meters away from victory”.

“On Tuesday, everything you see here in this country will shift,” Gantz told a rally in Kiryat Ekron.

SHADOW OF CORRUPTION

Netanyahu has fought the campaign under the shadow of the public announcement in February by Israel’s attorney general that he intends to indict him.

No charges have yet been brought and there will be a pre-trial hearing at which Netanyahu can challenge any findings. If indicted, he is under no obligation to quit, but he would need coalition partners to stand by him to avert a new election.

“Netanyahu’s supreme and indeed only imperative will be to cobble together an indictment coalition: one that will make it possible for him to continue to serve even after the hearing and after he’s indicted,” political analyst Yossi Verter wrote in the liberal Israeli daily Ha’aretz on Friday.

That could include efforts, promoted by some Netanyahu loyalists, to pass a law to ban the indictment of a sitting prime minister. Some potential coalition allies have publicly balked at such legislation, including at least one cabinet minister – and potential successor – in Netanyahu’s own party.

Netanyahu’s opponents have campaigned hard on the corruption issue, producing posters, car bumper stickers and election rally banners bearing the words “CRIME MINISTER”.

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY

With Israeli-Palestinian peace talks frozen since 2014, personalities and personal attacks have dominated an election campaign that has largely skated over war-and-peace issues that once dominated Israeli political debate.

Netanyahu has cast Gantz, a former military chief, as a weak leftist who would endanger Israel’s security by giving territorial concessions to the Palestinians.

Gantz professes a commitment to peace while giving no clear indication whether he would support the Palestinian goal of statehood in territories captured by Israel in a 1967 war.

Netanyahu has also highlighted his close relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, who overturned decades of U.S. policy and international consensus to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and recognize it as Israel’s capital.

Netanyahu visited Trump last month. At the meeting, Trump, in what was widely seen as a bid to boost Netanyahu, again broke with long-term policy to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, also captured in 1967.

In Jerusalem, Hezi Levy, 60, a taxi driver, said he backed Netanyahu: “The most important thing in the world is that the left will not assume power, God forbid,” he said.

But other voters deplored recent scandals. “The focus is on the corruption that’s happening politically,” said Ayelet Noff, 43, a public relations manager from Tel Aviv, a Gantz supporter who said she wanted more attention paid to the economy.

(Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Stephen Farrell; Editing by Peter Graff)

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Schiff rejects Michael Cohen’s plea for help delaying upcoming prison term

A request from President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen to Democrats to help delay and reduce his upcoming three-year prison sentence – set to begin in just weeks – was rejected Monday by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

"I don't get involved in sentencing matters as a practice," Schiff told CNN. "I never have in Congress and that's been my policy."

In a letter sent to lawmakers last week, Cohen's legal team said he was still sorting through documents in his personal files that might be of interest to House Democrats investigating President Trump, including emails, voice recordings, images and other documents on a hard drive.

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The letter was sent to a series of Trump opponents, including Schiff and Reps. Jerry Nadler of New York, Maxine Waters of California and Elijah Cummings of Maryland, all Democrats.

"To date, Mr. Cohen has located several documents that we believe have significant value to the various congressional oversight and investigation committees," Cohen attorneys, Lanny Davis, Michael Monico and Carly Chocron wrote in the letter.

Despite the decision to remain uninvolved in his sentencing, Schiff told CNN on Monday that he was still open to hearing anything else that Cohen wanted to share.

"We continue to encourage Mr. Cohen to provide us any materials that he has that are relevant to our investigation," Schiff said. "We will continue to do so and hope that he has additional information to offer."

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Cohen, who pleaded guilty last year to tax evasion, fraud, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations, already has received one short delay on medical grounds while he recovered from shoulder surgery.

He is scheduled to report to prison on May 6.

Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.

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Portugal PM says keeping jobs in party's family not a worry

Portugal's prime minister says it's not a problem that his Cabinet contains a husband and wife, as well as a father and daughter, and insists that the relatives of senior politicians received other government jobs based on merit.

Opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialist government after Portuguese media reported that along with the family pairs in the Cabinet, other relatives of senior Socialist Party members had gotten government positions.

Costa's administration hasn't been accused of doing anything illegal, but critics say the pattern smacks of nepotism.

The prime minister brushed off the criticism on Thursday, saying he is "sure that nobody in the government was appointed because of their family links."

Costa also noted the criticism emerged in an election year. Portugal's general election is set for October.

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State Dept Source: Officials Watch NKorea Site 'in Real Time'

U.S. officials are "watching in real time" developments at North Korea's Sohae long-range launch site, which researchers believe is back to normal operating status after Chairman Kim Jong Un twice pledged to dismantle it, according to a source identified as a senior State Department official.

"The intent of the North Koreans in this matter is known only to them, we don't know why they are taking these steps," the State Department official said, reports NBC News. "They need to keep their commitments to the president of the United States."

In the past, the facility had been used to launch satellites, which uses technology similar to that used for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Kim had agreed to dismantle it last June during his summit with President Donald Trump and again with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in in September.

Talks between Trump and Kim collapsed Feb. 28, after which reports began to surface that work was being done at the closed facility.

The images show "the ease with which [North Korea] can reverse steps it might take toward denuclearization in the future," an analysis by Joseph Bermudez and Victor Cha of Beyond Parallel, a research project funded by the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies states.

The analysis stressed there have been no images showing a missile being moved to the launch pad.

Trump said this week he would be "very, very disappointed" in Kim if the site has been restored.

Source: NewsMax America

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Sri Lanka's former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa greets his supporters after his return from the United States, in Katunayake
Sri Lanka’s former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa greets his supporters after his return from the United States, in Katunayake, Sri Lanka April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

April 26, 2019

By Sanjeev Miglani and Shihar Aneez

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s former wartime defense chief, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said on Friday he would run for president in elections this year and would stop the spread of Islamist extremism by rebuilding the intelligence service and surveilling citizens.

Gotabaya, as he is popularly known, is the younger brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the two led the country to a crushing defeat of separatist Tamil rebels a decade ago after a 26-year civil war.

More than 250 people were killed in bomb attacks on hotels and churches on Easter Sunday that the government has blamed on Islamist militants and that Islamic State has claimed responsibility for.

Gotabaya said the attacks could have been prevented if the island’s current government had not dismantled the intelligence network and extensive surveillance capabilities that he built up during the war and later on.

“Because the government was not prepared, that’s why you see a panic situation,” he said in an interview with Reuters.

Gotabaya said he would be a candidate “100 percent”, firming up months of speculation that he plans to run in the elections, which are due by December.

He was critical of the government’s response to the bombings. Since the attacks, the government has struggled to provide clear information about how they were staged, who was behind them and how serious the threat is from Islamic State to the country.

“Various people are blaming various people, not giving exactly the details as to what happened, even people expect the names, what organization did this, and how they came up to this level, that explanation was not given,” he said.

On Friday, President Maithripala Sirisena said the government led by premier Ranil Wickremesinghe should take responsibility for the attacks and that prior information warning of attacks was not shared with him.

Wickremesinghe said earlier he was not advised about warnings that came from India’s spy service either, presenting a picture of a government still in disarray since the two leaders fell out last October.

Gotabaya is facing lawsuits in the United States, where he is a dual citizen, over his role in the war and afterwards.

The South Africa-based International Truth and Justice Project, in partnership with U.S. law firm Hausfeld, filed a civil case in California this month against Gotabaya on behalf of a Tamil torture survivor.

In a separate case, Ahimsa Wickrematunga, the daughter of murdered investigative editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, filed a complaint for damages in the same U.S. District Court in California for allegedly instigating and authorizing the extrajudicial killing of her father.

Gotabaya said the cases were baseless and only a “little distraction” as he prepared for the election campaign. He said he had asked U.S. authorities to renounce his citizenship and that process was nearly done, clearing the way for his candidature.

‘DISMANTLE THE NETWORKS’

He said that if he won, his immediate focus would to be tackle the threat from radical Islam and to rebuild the security set-up.

“It’s a serious problem, you have to go deep into the groups, dismantle the networks,” he said, adding he would give the military a mandate to collect intelligence from the ground and to mount surveillance of groups turning to extremism.

Gotabaya said that a military intelligence cell he had set up in 2011 of 5,000 people, some of them with Arabic language skills and that was tracking the bent towards extremist ideology some of the Islamist groups were taking in eastern Sri Lanka was disbanded by the current government.

“They did not give priority to national security, there was a mix-up. They were talking about ethnic reconciliation, then they were talking about human rights issues, they were talking about individual freedoms,” he said.

President Sirisena’s government sought to forge reconciliation with minority Tamils and close the wounds of the war and launched investigations into allegations of rights abuse and torture against military officers.

Officials said many of these secret intelligence cells were disbanded because they faced allegations of abuse, including torture and extra judicial killings.

Muslims make up nearly 10 percent of Sri Lanka’s population of 22 million, which is predominantly Buddhist.

(Reporting by Sanjeev Miglani; Editing by Frances Kerry)

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FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington
FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

April 26, 2019

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve may lower the interest it pays on excess reserves banks leave with it by 5 basis points at its April 30-May 1 policy meeting in a bid to prevent the federal funds rate from drifting higher, Morgan Stanley analysts said on Friday.

This would mark the third such “technical” adjustment on the interest on excess reserves (IOER) following cuts last June and December.

(Reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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In response to the news that the U.S. economy rose 3.2 percent in the first quarter of 2019, White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said that this “prosperity cycle” will continue if President Trump‘s policies stay in place.

Calling the advance in gross domestic product a “blow-out number,” Kudlow told “America’s Newsroom” Friday that it serves as concrete proof Trump’s measures to grow the economy have been successful.

“I’ll just say, Trump’s policies to rebuild the economy, lower taxes, regulations, opening energy, trade reform. Look, this stuff is working,” he said.

“It tells me, among other things, that the prosperity cycle we have entered into is continuing, it is strong. It has legs and momentum and frankly it is going to go on for quite some time,” he continued. “This is the new Trump economy. Some people don’t like that or they don’t agree with that. I respect the differences but I’ll tell you it’s working.”

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Kudlow added that Trump has “ended the war” on business and success, and is rallying for the small business owners of America.

“The president is rebuilding incentives, he is rebuilding confidence, he the rebuilding optimism,” he said. “He is basically saying you should keep more of what you earn. He is basically saying to small businesses we’ll cut the paperwork back and make it easier for you to start a business and prosper.”

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Kudlow said the Trump administration is also working with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders to implement bipartisan deals to ensure the continuation of the GDP’s success.

“If the policies and the principles remain in place — and I believe they will — then I believe this new prosperity expansion cycle is going to go on for a whole bunch of more years,” he said.

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Tennis - Australian Open - Women's Singles Final
FILE PHOTO: Tennis – Australian Open – Women’s Singles Final – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2019. Japan’s Naomi Osaka attends a news conference after winning her match against Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – World number one Naomi Osaka came from behind in the final set to beat Croatian Donna Vekic 6-3 4-6 7-6(4) on Friday and move into the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix semi-finals.

Osaka comfortably won the opening set but was tested by the Croatian, who pushed her to the limit in the second and third. The Japanese made 45 unforced errors as she struggles to get to grips with swapping hard courts for clay.

Osaka was visibly frustrated and trailed 5-1 in the final set but she refused to give up and found her rhythm to break Vekic twice and prevent her from serving for the match.

In the tiebreaker, a confident Osaka upped her baseline game and had two early mini breaks before wrapping up the match in two hours and 18 minutes. An infuriated Vekic even smashed her racket after losing the match.

“I told myself I didn’t want to have any regrets here,” Osaka said. “I was stressed out when I went down 1-5… but this (comeback) was pretty good because I don’t play really well on clay.”

Earlier, world number three Petra Kvitova came back from a set down to beat Anastasija Sevastova 2-6 6-2 6-3 and move into the tournament’s semi-finals for the third time in her career.

Sevastova had a dream start, breaking Kvitova twice to take a 3-0 lead as the Czech struggled with her first serve. Kvitova also made a slew of unforced errors, with many of her returns going long.

Sevastova used the full width of the court to get the better of Kvitova, who played on the back foot for much of the first set as the Latvian gave her little time to catch her breath.

However, Kvitova recovered in the second set and she broke Sevastova’s serve when she was 3-2 up, winning 10 straight points to take a 5-2 lead. Sevastova looked shaken and was broken again to give Kvitova the second set.

Kvitova took command in the final set and broke a visibly upset Sevastova to take a 3-1 lead before easing into the semis.

“In the first set I missed almost everything. I was pretty slow and she just couldn’t miss,” Kvitova said. “In the second set it was very important for me to stay on my serve and the chance to break her came.”

Kiki Bertens plays Angelique Kerber later on Friday and Victoria Azarenka faces Anett Kontaveit in the last quarter-final.

(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)

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President Donald Trump says he feels “young” and “vibrant” at age 72 and thinks he can beat 76-year-old Joe Biden “easily.”

A reporter asked Trump at the White House on Friday how old is too old to be president of the United States.

Trump said: “I just feel like a young man. I’m so young. I can’t believe it. … I’m a young vibrant man.”

Then he smiled and said he’s not sure about Democratic presidential contender Biden, the second-oldest contender in the race behind Bernie Sanders.

Trump said: “I look at Joe. I don’t know about him.”

Biden, in an interview on ABC’s “The View,” joked in response that if Trump “looks young and vibrant compared to me, I should probably go home.”

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