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Man gets prison in hit-and-run death of Detroit officer

A young man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for the hit-and-run killing of a Detroit police officer.

Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Cole of Belleville was sentenced Friday. The Wayne County prosecutor's office said he pleaded no contest last month to charges of reckless driving causing death and failure to stop at the scene of a crash that caused death.

Cole was accused of hitting 30-year-old Fadi Shukur as the officer helped disperse a crowd after a party in August. Shukur later died of his injuries.

Cole apologized Friday in court to Shukur's family and the police department.

Cole was initially charged with second-degree murder, but a judge dismissed that charge in September after saying the evidence didn't support it.

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg Breaks Out of the 1% Club

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg is having a moment. Actually, he’s been having a bunch of moments all over your TVs and on social media for about a month now.

I’ve been a fan of Mayor Pete since 2015 when I first saw him speaking out against Indiana’s cruel religious freedom law. Buttigieg, who had signed a human rights ordinance two years prior, argued – as many critics across the country did – that the law gives businesses the right to discriminate against gay customers.

“The interests of our state and our communities are not being well served when you refuse to budge on very divisive social issues like this. … All it would take to fix the damage would be to reverse the law,” Mayor Pete argued on MSNBC.

I liked what I saw and did some digging. The youngest mayor of a U.S. city? An Afghanistan veteran? A Rhodes scholar? An openly gay executive? Yes, please.

Americans are saying “yes, please” now, too. Mayor Pete is being rewarded in the polls with the latest Quinnipiac survey showing a substantial jump from 1 percent support to 4 percent, which ties him with Sen. Elizabeth Warren for fifth place behind former Vice President Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris.

The increase in support is statistically significant and likely a harbinger of good things to come for Buttigieg’s candidacy.

All of this -- the surge in attention, the Capra-esque charisma he displays, and his plain speaking level headedness -- is playing out against a backdrop of the identity politics debate raging within the Democratic Party. This is what kept me up last night.

One of the things that makes me proudest to be part of the Democratic Party is that we promote candidates who increase representation of traditionally underrepresented groups. Our party sent the first African-American man to the White House. There are now 127 women serving in Congress and only 21 of them are Republicans, a 25-year low for the opposition party. There are 55 African-American lawmakers and only one in the House and one in the Senate is a Republican. We have 36 Latinos in Congress and four in the Senate, majority Democrats once again. There are 13 congressmen and three senators of Asian descent, all Democrats. And of the 10 openly gay or bisexual Americans serving in Washington, all are Democrats.

When we say, “If you can see it, you can be it,” we mean it.  So where is the logic to putting Mayor Pete in a “white guy” category, lumping him in with the rest of the “white guys” (Beto, Biden and Bernie)? We must not risk losing sight of all the distinctive qualities they do not share.  

Of course, they share the same skin color (by no means a disqualifier!), but their experiences make them vividly distinct from one another. And by virtue of the Three B’s being heterosexual, they are unequivocally distinct from Buttigieg.

No one told them that they couldn’t marry the people they love. They weren’t almost five times more likely to have attempted suicide when they were young. They weren’t apt to say they weren’t afforded the same employment opportunities.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

I’m not arguing for Mayor Pete’s candidacy per se, but I am cautioning against broad proclamations about what kind of candidate we want to go up against Donald Trump in 2020. For starters, it’s very early in our process. We have so many interesting and diverse candidates and we have yet to see the full field. But, I think it’s a mistake to let a broad brush backlash against white men swallow Mayor Pete up with it.

Recent polling from Gallup shows that 4.5 percent of Americans identify as LGBT. And the Public Religion Research Institute found that 7 percent of millennials identify as LBGT, a figure that will continue to grow. That’s a real chunk of the U.S. population, especially when you consider that, as a nation, we are 13 percent black and 18 percent Hispanic.

Every dimension of a candidate matters to voters and to our future -- we should do our absolute best to ensure that we don’t oversimplify people who are infinitely complex. 

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Trump says he did not know about Kushner’s WhatsApp messaging

FILE PHOTO: Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington
FILE PHOTO: Trump adviser Jared Kushner listen as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with his Cabinet at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

March 22, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he knew nothing about son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner’s use of the WhatsApp encrypted messaging tool, a day after a top U.S. Democratic congressman questioned the unofficial communications.

On Thursday, U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings asked the White House about Kushner’s use of the unofficial messaging application as part of his government work.

In a letter to the White House, seen by Reuters, Cummings said Kushner’s lawyer had told lawmakers about his WhatsApp use for official duties, a move that would violate current law prohibiting White House officials from using non-official electronic messaging accounts.

Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House before departing for Mar-A-Lago, his private club in Florida, for the weekend, denied any knowledge of Kushner’s unofficial communications.

“I know nothing about it. I’ve never heard that, I’ve never heard about it,” the Republican president said.

Cummings in his letter on Thursday said Kushner lawyer Abbe Lowell also told Congress that Ivanka Trump – the president’s daughter, Kushner’s wife and also a top White House adviser – continued to use a personal email account for official business. That would also violate the Presidential Records Act.

Lowell, in a separate letter to Cummings, called the Democratic committee chairman’s characterization of earlier comments “not completely accurate.”

The lawyer denied telling Congress members Kushner had communicated through any app with foreign “leaders” or “officials” but said that instead Kushner had used such apps for communicating with “some people,” whom he did not specify.

Lowell also denied saying that Ivanka Trump continued to receive emails related to official business on a personal account. He said Ivanka Trump “always forwards official business to her White House account.”

In the 2016 presidential race, Trump railed against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, for her use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, inspiring chants at his rallies of “lock her up.” The FBI and the Department of Justice investigated Clinton but brought no charges.

Kushner’s communications, particularly with foreign leaders, have been under scrutiny since the presidential campaign, and questions have been raised about his security clearance.

WhatsApp is owned by Facebook Inc.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Jeff Mason; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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Report: Trump Attorneys Never Seriously Worried About Collusion

Donald Trump's legal team was more concerned about potential claims of obstruction of justice concerning the president than any possible collusion with Russia before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was completed, NBC News is reporting.

Martin and Jane Raskin, the husband and wife legal team worked with constitutional lawyer Jay Sekulow, who led the Trump legal team. The Raskins joined the president's legal team last April and dealt directly with Mueller's team, according to the network news.

According to NBC News, by the time the two arrived prosecutors were seldom asking serious questions about Russia.

"It became obvious to the legal team early on that Russia collusion was not a substantive issue," Sekulow told NBC News.

Mueller's office was seeking answers why Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and why he denounced the Russia probe on Twitter, the network news reported, attributing the information to sources.

Mueller's team, on several occasions, made formal requests for a sit-down interview with the president, NBC News said. But Trump's legal team resisted.

The Raskins, Sekulow, and Rudy Giuliani were in Sekulow's office Sunday when Barr released Mueller's conclusions.

Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "have concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."

And Barr quoted Mueller as saying "while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it does not exonerate him" on obstruction.

Trump's legal team members, convinced they had a total victory, high-fived one another upon hearing the news.

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Indian court acquits four men in 2007 India-Pakistan train blast case

FILE PHOTO: A view of a burnt carriage of Samjhauta Express train in Deewana near Panipat town
FILE PHOTO: A view of a burnt carriage of Samjhauta Express train in Deewana, near Panipat town, February 19, 2007. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan/File Photo

March 20, 2019

By Aftab Ahmed

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted four Hindu men accused of bombing a train between India and Pakistan in 2007 that killed 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, citing a lack of evidence, defense lawyers said.

Pakistan’s acting foreign secretary described the ruling as a “travesty of justice”.

The ruling comes weeks after a sharp escalation in tensions between India and Pakistan after a suicide car bomb in Kashmir killed 40 Indian paramilitary police. Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack.

The court in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh gave its verdict after dismissing a petition filed last week by the daughter of a Pakistani victim who wanted to get her statement recorded as a witness.

“Prosecution has failed to prove the case so the court acquitted all of them,” lawyer Mukesh Garg told reporters outside the court. “The court first rejected the application from a Pakistani lady.”

One of those declared not guilty is Swami Aseemanand, a self-styled Hindu holy man and former member of the nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the parent of India’s ruling party.

Aseemanand was jailed in 2010 after admitting his involvement in the attack on the train near Panipat, a city about 100 km (62 miles) north of Delhi. He later said he had been tortured to give a false statement.

Two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, a bi-weekly train that runs between New Delhi and Lahore in Pakistan, caught fire late on Feb. 19, 2007, after two improvised explosive devices exploded, according to a charge-sheet filed by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2013.

In all, the NIA had accused eight men of conducting what it described as a “dreadful terrorist act”. It said the group had been “angry with attacks on Hindu temples by jihadi terrorist activities”. One of the accused was murdered in December 2007 and three others absconded from justice.

Pakistan’s acting foreign secretary summoned the Indian high commissioner in Islamabad on Wednesday to protest the decision.

“Pakistan had consistently raised the lack of progress and the subsequent, concerted attempts by India to exonerate the perpetrators of this heinous terrorist act,” the Pakistani foreign office said in a statement.

“The acquittal of the accused today, 11 years after the heinous Samjhauta Terror Attacks, makes a travesty of justice and exposes the sham credibility of the Indian Courts.”

Pakistan earlier questioned what it called India’s lack of action against the accused. India had responded by accusing Pakistan of failing to act against militant groups behind attacks in Mumbai in 2008, in which 166 people were killed.

Asaduddin Owaisi, an Indian lawmaker and prominent Muslim leader, criticized Wednesday’s verdict.

“68 dead and nothing to account for them, nothing to say that justice has been done,” he said in a tweet.

(Additional reporting by Devjyot Ghoshal and Saad Sayeed; Editing by Krishna N. Das and Hugh Lawson)

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Trump’s pick for No. 3 Justice Department post withdraws from consideration

United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu speaks during a news conference to discuss
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jessie Liu speaks during a news conference to discuss "efforts to reduce violent crime" at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

March 28, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jessie Liu, the current U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has withdrawn from consideration to serve as the third-ranking official in the U.S. Justice Department, a department spokeswoman said on Thursday.

Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said the decision was made because of objections from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

President Donald Trump had said earlier this month he intended to nominate Liu to be associate attorney general – a job that involves overseeing the department’s civil litigation, including antitrust matters, civil rights, and environmental law.

(Reporting by Andy Sullivan)

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Poland's parliament cancels delivery of nationalist weekly

Poland's parliament is cancelling the delivery of a nationalist weekly that recently ran an anti-Semitic headline.

Andrzej Grzegrzolka, the head of parliament's press office, said Thursday that the list of publications delivered to the legislature will be reviewed to prevent a repeat of such situations.

Opposition lawmaker Michal Kaminski spotted the "Tylko Polska" ("Poland Only") paper with the headline "How to Recognize a Jew" at a kiosk on the parliament grounds. He called for prosecutors to investigate, as it's a crime in Poland to incite hatred based on race or religion. A lawmaker from the ruling right-wing party called for the paper to be banned altogether.

Poland, which was home to Europe's largest Jewish community before the 1939 occupation by Nazi Germany, has a history of anti-Semitic speech and actions.

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FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of Wirecard AG, an independent provider of outsourcing and white label solutions for electronic payment transactions is seen in Aschheim near Munich, Germany April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Michael Dalder

April 26, 2019

BERLIN (Reuters) – Wulf Matthias will not stand for a second term as Wirecard’s chairman in 2020, German daily Handelsblatt said on Friday, citing sources in the financial industry.

For age reasons alone this would not be an option for Matthias, aged 75, Handelsblatt added.

Matthias will keep his mandate until it ends in 2020, the paper quoted a company spokeswoman as saying.

Wirecard was not immediately available for comment when contacted by Reuters.

(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Thomas Seythal)

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FILE PHOTO: The Credit Suisse logo is pictured on a bank in Geneva, Switzerland, October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

April 26, 2019

ZURICH (Reuters) – Shareholders approved Credit Suisse’s 2018 compensation report with an 82 percent majority on Friday, overriding frustrations expressed at its annual general meeting over jumps in executive pay during a year its share price plummeted.

Three shareholder advisers had recommended investors vote against Switzerland’s second-biggest bank’s remuneration report, while a fourth backed the report but expressed reservations about whether management pay matched performance.

The approval marked a slight increase over the 80.8 percent support garnered for the bank’s 2017 compensation report.

(Reporting by Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi; Editing by Michael Shields)

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FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the trading floor of Barclays Bank at Canary Wharf in London
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the trading floor of Barclays Bank at Canary Wharf in London, Britain December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise

LONDON (Reuters) – Activist investor Edward Bramson is likely to fail in his attempt to get a board seat at Barclays’ annual meeting next week, even though shareholders are dissatisfied with performance of the group’s investment bank.

New York-based Bramson’s Sherborne Investors and the board of the British bank have been sparring for months over Barclays’ strategy.

Bramson wants to scale back Barclays’ investment bank to reduce risk and boost shareholder returns. Barclays Chief Executive Jes Staley remains staunchly committed to growing the business out of trouble.

After failing to persuade Staley to change course since he began building a 5.5 percent stake in the bank in March last year, Bramson hopes a board seat will rachet up the pressure.

Both sides have written to shareholders pitching their case and Bramson has courted investors in one-on-one meetings, although none have publicly backed him yet.

Interviews by Reuters with five institutional investors in Barclays suggest Bramson has failed to persuade them.

Sherborne declined to comment.

Mirza Baig, head of investment stewardship at top-40 shareholder Aviva Investors, said Bramson was welcome on the bank’s register but the boardroom was a step too far.

“He has created a lot of value at other businesses, but, generally, when he has come in as executive chair and taken full control. This would be a different case where he would just be one lone voice on the board,” he said.

A second Barclays shareholder said he backed Bramson’s goal of improving returns but via an “evolutionary” approach.

“If you look at banks that have tried to restructure their operations in investment banking – you look at Natwest Markets, Deutsche Bank – I struggle to think of an example where a roughshod restructuring has been accretive to shareholder value.”

A third, top-30 investor said he had been impressed by incoming Chairman Nigel Higgins’ grasp of the challenge in hand, and felt investors would give him time.

“Management know they have to execute and deliver improved returns… [Higgins] will continue to re-shape the board but obviously he didn’t feel that having someone with a diametrically opposed view on it would be helpful.”

A fourth, top-30 investor agreed: “We voted for the chairman to come in and it would be crazy to allow an activist to join the board (at this time).”

Jupiter Fund Management, the 24th largest investor, said it also planned to vote against Bramson.

Barclays has nearly 500 institutional shareholders, Refinitiv data showed.

Since Staley joined Barclays in 2015, the investment bank returns relative to capital invested have increased but are still underperforming the overall business.

Barclays’ first-quarter figures showed the investment bank posted a 6 percent drop in income from its markets business and a 17 percent fall in banking advisory fees.

Returns in the investment bank fell to 9.5 percent from 13.2 percent a year ago.

Famed for successful campaigns against smaller British companies in sectors from chemicals to advertising, Bramson’s board seat pitch has been rebuffed by shareholder advisory firms.

Institutional Shareholder Services, the world’s biggest, said Bramson’s proposal “falls short of what can reasonably be expected from a shareholder trying to address issues at a 28 billion pounds, systemically important bank”.

Glass Lewis also flagged concern about Bramson’s lack of banking experience and “questionable” shareholding structure, referring to Sherborne’s use of derivative contracts to hedge losses should its strategy fail.

Critics said the arrangement meant his interests are not truly aligned with those of other long-term shareholders.

British advisory firm Pirc, however, said it recommended that investors abstain in the vote on Bramson’s proposal as a challenge to the board to do better in the year ahead – or face a similar contest in 2020.

(Editing by Jane Merriman)

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After an over 15-month pregnancy, “Akuti,” a 7-year-old Greater One Horned Indian Rhinoceros, gave birth as a result of induced ovulation and artificial insemination at Zoo Miami, April 23, 2019.

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FILE PHOTO: A Chevron gas station sign is seen in Del Mar, California, in this April 25, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

April 26, 2019

(Reuters) – U.S. oil and natural gas producer Chevron Corp reported a 27 percent fall in quarterly earnings on Friday, hit by lower crude prices and weaker margins in its refining and chemicals businesses.

Net income attributable to the company fell to $2.65 billion, or $1.39 per share, for the first quarter ended March 31, from $3.64 billion, or $1.90 per share, a year earlier.

Earlier in the day, larger rival Exxon Mobil Corp reported earnings well below analysts’ estimates, as margins in its refining business were hurt by higher Canadian prices and heavy scheduled maintenance.

(Reporting by Arathy S Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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