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Time’s up CEO resigns after sexual assault allegations against her son: report

Lisa Borders, the CEO of Time’s Up, resigned from her post last week after following sexual assault allegations against her son, the gender equality group announced Thursday.

Borders initially cited “family concerns that require my singular focus” when she resigned.

"TIME'S UP unequivocally supports all survivors of sexual harassment and abuse," the organization said in a statement. “On Friday, Lisa Borders informed members of TIME’S UP leadership that sexual assault allegations had been made against her son in a private forum. Within 24 hours, Lisa made the decision to resign as President and CEO of TIME’S UP and we agreed that it was the right decision for all parties involved.”

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The organization was founded by female celebrities in response to the #MeToo movement. The group focuses on gender parity and workplace safety for women. Borders did not respond to a Los Angeles Times request for comment.

Her departure comes after a woman alleged in a post on a private Facebook group that her son, Garry “Dijon” Bowden Jr., had been sexually inappropriate with her during a healing massage session. Celia Gellert, 31, told the Times she felt violated when Bowden allegedly kissed her neck, touched her genitalia and rubbed his clothed genitalia against her. She went public with her experience on Facebook “because I don’t want it to happen to anyone else,” she said.

Bowden’s attorney Alan Jackson denied the allegations against his client.

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“My client vehemently denies that any inappropriate or nonconsensual touching occurred at any time,” Jackson told the paper.

Borders was hired by Time’s Up in October with much fanfare. She previously served as the president of the WNBA and vice president at Coca-Cola.

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Man imprisoned for sports editor’s killing seeking freedom

A man who has served 15 years in prison for the 2001 killing of a Missouri sports editor is challenging his imprisonment.

Charles Erickson pleaded guilty in 2004 in the death of Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt. He told police he had "dream-like" memories of helping Ryan Ferguson rob Heitholt before he was killed.

Ferguson's conviction and life sentence were vacated in November 2013.

The Daily Tribune reports attorneys for Erickson filed a petition this month in Pike County seeking his freedom. They argue Erickson's confession and guilty plea don't prevent him from seeking relief from the sentence.

The state argued that Erickson has repeatedly confessed to the crime both before and after his conviction.

There is no timetable for the judge to issue a ruling.

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EU’s Barnier says current Brexit deal is only one available

European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Barnier delivers a speech during a debate on Brexit, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg
European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier delivers a speech during a debate on Brexit after the vote on British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

March 14, 2019

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – The current deal struck between Brussels and London over Britain’s exit from the European Union is the only one available, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator said on Thursday.

“If the United Kingdom still wants to leave the European Union and if it wants to leave in an orderly manner, which is what the prime minister says, then this treaty, such as it is, which organizes the orderly separation, this treaty is the only one possible and available,” Michel Barnier said, holding up a copy of the withdrawal treaty that has been rejected twice by Britain’s parliament.

“We need, in order to go further, not to have a negative vote against the treaty or against a no deal, but a constructive and positive vote,” he continued.

(Reporting by Luiza Ilie, writing by Philip Blenkinsop, editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Genoa bridge project a rare beacon for Italian construction

FILE PHOTO: Construction workers dismantle the collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa
FILE PHOTO: Construction workers dismantle the collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy, February 7, 2019. REUTERS/Massimo Pinca/File Photo

February 26, 2019

By Crispian Balmer

GENOA, Italy (Reuters) – When work started this month on dismantling the motorway bridge in Genoa that collapsed last August, killing 43 people, the Italian government said it was a symbol of revival.

   But another site a short distance away is more representative of infrastructure development in Italy, with zero activity and the land undisturbed.

After 20 years of planning, bulldozers were due to start carving out a bypass around this northern port city in late 2018. Just as local officials thought they had cleared every bureaucratic hurdle, the government in Rome demanded a new cost-benefit analysis.

“We have the money, we have approval from everyone … Then a new government arrived and everything stopped,” Marco Bucci, Genoa’s center-right mayor, told Reuters.

“Bureaucracy, finger-pointing, politics and litigation are the real problem here in Italy.”

Builders say the fate of the bypass is symptomatic of wider problems in Italy’s construction sector, where overly complex planning procedures have hobbled hundreds of new projects and slowed repairs.

The resulting crisis has pushed 120,000 building firms out of business in less than 10 years and weakened the euro zone’s third-largest economy, now in its third recession in a decade.

“While Italy is falling apart, thousands of companies and their employees are losing work because of this immobility,” said Gabriele Buia, president of national constructors’ association Ance.

Ance has a website detailing around 600 construction projects worth some 36 billion euros ($40.7 billion), including the Genoa bypass, that it says are blocked, more often than not because of suffocating bureaucracy.

GOING BUST

After the far-right League and anti-establishment 5-Star Movement formed a government last June, they promised to unravel red tape that has throttled Italian businesses.

But 5-Star also demanded cost-benefit analyses that have halted a number of projects, including the long-promised bypass and a high-speed Alpine rail link between Turin and the French city of Lyon on which work had already started.

The bypass review has yet to be completed, but a report this month on the so-called TAV rail line gave a resounding thumbs-down to the 20-billion-euro link, to dismay from business.

“The TAV is vital for the growth of the country,” Ance’s Buia told Reuters. “We have calculated that it would have created 50,000 jobs … By stopping work on it we are creating immediate damage for ourselves.”

Critics say the prolonged planning process makes it too easy for new administrations at both national and local level to unpick the work of their predecessors.

For projects costing over 100 million euros, it takes on average six years to get all the necessary permits from myriad public bodies, 1.3 years to award the contracts and then more than seven years to actually finish building.

“Why does it take more than a year to complete the tender process and why, if a company goes bust once work is underway, do you have to start the tender from scratch again? It is mad,” said Genoa’s Bucci.

Companies getting into trouble is a recurrent problem.

In the last eight months, Astaldi, Italy’s second-largest builder and CMC, its fourth-largest, have filed for creditor protection, while number three firm Condotte filed for insolvency.

Italy’s biggest builder Salini Impregilo meanwhile generates 93 percent of its revenues abroad. “Are we tempted to leave Italy? We left it a long time ago,” company CEO Pietro Salini told Reuters.

BUILDING CODE

The sector’s woes have had dire repercussions for banks.

According to latest Bank of Italy data, bad loans in the construction field total some 25.6 billion euros, nearly 30 percent of all bad loans in the financial system.

Ance estimates that some 26 billion euros of financing, both public and private, is in place for the biggest schemes but has not been tapped because projects are frozen. According to EU data, Italy scores the worst of any nation in the 28-country bloc when it comes to spending on planned public investment.

The government has promised to tackle one of the major bottlenecks — a building code that is designed to halt once-rampant corruption but has gummed up the system as an unwanted side-effect, with authorities reportedly worried about signing contracts for fear of breaking the law.

An overhaul promised by ministers has been delayed from November to March given the complexity of the changes and concerns they could help organized crime, which has traditionally made a fortune from construction.

Work on the Genoa bridge was accelerated because the government declared an emergency and gave Bucci special powers to circumvent the normal bureaucracy and tender procedures, limiting the scope for eventual litigation.

He believes such powers should be granted for other strategic projects.

“If we can complete this bridge in 15 months then we will signal to the world that we can do these things in Italy,” Bucci said.

(Additional reporting by Stefano Bernabei and Stephen Jewkes; Editing by Catherine Evans)

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Trump’s policies may have US ‘begging for immigrants’ in the future, 2020 Dem Castro says

The U.S. relies heavily on immigrant labor, and if President Trump’s policies aren't reversed, the U.S. may find itself “begging for immigrants” in the future, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro argued Tuesday.

"Several of the industries in this country benefit already from their labor," Castro told MSNBC. "We need a young and vibrant workforce. And if we're not careful, if we don't get this right, in 20 or 30 years this nation is going to be begging for immigrants to come to this country."

Castro argued further that illegal immigration should be treated as a civil, rather than criminal matter.

“The truth is, immigrants seeking refuge in our country aren’t a threat to national security. Migration shouldn’t be a criminal justice issue. It’s time to end this draconian policy and return to treating immigration as a civil -- not a criminal -- issue,” he said.

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Castro, 44, one of a crowded field of Democrats seeking the party's 2020 presidential nomination, has made immigration central to his platform. In a proposal published on Medium, he vowed to reverse the travel ban on migration from certain countries, cuts in refugee numbers and what he calls “wasteful spending on a pointless wall.”

Castro was the youngest member of former President Barack Obama's Cabinet, serving as secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017. He previously served as mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

Castro's twin brother is U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Democrat who represents Texas's 20th Congressional District.

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Julian Castro is likely to return to the topic of immigration later this month when he is scheduled to hold a rally in his hometown of San Antonio at the same time Trump is expected to appear in Texas for fundraising events.

Fox News' Adam Shaw and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Tokayev sworn in as Kazakhstan’s president

FILE PHOTO: Newly appointed Director General of the UNOG Tokayev of Kazakhstan is pictured in Geneva
FILE PHOTO: Newly appointed Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan is pictured in Geneva, Switzerland May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

March 20, 2019

ASTANA (Reuters) – Kassym-Jomart Tokayev assumed the post of Kazakhstan’s president on Wednesday following the surprise resignation of veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev after three decades in power.

Nazarbayev, 78, resigned late on Tuesday in what appeared to be the first step in a choreographed political transition that will see him retain considerable sway.

Tokayev, a 65-year-old career diplomat fluent in Russian, English and Chinese, will serve for the rest of the term which ends in April 2020, in line with the constitution.

It remains unclear whether the Moscow-educated former prime minister will then run for the presidency. Nazarbayev praised him on Tuesday as “a man who can be trusted to lead Kazakhstan”.

Nazarbayev, who has no obvious long-term successor, had run the oil-rich Central Asian nation since 1989 when it was a Soviet republic, routinely winning elections with more than 90 percent of the vote.

(Reporting by Tamara Vaal; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Tom Balmforth)

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Case of 43 disappeared students gets fresh start in Mexico

The disappearance of 43 Mexican students at the hands of police in 2014 is entering a new phase with the launch of a group that will try to shed light on the still-murky case.

Monday's inauguration of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights group comes after new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government set up a truth commission in January.

Deputy Interior Secretary Alejandro Encinas said the experts will have access "without restrictions" to information on the case.

A government investigation concluded the teachers' college students were taken by police in Iguala, handed over to drug cartel thugs and then burned at a dump.

Outside experts have cast doubt on that theory, citing irregularities, a lack of forensic evidence and possible obstructions of justice at multiple levels of government.

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A Florida measure that would ban sanctuary cities is set for a vote Friday in the state’s Senate after clearing its first hurdle earlier this week.

The bill would effectively make it against the law for Florida’s police departments to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

“The Governor may initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state against such officers to enforce compliance,” a draft version of the Senate bill reads.

A House version of the bill, which passed by a 69-47 vote Wednesday, adds that non-complying officials could be suspended or removed from office and face fines of up to $5,000 per day. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign off on the measure, although it’s not clear which version.

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Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D-Orlando), during a press conference at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, speaks out against bills in the House and Senate that would ban sanctuary cities in the state.

Florida Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith (D-Orlando), during a press conference at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, speaks out against bills in the House and Senate that would ban sanctuary cities in the state. (AP)

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Florida is home to 775,000 illegal immigrants out of 10.7 million present in the United States, ranking the state third among all states.

Nine states — Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas — already have enacted state laws requiring law enforcement to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Florida doesn’t have sanctuary cities like the ones in California and other states. But Republican lawmakers say a handful of their municipalities — including Orlando and West Palm Beach – are acting as “pseudo-sanctuary” cities, because they prevent law enforcement officials from asking about immigration status when they make arrests.

“There are still people here in the state of Florida, police chiefs that are just refusing to contact ICE, refusing to detain somebody that they know is here illegally,” Florida Republican Rep. Blaise Ingoglia said earlier this month. “So while the actual county municipality doesn’t have an actual adopted policy, they still have people in power within their sheriff’s department or police department that refuse to do it anyway.”

Florida’s Democratic Party has blasted the anti-Sanctuary measures, while the Miami-Dade Police Department says it should be up to federal authorities to handle immigration-related matters.

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“House Republicans today sold out their communities to Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis by passing this xenophobic and discriminatory bill,” the state’s Democratic Party said Wednesday after the House passed their version of the bill. “It’s abhorrent that Republican members who represent immigrant communities are now turning their backs on their constituents and jeopardizing their safety.

“Florida has long stood as a beacon for immigrant communities — and today Republicans did the best they could to destroy that reputation,” they added.

Fox News’ Elina Shirazi contributed to this report.

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FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the Spain's far-right party VOX wave Spanish flags as they attend an electoral rally ahead of general elections in the Andalusian capital of Seville
FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the Spain’s far-right party VOX wave Spanish flags as they attend an electoral rally ahead of general elections in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By John Stonestreet and Belén Carreño

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Vox party, aligned to a broader far-right movement emerging across Europe, has become the focus of speculation about last minute shifts in voting intentions since official polling for Sunday’s national election ended four days ago.

No single party is anywhere near securing a majority, and chances of a deadlocked parliament and a second election are high.

Leaders of the five parties vying for a role in government get final chances to pitch for power at rallies on Friday evening, before a campaign characterized by appeals to voters’ hearts rather than wallets ends at midnight.

By tradition, the final day before a Spanish election is politics-free.

Two main prizes are still up for grabs in the home straight. One concerns which of the two rival left and right multi-party blocs gets more votes.

The other is whether Vox could challenge the mainstream conservative PP for leadership of the latter bloc, which media outlets with access to unofficial soundings taken since Monday suggest could be starting to happen.

The right’s loose three-party alliance is led by the PP, the traditional conservative party that has alternated in office with outgoing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists since Spain’s return to democracy in the 1970s.

The PP stands at around 20 percent, with center-right Ciudadanos near 14 percent and Vox around 11 percent, according to a final poll of polls in daily El Pais published on Monday.

Since then, however, interest in Vox – which will become the first far-right party to sit in parliament since 1982 – has snowballed.

It was founded in 2013, part of a broader anti-establishment, far-right movement that has also spread across – among others – Italy, France and Germany.

While it is careful to distance itself from the ideology of late dictator Francisco Franco, Vox’s signature policies include repealing laws banning Franco-era symbols and on gender-based violence, and shifting power away from Spain’s regional governments.

TRENDING

According to a Google trends graphic, Vox has generated more than three times more search inquiries than any other Spanish political party in the past week.

Reasons could include a groundswell of vocal activist support at Vox rallies in Madrid and Valencia, and its exclusion from two televised debates between the main party leaders, on the grounds of it having no deputies yet in parliament.

Conservative daily La Vanguardia called its enforced absence from Monday’s and Tuesday’s debates “a gift from heaven”, while left-wing Eldiario.es suggested the PP was haemorrhaging votes to Vox in rural areas.

Ignacio Jurado, politics lecturer at the University of York, agreed the main source of additional Vox votes would be disaffected PP supporters, and called the debate ban – whose impact he said was unclear – wrong.

“This is a party polling over 10 percent and there are people interested in what it says. So we lose more than we win in not having them (in the debates),” he said

For Jose Fernandez-Albertos, political scientist at Spanish National Research Council CSIC, Vox is enjoying the novelty effect that propelled then new, left-wing arrival Podemos to 20 percent of the vote in 2015.

“While it’s unclear how to interpret the (Google) data, what we do know is that it’s better to be popular and to be a newcomer, and that Vox will benefit in some form,” he said.

For now, the chances of Vox taking a major role in government remain slim, however.

The El Pais survey put the Socialists on around 30 percent, making them the frontrunners and likely to form a leftist bloc with Podemos, back down at around 14 percent.

The unofficial soundings suggest little change in the two parties’ combined vote, or the total vote of the rightist bloc.

That makes it unlikely that either bloc will win a majority on Sunday, triggering horse-trading with smaller parties favoring Catalan independence – the single most polarizing issues during campaigning – that could easily collapse into fresh elections.

(Election graphic: https://tmsnrt.rs/2ENugtw)

(Reporting by John Stonestreet and Belen Carreno, Editing by William Maclean)

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The Amish population in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County is continuing to grow each year, despite the encroachment of urban sprawl on their communities.

The U.S. Census Bureau says the county added about 2,500 people in 2018. LNP reports that about 1,000 of them were Amish.

Elizabethtown College researchers say Lancaster County’s Amish population reached 33,143 in 2018, up 3.2% from the previous year.

The Amish accounted for about 41% of the county’s overall population growth last year.

Some experts are concerned that a planned 75-acre (30-hectare) housing and commercial project will make it more difficult for the county to accommodate the Amish.

Donald Kraybill, an authority on Amish culture, told Manheim Township commissioners this week that some in the community are worried about the development and the increased traffic it would bring.

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Information from: LNP, http://lancasteronline.com

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Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera has warned that if Democratic 2020 presidential candidates don’t take the crisis at the border seriously, they’ll do so at their own risk.

Speaking with “Fox & Friends” hosts on Friday morning, Rivera discussed the influx of candidates entering the race, including former Vice President Joe Biden, and gave an update on the newest developments at the border.

“If [Democrats] don’t take it seriously they ignore it at their peril,” Rivera said.

He went on to discuss the fact that Mexico is experiencing the same problems dealing with volumes of people at the border as the United States is. Processing facilities, as many have argued, are understaffed and underresourced, resulting in conditions that have been controversial.

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“It is very, very difficult when hundreds and hundreds become thousands and thousands ultimately become tens of it is very difficult to have an orderly system,” he said.

Rivera asserted his opinion that the United States could lessen the influx of migrants coming into the country by investing in the development of Central American countries, where many are fleeing from violence and economic instability.

“I believe, as I have said before on this program, that we have to stop the source of the migrant explosion, by a comprehensive system of political and economic reform in Central America where people have the incentive to stay home,” Rivera said.

“I think we have help Mexico with its infrastructure. Mexico has a moral burden, as the president made very clear, not to let unchecked herds of desperate people flow through 2,000 miles of Mexican territory to get our southern border.”

Rivera also brought up President Trump’s controversial comments about Mexican immigrants during his campaign in 2016.

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The Fox News correspondent said that having been so excited about Trump’s campaign, the comments made him feel “deflated” as a Hispanic American.

However, as the crisis at the border has accelerated over the last few years, Rivera argued that ultimately, the president’s comments weren’t incorrect.

“He is now in a position where he can justly say I was right, that the that the anarchy at the border doesn’t serve anybody,” Rivera said. “Maybe he said it in a language I felt was a little rough and insensitive, but there is no doubt.”

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FILE PHOTO: The logo of the OPEC is seen at OPEC's headquarters in Vienna
FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at OPEC’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

April 26, 2019

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and told the cartel to lower oil prices.

“Gasoline prices are coming down. I called up OPEC, I said you’ve got to bring them down. You’ve got to bring them down,” Trump told reporters.

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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