all News of 11/17/19

President Trump Undergoes Testing During Medical Checkup Not Listed On His Public Schedule: White House

President Trump Undergoes Testing During Medical Checkup Not Listed on His Public Schedule: White House image BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical. The appointment wasn’t on Trump’s ...

Czechs Use 30th Anniversary Of Velvet Revolution To Pressure Prime Minister To Sell Business

Czechs Use 30th Anniversary of Velvet Revolution to Pressure Prime Minister to Sell Business image (PRAGUE) — About a quarter of a million Czechs gathered on the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that brought an end to decades of communist rule in the country to give Prime Minister Andrej Babis an ultimatum — sell your business ...

Army Photogrammetry Technique Makes 3d Aerial Maps In Minutes

Army photogrammetry technique makes 3D aerial maps in minutes image Aerial imagery is a common asset in military matters, but 3D maps can be difficult to collect on short notice without specialized equipment. This new photogrammetry technique from the Army Corps of Engineers, however, can make accurate 3D maps from ...

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Game Maker Exposed 452,000 Players’ Account Data

‘Magic: The Gathering’ game maker exposed 452,000 players’ account data image The maker of Magic: The Gathering has confirmed that a security lapse exposed the data on hundreds of thousands of game players. The game’s developer, the Washington-based Wizards of the Coast, left a database backup file in a public Amazon ...

This Week In Apps: Apple’S Vaping App Ban, Disney+ Gets Installed, Apps Gear Up For Black Friday

This Week in Apps: Apple’s vaping app ban, Disney+ gets installed, apps gear up for Black Friday image Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. What are developers talking about? What do app publishers and marketers need to know? ...

1 Killed As Protests Grip Major Iran Cities Over Inflated Gas Prices

1 Killed as Protests Grip Major Iran Cities Over Inflated Gas Prices image (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Protesters angered by Iran raising government-set gasoline prices by 50% blocked traffic in major cities and occasionally clashed with police Saturday after a night of demonstrations punctuated by gunfire, in ...

"Bad Writing Does Not Normally Warrant Sanctions, But We Draw The Line At Gibberish"

A line from Judge Diane Sykes' opinion a week ago in McCurry v. Kenco Logistics Services, LLC ; see pp. 11-16 for more details. The opinion closes with: Because we have a duty to "maintain public confidence in the legal profession" and "protect[] ...

White House Budget Official Meets Privately With Impeachment Investigators

White House Budget Official Meets Privately With Impeachment Investigators image (WASHINGTON) — House impeachment investigators met in private Saturday with a White House budget official as the historic inquiry produces new testimony offering direct insight of President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. After a ...

Chinese Troops Join Hong Kong Cleanup As Protesters Retreat

Chinese Troops Join Hong Kong Cleanup as Protesters Retreat image (HONG KONG) — Chinese troops came out of the barracks in Hong Kong on Saturday — not to quell protests but to help clean up. It was a rare public appearance by the People’s Liberation Army on the streets of the semiautonomous ...

Do Courts Sometimes Lack Jurisdiction Over Torts Physically Committed In The State?

Vermont has recently repealed its statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse. As a result, Martin Giroux sued Paul Foley for allegedly assaulting him 35 years before, apparently when the Giroux and Foley families were vacationing in Vermont ...

St. Mark’S Square In Venice Reopens After Flooding, But Water Remains High

St. Mark’s Square in Venice Reopens After Flooding, but Water Remains High image (VENICE, Italy) — Tourists and residents were allowed back into St. Mark’s Square in Venice on Saturday, a day after it was closed due to exceptionally high tidal waters that swept through most of the lagoon city’s already devastated ...

Anniversary Of Birth Of Yellow Vest Movement In France Marked With Police Scuffles

Anniversary of Birth of Yellow Vest Movement in France Marked With Police Scuffles image (PARIS) — Scuffles between Paris police and activists on Saturday marred the anniversary of the birth of the yellow vest movement against government policies seen as favoring the rich. On a day of largely peaceful demonstrations across France, ...

5 Killed, Dozens Injured As Bolivian Police Open Fire On Evo Morales Supporters

5 Killed, Dozens Injured as Bolivian Police Open Fire on Evo Morales Supporters image (SACABA, Bolivia) — Bolivia’s political crisis turned deadly again when security forces opened fire on supporters of Evo Morales. At least five people died and dozens were injured, threatening the interim government’s efforts to ...

Czechoslovakia’S Velvet Revolution Started 30 Years Ago—But It Was Decades In The Making

Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution Started 30 Years Ago—But It Was Decades in the Making image On Nov. 17, 1989, student protesters filled the streets of Prague. It was eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the same tide of freedom that had swept Berlin seemed to have come to the Czech capital. Police tried to beat back the ...

Oklahoma's 'Cottage Food' Restrictions Are Hurting Food Producers And Sellers

Oklahomans who want to take advantage of the state's cottage food law are finding some surprising obstacles in their way. The obstacles came to light when Farm Hippie, a new market in Collinsville, about a half-hour's drive north of Tulsa, sought ...

Today In Supreme Court History: November 16, 1939

Today in Supreme Court History: November 16, 1939 image 11/16/1939: Justice Pierce Butler dies. Justice Pierce Butler

But Gorsuch!

When Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in January 2017, Demand Progress warned that the judge was "an extremist" who would "rubber stamp Trump's assaults on Americans' freedoms." People for the American Way likewise described ...

Historic Flooding Highlights Venice’S Vulnerability To High Tides, Rising Sea Levels

Historic Flooding Highlights Venice’s Vulnerability to High Tides, Rising Sea Levels image (VENICE, Italy) — The historic lagoon city of Venice exists on the edge of a double threat: As it sinks, the seas rise. That reality became more stark this week when Venice was hit with its worst flood in over 50 years, caused by a nearly 1.9 ...

Trump Grants Pardons To 2 U.S. Soldiers Accused Of War Crimes

Trump Grants Pardons to 2 U.S. Soldiers Accused of War Crimes image (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. Army commando set to stand trial next year in the killing of a suspected Afghan bomb-maker and a former Army lieutenant convicted of murder for ordering his men to fire upon three ...

Disney+ Adds Disclaimers, Content Warnings To Movies Featuring Racist Characters And Tropes

Disney+ Adds Disclaimers, Content Warnings to Movies Featuring Racist Characters and Tropes image (NEW YORK) — Disney’s new streaming service has added a disclaimer to Dumbo , Peter Pan and other classics because they depict racist stereotypes, underscoring a challenge media companies face when they resurrect older movies in ...