Popstar Nadine Samuels, 27, who toured with Little Mix, sobs as she’s jailed for killing mum-of-three cyclist in roundabout crash
NADINE Samuels, who toured with Little Mix wept as she was caged for eight months for killing a mum in a horror crash.
The singer – member of girl group M.O – failed to look while at a roundabout and smashed into Debbie Mills as she cycled in Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
The mum-of-three, 54, suffered traumatic brain injuries after being flung on to the windscreen and road and died in hospital shortly after.
Samuels was sentenced at St Albans Crown Court after she pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving.
The 27-year-old, who is good friends with Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock, wept as Debbie’s son paid tribute to his mum, who ran a cake shop.
Josh said his mum was a valued member of the community who had taken up cycling as a hobby. He added: “We will miss her dearly”.
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Trump demands Mexico send migrants back to countries of origin after border patrol fires tear gas
Trump tweeted Monday that Mexican officials should remove migrants from the border by airplane, bus or “any way you want.”
President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that Mexican officials should ship the thousands of Central American migrants seeking entry into the U.S. back to their countries of origin by any means necessary, claiming that “many” are “stone cold criminals.”
Trump suggested that Mexico send the migrants back to countries such as Guatemala and Honduras by airplane, bus, or “anyway you want.” The president also threatened to shut down the U.S. Southern Border “permanently” if needed.
The tweet comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants who sought to enter the U.S. on Sunday near San Diego. That interaction led to U.S. officials shutting down the San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana for more than six hours.
In a statement, border patrol said it used tear gas and pepper spray after several migrants tossed rocks at agents, who were struck. No injuries were reported.
“DHS will not tolerate this type of lawlessness and will not hesitate to shut down ports of entry for security and public safety reasons,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a Sunday statement.
Some migrants, meanwhile, said they sought to cross over illegally after they were denied access at the port of entry, where they could claim asylum. It is not illegal to seek asylum.
The hundreds of migrants who assembled along the Mexican side of the border on Sunday morning were a part of a larger group of about 6,000 who crammed into shelters in Tijuana. Many of the migrants are fleeing violence in their home countries.
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First gene-edited babies claimed in China: report
CRISPR gene-editing tool has been tried in diseased adults
A Chinese researcher has claimed he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls born this month that represent perhaps the next monumental test of science and ethics.
The researcher, He Jiankui of Shenzhen, said he altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatments, with one pregnancy so far, the Associated Press reported, citing exclusive access to the researcher, whose discovery was not independently verified.
He said his goal was not to cure or prevent an inherited disease, but to try to bestow a trait that few people naturally have — an ability to resist possible future infection with HIV, the AIDS virus.
In recent years scientists have discovered a relatively easy way to edit genes, known as CRISPR-cas9, which the researcher He used. CRISPR makes it possible to alter DNA to supply a needed gene or disable one that’s causing problems. It’s only recently been tried in adults to treat deadly diseases, and the changes were confined to that person.
A U.S. scientist said he took part in the gene edit work in China, but noted it is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes, the AP said.
He’s claim has not been published in a journal, where it would be vetted by other experts. He did create a promotional video.
He said the motivation for his research was to offer couples affected by HIV a chance to have a child that might be protected from a similar fate.
“I feel a strong responsibility that it’s not just to make a first, but also make it an example,” He told the AP. “Society will decide what to do next.”
The genetic editing of a speck-size human embryo carries significant risks, including the risks of introducing unwanted mutations or yielding a baby whose body is composed of some edited and some unedited cells, said Antonio Regalado, writing for MIT’s Technology Review. Data on the Chinese trial site indicated that one of the fetuses is a “mosaic” of cells that had been edited in different ways, MIT said as part of its own reporting on the discovery.
Some scientists strongly condemned the development.
It’s “unconscionable … an experiment on human beings that is not morally or ethically defensible,” Dr. Kiran Musunuru, a University of Pennsylvania gene editing expert and editor of a genetics journal, told the AP.
The reported discovery surprised the scientific world but is expected to feature in soon-to-begin conference.
“We have never done anything that will change the genes of the human race, and we have never done anything that will have effects that will go on through the generations,” David Baltimore, a biologist and former president of the California Institute of Technology, said in a prerecorded message ahead of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, which begins Tuesday in Hong Kong.
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The Lion King 2019 VS Original 1994 Shot By Shot Comparison
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Azealia Banks Savagely Slams Kanye West & Makes Shocking Claims About Kim Kardashian
The ‘212’ rapper claims that the Yeezy founder “spilled tea” to her about his wife Kim Kardashian, and said the reality TV star will soon leave him. She also claims that the ‘I Love It’ rapper stole her designs without permission.
Azealia Banks unleashed fury on Kanye West this weekend. On Sunday night (18th Nov), the 27-year-old rapper claimed West had previously stolen some of her design ideas, before bringing his wife Kim Kardashian into the beef.
Banks first took to Instagram to share two images of what she describes as prototypes for a ‘Yeezy Survival Kit’, in the hopes that if Kanye decided to go ahead and produce them, people would know she designed them.
“I came up with this idea as a disaster kit or for camping,” she said, before claiming that Kim Kardashian was “jealous” that West was talking to her, leading him to “ghost” Banks.
“I’m pretty sure it’s just sneaky Kanye’s way of trying to steal my idea and leave me out,” she added. In addition to the posts, Banks went on a lengthy rant on her Instagram stories, claiming Kanye “spilled hella tea” about his wife Kim.
“The tea is hella juicy, I would love to spill it because his dumb a** tried to put me on three way with one of his employees and set me up pretending like I was in the wrong for sending his dumb a** a heart emoji.
“A F**KING HEART. He tried to pretend like I was In love with him or some shit. I won’t spill the tea because I don’t want kris Jenner to have him killed.”
Banks said she is “sick” of West, and accused him of doing “dumb sh*t on purpose for attention.” She said Kim Kardashian “ruined” West and “won’t be done with him until she’s sucked the last drop of blood.”
And Azealia wasn’t done there. The rapper – who is known for her public, and often controversial, opinions – filmed herself in the back of a car and continued her verbal attack on West.
“Kim Kardashian is absolutely going to leave you. She’s already f**king gone. Say what you want to want about her, but in some sense, I’m feeling bad for her because you’re just a dummy.
“You just be acting dumb just to act dumb. Like, how is that sexy? I’m sorry. If I was Kim Kardashian, I would f**k Drake too,” she said, referring to the rumours of Kim and Drake’s alleged fling. “You’re dead to me. You’re literally dead to me.”
West is yet to respond to the rant. Last month, Banks unleashed fury on singer Lana Del Ray as the pair became embroiled in a bitter Twitter beef, sparked over West’s endorsement of Donald Trump.
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NASA Live: Earth Views from the Space Station
Behold, the Earth! See live views of Earth from the International Space Station coming to you by NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment.
While the experiment is operational, views will typically sequence through the different cameras. If you are seeing a black image, the Space Station is on the night side of the Earth. If you are seeing an image with text displayed, the communications are switching between satellites and camera feeds are temporarily unavailable. Between camera switches, a black & gray slate will also briefly appear.
The experiment was activated on April 30, 2014 and is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module. This experiment includes several commercial HD video cameras aimed at the Earth which are enclosed in a pressurized and temperature controlled housing. To learn more about the HDEV experiment, visit: https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/ Please note: The HDEV cycling of the cameras will sometimes be halted, causing the video to only show select camera feeds. This is handled by the HDEV team, and is only scheduled on a temporary basis. Nominal video will resume once the team has finished their scheduled event.
Suspect at large after sexual assault, fatal shooting at St. Louis Catholic Supply store: cops
A suspect is at large on Tuesday after he sexually assaulted at least one woman in a St. Louis religious supply store and shot a woman in the head on Monday, police said. It was unclear if the woman he shot was the person he assaulted.
Police are searching for a white male about 5-foot-7 with a heavy build. The suspect is believed to be between 45 to 50 years old, and should be considered armed and dangerous, St. Louis County Police said.
“We have a loose, armed gunman out there who’s already shot one person,” St. Louis County police Sgt. Shawn McGuire said, according to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The victim, 53, at a died at a hospital from the shooting at a Catholic Supply store.
“I think everyone needs to be aware this happened at 3:30 in the afternoon on one of the busiest roads in St. Louis County,” McGuire said.
It wasn’t clear why the store was targeted and McGuire didn’t know if its religious affiliation was a factor.
“Our hearts go out to the victims of this horrific tragedy at Catholic Supply,” St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson said on Twitter.
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Trump rates his presidency ‘A+’: ‘Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?’
President Trump rated his performance in the White House an “A+” on Sunday.
He offered this assessment during a wide-ranging interview on “Fox News Sunday.” Chris Wallace had asked Trump where he ranks himself among great U.S. presidents.
“Where do you rank yourself in the pantheon of great presidents? There’s Lincoln and Washington. There’s FDR and Reagan. Do you make the top 10?” Wallace asked.
“I think I’m doing a great job. We have the best economy we’ve ever had. We’re doing really well. We would’ve been in a war with North Korea if, let’s say, that administration continued forward,” Trump said referring to his predecessor, Barack Obama.
“So where do you rank yourself?” Wallace asked.
“I would give myself, I would — look, I hate to do it, but I will do it — I would give myself an A+. Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?” Trump replied.
Trump said that had he been “more modified, more moderate,” he wouldn’t have been able to accomplish half of what he has in the past two years. He added it’s important for the president to have “a certain ability to fight back.”
He expressed pride in the Republican Party’s ability to keep the Senate in the midterm elections, and suggested that losing the GOP majority in the House of Representatives doesn’t reflect on his presidency.
“I have people that won’t vote unless I’m on the ballot, OK? And I wasn’t on the ballot,” Trump said.
The current economic boom is overshadowed at times by Trump’s endless controversies. Although the health of the economy relies on far more than a president’s actions, Trump and Obama have both claimed credit for the strong economic recovery, and both contributed to its success.
Whether the topic is politics, business or entertainment, it is not uncommon for Trump to give himself superlative marks or exaggerate his accomplishments. The president told the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward last September that no other president in U.S. history has done as well as he has.
“Well, accurate is that nobody’s ever done a better job than I’m doing as president. That I can tell you,” he said. “So that’s … and that’s the way a lot of people feel that know what’s going on, and you’ll see that over the years.”
Based on polling, the American public does not appear to agree with Trump’s rating of his job performance. Gallup reports that his most recent job approval rating is just 38 percent, while the historical average for U.S. presidents from 1938 to 2018 is 53 percent.
In his 1987 memoir “The Art of the Deal,” co-written by Tony Schwartz, Trump attributed a large part of his success to playing to people’s fantasies, and said that “a little hyperbole never hurts.”
“People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole,” Trump wrote. “It’s an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion.”
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Chipotle rethinking firing manager who refused to serve black customers over ‘dine and dash’ fears
The restaurant chain Chipotle announced Saturday that it had terminated one of its managers for suggesting in a viral video that five black customers were planning to order food without paying — but on Sunday, the company acknowledged to Fox News that it was considering re-hiring the manager because her suspicions may have been well-founded.
In a series of video clips seen more than 3 million times on Twitter, a Chipotle customer in St. Paul, Minn., identifed as 21-year-old Masud Ali, and several friends are told by a manager: “You gotta pay, because you’ve never had money when you come in here.” An employee adds, “We’re not gonna make food unless you guys actually have money.”
As Ali and his friends complain about “stereotypes,” the videos show employees at the store claiming that the group had previously ordered food on two occasions without paying. The store manager also calls the police in the videos, which were recorded and uploaded by Ali.
In one video clip, the manager smiles and tries to ignore the men while they produce what appears to be cash, as proof that they can pay for their food. One of the employees visible in the kitchen is black.
“It sounded really racist — the way she said it was racist,” Ali told Minnesota’s Star Tribune newspaper on Friday. “She asked for proof of income as if I’m getting a loan.” On Twitter, Ali asked Chipotle: “Can a group of young well-established African-American get a bite to eat after a long workout session?”
Ali also posted the restaurant’s phone number and address to social media. Within hours and under a deluge of criticism, Chipotle issued a statement implying that the manager had acted out of bias and announcing her termination.
“Our actions were based on the facts known to us immediately after the incident, including video footage, social media posts and conversations with the customer, manager, and our employees,” Chipotle Chief Communications Officer Laurie Schalow told Fox News on Sunday. “We now have additional information which needs to be investigated further. We want to do the right thing, so after further investigation we will re-train and re-hire if the facts warrant it.”
Despite reports on Twitter late Sunday that the manager had received her job back, Chipotle confirmed to Fox News that “nothing has changed from this morning. We are still investigating a few things.”
“After further investigation we will re-train and re-hire if the facts warrant it.”
In a previous statement on Saturday, the company had said: “We are committed to treating all of our customers fairly and with respect. … Regarding what happened at the St. Paul restaurant, the manager thought these gentlemen were the same customers from Tuesday night who weren’t able to pay for their meal. Regardless, this is not how we treat our customers and as a result, the manager has been terminated and the restaurant is being re-trained to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.”
In subsequent interviews, though, Chipotle representatives admitted that the manager might have been right in claiming that individuals in the group had ordered food just days before without paying once their order was completed. (As a matter of policy, Chipotle only provides food to customers upon payment, but store employees finish making orders before payment is requested at the register.)
“We are not able to confirm that with 100 percent certainty,” Schalow acknowledged in a statement to The Twin Cities Pioneer Press. “We asked Masud if he was in our restaurant on Tuesday and he said no.”
And almost immediately, it emerged that Ali had apparently spoken favorably of “dining and dashing” — the practice of ordering food and not paying for it — several times on Twitter in the past.
“aye man i think chopotle catchin up to us fam. should we change locations and yoooooo what should we do about the other thang,” read a since-deleted post on Ali’s account from 2016.
In 2015, he wrote that “we finna goto Applebees and eat as much as we can and tip the nice lady 20cents and walk the f— out.”
When another Twitter user objected, he replied that “we’re just borrowing the food for a couple hours” as opposed to dining and dashing.
Later that year, he opined that “Dine and dash is forever interesting” and discussed stealing Tabasco bottles from Chipotle.
Another post read: “Guys we’re borrowing food… that’s it. And if the lady tries to stop you at the door don’t hesitate to truck the sh– out of that bi—.” Ali has since deleted all of these posts.
“We finna goto Applebees and eat as much as we can and tip the nice lady 20cents and walk the f— out.”
As those tweets surfaced over the weekend, Chipotle’s media representatives, including Schalow, initially said that they had seen the tweets and would stand by their decision to fire the manager — seemingly contradicting Schalow’s statement to Fox News on Sunday.
According to author Matt Palumbo, Schalow had previously claimed that the store’s manager was justifiably terminated because she broke protocol by requiring payment before making the customers’ food, regardless of her suspicions about the customers’ intention to pay.
Palumbo called Schalow’s suggestion that Chipotle had not been aware of Ali’s tweets when it fired the manager an “absolute lie.” (For her part, Schalow has reportedly said that other information — and not simply Ali’s tweets –was behind Chipotle’s desire to reconsider the manager’s fate.)
“The correct action to take would have been to make their food and not hand it over to them until they paid for it,” Schalow had asserted as part of her justification for firing the manager, according to Palumbo.
Ali did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The episode follows several other high-profile incidents of alleged racism that have rocked the service industry. In May, Starbucks closed 8,000 of its stores for anti-bias training after two black men were arrested for trespassing in one of its Philadelphia shops. The store manager, who stopped working at Starbucks shortly after the episode, had called the police because the men remained seated in the shop without ordering anything, and refused to order something when asked.
Earlier this year, a fired Chipotle manager who was accused of stealing $626 ended up winning nearly $8 million from the company in a wrongful termination suit.
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