| Trump unprepared for impeachment and Democrats taking the House in 2018, says report Posted: 31 Aug 2018 11:24 AM PDT  Donald Trump's impeachment could arrive sooner than the president seems to think, with aides worried that the president and his team are ill-prepared for a potential crisis. "We've talked a lot about impeachment at different times," Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, confirmed in the report. The paper spoke with 26 White House officials, presidential advisers and strategists close to Mr Trump's White House throughout the week, to gain a better understanding of how the administration is preparing for a "potential crisis" in the months ahead.
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| Former Kings executive under federal investigation Posted: 31 Aug 2018 09:16 AM PDT ![Former Kings executive under federal investigation]( "Former Kings executive under federal investigation") SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Sacramento Kings said Thursday that federal authorities are investigating a former top executive after team officials uncovered suspicious financial transactions.
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| New Mexico prosecutor vows charges after compound members released Posted: 31 Aug 2018 08:10 AM PDT  After a storm of criticism and insults on social media against his two prosecutors, District Attorney Donald Gallegos appealed for the public to stop "cussing and threatening." "Our options are to re-file the charges or take the case to the grand jury," Gallegos said in a statement. "What is important to know is that we will continue to pursue prosecution of the cases." Prosecutors John Lovelace and Timothy Hasson have accused the Muslim defendants, who are all related by blood or marriage, of planning attacks on schools and other "corrupt institutions." None of the five defendants has been formally charged with those allegations. The prosecutors, as well as two judges who dismissed charges on Wednesday, have been pilloried on social media for allowing "Muslim extremists" to walk free.
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| 16 Gravy Recipes You'll Want To Put Over Everything This Thanksgiving Posted: 31 Aug 2018 04:53 AM PDT ![16 Gravy Recipes You'll Want To Put Over Everything This Thanksgiving]( "16 Gravy Recipes You'll Want To Put Over Everything This Thanksgiving")
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| Women more likely to quit social media during 'scroll-free September', says Royal Society Posted: 31 Aug 2018 02:38 AM PDT  Duty of Care banner ad Women make up the majority of the 300,000 people planning to quit "toxic" social media during "scroll-free September", the Royal Society for Public Health has announced. The organisation, which has masterminded the NHS-backed campaign, said that three times more women than men were set to take part because social media leaves women feeling inadequate and with low self-esteem from being bombarded with perfect body images on platforms like Instagram. Other experts blamed the chauvinism and trolling of women on networks such as Twitter for the disproportionate desire by women to give social media a break. At least 300,000 Britons – about 12 per cent of those who have heard about the campaign - are expected to take part in scroll-free September which starts tomorrow (Sat) and invites people to give up or cut back usage of sites including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, RSPH polls show. Of those who said they would take part, three quarters are women. Most likely to quit are 25-34 year olds (34 per cent), followed by 18-24 year olds (16 per cent) against under 10 per cent among older age groups. Duty of Care campaign | Read more RSPH spokesman Ed Morrow said: "Image-heavy social media platforms like Instagram can be a particularly toxic environment for young women who are often left with feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem from the barrage of images of unattainable body image ideals that tend to flood such platforms." Its research has suggested as many as nine out of 10 teenage girls are unhappy with their bodies, while a UCL study found girls who spent longer online were more likely to suffer depression than boys who tended to be video gaming rather than on social media. "This is a problem that has been fuelled by TV and magazines for years, but social media makes it all the more inescapable," said Mr Morrow. "Women also tend to be more open to discussing mental health issues than men." Tanya Goodin, a tech detox expert and author of Stop Staring at Screens, said Twitter could be a "hostile" environment where "there's a definite issue around women being targets for trolls." Duty of care puff According to the RSPH poll, more than a third (34 per cent) of the public believe quitting for a month would have a positive impact on them, rising to almost two thirds (63 per cent) of 18-24 year olds. Claire Murdoch, NHS England's national director for mental health, said the campaign was right to highlight growing concerns that social media is contributing to mental ill health in young people. "We need to see concerted action with everyone taking responsibility including social media giants, so the NHS is not left to pickup the pieces of a mental health epidemic in the next generation," she said. The campaign coincides with one of the biggest-ever studies into the impact of new media. It found teenagers who were heavy users of social media were twice as likely to be unhappy as those who spent more time talking with friends face to face, exercising and doing their homework. About a fifth (20.3 per cent) of those who spent more than 40 hours a week on social media or gaming were rated unhappy based on wellbeing questionnaires compared to 12 per cent of those who limited their online activity to just three to five hours a week. The study which tracked 1.1m US students aged 13 to 18 over 25 years also found 16 per cent of those who spent no time on social media were unhappy, confirming previous research that some time online is beneficial but declines for every additional hour. The research, led by Dr Jean Twenge from San Diego State University, found a dramatic decline in teenagers' happiness and wellbeing from 2012, a point when smartphones started to saturate the teenage market with ownership doubling from 37 per cent to nearly 80 per cent. The Daily Telegraph is campaigning for a statutory duty of care on the social media and gaming firms to better protect children from online harms.
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| Ford and Gulf reunite for special Ford GT ’68 Heritage Edition Posted: 30 Aug 2018 09:27 PM PDT  Gulf and Ford have come together to mark 50 years of Le Mans victory with a new GT '68 Heritage Edition. Just look at it!
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| Actress Tried To Use Acid And Alligators To Dispose Of Husband's Ex-Wife Posted: 30 Aug 2018 08:20 PM PDT  After Grant and Amanda Hayes killed Laura Ackerson, cut her body into pieces
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| Chile's Santiago Archbishop says regrets 'tension' in the Church Posted: 30 Aug 2018 06:20 PM PDT  Ricardo Ezzati, the Archbishop of Santiago, told colleagues at an internal church event on Tuesday that the Catholic church was facing a "completely unprecedented situation," according to the text of his speech posted on the archbishopric's website. "The terms to describe this situation are well-known: pain, shame, anger, indignation, tension," he said. "We are living in a tense time within the country and the Church.
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| Trump's morning tweet storm Posted: 30 Aug 2018 03:53 PM PDT  President Trump lashed out at the media and the Mueller probe on Twitter Thursday morning, and he responded to a new report that nearly 3,000 died in Hurricane Maria.
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| US priest abuse victims demand transparency from Vatican Posted: 30 Aug 2018 03:17 PM PDT  US groups representing survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests called Thursday on the Vatican to publish a list of clerics accused of sexual assault. The calls came after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to Washington, dropped an 11-page bombshell letter on Saturday accusing Pope Francis of ignoring sexual abuse allegations against prominent US cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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