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– The FBI is warning state officials to boost their election security in light of evidence that hackers breached related data systems in two states, the AP reports. In a confidential "flash" alert from its cyber division, first reported by Yahoo News and posted online by others, the FBI said it's investigating the pair of incidents and advised states to scan their systems for specific signs of hacking. The FBI said Monday that it doesn't comment on specific alerts, but added that it routinely sends out advisories to private industry about signs of cyber threats that it comes across in its investigations. The FBI didn't name the states that were breached. State election websites in Arizona and Illinois experienced hack-related shutdowns earlier this summer. In both cases, the parts of the websites attacked involved online voter registration. “This is a big deal," a cybersecurity expert tells Yahoo News. "Two state election boards have been popped, and data has been taken. This certainly should be concerning to the common American voter." The FBI's Aug. 18 warning came just days after Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson hosted a call with secretaries of state and other state election officials to talk about cybersecurity and election infrastructure. In that call, Johnson said that while DHS isn't aware of any particular cyber threat against election-related computers, it's "critically important" to make sure that election systems are secure amid a rapidly changing threat landscape, according to a DHS summary of the call. Federal officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility that hackers, particularly those working for Russia or another country, could breach US elections systems and wreak havoc on the November presidential election.

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.

 The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyberintrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections.

 Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cybersecurity experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department.

 Johnson emphasized in the call that Homeland Security was not aware of “specific or credible cybersecurity threats” to the election, officials said. But three days after that call, the FBI Cyber Division issued a potentially more disturbing warning, titled “Targeting Activity Against State Board of Election Systems.” The alert, labeled as restricted for “NEED TO KNOW recipients,” disclosed that the bureau was investigating cyberintrusions against two state election websites this summer, including one that resulted in the “exfiltration,” or theft, of voter registration data. “It was an eye opener,” a senior law enforcement official said of the bureau’s discovery of the intrusions. “We believe it’s kind of serious, and we’re investigating.”

 The bulletin does not identify the states in question, but sources familiar with the document say it refers to the targeting by suspected foreign hackers of voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois. In the Illinois case, officials were forced to shut down the state’s voter registration system for 10 days in late July, after the hackers managed to download personal data on up to 200,000 state voters, Ken Menzel, the general counsel of the Illinois Board of Elections, said in an interview. The Arizona attack was more limited, involving malicious software that was introduced into its voter registration system but no successful exfiltration of data, a state official said.

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 The FBI bulletin listed eight separate IP addresses that were the sources of the two attacks and suggested that the attacks may have been linked, noting that one of the IP addresses was used in both intrusions. The bulletin implied that the bureau was looking for any signs that the attacks may have attempted to target even more than the two states. “The FBI is requesting that states contact their Board of Elections and determine if any similar activity to their logs, both inbound and outbound, has been detected,” the alert reads. “Attempts should not be made to touch or ping the IP addresses directly.”

 “This is a big deal,” said Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer for ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity firm, who reviewed the FBI alert at the request of Yahoo News. “Two state election boards have been popped, and data has been taken. This certainly should be concerning to the common American voter.”

 Barger noted that one of the IP addresses listed in the FBI alert has surfaced before in Russian criminal underground hacker forums. He also said the method of attack on one of the state election systems — including the types of tools used by the hackers to scan for vulnerabilities and exploit them — appears to resemble methods used in other suspected Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks, including one just this month on the World Anti-Doping Agency.

 The FBI did not respond to detailed questions about the alert, saying in a statement only that such bulletins are provided “to help systems administrators guard against the actions of persistent cyber criminals.” Menzel, the Illinois election official, said that in a recent briefing, FBI agents confirmed to him that the perpetrators were believed to be foreign hackers, although they were not identified by country. He said he was told that the bureau was looking at a “possible link” to the recent highly publicized attack on the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations, which U.S. officials suspect was perpetrated by Russian government hackers. But he said agents told him they had reached no conclusions, and other experts say the hackers could also have been common cybercriminals hoping to steal personal data on state voters for fraudulent purposes, such as obtaining bogus tax refunds.

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 NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI is warning state officials to boost their election security in light of evidence that hackers breached related data systems in two states.

 In a confidential "flash" alert from its cyber division, first reported by Yahoo News and posted online by others, the FBI said it's investigating the pair of incidents and advised states to scan their systems for specific signs of hacking.

 The FBI said Monday that it doesn't comment on specific alerts, but added that it routinely sends out advisories to private industry about signs of cyber threats that it comes across in its investigations.

 The FBI didn't name the states that were breached. State election websites in Arizona and Illinois experienced hack-related shutdowns earlier this summer. In both cases, the parts of the websites attacked involved online voter registration.

 The FBI's Aug. 18 warning also came just days after Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson hosted a call with secretaries of state and other state election officials to talk about cybersecurity and election infrastructure.

 In that call, Johnson said that while DHS isn't aware of any particular cyber threat against election-related computers, it's "critically important" to make sure that election systems are secure amid a rapidly changing threat landscape, according to a DHS summary of the call.

 Federal officials are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility that hackers, particularly those working for Russia or another country, could breach U.S. elections systems and wreak havoc on the November presidential election.

 Some experts, along with Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign, believe that Russia was behind the embarrassing email hack of the Democratic National Committee right before its national convention last month. The hacked emails showed an apparent lack of neutrality in the primary race between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, with some party officials disparaging Sanders.

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 Tucker reported from Washington.

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 Simone Biles, the golden girl of the 2016 Olympics, added her name Monday to the list of gymnasts who say they were molested by team doctor Larry Nassar.

 The revelation came in a long statement on her social media accounts — one day before a weeklong sentencing hearing at which Nassar will hear from nearly 100 victims.

 "Most of you know me as a happy, giggly and energetic girl. But lately ... I've felt a bit broken and the more I try to shut off the voice in my head the louder it screams," Biles wrote in a #metoo post.

 Simone Biles says she was molested by Larry Nassar.

 "I am not afraid to tell my story anymore. I too am one of the many survivors that was sexually abused by Larry Nassar," she continued.

 "For too long I have asked myself, 'Was I too naive? Was it my fault?' I now know the answers to those questions. No. No, it was not my fault. No, I will not and should not carry the guilt that belongs to Larry Nassar, USAG [USA Gymnastics], and others."

 Biles' statement follows similar disclosures from three members of the 2012 "Fierce Five" team — McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas. They are not expected to be at Nassar's sentencing, but 2000 Olympian Jamie Dantzscher will testify at the marathon hearing.

 Hour by hour, Dantzcher and others will deliver victim impact statements — describing how they gave their trust to Nassar and were betrayed by a "monster" who violated them with ungloved hands, using his reputation and invasive "treatments" to mask serial sexual assaults.

 "What people need to understand is these aren't just anonymous people," said Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse Nassar in the summer of 2016.

 "These were real little girls, some of them as young as 6 years old," Denhollander told NBC affiliate WOOD of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the eve of the hearing. "These were real young women who are suffering devastating consequences now, and this could have been avoided."

 Some of the victims are certain to blame not just Nassar but USA Gymnastics, which made him an Olympic team doctor, and Michigan State University, where he had his sports-medicine practice until the scandal erupted in the summer of 2016.

 Both are accused of giving Nassar unfettered access to vulnerable girls and women, ignoring signs or complaints of sexual misconduct, and trying to silence victims.

 Nassar, 54, pleaded guilty in Ingham County, Michigan, to sexually assaulting seven girls, but the judge is allowing all of his accusers to speak. More than half of those who have filed complaints are expected to give a statement.

 Some will stand at a podium and speak directly to Nassar, who is expected to be sitting in the witness box. Others have sent audio recording that will be played in the courtroom. Still others have sent written statements that will be read aloud by a prosecutor.

 They include elite athletes who were told that Nassar could help make their gold medal dreams come true and ordinary patients who felt privileged to be seen by a doctor whose office was filled with photos of him with Olympic champions.

 "I hope I can look him in the eye," said Jeanette Antolin, a former national team member who says she was abused repeatedly from 1997 to 2000. "I don't want him to feel like he has any more power over me, so I'm going to stay as strong as possible."

 Antolin said she's not interested in what Nassar has to say at the sentencing. She thinks that his previous statements rang hollow and that he hasn't really accepted guilt.

 "I heard what he had to say the last time, and it basically made me sick to my stomach," she said. "His words meant nothing. His apologies meant nothing."

 Denhollander, who was just 15 when she was Nassar's patient in 2000, said her message is not just about Nassar but about the people she believes could have stopped him — officials at USA Gymnastics and Michigan State.

 A mountain of lawsuits filed against the university say that a teenage gymnast reported Nassar's disturbing procedures to coach Kathie Klages in 1997 but that no action was taken against him.

 "Had MSU handled those reports of sexual assault properly in 1997 we wouldn't have have 93 victims coming forward to speak," Denhollander said.

 Klages also defended Nassar to MSU gymnasts after the Indianapolis Star uncovered two complaints against him in August 2016, and she asked the college students to sign a card for him while he was suspended.

 The university has asked for the dismissal of lawsuits by Nassar's accusers, contending that as a government entity it has immunity and arguing that anyone who received complaints over the years was not Nassar's supervisor and thus not the right person to take action.

 "They don't deny that four young women had complained in graphic detail about Larry's procedure," Denhollander said. "What they say is they didn't complain to the proper people."

 MSU has said that it cannot comment on pending litigation but that an attorney it hired to investigate reported that "the evidence will show that no MSU official believed that Nassar committed sexual abuse prior to newspaper reports in the summer of 2016."

 There have been calls for President Lou Anna Simon to step down, and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who is running for governor, may launch an investigation to determine whether any university personnel beyond Nassar bear criminal responsibility.

 USA Gymnastics, meanwhile, has come under fire from some its biggest stars — Raisman and Maroney among them, who say that after they told a private investigator about their sessions with Nassar, the organization tried to keep them quiet.

 The group's president, Steve Penny, was forced out last year because of the handling of the Nassar allegations and other sexual abuse cases, but some have demanded a complete housecleaning of leadership.

 USA Gymnastics has beefed up its protocols for handling misconduct complaints, but it has also hit back at criticism from its Olympic alumnae and tried to shift blame to the FBI, which was called in to investigate to Nassar.

 In a statement Monday night, USA Gymnastics said it was "absolutely heartbroken, sorry and angry that Simone Biles or any of our athletes have been harmed by the horrific acts of Larry Nassar."

 Nassar's plea deal in Ingham County calls for him to get up to 40 years in prison. He faces another sentencing for three sexual assault victims in Eaton County, and he's already been sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.

 Rachael Denhollander, far left, and Jeanette Antolin, second from right, are among dozens of women who will testify at Larry Nassar's marathon sentencing hearing. Mike Clark / The Grand Rapids Press via AP file

 The victim statements won't change the fact that Nassar is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars, but the hearing will provide a platform for girls and women to tell their stories for the first time — now in the midst of the #metoo movement.

 "It's important that the message of not just the consequences of sexual abuse but the consequences of enabling sexual abuse are heard loud and clear," Denhollander said.

 "Every time something like this happens, the question is what can we do better, how can we prevent it? And we have one of the best examples here of what we could have done better and how it could have been prevented here. And if we don't learn from this example, the cycle will just continue." ||||| (CNN) On the eve of former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar's sentencing for sexually abusing girls in his care, American gymnast Simone Biles has come forward to say me, too.

 "I, too, am one of the many survivors that was sexually abused by Larry Nassar," she said Monday afternoon in a Twitter post with the hashtag #MeToo.

 "There are many reasons that I have been reluctant to share my story, but I know now that it is not my fault."

 Nassar was the team doctor for USA Gymnastics through four Olympic Games, treating young hopefuls and gold medal winners. His case illustrates the drive of the #MeToo movement to call out serial predatory behavior and the forces that enable it.

 This experience 'does not define me'

 More than 140 female athletes said they were abused by the once-respected doctor, including Aly Raisman Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney , members of the "Fierce Five" US Olympic gymnastics team that won the gold in 2012. Many said they were pressured into silence by powerful institutions, including USA Gymnastics, the sport's governing body in the United States.

 In response to Biles' statement, the organization pledged "unwavering" support for Biles and others who have "courageously" come forward.

 "USA Gymnastics is absolutely heartbroken, sorry and angry that Simone Biles or any of our athletes have been harmed by the horrific acts of Larry Nassar," the group said. "We are our athletes' advocates. USA Gymnastics will continue to listen to our athletes and our members in our efforts of creating a culture of empowerment with a relentless focus on athlete safety every single day."

 Biles, now 20, joined the US Olympic gymnastics team in 2016, winning the individual all-around. Though her statement did not include specific allegations against Nassar, she described experiencing abuse under the guise of "special treatment," a recurring claim from Nassar's victims.

 "This behavior is completely unacceptable, disgusting, and abusive, especially coming from someone I was TOLD to trust," she said Monday.

 She, too, called out USA Gymnastics for its alleged role in allowing Nassar to prey on young girls for decades.

 "For far too long I've asked myself 'Was I too naive? Was it my fault?' I now know the answer to those questions. No. No. It was not my fault. No, I will not and should not carry the guilt that belongs to Larry Nassar, USAG, and others.

 "After hearing the brave stories of my friends and other survivors, I know that this horrific experience does not define me."

 Dozens of victims expected to speak

 Nassar faces sentencing on Tuesday in Michigan state court after pleading guilty in November to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct. He faces additional sentencing later this month on three counts of criminal sexual assault involving victims in a neighboring county.

 He worked at Michigan State University from 1997 to 2016 as an associate professor, and he served as the gymnastics and women's crew team physician. In his plea , Nassar admitted to sexually abusing patients under the guise of providing medically necessary treatment in instances as far back as 1998, some of which involved girls under 13.

 Several days have been set aside in Nassar's sentencing for victim impact statements. At least 88 people are expected to speak, according to the Michigan Attorney General's Office.

 At his plea hearing, Nassar apologized and compared his crimes to "a match that turned into a forest fire."

 Allegations of a culture of complicity

 Biles' teammates and others have repeatedly accused USA Gymnastics of complicity in Nassar's abuse. In 2017, the organization said it would implement 70 policy change recommendations from an independent investigator.

 In a lawsuit , Maroney said USA Gymnastics paid her to be quiet about the abuse, which she said began when she was 13.

 University of Oklahoma gymnast Maggie Nichols said she and a coach reported abuse by Nassar to USA Gymnastics in 2015, a few years after Nassar began treating Nichols for a back injury. USA Gymnastics said it hired an independent investigator to look into her allegations.

 Raisman said she was first treated by Nassar when she was 15. She called for a thorough investigation of a system that she said enabled a "monster" to thrive for decades by silencing victims.

 On Monday, Raisman praised Biles for coming forward and vowed to stand with her.

 "I know we will all get through this together," Raisman said on Twitter

 In her statement Monday, Biles said she hoped for the kind of reckoning that would prevent serial predators from striking again.

 "We need to know why this was able to take place for so long and to so many of us. We need to make sure something like this never happens again."

 Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly indicated that Biles was a member of the 2012 Olympic team. She was a member of the 2016 team. |||||
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– American Olympic superstar Simone Biles added her name to the list of women who say they were molested by former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar Monday, CNN reports. In a statement released on her Twitter account alongside the hashtag "MeToo," the four-time Olympic gold medalist wrote, "I, too, am one of the many survivors that was sexually abused by Larry Nassar … For far too long I've asked myself 'Was I too naive? Was it my fault?' I now know the answer to those questions. No. No. It was not my fault. No, I will not and should not carry the guilt that belongs to Larry Nassar, USAG, and others." Biles' revelation comes one day before Nasser begins a weeklong sentencing hearing. In November he pled guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual misconduct, but the judge has decided to let all of his accusers speak, NBC News reports. Nearly 100 women are expected to speak or deliver audio recordings. Biles did not say if she would attend the hearing. Biles is the fourth member of the triumphant "Fierce Five" 2016 women's Olympic gymnastics team to make allegations of abuse against Nassar. Hearing her teammates' stories, she wrote, inspired her to come out with her own: "After hearing the brave stories of my friends and other survivors, I know that this horrific experience does not define me."


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 Beloit, Wis. – Born when Ross Perot was warning about a giant sucking sound and Bill Clinton was apologizing for pain in his marriage, members of this fall’s entering college class of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation for whom the digital world is routine and technology is just too slow.

 Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. The Mindset List website at www.beloit.edu/mindset, the Mediasite webcast and its Facebook page receive more than 400,000 hits annually.

 The class of 2014 has never found Korean-made cars unusual on the Interstate and five hundred cable channels, of which they will watch a handful, have always been the norm. Since "digital" has always been in the cultural DNA, they've never written in cursive and with cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wrist watch. Dirty Harry (who’s that?) is to them a great Hollywood director. The America they have inherited is one of soaring American trade and budget deficits; Russia has presumably never aimed nukes at the United States and China has always posed an economic threat.

 Nonetheless, they plan to enjoy college. The males among them are likely to be a minority. They will be armed with iPhones and BlackBerries, on which making a phone call will be only one of many, many functions they will perform. They will now be awash with a computerized technology that will not distinguish information and knowledge. So it will be up to their professors to help them. A generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line. Their professors, who might be tempted to think that they are hip enough and therefore ready and relevant to teach the new generation, might remember that Kurt Cobain is now on the classic oldies station. The college class of 2014 reminds us, once again, that a generation comes and goes in the blink of our eyes, which are, like the rest of us, getting older and older.

 Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.

 For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.

 1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.

 2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.

 3. “Go West, Young College Grad” has always implied “and don’t stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way.”

 4. Al Gore has always been animated.

 5. Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.

 6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.

 7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.

 8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.

 9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus’s folks on Parents’ Weekend.

 10. Entering college this fall in a country where a quarter of young people under 18 have at least one immigrant parent, they aren't afraid of immigration...unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet.

 11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.

 12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.

 13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.

 14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.

 15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.

 16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.

 17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.

 18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.

 19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.

 20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.

 21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.

 22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.

 23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.

 24. “Cop Killer” by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.

 25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.

 26. Unless they found one in their grandparents’ closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.

 27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.

 28. They’ve never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.

 29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.

 30. “Viewer Discretion” has always been an available warning on TV shows.

 31. The first home computer they probably touched was an Apple II or Mac II; they are now in a museum.

 32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.

 33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.

 34. “Assisted Living” has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always offered an alternative to the hospital.

 35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.

 36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.

 37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an “Annus Horribilis.”

 38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

 39. Pizza jockeys from Domino’s have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.

 40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.

 41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.

 42. Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.

 43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.

 44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.

 45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.

 46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.

 47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.

 48. Someone has always gotten married in space.

 49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.

 50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.

 51. Food has always been irradiated.

 52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.

 53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn’t he?

 54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.

 55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.

 56. They may have assumed that parents’ complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.

 57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.

 58. Beethoven has always been a good name for a dog.

 59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola’s new Tab Clear, it was gone.

 60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.

 61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies’ withholding tax, or else.

 62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.

 63. Their parents’ favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.

 64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.

 65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.

 66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.

 67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.

 68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.

 69. It seems the Post Office has always been going broke.

 70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.

 71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.

 72. One way or another, “It’s the economy, stupid” and always has been.

 73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.

 74. They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi (SYFY) Channel.

 75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.

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 News | Leave a comment FAREWELL TO THE DORMITORY by Tom McBride • April 7, 2018 Farewell to the Dorm MINDSET LIST® Remarks Delivered to the Interface Student Housing Conference, Austin, Texas, April 6, 2018 The Mindset List® thanks Mr. Bruce Sanders of Elauwit for inviting us to speak today. Over half a century ago I began my college life in what was called a dormitory, at a university about ninety miles northwest of Austin. Though we did not appreciate it at the time, we were herded like the proverbial cattle into a four-story building with the same-sized rooms, sparsely furnished with standard issue university desks, tables, and beds. We ate the same food, prepared in advance for us, all in the same place. We had communal bathrooms—none of us even had our own stall, Read on »

 News | Leave a comment THE BELOIT COLLEGE MINDSET LIST: Class of 2021! by Tom McBride • August 21, 2017 Beloit College Releases the Mindset List for This Year’s Entering Class of First-Year College Students, The Class of 2021 Beloit, Wis. —This year’s entering college class of 2021 can’t remember when a “phone” wasn’t a video game and research library. Mostly born in 1999, they’ve always been searching for Pokemon. They’ve never read a Peanuts strip that wasn’t a repeat and they never had the privilege of a Montgomery Ward catalogue as a booster seat. They have persevered in a world without Joe Dimaggio and brightened by emojis. If you ask them about the whine of a dial-up modem, expect a blank stare. These are among the items in this year’s Beloit College Mindset List, the 20th such release since Read on »

 News | Leave a comment THE MINDSET LIST® OF GENERATION X by Tom McBride • May 15, 2017 THE MINDSET LIST® OF GENERATION X Tom McBride Most Gen Xers are now between 37 and 53. Partly because they have been deemed, by demographers, to have had only a sixteen-year run, their numbers are small. But they were also born during a time of low birth rates compared to those of the later 40s and the 1950s. The reasons are many: the Pill, divorce, more women working out of the home, and perhaps access to abortion. One commentator has called Gen Xers America’s neglected middle child. Thanks to the death rate, Millennials have now taken over Boomers as the largest generational cohort. There are about 75 million Millennials and more than ten million fewer Gen Xers. But by 2028 Read on »

 News | Leave a comment THE ECONOMIC VIRTUES OF MILLENNIALS by Tom McBride • September 25, 2016 THE ECONOMIC VIRTUES OF MILLENNIALS Tom McBride (Delivered on September 15 at the De Meo/Schneider Investment Conference in Chicago) Deidre McCloskey is a renowned economic historian at the University of Illinois right here in Chicago. One of her more striking ideas is that the virtues of different social groups are strongly determined by their economic status. For instance, the peasant class, having no prospects for financial gain, glommed onto the virtue of humility, linked to the idea that God would reward them for their humility someday in Heaven. For the aristocratic class, whose financial prosperity was assured, courage became a dominant virtue. They who have everything only lack the military adventure of becoming warriors, on battlefields where their bravery will Read on »

 News | Leave a comment Now on Amazon: THE MILLENNIAL PROMISE–40 Tips from The Mindset List® by Tom McBride • August 8, 2016 Click on the image to your left for the Amazon link to our latest book: THE MILLENNIAL PROMISE: 40 Tips from The Mindset List®. It’s a terrific guide to all phases of Millennial education–from classroom motivation to high tech instruction to the art of giving assignments. Think of it as The Elements of Style for Millennial education! It’s a concise little manual for teachers, counselors, administrators–useful for anyone involved in the education and training of America’s most talked-about generation.

 News | Leave a comment THE MINDSET LIST® SPEAKERS’ PROGRAM by Tom McBride • April 15, 2015 THE MINDSET LIST® SPEAKS! Looking for Great and Time-Tested Public Speakers? Tom McBride and Ron Nief, co-authors of The Beloit College Mindset List® and The Mindset Lists of American History (Wiley, 2011) and The Mindset List of the Obscure (Sourcebooks, 2014) speak frequently about the generation gap around the country and to a wide variety of organizations. We’ve spoken, led workshops and delivered the keynote addresses to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national convention, to library associations, museum staff, and to educators at all levels, to state retirement fund administrators and to to educators and specialists dealing with youth and financial literacy, And all this is but a small sample. We work with our Read on »

 News | Leave a comment WE R HISTORY: A Study Guide to THE MINDSET LISTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY by Tom McBride • November 8, 2013 WeRHistory A Guide to THE MINDSET LISTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY INTRODUCTION WeRHistory is a guide to discussion of the past and do-it-yourself history. As co-authors, we want our readers to explore the underlying message of THE MINDSET LISTS OF AMERICAN HISTORY: From Typewriters to Text Messages, What 10 Generations of Americans Think is Normal. As the first chapter says, “History Has Always Been Us.” Each of us does our bit for history every day. We make personal decisions that alter our individual history and collective decisions that make history. We are all part of the historical parade from birth to grave. We are all historical personages and actors in a historical drama. We not only are history; we can Read on » |||||Summary:

– US News & World Report is ready to shock us all with its Best Colleges 2011 ranking, which places Harvard smack dab on top. Again. But—news alert!—Princeton has tumbled from tying the venerable Crimson to No. 2. That list, which you can see here, doesn't wow us quite so much as does another annual list released today: Beloit College's Mindset List, which gives us a snapshot of the realities and events shaping the lives of this year's freshman class, born in 1992. Some highlights: The majority don't know how to write in cursive. They have never had trouble understanding what a "caramel macchiato" is. Clint Eastwood is some guy who directs movies. Fergie is a member of the Black Eyed Peas, not the British Royal Family. Czechoslovakia has never existed. The Post Office has always been basically broke. Click here for the complete 75-item list (Buffy and Barney and Beanie Babies, oh my!).


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Bravo! Chicago is a lock for George Lucas’ museum.

 Mayor Rahm Emanuel has won a fierce competition with Los Angeles and San Francisco to house a first-of its-kind interactive museum housing movie mogul George “Star Wars” Lucas’ formidable collection of artwork and movie memorabilia!

 Shortly after Sneed’s scoop that Chicago had won the bidding war, Lucas issued a statement from San Francisco: “Building in Chicago is the right decision for the museum, but the Bay Area will always be my home. I grew up here, made all my films here and raised my family in the Bay Area.”

 Chicago’s lakefront museum campus will house the new $1 billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on a 17-acre site located on parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place. It will open in 2018.

 “George Lucas has revolutionized the art of storytelling over the last four decades and we are honored to be the recipient of this incredible legacy investment that will allow everyone to learn about and experience narrative arts,” Emanuel said in a statement.

 “Like Marshall Field, John G. Shedd and Max Adler before him, George’s philanthropy will inspire and educate for generations. No other museum like this exists in the world, making it a tremendous educational, cultural and job creation asset for all Chicagoans, as well as an unparalleled draw for international tourists,” added the mayor.

 The Lucas museum board also credited Chicago for providing a larger location; its easy accessibility to public transportation; and the fact it is centrally located in a city renowned for its love of art and architecture.

 Lucas — who is married to Chicago businesswoman/civic leader Mellody Hobson — originally wanted to build the 95,000-square-foot museum in his hometown of San Francisco, on Crissy Field in the national park known as the Presidio.

 But when site proposals on the field were rejected, Emanuel moved fast in February and quickly became a front-runner to snag the project.

 “I am humbled to be joining such an extraordinary museum community and to be creating the Museum in a city that has a long tradition of embracing the arts and architecture,” Lucas said in a statement on the museum’s website.

 Shortly after a phone call thanking Lucas and Hobson for choosing Chicago, Emanuel told reporters outside his City Hall office Monday evening that the museum will create “one of the most tremendous, vibrant and green museum campuses of any major American city that will partner education with our neighborhood schools and create jobs throughout the city of Chicago.”

 It will bring “hundreds of jobs and economic opportunity,” Emanuel said.

 He added: “This is a milestone for the city, but it is just one milestone on a journey as we build this new museum.”

 Ironically, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who attended a Step IT Up America conference with Emanuel in Chicago recently, wrote a column last Saturday for SFGate.com stating that he felt confident his city could beat the Lucas site proposed for Chicago.

 Little did he know that the city that dawdled would get dismissed.

 ◆ The stats: The museum is completely self-funded; will be built, funded and endowed by Lucas; and has been described as a “history of storytelling” project “dedicated to the power of the visual image” as well as the world’s largest interactive museum.

 Lucas said he wanted his museum to be close to the water, enveloped by nature and centrally located. He talked about enhancing the green space around it by taking much of the museum parking underground.

 Welcome to your second home, George.

 Mellody has given us the gift of you . . . and what a gift you are giving us.

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 “Star Wars” creator George Lucas has selected Chicago over Los Angeles and San Francisco as the future home of his collection of art and movie memorabilia, according to a spokeswoman for the museum.

 The museum's board Wednesday is expected to vote on a name change — from the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art — and destination.

 Pending approval by the Chicago Plan Commission, Lucas' institution would be built on what are now parking lots between Soldier Field and McCormick Place and would open in 2018. Architectural renderings will be presented to city officials in early fall, according to a statement from the museum.

 The decision to select Chicago reflects both a bungling of the billionaire's legacy project by the board of a national park in San Francisco as well as an aggressive lobbying effort by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

 “I am humbled to be joining such an extraordinary museum community and to be creating the museum in a city that has a long tradition of embracing the arts and architecture,” Lucas said in a statement. He added, “Choosing Chicago is the right decision for the museum, but a difficult decision for me personally because of my strong personal and professional roots in the Bay Area.”

 Lucas declined an interview request through a spokeswoman.

 The 70-year-old filmmaker is a native of Modesto, Calif., but he built his career in San Francisco. He never made a movie in Hollywood. He recently married a Chicagoan, Ariel Investments President Mellody Hobson, and lives here part time.

 The museum will house a collection that includes valuable Norman Rockwell paintings, examples of the special effects he pioneered at Industrial Light & Magic, and memorabilia such as the Darth Vader costume.

 The works are wrapped around the theme of storytelling. Many pieces, such as Lucas' collection of magazine illustrations, predate the arrival of moving pictures, television and radio, said Laurie Norton Moffatt, chief executive officer of the Norman Rockwell Museum, who is advising Lucas.

 “It's still an emerging and growing collection,” she said. She noted that Lucas “has an extraordinary collection of movie posters. I think he has the largest collection in the world.”

 According to a source, two factors weighed in Chicago's favor.

 One was that the city draws far more tourists than San Francisco. Chicago set a record in 2012 with 46.37 million visitors while the city of San Francisco attracted 16.51 million visitors that year, according to the San Francisco Travel Association.

 In addition, the site Emanuel offered is near the Museum Campus, home to the Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum and Adler Planetarium. Lucas hopes to collaborate with his prospective neighbors, the source said.

 “I just got off the phone with George Lucas and Mellody Hobson to thank them for choosing Chicago, the most American of American cities,” Emanuel said at a news conference Tuesday. “With this new museum, the Lucas museum, we have a tremendous opportunity in the city of Chicago, as they partner with the schools throughout the city of Chicago and make a tremendous investment in the city.”

 Still, the museum has drawn opposition from open-space advocates, such as Friends of the Parks.

 Among the 14 “basic policies” of the Lakefront Plan of Chicago, adopted by the city council in 1973, is that “in no instance will further private development be permitted east of Lake Shore Drive.” And the Lakefront Protection Ordinance says that the plan commission's decisions “shall be made in conformity with” those policies.

 “We will do what it takes and that very well may be a lawsuit,” Friends of the Parks President Cassandra Francis said. “We are in coalition-building mode, but we are very optimistic, based on discussions, that we will have a broad group of organizations joining us” in opposing the lakefront location for the museum.

 Under Emanuel's plan, the two Chicago Park District-owned parking lots would be leased to the museum for $1, which is similar to arrangements other large cultural institutions have with the Park District.

 But unlike other museums, the Lucas museum would not receive taxpayer subsidies to cover a portion of its operations, a top mayoral aide has said.

 The parking lots would be moved underground at Lucas' expense, the city has said.

 What that means for Chicago Bears tailgaters remains unclear.

 While Emanuel did not take questions Tuesday, he did respond to a shouted question about tailgating: “We've worked that issue out, and it will be continued.”

 The theory is that the parking lots are an ideal location because the museum would draw conventioneers from neighboring McCormick Place. In addition, the 17-acre plot of land is large enough to house the museum while leaving about 12 acres for new green space.

 The city got a shot at the museum because Lucas was unable to nail down an agreement for his first choice: a San Francisco bayside location on Crissy Field, part of a former Army base that was turned into an urban national park known as the Presidio. In a statement Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said the Presidio's board “unwisely rejected” Lucas' preferred site and “forced” him to consider Chicago.

 “These opportunities to attract hundreds of millions of dollars in private and philanthropic investment to create new public amenities for arts and education, as Mr. Lucas had proposed, come along rarely,” Lee said. “I am disappointed that San Francisco will not benefit from this renowned art collection and significant private investment by Mr. Lucas that would have been enjoyed by our families and children for generations to come.”

 In addition to covering construction costs, Lucas has said the museum would accumulate a $400 million endowment over time.

 Since marrying, Lucas and Hobson have given generously to Chicago institutions, committing $25 million each to two local, education-focused charities: the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and After School Matters.

 Lucas is worth an estimated $5.1 billion, putting him at No. 296 on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires. If he lived here full time, he would be Chicago's second-wealthiest resident.

 Tribune reporters Bill Ruthhart, Blair Kamin and Mitch Smith contributed.

 mmharris@tribune.com

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– Chicago will soon be home George Lucas' collection of art, film memorabilia, animation, and more—though the city wasn't necessarily Lucas' first choice for his private museum. The filmmaker proposed a $700 million plan earlier this year to build the museum in San Francisco, but his chosen bayside location was rejected, the New York Times reports. The city's Presidio Trust suggested he put the museum near his former film studio. Instead, he opted for Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel had battled to win the museum for the city, where Lucas lives part time; his wife is from Chicago. "I am humbled to be joining such an extraordinary museum community and to be creating the museum in a city that has a long tradition of embracing the arts and architecture,” Lucas says. “Choosing Chicago is the right decision for the museum, but a difficult decision for me personally because of my strong personal and professional roots in the Bay Area." The museum, set to open in 2018, will display items as varied as Norman Rockwell paintings, a Darth Vader suit, movie posters, and special-effects technology, the Tribune notes. The Chicago Sun-Times calls it a $1 billion project, noting that it will be built on the city's lakefront. (It's not the first time Lucas has had to retool a massive building project.)


– See if this sounds familiar: The White House and House Republicans appear headed toward a standoff over the debt ceiling this fall, reports NBC News. That's after John Boehner's statement this morning: “We're not going to raise the debt ceiling without real cuts in spending. It's as simple as that.” Democrats such as Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer said last week that Congress should pass an extension of the debt ceiling without strings attached, reports Bloomberg. Both sides appear to be jockeying for public opinion, with Boehner getting out ahead of President Obama's planned speeches on the economy starting tomorrow, reports the Hill. Boehner warned that Obama would be laying the ground for tax hikes. Treasury chief Jack Lew says the nation has enough money to operate without new borrowing until about Labor Day.

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Boehner: Obama economic push a 'big set-up' for higher taxes

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 Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) panned President Obama’s newfound focus on the economy, saying his scheduled series of speeches this week were merely a “big set-up” for a push for higher taxes.

 The Speaker and other House Republican leaders mocked Obama for giving more economic speeches while he ignored House-passed legislation aimed at boosting job growth.

 “If the president were serious about helping our economy, he wouldn’t give another speech. He’d reach out and actually work with us,” Boehner said after a meeting of the Republican conference.

 Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Obama was making “his umpteenth pivot” back to jobs and the economy.

 “I say to the president, you know what? Actions speak louder than words,” Cantor said.

 The GOP leaders cited House legislation to approve the Keystone oil sands pipeline, reduce regulations and delay implementation of the 2010 healthcare law as proposals opposed by the White House that would help the economy.

 In an address Wednesday at Knox College in Illinois, Obama is expected to take credit for an economy that has improved modestly over the last year. While the speech is not expected to include a new policy agenda, it comes as Washington prepares for fall battles over a potential government shutdown and a need to raise the debt ceiling.

 “This is all about a big set-up coming in this speech,” Boehner said. “The president wants to raise taxes so he can do more stimulus spending. The fact is, if we’re going to get rid of his sequester, we’re going to have to look for smarter spending cuts in order to do that.”

 The Speaker reiterated that Republicans would not simply lift the debt ceiling without concessions from Democrats.

 “We’re not going to raise the debt ceiling without real cuts in spending. It’s as simple as that,” Boehner said. ||||| House Speaker John Boehner signaled a clash with the White House and the Democratic-led Senate over raising the U.S. borrowing authority later this year.

 Congressional Republicans are staking their ground in fiscal negotiations that once again could pose the threat of default or a government shutdown -- the recurring theme surrounding efforts to reduce the nation’s deficit since 2011.

 “We’re not going to raise the debt ceiling without real cuts in spending,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told reporters in Washington yesterday. President Barack Obama and Senate leaders are refusing to accept anything short of a clean debt-limit increase.

 “We will not negotiate over Congress’s responsibility to pay the bills that Congress ran up,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said when asked about Boehner’s remarks.

 Any discussion about raising the debt ceiling must start with the premise that “we are the United States; we do not default,” Carney said. “The president believes Republican leaders share that conviction.”

 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said yesterday that Democrats are “not negotiating on the debt ceiling.”

 Congress should pass a debt-ceiling increase without any “hijinks” to ensure a stable economy, Senator Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters July 18. “Attaching other issues to the debt ceiling is playing with fire,” he said.

 Photographer: Susan Walsh/AP Photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill. Close House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill. Close Open Photographer: Susan Walsh/AP Photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill.

 ‘Significant Cuts’

 Boehner said Congress needs to find “significant cuts” in federal spending to replace $1.2 trillion in across-the-board spending reductions over nine years. Republicans also say they’re determined to make changes to entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

 Republican leaders have weighed whether to spell out the steps and timing of a tax-code rewrite as a trigger for raising the U.S. borrowing limit. Their goal is to curb tax breaks and use the resulting revenue to lower rates.

 House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said he’s been working “for a long time” on a package of spending cuts and government overhauls to be timed with the debt-limit increase. The former vice presidential candidate didn’t provide details. A 2014 budget blueprint he proposed would balance the budget in 10 years.

 Treasury Notes

 Lawmakers fought for months two years ago over raising the nation’s debt limit, with Obama signing an increase into law on Aug. 2, 2011, the day the Treasury Department warned that U.S. borrowing authority would expire.

 After Standard & Poor’s stripped the U.S. of its AAA top credit rating, the interest rate paid to finance the budget deficit dropped rather than rose. The yield on 10-year Treasury notes on Aug. 5, 2011, when S&P announced the downgrade, was 2.56 percent. The yield fell as low as 1.39 percent on July 24, 2012. As of yesterday, the yield had risen to 2.50 percent amid speculation the Federal Reserve is closer to winding down its asset-purchase program.

 Lawmakers’ negotiations led to the Budget Control Act of 2011, which set discretionary spending caps for 10 years and created a process that resulted in the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration. The cuts started in March.

 With the possibility of a fight over the debt limit after the five-week congressional recess that starts in August, Democrats said they worry about repeating the events of 2011.

 ‘Drawing Lines’

 “It sure will sooner or later create a crisis situation,” Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview at the Capitol. “It’s that kind of total rigidity that makes it very difficult to get things done: throwing down the gauntlet here and just drawing lines in the sand.”

 The need to increase the nation’s borrowing authority will collide with negotiations to fund the government for the 2014 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Negotiations will be centered on reducing the deficit and finding ways to replace the spending cuts.

 Congress will have to first approve a short-term stopgap measure to fund the government instead of the regular appropriations bills because the work on those won’t be completed before Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. Even the short-term measure could be a heavy lift because Reid said he won’t accept a stopgap measure at the lower sequestration levels.

 Senate Democrats instead want to replace the automatic, across-the-board cuts with a mix of spending cuts and tax revenue.

 The White House Office of Management and Budget, which enforces the spending cuts, has projected the caps in 2014 would be $967.4 billion for security and non-security spending unless the sequester is repealed.

 ‘Disaster’

 Funding at the lower levels “would be a disaster for the country, and I would do everything within my ability to oppose that,” Reid told reporters.

 The economy is showing signs of generating more revenue, even if the recovery is sluggish.

 Government tax receipts have climbed 14 percent above the level a year ago, according to Alex Brill, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who was interviewed by Bloomberg BNA. Economists credit economic growth as well as additional revenue from the tax increase Congress passed early this year.

 The Congressional Budget Office projected in May that federal tax receipts would climb from $2.45 trillion in 2012 to $2.81 trillion in 2013, and to $3.78 trillion by 2017.

 Earlier Vote

 Congress voted at the end of January to suspend the nation’s debt limit until May 19, temporarily removing the risk of a default. When the ceiling was restored May 19, it increased to $16.7 trillion to reflect the government’s borrowing during the past few months.

 By shifting money among government accounts, the Treasury Department can continue borrowing for several months, perhaps as late as October or November.

 In May, House Republicans voted to exempt federal payments to creditors from the U.S. debt limit. The House measure would ensure that U.S. government bondholders will continue to be paid and that Social Security benefits won’t be interrupted if a standoff over the nation’s debt limit causes a cash crunch. The Obama administration would be left to decide which of the government’s other bills to pay using tax revenue.

 The Democratic-controlled Senate didn’t take up the bill.

 To contact the reporter on this story: Roxana Tiron in Washington at rtiron@bloomberg.net

 To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jodi Schneider at jschneider50@bloomberg.net ||||| Setting the stage for a fall showdown over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, renewed on Tuesday his insistence that “we're not going to raise the debt ceiling without real cuts in spending. It's as simple as that.”

 As President Barack Obama readies a series of speeches later this week setting the parameters for this fall’s fight over government spending, the top House Republican said his position remained unchanged.

 “I believe the so-called Boehner Rule is the right formula for getting that done,” he later added, referring to the eponymous rule matching new debt authority with spending cuts

 Republican House Speaker John Boehner talks about immigration reform Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

 The speaker’s words make for a hard-line negotiating position for Republicans heading into yet another debt showdown with Obama. While Republicans extracted spending cuts during the initial 2011 fight over extending the debt ceiling, it produced the so-called “fiscal cliff” – a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts – with which Congress had to reckon at the end of 2012.

 Lawmakers’ ability to deal with the fiscal cliff was mixed. Taxes were allowed to rise, but only on incomes over $400,000. But the automatic spending cuts, known as the “sequester,” were allowed to take effect despite dire warnings from both Obama and economists about the cuts’ effect on the economy. Though the economy has grown in 2013, and has continued to add jobs, critics of the sequester argue that growth would be more robust if the cuts had never taken place.

 Whether Obama will be willing to assent to more cuts to extract an increase in the debt ceiling is an open question.

 Republicans in Congress, smarting from the political fallout over the fiscal cliff at the beginning of this year, volunteered to extend the debt limit through mid-May so long as both the House and Senate produced budget proposals for the 2013-14 fiscal year. (Both chambers did just that.)

 However, neither of those budget proposals have advanced because the House and Senate have refused to appoint negotiators to hash out a compromise between the two proposals. The debate over whether to proceed with these “conference” negotiations has been particularly charged in the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has vocally criticized conservatives who have objected to naming negotiators. Complicating the politics, some senior Republicans like Arizona Sen. John McCain, have also criticized fellow GOP senators for blocking budget talks from going forward.

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– Paul Manafort was there in a Virginia federal courtroom Friday to hear details on his sentencing, and his appearance seemed markedly different than the last time he was seen in public. NBC News notes the 69-year-old looked "visibly grayer," and that he showed up, in a wheelchair, wearing a green prison jumpsuit—not his usual tailored suit—and missing his right shoe. "There are significant issues with Mr. Manafort's health concerning confinement," his lawyer, Kevin Downing, told the judge, asking that the sentencing be sped up so Manafort, if kept in prison, could be moved to a facility better able to manage his maladies. A person said to be "familiar with Manafort's condition" tells CNN his issue is serious and is inflammation-based, tied to what he's been eating. Judge TS Ellis had earlier struck down the Manafort legal team's request that their client be permitted to wear a regular suit to Friday's hearing, with Ellis noting "defendants who are in custody post-conviction are, as a matter of course, not entitled to appear for sentencing or any other hearing in street clothing," per NBC. Ellis gave Manafort a sentencing date of Feb. 8, where he'll hear his fate on eight counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. The judge also dismissed 10 additional charges on which the jury deadlocked during the trial, though CNN notes if Manafort doesn't keep cooperating with Robert Mueller's investigation, those charges could be reinstated. Earlier this week, CNN reported Manafort and his attorneys visited Robert Mueller's DC office at least nine times over the past month, where they hunkered down for about six hours each time. (Manafort's deal to avoid a second trial.)

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Washington (CNN) Ever since reaching a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort has kept the Russia prosecutors busy.

 The former Trump campaign chairman and his lawyers have visited Mueller's office in Washington at least nine times in the last four weeks, a strong indication that the special counsel is moving at a steady clip.

 September and October at first glance appear to be quiet periods for the investigation, under the Justice Department's guidelines to avoid public political acts before the midterm elections. But the quiet period has seen a persistent murmur of activity, based on near-daily sightings of Mueller's prosecutors and sources involved in the investigation.

 In addition to Manafort, Mueller's team has kept interviewing witnesses, gathered a grand jury weekly to meet in Washington on most Fridays, and kicked up other still-secret court action. Plus, the discussions between the President's legal team and the special counsel's office have intensified in recent weeks, including after the special counsel sent questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government. The President's attorneys are expected to reply to the questions in writing.

 People around Trump and other witnesses believe more criminal indictments will come from Mueller.

 Attorneys who have dealt with Mueller's investigators and other officials expect that the special counsel's efforts, now 17 months in the works, will include an active post-election period a much-anticipated report where Mueller will outline what his investigators decided to prosecute and what they declined.

 Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation, on Wednesday called the probe "appropriate and independent," in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

 "[A]t the end of the day, the public will have confidence that the cases we brought were warranted by the evidence and that it was an appropriate use of resources."

 A frequent cooperator

 At least nine times since he pleaded guilty on September 14, a black Ford SUV has brought Manafort to Mueller's office in southwest DC around 10 am. Manafort's lawyers arrive around the same time, waiting in the lobby for the car to arrive. There they remain inside the offices, typically for six hours.

 It's not entirely clear yet what Manafort has shared with prosecutors, and if his interviews check facts that haven't yet come to light outside of the prosecutors' own notes. Among the questions, investigators have asked Manafort about his dealings with Russians, according to one source familiar with the matter.

 Attorneys for Manafort would not discuss their activities for this story.

 The visits amount to what could total dozens of hours of interviews between Mueller's prosecutors and Manafort since he finalized his plea agreement. Manafort agreed to fully cooperate with the Justice Department as it investigates the Trump campaign and the Russian government's actions before the 2016 election.

 At the same time, Trump has distanced himself from crimes investigators still may be pursuing. He publicly claimed this week that criminal charges so far brought by Mueller's team have nothing to do with him. Trump attorneys declined to comment for this story.

 Other help

 The flurry of interviews with Manafort and other cooperating defendants leaves Trump's legal team somewhat in the dark on what Mueller is pursuing.

 Manafort's lawyers have shared information with the Trump legal team, but according to sources familiar with the case, there is no formal joint defense agreement.

 Manafort's criminal confessions and separate conviction by a jury dealt with his Ukrainian lobbying work and financial dealings largely before 2016. Yet his cooperation is widely expected to include helping the prosecutors build potential criminal cases about coordination between the Russian government and Trump campaign.

 Aside from Manafort, three other Trump campaign officials have pleaded guilty to charges. Two of them, campaign deputy Rick Gates and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, also agreed to broadly help Mueller's team with its investigation and have visited the special counsel's office to give interviews since their pleas.

 Mueller's team has also been speaking with Michael Cohen , Trump's former personal attorney, who has spent hours with Mueller's team since his own guilty plea in August, in which he accused President Donald Trump of directing him to commit a crime.

 Trump legal team

 Meanwhile, Trump's team is working up answers to Mueller's questions. Even if the defense team were to sign and deliver their answers soon, Mueller's office may have follow-up questions that drag out their discussions. The legal team, comprised of personal and White House lawyers Jay Sekulow, Marty and Jane Raskin and Emmet Flood, still hasn't reached an agreement on whether the President will be interviewed in person or must respond to questions about possible obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

 While they're in investigatory limbo, expectations have grown in Washington legal circles that Mueller will issue a report soon after the November election or even before the end of the year.

 When it's finished, Mueller's report is expected to explain the decisions of the Justice Department to bring or to decline to bring criminal cases during the course of the investigation. Mueller's findings and decisions will be confidential, unless higher-up officials in the Justice Department decide to make the report public.

 As of now, the Trump legal team operates under the belief that Mueller won't finish his work without bringing indictments that hit closer to the Trump campaign.

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 The next campaign contact in Mueller's crosshairs may be Trump adviser Roger Stone, who's publicly said he expects to be indicted after nine of his friends and aides spoke to Mueller's office or received grand jury subpoenas. In the last two weeks, multiple contacts of Stone have been in touch with the special counsel's office about them providing information, according to CNN's reporting.

 Special counsel prosecutors have also visited the federal courthouse in downtown Washington almost daily.

 Once in early September and once in early October, Chief Judge Beryl Howell held hour-long sealed hearings in her courtroom featuring trial and appellate prosecutors from Mueller's office. Both times, the lawyers opposite the Justice Department declined to share with CNN their names, clients names or law firms. Howell oversees court action related to the federal grand jury that Mueller has used to approve indictments in DC.

 Previously she has ordered two witnesses -- a real estate agent and a lawyer -- to testify against Manafort before the grand jury, and she held Andrew Miller, a Stone associate, in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. The real estate and lawyer orders became public on the eve of Manafort's indictment last October, and Miller's attorneys spoke publicly about his subpoena challenge as it was ongoing.

 Other times in the courthouse in recent weeks, the Mueller investigators visit the chief judge's chambers and then clerk's office, indicating a flurry of court paperwork.

 A spokesperson for Howell and the federal court in DC declined to comment on the nature of the recent sealed court activity, as did a spokesman for the special counsel's office.

 As the court action moves forward, Trump himself has said he is working on giving information to Mueller. When asked by the Associated Press on Tuesday if he would sit for an interview with Mueller or simply answer written questions, as his lawyers have agreed to do, Trump said: "You know that's in process. It's a tremendous waste of time for the president of the United States." ||||| Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

 Oct. 19, 2018, 6:16 PM GMT / Updated Oct. 19, 2018, 9:14 PM GMT By Charlie Gile and Tom Winter

 Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was rolled into a Virginia federal court Friday in a wheelchair, wearing a green prison uniform instead of his signature tailored suit.

 The judge scheduled Manafort to be sentenced Feb. 8 for eight counts of tax evasion and bank fraud and dismissed the remaining charges against him.

 Manafort, appearing visibly grayer, was pushed into court in a wheelchair, missing his right shoe.

 "There are significant issues with Mr. Manafort’s health concerning confinement," his lawyer, Kevin Downing, told the judge.

 Downing requested that the court expedite Manafort’s sentencing so he could be moved to a facility better equipped to deal with his health issues.

 A jury in Alexandria convicted Manafort on eight counts of tax evasion and bank fraud counts in August, but were unable to reach a verdict on 10 additional counts, leaving Mueller's prosecutors to decide whether to retry him. The new ruling no longer gives them that option.

 In September, Manafort took a plea deal based on separate charges filed by the Mueller team in Washington, agreeing to cooperate with investigators. Court filings in that case indicated that the prosecutors would seek to delay Manafort's sentence in the Virginia case until they were satisfied that he had answered all their questions as part of his cooperation agreement.

 Both cases against Manafort involved his political consulting for the Russian-backed government of Ukraine and its former president, Viktor Yanukovych, well before Manafort served briefly as Trump's campaign chairman. Manafort was found guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on the millions he was paid for the work, by stashing it in overseas banks and using it to indulge his expensive tastes.

 The Virginia federal judge, T.S. Ellis, denied an earlier request by Manafort to wear a suit to Friday's court hearing.

 "Defendants who are in custody post-conviction are, as a matter of course, not entitled to appear for sentencing or any other hearing in street clothing," he said.

 The judge said Manafort should be treated no differently. |||||


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 The company that put Americans in cars affirmed Wednesday that those vehicles are going the way of the Model T and it will focus ever more on trucks and SUVs.

 Ford, during its announcement Wednesday that it had a first-quarter profit of $1.7 billion, said its traditional car lineup soon will be trimmed to just the Mustang and a new Focus Active crossover that comes out next year.

 By 2020, nearly 90% of Ford's product lineup in North America will be trucks, SUVs and commercial vehicles.

 For the first quarter, the Dearborn automaker said it earned 43 cents per share, beating Wall Street analysts' average expectations by 2 cents per share.

 Ford's revenue worldwide increased 7% to $42 billion for the quarter. The 9% increase in quarterly profit can be almost entirely attributed to a drop in the automaker's effective tax rate to 9% from 28.6%, Ford officials said.

 The automaker's pretax profit fell 14% from a year ago to $2.2 billion for the quarter.

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 Ford also unveiled plans to pare an additional $11.5 billion in costs between 2019 and 2022. These reductions would come on top of the $14 billion in cuts that the automaker previously announced in the fall.

 The latest planned reductions will come from areas including engineering, materials costs, marketing and sales.

 Ford Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks told reporters it is too early to say whether the additional cuts and "efficiency opportunities" would result in layoffs or staffing reductions.

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 “We have looked at every single part of the business," Shanks said. "It’s a little bit of everything, and I don't think they’re done yet.”

 Additionally, Ford said it expects to put $5 billion less into capital expenditures from 2019 to 2022 than it once anticipated.

 Shanks said that rising costs for commodities, such as aluminum, steel and copper, were a nearly $500-million drag on Ford's performance for the quarter. For the year, higher commodity costs are expected to be a $1.5-billion "head wind," Shanks said.

 Ford’s decision to pull back on car production reflects a shift in consumer sentiment that has had an impact across the automotive industry.

 The full-size Taurus, midsize Fusion, small Fiesta and wagon-like C-Max will no longer be sold in North America, Ford officials said. Exactly when these models will stop being sold in the market hasn't been announced.

 In 2016, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced it would end production of the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 to focus even more on SUV and trucks. The company, which does still produce some car models, shuffled production and preserved factory jobs. It is seeing sales grow at its Jeep brand, with vehicles such as the Compass SUV and a new Wrangler.

 Michelle Krebs, executive analyst at AutoTrader.com, said Ford’s move is no shock.

 “Ford’s announcement to pretty much get out of the car business ... comes as no surprise. Ford’s car sales have been dismal for the past couple of years, and there’s no end in sight to the decline of traditional cars,” Krebs said.

 2019 Ford Fusion sedan (Photo: Ford Motor Company)

 Dave Sullivan, manager of product analysis for AutoPacific, Inc., called the move bold but also not surprising.

 “This might be the boldest move Ford has made in many years as they pin their hopes on future products that no one has seen," he said. "Obviously, this has done well for brands such as Subaru. The competition isn't standing still and we'll see more jacked up cars, wagons, and crossovers on the market every few months for the next few years."

 In North America, Ford's biggest market, the automaker's pretax profits were down $200 million to $1.9 billion. Shanks said the higher commodity prices were largely to blame.

 Europe was the only other region where Ford was profitable — a $149-million pretax profit. Ford reported losses of $149 million in South America, $119 million in the Asia/Pacific region and $54 million in the Middle East and Africa.

 Contact JC Reindl: 313-222-6631 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @JCReindl.

 Read or Share this story: https://on.freep.com/2FgScmi ||||| Ford today announced it will phase out most cars it sells in North America. According to its latest financial release, the auto giant “will transition to two vehicles” — the Mustang and an unannounced vehicle, the Focus Active, being the only traditional cars it sells in the region. Ford sees 90 percent of its North America portfolio in trucks, utilities and commercial vehicles. Citing a reduction in consumer demand and product profitability, Ford is in turn not investing in the next generation of sedans. The Taurus is no more.

 The press release also talks about a new type of vehicle, though it sounds like a crossover. This so-called white space vehicle will “combine the best attributes of cars and utilities, such as higher ride height, space and versatility.”

 Currently, Ford sells six sedans and coupes in North America: the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, C-Max, Mustang and Taurus. This lineup hits multiple segments, from the compact Fiesta to the mid-size Focus, C-Max and Fusion to the full-size Taurus. The Mustang stands alone as the lone coupe.

 It’s likely Lincoln’s sedans will also disappear, though this was not explicitly stated in today’s press release. Lincoln currently sells the mid-size MKZ and full-size Continental — both share platforms with Ford counterparts. If Ford is phasing out development of sedan platforms, Lincoln will likely suffer, too.

 This reduction in traditional cars was a long time coming. North America consumers have increasingly turned to crossovers, trucks and SUVs over sedans and small cars. A trip to any parking lot will likely produce more evidence to this movement. There are several factors involved, from more fuel-efficient and better-equipped trucks and SUVs to improved safety ratings and ride qualities of these vehicles.

 Ford also today reaffirmed its commitment to bringing hybrid-electric powertrains to the F-150, Mustang, Explorer, Escape and upcoming Bronco.

 This announcement comes several weeks after Ford explained in broad terms its love affair of trucks and SUVs. Ford estimates that SUVs could make up as much as half the entire U.S. industry’s retail market by 2020, and that’s why it’s shifting $7 billion in investment capital from its cars business over to the SUV segment. By 2020, Ford also aims to have high-performance SUVs in market, including five with hybrid powertrains and one fully battery-electric model.

 With this big hybrid push on the SUV side, Ford expects to go from second to first-place in the U.S. hybrid vehicles market by sales, surpassing current leader Toyota by 2021, thanks also to the forthcoming hybrid Mustang and F-150.

 The sedan was long a staple for Ford. The Lincoln Continental defined the ’60s. And then there was the Ford Galaxy, which was available in countless variations for nearly 20 years. Then in the ’80s came the LTD, Crown Victoria and Taurus. Ford even went rally racing with its cars, namely the Escort and later Focus. But while all these nameplates rose and fell, there was another always present: The Mustang.

 Ford’s little pony turned 54 in April 2018. The Mustang has been in production since 1964 and seems ready for yet another generation of drivers. The car has been reinvented several times and will likely be reinvented several more before its nameplate is retired. For now, though, the Mustang is here to stay. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||

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– Some 110 years after the first Model T rolled off the line, Ford has decided to start phasing out car sales. The company announced Wednesday that it "will not invest in next generations of traditional Ford sedans for North America." In a financial release, Ford said that it plans to transition to just two cars over the next few years: the Ford Mustang and the new Ford Active, a "crossover" vehicle to be released next year. Ford currently sells the Fiesta, Focus, Fusion, C-Max, Mustang, and Taurus sedans and coupes in North America reports TechCrunch, which notes that the Lincoln sedans are also expected to vanish. Ford hasn't said exactly when the Taurus and other models will be phased out, but the company's statement says almost 90% of its North America portfolio will be trucks, utilities, and commercial vehicles by 2020. Auto industry experts say the move is a bold one, but not totally unexpected, given the continuing shift among consumers away from cars and toward SUVs. " Ford’s announcement to pretty much get out of the car business ... comes as no surprise," says analyst Michelle Krebs, per the Detroit Free Press. "Ford’s car sales have been dismal for the past couple of years, and there’s no end in sight to the decline of traditional cars."


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A serviceman who disappeared 40 years ago from an Air Force Base in North Dakota has been tracked down and charged with desertion after leading a double life.

 Jeffrey Michels, 64, was arrested and is being held by the US Air Force and will stand trial for failing to report for duty at Minot Air Force Base on 6 July 1977.

 Michels was unearthed last Thursday (12 October) in Sanford, a city in central Florida, where he lived with his wife and kids under an alias which he had used for years, investigators said.

 According to a police report, Michels had been using the name Jeffrey Lantz. Records showed he used that name in 1998 to obtain a license from the state of Florida for his construction business called Atlantic Development Corporation.

 There is no statute of limitations for desertion, and Michels will stand trial in a military court.

 However, the military rarely enforces the highest sentences for desertion. This ranges from a dishonourable discharge, a prison term typically between two to three years, up to the death penalty. But soldiers are only executed for desertion during wartime, and even then, it has to be demonstrated that their action left serving personnel in danger.

 For instance, even at the height of the Iraq war fewer than one per cent of deserters served prison time, according to New York magazine.

 Also, this week Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier held as a Taliban captive in Afghanistan for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.

 The 31-year-old Army sergeant entered his plea on Monday (16 October) before a military judge at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

 The Idaho native's lawyers have argued he cannot get a fair trial following criticism from Donald Trump during last year's presidential campaign. Trump had called him "a no-good traitor who should have been executed".

 The military does not keep strict records for servicemen and women who have deserted, but the outstanding number is estimated to be around 50,000 based on internal military data, according to New York magazine. ||||| An Airman who disappeared from an Air Force Base in North Dakota 40 years ago is in custody of the U.S. Air Force after he was discovered last week living in Florida.

 Jeffrey Michels, 64, was arrested Thursday on charges of desertion after he failed to report for duty at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base on July 6, 1977, WFTV reported.

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 Michels, originally from East Liverpool, Ohio, was found living a double life in Sanford, Fla. — under the name “Jeffrey Lantz,” according to a police report.

 The man reportedly used the fake name to obtain a business license in Florida in 1998. Online records show the name Jeffrey Lantz had a certified general contractor license for construction business Atlantic Development Corporation.

 A photo of Michels was posted on July 9 to the Facebook group “Veteran Doe” — a website dedicated to bringing “attention to the many missing veteran/active duty cases and unidentified person cases where there is a possible military connection.” The post was deleted after Michels was discovered.

 It’s unclear if the Air Force opened an investigation into Michels' disappearance due to the Facebook post.

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 Michels, according to WFTV, is in the custody of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

 Because there is no statute of limitations for deserting a military post, Michels will stand trial in military court.

 Reports of Michels’ arrest come one day after Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion charges after he left his post in Afghanistan in 2009. Bergdahl was subsequently held captive by the Taliban until May 2014. ||||| Sign in using you account with: {* loginWidget *}

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– Jeffrey Michels disappeared from an Air Force base in northern North Dakota on a summer day in 1977—and was found last week in Florida living a double life, Fox News reports. Michels, 64, was arrested Oct. 12 on desertion charges filed against him after he went missing from Minot Air Force Base near the Canadian border. Police say the former airman had taken the name Jeffrey Lantz, married, and had kids, per WFTV. In 1998, "Lantz" applied for a business license and started a construction company, Atlantic Development Corporation. Michels, originally from Ohio, was nabbed after the Facebook group Veteran Doe posted his photo in July, nearly 40 years to the day after he failed to report for duty. (That photo has since been taken down.) The site calls "attention to the many missing veteran/active duty cases and unidentified person cases where there is a possible military connection." The Air Force hasn't explained how Michels was found, per the Miami Herald. But Seminole County authorities identified him by a scar on his left leg near the ankle. There's no statute of limitations on desertion, so Michels will stand trial in a military court, per the IB Times. He was turned over to the custody of the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations. Why Michels walked away from the remote base is unknown, but the Herald notes it's known for its nuclear missile silos and hard winters. (One of the first women Army combat engineers was accused of desertion.)


A battle of nerves between Essex Police and a suspected drug dealer has ended after he successfully refused to go to the toilet.

 Twitter users have been keeping track of Essex Police's #PooWatch, which offered updates on the case of a man suspected of swallowing a stash of Class A drugs.

 Lamarr Chambers was arrested in Harlow on 17 January and has spent 47 days in custody refusing to go to the toilet.

 The police, frustrated by the lack of movement in the case and in the suspect, were forced to release him on "medical and legal advice".

 Despite failing to deliver the goods, the 24-year-old was released from custody on 5 March.

 Chambers had daily visits from doctors, was under constant surveillance and was routinely given food and water. He denied medical treatment and opportunities to visit hospital.

 The Crown Prosecution Service have discontinued the charges against Mr Chambers in relation to possession with intent to supply a Class A drug and driving matters.

 However, Chambers was subsequently re-arrested by Essex Police on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug.

 He has been released on bail and was taken by police car, in the company of a medical professional, to hospital for treatment.

 Police had applied for custody extensions at seven court hearings as they waited for Chambers, from Brixton in south London, to go for a poo. ||||| Image copyright Essex Police Image caption Lamarr Chambers was arrested in Harlow in January

 Prosecutors have dropped their case against a suspected drug dealer who refused to use the toilet after allegedly swallowing substances.

 Lamarr Chambers, 24, of Villa Road in Brixton, had been arrested during a police chase in Essex, on 17 January.

 Essex Police said it had released him following 47 days in custody after getting medical and legal advice.

 The Crown Prosecution Service said it discontinued drug charges against him because of "insufficient evidence".

 It is understood it is the longest anyone has gone without going to the toilet while in custody.

 Charges Mr Chambers faced relating to driving matters, following his arrest in Harlow, were dropped "in the public interest", prosecutors said.

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 However, police said he was subsequently rearrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of a Class A drug and has been released on bail.

 Following his release from custody on Monday, Mr Chambers was taken to hospital and is understood to have since been treated, Essex Police said.

 The force said that while he was being held, he was routinely supplied with food and water and received medical visits every day.

 Despite this, nothing was passed by Mr Chambers, who also routinely declined medical treatment and the opportunity to visit hospital, it said.

 Deputy Chief Constable BJ Harrington said: "Where detainees are suspected of ingesting or concealing drugs inside their body, we must balance overseeing their welfare and ensuring that all evidence is captured to ensure the best possible chance of prosecution.

 "We will... not shy away from talking about the unpleasant truths that go hand in hand with the drug dealing lifestyle, from the violence often perpetrated by those involved to the expectation on dealers to 'plug' drugs to avoid capture."

 Reporting restrictions placed on the case at an earlier hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court were lifted. |||||

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– Lamarr Chambers fought the law, and the law came in No. 2—all over some No. 2. The BBC reports "poo watch" has officially ended in the UK, with the 24-year-old released on Monday after 47 days in custody in which he refused to have a bowel movement. Chambers was arrested in Essex on Jan. 17, and police suspected the alleged drug dealer had swallowed his stash—and decided to wait him out. It didn't work after what Sky News reports was seven court hearings in which police sought custody extensions, and even though Chambers ate and drank daily. Prosecutors decided to drop the charges—possession with intent to supply—against him due to "insufficient evidence," though he was then re-arrested by police on different drug charges—suspicion of being concerned in the supply. He was released on bail; Chambers was then taken to a hospital and treated. The BBC reports it's believed to be the longest anyone in custody has gone without pooping, though the human body can go longer. Newser previously reported that a 16-year-old British girl died in 2013 after she reportedly did not have a bowel movement for eight weeks. (This remains one classic story of a poop gone wrong.)