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Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Chicago. | AP Photo/John Locher Defying Trump, Chicago will continue as immigrant sanctuary

 CHICAGO — Joining other cities around the country, Chicago is pledging to remain a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants, an act of defiance in the face of Donald Trump’s past promise to cut off those cities from federal funding.

 In sanctuary cities, local law enforcement officials aren’t required to alert U.S. Immigration and Customs authorities about the immigration status of individuals with whom they come in contact.

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 On Monday, Chicago's elected officials, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, are expected to hold a news conference to formally discuss how the city will retain its sanctuary status. Aldermen are expected to call on Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner to pressure Trump to back off his vow to interfere with funding.

 “Across the country and in Chicago and Illinois ... young men and women [are] very distraught about this,” Chicago Alderman Danny Solis told POLITICO Illinois on Sunday.

 Solis is among those planning to attend the news conference with Emanuel. "There’s some people, though I disagree with them, but I have some respect for — Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus," Solis said, referring to the House speaker and the RNC chairman who will serve as Trump's chief of staff. "I’m hoping that those guys have much more influence on Trump and what needs to be done not only on his first 100 days, but in his term."

 Illinois Comptroller-elect Susana Mendoza, whose parents are Mexican immigrants, called on Rauner to take a stand on the issue.

 “As a leader of this state, the governor, and everyone in a leadership position, should be saying it’s wrong,” Mendoza told POLITICO Illinois on Sunday. “I would expect that the governor would say, ‘that’s ridiculous.’ Besides moral bankruptcy, it’s bad fiscal policy for the city or any city.”

 The move is largely motivated by elected officials who say they’ve heard from terrified residents, including so-called Dreamers (children whose parents entered the country illegally), who fear imminent deportation. On Sunday, Emanuel’s office released a statement directing those with questions or in need of legal resources to call 311.

 “I want to assure all of our families that Chicago is and will remain a sanctuary city,” Emanuel said in a statement. “Chicago has been a city of immigrants since it was founded. We have always welcomed people of all faiths and backgrounds, and while the administration will change, our values and our commitment to inclusion will not.”

 Since Tuesday’s election, other cities that have affirmed their commitment to remaining sanctuaries include New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia and San Francisco.

 There are dozens of sanctuary cities in the United States and more than 100 jurisdictions have policies on the books that limit compliance with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 In a "60 Minutes" interview on Sunday, Trump vowed to deport 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants, but seemed to make a distinction between ones who had committed crimes — presumably beyond immigrating illegally — and ones who hadn't.

 “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records -- gang members, drug dealers -- where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," he said. "But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.

 “After the border is secure and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that they’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that. But before we make that determination, it’s very important, we are going to secure our border.”

 The immigration issue was central to Trump’s candidacy, framed by his pledge to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

 Neither Trump nor Rauner spokespeople responded to request for comment on Sunday. ||||| President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration stance was a central part of his campaign message in 2016 -- and he said in an interview Sunday that he plans to immediately deport approximately 2 to 3 million undocumented immigrants.

 “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”

 He continued by saying that after the border is “secure,” immigration officials will begin to make a “determination” about the remaining undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

 60 Minutes interview: President-elect Donald Trump

 “After the border is secure and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that they’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that,” he said. “But before we make that determination...it’s very important, we are going to secure our border.”

 Asked whether he really plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border -- a proposal that served as a centerpiece of his campaign message -- Trump replied, “Yes.”

 Since Trump’s election on Tuesday night, the realities of actually building that wall have begun to set in. The Mexican government has publicly reminded him that Mexico will not pay for the wall. And asked about the wall, Trump transition co-chair Newt Gingrich said the wall was “a great campaign device.”

 Trump also told “60 Minutes” that the border wall, which was one of the centerpieces of his campaign platform, could be part wall and “some fencing,” in accordance with what congressional Republicans have proposed.

 “For certain areas I would, but certain areas, a wall is more appropriate,” he said. “I’m very good at this, it’s called construction.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Mark Wilson / Getty Images ID: 9982123

 President Barack Obama on Monday said he will urge Donald Trump to “think long and hard” before endangering young undocumented immigrants.

 Speaking at his first news conference since the presidential election, Obama was asked if he could do anything to shield the information of thousands of undocumented immigrants who received protections from deportation under his executive actions from Trump.

 “I will urge the president-elect and the upcoming administration to think long and hard before they are endangering the status of what for all practical purposes are American kids,” Obama said. “These are kids, who were brought here by their parents, they did nothing wrong. They’ve pledged allegiance to the flag.”

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 He did not address the issue of protecting their information, which has some beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program concerned.

 Obama said that if they have DACA, which also gave them permission to work, “they’re solid, wonderful young people.”

 Trump has pledged to end DACA, calling it “one of the most unconstitutional actions ever undertaken by a president.”

 More than 700,000 young immigrants were shielded from deportation and received work permits under Obama’s 2012 executive actions.

 “It is my strong belief that the majority of the American people would not want to see suddenly those kids have to start hiding again,” Obama said, “and that’s something that I will encourage the president-elect to look at.” ||||| Did Rural American Farmers Vote To Deport Their Workforce?

 At the ballot box, rural Americans were unfazed by what would seem a contradictory choice: voting to remove the low-wage workers that are, arguably, the linchpin of the rural economy. Farming is a high risk, low margin business endeavor, largely propped up by government subsidies and a marginalized workforce willing to toil 80 hours a week at appallingly low rates of pay – employment conditions which few American-born citizens would accept.

 Apparently rural voters were willing to overlook this inconvenient truth, or perhaps they assume that Trump will not follow through on his promises.

 Voter Turnout in Urban vs. Rural Communities

 Trump won the vote in upwards of 90 percent of rural counties; in the 1,299 rural counties he won, he garnered 85 percent of the vote. In contrast, Hillary Clinton, who supported a path to citizenship for the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented workers, won close to 90 percent of urban counties.

 How Farmworkers Are Reacting

 Unsurprisingly, millions of undocumented farmworkers are in a state of panic.

 KION, a radio station in Monterrey County, California, where an estimated 55,000 undocumented workers tend to vast expanses of lettuce and strawberry fields, reported widespread concern. “I’m really scared,” said one farmworker who was interviewed. “Me and my roommate already have our truck loaded and ready to leave.”

 Elsewhere in California, Latino immigrants took to the streets to voice their opposition to the president-elect. The day after the election, a group of protesters in downtown Los Angeles shouted, “Aqui estamos y no nos vamos,” or, “We are here and we are not leaving,” according to Voices of America, a US-based news service that broadcasts in 45 languages. “I’m afraid for my family… our friends and for my coworkers,” said one protester. “Our status and our way of life in this country are in limbo,” said another.

 But Is It Possible?

 Many immigration experts have said Trump’s mass deportation plan is implausible, and would likely be ineffective at reversing the tide of immigrants from south of the border. The Trump campaign has even acknowledged that his initial statements on deportation may have been more bluster than substance. More likely than rounding up all 11 million illegal immigrants, is that Trump would reverse DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), President Obama’s executive order, which granted legal status – and a work permit – to immigrants who entered the country illegally prior to their 16th birthday.

 The paper trail associated with DACA workers would make them easy targets for deportation, compared to the millions of undocumented workers hiding in the shadows.

 Over 1 million young illegal immigrants, the vast majority from Mexico, have been approved for DACA benefits since the program began in 2012. DACA does not provide a path to citizenship, but was intended as an interim reprieve while democrat and republican members of Congress battled over immigration reform, a battle which pro-reform democrats ultimately lost. Because DACA is an executive order, which means it did not require congressional approval to be enacted, President-elect Trump could overturn it on his first day in office without recourse – a campaign promise that he has not backed down from. The paper trail associated with DACA workers would make them easy targets for deportation, compared to the millions of undocumented workers hiding in the shadows.

 Not that there won’t be intense political pressure from a coalition of immigrant rights groups to soften Trump’s anti-immigrant stance. The United Farm Workers, a Latino agricultural union based in California, which also advocates nationally on behalf of immigrant farm workers, will no doubt be one of those, leveraging its deep ties in Washington – UFW worked closely with the Obama administration and Clinton campaign on immigration reform – to block the president-elect’s deportation efforts.

 What Does the UFW Think?

 In an emailed statement to Modern Farmer on the day after the election, Arturo Rodriguez, who took over as UFW president following the death of founder Cesar Chavez in 1993, said:

 “Making progress will be more difficult, but our practice of organizing for the long term will let us continue to win justice… We reaffirm our confidence in the American people and in our Si Se Puede! attitude… As the challenges increase so does our commitment and determination to afford all farm workers and low-income working families the opportunities and respect they deserve.†

 Rodriguez, who also spoke with us just prior to the election about his hopes for the next president, did note one bright spot on the night of Novermber 8th: Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona (where Phoenix is located), who is known for his unrelenting persecution of Mexican immigrants, was not re-elected. He was seeking his seventh term. Recently referred to as the Donald Trump of Arizona, Arpaio has long been loathed by immigrant activists and progressive Americans alike as a symbol of xenophobic sentiment within the American political and law enforcement system.

 “We have confronted and overcome political adversity many times before,” said Rodriguez in his statement. “What remains unchanged is faith in our history and practice of organizing for the long term, running the race as a marathon and not just as a sprint. That faith will allow us to continue to win justice.” May it be so. ||||| Donald Trump wants to immediately deport 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records. One problem: There almost certainly aren’t that many people who fit those criteria.

 In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, Trump said he would prioritize deporting or incarcerating the immigrants who are both in the country illegally and who are “gang members, drug dealers” or have other criminal convictions. He said there are “a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million.”

 It isn’t clear where Trump came up with those numbers. But according to the Department of Homeland Security, there are roughly 1.9 million non-citizen immigrants who have been convicted of crimes and are subject to deportation — what the government calls “removable criminal aliens.” That total, however, includes both undocumented immigrants and noncitizens in the country legally. The Migration Policy Institute, a think tank, estimates that there are roughly 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally and that approximately 820,000 of them have criminal records. (The Migration Policy Institute doesn’t take positions on specific legislation but is generally seen as favoring immigration. The Pew Research Center, another think tank, comes up with a similar figure for the total number of undocumented immigrants.) Some of those immigrants are already incarcerated: A recent report from the Congressional Research Service estimated that at the end of 2013, there were more than 140,000 non-citizen immigrants in local, state and federal prisons and jails. (That figure includes people who are in the country legally, not all of whom are subject to deportation.)

 Beyond the specific numbers, the policy that Trump outlined Sunday is similar to the one President Obama pursued in his first term. When Obama first took office, he prioritized deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal convictions, in some cases even for comparatively minor violations such as traffic offenses or shoplifting, according to Randy Capps of the Migration Policy Institute. Partly as a result, deportations soared under Obama, topping 400,000 in 2012.

 More recently, however, the Obama administration has changed tack, focusing instead on deporting immigrants convicted of more serious crimes or for repeat offenses. (He has also consistently deported undocumented immigrants who entered the country recently.) Deportations have fallen steadily in Obama’s second term, to below 250,000 in 2015.

 Capps said that the Homeland Security Department still has the resources it had in Obama’s first term. From a practical standpoint, then, it wouldn’t be hard for the government to deport 400,000 or even 500,000 people per year — meaning that Trump could credibly deport 2 million people during his first term without requiring additional resources or authorization from Congress. Many, but not all, of the people deported would be convicted criminals.

 “It would not be hard to get up to 2 million in four years, and most of them would be quote-unquote criminals,” Capps said, although he added that many of those criminal convictions would be for relatively minor crimes.

 Trump is also likely to roll back a central element of Obama’s immigration agenda: his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offers temporary legal status to people who entered the country illegally as children. During the campaign, Trump pledged to end DACA, but he hasn’t said how — whether he will close the program to new applicants, allow it to expire or end it even for the roughly three-quarters of a million people who have been granted legal status under the program.

 “The proof is going to be in what his administration actually does,” Capps said, “and it will take some time before we know that.” |||||
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– In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes on Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump said his first priority will be arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records, and he put a number to the effort: "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate." How does that number hold up, and what's the reaction been? The rundown: Washington Post's Fact Checker and FiveThirtyEight find Trump comes up short. While a rep for the president-elect called out a Department of Homeland Security report that cited 1.9 million "removable criminal aliens" as of fiscal year 2013, both point out that phrase also includes lawful permanent residents and those with temporary visas, meaning size of the group Trump was referring to is south of that 1.9 million. Both also cite the number 820,000—the Migration Policy Institute's estimate of undocumented immigrants with criminal records. In his first press conference since the election, President Obama addressed the topic of young undocumented immigrants and advised Trump to "think long and hard" before endangering their status. BuzzFeed has more. Trump won't find an ally among the LAPD. "We are not going to work in conjunction with Homeland Security on deportation efforts," Police Chief Charlie Beck tells the LA Times, continuing the department's decades-old stance. Los Angeles is a "sanctuary city"—meaning ones where police and city workers aren’t obligated to turn undocumented immigrants they encounter into the feds, per Politico—and it's not alone. NPR reports there are 300 such cities and counties, and under Trump's First 100 Days plan they stand to lose federal funding if they don't change their tune. That didn't scare Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, who on Monday emphasized Chicago "always will be a sanctuary city." Modern Farmer looks into one of the "great ironies in the election": that rural Americans voted for a candidate whose immigration policies could decimate the agricultural workforce.


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On June 10, The New York Times inadvertently briefly posted an article on the lives of the women involved in Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal. The article, written by reporter Michael Barbaro, was titled “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers.” It was quickly deleted before being replaced with a production note:

 “An article was posted on this page inadvertently, before it was ready for publication,” read the note left on the story page.

 “The story was posted inadvertently before it was ready,” New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha told BuzzFeed. “We do not discuss stories in advance of publication.”

 But while the story was deleted from the Times website, large portions of it remained cached by Google. By looking at search result listings in a series of more than 100 searches in Google News, it was possible to reconstruct what appears to be the bulk of the article: 1,342 words.

 The article that emerges is a sympathetic look at several of the women whose names were made public after Weiner accidentally tweeted a lewd picture to a college student. The women, many of whom went public in exchange for cash, and one of whom is a porn star who held a press conference to draw attention to herself, are portrayed as victims of a harsh media environment who have banded together in a shared struggle to reclaim their lives:

 This is the life of a Weiner Woman: infused with indignity, two years later. Anthony D. Weiner’s improbable campaign for mayor of New York is a carefully calibrated wager that voters have made peace with his lewd online behavior, a seemingly victimless cybercrime for which his wife and family have forgiven him. But for the women who were on the other end of Mr. Weiner’s sexually explicit conversations, the scandal remains an open sore that has cut short careers, disrupted educations and shattered reputations. In ways big and small, they say, the experience has defined them: once-private details of their lives, as well as their exchanges with Mr. Weiner, are now immortalized on the Internet for all to see and judge.

 “I cannot tell you the devastation,” Lisa Weiss, a blackjack dealer who leaked her emails with Weiner to RadarOnline, is quoted as saying, calling herself “a little piece of collateral damage from the Weiner situation.”

 “Fans of Mr. Weiner from the start, their feelings about him now are complex and unsettled: Some, like Ms. Weiss, are heartened by his campaign for mayor and rooting for him to win, despite their travails,” the story says.

 The porn star Ginger Lee, who capitalized on the situation by staging a press conference with the lawyer Gloria Allred, “called on [Weiner] to stay out of the race to spare women like her further anguish,” the spiked Times story said. “Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over,” she said through her lawyer. “There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements, and hurtful remarks.”

 Weiss and Traci Nobles, a Georgia fitness instructor, both say in the story that they support his mayoral campaign.

 “I think third time is going to be the charm,” Nobles told the Times. “A perfect comeback story, ya know?”

 Asked about the fallout, Mr. Weiner said in a statement to the Times: “I am deeply sorry that my behavior caused so much upheaval in the lives of those who were unwittingly involved.”

 The portions that could be recreated were taken from the Google cache below; BuzzFeed cannot guarantee the sentences appear in the exact order as The New York Times intended to them to be.

 Update Several hours after this story was posted the New York Times republished their story. A New York Times spokesperson said in a statement: “Our editors decide when a story is ready for publication. Outside coverage does not play a role in that decision,” according to Dylan Byers of Politico.

 Anthony Weiner responding to the New York Times in an interview with City and State said “I want to reiterate that sense of apology, and I’ve never talked about the private exchanges that we’ve had and I never will, because I think that they’ve already been put through enough.” ||||| Customers taunt Lisa Weiss. “Talk dirty to me,” they joke. “We know you like it.” Colleagues refuse to speak with her. Strangers mock her in nasty online messages.

 “Clearly she’s got mental issues,” declared the latest.

 Anthony D. Weiner’s improbable campaign for mayor of New York City is a wager that voters have made peace with his lewd online behavior, a subject he has largely left behind as he roils the race with his aggressive debating style and his attention-getting policy proposals.

 But for the women who were on the other end of Mr. Weiner’s sexually explicit conversations and photographs, his candidacy is an unwanted reminder of a scandal that has upended their lives in ways big and small, cutting short careers, disrupting educations and damaging reputations.

 “I cannot tell you the devastation,” said Ms. Weiss, a 42-year-old blackjack dealer in Nevada who exchanged dozens of explicit messages with Mr. Weiner, then a congressman, in 2010 and 2011.

 Ms. Weiss, a die-hard Democrat who once volunteered for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign and was inspired by “Fahrenheit 9/11,” a film critique of the Bush administration, said she had reached out to Mr. Weiner after watching him joust with Republican rivals on cable news. They traded admiring messages on Facebook that, at his prompting, became intimate and raunchy, she said.

 When their correspondence eventually became public, she said in an interview, conservative-minded colleagues sought to have her fired. The press lined up outside of her house and showed up at her casino, causing her to miss work for weeks. One night, she turned on the television to find the HBO host Bill Maher and the actress Jane Lynch performing a dramatic reading of the bawdy messages. Ms. Weiss, an avowed Maher fan, said she sat in her living room crying. While coping with the onslaught, she drank heavy amounts of alcohol, a habit that persists.

 “I obsess about it,” she said, “every day.”

 It is hard not to, she said: Mr. Weiner had faded from view after resigning from Congress, but now that he is in the mayoral race, her phone lights up with calls from reporters, online enemies are pouncing and fresh cruelties abound.

 “We know what you want to do to him,” she recalled a man teasing her at work recently.

 Little unites the five women whose online relationships with Mr. Weiner have become public. Some were self-confident political admirers; some were struggling and insecure, flattered by attention from a man in power. Some fled publicity after his downfall; some sought it out. (Ms. Weiss even appeared on “Inside Edition.”) Some of them still think he would be a good mayor; some are repelled by the concept.

 But it is clear that all of them have been overwhelmed by the reaction to the imbroglio.

 Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student when she interacted with Mr. Weiner, is still trying to reclaim her identity, online and off.

 In spring 2011, Mr. Weiner sent her an image of himself in boxers, with an obvious erection. Ms. Cordova, who has told The New York Times that she had chatted electronically with Mr. Weiner about politics and not about sex, was shocked by his unwanted advance.

 When Mr. Weiner inadvertently posted the image publicly on Twitter, the Internet quickly rendered its own verdict, branding Ms. Cordova, incorrectly, she says, a participant in his online dalliances. The news media dug up Ms. Cordova’s old yearbooks and sifted through police records, publicizing her youthful indiscretions. The attention prompted her to withdraw from academic classes. She moved from Seattle to New York City, before Mr. Weiner’s decision to run for mayor, eager to leave a place where she had become known for her ties to the unfolding drama.

 But, with Mr. Weiner back in the spotlight, the story has followed her across the country. A few weeks ago, a reporter showed up, unannounced, at her office, asking her about Mr. Weiner.

 The repercussions were also painful for Traci Nobles, a onetime schoolteacher and a fitness instructor in Georgia, who says her roommate leaked her salacious messages with Mr. Weiner without her permission. As media inquiries poured in to her employer, Ms. Nobles was forced to quit her job at a Young Women’s Christian Organization because of the attention.

 “Which sort of broke my heart,” she has said in an interview. Determined to explain her online relationship with Mr. Weiner and its impact on her life, Ms. Nobles is writing a book that has yet to be published.

 The shared experience of the women involved has brought several of them together, for a kind of online group therapy. Ms. Weiss said she had discussed Mr. Weiner with both Ms. Nobles and Ms. Cordova.

 “We all kind of commiserated,” Ms. Weiss said. “They were all very supportive.”

 Asked about the fallout, Mr. Weiner said in a statement: “I am deeply sorry that my behavior caused so much upheaval in the lives of those who were unwittingly involved.”

 On the campaign trail, though, he mixes contrition with wittiness. Not long ago he cracked a joke about his use of social media. “You know how much I trust Twitter,” he said at a candidate forum.

 A number of the women remain angry with Mr. Weiner — arguing that, after taking advantage of his political devotees, he is now drawing them back into the spotlight.

 Ginger Lee, a former star of adult films who communicated with Mr. Weiner online, has pleaded with him not to run for mayor.

 “Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over,” she said in a statement released by her lawyer. “There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks.”

 Ms. Weiss, who said she was a voluntary participant in explicit online chats with Mr. Weiner, said it was his position as a prominent lawmaker that allowed him to steer conversations about politics and policy into racy exchanges about sex.

 “If he were a regular guy off the street talking to me like that,” she said, “I would have not done it.”

 Ms. Weiss said her back-and-forth with Mr. Weiner was at times remarkably intimate and confessional. She recalled Mr. Weiner acknowledging loneliness when his wife, an aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton, traveled abroad. He once called Ms. Weiss and, after realizing that her 12-year-old niece was in the room, got on the phone with the girl to wish her good night.

 “I was flattered,” she said of their chats.

 Soon after Mr. Weiner confessed to his online indiscretions, Ms. Weiss’s own troubles began. She said a former boyfriend threatened to make public her messages with Mr. Weiner. So she acted first, granting access to her Facebook account to a reporter at RadarOnline.com, a decision that she says was a result of her naïveté about the news media, and that she now regrets.

 “I thought I could control it,” she said.

 She could not. Hundreds of the messages appeared on Web sites and in newspapers across the country. The coverage even reached her 98-year-old grandmother. “How do you explain that to everyone you know who reads that?” Ms. Weiss asked. “It was horrible.”

 Her feelings about him now are complex, unsettled and somewhat counterintuitive. She acknowledges she brought on some of the damage herself, and even went on to his Facebook site to apologize.

 But she is heartened by his campaign for mayor and rooting for him to win, despite her travails.

 “I’d like him to say, ‘I am sorry I put you in that position,’” she said.

 But she added: “If he lived here, I’d vote for him. He is such a big fighter for all of our causes.”

 Ms. Nobles, the Georgia fitness instructor, said she, too, understood the appeal of Mr. Weiner’s candidacy, though she did not express outright support. “A perfect comeback story, ya know?” she wrote in an e-mail to The Times.

 Back at the casino, Ms. Weiss says she is trying to laugh off the crude jokes that she hears. But the words sting.

 “It gets old after two years,” she said. |||||

– Anthony Weiner may be moving on from his 2011 sexting scandal—but for the five women on the other end of his raunchy messages and photos, it's not so easy, the New York Times reports. Lisa Weiss, 42, says customers at the casino where she works as a blackjack dealer don't make it easy to forget, saying things like, "Talk dirty to me," and, "We know what you want to do to him," while colleagues refuse to speak to her, and strangers send her disparaging remarks online. "Clearly she’s got mental issues," read a recent one. Gennette Cordova, who was 21 when she received a photo of Weiner's, er, weiner, moved across the country to get away from the scandal, but the press still tracked her down, showing up at her new workplace. And Ginger Lee says his new mayoral campaign is a constant reminder of what happened. "Every new headline and news story about him reminds reporters and bloggers that we exist, and the cycle starts all over," she says. "There will be a new flare-up of jokes, inaccurate statements and hurtful remarks." (Vaguely interesting side-note, Buzzfeed reported earlier today that this story was first published on June 10 then pulled offline. The Times then posted the story hours later, but says it wasn't influenced by the Buzzfeed piece.)


Here is a news article: Google ’s ambition to create the world’s largest digital library and bookstore has run into the reality of a 300-year-old legal concept: copyright.

 The company’s plan to digitize every book ever published and make them widely available was derailed on Tuesday when a federal judge in New York rejected a sweeping $125 million legal settlement the company had worked out with groups representing authors and publishers.

 The decision throws into legal limbo one of the most ambitious undertakings in Google’s history, and it brings into sharp focus concerns about the company’s growing power over information. While the profit potential of the book project is not clear, the effort is one of the pet projects of Larry Page, the Google co-founder who is set to become its chief executive next month. And the project has wide support inside the company, whose corporate mission is to organize all of the world’s information.

 “It was very much consistent with Larry’s idealism that all of the world’s information should be made available freely,” said Ken Auletta, the author of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.”

 But citing copyright, antitrust and other concerns, Judge Denny Chin said that the settlement went too far. He said it would have granted Google a “de facto monopoly” and the right to profit from books without the permission of copyright owners.

 Judge Chin acknowledged that “the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many,” but said that the proposed agreement was “not fair, adequate and reasonable.” He left open the possibility that a substantially revised agreement could pass legal muster. Judge Chin was recently elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, but handled the case as a district court judge.

 The decision is also a setback for the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which sued Google in 2005 over its book-scanning project. After two years of painstaking negotiations, the authors, publishers and Google signed a sweeping settlement that would have brought millions of printed works into the digital age.

 The deal turned Google, the authors and the publishers into allies instead of opponents. Together, they mounted a defense of the agreement against an increasingly vocal chorus of opponents that included Google rivals like Amazon and Microsoft, as well as academics, some authors, copyright experts, the Justice Department and foreign governments.

 Now the author and publisher groups have to decide whether to resume their copyright case against Google, drop it or try to negotiate a new settlement.

 Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, said in an interview that it was too early to tell what the next step would be. “The judge did expressly leave the door open for a revised settlement,” he said.

 Hilary Ware, managing counsel at Google, said in a statement that the decision was “clearly disappointing,” adding: “Like many others, we believe this agreement has the potential to open up access to millions of books that are currently hard to find in the U.S. today.” The company would not comment further.

 Google has already scanned some 15 million books. The entire text of books whose copyrights have expired are available through Google’s Book Search service. It shows up to 20 percent of copyrighted titles that it has licensed from publishers, and only snippets of copyrighted titles for which it has no license.

 The settlement would have allowed it to go much further, making millions of out-of-print books broadly available online and selling access to them. It would have given authors and publishers new ways to earn money from digital copies of their works.

 Yet the deal faced strong opposition. Among the most persistent objections, raised by the Justice Department and others, were concerns that it would have given Google exclusive rights to profit from millions of so-called orphan works, books whose rights holders are unknown or cannot be found. They also said no other company would be able to build a comparable library, leaving Google free to charge high prices for its collection. And some critics said the exclusive access to millions of books would help cement Google’s grip on the Internet search market.

 Judge Chin largely agreed with the critics on those points. But he suggested that substantial objections would be eliminated if the settlement applied only to books whose authors or copyright owners would explicitly “opt in” to its terms.

 When the Justice Department suggested as much last year during a court hearing, Google rejected the idea as unworkable. It would leave millions of orphan works out of the agreement and out of Google’s digital library, greatly diminishing its value to Google and to the public.

 “Opt-in doesn’t look all that different from ordinary licensing deals that publishers do all the time,” said James Grimmelmann, a professor at New York Law School who has studied the legal aspects of the agreement. “That’s why this has been such a big deal — the settlement could have meant orphan books being made available again. This is basically going back to status quo, and orphan books won’t be available.”

 Some longtime opponents of the settlement hailed the decision, saying that they hoped it would prompt Congress to tackle legislation that would make orphan works accessible.

 “Even though it is efficient for Google to make all the books available, the orphan works and unclaimed books problem should be addressed by Congress, not by the private settlement of a lawsuit,” said Pamela Samuelson, a copyright expert at the University of California, Berkeley who helped organize efforts to block the agreement.

 Gina Talamona, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in a statement that the court had reached the “right result.”

 A group of publishers said they were disappointed by the decision, but believed that it provided “clear guidance” on the changes necessary for the settlement to be approved.

 John Sargent, the chief executive of Macmillan, spoke on behalf of the publishers, which included Penguin Group USA, McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Simon & Schuster and John Wiley & Sons.

 “The publisher plaintiffs are prepared to enter into a narrower settlement along those lines to take advantage of its groundbreaking opportunities,” Mr. Sargent said in a statement. “We hope the other parties will do so as well.”

 He added: “The publisher plaintiffs are prepared to modify the settlement agreement to gain approval. We plan to work together with Google, the Authors Guild and others to overcome the objections raised by the court and promote the fundamental principle behind our lawsuit, that copyrighted content cannot be used without the permission of the owner, or outside the law.” ||||| SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a proposed settlement between Google Inc. and book authors and publishers as unfair and inadequate, dealing a new setback to the Internet giant’s ongoing effort to push its digital-books business forward on a more solid legal footing.

 Judge Denny Chin wrote in an opinion filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that the agreement “would simply go too far” in terms of allowing Google GOOG, +0.73% to establish a business arrangement that grants it the right to “exploit entire books, without permission of the copyright owners.”

 Google began a controversial effort to scan vast quantities of books in 2004, the year that the company went public. Google has argued that its efforts can expand access to otherwise difficult-to-access volumes.

 Plaintiffs including the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers sued Google in 2005, complaining that the company’s digital scanning violated copyright protections.

 According to its proposed settlement agreement, Google would gain the right to provide copyrighted works on its books service, apart from those actively withheld by copyright owners.

 In his ruling on Tuesday, Chin wrote that his concerns about the agreement could be eased by converting it to an “opt-in” arrangement for copyright owners, rather than “opt-out.” He urged the parties to consider revising the agreement.

 Hilary Ware, Google’s managing counsel, said in a written statement, “This is clearly disappointing, but we’ll review the court’s decision and consider our options.”

 “Like many others, we believe this agreement has the potential to open up access to millions of books that are currently hard to find in the U.S. today,” Ware said. “Regardless of the outcome, we’ll continue to work to make more of the world’s books discoverable online through Google Books and Google eBooks.”

 Google’s eBooks service is designed to enable users to shop for and buy digital books from Google and other retailers, and to get access to them on multiple devices.

 ‘Everything we were asking for’

 The Open Book Alliance, which includes Google rivals Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.03% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.40% has argued that the proposed settlement raises too many concerns, and had urged Chin to reject it.

 Gary Reback, who is counsel to the Open Book Alliance, said Tuesday that Chin’s opinion includes “everything we were asking for.”

 In particular, Reback praised Chin’s tying of Google’s books services to its market-dominating search engine. The proposed settlement agreement “would arguably give Google control over the search market,” Chin wrote, due to provisions such as the inability of search rivals to provide for the online perusal of many of the scanned books.

 Reback said that the issues involving antitrust, privacy and approach to copyright ownership cited by Chin in his opinion are the “three big issues Google is facing everywhere now.”

 “This mirrors the bigger Google question,” he added.

 As Google has grown in size and financial might, it has faced increasing scrutiny from regulators and rivals related to its acquisitions, collection of private data and use of copyrighted material.

 Google had revised its settlement agreement with authors and publishers, reached in 2008, the following year. However, the Justice Department criticized the planned arrangement, saying in a filing that it could lend Google “significant and possibly anticompetitive advantages.”

 DOJ spokeswoman Gina Talamona said in a statement issued Tuesday that, “We believe the Court reached the right result on this complex, proposed settlement. The department expressed to the court that, as structured, the settlement proposed by Google and the authors and publishers exceeded the scope of the underlying lawsuit on which it was based and created concerns regarding antitrust, class certification and copyright issues. We are pleased that the court supported our position. “

 A conference between Google and authors and publishers has been scheduled for next month.

 In a statement issued Tuesday, publishers involved in the litigation, including McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. MHP, +0.00% and the Association of American Publishers, said they are “prepared to modify the settlement agreement to gain approval.”

 “We plan to work together with Google, the Authors Guild and others to overcome the objections raised by the and promote the fundamental principle behind our lawsuit, that copyrighted content cannot be used without the permission of the owner, or outside the law,” the publishers said. |||||
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– Google's plan to build a giant digital bookstore is in limbo after a federal judge rejected a proposed settlement between the search giant and an alliance of book publishers and authors, MarketWatch reports. Judge Denny Chin said the $125 million settlement, which gave Google approval to digitize all books except those actively withdrawn by copyright holders, "would simply go too far." Chin said he would be satisfied if Google switched from an "opt-out" to an "opt-in" model. That would keep so-called "orphan books," or those whose copyright holders can't be found, out of Google's library, notes the New York Times. A company spokesperson called the ruling "disappointing" and said Google was considering its next move. A lawyer for the Open Book Alliance, which includes Microsoft and Amazon.com, said the settlement was "everything we were asking for.”


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The 40 piece Chicken McNugget is the most substantial meal available at McDonald’s, according to calorie counts published by the fast food chain. At 1,880 calories, enough energy is packed into 40 chicken nuggets to provide lunch for a family or group of friends, and close to the daily average recommended caloric intake for an individual. The Big Breakfast with Hotcakes and a large biscuit is second on the menu, with 1,310 calories.

 24/7 Wall St. reviewed roughly 500 McDonald’s menu items, including burgers, sandwiches, salads, beverages, and sides, to determine the most calorie heavy options available at the fast food giant. Most of the highest calorie foods from McDonald’s are larger sandwiches such as the chicken club or large portion items such as the 40 piece Chicken McNugget.

 The size of the item is not the only factor in its calorie count. The 16 ounce McFlurry with M&M’s contains 930 calories, and the Large Oreo Frappe contains 810. While each of these drinks is equal to roughly half the recommended daily intake of 2,000 to 2,800 calories, as beverages they might be only part of a much larger meal. One chicken sandwich, medium french fries, and a McFlurry — an entirely plausible lunch order at McDonald’s and likely one of three meals in a day — has well over 2,000 calories.

 Click here to see the 50 McDonald’s menu items with the most calories.

 McDonald’s meals have more calories than home-cooked meals and also food served at most non-fast food chains. But while the obesity epidemic in the United States is widely linked to high calorie consumption, no studies demonstrate a direct link between McDonald’s specifically and adverse health outcomes. Academic research does, however, show high concentrations of obesity and other negative health outcomes in areas where there are high concentrations of fast food restaurants of any type.

 Calories represent the amount of energy a body can generate from a given portion of food. Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are all processed by the body to generate energy, or calories. Therefore, since energy can come from different food sources with varying nutritional benefits, calories alone do not tell the full story. An item with relatively few calories, for example, may have more sodium than a higher-calorie alternative. With 630 calories, the Premium Grilled Chicken Bacon Clubhouse Sandwich provides what would constitute an ordinary meal in calorie count. With 1,740 milligrams of sodium, however, the sandwich has nearly the most sodium on the menu.

 To identify the 50 McDonald’s menu items with the most calories, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed nutritional information for 500 menu items as listed on McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) website. For similarly branded items of equal caloric value — the Quarter Pounder with Cheese and the Quarter Pounder Deluxe, for example — only one item was considered. Fat and carbohydrates measured in grams and sodium measured in milligrams also came from McDonald’s.

 These are the 50 most substantial McDonald’s menu items. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||
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– If you're eating at McDonald's, you probably aren't counting calories, but you might be surprised at which of the restaurant's menu items are most clogged with calories. Take the Double Quarter Pounder With Cheese, for example. It's one of the more substantial meals at McDonald's, per 24/7 Wall St., but at 780 calories, it doesn't even crack the top 10. Some of the heartiest options: 40 Chicken McNuggets: 1,880 calories Big Breakfast With Hotcakes: up to 1,310 calories with a large biscuit Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich: 990 calories 20 Chicken McNuggets: 940 calories 16oz. McFlurry With M&M's: 930 calories Large Chocolate McCafe Shake: 850 calories Click for the full list or the surprising stats of a McDonald's salad.


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ATHENS Greece's banking stocks plunged for the second day in a row on Tuesday, holding down the main Athens index which otherwise turned the corner after the previous day's record rout.

 Nineteen of the exchange's 25 blue-chip stocks rose on the day, and the main index .ATG, of which around 20 percent is banks, was down only 1.2 percent.

 Officials said they expected the coming days would see trading calm down.

 With lenders in dire need of recapitalization after a flight of euros from deposits for most of this year, the banking index .FTATBNK closed down more than 29 percent, effectively at its 30 percent daily loss limit at which trading is halted. It was at that limit on Monday.

 Many non-financial sector indexes gained on Tuesday. The blue chip retail sector .FTATRET, for example, was up more than 11 percent, driven by a similar rise in its main component, international jewelry chain Folie Folie (HDFr.AT).

 The gains in non-financials suggested that historically low valuations were attracting investors and that fears of further turmoil between Greece and its international lenders were primarily consigned to banks.

 "The second day of trading showed clear signs we are moving towards a normalization of the market after the long shutdown," said Socrates Lazaridis, chief executive officer of Hellenic Exchanges.

 Among gainers were gaming group OPAP (OPAr.AT), up 4.2 percent, and Aegean Airlines (AGNr.AT), 8.8 percent.

 The main index lost 16.2 percent, around 8 billion euros in value, on Monday, the first day of trading after a five-week shutdown taken as a protective measure as indebted Greece sought to hang on to euro zone membership.

 There was no spillover evident from Greece's bank woes to other European markets. Many investors have cut their exposure to Greece and are focusing more on the state of core markets such as Germany and France.

 FEAR FOR THE FUTURE

 Even with Tuesday's non-bank gains, stocks have fallen to roughly the level they were at in 1990 and, while not as low as they were in 2012, are some 52 percent down on last year's high.

 "Logically the market should be close to bottoming out at these levels after such a fall. Banks have been a drag on the benchmark index, given dilution fears in view of their need to recapitalizes," said Costis Morianos, head of Athens-based Asset Wise Capital Management.

 Athens is in new bailout talks with its European Union partners and the threat of political and economic instability remains high.

 There have, however, been signs of progress.

 Greece said it expects to conclude a bailout deal with international lenders by Aug. 18, with the drafting of the accord starting on Wednesday. Its finance minister went further:

 "Everything will be concluded this week," Euclid Tsakalotos told reporters after meeting representatives of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the euro zone's rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism.

 He did not elaborate and it was not immediately clear what level of agreement he was referring to.

 It has been estimated by both the banks themselves and the creditors that between 10 billion and 25 billion euros ($11 billion-27.5 billion) is needed to recapitalizes Greek banks.

 The economy, meanwhile, has reversed course and is heading back into recession.

 The European Commission says it will shrink by 2 to 4 percent this year, a return to the recession that plagued Greece for six years until 2014.

 A survey on Monday showed Greek manufacturing activity plunged to a record low as new orders plummeted and the three-week bank shutdown caused serious supply problems.

 At the same time, Greece's economic sentiment hit its lowest in almost three years in July, a monthly report by the IOBE think tank said.

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 (Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky) ||||| NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, your mutual fund may own some Greek stocks. No, most likely not a lot.

 An employee of the Athens' Stock Exchange stands behind a reception desk in Athens, Greece, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. Greece's main stock index plunged over 22 percent as it reopened Monday after a five-week... (Associated Press)

 Athens burst back into the spotlight Monday after its main stock index plunged 16 percent. The spasm of selling came after investors got their first chance to unload shares since the Greek stock market shut down five weeks ago.

 But U.S. investors have relatively little to fear from the crash, even though there's a good chance they're in a mutual fund that has some Greek stocks. That's because funds typically keep only an iota of their portfolios there.

 Consider funds that specialize in emerging markets, the type where it's most likely to see a Greek company. The average such fund with Greek stocks in its portfolio has just 0.5 percent of its holdings in them, according to the latest data from Morningstar.

 Across all categories, the average amount is 0.3 percent, not including funds that are entirely clear of Greek stocks. That's why investors are more worried about the effects that Greece's debt problems will have on the rest of Europe than about Greece itself.

 — WHICH TYPES OF FUNDS TYPICALLY HAVE GREEK STOCKS?

 International stock funds, unsurprisingly. Roughly 19 percent of them have at least one stock from the debt-wracked country. Nearly 40 percent of emerging-market stock funds have Greek investments.

 — HOW ABOUT OUTSIDE FOREIGN STOCK FUNDS?

 Even funds that don't sound like they dabble in foreign markets can have Greek holdings. Consider those specializing in master limited partnerships, which are popular with income investors and usually invest in U.S. pipeline operators. Five of the category's 29 funds have some Greek stocks, mostly shipping companies.

 Nearly 200 funds that Morningstar classifies as U.S. stock funds have some Greek holdings. But, again, the percentages are small: an average of just 0.4 percent.

 — WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST GREEK STOCKS?

 The largest companies in Athens' main index include bottling company Coca-Cola HBC, Hellenic Telecom and the Greek Organization of Football Prognostics, a sports betting and lottery company. |||||

– At this rate, Greek banks may soon start to look like a canny investment. The Athens Stock Exchange had its worst drop on record yesterday when it reopened after being closed for more than a month, and things have not improved in early trading at the main Greek stock market today, reports Reuters. The index as a whole is down 4%, but the four main banks are down almost 30%. That is the maximum single-day fall allowed, and comes on top of a 30% fall yesterday. But US investors don't have too much to worry about, reports the AP: There is a good chance your mutual fund includes some Greek holdings, but even funds that specialize in emerging markets typically have only around 0.5% invested in Greece.


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KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — The remains of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in territory held by the Ukrainian government on Tuesday on their way to the Netherlands, after delays and haphazard treatment of the bodies that put pressure on European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia.

 Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, center, talks with Croatia's Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, left, and Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, during the EU foreign ministers council at the... (Associated Press)

 Banners are held up by protesters during a protest in front of Ukraine embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Protesters marched on the Russian embassy and Ukraine embassy in Kuala... (Associated Press)

 A man walks past a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 21, 2014. Four days after Flight 17 was shot out of the sky, international... (Associated Press)

 A toy is placed at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 21, 2014. Four days after Flight 17 was shot out of the sky, international investigators... (Associated Press)

 Protesters stage a rally in front of Ukraine embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Protesters marched on the Russian embassy and Ukraine embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, waving... (Associated Press)

 British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, right, talks with Estonia's Foreign Minister Urmas Paet during an EU foreign ministers council at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, July 22,... (Associated Press)

 Protesters hold banner during a protest in front of Ukraine embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The protesters marched on the embassies of Ukraine and Russia in Kuala Lumpur on... (Associated Press)

 A refrigerated train loaded with bodies of the passengers of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 departs Kharkiv railway station, Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. The train carrying the remains of people killed... (Associated Press)

 A pro-Russian fighter walks past a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine Monday, July 21, 2014. Four days after Flight 17 was shot out of the sky,... (Associated Press)

 Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, left, talks with Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, during the EU foreign ministers council at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, July... (Associated Press)

 Russia Ambassador to Malaysia Lyudmila Vorobyeva speaks during a press conference on a Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 tragedy at her embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Vorobyeva said... (Associated Press)

 The crash site itself, in farmland held by the pro-Russian separatists who the West accuses of shooting down the plane, remained unsecured five days after the disaster — another source of frustration for officials around the world eager to establish the facts of the case.

 After an overnight journey, a refrigerated train carrying the bodies pulled into a station in Kharkiv, a government-controlled city where Ukrainian authorities have set up their crash investigation center. Government spokesman Oleksander Kharchenko said Ukraine "will do our best" to send the bodies to the Netherlands on Tuesday. Of the 298 people who died aboard the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur flight, 193 were Dutch citizens.

 In Brussels, European Union foreign ministers were discussing whether to impose more sanctions in response to the disaster. Europe and the United States have imposed targeted economic sanctions against Russia for supporting Ukraine's five-month insurgency that began after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted by protesters in February.

 The rebels control a swathe of territory in two eastern provinces, and have battled Ukrainian troops with heavy weapons including tanks and missile launchers that the West says came from Russia. Russia denies supporting the insurgency.

 The sanctions so far have focused on individuals instead of entire sectors of the economy, though the EU was moving already to broaden them before the downing of the plane. British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that the jet's destruction on Thursday has drastically changed the situation, and that the Russians cannot expect continued access to European markets and capital if they continued to fuel a war against another European country.

 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius blamed "terrorists supplied by Moscow" for shooting down the airliner, killing all aboard. He said he hoped the EU will impose beefed-up sanctions on Russia. His call for an arms embargo was a direct challenge to France, which is building two warships for the Russian navy.

 At the crash site near the village of Hrabove, a few rebel fighters accompanied observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The farmland where the wreckage is scattered was otherwise unguarded and unsecured. Even the red-and-white tape that had sealed off the fields had been torn away.

 In some places, the smell of decay and flies suggested the presence of remains under the wreckage, and observers said Monday that not all bodies had been recovered.

 About 70 villagers, most of them older women wearing headscarves, gathered across the road from the site to sing Ukrainian Orthodox hymns at a memorial service led by several black-robed priests.

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 Dahlburg contributed from Brussels. Also contributing were David McHugh in Kiev and Lucien Kim in Hrabove, Ukraine. ||||| From a cavernous situation room inside the Russian Ministry of Defence, the Lieutenant-General set out Russia's version of events.

 The briefing was carried live on Russian state TV and handed out on DVDs by Russia's ambassador to Malaysia.

 They claim to have detected a Ukrainian military aircraft within 3-5km of the Malaysian Airliner on Thursday.

 Russian ambassador to Malaysia, Lyudmila Vorobyeva

 "The SU-25 fighter jet can gain an altitude of 10km, according to its specification," Lt Gen Kartopolov explained (which happens to be the exact altitude at which MH17 was flying).

 "It's equipped with air-to-air R-60 missile that can hit a target at a distance up to 12km, up to 5km for sure.

 "We would like to get an explanation as to why the military jet was flying along a civil aviation corridor at almost the same time and at the same level as a passenger plane."

 They also claim to have detected an unusual increase in Ukrainian radar activity leading up to the incident, and that the airliner came down "within the operating zone" of Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile defences.

 He showed satellite images of a Ukrainian base close to Donetsk, pointing out that its surface-to-air missile units were missing on the day of the crash.

 He then appeared to claim that one of the units had moved into rebel-controlled territory on the morning of the crash.

 Finally, Russia categorically denied supplying the rebels with Buk surface-to-air missile systems, or indeed any other weaponry.

 Now, firstly, it's worth saying there is a propaganda war in both directions here, which has been going on for several months, and that both sides are pursuing interests beyond the immediate tragedy of MH17.

 A Russian Buk missile launcher

 But the questions Russia presents "that Kiev must answer" raise a few questions themselves.

 The SU-25 "fighter jet" Russia claims to have identified close to the airliner is a ground attack aircraft - according to its manufacturer its maximum service height, without weapons, is 7,000m - 3km short of MH17.

 As Russian military analyst Pavel Felgenhauer pointed out, it's also too slow: "They should have at least claimed it was an SU-27," he said.

 And if the rebels don't have the Buk missile system, or indeed any other Russian-supplied weaponry - how did they target the dozen Ukrainian military aircraft they have previously boasted of shooting down?

 This included an Antonov-26 transport aircraft, flying at an altitude of 6,500m last week.

 Part of the wreckage at the crash site in Ukraine

 It is possible of course that the rebels have acquired weapons from Ukrainian military bases, although the government in Kiev insists it can account for all of its missile systems.

 And what exactly is the case Russia is setting out? Is it suggesting the Ukrainian SU-25 (despite its technical limitations) shot down the passenger jet in mid-air?

 And why? The plane would seem to have been travelling in the wrong direction for Ukrainian forces to have perceived it as a hostile aircraft coming from Russia, and the rebels don't have an air force.

 So are they seriously suggesting the Ukrainians deliberately moved their missiles on to rebel-held territory and shot the airliner down as part of some sort of nefarious plan to frame the rebels and turn world opinion against them?

 But then Russia doesn't need to prove its case - all it needs is to create one, to insist that there are different versions of events, that there is credible claim and counter-claim.

 In much the same manner as a criminal defence barrister, Russia doesn't have to demonstrate that its alleged client is innocent - just to establish enough doubt in the minds of the jury - in this case the international community - that they can't be completely sure. ||||| View Slideshow Ukrainian emergency workers carry a victim's body in a plastic bag at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove in eastern Ukraine on Monday. Associated Press

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 The elaborate, televised Defense Ministry presentation—at odds with Western and Ukrainian accusations that Kremlin-backed insurgents shot down the plane—came as the U.S. and Russia clashed at the U.N. Security Council on Monday. There, both countries voted in favor of a unanimous resolution that condemned the downing of the jet and called for an independent international investigation into the incident. (Follow the latest updates on the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine.)

 Russia sought to use both forums to push back against growing international criticism and U.S. and Ukrainian assertions that Moscow could have provided the missile system that brought down the plane. American officials charged that the Russian version of events was a propaganda effort aimed at slowing the international community's response to the geopolitical crisis—or weakening proposed new sanctions to punish Moscow for its role in the conflict.

 At the news conference broadcast from Moscow, Russian air force chief Lt. Gen. Igor Makushev didn't say outright who the ministry thought had fired the missile that apparently brought down the airliner Thursday. Nor did he provide any photographic, radar or satellite evidencethat would show a missile track.

 But he said that Russian radar had spotted a second aircraft in the ill-fated airliner's vicinity just before the crash and that it was likely a Ukrainian fighter jet. A graphic that Gen. Makushev said was based on radar data depicted four commercial planes in the area shortly before the crash, as well as the alleged Ukrainian fighter jet. (View an interactive seating chart of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.)

 His presentation also suggested an alternative theory, that satellite imagery showed Ukraine also had moved missile systems into the area before the incident. The air force chief presented several slides of satellite images he said showed the Ukrainian missile-system movements.

 The suggested version of events echoed much of what has been reported on Russian state television in recent days, which has suggested that Ukraine could have shot down the plane, possibly via one of its fighter planes.

 U.S. officials dismissed the Russian government's claim that a second plane was present when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down last week as "desperate" propaganda.

 U.S. officials didn't provide their own evidence to back their arguments. But they pointed to Ukraine's statements Monday that the country's fighter jets were on the ground at the time of the crash.

 U.S. officials also said that Ukrainian fighters can't operate at 30,000 feet, where Flight 17 was cruising. "The Russian government has a propaganda machine second to none, as these latest conspiracy theories demonstrate," one U.S. official said.

 The Obama administration reiterated its findings that Russia was the likely supplier of advanced SA-11 antiaircraft missiles to separatists, who fired it at the Malaysia Airlines jetliner. The White House said that an international case was building that indicated Russian complicity in the tragedy.

 "What's clear is that there is a picture that's coming into focus," said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary. "And Russian claims to the contrary are getting both more desperate and much harder to believe."

 The war of words spilled over into the U.N. Security Council, where after the resolution vote, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin gave sharply different versions of who was likely responsible for shooting down the Boeing 777 on Thursday, killing all 298 people on board.

 "Russia has begun to blame Ukraine itself for the attack though the missile came from separatist territory that Russia knows full well Ukraine has not yet reclaimed," Ms. Power said.

 "Russia must recognize that no move on the geopolitical chessboard with the West can offset the pain being felt by the passengers' families," she said.

 But Mr. Churkin chastised Ms. Power in the council chamber, saying, "There can be no jumping to conclusions or political statements here."

 Mr. Churkin said Ukraine would have to answer to international investigators regarding the activities of its air-traffic controllers, why a Ukrainian antiaircraft missile battery in the area of the crash was "hastily removed," and why Ukrainian radar was operating "at an all-time high" on the day of the incident. He also accused Ukraine of "touching up" intercepted phone calls of rebel commanders with audio from before the date of the crash.

 Kiev has dismissed Russian claims that it could have been involved, and Ukraine's security service has posted intercepted phone calls that it says are of pro-Russia rebel commanders discussing having shot down a plane they discovered afterward was a civilian aircraft. Moscow and the rebels have denied this.

 International forensic experts on Monday inspect the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines jet that was shot down in eastern Ukraine last week. Associated Press

 The U.S., which has largely backed Kiev's version of events, has said its intelligence analysts have evaluated a number of the audio recordings and said they were authentic.

 Earlier on Monday, Gen. Makushev said that the two Russian radar stations near Russia's border with Ukraine observed the presence of the second aircraft over a period of four minutes on the day of Flight 17's crash. These stations couldn't identify the aircraft because it mostly likely wasn't equipped with the system of secondary identification of aircrafts, "which is characteristic of fighter jets," he said.

 Gen. Makushev said that Russian radars could only spot the aircraft at the point of its ascension because the on-duty radars only detected objects at above 5,000 meters. Russian radars spotted the unidentified plane patrolling in the vicinity of Flight 17, "controlling the development of the situation," he said.

 The defense ministry also said it registered the Su-25 fighter jet ascending within close range of several civil aircrafts, including the Malaysia Airlines jet.

 Another top military official, Lt. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov, said at the same news conference that the jet came as close as 1.8 miles to Flight 17, which is well within the range of the air-to-air missiles it is usually equipped with.

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 Gen. Makushev also showed satellite photos allegedly showing several Buk-M1 ground-to-air missile systems in the area close to where the plane crashed. The systems, he argued, could only belong to the Ukrainian military. The Buks were spotted in Luhansk and Donetsk by Russians, Gen. Kartapolov said, in the days leading up to the crash.

 Ukrainian officials have said its own Buk systems were well out of range, and have accused Russia of giving the rebels a Buk system, which then shot down the airliner. Russia denies this.

 Public tracking website Flightradar24 followed Flight 17 from its departure from Amsterdam through to its final moments over Ukraine. The aircraft was observed to be roughly 10 miles north of the L980 jetway that was a part of its filed flight plan. Such a deviation isn't unusual, though, and can be affected by weather.

 Similarly, Gen. Makushev said the Malaysia Airlines plane deviated from its course by close to 9 miles near Donetsk but then attempted to return to its course, crashing shortly after. Russian radars spotted the Flight 17 rapidly descending 32 miles away from the Russian border, Russian officials said.

 He said Russia is prepared to hand all of the information it has to the European authorities, which included satellite imagery and data from its own radar.

 Russian defense ministry officials also claimed that a U.S. satellite was spotted at the time of the Flight 17 crash and asked that the U.S. release the satellite images from that time. The U.S. didn't immediately comment on the claim.

 —Joe Lauria

 and Julian E. Barnes

 and Jon Ostrower contributed to this article.

 Write to Olga Razumovskaya at olga.razumovskaya@wsj.com |||||

– The investigation into what happened to Malaysia Airlines MH17 took big steps forward today, with victims' bodies finally arriving by train in a Ukraine town and Malaysia declaring that the black boxes are in "good condition." But Moscow, in the meantime, sought to cast doubt on the generally accepted theory that pro-Russian separatists were to blame, reports the Wall Street Journal. At an official briefing last night, the defense ministry said that its radar spotted a second aircraft in the vicinity and that it was probably a Ukraine fighter jet, which could have shot down the plane. The air force chief also suggested that a Ukraine missile system could have hit the plane from the ground, and he said satellite imagery suggested that Ukraine had been moving such systems into the area. He offered no proof, but as Katie Stallard at Sky News writes, "Russia doesn't need to prove its case—all it needs is to create one, to insist that there are different versions of events, that there is credible claim and counter-claim." Meanwhile, the refrigerated train carrying passengers arrived in the Ukraine town of Kharkiv, reports the AP. Forensic experts from the Netherlands, which is taking the lead in the investigation, were to prepare the bodies today for transport to Amsterdam, probably tomorrow. Meanwhile, Malaysia's prime minister declared the black boxes to be in "good condition," reports MarketWatch. Malaysia will hold them until they are turned over to international investigators.


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 When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more ||||| For Amanda Carpenter, getting trapped in an elevator was a nightmare.

 Back in February, the former communication director for Sen. Ted Cruz found herself in an unfavorable situation: she was trapped in an Amtrak elevator at Baltimore–Washington International Airport.

 In an attempt to free herself from the commuter prison, Carpenter tweeted to her 90,000+ followers asking for help.

 Guys. I'm trapped in an amtrak elevator at Bwi airport. Help? — Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) February 14, 2016

 To make matters worse, the elevator's certificate of compliance was well past its expiration date.

 Here is the notice showing inspection expiration for the elevator I was trapped inside. Thx Amtrak pic.twitter.com/BkTKciOki5 — Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) February 14, 2016

 On Wednesday, nearly seven months later, Amtrak came to Carpenter's rescue and responded to her original tweet, asking if she was still trapped inside the elevator.

 @amandacarpenter We are sorry to hear that. Are you still in the elevator? — Amtrak (@Amtrak) September 7, 2016

 Amtrak later cleared up the confusion by stating that someone had recently re-tweeted the call for help, which put it back on its radar.

 While social media slip-ups from brands are the norm on Twitter, Amtrak's failure to notice how much time had passed was a breath of fresh air. It was an honest mistake that anyone could have made.

 @amandacarpenter Someone just re-tweeted it. Wanted to make sure. Glad you're out :) — Amtrak (@Amtrak) September 7, 2016

 @amandacarpenter We're happy to have you aboard. — Amtrak (@Amtrak) September 7, 2016

 After the tweet gained some attention, Amtrak attempted to remedy the situation by offering Carpenter a free ride on its Acela service.

 @amandacarpenter Not our finest hour yesterday. We'd love to offer you an Acela ride on us for the inconvenience back in February. — Amtrak (@Amtrak) September 8, 2016

 After all, Amtrak actually did respond to Carpenter's original tweet back in February, only 16 minutes after she originally reached out.

 @amandacarpenter BWI agents are aware of you, and are working to get you out. — Amtrak (@Amtrak) February 14, 2016

 Regardless, the damage was done and the internet was highly amused.

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– Amtrak is taking its lumps after a Twitter misfire. In response to a woman's tweet about being stuck in an Amtrak elevator at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Amtrak tweeted on Wednesday, "We are sorry to hear that. Are you still in the elevator?" Well, no. Amanda Carpenter's plea for help had actually gone out seven months earlier, and Amtrak failed to notice the elapsed time. Carpenter, who is Ted Cruz's former communications director, responded, "Oh, my thank you for this but I was trapped months ago. Like last February. Thanks for checking...? Ha." The gaffe has brought all kinds of ridicule and memes down upon Amtrak, as rounded up by Mashable. "Not our finest hour," acknowledged the company in a followup tweet. It seems that Carpenter's original tweet resurfaced all these months later because somebody retweeted it for some reason, and whoever responded on behalf of Amtrak simply didn't see the date. In fairness to the company, it responded to the original tweet just 16 minutes after Carpenter sent the request for help, telling her that "BWI agents are aware of you, and are working to get you out." Amtrak has now offered Carpenter a free train ride over the mess, but that didn't stop Twitter users from poking fun at what one guy calls "the worst customer service response time ever." Another used a gif of a skeleton holding a telephone.


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– Walking Dead star Scott Wilson has died of complications of leukemia at the age of 76. Scott's career spanned more than five decades and included 50 movie credits, but he was perhaps best known for his portrayal of Herschel Greene in AMC's zombie thriller. Wilson's rep tells TMZ that he was "a national treasure, a calm voice, and a gentle spirit to everyone who came in contact with him." In an odd turn of events, TWD's showrunner announced Saturday night that Wilson would be returning for its ninth season, reports EW, even though his character was previously killed off. Wilson had already completed that filming; news of his death came just hours later.

Hershel from 'The Walking Dead' Scott Wilson Dies at 76

 'The Walking Dead' Actor Scott Wilson Dies at 76

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 Scott Wilson -- a veteran actor with more than 50 movie credits, but best known recently for his role as Hershel Greene on "The Walking Dead" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

 Scott's rep, Dominic Mancini, tells us he died due to complications from leukemia. Mancini says Wilson was "a national treasure, a calm voice, and a gentle spirit to everyone who came in contact with him." We're told he passed away peacefully at his home in L.A.

 It was recently revealed by 'TWD' showrunner Angela Kang at the show's panel at New York Comic-Con that Scott -- along with former stars Sonequa Martin-Green and Jon Bernthal -- would be returning for the upcoming ninth season, which premieres Sunday.

 Wilson's Hollywood career began in 1967 when he landed a role in the classic film, "In the Heat of the Night." He went on to star in "In Cold Blood" and appear in several other legendary movies like "The Great Gatsby" and "Dead Man Walking."

 Scott earned a Golden Globe nom for Best Supporting Actor for playing Capt. Billy Cupshaw in the 1980 film, "The Ninth Configuration."

 In more recent years, Wilson starred in the movie "Pearl Harbor" and had a recurring role on 'CSI' ... but became a fan favorite playing the lovable Hershel on AMC's smash hit 'Walking Dead' series.

 Hershel's death on the show is remembered one of the most shocking and heart-breaking for TV viewers.

 Scott was 76.

 RIP ||||| Scott Wilson, who rose to fame playing murderer Robert Hickock in 1967’s In Cold Blood and more recently was a series regular playing veterinarian-turned-farmer Hershel Greene on The Walking Dead, has died at 76 due to complications from leukemia.

 It was announced Saturday night at The Walking Dead’s panel at New York Comic-Con that the actor would be returning to the show in season 9 along with Jon Bernthal and Sonequa Martin-Green, even though his character was beheaded back in season 4. But about an hour after that announcement was made by showrunner Angela Kang, the Walking Dead comic book Twitter account revealed the actor’s passing: “We are deeply saddened to report that Scott Wilson, the incredible actor who played Hershel on The Walking Dead has passed away at the age of 76. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Rest in paradise, Scott. We love you!”

 Soon after, the TV show’s Twitter account released the following statement: “Scott will be remembered as a great actor and an even better person. The character he embodied on The Walking Dead, Hershel, lived at the emotional core of the show. Our hearts go out to his wife, family, friends and to the millions of fans who loved him.”

 Wilson had already filmed his Walking Dead return before passing away.

 AMC aired a tribute to the actor at the end of Sunday night’s Walking Dead season premiere, showing a portrait of him with the words “In Memory of Scott Wilson.” Tributes from current and former TWD cast members and producers poured in overnight on social media. See some reactions below.

 The first time I met Scott Wilson, he gave me a big hug and said that this thing I had become apart of… was a family. He said I had a responsibility to take care of it. I have tried very hard to do that, sir. & I will continue. I promise. See you on the other side, my friend. pic.twitter.com/EhMm0dQbtx — Khary Payton (@kharypayton) October 7, 2018

 Rest easy my friend…… rest easy. — Michael Cudlitz (@Cudlitz) October 7, 2018

 Goodbye Scott Wilson you absolute legend x — Tom Payne (@justanactor) October 7, 2018

 Heartbroken hearing the news about my friend Scott Wilson . A great man and true friend. Aa well as a fabulous actor. RIP buddy. — David Morrissey (@davemorrissey64) October 7, 2018

 Devastated by the passing of Scott Wilson. He was a true Gentleman, a Son, a Husband, a Father, a Friend. An Artist of such excellence. He was forever Young, and made everything better. My deepest Respect and Condolences to his. I am honored to have know him. He taught me so much pic.twitter.com/Yt8ZmC1c45 — lew temple (@LewTempleActor) October 7, 2018

 Just waking up and was hit with the news of Scott Wilson’s passing. I will never forget the warmth this man carried at all times. One of those people who walked into a room and made a point to bring a smile to everyone’s face. Rest well, sir. Thank you for it all. #TWDFamily — Tyler James Williams (@TylerJamesWill) October 7, 2018

 All I can say now is that Scott Wilson profoundly impacted my life. I was honored and lucky enough to work with him on #TheWalkingDead & #Damien. He was a great friend, one I loved very much. — Glen Mazzara (@glenmazzara) October 7, 2018

 Scott was one of the greats, both as an actor and a man. We in #TheWalkingDeadFamily are truly grief stricken. He lived life to the fullest with his true love, his wife Heavenly. He is now a shining star in heaven spreading kindness and light forever. #RIP #ScottWilson https://t.co/aba9IzvUAB — Gale Anne Hurd (@GunnerGale) October 7, 2018

 oh no. this is such sad news. such an honor to have met him very briefly- you could feel the kindness and depth radiating off him a mile away. love to all who are grieving his loss tonight. #RIPScottWilson pic.twitter.com/mBtwu5qmrX — alicia witt (@aliciawitty) October 7, 2018

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