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Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont delivers a statement after a deal was signed with Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) for Spanish government support, which is expected to include an amnesty law for Catalan separatist activists, in Brussels, Belgium November 9, 2023. The promise of a wide amnesty for Catalan separatists, including himself, that the 60-year-old fugitive from Spanish justice won in return is already dividing the country where protests have erupted in recent days. Puigdemont made his intentions clear in his inauguration speech, vowing to start "the constituting process of an independent state". A year and a half later, following an October 2017 independence referendum deemed illegal by Spanish courts, the same parliament declared Catalonia's independence. But he appears to have changed his tune since an interview published by Catalan newspaper ARA a week before Spain's election last July.

Persons: Carles Puigdemont, Yves Herman Acquire, Catalonia's, Pedro Sanchez, Puigdemont, Artur Mas, Spain's, Mariano Rajoy, Sanchez, Junts, Andrei KhalipMacfie Organizations: Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party, PSOE, Catalan, REUTERS, Rights, Spanish, Catalonia's, Spain's, ARA, Thomson Locations: Brussels, Belgium, Rights BARCELONA, Spain, Spanish, Madrid, Girona, Germany, Italy, Catalonia

[1/2] Shipping containers move at the port of Barcelona, after stevedores' union has refused to load and unload any military material amid the war in Gaza and urged the protection of civilian populations in areas of conflict, in Barcelona, Spain, November 7, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce Acquire Licensing RightsBARCELONA, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Barcelona port stevedores' union has refused to load and unload any military material amid the war in Gaza and urged the protection of civilian populations in areas of conflict, following a similar move by Belgian transport unions last week. The decision on Monday is mostly symbolic and seeks to encourage other Spanish ports to follow suit, the secretary of the OEPB union, Josep Maria Deop, told Reuters on Tuesday. He said he was convinced there were military shipments from Barcelona because "it's a port that moves all types of goods". Israel has been targeting Hamas military operations in Gaza in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas Islamists on Israeli towns that left 1,400 people dead and 240 abducted.

Persons: stevedores, Josep Maria Deop, Deop, EFE, Joan Faus, Andrei Khalip, Bernadette Baum Organizations: Shipping, REUTERS, Rights, stevedores, Reuters, Western, Thomson Locations: Barcelona, Gaza, Spain, Rights BARCELONA, Belgian, Barcelona's, Israel, Libya, Western Sahara, Nicaragua

☆ Who is US House Speaker Mike Johnson?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Reuters Editorial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

PoliticsWho is US House Speaker Mike Johnson? PostedConservative lawmaker Mike Johnson was elected by his fellow Republicans to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after three weeks of turmoil and three failed candidates. But who is the fourth-term congressman? Chris Dignam has more with analysis from Reuters Washington Correspondent Andy Sullivan.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Chris Dignam, Andy Sullivan Organizations: U.S . House, Reuters Washington

[1/5] Bass-Baritone Gerald Finley and soprano Julia Bullock perform during an opera rehearsal "Antony and Cleopatra" at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/ Albert Gea Acquire Licensing RightsBARCELONA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Barcelona's opera house has hired an "intimacy director" to ensure performers are comfortable taking part in passionate scenes, in a first for Spain and a rarity for continental Europe. The role's creation comes after the #MeToo movement rocked the movie industry but also the opera world with sexual harassment accusations. Intimacy director Ita O'Brien will oversee William Shakespeare's adapted play, 'Antony and Cleopatra', which opens at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house on Oct. 28. Lesca said there should be an intimacy director in every opera.

Persons: Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, Antony, Cleopatra, Albert Gea, Ita O'Brien, William Shakespeare's, O'Brien, Adriana Bignagni Lesca, Charmian, Lesca, Luis Rubiales, Placido Domingo, Joan Faus, Aislinn Laing, Deborah Kyvrikosaios Organizations: Gran Teatre del Liceu, REUTERS, Rights, Gran Teatre del, HBO, Netflix, Thomson Locations: Gran, Barcelona, Spain, Rights BARCELONA, Europe, Gran Teatre del Liceu, United States, Britain, Spanish

☆ Opinion | Living and Dying in ¾ Time
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Think of them as elusive, shimmering creatures from another planet. I don’t think I ever met anyone as warm. Maybe he liked reporters because he started as a journalist, writing for Billboard magazine. I went with him to Walter Reed medical center when he sang for wounded Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. During the Covid years, he did “cabin fever Zooms” with health care workers from across the country who were Parrotheads.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Jimmy Buffett, Carl Hulse, —, “ You’re, Jimmy, Walter Reed Organizations: Billboard, The Locations: Washington, Iraq, Afghanistan

A plea deal struck between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden was supposed to bring his years of legal troubles to an end. Instead, that deal has unraveled and a special counsel has been named to take over the case. Michael Schmidt, a Washington correspondent for The Times, explains why that turn of events is increasingly pitting the interests of Hunter Biden against those of President Biden.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Michael Schmidt, Biden Organizations: Department of Justice, The Times Locations: Washington

Mooj Zadie, Olivia Natt and Lisa Chow andTo win a conviction against former President Donald J. Trump for trying to subvert the results of the 2020 election, Jack Smith, the special counsel, is applying laws in ways that have never been used before. Charlie Savage, a Washington correspondent for The Times, explains Mr. Smith’s approach and previews Mr. Trump’s likely response.

Persons: Mooj Zadie, Olivia Natt, Lisa Chow, Donald J, Trump, Jack Smith, Charlie Savage, Smith’s, Trump’s Organizations: The Times Locations: Washington

☆ Eamon Javers Previews "China's Corporate Spy War"
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Dj Sixsmith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEamon Javers Previews "China's Corporate Spy War"CNBC's Senior Washington Correspondent Eamon Javers chats with CNBC's DJ Sixsmith about "China's Corporate Spy War," which premieres Wednesday, June 21 at 10pm ET.

Persons: Eamon Javers, CNBC's Organizations: Washington

☆ How to watch CNN’s town hall with Nikki Haley
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will participate in a CNN town hall on Sunday as the field of hopefuls vying for the party’s 2024 nomination continues to grow. Here’s how to watch the town hall with Haley:What time is the town hall? The town hall is set to begin at 8 p.m. The town hall will also be available on demand to pay TV subscribers via CNN.com, CNN apps and cable operator platforms. The town hall is taking place at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Haley, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Trump, CNN OTT, Jake Tapper, Tapper Organizations: CNN, Republican, United Nations, GOP, Trump, Florida Gov, CNN.com, Grand View University, Iowa Republicans, Iowa GOP Locations: South Carolina, Washington, Des Moines , Iowa

Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reinstated, the social media giant Meta announced Wednesday — a little more than two years after he was suspended from the platforms over incendiary posts about the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., then the minority leader, vowed to “rein in big tech power over our speech” after Facebook announced the length of Trump’s suspension in 2021. Trump’s presidential campaign officially petitioned Facebook to allow Trump back on to the platform this month. “If Facebook wants to have this fight, fine, but the House is leverage, and keeping Trump off Facebook just looks political,” the adviser said.

☆ Trump suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on North Korea and blaming it on someone else in 2017, book claims
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As president, Donald Trump suggested nuking North Korea and blaming someone else, a new book extract says. It is alleged that Trump made the comments in 2017 around the time he was issuing public threats to North Korea. The revelation was made in a new afterword to the book "Donald Trump v. The United States" by New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, due to be released on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Trump "would turn back to the possibility of war, including at one point raising to Kelly the possibility of launching a preemptive military attack against North Korea," the book said.

☆ Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Rebecca-Shabad-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Rebecca Shabad | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Later that month, Trump continued to goad North Korea through his tweets. But the argument about how many people could be killed had "no impact on Trump," Schmidt writes. Then, Trump "would turn back to the possibility of war, including at one point raising to Kelly the possibility of launching a preemptive military attack against North Korea," Schmidt said. Kelly warned that Trump would need congressional approval for a pre-emptive strike, which "baffled and annoyed" Trump, according to the afterword. Schmidt also writes that it was well-known among senior U.S. officials for several decades that North Korea sought to spy on U.S. decision-makers.

☆ Women journalists remember Barbara Walters: 'Her powerful legacy lives on'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters report from London during the wedding of Prince William and Princes Kate in 2011. Guthrie posted a throwback photo of Walters at the “TODAY” anchor desk with the caption: “thank you, Barbara. Harry Reasoner and Barbara Barbara on the set of ABC's evening news in 1976. "Her powerful legacy lives on in all the women journalists who were influenced by her passionate work and searing interviews," Roberts wrote. 'This is my legacy'Led by Oprah, 25 women journalists who were influenced by Barbara Walters say goodbye to her during her final co-host appearance on "The View" in 2014.

☆ Trump once again stirs rumors that he could run as a third-party candidate and split the Republican vote if party turns on him
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump shared an article calling on him to abandon Republican Party if it doesn't back him in 2024. The article said Trump could run as a third-party candidate, a move that would split the GOP vote. Trump is facing rising opposition to his 2024 bid from some quarters of the Republican Party. It is a move that would split the Republican Party vote and likely doom the party's 2024 ambitions. He said that a Trump third-party candidacy could have a similar result, but that a Republican loss would teach the "corrupt gravy-train" a lesson.

☆ Annoying CAPTCHA is still big for Google and e-commerce in bot battle, and likely to stay that way
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Barbara Collins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

These are called CAPTCHAs – an acronym standing for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." Except some cybersecurity experts say in addition to the problem of human user annoyance, there's a problem with the underlying approach to cybersecurity. How machines are becoming more like humansAs a standalone cybersecurity tool, CAPTCHAs can be unreliable because of their partially behavioral-based approach. Bots can be programmed to call out to the human solving farm overseas that decipher the CAPTCHA, all in the timespan of a few seconds. In today's world, CAPTCHAs used without any additional layers of cybersecurity protection are typically not enough for most enterprises, said Sandy Carielli, a principal analyst for Forrester.

☆ Closing keynote: The White House is serious about cybersecurity
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Eamon Javers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The Biden Administration has made strengthening U.S. cyber defenses a top priority in its first two years. Among its accomplishments: new legislation, including the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, executive orders to firm up the federal government's cybersecurity and the establishment of a new Office of the National Cyber Director. Kemba Walden left a job in Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit to come back to public service as part of that new office. She is now focused on giving private sector companies more clarity on when to report cyber breaches to the government, who to report those breaches to, and making sure that government agencies share information with each other and act on it. Kemba Walden, Principal Deputy National Cyber DirectorInterviewer: Eamon Javers, CNBC Senior Washington Correspondent

☆ WNBA star Brittney Griner released from Russian custody in a high-profile prisoner swap between the U.S. and Moscow
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Andrea Mitchell | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

WASHINGTON — WNBA star Brittney Griner is free Thursday after the Biden administration negotiated her release from a Russian penal colony in exchange for an arms dealer, according to a senior administration official. People familiar with the negotiations for his release say the Russians refused to release Whelan without getting a Russian spy in return. The entrance to the Russian penal colony IK-2 on Nov. 19, 2022, where Griner began serving her sentence. The Biden administration has faced tremendous pressure to help bring home the 6-foot-9 Houston native. Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP fileGriner’s release is the second publicly known U.S. prisoner swap with Russia since the war in Ukraine started.

☆ Some people tried to leave Trump's 2024 launch early but were stopped by security, ABC reporters say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump launched his 2024 run in front of a crowd of people in Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. Some people tried to leave the event early — but were stopped by security, two ABC reporters said. ABC reporter Jonathan Karl said Trump's just-over-an-hour speech was "low energy." But his speech — which lasted just over an hour — prompted some of his supporters to leave early, according to ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl, who was in the room. Notably, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were not there.

☆ Biden says he plans to run for reelection in 2024, but here's one reporter's lesson from 2008 on why anything is possible
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He said there was no chance of him becoming vice president. They're real," Biden told me that afternoon. Mark Bowden later asked Biden, then vice president, in his West Wing office about that marathon quote. "That was absolutely, positively true when I said it," Biden told him. I never, never, never, never aspired to be vice president.

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