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☆ 3 potential frontrunners for the presidency in 2024 are now embroiled in classified documents controversies
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Three potential frontrunner candidates for president are embroiled in classified documents controversies. Classified documents were found in the homes of Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Mike Pence. Former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Mike Pence each improperly stored classified documents. In December 2022, Biden's attorney alerted Lausch that Biden's team found more classified documents near the garage of the president's Wilmington, Delaware home. After going through four boxes at his home, they found the small tranche of classified documents and alerted NARA.

☆ Shinzo Abe Assassination Suspect Is Charged With Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Miho Inada | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tetsuya Yamagami, suspect in the killing of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. NARA, Japan—Prosecutors on Friday brought murder charges against Tetsuya Yamagami, the suspect in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last July 8. Mr. Yamagami, now 42, shot and killed Mr. Abe at an election campaign rally in the western city of Nara using a homemade gun, according to prosecutors and videos of the event.

☆ Suspect in Shinzo Abe assassination to face murder charge, lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors are expected to formally charge the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder on Friday, his lawyer said. Later that month, Yamagami was sent to an Osaka detention center and given a five-month mental evaluation, which ended Tuesday. One of his lawyers, Masaaki Furukawa, told The Associated Press on Thursday that he expects prosecutors to charge Yamagami with murder and gun control law violations. Police say Yamagami told them that he killed Abe, one of Japan’s most influential and divisive politicians, because of Abe’s apparent links to a religious group that he hated. Current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s popularity has plunged over his handling of the church controversy and for insisting on holding a rare, controversial state funeral for Abe.

☆ Japan prosecutors indict Yamagami for murder of ex-Prime Minister Abe -Yomiuri
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TOKYO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Japanese prosecutors on Friday indicted the man suspected of killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Yomiuri newspaper reported. Nara District Public Prosecutors Office indicted Tetsuya Yamagami, 42, on murder charges as well as for violating gun laws after concluding a roughly six-month psychiatric evaluation, the newspaper reported. The Unification Church was founded in South Korea in 1954 and famous for its mass weddings, relying on its Japan followers as a key source of income. The approval rate for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government had fallen to record laws amid revelations about connections between the church and many LDP lawmakers. In November, Japan launched a probe into the church that could threaten its legal status following the assassination of Abe.

☆ It took at least 48 days for Joe Biden to find and declare all the classified material at his residence and former office
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

President Joe Biden maintains he cooperated swiftly and completely in returning classified documents. December 20: Biden's personal counsel tells Lausch that an additional batch of documents was discovered in the garage of Biden's residence, in Delaware. Biden's personal counsel tells Lausch that an additional batch of documents was discovered in the garage of Biden's residence, in Delaware. January 12 (morning): Biden's personal counsel informs Lausch that an additional classified document was found at Biden's residence. Biden's personal counsel informs Lausch that an additional classified document was found at Biden's residence.

☆ Biden's mishandling of classified records isn't as legally perilous as Trump's, but may pose serious national security risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Trump's former White House lawyer told Insider that AG Garland should appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden. A source familiar with the matter told CNN that Lausch has finished the initial part of his investigation and presented his preliminary findings to Garland. Still, he criticized the White House for waiting more than two months to disclose the existence of the inquiry. "It appears that at least two of the aggravating factors, obstruction and willfulness, are present in the Trump case, but absent in the Biden case." Cobb, Trump's former White House counsel, went further, saying that drawing a distinction between the two cases is akin to "putting lipstick on a pig."

☆ Japan prosecutors to indict suspected Abe assassin - Kyodo
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

TOKYO, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Japanese prosecutors have decided to indict the man suspected of shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kyodo news agency and other Japanese media reported on Saturday. The decision follows psychiatric examination of the suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, an unemployed 42-year-old. Abe was killed with a handmade gun during an election campaign in July. Yamagami's detention for mental examination will end on January 10, and Nara prosecutors will likely indict him by January 13, according to Kyodo. Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Bradley PerrettOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

☆ The National Archives wants to release hundreds of pages of emails about Hunter Biden and Burisma — and the White House won't say whether it will let it happen
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

National Archives is set to release White House emails about Burisma, the Ukrainian company that reportedly paid Hunter Biden $1.5 million. The White House now has 60 days to decide whether to stop the release of the emails by invoking executive privilege. The Biden White House repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether it intended to fight release. The Burisma emails are, of course, only one of the many ongoing Hunter Biden controversies. House Republicans have promised to launch their own far-reaching inquiry into Hunter Biden's finances and tumultuous personal life, and some of Hunter Biden's allies are discussing ways to counter-attack.

☆ Fact check: Trump responds to special counsel news with debunked claim about Obama and the Bushes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Daniel Dale | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

They took documents with them. As NARA explained in an August statement, Barack Obama did not take the presidential documents Trump claimed Obama had taken. Again, it was NARA that took the Bushes’ presidential documents to facilities that NARA managed near the future locations of their presidential libraries. Trump’s claim about a bowling alley and restaurantTrump’s suggestion that past presidents’ documents were stored in an insecure manner is also false. Bush’s presidential documents were temporarily stored, in College Station, Texas, was indeed a former bowling alley connected to a former Chinese restaurant.

☆ Trump D.C. hotel receipts reveal $10,500-a-night rooms for foreign officials seeking to influence U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Anna_Byline.Jpg | Anna Schecter | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

For their part Qatari officials and connected companies spent at least $307,941 at the Trump hotel from late 2017 through mid-2018, according to the Oversight Committee’s findings. In the letter she requests presidential records from NARA that could be related to attempts by foreign governments and lobbyists working on their behalf to influence the Trump administration by spending money at the Trump Hotel. A spokesperson for the Malaysian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to the Oversight Committee, documents from Mazars show the Turkish Embassy sponsored two stays at the Trump hotel around the time of Erdoğan’s visit. The documentation obtained did not show how much the embassy spent at the hotel during either of these stays.

☆ Trump D.C. hotel receipts reveal $10,500-a-night rooms for foreign officials seeking to influence U.S. policy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Anna Schecter | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The Saudi revenues for the Trump hotel came during a period when Saudi Arabia and the UAE were lobbying the Trump administration to support them during their blockade against economic rival Qatar. In the letter she requests presidential records from NARA that could be related to attempts by foreign governments and lobbyists working on their behalf to influence the Trump administration by spending money at the Trump Hotel. The Malaysian expenditures at the Trump Hotel were the most extensive in a one-week period found by the Oversight Committee to date. A spokesperson for the Malaysian Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The documentation obtained did not show how much the embassy spent at the hotel during either of these stays.

☆ Saudi defense officials rented suites at Trump's DC hotel that cost $10,500 right before MBS visited White House
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Officials from six countries spent over $750k at Trump's DC hotel in 2017 and 2018, documents show. The officials stayed at Trump's hotel amid rocky periods in relations between their countries and the US. Saudi officials spent nearly $86k in March 2018. The Saudi officials spent nearly $86,000 from March 7 to March 18, including renting several $10,500 suites. Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, was explicitly implicated in Khashoggi's killing by the US government.

☆ Trump knew his letters to Kim Jong Un were classified and 'so top secret': Bob Woodward
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump told journalist Bob Woodward in 2020 that the letters he wrote to Kim were "so top secret." In his upcoming audiobook, Woodward wrote that Trump was cagey about showing him the letters. The letters to Kim were among the classified files Trump brought to Florida, per The Washington Post. Now, Woodward is releasing over eight hours of Trump interviews in an upcoming audiobook, "The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Trump." A month later, when Woodward again asked Trump if he could see the letters, Trump said the letters were "so top secret," per The Washington Post's reporting of Woodward's notes from the call.

☆ Trump's Chinese restaurant rant is an 'attack on the National Archives' says the former US Archivist who served under George H.W. Bush
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump last week said Bush stored presidential records in a former Chinese restaurant/bowling alley. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located — that it leased from the General Services Administration, which is responsible for securing buildings for government operations. He was the first archivist responsible for transferring presidential documents under the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Trump's attacks on the NARA process of preserving presidential records, Wilson said, was a "great danger" to democracy. Bush Presidential Library and Museum did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ ‘Quietude’ by Eliane Elias Review: Beachy Bossa Nova
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Marc Myers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

At the bossa nova’s start in the late 1950s, the music was composed largely by male Brazilian sensualists. Not surprisingly, as the bossa nova caught on, it was popularized on Brazilian albums and TV by a growing number of female vocalists. Elizete Cardoso recorded “Canção do Amor Demais ,” widely considered the first bossa nova album, in 1958. A string of Brazilian female singers followed in the early 1960s, including Sylvia Telles , Nara Leão and Elis Regina . But it was Astrud Gilberto ’s single of “The Girl From Ipanema,” released in 1964, that transformed the bossa nova into a global sensation.

☆ Trump explicitly told employees to move boxes of White House documents to his Mar-a-Lago residence weeks before the FBI search, sources tell The Washington Post
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump was subpoenaed in May for additional sensitive White House records in his possession. A Trump worker alleged that Trump then told employees to move boxes of documents, per a WaPo report. Prior to the FBI search, the Justice Department issued a subpoena on May 11, seeking additional sensitive documents that may still be in Trump's possession. The findings prompted the records agency to refer the matter to the Justice Department. Budowich also accused the Justice Department of leaking "misleading and false information to partisan allies in the Fake News" in his statement to The Post.

☆ The National Archives slapped down Trump's claim that Obama and Bush mishandled government records after leaving office
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The National Archives rejected Trump's claim that other former presidents mishandled government docs. NARA described Trump's accusations as "false and misleading." Trump is being investigated by the Justice Department for how he handled government records. In recent statements and at a rally on Sunday, Trump has accused other former presidents of mishandling government records after leaving office, but said they faced no legal penalties. Under the Presidential Records Act, presidents must hand over all government records to the NARA on leaving office.

☆ National Archives rejects Trump claim on former presidents' records
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The National Archives, the federal agency responsible for preserving U.S. government records, on Tuesday rejected former President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessors had retained "millions" of White House documents. At a rally in Arizona on Sunday, Trump accused three former presidents - Republicans George H.W. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), without naming Trump, said it took possession of all records from those three former presidents. The agency previously rejected a similar claim that Trump had made about his immediate predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, which he repeated on Sunday. The National Archives said it moved the records of those former presidents to temporary facilities located near future presidential libraries.

☆ Michael Cohen says the DOJ should look into whether Trump is keeping photocopies of classified documents
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Michael Cohen is urging the DOJ to investigate if Trump kept photocopies of top-secret files. Cohen accused Trump of using "Art of the Deal" tactics to trade these files for other documents. Cohen also wondered aloud why Trump — after being president for four years — didn't attempt to get the documents while he was in office. During its search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, the FBI seized classified documents, including some marked "top secret." The DOJ is investigating whether Trump broke three federal laws — including the Espionage Act — by keeping the files at his Florida residence.

TOKYO — Even as world leaders gathered in Tokyo for the funeral of assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, there were protests against the lavish proceedings. But the state funeral for Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, who was shot and killed while campaigning in Nara on July 8, takes place in a country deeply divided over the former leader’s legacy. In that sense, I would like to once again offer my sincere condolences to former Prime Minister Abe, who was killed by a bullet,” its leader Kenta Izumi said Tuesday. The decision on whether to hold a state funeral is usually subject to parliamentary deliberation, which was not the case for Abe's service. Around 800 people protested the state funeral at a major train station on Monday evening, according to broadcaster NTV.

☆ Factbox: Tokyo tightens security for slain Shinzo Abe's funeral
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Issei KatoTOKYO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Japan's state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday is under the spotlight as authorities seek to avoid the kind of security blunders exposed in his assassination in July. Japanese authorities – including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida - have acknowledged security flaws contributed to Abe's death. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cancelled his planned attendance to focus on responding to a powerful storm. - The government plans to spend 1.65 billion yen ($11.5 million) on the funeral, including 800 million yen on security and 600 million yen to host foreign delegations. The high cost has partly fuelled a public backlash against the taxpayer-funded funeral at a time of economic hardship for many.

☆ ‘The World Without Us’: The abandoned sites overrun by nature
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-23 | by ( Tamara Hardingham-Gill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

However, French photographer Romain Veillon is making it his mission to capture in pictures the potential result of a planet without people. The 38-year-old has spent years photographing abandoned places around the world that have been overtaken by nature, with eerily beautiful results. ‘Post-apocalyptic vision’An image of abandoned Namibian ghost town Kolmanskop by photographer Romain Veillon. The first showcases deserted places that remain relatively well preserved and the second focuses on dilapidated sites in a far worse state. Nature reclaimingThe photographer managed to visit abandoned theme park Nara Dreamland in Japan before it was demolished.

Persons: Romain Veillon, ”, Romain Veillon Veillon, ” Veillon, “, Romain Veillon “, Veillon, Georgia that’s Organizations: CNN, Google, Bulgarian Communist Party, Romanian Ministry of Culture Locations: Namibia, Brussels, Ukraine, ‘, Brandenburg, Germany, Paris, Veillon, Soviet, Bulgaria, Constanța, Japan, Peru, Abkhazia, Georgia

Bărbatul a mers la spital, după ce timp de câteva luni nu putea respira normal. Acesta era obișnuit cu respirația îngreunată, însă ultimele luni, când a trebuit să poarte și masca de protecție, i-au dat mari bătăi de cap. Examinat de medici, aceștia i-au descoperit cauzele disconfortului, și anume, curbura septului nazal și prezența unui corp străin în nas. În final au constatat cu surprindere că pacientul avea „un corp străin, dens și rotund” în cavitatea nazală, în nara dreaptă. Abia după vizita la medici, acesta și-a amintit că la 6 ani și-a băgat moneda în nas, iar de frică nu i-a spus mamei.

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☆ Galina Tomaș: Despre lupta sa cu noul Coronavirus și sfaturile care au ajutat-o să aibă o recuperare completă
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-09 | by ( ) unica.md time to read: +11 min

De această părere este medicul nutriționist Galina Tomaș care a simțit pe propria piele efectele acestei viroze și a decis să ne dezvăluie experiența ei de luptă și vindecare. Hidratarea organismului contribuie la o detoxifiere naturală a organismului și creșterea puterei de luptă împotriva bolilor. Pentru hidratarea eficientă a corpului este important să alegem o apă de calitate, fără reziduuri și alte substanțe chimice nocive. Antioxidarea – aprovizionarea constantă cu surse externe de antioxidanți ar trebui să facă parte din nutriția zilnică a fiecărui om, și asta pentru a reduce stresul oxidativ și vătămările asociate acestuia. Inspiră cu o repriză lungă reținând aerul și aducând mâna dreaptă spre partea dreapta a corpului, apleacă trunchiul.

Persons: Viroza, Tomaș, Galina Tomaș Locations: nara

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