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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The suspected New Zealand shooter carefully modeled his attack for an internet age. He live-streamed the massacre, shouted out a popular meme slogan and published a long, rambling manifesto replete with inside jokes geared for those steeped in underground internet culture. The gunman, who carried out an attack on at least one of two mosques targeted Friday in Christchurch, posted the manifesto online using the name…

“Bernie Sanders is the most pro-union candidate in the field, he’ll be the most pro-union president in the White House,” Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir said in a statement. | Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo 2020 Elections By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS 03/15/2019 07:02 PM EDT Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign announced Friday it will be the first major presidential campaign to have a unionized workforce, as party activists push Democratic candidates…

Standard white supremacist and far-right nationalist tropes, like fears of a “white genocide,” are sprinkled throughout the statement. There are also elements of a self-flattering reach for larger meaning: references to centuries-ago battles between Christians and Muslims are scrawled on his guns, and on the video he refers to his slaughter of unarmed people as “the firefight.” But the potential clues in the statement appeared to be as much an…

Video Trump issues the first veto of his presidency President Trump on Friday used the first veto of his administration to reject a bipartisan resolution that sought to block his declaration of a national emergency at the border, a move almost certain to kill the measure. “Today I am vetoing this resolution,” Trump, surrounded by law enforcement officials and families of those killed by illegal immigrants, said in the Oval Office….

The suspected gunman behind the New Zealand mosques terror attack is believed to be a 28-year-old Australian man called Brenton Tarrant. The assault on two mosques in the South Island city of Christchurch has so far claimed the lives of 49 people, with more than 20 others currently in hospital with serious injuries. Tarrant, who is due to appear in court on Saturday, identified himself online before live-streaming himself slaying more…

The highlight of the new Hudson Yards, which officially opened today with much fanfare, is certainly the Vessel, the climbable staircase sculpture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio. At 150 feet tall, with 2,500 steps, 154 interconnected flights of stairs, and 80 landings, with a steel exoskeleton in a beehive shape. There is one mile of vertical climbing to be done, and we can attest, it takes a…

The Latest on global reaction to the deadly shootings in two mosques in New Zealand (all times local): 3:20 p.m. Iran’s foreign minister says bigotry in Western countries has led to the attacks on Muslims in New Zealand. In a Friday tweet Mohammad Javad Zarif said: “Impunity in Western ‘democracies’ to promote bigotry leads to this.” Zarif also said the prejudice led to “Israeli thugs entering a mosque in Palestine…

John Hudson March 15 at 12:39 PM Days before President Trump was set to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam, a mysterious incident in Spain threatened to derail the entire high-stakes nuclear summit. In broad daylight, masked assailants infiltrated North Korea’s embassy in Madrid, restrained the staff with rope, stole computers and mobile phones, and fled the scene in two luxury vehicles. The group behind the late…

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<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Politics President Donald Trump said Friday that “there should be no” report from special counsel Robert Mueller on his Russia investigation. His comments come a day after the House unanimously passed a symbolic resolution calling for public release of the report Mueller gives to the Justice Department about his probe. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tried to bring the measure up in his chamber…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Tech (This article is adapted from a forthcoming book, “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World” by Joseph Menn) Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president: The Democratic contender raised a record amount for a U.S. Senate race in 2018 and almost beat the incumbent…

Key points: Police confirm there are 49 people dead in the attack, 41 people were killed in the Deans Ave mosque, with seven killed at the Linwood mosque.

The gunman appeared to pair the shooting with the typical trolling tactics of the internet’s most far-right instigators, playing to a community of like-minded supporters online who cheered him on in real time as they watched bodies pile up. And the manifesto states plainly what usually goes unstated by internet trolls: By design, its author wanted to get everyone upset and arguing with each other. [Follow our live briefing on…

Every time I think Britain’s MPs have touched bottom, they sink lower. The House of Commons has just resolved that it will not let Britain leave the EU without explicit permission from Brussels, or, as Europhiles absurdly phrase it, that they will not let Britain “crash out” with “no deal.” With one vote, MPs have destroyed any prospect of an equitable outcome. Eurocrats now know that Britain has only two…

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong Un is considering suspending talks with the United States and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessions, a senior North Korean diplomat was quoted as saying Friday. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui blamed top U.S. officials for the breakdown of last month’s summit in Hanoi between President Donald Trump and Kim, Russia’s Tass news agency reported. “We…

” Anti-natalism,” or the radically utilitarian opposition to having children, has broken into the mainstream thanks to everybody’s favorite economist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. In an Instagram livestream from her luxury Navy Yard apartment, the new Democratic #FreshFace entertained the ethics of having children in light of climate change. (Remember: ” like, the world is gonna end in 12 years” if we fail to pass a nonbinding resolution, including a…

New Zealand is not used to mass shootings of the kind seen at the two mosques in Christchurch on Friday that killed at least 40 people and left 48 injured. Until Friday, the biggest massacre in the country’s history happened 30 years ago, when a man named David Gray went on a shooting rampage, killing 13 people. Following the attack, the nation’s gun laws — which were first passed in…

Senators will be entirely justified when they vote later today to disapprove of President Trump’s (mis)use of supposed “emergency” powers to spend funds for a border wall that Congress did not appropriate for that purpose. The only shame is that the votes won’t be there to override his promised veto. Actually, if Senate Republicans had appropriate self-respect, Trump’s reported treatment of the vote as a “loyalty” test should make them…

PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will soon decide whether to continue diplomatic talks and maintain his moratorium on missile launches and nuclear tests, a senior North Korean official said Friday, adding that the U.S. threw away a golden opportunity at the recent summit between their leaders. Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, addressing a meeting of diplomats and foreign media, including The Associated Press, in…