Drama as Pastor Adeboye kisses, lauds wife

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP5ri1oms7h7N5LLTMXDoAR33QJTqoI_kGIdr0E0uzAEnA9t7NkOts7USkBFyt3_1UPb68CctalG-3MezVwu8_30srDe0MY4aFDsaw73I4jpQ1KSEIShyphenhyphenCJ4ifMbJXYiCO03SO5FAalXY/s1600/Pastor-E.-Adeboye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP5ri1oms7h7N5LLTMXDoAR33QJTqoI_kGIdr0E0uzAEnA9t7NkOts7USkBFyt3_1UPb68CctalG-3MezVwu8_30srDe0MY4aFDsaw73I4jpQ1KSEIShyphenhyphenCJ4ifMbJXYiCO03SO5FAalXY/s400/Pastor-E.-Adeboye.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, created a scene at the Youth Centre of the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, on Tuesday, when he kissed his wife, Folu Adeboye, on the stage during a book presentation in his honour.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Adeboye, who expressed surprise at the occasion, said he would have stopped the project if he knew about it, adding that he was undeserving of the honour.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Present on the occasion were Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo; former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church, Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo; and the General Overseer, Trinity House, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"> Folu told the audience that she hid information about the book from her husband for one year, adding that she planned it to coincide with his 75th birthday.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">While standing with Adeboye on the stage, together with their four children, she said her hubby was only informed about the event a day before.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The Master of Ceremonies teased Folu to tell the audience the pet names she gave her husband, demanding an expression of love since the occasion also marked 50 years of their marriage.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“Pastor ID, why are you fast? This is just presentation of a book, not marriage anniversary. Whatever you want, I will do it…,” she replied, as she hugged the husband and went on to kiss him as the audience erupted in excitement.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Adeboye, in his remark, expressed surprise at the book presentation, which was written by 40 people.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">He said, “The event of today, without any doubt, has been a great surprise to me. This is because my wife hid it from me, and we don’t normally hide anything from each other, because we have been married for 50 years and we are still on honeymoon.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“Why the event is a surprise to me is that God also hid it for me. I had no inkling at all from my Daddy that something like this is happening. If God hid it from me, it must mean that He approved of it. My wife knows that if I had any idea about what is happening today, it will never happen. I would have stopped it long ago because who am I without Jesus Christ? If there is anyone to be celebrated, it should be Him.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“People say I am humble, but people need to know where I am coming from. I cannot say I have any ability or wisdom. Everything has been the Lord Himself. When I was about 40 and I saw grey hairs on my head, I wondered why and God said I was carrying a burden that was not mine.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“God said, ‘I am just using you as camouflage. People need to see someone. So, I am putting you forward so that I can do the work from behind.’ So, everything that is happening in RCCG, nothing is of Adeboye at all; it is all about God. So, for you to say you are writing a book about somebody that is nothing, someone who has almost zero beginning, from a poor family and passed through secondary school by God’s grace.  For God to allow today to happen without telling me, it can only be that He wants to draw your attention to Himself that if you allow Him, He will do great things, using you as camouflage.”</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Adeboye said it was a miracle he was at the occasion as he had slept one hour a night during the seven-day convention of the church which ended on Sunday.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">While appreciating people who wished he lived long, he said he would die when his assignment was over.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“All those who prayed for me to be 80, I said amen. Those who said 90, I said amen to them, but those who said I would be 100, I did not answer them. Then someone said I would live to 120 and I said what would God say I did wrong to keep me for another 50 years? I will go as soon as I finish my assignment,” he added.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The cleric lauded his wife for always standing by him, saying she was the greatest gift he had aside from the Holy Spirit.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">While recounting a year when they both fasted for 40 days three times over an issue, Adeboye said his wife refused to back out when he asked her to stop.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“If you can find a woman that can stand by you with 40 days of prayer and fasting, first, second, third time and willing to go with you as long as possible, then I will classify your wife as second to mine. Without my wife, I cannot be  doing what I am doing today,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The cleric later presented his four children to the gathering, describing them as God’s gifts to his family.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Earlier, former President Obasanjo had narrated how he consulted Adeboye before accepting to run for President in 1999.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">He said after meeting Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu in South Africa, who encouraged him to go ahead, he sought counsel from Adeboye.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">He said, “For doing nothing, I was sent to prison. I came out of prison, and some people came running after me to contest to be President of Nigeria. I wondered that the one I did before, what did I get out of it? Prison! And now, you want me to do another one, that will be double prison.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“And when you are at crossroads, you need the direction of God to know which way to follow. I prayed and fasted and wasn’t satisfied. I decided to go to South Africa to meet people I had high regard for: Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Mandela said I should follow my instinct. Tutu said I should not be tired of serving my people.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“I came back home to see pastor. And I told my story. We prayed and he said you can go, when God tells me what I should tell you, I will call for you. I was surprised that Mandela and Tutu gave me answers on the spot, but he said I should go. When will God tell him?</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“A couple of weeks or thereabouts, I was sent for and he said God had said I should go ahead. If there was any doubt in my mind, all were gone.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“I picked my Bible to read while returning home and it was the Book of Esther that I opened. I saw where Esther was told that maybe it is because of this that God has brought you here.”</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"> Obasanjo, who noted that politicians were supposed to influence the lives of the masses positively, said Pastor Adeboye had done more than politicians in this regard.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">He said, “As politicians, we are supposed to touch lives, but, for Pastor Adeboye, he has touched more lives than politicians. He has been a man of God with a difference, whom I benefited from personally when I was consulting to contest the 1999 election.”</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">He added that it was the wife of the General Overseer that invited him, without the knowledge of the husband, asking that Adeboye should forgive them for this.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Obasanjo said, “I was told not to reveal my coming here by Mummy (Adeboye’s wife). How can I come to you without calling you? But, that was the instruction. Until I am in this hall, I never see anything about this programme. That means we have committed sins by keeping this secret from you and we seek for forgiveness from you and I am sure we have been forgiven.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“While I was in prison, Abacha had said three of us–myself, Shehu Yar’Adua, MKO Abiola, none of us will come out alive. Two of them did not come out of prison alive, but I came out. Not because I was clever, good and upright. It was all because of the grace of God. Sir, I thank you for helping me to make the right decision at that crucial time of my life. He, who does not respect this man, does not respect God.”</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">The Acting President, Osinbajo, who was Adeboye’s protocol officer, said he accepted to run as the Vice-President after the cleric asked him not to reject the nomination.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">Osinbajo, who also defended Adeboye’s use of private jet because the RCCG was in more than 180 countries of the world, second to Coca-Cola with branches in 200 countries, cited three different instances when the pastor influenced his life positively.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">He said his passport had been stolen in South Africa for about three months when Adeboye prayed for him and the thief returned it when he had lost all hope.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;"> The Acting President said about a month later, his second daughter, who was ill and at the point of death was healed after a prayer by the cleric.</div><div style="background-color: #f7f7f7; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: "Frank Ruhl Libre", serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; text-align: justify;">“Of course, many know that I am not a politician and I was not a politician when I was nominated to be the vice-president. What I told those who approached me was that I would speak with two people-my wife and daddy (Adeboye). People around me said he would say no. I was also quite certain that he would say ‘Don’t bother or let us just think about it’. But I was surprised when he told me that if I was nominated, I must accept it. He was categorical about it,” he added.</div></div>

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Trump tweets cartoon of train hitting CNN reporter

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidzV6hW9OOidyCF600-7IwMBOqJxsedM6hC-DCFzPIZ-N8EIBw0RI4H6iHNZbX7xbBFAlBNM-BfsILeoFt1urSCJc-wEyUDH0uQWLaGZ5H2e6umTZMc7bIjBmfji7tu8ltPVGTOPtPAVo/s1600/_97343378_captwg4ure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="375" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidzV6hW9OOidyCF600-7IwMBOqJxsedM6hC-DCFzPIZ-N8EIBw0RI4H6iHNZbX7xbBFAlBNM-BfsILeoFt1urSCJc-wEyUDH0uQWLaGZ5H2e6umTZMc7bIjBmfji7tu8ltPVGTOPtPAVo/s400/_97343378_captwg4ure.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">US President Donald Trump has posted an image of a train hitting a CNN reporter three days after a hit-and-run left one person dead at a far-right rally.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 19px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cartoon, which Mr Trump deleted after tweeting, depicts the cable network logo being run over by a "Trump Train" symbolising his supporters.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The president also apparently accidentally retweeted a post by someone calling him "a fascist".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump is in New York where he faces a second day of protests.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White House officials told NBC the train image - captioned "Fake news can't stop the Trump Train" - had been "inadvertently posted" and when "noticed it was immediately deleted".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In another presumably unintentional retweet, the US president shared - and then also deleted - a post by someone who said of him: "He's a fascist, so not unusual."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Twitter user, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/MikeHolden42/with_replies" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">@MikeHolden</a>, had been commenting on a Fox report saying that Mr Trump could be planning to pardon Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40780659" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">who was found guilty</a> in July of racially profiling Hispanic people.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Holden, of Burnley, England, promptly changed his Twitter bio to read: "Officially Endorsed by the President of the United States. I wish that were a good thing."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asked by the BBC if he thinks the "endorsement" ended when Mr Trump deleted the tweet he laughed and said: "Oh, absolutely. I don't think he really meant to endorse it.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don't think he intended to say, 'yup, that's me, the big ol' fascist!'"</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I'm an internet nobody!" added Mr Holden, a 53-year-old IT consultant, adding the response has been "absolutely bananas".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's rare you get that kind of attention from the president, isn't it?" Mr Holden added.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump has drawn criticism from both ends of the political spectrum since Saturday's so-called Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman was killed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counter-protester and 19 other people were injured when a car rammed the crowd. A 20-year-old man is facing murder and other charges.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump did not immediately condemn the white supremacists, instead blaming "many sides" for "hatred, bigotry, and violence" in the university town.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Monday he sought to clarify his views, denouncing the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis by name.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But in the process he took a moment to demean a CNN reporter.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Asked by journalist Jim Acosta why he had waited so long to condemn the hate groups, Mr Trump responded: "I like real news, not fake news."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pointing the finger at the White House correspondent, he added: "You are fake news."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump frequently targets the so-called "fake news media" in tweets to his nearly 36 million followers.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In May he shared a clip of <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40474118" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">himself pummelling professional wrestler with a CNN logo</a> superimposed on his face.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Late on Monday, Mr Trump also retweeted a post from an account linked to one of his supporters known for fuelling <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-38156985" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.3); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">conspiracy theories, such as "Pizzagate"</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The post by Jack Posobiec linked to a story from an ABC affiliate and said: "Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?"</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Pizzagate conspiracy theory claimed Hillary Clinton's campaign chief was running a paedophile ring out of a pizza parlour in Washington.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr Trump awoke for the first time as president in Trump Tower on Tuesday, tweeting that it "feels good to be home".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He arrived at the Manhattan skyscraper on Monday night amid throngs of protesters calling for his impeachment.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three people were arrested, and police expect further demonstrations on Tuesday.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Late-night show hosts turned their fire on Mr Trump on Monday night.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon, who usually avoids political polemic, rebuked the president.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The fact that it took the president two days to clearly denounce racists and white supremacists is shameful," Mr Fallon said on his NBC show.</div></div>

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Sierra Leone mudslides: Assistance needed urgently - president

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInUzuZtur4VpLMsTn89y5GhcSaf04yh4UJd-URvnIFpomuz1am5Lyg8psDEZPBYTL6n6mEtJTyO64RDMmwi_D3oXUcES5cLIbiJfwFHbDhgIsNL2uKRXJNcKQ1oT5JtaDK79aqIJ4SGw/s1600/000_RK68W-1024x568.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="1024" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInUzuZtur4VpLMsTn89y5GhcSaf04yh4UJd-URvnIFpomuz1am5Lyg8psDEZPBYTL6n6mEtJTyO64RDMmwi_D3oXUcES5cLIbiJfwFHbDhgIsNL2uKRXJNcKQ1oT5JtaDK79aqIJ4SGw/s400/000_RK68W-1024x568.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Sierra Leone needs "urgent support" now for thousands of people hit by mudslides and massive flooding in the capital, the country's president says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 19px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ernest Bai Koroma said entire communities had been wiped out and that the "devastation was overwhelming us".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">More than 300 people have been killed and a mass burial of victims is planned to free up space in mortuaries.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Efforts to recover more people from the muddy rubble that swept through the Regent area are continuing.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The Red Cross said it was struggling to get equipment in to extricate bodies that were buried deep in the mud.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Homes in Freetown were engulfed after part of Sugar Loaf mountain collapsed following heavy rain early on Monday.</div><div data-xp="1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Many victims were still asleep in their beds when disaster struck.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">It is feared the number of dead will rise further. Another 3,000 people are estimated to have lost their homes.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ishmael Charles, a charity worker for the Healey Relief Foundation and Caritas Freetown, told the BBC words could not do justice to the scale of the tragedy.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"You will see a huge number of people crying with those who have lost their family members," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"It's very difficult to paint what the reality looks like, because it's more scary and very sad and disastrous than anyone can be able to describe."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">In the worst hit area, the Regent district, where dozens of houses were submerged when the hillside collapsed at about 06:00 GMT, those who survived spoke of the family members they had lost - or still hoped to find alive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"My wife is dead. My children are all dead. This morning my children and I talked before I left for work. One of them even chose the socks I should put on," a man called Malikie told the BBC.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Another woman, called Adama, said she was still searching for her baby.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"We were inside. We heard the mudslide approaching. We were trying to flee. I attempted to grab my baby but the mud was too fast. She was covered, alive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"I have not seen my husband, Alhaji. My baby was just seven weeks old."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">International aid agency Save the Children said one member of staff, along with his children, had disappeared.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">His colleague Ramatu Jalloh was driving past Regent at the same time that the wall of mud and debris hit the area.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"A lady ran on to the road and started gesticulating wildly," he said. "She called out to another lady who had been riding a bike in front of us who, after a brief conversation, started crying and looked very upset," she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"It was clear from their reactions that something terrible had happened. Soon afterwards, another man ran towards our car. He was crying about the number of lives that had been lost."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Red Cross spokesman Patrick Massaquoi told AFP news agency that 312 people were confirmed dead.</div><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="image-and-copyright-container" style="border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); display: block;"><img alt="People inspect the damage after a mudslide in the mountain town of Regent, Sierra Leone August 14, 2017" class="responsive-image__img js-image-replace" 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break-word;">Fatmata Sesay, who lives on the hilltop area of Juba, managed to survive the mudslide after she and her family were woken by the pounding rain.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">It was then they realised their home was submerged in water.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"I only managed to escape by climbing to the roof of the house when neighbours came in to rescue me," she told AFP.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"We have lost everything and we do not have a place to sleep."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Earlier, President Koroma urged people to stay away from the affected areas.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"This tragedy of great magnitude has once again challenged us to come together, to stand by each other and to help one another," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"Let me assure you that my government is fully engaged on this situation and in collaboration with our development partners we have already established an emergency response centre at Regent to coordinate our response and to provide relief to the survivors."</div><figure class="media-with-caption" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4mtHIv8a8Mrt3MQNzgSezznjKAMk-dVtq0yAAzG-UfI0lwnlW9m869ZCKN6fyEkPenoTdP0RzBXMoSI6lJOJYxFohkv8t-yHZJ8QwmwnDfR34BXWMf8-EY5yuPjG8T_1wQz0tEw2Szzc/s1600/rts1014r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1027" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4mtHIv8a8Mrt3MQNzgSezznjKAMk-dVtq0yAAzG-UfI0lwnlW9m869ZCKN6fyEkPenoTdP0RzBXMoSI6lJOJYxFohkv8t-yHZJ8QwmwnDfR34BXWMf8-EY5yuPjG8T_1wQz0tEw2Szzc/s400/rts1014r.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="articleLocatio</span>n">The chief executives of Intel Corp, Merck & Co Inc and Under Armour Inc resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, following Trump's initially tepid response to weekend violence at a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.</span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">"I resigned from the council to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues...," Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich said in a blog post. <a href="http://intel.ly/2fFOjAd" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 128, 0); color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">intel.ly/2fFOjAd</a></div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Kenneth Fraizer, the chief executive of drugmaker Merck and an African-American, said he left the advisory council because of the president's reaction after the violence between white supremacists and counter protesters. Frazier cited the need to "take a stand against intolerance and extremism."</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The AFL-CIO, a federation of labor unions that represent 12.5 million workers, said it was considering pulling its representative on the committee.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">After the white nationalist rally turned deadly on Saturday, Trump initially said that many sides were to blame. On Monday, in a statement, Trump denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and thugs, bowing to mounting political pressure as critics assailed him for not singling out white supremacists.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The CEO of Under Armour, Kevin Plank, announced his resignation from the council in a Twitter posting. "We remain resolute in our potential and ability to improve American manufacturing," said Plank. "However, Under Armour engages in innovation and sports, not politics."</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Plank was criticized last winter by some of Under Armour's biggest stars over his support of Trump, comments that basketball star Stephen Curry echoed.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The demonstration in Charlottesville by hundreds of white nationalists took a deadly turn on Saturday when a car plowed into a group of counter protesters and killed one person.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">"America's leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal," Frazier said in a statement announcing his resignation. (<a href="http://bit.ly/2fFnITM" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 128, 0); color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">bit.ly/2fFnITM</a>)</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">"As CEO of Merck and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism," he said.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump responded shortly later in a tweet, saying, "Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!"</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Trump doubled down on his attack later in the day, tweeting that Merck "is a leader in higher & higher drug prices while at the same time taking jobs out of the U.S. Bring jobs back & LOWER PRICES!"</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The son of a janitor, Frazier joined Merck as general counsel of one of the drugmaker's subsidiaries in 1992, working his way up to CEO of the company in 2011.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">He made his name as the company's top lawyer, steering it through daunting litigation over Vioxx, its widely used painkiller that was withdrawn in 2004 after being linked to heart attacks.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Many observers thought Merck would eventually have to shell out $10 billion or more to thousands of plaintiffs over the drug's withdrawal. But Frazier's legal strategy led to a $4.85 billion settlement in 2007, allowing Merck to refocus on its pipeline of experimental medicines.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Merck shares closed up 0.5 percent on the New York Stock Exchange, roughly in line with the wider market.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">Frazier frequently made political contributions during the 2016 election, donating to both Republican and Democratic members of Congress but making no donations to a presidential candidate during the year.</div><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The political PAC maintained by Merck and funded through donations from Merck employees made over $1.1 million in candidate contributions during the 2016 campaign - but did not contribute to Trump or his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, according to documents filed with the Federal Elections Commission.</div><span class="midArticle_0" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_1" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_2" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; 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line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_13" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_14" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_15" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_16" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span class="midArticle_17" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 11.25px; widows: 1;"></span><br /><div style="color: #111111; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; widows: 1; word-wrap: break-word;">The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents the pharmaceutical industry and lobbies on its behalf in Congress, declined to offer a statement of support for Frazier or to comment on Trump’s reaction.</div></div>

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Google says it will ban neo-Nazi site after domain name switch

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSyJ8yEHQorC8La6931Jnue1s_SBViKCMOOZsaeBYkIeiQXmvdhC_wzRddbFO3J3DXXl3o3c6aTvb9jJQOsttKsTNqiP-wUhMmHQjXtiowXzc5syCbAx8U5CCjNOn6k3tBAHZIdGhVKk/s1600/googlee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1600" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnSyJ8yEHQorC8La6931Jnue1s_SBViKCMOOZsaeBYkIeiQXmvdhC_wzRddbFO3J3DXXl3o3c6aTvb9jJQOsttKsTNqiP-wUhMmHQjXtiowXzc5syCbAx8U5CCjNOn6k3tBAHZIdGhVKk/s400/googlee.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">Just hours after </span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16142384/daily-stormer-site-go-daddy-hosting-providers-hackers-anonymous" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; widows: 1;" target="_top">being dropped by GoDaddy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">, prominent white nationalist publication</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">The Daily Stormer </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">attempted to find a home at Google.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;"> </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-godaddy-idUSKCN1AU0CV" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; widows: 1;" target="_top">As of press time</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">, the site’s registration info pointed to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;"> </span><a href="http://domains.google.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; widows: 1;" target="_top">domains.google.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; widows: 1;">, indicating the web giant had taken over services as registrar.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; widows: 1;">Shortly after the switch was noticed, Google announced plans to drop the site. “We are cancelling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” the company said in a statement.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; widows: 1;">It’s not clear when Google itself became aware of the shifted registration. <a href="https://domains.google.com/registrar#t=t&chp=t" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Google’s domain-management system</a> is available to anyone with a Gmail account, and it’s likely the registration was shifted automatically after the relevant information was entered. Previous registration data indicates <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Daily Stormer</em> founder Andrew Anglin is a Gmail user.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2rem; widows: 1;"><span style="line-height: 28.8px;">It’s still unclear which policy in the Terms of Service was violated. Unlike GoDaddy,</span><a href="https://payments.google.com/payments/apis-secure/u/0/get_legal_document?ldo=16267419166080200835&ldt=domainstos&ldr=ZZ&ldl=und" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-weight: 700; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">the Google Domains’ Terms of Service</a> d<span style="line-height: 28.8px;">oes not currently include any provisions forbidding users from making violent threats. </span><a href="https://payments.google.com/payments/apis-secure/u/0/get_legal_document?ldo=16267419166080200835&ldt=contactprivacytos&ldr=ZZ&ldl=und" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #e5127d; font-weight: 700; line-height: 28.8px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_top">Google’s contact privacy agreement</a><span style="line-height: 28.8px;"> does include provisions against using Who IS privacy settings to “to conceal involvement with activities that are... bigoted based on racial, ethnic... or political grounds.” However, the current registration does not seem to invoke any of those privacy provisions, and it’s unclear if the language would apply.</span></div></div>

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