President Donald Trump looks — and is acting — rattled and encircled by the Russia investigation. And a series of fresh d
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Trump weighs in on Conways’ marriage in escalation of feud
President Donald Trump escalated his public feud with the spouse of a top adviser Wednesda
y, attacking counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway’s husband George as “jealous” and a “husband from hell.”
“George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success & angry that
I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted,” Trump tweeted, referring to a post at the Justi
ce Department. Conway, a conservative lawyer, withdrew from consideration for the role early in Trump’s presidency.
Trump continued, “I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!”
Wednesday’s tweet marks the first time Trump has publicly weighed in on the Conways’ marriage. While George Conway has
long been critical of Trump, attacks between the two ratcheted up this week when Conway questioned Trump’s men
tal health, tweeting screengrabs of the medical definitions of narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial pers
onality disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
“*All* Americans should be thinking seriously *now* about Trump’s mental condition and psychological state, inclu
ding and especially the media, Congress—and the Vice President and Cabinet,” he wrote Monday.
A $50 million rescue and rebuild mission is now underway to
repair roads, bridges, schools, communication lines and provide healthcare to
those affected. The country is in poor shape to withstand the financial impact of a disaster: Zimbabwe is cur
rently in the grip of a deep economic crisis.
The Zimbabwe Information Ministry shared pictures of some pupils who had been res
cued from a boarding school in Chimanimani District, one of the worst-affected areas in the east of the country. Br
idges were swept away, and power and communication lines in the area have been cut off.
St Charles Lwanga School children are now safely in Chiping
e and currently receiving medical attention. pic.twitter.com/Ad9LSC7WhS
— Ministry of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting (@InfoMinZW) March 18, 2019
This cyclone follows a week of heavy rains and flooding across southeast Afri
ca that affected 1.5 million people in Mozambique and Malawi, killing at least 120 people in both countries, UN
The brotherly bailout is striking because Mukesh Ambani pla
yed a part in bringing his younger brother’s business to the brink of collapse.
The Mumbai billionaire stunned India in September 2016 when he launched a ne
w mobile network called Reliance Jio that offered customers six months of free high-speed internet.
The move triggered a brutal price war, forcing some companies to quit the market altogether, including Reliance Communications.
Indian billionaire turns to bankruptcy court after losing 4G price war with his brother
Anil Ambani’s company, once one of India’s biggest mobile pl
ayers, announced in late 2017 that it would sell its main consumer mobile business to Reli
ance Jio in order to focus on providing data services to corporate clients.
That deal has now been abandoned, the two companies said Monday. An Indian bankruptcy court will instead auct
ion off Reliance Communications’ mobile assets to pay off the company’s $7 billion debt.
The Ambani brothers have had a tumultuous and often acrim
onious relationship. After the death of their father in 2002, they waged a bitter succe
ssion battle for control of the vast Reliance business empire that he had spent decades building.
In the fall, Musk agreed to a court-approved deal with the SEC in
r to settle charges over his controversial tweet in August about his plans to take Tesla private. The settlem
ent stipulated that Musk receive pre-approval for any social media posts containing information that is “material” to Te
sla shareholders. At the time, the electric carmaker said it would establish a board committee to oversee its CEO’s posts.
But the SEC has since found fault with Musk’s tweeting. In late February, the commissi
on filed a motion asking a federal judge to hold Musk in contempt for violating the terms of the settlement.
The SEC cited a tweet from February 19 in which Musk said Tesla
would build 500,000 cars in 2019. He then tweeted a clarifying message that Tesla would be build
ing at an annual rate of 500,000 cars by the end of the year, but would actually only make 400,000 cars in 2019.
Musk fired back last week, arguing that the tweet didn’t contain material information about Tesla, that he diligent
ly tried to follow the court settlement, and that the SEC’s request is a breach of his constitutional right to free speech.
The pre-approval requirement was designed to protect agai
nst reckless conduct by Musk going forward,” the agency said. “It is therefore stunning to learn that, at the time of fil
ing of the [contempt] motion, Musk had not sought pre-approval for a single one of the nume
rous tweets about Tesla he published in the months since the court-ordered pre-approval policy went into effect.”
Musk is interpreting the settlement “as not requiring pre-approval unless Musk himself unil
aterally decides his planned tweets are material,” the agency said, adding that such an approach is “inco
nsistent with the plain terms” of the settlement and makes the pre-approval requirement “meaningless.”
The SEC also said that Musk has “made no diligent or good faith effort to comply with the pre-approval provision of the court’s order.”
And it dismissed the Tesla CEO’s argument that his First Amendment rights are being
violated because needing pre-approval for his tweets does not mean “that he is prohibited from speaking.”
Lawyers representing Musk responded with a court filing seeking permission to a
ddress “unsupported assertions” made by the SEC and to submit documentation that “un
dermines” the regulator’s position. Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
This may sound catastrophic, but images being sharedf Decembe
’s fireball are actually quite poetic in scale. This atomic, otherworldly force appears as a simple red blip above the clouds.
Some colour views of the #meteor that flew over the North Pacific in December 2018, taken by Japan’s #Himawari satellite.
The meteor is really clear here – bright orange fireball against the blue + white background!
But you likely didn’t know about it until now, because scientists only just noticed it.
That’s because the area where the fireball exploded, over the Bering Sea, is extremely remote.
NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson told the BBC s
uch a powerful meteor event only happens a few times every 100 years. (As a side no
te, “Planetary Defense Officer” is probably as close to a real-life “Avengers” title as you’re gonna get.)
CNN has reached out to NASA for additional comment.
In case you’re not uneasy enough about the reality that flaming extraterr
estrial objects are continuously pelting our fragile planet, they do so with alarming regularity.
NASA keeps track of most of the notable fireballs and bolides (a similar astronomical term) that reach Earth. So far in
2019, there have already been five notable fireball events. Don’t worry, though! Most are super tiny.
And if the big one ever comes along to make dinosaurs of us all, NASA’s Planetary Defense Office has our backs.
Apple on Monday quietly announced new versions of the
Pad Air and iPad mini, the company’s first refresh for those products in years.
Typically Apple (AAPL) creates fanfare around the arrival of new hardware. But this year it wants the focus of its upcoming spring press event to be on
its rumored streaming service. That’s why the company let the world know about its new iPads in a press release.
The iPad Air comes with a bigger 10.5-inch display (starting at $499), and the iPad mini has
the same 7.9-inch screen (starting at $399). The devices support the Apple Pencil for the first time and
a processor that’s three times faster than the previous models.The iPad mini will mostly serve as an entertainment devi
ce, likely to attract students and teenagers, while the lightweight iPad Air replaces the 10.5-inch iPad Pro.
The iPads don’t offer any revolutionary experiences and probably won’t move the
needle too much in terms of sales. However, they may appeal to consumers looking to adopt some of the fun
ctionality of a higher-end iPad Pro, according to Ben Stanton, a senior analyst at Canalys.
tudents sleep at noon in the classroom, in East China’s Anhui prov
More than 60 percent of children and teens do not get adequate sleep, which can put their health at risk, according to a repor
t released on Sunday by the Chinese Sleep Research Society, ahead of the World Sleep Day that falls on March 21.
Nearly 63 percent of Chinese youths ages 6 to 17 sleep less than eight hours a day, acco
rding to the report. Among 13- to 17-year-olds the figure is more than 81 percent.
The report was based on a survey at the end of last year and in January. It covered nea
rly 70,000 children and teens ages 6 to 17 across the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
The report found that the heavy school homework load and the popu
larization of electronic devices were the two top causes for the inadequate sleep. From Mon
day to Thursday, 8.4 percent of the group would still be busy with their homework after 11 pm.
Major world social media including Facebook, Googl
and Twitter are working hard to take down posts containing graphic footage of terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch Friday.
