Editor's note : Mars One recently narrowed its pool of candidates to 100 people--many of whom we featured in the November 2014 issue (part of which exists here ). We've reposted this story for your convenience. I. Early on a Saturday morning, about 60 planetary malcontents gathered in a narrow auditorium on the campus of George Washington University. They'd come to hear about a plan to build a self-sustaining colony in space , and they hoped to be among its first settlers, leaving the rest of us to live and die on Earth. "How many of you would like to take a one-way mission to Mars?" asked the balding engineer on stage. His face was a peachy monochrome, with sharp, craggy features set like a mini moonscape, and he had slightly pointed ears. On his lapel, a sticker read: "GREETINGS! MY NAME IS: Bas." When nearly everybody raised their hands, Bas Lansdorp's lips curled into a grin. These were his constituents, the folks who had pledged to serve as guinea pigs for a bold and strange experiment. Just the day before, he had been on CBS This Morning , patiently explaining his idea. "I just want to make sure I understand that correctly," the dumbfounded host had said. "If you go on this mission, you are going and not coming back." But here at the first-ever Million Martian Meeting, in August 2013, Lansdorp saw only believers. "Wow, this is a really easy crowd!" he beamed. Most of the armchair aliens shared a demographic, the young-man Marsophile: guys with tattoos across their necks and arms, goatees and mustaches, variations on the Weird Al look. But there were also older women in the room, and kids too young to drive. What brought them together was an abiding belief in Lansdorp's central message, that humans should be expanding onto other planets, and they should do so now. A few years ago, President Obama announced that the U.S. would put astronauts in orbit around Mars by the mid-2030s, but budget cuts and sequestration have slowed the project down, if not killed it outright. Even if NASA gets the mission back on track, the agency has said it will only send humans to Mars if it can also bring them back a maddening bit of bureaucratic circumspection for the crowd assembled in Washington, D.C. "The technology to get you back from Mars simply doesn't exist," Lansdorp said, stirring up his audience, and it may not exist even 20 years from now. "We need to do this with the stuff that we have today, and the only way we can do that is by going there to stay." "The technology to get you back from Mars simply doesn't exist. We need to do this with the stuff that we have today, and the only way we can do that is by going there to stay." Until three years ago, Lansdorp had little to do with Mars. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he co-owned a wind-energy startup that aims to generate power using tethered gliders. But in 2011, the Dutch entrepreneur sold some of his stake in the business and started working on a grand idea: If governments are too stingy for a trip to Mars, or too risk-averse, then private business should take over. "I realized that if it's going to happen, I'd have to do it myself," he said to the crowd. Along with his Mars One co-founder, Arno Wielders, Lansdorp devised a plan to fund the trip primarily by selling it as entertainment. In studying the Olympics, Lansdorp found that the broadcast rights yield upward of a billion dollars. A reality television show about the first extraplanetary town in history, he figures, could be worth much more at least the $6 or 7 billion necessary to build and launch the payloads. The show would need a cast, of course, and that's where the meeting's would-be Martians sought to do their part. Since April 2013, Lansdorp's team has been screening résumés sent in from around the world by anyone who cares to pay a modest application fee (the amount varied by country). The first phase of this stunt ended last December, when they narrowed down the pool to 1,058. These hopefuls will be interviewed and the group further whittled down this year. In the end, just four will be selected for the first mission two men and two women, each from a different continent on Earth. Their trip to Mars is scheduled to land in 2025. The people in the auditorium knew they faced long odds of being chosen, and that even if they were selected, the project might not make it off the ground. Still, Mars One has given hope to hordes of folks who have so far harbored their peculiar dreams in private. During the casting process, some 200,000 people checked in at the Mars One website, and a related interest group on Facebook accumulated 10,000 members. One tattooed young man in D.C. wore a T-shirt with a message that summed up the spirit of those assembled: "Bas is sending me to Mars," it said across the front; on the back it read, "Thanks, Bas, you're a good dude." For someone who doesn't share the dream an Earth-bound journalist, perhaps that spirit seems quixotic at best and suicidal at worst. If Lansdorp sends four people to their living ends on a harsh and empty world, what will have been the point? Is Bas a good dude, or a dangerous megalomaniac? Lansdorp has a ready answer for any doubters: "People can't imagine that there are people who would like to do this," he said, as he wrapped up his presentation. "They say we're going to Mars to die. But of course we're not going to Mars to die. We're going to Mars to live." II. In January, NASA scientists announced they'd found a jelly doughnut on Mars . Or at least, a rock that looked a little like a pastry, with white around its edges and a strawberry-colored center. That such a find should have been the subject of global news reports says less about its own significance it was just a rock, after all than it does about the barren world on which it settled. It's been 10 years since Spirit and Opportunity , the twin rovers, landed on the Red Planet. In that time they've rolled around for almost 30 miles, taking stock of a terrain that reaches out in all directions as a pock-marked plain of dusty, murky brown. They've weathered temperatures that range from 70° in the summertime to -225° in Martian winter, frequent and ferocious dust storms, an unbreathable atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide, and enough radiation from cosmic rays and solar flares to riddle a person's DNA with cancerous mutations. Who would choose to spend a life in such a nasty, brutish place? At the conference lunch, I put this question to a young man named Max Fagin. Forget your likely death on the mission, I said. Pretend that there will be no computer glitch or landing failure, and that your ship won't end up inside a giant fireball. Imagine that you won't get sick or break a limb and have no doctor to help you. Let's say that technically it all goes right. What, then, about the stuff that you'll have left behind forever? What about the feel of falling snow, the gentle breeze, or swimming on a scorching day? "I would feel incredibly sad about missing all those things," said Fagin, a master's student in aerospace engineering at Purdue University. "But the whole point of going to Mars is that you'd have better substitutes. Any human being can visit the ocean. Anyone can visit the forest. These are beautiful things, but they are commonplace. I will get the chance to experience a sunrise on Mars. I will get the chance to stand at the foot of Olympus Mons, one of the tallest mountains in the solar system. I will get the chance to see two moons in the sky. I just can't imagine being nostalgic for a life that 6 or 7 billion people are experiencing right now." "Any human being can visit the ocean. Anyone can visit the forest. These are beautiful things, but they are commonplace. I will get the chance to experience a sunrise on Mars. I will get the chance to stand at the foot of Olympus Mons." There were a few more Martians at the table with us; we were eating sandwiches and sushi, foods an astronaut could only dream of. I asked Fagin, Won't the novelty wear thin? What happens when you've seen that sun rise and set a hundred times, and when you've walked around Olympus Mons? What happens when you're in your cramped habitat with nothing much to do except the grim work of staving off an early death? And what about the food? I jabbed my chopstick at a Whole Foods tuna maki. What happens when you're forced to live on undressed mini lettuce from your agri-pod? Fagin waited for me to finish my speech, his face a quiet picture of condescension. "You're seeing things from a narrow point of view," he said. "It only seems weird to you because of when and where you live. I mean, would you ask an Inuit how he can stand the boredom of all the snow and rock?" I stuttered for a second and fell silent. Why indeed should I take my pampered life on Earth as a baseline? Maybe life on Mars wouldn't be so different from the lives that humans led for thousands of generations. Later on I'll find rebuttals to his argument: The Arctic teems with wild animals and plants, hardly like the lifeless wasteland one would find on Mars. And, as it happens, the Inuit do suffer dire rates of suicide and depression. But I'm sure these facts wouldn't matter much to Fagin. In 2010, he spent two weeks crammed into a tiny research station in the empty Utah desert, where students tried to simulate a stay on Mars and put on space suits every time they went out for a walk. "I didn't have as much time there as I wanted," he told me. But what about your family? I sounded desperate now, as if I needed to make him see that Mars One would only lead to misery and death. Yet Max Fagin would not be swayed. The colonists will be more in touch with home than soldiers were in Vietnam, he said, and certainly more so than the migrants who came to America before the first transatlantic cable. The first settlers on Mars will trade video-mail with their families. "My parents have been comfortable with the notion for quite a while now," Fagin said. "They know that they're going to lose me eventually, because the planet is going to lose me." III. Late in the afternoon, once the presentations had wrapped up and the Martians were gathering for a postconference trip to the National Air and Space Museum, I found Lansdorp near the stage. He had just finished an interview and the camera crew was packing up. He seemed wearied by his publicity tour; his grins appeared forced when replying to questions that he had been asked again and again since the project was announced. "Saving humanity is not anywhere on my list of reasons to do this," he told a small ring of reporters. "I started this because I wanted to go myself." Though he calls himself a lifelong Mars enthusiast, Lansdorp didn't have the expertise to plan the mission alone. As a graduate student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, he designed systems for a hypothetical space station, and that's how he connected with Wielders, a payload study manager at the European Space Agency. "He knows about space, and I don't," Lansdorp said. Wielders told him that a one-way mission would be feasible, if they could raise a lot of money. That's when the pair devised their plan to sell the broadcast rights and show the journey on TV. Their concept has some flaws. Big-event programs make a lot of money, but they're often brief and action-packed. (Lansdorp's model, the Olympics, is a good example.) Mars One wants to run a show for decades, with most of the airtime in the next 10 years dedicated to the arduous process of crew training. What happens if networks aren't interested in a multiyear commitment? What if no one likes the show? Or what if everything is going well, and then the colonists decide they want some privacy, and turn off the cameras? "Saving humanity is not anywhere on my list of reasons to do this. I started this because I wanted to go myself." To work out the details, Lansdorp recruited the help of one of the biggest names in European reality TV: Paul Römer, the co-creator of the Netherlands' Big Brother . He emailed the producer blind, and heard back right away. ("What are the odds?" Lansdorp says. "You contact some media expert and he turns out to be a science-fiction fan!") In June, Mars One signed a contract with Darlow Smithson Productions, a subsidiary to a company where Römer once served as chief creative officer. The show will document the candidate-selection process and could potentially air in early 2015. As for the space technology, Mars One says nothing will be built in-house; Lansdorp wants to purchase all equipment off the shelf or develop it with private vendors. He expects to use an upgraded version of the Falcon 9 rocket produced by SpaceX, and a landing capsule from SpaceX or Lockheed Martin. He'll need a pair of rovers, too, not built for science like the NASA bots, but for moving Martian soil and laying sheets of thin-film solar panels, in preparation for the settlers' arrival. The Mars One timeline is ambitious perhaps too ambitious. It's not clear that Lansdorp's contractors will be able to tweak their technologies (for rovers, life-support units, space suits, and so on) to fit the needs of the mission at the necessary pace. And given the expense of recent, much more modest missions to the Red Planet Mars Science Laboratory, which involved landing only the Curiosity rover , cost $2.5 billion Lansdorp's projected price tag seems rather low. While Mars One won't say how much money it has in the bank, the company does not appear to have raised more than a tiny fraction of what it needs. "At this moment, the weakest link is really the fund-raising," Lansdorp said at the meeting. "If we had the $6 billion in the bank right now, I'm very convinced that we could pull this off. But to convince the people who have to give the money upfront to finance the hardware that's our biggest challenge." Even the attendees in D.C. had some doubts about Mars One. "We know this could fail. We know it's a long shot," one told me. But that's not really the point. Lansdorp has shown that their path to Mars need not be blocked by budget-cutting bureaucrats. They don't need to wait for guys like Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, or Dennis Tito, the millionaire who plans to mount a Mars flyby in 2021. Earlier this year, more than 8,000 people pledged $300,000 to Mars One on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. A few years ago, all these dreamers would have been alone in their frustration. Now they're meeting up online and organizing conferences. The Martians have a movement, and it's growing. IV. When I describe Mars One to friends, many seem to take it personally; they call the Martians lunatics or worse. They're not unusual. On the Aspiring Martians Facebook group, knee-jerk hostility has been the subject of many long discussions. As one user wrote in January, "I'm sure I'm not the first one to have noticed that anywhere anything Mars One related is posted, we're told (in the comments) that we are crazy, wannabes, psychologically deviant, on a suicide mission, in for a rude awakening, the mission is a hoax, technology needed doesn't exist, and, in some cases, that we deserve to die for participating." Lansdorp sees this too. There are some people who want to go to Mars, he said during the conference, and lots who don't. "These people will never really understand each other." But a simple lack of understanding does not explain the anger that emerges when the Martians share their dream in public. It's not just that their trip seems difficult or crazy. It's that they seem to be running from Earth. What's wrong with our planet?, we want to ask. Life here isn't good enough for you? Or perhaps it's something personal: I'm not good enough for you? "It has nothing to do with anything rational," Lansdorp told me, when explaining why anyone would want to go to Mars. "It's almost the same as love. You want it for some reason you cannot really explain, and sometimes one love is more powerful than other loves that you have." Lansdorp began his project because he wanted to go to Mars himself, but now that he and his girlfriend are expecting a child, he says he has given up the idea of going first. He doesn't want to miss seeing his child grow up. "But I do understand there are people who would do that," he said. The desire to go to Mars is "almost the same as love. You want it for some reason you cannot really explain." I wouldn't leave my girlfriend, either. When I look into the sky, I feel only wonder a movement of the mind, not of the heart. But as we spoke, I thought back to a Q&A I'd once attended with the astronaut Michael J. Massimino. Someone asked him what it's like to take a spacewalk and see the Earth from far away. He said it was the most amazing sight he'd ever seen, but that it also made him deeply sad. Why? Because he knew that he'd never have the chance to share the vision with the people he loved the most. In that light, a one-way trip to Mars made a peculiar sort of sense. An astronaut doesn't abandon his family, and choose another, greater love to take its place. Instead he ventures into outer space on their behalf, on behalf of everyone he leaves behind, no matter the physical or emotional cost. The would-be Martians talk of sleeping under double-moon-lit skies, but they also know that they'll be as alone as any human beings in the history of time. And that's precisely why their journey matters, for us as well as them: They'll live on Mars, so the rest of us don't have to. Just before I left the conference, I met another Martian, Leila Zucker. She's a physician in her 40s, happily married, yet inclined to set it all aside. "I can work to make things better on Earth while I'm here," she told me, "but I could work to make things better on Earth while I'm on Mars. The idea that I'm running away or something . . . no, I'm not. People who think that are small-minded and scared. The whole idea is to expand the human race." Earlier she'd spoken on a panel, taking questions from the crowd. "None of us are planning to die, but all of us recognize that we could," she said at one point. "You don't get my life for nothing, but I will give it up because this is my dream." Then, as the session drew to a close, she abruptly began to sing: "I wanted to go to the Red Planet Mars/but I didn't get picked by Bas/I wanted to go to the Red Planet Mars/now I gaze longingly at the stars/But I don't care I wasn't picked for space/I'm cheering for the future of the human race/Someday we'll all go to the Red Planet Mars/'Cause Mars One leads the way to the stars!" When she sang the last two lines a second time, all the other Martians joined in. This article was originally published in the November 2014 issue of Popular Science under the title "Bas Lansdorp Has A Posse."


Several passengers aboard an American Airlines flight "booed" an attendant who reportedly bullied a sobbing woman and then had her booted her off the plane, video shows. Footage of the flight from Phoenix to Portland surfaced Sunday, showing the moment furious fliers jeered at the crew for kicking the woman off the plane after she didn't hear an attendant's request to move out of the aisle. "Shame on American!" one passenger can be heard saying. "Screw this airline!" another shouts. The unidentified woman was captured pleading with a female flight attendant who asked her to "come off the aircraft" and then threatened to call authorities if she didn't heed the orders. "Are you serious?" the weeping woman asks. "This can't be legal, I didn't do anything." The incident came after a male flight attendant asked her to sit down to clear the aisle before takeoff, but she didn't hear him, according to KATU News . "You're so mean to me. I didn't do anything," the woman says to him. "If you don't come off, I'm going to have to call the officers" the female flight attendant says. Fellow passengers erupt into boos in her defense. Some say it's the last time they'll fly with American Airlines. "Never again," one man says. "This is horrible," another passenger chimes in. "You just lost a lot of customers," another can be heard saying. Passenger Bill Byrne, who recorded the ejection, said it stemmed from a miscommunication between the female customer and the crew. "I've seen people who deserve that but never actually seen somebody thrown off a plane," he told KATU. "It was nuts, and that poor woman was so upset," he added. "She handled it well, but you could tell it was super embarrassing for her." American Airlines said in a statement it's "looking into this incident to better understand what happened." The woman was rebooked on the next flight, the company said. mchan@nydailynews.com


WASHINGTON (AP)   Long before it became a tranquil middle-class neighborhood scattered with pride flags, the area around 7th Street and Orleans Place near Gallaudet University in northeast Washington was a 24/7 open-air drug market that police generally avoided. And Rayful Edmond was the undisputed boss. In the 1980s, Edmond was believed to have controlled about a third of the city's drug trade during a devastating crack epidemic that led to a surge in homicides and destroyed thousands of lives. Enforcers armed with Uzi submachineguns protected the territory and Edmond's operation was linked to at least 30 murders, although none was ever pinned on him. "All over the city, he was known as THE MAN," said George Madison, a 54-year old retired security guard, who grew up across town, but recalled that everyone knew the kingpin. Edmond was eventually arrested and sentenced to life in prison. But federal prosecutors are now seeking his release, citing his years of assistance in helping authorities convict other dealers. In an unusual move, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has asked Washington Attorney General Karl Racine to solicit community opinions on whether Edmond, now 54, should be set free and whether he should be welcomed back to the city. The prospect of Edmond going free has dredged up intense memories of a crime-ridden Washington that was the per-capita murder capital of the country, a status hard to picture now amid an ongoing construction boom and an influx of affluent, mostly white newcomers. "The emotions are incredibly fresh," said Racine, who is organizing a string of town hall events on the topic. "I really did not expect some of the feelings that were articulated to be so raw and passionate." At a recent event in southeast Washington, a half dozen people spoke, with opinions split on the prospect of Edmond's release. "If the state feels that he's paid his debt to society, then I can live with that," said May Lewis, who attended but didn't speak publicly. "But I do hope he doesn't return to Washington to live. That might be too much for a small community like this to handle." At the time of his arrest, Edmond, then 24, was a household name in a city that was a smaller, closer-knit place than now. His family-run operation was estimated by law enforcement officials to be moving up to 1,700 pounds of cocaine per month and making more than $1 million per week. Madison, the retired security guard, recalled Edmond's reign with ambivalence. "There's two sides: On one side, yes he flooded the streets with drugs," he said. "But at the same time he did help people in the community. He bought school clothes for kids and gifts at Christmas." Edmond lived a high-profile life, sponsoring local basketball tournaments and taking lavish trips to Las Vegas to attend boxing matches. Racine, the attorney general, said he grew up in the same generation as Edmond and may have unwittingly played in basketball tournaments that were partially sponsored by him. He said the tales of Edmond's generosity in the community were commonly heard about urban drug lords and Mafia dons alike. "People who engage in wrongdoing that is profitable often do practice some sort of largesse within the community," Racine said. People talk about how Edmond tried to befriend members of the Georgetown University basketball team, including star center Alonzo Mourning. That ended when John Thompson, the famously intimidating Georgetown coach at the time, summoned Edmond to his office and ordered the kingpin to stay away from his players. Edmond's trial was marked by unprecedented security measures; jury members were kept anonymous for their protection. He received a sentence of life without parole and was sent to a maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania. He continued to run a drug distribution network from inside the prison, and when he was caught, Edmond received an additional 30-year sentence. That seemed to change him. He began cooperating with authorities. Federal prosecutors, in their motion to reduce the life sentence, say Edmond has helped jail dozens of other drug dealers, break up distribution rings and even taught prison authorities how to better prevent trafficking inside the prison system. The federal prosecutors say their counterparts in Pennsylvania are considering requesting a similar reduction, based on Edmond's cooperation. His assistance has already resulted in the early release of his mother, Constance "Bootsie" Perry, who was sentenced to 14 years for her part in her son's operation. It has also prompted authorities to put Edmond under witness protection and remove his name from the Bureau of Prisons public records. Mary Cheh, a D.C. council member who teaches law at George Washington University, said she recalls Edmond's arrest and trial. From a legal perspective, she said, prosecutors wouldn't have made the request if Edmond's assistance hadn't been substantial. "It's extraordinarily distasteful, but occasionally prosecutors do need to do this," she said. "You make deals. It's unsavory but sometimes it's the only way to get things done."


Shares in video game studios, retailers, and makers of gaming accessories tumbled on Monday after Donald Trump blamed violent video games for two weekend shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio that left 29 people dead. "We must stop the glorification of violence in our society," the president said during a national address on Monday, according to Bloomberg. "This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace." Shares in the developers of shooting games were among the biggest fallers as traders anticipated stricter regulations on the games' sale and a potential consumer backlash. "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard dropped 6%, "Grand Theft Auto" studio Take-Two Interactive slumped 6%, and "Battlefield" creator Electronic Arts slid 4%, outpacing the Nasdaq's 1.8% decline. Shares in other developers such as Zynga, console-makers Nintendo and Sony, and video-game retailer GameStop fell as much as 5% on fears of weaker demand. It was a similar story with makers of gaming accessories such as keyboards and headsets: Turtle Beach, Logitech, and Razer all slumped. Trump's comments came after both Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pointed to violent video games as a factor in the mass shootings. "How long are we going to ignore, particularly at the federal level, doing something about the video game industry?" Patrick asked on Fox & Friends on Sunday . "In this manifesto that we believe is from the shooter, in this manifesto he talks about living out his 'super soldier fantasy on Call of Duty.'" "We've always had guns and we've always had evil, but what's changed when we see this rash of shootings?" he continued. "I see a video-game industry that teaches young people to kill." Similarly, McCarthy said games that involve "shooting individuals" can "dehumanize" players. However, researchers are yet to find any conclusive link between playing video games and committing violent crimes. An estimated 2.3 billion people around the world actively play games, making it hard to argue they're to blame for the epidemic of mass shootings in America.


In his first response to allegations he sexually assaulted a former sports TV reporter, Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton flatly denied any attack occurred, and said that Kelli Tennant's accusations are an attempt to attract media attention. Tennant in April filed a lawsuit against Walton, accusing him of sexual battery in 2014 when he allegedly pushed her onto the bed in his Santa Monica hotel room and groped her. In a brief response filed last week, Walton's attorneys acknowledged that the two met at the hotel that day, but wrote that "Walton has a limited memory of the encounter," and that "their encounter was very short, entirely pleasant and consensual, and did not involve any raised voices or grabbing/groping/restraining of her arms ... nor did it involve any awkwardness." She had come to the hotel to drop off a book she had written, and in which Walton is listed as the author of the foreword. He was then an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors. The two previously had worked for several months in Los Angeles for the same company, Spectrum Sports, where Walton was a sports commentator and Tennant was a reporter. Walton's court filing said Walton did not write the foreword to her "pamphlet/book." The book describes the issues involved in transitioning from being an athlete to post-athletic retirement. Tennant had been a star college volleyball player at USC. The Sacramento Kings and the National Basketball Association have since launched ongoing investigations into the incident. Walton, who was fired earlier this year as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, was hired by the Kings weeks before Tennant leveled her charges. Walton is continuing as Kings coach pending the outcome of the review. In the Los Angeles court filing, Walton's attorney Mark Baute calls Tennant's claims "factually baseless" and said they were filed "because she needs money." The attorney wrote that the visit between the two of them at the hotel "was entirely pleasant ... she was fine with it, and went on about her business as though nothing happened, because nothing of interest did happen." The attorneys accuse Tennant, who now runs a consulting and speaking business, of making the story up to get news media attention. Walton's attorney contends Tennant cannot collect damages from Walton because she waited nearly five years to issue her complaint, beyond the statute of limitations for filing a civil case. Tennant, in her lawsuit, contends she went to the hotel to drop off a copy of her book with Walton, whom she said she considered a mentor. There, she said, he invited her up to his room, where he attacked her. She yelled at him to stop. He grabbed her a second time, she said, before she was able to escape. Years after the alleged attack, when Walton was head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and Tennant was covering the team as a television reporter, Tennant alleges Walton reignited "painful wounds" by repeatedly hugging and kissing Tennant and putting his hands on her in a way that made her feel uncomfortable, Tennant alleges in the lawsuit. "When he did so, Defendant Walton delivered a clear message to Ms. Tennant: he could dominate and control her, and she was his to put his hands on whenever he wanted," the lawsuit contends. Tennant, a former star volleyball player at USC who now runs her own business as a self-help motivator for women, said she tried to forget the episode but couldn't. She is speaking now, she said, to help herself get past the emotional trauma, as well as to help other women, and so that Walton doesn't get away with his behavior. "This type of behavior cannot be condoned," Tennant said during an April press conference. "And no woman should ever be made to feel like a victim."     ©2019 The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.) Visit The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.) at www.sacbee.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


A series of accidents over the past month have led to the deaths of at least five and injuries to 43 American troops, triggering questions over whether equipment and training shortcomings are responsible. Frequent deployments since 9/11 and a lack of predictable defense funding has forced the military to do more with less for nearly 20 years. Many of the vehicles troops use are older than they are, and even newer ones suffer from parts shortages. The need for constant maintenance by fewer troops means training is often pushed back, or even canceled. Some are concerned recent accidents could be the result of a larger readiness problem. "If you haven't been getting enough miles on your vehicle, you can be susceptible to those kinds of accidents," retired Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr told the Washington Examiner . More than 5,000 troops were killed in accidents between 2006 and 2018, according to a congressional report , nearly a third of all active-duty deaths. In comparison, 2,710 were killed in action. "[W]e're probably not talking about strict mechanical failures causing a collision, but if you have older gear that you have to spend more and more time maintaining, that takes away from your ability to do your training," Rick Berger, a former Senate Budget Committee staffer who researches defense budgets for the American Enterprise Institute, told the Examiner . Spoehr said the military used to attribute as much as 70% of accidents to human error, which can come in many forms, including a lack of training. "Human error can be because people are tired or they got distracted, but it can also be because they're not fully trained," said Spoehr. An accident at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Thursday that killed cadet Christopher Morgan, 22, and injured 21 others highlighted the ongoing problem. West Point wrestling coach Kevin War said the news was "devastating" and remembered Morgan as a "talented, hardworking, and determined athlete who loved his sport." Investigators have yet to determine the cause. Army Staff Sgt. David Gallagher, 51, was killed and three others were injured on June 3 when an M1 Abrams tank rolled over at Fort Irwin, Calif. He and his Idaho-based brigade were conducting a month-long training exercise at the time of the accident. Gallagher had originally joined the Army in 1988 and enlisted in the Nevada Army Guard in 2009. 21-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Hans Sandoval-Pereyra died on May 28 when a Humvee ran off the road and turned over in northern Australia during Memorial Day weekend. Another Marine reportedly sustained injuries. Sandoval-Pereyra was one of the 2,500 Marines currently deployed to Australia as part of a rotational force based in Darwin. "He was a beloved member of our community and our deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends," said Marine Col. Russ Boyce, commander of the rotational force. Army Staff Sgt. Jacob Hess, 34, was killed and another dozen soldiers were injured at Fort Polk, La., on May 15 when a Humvee rolled over. Hess was a "talented and noncommissioned officer and dedicated member of the brigade," according to his commander. First Lt. Conor McDowell, 24, died and six Marines were injured on May 9 after a LAV-25 light armored vehicle rolled over during a training event at Camp Pendleton, Calif. A graduate of the Citadel in South Carolina, McDowell had completed his Light Armored Reconnaissance course in March and had only recently taken command of his platoon. "Driven, sincere, unique, honorable, funny ... You're one of the good ones," said one of the Facebook posts responding to the death of McDowell, who had been about to propose to his girlfriend. A year ago, the Army canceled a previously required safety course. Secretary of the Army Mark Esper released a memo in April 2018 informing soldiers that headquarters would no longer be requiring Accident Avoidance Course Training at the unit level in an effort to "improve the warfighting readiness of our Total Force." The course was an online training regimen for any soldiers or Army employees that operated Army vehicles which had to be completed every four years. According to the Army's safety website portal, instruction contained in the Army Traffic Safety Training Program, a separate program, "fulfills required training" in accordance with Department of Defense regulations. The problem is not limited to land forces. In June 2017, the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged container ship, flooding berthing compartments and killing seven sailors. The shift of sailors manning the Fitzgerald at the time were overdeployed and overworked, forcing them to cut corners. "It's really hard to make this case until something like the Fitzgerald happens," said Berger. "That's what the risk is in the real world [when] people are overworked and they don't have the tools and the time to do their job, and then we get crashes and accidents." A series of aircraft training accidents plagued the Navy and Air Force in 2018, leading then-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, to say, "Readiness of the military is at a crisis point." Congressional leaders and Pentagon officials have made readiness a top priority for the U.S. military in the last two defense budgets. The pending 2020 budget is expected to contain several measures to improve training for troops, acquisition of spare parts, and repairs for a variety of U.S. military vehicles.


The Champions League semi-final is one of the biggest stages in world football so, when a player puts on a stunning performance, they can write their names into the history books. The latest example is Tottenham Hotspur's Lucas Moura, who fired his side through to the final with three goals in a dramatic meeting with Ajax. Only five players in history have managed a Champions League semi-final hat-trick, and here they are. Lucas Moura (Spurs vs Ajax, 2019) Starting with the latest example, Moura cemented his place in Spurs folklore with his stunning showing against Ajax. With his side trailing 2-0, Moura showed his pace to burst through the impressive Ajax defence and net his first shortly after half-time. His second came just a few minutes later, as he pounced on a loose ball in the box to fire his side back into contention. It looked as though it would not be enough, as Spurs still trailed 3-2 on aggregate in the fourth minute of the additional five at the end of the game. But, in the exact second the clock ticked over to the 95th minute, Moura again popped up in the box to fire his side through to the final. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid, 2017) Big players relish the big stage, and there are few bigger players than Cristiano Ronaldo . The Champions League has been his playground throughout his career, and his performance against Atletico Madrid in 2017 is all the evidence you need. His first was a powerful header, and his second was a ferocious half-volley that gave Jan Oblak no chance of reacting before the ball was already past him and into the net. He found himself loose in the box to slot home his third and guide Los Blancos through to the final, which they ultimately won against Juventus . This game was one of the deciding factors in Ronaldo's switch from a winger to a central striker. He's done pretty well since then, don't you think? Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid, 2013) Scoring a hat-trick is easy. Try four goals. That's exactly what Robert Lewandowski did in Borussia Dortmund 's stunning 4-1 win over Real Madrid in 2013. It took the Pole just eight minutes to get on the end of Mario Gotze's cross to nudge his side ahead. After an equaliser from Ronaldo, Lewandowski then beat the offside trap to score and put his side back in the ascendancy . His third was a stunning combination of skill and power, and he added a fourth from the penalty spot to fire his side through to the final. Manager Jurgen Klopp established himself on the European stage, and he has not looked back since. Ivica Olic (Bayern Munich vs Lyon, 2010) Former Bayern Munich star Ivica Olic admitted that his performance against Lyon in 2010 was probably the best match of his career, and with good reason. The Croatian was on fire, becoming the second man in history to net a hat-trick in the semi-final. He showed his composure to control a loose ball in the box and slide it past a young Hugo Lloris, and a defence-splitting through ball left Olic needing to just apply the finish for his second. To seal his hat-trick, he got his head to Philipp Lahm's cross and left Lloris with no chance. Olic and Bayern came unstuck against Jose Mourinho's Inter , but the striker had already etched his name into the history books. However, he was not the first to do so... Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus vs Monaco, 1998) With his sublime performance against Monaco, Juventus star Alessandro Del Piero became the first man to net a hat-trick in a Champions League semi-final. The Italian showed his skill from set pieces to put Monaco to the sword. He began with an outrageous free kick, which looked like the perfect blend of power and technique as it curled over the wall and into the net. He followed that up with two penalties, before Zinedine Zidane added a fourth to send the Serie A side to the final. They could not get the job done in the final, however, as Real Madrid picked up a 1-0 win.


From taxes to zoning to public spending, the decisions made by your St. Paul City Council can have a major impact on your life. So we've scoured the upcoming agenda for the next meeting, on Aug. 7, to bring you this report on what's scheduled in local city government along with a review of the previous meeting in case you want to catch up. Leading the forthcoming agenda is an ordinance to allow beer and wine to be sold and consumed during festivals or community events in the Creative Enterprise Zone Entertainment District. According to the agenda, members will also consider increasing the supplemental tax on hotels and motels from 3% to 4%. Other agenda items include: A resolution and public hearing to authorize the Fire Department to raise funds for a bronze bust of William and Alfred Godette to be displayed in the lobby of Fire Department Headquarters. A resolution to create boundaries for the Creative Enterprise Zone Entertainment District in the Raymond-University area. Want to attend and make your voice heard? The meeting will take place in the Council Chambers - 3rd Floor and begins at 3:30 p.m. June 26 meeting in review In its last meeting, the City Council weighed an ordinance to allow special sanitary sewer availability districts to be created and connection charges be assessed. The council also: Considered a resolution and held a public hearing to approve $12,673 from the Energy Conservation Loan Fund for city personnel to attend a building operator certification training program and accept $19,532 from Xcel Energy for tuition assistance. Took up a resolution and substantial abatement order to order the rehab or razing of the structures at 899 Germain St . This story was created automatically and reviewed by an editor before publication. Click here for more about how and why Hoodline is automating local news. Got thoughts about what we're doing? Go here to share your feedback.


Looking to check out the top barbershops around? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top barbershops in Newark, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to venture next time you're in the market for barbershops. 1. Ferry Barber Shop Topping the list is Ferry Barber Shop . Located at 54 Ferry St., the barbershop is the highest-rated barber shop in Newark, boasting 4.5 stars out of 31 reviews on Yelp. 2. Cesar Cutz Barber & Stylist Next up is Cesar Cutz Barber & Stylist , situated at 694 Summer Ave. With five stars out of 10 reviews on Yelp, the barbershop has proven to be a local favorite. 3. Emilio's Shalom Unisex Barber Shop Emilio's Shalom Unisex Barber Shop , located at 31 South St., is another top choice, with Yelpers giving the barbershop four stars out of 10 reviews. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


Two men appeared in court on Saturday charged with rioting in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry on the night a journalist was shot dead. Paul McIntyre, 51, and Christopher Gillen, 38, both charged with riot and petrol bomb offences, were refused bail at Londonderry's magistrates' court. They were arrested on Thursday. They refused to stand and recognise the court on Saturday. McIntyre is also charged with the arson of a hijacked vehicle while Gillen is also charged with the arson and hijacking of a tipper truck. The prosecution alleges that both men are connected to the New IRA (Irish Republican Army) paramilitary group, which orchestrated the rioting on April 18 and has since claimed responsibility for the death of journalist Lyra McKee. The 29-year-old was shot in the head. A police detective told the court that footage from security cameras and mobile phones showed two masked men in identical clothing to the defendants leaving the hijacked tipper truck, carrying a crate of petrol bombs and deploying them at police officers. "Police believe these were the ring leaders, that's obvious from footage," the detective said. Judge Barney Mcelholm told the court: "All nationalism corrupts into fascism eventually, whether it's Irish nationalism or British or Polish nationalism. We've all seen where it ends up. "I have to bear in mind these gentlemen, there's no evidence either of them belong to any paramilitary organisation but they are a part of an organisation with a defined ideology." On the possibility of them being released from custody, he said: "There is no address anywhere in this city which would be suitable in this case, at any stage. I will refuse bail." The killing of McKee led to calls for politicians in Northern Ireland to agree to restore the province's power-sharing institutions. A breakdown of trust brought down the Northern Irish Assembly in January 2017.


Fortunately, it's rare that I have to sit down and type a story that starts with, "I blew it." In reporting that the Cardinals had signed receiver Michael Crabtree , I blew it. The Cardinals did not, and have not, actually signed Crabtree. However, the information I received last night coupled with the broader circumstances of Crabtree's courtship indicate that a deal was in place, but that it fell apart before it could be finalized. As explained to me on Monday evening, Crabtree, former Akron receiver Kwad Smith, and at least one other receiver had worked out for the Cardinals in what some league insiders describe as a "Gong Show" tryout. The team sees what the players can do, and the team then picks one of them. In the vast majority of these situations, the winner gladly accepts the check for $516.32. In this case, Crabtree won. As Adam Schefter of ESPN has reported, the Cardinals offered Crabtree a contract . At some point between offer and execution, however, the deal fell apart. That's a subtle but significant distinction from the report published by Ian Rapoport of the NFL. Rapoport says the Cardinals have " no plans to sign him ," and that it was simply "due diligence." But it was much more than due diligence; the Cardinals had plans to sign him. They wanted to sign him. And they presumably assumed that his participation in a Gong Show tryout indicated a willingness to accept whatever terms would be offered by the Cardinals, given that his name hadn't emerged in months as a potential free-agent acquisition by any NFL team. Crabtree apparently decided he wanted more than whatever the Cardinals offered, a sentiment that likely was conveyed to the Cardinals after Crabtree and his agent indicated that whatever the Cardinals offered would be good enough. It still may be good enough, especially if the sudden dusting off of Crabtree's name doesn't prompt another team to decide: (1) to pursue Crabtree; and (2) to offer him whatever the Cardinals wouldn't. There's also a chance that the Cardinals are posturing with their "no plans to sign him" and "due diligence"-only leak to a media outlet partially owned by the Cardinals, and that maybe they'll blink if former Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury decides that he wants the former Texas Tech receiver badly enough on Kingsbury's first NFL team. So, yes, I got over my skis on this one. And I'm sorry about that. But there's still a chance for a landing somewhat smoother than the one included in the opening of every installment of Wide World of Sports .


Formula 1 is to take steps to promote its green credentials in the coming months   and a push towards synthetic fuels will follow as the sport aims at future sustainability targets. Chase Carey has revealed that F1 is to launch a PR campaign that emphasises the efficiency of the current engines. In addition, there is a specific aim to reduce carbon emissions in the future with synthetic fuels, a strategy that is already being discussed with the teams and F1's current suppliers. The move can be seen as an inevitable response to the momentum that Formula E has gained by promoting sustainability. "One of our priorities, and we are going to do more in the fall, is really an untold story in F1," said Carey in a call with Wall Street analysts. "It's the strides that we've made to date in terms of sustainability. "The hybrid engine that was launched a few years ago was an incredible step forward in terms of fuel efficiency, while retaining power. And we are working aggressively on things like synthetic fuels, working with the oil industry as a whole on synthetic fuels, bio fuels, hydrogen fuels. "And I think you'll see between now and year end the sustainability issue becoming much more front and centre. "It's part of our story, and actually something we've talked with in private with a number of our partners, and they're quite excited about it. "And I think it's an honest recognition that the environmental issue is important to everybody, and a big part of making strides forward in that is how do you reduce carbon emissions from the combustion engine? That can be as important as anything out there. "We'll also have other initiatives in terms of environmental steps around our live events. So it's a multi-dimensional story. "But I think the part that we are putting particular energy into is the degree to which will reduce and the targets will have for reducing carbon emissions with the combustion engine, and I think that has more upside for us than anything." Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff stressed recently that the sport has to follow the sustainability route. "Everything is becoming sustainable, CO2 neutral," he said. "The younger generations are really not so interested in the V12. This needs to be considered. "We are having the most efficient, the most powerful, the most performant engines in these cars and the technology has made those cars fantastic high tech machines. And that same high tech is going in the road cars. I don't think you can turn back time." If a move is made to synthetic fuels, the teams will have to ensure that their tanks and systems can deal with the change. "It's the type of tests that we do regularly," said Racing Point technical director Andy Green. "Fuel compatibility is a big thing for us, everything the fuel touches is testing in our R&D lab. "If it turns out to be a problem for a certain material, then it's going to be a problem for everybody, because we tend to use common materials in and around the fuel cells, fuel lines, and fuel fittings. I wouldn't anticipate it being a big issue."


The death of an American scientist last week while she was on a work trip to Greece was "100 percent" murder, a coroner has told CBS News. Suzanne Eaton's body was found Monday evening on the island of Crete in an old World War II bunker. Local authorities say that there are currently no suspects, but they believe Eaton was strangled shortly after she went missing on July 2. Eaton was a black belt in taekwondo and the coroner said he thinks more than one person may have been involved in the crime. The World War II bunker where Greek authorities found Eaton's body is about six miles from where she was last seen. Investigators, volunteers and family members, spent days scouring rugged terrain in extreme heat for any sign of the 59-year-old, who was last seen playing piano at the hotel where she was attending a conference. Her family believes later that day she went for a run later that day, something she did every day. All her belongings, including her passport, wallet and phone, were still in her room, but her running shoes were not. About 24 hours later, when Eaton's colleagues had not heard from her, they contacted authorities. Almost a week later her body was found in the bunker about 100 meters from a rural road. The coroner said he believed the body was placed there after her death. Homicide detectives from Athens are now helping with the investigation. "It's hard to imagine she's gone," Eaton's longtime friend and fellow scientist Rebecca Heald said. "Suzanne was an amazing combination of grace and beauty and strength." Eaton was an award-winning molecular biologist and was living in Germany, where she worked for the Max Planck Institute, a world-renowned research organization. In a statement, the institute said they were "deeply shocked and disturbed by the tragic event" and called Eaton an "outstanding and inspiring scientist." "The legacy of her scientific achievements will live on and continue to inspire young scientists and also the legacy as a person will continue with her family," Heald said. Eaton was the mother of two sons and married to a British scientist. Her family members, including her sister, traveled to Greece to join the search efforts, and are still there. In a message on Facebook, the family said it is grateful for all the support they have received.


Julian Williams fought such a perfect fight Saturday against Jarrett Hurd in their bout in Fairfax, Virginia, for the IBF and WBA super welterweight titles that he found it difficult to find the proper words to describe his feelings after it was over. Williams was magnificent on the inside, raking Hurd with crunching hooks and uppercuts at close range. He put the previously unbeaten Hurd down for the first time in his career in the second when he landed a short right and then a left that appeared like it may have landed on the top of Hurd's head. Hurd quickly got to his feet, but he was never able to find an answer for Williams' work on the inside. Judges had it 115-112 twice and 116-111 for Williams (27-1-1, 16 KOs), whose only loss came on Dec. 10, 2016, in Los Angeles when he was knocked out in the fifth by Jermall Charlo in a bout for the WBC super welterweight title. "I worked so hard," Williams said through his tears of joys. "They told me I was done. They told me I had no chin. I just got basic." He proved himself in a big way on Saturday at Eaglebank Arena on the campus of George Mason University. He took on the 23-0 Hurd (23-1, 16 KOs) in front of Hurd's hometown crowd and was cool as if he'd done it 100 times before. He was consistently landing the harder and sharper punches and fended off a charge from Hurd by standing his ground and landing strikes to Hurd's head. Hurd dismissed any notion that his performance suffered because he was nervous fighting at home. "No, no, no," Hurd said. "It's just that J-Rock was the better man tonight. He put me down for the first time in my career and he came out with the victory. Nerves didn't have anything to do with it." Williams was brilliantly prepared by trainer Stephen "Breadman" Edwards, who had a great game plan and made all the right adjustments during the fight. When Hurd started to get momentum, Williams picked up the pace and blunted it. "I'm so blessed," Williams said. "I'm so, so blessed." He's also the unified champion with a lot of options. There is a rematch clause in the contract, and so he could fight Hurd again, but he also could choose to face the winner of the June 23 bout for the WBC title between champion Tony Harrison and Charlo. Williams, though, didn't want to talk about that on this night. He wanted to savor a hard-earned, well-deserved victory. More from Yahoo Sports: Report: Lakers set to hire Frank Vogel as coach Boxing Hall of Famer Harold Lederman dies at 79 Kyrie considers playing for Lakers next season LeBron clicks into full dad mode at son's game


As part of a crackdown pushed by President Trump, immigration authorities are slated to carry out a series of roundups targeting undocumented families on Sunday, according to two administration officials. The raids   which the president first telegraphed last month only to postpone them   have left undocumented immigrants on edge , fearing they will be deported and separated from their families. As top Democrats urge Mr. Trump to scrap the operation, immigrant advocacy groups have been preparing immigrants who could potentially be targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Who will be targeted and why? Although the president and other officials have claimed that "millions" would be deported, such an operation would be logistically impossible and politically untenable. There are currently approximately 10.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. and according to administration officials, about 1 million of them have final removal orders. But the wave of sweeps that are set to start on Sunday is expected to be limited in scope, targeting about 2,000 people. The operation is set to target undocumented families in an expedited docket in the immigration court system. According to ICE, these immigrants were ordered deported by a judge for failing to appear in court, also received notification from the agency. ICE says very few of these people responded to the agency's request to arrange their deportation earlier this year. The group in this "rocket" docket is estimated to include about 2,100 people. But it is highly unlikely that ICE find all of the migrants at the addresses they have on file, especially since the operation has been so publicized. Advocates fear the agency will turn to "collateral arrests," which frequently occur during "targeted" operations. These are apprehensions of people who are undocumented but who are not directly targeted by an ICE operation. They just happened to be in the place where the operation takes place. Have these people been given "due process"? The administration has repeatedly said the migrants that would be targeted by the operation already enjoyed due process in the immigration court system. Officials have also accused these individuals of ignoring U.S. laws for a second time by not showing up to court. But immigration attorneys and advocates dispute that. They said migrants may have not known about their court date. "It's quite possible some of the families that have been ordered removed did have due process, did have a hearing and were ordered removed   and then failed to report for that removal order," Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, told CBS News. "But the vast majority of people were ordered removed for missing court. And it's quite likely that many of those individuals missed court through no fault of their own." "By definition, a person can't have had their day in court if they never knew they had a day in court in the first place," he said. Reichlin-Melnick said many people did not receive a notice to appear in court because these are often sent to the wrong addresses, with erroneous dates or different locations and other bureaucratic errors. Advocates and attorneys also noted that some immigrants do not appear in court because of a lack of legal representation. Immigrants and migrants in the U.S. immigration court system   which is a branch of the Justice Department   do not have the right to a government-appointed lawyer, unlike the independent judicial system. It is up to advocacy groups to fill that void. "There's no right to counsel. And study after study has shown the appearance rate of people who have a lawyer is significantly higher than those who don't have a lawyer," Reichlin-Melnick said. "Unfortunately immigration court is a very complex system   far more complicated than many other courts   and without a lawyer to navigate the system, the individuals who intend to follow the rules simply aren't able to." Will families be separated because of this operation? Deportations can lead to family separations, as they have in the past. Roundups would not only affect undocumented immigrants with pending removal orders, but also so-called "mixed-status" families with members who are green card holders and U.S. citizens   mostly U.S.-born children. Will everyone apprehended be deported? The removals of many of the people will likely be delayed or even halted, as advocates are preparing to file legal motions to reopen the cases of the migrants who are apprehended by ICE. However, immigration attorneys noted that immigrants and migrants who are not able to secure counsel will face likely insurmountable odds against a government that's determined to deport them. "For the most part, they're subject to the whims of this very dysfunctional immigration court system," Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute, told CBS News. "When you go to immigration court, you are in a very intimidating environment and subject to very complicated procedures, legal norms and terminology," Pierce added. "You're also facing a very well-trained attorney who's representing the government and who's trying to deport you." How are advocates preparing? From New York and Baltimore, to Houston and Los Angeles, pro-immigrant groups and legal aid organizations are mobilizing to educate their local immigrant communities. They are also trying to quell the fear already prevalent in many households. Luba Cortés, an immigrant defense coordinator, said pro bono attorneys and advocacy organizations like Make the Road need to strike a "balancing" act: Inform without prompting mass panic. "We don't want to create any fear or chaos as they target these immigrant families," Cortés told CBS News. Along with providing free or low-cost legal counsel, some organizations have also established hotlines so people can report ICE activity in their neighborhoods. Why does the government want to do this? In June, former acting ICE director Mark Morgan, who now heads Customs and Border Protection (CBP), told reporters that the operation is designed to send a "powerful message" of deterrence to people in Central America. Morgan said his former agency wanted to uphold the values of "humanity, compassion and dignity" but that it was also critical to prevent what he portrayed as the erosion of the rule of law. "I don't want to send ICE agents to their workplace, I don't want to send ICE agents to their homes. I don't want to send ICE agents to try to track them down and apprehend them in their communities, in their towns," he added. "That's not what I prefer to do. But we have applied due process. And we've tried to work with them. We've tried and attempted to say, 'Hey, come turn yourself in.' But they have refused to do so. So we have no choice but to carry out our statutory mandated job." Can it be stopped? That's unclear. The president postponed the raids last month and could do so again, particularly if he's faced with massive public uproar and opposition in Congress. There's also the possibility that litigation could block the sweeps after they begin. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has already filed a preemptive lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, arguing that many of the people who could be targeted have not had due process. Like many attorneys, the ACLU pointed out the bureaucratic errors that often lead migrants not to appear in court. "Even when the government sent notices to the right address for a real hearing, it repeatedly sent them too late, for locations unreasonably far from immigrants' homes," the ACLU said. "Notices thus arrived either after the date set for a hearing or just a few days before, requiring indigent families to immediately travel across the country to hearings in distant states."


President Trump believes he does not need congressional approval to strike Iran, he told Hill.TV during an exclusive interview outside the Oval Office. "I do," Trump said when asked directly if he believes he has the authority to attack Iran without first going to Congress. "I do believe that ... but we've been keeping Congress abreast of what we're doing Saagar and I think it's something they appreciate. We had a lot of folks over the other day ... Told them what was happening, what was going on." Trump continued, "We were pretty close to maybe making a decision to strike then I decided not to do it. Nobody went out by the way, I was going to make that decision by a certain time and I decided not to do it because it wasn't really proportional. I like the Idea of keeping Congress abreast but I wouldn't have to do that." Trump said he disagrees with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's declaration that he would need congressional approval for any "hostilities" against Iran. "I disagree, most people seem to disagree but I do like keeping them...they have ideas, they're intelligent people, they come up with some thoughts. I actually learned a couple of things the other day when we had our meeting with Congress which I think helpful to me. I do like keeping them abreast but I don't have to do it legally." Pelosi made the statement on Friday after Trump ordered, then reversed a decision to strike Iran following the downing of an unmanned U.S. aircraft last week. She told reporters she was not notified by officials of the president's decision on Thursday to approve the military action when she and other congressional leaders went to the White House for a briefing that day. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) said Democrats told Trump during that situation room briefing he would need congressional authorization before a strike. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) have introduced an amendment to a defense spending bill that would block Trump from using funds to strike Iran without congressional approval. Schumer called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to delay a vote on the bill until after the Democratic presidential primary debates this week so Democratic senators can be present to vote on the amendment.


Beyonce recently performed at the Tidal X concert in Brooklyn and showed off some serious side boob! She wore a gorgeous dress with a plunging neckline with fur and Christian Louboutin heels. She joined Nicki Minaj onstage to perform 'Feeling Myself'. Then Beyonce introduced husband Jay Z and they performed 'Holy Grail'.


BEIJING   Stepping up Beijing's propaganda offensive in the tariffs standoff with Washington, Chinese state media on Friday accused the U.S. of seeking to "colonize global business" with moves against Huawei and other Chinese technology companies. There was no word from either side on progress toward resuming talks between the world's two largest economies, though President Donald Trump said he expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, next month at a G-20 meeting in Japan. Negotiations over how to cut the huge, longstanding U.S. trade deficit with China and resolve complaints over Beijing's methods for acquiring advanced foreign technologies foundered earlier this month after Trump raised tariffs on billions of dollars of imports from China. At a daily briefing Friday, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang accused American politicians he didn't name of "fabricating various lies based on subjective presumptions and trying to mislead the American people." The China Daily, an English-language newspaper, said U.S. expressions of concerns about Chinese surveillance equipment maker Hikvision were for the self-serving aim of claiming the "moral high ground" to promote Washington's political agenda. "In this way, it is hoping to achieve the colonization of the global business world," the newspaper said. Hikvision said in a statement Friday that it takes U.S. concerns about its business seriously and is working to ensure it complies with human rights standards. Activists have been urging the U.S. and other countries to sanction China over repression of members of Muslim minority ethnic groups in the northwestern Xinjiang region, where an estimated 1 million people are being detained in re-education camps. The New York Times reported the U.S. Commerce Department might put Hikvision on its "entity list," restricting its business with U.S. companies for its alleged role in facilitating surveillance in Xinjiang. In its statement, the company said it had "engaged with the U.S. government regarding all of this since last October." Hikvision said it had retained former U.S. Ambassador-at-large Pierre-Richard Prosper of the firm Arent Fox to advise the company regarding human rights compliance. "Over the past year, there have been numerous reports about ways that video surveillance products have been involved in human rights violations," the statement said. "We read every report seriously and are listening to voices from outside the company." In South Korea, officials said they were discussing security issues related to its 5G, or fifth generation, cellphone networks with the U.S. Officials in South Korea's Foreign Ministry and presidential office did not, however, confirm the report by the Chosun Ilbo newspaper that U.S. officials want Seoul to block a local wireless carrier that uses Huawei equipment for its 5G services from unspecified "sensitive areas." Washington considers Huawei, the world's leading supplier of telecom gear and No. 2 smartphone maker, a security threat. Huawei has sought to alleviate those concerns and has rejected assertions that it would facilitate spying by Beijing. It's unclear whether Seoul would accept potential U.S. demands to block imports of Huawei products at risk of triggering retaliation from China, its biggest trade partner. A U.S. business group reported Friday that its members' operations in China are facing growing pressure from trade friction after the Trump administration imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports, with plans to extend those duties to another $300 billion   virtually all the goods America buys from China. "The negative impact of tariffs is clear and hurting the competitiveness of American companies in China," the American Chamber of Commerce in China and AmCham Shanghai said in announcing the results of a survey of nearly 250 companies conducted May 16-20. China has raised tariffs on $110 billion of U.S. products and has said it's prepared to do more to defend its national interest. The report said about 40 of the companies surveyed were being subjected to more inspections or slower customs clearance. Just over half have yet to experience any impact from such non-tariff retaliatory measures. To cope, companies are focusing more on the China market, it said, rather than exporting to the U.S., and delaying or canceling investment decisions.


Whether it's making changes in your relationship or just working on bettering your wellbeing, these are the ways to boost your sex drive after 40. 38 Ways to Enhance Your Sex Life After 40 It's not uncommon to go through waves of insatiability and apathy when it comes to your sex life , especially as you age. In fact, between the fluctuating hormones raging through your body and the everyday life stressors that put sex on the back-burner, you're bound to experience a loss in libido at some point in your life. The good news? A decrease in the desire to get it on is something that can be worked on. Whether it's making changes in your relationship or working on bettering your overall wellbeing, there are plenty of ways to get back on track. So, try out some of these ways to boost your sex drive after 40 and you're sure to feel like your old self in no time. And for more sex hacks, don't miss these Reasons You've Stopped Having Sex in Your Relationship And How to Address It . 1. Quit any bad habits. If you're still smoking in your 40s, it's time to stop not just for your health and overall wellbeing, but also for your sex drive. According to the Mayo Clinic , bad habits like smoking can cause your libido to plummet so once you ditch the cigarettes for good, you'll experience a nice boost in the bedroom. And if you need more of a reason to throw away your cigarettes, Here's How Long It Takes Your Body to Reverse the Damage of Smoking . 2. Be more open with your partner. Sitting down and talking about why your sex drive has taken a hit with your partner might feel uncomfortable, but it's necessary especially if you want to get back on track. The Mayo Clinic says communicating in an open, honest way can help you "maintain a stronger emotional connection, which can lead to better sex." 3. …Especially about your likes and dislikes. Some couples do the same old thing between the sheets for years, if only because they're not open about the fact that they'd rather do something else. However, if your sex drive is getting stale, it might finally be time to reevaluate your routine. The Mayo Clinic says that talking about what you like and dislike is super important for your sexual desire, and the simple act of being honest can take your intimacy to a totally new level. And if you're curious about what's going on inside your partner's head, then check out these 17 Dating Secrets Women Will Never Openly Acknowledge . 4. Stop stressing so much. Stress gets in the way of a lot of things . So keeping your cortisol levels to a minimum will keep wellbeing in check, sexual wellbeing included. The Mayo Clinic notes that simply by finding a way to cope with your heightened levels of anxiety, you can increase your libido and get your sex life back on track. And if you're struggling to manage your stress, then check out these 12 Genius Tricks for Turning Anxiety into Excitement . 5. Get more sleep. From keeping stress levels at bay to getting a mood boost, there are plenty of reasons you should always make sure you're getting enough shut-eye . And when it comes to your sex drive, some sleep can help, too. A 2015 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that women who got more sleep had higher levels of sexual desire. Specifically, for every extra hour of sleep that a woman got, her odds of engaging in sexual activity increased by 14 percent. And for ways to maximize your sleep when it's hot outside, check out the 40 Tips for Better Sleep on Summer Nights . 6. Don't forget about kissing and cuddling. When you're feeling frustrated about a low sex drive, it's easy to try and rush into sex simply to make some magic happen. However, don't forget about taking time to get cozy: According to an oft-cited 1999 survey from Modern Maturity magazine and the AARP , something as simple as a little kissing and cuddling can strengthen your bond with your partner, especially in those moments when you're feeling tired or tense. 7. Share household duties. If you find yourself doing more household chores than your significant other, changing that could benefit your sex drive. In a 2018 study published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World , researchers found that sharing household work particularly the dishes! was linked to stronger sexual intimacy and relationship satisfaction. When you feel more like equals and less like maids, you won't resent each other or be as stressed, and that translates to more fun between the sheets. 8. Go on vacation. Here's a great excuse to finally take that trip to the Bahamas: One 2013 survey from the U.S. Travel Association found that 77 percent of respondents who traveled with their significant other said their sex life was flourishing. Those are some pretty good odds! And when you're gearing up for your next trip, make sure you check out these 25 Must-Pack Summer Travel Essentials Under $25 . 9. Get creative. After a while, it's easy to get into the same routine every night. However, this monotony isn't exactly helping out your sex drive. That's why, to amp things up, the Mayo Clinic suggests getting a little more creative with your partner. Whether you're switching up the time and location you have sex or trying out new positions , this can give your sex drive a serious boost. 10. And be open-minded about new experiences in the bedroom. In a 2019 study published in the Journal of Sex Research , researchers found that the more open subjects (and their partners) were to new experiences, the better their sexual encounters were. So set the mood, try new things, do some experimentation together , and, most importantly, keep an open mind. And for more life-changing bedroom tips, here are 50 Ways to Have a Healthy Sex Life After 40 . 11. Eat plenty of avocado. Eating a well-rounded diet is crucial for your health and your sex life. And if there's one food you definitely shouldn't skimp on when it comes to your sex life, it's avocado. According to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , the vitamin B6 in this delectable food "might make it easier for women to 'get in the mood.'" The fruit also has a positive effect on men, seeing as it keeps the heart healthy and this organ, in turn, helps pump blood to the nether region. 12. Nibble on some chocolate. A piece of chocolate a day keeps the sexual dysfunction away at least according to a 2006 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine . The study authors found that those who ate chocolate on a daily basis tended to have higher libidos and better sexual function compared to those who didn't indulge in the dessert. 13. Eat more citrusy fruits. You know taking in plenty of citrusy fruits is good for your health. What you might not know, though, is that eating these tart treats is also one of the ways to boost your sex drive. A 2002 study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry found that individuals who had high intakes of fruits full of ascorbic acid ones like oranges and grapefruits tended to have more (and better!) sex. And for more ways to eat your way to better sex, learn the 20 Best Foods for Your Libido . 14. Have a cup of coffee. Coffee wakes you up, gives you energy, and boosts your sex drive. A 2015 study published in the journal PLoS One found that men who consumed between 85 and 170 milligrams of caffeine a day were 42 percent less likely to report erectile dysfunction. So grab a cup or two tomorrow morning, then text your partner to come back from work early. And if you don't like coffee but want to reap all (or most) of the benefits, good news: New Study Says Simply Looking at Coffee Will Wake You Up . 15. Drink some red wine. Drinking red wine for your libido might sound way too good to be true and yet, it's one of the very real ways to boost your sex drive. In a 2009 study of nearly 800 women published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine , researchers concluded that a moderate amount of the antioxidant-packed beverage helped increase sexual desire, lubrication, and overall sexual function. 16. But don't overdo it on the alcohol. While a little wine can increase your sex drive , overdoing it can have the exact opposite effect and make it harder for you to feel aroused or even orgasm during sex, according to a 2016 study published in the AIDS and Behavior journal. So, keep your alcohol consumption to a minimum otherwise, all of that red wine will be for naught. And if you're not sure how much a "moderate amount" is, then read up on Exactly How Much Alcohol You Should Drink . 17. Flavor your food with saffron. Saffron a fancy red spice found in plenty of different dishes doesn't just provide flavor. A 2012 study published in the journal Human Psychopharmacology determined that the flavoring could also improve lubrication during sex for those who are a bit drier down there. 18. Slice yourself some watermelon. Though eating watermelon is associated with the summertime , you might want to make it a diet staple year-round: 2008 research out of Texas A&M University found that the fruit can have Viagra-like effects on the body, giving your libido a solid boost with the compounds it contains. 19. Load up on asparagus. Asparagus is already worthy of being on your plate, and the fact that the delicious veggie could also increase your libido is all the more reason to amp up your intake. One 2013 review published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease even notes that the food is actually considered a tonic one that doesn't just make you want to have sex, but also keeps everything working efficiently down there as you age . 20. Eat an apple (or two!) a day. An apple a day doesn't just keep the doctor away. It also gets you into bed more often. That's according to a 2014 study published in the journal Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics , which found those who ate at least one apple a day had a better sexual quality of life than those who didn't. 21. Drink pomegranate juice. In addition to water, there's one more important beverage to include in your diet: pomegranate juice. In one 2012 study out of Queen Margaret University in Scotland, just one glass a day not only helped boost participants' moods, but also increased the amount of testosterone in their bodies something that subsequently lifted their libidos. 22. Try to lose a little weight. If the scale has crept up on you in recent years, that could be the reason your sex drive has taken a hit. "If you're insecure and you focus on the way your body looks or what your partner is thinking about it during sex, you're not going to be in the mood," Cindy Meston , Ph.D., told Fitness . Once you shed some pounds and feel more like yourself, you may even be excited to get naked. 23. Meditate every day. If you can make time to brew coffee in the morning and scroll through Facebook at night, then you can make time for meditation. And the good news is that the practice is just as good for your brain as it is for your, well, naughty bits: One 2017 review published in the Journal of Sex Research noted that mindfulness-based therapy can help improve sexual function. And for tricks on making the most of the practice, don't miss the 10 Ways to Focus Better During Meditation . 24. And exercise often. Fitting in a daily workout can help you feel better about your body , boost your mood, and increase your levels of happiness hormones and all of these things, in turn, can boost your sex drive. In a 2018 study published in the journal Sexual Medicine Reviews , researchers found that after a strenuous workout, subjects appeared to be more aroused plus more sexually satisfied when they did get it on. 25. Do some yoga. Yoga isn't just great for increasing your flexibility it can also increase your sexual desire. One 2010 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that doing three poses in particular triangle pose, the snake, and half spinal twist helped increase women's desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and overall satisfaction. At the end of the 12-week study, nearly 75 percent of women said that their sex lives had improved greatly. And if you really want to make the most of the practice, learn about The Yoga Moves That Will Transform Your Sex Life . 26. Get sweaty with your partner. You might enjoy working out alone, but here's a case for working out with your partner: A 2007 study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that smelling androstadienone a compound found in men's sweat can seriously arouse females, giving their overall sexual desire a boost. And for more things you can do with your S.O., check out The 50 Best Ways to Relax with Your Partner . 27. Take ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo biloba has been around for millions of years and has been used medicinally since ancient times. In the past, it's been shown to have positive effects on the brain and memory and in 2008, one study published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy showed that it has some sexual benefits, too. Researchers found that the herb had a positive effect on desire, excitement, and orgasm . 28. Try fenugreek. If you aren't already familiar with fenugreek, then now's the perfect time to get acquainted. The medicinal herb is touted in the health community not just as a way to help lower blood sugar levels and increase breast milk production, but also as a sexual aid. In fact, one 2011 study published in the journal Phytotherapy Research found that taking a daily supplement of the powerful plant could play a role in increasing sexual arousal and desire. And for more natural remedies, discover The 50 Best Supplements on the Planet . 29. Consider vaginal estrogen. As women get older, it's common for their vaginal tissue to become drier due to lower levels of estrogen. Thankfully, there's a solution: vaginal estrogen. As specialist Judith Volkar , MD, told the Cleveland Clinic , "Your vaginal tissue needs estrogen to function properly. Without estrogen, the tissue gets very thin and dry, and sex becomes very painful. Vaginal estrogen can help plump up the cells again and make it no longer painful ." 30. Schedule time for sex. It might feel weird to carve out time for your rendezvous; however, these days in which people are all work and no play it can be necessary. The Mayo Clinic notes that adding time for intimacy to your schedule can get your sex drive back on track even if that means sending a calendar invite to your hubby with some eggplant emojis in the title. 31. Reevaluate your medications. Certain medications can decrease your sex drive, even if it's not something you realize at first. However, as Volkar told the Cleveland Clinic, going off of your meds cold turkey without a doctor's consent is never a good move. If you're worried that your medications are at the root of your sex issues, then your doc can and should reevaluate your prescriptions to see if something can be done to help out your sexual function. 32. Give acupuncture a try. Having little needles shoved into your body might seem scary, but the Chinese practice of acupuncture has been around for thousands of years for good reason: It works. Typically it's used to fight off pain and decrease stress, but it can help to boost your libido, too. In fact, in a 2016 study published in the journal Sex u al Medicine , researchers found that just two sessions a week for five weeks made a big difference in participants' sexual function and desire. 33. Give yourself an acupressure massage. If acupuncture sounds too scary, then acupressure might be the way to go. The practice involves cueing in to points on your body that can help boost your sex drive and increase sexual satisfaction and you only have to do it for 30 to 60 seconds at a time. One of the best points to start with? CV 6, or the Sea of Qi, which is located two finger widths directly below your belly button. "The abdominal muscles often tighten during lovemaking, which can block the flow of sexual energy. Pressing CV 6 and the acupressure points around it can relieve the abdominal tension, strengthen the urinary and reproductive systems, and increase sexual intimacy and pleasure," says acupressure expert Michael Reed Gach , Ph.D. 34. And grab the oils! According to the Mayo Clinic, the botanical massage oil Zestra can be applied topically to your nether regions to heat things up. It works so well, in fact, that in a small 2003 study published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy , it was found to increase both arousal and pleasure. So, if natural methods aren't doing anything to increase your sex drive , it might be time to bring out the big guns or oils. 35. Get comfortable with the idea of sex. If the idea of having sex and being naked in front of your partner freaks you out, then you need to address your fears. In one 2009 study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine , scientists exposed women to erotic films and concluded that "women who saw an increase in cortisol… have lower levels of functioning in certain areas of their sexual life compared with women who show a decrease in cortisol. Stress related to sexual performance may interfere with sexual arousal." 36. Try going to a sex therapist. Going to a therapist of any kind can sound nerve-racking, but a sex therapist? For some, that's on another level. It shouldn't be, though: According to the aforementioned survey from the AARP, sessions that involve talking about your sex life from the concerns you have to how to better have your needs met can boost both your sexual arousal and enjoyment. 37. Do Kegels. If you haven't already started doing Kegel exercises on a regular basis, it's time. By giving your pelvic muscles a workout, you can increase your sexual energy and stimulate your sex drive , all while tightening things up in the process. So how do you actually do a Kegel? According to Harvard Women's Health Watch , it's best to start by tightening your muscles the same ones that stop you from peeing for 2 to 3 seconds and repeating this action 10 times at least 5 times a day. The best part? You can do them right at your desk at work and no one will even notice. 38. Build your relationship outside the bedroom. Experimenting in between the sheets is important for increasing your sex drive and satisfaction, but so is building your relationship in general. As Jan Shifren , MD, director of Massachusetts General Hospital Midlife Women's Health Center, writes for Harvard University , "couples who have fun outside the bedroom have more fun in the bedroom. Try to remember how much fun it was to spend time together when you first met and recreate some of that excitement." And for more things you can do in your later years that will help you be happier, check out these 40 Genius Ways to Feel Younger After 40 . To discover more amazing secrets about living your best life, click here to follow us on Instagram!


It's nearly time to swap your white summer dresses for a more substantial fall wardrobe. And there's no better time than right now to get familiar with some of fall's biggest trends and shop them, too. Superwoman Capes We don't have to remind you that women are the actual superheroes of 2019. So why not wear a warm layer that only goes to prove that point? Instead of your usual trench, select a sleek cape that communicates your superpowers whether it's through chic feathers or tried-and-true camel. Zara ($90), COS ($115), Rosie Assoulin ($379), Isabel Marant ($845), Marc Jacobs ($2,900) Leopard As a Neutral (But Really) We're not kidding when we say there's a leopard print for every personality this fall. Like to keep things monochrome? There's a black-and-white blazer for you. More of an abstract type? Select an XL version of the pattern on a sequin frock. And then, of course, the purists can take their pick of classic leopard on every item of clothing possible to welcome the print as this season's best staple. H&M ($18), Velvet by Graham & Spencer ($147), Proenza Schouler PSWL ($595), L'Agence ($650), Retrofête ($685) Take a Bow This autumn we also recommend adopting a whole new mentality: When in doubt, put a bow on it. It can be a drastically oversized neckline detail (à la Erdem's droopy knot) or a sweet, extra touch (like the black accoutrement on the sunny yellow Rodarte frock). Plus, this easy off-the-runway trend will make your average blouse feel that much more exciting, without veering too far from your signature style. Zara ($18), J.Crew ($75), & Other Stories ($129), Endless Summer ($189), La Vie Rebecca Taylor ($250) The New Power Suit You wore short suits all summer long , so the next logical step is to transition that professional look for cooler weather. Skirt suits were all over the fall runways, but these were certainly not the frumpy versions of yore. Instead, look for versions with built-in waist-cinching belts, non-traditional blazers and unexpected fabrics (hello, leather). And instead of channeling Working Girl , consider wearing your 2019 suit with a no-nonsense pair of flat leather boots. Now you're a lady who means business. Suistudio Jacket ($419) and Skirt ($180), House of Holland Jacket ($605) and Skirt ($250), Alessandra Rich Jacket ($1,710) and Skirt ($530) Minty Fresh We can all agree that millennial pink had its moment (and a good one, at that), but the hue that's going to be huge this season is a pale, minty green. Not only does the shade exude freshness (and the tingly feeling of mouthwash), but it's also surprisingly versatile. Pair an oversize mint blouse with crisp blue jeans or use the hue as an accent, tying back your locks with a pastel scrunchie. And yes, definitely wear this shade to every fall wedding on your calendar. Jennifer Behr ($98), Asics ($174), Staud ($215), Tibi ($375), Rejina Ryo ($415), Danse Lente ($430), Bernadette ($992) Grown-Up School Girl Quite unlike the plaid skirt you were forced to wear from K-12, this trendy skirt has no undertones of a school uniform. Today's iteration is served up in funky color schemes and updated cuts and can be worn with, well, any top you'd like. But if you want your tartan to really feel modern, pair it with an oversize coat or vest and a grungy T-shirt. Just don't forget to finish the look with a polished pair of leather laceup boots. 1901 ($89) , Vince Camuto ($99), Redvalentino ($420), MM6 Maison Margiela ($555), Ralph Lauren ($1,690) Neon For Fall? Groundbreaking If it feels like neon has been a trend forever , well, that's because it has. But unlike the fluoro hues of spring and summer, these bright pops are deeper and more pigmented than before. And they're also worn from head to toe. Is now the time to invest in a Day-Glo jacket? Absolutely. And can you really get away with an evening gown in a flash of neon? The answer is, "duh." Chimi ($146), Schutz ($180), Helmut Lang ($295), Retrofête ($670), Balenciaga ($995), Prada ($1,840) RELATED: The Princess Diana-Approved Earring Trend We're Wearing This Fall


Daniel Hudson reportedly is on some Major League Baseball teams' radars, and the Red Sox are one of them. MLB Network's Jon Morosi on Sunday reported Boston is "among the teams to evaluate Blue Jays reliever Daniel Hudson in recent days." [nesn_embed_the_score team="patriots"] The Red Sox's bullpen has been an issue at times this season and has struggled to put away opponents, as shown by the 4.54 ERA Boston's relievers boast. Hudson certainly is an attractive option, considering the right-handed reliever has a 0.93 ERA in his last 16 appearances, according to Morosi. The 32-year-old veteran has a 2.72 ERA in a rebuilding season for Toronto. Hudson also has compiled 42 strikeouts over 43 innings of work.