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Rolled Back...

The House voted to pass the biggest rollback of financial regulations since the global financial crisis. The margin was 258-159, with 33 Democrats supporting the legislation.  The Senate already passed the legislation with bipartisan support.

The bill makes good on Republican promises to cut red tape they say hurts businesses, but does not go nearly as far as some GOP lawmakers had hoped. It also appeases some Democrats who argue financial rules passed following the financial meltdown unnecessarily hamstrung small and mid-sized lenders.

The measure eases restrictions on all but the largest banks. It raises the threshold to $250 billion from $50 billion under which banks are deemed too important to the financial system to fail. Those institutions also would not have to undergo stress tests or submit so-called living wills, both safety valves designed to plan for financial disaster. 

Square...

The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. In 1910: When I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.^[1]

Roosevelt reflected three basic goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.^[2] These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president he in 1908 denounced "the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing competition, and to defrauding the public by stock-jobbing and the manipulation of securities.

During his second term, Roosevelt tried to extend his Square Deal further, but was blocked by conservative Republicans in Congress.

I've been...

Michael Rotondo, [has no job ] the 30-year-old man ordered by a judge to leave his parents’ home in upstate New York, has tried to explain why he.

"I've been a father for the past few years, that's what I've been doing. I really haven't been pursuing a career." 

He had been "working here and there, doing things, but mostly being a father." That is despite the fact that he has lost visitation rights to meet with the child.

The judge’s decision came after Mark and Christina Rotondo sent their son several letters asking him to move out, get a job and take his broken-down Volkswagen with him. They offered him $1,100 in cash to help him find a place to stay.

I'm going no where.?!

Pull...

North Korea has threatened to pull out of the meeting after comments by US National Security Adviser John Bolton.

The country reacted furiously when Mr Bolton suggested it would follow a "Libya model" of denuclearization.

Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed with Western powers in 2003 to dismantle his program in return for the lifting of sanctions. Eight years later he was killed at the hands of Western-backed rebels.

North Korea is also angry at current US-South Korea military drills and has halted talks with the South in response.

What kind of Diplomacy of Peace killing...

Extortion...

There's been a big rise in the number of victims of sextortion being reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA)..

Sextortion is when people, mainly men in their teens and twenties, are talked into letting themselves be filmed carrying out sex acts. Victims are secretly recorded and then blackmailed by  international criminal gang, most likely based in the Philippines. 

Don't panic, don't pay and call the police. Tens of thousands of people, mainly young men, are putting themselves at risk of sextortion.

Ultimately we'd advise people not to get naked on webcam.

Marcus...

 

Molinaro dedicated a significant chunk of his speech to reining in taxes and spending  [unlike the current] red meat for the Republican delegates he was speaking to.

Marc Molinaro is the Republican candidate for New York State Governor.

Cynthia...

New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is running for the governor of New York State. 

Think...

The FBI rolled out a new public service announcement called “Think Before You Post" in the hope that people stop making hoax threats in the wake of tragedies. They offer a stark warning: if you make a hoax threat, you will be prosecuted.

 Hoax threats disrupt school, waste limited law enforcement resources, and put first responders in unnecessary danger. We also don’t want to see a young person start out adulthood with a felony record over an impulsive social media post. It’s not a joke; always think before you post.

The FBI highlighted the potential consequences, citing the case of a 22-year-old Texas man just released from three years in prison for using fake email accounts, Twitter accounts and internet-based phone accounts to make hoax threats in Minnesota, including threatening to kill a police officer and her family. He also threatened to blow up and shoot up a school and engaged in swatting -- calling in fake reports that violent crimes were in progress.