Trust...

Democratic candidates were asked why their party has been unable to convince a “strong majority of Americans to support impeachment.” The moderator also asked how the candidates would “persuade more Americans that” impeachment is “right.”

Andrew Yang ripped into media outlets as a reason why Americans can’t agree on impeachment.

The media networks didn’t do us any favors by missing a reason why Donald Trump became our president in the first place,” Yang said. “If you turn on cable network news today, you would think he’s our president because of some combination of Russia, racism, Facebook, Hillary Clinton and emails all mixed together.”

“But Americans around the country know different.”

The more we act like Donald Trump is the cause of all of our problems, the more Americans lose trust that we can actually see what’s going on in our communities and solve those problems,” Yang said.

Organized...

Americans are being advised not to travel to the states of Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas due to crime.

In Guerrero state, armed groups operate independently of the government in many areas and frequently maintain roadblocks and may use violence toward travelers, according to the U.S. government. Criminal organizations are operating in Sinaloa state, where violent crime is widespread. In Tamaulipas state, organized crime activity, including gun battles, murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, has led to disappearances, extortion and sexual assault.

If Americans travel to Mexico, they are advised to keep their traveling companions and family back home informed of their travel plans, and if separated from their travel group, to send a GPS location. If taking a taxi alone, text a photo of the taxi number and license plate to a friend or family member.

Coup...

 President Donald Trump sent a personal six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi railing against what he calls an "illegal, partisan attempted coup."

"I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record.” 

"One hundred years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it and learn from it, so that it can never happen to another President again," the letter reads.

It is time for your and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People," he writes.

You are offending Americans of faith by continually saying 'I pray for the president' … when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense," the president writes.

Grant...

On behalf of the Houston Police Department, I want to extend an apology to Mr. Grant and his family as they have waited for justice all these years,” Acevedo said in a statement.

Grant has served seven years of a life sentence.  Authorities now believe 41-year-old Jermarico Carter is the killer.

 Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said there is “substantial new evidence that points toward a person of interest,” but authorities are “not there yet” in concluding that this new suspect was responsible for the killing.

“The highest responsibility of a prosecutor is to see that justice is done and insuring that we have the correct individual charged is a baseline responsibility,” Ogg said in a statement.

To Tok ..

It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message with friends and family, even in a country that has restricted popular messaging services like WhatsApp and Skype.

But the service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment. It is used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones.

ToTok, introduced only months ago, was downloaded millions of times from the Apple and Google app stores by users throughout the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. While the majority of its users are in the Emirates, ToTok surged to become one of the most downloaded social apps in the United States.

ToTok amounts to the latest escalation in a digital arms race among wealthy authoritarian governments and other wealthy government.

Logic...

A former contractor for Siemens concocted a remedy for that—plant logic bombs in projects he designed that caused them to periodically malfunction. Then wait for a call to come fix things.

David A. Tinley, a 62-year-old from Harrison City, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of $7,500 in the scheme. The sentence came five months after he pleaded guilty to a charge of intentional damage to a protected computer. Tinley was a contract employee for Siemens Corporation at its Monroeville, Pennsylvania, location.

The logic bombs Tinley surreptitiously planted into his projects caused them to malfunction after a certain preset amount of time. The scheme ran from 2014 to 2016.

Tinley will be under supervised release for two years following his prison term. He will also pay restitution. The parties in the case stipulated a total loss amount of $42,262.50. Tinley faced as much as 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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Virtual...

Authorities near Cincinnati are warning residents about a fake kidnapping scam circulating through the area.

The scam involves a phone call from a random number that, when answered, features the voice of a panicked child saying "They have me" and "I'm in a white van," according to the sheriff's office.

The Boone County Sheriff's Office advises parents who become targets of the "virtual kidnapping ransom scam" to take immediate steps to verify the whereabouts of their child and to check social media privacy settings to make sure sensitive information that can be used against them can not be viewed by the public.

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