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{ "text": [ "EL PASO, Texas (AP) — West Texas police have added new charges against the mother of a 4-year-old boy found in February in an abandoned warehouse in Mexico.\nRuby Esmeralda Gonzalez already had been charged with child abandonment and endangerment. Now, police have added charges of intentional injury to a child and filing a false report against the 25-year-old El Paso woman.\nGonzalez initially reported her son had been kidnapped. Investigators now believe Gonzalez took the boy, identified as American, to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Feb. 22. They say she left him at an old warehouse and then she returned home. Mexican officials who found the boy say he speaks and understands English.\nOnline records don't list an attorney for Gonzalez, whose bond amounts total $120,000.\nThe child remains in Mexican social services custody." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Oregon lawmakers created the state's legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market.\nThat meant low barriers to entry that also targeted long-standing medical marijuana growers, whose product is not taxed. As a result, weed production boomed — with a bitter consequence.\nNow, marijuana prices here are in freefall, and the craft cannabis farmers who put Oregon on the map decades before broad legalization say they are in peril of losing their now-legal businesses as the market adjusts.\nOregon regulators on Wednesday announced they will stop processing new applications for marijuana licenses in two weeks to address a severe backlog and ask state lawmakers to take up the issue next year.\nExperts say the dizzying evolution of Oregon's marijuana industry may well be a cautionary tale for California, where a similar regulatory structure could mean an oversupply on a much larger scale.\n\"For the way the program is set up, the state just wants to get as many people in as possible, and they make no bones about it,\" Hilary Bricken, a Los Angeles-based attorney specializing in marijuana business law, said of California. \"Most of these companies will fail as a result of oversaturation.\"\nOregon has nearly 1 million pounds (453,600 kilograms) of marijuana flower — commonly called bud — in its inventory, a staggering amount for a state with about 4 million people. Producers told The Associated Press wholesale prices fell more than 50 percent in the past year; a study by the state's Office of Economic Analysis found the retail cost of a gram of marijuana fell from $14 in 2015 to $7 in 2017.\nThe oversupply can be traced largely to state lawmakers' and regulators' earliest decisions to shape the industry.\nThey were acutely aware of Oregon's entrenched history of providing top-drawer pot to the black market nationwide, as well as a concentration of small farmers who had years of cultivation experience in the legal, but largely unregulated, medical pot program.\nGetting those growers into the system was critical if a legitimate industry was to flourish, said Sen. Ginny Burdick, a Portland Democrat who co-chaired a committee created to implement the voter-approved legalization measure.\nLawmakers decided not to cap licenses; to allow businesses to apply for multiple licenses; and to implement relatively inexpensive licensing fees.\nThe Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which issues licenses, announced Wednesday it will put aside applications for new licenses received after June 15 until a backlog of pending applications is cleared out. The decision comes after U.S. Attorney Billy Williams challenged state officials to address Oregon's oversupply problem.\n\"In my view, and frankly in the view of those in the industry that I've heard from, it's a failing of the state for not stepping back and taking a look at where this industry is at following legalization,\" Williams told the AP in a phone interview.\nBut those in the industry supported the initial decisions that led to the oversupply, Burdick said.\n\"We really tried to focus on policies that would rein in the medical industry and snuff out the black market as much as possible,\" Burdick said.\nLawmakers also quickly backtracked on a rule requiring marijuana businesses have a majority ownership by someone with Oregon residency after entrepreneurs complained it was hard to secure startup money. That change opened the door to out-of-state companies with deep pockets that could begin consolidating the industry.\nThe state has granted 1,001 producer licenses and has another 950 in process as of last week. State officials worry if they cut off licensing entirely or turn away those already in the application process, they'll get sued or encourage illegal trade.\nSome of the same parameters are taking shape in California, equally known for black-market pot from its Emerald Triangle region.\nThe rules now in effect there place caps only on certain, medium-sized growing licenses. In some cases, companies have acquired dozens of growing licenses, which can be operated on the same or adjoining parcels. The growers association is suing to block those rules, fearing they will open the way for vast farms that will drive out smaller cultivators.\nBeau Whitney, senior economist at national cannabis analytics firm New Frontier Data, said he's seeing California prices fall.\nIn contrast, Washington knew oversupply could draw federal attention and was more conservative about licensing. As the market matured, its regulators eased growing limits, but the state never experienced an oversupply crisis.\nColorado has no caps on licenses, but strict rules designed to limit oversupply allow the state to curtail a growers' farm size based on past crop yields, existing inventory, sales deals and other factors.\nIn Oregon, cannabis retail chains are emerging to take advantage of the shake-up.\nA company called Nectar has 13 stores around the state — with three more on tap — and says on its website it is buying up for-sale dispensaries too. Canada-based Golden Leaf Holdings bought the successful Oregon startup Chalice and has six stores around Portland, with another slated to open.\nWilliam Simpson, Chalice's founder and Golden Leaf Holdings CEO, is expanding into Northern California, Nevada and Canada. Simpson welcomes criticism that he's dumbing down cannabis the same way Starbucks brought coffee to a mass market.\n\"If you take Chalice like Starbucks, it's a known quantity, it's a brand that people know and trust,\" he said.\nAmy Margolis, executive director of the Oregon Cannabis Association, says that capping licenses would only spur even more consolidation in the long-term. The state is currently working on a study that should provide data and more insight into what lies ahead.\n\"I don't think that everything in this state is motivated by struggle and failure,\" she said. \"I'm very interested to see ... how this market settles itself and (in) being able to do that from a little less of a reactionary place.\"\nFor now, Oregon's smaller marijuana businesses are trying to stay afloat.\nA newly formed group will launch an ad campaign this fall to tell Oregonians why they should pay more for mom-and-pop cannabis. Adam Smith, who founded the Oregon Craft Cannabis Alliance, believes 70 percent of Oregon's small growers and retailers will go out of business if consumers don't respond.\n\"We could turn around in three to four years and realize that 10 to 12 major companies own a majority of the Oregon industry and that none of it is really based here anymore,\" he said. \"The Oregon brand is really all about authenticity. It's about people with their hands in the dirt, making something they love as well as they can. How do we save that?\"\n___\nAssociated Press writers Gene Johnson in Seattle, Michael R. Blood in Los Angeles and Kathleen Foody in Denver contributed to this report.\n___\nFlaccus is a member of the AP's marijuana beat team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/gflaccus. Follow complete AP marijuana coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/LegalMarijuana" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani rights group has appealed on Indonesia to free on humanitarian grounds a terminally ill Pakistani convict on death row.\nThe Justice Project Pakistan, which opposes capital punishment, said in a statement Thursday that 54-year-old Zulfiqar Ali could soon die after his health deteriorated while in a Jakarta prison hospital.\nThere was no immediate response from Indonesia.\nAli was arrested in November 2004 and later convicted on drug smuggling charges which carry the death sentence in Indonesia. The rights group claims his trial was unfair and that he was wrongfully convicted.\nSarah Belal, executive director at Justice Project Pakistan, said they cannot save Ali's life but are trying to help him \"die a free man.\"\nPakistani President Mamnoon Hussain has asked Indonesia President Joko \"Jokowi\" Widodo to pardon Ali." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Carlo Janka has been named in Switzerland's biggest ever Winter Olympic team despite not starting a World Cup ski race since tearing the ACL in his right knee in October.\nThe 31-year-old Janka opted against surgery to give him a chance of competing at next month's Pyeongchang Games.\nThe Swiss Olympic committee announced a 171-athlete team — eight more than for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.\nTeam manager Ralph Stoeckli says its target is 11 medals, which would match Switzerland's tally in Sochi. Of those 11 medals four years ago, six were gold.\nJanka took gold in giant slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. He also won on the new Olympic course in 2016, when a World Cup super-G was held as a test event." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Van Morrison has come up with a simple, and surprisingly effective, way to combat possible writer's block — recycle old songs and standards with a brand new approach.\nHe's tried it before with \"Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue\" in 2015 and is at it again in \"You're Driving Me Crazy.\"\nThis time he's teamed with Joey DeFrancesco in a supremely relaxed, jazzy workout notable for its easy, almost effortless swing.\nThis is Morrison when he's not trying too hard, not looking for new ways to express the emotions captured so brilliantly in his earlier work, simply enjoying the chance to team up with a superb organist and trumpeter to revisit some of his older songs mixed in with a few classics.\nThey shine on a number of standards, including Cole Porter's \"Miss Otis Regrets,\" which Morrison personalizes with some distinctive mumbling. By now his vocal tics are so familiar that listeners can feel him trying to find, and stretch out, a moment of bliss.\nHe reaches all the way back to \"Astral Weeks\" for an updated \"The Way Young Lovers Do,\" one of the most evocative pieces from that landmark album. The composition stands the test of the time, and Morrison's vocal performance meets the challenge, even if he's decades past the coming-of-age drama depicted in that song.\nHe's taking a number of songs originally performed in more of a rock style and put them in a jazz context. The joy he finds is clear from the opening moments, and there are several occasions when the sometimes grumpy Morrison laughs with pure delight.\nTaking away the pressure of coming up with new masterworks to match \"Into the Mystic\" and \"Moondance\" seems to have liberated Morrison. And, lest ye forget, this man can sing." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ENGLAND\nCOACH: Eddie Jones\n2017 SIX NATIONS: Champion\nBEST SIX NATIONS RESULT: Champion 2000, '01, '03, '11, '16, '17\nOUTLOOK: A master of mind games, Eddie Jones is trying his best to downplay expectations on his team. Just this month, he has called England \"underdogs,\" said the team had \"no hope\" of winning the tournament, and spoke of the \"doom and gloom\" swirling around English rugby because of injuries, a \"muddling autumn series,\" and the poor performance by the country's clubs in European competition. Nice try, Eddie. Ireland is expected to be the only realistic challenger as England bids for a third straight title outright, which has never been achieved in the 135-year history of the tournament. True, England has a long list of injuries and suspensions — among those sidelined for varying lengths are No. 8s Billy Vunipola and Nathan Hughes, winger Elliot Daly and prop Joe Marler — but so has most of its rivals, and England has a bigger depth of talent to draw upon. There are also young, talented players coming through, like flanker Sam Underhill and flyhalf Marcus Smith. Before what could be a final-day title showdown with Ireland at Twickenham, the biggest tests facing Jones' side might come against Scotland at Murrayfield (Round 3) and France in Paris (Round 4).\nEYES ON: Owen Farrell. One thing's for certain, Farrell won't be carrying the drinks during the Six Nations. The flyhalf was surely one of the most overqualified water boys ever as he sat out England's win over Argentina in November while Jones managed the workload of players who had been on the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand. He also sat out the win over Samoa two weeks later. Over the next two months, he'll be England's eyes, brains, and points-gatherer on the field, having gradually become the team's most important player. He was on the five-man shortlist for world player of 2017 and is among the best kickers in the game. With 613 points from 53 caps, Farrell — at age 26 — is more than halfway toward England great Jonny Wilkinson's record 1,179 points for the country.\nQUOTE: \"Without a doubt, the attrition rate is an advantage we have. We have got the most money, we have got the most players, and we have got the most depth, so we should win.\" Coach Eddie Jones.\nODDS: 10-11\n___\nFRANCE\nCOACH: Jacques Brunel\n2017 SIX NATIONS: 3rd\nBEST SIX NATIONS RESULT: Champion 2002, '04, '06, '07, '10.\nOUTLOOK: Coach Guy Noves was sacked in late December by federation president Bernard Laporte, who is himself embroiled in an alleged conflict of interest scandal that threatens his position at the top of a shaky tree. It's hardly an ideal buildup, and so France's Six Nations drought — stretching back to 2010 — does not remotely look like ending this year. Laporte hand-picked Jacques Brunel, who was the forwards coach when Laporte led France from 2001-07. During that period, France won the Six Nations four times, including the Grand Slam in 2004. But while that team was packed with flair and brazen self-belief, this one is gritty, obdurate, and lacks enough skill and composure to put top teams under pressure. Brunel improved Italy as its coach from 2012-16, securing wins against France and Ireland in 2013. But restoring France among European rugby's elite seems a much taller order. He's assisted by former test flanker Julien Bonnaire, and freshened the squad with 10 players under the age of 23. He also summoned scrumhalf Morgan Parra, who has 66 caps and was a mainstay during the 2010 Grand Slam and run to the 2011 Rugby World Cup final. Parra will miss the opener against Ireland because of knee pains. Yet his recall, while doubtless beneficial in terms of his quality, sums up the fact France never seems to know whether it's rebuilding or experimenting.\nEYES ON: Matthieu Jalibert. The 19-year-old flyhalf is poised to make his international debut against Ireland. Jalibert will be expected to also do the kicking duty, adding to the pressure on his young shoulders considering he's played just 15 games for Bordeaux-Begles in the French Top 14. Jalibert, however, is considered mature for his age. He says his role model is England and Lions No. 10 Owen Farrell. He could pit his wits against Farrell — whom he describes as a cunning \"poker player\" — when the French meet the English on March 10 in Paris.\nQUOTE: \"The first match against Ireland will launch us into either a positive or a negative spiral.\" New flyhalf Mathieu Jalibert.\nODDS: 20-1\n___\nIRELAND\nCOACH: Joe Schmidt\n2017 SIX NATIONS: 2nd\nBEST SIX NATIONS RESULT: Champion 2009, '14, '15\nOUTLOOK: Runner-up for a second straight year. Ireland should take care of a shambolic France in the opener, despite their poor history in Paris in the fixture. Then the Irish have a straight home run of Italy, Wales, and Scotland. They lost to the latter two on the road last year, but Dublin's another story. Ireland hasn't lost at home in the championship in nearly five years. Which makes the venue of the last match, Twickenham, key. The last four matches between Ireland and England have gone to the home side, and there's no reason to doubt any different this time. The good news for Joe Schmidt is he has less walking wounded than Eddie Jones, for now. Like England, Ireland swept its November tests, including the result of the month: Ireland 38, South Africa 3. The Springboks were coming off a face-saving, one-point loss to New Zealand and feeling spry, but they were smashed by the Irish. The conductors, naturally, were halves Conor Murray and Jonathan Sexton. Murray would pop up outside Sexton, and Sexton would double round his 12; both of them with the aim of changing the point of attack and/or keeping it alive. Their nous and class endures, and ensures the Six Nations title is within Ireland's grasp.\nEYES ON: Jordan Larmour. The 20-year-old fullback-wing has been the talk of the Irish season, actually starting in the offseason when he made his first senior appearance for Leinster. Even though he's still listed as a club academy player and not in the senior team, he's almost become undroppable, highlighted by an 80-meter counterattack try against Munster in December, when he stepped three defenders and zoomed home. Leinster coach Stuart Lancaster says Larmour's footwork, pace, composure on the big occasions, good attitude and hard work in practice remind him of Jack Nowell. First summoned by Schmidt in 2016, Larmour has yet to be capped, but it's only a matter of when. For this squad he was picked ahead of Simon Zebo, Darren Sweetnam and Tiernan O'Halloran, and will likely back up fullback Rob Kearney and new wing sensation Jacob Stockdale. Kearney quips: \"He's a flat out winger ... if only.\"\nQUOTE: \"Every year, I look at (the Six Nations) and go, 'Wow, we've progressed a bit, worked hard, and we are where we are and it's not a bad place to be.' Then I look at our opponents and I go, 'Wow, they look good. Wow, they look allright.' That's the nature of it.\" Coach Joe Schmidt.\nODDS: 13-8\n___\nITALY\nCOACH: Conor O'Shea\n2017 SIX NATIONS: Last\nBEST SIX NATIONS RESULT: 4th 2007, '13\nOUTLOOK: Italy has finished bottom of the table 12 out of 18 times, and there is little to suggest this year will be any different. Under Conor O'Shea, Italy has four wins in his 17 matches in charge. It has lost its last 12 Six Nations matches. However, Italy is beginning to sort out its problems with consistency and fitness, and the target is to play to the best of its ability and be a banana skin for someone. It's best chance is at home, first up against England, and closing with Scotland. Italy is young and inexperienced, with 14 of the 31 players for its opening two matches never having played in the tournament, but hooker Oliviero Fabiani believes that just makes them hungrier. \"There's a lot of competition inside the group,\" Fabiani says. \"It's really nice and motivating to fight for a place with players like Leonardo Ghiraldini, who has the most number of Italy caps in my position. It's a healthy battle ... inevitably it raises our level.\"\nEYES ON: Ian McKinley. The Ireland-born flyhalf's remarkable story could reach another milestone if he makes his Six Nations debut, seven years after retiring after losing the sight in one eye. \"He was judged for selection on who is best for the job, not because Ian has a good story. He is the best to play, but to think of where he has come from is amazing,\" O'Shea says. During a club game in 2010, a teammate accidentally stood on McKinley's left eye and perforated the eyeball. He retired the following year after losing sight in the eye. But McKinley returned to playing rugby in 2014 using specially manufactured goggles, and played for Viadana and Zebre before joining Benetton in 2016. Having qualified for Italy on residency grounds, he scored a late penalty on his international debut to help the Azzurri beat Fiji 19-10. He made further appearances from the bench against Argentina and South Africa. \"This is no good luck story,\" O'Shea says. \"It might be something to go on about at the end of his career but for now he is fighting to be Italy's No. 10.\"\nQUOTE: \"We're not in a position to talk about winning the tournament, so our objective is to perform as well as we can in every single game. Fight in every single match.\" Italy captain Sergio Parisse.\nODDS: 500-1\n___\nSCOTLAND\nCOACH: Gregor Townsend\n2017 SIX NATIONS: 4th\nBEST SIX NATIONS RESULT: 3rd 2001, '06, '13\nOUTLOOK: It started at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The Scots lost in the quarterfinals, earned the world's admiration and sympathy, and expectations ballooned. The improvement was sustained in the Six Nations of 2016 and 2017 even though they finished fourth both years. Their bubble was popped each time by the English, who know how to be ruthless. This year marks 10 since the Scots last beat their bogeymen, and the streak is not expected to end in Round 3, even at Murrayfield. For all of the hype around the Scots, they barely broke par in last year's championship: They won at home but lost away, scored their most tries since the last Five Nations in 1999, but conceded the usual dozen, too. The November tests went the same way: They just held off Samoa, came back and fell short against a New Zealand side limited to 14 men in the fourth quarter, and beat Australia, which was leading just before halftime when Sekope Kepu was sent off. Nobody does false dawns better than Scotland, but belief is high, and Wales is vulnerable enough to be plucked in Cardiff for the first time in 16 years. Expectations have been bolstered by the recalls of the fit-again Stuart Hogg, Greig Laidlaw, Mark Bennett, Duncan Taylor and David Denton. None of Scotland's dangerous backs will shine, however, if the depleted front row can't hold its own.\nEYES ON: The front row. There are doubts about how well the Scots will scrum and not give away penalties when they go to Wales without their top three tightheads, three looseheads, and three hookers. The injury crisis has forced Townsend to reach out to tighthead Jon Welsh, last seen in a Scotland jersey conceding the wrongfully given penalty which Australia kicked to win their 2015 Rugby World Cup quarterfinal. He's sure to start because his backups, Murray McCallum and D'Arcy Rae, are uncapped and untested. On the loosehead, Jamie Bhatti could make his first start after a debut in November, and Stuart McInally's backup hooker will likely be Scott Lawson, who was last capped in 2014. Expect Scottish put-ins to come out fast.\nQUOTE: \"There's definitely something special brewing here.\" Scotland back Byron McGuigan.\nODDS: 8-1\n___\nWALES\nCOACH: Warren Gatland\n2017 SIX NATIONS: 5th\nBEST SIX NATIONS RESULT: Champion 2005, '08, '12, '13\nOUTLOOK: Crippled by an injury crisis that has robbed the team of most of its stars, Wales has been written off. Six players who toured New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions — Sam Warburton, Taulupe Faletau, Rhys Webb, Dan Biggar, Jonathan Davies, Liam Williams — will be missing for the opening game at home to improving Scotland. Reserve flyhalf Rhys Priestland, flanker Dan Lydiate and lock Jake Ball are also out. Then there's the back-to-back matches at England and Ireland, which could leave the Welsh out of title contention by the end of Round 3. Warren Gatland isn't bemoaning his luck, though, instead using the situation as an opportunity. The November internationals, featuring losses to Australia and New Zealand and wins over Georgia and South Africa, marked a fresh start for the Welsh, who departed from the hard-running \"Warrenball\" approach by picking playmakers at flyhalf and inside center to deliver more expansive attacking play. It may require more time for Wales to get used to this style, especially given the injury situation. A second straight fifth-place finish would not be a surprise.\nEYES ON: Rhys Patchell. Injuries to flyhalves Biggar (shoulder) and Priestland (hamstring) have landed Wales in a hole at No. 10, a position of much fascination in a country that produced greats Barry John and Phil Bennett. The answer could be Patchell, who should be given the nod over Gareth Anscombe to start the tournament as the pivot. Patchell has been playing No. 10 for a Scarlets side that has just become the first Welsh team to reach the quarterfinals of the European Champions Cup since 2012, although he showed his versatility by switching — and starring — at fullback in group-ending wins over Bath and Toulon. The 24-year-old Patchell has made only four more test appearances since his debut against Japan in 2013, with his only home cap in December against South Africa.\nQUOTE: \"We'll win the tournament.\" Coach Warren Gatland.\nODDS: 20-1\n___\nAP Sports writers Steve Douglas in Manchester, Jerome Pugmire in Paris, Daniella Matar in Milan, and Foster Niumata in London contributed." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese police officials say an operative with Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group was killed when a bomb he was holding went off in his home in the country's south.\nThe officials say it isn't clear what the operative, identified as Bilal Hassan, was doing with the bomb and now it got onto his home.\nInitial reports were conflicting. Lebanon's private Al-Jadeed TV says Hassan was actually holding a grenade cartridge for a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher.\nThe state-run National News Agency said a \"strange object\" exploded in his house on the edge of the southern port-city of Sidon.\nThe officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.\nThey said Hezbollah members inspected Hassan's house after the blast and were later followed by policemen who opened an investigation in the case." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni tribal officials say Islamic militants have attacked a checkpoint in southern Yemen, killing 12 troops." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of parents across the country have called on President Donald Trump to embrace Obama-era protections for transgender students that call for letting them use school bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity.\nIn a letter sent to the president by the Human Rights Campaign late Tuesday, more than 780 parents stressed that \"all students deserve equal access to a safe, welcoming school and a high quality education no matter who they are.\"\nThe call follows a decision by the Trump administration last week to abandon a defense of the guidelines issued by the Obama administration. A court issued an injunction against those guidelines last summer in response to a lawsuit filed by 13 states. President Barack Obama appealed the injunction, but the Trump administration decided to back off from the appeal.\nParents of transgender students say that revoking the right of students to use school bathrooms according to their gender identity amounts to discrimination and it creates a hostile learning environment for transgender students. \"These policies are wrong, they hurt our children, and they violate the principle of equal education,\" the letter said.\nConservative activists firmly oppose the idea, saying it endangers the privacy and safety of other students.\nNewly confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has not voiced a position on the bathrooms controversy other than to say that she is against discrimination and will support all students.\nDuring the election campaign Trump said that transgender students can use the bathroom they like." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "DALLAS (AP) — Two Dallas police officers have been critically wounded in a shooting outside a hardware store.\nThe shooting happened about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday outside a Home Depot in northern Dallas.\nThe Dallas Police Department tweeted about the shooting, giving the conditions of the officers. But it did not immediately provide other details.\nThe department tweeted that a civilian was also shot. That person's condition wasn't immediately known.\nAerial video showed police using a helicopter and trained dogs to search for a suspect in a wooded area next to the store parking lot." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Tuesday as some indexes recouped earlier losses set off by an overnight decline on Wall Street. Investors are awaiting the first Federal Reserve meeting under the new chairman, Jerome Powell, and anticipating the first rate increase of the year.\nKEEPING SCORE: Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.5 percent to finish at 21,380.97. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.4 percent to 5,936.40, while South Korea's Kospi inched up 0.2 percent to 2,479.81. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was virtually unchanged at 31,524.83, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.3 percent higher to 3,289.80.\nFACEBOOK DROP: The technology rout on Wall Street on Monday was set off by Facebook's worst loss in four years. The social media giant's plunge followed reports that Cambridge Analytica, a data mining firm working for President Donald Trump's campaign, improperly obtained data on 50 million Facebook users without their permission. Legislators in the U.S. and Europe criticized Facebook, and investors are wondering if companies like Facebook and Alphabet will face tighter regulation.\nWALL STREET: The S&P 500 index sank 1.4 percent to 2,712.92. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1.3 percent to 24,610.91. The Nasdaq composite gave up 1.8 percent to 7,344.24 and the Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks declined 1 percent to 1,570.56.\nFEDERAL RESERVE: The U.S. Federal Reserve's first meeting under Jerome Powell's leadership ends later this week, likely with an announcement that the Fed will resume modest interest rate hikes. A healthy U.S. job market and a relatively steady economy have given the Fed the confidence to think the economy can withstand further increases. And the financial markets have been edgy for weeks.\nENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude rose 55 cents to $62.68 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It lost 28 cents on Monday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, also gained 55 cents to $62.60 per barrel in London.\nCURRENCIES: The dollar recovered to 106.27 yen from 105.92 late Monday. The euro rose to $1.2341 from $1.2267.\n___\nAP Markets Writer Marley Jay, who contributed to this report, can be reached at http://twitter.com/MarleyJayAP\nHis work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/marley%20jay\nFollow Yuri Kageyama on Twitter at https://twitter.com/yurikageyama\nHer work can be found at https://www.apnews.com/search/yuri%20kageyama" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says an interstate partnership is being established to help strengthen defenses against invasive Asian carp in a Chicago-area waterway.\nThe initiative would help pay costs of upgrading the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois, a key choke point between the carp-infested Illinois River and Lake Michigan.\nA plan drafted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would spend $275 million on measures to block the carps' path, including an electric fish barrier, noisemakers and vessel cleansing devices.\nSnyder says the interstate partnership would temporarily cover most of the costs of operating and maintaining the system — about $8 million a year.\nHe says Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario are taking part, while other Great Lakes states are invited to join." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of a 75-year-old retiree more than three decades ago in Southern California.\nPolice in Escondido say technology led to new analysis of fingerprints from the apartment where Richard Finney was stabbed 31 times in 1986.\nThe San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday that Nathan Eugene Mathis faces a charge of murder and an allegation that he used a knife in the attack. The 62-year-old retired security guard pleaded not guilty last week.\nInvestigators haven't named a possible motive or said whether the defendant and the victim knew each other.\nGina Turi Curry, Finney's granddaughter, tells the newspaper she burst into tears when police informed her of the arrest.\n___\nInformation from: The San Diego Union-Tribune, http://www.utsandiego.com" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—As the calendar moves into late autumn, the leaves of deciduous cypresses at Lishan Farmers Square (麗山農民廣場) in Taipei’s Nangang (南港）District are changing colors. As the foliage has not yet totally turned red, members of the public are advised to plan ahead to visit the place in two or three weeks to catch its peak color.\nAccording to the Development Association of Jiuru Community, where the deciduous cypresses are located, the trees will achieve peak color in two or three weeks.\nThe deciduous cypresses surrounding Lishan Farmers Square in Jiuru Community are beautiful in form and the leaves are delicate and soft like feathers. When the Northeast Monsoon arrives, the leaves turn from green to yellow, yellow to orange, and orange to red. The changes in the colors are dazzling, according to Taipei’s Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO).\nChen Jian-fan (陳建帆), the chief of the GEO Slope Conservation Section, recommended visitors to Lishan Farmers Square also visit the nearby Sifen River, where fish has been protected for many years. He said it is a pleasure to take a slow walk on a riverbank trail along the river, stroll on the heart-shaped river-crossing stepping stones in the river, and listen to the running water while enjoying the deciduous cypresses. In addition, the local community also holds the Bamboo Shoot Festival at Lishan Farmers Square every summer.\nIf you wish to visit Jiuru Community, you may go by car or take the MRT Blue Line to Kunyang Station (昆陽站) or Brown Line to Taipei Zoo Station (動物園站); then take Bus S12, alight at Lishan Bridge （麗山橋） Stop and walk along Section 4 of Yanjiuyuan Road （研究院路） until reaching Lishan Farmers Square (Lishan Park).\nTo inquire about the foliage of deciduous cypresses at Lishan Farmers Square, please call Jiuru Community Development Association at (02) 2651-6600.\nA map of Sifen River (photo courtesy of GEO)\nHeart-shaped stepping stones in Sifen River (photo courtesy of GEO)\nLishan Farmers Square (photo courtesy of GEO)\n(photo courtesy of GEO)\nWinter-limited deciduous cypress leaves are turning from green to yellow, yellow to orange, and orange to red (photo courtesy of GEO)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WARWICK, R.I. (AP) — The scheduled auction of the Rhode Island home of five-time world boxing champion Vinny Paz has been canceled.\nThe auction of the Warwick home was scheduled for Wednesday but the website of Sullivan & Sullivan Auctioneers says it has been canceled. No reason was given. The auction was announced earlier this month following a foreclosure.\nThe 55-year-old Paz's three-bedroom house has been subject to liens from both the Internal Revenue Service and the Rhode Island Department of Taxation.\nPaz was arrested twice earlier this year. He was charged with assaulting a friend in February. He pleaded no contest in March to assaulting his girlfriend.\nPaz is known for his comeback after he broke his neck in a car crash. His story was dramatized in the 2016 film \"Bleed for This.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 29 21 6 2 44 110 74 13-2-1 8-4-1 5-2-0 Toronto 31 20 10 1 41 106 88 10-5-0 10-5-1 5-1-1 Columbus 30 19 10 1 39 86 73 11-5-0 8-5-1 6-4-0 N.Y. Islanders 30 17 10 3 37 108 100 9-1-2 8-9-1 5-3-1 Washington 31 18 12 1 37 95 91 12-5-0 6-7-1 5-3-0 New Jersey 29 16 9 4 36 89 91 6-5-2 10-4-2 2-3-0 Pittsburgh 32 16 13 3 35 94 104 10-5-1 6-8-2 4-2-0 N.Y. Rangers 29 16 11 2 34 98 87 12-5-2 4-6-0 5-4-2 Boston 27 14 9 4 32 78 75 9-4-2 5-5-2 1-1-2 Montreal 31 13 14 4 30 85 99 8-7-3 5-7-1 8-1-1 Carolina 28 11 10 7 29 78 88 6-4-3 5-6-4 2-3-2 Philadelphia 29 11 11 7 29 83 86 4-6-4 7-5-3 1-0-3 Detroit 29 11 13 5 27 80 97 5-6-4 6-7-1 3-7-0 Florida 29 11 14 4 26 88 104 6-6-3 5-8-1 3-3-1 Ottawa 28 9 12 7 25 77 98 4-5-5 5-7-2 2-2-1 Buffalo 30 7 17 6 20 64 102 3-9-1 4-8-5 2-4-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div St. Louis 31 21 8 2 44 104 78 11-5-0 10-3-2 5-1-1 Los Angeles 31 20 8 3 43 97 68 10-5-2 10-3-1 3-3-2 Nashville 29 18 7 4 40 95 84 11-2-2 7-5-2 8-1-1 Vegas 29 19 9 1 39 103 91 11-2-0 8-7-1 9-1-0 Winnipeg 30 17 8 5 39 102 86 10-2-1 7-6-4 5-1-1 San Jose 29 16 10 3 35 79 69 9-6-2 7-4-1 4-1-2 Calgary 30 16 12 2 34 88 94 8-8-0 8-4-2 5-3-0 Minnesota 29 15 11 3 33 87 87 8-3-2 7-8-1 4-5-0 Dallas 30 16 13 1 33 89 89 10-4-0 6-9-1 4-8-0 Chicago 30 14 11 5 33 90 82 8-5-2 6-6-3 2-5-2 Vancouver 30 14 12 4 32 81 85 5-6-3 9-6-1 3-5-0 Anaheim 30 12 11 7 31 80 89 7-7-3 5-4-4 3-2-4 Colorado 29 14 13 2 30 92 95 8-5-1 6-8-1 4-5-1 Edmonton 30 12 16 2 26 86 99 5-9-0 7-7-2 4-1-0 Arizona 33 7 21 5 19 75 114 3-8-1 4-13-4 1-5-3\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nSunday's Games\nChicago 3, Arizona 1\nSt. Louis 3, Buffalo 2, OT\nToronto 1, Edmonton 0\nMinnesota 4, San Jose 3, OT\nMonday's Games\nColorado 2, Pittsburgh 1\nN.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1\nDallas at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.\nVancouver at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nCarolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m.\nTuesday's Games\nEdmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nOttawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Washington, 7 p.m.\nLos Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nCalgary at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.\nCarolina at Vegas, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nDallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nBoston at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nNashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nBuffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nWashington at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nNew Jersey at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.\nChicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nAnaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nToronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Colorado, 9 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nNashville at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nSan Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nPittsburgh at Vegas, 10 p.m." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ISLAMABAD (AP) — A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattled Pakistan and Afghanistan, including the capital cities of both countries, on Wednesday, killing a young girl and injuring five others, officials said.\nThe U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake's center was in northeast Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Jarm in the Hindu Kush region, with a depth of 191.2 kilometers (119 miles).\nTV footage showed Pakistanis fleeing offices schools in panic in Islamabad and elsewhere in the country.\nAt least one girl was killed and five others injured when roofs collapsed on mud-brick homes in the village of Lasbela in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, said local government official Izat Nazir Baluch. He said authorities were still trying to assess damages in Baluchistan.\nThe quake was felt in the Afghan capital Kabul and the Pakistan capital Islamabad. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries in Afghanistan.\nThe earthquake also was felt in the Indian capital New Delhi and the Indian Kashmir region. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage to buildings there.\nA magnitude-7.6 quake in 2005 killed thousands of people in Pakistan and Kashmir.\n___\nAssociated Press writer Rahim Faiez in Kabul, Afghanistan contributed." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "\"Ask Brianna\" is a column from NerdWallet for 20-somethings or anyone else starting out. I'm here to help you manage your money, find a job and pay off student loans — all the real-world stuff no one taught us how to do in college. Send your questions about postgrad life to askbrianna@nerdwallet.com.\nAsk 10 people for their definition of \"adulthood\" and you'll get 10 different answers. Maybe it's getting that first full-time job, buying a house or doing taxes without help — concrete moments that signal maturity and independence.\nBut financial adulthood, or managing money responsibly, isn't tied to an age or a milestone like starting your first \"real job.\" I knew I was a financial adult when I paid for a plane ticket with money I had saved in a \"Fun Stuff\" account. I've never been more excited to Venmo someone (my sister, who booked our tickets) directly from my bank rather than rely on my credit card.\nYou're a financial adult when you save regularly, spend mindfully, face reality and know when to ask for help. If you're graduating from college this spring, build these habits now.\nSAVE PROACTIVELY\nSaving even a little bit every month is the single most adult financial move you can make.\nMoney is a way to get what you want: security and freedom. When you save a portion of the income left over after covering your fixed expenses, you're preparing proactively for the future.\nIf the idea of sending this money to an \"emergency fund\" makes you completely tune out, just think of it as cash that's there when you need it. You'll be covered if you lose a job, but you'll also have options if you decide to make a lifestyle change, like moving to a new place.\nSPEND THOUGHTFULLY\nGetting a full-time job with a $50,000 salary after being a college student who ate pizza four times a week can be a shock. But hit the pause button before you make a big purchase, says Therese Nicklas, a certified financial planner in Rockland, Massachusetts. Make sure it will truly bring you joy, and that spending isn't a way to get your mind off something else or compete with friends.\nTake a look at your take-home salary and follow the 50/30/20 rule. That's half your pay for necessities like shelter, 20 percent for saving and debt payoff, and 30 percent for your wants. The adult part? Giving up your wants if your necessities or debts demand it.\n\"You can have all the things you want, just not all at the same time,\" says Kailie Abascal, a certified financial planner in Vancouver, Washington.\nNEVER FLINCH FROM REALITY\nFinancial adults don't cower at the sight of their bank account balance, even if it's smaller than they'd like. Frankly assessing your personal financial picture will make it easier to manage.\nIf you have student loans, figure out what you'll have to pay toward them after graduation. Use a student loan calculator to see your monthly payment, and budget around that. Create an online account with your student loan servicer and look up your interest rates. Know that if you put your payments on hold — to go to grad school, or if you're unemployed — interest will accrue and your balance will grow, unless you have subsidized federal loans.\nIf you save for retirement in an employer-sponsored account, find out the vesting schedule, or the amount of time you must work there before any money your employer contributes becomes yours, Abascal says. You'll have a clearer understanding of how much you've really saved if you end up leaving after a year or two.\nKNOW WHEN TO ASK FOR HELP\nNo one expects you to figure everything out right now. Your income, expenses and goals will change many times in your life.\nBut you should feel empowered to get advice, from the right sources, when you need it. Even your parents may not be the best resource if, for instance, you earn more than they do and they haven't had experience handling the salary you're getting, Nicklas says.\nHave the courage to talk to human resources at work if you don't understand your 401(k) investment options. Consider asking a certified financial planner for a free 30-minute consultation so you can set personalized saving and spending goals. There are few things more adult than admitting what you don't know without judging yourself for it.\n___________________________\nThis column was provided to The Associated Press by the personal finance website NerdWallet. Brianna McGurran is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: bmcgurran@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @briannamcscribe.\nRELATED LINKS\nNerdwallet: Student loan calculator\nhttps://nerd.me/calculate-student-loans" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Protesters have hurled trash on a vehicle used by former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa as he campaigns against a referendum that could prevent him from seeking re-election.\nCorrea's silver SUV was left covered in plastic plates, cups and mud in Wednesday's incident in the city of Quininde. The ex-head of state was trapped for almost three hours inside the building of a radio station where he was giving an interview as police controlled the protesters.\nOn Twitter Correa decried the incident as, \"A shame for the country!\"\nCorrea has been campaigning throughout Ecuador against a referendum being pushed by President Lenin Moreno, his one-time ally and now enemy.\nThe referendum includes one question that would make it impossible for Correa, who was president for a decade, to run again." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "FORT WASHINGTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--EY has announced that Dawn Zier, CEO of Nutrisystem, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTRI ), a leading provider of weight management products and services including Nutrisystem® and South Beach Diet® brands, is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award in the Greater Philadelphia Region. The awards program recognizes entrepreneurs who are excelling in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. Zier was selected as a finalist by a panel of independent judges. Award winners will be announced at a special gala event on Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Perelman Theater Plaza.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005123/en/\nEY has announced that Dawn Zier, CEO of Nutrisystem, Inc., is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award in the Greater Philadelphia Region. (Photo: Business Wire)\n“It’s an honor to be recognized for breaking the mold and building a market-leading business across multiple brands,” Zier said. “Working with an incredibly dedicated team, we’re not just transforming the industry, we’re transforming lives. We’re inspired to be bold because we’re all about helping people make bold changes that affect their health and well-being. There’s never been a more exciting time to be innovating in the weight loss and wellness space.\"\nNow in its 32nd year, the program has expanded to recognize business leaders in more than 145 cities and more than 60 countries throughout the world.\nRegional award winners are eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National competition. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced at the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards gala in Palm Springs, California, on November 10, 2018. The awards are the culminating event of the Strategic Growth Forum ®, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.\nSponsors\nFounded and produced by EY, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the US by SAP America, Merrill Corporation and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In Greater Philadelphia, sponsors also include PNC Bank, Pine Hill Group, Murray Devine & Company, SolomonEdwardsGroup, Ballard Spahr LLP, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Pepper Hamilton LLP and Simkiss & Block.\nAbout Nutrisystem, Inc.\nNutrisystem, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRI ) is a leader in the weight-loss industry, having helped millions of people lose weight over the course of more than 45 years. The Company’s multi-brand approach to weight loss includes multiple plans for 2018. For more information, go to NutrisystemNews.com and Newsroom.SouthBeachDiet.com.\nAbout Entrepreneur Of The Year ®\nEntrepreneur Of The Year ®, founded by EY, is the world’s most prestigious business awards program for entrepreneurs, chosen from an independent panel of judges including entrepreneurs and prominent leaders from business, finance, and the local community. The program makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global awards program of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 145 cities and more than 60 countries. ey.com/eoy\nAbout EY’s Growth Markets Network\nEY’s worldwide Growth Markets Network is dedicated to serving the changing needs of high-growth companies. For more than 30 years, we’ve helped many of the world’s most dynamic and ambitious companies grow into market leaders. Whether working with international mid-cap companies or early stage, venture-backed businesses, our professionals draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help your business succeed. For more information, please visit us at ey.com/sgm or follow news on Twitter @EY_Growth.\nAbout EY\nEY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.\nEY refers to the global organization, and may refer to one or more, of the member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. For more information about our organization, please visit ey.com.\nThis news release has been issued by Ernst & Young LLP, a member of the global EY organization that provides services to clients in the US.\nFor more information, please visit ey.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005123/en/\nCONTACT: Nutrisystem, Inc.\nRobin McConnell Shallow, 215-346-8068\nSenior Vice President, Corporate Communications & Public Relations\nrshallow@nutrisystem.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA PENNSYLVANIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: HEALTH FITNESS & NUTRITION RETAIL FOOD/BEVERAGE GENERAL HEALTH\nSOURCE: Nutrisystem, Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 09:01 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 09:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005123/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SEATTLE (AP) — The largest U.S. producer of farmed Atlantic salmon was fined $332,000 on Tuesday for alleged violations of Washington state water quality laws after hundreds of thousands of invasive Atlantic salmon were released last year into waters famed for their native salmon, state officials said.\nCooke Aquaculture Pacific failed to adequately clean nets holding farmed salmon, leading to a net pen failure last summer that allowed the fish to swim away into Puget Sound, officials said in a report compiled by the state's departments of fish and wildlife, ecology and natural resources.\nThe nets failed because they were excessively laden with mussels and other marine organisms, the report said. That increased the drag on the nets from tidal currents and overwhelming their mooring system, the report said.\nMore than 110 tons of mussels, clams and other material had accumulated on the nets, state Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz told reporters. \"Cooke's disregard caused this disaster and recklessly put our state's aquatic ecosystem at risk,\" she said.\n\"Cooke knew they had a problem and they didn't appropriately respond to deal with the problem,\" said state Ecology Director Maria Bellon. The company \"could have and should have prevented this incident,\" she added.\nState officials also accused the company of underreporting how many fish escaped into Puget Sound on Aug. 19 and over reporting how many fish were captured.\nAhead of the report's release, Cooke on Tuesday dismissed the state's investigation as incomplete and inaccurate. The company said Cooke employees under state supervision counted each fish as it was recovered.\nCompany vice president Joel Richardson said in a statement that Cooke was shut out of the investigative process, leading to \"an inaccurate and misleading document,\" referring to the report by state officials.\nHe said Cooke acknowledges that the facility fell behind in cleaning the nets before moorings failed in July of 2017. But he said the company provided records showing it had washed the nets at the site after that July incident and before the Aug. 19 event.\nThe company also complained that the state agencies gave it only several days to provide feedback on the lengthy report.\nGov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, said he would keep in place the state's moratorium on net pen permits.\n\"We're going to do an intensive review of all of the downsides of these operations to the Puget Sound system,\" he said. \"We really need to look at the scale of this damage and really understand where these fish went and what they did.\"\nBefore the Aug. 19 collapse, Cooke was applying to build a new marine salmon farm in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Clallam County.\nThe release of Atlantic salmon raised concerns about the potential impact of those fish on native salmon runs. The Lummi Nation, a tribe in northwest Washington state, declared a state of emergency last summer over concerns that native salmon were threatened.\nThe pen off Cypress Island held about 305,000 Atlantic salmon that were close to being harvested. Between 243,000 and 263,000 fish actually escaped. Cooke's previous estimates put that number at 160,000, according to the state's report.\nThe report said 57,000 of the escaped fish have been caught.\nCooke owns and operates commercial salmon farms throughout Washington state which it bought from Icicle Acquisition Subsidiary in 2016.\nCooke said the report would create unfair bias against Cooke as state lawmakers weigh several bills that attempt to ban or limit finfish aquaculture.\nA bill sponsored by Sen. Kevin Ranker, a Democrat, cleared a key fiscal committee Monday. Senate Bill 6086 prohibits the state natural resources department from entering into new leases or renewing existing leases for marine finfish farming of Atlantic or other non-native finfish.\nAll Cooke commercial net pens in Washington have leases to be on state-owned land that is under water and along shores.\nIn December, Franz terminated the state's lease with Cooke at another farmed salmon operation in Port Angeles, saying the company violated the terms of the lease. Cooke has challenged that decision in Clallam County Superior Court.\nOn Tuesday, Franz said she'll announce in coming days the future of the Cooke's lease at the Cypress Island facility where the net failure occurred. It has been operating for more than 30 years." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions (all times local):\n6:55 p.m.\nRepublican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he doesn't expect Attorney General Jeff Sessions will depart \"anytime soon,\" but the dynamic may be different once special counsel Robert Mueller completes the Russia probe.\nGraham says Republicans want to avoid unnecessary drama ahead of the midterm elections. He says most senators believe it would be very difficult for President Donald Trump to name a replacement for Sessions and for the Senate to confirm a new nominee.\nHe says if Sessions leaves or is ousted, it would likely be seen as political interference with Mueller's investigation.\nThe South Carolina Republican tells The Associated Press that at some point Sessions will \"have to make a decision.\"\nGraham says if \"you don't have the confidence\" of the president, \"that will affect your ability to be effective.\"\n__\n6:10 p.m.\nPresident Donald Trump's lawyer has repeatedly counseled him not to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions despite the president's ongoing anger at the attorney general's decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe.\nRudy Giuliani told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Trump has asked him multiple times, before and after the former New York City mayor joined the president's legal team last month, about whether Sessions should have been fired.\n\"I don't think the president should do it and I've told him so,\" said Giuliani." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah produced two world-class finishes and set up goals for Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino to lead Liverpool to a 5-2 win over former club Roma on Tuesday, leaving the English team in sight of the Champions League final.\nSalah's display was as exquisite as Roma's defending was naive, with Liverpool scoring all of its goals in a breathtaking 33-minute spell either side of halftime amid a cauldron of noise at Anfield.\nThe Italian side came back from a 4-1 first-leg loss to Barcelona in the quarterfinals, and consolation goals in the final nine minutes from Edin Dzeko and Diego Perotti has given them a similar deficit to overcome.\nIn the latest virtuoso performance of his stunning first season at Liverpool, Salah curled a shot into the top corner in the 36th minute and doubled the lead in the 45th with a dinked finish that is fast becoming his trademark. He is now on 43 goals for the season in all competitions with potentially five games left.\nThe Egypt forward wasn't finished there, taking advantage of Roma's high defensive line to provide crosses for Mane and Firmino to score almost identical goals in the 56th and 61st minutes, respectively.\nFirmino glanced home a header from James Millner's corner in the 69th to leave Roma's players on the floor — literally in the case of its distressed goalkeeper, Alisson.\nLiverpool moved onto 38 goals for this season's competition — 11 more than any other team — but cannot begin preparing for the final in Kiev on May 26 quite yet.\nDzeko chested down a long pass to make it 5-1 in the 81st and when Milner handled a shot from Radja Nainggolan, Perotti converted the penalty in the 89th.\nBayern Munich plays Real Madrid in the other semifinal, with the first leg in Germany on Wednesday.\nRoma knows all about Salah, who scored 15 goals and set up 11 more in the second of his two seasons at the Italian club before joining Liverpool for 42 million euros (then $47 million) in June.\nHe's obliterating those figures at Anfield this season. His double saw him surge past Cristiano Ronaldo's 42 goals for Manchester United in the 2007-08 season, for example.\nSalah won English soccer's Player of the Year award on Sunday. At this rate, the Ballon D'Or could be his next year.\n___\nSteve Douglas is at www.twitter.com/sdouglas80" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERLIN (AP) — Police say two truck trailers loaded with 44 tons (48.5 U.S. tons) of chocolate were stolen in southern Germany and there's no sign of the sticky-fingered perpetrators.\nPolice said Monday the trailers packed with 400,000 euros ($496,100) worth of chocolate were stolen from an industrial park in Freiburg on Friday night.\nOne was found Saturday hauled by a Polish truck that had stopped at a rest area near the German-French border. The driver fled on foot and the trailer was still full of the stolen chocolate.\nThe second trailer was found in Lahr, also near the border with France. Two thirds of the chocolate — and the thief — were gone.\nPolice say they've launched a search for the thieves and are appealing for any witnesses to come forward." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERLIN (AP) — Police say a burning bird falling from an overhead electric line set fire to a field in northern Germany that was parched by dry weather, torching some 7 hectares (17 acres) of land.\nPolice in the Baltic Sea port city of Rostock said witnesses reported that the bird caused a short-circuit in a railway power line and fell to the ground in flames. The neighboring field then caught fire, and more than 50 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze on Tuesday evening.\nFarmers in northeastern Germany have been complaining of the effects of a persistent lack of rain over the past two months." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Columbia Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: CXP) announced that it has successfully executed its plan to create value at 650 California Street by revitalizing and re-leasing the property, with 315,736 square feet leased at the building since acquisition.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006405/en/\nColumbia Property Trust has successfully executed its plan to create value at 650 California Street in San Francisco by revitalizing and re-leasing the property, with 315,736 square feet leased at the building since acquisition at triple-digit rent roll-ups. Photo by @vantagepointart\nWhen Columbia purchased the iconic 478,000-square-foot office building in San Francisco’s Financial District in September 2014, 650 California Street was 88 percent leased, with over a third of the leases scheduled to expire within two years. Since that time, the company has leased or renewed two-thirds of the space at the building and curated a diverse roster of high-quality, small to mid-sized tenants. The building now stands at 96 percent leased overall, with an average remaining lease term of 6.6 years.\nRecent leases include an 86,225-square-foot lease with financial technology company Affirm, signed in April 2017 and scheduled to commence this quarter, and a new 60,576-square-foot lease with co-working giant WeWork that was signed in February of 2017 and commenced in July. Together, these two leases rolled cash rents up by 172 percent on the leased space. Recently, several smaller leases have brought 650 California to 96 percent leased, and other ongoing lease negotiations have the potential to drive the building’s occupancy to 100 percent within the next few months.\nThe 33-story tower has been a landmark of the San Francisco skyline since its construction in 1964 and recently earned the #2 spot on Architectural Digest ’s list of the world’s most “Breathtaking Office Views.” Since acquisition, Columbia has completed a series of renovations to modernize the tower and drive tenant demand, including adding collaborative spaces and a new café to the main lobby, new state-of-the-art fitness and conference centers, and a luxury concierge service, exclusively for tenants.\n“Shortly after acquisition, we began taking steps to reposition 650 California Street by upgrading the building’s lobby and amenities to complement its world-class views and off-set center core, which appeal to traditional and creative tenants alike,” said David Dowdney, senior vice president and head of leasing at Columbia.\nColumbia’s success with 650 California Street is emblematic of the company’s San Francisco portfolio and repeats the pattern it established three years ago with its earlier acquisition in the city, 221 Main Street. At that building, Columbia leased 187,000 square feet between April 2014 and March 2015 that took it from 83 percent to 94 percent leased.\nNelson Mills, Columbia’s president and CEO, commented, “Our team has created substantial value in our Bay Area portfolio by working diligently and creatively to capitalize on the central locations and unique attributes of each property, with first-class amenities tailored to meet the needs of our tenants. As a result, we have almost zero vacancy across our two million square feet of office space in the area, leased at strong rates, and we are confident in our ability to build on this record of success as we seek to expand our footprint in the market.”\nColumbia engaged Cushman and Wakefield’s San Francisco leasing team, which includes J.D. Lumpkin, Zach Siegel and Sam Wasserstein, to assist with the leasing efforts at 650 California.\nAbout Columbia Property Trust Columbia Property Trust (NYSE: CXP) owns and operates Class-A office buildings concentrated in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Its portfolio includes 20 properties with over nine million square feet. Columbia carries an investment-grade rating from both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. For more information, please visit www.columbia.reit.\nForward-Looking Statements: Certain statements contained in this press release other than historical facts may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We intend for all such forward-looking statements to be covered by the applicable safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in those acts. Such statements include, in particular, statements about our plans, strategies, anticipated dividends, and prospects and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including known and unknown risks, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Therefore, such statements are not intended to be a guarantee of our performance in future periods. Such forward-looking statements can generally be identified by our use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “believe,” “continue,” or other similar words. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. We make no representations or warranties (express or implied) about the accuracy of any such forward-looking statements contained in this press release, and we do not intend to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.\nAny such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors and are based on a number of assumptions involving judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic, competitive, and market conditions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately. To the extent that our assumptions differ from actual conditions, our ability to accurately anticipate results expressed in such forward-looking statements, including our ability to generate positive cash flow from operations, make distributions to stockholders, and maintain the value of our real estate properties, may be significantly hindered. See Item 1A in the Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017, for a discussion of some of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those presented in our forward-looking statements. The risk factors described in our Annual Report are not the only ones we face, but do represent those risks and uncertainties that we believe are material to us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also harm our business.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006405/en/\nCONTACT: Columbia Property Trust, Inc.\nMedia Contact:\nBud Perrone, 212-843-8068\nbperrone@rubenstein.com\nor\nInvestor Relations:\nMatt Stover, 404-465-2227\nIR@columbia.reit\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: BUILDING SYSTEMS REIT CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY COMMERCIAL BUILDING & REAL ESTATE\nSOURCE: Columbia Property Trust, Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 04:15 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 04:15 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006405/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Colby Lewis has said goodbye to the Texas Rangers, the organization that drafted him and made both its World Series appearances with the veteran right-hander in the rotation.\nLewis released a statement Tuesday thanking the team and its fans when Rangers pitchers and catchers were reporting to spring training in Arizona. He wrote that goodbyes \"are inevitable and this is mine.\"\nThe 37-year-old Lewis is still a free agent, but turned down offers from the Rangers for a minor league contract. He never mentioned retirement in his statement.\nLewis was picked 38th overall by the Rangers in the 1999 amateur draft and made his big league debut with them in 2002. He had right shoulder surgery in early 2004 before sitting out all of 2005. He then pitched for Detroit and Oakland and spent two years in Japan before returning to Texas in 2010.\nOver 11 major league seasons, including nine with the Rangers, he is 77-72 with a 4.70 ERA. Lewis was 4-1 with a 3.11 ERA in 10 postseason games for Texas.\nLewis said he was \"forever grateful\" to the Rangers.\n\"They helped make my baseball dreams come true. I pitched in two World Series with the uniform I love on my back,\" said Lewis, the winning pitcher against the New York Yankees in Game 6 of the 2010 ALCS that clinched the team's first World Series berth .\nLewis set career highs with 17 wins and 204 2/3 innings pitched in 2015, less than two years after a resurfacing procedure that was just short of a full hip replacement and unprecedented for a major league pitcher.\nHe was 6-5 with a 3.71 ERA in 19 games last year, when he missed two months in the middle of the season because of a strained right lat. He took a no-hit bid into the ninth inning of a game last June 16 at Oakland before giving up a leadoff double, and had been perfect until a two-out walk in the eighth." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Four explosions have rocked Texas' capital in less than three weeks and authorities say a serial bomber is likely to blame. But they don't appear closer to making any arrests.\nThree package bombs left on doorsteps over 10 days starting on March 2 killed two people and injured two others. Then, on Sunday night, an explosive triggered by a nearly invisible tripwire wire injured two more.\nPolice originally pointed to possible hate crimes, but the victims have now been black, Hispanic and white and from different parts of the increasingly diverse city.\nThey looked for common threads among those hurt and killed, but now concede that a tripwire means who gets hit could be totally random.\nInvestigators have been left with more questions than answers, as fear spreads through Austin." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) — A northern Michigan woman has been sentenced up to 22½ years in prison for suffocating her infant daughter, her second criminal case in the death of a child.\nThe Petoskey News-Review reports 32-year-old Lisa Rae Bryan learned her punishment on Tuesday in Emmet County Circuit Court.\nBryan last month pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. She was charged with second-degree murder in the 2016 death of her daughter, Isabella.\nBryan admitted that she was sleeping with Isabella close to her chest when the child died just weeks after birth.\nIn 2010, another infant died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, while Bryan was taking a bath with her. She served slightly more than a year in prison for second-degree manslaughter.\n___\nInformation from: Petoskey News-Review, http://www.petoskeynews.com" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BEIJING (AP) — Volkswagen and Nissan have unveiled electric cars designed for China at a Beijing auto show that highlights the growing importance of Chinese buyers for a technology seen as a key part of the global industry's future.\nGeneral Motors displayed five all-electric models Wednesday including a concept Buick SUV it says can go 600 kilometers (375 miles) on one charge. Ford and other brands showed off some of the dozens of electric SUVs, sedans and other models they say are planned for China.\nAuto China 2018, the industry's biggest sales event this year, is overshadowed by mounting trade tensions between Beijing and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has threatened to hike tariffs on Chinese goods including automobiles in a dispute over technology policy.\nThe impact on automakers should be small, according to industry analysts, because exports amount to only a few thousand vehicles a year. Those include a GM SUV, the Envision, and Volvo Cars sedans made in China for export to the United States.\nChina accounted for half of last year's global electric car sales, boosted by subsidies and other prodding from communist leaders who want to make their country a center for the emerging technology.\n\"The Chinese market is key for the international auto industry and it is key to our success,\" VW CEO Herbert Diess said on Tuesday.\nVolkswagen unveiled the E20X, an SUV that is the first model for SOL, an electric brand launched by the German automaker with a Chinese partner. The E20X, promising a 300-kilometer (185-mile) range on one charge, is aimed at the Chinese market's bargain-priced tiers, where demand is strongest.\nGM, Ford, Daimler AG's Mercedes unit and other automakers also have announced ventures with local partners to develop models for China that deliver more range at lower prices.\nOn Wednesday, Nissan Motor Co. presented its Sylphy Zero Emission, which it said can go 338 kilometers (210 miles) on a charge. The Sylphy is based on Nissan's Leaf, a version of which is available in China but has sold poorly due to its relatively high price.\nAutomakers say they expect electrics to account for 35 to over 50 percent of their China sales by 2025.\nFirst-quarter sales of electrics and gasoline-electric hybrids rose 154 percent over a year earlier to 143,000 units, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. That compares with sales of just under 200,000 for all of last year in the United States, the No. 2 market.\nThat trend has been propelled by the ruling Communist Party's support for the technology. The party is shifting the financial burden to automakers with sales quotas that take effect next year and require them to earn credits by selling electrics or buy them from competitors.\nThat increases pressure to transform electrics into a mainstream product that competes on price and features.\nAutomakers also displayed dozens of gasoline-powered models from compact sedans to luxurious SUVs. Their popularity is paying for development of electrics, which aren't expected to become profitable for most producers until sometime in the next decade.\nChina's total sales of SUVs, sedans and minivans reached 24.7 million units last year, compared with 17.2 million for the United States.\nSUVs are the industry's cash cow. First-quarter sales rose 11.3 percent over a year earlier to 2.6 million, or almost 45 percent of total auto sales, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.\nOn Wednesday, Ford displayed its Mondeo Energi plug-in hybrid, its first electric model for China, which went on sale in March. Plans call for Ford and its luxury unit, Lincoln, to release 15 new electrified vehicles by 2025.\nGM plans to launch 10 electrics or hybrids in China from through 2020.\nVW is due to launch 15 electrics and hybrids in the next two to three years as part of a 10 billion euro ($12 billion) development plan announced in November.\nNissan says it will roll out 20 electrified models in China over the next five years.\nNew but fast-growing Chinese auto trail global rivals in traditional gasoline technology but industry analysts say the top Chinese brands are catching up in electrics, a market with no entrenched leaders.\nBYD Auto, the biggest global electric brand by number sold, debuted two hybrid SUVs and an electric concept car.\nThe company, which manufactures electric buses at a California factory and exports battery-powered taxis to Europe, also displayed nine other hybrid and plug-in electric models.\nChery Automobile Co. showed a lineup that included two electric sedans, an SUV and a hatchback, all promising 250 to 400 kilometers (150 to 250 miles) on a charge. They include futuristic features such as internet-linked navigation and smartphone-style dashboard displays.\n\"Our focus is not just an EV that runs. It is excellent performance,\" Chery CEO Chen Anning said in an interview ahead of the show.\nElectrics are likely to play a leading role as Chery develops plans announced last year to expand to Western Europe, said Chen. He said the company has yet to decide on a timeline.\nChery was China's biggest auto exporter last year, selling 108,000 gasoline-powered vehicles abroad, though mostly in developing markets such as Russia and Egypt.\n\"We do have a clear intention to bring an EV product as one of our initial offerings\" in Europe, Chen said." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — By now, LeBron James is usually getting some rest in the NBA playoffs.\nThe Pacers are making him work much harder than he has in years.\nAfter splitting the first four games, Indiana and Cleveland will meet on Wednesday night in the critical Game 5 of a first-round series that has been unpredictable, uneven and for James, unusual.\nThis first round hasn't been the norm for the three-time champion.\nWhile he's 12-0 in the opening round, before the Cavs dropped Game 1 to the Pacers at home, James had never lost a playoff opener. In fact, James came in with a 21-game winning streak in first-round games and this will be his first Game 5 in Round 1 since 2012 when he was with Miami.\nThe Cavs and Pacers aren't the only ones in a tussle in the Eastern Conference as Washington and Toronto resume their series in Canada tied 2-2. Things aren't quite as tight In the West as Utah holds a 3-1 lead over a fraying Oklahoma City team, and Houston, which dropped 50 points in one quarter on Monday night, can eliminate Minnesota.\nCleveland's 104-100 win in Game 4 brought relief to Cavs fans and James, who had been getting little offensive help from his teammates. A dependable No. 2 scoring option has been issue all season, primarily because Kyle Irving is no longer around to take pressure off James.\nBut in Game 4 , Kyle Korver stepped up in the second half and knocked down four 3-pointers and the Cavs buckled down defensively in the closing minutes to avoid a 3-1 hole.\n\"We all know the narrative around us, it is what it is,\" Korver said after practice on Tuesday. \"It's Bron and we're all trying to make it work for him.\"\nJames has been his usual self, averaging 32.5 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists in the series. But only Kevin Love (12.0), who has been slowed by a sprained left thumb, and J.R. Smith (10.0) are averaging double-digits for Cleveland.\nSome things to know for Wednesday's matchups:\nWIZARDS AT RAPTORS\nSeries tied 2-2. Game 5, 7 p.m., NBATV\nNEED TO KNOW: The home team has won each game so far. The Wizards absolutely need at least one road victory, and they've been here before: Washington was eliminated a year ago in the second round against Boston after going 3-0 in at home and 0-4 in away games.\nKEEP AN EYE ON: Toronto's 3-point shooting. The Raptors attempted a season-low 18 shots from beyond the arc, making seven, in its Game 4 loss . They never took fewer than 21 in any regular-season game, and averaged 13.7 made 3s and 31 attempts in Games 1-3.\nPRESSURE IS ON: DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry. While Washington's All-Star backcourt duo of John Wall (26.8 points, 13 assists and 4.8 rebounds) and Bradley Beal (29.5 ppg the past two games) led the Wizards in Games 3 and 4, Toronto's counterparts have not been very efficient lately. Lowry is shooting 41.7 percent, and DeRozan is at 44 after going 10 for 29 in Game 4.\nINJURY UPDATE: Because of an injured right shoulder, Raptors PG Fred VanVleet has played a total of only three minutes in the series.\nPACERS AT CAVALIERS\nSeries tied 2-2. Game 5, 7 p.m. TNT\nNEED TO KNOW: After scoring 32 points in the opener, Pacers guard Victor Oladipo has scored 18 and 17 in the past two games and is just 10 of 35 from the field. Cleveland has been blitzing and trapping Oladipo, forcing him to pass or rush his shot.\nKEEP AN EYE ON: Lance Stephenson. Indiana's always entertaining swingman baited James into a technical foul in Game 4, when he also wrapped up Cleveland's Jeff Green late in the game and spun him to the floor.\nPRESSURE IS ON: Cavs coach Tyronn Lue. While he's had to sort through injuries and battled his own health issues all season, he's been criticized for some decisions, including a reluctance to play forward Tristan Thompson in this series. If the Cavs go down 3-2 or are eliminated, look out.\nINJURY UPDATE: Cavaliers starting G George Hill (back spasms ) is questionable. He received injections but couldn't play in Game 4.\nJAZZ AT THUNDER\nThunder lead 3-1. Game 5, 9:30 p.m. Central, NBA TV.\nNEED TO KNOW: Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell is averaging 27.5 points and 8.5 rebounds while shooting 45 percent from the field. He's averaging 17.3 points in the second half and shooting 46 percent.\nHe topped Karl Malone's rookie playoff record with 33 points in Game 4.\n\"I'm not trying to think about all that now,\" he said. \"We have bigger things to worry about right now as a team.\"\nKEEP AN EYE ON: Thunder F Carmelo Anthony. He's shooting 37 percent from the field and 23.1 percent from 3-point range. He was brought to the Thunder to take pressure off Thunder G Russell Westbrook, but his inability to make shots has only made things more difficult.\nPRESSURE IS ON: Westbrook. While averaging 21.3 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.3 assists, he's only shooting 37 percent, 21 on 3s. Westbrook normally attacks with reckless abandon, but 7-foot-1 Jazz center Rudy Gobert is making that tougher.\nINTRIGUING MATCHUP: Thunder F Paul George vs. Jazz F Joe Ingles. George has been solid, averaging 27.3 points. But his focus has drifted and he has got caught up in some of Ingles' agitating tactics. George was the aggressor in Game 4 , at one point shoving Ingles and getting a technical.\nTIMBERWOLVES AT ROCKETS\nRockets lead 3-1. Game 5, 9:30 p.m., TNT.\nNEED TO KNOW: Timberwolves might still be reeling from the 50-point third quarter the Rockets posted to turn a tight Game 4 into a rout . Minnesota actually outshot Houston for the third straight game, but only turned that into one victory. \"Everybody will look at the 50 points that we scored in the quarter, but it was our defense,\" said Chris Paul, who had 15 of his 25 points over those torrid 12 minutes.\nKEEP AN EYE ON: Rockets sixth man Eric Gordon. After shooting just 11 for 39 over the first three games, he scored a series-high 18 in Game 4. He hit four 3s, including a buzzer-beater at the end of the third to fulfill the 50-point quarter goal the Rockets have been trying to reach for two years under coach Mike D'Antoni.\nPRESSURE IS ON: Wolves G Jimmy Butler. While the Rockets were running away in the third, Butler forced some shots in a frantic attempt to keep up. The team's best defender must also try to figure out how to better disrupt the high ball screens the Rockets set on Harden to set up those frequent 3s.\nINJURY UPDATE: Wolves PG Jeff Teague dislocated his right pinky finger in Game 4 and struggled with two points on 1-for-7 shooting in 28 minutes with four fouls and three turnovers.\n___\nAP Sports Writers Howard Fendrich, Cliff Brunt and Dave Campbell contributed to this report.\n___\nFor more AP NBA coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--For the past couple of years, the Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support (SIARA) has been shining a spotlight on the achievements of unsung heroes working for refugees and stateless people at a time when the world is witnessing unprecedented levels of displacement globally, with over 65 million people forced to flee their homes, including some 21.3 million refugees.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005666/en/\nA picture from the activities Dignity Foundation organizes for refugee children (Photo: The Big Heart Foundation)\nThe Dignity for Children Foundation from Malaysia, has been announced the recipient of the second edition of the award whose value was further appreciated this year to USD 136,000 (AED 500,000), in recognition of their outstanding efforts in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.\nThis year, the foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary and now provides educational services to approximately 1,100 refugees, stateless people, undocumented students and other marginalised groups in the Malaysian community of Kuala Lumpur.\nThe award, established by the Sharjah-based global humanitarian charity, The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF) has garnered huge praise and support from humanitarian organisations and the international community, including the likes of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), who have said that it offers a valuable platform to showcase solidarity with displaced people.\nAs the third largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and one of the cultural and humanitarian centres of the Arab region, Sharjah, under the vision of its leadership represented by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, UAE, and Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, Chairperson of TBHF and UNHCR Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children, continues to champion philanthropic efforts by individuals and organisations around the world.\nAt a time when the region hosts 39 percent of forcibly displaced people, including 5 million Syrian refugees, initiatives that celebrate community spirit and humanitarian efforts are of essence.\nFurther information about TBHF can be found on the foundation’s website: http://tbhf.ae.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005666/en/\nCONTACT: National Network Communications (NNC)\nFadia Daouk, Mob: +971 52 617 2111\nKEYWORD: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES MALAYSIA ASIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA CANADA MIDDLE EAST\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: PHILANTHROPY OTHER PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATION FUND RAISING\nSOURCE: Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 08:00 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 08:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005666/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Asian shares rose Thursday after U.S. stocks recovered most of their sharp losses from a day earlier as jitters over Italy's political situation subsided.\nKEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.8 percent to 22,201.82 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index jumped 1.1 percent to 30,385.50. The Shanghai Composite index rebounded 1.8 percent to 3,095.47 and Australia's S&P ASX 200 climbed 0.5 percent to 6,011.90. South Korea's Kospi advanced 0.6 percent to 2,423.01. Shares rose in Taiwan and were mostly higher in Southeast Asia.\nWALL STREET: Banks and energy companies surged Wednesday as investors reversed course on hopes that Italy will be able to avoid a new round of elections. Stocks had plunged the previous day as investors expected the Italian gridlock would be resolved with new elections that could have turned into a yes-or-no referendum deciding whether Italy would continue to use the euro. The S&P 500 index jumped 1.3 percent to 2,724.01 and the Dow Jones industrial average also climbed 1.3 percent to 24,667.78. The Nasdaq composite gained 0.9 percent to 7,462.45. The Russell 2000 index surged 1.5 percent, closing at a record high of 1,647.99. Italy's FTSE MIB stock index climbed 2.1 percent after a 2.7 percent drop a day earlier. Prices for Italian government bonds also rose, sending yields down following a huge surge the day before.\nCHINA MANUFACTURING: Chinese factory activity grew at its fastest rate in eight months on stronger demand, a survey showed Thursday, in a positive sign for the world's No. 2 economy despite trade tensions with the U.S. The official purchasing managers' index, or PMI, rose to 51.9 in May from 51.4 the previous month. Readings above 50 indicate expansion, while lower numbers indicate contraction on the index's 100-point scale.\nANALYST'S VIEWPOINT: \"Today's strong set of official PMIs tell a reassuring story about current growth momentum. However, we will have to wait for more reliable indicators to be published in order to get a clearer picture of the health of China's economy,\" Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a commentary.\nCHINA TRADE: China's government said Thursday it reserves the right to retaliate if Washington goes ahead with proposed investment controls Beijing said violate global trade rules. The Commerce Ministry's comment came as the two sides prepared for weekend talks in Beijing on American complaints about China's trade surplus and Beijing's promise to buy more American goods.\nCURRENCIES: The euro rose to $1.1689 from $1.1664. The dollar fell to 108.66 yen from 108.89 yen.\nENERGY: U.S. crude oil slipped 25 cents to $67.96 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped 2.2 percent on Wednesday to $68.21 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost 43 cents to $77.29 per barrel. It added 2.8 percent to $77.50 a barrel in London. Oil prices fell 7.6 percent in five days following reports OPEC countries and Russia might start producing more oil soon.\n___\nAP Markets Writer Marley Jay contributed to this report. He can be reached at http://twitter.com/MarleyJayAP . His work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/marley%20jay" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Thai navy SEALs and rescue teams started giving crash courses in diving and swimming to the group of trapped young soccer players, hoping for a swift end to their harrowing ordeal.\nRescue divers on Tuesday found the twelve teenagers and their coach alive after they went missing in a Thai cave more than 10 days ago. But authorities said it remained unclear how long the boys would have to remain inside.\nThe boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach entered the cave to celebrate a birthday. They became trapped when sudden rainfall flooded its entry on June 23. Similar incidents have befallen other visitors at the local tourist spot.\nOn Wednesday, Thai authorities provided food and medicine to the soccer group while experts assessed the conditions needed to evacuate them safely.\n\"The water is very strong and space is narrow. Extracting the children take a lot of people,\" Prawit Wongsuwan, Thailand's deputy prime minister, told reporters.\n\"Now we are teaching the children to swim and dive,\" he said, adding that if water levels subside, the Wild Boar soccer team would be taken out easily.\nAnother option would be to drill a hole into the cave and airlift the boys out. But authorities say they prefer the diving option.\nRead more: Rescuers lower food, maps for missing children in Thai cave\nPreparations underway\nIn a video released on Wednesday, the soccer players said they were in good health. The boys and their coach are seen sitting with Thai navy SEALs in the dark cave with their emaciated faces visible in the one-minute video.\nRescuers said they would not put the boys' lives in danger and would take \"no risk\" to free them.\n\"All 13 don't have to come out at the same time,\" Narongsak Osottanakorn, governor of Chiang Rai province, told reporters on Wednesday. \"Who is ready first can go first.\"\nWeerachon Sukondhapatipak, a government spokesman, said more preparations are needed to rescue the boys.\n\"Some of them can't swim, so therefore it will take time for them to adjust,\" he said.\n\"Officials would teach them how to move, how to dive, how to move their body under those circumstances,\" he added.\nSomboon Sompiangjai told Reuters news agency that his son Peerapat, 16, could swim. He said he was confident that SEALs would eventually get the boys out.\n\"I am not worried if the kids have to swim and dive,\" he said. \"I felt much better after seeing the clips with the children in good spirits, even though they were in there for 10 days.\"\nRead more: US, UK divers join search for kids' football team trapped in Thai cave\nshs/kms (Reuters, AP, AFP)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's testimony to the House Financial Services Committee (all times local):\n___\n10:15 a.m.\nFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has begun her second day of testimony to Congress. She appears today before the House Financial Services Committee, where she is expected to face tough questioning from Republican lawmakers. She spoke to a Senate committee Tuesday.\nShe says in her prepared remarks that the Fed expects to move interest rates up at a gradual pace this year as long as the job market and the economy remain solid. She says it is too early to determine the impact President Donald Trump's economic program will have on the economy." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council is condemning ongoing violence and instability in Central African Republic in a resolution extending an arms embargo on the country and sanctions on individuals and entities for a year.\nThe resolution adopted unanimously Tuesday by the council also condemns acts of incitement to violence that undermine peace, especially \"on an ethnic or religious basis,\" and says for the first time that those responsible could face sanctions.\nIt says the council can also impose sanctions for undermining peace or security in CAR, for violating international human rights and humanitarian law, for directing or committing acts involving sexual or gender based violence, and for supporting criminal networks.\nThe CAR sanctions blacklist currently includes 11 individuals and two entities — a diamond-purchasing organization and the Lord's Resistance Army." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton is expressing regret about allowing a senior campaign adviser to keep his job after another worker complained in 2007 that he had behaved inappropriately.\nClinton put out a lengthy Facebook post Tuesday night saying that she wouldn't have let adviser Burns Strider keep his job on her 2008 presidential campaign if she had it to do over again.\nShe says that she took steps short of firing him that included demotion, docking his pay, requiring counseling and separating him from the woman.\nThe New York Times reported last week that she declined to fire Strider despite her campaign manager's recommendations.\nClinton says she believed that the punishment was \"severe\" and that she also \"believes in second chances.\"\nShe says that \"sometimes they're squandered.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a Phoenix suburb say one of Uber's self-driving vehicles has struck and killed a pedestrian.\nPolice in the city of Tempe said Monday that the vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel when the woman walking outside of a crosswalk was hit.\nSgt. Ronald Elcock says in an email that the accident happened overnight but did not say whether it occurred Sunday night or Monday morning.\nThe woman died of her injuries at a hospital and her name was not made public.\nUber has been testing the self-driving vehicles in Tempe and Phoenix for months.\nUber says on Twitter that it is \"fully cooperating\" with the investigation and expressed condolences to the family of the victim." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Latest on Kenyan opposition's mock \"inauguration\" (all times local):\n3:15 p.m.\nKenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has been sworn in during a mock \"inauguration\" as \"the people's president\" despite the government's warning that the event would be considered treason.\nThousands have gathered in a Nairobi park for the ceremony meant to protest President Uhuru Kenyatta's new term after months of deadly election turmoil.\nOdinga held a Bible over his head. \"Today is a historic day in the history of Kenya,\" he said.\nThe opposition successfully challenged the August election in court, claiming vote-rigging, but boycotted a fresh election in October, claiming a lack of electoral reforms.\nKenya's government cut transmission of three TV channels airing live broadcasts of the \"inauguration\" Tuesday.\n___\n11 a.m.\nStreets are quiet in the central business district of Kenya's capital ahead of the opposition's plan to \"swear in\" its leader, Raila Odinga, as an alternative president despite the attorney general's warning that such an act challenging the official president will amount to treason.\nThe U.S. has advised Odinga against the so-called inauguration Tuesday, as East Africa's economic hub tries to move beyond months of deadly election turmoil. Police have vowed to block opposition supporters from attending the event.\nHeavy police deployment was withdrawn Tuesday without explanation at the Uhuru Park where the opposition had said the event would take place. A heavy police presence remains in city slums, which are opposition strongholds." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on an appeals court decision not to toss the corruption case against former U.S. House Rep. Aaron Schock (all times local):\n3:05 p.m.\nFormer U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock's attorney says he is \"disappointed\" that an appeals court refused to dismiss the corruption charges against the Republican from central Illinois.\nGeorge Terwilliger said in a statement that Wednesday's decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago \"is not consistent\" with decisions by other courts that examined similar cases.\nThe 7th Circuit said it doesn't believe appellate courts have authority to address the kinds of constitutional issues at the core of Schock's appeal before a trial takes place. Schock argued that prosecutors violated constitutional separation-of-powers clauses by relying too much on rules the U.S. House drew up for its members.\nSchock's attorney says he is \"evaluating\" options about further appeals. A trial date for Schock hasn't been set.\n___\n1 p.m.\nAn appeals court has refused to toss corruption charges against former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, saying it can't assess whether his prosecution violated constitutional separation-of-powers clauses until after he goes to trial.\nThe 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says in its unanimous ruling Wednesday that it doesn't believe appellate courts have the authority to address such questions until after a verdict. No date has been set for the 36-year-old Schock's trial on 22 corruption counts.\nThe Republican from the central Illinois city of Peoria was indicted in 2016 on charges of misusing funds. He resigned in 2015 amid scrutiny of his spending, including to redecorate his Capitol Hill office in the style of the TV show \"Downton Abbey.\"\nA Schock spokesman didn't have an immediate comment." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan opposition leader sworn in during mock \"inauguration\" despite warning of treason." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 4, 2018-- analysts forecast the global ultrapure water market for the semiconductor industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 8% during the period 2018-2022, according to their latest market research report.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005218/en/\nTechnavio has published a new market research report on the global ultrapure water market for the semiconductor industry from 2018-2022. (Graphic: Business Wire)\nThe rapid evolution in the microelectronics sector is one of the major trends being witnessed in the . The rapid growth of the microelectronics market is leading to the increased production of computer chips or integrated chips, solar cells, and flat panel displays. These devices are manufactured in fabs that require large volumes of ultrapure water. The increasing complexity of photovoltaics and flat panel display devices will create a significant demand for higher purity water.\nThis report is available at a USD 1,000 discount for a limited time only:\nAccording to Technavio analysts, one of the key factors contributing to the growth of the global ultrapure water market for the semiconductor industry is the increase in the size of semiconductor wafers:\nGlobal ultrapure water market for the semiconductor industry: Increase in the size of semiconductor wafers\nPrevention of contamination is crucial to the semiconductor production process. Contaminant-free semiconductor wafers are used in the semiconductor production process. Cleaning of semiconductor wafers is critical, and this process requires ultrapure water. Technavio estimates that for the existing 300mm fabs, 1.5-4.5 million gallons of ultrapure water is required per day.\nOver the last four decades, the size of silicon wafers used in the semiconductor industry has increased to 300mm, which has reduced the manufacturing costs of semiconductor wafers. Semiconductor manufacturers are thus investing heavily in upgrading and developing new fabs for the new wafer size.\nAccording to a senior analyst at Technavio, “The industry plans to develop the 450-mm wafer technology, with the pilot production expected to commence by the end of 2018. Intel has invested in the R&D of the 450mm technology and is building a production facility for the same. The shift toward the use of large sizes and development of new manufacturing units to cater to this demand are factors that will drive the market during the forecast period.”\nGlobal ultrapure water market for the semiconductor industry: Segmentation analysis\nThis global ultrapure water market for semiconductor industry research report provides market segmentation by application (pure-play and IDM), and by region (the Americas, EMEA, and APAC). It provides an in-depth analysis of the prominent factors influencing the market, including drivers, opportunities, trends, and industry-specific challenges.\nAPAC held the largest share of the market in 2017, accounting for more than 61%, followed by the Americas and EMEA respectively. The presence of semiconductor manufacturers in APAC will be a key factor influencing the growth of the ultrapure market in the region. Numerous foundries and outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) vendors based out of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan contribute significantly to the regional ultrapure water market.\nLooking for more information on this market?\nTechnavio’s sample reports are free of charge and contain multiple sections of the report such as the market size and forecast, drivers, challenges, trends, and more.\nSome of the key topics covered in the report include:\nMarket Landscape\nMarket ecosystem Market characteristics Market segmentation analysis\nMarket Sizing\nMarket sizing Market size and forecast\nFive Forces Analysis\nMarket Segmentation\nGeographical Segmentation\nRegional comparison Key leading countries\nMarket Drivers\nMarket Challenges\nMarket Trends\nVendor Landscape\nVendors covered Vendor classification Market positioning of vendors Competitive scenario\nAbout Technavio\nis a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.\nWith over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 10,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.\nIf you are interested in more information, please contact our media team at .\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005218/en/\nCONTACT: Technavio Research\nJesse Maida\nMedia & Marketing Executive\nUS: +1 844 364 1100\nUK: +44 203 893 3200\nwww.technavio.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED KINGDOM EUROPE\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENERGY ALTERNATIVE ENERGY UTILITIES OTHER ENERGY TECHNOLOGY OTHER TECHNOLOGY SEMICONDUCTOR\nSOURCE: Technavio Research\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 07/04/2018 10:52 AM/DISC: 07/04/2018 10:52 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180704005218/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "（台灣英文新聞/ 李昱德 綜合外電報導）過完了世界emoji日(17日)，今天世界又迎來了一個重要的日子—「世界曼德拉日」，這位南非著名的反種族隔離鬥士以他的努力，獲得了全世界的敬重，世界於是將他的生日定為節日，以紀念他對人權的貢獻。\n在世期間，曼德拉積極推動多元民族共存，並領導南非終結種族隔離制度，甚至以此獲得諾貝爾和平獎，生前95年間，他啟發了無數後人，《台灣英文新聞》收錄幾句曼德拉的名言，以紀念這個重要的日子。\n1.一些人因困難而退卻，另一些則因此成就自我，世間沒有任何斧頭銳利到足以斬斷毅力堅定者的靈魂，因為這些人抱持著堅定的信念，相信自己只要撐到最後就會讓努力開花結果。\n(\"Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.”)\n2.事情在完成前，總是看起來困難重重而遙不可及。\n( \"It always seems impossible until it's done.”)\n3.如果我可以回到過去，我還是會做一樣的事情，對於任何認為自己是人者，應該都是如此。\n(\"If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man.”)\n4.我喜歡能獨立思考的朋友，因為他們能夠讓你從不同的角度看待問題。\n(\"I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.”)\n5.真正的領導人，應該隨時準備好替人民的自由犧牲一切。\n(\"Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”)\n6.對社會上其他人的生命付出基本的關心，可以讓我們朝夢想中的世界持續前進。\n(“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”)\n7.只要全心投入一件事並保持熱忱，任何人都可以突破困境而成功。\n(\"Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”)\n8.教育是用以改變世界最有力的武器。\n(\"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”)\n9.我認為勇氣並不是因為無所畏懼，而是因為克服了恐懼。一個真正的勇者不是因為無法感到害怕的情緒，而是因為走出了這樣的情感，才能成為勇者。\n(\"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”)\n10.自由並不是單純的鋸開鎖鏈，而是過著尊重並試圖改善他人自由的生活。\n(\"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”)\n11.怨恨的情緒，就像是邊喝毒藥邊希望敵人因此倒下。\n(\"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”)\n12.從背後領導他人，並讓他們相信他們才是在前方打拼的先驅。\n(“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”)\n13.不要用我的成功論斷我，而是審視我無論跌倒多少次都會爬起來的過程。\n( \"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”)\n14.我極度痛恨種族主義和所有其表徵，為此，我前半身都為了打倒這個在奮鬥，現在也還在努力中，在我人生剩下的日子，我也將繼續與之對抗。\n(\"I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.”)\n15.強健的心靈和頭腦總是最令人畏懼的組合。\n(\"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”)" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — Did you hear the one about the hugely successful Hollywood producer who really wants to be a stand-up comedian?\nJudd Apatow (AP'-ih-tow) says that applies to him, but it's no joke. He's returning to his early show business roots with a Netflix comedy special debuting Tuesday.\nIn the special titled \"Judd Apatow: The Return,\" Apatow cracks wise about marriage, parenthood and sexual misconduct.\nApatow's credits include the hits movies \"Trainwreck,\" ''Bridesmaids\" and \"Knocked Up.\"\nBut he says stand-up comedy is what he really wanted to do, and he's got more to say onstage now that he's older." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Three-time U.S. Olympic ski racer Steven Nyman will miss the Pyeonchang Games after tearing a ligament in his right knee during downhill training almost a year to the day after injuring his left knee on the same mountain.\nHe sustained the season-ending injury to his right ACL during preparation in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, before the final pre-Olympic World Cup downhill last week, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard announced Monday.\n\"That didn't go as planned,\" Nyman wrote in an Instagram post Monday saying he already had ligament surgery. \"After an uneventful fall in Garmisch three days ago my knee hurt but I thought I would be fine. I later learned I tore my ACL on my right leg! It was 364 days from my big crash last year.\"\nNyman, who will turn 36 in February, added he has \"all intention\" to be able to return to competition for the 2019 world championships.\nIn January 2017, the 6-foot-4 Nyman was hurt in downhill practice on the same Kandahar course. He had been having the fastest run of the day until he crashed off a jump and tore three ligaments in his left knee, then was airlifted off the course.\nThis time, he went into the safety netting lining the slope but pulled himself up and was able to ski the rest of the way down the mountain.\n\"I think I pushed too hard and just kind of did the splits. It was weird,\" Nyman told the AP after his fall last week.\nNyman has won three World Cup downhill races and reached the podium eight other times. He came in third in the Olympic downhill test event in South Korea in February 2016.\nAs he worked his way back this season, his best showing in a downhill was 15th place in Kitzbuehel, Austria, this month.\nHe said he was looking forward to \"trying to contend for a medal\" at the Olympics, which start Feb. 9.\nNyman, who is from Utah, is the captain of the U.S. downhill team and was fourth in that event at the 2015 world championships. His top showing in the Olympics was 19th in the downhill at the 2006 Turin Games.\n\"He's the leader of our family,\" U.S. men's Alpine head coach Sasha Rearick said. \"He's been the leader of the downhillers for a long time.\"\n___\nMore AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org/" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — School officials in Rhode Island say a teenager has been arrested for shooting the window of an elementary school bus with a pellet gun.\nWPRO-AM reports that the shooting happened Monday afternoon in North Kingstown.\nSuperintendent Philip Auger says no one was injured, but some children were hit with safety glass from the broken window.\nAuger emailed parents Monday night to say the person responsible was arrested.\nHe says the bus was bringing students home from Fishing Cove Elementary School.\nAfter the shooting, the bus driver pulled away, checked on the students and called police. Students were taken home on another bus.\nAuger says the school department is cooperating with police.\n___\nInformation from: WPRO-AM, http://www.630wpro.com/" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case to arise from a slate of sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul.\nManhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said Wednesday's indictment brings Weinstein \"another step closer to accountability\" for alleged attacks on two women in New York.\nWeinstein's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said he would \"vigorously defend\" against the indictment and ask a court to dismiss it. He called the allegations \"unsupported\" and reiterated that Weinstein strongly denies them.\nThe indictment came hours after Weinstein's lawyer said the film producer would decline to testify before the grand jury because there wasn't enough time to prepare him and \"political pressure\" made an indictment unavoidable.\n\"Regardless of how compelling Mr. Weinstein's personal testimony might be, an indictment was inevitable due to the unfair political pressure being placed on Cy Vance to secure a conviction of Mr. Weinstein,\" the statement said.\nWeinstein, 66, learned of the specific charges and the accusers' identities only after turning himself in Friday, according to his lawyers. Brafman said that with a deadline set for Wednesday afternoon for Weinstein to testify or not, prosecutors denied his request for more time.\nVance said the Weinstein camp's \"recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable.\"\n\"We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand,\" Vance said in a statement.\nWeinstein was charged Friday with raping one woman and committing a criminal sex act by compelling oral sex from another. A grand jury continued hearing evidence in the case, as it had been doing for weeks.\nDefendants have the right to testify in a grand jury's secret proceedings but often don't, for various reasons.\nFreed on $1 million bail and electronic monitoring, he is due back in court July 30, though that date may now be moved up in light of the indictment.\nBeyond the two women involved in the case, dozens more women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to assault in various locales.\nHe has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex, and Brafman said Tuesday that Weinstein was \"confident he's going to clear his name\" in the New York prosecution.\nBrafman called the rape allegation \"absurd,\" saying that the accuser and Weinstein had a decade-long, consensual sexual relationship that began before and continued after the alleged 2013 attack.\nThe woman, who hasn't been identified publicly, told investigators that Weinstein confined her in a hotel room and raped her.\nThe other accuser in the case, former actress Lucia Evans, has gone public with her account of Weinstein forcing her to perform oral sex at his office in 2004. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assaults unless they come forward publicly.\nVance, a Democrat, came under public pressure from women's groups to prosecute Weinstein after declining to do so in 2015, when an Italian model went to police to say Weinstein had groped her during a meeting.\nPolice set up a sting in which the woman recorded herself confronting Weinstein and him apologizing for his conduct. But Vance decided there wasn't enough evidence to bring charges.\nGov. Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat, ordered the state attorney general to investigate how Vance handled that matter." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BOSTON & LONDON & CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2018--Cancer Research UK and Bicycle Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide ( Bicycle ®) product platform, today announced a poster presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology held from June 1 – June 5, 2018 in Chicago, Ill. The poster describes their ongoing phase I/IIa clinical trial of BT1718 in patients with advanced solid tumours, which is the first clinical study of a bicyclic peptide.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180531005185/en/\nDetails of the presentation, which will be given by Dr. Udai Banerji, Principal Investigator for the Phase I trial, are as follows:\nSession Title: Developmental Therapeutics—Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Time: June 4, 2018, 8:00 – 11:30 a.m. CT\nABOUT BT1718 BT1718 is a first-in-class Bicycle Toxin Conjugate being developed by Bicycle Therapeutics that targets Membrane Type 1 Matrix Metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP), also known as MMP-14. This target has an established role in cell invasion and metastasis, is linked to poor outcomes and is over expressed in many solid tumours. In preclinical models, BT1718 has demonstrated promising target-dependent efficacy and only a subset of the toxicities typically associated with other highly potent cancer treatments.\nCancer Research UK’s Centre for Drug Development (CDD) is sponsoring a Phase I/IIa study of BT1718 that started in February 2018 with patients currently progressing through dose escalation cohorts. The trial is co-managed by Cancer Research UK and Bicycle Therapeutics. Under the terms of the agreement, Bicycle retains the right to further advance the BT1718 program, at which point an undisclosed payment split between cash and equity, success-based milestones and royalty payments would be made to Cancer Research UK.\nABOUT BICYCLE THERAPEUTICS Bicycle Therapeutics is developing a unique class of chemically synthesised medicines based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide ( Bicycle® ) product platform to address therapeutic needs unreachable with existing treatment modalities. Bicycle’s internal focus is in oncology, where the company is developing targeted cytotoxics ( Bicycle Toxin Conjugates), targeted innate immune activators and T-cell modulators for cancers of high unmet medical need. Bicycles’ small size and exquisite targeting deliver rapid tumour penetration and retention while clearance rates and routes of elimination can be tuned to minimise exposure of healthy tissue and bystander toxicities. The company’s lead program, BT1718, is being evaluated in a Phase I/IIa trial in collaboration with Cancer Research UK. The company’s unique intellectual property is based on the work initiated at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., by the scientific founders of the company, Sir Gregory Winter and Professor Christian Heinis. Bicycle has its headquarters in Cambridge, U.K., with many key functions and members of its leadership team located in the biotech hub of Boston, Mass. For more information, visit www.bicycletherapeutics.com or follow us on Twitter at @Bicycle_tx.\nABOUT CANCER RESEARCH UK’S COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS TEAM Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Our specialist Commercial Partnerships Team work closely with leading international cancer scientists and their institutes to protect intellectual property arising from their research and to establish links with commercial partners. The team develop promising ideas into successful cancer therapeutics, software, devices, diagnostics and enabling technologies. This helps to accelerate progress in exciting new discoveries in cancer research and bring new treatments to patients sooner. http://commercial.cancerresearchuk.org/\nCancer Research UK’s commercial activity operates through Cancer Research Technology Ltd. (CRT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Cancer Research UK. It is the legal entity which pursues drug discovery research in themed alliance partnerships and delivers varied commercial partnering arrangements.\nABOUT CANCER RESEARCH UK’S CENTRE FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT Cancer Research UK has an impressive record of developing novel treatments for cancer. The Cancer Research UK Centre for Drug Development, formerly the Drug Development Office, has been pioneering the development of new cancer treatments for 25 years, taking over 140 potential new anti-cancer agents into clinical trials in patients. It currently has a portfolio of around 30 new anti-cancer agents in preclinical development, Phase I or early Phase II clinical trials. Six of these new agents have made it to market including temozolomide for brain cancer, abiraterone for prostate cancer and rucaparib for ovarian cancer. Two other drugs are in late development Phase III trials. This rate of success is comparable to that of any pharmaceutical company.\nABOUT CANCER RESEARCH UK\nCancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Cancer Research UK’s pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives. Cancer Research UK receives no funding from the UK government for its life-saving research. Every step it makes towards beating cancer relies on vital donations from the public. Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen survival in the UK double in the last 40 years. Today, 2 in 4 people survive their cancer for at least 10 years. Cancer Research UK’s ambition is to accelerate progress so that by 2034, 3 in 4 people will survive their cancer for at least 10 years. Cancer Research UK supports research into all aspects of cancer through the work of over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses. Together with its partners and supporters, Cancer Research UK’s vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.\nFor further information about Cancer Research UK’s work or to find out how to support the charity, please call 0300 123 1022 or visit www.cancerresearchuk.org . Follow us on Twitter and Facebook .\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180531005185/en/\nCONTACT: Ten Bridge Communications\nSarah Sutton, +1-518-932-3680\nSarah@tenbridgecommunications.com\nor\nArgot Partners\nMaeve Conneighton, +1-212-600-1902\nmaeve@argotpartners.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES EUROPE NORTH AMERICA ILLINOIS MASSACHUSETTS\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: HEALTH BIOTECHNOLOGY CLINICAL TRIALS ONCOLOGY PHARMACEUTICAL\nSOURCE: Bicycle Therapeutics\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/31/2018 03:00 AM/DISC: 05/31/2018 03:00 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180531005185/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AP) — A lawyer says the Vietnamese woman accused of killing the North Korean leader's half brother told police she realized she had been used to murder him after she was detained.\nDoan Thi Huong and co-defendant Siti Aisyah from Indonesia were charged with murder after Kim Jong Nam died at Kuala Lumpur's airport last year. They could face the death penalty if convicted, but not if they lacked intent to kill.\nThe court heard Tuesday that Huong thought she was playing a harmless prank for a hidden camera show.\nLawyer Hisyam Teh Poh Teik said Huong told police she didn't know the oily liquid given to her by a Korean man was VX nerve agent and she washed her hands after smearing Kim's face because the substance was smelly and uncomfortable." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "DEVON, Pa. (AP) — A horse has broken free at a Pennsylvania horse show, sending people running for cover as it galloped toward the stables.\nWPVI-TV reports the horse got loose and jumped over a fence at the Devon Horse Show Tuesday night. Cellphone video shows the horse making a run for it as onlookers scream in the stands.\nThe horse was caught in the stable area. It suffered minor scrapes.\nOfficials say the rider was able to dismount from the carriage before the horse ran away. The rider was uninjured.\nThe horse show is expected to continue through the week as planned." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Activists burned U.S. and Israeli flags in front of the American embassy in Jakarta in the fourth day of protests in Indonesia against President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.\nSeveral hundred protesters from an Islamic youth group rallied outside the embassy Monday, burning flags and images of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. It was a big drop from a weekend protest that attracted several thousand people.\nSimilar protests have been held in other cities around Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.\nIndonesian President Joko \"Jokowi\" Widodo has strongly condemned Trump's move, which he described as a violation of U.N. resolutions.\nIndonesia has long been a strong supporter of Palestinians." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Here are the government's rankings of the leading U.S. airlines and their on-time performance for December. The federal government counts a flight as on time if it arrives no more than 14 minutes behind the scheduled time.\n1. Hawaiian Airlines, 85.1 percent\n2. Delta Air Lines, 81.4 percent\n3. American Airlines, 79.1 percent\n4. Alaska Airlines, 76.1 percent\n5. United Airlines, 76.0 percent\n6. Southwest Airlines, 74.9 percent\n7. ExpressJet, 73.5 percent\n8. Spirit Airlines, 72.1 percent\n9. JetBlue Airways, 71.3 percent\n10. SkyWest, 69.8 percent\n11. Virgin America, 68.3 percent\n12. Frontier Airlines, 62.4 percent\nTotal for all covered airlines: 75.6 percent\n___\nSource: U.S. Department of Transportation\nThe report does not cover smaller airlines including Allegiant Air and some regional carriers." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators want to make emergency alerts on cellphones more useful by requiring wireless carriers to distribute them less widely.\nThe Federal Communications Commission says carriers must transmit the alerts to more specific locations, rather than broadly. That could help make alerts more relevant. The fear is that consumers will disregard alerts if they come too often or don't address an emergency in their immediate area.\nThese messages appear on phones like texts with a loud buzzing and noise. Except for messages from the president, phone users can choose to stop receiving them.\nThe more precise geo-targeting was approved Tuesday and will go into effect in November 2019. By May 2019, wireless providers also have to support alerts in Spanish and longer alerts — up to 360 characters, from 90." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge has dismissed the state of Tennessee's lawsuit against the federal government over the refugee resettlement program.\nThe Republican-led Tennessee General Assembly filed the lawsuit in March 2017, arguing the refugee program is forcing the state to spend money on additional services, including health care and education.\nIn his dismissal order Monday, U.S. District Judge S. Thomas Anderson said it's speculative for Tennessee to contend it might lose $7 billion annually in federal Medicaid money if it refuses to spend state money on refugee services through Medicaid.\nThe lawsuit didn't have the backing of state Attorney General Herbert Slatery or Republican Gov. Bill Haslam.\nThe Thomas More Law Center filed the lawsuit for free.\nSenate Speaker Randy McNally says lawmakers are discussing appeal options with their attorneys." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A mistaken report of a shooter prompted the lockdown of Travis Air Force Base in California on Wednesday in the midst of an emergency training exercise, officials said.\nThe base ordered people to shelter in place and lock their doors and windows. Gates were closed for more than an hour before the all-clear was given at the site 45 miles northeast of San Francisco .\n\"There were reports of gunshots at the Base Exchange. However, no shooter was found,\" a base Facebook posting reported.\n\"There was a security exercise underway at the base and somebody took that to be an active shooter and they went from there,\" said U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, who was briefed on the situation.\nThe false alarm came on a day marked by violence.\nIn Virginia, a gunman wounded Rep. Steve Scalise and several others during practice for a baseball game featuring congressional Republicans.\nJames T. Hodgkinson, 66, was fatally shot by police who had been guarding Scalise, the House majority whip.\nIn San Francisco, a UPS employee opened fire inside a package delivery facility, killing three co-workers and himself, authorities said." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Prophecy Development Corp. (“ Prophecy ” or the “ Company ”) ( TSX:PCY, OTCQX:PRPCF, Frankfurt:1P2N ) announces an amendment to the Gibellini mineral lease agreement dated June 22, 2017 (the “ MLA ”), whereby Prophecy has been granted the right to cause the current holder (the “ Lessor ”) of the Gibellini mineral claims (which Prophecy is currently leasing) to transfer their title to the claims to Prophecy.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005223/en/\n(Graphic: Business Wire)\nMineral Lease Agreement Background:\nUnder the MLA, Prophecy agreed to pay the Lessor, annual advance royalty payments which will be tied, based on an agreed formula (not to exceed US$120,000 per year), to the average vanadium pentoxide price of the prior year. Upon commencement of production by Prophecy, the Company will stop advance royalty payments and instead pay to the Lessor, a 2.5% net smelter return ( “NSR” ) until a total of US$3 million is paid. Thereafter, the NSR will be reduced to 2% over the remaining life of the mine (and referred to thereafter, as “production royalty payments”). All advance royalty payments made, will be deducted as credits against future production royalty payments.\nProphecy leased the Gibellini mineral claims (which comprise the majority of the resource per the Company’s news release dated November 20, 2017) with the intent to develop and operate a mine on the claims. In addition, Prophecy has either staked or acquired an additional 24 square kilometers surrounding the leased mining claims in the past 9 months for its proposed processing facility and potential future resource expansion.\nDetails of the Amendment:\nWith the amendment, Prophecy shall have the option to, at any time during the term of the MLA, require the Lessor to transfer title over all of the leased, unpatented lode mining claims (excluding four claims which will be retained by the Lessor for sentimental reasons and which contain minimal resource) (the “ Transferred Claims ”) to Prophecy in exchange for US$1,000,000, to be paid as an advance royalty payment (the “ Transfer Payment ”). A credit of US$99,027.22 in favour of Prophecy towards the Transfer Payment is already paid upon signing of the amendment, with the remaining US$900,972.78 portion of the Transfer Payment due and payable by Prophecy to the Lessor upon completion of transfer of the Transferred Claims from the Lessor to Prophecy. The advance royalty obligation and production royalty shall not be affected, reduced or relieved by the transfer of title.\nJohn Lee, Prophecy’s Executive Chairman, states: “With the rights to the title transfer secured, Prophecy can now engage in in-depth discussions with cornerstone investors, vanadium product off-takers and banks on equity, debt and prepaid off-take financing. Talks are already underway and we expect to report material progress in due course.”\nVisit www.prophecydev.com for the latest Gibellini claim map.\nAbout Prophecy\nProphecy Development Corp. is a Canadian public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Company aims to provide exposure and leverage to rising vanadium prices by defining and adding attributable vanadium resources in the ground in politically safe jurisdictions. Further information on Prophecy can be found at www.prophecydev.com.\nPROPHECY DEVELOPMENT CORP. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD\n“JOHN LEE” Executive Chairman\nFor more information about Prophecy, please contact Investor Relations:\n+1.888.513.6286 ir@prophecydev.com www.prophecydev.com\nNeither the Toronto Stock Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Toronto Stock Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.\nCautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements\nCertain statements contained in this news release, including statements which may contain words such as “expects”, “anticipates”, “intends”, “plans”, “believes”, “estimates”, or similar expressions, and statements related to matters which are not historical facts, are forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such forward-looking statements, which reflect management’s expectations regarding Prophecy’s future growth, results of operations, performance, business prospects and opportunities, are based on certain factors and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.\nThese factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on the Prophecy’s forward-looking statements. Prophecy believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release and the documents incorporated by reference herein are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct. In addition, although Prophecy has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events or results to differ materially from those described in forward looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events or results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Prophecy undertakes no obligation to release publicly any future revisions to forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this news or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as expressly required by law.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005223/en/\nCONTACT: Prophecy Development Corp.\nInvestor Relations:\nBekzod Kasimov, +1-888-513-6286\nir@prophecydev.com\nwww.prophecydev.com\nor\nDanniel Oosterman\nir@prophecydev.com\nKEYWORD: NORTH AMERICA CANADA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENERGY OTHER ENERGY NATURAL RESOURCES MINING/MINERALS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FINANCE\nSOURCE: Prophecy Development Corp.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 07:30 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 07:30 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005223/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SWANSEA, Wales (AP) — An error by Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech and two goals by Sam Clucas helped Swansea to a 3-1 win that lifted the Welsh club off the bottom of the Premier League and out of the relegation zone on Tuesday.\nArsenal slipped eight points off the Champions League qualification positions on a night when new signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan made his debut as a substitute and Olivier Giroud came off the bench for possibly his farewell.\nCech miskicked a clearance straight at Jordan Ayew, who shot first time past the goalkeeper and into the corner to put Swansea 2-1 ahead in the 61st minute.\nClucas scored the clinching third goal in the 86th, having got Swansea back into the game with the equalizer in the 34th.\nA minute earlier, Arsenal had taken the lead through Nacho Monreal, who converted a pass from Mesut Ozil.\nWith this result coming off the back of a 1-0 win over Liverpool, Swansea has claimed back-to-back wins over two of the biggest teams in the Premier League and is up to 17th place in the 20-team division.\nArsenal, though, is struggling to keep up with its established rivals and is in sixth place after 25 games.\nManager Arsene Wenger will hope the addition of Mkhitaryan, and the potential arrival of striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund, can spark an upturn in form.\nAubameyang is set to come into the squad in place of Giroud, who played the final 15 minutes before possibly leaving Wednesday on the final day of the January transfer window." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union will make every effort to avoid a trade war with the United States, but Washington needs to join in that effort.\nPresident Donald Trump's administration has imposed tariffs on EU steel and aluminum imports and is mulling whether to add tariffs on cars, trucks and auto parts.\nMerkel told the German parliament Wednesday: \"It is worth every effort to try to defuse this conflict so that it doesn't turn into a real war, but of course there are two sides to that.\" She added that the good functioning of the world economy depends on countries working together as partners.\nThe U.S. is also pressing Germany over what it considers insufficient defense spending. Merkel said that \"Germany is a reliable partner in NATO.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The World Food Program says five people were hurt when a small plane with its humanitarian service was involved in an accident during takeoff from a remote airstrip in Congo's Kasai region.\nA United Nations statement on Wednesday says two crew members and three passengers sustained minor injuries in the accident in Kamonia.\nIt gives no further details, saying the cause of the crash will be investigated.\nThe statement says the five people have been taken to a local medical facility and a helicopter and plane have been mobilized to take them to the capital, Kinshasa for further treatment." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 6.3 million people saw the premiere of Netflix's \"Lost in Space\" within the first three days that the streaming service made it available this month, a promising start that would make it one of the outlet's more popular series after the phenomenon of \"Stranger Things.\"\nThe Nielsen company is starting to draw the curtain back on some of the user numbers for streaming services, which have been reluctant to do so on their own.\n\"We've had a lot of anxiety among our clients about sharing this data with you,\" said Brian Fuhrer, senior vice president of product leadership for Nielsen, on Tuesday, \"because they're still learning it.\"\nNielsen's data also shows the impact of binging: the average \"Lost in Space\" viewer watched the show for two and a half hours on those first few days. Netflix released 10 separate one-hour episodes of the show on April 13 and, within three days, nearly 1.2 million people watched the last episode, a clear indication they'd seen the whole season.\nRoughly 10 percent of the total time spent watching television now is spent with streaming services, Nielsen said. The number approaches one-quarter of all viewing among viewers aged 12 to 17. Netflix dominates, with 49 percent of the streaming viewing coming on their service. YouTube's 10 percent is the second-highest individual service, Nielsen said.\nFor all of the attention that new series put on by the streaming services gets, Nielsen said that 80 percent of the viewing goes to older programs like \"Friends.\"\nFour years ago, 88 percent of television viewing came on cable or satellite. Now that number is down to 79 percent, an indication of the impact of cord cutting, Nielsen said.\nOn the broadcast networks last week, ABC's \"Roseanne\" was again the week's most-watched show.\nCBS easily won the week in prime time, averaging 6.7 million viewers. NBC had 4.8 million viewers, ABC had 4.4 million, Fox had 3 million, Univision had 1.6 million, ION Television had 1.3 million, the CW had 1.2 million and Telemundo had 1.1 million.\nTNT was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 3.06 million viewers in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.37 million, MSNBC had 1.94 million, HGTV had 1.35 million and ESPN had 1.3 million.\nABC's \"World News Tonight\" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.5 million viewers. NBC's \"Nightly News\" was second with 7.9 million and the \"CBS Evening News\" had 6 million viewers.\nFor the week of April 16-22, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: \"Roseanne,\" ABC, 13.27 million; \"The Big Bang Theory,\" CBS, 12.91 million; \"Young Sheldon,\" CBS, 11.67 million; \"NCIS,\" CBS, 11.44 million; \"Bull,\" CBS, 10.83 million; \"The Voice\" (Monday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 9.35 million; \"60 Minutes,\" CBS, 9.02 million; \"Mom,\" CBS, 8.83 million; \"NCIS: New Orleans,\" CBS, 8.46 million; \"The Voice\" (Wednesday, 8 p.m.), NBC, 8.39 million.\n___\nABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.\n___\nOnline:\nhttp://www.nielsen.com" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MOSCOW (AP) — The Trump administration has released a list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 \"oligarchs\" it says are linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but it's decided not to issue any extra sanctions for now.\nHere is a look at some of the politically connected Russians on the so-called \"Putin list\":\nDMITRY MEDVEDEV\nThe Russian prime minister since 2012, Medvedev was previously Russian president from 2008 through 2012. That was in a \"tandem\" arrangement with Putin, who left the presidency to become prime minister, and still wielded considerable power while avoiding presidential term limits.\nMedvedev has been accused by Russian opposition activists of large-scale corruption, claims he denies.\nAlso on the \"Putin list\" is Medvedev's entire cabinet, including influential Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Energy Minister Alexander Novak, who oversees the Russian oil and gas industries. Putin's personal spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, makes the list as one of 33 officials from the presidential administration.\nALEXEI MILLER\nMiller has been loyal to Putin throughout his 17 years as chief executive of state gas company Gazprom. During that time, Gazprom has often been accused by European political leaders of using energy supplies as a geopolitical weapon. On some occasions, Eastern Europe's gas supply has been cut off due to disputes between Russia and neighboring Ukraine over energy pricing, often seen as proxies for wider political arguments.\nThere is also a place on the \"Putin list\" for Igor Sechin, head of state oil company Rosneft — though he's been under U.S. sanctions since 2014 over Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis — plus the CEOs of state-run rail, power and aircraft companies.\nROMAN ABRAMOVICH\nPerhaps best known internationally as the owner of Chelsea soccer club in London, billionaire businessman Abramovich made his fortune in oil and aluminum during the chaotic years that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He's since embraced a glamorous lifestyle, with vast private yachts, art deals and his ownership of Chelsea, which he bought in 2003 and turned into title contenders in England and Europe.\nARAS AGALAROV\nThe Azerbaijan-born property developer hosted Donald Trump at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, and Trump later featured in a music video made by Agalarov's son, Emin. The elder Agalarov has told the AP that Trump \"was thinking of building\" a Trump Tower in Moscow, but it didn't work out.\nThe Agalarovs were mentioned in emails ahead of a meeting between Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others in June 2016. Ahead of the meeting, Trump Jr. was promised dirt on his father's election rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton. He has since denied such material ever materialized.\nMIKHAIL PROKHOROV\nThe billionaire owner of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, Prokhorov has at times had an uneasy relationship with the Kremlin. A key investor in metals, Prokhorov ran against Putin in the 2012 Russian presidential election, finishing a distant third. A Russian media outlet he owned was raided by law enforcement in 2016 after publishing articles critical of people close to Putin. Prokhorov sold the company months later.\nHe has long been involved with sports and was a key figure in the former New Jersey Nets' 2012 move to Brooklyn. Prokhorov also ran Russia's federation for the winter sport of biathlon ahead of the 2014 Olympics, when Russian athletes were accused of being part of a doping program. He has denied any wrongdoing.\nDMITRY RYBOLOVLEV\nThe fertilizer magnate bought a Palm Beach mansion from Trump for around $95 million in 2008, a deal that Trump called in 2016 \"the closest I came to Russia\" when pressed on his ties to the country. Rybolovlev has a keen interest in soccer as the owner of the Monaco club, a regular in the Champions League.\nHis lengthy divorce from ex-wife Elena ended with an undisclosed settlement in 2015 after a legal battle in which his former spouse laid claim to billions of dollars in assets. Rybolovlev was also an investor in Alevo, a U.S. battery manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy protection in August.\nALISHER USMANOV\nBorn in what is now Uzbekistan, Usmanov has interests in metals and mining as well as some of Russia's biggest telecoms and internet businesses. He's also a part-owner of Arsenal soccer club in the English Premier League and president of the International Fencing Federation.\nLast year, he won a libel case against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny over a video regarding Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's alleged secret wealth. Navalny had alleged that Usmanov transferred assets to a charity foundation run by a former classmate of Medvedev. Usmanov insisted it was a bona fide business deal." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas says one of its senior officials has died, three weeks after accidentally shooting himself while cleaning his weapon in Gaza.\nSpokesman Hazem Qassem said on Tuesday that Imad al-Alami had been unconscious since the Jan. 9 shooting.\nHamas initially hastily announced al-Alami died naturally but later said he shot himself while checking his weapon at his Gaza City home and was in critical condition.\nThe 62-year-old al-Alami held several key posts as a member of Hamas' policy-making body and lived in Syria before returning to Gaza in 2012. He remained a prominent official though not a member of the current politburo.\nAfter the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, he traveled to Turkey for treatment for an injury in which he lost a leg. Hamas said he was wounded in the war." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Victor Oladipo is enjoying his return to Indiana.\nOladipo, who starred in college at Indiana University, had a career-high 47 points and added seven rebounds and six assists to lead the Pacers to a 126-116 overtime win over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday.\nThe Pacers trailed 114-106 with 2:54 remaining in the fourth before scoring eight straight points, capped by Thad Young's putback with 5 seconds left to tie it. Then, Indiana got the first nine points in overtime to secure its fourth straight win — all at home — while outscoring the Nuggets 12-2 in the extra period.\n\"These fans are incredible. It's like I never left,\" Oladipo said. \"In college it was the same way. It's pretty awesome to play in front of them.\"\nOn a night where most will remember all the baskets Oladipo made, the most crucial of his plays came with his drive to the basket with 7 seconds left that pulled defenders away from the rim and allowed Young to tip in his miss.\n\"(Victor) drove to the basket, got guys to bite and commit and I was just in position to get the rebound,\" Young said. \"We started to pressure up (in overtime) and started to get back to Pacers basketball.\"\nMyles Turner finished with 24 points and eight rebounds, and Lance Stephenson had 12 points, six rebounds and six assists for the Pacers.\nOladipo's made six 3-pointers with the biggest coming with 2:10 to play in the third quarter to give Indiana its first lead of the game.\nAfter the final buzzer, Oladipo walked to mid-court, standing along the sideline passing out high-fives to Pacers fans who found little optimism less than six months ago when Paul George was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Domantas Sabonis and Oladipo. Averaging just over 24 points per game, Oladipo now has his career high in points while wearing an Indiana uniform.\n\"The players in this locker room have been phenomenal,\" Oladipo said. \"They just make the game easier for me.\"\nWilson Chandler keyed a hot start for Denver by scoring eight of the Nuggets' first 10 points on the way to a 35-22 lead heading into the second quarter. And that deficit grew. Indiana trailed by as many as 19 in the second quarter after a slow start on offense. But the key moment of the game came near the end of the first half when the Pacers hit their stride, climbing back into the game with a 21-8 scoring run to head into halftime trailing 66-59.\nTrey Lyles led the Nuggets with a career-high 25 points, Gary Harris and Will Barton each had 21 points, and Chandler finished with 18.\n\"They're a very good basketball team,\" Nuggets coach Mike Malone said. \"We had our chance to close the game out in regulation, and they closed it out on an 8-0 run. Oladipo is a great player, but I am very proud of the way my guys played tonight, how we competed, and how we gave ourselves a chance to win on the road.\"\nHOMECOMING\nOladipo scored 20 points or more in 19 of Indiana's 26 games this season, with his latest effort marking the 18th time he has led the Pacers in scoring.\nFAMILIAR FACES\nLyles and Harris are two of the most recent well-known Indiana prep stars to make it to the NBA. Lyles (Arsenal Tech High School) and Harris (Hamilton Southeastern High School) made what will be their only trip back to Indianapolis this season. Harris (Michigan State) and Lyles (Kentucky) were highly sought after recruits during their time in high school with Lyles winning a state championship his senior year. On Sunday night the two combined for 46 points.\nTIP-INS\nNuggets: Paul Millsap (left wrist) and Nikola Jokic (left ankle) were held out of Sunday's game. ... Denver is now 3-10 on the road. . Denver's 19-point lead marks the largest blown lead in a loss by the Nuggets this season. ... Denver's 66 points at halftime were the most first-half points scored against the Pacers this season.\nPacers: Darren Collison missed Sunday's game due to a sore left knee. ... Since snapping a four-game losing streak Nov.10, the Pacers are 11-4. ... When the Nuggets host the Pacers on April 3, Indiana will try to win in Denver for the first time since 2007. The Pacers have lost eight-straight road games against the Nuggets (seven in Denver, one in London).\nUP NEXT\nNuggets: At Detroit on Tuesday\nPacers: Host Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, when former Pacers forward Paul George is set to make his first return to Indianapolis." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BERLIN (AP) — More than 100 outfits created by Gianni Versace from the 1970s to the 1990s are going on show in Berlin, some 20 years after the designer's death.\nOrganizers of the \"Gianni Versace Retrospective\" exhibition opening Tuesday at the German capital's Kronprinzenpalais put together the show with contributions from private collectors around the world. The wide-ranging exhibit covers both women's and menswear, and includes pieces such as a tailcoat ensemble with striped waistcoat made for Sting's wedding in 1992.\nCo-curator Karl von der Ahe said the show stemmed from a chance meeting with a major Versace collector, which generated a desire to \"show the breadth of the work.\" He said that the collectors \"all have their ambition and a certain jealousy.\"\nThe exhibition runs until April 13." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) — In the leading maple syrup producing state in the country, Vermont residents take their pancake topping seriously, and so do the judges at the annual maple contest at the Vermont Farm Show.\nOn Monday, a panel of three judges sampled dozens of syrups from producers around the state.\nAnd judging is far more than a sugar buzz.\nFirst, a judge tested the syrup for density — its sugar content. Then, the panel judged the syrup for its color, based on what type of syrup it is: golden, amber, dark or very dark. And finally, they tasted them for flavor.\nThis year's best in show went to Howard Beaupre, Sr., of Milton, Vermont, for his amber syrup." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MIAMI (AP) — James Johnson scored a career-high 31 points, Kelly Olynyk added 30 off the bench and the Miami Heat set a franchise single-game scoring record by beating the Denver Nuggets 149-141 in double overtime Monday night.\nMiami's total was also an NBA season-high and helped the Heat get back to the No. 7 spot in the Eastern Conference standings. Houston and Oklahoma City each scored 148 in games earlier this season.\nWayne Ellington scored 29 points for the Heat. Nikola Jokic had 34 for Denver, while Wilson Chandler added 26 for the Nuggets.\nNeither team was at full strength. For Miami, Dwyane Wade (left hamstring strain) missed his fourth consecutive game, and Hassan Whiteside (left hip pain) sat out his fifth straight contest. Denver was without leading scorer Gary Harris, sidelined again by a strained right knee that could keep him out several more days.\nDenver led 16-5 after 3 1/2 minutes, and that was the only double-digit lead by either side for about the next three hours. It was airtight until the very final moments.\nCAVALIERS 124, BUCKS 117\nCLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James scored 40 points as part of his third triple-double in four games and Cleveland beat Milwaukee as coach Tyronn Lue began his leave of absence to address health issues.\nLue said Monday in a statement he been dealing with chest pains and loss of sleep, and that tests have offered no conclusion about what the issue is. Associate head coach Larry Drew will run the team in Lue's absence.\nJames scored 17 points in the third quarter and finished with 12 rebounds and 10 assists for his 16th triple-double this season and 71st of his career.\nThe four-time MVP took over in the third beginning with back-to-back 3-pointers. After not getting a foul called on a third attempt, he finished Cleveland's next possession with a massive dunk. He was fouled attempting another dunk and made both free throws the following time down.\n76ERS 108, HORNETS 104\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid had 25 points and 19 rebounds and Ben Simmons had a triple-double to lead Philadelphia over Charlotte.\nSimmons had 11 points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists to help the Sixers keep alive their shot at finishing fourth in the Eastern Conference and earning home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.\nThe 76ers have one of the easiest schedules of any team the rest of the season. The Sixers would have to pass Washington and Indiana to grab the No. 4 seed and stave off a potential Toronto or Boston matchup for at least a round.\nThe Hornets missed 17 of 21 shots in the third (1 of 5 on 3s) to crush their chances of stretching a seven-point halftime lead.\nPACERS 110, LAKERS 100\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Victor Oladipo sparked a decisive run and finished with 20 points, Myles Turner had 21 points and Indiana recovered from a poor start for a victory over Los Angeles.\nThe victory snapped Indiana's two-game losing streak.\nLos Angeles was led by Kyle Kuzma with 27 points and Brook Lopez with 23, but the Lakers still lost their third straight.\nOladipo and Darren Collison got Indiana going with back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the third quarter for a 77-70 lead.\nKNICKS 110, BULLS 92\nNEW YORK (AP) — Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 22 points and Michael Beasley added 17 as New York beat Chicago.\nEnes Kanter had 10 points and 13 rebounds, while Troy Williams added 11 for the Knicks.\nCristiano Felicio scored a career-high 17 points for the Bulls, who were missing their top three scorers and went 3-for-30 from 3-point range. Bobby Portis and Antonio Blakeney scored 16 points apiece.\nNETS 118, GRIZZLIES 115\nNEW YORK (AP) — Allen Crabbe and Caris LeVert each scored 22 points and Brooklyn beat Memphis.\nRondae Hollis-Jefferson had 16 points and 12 rebounds, and DeMarre Carroll scored 18 points for the Nets, who have two straight wins for the first time since Jan. 19-21.\nAndrew Harrison, who missed Memphis' last nine games due to a right wrist injury, scored 19 points, and Brionte Webber had a career-high 15. The Grizzlies have lost 20 of 21.\n___\nMore AP basketball: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Burnley struck late to extend Newcastle's winless run at home in the Premier League with a 1-1 draw on Wednesday.\nSubstitute Sam Vokes' header rebounded in off Newcastle goalkeeper Karl Darlow with five minutes remaining after new signing Kenedy appeared to have inspired the Magpies to victory.\nThe Brazilian, who has joined on loan from Chelsea until the end of the season, won a penalty that was subsequently missed, before setting up Jamaal Lascelles for the opening goal in the 65th minute.\nNewcastle has now failed to win at St James' Park in eight Premier League games and is one of four teams just one point clear of the relegation zone.\nKenedy made an immediate impact as he won a penalty just 34 minutes into his Newcastle career, drawing a foul from Phil Bardsley only for Joselu to see his tame effort saved by Nick Pope.\nIt was Newcastle captain Lascelles who was the eventual beneficiary of Kenedy's persistence, heading home a perfectly placed corner.\nJust five minutes from the end, Newcastle was unlucky to be denied its first home league victory since October. Vokes' header hit the crossbar, before bouncing in via a deflection off the helpless Darlow.\nBurnley hasn't won in eight Premier League games, but ended a three-match losing streak and moves up to seventh in the table." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CHICAGO (AP) — These sure are sweet times for Loyola-Chicago.\nTwo last-second shots — two prayers answered — vaulted the Ramblers to the Sweet 16 and placed them right in the national spotlight.\n\"Coach (Porter Moser) has been talking about how 'You think this is good? Look around. You think this is good? Well, it's gonna get even better,'\" guard Ben Richardson said. \"It's just kind of been bought into that, like put it in the bag and move on.\"\nThe Ramblers are moving on to face Nevada after two breathtaking victories, a run that has captivated college basketball and turned 98-year-old team chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt into a celebrity.\nThey knocked off Miami on Dante Ingram's buzzer-beating 3-pointer from the March Madness logo, then got the sweetest of all bounces on Clayton Custer's jumper in the closing seconds to beat Tennessee in Dallas. On Monday, they were back home preparing for Nevada.\nThe Ramblers (30-5) will bring more wins than any other team in the program's 100-year history into Thursday's game in Atlanta, having surpassed their 1963 champions during this NCAA run.\nNo small accomplishment for a team that struggled for decades following a Sweet 16 loss to Patrick Ewing and Georgetown in 1985. Loyola went 14 seasons without a winning record at one point. The first few years after Moser took over in 2011 weren't so smooth, either.\nThey've gone from 7-23 with just one win in the Horizon League in his first season to capturing the Missouri Valley Championship, from small home crowds to their first sellout in 15 years, from obscurity to center stage. It's quite a turnaround for the Jesuit school of about 16,000 along the lakefront on Chicago's northern edge.\nFor guard Lucas Williamson, it's been a nonstop flow of well-wishes and congratulations. Whether it's from posts on social media, students coming up to him in the dorm or professors wishing the team well in classes, they keep pouring in.\n\"I love all the appreciation,\" said Williamson, a Chicago product.\nEven former President Barack Obama gave the Ramblers — and Sister Jean — a shoutout. He tweeted after the first-round win: \"Congrats to @LoyolaChicago and Sister Jean for a last-second upset - I had faith in my pick!\"\n\"I can't even start to put into words the outreach that we've had across the country from so many people,\" Moser said. \"When you have a media market like Chicago ... you can't put into words (what it means to the school). I'm sure in the months ahead they'll be put into a more detailed impact. But right now, it's just fun for the university to have this kind of national recognition.\"\nAnd he's not shying away from the attention.\n\"The media scrutiny, the spotlight, it's great for them,\" Moser said. \"They're mature enough to handle it. They've been handling it now for a month straight. I'm not that guy that's gonna hold back and not enjoy this journey. They're enjoying it. But they're gonna absolutely ... be locked in, ready to go.\"\nThat means figuring out a way to beat a team that just pulled off quite a shocker.\nNevada wiped out a 22-point deficit in the final 11 minutes to match the second-biggest comeback in NCAA Tournament history and knock out Cincinnati. The Wolf Pack (28-7) are in the Sweet 16 for the second time. Otherwise, it would have been Ramblers against Bearcats in a matchup that sure would have sparked flashbacks to the '63 title game. That year, Loyola beat two-time defending champion Cincinnati in a landmark moment for racial equality.\n\"Super, super, super talented offensive team,\" Richardson said about Nevada. \"You've gotta give credit to a team like that that fought back from a huge deficit. That's just the kind of stuff that happens in March. You've always gotta be ready for a team to make a historic comeback. That's a tribute to the way they play, they play super hard, they're a really talented offensive team, and there'll definitely be a lot of things we have to game plan for because they're definitely a tough matchup.\"\nSomething else that might concern Loyola: Sister Jean had them losing in the Sweet 16 in her bracket.\n\"Sister Jean, she's been our biggest supporter,\" Williamson said. \"And she's definitely gonna be our biggest supporter. But we're gonna have to bust her bracket on this one.\"\n___\nMore AP college basketball: https://collegebasketball.ap.org , https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 and https://www.podcastone.com/ap-sports-special-events" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Taipei City Government Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced Monday Dec. 11 that sulfur dioxide emissions from the Songshan Airport have decreased by 42 percent compared to last year.\nThe department has now proposed a tax on aviation fuel to encourage a continued reduction in emissions, reported CNA.\nThe Songshan Airport alone is responsible for 60 percent of Taipei City's air pollution.\nIn 2015 there was 900ppm of sulfur dioxide in aviation fuel at Songshan Airport and this year levels fell to 520ppm, a decrease of 42 percent.\nThe DEP pointed out that sulfur dioxide harms the respiratory tract, irritates eyes, and sours the soil in the form of acid rain. Sulfur dioxide particulate of only 2.5PM can still penetrate human lungs and gradually impact breathing.\nThe DEP suggested that the best way to keep efficiently minimizing air pollution is to reduce Songshan Airport's sulfur dioxide emissions by 8 percent a year.\nThe DEP will submit a proposal to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that a tax be formally included in legislation. The DEP proposes that the tax be adjusted according to the amount sulfur dioxide in the fuel.\nThe money collected from the tax will be forwarded to local government administrations surrounding the Songshan Airport to help improve air quality." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Despite disappointment that their Minnesota Vikings won't be the first team to play a Super Bowl in their home stadium, state officials and team owners opened their arms to Super Bowl fans on Monday as they kicked off a week of events before Sunday's game between the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots.\nDemocratic Gov. Mark Dayton proclaimed it Super Bowl Week in the state, and Minnesota Host Committee co-chairman Doug Baker promised fans a week they won't forget.\nMany events include a local flair and outdoor activities that seek to turn the state's snow and ice into a strength — what promoters are calling the \"Bold North.\"\n\"This is Minnesota. It's not going to be Florida balmy. But it's going to be Minnesota cold, and we're proud of it,\" Dayton said. \"We're proud of our state. And we're just very much willing to welcome everybody who wants to come up here.\"\nOfficials say the Super Bowl wouldn't have come to Minnesota's northern climate without U.S. Bank Stadium, which opened in 2016. Dayton and Minnesota lawmakers in 2012 approved a financing package for the facility, which had taxpayers paying nearly half the cost of the $1.1 billion stadium.\nVikings owner Zygi Wilf said Monday the partnership that got the roofed stadium built \"is a great template for other cities to see that it's not just a one-way street.\" Wilf said that while locales in warmer climates are more likely to draw future Super Bowls, this joint venture between the owners and the city and state resulted in what he called \"the best stadium in the United States.\"\nThe Vikings fell one win short of landing on the NFL's biggest stage after losing the NFC championship game to the Eagles 38-7 . Instead, the Eagles will be here seeking their first Vince Lombardi Trophy, trying to deny the Patriots a sixth Super Bowl title.\nNeither team has played in U.S. Bank Stadium.\nThough he joked about wearing a purple tie \"in defiance,\" Dayton said the state will set aside its disappointment that the Vikings aren't in the Super Bowl and will welcome all visitors, even suggesting: \"Behave yourselves — and dress warmly.\"\nPerhaps as proof that \"Minnesota Nice\" really does exist, more than 10,000 people have volunteered to direct visitors and help keep things running smoothly during the week. In addition to bringing the Super Bowl to Minnesota, the host committee has spent the last year investing $5 million in grants to improve the health and wellness of kids around the state.\n\"I'm often asked what makes Super Bowl 52 unique, and the conversation often turns to the cold and to the weather. But my real answer is, it's the people,\" NFL Senior Vice President of Events Peter O'Reilly said. \"It's the people and the energy and the warmth here in the Bold North that is really coming through.\"\n___\nFollow Amy Forliti on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/amyforliti . More of her work at: https://apnews.com/search/amy%20forliti\n___\nFor more AP NFL coverage: http://pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will be meeting with the families of the victims of a Texas school shooting during a visit to the state Thursday.\nWhite House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders made the announcement at the White House briefing Wednesday.\nEight students and two substitute teachers were killed during the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18.\nThe president will be traveling to Houston and Dallas on Thursday." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "FLINT, Mich. (AP) — It's been more than three years since Flint, Michigan, switched its water source in an effort to save money, which led to a man-made public health crisis embroiling Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's administration in scrutiny and criminal charges against a number of public officials. The most serious counts have been levied against Michigan's top health official and four others, who were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter. Here are some key events surrounding the impoverished city's lead-tainted water crisis:\n___\nApril 2014: In an effort to save money, Flint begins drawing water from the Flint River for its 100,000 residents, instead of relying on water from Detroit. The move is considered temporary while the city waits to connect to a new regional water system. Residents immediately complain about the smell, taste and appearance of the water, and raise health concerns, reporting rashes, hair loss and other problems.\nJanuary 2015: Detroit offers to reconnect Flint to its water system, but Flint leaders insist the water is safe.\nSept. 24, 2015: A group of doctors urges Flint to stop using the Flint River for water after finding high levels of lead in the blood of children. State regulators insist the water is safe.\nSept. 29, 2015: Gov. Rick Snyder pledges to take action in response to the lead levels — the first acknowledgment by the state that lead is a problem.\nOctober 2015: Snyder announces that the state will spend $1 million to buy water filters and test water in Flint public schools, and days later calls for Flint to go back to using water from Detroit's system.\nOct. 15, 2015: The Michigan Legislature and Snyder approve nearly $9.4 million in aid to Flint, including $6 million to help switch its drinking water back to Detroit.\nDec. 29, 2015: Snyder accepts the resignation of Department of Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant and apologizes for what occurred in Flint.\nJan. 5, 2016: Snyder declares a state of emergency in Flint, the same day federal officials confirm that they are investigating. A week later, the Michigan National Guard begins helping to distribute bottled water and filters, while Snyder asks the federal government for help.\nJan. 13, 2016: Michigan health officials report an increase in Legionnaires' disease cases — some fatal — over the past two years in the county that includes Flint.\nJan. 14, 2016: Snyder asks the Obama administration for major disaster declaration and more federal aid. The White House provides federal aid and an emergency declaration on Jan. 16, but not the disaster declaration.\nJan. 15, 2016: Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette begins an \"independent review\" into the Flint crisis.\nMid-March. 2016: State officials testify before Congress, including Snyder and the state-appointed emergency manager who oversaw Flint when the water source was switched to the river.\nMarch 23, 2016: A governor-appointed panel concludes that the state of Michigan is \"fundamentally accountable\" for the crisis because of decisions made by environmental regulators.\nApril 20, 2016: Two state officials and a local official are charged with evidence tampering and other crimes in the Michigan attorney general's investigation — the first to be levied in the probe.\nAug. 14: A federal emergency declaration over Flint's lead-tainted water crisis ends, but state officials say work continues to fix the drinking water system and provide services to city residents.\nDec. 2: Researchers report that water in Flint is improving after finding no detectable levels of lead in 57 percent of homes during another round of tests. But they caution residents to continue using filters.\nDec. 10: Congress approves a wide-ranging bill to authorize water projects across the country, including $170 million to address lead in Flint's drinking water.\nDec. 16: Congressional Republicans quietly close a yearlong investigation into Flint's crisis, faulting both state officials and the Environmental Protection Agency.\nDec. 20: Schuette charges former emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose with multiple 20-year felonies for their failure to protect the residents of Flint from health hazards caused by contaminated drinking water. He also charges Earley, Ambrose and two Flint city employees with felony counts of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses in the issuance of bonds to pay for a portion of the water project that led to the crisis.\nFeb. 17: The Michigan Civil Rights Commission issues a report that finds \"systemic racism\" going back decades is at the core of problems that caused the water crisis in the majority black city of Flint.\nMarch 16: Snyder announces that his administration will enact the country's toughest lead limit for water in the wake of the lead contamination in Flint.\nMarch 28: Water lines at 18,000 homes in Flint will be replaced under a landmark deal approved by a judge, marking a milestone in the effort to overcome the disastrous decision in 2014 to draw water from the Flint River without treating it to prevent lead contamination.\nJune 14: Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon is accused of failing to alert the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the Flint area. He and four others are charged with involuntary manslaughter. The state's chief medical officer, Dr. Eden Wells, is charged with obstruction of justice and lying to an investigator.\nSchuette says he is not charging Snyder." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Voting began in the election for governor of the Indonesian capital after a months-long campaign in which the monumental problems facing Jakarta took a backseat to religious intolerance and racial bigotry.\nMore than 13,000 polling places opened at 7 a.m. to accommodate the 7.1 million people eligible to vote. The election is one of dozens taking place Wednesday across Muslim-majority Indonesia.\nIncumbent Gov. Basuki \"Ahok\" Tjahaja Purnama, a minority Christian and ethnic Chinese, is vying against Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, who is the son of a former president, and Anies Rasyid Baswedan, a moderate now courting the votes of conservative and hard-line Muslims.\nAhok's chances appeared dashed after accusations of blasphemy led to criminal charges and his ongoing blasphemy trial but he has recently rebounded in opinion polls." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "BOSTON (AP) — A member of the violent MS-13 gang has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge involving a brutal stabbing.\nFederal prosecutors say 22-year-old Daniel Menjivar was also sentenced Monday to three years or probation and faces deportation upon completion of his sentence. He pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more commonly referred to as RICO conspiracy.\nProsecutors say Menjivar, a native of El Salvador living in Chelsea, and a gang associate repeatedly stabbed and shot a man they thought was a member of a rival gang in Chelsea in May 2014. He then openly boasted about the attack in an undercover recording.\nThe victim was stabbed 21 times but survived." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CAIN ALTO, Puerto Rico (AP) — After months of darkness and stifling heat, Noe Pagan was overjoyed when power-line workers arrived to restore electricity to his home deep in the lush green mountains of Puerto Rico. But to his dismay, instead of raising a power pole toppled by Hurricane Maria, the federal contractors bolted the new 220-volt line to a narrow tree trunk — a safety code violation virtually guaranteed to leave Pagan blacked out in a future hurricane.\nPagan said \"I asked the contractors if they were going to connect the cable to the post and they just didn't answer.\"\nAfter an eight-month, $3.8 billion federal effort to try to end the longest blackout in U.S. history, officials say Puerto Rico's public electrical authority is almost certain to collapse again when the next hurricane hits." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has referred the case of 10 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members held on terrorism charges to the country's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion on whether they can be executed.\nThe Giza Criminal Court said Wednesday the 10 were charged with belonging to a terrorist group and planning attacks against the state.\nThe verdict, set for March 10, can be appealed. The judge could also rule independently of the Mufti.\nThe Brotherhood won a series of free elections after Egypt's 2011 uprising, and a senior Brotherhood figure, Mohammed Morsi, was elected president in 2012.\nA year later, the military overthrew Morsi amid mass protests against his rule. Authorities have since arrested thousands of Brotherhood members and branded it a terrorist organization." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's deputy president is acting more like a president these days, while talk surrounding his scandal-tainted boss is about how and when he would quit.\nThat makes for awkward leadership in one of Africa's biggest economies, where a power transition from President Jacob Zuma to his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, appears to be taking shape even though the president's term runs until 2019 elections.\nAn early exit for Zuma is being considered by ruling African National Congress party officials amid impatience among South Africans who hope change at the top could reduce high-level corruption that has hurt the economy and the ANC's popularity and diminished South Africa's international image.\nA flashpoint for frustration could come on Feb. 8 when Zuma is scheduled to deliver the state of the nation address in parliament. If he speaks, there likely would be protests both inside and outside the chamber. On Wednesday, Mmusi Maimane, the main opposition leader, asked the parliament speaker to postpone the speech until the ruling party resolves its internal conflict and South Africa has a new president.\nFor now, South Africa seems to have two leaders, one on the way out and one poised to take over. Ramaphosa, who emerged from Zuma's shadow after replacing him as head of the ruling party in December, represented the country last week in a high-profile visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.\nIn a speech back home on Tuesday, Ramaphosa delivered an anti-corruption message widely viewed as a coded attack on Zuma and his associates.\n\"We remain resolute that no act of corruption will go unpunished, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator,\" Ramaphosa said, adding that national development \"cannot take root in a sea of patronage, greed and willful economic sabotage.\"\nZuma, meanwhile, returned on the same day from an African Union summit in Ethiopia, where he also talked about corruption. He acknowledged a problem in Africa but called it \"quite exaggerated\" at times and said entities outside the continent encourage African corruption for their own benefit.\nZuma's office said he also hosted a dinner commemorating the 100th birthday of Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013. Some South African media characterized the dinner as an informal farewell to fellow leaders.\nThe Ethiopia trip contrasted with Ramaphosa's up-tempo appearance among world leaders at Davos, where he promised that South Africa was entering a \"new era\" of clean government and business confidence.\nA former union leader during apartheid, Ramaphosa built a reputation as a shrewd ANC negotiator during the early 1990s transition from white minority rule to democracy and later became a wealthy businessman.\nZuma, also a figure in the anti-apartheid movement, has been embroiled in scandals, including multi-million-dollar upgrades to his private home with state money and his association with the Guptas, a business family accused of looting state enterprises and influencing Cabinet ministers for their own benefit. Both Zuma and the Guptas have denied wrongdoing.\nHigh-profile investigations have picked up pace since Ramaphosa became ruling party leader.\nOn Tuesday, Lucky Montana, a former CEO of South Africa's passenger rail agency, told a parliamentary inquiry that he resisted pressure to appoint Gupta associates to the agency's board. Parliament is investigating similar allegations of corruption and mismanagement at other state-owned enterprises, including power utility Eskom.\nUnder pressure in recent weeks to step aside and improve the ruling party's image ahead of the 2019 elections, Zuma has appointed a commission of inquiry to look into corruption allegations. He could be looking to secure benefits after the presidency including protection from prosecution, according to analysts.\nThe options for an early Zuma exit include resignation; his recall by the ruling party's leadership; and impeachment or a vote of no-confidence in parliament, where the ANC holds a majority.\nMaimane, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance, said that as long as Zuma is president and Ramaphosa is head of the ruling party, the country is left \"not knowing which direction is being pursued.\"\n___\nFollow Christopher Torchia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/torchiachris" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials are advising more residents of a rural Big Island district to evacuate because of approaching lava from Kilauea volcano.\nHawaii County Civil Defense said Wednesday lava from fissures continues to advance toward subdivisions in the Puna district. Officials say those in Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland are at risk of being isolated if lava crosses a road.\nThe Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says vigorous eruption continues from a series of vents that began opening earlier this month. Lava has crossed a key highway that connects the commercial center of Pahoa with Leilani Estates, where the eruption began.\nResidents of Leilani Estates and nearby areas have previously been ordered to evacuate." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Following a 15-year tenure as president and CEO, Linda Rosenberg said today she will be leaving the National Council for Behavioral Health in August 2019. She made the announcement during an address to National Council members attending NatCon18, the organization’s annual conference.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005321/en/\nLinda Rosenberg, president and CEO, National Council for Behavioral Health (Photo: Business Wire)\nRosenberg led the association during a period of extensive growth and rebranding. Under her leadership the National Council has become a powerful policy and advocacy voice for behavioral health, helping secure passage of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, expanding integrated behavioral and primary care services and leading the support for the Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Excellence Act resulting in a network of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.\nDuring Rosenberg’s tenure, the National Council became a highly valued provider of technical assistance, driving organizational, clinical and workforce improvements. Membership tripled to more than 2,900 organizations; NatCon, the National Council’s annual conference, grew fourfold, becoming behavioral health’s premier conference; and Mental Health First Aid was introduced in the U.S.\n“Linda Rosenberg has taken the National Council to unimagined heights,” said Jeff Richardson, National Council Board chair. “She helped propel behavioral health to the forefront of the health care agenda and introduced a number of initiatives that improved our members’ ability to provide quality, accessible mental health and addictions services. Her visionary leadership sets the tone for the Council going forward.”\n“It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve the National Council,” Rosenberg said. “I leave behind member organizations devoted to the health of their communities and an extraordinary staff. Together we have accomplished many things, and I’m deeply proud of the progress we’ve made. Now it’s time for the next leader to take the National Council to new heights,” Rosenberg continued.\n“I’m leaving but my passion for improving the lives of those affected by mental and addictive disorders hasn’t dimmed. I look forward to new opportunities to contribute. I’ve been an activist my entire life — and that won’t stop anytime soon.”\nThe National Council Board of Directors has engaged Korn Ferry, an executive recruitment firm, to conduct a nationwide search that will begin in September 2018.\nThe National Council for Behavioral Health is the unifying voice of America’s health care organizations that deliver mental health and addictions treatment and services. Together with our 2,900 member organizations serving over 10 million adults, children and families living with mental illnesses and addictions, the National Council is committed to all Americans having access to comprehensive, high-quality care that affords every opportunity for recovery. The National Council introduced Mental Health First Aid USA and more than 1 million Americans have been trained.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005321/en/\nCONTACT: Aaron Cohen, 301-633-6773\naaroncohenpr@gmail.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA MARYLAND\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH GENERAL HEALTH MANAGED CARE\nSOURCE: The National Council for Behavioral Health\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 08:15 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 08:15 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005321/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows that most Americans think President Donald Trump has little to no respect for the country's democratic traditions.\nThe survey conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that more than 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing. Two-thirds of Americans, or 65 percent, think Trump doesn't have much respect for the country's democratic institutions and traditions, or has none at all.\nOne-third, or 34 percent, thinks he has a great deal or even a fair amount of respect for them. Overall, 64 percent disapprove and 35 percent approve of how Trump is handling the presidency.\nNearly all the interviews were conducted after former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SYDNEY (AP) — A hotel valet had a lucky escape — but the luxury sports car he was trying to park did not.\nAustralian media say the valet drove the soft-top Porsche Carrera under another vehicle Thursday outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sydney.\nEmergency workers cut the driver out from the Porsche as a large crowd watched. The driver was reported to be unhurt.\nThe larger vehicle was propped up and its wheels were anchored so the vehicles could be separated. The black Porsche, its hood and front bumper crunched and dented, was then backed onto a tow truck.\nWitness Jonathan Bayle told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. he thought a television show or movie was being shot." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on calls for California's public pension fund to stop investing in assault-weapon retailers (all times local):\n12 p.m.\nThe father of a 27-year-old woman who died in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, is calling on the nation's largest public pension fund to stop investing in companies that sell assault weapons.\nRobert Velasco says action by California's public pension board can \"send a powerful message\" to lawmakers who have failed to act after mass shootings nationwide.\nVelasco is one of several relatives of San Bernardino shooting victims who are testifying before the California Public Employees' Retirement System board. The pension fund says four of the five companies it invests in that sell guns have decided to stop selling assault weapons.\nRenee Wetzel, whose husband died in the 2015 attack, is imploring the board to \"use his memory to make a change.\"\nAlso testifying are California alumni of the Florida high school where 17 people were killed last month.\n___\n8 a.m.\nCalifornia State Treasurer John Chiang is calling on the nation's largest public pension fund to stop investing in companies that sell assault-style weapons and devices that allow guns to fire more rapidly.\nChiang will speak Monday at a board meeting of the California Public Employees' Retirement System alongside family members of victims of the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people.\nThe wife of a high school teacher who died in Parkland, Florida, sent a letter supporting Chiang's effort. Chiang, a Democrat, is running for governor.\nCalPERS has a combined roughly $850 in million holdings in five companies that sell such guns or devices: Dick's Sporting Goods, Walmart, Kroger, Big 5 Sporting Goods and Sportsman's Warehouse Holdings. The fund's total value is $354 billion." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "DENVER (AP) — A former VA executive who was criticized by Congress for massive cost overruns at a new Colorado veterans hospital says he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion.\nIn a rare interview, Glenn Haggstrom, the former top construction official for the Veterans Affairs Department, tells The Associated Press he was astounded by the price of the hospital under construction outside Denver.\nHe says the last estimate he heard from the builder before he was removed from the project was $890 million.\nHaggstrom says he bears some responsibility for the problems because of his job duties, but he says others made mistakes too. He declined to name anyone.\nHaggstrom retired in 2015 amid an internal VA investigation into what went wrong.\nThe hospital is scheduled for completion next year." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TOKYO (AP) — Fujifilm Holdings and Xerox Corp. say the Japanese company will take over Xerox in a restructuring intended to slash costs.\nThe companies said Wednesday that Fuji Xerox, their 56-year-old joint venture, will combine with Xerox. Fujifilm Holdings will own 50.1 percent of Xerox's shares\nThey said that through restructuring and other reforms, they expect to save $1.7 billion a year by 2022.\nThe deal calls for Xerox shareholders to receive a $2.5 billion special cash dividend, or approximately $9.801 per share. Xerox will own 49.9 of the combined company.\nThe companies said they intend to expand in lucrative business areas such as high-speed inkjet printers, industrial printing, using Fujifilm's technologies.\nThe companies said Jeff Jacobson, President & CEO of 112-year-old Xerox, is due to be CEO of New Fuji Xerox." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 29 21 6 2 44 110 74 13-2-1 8-4-1 5-2-0 Toronto 31 20 10 1 41 106 88 10-5-0 10-5-1 5-1-1 Columbus 30 19 10 1 39 86 73 11-5-0 8-5-1 6-4-0 N.Y. Islanders 30 17 10 3 37 108 100 9-1-2 8-9-1 5-3-1 Washington 31 18 12 1 37 95 91 12-5-0 6-7-1 5-3-0 New Jersey 29 16 9 4 36 89 91 6-5-2 10-4-2 2-3-0 N.Y. Rangers 30 16 11 3 35 99 89 12-5-3 4-6-0 5-4-2 Pittsburgh 32 16 13 3 35 94 104 10-5-1 6-8-2 4-2-0 Boston 27 14 9 4 32 78 75 9-4-2 5-5-2 1-1-2 Montreal 31 13 14 4 30 85 99 8-7-3 5-7-1 8-1-1 Carolina 28 11 10 7 29 78 88 6-4-3 5-6-4 2-3-2 Philadelphia 29 11 11 7 29 83 86 4-6-4 7-5-3 1-0-3 Florida 30 12 14 4 28 90 105 6-6-3 6-8-1 4-3-1 Detroit 30 11 13 6 28 81 99 5-6-5 6-7-1 3-7-1 Ottawa 28 9 12 7 25 77 98 4-5-5 5-7-2 2-2-1 Buffalo 30 7 17 6 20 64 102 3-9-1 4-8-5 2-4-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div St. Louis 31 21 8 2 44 104 78 11-5-0 10-3-2 5-1-1 Los Angeles 31 20 8 3 43 97 68 10-5-2 10-3-1 3-3-2 Winnipeg 31 18 8 5 41 107 87 11-2-1 7-6-4 5-1-1 Nashville 29 18 7 4 40 95 84 11-2-2 7-5-2 8-1-1 Vegas 29 19 9 1 39 103 91 11-2-0 8-7-1 9-1-0 San Jose 29 16 10 3 35 79 69 9-6-2 7-4-1 4-1-2 Dallas 31 17 13 1 35 91 90 10-4-0 7-9-1 4-8-0 Calgary 30 16 12 2 34 88 94 8-8-0 8-4-2 5-3-0 Minnesota 29 15 11 3 33 87 87 8-3-2 7-8-1 4-5-0 Chicago 30 14 11 5 33 90 82 8-5-2 6-6-3 2-5-2 Vancouver 31 14 13 4 32 82 90 5-6-3 9-7-1 3-5-0 Anaheim 30 12 11 7 31 80 89 7-7-3 5-4-4 3-2-4 Colorado 29 14 13 2 30 92 95 8-5-1 6-8-1 4-5-1 Edmonton 30 12 16 2 26 86 99 5-9-0 7-7-2 4-1-0 Arizona 33 7 21 5 19 75 114 3-8-1 4-13-4 1-5-3\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nSunday's Games\nChicago 3, Arizona 1\nSt. Louis 3, Buffalo 2, OT\nToronto 1, Edmonton 0\nMinnesota 4, San Jose 3, OT\nMonday's Games\nColorado 2, Pittsburgh 1\nDallas 2, N.Y. Rangers 1, SO\nN.Y. Islanders 3, Washington 1\nFlorida 2, Detroit 1, OT\nWinnipeg 5, Vancouver 1\nCarolina at Anaheim, 10 p.m.\nTuesday's Games\nEdmonton at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nOttawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Washington, 7 p.m.\nLos Angeles at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nCalgary at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.\nCarolina at Vegas, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nDallas at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nBoston at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nNashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nBuffalo at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.\nWashington at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nNew Jersey at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.\nChicago at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nAnaheim at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nToronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nFlorida at Colorado, 9 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nNashville at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nSan Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nPittsburgh at Vegas, 10 p.m." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TOP STORY:\nSOC--WCUP-RUSSIA-RACISM\nMOSCOW — Racist and anti-gay chants have become more common in Russian soccer as the country prepares to host the World Cup, even as overall incidents of discrimination declined. By James Ellingworth. SENT: 540 words, photos.\nNEW/DEVELOPING:\nTEN--FRENCH OPEN\nPARIS — Top-ranked Simona Halep, a two-time finalist at the French Open, finally makes her debut in this year's tournament on Day 4, facing Alison Riske in a postponed match. By Howard Fendrich. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos.\nBKN--NBA FINALS\nOAKLAND, Calif. — Klay Thompson sat on the floor in the middle of his teammates and pointed to his \"2018 NBA FINALS\" hat during a locker-room photo. An important face was missing from the moment: Andre Iguodala. By Janie McCauley. SENT: 600 words, photos.\nRGU--SOUTH AFRICA-TEAM\nJOHANNESBURG — Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus will give at least seven players their test debut under stand-in captain Pieter-Steph du Toit in the game against Wales in Washington this weekend. SENT: 300 words, photos.\nWORLD CUP:\nSOC--WCUP-MOMENTS-BATTLE OF SANTIAGO\n\"Good evening. The game you are about to see is the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game.\" Those were the words of BBC commentator David Coleman as he introduced the British broadcaster's coverage of a group match between host Chile and Italy at the 1962 World Cup. By Pan Pylas. SENT: 300 words, photos.\nSOC--WCUP-PORTUGAL'S TIME\nAfter finally breaking through with its first major title at the European Championship two years ago, Portugal will use the same formula at the World Cup. The European champions will travel to Russia with many of the players from the squad that won Euro 2016, including Cristiano Ronaldo, and it will also carry the same low-key mentality it had when it succeeded in France. By Tales Azzoni. SENT: 630 words, photos.\nFOOTBALL:\nSOC--BAYERN-LEWANDOWSKI\nMUNICH — Robert Lewandowski wants to leave Bayern Munich, according to agent Pini Zahavi. Zahavi told Sport Bild magazine that the Bundesliga's top scorer \"feels that he needs a change and a new challenge in his career.\" SENT: 310 words, photos.\nSOC--JAPAN-GHANA\nYOKOHAMA, Japan — Akira Nishino made his debut as Japan coach on Wednesday in a 2-0 loss to Ghana. In steady rain at Nissan Stadium, Thomas Partey gave Ghana a 1-0 lead in the ninth minute with free kick from the top of the area. Emmanuel Boateng doubled the advantage from the penalty spot in the 51st. By Jim Armstrong. SENT: 260 words, photos.\nOther Stories:\n— BBO--BASEBALL CAPSULES — Gardner, Torres rally Yankees to 6-5 win over Astros in 10. SENT: 2,080 words, photos.\nYOUR QUERIES: Questions and story requests are welcome. Contact your local AP bureau or the AP International Sports Desk in London by telephone at +44 207 427 4224 or email lonsports@ap.org." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Police who found a badly decomposed body in bed in a Detroit-area home believe a 62-year-old woman may have shared the home with her dead roommate for months.\nPolice in Warren found the body of 68-year-old George Curtis on Monday. An autopsy will be performed.\nWJBK-TV and The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens report Tuesday that relatives contacted police after hearing nothing from Curtis for months.\nThe woman has been hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation.\nPolice Commissioner Bill Dwyer tells the newspaper \"it's just bizarre (that) she stayed in the home like that and didn't report anything.\"\nPolice say Curtis may have been dead for months.\nDwyer says the house may have to be condemned and demolished due to the condition inside and the odor." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SHAFTSBURY, Vt. (AP) — The Robert Frost Stone House Museum is ready to reopen under new ownership.\nThe Friends of Robert Frost announced last September that it was donating the house, seven acres of property, and two barns to Bennington college.\nIt's due to open for the season on May 3.\nThe Benning Banner reports that Frost purchased the house in 1920 and lived there until 1929. He was living in the house when he won his first Pulitzer Prize, as well as when he composed many of his poems, including \"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.\"\nFrost's house will remain open to the public but also will be incorporated into college programs and studies.\n___\nInformation from: Bennington Banner, http://www.benningtonbanner.com" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2018--Rockwell Automation has joined Plug and Play’s corporate partnership network which provides access to qualified and strategically aligned early-and-growth stage startups.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006152/en/\nEstablished in 2006, Plug and Play is a global innovation platform that, through a series of industry-specific accelerator programs, brings together the best startups and the biggest corporations in the world. By accessing these programs, Rockwell Automation will now be able to identify, review, and leverage new and disruptive industrial IoT technologies developed by world-class start-ups which will enhance its industry-leading offerings in integrated architecture, intelligent motor control, and related solutions & services.\n“Our collaboration with Plug and Play demonstrates how we look to expand and accelerate innovation for industrial automation and information solutions, access new technologies, and better address customer needs,” said Elik Fooks, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Rockwell Automation. “With access to hundreds of startups and developers in Silicon Valley, we can positively impact the future of our industry, and the customer experience.”\n“We are proud to have Rockwell Automation join our IoT platform. Their expertise in industrial automation and information will bring valuable insight to our ecosystem,” said Saeed Amidi, Founder and CEO of Plug and Play. “Our goal is to help them find the best and brightest startups so they can conduct successful pilots to grow their business.”\nAbout Plug and Play\nPlug and Play is a global innovation platform. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. Since inception in 2006, our programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in over 20 locations globally giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 6,000 startups and 220 official corporate partners, we have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. We provide active investments with 200 leading Silicon Valley VCs, and host more than 700 networking events per year. Companies in our community have raised over $7 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, SoundHound, and Zoosk. For more information, visit www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\nAbout Rockwell Automation\nRockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006152/en/\nCONTACT: Darice Brown\nRockwell Automation\n414.382.4852 – office\n414.698.9147 - mobile\ndlbrown@ra.rockwell.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA WISCONSIN\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION HARDWARE INTERNET NETWORKS SOFTWARE OTHER TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORT MOBILE/WIRELESS MANUFACTURING LOGISTICS/SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AEROSPACE AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PACKAGING OTHER MANUFACTURING AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES URBAN PLANNING CONSULTING CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY GENERAL AUTOMOTIVE\nSOURCE: Rockwell Automation, Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/30/2018 01:26 PM/DISC: 05/30/2018 01:26 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006152/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Decisions by most of the world's elite golfers to skip the PGA Tour's stop in West Virginia have been a boost for younger players like Xander Schauffele.\nSchauffele had a one-stroke victory over Robert Streb at The Greenbrier resort last season, which ended with the 24-year-old from San Diego winning the Tour Championship and earning Rookie of the Year honors.\nThis year, nearly all of the two dozen rookies on the tour are in the field at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, which starts Thursday on the Old White TPC in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.\nChances are good that one or more of them could be near the top of the leaderboard. Four of the tournament's seven champions have been first-time winners, including three rookies.\nSchauffele likes his chances, too.\nHe is part of the successful high school class of 2011 that includes Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Daniel Berger. Schauffele pointed out that Spieth won the John Deere Classic in 2013 and 2015, Thomas won in Malaysia in 2015 and 2016, and Berger at the St. Jude Classic in 2016 and 2017.\n\"I feel like I want to join that group,\" Schauffele said Wednesday.\nBut Schauffele has missed the cut in three of his last four tournaments after finishing tied for second at The Players Championship.\nAt No. 24 in the world, he's among five players ranked in the top 30 at The Greenbrier. The others are Bubba Watson (No. 13), Phil Mickelson (No. 20), Webb Simpson (No. 21) and Brian Harman (No. 26). Five from the top 15 in the FedEx Cup are competing.\nWatson, a three-time winner this season, and Mickelson own vacation homes at The Greenbrier Sporting Club. The Greenbrier Classic, typically held around Independence Day, was renamed last month in honor of the nation's active and past members of the military, who are being given free admission.\n\"It would be a huge accomplishment to win here in front of my home crowd,\" Watson said. \"What a dream that would be, my dad was in the military so now we've got the name of the tournament. It just would mean a lot for my family to honor my late dad.\"\nIt's the first tournament for Mickelson since the U.S. Open, when he intentionally violated golf rules by hitting a moving ball on the 13th green in the third round. He later apologized, saying his anger and frustration got the best of him.\nThe West Virginia stop could see a change when the PGA Tour reveals its full schedule this month for the next FedEx Cup season. The tournament at Sam Snead's former playground in White Sulphur Springs is under contract through 2021.\nWatson, for one, wouldn't mind seeing a schedule change. From a business standpoint, he said the Fourth of July holiday always is a hectic time at The Greenbrier, so moving the tournament to later in the year, especially with the area's spectacular fall foliage on display, would give the resort yet another busy week.\n\"I've always thought that the fall would be great,\" he said.\nUp for grabs this week are four spots in the British Open at Carnoustie starting July 19. Those will go to players not already exempt among the top 12 finishers in West Virginia.\nAll past winners are in the field. So is Abraham Ancer, who was tied for the lead entering the final round of last week's Quicken Loans National. He finished tied for fourth.\nNineteen-year-old Norman Xiong is playing in his first tournament as a professional. He won the Haskins Award as the nation's top college golfer during his sophomore year at Oregon, earning him an exemption at The Greenbrier.\n\"It's pretty low-key here, so my mind's pretty settled and I'm just trying to prepare the best I can for the upcoming week,\" Xiong said. \"It's a different stage. It's kind of a new beginning. I don't know too many guys out here. Hopefully soon I can make some friends.\"" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bruce Brown, director of the classic surfing film \"The Endless Summer,\" has died. He was 80.\nThe general manager of Brown's film company Alex Mecl says Brown died Sunday in Santa Barbara, California, of natural causes.\nBrown and his 1966 documentary \"The Endless Summer\" created the modern image of surfers as spiritual seekers on a quest, rather than thugs or buffoons.\nAnd, along with the Beach Boys, he took surfing from a quirky hobby to a fundamental part of American culture.\n\"Endless Summer\" was actually Brown's sixth surfing film, and like all the others it was shot on a tiny budget with Brown performing nearly every duty, from camera man to narrator.\nThe film follows two surfers as they hop hemispheres to constantly surf wherever it is summer.\nTheir charisma and the film's beauty made it an unlikely hit." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Catholic Church's move to join an Australian government redress plan paves the way for compensation to flow to people who were sexually abused as children by church figures and puts pressure on other institutions to follow suit.\nAustralia's Catholic bishops and leaders of its religious orders on Wednesday committed to signing on to the 3.8 billion Australian dollar ($2.9 billion) national plan.\nThe church is the first non-government institution to opt into the plan and estimates it will itself be liable for about AU$1 billion ($757 million) in compensation.\nFederal Social Services Minister Dan Tehan expects more institutions to follow, saying there could be further announcements as early as Thursday.\nArchbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson last week became the most senior Catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse. He faces a potential two-year prison term when he appears in an Australian court in June for sentencing for protecting a pedophile priest in the 1970s.\nPope Francis' former finance minister, Cardinal George Pell, faces trial on sexual assault charges in Australia. The exact details and nature of the charges have not been disclosed to the public, though police have described them as \"historical\" sexual assaults, meaning they are alleged to have occurred decades ago.\nCatholic leaders have long backed a national redress plan but the churches, charities and other non-government institutions needed the state and territory governments to sign on before they could opt in.\nWestern Australia is the final state to join, although state Attorney-General John Quigley said the negotiations with the federal government could be finalized within two months.\nThe Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia on Wednesday confirmed the church will enter the plan when it becomes law.\nTehan said the plan was on track to begin on July 1 if legislation passes the Senate.\nSydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher said the church expected to be paying out survivors for \"many years to come.\"\nThe plan will cover about 60,000 institutional child sexual abuse survivors nationally, with compensation payments capped at AU$150,000 ($113,000).\nSmaller compensation payments previously made to abuse victims will be deducted from new payments.\nThe plan was recommended by Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which made its final report in December.\nAustralia's longest-running royal commission — which is the country's highest form of inquiry — had been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.\nThe inquiry heard the testimonies of more than 8,000 survivors of child sex abuse. Of those who were abused in religious institution, 62 percent were Catholics." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Phil Mickelson and Jon Rahm will get the party started early Thursday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open.\nThe former Arizona State stars will begin play with Xander Schauffele on the 10th tee at TPC Scottsdale just before 8 a.m. They will hit the rowdy par-3 16th hours before the alcohol-fueled revelry kicks into high gear at the stadium hole. No matter the time, they'll hear plenty of \"Forks up!\" and \"Go Devils!\" cries from the gallery.\n\"Every time I go by, every hole, every single shot, I get cheers from someone from ASU,\" Rahm said. \"When you miss a shot, you remember how many people you have pulling for you. And when you're playing good, it makes it that much more fun. It just escalates everything to a whole level of joy.\"\nTwo-time defending champion Hideki Matsuyama will be in the group directly ahead with Rickie Fowler and Webb Simpson, the players the Japanese star outlasted in playoffs the last two years.\n\"It's going to kind of be weird to play with them on Thursday and Friday,\" Matsuyama said.\nOn the other side of the draw, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas will join Patton Kizzire, the lone two-time winner this season.\n\"This is always a little different week, very exciting,\" Spieth said. \"Nice change, kind of a fun change with this kind of party crowd.\"\nRahm and Mickelson are playing together for the first time in the tournament and fourth time on the PGA Tour. Mickelson's brother, Tim, coached Rahm at Arizona State and was the Spaniard's agent. Tim Mickelson is now his older brother's caddie.\n\"He's always been a great friend and mentor to me,\" Rahm said about the 47-year-old Hall of Famer. \"He's helped me out on everything he's been able to help me out on. Even in college and out of college. And we just have a lot of fun together. I love playing practice rounds with him, I love joking around with him.\"\nRahm won the CareerBuilder Challenge two weeks ago in a playoff in the California desert and was in contention last week in his title defense at Torrey Pines before fading on the weekend. The 23-year-old has jumped to No. 2 in the world behind Dustin Johnson.\n\"He'll get there (No. 1), eventually,\" Mickelson said. \"He's so talented and to have him do it as quickly as he had right out of college, very impressive. Not only that, he's such a nice guy to be around.\"\nRahm was second behind Johnson at Kapalua in his first start since winning the European Tour's season-ending event in Dubai in November. He's making his third appearance in the tournament after tying for fifth as an amateur in 2015 and tying for 16th last year.\n\"I live a couple miles from here,\" Rahm said. \"It's home.\"\nMickelson is making his 29th start in the event, matching the record held by Gene Littler, Jim Ferrier and Jerry Barber. Lefty won on the Stadium Course in 1996, 2005 and 2013.\n\"I just love what I do. I love playing golf for a living,\" Mickelson said. \"I love the West Coast and I'm excited to be back here in Phoenix. The golf course is in great shape. We have got great weather. It's just a fun place to play, one of the places I look forward to every year.\"\nThe third-ranked Spieth took a quick trip to Cabo in Mexico to prepare after taking a break following Kapalua.\n\"They got the greens perfect for me at El Dorado,\" Spieth said. \"The golf course is fantastic. It's desert golf, so it was good prep for here.\"\nIn the pro-am Wednesday, Spieth played with Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and Thomas was with former Arizona Cardinals coach Bruce Arians.\n\"He spent a little time in Alabama, so we had that in common,\" Thomas said.\nThe fourth-ranked Thomas is using putting coach Matt Killen as his caddie with Jimmy Johnson sidelined by plantar fasciitis in his right foot.\n\"There's a lot of things I'm going to do differently on the putting green in practice than I do in tournaments, so he may be able to pick up on those things,\" Thomas said.\nJohnson hopes to return in two weeks at Riviera.\n\"I didn't want him coming back too soon and then having to take another month off,\" Thomas said.\nThe fifth-ranked Matsuyama is trying to match Arnold Palmer's record of three straight victories. Palmer accomplished the feat from 1961-63.\n\"That would be something,\" Matsuyama said." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- The best spots in Taiwan to view the last sunset of 2017 are Guanshan in Pingtung County, Sizhiwan in Kaohsiung City, and Angping District in Tainan City, while the best places to catch a glimpse of the first sunrise of 2018 are Sanxiatai in Taitung County and Kenting's Longkeng Ecological Reserve in Pingtung County, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).\nCheng Chen-feng (鄭振豐), an official with the CWB's astronomical observatory, told CNA that that the best places to catch the final sunset of 2017 are Pingtung's Guanshan, Kaohsiung's Sizhiwan, and Tainan's Anping District. Sunset at those locations will take place at 5:25 p.m., while sunset on the outer island of Kinmen will take place at 5:29 p.m., with the very last place to see the sunset being Taiping Island, where the sun will set at 6:11 p.m., according to Cheng.\nSunrise at Longkeng Ecological Reserve. (Image from hengchun-house.gov.tw)\nAs for the first sunrise of 2018, the earliest will appear at Dongqing on Taitung's Orchid Island at 6:33 a.m., while the sun will rise one minute later at 6:34 on Taitung's Green Island. As for the best spots to view the sunrise on Taiwan proper, Cheng said the sun will rise at 6:35 a.m. at Longkeng Ecological Reserve in Pingtung's Kenting and at Sanxiatai in Taitung.\nOther popular spots in Taiwan to catch the first light of the new year inlcude Sandiaojiao in New Taipei City, Suao in Yilan, and Chungte in Hualien, where the sun will rise at 6:37 a.m. One minute earlier, at 6:36 a.m., the first sunrise of 2018 can be seen at Fugang and Taimali in Taitung." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "NEW YORK (AP) — She's once, twice, three times a Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover lady.\nKate Upton is once again gracing the cover of the annual issue, becoming only the fourth woman to do so three times. This year, she's making the splash with three different covers.\nOther women who did the cover three times include Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum and Christie Brinkley, who also is featured in this year's edition with her two daughters. Elle Macpherson holds the record with five cover appearances.\nOther notables in this year's edition include former cover girl Chrissy Teigen, an expectant mother and athletes including tennis champ Serena Williams and Olympic gold medal gymnast Simone Biles.\n___\nOnline:\nhttp://www.si.com/swimsuit/" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "Carlos Santana says he was only trying to congratulate Adele on her big night at the Grammys when he said Beyonce \"is very beautiful to look at\" but \"not a singer, singer.\"\nSantana told the Australian Associated Press that Adele can \"sing, sing.\" He said Adele \"doesn't bring all the dancers and props, she can just stand there and she just stood there and sang the song and that's it, and this is why she wins.\"\nSantana clarified his stance on Facebook Tuesday , writing that his \"intent was to congratulate Adele\" and that his comment about Beyonce \"was regretfully taken out of context.\" He adds that he has \"the utmost respect\" for Beyonce.\nAdele beat out Beyonce for the top awards during Sunday's ceremony." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MINNEAPOLIS & REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS), a global leader in additive technology solutions, today announced it is seeking beta customers for a new software designed specifically to improve the Stratasys Additive Manufacturing solution for the production of jigs, fixtures, and other manufacturing tooling.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005546/en/\nCombining the easy-to-use GrabCAD Print interface with the powerful Stratasys Insight software, Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print automates previously complex part preparation tasks (Graphic: Business Wire)\nThis new software component — called Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print — simplifies and automates print preparation for rapid tooling applications. This addition to the company’s solutions for rapid tooling further enhances the use of Stratasys’ robust industrial hardware and materials for creating Jigs & Fixtures on the factory floor.\nStratasys FDM Technology is used extensively for rapid tooling applications across industries. Companies from the Team Penske race team to consumer vacuum maker, Oreck, use FDM to accelerate the production of fit-for-purpose jigs and fixtures to reduce cost and repetitive stress injury, while improving cycle time and production flexibility. The new software will help industry streamline operations and improve efficiency for jig and fixture creation.\nOffered through GrabCAD Print, the software embeds application expertise, automates several complicated and time-consuming processing steps, and eliminates the need for multiple programs within the workflow.\nJigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print expands upon the capabilities offered in Stratasys Insight to streamline the toolpath planning process; increasing ease of use, reducing time and costs to create jig and fixture parts, and maximizing the value for Stratasys’ Additive Manufacturing solutions.\nBy accepting native CAD designs, the part’s original design intent is maintained. This eliminates the need for users to convert their CAD design to an STL file, which can result in key information being lost during translation.\nWith Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print, Stratasys offers tooling designers and manufacturing engineers a streamlined design-to-part workflow and a user-friendly path between tooling CAD design and additive manufacturing.\nThe solution is designed to offer the following benefits:\nEliminates extensive design and processing knowledge as a barrier to implementation, opening up jig and fixture CAD design to more users, even first-time designers. Saves time and eliminates unnecessary iteration during the design and processing phase. Eliminates the need for formal software training because it’s simple and intuitive to learn. Eliminates need for third-party software, including STL-file fixing applications, due to its ability to accept native CAD designs. Enables tooling designers to easily leverage the design freedom potential in FDM technology. Simplifies workflow by automating key CAD functionalities used for jigs and fixtures design, such as auto-generating toolpath instructions, and it significantly reduces tedious file preparation tasks.\nThe Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print software is targeted to manufacturing engineers, tooling designers, and production managers, as well as service bureau programmers, executives, and owners.\nTo learn more about the Stratasys Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print solution, visit www.Stratasys.com/tooling.\nBeta Program\nThose using Stratasys 3D Printers for jig and fixture or manufacturing aids production and would like to participate in the beta software program may contact Stratasys at: Info.grabcad.com/beta, and select “Jigs & Fixtures” when completing the registration form.\nStratasys is a global leader in applied additive technology solutions for industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled purposeful innovations — 1,200 granted and pending additive technology patents to date — that create new value across product lifecycle processes, from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final production parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and expertise — advanced materials; software with voxel level control; precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers; application-based expert services; on-demand parts and industry-defining partnerships — works to ensure seamless integration into each customer’s evolving workflow. Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive, Stratasys delivers breakthrough industry-specific applications that accelerate business processes, optimize value chains and drive business performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders. Corporate headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota and Rehovot, Israel. Online at: www.stratasys.com, http://blog.stratasys.com and LinkedIn.\nFDM and Stratasys are registered trademarks, and FDM Technology, Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print and the Stratasys signet are trademarks of Stratasys Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries or affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.\nNote Regarding Forward-Looking Statements\nThe statements in this press release relating to Stratasys’ beliefs regarding the benefits consumers will experience from the Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print software, Stratasys’ and expectation on the timing of shipping the Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print software, are forward-looking statements reflecting management's current expectations and beliefs. These forward-looking statements are based on current information that is, by its nature, subject to rapid and even abrupt change. Due to risks and uncertainties associated with Stratasys' business, actual results could differ materially from those projected or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the risk that consumers will not perceive the benefits of the Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print software to be the same as Stratasys does; the risk that unforeseen technical difficulties will delay the shipping of the Jigs and Fixtures for GrabCAD Print software and other risk factors set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in Stratasys' most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 28, 2018. Stratasys is under no obligation (and expressly disclaims any obligation) to update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by the rules and regulations of the SEC.\nAttention Editors, if you publish reader-contact information, please use:\nUSA 1-877-489-9449 Europe/Middle East/Africa +49-7229-7772-0 Asia Pacific +852 3944-8888\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005546/en/\nCONTACT: Stratasys\nStratasys Corporate & North America\nCraig.Librett@stratasys.com\n+1 518-424-2497\nor\nJoe.Hiemenz@stratasys.com\n+1 952-906-2726\nor\nEurope, Middle East, and Africa\nIncus Media\nJonathan Wake or Miguel Afonso\nstratasys@incus-media.com\n+44 1737 215200\nor\nGreater China, Southeast Asia, ANZ, and India\nAlison.Yin@stratasys.com\n+ 86-21-33196051\nor\nJapan and Korea\nAya.Yoshizawa@stratasys.com\n+81 3 5542 0042\nor\nMexico, Central America, Caribe and South America\nYair.Canedo@stratasys.com\n+52 55 4169 4181\nor\nBrazil\nGP Communications\nCaio.Ramos@GPcom.com.br\nNando@GPcom.com.br\n+55 (11) 3129 5158\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA MINNESOTA MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION HARDWARE SOFTWARE HEALTH DENTAL OTHER HEALTH MANUFACTURING AEROSPACE AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS ENGINEERING PACKAGING DEFENSE OTHER DEFENSE\nSOURCE: Stratasys\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 10:00 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 10:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005546/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. & SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Silver Airways and Seaborne Airlines today announced that Silver’s acquisition of Seaborne’s business and assets has successfully closed, creating a leading independent airline to serve the Caribbean, Bahamas, Florida, and beyond.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005900/en/\nThe acquisition brings together two strong independent airlines with similar Saab 340B fleets, complementary route networks, and common codeshare/interline partners. With the upcoming deployment of Silver’s recently announced new fleet of state-of-the-art ATR-600s across both networks, the combined airline will have an expanded range, allowing it to better serve passengers and markets while creating more opportunities for employees and greater value for its business partners.\n“I am thrilled to welcome the Seaborne team members to the Silver family as together we create one of the nation’s leading independent airlines in a transaction that will benefit our guests, team members, and the communities we serve, as well as both airlines’ valued codeshare and interline partnerships with most major U.S. carriers,” said Silver Airways CEO Steve Rossum. “This transaction brings together two strong and historic independent airlines with amazing employees, an excellent track record of operational safety, respect for our people and our communities, and great service for our passengers.”\n“We at Seaborne are excited about this partnership with Silver Airways and the opportunities that it can provide,” said Seaborne CEO Ben Munson. “Despite the devastating impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, our resilient and dedicated employees at Seaborne have successfully restructured our company with the support of our loyal passengers. We are well positioned to grow with an airline that shares our common goals of success, and are very pleased that San Juan and the U.S. Virgin Islands will continue to be significant for Silver and Seaborne.”\nThe combined airline will continue operating Silver’s route network in the Bahamas, Florida, and beyond under the Silver Airways banner and Seaborne’s route network throughout Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean under the Seaborne name. The total fleet now consists of 31 aircraft, including Saab 340 and de Havilland Twin Otter seaplane aircraft. Silver is also the North American launch customer for the eco-friendly ATR-600 aircraft in the U.S. Silver took delivery of the first 46-seat ATR-42 earlier this month and has a firm order for 19 additional ATR-600s and up to 30 additional purchase rights.\nTickets for Silver Airways will continue to be available on SilverAirways.com and bookings for Seaborne will continue on SeaborneAirlines.com. Seaborne passengers will be able to earn and redeem frequent traveler miles under Seaborne’s SeaMiles program. Initially, Seaborne will continue to operate under its own certificate as a standalone operating subsidiary of Silver. The merger of the two airlines’ operating functions, joint branding, and streamlining of the guest experience is expected to occur during the next year.\nSteve Rossum of Silver Airways will serve as CEO of the combined airline. Ben Munson will resume his role as president of aviation consulting firm Embark Aviation, and continue as a valued advisor to the company. The combined airline will employ nearly 1,000 aviation professionals and will be headquartered at Silver Airways’ offices in Fort Lauderdale under the leadership of executives from both Silver and Seaborne. Corporate and operations support functions will continue at locations in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, San Juan, and St. Croix, U.S.V.I.\nAbout Silver Airways\nSilver Airways is proud to be Florida’s First Airline. As the first commercial carrier founded in Florida and still operating today, Silver has the most routes within Florida and between Florida and the Bahamas from its hubs in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, and Tampa. Silver is a codeshare partner with United, JetBlue, and Avianca, and has interline agreements with American, Delta, Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Bahamasair, Hahn Air, and Azul. Silver operates a fleet of highly-reliable Saab 340 aircraft, and starting in 2018, Silver is renewing and expanding its fleet with up to 50 new eco-friendly ATR-600s. Silver is honored to be the North American launch customer for the all new, redesigned ATR-600 offering best-in-class quiet cabins, premium leather seats with more legroom, and spacious overhead bins that accommodate full-size, carry-on roller bags. Silver is owned by affiliates of Philadelphia-based investment firm Versa Capital Management, LLC. To learn more about the refined passenger experience coming soon to Silver, visit www.silverairways.com/destinations/atr42.\nAbout Seaborne\nSeaborne Airlines, the largest Caribbean based regional airline for over 25 years, operates iconic de Haviland DHC-Twin Otter seaplanes and an airport-based Saab 340B fleet that services the beautiful islands throughout the Caribbean. Seaborne is a codeshare partner with American, Delta, JetBlue, and Vieques Airlink, and has interline agreements with United and Hahn Air. With over 1,500 monthly departures to 12 airports, Seaborne serves San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, St. Thomas airport and seaplane base, St. Croix airport and seaplane base, Anguilla, Antigua, Dominica, Saint Maarten, St. Kitts, Tortola, and Nevis. Find information on Seaborne at: www.seaborneairlines.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005900/en/\nCONTACT: Silver Airways\nMedia Contact:\nMisty Stoller, 954-292-8169\nmediarelations@silverairways.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES BAHAMAS NORTH AMERICA CARIBBEAN FLORIDA PUERTO RICO\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TRANSPORT AIR TRAVEL VACATION TRANSPORTATION OTHER TRAVEL\nSOURCE: Silver Airways\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 10:45 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 10:45 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005900/en" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturing in New York state expanded at the fastest pace in more than two years as factories received more new orders and stepped up hiring.\nThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York said that its Empire State manufacturing index in February rose to 18.7 from 6.5, reaching the highest level since 2014. Any reading above zero indicates expansion.\nThe survey adds to recent evidence that the U.S. manufacturing sector is recovering after nearly two years of mostly flat output. Businesses are spending more on machinery and other big-ticket factory goods, and overseas economies have stabilized.\nA measure of new orders jumped to 13.5 from 3.1 and a measure of unfilled orders rose for the first time since 2011. Both gauges point to much stronger demand for factory goods." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }

{ "text": [ "MADRID (AP) — Six of nine prominent Catalan separatist politicians jailed for promoting the region's drive to secede from Spain have been moved to prisons closer to their homes.\nSome observers see the prison transfer as a goodwill gesture by the central Spanish authorities ahead of a key meeting next week between Spain's new prime minister and Catalonia's new regional president, amid hopes for a thaw in relations between Madrid and the Catalan capital Barcelona.\nBut Catalan President Quim Torra rejected that interpretation Wednesday and stuck to his hard line on Catalan independence.\nTorra said in a statement outside the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona that the transfer is stipulated by law and \"is not part of any negotiation.\"\nHe says the Catalan conflict with Madrid is political, not legal." ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }