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CLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton’s long national standoff with the press is over.

On the maiden voyage of the general election plane Clinton will share with her press corps for the next two months — a Boeing 737 emblazoned with the campaign’s “H” logo on its wing tips and tail in a scion blue evocative of Air Force One — Clinton greeted the group of close to 40 journalists traveling with her.

“I was just waiting for this moment,” Clinton exclaimed as she walked to the back of the plane, positioning herself in the doorway separating the press from the Secret Service and the staff sections of the plane.

“I’m thrilled,” she said, holding a rolled up sheaf of papers in her hand. "No, really! I wanted to welcome you onto the plane. I think it’s pretty cool, don’t you?”

A hesitant press corps, out of practice with casual interactions with the Democratic nominee, paused before responding. “You’re supposed to say yes,” she said.

Clinton planned to hold a more official gaggle and answer questions aboard the plane later in the day, she said. But to relieve some of the mounting tension with the press that she has studiously avoided for the past month as she has focused on raising money at high-dollar fundraisers, she came to say a simple hello.

Los Angeles based attorney Charles Harder is a busy man. First, he represented Hulk Hogan and won a $140 million defamation suit which resulted in Gawker‘s demise. Then, he was hired by Melania Trump and filed a $150 million lawsuit against The Daily Mail which ultimately led them to retract a story. Now, the libel lawyer has been retained by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to represent him in possible legal action against Gabriel Sherman, a reporter for New York Magazine, LawNewz.com has confirmed.

“New York Media and Gabriel Sherman were contacted by Charles Harder on behalf of Roger and Elizabeth Ailes, asking that we preserve documents related to the Ailes, for a possible defamation claim. The letter sent by Harder was not informative as to the substance of their objections to the reporting. Sherman’s work is and has been carefully reported,” Lauren Starke, a spokesperson for NY Mag said in a statement to LawNewz.com.

Sherman is best known for his series of articles accusing Roger Ailes of sexually harassing multiple woman. He’s been a constant thorn in the side of Fox News ever since publishing Ailes’ unauthorized biography. The network even reportedly had a massive opposition research file on Sherman. In the journalism world, he’s been praised for exposing the alleged culture of sexual discrimination at Fox News.

Ailes reportedly hired Harder just days after his two other attorneys stepped up their attacks on Sherman. “Gabe Sherman is a virus, and is too small to exist on his own, and has obviously attached himself to the Ailes family to try to suck the life out of them,” Mark Mukasey, who is representing Ailes in a sexual harassment case, said in an interview with The Daily Beast. .

It is not clear if Harder will file a lawsuit against New York Magazine or Sherman. However, Harder has been in contact with the magazine.

On September 06 2016 06:45 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Except it's proven Ailes sexually harassed women... how would this lawsuit work?

Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation

The soaring temperature of the oceans is the “greatest hidden challenge of our generation” that is altering the make-up of marine species, shrinking fishing areas and starting to spread disease to humans, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of ocean warming.

The oceans have already sucked up an enormous amount of heat due to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, affecting marine species from microbes to whales, according to an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report involving the work of 80 scientists from a dozen countries.

The profound changes underway in the oceans are starting to impact people, the report states. “Due to a domino effect, key human sectors are at threat, especially fisheries, aquaculture, coastal risk management, health and coastal tourism.”

Dan Laffoley, IUCN marine adviser and one of the report’s lead authors, said: “What we are seeing now is running well ahead of what we can cope with. The overall outlook is pretty gloomy.

“We perhaps haven’t realised the gross effect we are having on the oceans, we don’t appreciate what they do for us. We are locking ourselves into a future where a lot of the poorer people in the world will miss out.”

The scale of warming in the ocean, which covers around 70% of the planet, is “truly staggering”, the report states. The upper few metres of ocean have warmed by around 0.13C a decade since the start of the 20th century, with a 1-4C increase in global ocean warming by the end of this century.

On September 06 2016 08:06 Plansix wrote:
"I'm rich and can afford this lawsuit. Your news paper my not be able to. Especially if it's backed by billionaire that also doesn't like your paper."

We will see how it pans out, but New York magazine is far from the daily mail and gawker.

On September 06 2016 10:08 kwizach wrote:

Source

Out of curiosity, is there anyone in this thread who either doesn't believe in global warming/climate change, or believes that humans are not (or barely) responsible?

On September 06 2016 05:19 Sermokala wrote:
I'm surprised GH hasn't come in yet and given the easy answer of "black people"

But really Black people get screwed over the most over these trade deals. They came to La Detroit and Chicago for the manufacturing jobs and when they dried up in the 70's the communities collapsed economically because the programs were shit for them.

Then because of the lost of tax base we get the basis for the shitty situation in those towns. Not to mention the flat lineing of the value of labor in the country due to the opening of labor in other countries in the market. You don't have to make the argument against free trade deals complex if you don't want to. You introduce a low cost alternative to what you have now and people will go for the low cost alternative.

On September 06 2016 10:42 Dan HH wrote:

I'd assume so, we even have some 9/11 truthers around here

On September 06 2016 10:23 ZeaL. wrote:
I think you're more likely to find people who believe its anthropogenic but not much we can do to stop developing countries from developing so there's no reason for developed countries to act.

On September 06 2016 10:28 KwarK wrote:

The Daily Mail is the biggest paper in the UK, far from small fry. They're not going to be intimidated by this in the least.

A voter initiative to legalize recreational marijuana will be on the November ballot in Arizona. The state’s Supreme Court last week rejected a final legal challenge to the measure.

A lower court judge had thrown out the challenge, saying the group called Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy didn’t have a right to sue.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry’s ruling went on to reject all of the reasons opponents laid out for keeping the initiative off the ballot.

The opponents said initiative backers used illegal and unconstitutional “bait-and-switch tactics” and that the initiative violates Arizona’s statutes in three ways. They include a misleading 100-word summary that leaves out important provisions, an “incoherent” text and title that obscures the extent of its impact on other laws, and a failure to provide a legal funding mechanism.

The high court sidestepped the right-to-sue argument, with Chief Justice Scott Bales calling Gentry’s reliance on a 2015 rewrite of a law “murky at best, and rather than wade into those waters, we turn to the merits.”

Bales went on to affirm Gentry’s ruling rejecting the merits of the opponents’ lawsuit, saying the summary substantially complied with the law’s requirements for initiatives.

The ruling means that Proposition 205 is on November’s general election ballot.

Four other states will also have recreational marijuana initiatives on their ballots, including California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada.

Voters in Florida, Montana, North Dakota and Arkansas will vote on medical marijuana.

Under the measure, adults 21 and older could carry up to one ounce of marijuana and consume it privately. Adults could also cultivate up to six marijuana plants in an enclosed space and possess the marijuana produced by the plants. No more than a dozen plants would be allowed in a single residence.

The system would regulate pot in a way proponents say is similar to alcohol, with a 15 percent tax on all retail marijuana sales. Most of the new state revenue would go to Arizona public schools and education programs.