One way Trump is outperforming other presidents

Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump has one big thing going for him: a robust job market.

Employers added 209,000 jobs in July, while the unemployment rate fell to a remarkably low 4.3%. During Trump’s first six months in office, the US economy added nearly 1.1 million jobs, earning Trump a B+ for the state of the economy under his watch on the Yahoo Finance Trumponomics Report Card.

Before Trump critics freak out—yes, it’s obviously true Trump inherited an improving economy from his predecessor, Barack Obama. Underlying factors such as strong corporate profits, low interest rates and an improving global economy explain most of the job gains, rather than any policies Trump has put into place. Trump, in fact, has faltered on virtually every major policy issue he’s undertaken, with few accomplishments to crow about so far.

‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli convicted in fraud trial

“The Most Hated Man in America” just got a little more reviled.

A Manhattan jury found notorious “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli guilty Friday of defrauding investors in what prosecutors described as an $11 million Ponzi scheme.

The jury of seven women and five men took about four and a half days to return the verdict, finding him guilty of three of the eight counts against him: two counts of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

Each of the first two counts carries a potential prison sentence of up to 20 years. The conspiracy to commit securities fraud charge carries a prison term of up to five years.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn federal court mounted an exhaustive five-week case against the 34-year-old former drug-company CEO, accusing him of draining funds from his firm Retrophin to pay off investors of his failed hedge funds,MSMB Capital Management and MSMB Healthcare.

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Maserati’s 2018 GranTurismo Coupe and Convertible Impress in Italy

The booming and growling V-8 engine broke the forest stillness, but inside the cockpit of this 2018 Maserati GranTurismo Convertible, I was listening with care to the driving coach seated alongside me. “Lift off the gas,” he said. “Now full power. Hard braking ahead. Now turn right.”

To demonstrate the car’s prowess, Maserati had arranged the closing of a stretch of SP40, a narrow, writhing section of mountainside byway. If ever the chassis would reveal deficiencies, any flexing or shuddering, it would be on this frost-heaved segment. But the open-top trident—which benefits from revised, more aerodynamic styling touches—was as steady as the men sipping grappa back at Pub la Forcella, the starting point.

Pulling up to the finish line at Restaurant des Alpes, I asked how the 2.3 miles could have gone by so quickly. “You were going more than 90 miles per hour,” my coach said.

Matthew McConaughey's Stephen King movie 'The Dark Tower' is getting shredded by critics

It took a decade for "The Dark Tower" to make it to the screen, but maybe it would have been best for everyone if it took a little longer.

The movie is based on Stephen King's book series of the same name. It's a fantasy epic where Idris Elba plays the gunslinger, a sort of magical diplomat-warrior trying to build peace in the universe, and Matthew McConaughey plays The Man in Black, who's an evil sorcerer. It's pretty wild.

A screen adaptation of the eight-book series has been planned in various incarnations. In 2007, J. J. Abrams wanted to adapt it, but backed out after three years when his option on the books ran out. Then Ron Howard picked it up, trying to make an ambitious spectacle that would include three movies and two TV series bridging them, but had trouble finding the financing.

HR McMaster: Kim Jong Un 'should not be' sleeping easily at night

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster warned North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un should not be sleeping easily at night and said the evolving situation with the North Koreans constitutes a "grave threat" to the U.S.

McMaster made the remark in an interview Wednesday and emphasized that Kim has become increasingly isolated on the world stage.

"No, I think he should not be," McMaster said after MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt asked if Kim should be "sleeping easily at night."

"Because he has the whole world against him, right? He's isolated. He's isolated on this. Since 1953 the Korean peninsula has been in a state of armistice. The war never formally ended and there's been no aggression, no aggression from the United States, South Korea, any of our allies."

Hadiza Sule Lamido, 38, laid to rest in Jigawa State

The daughter of the immediate past governor of Jigawa State Hajiya Hadiza Sule Lamido was buried today, in Bamaina, Birnin Kudu Local Government, according to Islamic rites.

The remains of the deceased arrived Dutse International Airport late yesterday.

Hadiza died last Saturday in an Indian hospital after a protracted illness. She was aged 38. She left behind three children.

The Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar, who attended the funeral, expressed his grief and sadness over the loss and prayed to Allah to forgive her, grant her Jannatul-Firdaus and comfort her family at this time of grief.

Also in attendance were Governor of Gombe State Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo, Deputy Governor of Kano State Prof. Hafizu Abubakar, Deputy Governor of Jigawa State Barr. Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, Hon. Faruk Adamu Aliyu, former Kaduna State Governor Alhaji Mukhtar Ramadan Yero, Commissioners Special Advisers and Special Assistants and other notable personalities from different places in the country.

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China just opened its first overseas military base in Africa and not everyone is excited about it

China has officially opened its first overseas military base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa.

In a flag raising ceremony on August 1, Chinese officials unveiled the base that Beijing insist will be a logisitics facility and not a military foothold.

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“The Djibouti base has nothing to do with an arms race or military expansion, and China has no intention of turning the logistics center into a military foothold,” the state-run news agency Xinhua said.

Model, 28, who tried to steal £1,000 worth of designer goods from Harrods is let off with a slap on the wrists after a magistrate said she was a woman of 'considerable talents'

A model who tried to steal £1,000 worth of designer goods from Harrods was let off with a slap on the wrist after a magistrate said she was a woman of 'considerable talents'.

Natalia Sikorska, 28, a business management student, attempted to make off with a Markus Lupfer jacket, a pair of Claudie Pierlot shoes, a Pinko handbag and the silver knife on 5 July.

But she was stopped before she left the Knightsbridge, London, store with the haul worth £959.59. 

After she admitted theft Westminster Magistrate Grant McCrostie gave the Polish model and actress a conditional discharge for 12 months. 

He said: 'You are a newcomer to this county, you are a student with a place at university.

'You are obviously a woman of considerable talents, you are obviously intelligent.

'Taking goods from any store, including Harrods is wrong.

'Your future has been put at risk by these actions.

'Because of the fact that you pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity and you do have a potentially bright future, we will deal with this more leniently than we should have.

'It will be a conditional discharge for a period of 12 months.'

Mr McCrostie said if Sikorska, who is currently studying business management and economics at the University of Westminster, stays out of trouble for that period she will not face any further punishment.

'You have been given another opportunity do not abuse the opportunity we have given you, stay out of trouble,' he said.

Trump, frustrated by Afghan war, suggests firing U.S. commander: officials

By Steve Holland and John Walcott

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's doubts about the war in Afghanistan has led to a delay in completing a new U.S. strategy in South Asia, skepticism that included a suggestion that the U.S. military commander in the region be fired, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

During a July 19 meeting in the White House Situation Room, Trump demanded that his top national security aides provide more information on what one official called "the end-state" in a country that the United States has spent 16 years fighting against the Taliban with no end in sight.

The meeting grew stormy when Trump said Defense Secretary James Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford, a Marine general, should consider firing Army General John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, for not winning the war.

"We aren't winning," he told them, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In addition, once the meeting concluded, Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, got into what one official called "a shouting match" with White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster over the direction of U.S. policy.

Some officials left the meeting “stunned” by the president’s vehement complaints that the military was allowing the United States to lose the war

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Typhoon injures more than 80 people in Taiwan as another storm approaches

Taiwan's first typhoon of the year left 81 people injured and coastal towns flooded as the island braces for a second tropical storm.
Much of Taiwan came to a standstill after Typhoon Nesat made landfall in eastern Yilan county, whipping up massive waves of over 50-feet and dumping rain of up to 23 inches in the southern region of Pingtung.
As Nesat moved away from Taiwan, tropical storm Haitang churned towards the south of the island.

India's coast guard has made a record-breaking 1.5 tonne heroin bust worth $500 million

Ahmedabad (India) (AFP) - India's coast guard announced Sunday it had seized 1.5 tonnes of heroin worth almost $550 million from a merchant ship in what maritime authorities are calling their largest-ever drug bust.

The ship was intercepted Saturday off the western state of Gujarat, the coast guard said in a statement.

"This is the largest single haul of narcotics seized till date," it said, adding the drugs were worth an estimated $545 million.

An undisclosed number of suspects were detained for questioning by coast guard officials, police and intelligence agencies.

Anyone caught smuggling or possessing narcotics is remanded in custody without bail under Indian law.

Daughter Of Former Jigawa State Governor, Hadiza Lamido Dies At 38

Hajia Hadiza Sule Lamido, the second daughter of immediate past Governor of Jigawa State, Dr. Sule Lamido, has died. She died in an Indian hospital on Saturday morning, July 29th, after a brief illness.

Born in 1979, late Hadiza is survived by husband and three children. A family source said the funeral arrangements will be announced as soon as her remains arrives Nigeria. May her soul rest in peace, amen.

War Against Drugs: Police Gun Down Philippine Mayor, His Wife And 12 Others In Drug Raid

Authorities in Philippine have fatally shot a city mayor, who was among politicians linked to illegal drugs, and 13 others in a gunbattle that erupted Sunday morning when they reportedly resisted arrest, officials said.

Chief Supt. Timoteo Pacleb, the Northern Mindanao police chief, said elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) were serving six search warrants against properties of the Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog Sr, his daughter, who is the vice mayor, and four other officials of Ozamiz city for drugs and firearms when they were met with violent resistance at about 2:30 a.m in San Roque Lawis in Ozamiz City.