paleo and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"mailto:https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//health//what-keto-diet-it-right-you-ncna847256/">keto), and they're a portable option for people on the go. However, make no mistake. \"They're still processed meats (and tend to be high sodium), so I'd still advise people limit them,\" she says. According to Hu, regular consumption of these foods is not considered a healthy dietary choice.<\/p>\n<h2>6. Is smoked salmon (lox) considered a processed meat?<\/h2>\n<p>Doyle says that while she hasn't seen studies specifically calling out smoked salmon, it definitely meets the definition of processed. \"And, it's pretty high in sodium. Bottom line for this and all processed meats: It would be smart to eat fish, poultry and beans over red (unprocessed) meat, and for individuals who do consume processed meat products, to do so sparingly, if at all.\"<\/p>\n<h2>7. So what should I eat instead?<\/h2>\n<p>If your mind is spinning with this info and your regular lunch routine or <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//lifestyle//healthy-travel-snacks-ncna1021666/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">on-the-go snack<\/a> now feels a little less healthy, here are some ideas for replacing processed meats with whole foods.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swap sandwich fillings for canned or pouched tuna or salmon, eggs, or leftover chicken or turkey. Or buy a rotisserie chicken from your supermarket to use as a sandwich filling or salad topper throughout the week.<\/li>\n<li>Have saut\u00e9ed or roasted mushrooms instead of bacon. It's not only a healthier alternative, but mushrooms have a rich, meaty flavor known as umami, so they're a good swap for other umami-rich foods, like bacon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//lifestyle//should-you-be-eating-same-lunch-every-day-ncna1014246/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Make wraps and sandwiche<\/a>s using bean-based spreads, like hummus, or mashed beans instead of traditional processed meat fillings. Nut or seed spreads are other options.<\/li>\n<li>Get out of your sandwich rut and think about other foods, like salads, or whole grain bowls, which can be topped with nuts, beans, seeds, chicken, fish, or eggs, or a combination. Once you <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"mailto:https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//lifestyle//best-lunch-boxes-adults-according-nutritionists-ncna966776/">find the right container<\/a>, these options can be just as easy to take to the office as a sandwich.<\/li>\n<li>Snack on minimally processed foods instead of highly processed meats, like jerky. Nuts are approved for most popular eating plans, and they're much healthier than jerky or meat bars. Or doctor your nut or seed butters (such as almond butter, sunflower seed butter, or tahini) with savory seasonings (think: cumin, cayenne, and chili powder) and have them with vegetable dunkers, like carrots, celery, endive, jicama, or red pepper strips. Other types of snackable protein picks include roasted chickpeas, hard boiled eggs, Greek yogurt, and cottage cheese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>WHAT A NUTRITIONIST WANTS YOU TO KNOW<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//health//bad-nutrition-advice-dietitians-are-begging-you-forget-ncna859176/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Bad nutrition advice dietitians want you to forget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//health//best-way-lose-weight-boils-down-these-three-things-ncna853656/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The best way to lose weight boils down to these three things<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//pop-culture//what-you-need-know-about-going-vegan-ncna856136/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">What you need to know about going vegan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//health//what-healthier-natural-sugar-table-sugar-or-artificial-sweeteners-ncna863136/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">What is healthier: natural sugar, table sugar or artificial sweeteners?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//better//health//what-better-choice-hot-dog-or-hamburger-ncna864021/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The healthier pick: a hot dog or a hamburger?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want more tips like these? NBC News BETTER is obsessed with finding easier, healthier and smarter ways to live. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////secure.nbcnews.com//optin//better//newsletter/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> and follow us on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//NBCNewsBetter///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//NBCNewsBETTER/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//nbcnewsbetter///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561897239,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561964627,"firstPublishedAt":1561959701,"lastPublishedAt":1561964638,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993242\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190627-sandwich-processed-meats-ac-423p_4e603a3c4b3c2adbef47eae3db64b29b.jpg","altText":"Image: Turkey Sandwich on a Baguette","caption":"Processed meat is a meat that has been treated in some way to preserve or flavor it through salting, curing, fermenting, and smoking.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Lauri Patterson Getty Images","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1875}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":18660,"slug":"red-meat","urlSafeValue":"red-meat","title":"red meat","titleRaw":"red meat"},{"id":139,"slug":"health","urlSafeValue":"health","title":"Health","titleRaw":"Health"},{"id":18662,"slug":"meat-consumption","urlSafeValue":"meat-consumption","title":"meat consumption","titleRaw":"meat consumption"},{"id":11396,"slug":"food","urlSafeValue":"food","title":"Food","titleRaw":"Food"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.better"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Better","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Samantha Cassetty, RD","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/culture\/culture-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_health','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','neg_bucherer','gs_health_nutrition','gs_health_misc','gs_health_diet','neg_pmi','shadow9hu7_pos_pmi','neg_facebook_2021','gs_food','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_audi_list1','gt_positive','neg_facebook_q4','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/culture\/2019\/07\/01\/what-exactly-processed-meat-how-much-safe-eat-ncna1023401","lastModified":1561964638},{"id":800338,"cid":3993822,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"A sacred Hawaiian tree is under threat; tourists asked to help save it","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"A sacred Hawaiian tree is under threat; tourists asked to help save it","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"The native \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba is sacred to Hawaiians as a cultural touchstone and ecological underpinning for the state's lush forests and abundant wildlife.","summary":"The native \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba is sacred to Hawaiians as a cultural touchstone and ecological underpinning for the state's lush forests and abundant wildlife.","keySentence":"","url":"sacred-hawaiian-tree-species-threatened-deadly-fungus-tourists-can-help-n1025021","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/sacred-hawaiian-tree-species-threatened-deadly-fungus-tourists-can-help-n1025021","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A deadly fungus threatens one of Hawaii's most beloved and important species, the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba tree, and those believed responsible for introducing the threat to the tree in the first place are now being asked to help save it \u2014 tourists. \n\nThe native \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba is sacred to Hawaiians as a cultural touchstone and ecological underpinning for the state's lush forests and abundant wildlife. The flowering evergreens that can tower to 85 feet comprise 80 percent of the state's canopy, covering 1 million acres, and its nectar sustains birds and insects found nowhere else on Earth. \n\nNow, public agencies and private citizens are trying to avoid biological and economic catastrophe by proclaiming war against a deadly fungal disease coined \"rapid \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba death,\" or ROD, that is swiftly destroying the trees. What's more, invasive species like the miconia tree, native to North and South America and called the \"green cancer\" of Hawaii's forests, are choking out the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba. \n\n\"The disappearance of these trees would have a major impact on Hawaii,\" said Clyde Imada, a botanical research specialist at the Bishop Museum of natural and cultural history in Honolulu. \"Recreationally, outdoor forest experiences in natural areas will be significantly altered. \n\n\"Birds, insects and plants will be direly affected,\" he continued. \"The '\u014dhi'a forest experience can't be re-created with substitute species.\" \n\nMore than 2 million \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba trees have been killed by ROD, according to the U.S. Forest Service, and about 135,000 acres show symptoms of the disease that was first identified on the island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island, in 2014. Two years later, the state imposed a quarantine to prevent ROD from spreading to other islands. It didn't work. The most aggressive form of the fungus was found on Kauai late last year. \n\nManak\u014d Tanaka, a Hawaiian culture expert at the Oahu Visitors Bureau, said the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bbalehua tree and its blossoms have always been \"the first to sprout up after lava flows that wipe forests out.\" \n\n\"And so it's become synonymous with the bravest of warriors who were the strongest and first into battle.\" \n\nThe tree is also associated with Laka, the goddess of hula, its flower used in leis for the traditional Hawaiian dance. In 2016, for the first time in more than 50 years, many hula schools were forced to forgo their adornments because of diminishing \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba stock. \n\n\"It would be heartbreaking to only be able to show pictures of the tree and its flowers to future generations,\" Tanaka said. \"Losing the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba lehua would be like losing a reference encyclopedia into the past.\" \n\nExperts believe the fungus may have been carried to the islands by unwitting tourists, perhaps on their shoes or hiking boots. It can also be transmitted by dirty tools, woodland animals or the wind. \n\n\"There is speculation visitors are responsible for bringing this disease to Hawaii Island,\" said Sam Gon, senior scientist at The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii. \"Either because they were uninformed or uncaring about the need to sanitize their gear. ROD could have a devastating effect on our environment and economy, and we need to reform tourism practices among visitors.\" \n\nThe federal government has attempted to stop the fungus and tackle invasive species by imposing a quarantine on Hawaii Island and carrying out extensive tests to learn how the fungus spreads, but it has yet to find a solution. Hawaiian organizations, communities and scientists are now stepping in. \n\nGunstock Ranch, a horse riding stable and tourist destination on Oahu, is replanting native trees, although not the \u02bb\u014dhi'a yet. After conducting a survey on 80 acres of its land in 2016, and finding just two native species, owner Greg Smith established a Hawaiian \"legacy forest,\" where visitors can plant trees and monitor their growth online. \n\n\"Our hope is that as our guests plant and dedicate a tree they will form a new connection to the land and Hawaii and leave knowing that they made a difference,\" Smith said. \n\nSome tourism companies are sending staff members to workshops to learn how to protect native species through improved biological sanitation practices. Joshua Nipp, founder of Off the Beaten Path travel company, hopes to establish a bio-sanitation certification program for tour operators. \n\nA coalition of state agencies called the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species is pushing for stronger regulations and tracking of biological products entering Hawaii. \n\nTanaka said tourists can play an important role in staving off ROD, particularly on islands like Oahu, which has not yet been infected with the fungus. He said they should always make sure their shoes are clean and free of debris and seeds, and he urged visitors to stay away from areas marked off-limits to protect delicate ecosystems. \n\n\"There is a proverb in Hawaiian, 'I ali\u02bbi ka '\u0101ina, i kau\u0101 ke kanaka.' It means, 'The land is chief, and men are its stewards,'\" Tanaka said. \"Sometimes, though, I fear that we may be moving to a world where people think it is the other way around.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A deadly fungus threatens one of Hawaii's most beloved and important species, the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba tree, and those believed responsible for introducing the threat to the tree in the first place are now being asked to help save it \u2014 tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The native \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba is sacred to Hawaiians as a cultural touchstone and ecological underpinning for the state's lush forests and abundant wildlife. The flowering evergreens that can tower to 85 feet comprise 80 percent of the state's canopy, covering 1 million acres, and its nectar sustains birds and insects found nowhere else on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Now, public agencies and private citizens are trying to avoid biological and economic catastrophe by proclaiming war against a deadly fungal disease coined \"rapid \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba death,\" or ROD, that is swiftly destroying the trees. What's more, invasive species like the miconia tree, native to North and South America and called the \"green cancer\" of Hawaii's forests, are choking out the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.3333333333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993822//404x539_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg/" alt=\"Clyde Imada\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/384x512_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/640x853_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/750x1000_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/828x1104_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/1080x1440_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/1200x1600_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/1920x2560_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1156p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba tree species in Hawaii is under threat from a deadly fungus.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Clyde Imada<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"The disappearance of these trees would have a major impact on Hawaii,\" said Clyde Imada, a botanical research specialist at the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////hbs.bishopmuseum.org//waipio//index.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Bishop Museum<\/a> of natural and cultural history in Honolulu. \"Recreationally, outdoor forest experiences in natural areas will be significantly altered.<\/p>\n<p>\"Birds, insects and plants will be direly affected,\" he continued. \"The '\u014dhi'a forest experience can't be re-created with substitute species.\"<\/p>\n<p>More than 2 million \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba trees have been killed by ROD, according to the U.S. Forest Service, and about <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu//rod//THE-DISEASE/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">135,000 acres<\/a> show symptoms of the disease that was first identified on the island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island, in 2014. Two years later, the state <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////hdoa.hawaii.gov//blog//main//nr-ohiaquarantine///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">imposed a quarantine<\/a> to prevent ROD from spreading to other islands. It didn't work. The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.hawaiinewsnow.com//2018//12//22//fungus-behind-rapid-ohia-death-is-spreading-kauai///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">most aggressive form of the fungus was found on Kauai<\/a> late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Manak\u014d Tanaka, a Hawaiian culture expert at the Oahu Visitors Bureau, said the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bbalehua tree and its blossoms have always been \"the first to sprout up after lava flows that wipe forests out.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"And so it's become synonymous with the bravest of warriors who were the strongest and first into battle.\"<\/p>\n<p>The tree is also associated with Laka, the goddess of hula, its flower used in leis for the traditional Hawaiian dance. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.staradvertiser.com//2016//03//31//hawaii-news//ohia-lehua-blight-takes-toll-on-hula-competition///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">In 2016, for the first time in more than 50 years,<\/a>many hula schools were forced to forgo their adornments because of diminishing \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba stock.<\/p>\n<p>\"It would be heartbreaking to only be able to show pictures of the tree and its flowers to future generations,\" Tanaka said. \"Losing the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba lehua would be like losing a reference encyclopedia into the past.\"<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe the fungus may have been carried to the islands by unwitting tourists, perhaps on their shoes or hiking boots. It can also be transmitted by dirty tools, woodland animals or the wind.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is speculation visitors are responsible for bringing this disease to Hawaii Island,\" said Sam Gon, senior scientist at The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii. \"Either because they were uninformed or uncaring about the need to sanitize their gear. ROD could have a devastating effect on our environment and economy, and we need to reform tourism practices among visitors.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.3333333333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993822//404x539_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg/" alt=\"Clyde Imada\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/384x512_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/640x853_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/750x1000_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/828x1104_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/1080x1440_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/1200x1600_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/1920x2560_nbc-190628-metrosideros-polymorpha-ac-1159p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Blossoms on the \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba tree, a native species in Hawaii that is threatened.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Clyde Imada<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The federal government has attempted to stop the fungus and tackle invasive species by imposing a quarantine on Hawaii Island and carrying out extensive tests to learn how the fungus spreads, but it has yet to find a solution. Hawaiian organizations, communities and scientists are now stepping in.<\/p>\n<p>Gunstock Ranch, a horse riding stable and tourist destination on Oahu, is replanting native trees, although not the \u02bb\u014dhi'a yet. After conducting a survey on 80 acres of its land in 2016, and finding just two native species, owner Greg Smith established a Hawaiian <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////gunstockranch.com//hawaiian-legacy-forest///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">\"legacy forest,\"<\/a> where visitors can plant trees and monitor their growth online.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our hope is that as our guests plant and dedicate a tree they will form a new connection to the land and Hawaii and leave knowing that they made a difference,\" Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Some tourism companies are sending staff members to workshops to learn how to protect native species through improved biological sanitation practices. Joshua Nipp, founder of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.offthebeatenpath.com///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Off the Beaten Path<\/a> travel company, hopes to establish a bio-sanitation certification program for tour operators.<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of state agencies called the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cgaps.org//why-should-we-care///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species<\/a> is pushing for stronger regulations and tracking of biological products entering Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka said tourists can play an important role in staving off ROD, particularly on islands like Oahu, which has not yet been infected with the fungus. He said they should always make sure their shoes are clean and free of debris and seeds, and he urged visitors to stay away from areas marked off-limits to protect delicate ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is a proverb in Hawaiian, 'I ali\u02bbi ka '\u0101ina, i kau\u0101 ke kanaka.' It means, 'The land is chief, and men are its stewards,'\" Tanaka said. \"Sometimes, though, I fear that we may be moving to a world where people think it is the other way around.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561921213,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561963741,"firstPublishedAt":1561959532,"lastPublishedAt":1561963796,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993822\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-ohia-tree-ac-1157p_54af10bb90dabf78c676c508aa11b09a.jpg","altText":"Image; Ohia tree","caption":"The \u02bb\u014dhi\u02bba tree species in Hawaii is under threat from a deadly fungus, and tourists are seen as crucial in helping to save it.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Clyde Imada Bishop 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clash in Portland, Oregon, throw 'concrete milkshakes'","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Demonstrators clash in Portland, Oregon, throw 'concrete milkshakes'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Police believe cups thrown at officers and others were filled with quick-drying concrete.","summary":"Police believe cups thrown at officers and others were filled with quick-drying concrete.","keySentence":"","url":"demonstrators-clash-portland-oregon-throw-concrete-milkshakes-n1025036","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/demonstrators-clash-portland-oregon-throw-concrete-milkshakes-n1025036","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Police in Portland, Oregon, declared an unlawful assembly Saturday after antifa protesters clashed with far-right demonstrators, including the Proud Boys, in the downtown area, resulting in multiple injuries. \n\nAuthorities believe some demonstrators during the noontime action threw \"milkshakes\" that were actually cups filled with quick-drying concrete, a powder-and-water mixture that can set in as little as 10 minutes. \n\n\"Police have received information that some of the milkshakes thrown today during the demonstration contained quick-drying cement,\" the Portland Police Department tweeted. \"We are encouraging anyone hit with a substance today to report it to police.\" \n\nA woman was arrested for allegedly throwing a substance, police said in a statement. \n\n\"During today's events, there were multiple assaults reported, as well as projectiles thrown at demonstrators and officers,\" police said. \"There were also reports of pepper spray and bear spray being used by people in the crowd. Officers deployed pepper spray during the incident.\" \n\nAuthorities declared an unlawful assembly shortly after 3 p.m. and said the demonstrations had descended into a \"civil disturbance.\" Officers in riot gear cleared downtown and Pioneer Courthouse Square, warning that stragglers would be arrested. \n\nOther arrests included a man for alleged harassment and a woman for suspected disorderly conduct and harassment. \n\nAmong eight people injured were two officers who were pepper sprayed, one who was punched in an arm, and one who was hit with a \"projectile.\" Additionally, three civilians were \"assaulted with weapons,\" according to the statement, which did not account for the eighth injury. \n\n\"We are actively investigating these incidents to hold those responsible accountable,\" Assistant Chief Chris Davis said. \n\nNBC News affiliate KGW in Portland reported that hundreds of protesters had gathered Saturday, including anti-fascists on the left and members of the Proud Boys and the \"HimToo\" movement on the right, according to KGW and the Portland Oregonian newspaper. \n\nThe area cleared out by late afternoon. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Police in Portland, Oregon, declared an unlawful assembly Saturday after antifa protesters clashed with far-right demonstrators, including the Proud Boys, in the downtown area, resulting in multiple injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe some demonstrators during the noontime action threw \"milkshakes\" that were actually cups filled with quick-drying concrete, a powder-and-water mixture that can set in as little as 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\"Police have received information that some of the milkshakes thrown today during the demonstration contained quick-drying cement,\" the Portland Police Department <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//PortlandPolice//status//1145106839618502656/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">tweeted.<\/a> \"We are encouraging anyone hit with a substance today to report it to police.\"<\/p>\n<p>A woman was arrested for allegedly throwing a substance, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\"During today's events, there were multiple assaults reported, as well as projectiles thrown at demonstrators and officers,\" police said. \"There were also reports of pepper spray and bear spray being used by people in the crowd. Officers deployed pepper spray during the incident.\"<\/p>\n<p>Authorities declared an unlawful assembly shortly after 3 p.m. and said the demonstrations had descended into a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//PortlandPolice//status//1145091968160034816/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">\"civil disturbance.\"<\/a> Officers in riot gear cleared downtown and Pioneer Courthouse Square, warning that stragglers would be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Other arrests included a man for alleged harassment and a woman for suspected disorderly conduct and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Among eight people injured were two officers who were pepper sprayed, one who was punched in an arm, and one who was hit with a \"projectile.\" Additionally, three civilians were \"assaulted with weapons,\" according to the statement, which did not account for the eighth injury.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are actively investigating these incidents to hold those responsible accountable,\" Assistant Chief Chris Davis said.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News affiliate <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.kgw.com//article//news//local//dueling-demonstrations-turn-into-civil-disturbance-in-downtown-portland//283-3a98f3b3-c2c8-4018-9678-2fbcfc81b2ae/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">KGW in Portland<\/a> reported that hundreds of protesters had gathered Saturday, including anti-fascists on the left and members of the Proud Boys and the \"HimToo\" movement on the right, according to KGW and the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.oregonlive.com//portland//2019//06//dueling-demonstrations-set-for-saturday-in-downtown-portland.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Portland Oregonian<\/a> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The area cleared out by late afternoon.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561867210,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561963493,"firstPublishedAt":1561959787,"lastPublishedAt":1561963496,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993026\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190629-portland-protest-axc-1140p_d094c35fa60380dd68a52a731cc1449e.jpg","altText":"Image:","caption":"After a confrontation between authorities and protesters, police use pepper spray as multiple groups, including Rose City Antifa and the Proud Boys, protest in downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Dave Killen 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Romero","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World 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to remove false posts about census","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Facebook to remove false posts about census","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Sheryl Sandberg, the company's No. 2 executive, says an accurate count is so crucial that the social network will treat the Census like an election.","summary":"Sheryl Sandberg, the company's No. 2 executive, says an accurate count is so crucial that the social network will treat the Census like an election.","keySentence":"","url":"facebook-ban-misinformation-about-2020-census-n1024876","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/social-media\/facebook-ban-misinformation-about-2020-census-n1024876","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it is adding a rule against spreading misinformation about the 2020 U.S. census, treating such posts with extra scrutiny out of fear they could disrupt the count.The move places Facebook in a position of referee in the year-long effort with wide political ramifications. Civil rights groups and the U.S. Census Bureau had been asking tech companies, including Facebook to step up their fight against false information.Next year's census will be used to reapportion congressional seats and guide a wide array of other official decisions, though President Donald Trump has floated delaying the constitutionally required count after the Supreme Court this month dealt a setback to his effort to include a question about citizenship.Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said on Sunday that an accurate Census was so crucial that the company would give it the same weight that it now gives elections.\"We're going to treat next year's Census like an election — with people, policies, and technology in place to protect against Census interference,\" Sandberg said in a blog post addressing the company's efforts around civil rights.Facebook will have an internal team dedicated to the census, actively promote participation in the count and by this fall have a new written policy about census misinformation, she said.The decision to take down false census information, such as wrong descriptions of how the census works, is an exception to Facebook's usual practice of leaving up misinformation posted by users. Facebook has said it doesn't want to be the judge of what's true on the internet, although the company increasingly takes steps to prevent material judged false by fact-checkers from going viral.Another exception is false information about voting, such as details about polling places. Facebook instructs its thousands of content reviewers to take down such posts.Other tech companies haven't gone as far as Facebook, despite a government request for help. Twitter said in a statement that it has had meetings with census officials to discuss how to \"support a healthy conversation\" about the count. Google did not respond to a request for comment.Facebook in May 2018 launched a broad \"audit\" of how it handles civil rights after reports that the company's ad business was subverting federal laws barring discriminatory advertising in areas such as housing and employment.Sunday's post from Sandberg accompanied a 26-page update on the progress of the review, which is being done by an outside consultant, Laura Murphy, a longtime civil rights advocate and former head of the ACLU's Washington office.The civil rights audit addresses the possibility of census misinformation, as well as recent changes Facebook has made to bar white nationalist posts and to try to eliminate discriminatory advertising. Murphy has recommended other changes at Facebook, such as broadening the company's definition of what counts as white nationalism and making it easier for content reviewers to see the context of a post before judging it.Sandberg said Facebook would establish a permanent civil rights task force that she would chair after the audit is completed next year.Murphy told NBC News that it was difficult to determine whether Facebook would be able to address census misinformation \"because the threat is unknown.\"\"We don't know how many people are going to try to use Facebook to interfere with the census or to make misrepresentations,\" she said.Neil Potts, a Facebook public policy director, said in an interview that resources to fight census misinformation would not be a problem, citing the 30,000 people the company has working on content review. \"We're treating the census as a top-tier election,\" he said.Many civil rights groups believe there's a danger the census won't fully count the number of minorities in the country, reducing their political power and access to public resources. Rashad Robinson, president of the group Color of Change, said Facebook's response could help avoid that outcome if it follows through.\"Ensuring that Facebook is not a home for that type of suppression is incredibly important to us,\" he said.\n","htmlText":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Facebook says it is adding a rule against spreading misinformation about the 2020 U.S. census, treating such posts with extra scrutiny out of fear they could disrupt the count.<\/p>\n<p>The move places Facebook in a position of referee in the year-long effort with wide political ramifications. Civil rights groups and the U.S. Census Bureau had been asking tech companies, including Facebook to step up their fight against false information.<\/p>\n<p>Next year's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////2020census.gov/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">census<\/a> will be used to reapportion congressional seats and guide a wide array of other official decisions, though President Donald Trump has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//politics-news//trump-floats-delaying-2020-census-citizenship-question-n1023316/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">floated<\/a> delaying the constitutionally required count after the Supreme Court this month dealt a setback to his effort to include a question about citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said on Sunday that an accurate Census was so crucial that the company would give it the same weight that it now gives elections.<\/p>\n<p>\"We're going to treat next year's Census like an election \u2014 with people, policies, and technology in place to protect against Census interference,\" Sandberg said in a blog post addressing the company's efforts around civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will have an internal team dedicated to the census, actively promote participation in the count and by this fall have a new written policy about census misinformation, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to take down false census information, such as wrong descriptions of how the census works, is an exception to Facebook's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////fortune.com//2019//06//27//facebook-zuckerberg-pelosi-fake-video///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">usual practice<\/a> of leaving up misinformation posted by users. Facebook has said it doesn't want to be the judge of what's true on the internet, although the company increasingly takes steps to prevent material judged false by fact-checkers from going viral.<\/p>\n<p>Another exception is false information about voting, such as details about polling places. Facebook instructs its thousands of content reviewers to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.reuters.com//article//us-facebook-election-exclusive//exclusive-facebook-to-ban-misinformation-on-voting-in-upcoming-u-s-elections-idUSKCN1MP2G9/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">take down<\/a> such posts.<\/p>\n<p>Other tech companies haven't gone as far as Facebook, despite a government <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.reuters.com//article//us-usa-census-fakenews-exclusive//exclusive-fearful-of-fake-news-blitz-us-census-enlists-help-of-tech-giants-idUSKCN1R812S/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">request for help<\/a>. Twitter said in a statement that it has had meetings with census officials to discuss how to \"support a healthy conversation\" about the count. Google did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook in May 2018 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.axios.com//scoop-facebook-committing-to-internal-pobias-audit-1525187977-160aaa3a-3d10-4b28-a4bb-b81947bd03e4.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">launched a broad \"audit\"<\/a> of how it handles civil rights after reports that the company's ad business was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.propublica.org//article//facebook-lets-advertisers-exclude-users-by-race/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">subverting<\/a> federal laws barring discriminatory advertising in areas such as housing and employment.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday's post from Sandberg accompanied a 26-page update on the progress of the review, which is being done by an outside consultant, Laura Murphy, a longtime civil rights advocate and former head of the ACLU's Washington office.<\/p>\n<p>The civil rights audit addresses the possibility of census misinformation, as well as recent changes Facebook has made to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//tech//tech-news//facebook-bans-white-nationalism-after-pressure-civil-rights-groups-n987991/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">bar white nationalist posts<\/a> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wired.com//story//facebook-advertising-discrimination-settlement///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">to try to eliminate discriminatory advertising<\/a>. Murphy has recommended other changes at Facebook, such as broadening the company's definition of what counts as white nationalism and making it easier for content reviewers to see the context of a post before judging it.<\/p>\n<p>Sandberg said Facebook would establish a permanent civil rights task force that she would chair after the audit is completed next year.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy told NBC News that it was difficult to determine whether Facebook would be able to address census misinformation \"because the threat is unknown.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't know how many people are going to try to use Facebook to interfere with the census or to make misrepresentations,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Potts, a Facebook public policy director, said in an interview that resources to fight census misinformation would not be a problem, citing the 30,000 people the company has working on content review. \"We're treating the census as a top-tier election,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Many civil rights groups believe there's a danger the census won't fully count the number of minorities in the country, reducing their political power and access to public resources. Rashad Robinson, president of the group Color of Change, said Facebook's response could help avoid that outcome if it follows through.<\/p>\n<p>\"Ensuring that Facebook is not a home for that type of suppression is incredibly important to us,\" he said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561934416,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561933318,"firstPublishedAt":1561933318,"lastPublishedAt":1561933318,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993872\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190603-census-2020-ac-456p_7fa0f34414b38c24219d9725a189ba92.jpg","altText":"Image: T-shirts are displayed at a community activists and local government","caption":"Facebook said it will add a rule against spreading misinformation about the 2020 U.S. census, treating such posts with extra scrutiny out of fear they could disrupt the count.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Brian Snyder Reuters 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British-Iranian aid worker ends hunger strike, husband says","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Jailed British-Iranian aid worker ends hunger strike, husband says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ended a hunger strike in Tehran, with her husband saying it served the purpose of raising awareness of her plight.","summary":"Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ended a hunger strike in Tehran, with her husband saying it served the purpose of raising awareness of her plight.","keySentence":"","url":"jailed-british-iranian-aid-worker-ends-hunger-strike-husband-says-n1025101","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/jailed-british-iranian-aid-worker-ends-hunger-strike-husband-says-n1025101","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nLONDON — Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ended a hunger strike in Tehran designed to push for her release, her husband told the BBC on Saturday.Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, began the hunger strike roughly two weeks ago.She was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment.Her family and the Foundation, a charity organization that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge.Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, told BBC radio that he had spoken to his wife on Saturday and she was ending the action.\"She's decided to stop her hunger strike,\" he said. \"She said that in fact she'd had some breakfast this morning.\"Ratcliffe, who is ending his own hunger strike, said the protest had helped raise the profile of his wife's case.\"In Iran, we've become a much bigger story than we were before and there's an awareness that really this needs to be solved.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ended a hunger strike in Tehran designed to push for her release, her husband told the BBC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6672\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993826//400x267_nbc-190620-richard-ratcliffe-mc-11253_4a5fd9cd73e0eb790f34dccf51d79db5.jpg/" alt=\"Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe posing for a photograph with her daughter Gabriella.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993826\/384x256_nbc-190620-richard-ratcliffe-mc-11253_4a5fd9cd73e0eb790f34dccf51d79db5.jpg 384w, 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class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe posing for a photograph with her daughter Gabriella.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AFP - Getty Images file<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//husband-nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-says-iran-trying-silence-protest-london-n1020341/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">began the hunger strike roughly two weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit and was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran's clerical establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Her family and the Foundation, a charity organization that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, told BBC radio that he had spoken to his wife on Saturday and she was ending the action.<\/p>\n<p>\"She's decided to stop her hunger strike,\" he said. \"She said that in fact she'd had some breakfast this morning.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe, who is ending his own hunger strike, said the protest had helped raise the profile of his wife's case.<\/p>\n<p>\"In Iran, we've become a much bigger story than we were before and there's an awareness that really this needs to be solved.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561922404,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561922080,"firstPublishedAt":1561922080,"lastPublishedAt":1561922080,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993826\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190630-richard-ratcliffe-cs-307p_a71c3ca67e6af4731c00112ff6373560.jpg","altText":"Image: Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-I","caption":"Richard Ratcliffe, husband of 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Facebook cracks down on hate speech, it's also re-evaluating another policy: Nipples","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"As Facebook cracks down on hate speech, it's also re-evaluating another policy: Nipples","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"In early June, 125 people protested in the nude outside the New York City headquarters of Facebook and Instagram. It worked.","summary":"In early June, 125 people protested in the nude outside the New York City headquarters of Facebook and Instagram. It worked.","keySentence":"","url":"facebook-cracks-down-hate-speech-it-s-also-re-evaluating-n1024746","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/facebook-cracks-down-hate-speech-it-s-also-re-evaluating-n1024746","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nThe first time Savannah Spirit remembers Facebook censoring her work takes her back to 2011.She was curating a show of erotic art in New York and posted a promotional image to Facebook. The social network promptly took it down, and she was prevented from posting anything else for 10 days.In the coming years, Spirit, like many other artists, would move to Instagram, where her edgier art — usually with some form of nudity — would often run afoul of the company's policies and be removed. Complaints and protests from artists and arts organizations in real life and on social media, including at least one that went viral, made little progress.\"I started to decide that it just comes with the territory,\" Spirit said of Facebook's bans.But arts organizations kept at it. In early June, 125 people protested in the nude outside the New York City headquarters of Facebook and Instagram, covering themselves with stickers of photographed male nipples in protest of the long-argued double standard that only female nipples are against the company's policies.The artists' action speaks to just how important the platforms, especially Instagram, have become to the arts now that Tumblr — once a haven for artists — does not allow any adult content.\"Instagram has been so important for artists, especially those who don't necessarily have a regular venue for their work,\" said Svetlana Mintcheva, director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an alliance of more than 50 nonprofits. \"But they develop huge audiences on Instagram, and photographic artists more so than others.\"The pressure campaign worked. Facebook said it would organize a group of artists, educators and activists to talk about its policies. It's a move that is mirrored in the social network's broader re-evaluation of its content policies as well as its move to find people outside its corporate borders to help rewrite its rules.It's a start, but the arts community is not declaring victory just yet.\"We don't just want to talk,\" Svetlana said. \"We'd like to see some action, too.\"Ruchika Budhraja, a spokesperson for Facebook, said the company was committed to meeting with artists, the NCAC and other stakeholders. \"It's important for us to hear directly from different communities who use Facebook and Instagram,\" she said.Facebook's challenges over where to draw the line with nudity in some ways pre-date the now-prominent debate over its role in spreading misinformation and hate speech, underscoring how the company's rules have shifted drastically, often in one direction and then the other, during its meteoric rise.While Facebook banned pornography early on, its efforts to restrict nudity extended to pictures of breastfeeding, a famous French painting of a nude woman and even a New Yorker cartoon. Though the stakes were lower than years later when the company needed to confront issues like fake news and coordinated foreign manipulation campaigns, many activists took the issue no less seriously.The tenacity of the artist community, even years ago, points to just how central both Facebook and Instagram have become to the daily lives of billions of people as well as to the cultures they participate in. And since Facebook would often delete entire accounts along with their work, artists could spend years building up followings only to see them disappear.\"It takes years to build up a base of followers, so this is no small deal for artists working with the body,\" said Spencer Tunick, an artist known for his use of nudity — particularly groups of naked people — who helped organize the protest in June. \"It's a major issue as we see it now.\"Tunick credited artist Micol Hebron with being the first person to digitize the male nipple in 2014 and encourage the public to use it to fight censorship on social media. He stressed that he understands why Facebook needs to draw lines, but that there are ways for the company to embrace experimental art while protecting younger users.Facebook has shown some flexibility. Gabriella Mas Bell, a lawyer with the law firm Polsinelli who has written about Facebook's censorship of artistic nudity, said that she would have to constantly update her work because the company's terms of service frequently changed.\"I was having to go back and change the language in my article, so you could tell that they were really trying to address it,\" Bell said. \"So I'm not actually that surprised they're trying to find a better solution as they're cracking down on things like hate speech and the abusive language.\"For now, however, artists still have to be careful. Spirit said she recently had four pictures deleted from Instagram and knows other artists who were recently banned from the platform for 24 hours for posting some of Tunick's images.But she said she's hopeful that Facebook could finally make changes. All it took was a few dozen nude people outside one of their offices.\"We got their attention,\" she said.\n","htmlText":"<p>The first time Savannah Spirit remembers Facebook censoring her work takes her back to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>She was curating a show of erotic art in New York and posted a promotional image to Facebook. The social network promptly took it down, and she was prevented from posting anything else for 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming years, Spirit, like many other artists, would move to Instagram, where her edgier art \u2014 usually with some form of nudity \u2014 would often run afoul of the company's policies and be removed. Complaints and protests from artists and arts organizations in real life and on social media, including at least <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.theverge.com//2018//4//24//17275114//facebook-community-guidelines-nipples-nudity/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">one that went viral<\/a>, made little progress.<\/p>\n<p>\"I started to decide that it just comes with the territory,\" Spirit said of Facebook's bans.<\/p>\n<p>But arts organizations kept at it. In early June, 125 people protested in the nude outside the New York City headquarters of Facebook and Instagram, covering themselves with stickers of photographed male nipples in protest of the long-argued double standard that only female nipples are against the company's policies.<\/p>\n<p>The artists' action speaks to just how important the platforms, especially Instagram, have become to the arts now that Tumblr \u2014 once a haven for artists \u2014 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//tech//tech-news//tumblr-ban-all-adult-content-n943226/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">does not allow any adult content<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"Instagram has been so important for artists, especially those who don't necessarily have a regular venue for their work,\" said Svetlana Mintcheva, director of programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an alliance of more than 50 nonprofits. \"But they develop huge audiences on Instagram, and photographic artists more so than others.\"<\/p>\n<p>The pressure campaign worked. Facebook said it would organize a group of artists, educators and activists to talk about its policies. It's a move that is mirrored in the social network's broader re-evaluation of its content policies as well as its move to find people outside its corporate borders to help rewrite its rules.<\/p>\n<p>It's a start, but the arts community is not declaring victory just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't just want to talk,\" Svetlana said. \"We'd like to see some action, too.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ruchika Budhraja, a spokesperson for Facebook, said the company was committed to meeting with artists, the NCAC and other stakeholders. \"It's important for us to hear directly from different communities who use Facebook and Instagram,\" she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.3104\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993726//400x524_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg/" alt=\"Thousands of people pose in the nude for an installation by photographer Spencer Tunick, on May 6, 2007 at the Zocalo square in Mexico City.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/384x503_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/640x839_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/750x983_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/828x1085_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/1080x1415_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/1200x1572_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/1920x2516_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Thousands of people pose in the nude for an installation by photographer Spencer Tunick, on May 6, 2007 at the Zocalo square in Mexico City.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ronaldo Schemidt<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Facebook's challenges over where to draw the line with nudity in some ways pre-date the now-prominent debate over its role in spreading misinformation and hate speech, underscoring how the company's rules have shifted drastically, often in one direction and then the other, during its meteoric rise.<\/p>\n<p>While Facebook banned pornography early on, its efforts to restrict nudity extended to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.mic.com//articles//90795//how-women-got-facebook-to-tackle-their-nipple-problem/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">pictures of breastfeeding<\/a>, a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.theguardian.com//technology//2018//feb//01//facebook-nude-painting-gustave-courbet/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">famous French painting<\/a> of a nude woman and even <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////gizmodo.com//these-nipples-got-the-new-yorker-banned-from-facebook-5942284/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">a New Yorker cartoon<\/a>. Though the stakes were lower than years later when the company needed to confront issues like fake news and coordinated foreign manipulation campaigns, many activists took the issue no less seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The tenacity of the artist community, even years ago, points to just how central both Facebook and Instagram have become to the daily lives of billions of people as well as to the cultures they participate in. And since Facebook would often delete entire accounts along with their work, artists could spend years building up followings only to see them disappear.<\/p>\n<p>\"It takes years to build up a base of followers, so this is no small deal for artists working with the body,\" said Spencer Tunick, an artist <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////slate.com//culture//2008//01//why-doesn-t-spencer-tunick-get-any-respect.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">known for his use of nudity<\/a> \u2014 particularly groups of naked people \u2014 who helped organize the protest in June. \"It's a major issue as we see it now.\"<\/p>\n<p>Tunick credited artist Micol Hebron with being the first person to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.sheknows.com//living//articles//1088838//women-are-putting-male-nipples-over-their-own-to-call-out-censorship-hypocrisy///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">digitize the male nipple<\/a> in 2014 and encourage the public to use it to fight censorship on social media. He stressed that he understands why Facebook needs to draw lines, but that there are ways for the company to embrace experimental art while protecting younger users.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has shown some flexibility. Gabriella Mas Bell, a lawyer with the law firm Polsinelli who has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////openscholarship.wustl.edu//law_journal_law_policy//vol54//iss1//24///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">written about Facebook's censorship<\/a> of artistic nudity, said that she would have to constantly update her work because the company's terms of service frequently changed.<\/p>\n<p>\"I was having to go back and change the language in my article, so you could tell that they were really trying to address it,\" Bell said. \"So I'm not actually that surprised they're trying to find a better solution as they're cracking down on things like hate speech and the abusive language.\"<\/p>\n<p>For now, however, artists still have to be careful. Spirit said she recently had four pictures deleted from Instagram and knows other artists who were recently banned from the platform for 24 hours for posting some of Tunick's images.<\/p>\n<p>But she said she's hopeful that Facebook could finally make changes. All it took was a few dozen nude people outside one of their offices.<\/p>\n<p>\"We got their attention,\" she said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561916419,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561916139,"firstPublishedAt":1561916139,"lastPublishedAt":1561916139,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-facebook-nude-artwork-censorship-2x1-al-1319_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg","altText":"Image: Facebook nude art censorship","caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Adrian Lam NBC News; Getty Images","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1250},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993726\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-spencer-tunick-al-1325_a89ed43d346da993039aa0442fb18bb0.jpg","altText":"Image: Spencer Tunick","caption":"Thousands of people pose in the nude for an installation by photographer Spencer Tunick, on May 6, 2007 at the Zocalo square in Mexico City.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ronaldo Schemidt AFP - Getty Images file","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":3276}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":389,"slug":"technology","urlSafeValue":"technology","title":"Technology","titleRaw":"Technology"},{"id":10245,"slug":"science","urlSafeValue":"science","title":"Science","titleRaw":"Science"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":1630658}],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.techscience"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Tech and Science News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Jason Abbruzzese","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"","verticals":[],"primaryVertical":{"id":0,"slug":"","urlSafeValue":"","title":""},"themes":[{"id":"science_technology","urlSafeValue":"science_technology","title":"Sci-tech","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"science_technology","title":"Sci-tech"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'neg_facebook_2021','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_bucherer','neg_facebook','neg_mobkoi_fb-weareonit_fs_28feb2019','neg_saudiaramco','neg_nespresso','neg_facebook_neg1','gs_tech','gs_tech_social','gs_entertain','pos_equinor','gt_negative','gv_adult','gs_entertain_arts','gs_society','gs_society_misc'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/30\/facebook-cracks-down-hate-speech-it-s-also-re-evaluating-n1024746","lastModified":1561916139},{"id":800252,"cid":3993680,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Busing becomes focal point of Democratic primary after Biden-Harris debate exchange","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Busing becomes focal point of Democratic primary after Biden-Harris debate exchange","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"\"Busing is certainly an option that is necessary in certain cases, but it is not the optimal,\" Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday on ABC's \"This Week.\"","summary":"\"Busing is certainly an option that is necessary in certain cases, but it is not the optimal,\" Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday on ABC's \"This Week.\"","keySentence":"","url":"busing-becomes-focal-point-democratic-primary-after-biden-harris-debate-n1025076","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/busing-becomes-focal-point-democratic-primary-after-biden-harris-debate-n1025076","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nFederally-enforced desegregation busing — one of the most heated policy debates of the 1970s — has taken center stage in the Democratic primary after a tense exchange between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., during Thursday's Democratic debate.Now, candidates across the board are being asked for their position on the issue presently, as schools across the country remain largely segregated to this day.On Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential contender, told ABC's \"This Week\" he thinks the \"resegregation\" of schools and communities \"is a very serious problem.\"\"We need to build public education in this country,\" Sanders said. \"We need to make sure kids go to community schools which are integrated, and that means we have to focus on fair housing legislation and enforcement. Busing is certainly an option that is necessary in certain cases, but it is not the optimal.\"\"Does anybody think it's a good idea to put a kid on a bus, travel an hour to another school, into another neighborhood that he or she doesn't know? That's not the optimal,\" Sanders continued. \"What is the optimal is to have great community schools which are integrated. That's what I think most people want to see, that's what I want to see.\"Sanders, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a fellow 2020 presidential candidate, co-sponsored the Strength in Diversity Act, which would provide $120 million to bolster local integration efforts in public schools, including busing. As is, Section 426 of the General Education Provisions Act prohibits federal funding of desegregation, though there are some exceptions.Warren, asked Friday at a Rainbow\/PUSH event in Chicago about her stance on busing, told reporters that she has \"already supported legislation that uses busing as a way to help diversify communities and strengthen communities.\"\"I'm already on the record on busing and using busing as a way to help communities that are diversified,\" she said.Meanwhile, following Thursday's debate, Harris spokesman Ian Sams said on Twitter that the senator supports busing for school integration currently.In a 1999 Gallup poll on desegregation busing, the overwhelming majority of Americans were opposed to the practice. One of the biggest problems with the program — as Sanders noted — was that African-American children were being bused at great lengths to attend white schools. The recent school integration debate focuses more heavily on the battle between public and charter schools and on efforts to desegregate communities as a whole.The busing issue — which Biden figured prominently in as a senator in the 1970s — came to the forefront after Harris pushed him Thursday to address his position. In that exchange, Harris said Biden worked with segregationist senators \"to oppose busing,\" adding that a local busing program allowed her to attend an integrated school and obtain a good education.Biden pushed back, saying she mischaracterized his position \"across the board\" and highlighted his broad support of civil rights.\"I did not oppose busing in America,\" Biden said. \"What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That's what I opposed.\"To many, Biden's explanation sounded a lot like the \"states rights\" defense that opponents to civil rights enforcement have cited for decades.Sen. Cory Booker, another 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said Sunday on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" that \"whoever our next president is going to be, really needs to be someone who can talk openly and honestly about race.\"\"I'm not sure if Joe Biden is up to that task given the way the last three weeks have played out,\" he added in reference to Biden's exchange with Harris and his recent citing of the working relationships he had with two Democratic segregationist senators early in his Senate career.Also on \"Meet the Press,\" former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Juliàn Castro, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, said Biden's stance on busing \"is relevant\" to the 2020 debate.\"What I took as his position of he allowed local communities to make a decision — essentially relying on states rights,\" Castro said. \"I think he's going to have to continue to explain why that was a good position because we've had very painful history in his country of trying to desegregate communities.\"Speaking Friday in Chicago at the Rainbow\/PUSH event, Biden claimed he \"never, never, never opposed voluntary busing\" like the program Harris participated in, adding that he has \"always been in favor of using federal authority to overcome state-initiated segregation.\"Biden has previously called busing \"an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me\" and a \"liberal train wreck.\" In a 1975 interview with NPR, Biden supported a constitutional amendment to end federally-mandated busing.This weekend, the issue was also brought up to President Donald Trump during his trip overseas at the G20 summit. Asked about busing, Trump seemed not to fully understand the issue as he discussed busing as a common way to transport children to school.\"Well, it has been something that they've done for a long period of time. I mean, you know, there aren't that many ways you're going to get people to schools,\" Trump said. \"So this is something that's been done. In some cases, it's been done with a hammer instead of velvet glove. And, you know, that's part of it.\"I think if Vice President Biden had answered the question somewhat differently, it would've been a lot — it would've been a different result,\" he said. \"Because they really did hit him hard on that one. ... But it is certainly a primary method of getting people to schools.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>Federally-enforced desegregation busing \u2014 one of the most heated policy debates of the 1970s \u2014 has taken center stage in the Democratic primary after a tense exchange between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., during Thursday's Democratic debate.<\/p>\n<p>Now, candidates across the board are being asked for their position on the issue presently, as schools across the country <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nytimes.com//2019//05//02//learning//lesson-plans//still-separate-still-unequal-teaching-about-school-segregation-and-educational-inequality.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">remain largely segregated<\/a> to this day.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 2020 presidential contender, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//ThisWeekABC//status//1145328216430612480/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">told<\/a> ABC's \"This Week\" he thinks the \"resegregation\" of schools and communities \"is a very serious problem.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We need to build public education in this country,\" Sanders said. \"We need to make sure kids go to community schools which are integrated, and that means we have to focus on fair housing legislation and enforcement. Busing is certainly an option that is necessary in certain cases, but it is not the optimal.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Does anybody think it's a good idea to put a kid on a bus, travel an hour to another school, into another neighborhood that he or she doesn't know? That's not the optimal,\" Sanders continued. \"What is the optimal is to have great community schools which are integrated. That's what I think most people want to see, that's what I want to see.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a fellow 2020 presidential candidate, co-sponsored the Strength in Diversity Act, which would provide $120 million to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.politico.com//story//2019//06//28//warren-biden-harris-debate-1390408/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">bolster local integration efforts<\/a> in public schools, including busing. As is, Section 426 of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.everycrsreport.com//reports//R41119.html#_Toc256753016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">General Education Provisions Act<\/a> prohibits federal funding of desegregation, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.cnn.com//2019//06//28//politics//school-busing-federal-funding-ban//index.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">though there are<\/a> some exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Warren, asked Friday at a Rainbow\/PUSH event in Chicago about her stance on busing, told reporters that she has \"already supported legislation that uses busing as a way to help diversify communities and strengthen communities.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm already on the record on busing and using busing as a way to help communities that are diversified,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, following Thursday's debate, Harris spokesman Ian Sams <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//IanSams//status//1144428073271681030/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Twitter that the senator supports busing for school integration currently.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////news.gallup.com//poll//3577//americans-want-integrated-schools-oppose-school-busing.aspx/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">1999 Gallup poll<\/a> on desegregation busing, the overwhelming majority of Americans were opposed to the practice. One of the biggest problems with the program \u2014 as Sanders noted \u2014 was that African-American children were being bused at great lengths to attend white schools. The recent school integration debate focuses more heavily on the battle between public and charter schools and on efforts to desegregate communities as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The busing issue \u2014 which Biden figured prominently in as a senator in the 1970s \u2014 came to the forefront after Harris pushed him Thursday to address his position. In that exchange, Harris said Biden worked with segregationist senators \"to oppose busing,\" adding that a local busing program allowed her to attend an integrated school and obtain a good education.<\/p>\n<p>Biden pushed back, saying she mischaracterized his position \"across the board\" and highlighted his broad support of civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>\"I did not oppose busing in America,\" Biden said. \"What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That's what I opposed.\"<\/p>\n<p>To many, Biden's explanation sounded a lot like the \"states rights\" defense that opponents to civil rights enforcement have cited for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cory Booker, another 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//meet-the-press//cory-booker-questions-whether-joe-biden-able-speak-honestly-about-n1025061/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">said<\/a> Sunday on NBC's \"Meet the Press\" that \"whoever our next president is going to be, really needs to be someone who can talk openly and honestly about race.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm not sure if Joe Biden is up to that task given the way the last three weeks have played out,\" he added in reference to Biden's exchange with Harris and his recent citing of the working relationships he had with two Democratic segregationist senators early in his Senate career.<\/p>\n<p>Also on \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//MeetThePress//status//1145323318641405953/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Meet the Press<\/a>,\" former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Juli\u00e0n Castro, a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, said Biden's stance on busing \"is relevant\" to the 2020 debate.<\/p>\n<p>\"What I took as his position of he allowed local communities to make a decision \u2014 essentially relying on states rights,\" Castro said. \"I think he's going to have to continue to explain why that was a good position because we've had very painful history in his country of trying to desegregate communities.\"<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Friday in Chicago at the Rainbow\/PUSH event, Biden claimed he \"never, never, never opposed voluntary busing\" like the program Harris participated in, adding that he has \"always been in favor of using federal authority to overcome state-initiated segregation.\"<\/p>\n<p>Biden has previously called busing \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nytimes.com//2019//06//28//us//politics//joe-biden-busing-kamala-harris.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">an asinine<\/a> concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me\" and a \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//politics//joe-biden-called-busing-a-liberal-train-wreck-now-his-stance-on-school-integration-is-an-issue//2019//06//28//557705dc-99b3-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.a38c0d0d6bf9\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">liberal train wreck<\/a>.\" In a 1975 interview with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.npr.org//2019//06//28//736995314//listen-biden-supported-a-constitutional-amendment-to-end-mandated-busing-in-1975/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>, Biden supported a constitutional amendment to end federally-mandated busing.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the issue was also brought up to President Donald Trump <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//trump-defends-biden-after-democratic-debate-says-harris-got-too-n1024906/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">during his trip overseas<\/a> at the G20 summit. Asked about busing, Trump seemed not to fully understand the issue as he discussed busing as a common way to transport children to school.<\/p>\n<p>\"Well, it has been something that they've done for a long period of time. I mean, you know, there aren't that many ways you're going to get people to schools,\" Trump said. \"So this is something that's been done. In some cases, it's been done with a hammer instead of velvet glove. And, you know, that's part of it.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think if Vice President Biden had answered the question somewhat differently, it would've been a lot \u2014 it would've been a different result,\" he said. \"Because they really did hit him hard on that one. ... But it is certainly a primary method of getting people to schools.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561912822,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561911960,"firstPublishedAt":1561911960,"lastPublishedAt":1561911960,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993680\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190630-integrated-schools-march-cs-1056a_b7dd4b81a15f0d63a75845eafbf5e0c3.jpg","altText":"Image: Demonstrators carry signs calling for equal rights and integrated sc","caption":"Demonstrators carry signs calling for equal rights and integrated schools in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Warren K. Leffler Underwood Archives via Getty Images","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1790}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Allan Smith","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','neg_facebook_2021','gs_politics_american','gs_politics_misc','neg_facebook_neg4','gs_travel','gs_education_misc','neg_mobkoi_castrol','gs_society_misc','gs_travel_misc','gs_education','neg_bucherer','neg_citi_campaign_2','neg_citi_campaign_3','castrol_negative_uk','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/30\/busing-becomes-focal-point-democratic-primary-after-biden-harris-debate-n1025076","lastModified":1561911960},{"id":800080,"cid":3993270,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Data: Twitter primary is not 'the real world'","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Data: Twitter primary is not 'the real world'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Poll numbers don't match up particularly well with the figures from the 280-character \"debate.\"","summary":"Poll numbers don't match up particularly well with the figures from the 280-character \"debate.\"","keySentence":"","url":"data-shows-twitter-primary-differs-real-world-n1025051","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/data-shows-twitter-primary-differs-real-world-n1025051","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON - As voters and activists try to make sense of the enormous Democratic primary field, Twitter, where real-time \"analysis\" flows 24-7, has emerged as a go-to news portal.But the narrative that is emerging there may be missing the larger story of the 2020 campaign, at least up to now.The chatter on the social media platform suggests that the Democratic Party is lurching leftward - on everything from slavery reparations to socialism - but other data show a more moderate primary electorate is emerging and may end up selecting the nominee.Take a look at which 2020 candidates were driving the conversation on Twitter through the month of June, according to data from Socially Mined, a digital marketing agency.Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads with followers by a landslide - 17.7 million for him, versus 7.7 million for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 4.4 million for New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, 3.6 million for former Vice President Joe Biden and 3.4 million for California Sen. Kamala Harris.Going by \"engagement rate\" on Twitter, a measure that looks at \"likes\" and \"retweets\" on the platform, the leader is South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, followed by Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Warren and former Vice President Biden.And looking at \"mentions\" on the platform, again it's Sanders with a big lead, with more than 4.1 million mentions, compared to 3.5 million for Biden, 3.3 million for Warren, 2.7 million for Harris and 996,000 for Buttigieg.That's a set of numbers that shows a Democratic Party in the mood for change and perhaps ready to move to the left philosophically. Bernie Sanders leads in two categories. Joe Biden leads in none. And Elizabeth Warren is ahead of Biden in two of the three.When you look at \"sentiment\" among Twitter users in the Socially Mined data, the trend becomes even clearer. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Buttigieg, Warren, Booker, Sanders and Harris all had a higher percentage of \"positive\" tweets than Biden in June.But before you let Twitter sort out the Democratic field completely, consider the latest polls of the enormous Democratic field. Most show former Vice President Joe Biden with a solid lead over his nearest competitor - and some of the margins are well into the double-digit range.Biden leads the field by 15 points in the latest USA Today\/Suffolk poll. He's up by 19 in the Politico\/Morning Consult poll. And in the Real Clear Politics average of polls, Biden leads by 15 points over the field.Yes, those numbers were gathered before this week's debate, where Harris, in particular, had a good showing and Biden did not. But the social media data above was gathered mostly before the debates as well, from June 1 to June 28.In other words, this is close to an apples-to-apples comparison in terms of the time frame. Nonetheless, the poll numbers don't match up particularly well with the figures from the 280-character \"debate\" appearing on people's smartphone and web browsers.And the latest NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll offered more evidence that Democratic primary voters are more politically moderate than Twitter might suggest. That survey took a deeper look at those who said they planned to vote in the Democratic primary and it did not find an electorate that was running to the left.That is a split right down the middle between liberal and moderate\/conservative voters, 48 percent for each group.The NBC News\/WSJ poll also doesn't seem to reveal the desire for a drastic remaking of the country. Only 16 percent of those surveyed said Democracy in America needs a complete overhaul. Another 41 percent called for major changes and 32 percent said minor changes would suffice. Meanwhile, 10 percent said it was working pretty well as is.Those are numbers that call for change - hardly a surprise for the party that is out of power in Washington and eager to change the occupant of the White House - but not revolution.It's still early, of course. Things can change quickly, particularly as the debates continue and when the votes begin to be cast. But so far there are two Democratic primary races going on in the public eye: A battle that is primarily taking place on the left in the social media world, and a more moderate view in the larger, offline world.As the primary fight continues to keep those two visions of the Democratic electorate in mind. The candidates they favor and the issues that concern them might look quite different.\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON - As voters and activists try to make sense of the enormous Democratic primary field, Twitter, where real-time \"analysis\" flows 24-7, has emerged as a go-to news portal.But the narrative that is emerging there may be missing the larger story of the 2020 campaign, at least up to now.The chatter on the social media platform suggests that the Democratic Party is <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//meet-the-press//democrats-march-leftward-first-presidential-debates-n1024461/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">lurching leftward<\/a> - on everything from slavery reparations to socialism - but other data show a more moderate primary electorate is emerging and may end up selecting the nominee.Take a look at which 2020 candidates were driving the conversation on Twitter through the month of June, according to data from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////sociallymined.com///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Socially Mined<\/a>, a digital marketing agency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993270//400x225_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg/" alt=\"Take a look at which 2020 candidates were driving the conversation on Twitter through the month of June.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/384x216_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/640x360_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/750x422_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/828x466_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1080x608_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1200x675_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1920x1080_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Take a look at which 2020 candidates were driving the conversation on Twitter through the month of June.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders leads with followers by a landslide - 17.7 million for him, versus 7.7 million for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 4.4 million for New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, 3.6 million for former Vice President Joe Biden and 3.4 million for California Sen. Kamala Harris.Going by \"engagement rate\" on Twitter, a measure that looks at \"likes\" and \"retweets\" on the platform, the leader is South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, followed by Harris, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Warren and former Vice President Biden.And looking at \"mentions\" on the platform, again it's Sanders with a big lead, with more than 4.1 million mentions, compared to 3.5 million for Biden, 3.3 million for Warren, 2.7 million for Harris and 996,000 for Buttigieg.That's a set of numbers that shows a Democratic Party in the mood for change and perhaps ready to move to the left philosophically. Bernie Sanders leads in two categories. Joe Biden leads in none. And Elizabeth Warren is ahead of Biden in two of the three.When you look at \"sentiment\" among Twitter users in the Socially Mined data, the trend becomes even clearer. Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Buttigieg, Warren, Booker, Sanders and Harris all had a higher percentage of \"positive\" tweets than Biden in June.But <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//rivals-defend-kamala-harris-against-online-attacks-they-compare-birtherism-n1025031/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">before you let Twitter sort<\/a> out the Democratic field completely, consider the latest polls of the enormous Democratic field. Most show former Vice President Joe Biden with a solid lead over his nearest competitor - and some of the margins are well into the double-digit range.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993270//400x225_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg/" alt=\"Before you let Twitter sort out the Democratic field completely, consider the latest polls of the enormous Democratic field.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/384x216_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/640x360_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/750x422_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/828x466_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1080x608_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1200x675_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1920x1080_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Before you let Twitter sort out the Democratic field completely, consider the latest polls of the enormous Democratic field.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Biden leads the field by 15 points in the latest USA Today\/Suffolk poll. He's up by 19 in the Politico\/Morning Consult poll. And in the Real Clear Politics average of polls, Biden leads by 15 points over the field.Yes, those numbers were gathered before this week's debate, where Harris, in particular, had a good showing and Biden did not. But the social media data above was gathered mostly before the debates as well, from June 1 to June 28.In other words, this is close to an apples-to-apples comparison in terms of the time frame. Nonetheless, the poll numbers don't match up particularly well with the figures from the 280-character \"debate\" appearing on people's smartphone and web browsers.And the latest NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll offered more evidence that Democratic primary voters are more politically moderate than Twitter might suggest. That survey took a deeper look at those who said they planned to vote in the Democratic primary and it did not find an electorate that was running to the left.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993270//400x225_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg/" alt=\"That is a split right down the middle between liberal and moderate\/conservative voters, 48 percent for each group.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/384x216_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/640x360_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/750x422_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/828x466_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1080x608_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1200x675_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/1920x1080_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">That is a split right down the middle between liberal and moderate\/conservative voters, 48 percent for each group.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>That is a split right down the middle between liberal and moderate\/conservative voters, 48 percent for each group.The NBC News\/WSJ poll also doesn't seem to reveal the desire for a drastic remaking of the country. Only 16 percent of those surveyed said Democracy in America needs a complete overhaul. Another 41 percent called for major changes and 32 percent said minor changes would suffice. Meanwhile, 10 percent said it was working pretty well as is.Those are numbers that call for change - hardly a surprise for the party that is out of power in Washington and eager to change the occupant of the White House - but not revolution.It's still early, of course. Things can change quickly, particularly as the debates continue and when the votes begin to be cast. But so far there are two Democratic primary races going on in the public eye: A battle that is primarily taking place on the left in the social media world, and a more moderate view in the larger, offline world.As the primary fight continues to keep those two visions of the Democratic electorate in mind. The candidates they favor and the issues that concern them might look quite different.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561899622,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561899603,"firstPublishedAt":1561899603,"lastPublishedAt":1561899603,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-fs_data_download_1_2019_06_30_719715f5aaf4cfdf889e971e83e44a51.jpg","altText":null,"caption":"Take a look at which 2020 candidates were driving the conversation on Twitter through the month of June.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-fs_data_download_4_2019_06_30_cb2606efff50c349829bee4f1930c289.jpg","altText":null,"caption":"That is a split right down the middle between liberal and moderate\/conservative voters, 48 percent for each group.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993270\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-fs_data_download_2_2019_06_30_22d2e7b754b2c096a78c6cbf4fb4af3a.jpg","altText":null,"caption":"Before you let Twitter sort out the Democratic field completely, consider the latest polls of the enormous Democratic field.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US 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Court term found Trump's justices, and others, forming unpredictable alliances","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Supreme Court term found Trump's justices, and others, forming unpredictable alliances","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"The high court divided along the typical ideological lines only seven times.","summary":"The high court divided along the typical ideological lines only seven times.","keySentence":"","url":"supreme-court-term-found-trump-s-justices-others-forming-unpredictable-n1024916","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/supreme-court-term-found-trump-s-justices-others-forming-unpredictable-n1024916","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON - Although the Supreme Court split between conservative and liberal justices in one of its most high-profile cases - a 5-4 ruling that said federal judges could not referee disputes over partisan gerrymandering - the court's just-ended term was notable for a series of unusual lineups.The court divided along the typical ideological lines only seven times, with justices appointed by Republican presidents on one side and those appointed by Democrats on the other. After the bruising hearing for the court's newest member, President Donald Trump's nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the court seemed determined to keep a low profile and to avoid being perceived as a partisan body.Kavanaugh turned out to be the justice most often in the majority. He joined with the court's liberals in allowing iPhone customers to sue Apple over pricing in the App Store, and in blocking the execution of a Texas death row inmate after the state refused to let him have his Buddhist priest in the lethal injection chamber.Kavanaugh was in the majority in 91 percent of the term's decisions in which he participated, slightly more than Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's other appointee, and Justice Clarence Thomas were least often in the majority.Roberts, however, voted more often, because Kavanaugh did not take part in cases that he heard previously as a judge on the federal Court of Appeals in Washington.The two Trump justices were on opposite sides in almost half of the opinions that were not unanimous, including rulings in which the high court found that separate prosecutions for the same offense in state and federal court do not violate the protection against double jeopardy, tossed out a lawsuit over political boundaries for the state legislature, and narrowed the grounds for prosecuting some federal crimes.They also split in December when the court refused to hear appeals from states seeking to prevent Medicaid patients from using the services of Planned Parenthood. Gorsuch joined a dissent written by Thomas, who said the cases were not about abortion. Then Thomas asked: \"So what explains the court's refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named 'Planned Parenthood.'\"But Kavanaugh and Gorsuch were together in one of the court's most unusual lineups, as the justices struck down a provision of federal law that prevented the government from issuing trademarks considered \"scandalous\" or \"immoral\" -- a victory for a California man whose clothing line bears the word \"FUCT.\" They joined fellow conservatives Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito and liberal justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the majority.The term was also notable for the hot-button cases the court put off until next year or avoided entirely. It declined to rule on whether business owners can refuse to provide their services for same-sex weddings based on their religious beliefs. But next year, the court will consider whether existing anti-discrimination laws make it illegal to fire employees on the basis of their sexual orientation.The court declined to hear a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks - devices that allow a rifle to be fired rapidly like a machine gun - that went into effect in March. But next year, the justices will take up the first gun rights case they've heard in almost a decade. It's a challenge to New York City's restriction on transporting guns outside the city limits. Some gun control advocates were hoping the city will repeal the law in order to keep the gun issue from being taken up by the Supreme Court.Even though the Justice Department has repeatedly urged it to act quickly, the court waited until the last day of the term to say it will take up the government's appeal of lower court rulings requiring the Trump administration to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA allows children of illegal immigrants to remain here if they were younger than 16 when their parents brought them to the United States and if they arrived by 2007. The White House has been trying for almost two years to shut the Obama-era program down.\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON - Although the Supreme Court split between conservative and liberal justices in one of its most high-profile cases - a 5-4 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-allows-gerrymandering-north-carolina-maryland-n1014656?cid=public-rss_20190627\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">ruling that said federal judges could not referee disputes over partisan gerrymandering<\/a> - the court's just-ended term was notable for a series of unusual lineups.<\/p>\n<p>The court divided along the typical ideological lines only seven times, with justices appointed by Republican presidents on one side and those appointed by Democrats on the other. After the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//congress//christine-blasey-ford-tells-senate-memories-brett-kavanaugh-assault-have-n913531/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">bruising hearing for the court's newest member, President Donald Trump's nominee Brett Kavanaugh<\/a>, the court seemed determined to keep a low profile and to avoid being perceived as a partisan body.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh turned out to be the justice most often in the majority. He joined with the court's liberals in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-rules-let-apple-app-store-customers-sue-over-n1004956/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">allowing iPhone customers to sue Apple over pricing in the App Store<\/a>, and in blocking the execution of a Texas death row inmate after the state refused to let him have his Buddhist priest in the lethal injection chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Kavanaugh was in the majority in 91 percent of the term's decisions in which he participated, slightly more than Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's other appointee, and Justice Clarence Thomas were least often in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, however, voted more often, because Kavanaugh did not take part in cases that he heard previously as a judge on the federal Court of Appeals in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The two Trump justices were on opposite sides in almost half of the opinions that were not unanimous, including rulings in which the high court found that separate prosecutions for the same offense in state and federal court <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-declines-change-double-jeopardy-rule-case-manafort-implications-n1014771/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">do not violate the protection against double jeopardy<\/a>, tossed out a lawsuit over political boundaries for the state legislature, and narrowed the grounds for prosecuting some federal crimes.<\/p>\n<p>They also split in December when the court refused to hear appeals from states <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-leaves-legal-victory-place-planned-parenthood-n945946/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">seeking to prevent Medicaid patients from using the services of Planned Parenthood.<\/a> Gorsuch joined a dissent written by Thomas, who said the cases were not about abortion. Then Thomas asked: \"So what explains the court's refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named 'Planned Parenthood.'\"<\/p>\n<p>But Kavanaugh and Gorsuch were together in one of the court's most unusual lineups, as the justices struck down a provision of federal law that prevented the government from issuing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-allows-trademark-f-word-soundalike-n1014796/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">trademarks considered \"scandalous\" or \"immoral\"<\/a>-- a victory for a California man whose clothing line bears the word \"FUCT.\" They joined fellow conservatives Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito and liberal justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>The term was also notable for the hot-button cases the court put off until next year or avoided entirely. It declined to rule on whether<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-sends-gay-wedding-cake-dispute-back-state-court-n1018176/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">business owners can refuse to provide their services for same-sex weddings<\/a>based on their religious beliefs. But next year, the court will consider whether existing anti-discrimination laws make it illegal to fire employees on the basis of their sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The court d<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-rejects-effort-stop-trump-s-ban-rapid-fire-n988566/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">eclined to hear a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks<\/a>- devices that allow a rifle to be fired rapidly like a machine gun - that went into effect in March. But next year, the justices will take up the first gun rights case they've heard in almost a decade. It's a challenge to New York City's restriction on transporting guns outside the city limits. Some gun control advocates were hoping the city will repeal the law in order to keep the gun issue from being taken up by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Justice Department has repeatedly urged it to act quickly, the court waited until the last day of the term to say it will take up the government's appeal of lower court rulings requiring the Trump administration to continue the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//supreme-court//supreme-court-agrees-hear-daca-case-win-trump-administration-n1020481/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA<\/a> allows children of illegal immigrants to remain here if they were younger than 16 when their parents brought them to the United States and if they arrived by 2007. The White House has been trying for almost two years to shut the Obama-era program down.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561896023,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561895940,"firstPublishedAt":1561895940,"lastPublishedAt":1561895940,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993218\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-181130-supreme-court-mn-1200_07cbb091bdad5fa82ab9409e1ed93308.jpg","altText":"Image: Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, John G. Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsbur","caption":"Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito Jr., Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett M. Kavanaugh","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"J. 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The official did not elaborate on the reason for the arrest.The Palestinian Authority boycotted the Bahrain conference, saying the U.S. is unfairly biased toward Israel.Abu Mayala attended the conference with a small group of Palestinian colleagues, led by businessman Ashraf Jabari, who is viewed with deep suspicion by fellow Palestinians and authorities for his close ties to Jewish settlers in the West Bank.U.S. Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt welcomed Abu Mayala's release. \"We look fwd to continuing our conversation w all who attended the workshop & anyone else who wants a better future for the Palestinians,\" he wrote on Twitter.In Bahrain, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner revealed the economic part of the plan, promising $50 billion in projects and investments aimed at helping the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries.The Palestinian leadership says the economic plan should not pre-empt a political settlement.WorldThe Palestinian Authority has boycotted the Trump administration since its 2017 recognition of contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocation of the U.S. embassy to the city the following year. The Trump administration has also halted aid to the Palestinians, pressuring them to resume peace negotiations with Israel.Addressing his Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the economic plan and criticized the Palestinians' rejection and arrest of Abu Mayala.\"This is not how those who want to promote peace act,\" he said.\n","htmlText":"<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 A Palestinian security official on Sunday confirmed the release of a Palestinian man who was arrested after participating in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//kushner-faces-battle-sell-economic-plan-palestinians-peace-conference-n1021316/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">White House-led Mideast peace conference<\/a> in Bahrain last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority arrested Saleh Abu Mayala on Saturday in the city of Hebron for interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>The security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said Abu Mayala had been released late Saturday. The official did not elaborate on the reason for the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority boycotted the Bahrain conference, saying the U.S. is unfairly biased toward Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Mayala attended the conference with a small group of Palestinian colleagues, led by businessman Ashraf Jabari, who is viewed with deep suspicion by fellow Palestinians and authorities for his close ties to Jewish settlers in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt welcomed Abu Mayala's release. \"We look fwd to continuing our conversation w all who attended the workshop & anyone else who wants a better future for the Palestinians,\" he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In Bahrain, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//trump-administration-unveils-50-billion-palestinian-economic-plan-approach-abbas-n1020666/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Jared Kushner revealed the economic part of the plan<\/a>, promising $50 billion in projects and investments aimed at helping the Palestinians and neighboring Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian leadership says the economic plan should not pre-empt a political settlement.<\/p>\n<p>World<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority has boycotted the Trump administration since its 2017 recognition of contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital and relocation of the U.S. embassy to the city the following year. The Trump administration has also halted aid to the Palestinians, pressuring them to resume peace negotiations with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing his Cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the economic plan and criticized the Palestinians' rejection and arrest of Abu Mayala.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is not how those who want to promote peace act,\" he said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561896005,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561895154,"firstPublishedAt":1561895154,"lastPublishedAt":1561895154,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993216\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-afp_1hv03v_2b3e8f29058369e6d69c384c561cd62e.jpg","altText":"Image: BAHRAIN-US-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-DIPLOMACY-ECONOMY","caption":"A handout picture released by Bahrain's official news agency (BNA) shows White House adviser Jared Kushner speaking during a US-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Manama on June 25, 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must use sanctions to force Kim Jong Un on nukes, former diplomat says","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Trump must use sanctions to force Kim Jong Un on nukes, former diplomat says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"\"North Korea is delivering a different image to the world that it is not North Korea begging or demanding a meeting, but it is America that wanted to have that meeting,\" the former diplomat said","summary":"\"North Korea is delivering a different image to the world that it is not North Korea begging or demanding a meeting, but it is America that wanted to have that meeting,\" the former diplomat said","keySentence":"","url":"zero-chance-kim-jong-un-willingly-gives-nukes-trump-must-n1024991","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/zero-chance-kim-jong-un-willingly-gives-nukes-trump-must-n1024991","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nSEOUL, South Korea — A former high-ranking North Korean diplomat who defected told NBC News that there is \"zero\" chance that Kim Jong Un, the country's leader, would willingly give up nuclear weapons because they help to keep him in power.But President Donald Trump must nonetheless use economic sanctions to pressure the North Korean leader into agreeing to denuclearization, the former diplomat said.\"Kim Jong Un believes strongly that nuclear weapons are the last resort he can rely on for his future rule in North Korea,\" said the defector, Thae Yong Ho, once the second-highest ranking official at the North Korean embassy in London, in an interview in Seoul.Trump, who was in the region for the G-20 summit, became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot into North Korea on Sunday after an extraordinary, last-minute meeting with Kim at the demilitarized zone separating North and South.After lengthy private talks, Trump said the two countries agreed to relaunch stalled nuclear negotiations within weeks. He added that sanctions on North Korea would remain in place for now, but seemed to leave open the possibility that some could be removed during the talks.Kim would like the existing economic sanctions against his country to be lifted as soon as possible, Thae said.\"But I want to emphasize that the current level of economic sanction is not enough to force Kim Jong Un to totally abandon\" the country's nuclear program, he said.\"He is afraid of additional sanctions,\" the former diplomat added.For that reason, Thae said the two should have a third summit, after the second one that was held in Hanoi in March fell apart with no deal.\"The point must be the continuation of forcing Kim Jong Un to abandon [the country's] nuclear weapons,\" Thae said.Trump \"should deliver very clearly to Kim Jong Un that unless he abandons his nuclear program, the U.S., together with the world, will continue to sanction and will continue even to add more sanctions\" until North Korea starts \"the process of the denuclearization.\"Sunday's unprecedented encounter between the two leaders followed Trump's public offer to meet Kim, inviting him to shake hands \"and say hello.\"But Thae cautioned that such a public invitation could serve as powerful propaganda tool domestically in North Korea for Kim, as it suggests \"that it is not North Korea begging or demanding a meeting, but it is America that wanted to have that meeting,\" he said.The former diplomat said he thinks Kim likes Trump because he is \"quite different than all previous American presidents.\"\"All previous American presidents are so far have been very moral and they paid great attention on the America's moral image,\" Thae said.In contrast, he suggested that Trump had not, for example, responded strongly enough to the case of American college student Otto Warmbier, who suffered severe injuries during his 17 months of detention in North Korea and died shortly after his release in 2017.Richard Engel reported from Seoul. Phil McCausland reported from New York.\n","htmlText":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 A former high-ranking North Korean diplomat<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//north-korean-diplomat-thae-yong-ho-defects-south-korea-seoul-n632556/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">who defected<\/a>told NBC News that there is \"zero\" chance that Kim Jong Un, the country's leader, would willingly give up nuclear weapons because they help to keep him in power.<\/p>\n<p>But President Donald Trump must nonetheless use economic sanctions to pressure the North Korean leader into agreeing to denuclearization, the former diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Kim Jong Un believes strongly that nuclear weapons are the last resort he can rely on for his future rule in North Korea,\" said the defector, Thae Yong Ho, once the second-highest ranking official at the North Korean embassy in London, in an interview in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who was in the region for the G-20 summit, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//trump-kim-jong-un-meet-dmz-n1025041/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot into North Korea<\/a> on Sunday after an extraordinary, last-minute meeting with Kim at the demilitarized zone separating North and South.<\/p>\n<p>After lengthy private talks, Trump said the two countries agreed to relaunch stalled nuclear negotiations within weeks. He added that sanctions on North Korea would remain in place for now, but seemed to leave open the possibility that some could be removed during the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Kim would like the existing economic sanctions against his country to be lifted as soon as possible, Thae said.<\/p>\n<p>\"But I want to emphasize that the current level of economic sanction is not enough to force Kim Jong Un to totally abandon\" the country's nuclear program, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"He is afraid of additional sanctions,\" the former diplomat added.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Thae said the two should have a third summit, after the second one that was held in Hanoi in March fell apart with no deal.<\/p>\n<p>\"The point must be the continuation of forcing Kim Jong Un to abandon [the country's] nuclear weapons,\" Thae said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump \"should deliver very clearly to Kim Jong Un that unless he abandons his nuclear program, the U.S., together with the world, will continue to sanction and will continue even to add more sanctions\" until North Korea starts \"the process of the denuclearization.\"<\/p>\n<p>Sunday's unprecedented encounter between the two leaders followed Trump's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//politics-news//trump-tweets-invitation-kim-jong-un-meet-demilitarized-zone-n1024861/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">public offer to meet Kim<\/a>, inviting him to shake hands \"and say hello.\"<\/p>\n<p>But Thae cautioned that such a public invitation could serve as powerful propaganda tool domestically in North Korea for Kim, as it suggests \"that it is not North Korea begging or demanding a meeting, but it is America that wanted to have that meeting,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former diplomat said he thinks Kim likes Trump because he is \"quite different than all previous American presidents.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"All previous American presidents are so far have been very moral and they paid great attention on the America's moral image,\" Thae said.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, he suggested that Trump had not, for example, responded strongly enough to the case of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//trump-otto-warmbier-death-kim-jong-un-wasn-t-blame-n977516/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">American college student Otto Warmbier<\/a>, who suffered severe injuries during his 17 months of detention in North Korea and died shortly after his release in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard Engel reported from Seoul. Phil McCausland reported from New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561893605,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561893308,"firstPublishedAt":1561893308,"lastPublishedAt":1561893308,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993202\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-step_7ad6076590d2e27d921e426d34a14021.jpg","altText":"Image: SKOREA-US-NKOREA-DIPLOMACY","caption":"President Donald Trump steps into the northern side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, as North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un looks on, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":4574,"height":3049}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":11940,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"news","titleRaw":"news"},{"id":12984,"slug":"world-news","urlSafeValue":"world-news","title":"World News","titleRaw":"World News"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.world"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.just-in"},{"path":"euronews"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News World News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Richard Engel and Phil McCausland and Stella Kim and Josh Lederman","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_politics_misc','neg_nespresso','gs_politics_american','neg_facebook_2021','gt_negative','gv_military'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/30\/zero-chance-kim-jong-un-willingly-gives-nukes-trump-must-n1024991","lastModified":1561893308},{"id":799940,"cid":3993164,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Scientists are searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you.","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Scientists are searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you.","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"If the \"mirrorverse\" exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it.","summary":"If the \"mirrorverse\" exists, upcoming experiments involving subatomic particles could reveal it.","keySentence":"","url":"scientists-are-searching-mirror-universe-it-could-be-sitting-right-ncna1023206","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/scientists-are-searching-mirror-universe-it-could-be-sitting-right-ncna1023206","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nAt Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.She calls it an \"oscillation\" that would lead her to \"mirror matter,\" but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a ring of powerful magnets and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.\"It's pretty wacky,\" Broussard says of her mind-bending exploration.The mirror world, assuming it exists, would have its own laws of mirror-physics and its own mirror-history. You wouldn't find a mirror version of yourself there (and no evil Mister Spock with a goatee — sorry \"Star Trek\" fans). But current theory allows that you might find mirror atoms and mirror rocks, maybe even mirror planets and stars. Collectively, they could form an entire shadow world, just as real as our own but almost completely cut off from us.Broussard says her initial search for the mirror world won't be especially difficult. \"This is a pretty straightforward experiment that we cobbled together with parts we found lying around, using equipment and resources we already had available at Oak Ridge,\" she says. But if she unequivocally detects even a single mirror particle, it would prove that the visible universe is only half of what is out there — and that the known laws of physics are only half of a much broader set of rules.\"If you discover something new like that, the game totally changes,\" Broussard says.Ten seconds that rocked physicsAs with many grand scientific quests, the hunt for mirror matter grew out of a small, seemingly esoteric mystery. Starting in the 1990s, physicists developed high-precision experiments to study how neutrons — particles found in the nuclei of atoms — break down into protons, a process related to radioactivity. But those experiments took a strange turn.Researchers found that neutrons created in particle beams, similar to the one Broussard will use, last 14 minutes and 48 seconds, on average, before \"decaying\" into protons. But neutrons stored in a laboratory bottle seem to break down a bit faster, in 14 minutes and 38 seconds.Ten seconds might not sound like much, but the actual difference should be zero: All neutrons are exactly the same, and their behavior should depend not one bit on where or how they are examined.\"I take discrepancy very seriously,\" says Benjamin Grinstein, a particle-physics expert at the University of California, San Diego. \"It's not just between two experiments. It is a collection of many experiments done independently by several groups. The newest experiments, conceived in part to resolve the disagreement, have \"only made it worse,\" he adds.\nGrinstein has explored the possibility that some neutrons are unexpectedly breaking down into particles other than protons but has found nothing so far. Mirror matter offers a more elegant, if somewhat bizarre, explanation.A decade ago, Anatoli Serebrov of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia introduced the idea that ordinary neutrons sometimes cross over into the mirror world and transform into mirror neutrons. At that point, we could no longer detect them — it would be as if some of the neutrons simply vanished. \"That would make the neutron lifetime look wrong,\" Broussard explains, because some of the neutrons would have been disappearing from the test equipment while the researchers were studying them.Connect the dots, and you reach a far-out conclusion: The neutron experiments might look screwy because physicists unwittingly opened a portal to the mirror world.Through the looking glassBroussard's goal is to find out if that portal really exists and, if so, to open it in a methodical way. That's where her neutron beam and impenetrable wall come in.Oak Ridge has an 85-megawatt nuclear reactor that can shoot out billions of neutrons on demand, so getting enough raw material to work with isn't an issue. The hard part is figuring out how to make some of the neutrons cross over into the mirror world, and then prove to her skeptical colleagues (and to her skeptical self) that it really happened.Running the experiment will take about one day. Collecting the data and weeding out every possible source of error might then take a few weeks more. Broussard is looking for any telltale neutrons that managed to get past the barrier by turning into mirror neutrons, then turning back. \"It all comes down to: Are we able to shine neutrons through a wall?\" she says. \"We should see no neutrons\" according to conventional physics theory. If some of them show up anyway, that would suggest that conventional physics is wrong, and the mirror world is real.Meanwhile, Klaus Kirch is working on a complementary experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich. His plan is to capture slow-moving neutrons, hit them with a magnetic field and then count to see if all the particles are still there. \"If some neutrons oscillated into mirror-neutrons, they would disappear from our apparatus,\" he says. Kirch's team has already run the experiment and hopes to have their results analyzed later in the summer.Life on the far sideDespite their conceptual simplicity, both Broussard's and Kirch's experiments are extremely delicate undertakings, dependent on assessing the strange behavior of a few subatomic particles within a crowd of billions. Other researchers have proposed that there might be more blatant signs of a mirror world. We might be seeing it everywhere in the sky.Since the 1970s, astronomers have deduced that the universe is packed full of \"dark matter,\" a substance that cannot be observed directly but whose powerful gravitational pull helps keep galaxies from flying apart. The latest analyses indicate that dark matter outweighs visible matter by a factor of five. Yet dozens of intensive searches by astronomers around the world have failed to identify what dark matter is made of.Zurab Berezhiani, a physicist at the University of L'Aquila in Italy who has conducted his own mirror neutron searches, offers an intriguing explanation: Dark matter has been hard to find because it is hidden away in the mirror world. In this view, dark matter and mirror matter are one and the same. If so, the mirror world is not just ubiquitous, it is far more massive than our own. At a recent physics conference, Berezhiani expanded on the idea, outlining a possible parallel reality full of mirror stars, mirror galaxies and mirror black holes. Maybe even dark life?\"Dark people is probably a bit farfetched,\" says Broussard, who confesses that these ideas push her right to the edge of her comfort zone. \"But dark matter is very likely as rich as our own matter. This kind of thing needs to be explored.\"If she can open a passage to the mirror world at Oak Ridge, that will be one heck of a start.SIGN UP FOR THE MACH NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM.\n","htmlText":"<p>At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.<\/p>\n<p>She calls it an \"oscillation\" that would lead her to \"mirror matter,\" but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////arxiv.org//abs//1710.00767/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel<\/a>, past a ring of powerful magnets and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is just right \u2014 and if the universe cooperates \u2014 some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's pretty wacky,\" Broussard says of her mind-bending exploration.<\/p>\n<p>The mirror world, assuming it exists, would have its own laws of mirror-physics and its own mirror-history. You wouldn't find a mirror version of yourself there (and no evil Mister Spock with a goatee \u2014 sorry \"Star Trek\" fans). But current theory allows that you might find mirror atoms and mirror rocks, maybe even mirror planets and stars. Collectively, they could form an entire shadow world, just as real as our own but almost completely cut off from us.<\/p>\n<p>Broussard says her initial search for the mirror world won't be especially difficult. \"This is a pretty straightforward experiment that we cobbled together with parts we found lying around, using equipment and resources we already had available at Oak Ridge,\" she says. But if she unequivocally detects even a single mirror particle, it would prove that the visible universe is only half of what is out there \u2014 and that the known laws of physics are only half of a much broader set of rules.<\/p>\n<p>\"If you discover something new like that, the game totally changes,\" Broussard says.<\/p>\n<h2>Ten seconds that rocked physics<\/h2>\n<p>As with many grand scientific quests, the hunt for mirror matter <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.quantamagazine.org//neutron-lifetime-puzzle-deepens-but-no-dark-matter-seen-20180213///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">grew out of a small, seemingly esoteric mystery<\/a>. Starting in the 1990s, physicists developed high-precision experiments to study how neutrons \u2014 particles found in the nuclei of atoms \u2014 break down into protons, a process related to radioactivity. But those experiments took a strange turn.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that neutrons created in particle beams, similar to the one Broussard will use, last 14 minutes and 48 seconds, on average, before \"decaying\" into protons. But neutrons stored in a laboratory bottle seem to break down a bit faster, in 14 minutes and 38 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Ten seconds might not sound like much, but the actual difference should be zero: All neutrons are exactly the same, and their behavior should depend not one bit on where or how they are examined.<\/p>\n<p>\"I take discrepancy very seriously,\" says Benjamin Grinstein, a particle-physics expert at the University of California, San Diego. \"It's not just between two experiments. It is a collection of many experiments done independently by several groups. The newest experiments, conceived in part to resolve the disagreement, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////science.sciencemag.org//content//360//6389//627/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">have \"only made it worse,\"<\/a> he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Grinstein has explored the possibility that some neutrons are unexpectedly breaking down into particles other than protons but has found nothing so far. Mirror matter offers a more elegant, if somewhat bizarre, explanation.<\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, Anatoli Serebrov of Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Russia introduced the idea that ordinary neutrons sometimes cross over into the mirror world and transform into mirror neutrons. At that point, we could no longer detect them \u2014 it would be as if some of the neutrons simply vanished. \"That would make the neutron lifetime look wrong,\" Broussard explains, because some of the neutrons would have been disappearing from the test equipment while the researchers were studying them.<\/p>\n<p>Connect the dots, and you reach a far-out conclusion: The neutron experiments might look screwy because physicists unwittingly opened a portal to the mirror world.<\/p>\n<h2>Through the looking glass<\/h2>\n<p>Broussard's goal is to find out if that portal really exists and, if so, to open it in a methodical way. That's where her neutron beam and impenetrable wall come in.<\/p>\n<p>Oak Ridge has an 85-megawatt <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////neutrons.ornl.gov//hfir/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">nuclear reactor<\/a> that can shoot out billions of neutrons on demand, so getting enough raw material to work with isn't an issue. The hard part is figuring out how to make some of the neutrons cross over into the mirror world, and then prove to her skeptical colleagues (and to her skeptical self) that it really happened.<\/p>\n<p>Running the experiment will take about one day. Collecting the data and weeding out every possible source of error might then take a few weeks more. Broussard is looking for any telltale neutrons that managed to get past the barrier by turning into mirror neutrons, then turning back. \"It all comes down to: Are we able to shine neutrons through a wall?\" she says. \"We should see no neutrons\" according to conventional physics theory. If some of them show up anyway, that would suggest that conventional physics is wrong, and the mirror world is real.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Klaus Kirch is working on a complementary experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich. His plan is to capture slow-moving neutrons, hit them with a magnetic field and then count to see if all the particles are still there. \"If some neutrons oscillated into mirror-neutrons, they would disappear from our apparatus,\" he says. Kirch's team has already run the experiment and hopes to have their results analyzed later in the summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Life on the far side<\/h2>\n<p>Despite their conceptual simplicity, both Broussard's and Kirch's experiments are extremely delicate undertakings, dependent on assessing the strange behavior of a few subatomic particles within a crowd of billions. Other researchers have proposed that there might be more blatant signs of a mirror world. We might be seeing it everywhere in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 1970s, astronomers have deduced that the universe is packed full of \"<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//what-dark-matter-ncna871991/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">dark matter<\/a>,\" a substance that cannot be observed directly but whose powerful gravitational pull helps keep galaxies from flying apart. The latest analyses indicate that dark matter outweighs visible matter by a factor of five. Yet dozens of intensive searches by astronomers around the world have failed to identify what dark matter is made of.<\/p>\n<p>Zurab Berezhiani, a physicist at the University of L'Aquila in Italy who has conducted his own <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////link.springer.com//article//10.1140//epjc//s10052-018-6189-y/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">mirror neutron searches<\/a>, offers an intriguing explanation: Dark matter has been hard to find because it is hidden away in the mirror world. In this view, dark matter and mirror matter are one and the same. If so, the mirror world is not just ubiquitous, it is far more massive than our own. At a recent physics conference, Berezhiani <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////www.int.washington.edu//PROGRAMS//17-69W///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">expanded on the idea<\/a>, outlining a possible parallel reality full of mirror stars, mirror galaxies and mirror black holes. Maybe even dark life?<\/p>\n<p>\"Dark people is probably a bit farfetched,\" says Broussard, who confesses that these ideas push her right to the edge of her comfort zone. \"But dark matter is very likely as rich as our own matter. This kind of thing needs to be explored.\"<\/p>\n<p>If she can open a passage to the mirror world at Oak Ridge, that will be one heck of a start.<\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP FOR THE <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////link.nbcnews.com//join//5cj//mach-signup/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">MACH NEWSLETTER<\/a> AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//NBCNewsMACH/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">TWITTER<\/a>, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//NBCNewsMACH///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">FACEBOOK<\/a>, AND <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//NBCNewsMach///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">INSTAGRAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561890014,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561889739,"firstPublishedAt":1561889739,"lastPublishedAt":1561889739,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993164\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190626-mirrorverse-alternate-universe-main-kh_6a3dd92c9f1025b0ee548a5bcebb144a.jpg","altText":"Illustration of woman holding hands up to a mirrorverse where her reflectio","caption":"A mirrorverse could be just as real as our own universe but almost completely cut off from it.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Jackson Gibbs for NBC News","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1400}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":389,"slug":"technology","urlSafeValue":"technology","title":"Technology","titleRaw":"Technology"},{"id":10245,"slug":"science","urlSafeValue":"science","title":"Science","titleRaw":"Science"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.techscience"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Tech and Science News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Corey S. 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meets Kim Jong Un, steps into North Korea","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Trump meets Kim Jong Un, steps into North Korea","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"\"Stepping across that line was a great honor,\" Trump said after the two walked toward each other and shook hands.","summary":"\"Stepping across that line was a great honor,\" Trump said after the two walked toward each other and shook hands.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-kim-jong-un-meet-dmz-n1025041","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-kim-jong-un-meet-dmz-n1025041","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nSEOUL, South Korea — President Donald Trump stepped foot into North Korea on Sunday during an extraordinary last-minute meeting with Kim Jong Un, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to enter the secretive, nuclear-armed nation.Although the unprecedented encounter comes despite the lack of any measurable progress on denuclearization between Washington and Pyongyang, Trump declared the meeting a success.Both leaders predicted it would lead to better things to become between their two countries.\"Stepping across that line was a great honor,\" Trump said after the two walked toward each other and shook hands.As he and Kim met in a nearby room minutes later, Trump declared: \"This was a special moment.\"Kim also cast the brief meeting as a major diplomatic milestone — the first time U.S. and North Korean leaders have met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea.He said he and Trump have an \"excellent relationship\" that made such a meeting — hastily arranged following an invitation by Trump on Twitter late Friday — possible.\"This means that we can feel at ease,\" Kim said through a translator. \"I believe that this will have a positive force on all of our discussions in the future.\"He also told Trump that he \"never expected\" to see the president \"at this place.\"Yet for all the fanfare, there are no signs that the U.S. and the North have made progress on the nuclear weapons issue that has led to North Korea's estrangement from the world in the first place.\"We can only call it historic if it leads to something,\" Victor Cha, a former Asia director at the White House and an NBC News contributor, said on MSNBC.Trump's last summit with the North Korean leader — in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February — collapsed abruptly, with a planned signing ceremony scrapped and Trump explaining to reporters that \"sometimes you have to walk.\"At the center of that failure, U.S. officials have said, was Kim's insistence that all nuclear sanctions be lifted in exchange for only some concessions sought by the U.S. from Pyongyang related to its nuclear program.AnalysisBut a senior Trump administration official told NBC News on Sunday that one possible outcome from Trump's handshake with Kim is that it could jump-start negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea at a lower level being led by Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea.Those talks could then focus on making more substantive progress on the nuclear issues.Still, national security hawks and many of Trump's critics have warned that such meetings give legitimacy to Kim and remove pressure needed to get the North to rid itself of nuclear weapons without accomplishing anything concrete.\"I'm never in a rush,\" Trump said. \"If you're in a rush, you get yourself in trouble.\"Trump also invited the North Korean leader to Washington. \"I'll invite him to the White House right now,\" he said. Kim said it would be a \"great honor\" if Trump visited Pyongyang. Neither of those are likely to occur in the short term given the immense logistical and security challenges of arranging such a visit between countries that do not have diplomatic relations.Underscoring the extraordinary nature of Sunday's meeting between the leaders, U.S. officials were unsure that it would actually happen until the moment Kim arrived, the senior official said, even though North Korea had agreed to it.The handshake and Trump's visit to the DMZ unfolded in chaotic fashion under overcast skies as even White House officials accompanying the president were unsure what would happen next and journalists jostled to capture the historic encounter.Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in landed in a helicopter mid-afternoon in the DMZ and proceeded to a vista overlooking North Korea where U.S. presidents are often photographed during visits to the area.Sean Morrow, commander of the U.N. Security Battalion, gave Trump a briefing about the area and the security situation, gesturing toward the distance.Trump said that the security situation in the area had gotten better.\"There was great conflict here prior to our meeting in Singapore,\" Trump said. \"After our first summit, all of the danger went away.\"He added: \"It's all working out. It always works out.\"Trump then traveled a short distance to speak with U.S. and South Korean troops who patrol the South Korean side of the border.\"You are terrific people, you've done a tremendous job, and we're with you all the way,\" Trump said.Earlier, standing with Moon at the Blue House, South Korea's equivalent of the White House, Trump said that he and Kim \"understand each other, I do believe.\" He said that both he and Kim wanted to hold the meeting \"from the beginning.\"\"He understands me, and I believe I maybe understand him,\" Trump said. \"Sometimes that can lead to very good things.\"Trump was already the first U.S. president to meet a North Korean leader while in office, having met with Kim twice before. This marks the first meeting in the no-man's-land between North and South since the end of the Korean War.Moon, a liberal in South Korea's political world who has pushed hard for more engagement with the North, announced while with Trump that he planned to accompany the U.S. president to the DMZ. He said even a handshake between Trump and Kim would be \"an historic event.\"\"I hope that there will be progress made between the leaders of the different countries, together with the people of the Republic of Korea,\" Moon said through a translator.Although Moon was accompanying Trump to the DMZ, he said he would not participate in the meeting, saying that \"as for an inter-Korean dialogue, this will happen a later time.\"In the run-up to Trump's trip to Japan for the Group of 20 summit and his subsequent stop in Seoul, there were signs that a potential tête-à-tête with Kim could be in the works.South Korea's president said publicly that U.S. and North Korean officials were holding \"behind-the-scenes talks\" to arrange a third summit between their leaders, although North Korea's foreign ministry later seemed to distance itself from that notion by saying South Korea should cease trying to mediate with Washington.High-level U.S. visits are typically shrouded in secrecy and accompanied by significant security arrangements, with American leaders often holding photo-ops from a vista where they can peer through binoculars at North Korean soldiers not far away.Trump had planned to visit during a previous trip to South Korea, but his helicopter had to turn back amid bad weather.Dennis Rodman, the former NBA star who has played an unusual role in U.S.-North Korea diplomacy, wrote on Twitter that he was wishing \"my friends\" Trump and Kim \"a very good meeting.\"\"Much love to you both and keep up the wonderful progress!\" Rodman wrote, appending the hashtag: \"#PEACEANDLOVE.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 President Donald Trump stepped foot into North Korea on Sunday during an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//politics-news//trump-tweets-invitation-kim-jong-un-meet-demilitarized-zone-n1024861/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">extraordinary last-minute meeting with Kim Jong Un<\/a>, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to enter the secretive, nuclear-armed nation.Although the unprecedented encounter comes despite the lack of any <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//trump-s-iran-policy-deepening-mistrust-north-korea-experts-say-n1021901/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">measurable progress on denuclearization between Washington and Pyongyang<\/a>, Trump declared the meeting a success.Both leaders predicted it would lead to better things to become between their two countries.\"Stepping across that line was a great honor,\" Trump said after the two walked toward each other and shook hands.As he and Kim met in a nearby room minutes later, Trump declared: \"This was a special moment.\"Kim also cast the brief meeting as a major diplomatic milestone \u2014 the first time U.S. and North Korean leaders have met at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea.He said he and Trump have an \"excellent relationship\" that made such a meeting \u2014 hastily arranged following an invitation by Trump on Twitter late Friday \u2014 possible.\"This means that we can feel at ease,\" Kim said through a translator. \"I believe that this will have a positive force on all of our discussions in the future.\"He also told Trump that he \"never expected\" to see the president \"at this place.\"Yet for all the fanfare, there are no signs that the U.S. and the North have made progress on the nuclear weapons issue that has led to North Korea's estrangement from the world in the first place.\"We can only call it historic if it leads to something,\" Victor Cha, a former Asia director at the White House and an NBC News contributor, said on MSNBC.Trump's last summit with the North Korean leader \u2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February \u2014 collapsed abruptly, with a planned signing ceremony scrapped and Trump explaining to reporters that \"sometimes you have to walk.\"At the center of that failure, U.S. officials have said, was Kim's insistence that all nuclear sanctions be lifted in exchange for only some concessions sought by the U.S. from Pyongyang related to its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis<\/p>\n<p>But a senior Trump administration official told NBC News on Sunday that one possible outcome from Trump's handshake with Kim is that it could jump-start negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea at a lower level being led by Stephen Biegun, the U.S. special representative for North Korea.Those talks could then focus on making more substantive progress on the nuclear issues.Still, national security hawks and many of Trump's critics have warned that such meetings give legitimacy to Kim and remove pressure needed to get the North to rid itself of nuclear weapons without accomplishing anything concrete.\"I'm never in a rush,\" Trump said. \"If you're in a rush, you get yourself in trouble.\"Trump also invited the North Korean leader to Washington. \"I'll invite him to the White House right now,\" he said. Kim said it would be a \"great honor\" if Trump visited Pyongyang. Neither of those are likely to occur in the short term given the immense logistical and security challenges of arranging such a visit between countries that do not have diplomatic relations.Underscoring the extraordinary nature of Sunday's meeting between the leaders, U.S. officials were unsure that it would actually happen until the moment Kim arrived, the senior official said, even though North Korea had agreed to it.The handshake and Trump's visit to the DMZ unfolded in chaotic fashion under overcast skies as even White House officials accompanying the president were unsure what would happen next and journalists jostled to capture the historic encounter.Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in landed in a helicopter mid-afternoon in the DMZ and proceeded to a vista overlooking North Korea where U.S. presidents are often photographed during visits to the area.Sean Morrow, commander of the U.N. Security Battalion, gave Trump a briefing about the area and the security situation, gesturing toward the distance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993076//400x267_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg/" alt=\"President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in visit an observation post in the Joint Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea on June 30, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/384x256_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/640x427_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/750x500_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/828x552_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/1080x720_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/1200x800_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/1920x1280_nbc-afp_1i22w1_58fc5028bde839b4358c74d43a604d57.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in visit an observation post in the Joint Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea on June 30, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Trump said that the security situation in the area had gotten better.\"There was great conflict here prior to our meeting in Singapore,\" Trump said. \"After our first summit, all of the danger went away.\"He added: \"It's all working out. It always works out.\"Trump then traveled a short distance to speak with U.S. and South Korean troops who patrol the South Korean side of the border.\"You are terrific people, you've done a tremendous job, and we're with you all the way,\" Trump said.Earlier, standing with Moon at the Blue House, South Korea's equivalent of the White House, Trump said that he and Kim \"understand each other, I do believe.\" He said that both he and Kim wanted to hold the meeting \"from the beginning.\"\"He understands me, and I believe I maybe understand him,\" Trump said. \"Sometimes that can lead to very good things.\"Trump was already the first U.S. president to meet a North Korean leader while in office, having met with Kim twice before. This marks the first meeting in the no-man's-land between North and South since the end of the Korean War.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993076//400x267_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg/" alt=\"People watch a TV screen showing President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, at the border villages of Panmunjom in a news report, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 30, 2019.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/384x256_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/640x427_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/750x500_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/828x552_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/1080x720_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/1200x800_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/1920x1280_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People watch a TV screen showing President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, at the border villages of Panmunjom in a news report, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 30, 2019.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ahn Young-joon<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Moon, a liberal in South Korea's political world who has pushed hard for more engagement with the North, announced while with Trump that he planned to accompany the U.S. president to the DMZ. He said even a handshake between Trump and Kim would be \"an historic event.\"\"I hope that there will be progress made between the leaders of the different countries, together with the people of the Republic of Korea,\" Moon said through a translator.Although Moon was accompanying Trump to the DMZ, he said he would not participate in the meeting, saying that \"as for an inter-Korean dialogue, this will happen a later time.\"In the run-up to Trump's<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//politics-news//u-s-china-restart-trade-talks-trump-xi-meet-n1024891/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">trip to Japan for the Group of 20 summit<\/a> and his subsequent stop in Seoul, there were signs that a potential t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Kim could be in the works.South Korea's president said publicly that U.S. and North Korean officials were holding \"behind-the-scenes talks\" to arrange a third summit between their leaders, although North Korea's foreign ministry later seemed to distance itself from that notion by saying South Korea should cease trying to mediate with Washington.High-level U.S. visits are typically shrouded in secrecy and accompanied by significant security arrangements, with American leaders often holding photo-ops from a vista where they can peer through binoculars at North Korean soldiers not far away.Trump had planned to visit during a previous trip to South Korea, but his helicopter had to turn back amid bad weather.Dennis Rodman, the former NBA star who has played an unusual role in U.S.-North Korea diplomacy, wrote on Twitter that he was wishing \"my friends\" Trump and Kim \"a very good meeting.\"\"Much love to you both and keep up the wonderful progress!\" Rodman wrote, appending the hashtag: \"#PEACEANDLOVE.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561881622,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561881344,"firstPublishedAt":1561881344,"lastPublishedAt":1561881344,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993076\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-south_korea_trump_north_korea_45182-jpg-859e8_2102d7668a47dd348e8c7006856a8829.jpg","altText":"Image: Donald Trump. 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I look forward to seeing him.\"Standing with Moon at the Blue House, South Korea's equivalent of the White House, Trump said that he and Kim \"understand each other, I do believe.\" He said that both he and Kim wanted to hold the meeting \"from the beginning.\"\"He understands me, and I believe I maybe understand him,\" Trump said. \"Sometimes that can lead to very good things.\"Yet the brief run-in between the leaders in the DMZ was expected to be more of a photo-op than a substantive session, lasting just a few minutes. National security hawks and many of Trump's critics have warned that such meetings give legitimacy to Kim and remove pressure needed to get the North to rid itself of nuclear weapons without accomplishing anything concrete.\"I'm never in a rush,\" Trump said. \"If you're in a rush, you get yourself in trouble.\"Trump's initial invitation to Kim came on Twitter on Friday. Trump is the first U.S. president to meet a North Korean leader while in office, having met with him twice before, and would mark another historic first by meeting with him in the no-man's-land between North and South.Moon, a liberal in South Korea's political world who has pushed hard for more engagement with the North, announced while with Trump that he planned to accompany the U.S. president to the DMZ. He said even a handshake between Trump and Kim would be \"an historic event.\"\"I hope that there will be progress made between the leaders of the different countries, together with the people of the Republic of Korea,\" Moon said through a translator. Earlier, he said: \"I hope that you will be able to achieve great progress and dialogue with Chairman Kim.\"North Korea's government has not confirmed that the two will meet, although it reacted to Trump's initial offer by saying it was an interesting offer but that it hadn't yet received an official invitation from the U.S., according to a statement from a senior North Korean diplomat carried by the North's state-run news agency KCNA.In another likely sign that Kim would likely make the roughly 100 mile journey from Pyongyang to the border, the travel group Koryo Tours, which runs tourist trips to North Korea, say on Twitter that the North Korean side of the DMZ was closed to tourists on Sunday. Although it did not give a reason, any visit by Kim would involve massive security arrangements that would almost surely see the entire area shut down to visitors.\"It's going to be very interesting,\" Trump said earlier Sunday. \"They want to do it. Chairman Kim wants to do it. I'd like to do it. It's very complicated from the perspective of logistics and security. Both teams are working very hard, and South Korea is working very hard also.\"The meeting will mark the third face-to-face meeting between Kim and Trump, who made history in 2018 as the first U.S. president to meet with a North Korean leader while in office. Trump's last summit with the North Korean leader — in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February — collapsed abruptly, with a planned signing ceremony scrapped and Trump explaining to reporters that \"sometimes you have to walk.\"At the center of that failure, U.S. officials have said, was Kim's insistence that all nuclear sanctions be lifted in exchange for only some concessions sought by the U.S. from Pyongyang related to its nuclear program.In the run-up to Trump's trip to Japan for the Group of 20 summit and his subsequent stop in Seoul, there were signs that a potential tête-à-tête with Kim could be in the works. South Korea's president said publicly that U.S. and North Korean officials were holding \"behind-the-scenes talks\" to arrange a third summit between their leaders, although North Korea's foreign ministry later seemed to distance itself from that notion by saying that South Korea should cease trying to mediate with Washington.It's unclear how much if any progress has been made between the U.S. and North Korea since the Hanoi summit in bridging the serious divides that led to its collapse. Still, the White House has acknowledged that Trump and Kim have continued to exchange correspondence since — messages that Trump has described as \"beautiful letters\" from the authoritarian leader of the nuclear-armed nation.U.S. presidents and vice presidents occasionally visit the DMZ, a no-man's land that includes a designated area where North and South Korean officials periodically have met. Trump had planned to visit during a previous trip to South Korea, but his helicopter had to turn back amid bad weather.High-level U.S. visits are typically shrouded in secrecy and accompanied by significant security arrangements, with American leaders often holding photo-ops from a vista where they can peer through binoculars at North Korean soldiers not far away.\n","htmlText":"<p>SEOUL, South Korea - President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were gearing up Sunday for an historic handshake and brief meeting in the heavily fortified demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea, an unprecedented encounter that nonetheless comes despite a lack of measurable progress on denuclearization.<\/p>\n<p>\"I'll be meeting with Chairman Kim,\" Trump said during a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. \"I look forward to it very much. I look forward to seeing him.\"<\/p>\n<p>Standing with Moon at the Blue House, South Korea's equivalent of the White House, Trump said that he and Kim \"understand each other, I do believe.\" He said that both he and Kim wanted to hold the meeting \"from the beginning.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"He understands me, and I believe I maybe understand him,\" Trump said. \"Sometimes that can lead to very good things.\"<\/p>\n<p>Yet the brief run-in between the leaders in the DMZ was expected to be more of a photo-op than a substantive session, lasting just a few minutes. National security hawks and many of Trump's critics have warned that such meetings give legitimacy to Kim and remove pressure needed to get the North to rid itself of nuclear weapons without accomplishing anything concrete.<\/p>\n<p>\"I'm never in a rush,\" Trump said. \"If you're in a rush, you get yourself in trouble.\"<\/p>\n<p>Trump's initial invitation to Kim came on Twitter on Friday. Trump is the first U.S. president to meet a North Korean leader while in office, having met with him twice before, and would mark another historic first by meeting with him in the no-man's-land between North and South.<\/p>\n<p>Moon, a liberal in South Korea's political world who has pushed hard for more engagement with the North, announced while with Trump that he planned to accompany the U.S. president to the DMZ. He said even a handshake between Trump and Kim would be \"an historic event.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I hope that there will be progress made between the leaders of the different countries, together with the people of the Republic of Korea,\" Moon said through a translator. Earlier, he said: \"I hope that you will be able to achieve great progress and dialogue with Chairman Kim.\"<\/p>\n<p>North Korea's government has not confirmed that the two will meet, although it reacted to Trump's initial offer by saying it was an interesting offer but that it hadn't yet received an official invitation from the U.S., according to a statement from a senior North Korean diplomat carried by the North's state-run news agency KCNA.<\/p>\n<p>In another likely sign that Kim would likely make the roughly 100 mile journey from Pyongyang to the border, the travel group Koryo Tours, which runs tourist trips to North Korea, say on Twitter that the North Korean side of the DMZ was closed to tourists on Sunday. Although it did not give a reason, any visit by Kim would involve massive security arrangements that would almost surely see the entire area shut down to visitors.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's going to be very interesting,\" Trump said earlier Sunday. \"They want to do it. Chairman Kim wants to do it. I'd like to do it. It's very complicated from the perspective of logistics and security. Both teams are working very hard, and South Korea is working very hard also.\"<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will mark the third face-to-face meeting between Kim and Trump, who made history in 2018 as the first U.S. president to meet with a North Korean leader while in office. Trump's last summit with the North Korean leader \u2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February \u2014 collapsed abruptly, with a planned signing ceremony scrapped and Trump explaining to reporters that \"sometimes you have to walk.\"<\/p>\n<p>At the center of that failure, U.S. officials have said, was Kim's insistence that all nuclear sanctions be lifted in exchange for only some concessions sought by the U.S. from Pyongyang related to its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to Trump's trip to Japan for the Group of 20 summit and his subsequent stop in Seoul, there were signs that a potential t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Kim could be in the works. South Korea's president said publicly that U.S. and North Korean officials were holding \"behind-the-scenes talks\" to arrange a third summit between their leaders, although North Korea's foreign ministry later seemed to distance itself from that notion by saying that South Korea should cease trying to mediate with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>It's unclear how much if any progress has been made between the U.S. and North Korea since the Hanoi summit in bridging the serious divides that led to its collapse. Still, the White House has acknowledged that Trump and Kim have continued to exchange correspondence since \u2014 messages that Trump has described as \"beautiful letters\" from the authoritarian leader of the nuclear-armed nation.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. presidents and vice presidents occasionally visit the DMZ, a no-man's land that includes a designated area where North and South Korean officials periodically have met. Trump had planned to visit during a previous trip to South Korea, but his helicopter had to turn back amid bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>High-level U.S. visits are typically shrouded in secrecy and accompanied by significant security arrangements, with American leaders often holding photo-ops from a vista where they can peer through binoculars at North Korean soldiers not far away.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561869619,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561869060,"firstPublishedAt":1561869060,"lastPublishedAt":1561869060,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993028\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-ac-748p_99413d7bc2764c3aa1f53790e8f274a9.jpg","altText":"Image: Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump","caption":"From right, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walks with US President Donald Trump during a break in talks at their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Saul Loeb","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1667}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Josh Lederman and Hans Nichols","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_politics_misc','neg_nespresso','neg_facebook_2021','gs_politics_american','gt_mixed','neg_facebook_q4','gv_military','neg_facebook_neg4','neg_mobkoi_castrol'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/30\/trump-kim-jong-un-meet-dmz-n1025041","lastModified":1561869060},{"id":799868,"cid":3993000,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Rivals defend Kamala Harris against online attacks they compare to 'birtherism'","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Rivals defend Kamala Harris against online attacks they compare to 'birtherism'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted, \"It's disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it.\"","summary":"Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted, \"It's disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it.\"","keySentence":"","url":"rivals-defend-kamala-harris-against-online-attacks-they-compare-birtherism-n1025031","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/rivals-defend-kamala-harris-against-online-attacks-they-compare-birtherism-n1025031","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nA number of hopefuls for the Democratic nomination for president found common ground Saturday as they defended rival Sen. Kamala Harris against online allegations that she is not an \"American Black.\"Former Vice President Joe Biden, who clashed with Harris at Thursday's Democratic debate in Miami after she criticized his position five decades ago against school busing, said the social media attacks against the senator from California were clear echoes of \"birtherism.\"\"Birtherism,\" promoted by some Republicans, including Donald Trump before he assumed the presidency, was a movement that denied former President Barack Obama was a natural-born U.S. citizen, implying he was ineligible to be president.\"The same forces of hatred rooted in 'birtherism ' that questioned @BarackObama's American citizenship, and even his racial identity, are now being used against Senator @KamalaHarris,\" Biden tweeted. \"It's disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it. Racism has no place in America.\"U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, also compared the online attacks, which claim Harris is not a black American because her father is Jamaican, to \"birtherism,\" whose proponents claimed incorrectly that Obama was born in Kenya.\"The attack on @KamalaHarris is racist and we can't allow it to go unchecked,\" Ryan tweeted. \"We have a responsibility to call out this birtherism and the continued spread of misinformation.\"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, tweeted, \"The attacks against @KamalaHarris are racist and ugly. We all have an obligation to speak out and say so. And it's within the power and obligation of tech companies to stop these vile lies dead in their tracks.\"Other presidential hopefuls who came to Harris' defense included Bernie Sanders, who called Donald Trump Jr. a racist for retweeting a claim that Harris is not a black American, South Bend; Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who called the attacks racist and \"birther-style;\" Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey; Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who said, \"The Trump family is peddling birtherism again;\" Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York; and former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas.Harris' campaign also compared the allegations to \"birtherism.\"\"This is the same type of racist attacks used to attack Barack Obama,\" campaign spokeswoman Lily Adams said. \"It didn't work then and it won't work now.\"The barrage of statements against Harris started during Thursday's debate, after she criticized Biden for opposing busing that integrated public schools. Harris was widely seen as winning the second of the back-to-back Democratic debates in Miami.She was born in Oakland, California, to an Indian mother and Jamaican father.After the clash with Biden, a Twitter account under the name Ali Alexander posted, \"Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves. She's not. She comes from Jamaican Slave Owners. That's fine. She's not an American Black. Period.\"Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the remark, but then deleted it.Behavioral scientist Caroline Orr noted this week that a number of Twitter accounts seemed to be posting the same message in lockstep, a sign of a coordinated influence campaign.\"What a weird coincidence that a group of accounts, starting with Ali, decided to tweet the exact same thing (verbatim) about Kamala Harris within minutes of each other tonight,\" she tweeted.\n","htmlText":"<p>A number of hopefuls for the Democratic nomination for president found common ground Saturday as they defended rival Sen. Kamala Harris against online allegations that she is not an \"American Black.\"Former Vice President Joe Biden, who clashed with Harris at Thursday's Democratic debate in Miami after she criticized his position five decades ago against school busing, said the social media attacks against the senator from California were clear echoes of \"birtherism.\"\"Birtherism,\" promoted by some Republicans, including Donald Trump before he assumed the presidency, was a movement that denied former President Barack Obama was a natural-born U.S. citizen, implying he was ineligible to be president.\"The same forces of hatred rooted in 'birtherism ' that questioned @BarackObama's American citizenship, and even his racial identity, are now being used against Senator @KamalaHarris,\" Biden <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//joebiden//status//1145104672929308673?s=21\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>. \"It's disgusting and we have to call it out when we see it. Racism has no place in America.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3993000//400x400_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg/" alt=\"Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, was defended Saturday by many of her Democratic rivals for president after allegations compared to "birtherism" appeared online.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/384x384_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/640x640_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/750x750_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/828x828_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/1080x1080_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/1200x1200_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/1920x1920_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, was defended Saturday by many of her Democratic rivals for president after allegations compared to "birtherism" appeared online.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Saul Loeb<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, also compared the online attacks, which claim Harris is not a black American because her father is Jamaican, to \"birtherism,\" whose proponents claimed incorrectly that Obama was born in Kenya.\"The attack on @KamalaHarris is racist and we can't allow it to go unchecked,\" Ryan <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//TimRyan//status//1145068574450601984/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">tweeted.<\/a> \"We have a responsibility to call out this birtherism and the continued spread of misinformation.\"Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//ewarren//status//1145047905411248131?s=21\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>, \"The attacks against @KamalaHarris are racist and ugly. We all have an obligation to speak out and say so. And it's within the power and obligation of tech companies to stop these vile lies dead in their tracks.\"Other presidential hopefuls who came to Harris' defense included <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//berniesanders//status//1145095976539086850?s=21\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Bernie Sanders<\/a>, who called Donald Trump Jr. a racist for retweeting a claim that Harris is not a black American, South Bend; Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who called the attacks racist and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//petebuttigieg//status//1145097189363978240?s=21\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">\"birther-style;\"<\/a> Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey; Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who said, \"The Trump family is peddling <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//jayinslee//status//1145058302994210816?s=21\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">birtherism again<\/a>;\" Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York; and former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas.Harris' campaign also compared the allegations to \"birtherism.\"\"This is the same type of racist attacks used to attack Barack Obama,\" campaign spokeswoman Lily Adams said. \"It didn't work then and it won't work now.\"The barrage of statements against Harris started during Thursday's debate, after she criticized Biden for opposing busing that integrated public schools. Harris was widely seen as <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//who-won-second-democratic-debate-n1024371/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">winning the second of the back-to-back Democratic debates<\/a> in Miami.She was born in Oakland, California, to an <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//asian-america//kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-indian-americans-want-more-opportunities-connect-n965436/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Indian mother and Jamaican father<\/a>.After the clash with Biden, a Twitter account under the name <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//ali//status//1144439938420760576/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Ali Alexander posted<\/a>, \"Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves. She's not. She comes from Jamaican Slave Owners. That's fine. She's not an American Black. Period.\"Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the remark, but then deleted it.Behavioral scientist Caroline Orr noted this week that a number of Twitter accounts seemed to be posting the same message in lockstep, a sign of a coordinated influence campaign.\"What a weird coincidence that a group of accounts, starting with Ali, decided to tweet the exact same thing (verbatim) about Kamala Harris within minutes of each other tonight,\" she <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//RVAwonk//status//1144451342238408704/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561858824,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561858080,"firstPublishedAt":1561858080,"lastPublishedAt":1561858080,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3993000\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-kamala-harris-1x1-mn-1225_0f7409042117dc1870280690d9588ecb.jpg","altText":"Image: US-VOTE-2020-DEMOCRATS-DEBATE","caption":"Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, was defended Saturday by many of her Democratic rivals for president after allegations compared to \"birtherism\" appeared online.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Saul Loeb AFP - Getty Images","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1667,"height":1667}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Dennis Romero and Deepa Shivaram","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','neg_facebook_2021','gs_politics_american','neg_mobkoi_castrol','castrol_negative_uk','neg_nespresso','gt_negative','gs_politics_misc','neg_facebook_neg4','neg_facebook_q4','neg_citi_campaign_2','gs_tech','gs_tech_social','gt_negative_dislike','gt_negative_anger','gs_society_misc','gs_society','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/30\/rivals-defend-kamala-harris-against-online-attacks-they-compare-birtherism-n1025031","lastModified":1561858080},{"id":799864,"cid":3992996,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Cory Booker takes aim at Joe Biden's language about race","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Cory Booker takes aim at Joe Biden's language about race","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Booker reacted to Biden's remark that more people need to see that a kid in a hoodie may be the \"the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger.\"","summary":"Booker reacted to Biden's remark that more people need to see that a kid in a hoodie may be the \"the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger.\"","keySentence":"","url":"cory-booker-takes-aim-joe-biden-s-language-about-race-n1025011","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/cory-booker-takes-aim-joe-biden-s-language-about-race-n1025011","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nJoe Biden, the current frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, once again came under criticism from a another candidate from his party over the topic of race.Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey took issue with language Biden used when speaking at a Rainbow PUSH luncheon on Friday about ways in which he would help to uplift African American communities.While discussing the need for criminal justice reform, Biden said people must continue to work toward recognizing blacks as equals so that African American mothers, like the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was killed in Florida in 2012, no longer have to fear that their sons will be shot whenever they are away from home.\"We've got to recognize that the kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger,\" Biden said.The use of the word \"gangbanger\" drew criticism on social media, including from Booker, who suggested that Biden lacks a qualification for the Democratic nominee of being able to talk about race constructively.\"This isn't about a hoodie,\" Booker tweeted. \"It's about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way.\" NBC News reached out to the Biden campaign for comment but did not immediately hear back.This comes as Biden has faced mounting criticism for some of his past positions on racial issues as well as his close relationships with noted segregationists, Sens. James Eastland, D-Miss., and Herman Talmadge, D-Ga.Earlier this month, Biden and Booker went back and forth over Biden's lauding the \"civility\" of the 1970s and '80s in the Senate when he was able to work with those two segregationist senators.Booker said Biden should apologize; Biden said Booker should apologize to him for his criticism.Biden again seemed to stumble on the issue of race at Thursday's Democratic debate when Sen. Kamala Harris of California directly attacked his past opposition to federally mandated school busing to integrate schools.On Friday before a largely African American crowd, Biden laid out his vision for universal pre-K and for improving teaching quality for all children. He also said he would repeal President Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy in an effort to direct more money toward helping middle-class and low-income Americans.\n","htmlText":"<p>Joe Biden, the current frontrunner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, once again came under criticism from a another candidate from his party over the topic of race.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey took issue with language Biden used when speaking at a Rainbow PUSH luncheon on Friday about ways in which he would help to uplift African American communities.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing the need for criminal justice reform, Biden said people must continue to work toward recognizing blacks as equals so that African American mothers, like the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was killed in Florida in 2012, no longer have to fear that their sons will be shot whenever they are away from home.<\/p>\n<p>\"We've got to recognize that the kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger,\" Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the word \"gangbanger\" drew criticism on social media, including from Booker, who suggested that Biden lacks a qualification for the Democratic nominee of being able to talk about race constructively.<\/p>\n<p>\"This isn't about a hoodie,\" Booker tweeted. \"It's about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1144726887643721730\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>NBC News reached out to the Biden campaign for comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Biden has faced mounting criticism for some of his past positions on racial issues as well as his close relationships with noted segregationists, Sens. James Eastland, D-Miss., and Herman Talmadge, D-Ga.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Biden and Booker went back and forth over Biden's lauding the \"civility\" of the 1970s and '80s in the Senate when he was able to work with those two segregationist senators.<\/p>\n<p>Booker said Biden should apologize; Biden said Booker should apologize to him for his criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Biden again seemed to stumble on the issue of race at Thursday's Democratic debate when Sen. Kamala Harris of California directly attacked his past opposition to federally mandated school busing to integrate schools.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday before a largely African American crowd, Biden laid out his vision for universal pre-K and for improving teaching quality for all children. He also said he would repeal President Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy in an effort to direct more money toward helping middle-class and low-income Americans.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561850423,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561849949,"firstPublishedAt":1561849949,"lastPublishedAt":1561849949,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992996\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190629-cory-booker-al-1615_eddd5e1b74573c934b1cf5a82b0e07d5.jpg","altText":"Image: Cory Booker","caption":"Cory Booker during the first Democratic primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, on June 26, 2019.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Jim Watson AFP - Getty Images","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1353}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Marianna Sotomayor and Phil McCausland","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'neg_facebook_2021','gs_politics','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','gs_politics_american','neg_bucherer','neg_nespresso','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','gt_negative','neg_facebook','gs_politics_misc','neg_facebook_neg4','gt_negative_anger','gs_society_misc','gs_education','gs_society','gs_education_misc','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/30\/cory-booker-takes-aim-joe-biden-s-language-about-race-n1025011","lastModified":1561849949},{"id":799816,"cid":3992876,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry meet Yankees, Red Sox players in London","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry meet Yankees, Red Sox players in London","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Each team appears to have gifted the royal couple a baby onesie for the couple's newborn son Archie, born May 6.","summary":"Each team appears to have gifted the royal couple a baby onesie for the couple's newborn son Archie, born May 6.","keySentence":"","url":"meghan-markle-prince-harry-meet-yankees-red-sox-players-london-n1024981","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/celebrity\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-meet-yankees-red-sox-players-london-n1024981","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex met with members of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox during a baseball game held in London on Saturday.The teams played in England's London Stadium on Saturday and were scheduled to play another game on Sunday as part of the London Series, which marks the first time that Major League Baseball teams had \"regular season games played in Europe,\" according to a MLB press release. On Saturday, Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle met members of the two teams, as shown in pictures shared by the Invictus Games Foundation, a partner of the London Series. Prince Harry is patron to the foundation, which sponsors sports for wounded, injured or ill armed services personnel and veterans to take part.NewsIt appears the prince and the Duchess of Sussex were gifted a baby's onesie from each of the rival teams for their son Archie, born on May 6.\n","htmlText":"<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met with members of the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox during a baseball game held in London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The teams played in England's London Stadium on Saturday and were scheduled to play another game on Sunday as part of the London Series, which marks the first time that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.mlb.com//london-series//about-the-series/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Major League Baseball<\/a> teams had \"regular season games played in Europe,\" according to a MLB press release.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1145002243176968192\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>On Saturday, Prince Harry and the former Meghan Markle met members of the two teams, as shown in pictures shared by the Invictus Games Foundation, a partner of the London Series. Prince Harry is patron to the foundation, which sponsors sports for wounded, injured or ill armed services personnel and veterans to take part.<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>It appears the prince and the Duchess of Sussex were gifted a baby's onesie from each of the rival teams for their son Archie, born on<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//meghan-markle-duchess-sussex-goes-labor-first-baby-n1002281/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">May 6<\/a>.<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//meghan-markle-duchess-sussex-goes-labor-first-baby-n1002281/" target=\"_blank\" 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forced to adapt as Europe waits for relief from record-breaking heat","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Tourists forced to adapt as Europe waits for relief from record-breaking heat","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"France saw its hottest day ever reaching 114.4 degrees on Friday while records were broken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland","summary":"France saw its hottest day ever reaching 114.4 degrees on Friday while records were broken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland","keySentence":"","url":"tourists-forced-adapt-europe-waits-relief-record-breaking-heat-n1024921","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/tourists-forced-adapt-europe-waits-relief-record-breaking-heat-n1024921","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nPARIS — Europeans aren't breathing a sigh of relief just yet following a day of record-breaking heat, with temperatures soaring once again on Saturday.The unusual heat has left many struggling to cope in the French capital where homes and buildings are not designed for steamy conditions or equipped with air conditioning.\"We were not expecting this, so when we booked our Airbnb, we literally didn't check that it doesn't have air conditioning,\" said Sampada Jadhav, 32, sitting under the trees at the Jardin du Palais Royal with her spouse Jay Ghag.The pair — who split their time between Mumbai, India and Bakersfield, Calif. — are used to the heat but were hoping for more comfortable temperatures.Jadhav said they changed their sight-seeing plans to ensure they'd be in museums and other attractions that are climate controlled during the hottest times of the day, and Ghag packed a bag full of water bottles.The week-long blast of hot air from the Sahara sparked a massive wildfire in Spain and brought France its hottest day ever, with temperatures reaching 114.4 degrees in the southern town of Gallargues-le-Montueux.Records were also broken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to the World Meteorological Organization.The situation is reflective of a global trend in extreme weather.\"Between 2000 and 2016 the number of people exposed worldwide to heatwaves increased by an estimated 126 million,\" the World Meteorological Organization said in a statement Friday, adding that it puts people at risk of heat stroke, dehydration and cardiovascular diseases.ScienceConditions did not relent on Saturday, with much of France expected to exceed 104 degrees yet again.But not everyone appeared to be suffering in the baking capital city.The U.S. women's soccer team was celebrating a place in the World Cup semifinals after triumphing over a hostile Paris crowd and near-record heat in the capital city to beat host France 2-1 on Friday evening.\"Parisians don't sweat,\" said Mina Park, 31, on holiday with her friends from Los Angeles. \"Literally in the subways, I would look at everyone else. They're not sweating and in jackets and we're glistening.\"At the Jardins du Trocadero meanwhile, across the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower, the large fountain was transformed into a swimming pool as dozens of people jumped in to cool off from the abrasive sun.French authorities nonetheless maintained an orange alert — the second-highest heat warning — for most of the country, reminding the public to stay hydrated and check on their neighbors over fears of conditions becoming lethal for both the very young and old.In 2003, a similar staggering heat wave killed 15,000 people in the country — prompting the significant public health awareness campaign this week.In Paris, parents Anila and Satyam Gurung could attest to the effects the heat was having on children.Their four-year-old son Mason was demanding regular breaks for drinks and ice cream, being accustomed to cooler conditions in England, Anila said.\"He doesn't want to go anywhere, he keeps saying 'mommy, no it's too hot,'\" she said.The notable decline in foot traffic on the streets was bad news for vendors at a weekly farmer's market.Nestor Abouzi, 45, said he'd only sold two items of his African-style art by noon local time. \"Normally, there are many people,\" he said.Forecasts show the heat will finally break Sunday, according to the meteorological organization Meteo-France, with temperatures returning to normal for most regions of the country by Tuesday.\n","htmlText":"<p>PARIS \u2014 Europeans aren't breathing a sigh of relief just yet following <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//weather//temperatures-france-hit-all-time-record-high-n1024476/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">a day of record-breaking heat<\/a>, with temperatures soaring once again on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual heat has left many struggling to cope in the French capital where homes and buildings are not designed for steamy conditions or equipped with air conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>\"We were not expecting this, so when we booked our Airbnb, we literally didn't check that it doesn't have air conditioning,\" said Sampada Jadhav, 32, sitting under the trees at the Jardin du Palais Royal with her spouse Jay Ghag.<\/p>\n<p>The pair \u2014 who split their time between Mumbai, India and Bakersfield, Calif. \u2014 are used to the heat but were hoping for more comfortable temperatures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3992650//400x267_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg/" alt=\"Jay Ghag, 34 and Sampada Jadhav, 32 seek shade in the Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris on June 29, 2019 as heatwave continues to bake Europe.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/384x256_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/640x427_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/750x500_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/828x552_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/1080x720_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/1200x800_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/1920x1280_nbc-190629-france-heat-2-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Jay Ghag, 34 and Sampada Jadhav, 32 seek shade in the Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris on June 29, 2019 as heatwave continues to bake Europe.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Linda Givetash<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Jadhav said they changed their sight-seeing plans to ensure they'd be in museums and other attractions that are climate controlled during the hottest times of the day, and Ghag packed a bag full of water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long blast of hot air from the Sahara sparked a massive wildfire in Spain and brought France its hottest day ever, with temperatures reaching <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//meteofrance//status//1144640455646334981/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">114.4 degrees in the southern town of Gallargues-le-Montueux<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Records were also broken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, according to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////public.wmo.int//en//media//news//europe-sees-first-heatwave-of-year/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">the World Meteorological Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is reflective of a global trend in extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>\"Between 2000 and 2016 the number of people exposed worldwide to heatwaves increased by an estimated 126 million,\" the World Meteorological Organization said in a statement Friday, adding that it puts people at risk of heat stroke, dehydration and cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Science<\/p>\n<p>Conditions did not relent on Saturday, with much of France expected to exceed 104 degrees yet again.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone appeared to be suffering in the baking capital city.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//sports//u-s-women-s-team-defeats-world-cup-host-france-n1024481/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">U.S. women's soccer team was celebrating a place in the World Cup semifinals<\/a> after triumphing over a hostile Paris crowd and near-record heat in the capital city to beat host France 2-1 on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\"Parisians don't sweat,\" said Mina Park, 31, on holiday with her friends from Los Angeles. \"Literally in the subways, I would look at everyone else. They're not sweating and in jackets and we're glistening.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3992650//400x267_nbc-190629-france-heat-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg/" alt=\"Laura Marquez, left , Mina Park and Ariel Min make a short stop at the Louvre Museum in Paris on June 29, 2019, before going to find shade in the heat wave.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992650\/384x256_nbc-190629-france-heat-al-1007_ee5d0798c951602d09d10d58261ad767.jpg 384w, 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class=\"widget__captionText\">Laura Marquez, left , Mina Park and Ariel Min make a short stop at the Louvre Museum in Paris on June 29, 2019, before going to find shade in the heat wave.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Linda Givetash<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>At the Jardins du Trocadero meanwhile, across the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower, the large fountain was transformed into a swimming pool as dozens of people jumped in to cool off from the abrasive sun.<\/p>\n<p>French authorities nonetheless maintained an orange alert \u2014 the second-highest heat warning \u2014 for most of the country, reminding the public to stay hydrated and check on their neighbors over fears of conditions becoming lethal for both the very young and old.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, a similar staggering heat wave killed 15,000 people in the country \u2014 prompting the significant public health awareness campaign this week.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris, parents Anila and Satyam Gurung could attest to the effects the heat was having on children.<\/p>\n<p>Their four-year-old son Mason was demanding regular breaks for drinks and ice cream, being accustomed to cooler conditions in England, Anila said.<\/p>\n<p>\"He doesn't want to go anywhere, he keeps saying 'mommy, no it's too hot,'\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>The notable decline in foot traffic on the streets was bad news for vendors at a weekly farmer's market.<\/p>\n<p>Nestor Abouzi, 45, said he'd only sold two items of his African-style art by noon local time. \"Normally, there are many people,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasts show the heat will finally break Sunday, according to the meteorological organization Meteo-France, with temperatures returning to normal for most regions of the country by 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Rapinoe accepts Ocasio-Cortez's invite to House of Representatives","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Megan Rapinoe accepts Ocasio-Cortez's invite to House of Representatives","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"The invitation comes after the soccer star announced she would not visit the \"f---ing White House\" if invited, prompting a rebuke from President Trump.","summary":"The invitation comes after the soccer star announced she would not visit the \"f---ing White House\" if invited, prompting a rebuke from President Trump.","keySentence":"","url":"megan-rapinoe-accepts-ocasio-cortez-invite-house-representatives-after-clash-n1024936","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/megan-rapinoe-accepts-ocasio-cortez-invite-house-representatives-after-clash-n1024936","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nU.S. women's national soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe likely won't be visiting the White House anytime soon but that doesn't mean she won't be in Washington.On Friday evening, after Rapinoe scored two goals and led her team to victory over France in the 2019 Women's World Cup quarterfinals, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted an invitation for the soccer star to visit the U.S. House of Representatives.\"It may not be the White House, but we'd be happy to welcome @mPinoe & the entire #USWMNT for a tour of the House of Representatives anytime they'd like,\" Ocasio-Cortez said.Two hours later, Rapinoe replied to the tweet, accepting the invitation.\"Consider it done @AOC,\" Rapinoe wrote. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., also tweeted an invite to the U.S. women's national soccer team, following Ocasio-Cortez's lead.\"@AOC no doubt the food & the company would be much better. I'll bring the red velvet cake. @mPinoe your squad in?\" Pressley wrote.The invitation comes days after Rapinoe, 33, from Redding, California, clashed with President Donald Trump, saying she wouldn't accept an invitation to the White House following her team's stellar run in the Women's World Cup.In a video clip shared Tuesday on social media Rapinoe was asked if she would go to the White House if invited. She replied, \"I'm not going to the f---ing White House.\"She added that Trump doesn't invite teams he knows will decline or \"like he did when the Warriors turned him down, he'll claim they hadn't been invited in the first place.\"PoliticsTrump later responded in a series of tweets, saying he would invite the women's team win or lose, but adding a rebuke for Rapinoe.\"I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women's Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job!\" Trump wrote.Trump also tweeted that Rapinoe should \"never disrespect\" the White House.\"We haven't yet invited Megan or the team, but I am now inviting the TEAM, win or lose,\" Trump added. \"Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her & the team. Be proud of the Flag that you wear. The USA is doing GREAT!\"\n","htmlText":"<p>U.S. women's national soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe likely won't be visiting the White House anytime soon but that doesn't mean she won't be in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, after Rapinoe scored two goals and led her team to victory over France in the 2019 Women's World Cup quarterfinals, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted an invitation for the soccer star to visit the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\"It may not be the White House, but we'd be happy to welcome @mPinoe & the entire #USWMNT for a tour of the House of Representatives anytime they'd like,\" <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//AOC//status//1144739914384367617/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Ocasio-Cortez said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two hours later, Rapinoe replied to the tweet, accepting the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>\"Consider it done <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//AOC/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">@AOC<\/a>,\" Rapinoe <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//mPinoe//status//1144759622865211393/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1144769563529306113\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., also tweeted an invite to the U.S. women's national soccer team, following Ocasio-Cortez's lead.<\/p>\n<p>\"@AOC no doubt the food & the company would be much better. I'll bring the red velvet cake. @mPinoe your squad in?\" Pressley <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//AyannaPressley//status//1144749048622137344/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation comes days after Rapinoe, 33, from Redding, California, clashed with President Donald Trump, saying she wouldn't accept an invitation to the White House following her team's stellar run in the Women's World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//8by8mag//status//1143595809910530048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1143595809910530048&ref_url=https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/megan-rapinoe-white-house-visit_n_5d128f9ce4b0a3941869f5bd\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">video clip shared Tuesday<\/a> on social media Rapinoe was asked if she would go to the White House if invited. She replied, \"I'm not going to the f---ing White House.\"<\/p>\n<p>She added that Trump doesn't invite teams he knows will decline or \"like he did when the Warriors turned him down, he'll claim they hadn't been invited in the first place.\"<\/p>\n<p>Politics<\/p>\n<p>Trump later responded in a series of tweets, saying he would invite the women's team win or lose, but adding a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//donald-trump//trump-tells-u-s-soccer-star-megan-rapinoe-never-disrespect-n1022066/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">rebuke for Rapinoe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am a big fan of the American Team, and Women's Soccer, but Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job!\" Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also tweeted that Rapinoe should \"never disrespect\" the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\"We haven't yet invited Megan or the team, but I am now inviting the TEAM, win or lose,\" Trump added. \"Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her & the team. Be proud of the Flag that you wear. The USA is doing GREAT!\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561819230,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561818240,"firstPublishedAt":1561818240,"lastPublishedAt":1561818240,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992652\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190629-megan-rapinoe-al-0955_5c1526fe4a6e25931d31d8728be5ad70.jpg","altText":"Image: Megan Rapinoe","caption":"United States' forward Megan Rapinoe celebrates after scoring a goal during the France 2019 Women's World Cup on June 24, 2019, at the Auguste-Delaune stadium in Reims, France.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Lionel Bonaventure AFP - Getty Images file","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1667}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US politics"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.politics"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Politics","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Kalhan Rosenblatt","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_politics','gs_politics_american','sm_politics','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','gs_sport_soccer','gs_sport','neg_facebook_2021','gt_positive','gt_positive_happiness','neg_facebook_neg4','neg_bucherer','gs_tech_social','castrol_negative_uk','neg_mobkoi_castrol','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/29\/megan-rapinoe-accepts-ocasio-cortez-invite-house-representatives-after-clash-n1024936","lastModified":1561818240},{"id":799740,"cid":3992524,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"A strange, wavy jet stream is blasting Europe with heat. Scientists say this could be the 'new normal.'","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"A strange, wavy jet stream is blasting Europe with heat. Scientists say this could be the 'new normal.'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Global warming is crimping the ribbon of air that controls weather systems in the Northern Hemisphere, intensifying extreme weather around the world.","summary":"Global warming is crimping the ribbon of air that controls weather systems in the Northern Hemisphere, intensifying extreme weather around the world.","keySentence":"","url":"strange-wavy-jet-stream-blasting-europe-heat-scientists-say-could-ncna1024826","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/strange-wavy-jet-stream-blasting-europe-heat-scientists-say-could-ncna1024826","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nAn oppressive heat wave baked Western Europe this week, setting record high temperatures in France, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. In India, a severe drought has choked water supplies in the city of Chennai, exposing its 9 million residents to a major shortage. And after the United States' wettest 12-month stretch on record, towns across the Midwest and the Great Plains are reeling from devastating floods.The reasons behind these extreme weather events are complex, but scientists believe they have a common trigger: profound recent changes to the jet stream, a ribbon of fast-moving air that flows from west to east over the Northern Hemisphere and controls weather systems.The jet stream is powered by temperature differences between the cooler polar region to the north and warmer air masses to the south. As it circles the planet, this river of air can become rippled in places. The resulting troughs and ridges can create unusual weather patterns, amplifying cold snaps in one region and intensifying blasts of heat in another, said Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology for Weather Underground, a commercial weather service headquartered in San Francisco.When the jet stream dips south, polar air fills in the trough, bringing heavy rains and cooler-than-usual temperatures, as has happened across much of the United States with a record-late arrival of spring and above-average precipitation. When the jet stream bulges northward, warmer air rushes into the ridge, leading to hot, dry conditions, as has happened this week in Europe.Seasonal variations are normal, but since the early 2000s, as the planet has warmed, the jet stream has been behaving strangely. Jet stream winds, which naturally undulate, have become even more gnarled, and the big wavy patterns sometimes slow to a crawl, or even completely stall.\"The winds are actually slowing down, and it's a very wiggly snake now,\" Masters said.A sluggish jet stream is cause for concern. When it slows or gets stuck, high- or low-pressure weather systems that correspond to the jet stream's ridges and troughs intensify, stretching out rainy episodes, heat waves or droughts for days — or even weeks — at a time. Studies suggest that climate change is driving these new patterns, which means extreme temperatures could be more common in the future.A pattern emergesUnusual jet stream behavior has been recorded every three to five years since 2000 — in 2003, 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2018 — turning what scientists initially thought could be an isolated abnormality into what appears to be a pattern, Masters said.\"In all of those years, we had summers with extreme conditions — both heat waves and floods that hit different parts of the globe at the same time,\" he said. \"We're seeing the same pattern now. It doesn't look like an anomaly anymore when you get these recurrences over and over.\"What is surprising to scientists now is that the wavier-than-normal jet stream has returned for a second year in a row — the first time that has been observed, said Kai Kornhuber, a climate scientist at The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City.\"I wouldn't have expected this situation to return so quickly after the extreme summer last year,\" Kornhuber said. \"It gives me the chills to see this evolving in real time again. It's a really worrying development.\"EnvironmentA slow-moving northward bulge in the jet stream has been blamed for Europe's current record-breaking heat wave, which saw France hit its highest-ever temperature of 114.6 degrees Fahrenheit (45.9 degrees Celsius) and caused major wildfires in Spain.A similar jet stream wiggle caused a rare heat wave in the western U.S. in early June, with temperatures in Northern California climbing into the triple digits.In April, Kornhuber co-authored a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters that linked last year's extreme weather — which included heat waves across North America and Western Europe and devastating floods in Japan — to a stalled wave pattern in the jet stream. And six months before that, he collaborated on a study published in the journal Science Advances that used climate projections to show an estimated 50 percent increase this century in extreme weather events driven by changes to the jet stream if carbon emissions are left unchecked.The role of climate changeAs the Earth warms, the temperature difference between cooler and hotter parts of the globe, which powers the jet stream, is slowly erased.\"The Earth is not warming everywhere at the same speed,\" Kornhuber said. \"The Arctic, at high latitudes, is warming twice as fast in the summer than other regions, which is producing favorable conditions for a very wavy jet stream.\"Since the jet stream is the primary engine behind weather systems in the Northern Hemisphere, perturbations to its flow carry far-reaching risks.\"Everywhere is vulnerable and we're starting to load the dice more with slow-moving and meandering jet stream patterns,\" said Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \"Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal and they are lasting longer than they have in the past.\"Vavrus pointed to Hurricane Harvey, which pummeled Texas in August 2017, as a prime example of the potential consequences. Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, then weakened into a tropical storm and stalled over the area for six days, dumping a record 50 inches of rain on Houston and the southeastern parts of the state.Significantly reducing the world's carbon emissions would slow global warming and return the jet stream to its more typical speed and pattern, according to Vavrus.But without decisive action to address climate change, global temperatures could increase by more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.8 degrees Celsius) by 2050. Within that time, the planet could undergo drastic changes, such as an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summers and other scenarios that would significantly weaken the jet stream.Yet, as recent heat waves and deluges have shown, the effects of climate change are already having an impact.\"I don't think we really have to look into worst cases,\" Kornhuber said, \"because unfortunately the most likely case is already bad enough.\"Want more stories about the environment?Without swift action on climate change, heat waves could kill thousands in U.S. citiesYour clothes are secretly polluting the environment. Here's why you should be concerned.Disturbing survey reveals 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islandsSIGN UP FOR THE MACH NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM.\n","htmlText":"<p>An oppressive heat wave baked Western Europe this week, setting record high temperatures in France, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. In India, a severe drought has choked water supplies in the city of Chennai, exposing its 9 million residents to a major shortage. And after the United States' wettest 12-month stretch on record, towns across the Midwest and the Great Plains are reeling from devastating floods.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons behind these extreme weather events are complex, but scientists believe they have a common trigger: profound recent changes to the jet stream, a ribbon of fast-moving air that flows from west to east over the Northern Hemisphere and controls weather systems.<\/p>\n<p>The jet stream is powered by temperature differences between the cooler polar region to the north and warmer air masses to the south. As it circles the planet, this river of air can become rippled in places. The resulting troughs and ridges can create unusual weather patterns, amplifying cold snaps in one region and intensifying blasts of heat in another, said Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology for Weather Underground, a commercial weather service headquartered in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>When the jet stream dips south, polar air fills in the trough, bringing heavy rains and cooler-than-usual temperatures, as has happened across much of the United States with a record-late arrival of spring and above-average precipitation. When the jet stream bulges northward, warmer air rushes into the ridge, leading to hot, dry conditions, as has happened this week in Europe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3992524//400x267_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg/" alt=\"Floodwaters from the Mississippi River surround a home on June 1, 2019 in West Alton, Missouri.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/384x256_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/640x427_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/750x500_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/828x552_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/1080x720_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/1200x800_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/1920x1280_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Floodwaters from the Mississippi River surround a home on June 1, 2019 in West Alton, Missouri.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Scott Olson<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Seasonal variations are normal, but since the early 2000s, as the planet has warmed, the jet stream has been behaving strangely. Jet stream winds, which naturally undulate, have become even more gnarled, and the big wavy patterns sometimes slow to a crawl, or even completely stall.<\/p>\n<p>\"The winds are actually slowing down, and it's a very wiggly snake now,\" Masters said.<\/p>\n<p>A sluggish jet stream is cause for concern. When it slows or gets stuck, high- or low-pressure weather systems that correspond to the jet stream's ridges and troughs intensify, stretching out rainy episodes, heat waves or droughts for days \u2014 or even weeks \u2014 at a time. Studies suggest that climate change is driving these new patterns, which means extreme temperatures could be more common in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>A pattern emerges<\/h2>\n<p>Unusual jet stream behavior has been recorded every three to five years since 2000 \u2014 in 2003, 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2018 \u2014 turning what scientists initially thought could be an isolated abnormality into what appears to be a pattern, Masters said.<\/p>\n<p>\"In all of those years, we had summers with extreme conditions \u2014 both heat waves and floods that hit different parts of the globe at the same time,\" he said. \"We're seeing the same pattern now. It doesn't look like an anomaly anymore when you get these recurrences over and over.\"<\/p>\n<p>What is surprising to scientists now is that the wavier-than-normal jet stream has returned for a second year in a row \u2014 the first time that has been observed, said Kai Kornhuber, a climate scientist at The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\"I wouldn't have expected this situation to return so quickly after the extreme summer last year,\" Kornhuber said. \"It gives me the chills to see this evolving in real time again. It's a really worrying development.\"<\/p>\n<p>Environment<\/p>\n<p>A slow-moving northward bulge in the jet stream has been blamed for<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//workers-seniors-face-health-risk-amid-extreme-heat-wave-europe-n1023151/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Europe's current record-breaking heat wave<\/a>, which saw France hit its highest-ever temperature of 114.6 degrees Fahrenheit (45.9 degrees Celsius) and caused major wildfires in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>A similar jet stream wiggle caused a rare heat wave in the western U.S. in early June, with temperatures in Northern California climbing into the triple digits.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Kornhuber co-authored a study published in the<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////iopscience.iop.org//article//10.1088//1748-9326//ab13bf/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">journal Environmental Research Letters<\/a> that linked last year's extreme weather \u2014 which included heat waves across North America and Western Europe and devastating floods in Japan \u2014 to a stalled wave pattern in the jet stream. And six months before that, he collaborated on a study published in the<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////advances.sciencemag.org//content//4//10//eaat3272/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">journal Science Advances<\/a> that used climate projections to show an estimated 50 percent increase this century in extreme weather events driven by changes to the jet stream if carbon emissions are left unchecked.<\/p>\n<h2>The role of climate change<\/h2>\n<p>As the Earth warms, the temperature difference between cooler and hotter parts of the globe, which powers the jet stream, is slowly erased.<\/p>\n<p>\"The Earth is not warming everywhere at the same speed,\" Kornhuber said. \"The Arctic, at high latitudes, is warming twice as fast in the summer than other regions, which is producing favorable conditions for a very wavy jet stream.\"<\/p>\n<p>Since the jet stream is the primary engine behind weather systems in the Northern Hemisphere, perturbations to its flow carry far-reaching risks.<\/p>\n<p>\"Everywhere is vulnerable and we're starting to load the dice more with slow-moving and meandering jet stream patterns,\" said Steve Vavrus, a senior scientist at the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \"Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal and they are lasting longer than they have in the past.\"<\/p>\n<p>Vavrus pointed to<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//storyline//hurricane-harvey/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Hurricane Harvey<\/a>, which pummeled Texas in August 2017, as a prime example of the potential consequences. Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, then weakened into a tropical storm and stalled over the area for six days, dumping a record 50 inches of rain on Houston and the southeastern parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly reducing the world's carbon emissions would slow global warming and return the jet stream to its more typical speed and pattern, according to Vavrus.<\/p>\n<p>But without decisive action to address climate change, global temperatures could increase by more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.8 degrees Celsius) by 2050. Within that time, the planet could undergo drastic changes, such as an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summers and other scenarios that would significantly weaken the jet stream.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as recent heat waves and deluges have shown, the effects of climate change are already having an impact.<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't think we really have to look into worst cases,\" Kornhuber said, \"because unfortunately the most likely case is already bad enough.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Want more stories about the environment?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//without-swift-action-climate-change-heat-waves-could-kill-thousands-ncna1017376/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Without swift action on climate change, heat waves could kill thousands in U.S. cities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//fight-against-plastic-pollution-targets-hidden-source-our-clothes-ncna1000961/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Your clothes are secretly polluting the environment. Here's why you should be concerned.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//scientists-find-414-million-pieces-plastic-debris-remote-islands-s-ncna1007931/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Disturbing survey reveals 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SIGN UP FOR THE <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////link.nbcnews.com//join//5cj//mach-signup/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">MACH NEWSLETTER<\/a> AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//NBCNewsMACH/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">TWITTER<\/a>, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//NBCNewsMACH///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">FACEBOOK<\/a>, AND <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//NBCNewsMach///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">INSTAGRAM<\/a>.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561816820,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561816080,"firstPublishedAt":1561816080,"lastPublishedAt":1561816080,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-heat-france-mn-1240_2c5a26cf655ee56b59cda8ef3d4bddbd.jpg","altText":"Image: FRANCE-WEATHER-CLIMATE-HEAT-TEMPERATURE-RECORD","caption":"People bathe in the Trocadero Fountain in Paris during a severe heat wave on June 28, 2019.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Zakaria Abdelkafi AFP - Getty Images","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1667},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992524\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-190628-floods-midwest-mn-1245_608a0c1ed7c522bf67899acb95b6ac23.jpg","altText":"Image: Midwest Rivers Reach Major Flood Stage At Historic Levels","caption":"Floodwaters from the Mississippi River surround a home on June 1, 2019 in West Alton, Missouri.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Scott Olson Getty Images file","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1667}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":389,"slug":"technology","urlSafeValue":"technology","title":"Technology","titleRaw":"Technology"},{"id":10245,"slug":"science","urlSafeValue":"science","title":"Science","titleRaw":"Science"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[{"path":"nbc.nbcnews.techscience"},{"path":"nbc.nbcnews"},{"path":"nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type.euronews-nbc"},{"path":"euronews.story-type"},{"path":"euronews"}],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":2,"sources":[],"externalSource":"NBC News Tech and Science News","additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":"Denise Chow","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"","verticals":[],"primaryVertical":{"id":0,"slug":"","urlSafeValue":"","title":""},"themes":[{"id":"science_technology","urlSafeValue":"science_technology","title":"Sci-tech","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":3,"urlSafeValue":"science_technology","title":"Sci-tech"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":4392,"urlSafeValue":"america","title":"America"},"country":{"id":447,"urlSafeValue":"usa","title":"USA","url":"\/news\/america\/usa"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gs_science','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','progressivemedia','gs_science_environ','neg_mobkoi_castrol','neg_saudiaramco','climatechange','castrol_negative_uk','neg_audi_list1','neg_facebook','gt_negative','gv_safe'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2019\/06\/29\/strange-wavy-jet-stream-blasting-europe-heat-scientists-say-could-ncna1024826","lastModified":1561816080},{"id":799690,"cid":3992414,"versionId":0,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"Trump plans an elaborate July 4th party in D.C. Critics say spare us another campaign rally.","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Trump plans an elaborate July 4th party in D.C. Critics say spare us another campaign rally.","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Democrats charge the president is politicizing the celebration of a nonpartisan holiday meant to honor the nation.","summary":"Democrats charge the president is politicizing the celebration of a nonpartisan holiday meant to honor the nation.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-plans-elaborate-july-4th-party-d-c-critics-say-n1021276","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-plans-elaborate-july-4th-party-d-c-critics-say-n1021276","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nWASHINGTON — On Thursday, the country will celebrate 243 years of independence — but this year's festivities are already setting off a different kind of fireworks.That's because of President Donald Trump's plan to add more bells and whistles to Washington's usual celebration: music, military demonstrations and — notably — a speech he'll make, likely from the Lincoln Memorial, according to a White House official. The Washington Post reports there may even be an Air Force One flyover.It's right up the president's alley, and he's encouraging attendees to come with flags in hand, predicting last week in Orlando there will \"hundreds of thousands\" of people on hand.Trump was inspired by what he called one of the greatest parades he's ever seen: the march marking Bastille Day in France in 2017. That's when, as a guest of President Emmanuel Macron, Trump marveled at the display of military might.\"I think we're going to have to start looking at that ourselves,\" Trump said, side-by-side with Macron months later. \"We're actually thinking about 4th of July, Pennsylvania Avenue, having a really great parade to show our military strength.\"But the president's critics accuse him of trying to hijack what is typically a nonpartisan celebration.Other commanders-in-chief have participated in July 4th festivities, of course, but only one has taken a truly active role: Harry Truman delivered a speech about the Korean War in 1951.Democrats are concerned that the president will use his platform — and taxpayer money — to politicize the day. House leaders, including Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, worry that the events will give an \"appearance of a televised, partisan campaign rally on the Mall at public expense,\" as they put it in a letter to the administration.\"Frankly, that's not what July 4th is about,\" Hoyer said in an interview with NBC News.\"It's not about politics in the partisan sense — it's about democracy, it's about freedom, it's about individual liberties, it's about pursuit of happiness,\" he added. \"Not about politics, not about polarization, not about focusing on differences. It's about one nation under god indivisible. And it's sad that the president's turning it into — in my opinion and the opinion of many — a political rally.\"Others have raised concerns about the potential for anti-Trump protests. A spokesperson for the National Parks Service, which oversees the National Mall, said the area is open to all to exercise their First Amendment rights, but \"we will ensure that the Independence Day events and any demonstrations that occur are conducted in a manner safe to the participants and our visitors.\"Tourists visiting the Mall ahead of the busy 4th of July holiday had mixed views of the president's plans.\"Being proud of our country, there's nothing wrong with that,\" said Chris Metacroft, who said he supports Trump.And Jim Stefaniak has no problem with the proposed changes to the event, saying, \"I think we've been missing the boat, frankly, to show off our military — because we should be proud of them and we should be proud of what they do for us.\"Others aren't so jazzed. Beth Hopper thinks it would be an interesting event to attend with her kids, but added, \"I would certainly prefer that (Trump) wasn't speaking at the event. I would prefer it be not politicized at all.\"Andrea Melanger agrees. \"I think he just likes to feel celebrated,\" she said. \"And so, you know, it's probably just feeding more of his ego. I don't think we need to spend money on that.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 On Thursday, the country will celebrate 243 years of independence \u2014 but this year's festivities are already setting off a different kind of fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>That's because of President Donald Trump's plan to add more bells and whistles to Washington's usual celebration: music, military demonstrations and \u2014 notably \u2014 a speech he'll make, likely from the Lincoln Memorial, according to a White House official. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.washingtonpost.com//climate-environment//trump-plans-air-force-one-flyover-of-mall-for-july-fourth-celebration//2019//06//18//b974b796-9210-11e9-b570-6416efdc0803_story.html?utm_term=.14acad7967de\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">The Washington Post reports<\/a> there may even be an Air Force One flyover.<\/p>\n<p>It's right up the president's alley, and he's encouraging attendees to come with flags in hand, predicting last week in Orlando there will \"hundreds of thousands\" of people on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was inspired by what he called one of the greatest parades he's ever seen: the march marking Bastille Day in France in 2017. That's when, as a guest of President Emmanuel Macron, Trump marveled at the display of military might.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think we're going to have to start looking at that ourselves,\" Trump said, side-by-side with Macron months later. \"We're actually thinking about 4th of July, Pennsylvania Avenue, having a really great parade to show our military strength.\"<\/p>\n<p>But the president's critics accuse him of trying to hijack what is typically a nonpartisan celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Other commanders-in-chief have participated in July 4th festivities, of course, but only one has taken a truly active role: Harry Truman delivered a speech about the Korean War in 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are concerned that the president will use his platform \u2014 and taxpayer money \u2014 to politicize the day. House leaders, including Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, worry that the events will give an \"appearance of a televised, partisan campaign rally on the Mall at public expense,\" as they put it in a letter to the administration.<\/p>\n<p>\"Frankly, that's not what July 4th is about,\" Hoyer said in an interview with NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's not about politics in the partisan sense \u2014 it's about democracy, it's about freedom, it's about individual liberties, it's about pursuit of happiness,\" he added. \"Not about politics, not about polarization, not about focusing on differences. It's about one nation under god indivisible. And it's sad that the president's turning it into \u2014 in my opinion and the opinion of many \u2014 a political rally.\"<\/p>\n<p>Others have raised concerns about the potential for anti-Trump protests. A spokesperson for the National Parks Service, which oversees the National Mall, said the area is open to all to exercise their First Amendment rights, but \"we will ensure that the Independence Day events and any demonstrations that occur are conducted in a manner safe to the participants and our visitors.\"<\/p>\n<p>Tourists visiting the Mall ahead of the busy 4th of July holiday had mixed views of the president's plans.<\/p>\n<p>\"Being proud of our country, there's nothing wrong with that,\" said Chris Metacroft, who said he supports Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And Jim Stefaniak has no problem with the proposed changes to the event, saying, \"I think we've been missing the boat, frankly, to show off our military \u2014 because we should be proud of them and we should be proud of what they do for us.\"<\/p>\n<p>Others aren't so jazzed. Beth Hopper thinks it would be an interesting event to attend with her kids, but added, \"I would certainly prefer that (Trump) wasn't speaking at the event. I would prefer it be not politicized at all.\"<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Melanger agrees. \"I think he just likes to feel celebrated,\" she said. \"And so, you know, it's probably just feeding more of his ego. I don't think we need to spend money on that.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1561810820,"updatedAt":1723539856,"publishedAt":1561809600,"firstPublishedAt":1561809600,"lastPublishedAt":1561809600,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992414\/{{w}}x{{h}}_nbc-06212019-trump-independence-day-rem-2x1_b91aa46e567546a33b280960dddbcc8b.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2500,"height":1250}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13406,"slug":"us-politics","urlSafeValue":"us-politics","title":"US politics","titleRaw":"US 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aid ship captain detained after trying to forcibly dock at Italian port","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Migrant aid ship captain detained after trying to forcibly dock at Italian port","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"Carola Rackete, the 32-year-old ship captain from Germany, had been engaged in a standoff with Italian authorities that reignited a fierce debate over the country's draconian migration laws.","summary":"Carola Rackete, the 32-year-old ship captain from Germany, had been engaged in a standoff with Italian authorities that reignited a fierce debate over the country's draconian migration laws.","keySentence":"","url":"migrant-aid-ship-captain-detained-after-trying-forcibly-dock-italian-n1024911","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/migrant-aid-ship-captain-detained-after-trying-forcibly-dock-italian-n1024911","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nROME, Italy — The captain of an NGO-run ship carrying 42 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea was detained in Italy on Saturday after the vessel rammed a border police motorboat blocking its way as it docked without permission, officials said.The migrants finally stepped onto Italian soil after disembarking from the Sea-Watch 3, which rescued them more than two weeks earlier.Italy's anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini, had refused to let them disembark at the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa until other European Union countries agreed to take in the asylum-seekers.Carola Rackete, the 32-year-old ship captain from Germany, had been engaged in a standoff with Italian authorities that reignited a fierce debate over the country's draconian migration laws and prompted a display of solidarity from some members of the public.\"There are two conflicting laws in Italy,\" Rackete said during a live Skype call with the Foreign Press Association in Rome on Friday.\"One is the maritime law, which states that one must save endangered lives at sea. The other one is the law passed by the Italian government, which states that bringing migrants onshore threatens national security.\"\"For all I know,\" she added, \"saving a life is more important than Italy's concern for its territorial borders.\"NewsAfter 17 days at sea, the migrants hugged the crew and kissed the dock upon arrival on the island, which is closer to northern Africa than to the Italian mainland.After five countries offered on Friday to take in the migrants, but still without any disembarkation permission, Rackete steered her Dutch-flagged rescue vessel toward Lampedusa's dock before dawn Saturday, hitting the much smaller motorboat from the border protection force.She was immediately whisked away by police and detained for investigation of alleged violence against a war ship, and allegedly attempting to cause a shipwreck by plowing into the police boat, the Italian news agency ANSA said.Salvini, who is the head of the right-wing League party, called her actions \"incredible.\"\"I have asked for the arrest of an outlaw who put at risk\" the lives of the border police on the motorboat, Salvini told RAI state radio. He added that he also asked authorities to sequester the ship, \"which went around the Mediterranean breaking laws.\"The German humanitarian group Sea-Watch defended the captain's actions, as did Italian opposition lawmakers who had gone aboard a few days earlier in a show of solidarity to the migrants.\"She enforced the rights of the rescued people to be disembarked to a place of safety,\" Sea-Watch said in a statement.Rackete told the press on Friday that the situation on board the ship was \"worsening.\"\"There isn't fresh water for everyone to wash,\" she said. \"There are people in need of medical attention.\"\"For the migrants it's not difficult only physically, but also psychologically. Most of them have suffered human rights abuse, and for days now they have been waiting to know their fate,\" she added.As of Saturday morning, more than 20,000 people had contributed over $300,000 through a Facebook fundraiser to help Rackete and Sea-Watch cover legal costs.\"We are usually financed by small donors and the protestant church,\" Giorgia Linardi, a spokesperson for the group, told Italy's daily La Repubblica. \"Strangely enough, we need to thank Salvini because since the standoff started there was a massive spike in donations,\" she added.Italy has taken hundreds of thousands of migrants in recent years as one of the southern European countries on the front line of Europe's migration crisis.WorldThe new law, aimed at search and rescue vessels like those of Sea-Watch, introduced a fine of 50,000 Euros — about $57,000 — for captains who defy orders, as well as their potential arrest and prosecution for aiding illegal immigration.Salvini had already called for the captain to be arrested before Saturday's dramatic events.\"She is a braggart who is doing politics at the expense of a bunch of migrants, who pays her?\" Salvini said during an event on Facebook Live last week.Salvini contends humanitarian rescue vessels essentially aid Libyan-based traffickers who launch flimsy rubber dinghies and rickety fishing boats overcrowded with migrants, many of them from Africa, eager to reach European shores in hope of a better life.\n","htmlText":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2019//06//29//italian-police-arrest-migrant-rescue-ship-captain-after-docking?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1561787327\">captain of an NGO-run ship carrying 42 migrants<\/a> rescued in the Mediterranean Sea was detained in Italy on Saturday after the vessel rammed a border police motorboat blocking its way as it docked without permission, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants finally stepped onto Italian soil after disembarking from the Sea-Watch 3, which rescued them more than two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//news//world//italy-gets-western-europe-s-1st-populist-government-n879111/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Italy's anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini<\/a>, had refused to let them disembark at the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa until other European Union countries agreed to take in the asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Carola Rackete, the 32-year-old ship captain from Germany, had been engaged in a standoff with Italian authorities that reignited a fierce debate over the country's draconian migration laws and prompted a display of solidarity from some members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are two conflicting laws in Italy,\" Rackete said during a live Skype call with the Foreign Press Association in Rome on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\"One is the maritime law, which states that one must save endangered lives at sea. The other one is the law passed by the Italian government, which states that bringing migrants onshore threatens national security.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"For all I know,\" she added, \"saving a life is more important than Italy's concern for its territorial borders.\"<\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>After 17 days at sea, the migrants hugged the crew and kissed the dock upon arrival on the island, which is closer to northern Africa than to the Italian mainland.<\/p>\n<p>After five countries offered on Friday to take in the migrants, but still without any disembarkation permission, Rackete steered her Dutch-flagged rescue vessel toward Lampedusa's dock before dawn Saturday, hitting the much smaller motorboat from the border protection force.<\/p>\n<p>She was immediately whisked away by police and detained for investigation of alleged violence against a war ship, and allegedly attempting to cause a shipwreck by plowing into the police boat, the Italian news agency ANSA said.<\/p>\n<p>Salvini, who is the head of the right-wing League party, called her actions \"incredible.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"I have asked for the arrest of an outlaw who put at risk\" the lives of the border police on the motorboat, Salvini told RAI state radio. He added that he also asked authorities to sequester the ship, \"which went around the Mediterranean breaking laws.\"<\/p>\n<p>The German humanitarian group Sea-Watch defended the captain's actions, as did Italian opposition lawmakers who had gone aboard a few days earlier in a show of solidarity to the migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\"She enforced the rights of the rescued people to be disembarked to a place of safety,\" Sea-Watch said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-medium widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//3992366//400x267_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg/" alt=\"An image grab taken from a video released by Local Team on June 29, 2019, shows the Sea-Watch 3 charity ship\\'s German captain Carola Rackete being arrested by Italian police, in the Italian port of Lampedusa, Sicily.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/384x256_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/640x427_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/750x500_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/828x552_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/1080x720_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/1200x800_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/3992366\/1920x1280_nbc-afp_1i03u2_2a55c49ce1a0f513ae7d062cdfce2ea8.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 30vw, 370px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An image grab taken from a video released by Local Team on June 29, 2019, shows the Sea-Watch 3 charity ship\\'s German captain Carola Rackete being arrested by Italian police, in the Italian port of Lampedusa, Sicily.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">ANAELLE LE BOUEDEC<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Rackete told the press on Friday that the situation on board the ship was \"worsening.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"There isn't fresh water for everyone to wash,\" she said. \"There are people in need of medical attention.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"For the migrants it's not difficult only physically, but also psychologically. Most of them have suffered human rights abuse, and for days now they have been waiting to know their fate,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday morning, more than 20,000 people had contributed over $300,000 through a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//donate//704015116720055///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Facebook fundraiser to help Rackete and Sea-Watch cover legal costs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are usually financed by small donors and the protestant church,\" Giorgia Linardi, a spokesperson for the group, told Italy's daily La Repubblica. \"Strangely enough, we need to thank Salvini because since the standoff started there was a massive spike in donations,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>Italy has taken hundreds of thousands of migrants in recent years as one of the southern European countries on the front line of Europe's migration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>World<\/p>\n<p>The new law, aimed at search and rescue vessels like those of Sea-Watch, introduced a fine of 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of lakes discovered deep under colossal ice sheet","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Dozens of lakes discovered deep under colossal ice sheet","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"With the help of ice-penetrating radar, researchers pinpoint 56 previously unknown lakes.","summary":"With the help of ice-penetrating radar, researchers pinpoint 56 previously unknown lakes.","keySentence":"","url":"dozens-lakes-discovered-deep-under-greenland-ice-sheet-ncna1024526","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/dozens-lakes-discovered-deep-under-greenland-ice-sheet-ncna1024526","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nA new survey of the Greenland Ice Sheet has revealed dozens of previously unknown lakes lying beneath the massive body of ice.The 56 lakes, ranging in size from about 650 feet to more than 3.5 miles, bring the number of lakes known to exist under the sheet to 60. The researchers say it's the first comprehensive look at bodies of water locked under the sheet, which in recent years has been melting rapidly as a result of global warming.\"We found a lot more lakes than what people have thought before,\" said Winnie Chu, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and coauthor of a paper about the research published June 26 in the journal Nature Communications.EnvironmentWhat do the subglacial lakes mean for the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet given the looming threat of climate change? Left unchecked, melting of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the site of Earth's other massive ice sheet, will cause a rise in sea levels that threatens to inundate low-lying coastal areas around the world, researchers predict. Chu said the lakes could have a lubricating effect on the ice above, an effect she likened to a water slide. As the ice slides down to lower elevations, it could be even more susceptible to surface melting. Even so, it's not clear that lots of lakes below the Greenland Ice Sheet will have a significant effect on sea levels.\"We don't think that subglacial lakes in Greenland are a huge concern for climate change,\" Chu said, adding that the bodies of water could even store meltwater that would otherwise enter the oceans.\nScientists have long suspected that the ground beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is dotted with lakes. Some subglacial lakes form when pressure from above or geothermal hot spots from below melt portions of the ice, others when meltwater trickles down from above through holes known as moulins to pool in hollows under the ice.To count the lakes, the researchers looked for the unique signature of liquid water in more than two decades' worth of ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA aircraft during flyovers of the Greenland Ice Sheet. They also studied detailed topographic maps of the sheet, looking for telltale hollows suggesting that a subglacial lake might lie below.Twila Moon, a research scientist who studies the Greenland Ice Sheet at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder and who was not involved in the research, said she didn't expect the discoveries to affect melting projections. \"A lot of these lakes seem like they have existed there for a long time,\" she said. \"At this point, we don't have to go back and recalculate how we think [the ice sheet] might change in the future.\"Moon praised the study for its thoroughness, adding that more research will be required to fully understand the relationship between the ice sheet and its subglacial lakes. \"This is the kind of work that is at the tip of the iceberg,\" she said. \"They're just starting to make more progress in understanding what's down there.\"Want more stories about the environment?Your clothes are secretly polluting the environment. Here's why you should be concerned.Without swift action on climate change, heat waves could kill thousands in U.S. citiesDisturbing survey reveals 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islandsSIGN UP FOR THE MACH NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM.\n","htmlText":"<p>A new survey of the Greenland Ice Sheet has revealed dozens of previously unknown lakes lying beneath the massive body of ice.<\/p>\n<p>The 56 lakes, ranging in size from about 650 feet to more than 3.5 miles, bring the number of lakes known to exist under the sheet to 60. The researchers say it's the first comprehensive look at bodies of water locked under the sheet, which in recent years has been <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//key-greenland-glacier-growing-again-after-shrinking-years-nasa-study-ncna987116/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">melting rapidly as a result of global warming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\"We found a lot more lakes than what people have thought before,\" said Winnie Chu, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and coauthor of a paper about the research published June 26 in the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nature.com//articles//s41467-019-10821-w/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">journal Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Environment<\/p>\n<p>What do the subglacial lakes mean for the future of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//sciencemain//grand-canyon-greenland-discovered-under-ice-sheet-8C11034914/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Greenland Ice Sheet<\/a> given the looming threat of climate change? Left unchecked, melting of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the site of Earth's other massive ice sheet, will cause a rise in sea levels that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//rising-sea-levels-could-swamp-major-cities-displace-almost-200-ncna1008846/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">threatens to inundate low-lying coastal areas around the world<\/a>, researchers predict. Chu said the lakes could have a lubricating effect on the ice above, an effect she likened to a water slide. As the ice slides down to lower elevations, it could be even more susceptible to surface melting. Even so, it's not clear that lots of lakes below the Greenland Ice Sheet will have a significant effect on sea levels.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't think that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//sciencemain//many-new-lakes-streams-found-beneath-antarcticas-vast-ice-2D11762051/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">subglacial lakes<\/a> in Greenland are a huge concern for climate change,\" Chu said, adding that the bodies of water could even store meltwater that would otherwise enter the oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long suspected that the ground beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is dotted with lakes. Some subglacial lakes form when pressure from above or geothermal hot spots from below melt portions of the ice, others when meltwater trickles down from above through holes known as moulins to pool in hollows under the ice.<\/p>\n<p>To count the lakes, the researchers looked for the unique signature of liquid water in more than two decades' worth of ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA aircraft during flyovers of the Greenland Ice Sheet. They also studied detailed topographic maps of the sheet, looking for telltale hollows suggesting that a subglacial lake might lie below.<\/p>\n<p>Twila Moon, a research scientist who studies the Greenland Ice Sheet at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder and who was not involved in the research, said she didn't expect the discoveries to affect melting projections. \"A lot of these lakes seem like they have existed there for a long time,\" she said. \"At this point, we don't have to go back and recalculate how we think [the ice sheet] might change in the future.\"<\/p>\n<p>Moon praised the study for its thoroughness, adding that more research will be required to fully understand the relationship between the ice sheet and its subglacial lakes. \"This is the kind of work that is at the tip of the iceberg,\" she said. \"They're just starting to make more progress in understanding what's down there.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Want more stories about the environment?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//fight-against-plastic-pollution-targets-hidden-source-our-clothes-ncna1000961/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Your clothes are secretly polluting the environment. Here's why you should be concerned.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//without-swift-action-climate-change-heat-waves-could-kill-thousands-ncna1017376/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Without swift action on climate change, heat waves could kill thousands in U.S. cities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//mach//science//scientists-find-414-million-pieces-plastic-debris-remote-islands-s-ncna1007931/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Disturbing survey reveals 414 million pieces of plastic debris on remote islands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SIGN UP FOR THE <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////link.nbcnews.com//join//5cj//mach-signup/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">MACH NEWSLETTER<\/a> AND FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//NBCNewsMACH/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">TWITTER<\/a>, <a 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defends Biden after Democratic debate, says Harris got 'too much credit'","daletPyramidId":null,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":12}],"status":2,"title":"Trump defends Biden after Democratic debate, says Harris got 'too much credit'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":null,"leadin":"In Thursday's debate, Biden was put on the defensive when Harris challenged his record on desegregation and school busing.","summary":"In Thursday's debate, Biden was put on the defensive when Harris challenged his record on desegregation and school busing.","keySentence":"","url":"trump-defends-biden-after-democratic-debate-says-harris-got-too-n1024906","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/trump-defends-biden-after-democratic-debate-says-harris-got-too-n1024906","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"\nOSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump on Saturday defended former Vice President Joe Biden's performance in the first Democratic presidential debate and said Sen. Kamala Harris got \"too much credit\" for her searing attack on Biden over his history on race and busing to desegregate schools.Although he conceded that Biden \"didn't do well, certainly,\" Trump said the facts might not have been on Biden's side and that had he \"answered the question a little bit differently, it would have been a different result.\" Speaking to reporters at a news conference after the G-20 summit in Japan, Trump said that the line of attack by Harris was \"so out of the can,\" suggesting it was rehearsed ahead of time. \"It wasn't that outstanding, and I think probably he was hit harder than he should have been hit,\" Trump said.The president's unexpected defense of Biden, the front-runner in the Democratic race to face him in 2020, came as Harris is receiving a fresh look from primary voters following her debate performance in Miami on Thursday. Trump in the past has seemed to focus the bulk of his political ire on opponents he perceives as posing the biggest threat.\"You never know who's going to be tough,\" Trump said of his potential competitors. \"One who you think is going to be tough turns out to be not so much.\"The president also announced that his administration would be releasing a new policy related to the issue of school busing that he said would be \"very interesting\" and \"very surprising,\" although he did not give any details. Questioned about the policy, Trump told NBC News it would be released in the coming months. In Thursday's debate, Biden was put on the defensive when Harris challenged his record on desegregation and school busing. Biden decades ago led a bloc of senators who opposed using federal funds to desegregate schools by bussing students. He has faced mounting criticism in recent weeks for his comments about working with lawmakers who supported segregation and opposed civil rights during his early years as a senator.Harris punctuated her fiery attack with an emotional story of her own experience as a young black girl growing up during the early phase of desegregation in California.Biden's defensive and meandering reaction led some analysts to conclude he had lost political ground during the debate.\"This was not Winston Churchill we're dealing with, ok?\" Trump said of Biden. \"But it wasn't - I don't think - nearly as bad as they portended it to be.\"Biden tried to clarify his position on the issue Friday, telling an audience at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition convention in Chicago that \"we all know that 30 seconds to 60 seconds on a campaign debate exchange cannot do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights.\"\n","htmlText":"<p>OSAKA, Japan \u2014 President Donald Trump on Saturday defended former Vice President Joe Biden's performance in the first Democratic presidential debate and said Sen. Kamala Harris got \"too much credit\" for her <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//2020-election//biden-harris-busing-integration-became-flashpoint-debate-stage-n1024216/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">searing attack on Biden over his history on race and busing<\/a> to desegregate schools.Although he conceded that Biden \"didn't do well, certainly,\" Trump said the facts might not have been on Biden's side and that had he \"answered the question a little bit differently, it would have been a different result.\" Speaking to reporters at a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.nbcnews.com//politics//politics-news//u-s-china-restart-trade-talks-trump-xi-meet-n1024891/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">news conference after the G-20 summit in Japan<\/a>, Trump said that the line of attack by Harris was \"so out of the can,\" suggesting it was rehearsed ahead of time. \"It wasn't that outstanding, and I think probably he was hit harder than he should have been hit,\" Trump said.The president's unexpected defense of Biden, the front-runner in the Democratic race to face him in 2020, came as Harris is receiving a fresh look from primary voters following her debate performance in Miami on Thursday. Trump in the past has seemed to focus the bulk of his political ire on opponents he perceives as posing the biggest threat.\"You never know who's going to be tough,\" Trump said of his potential competitors. \"One who you think is going to be tough turns out to be not so much.\"The president also announced that his administration would be releasing a new policy related to the issue of school busing that he said would be \"very interesting\" and \"very surprising,\" although he did not give any details. Questioned about the policy, Trump told NBC News it would be released in the coming months. In Thursday's debate, Biden was put on the defensive when Harris challenged his record on desegregation and school busing. Biden decades ago led a bloc of senators who opposed using federal funds to desegregate schools by bussing students. 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