Enlarge this image President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that Democrats don't really want DACA and they want to "take desperately needed money away from our Military." The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag hide caption toggle caption The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that Democrats don't really want DACA and they want to "take desperately needed money away from our Military." The Asahi Shimbun/The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imag Updated at 9:30 p.m. ETHours after the U.S. government announced it would again begin processing renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals due to a federal court order, President Trump claimed that the program — which has granted a temporary legal reprieve to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children — was "probably dead."The furor Trump ignited with his reported use of a vulgarity about African nations in a meeting with lawmakers last week about DACA consumed the Sunday talk shows just days before the federal government is due to shut down absent a fresh congressional spending bill.Trump sought to focus the blame for any lack of progress on DACA on Democrats, tweeting: "DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don't really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military."As NPR and other outlets reported last week, it was Trump who rejected a tentative agreement reached by a small, bipartisan group of senators that would have allowed DACA recipients permanent residency in the U.S. and a path to citizenship. During a meeting with the lawmakers, Trump reportedly called African nations "shithole countries" and questioned why the U.S. didn't favor letting more immigrants in from nations like Norway instead of countries like Haiti.Two of Trump's congressional allies who were present at that meeting sought to push a different version of events during appearances on the Sunday talk shows. On ABC's "This Week" Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., said Trump, "did not use that word," and that multiple media accounts of the meeting were a "gross misrepresentation." Perdue's comments were a shift. In an interview on Friday, Perdue had said he didn't remember the president using such language. "I didn't hear that word either," said Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" with host John Dickerson. On Sunday evening, Trump was pressed on the issue upon arriving at his West Palm Beach golf resort where he was to have dinner with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Trump said the derogatory comments attributed to him last week never happened. "Did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments? They were not made," he told the press pool.Asked about charges of racism for his alleged slur, Trump said: "I'm not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed."Regarding DACA, the president reiterated that he was working toward a deal, but that Democrats were not helping. "Honestly, I don't think the Democrats want to make a deal," he told reporters at the Trump International Golf Course. "We have a lot of sticking points, but they are all Democrat sticking points."Trump said he hoped there wouldn't be a government shutdown. "I don't know if there is going to be a shutdown," he said. "There shouldn't be because if there is our military gets hurt very badly. We cannot let our military be hurt."Meanwhile, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Saturday it would begin taking renewal applications from undocumented immigrants seeking to register for the DACA program. In a statement, the agency said, "Until further notice, and unless otherwise provided in this guidance, the DACA policy will be operated on the terms in place before it was rescinded." President Trump ordered an end to the program in September and gave lawmakers until March of this year to come up with a legislative fix. Last week, a federal court in California issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration's decision. In another tweet Sunday, Trump said he wants people coming to the country "based on merit." He said: "I, as President, want people coming into our Country who are going to help us become strong and great again, people coming in through a system based on MERIT. No more Lotteries! #AMERICA FIRST" A CBS News poll released Sunday found that 70 percent of Americans are in favor of DACA and even among Trump's supporters, a slim majority also support the program.

Magic Leap 把他们的 AR 眼镜换了个名字，以推广给企业客户。于去年 8 月发售的 Magic Leap One Creator Edition 将被 Magic Leap 1 取代，后者的价格不变，仍为 2295 美元。Magic Leap 首席产品官 Omar Khan 说更名后的设备进行了一些比较小的更新。在外观与工业设计上——包括光学视野方面和视觉效果等，Magic Leap 1 与它的前辈没有区别。需要注意的是，Magic Leap 并没有将新眼镜称为 “下一代产品” 或者是重大更新，该公司表示会在 2021 年推出 Magic Leap 2。与旧款产品一样，Magic Leap 1 也将通过官网和 AT&T 的渠道发售。既然是针对商业领域，那它主要面向的人群也并非开发者或艺术家。Magic Leap 希望通过名为 Jump 的虚拟协作应用程序来吸引专业客户，这款应用程序将在未来几个月内以 beta 版本推出。Magic Leap 还将以 2995 美元的价格出售 “企业套件（Enterprise Suite）”，为用户提供专门的支持、设备管理软件和眼镜故障时的 “快速更换” 计划。Khan 表示，这并不意味着 Magic Leap 会放弃针对消费者的项目。他也同时承认，目前 AR 设备的消费者市场确实很小。一个不好的消息是，此前有报道称，Magic Leap 的 AR 眼镜在推出的前 6 个月内只卖出了 6000 套。

All the Democratic presidential candidates slated to participate in next week’s debate have threatened to skip the event if an ongoing labor dispute forces them to cross picket lines on the university campus where the debate will be hosted.A labor union says it will picket as Loyola Marymount University hosts Thursday’s sixth Democratic debate, and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders responded by tweeting they would not participate if that meant crossing it. Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang followed suit.“The DNC should find a solution that lives up to our party’s commitment to fight for working people. I will not cross the union’s picket line even if it means missing the debate,” Warren tweeted.Sanders tweeted: “I will not be crossing their picket line.” Biden tweeted: “We’ve got to stand together with @UNITEHERE11 for affordable health care and fair wages. A job is about more than just a paycheck. It’s about dignity.” The other candidates used Twitter to post similar sentiments.Unite Here Local 11, the union behind the dispute, says it represents 150 cooks, dishwashers, cashiers and servers working on the Loyola Marymount campus. It says it has been in negotiations with a food service company since March for a collective bargaining agreement without reaching a resolution and “workers and students began picketing on campus in November to voice their concern for a fair agreement. The company abruptly canceled scheduled contract negotiations last week.”“We had hoped that workers would have a contract with wages and affordable health insurance before the debate next week. Instead, workers will be picketing when the candidates come to campus,” Susan Minato, the co-president of Unite Here Local 11, said in the statement.The Democratic National Committee, which organizes its party’s presidential debates, said it and school officials were not made aware of the issue until the union’s statement and it was looking into the matter.Loyola Marymount said that it is not a party to the contract negotiations but that it had contacted the food services company involved, Sodexo, and encouraged it “to resolve the issues raised by Local 11.“Earlier today, LMU asked Sodexo to meet with Local 11 next week to advance negotiations and solutions. LMU is not an agent nor a joint employer of Sodexo, nor of the Sodexo employees assigned to our campus,” the university said in a statement.“LMU is proud to host the DNC presidential debate and is committed to ensuring that the university is a rewarding place to learn, live, and work.”This is the second location site set to host the December debate. In October, the DNC announced it would not be holding a debate at the University of California, Los Angeles, because of “concerns raised by the local organized labor community” and was moving the event to Loyola Marymount. Topics Democrats US elections 2020 US politics US unions California US universities news

On Oct. 1, as the People’s Republic of China celebrated its birthday, Canaan Wong and his friends were dodging tear gas. Adherents of the pro-democracy movement that has convulsed Hong Kong for months, they approached a pedestrian bridge in the central district of Wan Chai, part of a throng of marchers. Suddenly, a police officer heaved a garbage can the size of a beer keg over the side of the span, sending it crashing down about 15 feet onto the head of one of Wong’s friends.“The police don’t seem to have any rules anymore,” said Wong, a 29-year-old teacher’s aide, who escaped arrest that afternoon by finding refuge in a nearby apartment building, where residents waved protesters over to hide. “They don’t train you to throw a rubbish bin at people.”Criticism of the Hong Kong Police Force — historically one of the most respected in East Asia, esteemed for its professionalism and restraint — has been mounting. In Wong’s case, though, the criticism comes from an unusual source: He is a former beat cop, and not long ago donned the same olive-green uniform worn by police officers he is now evading. As a police trainee, he spent months learning about the appropriate use of force. Now, as a protester, he has joined the ranks of those who have accused the police of brutality, unprofessionalism and acting with impunity. Advertisement As Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong intensifies, more and more city residents will not speak to journalists, fearing that doing so might hurt them in their workplaces or schools. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Wong said he had decided to voice his experiences as a former policeman because of his deep misgivings about his former employer’s response to the protests.Wong finds himself in a face-off with former colleagues most weekends. Each time he wonders how the millions of Hong Kongers like him who have taken to the streets will ever trust the police again.“I don’t know if we can,” he said in a series of interviews.Wong’s remaining friends on the police force have stopped returning his text messages. One of them used to tip him off to leave a protest site before riot officers arrived. Wong said he thought that growing public mistrust of the police had pushed these officers to wall themselves off. Advertisement “They’re isolating themselves,” he said. “They don’t want to hear anything that’s different from their position.”::If Hong Kong is to ever recover from its current turmoil, which is about to enter its seventh month, it will need to repair the relationship between the police and the people they have sworn to serve. Perceptions of the police force have hit new lows, according to a recent public opinion poll by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute, which found that even the Chinese People’s Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong is viewed more favorably.In another recent survey by the South China Morning Post, nearly three-quarters of respondents said their trust in officers had eroded because of their handling of the protests.Each side has accused the other of aggressive and disorderly behavior. In this city historically known for prosperity and order, protesters say that acts of vandalism and resistance are now justified because the police have become an unaccountable occupying force.Amnesty International, the human rights group, released findings of an investigation in September that detailed instances of police brutality and torture in detention facilities. The press office of the Police Force did not respond to requests for interviews for this article. In a recent statement, the Hong Kong government called reports of abuse “biased and misleading” and blamed protesters for the escalation of violence.One Hong Kong University student told The Times he was beaten in the back of a police van in October after he refused to unlock his cellphone for officers. The 21-year-old, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said police repeatedly slammed his head against the van’s window and later detained him for nearly two days. Advertisement Another Hong Kong man, Lucas Lam, told The Times he was standing outside a shopping mall when he was pushed face first onto the ground by an officer. The impact left him with five fractures in his left shoulder and his face soaked in blood. Lam, 44, was briefly sent to a jail near the border with the mainland province of Guangdong. He eventually received medical attention, six hours after his arrest. Lucas Lam, 44, shows the scars he suffered during his arrest at an Aug. 11 protest near his home in Hong Kong. He was injured when he was pushed to the ground by a police officer.(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Kristy Chan, a 25-year-old pastry chef, was the protester hit on the head by the trash can Oct. 1. She said she escaped a serious head injury only because she had put on a helmet she picked up off the ground moments earlier. The force of the container caused her to stumble into some bushes. All three said that they had attended protests but that they had not threatened the police or done anything illegal. Their accounts could not be independently corroborated.It wasn’t so long ago that the police were seen as a benign — or even cool, thanks to the canon of popular movies and TV series that lionized the 30,000-member department, its crime fighters portrayed by stars like Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung. But in the two decades since Britain returned Hong Kong to China, in 1997, the police have gradually been drawn into a political conflict that has undermined the territory’s “one country, two systems” arrangement with Beijing.Under governing arrangements known as the Basic Law, Hong Kong was assured a “high degree of autonomy” from the mainland, and the continuity of its capitalist market economy, for 50 years after the handover. But Beijing has increasingly sought to tighten its grip on the city, reneging on promises to allow Hong Kongers to choose their local leaders through direct voting.The demand for direct legislative representation helped precipitate the so-called Umbrella Movement of 2014, the most violent confrontation with police since communist riots in 1967. The movement was named for the parasols used to block pepper spray and tear gas, instruments of police control that were once unthinkable in a city that historically was better known for consumerism than agitation. Advertisement Lingering anger from the Umbrella Movement set the stage for this year’s turbulence, which was triggered by a government bill — since abandoned — that would have allowed extraditions to China. Its since widened into an existential crisis over Hong Kong’s relationship with Beijing.In the absence of a political solution, police were once again called out to suppress popular discontent.This time, the level of violence made the Umbrella Movement look tame. Scenes of bloodied youngsters, subway stations and malls choked with tear gas and indiscriminate use of pepper spray became regular.Thorough media coverage and social media have helped fan viral clips, including one of a traffic officer on a motorcycle trying to ram protesters on foot, another of masked officers beating subway passengers wildly with batons, and a journalist blinded by a police projectile.“There is far too much video evidence showing front-line police anti-riot officers using excessive force against anyone they catch,” Martin Purbrick, a former Hong Kong police inspector, wrote in an editorial for the newspaper Ming Pao. “This should have been stopped early in the conflict, but police management either failed or were unwilling to control their officers.”Allan Jiao, an expert on the Hong Kong police and a criminal justice professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, said the force has been remarkably restrained compared with what would happen elsewhere in the world.“I have all the sympathy for protesters yearning for democracy, but they would never allow protesters to shut down air traffic or subways in the U.S.,” Jiao said. “It’s unthinkable.“The police are stuck in the middle just like anywhere else where there’s a progressive movement challenging the status quo. It’s just more intense in Hong Kong because you have the big backdrop of Communist China.”::Rampant criticism of the police has resulted in a bunker mentality, observers say. Police regularly refer to protesters as “cockroaches.” Lawyers and politicians visiting police stations say they’ve seen cans of cockroach repellent displayed on front desks.So palpable is the anger that police can rarely venture anywhere without being heckled, most commonly with a four-character invective involving one’s mother that’s something of a linguistic national dish here. One particular phrase abounds in graffiti here, cursing “the Po Po,” shorthand for the police. Rank-and-file officers struggle to contain their frustration, lashing out at passersby with profanities of their own.Some pro-democracy protesters have even called for disbanding the police force, calling it an irreparable tool of repression by the Beijing government.The charged atmosphere has led to online doxxing of officers and intimidation of their family members. Hundreds of police officers have been injured, including one who was shot in the leg with an arrow and another who was slashed in the neck by a box cutter. Others have been targeted by petrol bombs and hit by acid attacks.The lack of police accountability has given rise to a citizen’s network of websites and social media groups documenting incidents with video evidence.A majority of Hong Kongers are demanding that the government launch an independent inquiry into police conduct. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal John Tong Hon, even used his recent Christmas message to push for such an investigation.Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, has rejected calls for an investigation and praised the police for their restraint. China’s president, Xi Jinping, has also expressed “unwavering” support for the force.The unconditional backing of the police reflects the government’s need for legitimacy in a time of crisis — particularly because it wasn’t democratically elected, said Antony Dapiran, a Hong Kong-based lawyer and author of “City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong.”“It doesn’t surprise me that they’ve hitched their wagon to the Hong Kong police so closely,” Dapiran said. “They don’t have any choice because they don’t have any popular mandate.”Lam said police misconduct can be reviewed through the Independent Police Complaints Council, but the civilian body lacks the power to summon witnesses or compel evidence.A panel of foreign law-enforcement experts recruited to advise the council stepped down earlier this month after earlier complaining about the group’s inadequate “scope and powers.”::Wong winces when he sees demonstrators running away from police being thrashed with batons. In the police academy, he and his cadets were all taught to use the minimum force necessary. Batons should only be used against “active aggression,” according to internal use-of-force training guidelines that have been leaked to news organizations, including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.To be fair, Wong faced nothing like today’s protests when he policed the streets of Chai Wan, a former industrial neighborhood that’s quickly gentrified.Back then, an exciting day involved arresting shoplifters and writing tickets for illegal parking. An evangelical Christian, like a number of the prominent protesters here, Wong had been in the habit of praying with others arrested at his local police station.Wong joined the Police Force after the Umbrella Movement. Back then, the youth ministry at his church was deeply divided about the pro-democracy movement. Wong, who admits to having a contrarian nature, said he wanted to see for himself if the police were all that bad. It didn’t hurt that his parents — a chef and a factory worker, both resolute atheists — had been hounding him to find a stable job.Immediately, Wong says, he felt out of place at the academy. Having attended a prestigious high school and received an undergraduate degree in sociology, he was one of only a handful of university graduates in his group of 30 cadets. Most recruits had come from working-class backgrounds, and some seemed to have landed at the Police Force for want of other career options.“These are people who were neglected by society,” said Wong, who left the force after a year. “Joining the Police Force gave them respect and an identity.”Wong said many of his fellow police recruits were now on the front lines, having graduated from rookie cop to riot officer in the space of a few years. He said some of his friends had deep reservations about their conduct.Wong said China’s suppression of Christianity had led him to become sympathetic toward Hong Kong’s protest movement.He and some of his friends from church have been following the extradition bill controversy since the beginning of the year. They’ve attended every major protest since the summer, often on the front lines.Over the summer, Wong said, he tried to persuade his remaining friends on the force to quit. He even drafted resignation letters for them. It didn’t work. The more Wong pushed, the more his friends recoiled. One of them told him that the abundant overtime pay from the protests was keeping him on the force.“Some of them actually know what the police are doing is wrong, but they have to eat so they won’t say anything,” he said.

As I write, immense protests are taking place in India against the new anti-Muslim law and Hong Kong activists, who have been protesting for their own rights for months, stand in solidarity with the Uighur people being persecuted on the other side of China. The decade will end in protest. But who can look back a decade when a week in Trump time is like a century, and hardly anyone can remember the overstuffed chaos of the month before, let alone 2017, to say nothing of the remote era before he was president?Seriously, people keep forgetting what came before, which is why they fail to recognise patterns, consequences and the real power of movements. For instance, the wave of feminism called #MeToo is often treated as a sudden eruption out of nowhere when in fact it came out of a very specific somewhere: a ferocious upsurge of global feminism over the past decade that had been spawning news, protests, hashtags and action about feminism before #MeToo in 2017. That upsurge was itself the culmination of feminist analysis and action for decades before. All that happened in October of 2017 was that movie stars got involved.But my real fear is that the 2010s will, like the 1980s, be misremembered through oversimplification. People dismissively say the 1980s were “Reagan”, as though several billion people on several continents were one reactionary old white man in America. Ronald Reagan was horrible, and his regime launched the reversal of decades of progress towards economic equality and security in the United States. But beyond and all around, the 1980s saw remarkable activism with immediate consequences – the overthrow of the Marcos regime in the Philippines through people power in 1986, the overthrow of the South Korean military dictatorship in 1987, the toppling of the whole eastern bloc of Soviet states in 1989, the beginning of the end of the apartheid era in South Africa (and powerful but unsuccessful uprisings in Burma and China).But a lot of groundwork was also laid for what was to come, with feminism, Aids activism and queer rights organising, and the beginning of a profound shift toward recognising racial and social issues in the environmental movement. Even deeper than that was the evolution of new, inclusive, less hierarchical, nonviolent organising strategies that rejected some of the failed tactics and principles of past activism and have been important ingredients in movements ever since.So one could dismiss this decade as the rise of Donald J Trump and authoritarians around the world (and yes, there have been plenty of them, from the Philippines to Hungary). But there have also been plenty of moves in the opposite direction. If protests had a slow start in the teens, they woke up fast with the Arab spring in January of 2011, one of the most powerful waves of anti-authoritarianism the world has ever seen. Regimes toppled in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with protests spreading from Sudan to Iraq. Of course the Syrian version turned into the long nightmare of civil war, and many of the nations involved in the Arab spring did not end up better in any simple way. But the protests made clear that even dictators backed by armies are not invulnerable, that ordinary people together sometimes have extraordinary power, that the longing for democracy is powerful in the Islamic world and that history is sometimes written by the vanquished when they cease to be vanquished.In October of the same year came Occupy Wall Street. The feminist upheaval has been global, with significant eruptions in Chile, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Pakistan, Kenya and beyond in this decade. And Occupy was influenced by the Arab spring and anti-capitalist movements in Greece and elsewhere. And eventually outposts of Occupy were established in cities from Kyoto to Auckland to small towns in Alaska.The climate movement grew in power, reach and sophistication, often led by indigenous people, from the Arctic to Ecuador to the South Pacific and beyond. It became a powerful force that needs to grow yet more so in the next year and needs to win in the next decade.What lay underneath all this disillusionment was a readiness to question foundations that had been portrayed as fixed, inevitable, unquestionable – whether that foundation was gender norms, heterosexuality, patriarchy, white supremacy, the age of fossil fuels or capitalism. To see beyond what we had seen before, or to change the “we” whose perceptions define the real, the important and the possible. With this came a capacity to understand more complex, subtle and hidden forms of oppression, and to think – encapsulated in that beautifully valuable word, contributed in 1989 by law scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw intersectionally – about how multiple identities overlap (and thus do multiple forms of oppression or privilege).The decade began in the wake of global economic collapse, and Occupy Wall Street was one of the reactions to the sheer greed, destructiveness and shortsightedness of the financial system. That the current economic arrangements don’t work for ordinary people has also prompted protests that don’t fit into a left framework. These included the gilets jaunes protests in France, the people who voted for Trump in the belief that he was an economic populist and the British voters who said yes to Brexit because they felt the system didn’t work for them. A surprising late-in-the-decade form of resistance has arisen among the employees at Facebook, Amazon and Google, protesting aspects of their corporations’ amorality. Employees at all three walked out as part of the September climate strike.The climate movement is inevitably an anti-capitalist movement. That capitalism is the best or only way to do things was, in the triumphalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, affirmed again and again. That mood fell apart in the wake of episode after episode of corruption, destruction and failure – and the rise of a young generation ready to rethink the alternatives and, often, embrace versions of socialism. The nonviolent strategist George Lakey argues that polarisation brings clarity and a volatility that makes positive change more possible. We have the polarisation and the disillusionment, and with perspective about how we got here and when we won, we can claim the possibilities in the decade to come.• Rebecca Solnit is an author and journalist. Her latest book is Whose Story is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters Topics Protest The 2010s: what just happened? Activism Environmental activism Climate change Donald Trump School climate strikes Feminism comment

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on Sunday “I’m not a racist” in response to reports that he had described immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from “shithole countries.” Trump also said he was “ready, willing and able” to reach a deal to protect illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children from being deported but that he did not believe Democrats wanted an agreement. He tweeted earlier on Sunday that the existing program would “probably” be discontinued. The debate over immigration policy became increasingly acrimonious after it was reported on Thursday that the Republican president used the word “shithole” to describe Haiti and African countries in a private meeting with lawmakers. The comments led to harsh recriminations from Democrats and Republicans alike, with some critics accusing Trump of racism, even as bipartisan talks continued in the U.S. Congress to seek a bipartisan compromise to salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Asked by a reporter in Florida whether he was a racist, Trump said: “No. I’m not a racist. I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.” Trump has threatened to end DACA, but he seemed to keep the door open for a deal when he told reporters before dinner on Sunday night: “We’re ready, willing and able to make a deal on DACA, but I don’t think the Democrats want to make a deal…. The Democrats are the ones that aren’t going to make a deal.” Efforts to extend the program are further complicated because it could make a funding bill to avert a government shutdown due Friday more difficult. “DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our military,” Trump said earlier on Twitter. A U.S. judge ruled last Tuesday that DACA should remain in effect until legal challenges brought in multiple courts are resolved. “I hope that we are actually going to work on fixing DACA,” said Representative Mia Love on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday. “We cannot let this derail us.” Love, whose parents are from Haiti, had criticized Trump for his remarks and called on him to apologize. Trump denied making the disparaging remarks on Friday, although U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, who was in the White House meeting, said the president had used the term. One participant at the meeting on Sunday denied that Trump used the term and another said he did not recall Trump making such comments. Asked on Sunday whether his inflammatory remarks made it harder to get a DACA deal, Trump said: “Did you see what various senators in the room say about my comments? They weren’t bad.” Lawmakers hope to reach an immigration deal before Jan. 19, when Congress must pass a funding bill or the government will shut down. Some Democrats insist that the DACA question be addressed by then. Lawmakers are trying to combine some form of relief for DACA immigrants along with enhanced border security, including a wall along the Mexican border, sought by Trump. The president’s inflammatory comments left lawmakers struggling to find a path forward. “I hope we can move beyond that. What was reported was unacceptable. But what we have to do is not let that define this moment,” said Republican Senator Cory Gardner on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program. Republican Senator David Perdue, who was at the same White House meeting and had said he did not recall whether Trump made the comment, was more explicit on Sunday. He called the new stories a “gross misrepresentation.” “I’m telling you, he did not use that word,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” program. However, Republicans and Democrats have both said they either heard Trump say it, or heard directly from colleagues who did. Republican Senator Jeff Flake said on Sunday he was told about the remarks by colleagues who attended the meeting, before the news reports emerged. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrive for dinner at Trump's golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., January 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque“I heard that account before the account even went public,” he said on “This Week.” One of Trump’s top advisers, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, said on “Fox News Sunday” she did not recall if Trump used “that specific phrase.” She also appeared to rebut Trump’s remarks from earlier in the day. “DACA is not dead,” she said. Additional reporting by Lucia Mutikani, Pete Schroeder, David Lawder and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Sandra MalerOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

The Federal Trade Commission said on Friday that they had found Cambridge Analyticadeceived consumers about the collection of Facebook data for voter profiling and targeting. "The [FTC] also found that Cambridge Analytica engaged in deceptive practices relating to its participation in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework -- a pact on the cross-border transfer of personal data," adds Reuters. From the report: The agency order prohibits Cambridge Analytica from misrepresenting the extent to which it protects the privacy and confidentiality of personal information. It also stops the consulting firm from participating in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework and other similar regulatory organizations. The impact of the agency order is not immediately clear as the consulting firm is no longer in business. The order comes after Facebook agreed in July to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to the FTC, in order to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices. The government agency continues to pursue a separate antitrust investigation of the company.

CHICAGO (AP) — Of all the many Democrats running for president, Andrew Yang is having the most fun. Unburdened by expectations and unbothered by political convention, the tech entrepreneur has spent months cruising around the country, mixing his dark warnings about America’s new tech economy with doses of humor and unscripted bluntness. He has crowd-surfed, skateboarded and made memorable quips at nationally televised debates. At a new office opening in New Hampshire, he sprayed whipped cream from an aerosol can into the mouths of hyped-up supporters. Later this month in Las Vegas, he’ll raise money for his campaign at a high-roller poker tournament featuring World Series of Poker champions. The formula has made him one of this 2020 campaign’s phenomenons. His outsider bid is fueled by policy, personality and technology. It’s outlasted the White House campaigns this year of some governors and senators, and seems to be following the advice of a former state party chairman who said voters can tell whether candidates are enjoying themselves.Yang’s campaign may not have him on track to winning the nomination, but it may be delivering sober warnings to conventional Democrats about the kinds of voters they’re leaving behind. “You can tell if someone’s like gritting their teeth or if they’re genuinely happy to be there and want to talk to you,” Yang said between events at two Chicago universities this past week, including a rally that drew about 1,500 people. The former state chairman’s guidance, he said, has ``made it easier for me to lean into just how I would naturally be as a person.”“I think if people dig into my campaign they see it’s a very, very serious message,” Yang said. “We are going through the greatest economic transformation in our country’s history and we need to rewrite the rules of this economy to work for us. So people, I believe, are savvy enough to know that you can have a very, very serious message and actually enjoy yourself while you’re delivering it.”Yang is on the bubble to qualify for this month’s debate after appearing in the first five. He has hovered in the low single digits in polling along with several candidates who trail former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. But what started out as overwhelmingly online fan base of predominantly male techie types has broadened its appeal. After initially self-funding, Yang raised $10 million in the third quarter. That’s more than most rivals, and he said that ``we are going to beat that by a mile” in the final three months of this year. His supporters, known as the Yang Gang, often say the other Democrats in the race to take on President Donald Trump aren’t speaking to them or their fears. Many of these backers are young people who say they don’t feel aligned with either party. Several who attended the Chicago events said they supported Sanders in 2016 but grew disillusioned after he didn’t win the nomination. Many supported third-party candidates or just stayed home that Election Day, when Hillary Clinton led the ticket. And if Yang isn’t the party’s nominee, they may do so again in 2020.“A lot of people aren’t trusting the mainstream political candidates and pundits on TV. Yang is kind of like a breath of fresh air,” said Ethan Daniels, 23, who supported Sanders in 2016 but voted for Libertarian Gary Johnson in the general election. “I think that’s the reason why Trump won the election because a lot of people are kind of getting tired of the staleness of these politicians who come through, and then nothing in their life changes.”Daniels finished college with degrees in sociology and criminal justice but is still looking for a job in his field. He said he first learned about Yang on a podcast hosted by comedian and former TV host Joe Rogan; that interview has more than 4.5 million views on YouTube. Daniels likes what Yang has to say about artificial intelligence, universal basic income and video game addiction, topics he says other Democrats “don’t want to talk about.” Daniels was among the supporters at Thursday’s rally wearing blue caps and other items with MATH — for ``Make America Think Harder″ — on them. It’s Yang’s twist on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Yang says it’s aimed at getting people to blame job losses across the Rust Belt on the changing economy, rather than immigrants. He argues Americans just need to “think harder” about solutions. Yang’s parents are Taiwanese immigrants. He says he was a “nerdy Asian kid” who skipped a grade in school and was especially scrawny. He was called racial epithets and got in a lot of fights, “which I generally lost.”After college at Brown University and law school at Columbia Yang worked in the tech industry before starting a nonprofit that provided money to entrepreneurs. As he became focused on the toll of automation, he decided the best and necessary policy solution was a universal basic income. He decided that the fastest way to promote the ideas was “to run for president and win.″The “Freedom Dividends” that are now the signature policy of his campaign would provide every adult $1,000 per month, no strings attached, through a new tax on the companies benefiting most from automation. Yang says the money would give people breathing room to pay off debt, care for a sick family member or buy things, and would improve Americans’ mental health by alleviating financial stress. His campaign has been trying it out, giving the $1,000 monthly checks to about a dozen people, That plan, announced during a debate this fall, led to questions about whether he was trying to pay for votes.Joy McKinney, a Republican and evangelical, said she carefully researched universal basic income and Yang’s other policies before joining the “Yang Gang.” The 50-year-old financial planner didn’t vote in 2016 because she didn’t like either Trump or Clinton. But she’s been moved to tears by videos of the people receiving those first $1,000 checks. “Can you imagine a U.S. where everybody matters?” McKinney said. That’s what’s compelling to me.”Presidential campaigns have long been a stage for new personalities or novel ideas that may catch on for a time. The 2012 cycle had Herman Cain and his “9-9-9″ tax plan. The 1992 campaign had Ross Perot and his debt charts. Still, Yang’s durability has caught many people by surprise. That may be a product of Yang’s tech and marketing savvy, said presidential historian Mike Purdy. “I think for most people he’s still an aberration,” he said. But Yang said he sees the race in terms of odds. His odds of winning, he says, are better than the odds he had of getting this far. “We’ve already done the hard part,” he said. ___Associated Press writers Hunter Woodall in Manchester, New Hampshire, Emily Swanson in Washington and Michelle L. Price in Las Vegas contributed to this report. ___The story has been corrected to reflect that it was a former state party chairman, not a state party chairman, who gave advice about voters able to tell whether candidates are enjoying themselves.

Enlarge this image Activists demanding justice in the case of a veterinarian who was gang-raped and killed last week shout slogans during a protest on Thursday in Kolkata, India. Bikas Das/AP hide caption toggle caption Bikas Das/AP Activists demanding justice in the case of a veterinarian who was gang-raped and killed last week shout slogans during a protest on Thursday in Kolkata, India. Bikas Das/AP Updated at 11:12 p.m. ETAs a 23-year-old woman in India was heading to testify against a man who allegedly raped her, a group of men that she says included her rapist attacked her and set her on fire. It's yet another horrifying incident in a country grappling with high levels of sexual violence against women. One of her doctors at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh says she is in very serious condition. "She has 90 per cent burn injuries and we are taking utmost care. A team of doctors are observing her," said Ashutosh Dubey, the medical superintendent of the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Hospital, told The Times of India. According to local news reports, the five men took the unnamed victim to a secluded spot, where they poured kerosene on her and set her on fire. Local authorities say all of them have been taken into custody, as Reuters reported. Asia Indian Court Convicts 6 Men In Rape And Murder Of 8-Year-Old Girl The rape allegedly happened last December in Unnao district. According to the wire service, police documents indicate that the woman filed a complaint in March about the alleged attack. The accused man was apprehended – but a police officer told the wire service that "the alleged rapist was released last week after securing bail." Protests have erupted in India in the past week calling for justice over another violent incident – the rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian in the city of Hyderabad. As the woman was on her way home last Wednesday, NPR's Lauren Frayer reported, police believe that "four men deflated her tires and posed as good Samaritans to trick her, and then gang-raped and murdered her." Her body was also burned. The four men were arrested, Frayer reported. According to Human Rights Watch, on the night of the woman's murder, her family said police would not take a missing persons complaint and suggested that she eloped. After protests, three police officers were suspended. "Now [authorities] say all four have been shot dead in a struggle with police," Frayer reported. "Local media say police took them back to the scene of the crime, where they tried to attack officers.""A member of parliament had called for the suspects to be publicly lynched, and there were concerns about whether they could get a fair trial amid national outrage." World A Nun In India Accuses A Bishop Of Rape, And Divides The Country's Christians Unnao, the district where Thursday's incident took place, has been in the headlines in India recently over another sexual violence allegation. As the BBC reported, "police opened a murder investigation against a ruling party lawmaker in July after a woman who accused him of rape was seriously injured in a car crash."A poll last year from the Thomson Reuters Foundation ranked India as the most dangerous country for women in the world. "According to the latest government crime figures, police registered 33,658 cases of rape in India in 2017 - that's an average of 92 rapes every day," the BBC reported. For comparison, the FBI says about 100,000 rapes were reported in the U.S. in 2017.Outrage over a high-profile 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in Delhi prompted the government to make some reforms. But according to Human Rights Watch, "these changes largely remain on paper.""Survivors of sexual violence face formidable barriers, from reporting to police, to obtaining health care, counseling, and legal aid," the rights group added. "Powerful perpetrators are often protected by authorities."

有数据称，Magic Leap 仅售出了 6000 套装置，且给开发者留下了相当糟糕的印象。一位名叫 Nostalgicbear 的开发者在评价销量不佳的帖子中写道：我从事某个 Magic Leap 项目已有大约四个月，但这绝对是一场噩梦。它给我留下了最糟糕的开发经验，绝对不值得向任何人推荐。该设备每天不停地经历多次重启，随时可能失去对手部和图像的追踪，更别提其它与机器学习相关的功能了。至于 Magic Leap 的遥控器，也总是无法识别已连接的设备，还是需要重启一下才能用。PCF 也不可靠，且根本未处于可用状态。受此影响，我们必须不断使用图像跟踪器来校准位置，尤其是在两次设备会话之间运行时。访问键盘上的构建啥的基本功能也还不能用，某些方面让人感到沮丧。而且设备会持续发热，一旦感到鼻子都热起来，就没法忍受戴下去。在另一则帖子中，也有开发者称赞了在微软 Hololens 上的开发经历，表示对其留下了极佳的印象，包括成熟的 Unity 和软件开发套件（SDK），以及无线推送的开箱即用。然而画风一转，又有开发者在吐槽自己于 Magic Leap One 平台上的惨痛开发经历。尽管该公司从谷歌、阿里、AT&T 等投资者那里拿到了超过 23 亿美元的资金，但实际产品就是给人留下了吹嘘过头的感觉。此前，外媒曾报道 Magic Leap 有数十名员工被解雇，连带着两位高管 —— 首席财务官 Scott Henry 和创意策略高级副总裁 John Gaeta —— 也离开了公司。受诸多不利因素影响，Magic Leap 的下一款头戴式装置，可能要等到数年后才会面世。

The issue that exercised Indian MPs in parliament on Friday was "rape in India" - but not for the reasons one would think.Parliament was repeatedly adjourned over opposition Congress party leader Rahul's Gandhi's comment on rape at an election rally a day earlier.Talking about the growing incidents of brutal crimes against women in the country, Mr Gandhi had said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks about "Make in India, but nowadays wherever you look, it is Rape in India". "Make in India" is a government project aimed at making the country a global manufacturing hub.Several MPs from Mr Modi's governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Mr Gandhi of "insulting India", and said his turn of phrase could almost be taken as an invitation to rape Indian women, and demanded that he apologise for his remark.But Mr Gandhi refused to say sorry - he instead pointed out that Mr Modi himself had described Delhi as the "rape capital" several times when the BJP was in opposition. As proof, he tweeted a video clip from Mr Modi's election campaign before the 2014 general election:Mr Gandhi also said that BJP MPs were trying to disrupt parliament over his rape remark because they wanted to divert attention from real issues like the country's economic slowdown and the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill which has angered parts of the country.India has hit global headlines in recent weeks over its treatment of women, especially after a 27-year-old female vet was gang-raped and murdered in the southern city of Hyderabad. Her body was later set on fire.Her death was also raised in parliament when MPs from across the political spectrum condemned the attack. One MP even called for the rapists to be "lynched". Outrage mounts over Hyderabad rape killing Why Indians are celebrating Hyderabad killings Days after the Hyderabad incident, an alleged victim of gang-rape was burnt alive by her attackers when she was heading to a hearing.And on Monday, a court is due to rule on rape charges involving a legislator from Mr Modi's party.At Thursday's rally, Mr Gandhi accused the prime minister of keeping quiet about this case, even after the woman was seriously injured in a suspicious road accident in which two of her aunts died and her lawyer was seriously injured. There is some merit in that accusation - in recent months, Mr Modi's silence on issues of violence against women has been deafening. His absence was also noted in parliament on the day outraged MPs raised the gang-rape and murder of the Hyderabad vet.Before the 2014 elections, Mr Modi had often talked about women's safety. In December 2013, he had even asked people to remember the Delhi bus rape victim before voting in assembly elections. Just days after he took over as the prime minister in May 2014, his government announced a "zero tolerance" policy towards violence against women.And in August 2014, while addressing the nation from the Red Fort in his first Independence Day speech as prime minister, Mr Modi had condemned sexual violence against women and offered parents some advice on how to bring up better sons. He spoke about societal and family responsibility in ending rapes, telling parents to question their sons more.His speech had given hope to many that things might finally get better for women in India.But a look at the recently-released government crime data belies that hope - because on average, in 2017, a woman was raped every 15 minutes in India.Mr Modi's promises are now beginning to sound like nothing more than empty words to many people.What India's women want is less politics and cosmetic outrage; and some concrete action to make the country safer for half of its population.Read more from Geeta Pandey Was Delhi gang rape India's #Metoo moment? The rape that led to India's sexual harassment law India court blames 'promiscuous' rape survivor

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today filed a civil lawsuit against the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) alleging that NACAC established and enforced illegal restraints on the ways that colleges compete in the recruiting of students. The Antitrust Division simultaneously filed a proposed consent decree with NACAC. Under the decree, NACAC is required to remove three anticompetitive rules from its Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (CEPP), which broadly regulates how its college members conduct their admissions process. In advance of today’s court filings, and in response to the Antitrust Division’s investigation, NACAC members voted to remove the rules at their Annual Meeting in September.“While trade associations and standards-setting organizations can and often do promote rules and standards that benefit the market as a whole, they cannot do so at the cost of competition,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. “Today’s settlement is a victory for all college applicants and students across the United States who will benefit from vigorous competition among colleges for their enrollment.”Under its proposed consent decree with the Justice Department, NACAC has agreed to remove rules regarding recruitment of (1) transfer students from other schools; (2) prospective incoming freshmen after May 1; and (3) prospective Early Decision applicants. NACAC is further restrained from establishing or enforcing any similar rule in the future, and has agreed to increase its antitrust compliance training with employees and members. If approved by the court, the consent decree will resolve the Antitrust Division’s competitive concerns.NACAC is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. NACAC is the leading trade association related to the college admissions process. Its members include primarily non-profit colleges and universities and their admissions staff, as well as high schools and their counselors.As required by the Tunney Act, the proposed consent decree, along with the Department’s competitive impact statement, will be published in the Federal Register. Any person may submit written comments concerning the proposed settlement within 60 days of its publication to Aaron Hoag, Chief, Technology and Financial Services Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 7100, Washington, D.C. 20530. At the conclusion of the 60-day comment period, the court may enter the final judgment upon a finding that it serves the public interest.

Many of us have grown skeptical of tech and the multibillion-dollar companies behind it. We’re still using Google and Facebook and Amazon, but we’ve started to reconsider what we’re signing up for and what we’re giving away when we accept the terms of service for these platforms and use their products. And as this technology gets more and more embedded into our lives, it’s harder and harder to understand the real consequences when we choose between convenience and privacy, or when we consider the differences between the data we willingly share and the data we don’t know we’re giving away. That’s why Recode by Vox is launching Open Sourced, a multiplatform journalism project supported by the Omidyar Network that will expose and explain the hidden consequences of tech — the good, the bad, and the complicated. Because most of us don’t really understand either AI or digital privacy, they’re surrounded with hype and fear. Open Sourced is going to change that. The deeply personal nature of data, privacy, and algorithms is often what makes these systems so difficult to understand. One person’s experience can be radically different from another’s. And that means that to report on them well, we’ll need your help. The Open Sourced Reporting Network is an email community that will keep you up to date with the latest ways you can contribute to our reporting. (We promise to never spam you.) Please subscribe to join us on this Open Sourced journey, as we reveal tech’s hidden consequences together.

President Trump said Monday he would raise tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina, surprising financial markets and opening a new front in the global trade war.The Trump administration also proposed tariffs of up to 100% against $2.4 billion of French imports to punish France for a new digital-services tax that hits U.S. technology companies. France declined to comment Monday on the proposed action but it will have several weeks to negotiate with the U.S. to avoid it....

Andrew Yang’s 2020 campaign fired an unnamed staffer over alleged misconduct that first surfaced publicly when actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano announced she would be pulling out of a fundraiser for the Democratic presidential candidate over the incident.Yang said the unspecified “mistreatment” was not sexual in nature, according to Politico, which first reported the staffer’s firing. “To the extent that a particular individual was in a position to mistreat another employee, that’s no longer the case today,” Yang told reporters Wednesday.The candidate’s remarks came one day after Milano announced in a Twitter thread that she would be pulling out of a Dec. 21 fundraiser for Yang over “repeated allegations of sexual misconduct” made by a campaign staffer against another staffer that were allegedly “not appropriately addressed.”“While I have not endorsed any candidate, I do believe Andrew Yang is a good man with progressive, smart, interesting ideas,” she wrote. “But this issue is too important and too prevalent. The buck stops at the top.”A Yang campaign spokesperson told The Daily Beast that they take “these matters seriously” and underscored that “creating a safe environment” within the campaign is a top priority. The campaign also said it fired the staffer before Milano tweeted about the incident.“To those ends, we have initiated prompt action to evaluate these allegations and will take all necessary steps to ensure that we foster a work environment that is in accordance with our values,” the spokesperson said.When asked about the discrepancy between Milano’s “sexual misconduct” claim and Yang’s disclosure of non-sexual “mistreatment” by his staffer, the campaign said: “Andrew Yang’s remarks stands.” Milano had no immediate comment on the discrepancy.Milano was set to host the fundraiser with Yang’s wife, Evelyn, and actress Teri Hatcher, according to CNN. Hatcher did not respond to questions from The Daily Beast on whether she would still be hosting the fundraiser.Yang’s most recent poll numbers qualified him for the December Democratic debate, with a Tuesday Quinnipiac poll showing him at 4 percent. He will be joining the likes of former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the debate stage on Dec. 19.

Only two days before the deadline to qualify for the last Democratic presidential primary debate of 2019, entrepreneur Andrew Yang secured his last qualifying poll to join six of his competitors in Los Angeles on Dec. 19, marking the only candidate of color who will appear on the stage so far. Yang cleared the polling threshold after receiving 4% support among Democratic voters and Democratic-leaning independent voters in a national Quinnipiac poll released on Tuesday. "We were confident we would make this debate," Yang told ABC News during his bus tour of Iowa Tuesday. "I'm even more confident we're going to make the next debate to keep the momentum going, because we've been investing a lot of time, energy and resources in the early states in particular." The poll was released while Yang was sitting down with the Des Moines Register Editorial Board, and his campaign manager held up a sign to inform the presidential contender that he had clinched a podium, according to a tweet from the paper's political editor, Rachel Stassen-Berger. Yang brings the total number of qualifying candidates who have crossed both the polling and grassroots donor hurdles up to seven for December's matchup, according to an ABC News' analysis. He will join: former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, billionaire Tom Steyer, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. When California Sen. Kamala Harris suspended her presidential campaign a week ago, despite qualifying for the upcoming debate, the lineup was set to include only white candidates. "I’m very proud of being the first Asian American man to run for president as a Democrat, and I’m proud to be the lone person of color on the debate stage next week," Yang told reporters in Iowa Tuesday, also acknowledging that if Harris was still in the race, she would have joined him on stage. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who is of Southeast Asian, Polynesian, and Caucasian descent, is the only other candidate who could potentially reach the polling threshold before Thursday's deadline. Gabbard only needs one more qualifying poll, according to an ABC News analysis. But Gabbard announced late Monday night that she would refuse to participate in the debate "regardless of whether or not" she qualifies. "I instead choose to spend that precious time directly meeting with and hearing from the people of New Hampshire and South Carolina," she tweeted. Throughout 2019, the party has imposed more stringent qualifying rules as the primary season deepened, which has at times put the committee at odds with the White House hopefuls for raising the bar with each matchup and making it more difficult for lower-tier candidates to qualify. Steyer, who will appear on the stage, most recently called on the Democratic National Committee to change the qualifying rules for the January debate to "ensure future debates include a wider field of candidates" in a statement Wednesday. DNC Chair Tom Perez defended the DNC's criteria in an interview with ABC News' Whit Johnson earlier this month, saying, "Nobody who's been under 4% at this point in the cycle, no one who's been under 4% historically has ever been able to win the primary. And so that's why we set the bar at 4%." After qualifying, Yang also defended the DNC's qualifying criteria. "It's a really tough spot for the DNC because the DNC set up fairly objective criteria a while ago," he said. "I think the DNC had a nearly impossible job. I think they fulfilled the balance to the best of their ability." The sixth Democratic primary debate will be held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and co-hosted by PBS NewsHour and POLITICO. NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff, POLITICO chief political correspondent Tim Alberta, NewsHour senior national correspondent Amna Nawaz and NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor will moderate the debate. Similar to previous debates, candidates have to meet two thresholds -- a grassroots fundraising threshold and polling threshold -- to secure a spot on stage in Los Angeles. Candidates must have at least 200,000 unique donors, and a minimum of 800 individual donors per state in at least 20 states to reach the fundraising threshold. For the polling threshold, candidates can either score at least 4% support in four national polls or polls out of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and/or South Carolina, or reach 6% support in two early state polls. The polls must be conducted by an organization on a list of approved sponsors from the DNC. The polls must be released between Oct. 16 and 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 12 in order to count. Candidates also have until 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 12 to hit the donor threshold, according to the DNC. Editor's Note: The headline in this story has changed to reflect that Andrew Yang is the lone candidate of color to have qualified so far for the next Democratic debate and not the first. Sen. Kamala Harris had initially qualified but has since suspended her campaign.

The women of “The Office” stick together. Two stars of the beloved NBC sitcom, Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) and Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin), spoke out against the Television Academy in support of Mindy Kaling Thursday while appearing on BuzzFeed’s “AM to DM.” — AM2DM by BuzzFeed News (@AM2DM) October 17, 2019 Last week, Kaling, who worked as a writer, executive producer, director and actor (playing Kelly Kapoor), on the series, spoke with Elle magazine for its Women in Hollywood November issue. Kaling told Elle she had been the only person dropped from the list of producers credited on the show when it was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series. Matt Winkelmeyer via Getty Images Mindy Kaling speaks onstage during Elle’s 26th Annual Women In Hollywood Celebration on Monday. “There were other Office writer-performer-producers who were NOT cut from the list,” Kaling said on Twitter of the incident. “Just me. The most junior person, and woman of color.” She told Elle she had to get letters from “all the other male, white producers” on the show, attesting that she contributed. While speaking to BuzzFeed, Fischer and Kinsey admitted that at the time, they didn’t know this had happened to Kaling, but Fischer said she was “so glad that she spoke up and said something.” “Yeah, because that’s crap,” Kinsey added. Roy Rochlin via Getty Images Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer on BuzzFeed's "AM to DM" Thursday. Fischer then referenced a statement the Television Academy made to the Los Angeles Times, in which it stated that many people were asked to “justify their producer credits.” It also said that at the time there was “an increasing concern years ago regarding the number of performers and writers seeking producer credits. At the time the Producers Guild worked with the Television Academy to correctly vet producer eligibility.” But Fischer wasn’t buying that. “I saw that there was a response from the Academy that said something like because she had multiple roles on the show it flagged her,” Fischer told BuzzFeed. “And I think my response would be, well, so did BJ Novak, Mike Schur, and so did Paul Lieberstein. They were all writer-producer-performers on the show so I guess I would say, so why single out Mindy and not those gentlemen?” Good question. Download Calling all HuffPost superfans! Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter Join HuffPost

“As an American, I am ashamed of the president,” said Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez, Democrat of Illinois. “His comments are disappointing, unbelievable, but not surprising.” He added, we can now “say with 100 percent confidence that the president is a racist who does not share the values enshrined in our Constitution or Declaration of Independence.”The reactions were extraordinary bipartisan rebukes to a sitting president, but they only fanned what has been a long-simmering debate over Mr. Trump’s views and talk on race.Mr. Trump sought to have the final word late Thursday, posting on Twitter shortly before midnight: “The Democrats seem intent on having people and drugs pour into our country from the Southern Border, risking thousands of lives in the process. It is my duty to protect the lives and safety of all Americans. We must build a Great Wall, think Merit and end Lottery & Chain. USA!”As a candidate, Mr. Trump, who rose to political prominence questioning the validity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, branded Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals, called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and was slow to disavow the support of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.As the president, Mr. Trump has ordered a broad immigration crackdown while privately railing against immigrants from predominantly black countries and has repeatedly stoked racial divisions, denouncing “both sides” for violence after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., and singling out black athletes for failing to stand for the national anthem before their games.The episode at the White House, first reported by The Washington Post, unfolded as Mr. Trump was hosting a meeting with Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who are working to codify the protections in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, the Obama-era initiative that provided temporary work permits and reprieves from deportation to immigrants brought to the United States as children by their parents.

Enlarge this image Democratic presidential candidate businessman Andrew Yang speaks during an interview in Chicago. Yang has qualified for the sixth Democratic primary debate next week. Teresa Crawford/AP hide caption toggle caption Teresa Crawford/AP Democratic presidential candidate businessman Andrew Yang speaks during an interview in Chicago. Yang has qualified for the sixth Democratic primary debate next week. Teresa Crawford/AP Businessman Andrew Yang has qualified for the sixth Democratic primary debate next week. The upstart entrepreneur and nonprofit executive becomes the seventh — and likely final — candidate to make the Dec. 19 debate cut. He reached the polling threshold after a Quinnipiac University poll was released Tuesday. 2020 Candidate Conversations: Off Script 'A Game Changer': Andrew Yang Explains How He'd Give Every American $1,000 Per Month Yang will join former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, billionaire businessman Tom Steyer and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the PBS NewsHour/Politico debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.The Asian American candidate also brings some needed diversity to the debate stage amid criticism that the event could feature only white candidates after California Sen. Kamala Harris, who had already qualified, dropped out last week. As of now, the seven-candidate field will be the smallest debate yet for Democrats, coming just weeks before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary will kick off voting. There are still 15 total candidates in the race. The NPR Politics Podcast 'We Have To Turn The Clock Forward': Andrew Yang On Accelerating Economy And Society Candidates have until Thursday at midnight to meet the Democratic National Committee's debate requirements, which stipulate that a candidate must hit 4% in four early-state or national polls or 6% in two early-state polls from Oct. 16 through Dec. 12, along with having 200,000 unique donors, with 800 of those from 20 different states.Those benchmarks exclude New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who made the November debate, along with former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, who hasn't debated since October. Their absence leaves the stage without an African American or Hispanic candidate — both demographics important to the makeup of the Democratic Party. Neither has registered a qualifying poll so far, and with only two days left to do so the likelihood of making the cut is slim. Politics #DemsSoWhite? Kamala Harris' Exit Raises Hard Questions About Race And Power Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has staked out a more conservative and controversial position within the primary, needs only one more poll to qualify, but she announced Monday night on Twitter she wouldn't attend even if she met the requirements. Yang's qualification continues a strong primary push during his first-ever run for public office. Yang has campaigned as a nerd who loves math and has warned about the dangers of automation to the economy. To counter those changes, he has proposed a $1,000 per month universal basic income "Freedom Dividend" to help struggling families.

「邂逅下一个计算纪元。」Magic Leap 的官网上放着这样一句话。它完美地解释了这家成立于 2010 年的创业公司，为何能走上巅峰，又在今天跌落神坛。当世界上的大多数人还不知道虚拟现实（VR）、增强现实（AR）为何物时，已经创立过一家医疗机器人公司，并将公司卖出 16 亿美元的 Rony Abovitz，就开始了在 AR 上的新探索 ... ▲ Magic Leap 创始人 Rony Abovitz. 图片来自：xxx 所以，当 Facebook 以 20 亿美元收购虚拟现实创业公司 Oculus，宣告 VR 时代来临时，积淀深厚的 Magic Leap 就更加让人期待，「下一个计算纪元里最好的公司之一」，足以让最顶级的投资机构心甘情愿成为 ATM 机。但是，就像无数折戟的 VR、AR 公司一样，布局更早、融资更多、技术路线更加硬核的 Magic Leap 一样很难实现它的承诺。最近，以独家猛料著称的科技媒体 The Information 又一次把 Magic Leap 面临的残酷真相公之于众：据多位离职员工和熟悉 Magic Leap 的人士表示，上市 6 个月后，该公司的第一代 VR 眼镜——Magic Leap One 只卖出了 6000 台，而此前经过调整的比较保守的目标是第一年卖出至少 10 万台。实际销量和预期的巨大差距，恰如公众预期和 Magic Leap One 的实际体验间的差距。去年 8 月，Magic Leap One 的消费者版本开始发售，售价 2295 美元起，套装由 AR 眼镜、手柄和别在腰间的处理器组成。综合拿到 Magic Leap One 的媒体和普通消费者的体验，它就是一个比微软的 Hololens 体验「稍微好一点」的 AR 眼镜。它的视场角（FOV）依然狭窄，且远远小于人眼的真实视场角，这意味着画面无法在近处完美叠加到现实场景上，也很难让人沉浸到增强现实的世界中