8-year-old confirmed dead after Manchester attack at Ariana Grande concerthttps://t.co/1x0W7HstMZ
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 23, 2017
Wednesday's @Telegraph front page #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/EVUScuAOGU
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 23, 2017
The Manchester bomber's parents arrived in the UK as refugees from Libya https://t.co/WYVHH2IOG5
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) May 23, 2017
The Manchester Arena suicide bomber had made trips to Libya, Downing Street said last night, as intelligence agencies combed his connections with al-Qaeda and Islamic State in his parents’ homeland.Keep reading.
Salman Abedi, 22, who was reportedly known to the security services, is thought to have returned from Libya as recently as this week.
A school friend told The Times: "He went to Libya three weeks ago and came back recently, like days ago."
Abedi born in Manchester and grew up in tight-knit Libyan community that was known for its strong opposition to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
He had become radicalised recently - it is not entirely clear when - and had worshipped at a local mosque that has, in the past, been accused of fund-raising for jihadists.
Abedi’s older brother Ismail had been a tutor at Didsbury mosque’s Koran school. The imam last night said that Salman Abedi, who wore Islamic dress, had shown him “the face of hate” when he gave a talk warning on the dangers of so-called Islamic State.
Born in 1994, the second youngest of four children, Abedi’s parents were Libyan refugees who fled to the UK to escape Gaddafi.
His mother, Samia Tabbal, 50, and father, Ramadan Abedi, a security officer, were both born in Tripoli but appear to have emigrated to London before moving to the Whalley Range area of south Manchester where they had lived for at least a decade.
Abedi went to school locally and then on to Salford University in 2014 where he studied business management before dropping out. His trips to Libya, where it is thought his parents returned in 2011 following Gaddafi’s overthrow, are now subject to scrutiny including links to jihadists...
Leakers who revealed Israel as intelligence source did far more damage than Trump https://t.co/ivM6sx5bOy by @marcthiessen
— Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) May 22, 2017
My grandfather and some of my uncles were truckers. This piece by @tripgabriel is exceptional. https://t.co/w7o3fN8zz3
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) May 22, 2017
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — The vast Petro truck stop here is a neon-lit, blacktop oasis at the crossroads of America. It beckons big-rig drivers with showers, laundry machines, a barber shop, even a knife store. “Professional drivers only,” reads the sign above the tables of the Iron Skillet restaurant, where truckers sit mostly alone, carrying the solitude of their jobs into an otherwise social setting.Keep reading.
Driving a long-haul tractor-trailer is as commonplace as the items that drivers carry, from blue jeans to blueberries, from toilet paper for Walmart to farm machinery bound for export. There are 1.7 million men and women working as long-haul drivers in the country. Yet truckers — high up in their cabs — are literally out of view for most Americans.
At a moment when President Trump has ignited a national discussion of blue-collar labor and even climbed into a truck during a White House event, trucking, which was once among the best-paying such jobs, has become low-wage, grinding, unhealthy work. Turnover at large for-hire fleets hauling freight by the truckload — the backbone of the industry — runs an astonishing 80 percent a year, according to a trade group. Looming over the horizon is a future in which self-driving trucks threaten to eliminate many drivers’ livelihoods.
Still, trucking continues to draw plenty of newcomers, reflecting the lack of good alternatives for workers without a higher education (one survey found that 17 percent of truckers had less than a high school diploma). Some have lost better-paying manufacturing jobs in the continuing deindustrialization of America. Others have spent years knocking on the door of the middle class in minimum-wage jobs in fast food or retail. To them, trucking is a step up.
Over two days recently, The New York Times spoke to truckers at the Petro stop, which sits at the intersection of Interstate 57, between Chicago and Memphis, and Interstate 70, between Indianapolis and St. Louis. These interviews were edited and condensed. The maps show drivers’ routes in picking up and delivering their loads...
“It took four embarrassments before it really hit home that he f—ed up" https://t.co/NBbPHliebg
— New York Post (@nypost) May 21, 2017
Tomorrow's cover: 'Sick' Anthony Weiner pleads guilty to sexting minor, Huma finally files for divorce https://t.co/DytqxrGrlH pic.twitter.com/PlNRhwqhAV
— New York Post (@nypost) May 20, 2017
Terror in UK: 20 Dead after Suicide Bombing of Ariana Grande Concert in Manchester, Bomb Disposal On Scene https://t.co/Ghxsrv6AhE pic.twitter.com/5y91wgBnDy— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) May 23, 2017
The Guardian front page, Tuesday 23.05.17 – Murder in Manchester: at least 19 die in arena attack pic.twitter.com/SCqddBZdvb
— The Guardian (@guardian) May 23, 2017
Screams heard in latest footage showing the aftermath of an 'explosion' in #Manchester pic.twitter.com/uB6MqOV2aL
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 23, 2017
Prime Minister @theresa_may's first statement following the 'possible terror incident' that's left 19 dead in #Manchester pic.twitter.com/MFmhDRf0wT
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 23, 2017
🇬🇧 US Embassy London issues Emergency Message after suicide attack at #Manchester Arena: https://t.co/1q4RqZW58m #manchesterexplosion pic.twitter.com/MMId7aIf0M
— OSAC (@OSACState) May 23, 2017
#Manchester explosion @gmpolice statement: 19 dead and around 50 injured in the incident that's currently being treated as terrorism pic.twitter.com/MsKOLMXyCu
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 23, 2017
.@MaxBoot: Fox News has allowed itself to become a sensationalist information weapon for the Kremlin. https://t.co/mIkK8Ecz1y
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) May 22, 2017
The network I once respected as a necessary antidote to liberal media now peddles craven lies and Russian disinformation.I'm not up on the Seth Rich story, and that's not by accident. I personally stay away from conspiracy theories. That said, I distinctly remember Julian Assange saying, at the time of Rich's death, that he suspected that his sources were putting their lives in danger. I don't recall him conceding that Seth Rich had leaked documents to WikiLeaks. He simply said that powerful people had an invested interest in making those leaks stop. Assange and WikiLeaks (one and the same, as far as I know) have stated consistently that they do not divulge the names of their sources. But that's about as far as I'll go.
It was just a coincidence, but a telling one, that Roger Ailes died on May 18 just as the television powerhouse that he created, the Fox News Channel, was propagating a conspiracy theory involving a Democratic National Committee staffer named Seth Rich, whose murder in Washington, D.C., last summer remains unsolved.
If you don’t watch Fox News, read Breitbart or the Drudge Report, or listen to Rush Limbaugh, you likely don’t have any idea who Seth Rich was. If, however, you are a devotee of those dubious news sources, you have been fed a grab bag of unsubstantiated allegations designed to make you think that Rich was murdered by some kind of Democratic Party cabal for having revealed the party’s secrets to WikiLeaks.
These spurious insinuations have been put forward (before being largely recanted) by a sometime Fox News contributor named Rod Wheeler. Never mind that Rich’s family, the Washington police force, CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others, have debunked these conspiracy theories, showing there is no evidence that Rich was a WikiLeaks source, much less that his murder has anything to do with the stolen Democratic Party emails. Sean Hannity, one of the last of the old guard hired by Ailes to rule prime time, nevertheless devoted three separate segments of his show last week to the “DNC murder mystery.” On Sunday morning, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was pushing the same allegation about Rich’s “assassination” on Fox & Friends. Lou Dobbs has spouted these theories on Fox Business Network, too.
Fox’s tasteless conspiracy-mongering has been denounced by the Rich family, which wants the far-right to stop exploiting their son’s tragic death, but it has found support in an unlikely quarter. Ever happy to play the troll, the Russian Embassy in London tweeted: “#WikiLeaks informer Seth Rich murdered in US but MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take notice.”
Saudis welcomed President Trump with a Harley-Davidson biker rally and a burrito truck https://t.co/f2TWoZ9SCK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 22, 2017
😘💋😘 from the @TMobile Magenta Carpet! #BBMAs #BBMAsUnlimited Jess Southern makeup and styling and @RickHenryLA hair pic.twitter.com/s313OiVESh
— Jessie James Decker (@JessieJDecker) May 21, 2017
South African hunter crushed to death by elephant https://t.co/MFU6lZ8rmr— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 21, 2017
