Month: July 2018

About 85 injured in Aeromexico plane crash but no fatalities MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - About 85 people were injured on Tuesday, some seriously, when an Aeromexico-operated Embraer passenger jet crashed just after takeoff in Mexico’s state of Durango, but authorities said there were no fatalities. A person watches as smoke billows above a site where an Aeromexico-operated Embraer passenger jet crashed in Mexico’s northern state of Durango, July 31, 2018, in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. Francisco Javier Castrellon/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN…

Facebook says it uncovered new meddling before 2018 U.S. elections (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Tuesday it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters ahead of November’s U.S. congressional elections. It said it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, part of an effort to combat foreign meddling in U.S. elections. The company stopped short of identifying the source of the misinformation. But members of Congress who had been briefed by Facebook on the matter…

U.S. senior official says he flagged risks for children from border separations (Reuters) - A senior official at the U.S. agency charged with caring for migrant children believed separating them from their parents carried “significant risk” of harm and said on Tuesday concerns had been raised internally before the Trump administration made it official policy. Jonathan White, a senior U.S. Public Health Service official, told Congress that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), where he worked until March 2018, had “raised a number of…

U.S. prosecutors tell jury ex-Trump campaign chief Manafort hid wealth ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday portrayed President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort as someone who hid his wealth from political work in Ukraine, as the first trial began arising from an investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Manafort felt tax and banking laws did not apply to him, a prosecutor said in the government’s opening statement, telling the Virginia federal court jury he opened more than 30 bank accounts in three foreign…