Assassination of Kim Jong Nam appears to be visible on CCTV footage
MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN and BENJAMIN GITTLESON,Good Morning America 5 hours ago
A Japanese television network has released CCTV video, which it says it obtained from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, of Kim Jong Nam's assassination.
The video is grainy, and parts of it are difficult to discern, but it appears to show one of two women grabbing a man who appears to be Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, from behind and putting him in what looks like a chokehold.
The apparent assassination, allegedly accomplished through the application of a fast-acting poison to his face, lasts only a few seconds in the footage.
Kim Jong Nam can later be seen seeking assistance from employees at the airport. Malaysian authorities said he died minutes later on the way to a hospital.
Malaysian police have arrested four people so far — the latest, a man carrying an ID that identified him as Ri Jong Chol, a police statement said. He was picked up Friday night.
Malaysia 's Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday that his government's investigation of the killing will be "objective," according to Reuters."We have no reason we want to do something to paint North Korea in a bad light, but we will be objective," Najib told reporters in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Kim Jong Nam, who was likely 45 or 46 years old, was the eldest son of the late Kim Jong Il, the second-generation leader in the Kim family, which has ruled North Korea since its founding in 1948.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Trump names Lt. Gen. HR McMaster as national security adviser
MEGHAN KENEALLY,Good Morning America 1 hour 46 minutes ago
President Donald Trump announced today that Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is his new national security adviser.
This comes after Trump's first appointee to the post, Michael Flynn, resigned after misleading the vice president about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
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Trump made the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and said Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who has been acting national security adviser since Flynn left, will remain as the chief of staff for the National Security Council.
"That combination is something very, very special," Trump said of McMaster and Kellogg.
Trump said he has "tremendous respect for the people I met with" for the role, including former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who Trump said will work with his administration in a "somewhat different capacity."
Retired admiral and Navy SEAL Robert Harward, an ABC News contributor, was offered the job after Flynn's departure but turned down the position for personal reasons, according to a senior administration source.
U2’s Bono Shredded on Twitter for Praising Mike Pence’s AIDS Efforts
Tony Maglio,The Wrap 8 hours ago
U2 frontman Bono met with Vice President Mike Pence this past weekend, praising the former Indiana governor for his work on AIDS assistance in Africa. That didn’t go over so well with some on Twitter.
The rocker and the politician met during the Munich Security Conference, where the Irishman lauded the American for twice supporting bills in Congress that provided medication to suffering nations overseas.
Here’s what Pence tweeted from their face-to-face:
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And here’s what others had to say:
So, maybe scrap Indianapolis from any upcoming tours, U2.
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Publisher cancels Milo Yiannopoulos book 'Dangerous'
HILLEL ITALIE,Associated Press 55 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos' publisher has cancelled his planned book, "Dangerous."
Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced Monday that "after careful consideration" they had pulled the book, which had been high on Amazon.com's best-seller lists and was the subject of intense controversy.
The announcement came hours after the Breitbart editor was disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference because of past comments about relationships between boys and men. He has said remarks he made that could be construed as favoring men and boys having sex were edited wrongly.
"Dangerous" was originally scheduled to come out in March. But Yiannopoulos had pushed back the release to June so he could write about the uprisings during his recent campus tour. At the time of his publisher's announcement, it ranked No. 83 on Amazon's overall list and No. 1 in the subcategory of Censorship & Politics.
More than 100 Simon & Schuster authors had objected to his book deal, which was announced last December, and Roxane Gay withdrew a planned book.
Some bookstores had said they would not sell his book, although the National Coalition Against Censorship and other free speech organizations had defended the publisher.
Threshold is a conservative imprint that has published books by Republican President Donald Trump and Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney among others.
This outfielder ran through a wall but still gave up an inside-the-park grand slam
Mike Oz,Big League Stew 8 hours ago
Austin Bogart gave it his all, but still still couldn’t prevent an inside-the-park grand slam. (Southern Illinois)
If I told you that you were about to watch an inside-the-park grand slam, you’d probably think that’s pretty exciting, right? Fact is, any kind of inside-the-park home run is among the most exciting things that can happen on a baseball field.
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How might you make an inside-the-park home run even more wild? How about adding an outfielder running through the outfield wall? Enter Austin Bogart, the left fielder for Stetson University, who did this Sunday:
Yep, that’s quite a moment. Bogart ran into the portion of the left-field wall that opens to bring the batting cage onto the field. So it wasn’t quite the Incredible Hulk smashing through an outfield fence, but it still stopped Bogart in his tracks.
As this was happening, Jake Hand of Southern Illinois — who lined the ball into left — was racing around the bases. Southern Illinois had an 8-0 lead after the inside-the-park grand slam. They eventually won the game 8-4.
At least no one can doubt Austin Bogart’s effort.
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The pressure is back on Uber after yet another scandal
Daniel Roberts 7 hours ago
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick at the Vanity Fair Summit in 2016
Controversy is commonplace among the hottest Silicon Valley tech startups, but it often seems like no “unicorn” is more scandal-ridden than Uber.
On Sunday, Susan Fowler, a former Uber engineer now working at Stripe, wrote an extensive blog post alleging she had been sexually harassed at Uber, and claiming the company stifled her HR complaints. If everything in her post is accurate as written, it is extremely damning.
In a statement sent to media, CEO Travis Kalanick said, “What [Fowler] describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in… I have instructed Liane Hornsey our new chief human resources officer to conduct an urgent investigation into these allegations. We seek to make Uber a just workplace and there can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber.”
Now the pressure is on for Kalanick to follow through.
This scandal comes at an especially bad moment for the company—just a couple weeks after Kalanick and Uber muddled through an enormous backlash when Uber advertised rides from Kennedy Airport in New York while city taxi drivers were striking out of solidarity with those affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
After the hashtag #DeleteUber began trending and more than 200,000 deleted the app, Kalanick decided to step down from a Trump business council and cancel his visit to the White House. (Elon Musk, who is also on the council and stayed on, managed to play the situation more smoothly.)
There’s good reason some Twitter users quickly made jokes about Kalanick’s statement this time—apologetic statements have become old hat for Uber. (One person tweeted: “‘What she describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in’, claimed Kalanick, having never heard of Uber.'”)
In the past three years, Uber has come under fire for a stunningly broad range of issues, from many, many allegations of assault by drivers, to activating surge pricing during a police siege in Australia. It was also sued by an advocacy group for the blind claiming it discriminates against passengers with service dogs.
In 2014, a senior Uber executive was caught on the record at a party suggesting that Uber hire someone to dig up personal dirt on journalists who write negative stories on the company; the executive was not fired. And one year ago, in Kalamazoo, Mich., an Uber driver went on a shooting rampage in between picking up Uber passengers. The tragedy raised new questions about whether Uber’s background check process is extensive enough.
There even exists a website, whosdrivingyou.org, that tracks every criminal case involving ride-sharing rivals Uber and Lyft.
Many young Silicon Valley tech darlings have struggled with accusations of workplace sexism or outright harassment. To cite just one notable example, the developer repository GitHub was accused of gender-based harassment in 2014 and it led to the resignation of a cofounder. GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath, in a 2015 interview with Fortune, reflected, “I think something that we did not understand when we were a small startup is that when you put a lot of time and effort into, say, your infrastructure… or you put time and effort into your design… you also need to put time and effort into your people. And you need to put time and effort into your culture, and into making sure that everyone feels someone has their back, they have someone they can go to.”
Uber is hardly a small, young startup. It has been around for nine years now and carries an eye-popping $66 billion valuation. If its HR department failed to seriously address evidence of harassment (multiple times, Fowler writes in her post), this is more than just another scandal. It’s a deep problem with its culture that Kalanick and the company will need to address—before it can move forward with that much-anticipated IPO everyone believes is coming soon.
Thus it’s no surprise that Kalanick, in a memo to Uber employees on Monday, said that former US Attorney General Eric Holder will conduct an independent review into “the specific issues relating to the work place environment raised by Susan Fowler, as well as diversity and inclusion at Uber more broadly.” Arianna Huffington, Kalanick wrote, will join the investigation.
Now the tech community will wait to see if the review yields actual change.
This story was updated on Feb. 20, 2017 at 6:40pm EST.
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Daniel Roberts is a writer at Yahoo Finance, covering sports business and technology.
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