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A federal judge in Washington was skeptical in the face of arguments that current and former Oval Office aides have "absolute immunity" from ever sitting for questions about interactions with Trump. (Image credit: Saul Loeb/AP) News : NPR https://ift.tt/2WtEJSg November 01, 2019 at 05:58AM

Asian shares reversed early losses on Friday as an unexpected bounce in Chinese manufacturing activity offset some negativity cast by a Bloomberg news report that raised doubts over whether the United States and China can reach a long-term trade deal. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/36jIsGF November 01, 2019 at 06:35AM

North Korean state news agency KCNA said on Friday another test of super-large multiple rocket launchers a day earlier had been a success, but the test drew protests from neighboring Japan and South Korea. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2N7YkVb November 01, 2019 at 06:26AM

General Motors Co , Toyota Motor Corp , Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and other major automakers late Thursday sought to intervene on the side of the Trump administration in two additional legal challenges to its efforts to bar California from setting tailpipe emissions standards. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2q6AJLs November 01, 2019 at 06:22AM

China will not tolerate anything that challenges the bottom line of the "one country, two systems" formula that governs Hong Kong, a senior China parliamentary official said on Friday. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2JCVl4T November 01, 2019 at 06:20AM

Facebook Inc was sued on Thursday in a proposed class action accusing it of discriminating against older and female users by withholding advertising for financial services such as bank accounts, insurance, investments and loans. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2r2CgT9 November 01, 2019 at 05:41AM

Nearly a decade after receiving U.S. citizenship, Guatemalan-born Mayra Lopez thought she had cleared all the hurdles for her parents to join her in the United States. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2Cardtz November 01, 2019 at 05:39AM

Hong Kong cleaned up its famed party zone Lan Kwai Fong on Friday after a night of clashes marred Halloween festivities when police fired tear gas at protesters and were heckled by fancy dress revelers. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2JDK5VO November 01, 2019 at 05:37AM

The Canadian attorney general has filed affidavits asserting that information identifying Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's electronic devices was not shared with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during her December 2018 arrest in Vancouver, court documents showed on Thursday. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2NH8b3l November 01, 2019 at 04:25AM

Asian shares fell on Friday in a weak start to the month and off three-month highs struck this week on fresh concerns over Sino-U.S. trade prospects and ahead of U.S. economic data, while the dollar eased against major rivals. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2PBt5De November 01, 2019 at 04:19AM

The United States said on Thursday it had imposed sanctions on the Iranian construction sector and trade in four materials used in its military or nuclear programs, even as it waived sanctions to let foreign firms continue non-proliferation work in Iran. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/2qUoeCT November 01, 2019 at 04:06AM

Thirty years ago, a lot of US states thought it would be a good idea to compute someone’s drivers license number (DLN) from their personal information [1]. In 1991, fifteen states simply used your Social Security Number as your DLN. Eleven other states computed DLNs by applying a hash function to personal information such as name, birth date, and sex. A few other states based DLNs in part but not entirely on personal information. Presumably things have changed a lot since then. If you know of any states that still do this, please let me know in the comments. Even if states have stopped computing DLNs from personal data, I’m sure many organizations still compute IDs this way. The article I stumbled on from 1991 gave no hint perhaps encoding personal information into an ID number could be a problem. And at the time it wasn’t as much of a problem as it would be now. Why is it a problem if IDs are computed from personal data? People don’t realize what information they’re giving away. Ma...

It’s Thursday, October 31. After today’s party-lines vote, the House is scheduled to begin its week-long recess today, and the president is holding a rally in Mississippi. The Atlantic ’s politics team will be watching. In today’s newsletter: ¶ People. GOP, Katie Hill. ¶ Places. Manheim, Pennsylvania, Minute Maid Stadium. ¶ Things. Keep America Great jack-o’-lanterns. * « TODAY IN POLITICS » (Tom Brenner / Reuters) 232–196. GOP defections: 0. Now the more public phase of the impeachment process is about to begin. Despite a few murmurs in the weeks leading up to Thursday’s vote, the House formalized next steps in the inquiry along party lines. In some ways, the final tally can be read as a win for the president, our politics writer Russell Berman argues: Trump’s critics will dismiss the vote as a procedural affair, which is almost always a straight party-line vote in the House. But in other ways, this resolution—merely affirming an impeachment investigation, not judging an...

Thousands of civil servants, police and teachers are being sent to a military camp in Thailand for intensive training in community service and loyalty to the monarchy, according to the Royal Palace and interviews with trainees and organizers. Reuters: Top News https://ift.tt/33f6h0p November 01, 2019 at 03:54AM