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A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down a Syrian regime fighter jet on Sunday that had dropped bombs on Syrian rebel forces fighting ISIS in Syria, marking the first time the U.S. has engaged in air-to-air combat there and signaling an escalation of the conflict. The incident market the first time an American
aircraft has shot down another country’s aircraft in air-to-air combat
since 1999 during the Kosovo air campaign when a U.S. Air Force F-16
shot down a Serbian Mig-29. The U.S.-led coalition said in a statement that its
focus is on fighting ISIS, and not fighting the Syrian regime or Russian
forces, but it will not hesitate to defend coalition or partner forces
coming under attack. The incident occurred in the town of Ja'Din, south
of Tabqa, Syria, which had recently been retaken from ISIS by the Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella group of Syrian Kurdish and Arab
rebel forces supported by the U.S. in the fight against the militant
group. SDF came under attack from regime forces in favor of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad around 4:30 p.m. Syria time. A number of SDF fighters were wounded in the assault, and the SDF soon left Ja'Din. Coalition aircraft conducted a show of force overhead that stopped the initial pro-regime advance towards the town. "Following the Pro-Syrian forces attack, the
coalition contacted its Russian counterparts by telephone via an
established 'de-confliction line' to de-escalate the situation and stop
the firing," said a statement from Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS. "At 6:43 p.m., a Syrian regime SU-22 dropped bombs
near SDF fighters south of Tabqah and, in accordance with rules of
engagement and in collective self-defense of coalition partnered forces,
was immediately shot down by a U.S. F/A-18E Super Hornet," said the
statement. The Syrian pilot is believed to have been able to eject from the aircraft, according to a U.S. official. Ja'Din is approximately two kilometers north of an established East-West SDF-Syrian Regime de-confliction area. In the statement, the coalition stressed its goals and that it will defend its partnered forces. "The coalition does not seek to fight Syrian regime,
Russian, or pro-regime forces partnered with them, but will not
hesitate to defend coalition or partner forces from any threat," it
said. "The demonstrated hostile intent and actions of
pro-regime forces toward coalition and partner forces in Syria
conducting legitimate counter-ISIS operations will not be tolerated," it
added. The shootdown is the latest escalation between the U.S.-led coalition and pro-regime Assad forces in Syria. Over the last four weeks, the U.S. has conducted three airstrikes at pro-regime Assad forces, backed by Iran,
that have moved into a de-confliction zone around the town of at Tanf
in southwest Syria, which is the location of a coalition training base
for local forces fighting ISIS.
At least one person has died and ten were injured when a van plowed into a crowd gathered outside a London mosque after prayers. London mayor Sadiq Khan said police were responding to a "horrific terrorist attack." Prime Minister Theresa May called it a "potential
terrorist attack" and said: "All my thoughts are with those who have
been injured, their loved ones and the emergency services on the scene.” The Metropolitan Police called it a "terrorist
attack" and said an investigation was being carried out by the Counter
Terrorism Command. “This was an attack on London and all Londoners and
we should all stand together against extremists whatever their cause,"
Neil Basu, Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism, said. Some witnesses said there were a total of three
"attackers," but police said they arrested a 48-year-old man at the
scene on suspicion of attempted murder and that no other suspects had
been identified. "From what we are seeing and from what witnesses have
reported to us there was nobody else in the van and it appears at this
time that this attacker attacked alone," Basu said. Two people were treated at the scene and eight were
transferred to three London hospitals, according to London Ambulance
Service Deputy Director of Operations, Kevin Bate. The incident happened in Finsbury Park in the north of London, in Seven Sisters Road, according to officials. May will chair an emergency meeting on Monday morning to coordinate the government's response. The Muslim Council of Britain called the incident a "terror attack" and the "most violent manifestation" of Islamophobia. Eyewitnesses interviewed by ABC News said people were
gathered outside the mosque after prayers tending to an old man who was
having a heart attack when the van drove into them. There were men, old
men and women, no children. Khan called it "a deliberate attack on innocent Londoners, many of whom were finishing prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. "While this appears to be an attack on a particular
community, like the terrible attacks in Manchester, Westminster and
London Bridge it is also an assault on all our shared values of
tolerance, freedom and respect," Khan said in a statement. A man identified as Jermain Jackman told the BBC the
sidewalks were "packed with people walking home" when the incident
occurred.
"It was a van that mounted the pavement as
men and women were leaving the mosque to go home to their families and
friends and their loved ones," Jackson said. "During the night, ordinary British citizens
were set upon while they were going about their lives, completing their
night worship," the Muslim Council said in a statement, adding that
"Muslims have endured many incidents of Islamophobia," over the past
weeks and months. "We urge calm as the investigation
establishes the full facts, and in these last days of Ramadan, pray for
those affected and for justice," the statement concluded. One person was in custody and the investigation was ongoing, police said. Britain set its terror at "severe," meaning an attack is highly likely, after a pair of incidents recently. Earlier
this month, a van rammed pedestrians on London Bridge, setting off
vehicle and knife attacks that left eight people dead and many other
injured on the bridge and in the nearby Borough Market area. Three
Muslim extremists who carried out the attack were killed by police. There was also an attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, where a bomber set off an explosion that killed more than 20 people. Witnesses posted on social media about armed police closing off the area and seeing people injured. This is a developing story. Please check back for more. ABC News' Joshua Hoyos, Rex Sakamoto and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Turns Over Picasso Painting, Brando Oscar to Justice Department
Leonardo DiCaprio has voluntarily surrendered several works of art worth millions of dollars and an Oscar statuette that once belonged to Marlon Brando to
the U.S. Government, as part of its ongoing investigation into a money
laundering operation connected to Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. The surrendered items include: a Picasso painting,
“Nature Morte au Crane de Taureau,” valued at more than $3 million; a
Basquiat collage, “Redman One,” valued at at least $9 million; a Diane
Arbus photograph valued at $750,000; and the Oscar Brando won for his
performance in “On the Waterfront.”
The paintings and photograph were reportedly
gifts from Malaysian financiers connected to Riza Aziz, co-founder of
Red Granite Pictures, the outfit that produced the DiCaprio-starring
“The Wolf of Wall Street.” The Justice Department has been investigating
whether Aziz assisted Prime Minister Razak, his father-in-law, in embezzling more than $4 billion. Some of that money was used to finance Red Granite, and several of the company’s films. The paintings and photograph were included in a 250-page forfeiture complaint
filed last week by the Justice Department. However, representatives for
DiCaprio say that the paintings were surrendered to the government
before the complaint was filed. DiCaprio intended the art for an upcoming charity auction, not for his personal collection, his representatives say. The Marlon Brando
Oscar, a set gift from Red Granite, was not mentioned in the Justice
Department complaint, but was turned over voluntarily along with the
other items nonetheless.
“Last
July, upon hearing of the government’s civil action against certain
parties involved in the making of The Wolf of Wall Street, Mr.
DiCaprio’s representatives – working under his instruction – initiated
contact with the Department of Justice,” representatives for DiCaprio
said in a statement. “This effort was to determine if there were any
gifts or charitable donations originating from the parties named in the
civil complaint, and to offer the return of any such gifts or donations
with the aid and instruction of the government.” The statement
continued: “Prior to the government’s filing of the civil pleading
today, Mr. DiCaprio initiated return of these items, which were received
and accepted by him for the purpose of being included in an annual
charity auction to benefit his eponymous foundation. He has also
returned an Oscar originally won by Marlon Brando, which was given to Mr. DiCaprio as a set gift by Red Granite to thank him for his work on The Wolf of Wall Street. Mr.
DiCaprio is grateful for the support of the government in this effort,
and continues to hope that justice is done in this matter.”
Paris Jackson at the “Rei Kawakubo/Commes Des Garcons: Art of the
In-Between” benefit in NYC in May 2017. Jackson recently landed a cover
spot on Vogue Australia, another step in the 19-year-old’s burgeoning
model career. (Photo: Getty Images)
It seems virtually impossible in this day and age for
a celebrity’s child to stay out of the spotlight, and legend Michael
Jackson’s daughter Paris is no exception. Whether it’s about her hairy
armpits, going braless, her political statements, or her growing
modeling career, the 19-year-old celebrity has a knack for drawing
controversy and breathless headlines. Her tale continues this week as
she landed a spot on the cover of Vogue Australia, sporting little more
than an embroidered bra for the fashion magazine. The cover was shared on Twitter from a celebrity news account called PopCrave,
which also helped reveal there’s more to her spread than merely posing
in a bra. The account posted other photos from the magazine of Jackson
looking fashionable in a floral dress in one shot and a plaid skirt
ensemble in another. It appears that Jackson herself is a fan of the
Vogue cover, as she is now using it as her main profile pic on the
social media network. In the many instances of Paris Jackson in the media,
this is perhaps the more mainstream one of late. Many seem to believe
Jackson’s behavior is odd at best and eccentric at the least. And her
own family members have recently been expressing concern for her — her
uncle Jermaine Jackson, speaking to The Sun newspaper
this week expressed both his pride for his niece and his worries for
what fame and celebrity can do to people. “We’re very proud of Paris,”
he said. “I just think we have to make sure she is ok because this
business not kind to anybody. It can break you.”
We’ve seen this danger in Paris Jackson’s
life already. She has openly discussed attempting suicide multiple times
in her teen years. Speaking of her ordeal, Jackson explained, “When I
was 14 I got so much hatred that I tried to kill myself and I took,
like, a two-year break from social media and then people asked me to
come back, to make my Instagram public again, so I did. And nothing
changed!” Nothing indeed. But perhaps with a few more
fashionable covers, Paris can help elevate her coverage to that of more
refined variety. Read more from Yahoo Style + Beauty
President George W. Bush holds his last news conference in the Brady
Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 12, 2009. (Photo: Chip
Somodevilla/Getty Images)
During an April appearance on ABC News, Rep. Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., said something that would have sounded impossible to
anyone who had followed American politics in the first decade of the
21st century. “I’m sorry, President Bush,” said Pelosi after
mistakenly invoking his name instead of Donald Trump’s. “I never thought
I would pray for the day that you were president again.” The Democratic leader in Congress repeated the sentiment in early June on MSNBC,
saying that she wished George W. Bush were president. Pelosi — one of
Bush’s main antagonists — benefited from his plunge in approval in his
second term, which led to a Democratic surge in the 2006 midterms,
making her the first-ever female speaker of the House. But in the age of
Trump and his 60 percent disapproval rating, Pelosi is not alone in
missing the last Republican president. Earlier this year, when Bush was promoting his book
of paintings and stories of veterans, “Portraits of Courage,” he went on
Ellen DeGeneres’ show and shared a hug with the host. He had a cordial
visit with Jimmy Kimmel, whose criticism of the Republican health care
plan went viral this spring. At comedian Samantha Bee’s Not the White
House Correspondents’ Dinner special, Will Ferrell strutted out to do
his Bush impersonation, opening by asking the audience, “How do you like
me now?” Actor Aziz Ansari praised Bush’s response to 9/11 during a
“Saturday Night Live” monologue. The Guardian’s editorial board called
Bush’s book tour “a welcome return,” while People magazine offered a glowing investigation into his friendship with Michelle Obama. “I like George Bush now!” exclaimed liberal comedian Joy Behar on “The View” after the former president had criticized the current one for attacking the media.
But the list of Bush’s transgressions, in the
minds of his detractors, is long. There was the foray into Iraq that
resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the destabilization
of an entire region, and the use of torture along the way. There was the
botched response to Hurricane Katrina, which led to two infamous quotes
that will forever be associated with his presidency — one by Bush to
FEMA Director Michael Brown (“Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job”)
10 days before Brown resigned, and one by Kanye West during a telethon
to raise money for the hurricane victims (“George Bush doesn’t care
about black people.”) The economy cratered in his final year, a Great
Recession that wiped out retirement savings, housing value and jobs for
millions of Americans. Then there were the proposals that didn’t become
law: support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and a
plan for the privatization of Social Security that, when combined with
the crash of 2008, would have crippled the program.
President George W. Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff, second from right, get a briefing from Federal Emergency
Management Agency chief Michael Brown, center, in September 2005 before
touring the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. (Photo: Jim
Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
The final Gallup poll of his presidency had
Bush at a 61 percent disapproval rate versus just 34 percent approval.
He did not speak at the Republican national conventions in 2008 or in
2012 when John McCain and Mitt Romney, respectively, were nominated, a
break from recent precedent. A 2015 survey by the Brookings Institution ranked Bush 35th out of the 43 men to hold the office, and criticisms of Bush throughout the 2016 primary didn’t hurt Trump with Republican voters. But is the thawing of public opinion on Bush a
result of the contrast with the current Oval Office occupant, or does
absence simply make the heart grow fonder for former presidents?
According to historians, it’s a little bit of both. “Americans are really nice to future and past
presidents, but they’re pretty darn mean to incumbent presidents,” said
Barbara A. Perry, presidential studies director at the University of
Virginia’s Miller Center. “Part of it is the rosy glow of nostalgia:
‘Those were the good old days and we just didn’t know it.’” “It’s almost an American tradition to give
presidents an upward revision after they leave office,” said Douglas
Brinkley, an author and history professor at Rice. “Only Richard Nixon,
due to the damage of the tapes, doesn’t fit that paradigm, so it only
makes sense because once you leave office you’re no longer the bullseye
of the opposition. A kind of nostalgia and fondness kick in, you open a
big presidential library and write a best-selling memoir, and pick a few
media shows to go on in which your interrogators are friends and you’re
able to start rebuilding a post-presidential life.” There is data to back up the anecdotes. In 2013, Gallup published a study that found
“presidents’ retrospective approval ratings are almost always more
positive than their job approval ratings while in office,” and that
Bush’s mark was already better just a year removed from his final days
in office. There are two post-World War II examples of
presidents who exited with approval ratings similar to Bush’s but who
rebuilt their reputations — the beneficiaries of historical perspective
as well as their own post-presidential activities. When Harry Truman
left office, he was at 32 percent approval versus 56 percent
disapproval. There were a number of factors at play in Truman’s lack of
popularity, according to Perry, including the stalemate in the Korean
War and the comparison to his overwhelmingly popular predecessor
Franklin D. Roosevelt. When Truman left office in 1953, he moved to
Independence, Mo., and began work on his library. Following his death in
1972, history did the rehabilitating for him. “Plain Speaking,” an oral
biography of his conversations with author Merle Miller, was published,
providing a stark contrast to the quagmire in Vietnam and the Watergate
scandal swirling around Nixon.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman warns that U.N. forces would not
back down in Korea and the atom bomb would be used if necessary to meet
the military situation. (Photo: Henry Griffin/AP)
“With Korea, 20 years later when Lyndon
Johnson was having all the trouble he was having in Vietnam,” said Kurt
Graham, director of the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, “people
realized there was an outcome in Asia that was worse than a stalemate
— you could actually lose. And as Vietnam became part of the American
consciousness, people looked back and thought, ‘Maybe Harry Truman’s
restraint in not getting involved, stopping at the 38th Parallel, not
pursuing, not drawing China in — maybe he was wiser than we gave him
credit for at the time.” The Truman nostalgia grew to the point that a
song by the band Chicago, with the president’s name as the title,
reached the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, with the opening
lines “America needs you, Harry Truman/Harry, could you please come
home.” By the time David McCullough’s bestselling and Pulitzer-winning
biography was published in 1992, Truman had gone from 56 percent
disapproval to consistently ranking near the top of presidential
surveys. Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency provides
another example. He left office in 1981 with just a 34 percent approval
rating versus 55 percent disapproval, having suffered a 9-point loss to
Ronald Reagan in his bid for reelection in 1980. Carter’s term was
marred by inflation as the result of an oil embargo, the Iranian hostage
crisis and — according to historian Randall Balmer — Carter’s lack of
tact in dealing with Congress. Balmer, who teaches at Dartmouth and is
the author of “Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter,” says that Carter’s
strategy of post-presidential rehab via the Carter Center was
deliberate.
When the Arab oil boycott caused serious shortages of fuel in the
United States, many citizens protested. There were long lines at gas
stations, and people could buy gas on only certain days of the week. In
this case, people carry signs condemning President Carter and his
administration’s handling of the energy crisis. (Photo: Wally
McNamee/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
“What Carter did when he left office, he
could have gone into a golden retirement at that point, but he chose not
to, and instead he followed an intentional and deliberate strategy to
continue working on the things that he cared about. In some ways his
post-presidency was his second term that he never was able to win,” said
Balmer. “I think his reputation rebounded due to his long advocacy for
eradicating tropical diseases, pursuing clean elections around the world
and trying to be a broker for peace in various areas of conflict.” In his post-presidency, Carter has
contributed to building homes through Habitat for Humanity and working
to eradicate river blindness and Guinea-worm disease. The center has
monitored more than 100 elections, and Carter’s diplomatic work in
Haiti, North Korea and across the globe helped earn him a Nobel Peace
Prize in 2002. By 1990, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Carter to be more popular than Reagan, the man who had defeated him by more than 400 electoral votes a decade earlier. Bush’s post-presidency seems modeled more on that of Truman, a personal hero of his. “George W. Bush always admired Harry Truman,
and the way Truman went back to Independence and became one of the
folks,” said Brinkley. “If you spend time in Dallas, everybody has a
sighting of George and Laura Bush, and they maneuver around town without
any pomposity or feeling of self-aggrandizement, so a kind of folklore
has grown around him in Dallas of being such a wonderful guy.” Bush has not been entirely absent from the
public scene. He has continued to urge support for AIDS relief in
Africa, including a Washington Post op-ed earlier this year
about the need to continue funding the President’s Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief. He joined with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in 2010 to
help raise money for earthquake relief in Haiti, and funds from the sales of his newest book are going to the Bush Center’s Military Service Initiative, which helps ease the transition for veterans coming back home.
Former President George W. Bush, right, shares a moment with workers
at a mango warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2010. (Photo: Ramon
Espinosa/AP)
“Before Trump, I would have said there’s a
limit to the upside of Bush’s rehabilitation,” said Perry, “but if Trump
forever alters the presidency, it’s possible that Bush and all the
‘normal’ presidents that preceded the shift would be viewed very
favorably.” But even if Bush continues to look more
palatable in contrast to Trump, while benefiting from sepia-toned
nostalgia, the multitude of mistakes he made during his eight years will
likely put a ceiling on his approval ratings. “It’s going to be a hard upward revision with
scholars because of the Great Recession and the unpopular Iraq War,”
said Brinkley. “The war in Iraq was Bush’s war of choice and it didn’t
go well, and the Great Recession happened on his watch, so there’s only
so much historical rehabilitation that can be done.” “Historians in the future will surely focus
on Bush’s significant failures: Iraq, Katrina and the financial
meltdown, chief among them,” said Kevin Kruse, an author and history
professor at Princeton. “But as time passes, they’ll increasingly be
drawn to the differences between his presidency and his Republican
successor, most notably on matters of race and religion. Bush sought to
broaden the Republican coalition, softening the party’s stances on
immigration and making room for Latinos and African-Americans as well.
More impressively, his outreach to Muslims at home and abroad in the
wake of 9/11 made for a notable departure on religious liberty as well.” “But,” added Kruse, “there are significant failures on his watch that no amount of comparison will ever make good.” _____ Read more from Yahoo News:
Jena Sims and Brooks Koepka celebrate Brooks’ U.S. Open victory. (Getty Images)
Somewhere there’s a Fox Sports researcher who wants to get away. In an awkward but funny moment, Joe Buck saw a woman kiss Brooks Koepka after he won the 2017 U.S. Open in record-tying fashion.
The Fox Sports announcer identified the woman as Becky Edwards, a pro
soccer player who used to be in a relationship with Koepka after both
attended Florida State.
The only problem? That wasn’t Becky, but rather Koepka’s new girlfriend: Jena Sims, a fledgling actress
(you’ll see her in Sharknado 5 this year) and former MIss Teen USA.
Buck was quickly corrected on his mistake, but not before making sure
Koepka reaches for the remote wheneve he and Jena watch a replay of the
biggest moment of his golfing career.
File this one under #pgatourproblems. Gotta say: The last person we ever expected to hear a “well, actually” from was Brad Faxon.
Now in their
third year of broadcasting the U.S. Open, Buck and the Fox Sports crew
actually had a pretty good tournament, worlds better than their debut at
Chambers Bay in 2015.
But the simple slipup left Twitter tittering as the broadcast came to a close.
As Buck quickly
found out, the world of golfer WAGs (wives and girlfriends) can be an
ever-changing and confusing place. Here’s betting he’s working off an
updated flowchart at Shinnecock Hills next June.
LUIS MARTINEZ,Good Morning America
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