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Maxine Waters Connects the Dots on Trump, Deutsche Bank, and Russia // world news
epresentative Maxine Waters, the California Democrat who is the ranking member on the House Committee on Financial Services, has been pushing since March to connect dots that could link Donald Trump, his associates, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, and Russian oligarchs. Now it appears she’s getting some help from Robert Mueller, the Russiagate special counsel, whose office has issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank over accounts linked to various associates of the president.

The twin efforts could determine whether or not various members of Trump’s inner circle benefited from the flow of money-laundered funds from Russian oligarchs, through Germany and Cyprus, to Trump-linked businesses and people in Trump’s inner circle, including Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.

To understand why this might be important, consider two facts: First, Deutsche Bank was caught red-handed in a money-laundering scheme that involved $10 billion in dirty money from Russian oligarchs, and in 2017 it was forced to pay fines totaling $671 million to New York’s Department of Financial Services, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, and the US Federal Reserve. Second, since the 1990s the German financial colossus has been Donald Trump’s personal go-to piggybank, which has supplied Trump and his companies with a staggering $3.5 billion in loans and loan-guarantee agreements since 1998.

Dolores O'Riordan Inquest into Cranberries singer awaits test results bbc world news
The inquest into the death of Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan has been adjourned while the coroner awaits the results of "various tests".

The inquest, at Westminster Coroner's Court, has been adjourned until 3 April.

The singer died suddenly on 15 January aged 46.

The Irish musician, originally from Limerick, led the band to international success in the 90s with singles including Linger and Zombie.

Up to 270 women may have died after England breast cancer screening failures// news trailer

Up to 270 women in England may have died because they were not called for a final breast cancer screening, the British government disclosed on Wednesday.

UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced an independent inquiry into the failings, attributed to a computer algorithm error. An estimated 450,000 women failed to get a letter inviting them to their final screening, he said.

In the UK, women between the ages of 50 and 70 are automatically invited for breast cancer screenings every three years as the likelihood of developing breast cancer increases with age.
In a statement to Parliament on Wednesday, Hunt said that an analysis by Public Health England found that women in England between the ages of 68 and 71 were not invited to their final breast cancer screening between 2009 and early 2018.

“At this stage it is unclear whether any delay in diagnosis will have resulted in any avoidable harm or death,” he told Parliament.

Early indications suggested that between 135 and 270 women had their lives shortened as a result of the error, Hunt said.

“Tragically, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened,” he said.

The independent review will be chaired by Lynda Thomas, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, and Martin Gore, professor of cancer medicine at the Institute of Cancer Research and a consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

A report is expected in six months, but measures have already been put into place to prevent further errors and to reassure those already affected.

The algorithm failure has been identified and fixed and the women affected — of whom 309,000 are estimated still to be alive — will receive invitations for screenings, Hunt said.

All women under 75 will automatically receive invitations to catch-up screenings and women 72 and over will be given access to a helpline to get clinical advice on whether a screening is appropriate for them.

“For older women there is a significant risk that screening will pick up nonthreatening cancers that may lead to unnecessary harmful tests and treatment; however, this is an individual choice,” Hunt said.

All women affected will receive letters by the end of the month.

Responding to the announcement, Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners said: “We are shocked to learn that hundreds of thousands of women in England have missed out on their opportunity for breast screening.”

“We welcome the independent inquiry into this matter, announced today, but the priority should not be to establish blame, but to put measures in place to invite those women affected for screening, where appropriate; to ensure there are enough resources in the system to cope with any additional demand that might follow as a result; and to take steps to ensure this never happens again.”

NHS England will be expanding the capacity of screening services to enable all women affected to be screened within six months, though ideally as early as possible.

Breast Cancer Now Chief Executive Delyth Morgan welcomed the inquiry into what she called “a devastating error” for women whose cancer might have gone undetected. “It is beyond belief that this major mistake has been sustained for almost a decade and we need to know why this has been allowed to happen,” Morgan said.

Deadly US cold snap expected to worsen// world news
A deadly cold snap that has left the US shivering in record-breaking temperatures for the New Year is expected to worsen in the coming days.

Several deaths have been blamed on the deep freeze, which is forecast to heap more snow on the East Coast this week, the National Weather Service said.

Forty US states were under official winter alerts for bitter cold or snow on Tuesday morning.

Tourists visiting Niagara Falls have posted photos of the waters freezing.

The cold was expected to ease temporarily on Wednesday before the frigid temperatures return on Thursday.

Contact made with 'missing' Angolan satellite // world news
Russian scientists have restored communications with a satellite days after they lost contact with it.

Launched on 26 December, Angosat-1 will boost mobile and net communications in Angola as well as broadcast radio and TV shows.

Soon after launch, Russian ground control staff said they were no longer receiving data from the spacecraft.

It comes soon after Russia revealed "programming errors" led to the loss of another multi-million pound satellite.Russian scientists have restored communications with a satellite days after they lost contact with it.

Launched on 26 December, Angosat-1 will boost mobile and net communications in Angola as well as broadcast radio and TV shows.

Soon after launch, Russian ground control staff said they were no longer receiving data from the spacecraft.

It comes soon after Russia revealed "programming errors" led to the loss of another multi-million pound satellite.

Seven Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology// world news
Seven Hidden Art Secrets That Were Uncovered With Technology// world news

Police say a 20-year-old Harrison man plotted to kill his father.

Thomas Bedford Claxton told deputies his dad wanted to force him out of the house if he didn’t get a job or start college.

Police say Claxton knew he was an heir who would benefit financially from his dad’s death.

He’s being held on a $60,000 dollar bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.

A woman was shot in the face during an auction in East Tennessee.

Officials say the freak accident happened near Greeneville.

A man in the crowd wanted to take a closer look at the gun and it went off.

The 63-year-old victim was taken to a hospital. Officials aren’t sure if charges will be filed.

An arrest has been made in the killing of a Henagar, Alabama, man.

48-year-old Kenneth DeWayne Shaw was shot to death Saturday night.

Now deputies have arrested 39-year-old Casey Adam Jones of Rosalie.

The investigation is ongoing.

A new development in the case of the 13-year-old who was shot in the face in Harrison last month.

Police have arrested 19-year-old Thomas Quarrel Holder and charged him with reckless endangerment.

Initial reports indicated the child was shot while posing for photos with illegally obtained firearms. The victim survived.

The Hamilton County School Board is being urged to make school campuses completely tobacco-free.

A decade-old policy still allows smoking on campus after school hours.

Now the local health department is lobbying for things to change.

Joan Walton talks about the Tubman Museum.