Mārkina: Ōẏāśiṇṭana rājyēra malēra śuṭiṁ pām̐caṭi nihata USA: Five killed in shooting in the mall in Washington state

Macy's department store makeup of a search operation in a shopping mall north of Seattle after a gunman opened fire in the US state of Washington was conducted, five people were killed.
The Washington State Patrol says the Burlington Mall on Friday night shot and killed five cascades, about 105km north of Seattle.
Sergeant Mark Francis said the "Hispanic male wearing a gray" were looking for a, which was changed last seen walking toward a highway from the mall.This video image of a suspect Authority [AP via Skagit County Department of Emergency Management] wanted to see shows
"We are still actively looking for the shooter. Stay indoors, stay safe," Francis said in a news conference.K-9 units and a helicopter search teams scoured the area for people to carry rifles.
Francis said that the four women were killed, and a man's life-threatening injuries. He later died in a Seattle hospital.
"A single shooter" was on the loose, he said. No motive was not immediately known.
 

Caswell Skagit Valley north of Macy's Herald newspaper she was in the women's dressing room when he heard "what sounded like popping the balloon."
"I heard seven or eight, and I'm just in the dressing room stays cool because it just does not feel right it was. And it was very quiet. And then I heard a woman screaming for help, and a man came and got me and the other girl, and we fled from the store, "Caswell said.
According to an employee of a restaurant in the mall, "they immediately lock the door" when they heard of the devastation Friday night.
Bose Stephanie, Johnny cute Italian restaurant in Burlington Assistant General Manager, Associated Press news agency said the shooting occurred inside Macy's Department Store. Messi just outside the restaurant.

"He was trying to go to the mall and people were screaming," he said. "It was mad."
It was not clear how many people were hurt in the attack. Medical staff to enter the mall to treat the injured.
Governor Jay Inslee in a statement on state and local law enforcement patrol the area clean and was on the scene to find the shooter.
"We urge residents to heed all safety warnings and turning. Stay close to your friends and loved ones as we have more information and, hopefully, capture is suspected wait for news," Inslee said

Ōbāmāra mēẏāda, hānikara tārapara isarāẏēla-philistina isyu upara guruttba dēẏa Obama's tenure, the Israeli-Palestinian issue focuses on impaired

Ōbāmāra mēẏāda, hānikara tārapara isarāẏēla-philistina isyu upara guruttba dēẏa

Obama's tenure, the Israeli-Palestinian issue focuses on impaired

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Eight years ago, in his first major speech to the United Nations, US President Barack Obama will not until the Israeli-Palestinian peace.Perhaps his final speech to the United Nations, on Tuesday, he is a very strange thing to be little, if Israel and the Palestinians have rejected the legitimacy of incitement in Palestinian land and Israel are feeling better voice beyond talked about the struggles that are embraced.According to US officials, the rough outline of a deal could take Obama - "parameters" diplomatic language - and before the presidential election in November, 8, after 20 January will leave many Middle East analysts suspect will not have much impact.As a result, they say, made the issue a priority for Obama when he came into office in 2009 and in his first speech to the UN General Assembly declared to be a succession of failures. "I will not waver in the pursuit of peace"Obama has little to show for his two efforts - his first in his second term, and US Secretary of State, John Kerry, George Mitchell headed the second in the state."He's an impact on, not at all, and he wants," Elliott Abrams, former President George W. Bush. Bush, a Republican consultant, said the Middle East. "So I think the question that she is asking for is really a question of tradition, but just what will help the parties to ask a practical question."Obama, Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Wednesday raised concerns about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in New York. A senior US official told reporters that the possession of "corrosive effect" settlement activity, two states, Israel and Palestine, based on the possibility of peace talks 50 years, the concern, officials said.CIA Factbook online about 371 000 of an estimated 2.7 million Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, is said to live in scattered settlements. East Jerusalem, which both sides claim that neither the figure are also included.After November. EightWhite House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, Obama said before leaving office, although he unspecified steps before a new Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative did not have any plans to pursue.A US official said the Obama White House is on track to pass the Americans until the election of his successor, in a speech on this issue, and decided to take a new UN Security Council would not expect to find."He said, after the owners are waiting to see if the pressure is higher than what you can achieve," said the official spoke on condition of anonymity. "They have been considered for months."US presidential election, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state and his choice for the top post, painted against Republican businessman Donald Trump. Many analysts believe that Obama will consult with Clinton if he wins.This is the first time a US president at the end of a period in the Middle East will not be taken down.In December 1988, weeks before leaving office, President Ronald Reagan with Israel to authorize the start of negotiations with the PLO broke. George Bush, his vice president and president, has supported dialogue.Then in January 2001, just before leaving office, Bill Clinton, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators together in a failed bid to bring peace "parameters" laid down to make a solution.Progress is unlikelyAcid between Israelis and Palestinians is unlikely to improve the political environment is created. Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the annual UN gathering of world leaders this week it has no plans to meet."We do not expect much from Abu Mazen," Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon Palestinian leader told reporters, referring to his nickname.A capital in Arab East Jerusalem occupied territory that Palestinians with Israeli settlement expansion, viable state they seek is a chance dimming.In recent months, Israel and the Palestinian stabbed and demand stringent security measures against the terrorists responsible for a string of shootings against Israel. More indivisible capital of Israel is Jerusalem.Deep freeze for two years, a Palestinian state on land Israel attempts to execute an agreement with the US, France, tried to revive the interest of the occupation, a senior French diplomat drift argue their case that even with a US election year, when "a powder keg like waiting to explode. ""Your Dream"Eight Israeli-Palestinian issue before the General Assembly of the United Nations in his speech, Obama had little time."Of course, the Israeli rejection of Palestinian incitement and recognize Israel's legitimacy would be better, but it is the recognition of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land can not permanently settle, if" Obama said during his 48-minute speech, the only direct reference to the conflict.Arab and Western officials, the lack of progress, some of whom were not shy about voicing their frustration frustrated.. "At this point, some of you from the Americans, have not heard anything and everything Obama is willing to one another," No way, "he said in a resolution one way the other says," Your dream, '' said a senior Western diplomat.Alterman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, Obama "orange" rather than a politician who is a rational solution that provides for such work, as told to move public opinion.As a result, merely sketch out the contours of a deal will slightly change the political realities on the ground."What makes you think the United States has never been missing link," he said. "Weak link often people are persuaded to see things their way and act according to it is a question of implementation. The White House is not very good."

After the Carolinas to northern Florida Hermine churns faster

(Reuters) - US East Coast, is a potentially dangerous mix of the long holiday weekend as high winds and heavy rain on the face of Tropical Storm Hermine, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas plowed the path of destruction to the Atlantic coast.
With tens of millions of Americans as a potentially life-threatening storm, a flood watch and a tropical storm the residence section of the Atlantic coast from South Carolina and Rhode Island was the warning of the move.
"Hermine threatened to disrupt not only beach holiday, but the loss of sea and surf or venture has the potential to cause life-threatening in some communities," Alex Sosnowski, a meteorologist said, Akkuveatherkcom.
Carolina Hurricanes creep north along the coast, on Saturday morning, then after strength offshore in the Atlantic, on Sunday to reach the intensity of hurricanes is estimated to be around probably gather by the National Hurricane Center said.
Atlantic City officials in coastal communities because of the threat of severe weather over the weekend to close beaches and to cancel concerts.
Florida's $ 89 billion tourism industry vacationers after a storm of popular beach spots are located on the Atlantic coast of the plan is to reduce lesion Labor Day weekend.
"We have to go inside watching movies in the theater or the cinema," Joan Whalen Virginia plan to head for a beach holiday has been canceled by the ABC affiliate.
Hermine, 11 years in Florida, the first hurricane to reach, quick ashore on the Gulf Coast near the town of St. Marks, 20 miles to New York City (30 km) south of the capital, flood, wind of 80 miles per hour (130 km packing) and a devastating storm surge in coastal areas, up to churning.
As of 5 am EDT, the fourth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, where the 60-mile (95 Kmh) were reported in the northwest wind around 60 miles (95 km) to the west, the hurricane center said.
Flood
Saturday morning: Wilmington at the worker, North Carolina, many people who were sitting on his vehicle after flooding engulfed their road protected by local media showed pictures. At least one tornado touched down in North Carolina on Saturday, at least one injury was reported, local media reported.
Friday's storm Myrtle Beach, South Carolina received from the state, leaving some 51,000 power outages, said state emergency management spokesman Derrec Becker.
Baker said the local flood low-lying areas across the state, "and downed power lines, downed trees, flooded cars, trees and cars," the report said plants with damaged houses isolated incident.
Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas in a total of 150,000 households electricity, utility companies were without reported on Saturday.
All the emergency declaration or Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland remained in effect for parts.
Browsing overnight County, Florida, more than a dozen employees evacuated after

Paris climate deal: the United States and China announced the ratification

The United States and China - now the world climate agreement is to ensure that both Paris - accounted for 40% of the world's carbon emissions simultaneously.
G20 leaders after arriving for a conference in the city of Hangzhou, Mr. Obama said, "History will judge Breakthrough effort as today."
Climate change is the driving force behind CO2 emissions.
Last December, an increase in global average temperature below -2 enough to keep the emission reductions agreed in the country.
What is climate change?
Climate deal mean for me?
Paris, the world's first comprehensive climate treaty agreement. Legally come into force only after at least 55 countries, between them produce 55% of global carbon emissions must be ensured by.
Saturday morning, at the end of a week-long session of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress "to approve the agreement in Paris to review and propose" adopted.Analysis: BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin
In fact, it is a huge step toward turning climate deal in Paris.
Other nations are still struggling on their own ratification, but this weekend's G -20 countries to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels and their commitment to move quickly to put pressure on.
But enough other players to step forward to become law, even if the Treaty of Paris, enormous challenges remain ahead.
Roger Read more
Earlier, China announced that 23 countries had so far ratified the agreement on the emissions accounted for only 1%.
US ratification of the White House announced in a statement issued Saturday morning.
Obama, in a speech to the Treaty of Paris to Hangzhou, "the single best opportunity to change the planet could end up with a problem that had to deal with," he said.
He praised the leadership of the US and China on climate change, he said: "We have set the goal that we are moving in the direction of the Earth."


UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that "inspirational" leadership praised Obama called for.
Mr. Ban said that both Mr. Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping "visionary, daring and ambitious," it was said.
However, the goal of keeping temperature rises below 2C analysts warn is already prone to violations.
For 14 consecutive months, meteorologists recorded the hottest on record, and the UK Met Office has forecast that temperatures 1.1C above pre-industrial levels in 2016 are expected to be hit.
The increase in global temperatures in the coming years and is expected to feel the impact of carbon emissions.
Hangzhou G20 summit starts on Sunday.
As US President Barack Obama's Asia trip is expected to last.
However, as the National Security Adviser Susan Rice, White House officials, including the airport in Hangzhou on the pitch, there is a safety issue, and journalists tried to get close to the president. China's official shouting their shooed: "This is our country, this is our airport!"Treaty of Paris: the main points

    2 "well below" and to pursue efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C
    Greenhouse gas emissions peak as soon as possible and in the second half of this century, the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in order to achieve a balance between
    Every five years to review progress
    2020 with the promise of more money in a developing country, the future climate finance $ 100bn a year
    Once the agreement comes into force, countries that have ratified it to wait for a minimum of three years before they are able to quit

Obama Midway Atoll, its climate, a symbol of heritage visits to Asia

HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday, Midway Atoll, a remote coral reef is a reminder of both the modern challenges of global climate change and the domination of the United States after World War II in the Pacific region has been held up as a work that is set for viewing.
"Garden of Eden" and the world's oldest known albatross nest where the electric blue of the sea each year, returns to the island Wildlife Refuge, teems with fish, as there has been described by one kind.
During his last trip to Asia as US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the island against the Japanese army during World War II Victory meet with other world leaders to serve as a warning to be on.
"It's a sign with a message saying the United States is in the Pacific region, and a far way, is committed to supporting" the ship's historian Tom-san, who has studied the Battle of Midway was notorious.
Obama's visit to the challenges of climate change and sea in 2014, with China's President Xi Jinping will focus on the need for an international agreement that has been announced is not easy.
Obama's presidency climate change, which expires in five months, a significant portion of demand to an abandoned fight.
But his successor before the Nov. 8 election, less than 5 percent of voters say "environment" the most important thing the United States today, sitting between 24 July and 21 August carried a Reuters / Ipsos, according to a survey. Thirty-five percent of voters said that climate change "will not affect their vote at all."
Americans traveling to the island to show how you can help conserve the species adapt to climate change, and Alaska, where he rose to a shrinking glacier last book tour last year, Obama will seek.
"This film OPS '- I understand that the real opportunity to help the American people have," Carol Browner, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who advised Obama's climate issue, is in his first term.
"Noting that no one else can get to a level"
Browner said.
Last week, he Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, four times the size of the world's largest marine monument, commercial fishing and protect the area from drilling off the coast of Hawaii.
Perhaps more important for voters, Obama's visit to China marks the drawbacks of US power in the Pacific, the Americas and the country ahead of their trip to a loss of economic power will be covered.
Midway in World War II, one of the most studied military history of the war, the war, the United States Navy against the Japanese war tipped the balance.
In June 1942, US forces, the Japanese Navy attacked, four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser were sunk in the battle to break the code of the sea, the air is tipped.
Midway Atoll in the military building were allowed to decay, tight budget and visitors who Jim De Angelo, 79, Bradenton, Florida, since 2012, a retired oncologist and dismays history buff is not allowed.
"It is true that (the US soldiers) are gone, even though they knew they were going to die, it's just my intellect and your emotions as the best America has to offer just that represents prisoners," De Angelo said.
Kevin Foerster, the US Fish and Wildlife Services, a leading company in the area to move to be able to open again for visitors to the island, and the island's remote location, but budget constraints mean that only now in its beauty can be accessed from

Hurricane warning issued for parts of Florida; Medellin Airport closed weak

Translation stop anubadatatksanikaTampa Bay, Fla (Reuters) -. Economy and potentially catastrophic flooding and damaging winds, as well as government officials to prepare for Tropical Storm Hermine in the Gulf Coast, Florida, on Thursday urged Floridians to reach hurricane was expected to become.
Mexico Beach is a hurricane warning from the Suwannee River in the northern part of the north-east along the Atlantic coast as a strong storm was in effect for the Florida Panhandle and then picked up, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory that was expected.
Florida Governor Rick Scott rough weather forecast today as inspiration for many school districts canceled after school activities along the Gulf Coast declared an emergency and ordered students to stay home Thursday.
Rain showers in parts of the state, such as New York and Orlando, 10 inches (25 cm), the town had to offer was quick to sandbag and already through Friday is expected to protect homes and businesses were flooded.
"The risk of flooding is not life-threatening," said the center's consultant in the area of ​​20 inches (20 cm) of rain and as much as mention the possibility of life-threatening flash floods will fall.
Storm, 60 miles (95 Kmh) during the packing winds with higher gusts reach a landslide, with making outside preparations difficult or dangerous to be stronger than expected, according to the center.
New York "Heavy rain and strong winds will make driving dangerous. After the storm, workers cleared the road passes citizens and first responders to allow for rapid response to the urgent need for unnecessary travel should be avoided," the city said in a warning to residents.
On its current path, this system off the coast of Georgia was under a tropical storm, rain, 10 inches (25 cm), and the Carolinas dump as much.
Marineland South Santee River, South Carolina warning of tropical storms, Florida was released on the US East Coast, the Miami-based weather.
US oil and gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico before, 10 workers from offshore platforms, drilling rigs move and move some production due to the storm.
Gaston Hurricane Center said in an advisory on the storm, the center also will be removed from the Azores.
Meanwhile, as the storm Madeleine big island of Hawaii, where officials Wednesday shelters and closed offices, schools, and on the south side of the road opened a weak tropical storm.
Tropical storms are part of the Big Island of Hawaii, unattended, rain moves west as much as 15 inches (40 cm) to be dumped, according to the national weather service was to be expected.
Storm Lester, a major Category 4 storm, could affect the weekend.
Hawaii Governor David Igé runs through September 9, an emergency declaration, signed up state resources freeing.Tampa khadi, fruit (Reuters) -. Economy and government officials as potentially harmful air offensive Bada and preparing for Tropical Storm Harmine Thursday it reached the coast of Florida, the Khadi by urging Floridians' hurricane was expected to become.
Mexico Beach Florida is a hurricane warning Tat Jadau Suvnhnaiae river and then north-east Atlantic storms in the northern part of the state, such as strengthening the impact was expected to beg for work, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory.
Florida Governor Rick Scott's rough weather Khadi Tat, many school districts canceled after school activities led to the declaration of a state of emergency and ordered students to stay home Thursday.
For residents of the city as part of the state of New York and Orlando rain showers (five cm) of the proposal was Sndbgs inch x Tez was already expected by Friday Bada has to protect homes and businesses.
"Bada is not prone to life-threatening," said the center in a variety of automatic license assignment (automatic license assignment cm) inches and as rain adviser to mention the possibility of a sudden, life-threatening fall in Bada.
Storm, sixty miles per hour (ninety-five Kanh) with higher gusts time it reaches the coastline by making preparation difficult or dangerous it was expected to be packing strong winds, according to the center.
New York "Heavy rain and strong winds should avoid unnecessary travel dangerous driving should be allowed to respond quickly to urgent needs. Baad Bhee toophaan captured gujarata Hai, citizens and first responders clearing CDC staff," City said in a warning to residents.
 

On its current path, the system Ghedi damp rainy Georgia Crolins X inches (five cm) off the coast was under a tropical storm, and as much.
South Sntaa River, South Carolina Mrinailand tropical storm warning, Florida was released on the US East Coast, the Miami-based weather.
US oil and gas producer in Mexico East Khadi, X-workers away from the offshore platform, drilling rigs and move some production stopped because of the storm.
Gaston Hurricane Center said the storm will move closer to the center of the Azores on a consultant.
Meanwhile, the storm weakened to a tropical storm as Madeline Island Airport Brea, where officials Wednesday shelters and closed offices, schools and roads in the south of the shell has passed.
Tropical Storm Island, fifteen inches long (forty cm) as part of the unattended on Hawaii, Brea damp rain moves to the west, according to the national weather service was expected.
Storm Lester, a major category four hurricane, could affect the weekend.
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Penge crash victim named locally as Makayah McDermott

A man remains in custody after a woman and her nephew were killed when a car being chased by police mounted a pavement in south-east London.

The boy has been named locally as aspiring young actor Makayah McDermot, aged 10. His aunt also died in the crash in Penge on Wednesday afternoon.

She has been named locally as 34-year-old Rosie Cooper.

A 23-year-old male was arrested at the scene and remains at a south London police station.

Three girls, treated for injuries, have been discharged from hospital.



The Met is yet to confirm the names and identities of either the boy or the woman, but have said the young girls, two aged 13 and one aged eight, were related to Makayah and his aunt.

Post-mortem examinations are due to take place later at Princess Royal Hospital.

Makayah had recently auditioned for a part in a television series.
 

Sam Brown, managing director of Brown and Mills the acting agency that Makayah was signed up to said: "We are all in shock. He was a bright star with a bright future.

"He was a very talented young boy and we were delighted to sign him. His twin sisters have been in the business a while."

One witness said the car was being chased by two police vehicles when the driver "lost control and ploughed into a family".

The car, which is suspected to have been stolen, struck the group at about 14:05 BST on Lennard Road. It had been pursued by police from nearby Birkbeck Road in Beckenham.

Venissa Vassell, described about 20 people lifting the car to free the girls.



One girl who was taken away by ambulance was screaming "I can't feel my legs", Ms Vassell said.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating.

Over the past 10 years, 252 members of the public have died following road traffic incidents involving the police in England and Wales, according to the IPCC.

In London there were 498 crashes involving a pursuit by Met officers in 2015-16.





Former Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector Peter Kirkham told BBC Radio London the way to avoid such incidents was to introduce tougher penalties for evading the police.

Mr Kirkham said vehicle pursuits were often a "no win situation" for the police officers involved.

He said the main consideration of police offices involved in pursuits was public safety.

The "primary responsibility" for those hurt as a result of a police chase lay with the driver who had failed to stop, Mr Kirkham said.

The current penalty for failing to stop for police is a six month prison sentence but the former police officer said most cases were treated "really leniently" by the courts.

"If we're going to say we don't want the police to pursue [suspects] then we're going to have to put the responsibility back on the driver and invent a new offence of engaging the police in a vehicle pursuit, with a minimum sentence of five years and a lifetime ban from the roads and a maximum sentence of life if they need it," he said.

Why Facebook should kill Trending News once and for all Gillian Branstetter —

Sept 1 at 6:00AM

It’s generally not a great sign of competency to cover up an embarrassing mistake with an even more embarrassing one. But just a few month after critics accused Facebook’s Trending News editorial team of bias, the social network cut its editorial staff and let its algorithm run wild with questionable results. Over the last week, the Trending section has lifted conspiracy theories about Megyn Kelly to the front of the site and let them sit for two hours, piled on attention to a video of a man sodomizing a chicken sandwich, and pushed a cute dog video as an advertisement for the upcoming video game Watch Dogs 2.

That would all be silly and in good fun if Facebook did not have so much control over where and how people get their news. A misleading or outright false article reaching the front of Trending effectively gives it more publicity than if it were published on CNN, the New York Times, or Fox News. Whether curated by a professional editorial staff or left to the cold logical hands of an algorithm, Facebook has proven itself completely unwilling and unqualified to match the responsibility it now has to the average news consumer with any sense of editorial authority.

That’s why Facebook should abandon the Trending section altogether.

When Facebook first introduced Trending, it might have been easy to assume it was managed through sheer mathematical rigor and analysis of Facebook users, much like Twitter’s list of trending topics upon which Trending is largely based. But as a Gizmodo report from last May makes clear, Trending was largely managed by a team of very human editors and reporters selecting links from those most frequently shared across the platform.

As the report notes, however, the disdain Facebook held for media types came across in the treatment of these curators, who described “grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders.” These same editors probably didn’t help themselves when they revealed they had routinely acted against conservative news sources, but Facebook nonetheless fired them last week in a bid to cleanse itself of the issue.

That contempt for editors is proving ironic, however, because it’s exactly the soft and controlled hand of a good editor that Trending needs most. Although the company claims humans are still very much a part of the process in choosing which stories get elevated to the list, the promotion of the Megyn Kelly story—which proposed the Fox News anchor is a double agent for the Clinton campaign—suggests those workers are either asleep at the switch or denied the level of control they would need to be useful.

    Facebook's Trending is mostly an attempt to show you what’s happening in your world—not the world.

Which largely leads you to question Facebook’s commitment to managing Trending at all. It doesn’t seem like a particularly difficult mission—selecting the most popular stories from credible sources and listing them daily. Google News does it every day and manages to avoid hosting nutjob conspiracy theories. Facebook’s difficulty in doing so highlights either its complete lack of journalistic ethics or its ambivalence towards managing Trending with the seriousness it deserves.

Even if Facebook wanted out of managing a team of editors, it should certainly put less faith in whatever secretive algorithm is managing the list now. It’s a common saying in the study of artificial intelligence that it’s easier to design a software that can run a restaurant than it is a robot that can bus a table. Jobs that require relatively little mental processing can be difficult for a machine lacking the coordination and physical memory of a human. Although editing is not quite a physical task, it still requires a level of complex understanding and contextual observance that machines have often not provided.

By now, this is an old debate in media circles—the struggle between computer aggregation and human curation. But its very public occurrence within Facebook is given extra weight by the site’s near complete control over the news industry. According to a Pew poll published earlier this year, a third of Americans get their news from Facebook and half of American millennials called it “the most important” way they get their news. It’s a level of control many in the media are uncomfortable with, given the company’s immense wealth and their own dependency upon it for page views—which now surpasses their dependency on Google.

That’s arguably fine if Facebook is just a tool of promotion used by the media—a megahorn for websites to attract the attention of its 1.7 billion users. But when Facebook exerts more control over what kind of content it chooses to promote to that massive audience, that relationship can grow shaky. See, for example, the reactions of media companies to the announcement by Facebook it would be reengineering the algorithm that manages users News Feeds to focus less on news and articles and focus more on users’ family and friends.

The potential impact of such a change—however innocuous the alteration may seem to a layman—is a reflection of Facebook’s ability to shape how people consume their news. As the Verge noted, the mishap with the Megyn Kelly “story” is serious not simply because the story is false but also because Facebook promoted the propaganda of a hyper-partisan website in the middle of one of the most contentious and fact-free elections in modern memory. Americans are already fatigued from separating the false claims put out there by candidates and their surrogates; they shouldn’t have to fear wondering if such lunacy is legitimized or not by a social network.

If Facebook doesn’t want that responsibility, then it shouldn’t manage news aggregation at all—through humans or algorithms. I’s failed the competency test, and you have to wonder what the purpose of Trending is supposed to be. Twitter’s own trending topics list adds to the communal feel of the site. Because topics of debate and conversation move so fast on Twitter, it’s helpful to have an organized guideline to keep new users up to speed (something Twitter officially recognized with the introduction of Moments).

Facebook, on the other hand, is a far more insular experience than Twitter. The use case for the site is not following the news as much as it is following your friends and family. It’s certainly a place of (often obnoxious) political debate, but it’s mostly an attempt to show you what’s happening in your world—not the world. Its refocus of the News Feed shows how much Facebook understands that core aspect of their users’ experience. But further attempts to justify the existence of Trending seem likely to be as misguided and humiliating as they’ve been thus far.

Eamonn Holmes to leave Sky News after 11 years

Presenter says he wants to ‘step away from daily studio commitment’ to pursue new projects – but will continue guesting on ITV’s This Mornin

Eamonn Holmes is to step down as anchor of Sky News’s breakfast show, Sunrise, after 11 years.

Holmes said that he wanted to free up more time to pursue personal projects and needed to “step away from the daily studio commitment for a while”.

“There is an addiction to a live breaking news studio environment,” he said in a Facebook post announcing his departure.
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“However, after more than 3,000 hours of programming it is a habit I have to suppress. Increasingly in life I have found myself in the fortunate position of having so much to do but little time to do it. This seems an opportune moment to change that. Going forward, I will now produce and present a number of documentary projects which I have been stalling for some time.”

His last day on Sunrise will be 13 October.

Holmes said he will continue co-presenting ITV’s This Morning breakfast show with his wife Ruth Langsford. He also works for Channel 5, where he presents game show It’s Not Me, It’s You and documentary series How The Other Half Lives.

He added that while leaving Sunrise was a difficult decision, the opening of new studios at Sky’s headquarters in Osterley provides a chance to completely revamp the programme.

“Nothing stays the same, nor should it,” he said. “New studios mean a wonderful chance for new ideas and a new approach with new presenters.”

Holmes has hosted Sunrise since 2005, following his departure from ITV’s GMTV, which he co-hosted for 12 years.

In 2013, he signed a five-year multimillion-pound deal to stay with the channel amid reports he was being lined up to front ITV’s troubled early morning show Daybreak.
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Holmes is understood to have come to an “amicable agreement” about the early termination of his contract.

He said John Ryley, the head of Sky News, had been “very understanding and sympathetic of my decision”.

“I would like to publicly thank him and the wider Sky family for all their support throughout my time at [Sky headquarters in] Osterley,” Holmes said. “John’s counsel and guidance in helping me to reach this decision has been invaluable.”

Ryley said: “Over the past 11 years, Eamonn has been instrumental in turning Sunrise into a show that has become a morning must-watch and has a faithful following who begin the day with him and his team. There are very few presenters who can challenge their interviewee with acute questions combined with infectious charm – Eamonn does that. A true pro. We wish him the very best of luck in the future.”

Holmes is the latest in a string of on-screen talent, many of them senior or veteran presenters, to leave Sky News as the channel undergoes an overhaul.

In July, it emerged that Andrew Wilson, Lorna Dunkley and Samantha Simmonds were to depart.

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Storm bears down on Florida, hurricane threatens Hawaii

(Reuters) - Forecasters issued a tropical storm warning on Wednesday for the Florida Gulf Coast, where preparations were being made for life-threatening flooding and fierce winds, while residents of Hawaii’s Big Island were warned of an encroaching hurricane.

Some local governments in Florida have begun distributing sandbags as the unnamed tropical depression heads toward the state’s Gulf Coast where as much as 15 inches of rain could fall from Indian Pass on the panhandle along the Gulf of Mexico to north of Tampa, the National Hurricane Center said in an early morning advisory.

“Persons located within these areas should be prepared to take all necessary actions to protect life and property from rising water,” the center said.

The center also issued a hurricane watch for the coast, saying the system, which is currently packing 35 mph (55 kph) with higher gusts, is expected to strengthen as it heads east.

Flooding, storm surge, fierce winds and tornadoes were all threats to the region, which could begin feeling the storm late on Wednesday, Florida Governor Rick Scott said in a statement.

On its current path, the system could make landfall on Florida’s north-central Gulf Coast on Thursday, bringing storms into Georgia and the eastern Carolinas on its way to the Atlantic Ocean.

Florida raised the activation status of its State Emergency Operations Center on Tuesday to begin preparing.

Another unnamed tropical depression was turning out to sea on Wednesday after threatening the North Carolina coast, according to the hurricane center.
Three storm systems are shown (L TO R) Tropical Depression Nine to the southeast of Florida, Tropical Depression Eight just off the coast of the Carolinas and Hurricane Gaston in the central Atlantic Ocean are shown in this GOES East satellite image captured August 29, 2016. (NOAA/handout via REUTERS)
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Three storm systems are shown (L TO R) Tropical Depression Nine to the southeast of Florida, Tropical Depression Eight just off the coast of the Carolinas and Hurricane Gaston in the central Atlantic Ocean are shown in this GOES East satellite image captured August 29, 2016. (NOAA/handout via REUTERS)

On Hawaii’s Big Island, residents were warned on Tuesday of an encroaching hurricane expected to bring strong winds and heavy rains.

The National Weather Service (NWS) tracked Hurricane Madeline swirling about 235 miles (380 km) east of the town of Hilo around 11 p.m. local time on Tuesday. The storm was forecast to “pass dangerously close” on Wednesday, prompting the NWS to issue a hurricane warning for the island.

Madeline was ranked as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph), the weather service said.

The County of Hawaii sent residents an alert about the hurricane’s dangers, including heavy rains that could lead to mudslides, as well as possibly damaging ocean swells.

“Preparations to protect life and property should be completed by nightfall today,” the alert said.