Timeliness-
BERLIN -- Google is doubling down on its Nexus smartphones.
The tech giant is set to hold an event September 29 in San Francisco to unveil two new Nexus devices, according to people familiar with the company's plans. One smartphone will be a smaller version of a Nexus phone made by LG, while the second will be a larger version of a device built by Huawei.
The Nexus smartphones are essentially Google's "flagship" devices that show off the latest version of its Android software, which powers the majority of the world's smartphones. In this case, the Nexus devices will be the first to run Android 6.0, dubbed Marshmallow. Over the years, hardcore fans have gravitated toward these flagship phones as the "purest" Android experience, free of tweaks by carriers or handset makers. As a result, each manufacturer associated with a Nexus phone gets to enjoy a bit of extra buzz.
A Google spokeswoman declined to comment.
The move is particularly critical for Huawei, which makes Android phones but is building a Nexus device for the first time. The Chinese vendor has made a push to create more high-end smartphones and better build its brand, but Huawei remains relatively unknown in Western markets such as the US. Having Google partner with the company on a Nexus smartphone gives Huawei additional credibility in the Android community.
It's the third time Google has partnered with LG on a Nexus phone. The Korean vendor previously built the well-regarded Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 phones, notable for their affordability, slick design and decent components.
What's unclear is how much either Nexus smartphone will cost. Both devices are coming out at a time when handset vendors are introducing more competitively priced smartphones. Motorola, for instance, introduced its Moto X Pure Edition for $399. Companies such as ZTE, Huawei and Alcatel OneTouch offer smartphones that are even cheaper. An Apple iPhone 6, in comparison, starts at $650 without a two-year contract. (Apple, by the way, will be hosting an event next week at which it's likely to unveil its next iPhone models.)
But thanks to its deep ties with Google, the Nexus line has never completely been about price
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-will-hold-nexus-smartphone-event-on-sept-29-in-san-francisco/
I believe this is timeliness, because this information just came out, and it is new information.
Proximity-
When Sister Norma Pimentel participated in a virtual papal audience hosted by ABC News this week, she was excited to see Pope Francis, but never expected him to address her directly.
Sister Pimentel runs a welcome center at Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, Texas, which has helped more than 20,000 immigrants. Pope Francis was watching and listening intently via satellite from the Vatican as Sister Pimentel was introduced briefly. Then, after young mothers and children who had just arrived shared their stories, the Holy Father returned to the sister who had been mentioned before.
“There was a sister there of a religious order, I want to see her,” he said.
“I said, ‘Oh, that’s me,’” Sister Pimentel said, reflecting on the moment afterwards. “He’s actually speaking to me. And then I saw his little hand go like, ‘come, come, come, come,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’ I felt like a little child called forth by their dear father.”
The 62-year-old nun made her way to the center aisle and stood before Pope Francis’ smiling face, on a 9-by-9-foot screen.
“I want to thank you," Francis said. "And through you to thank all the sisters of religious orders in the U.S. for the work that you have done and that you do in the United States. It's great. I congratulate you. Be courageous. Move forward.
And then the pope, 78, said something she could never have imagined: “I'll tell you one other thing. Is it unseemly for the Pope to say this? I love you all very much.“
She bowed, her hands in prayer, and returned to her seat. Then the tears began to flow. “I’m still in heaven still experiencing his presence,” she said. “He’s telling me I love you very much at the end I was like, ‘Oh, wow. ... I will cherish and treasure this moment forever. I am blessed.”
"Pope Francis and the People" will air in a one-hour special edition of ABC News’ "20/20" on Friday, Sept. 4, at 10 p.m. ET. In addition, the event will be posted in its entirety in both English and Spanish on ABCNews.com.
A STRONG SIGNAL TO U.S. SISTERS
It was a personal moment of triumph for Sister Norma, but Vatican experts say it also sent an important message to Catholic sisters across the United States that their work is valued and supported by the church.
“Especially after the Vatican’s recent investigation of Catholic sisters, Pope Francis’ beautiful words of encouragement remind people of the incredible work these women do day in and day out,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large for America magazine. “It’s a sign that he ‘gets it’ when it comes to Catholic sisters in this country.”
The investigation of the sisters by the Vatican, which began under Pope Benedict, was incredibly painful for U.S. women in the church, according to ABC News consultant Cokie Roberts.
“This is a very strong signal that he admires the work of American women religious, and that the moment of discord is over,” Roberts said. “These nuns are doing exactly what the pope is talking about: They work on the margins with people who need help.”
‘WE TOO LOVE POPE FRANCIS’
Francis showed his support for the U.S. Catholic sisters in April when he met with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in Rome. LCWR executive director Sister Joan Marie Steadman, who was at the meeting with the pope, said she was heartened by the pope’s recent
“I was very moved by the pope’s recognition of Sister Norma and the critical work she is doing on behalf of immigrants, and was heartened that he extended his gratitude to all Catholic sisters serving in the United States,“ Steadman said in a statement to ABC News. “We will take heart from his words to be courageous and to keep moving forward, and I am sure sisters will delight in his spontaneous expression of affection as well. We too love Pope Francis."
Martin told ABC News, “The pope speaks with both gestures and words, just like Jesus did, His gesture of meeting with the LGWR leadership, coupled with his words now of support for this sister, shows his deep admiration and support for the Catholics sisters in this country.”
As for Sister Norma, she believes the Holy Spirit was guiding what transpired in the church. “It’s a new beginning right?” she said. “It is a historical moment where our holy father acknowledges and recognizes the wonderful work that we as nuns in the US are doing and are committed in making a difference in the lives of so many people.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pope-francis-texas-nun-norma-pimentel-love/story?id=33517481
This article would be proximity, because it is about a nun from Texas.
Prominence-
In an exclusive interview with NBC News/MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Friday, Hillary Clinton said she's "sorry" there's been so much controversy over her private email server, but declined to apologize for the decision to use it. She also suggested that GOP front-runner Donald Trump is unqualified to be president and weighed in on the surprisingly robust challenge to her candidacy from Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders.
"At the end of the day, I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions," Clinton said of her email server after being pressed by Mitchell on whether she should apologize for the controversy that has dogged her campaign from the outset. "And I take responsibility and it wasn't the best choice."
It was just the third nationally televised interview for Clinton, the former secretary of state and Democratic 2016 front-runner, since announcing her campaign in April. Beset by flagging approval ratings, the Sanders challenge and the possibility that Vice President Joe Biden may enter the race, Clinton's interview with Mitchell appeared to be part of her campaign's latest effort to offer more access to the candidate.
Yet as her own campaign chairman John Podesta acknowledged in a conference call with reporters Thursday, Clinton's campaign has faced "headwinds" since March, when her private email server was first revealed. Her poll numbers have fallen as the number of people who consider her untrustworthy has risen.
"Certainly, it doesn't make me feel good," Clinton said when asked by Mitchell about those who find her dishonest. "But I am very confident that by the time this campaign has run its course, people will know that what I have been saying is accurate."
After laughing off questions about her server for months, Clinton has begun to strike a more contrite tone.
She explained that she had used a personal email account as a senator from New York and didn't spend much time considering alternatives when she became secretary of state in 2009. "I did all my business on my personal email [in the Senate]," Clinton said. "I was not thinking a lot when I got in [to the State Department]. There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be."
"This was fully above board, people knew I was using a personal email, I did it for convenience. I sent emails that I thought were work related to people's dot gov accounts," she added.
Asked by Mitchell about Trump's attacks on longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin, Clinton said the Republican's candidacy is "a bad development for our American political system" and that his bravado could have dangerous repercussions if he became president.
"Loose talk, threats, insults -- they have consequences," she said. "The president of the United States needs to be careful about what he or she says.
She went to say that Trump is "great at innuendo and conspiracy theories and really defaming people."
"He is the candidate of being against," she continued.
Trump and fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz will hold a rally opposing President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran next week at the same time Clinton will be defending it in a speech in Washington. Asked about that, Clinton suggested that Trump and Cruz "don't believe in diplomacy" and said Americans want a president who does.
Clinton planned to deliver remarks on the Iran deal next week in Washington. "It is by no means perfect, but it's an important step," Clinton told Mitchell, adding that Iran "can never, ever have a nuclear weapon."
The Democratic front-runner has avoided getting into tangles with her primary opponents, and refused to weigh in on the political ramifications of Vice President Joe Biden's potential decision to the enter race.
But asked about why voters find Biden and challenger Bernie Sanders more authentic than Clinton, the former secretary of state seemed to take subtle dig at Sanders. "I started out listening because I think you can come with your own ideas and you can wave your arms and give a speech, but at the end of the day, are you connecting with and really hearing?" she said.
Aides have promised that Clinton in the coming weeks would take on a greater focus on women and stress her own role as a potential woman president. She appeared to make good on that promise with Mitchell, saying her candidacy was part of an career-long commitment to help women and girls around the world.
"My running for president is a way of sending a message -- we have an opportunity to lift up everyone," Clinton said
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-sorry-email-controversy-n421851
This story is prominence because Hillary Clinton is an important person, who is famous.Impact-
A group of about 1,000 migrants stuck at a Budapest railway station for days have set off on foot, saying they intend to walk to the Austrian border.
Hungarian authorities are trying to contain thousands of people desperate to reach western Europe.
Meanwhile, European Union states are struggling to agree a common strategy to deal with the crisis.
The Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian and Polish prime ministers have rejected quotas for EU nations.
In a statement the leaders rejected "any proposal leading to introduction of mandatory and permanent quota for solidarity measures".
The chaotic scenes in Hungary - a main transit country for those seeking to claim asylum in Germany and other countries in northern and western Europe - have continued for another day.
Some of the migrants who had been waiting days at Budapest's Keleti station grew frustrated with the lack of international trains, and decided to walk to Austria - a distance of 180km (110 miles).
Hungarian police seem to be escorting but not stopping them.
The BBC's Matthew Price, on a motorway about 20km outside of the edge of Budapest, says large numbers of people, some pushing wheelchairs and buggies, are walking down the hard shoulder of the main motorway from the Hungarian capital to Vienna.
Most of those he spoke to were from Iraq or Syria.
Some of those walking have been holding large photographs of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
One man told the BBC said he would continue to the Austrian border:
"Then to Vienna, then to Germany.
"We won't stop. Our target is to Germany, to our mum, to Merkel."
Meanwhile the stand-off between Hungarian police and hundreds of migrants, who refused to leave a train in Bicske for over 24 hours, has ended.
A large number of people escaped from the train on Friday afternoon and are walking along the train tracks heading west.
Those migrants who did not escape - many of them families with children - have been escorted onto buses to be taken to a transit camp.
A Pakistani man in his fifties collapsed and died after leaving the train.
Elsewhere in Hungary on Friday:
- There were clashes at Keleti station after far-right extremists threw two firecrackers towards migrants, sparking an angry response
- Hundreds of people have broken out of a refugee camp at Roszke near the Serbian border and are being pursued by police. Video from the camp showed clashes between migrants, trying to break out, and riot police, who used spray
- Hungarian MPs have approved tougher border controls and penalties for migrants trying to pass through to Germany
Under EU regulations, anyone wishing to seek asylum must do so in the first EU country they reach.
But many of those who have arrived in Hungary do not wish to be registered there because it is more likely to send migrants back, and has a relatively small population and economy.
They want to continue on to seek asylum in Germany and other richer countries.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban warned on Friday of "the end of Europe".
"Today we are talking about tens of thousands but next year we will be talking about millions and this has no end," Mr Orban said.
Antonio Guterres, head of the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said the crisis was a defining moment for Europe.
In a statement, he said Europe needed to build "adequate reception capacities", especially in Greece, replacing a "piecemeal" approach with a "common strategy".
In other developments:
- The UK government - under pressure over its response to the crisis - has agreed to provide settlement for "thousands more" Syrian refugees and an extra £100m in aid for Syrians in the Middle East
- Members of the European Commission are in the Greek island of Kos to examine the difficulties caused by the large numbers of refugees and migrants landing there
- EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels
- Some 50 migrants are feared to have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34155701
This is an example of impact, because this is very important news, and it has a big impact on refugees and on the UK.
Human Interest-
"Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified as a hate group?" -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Fox and Friends
Bill O'Reilly, in another conversation, answered this question in the affirmative and swore he would "shut them down." But how does one shut down the legitimate, organic forces of social change? In a modern democracy is the goal really silent, hands-folded conformity? Is this not a vision straight out of some futuristic, dystopian novel like Brave New World?
After all, racism is not a relic of the past to be found in a museum, gawked at and then largely forgotten in one's race to the cafeteria to enjoy a latte, as Fox News tries to peddle.
Racism still thrives. For example, between 2002 and 2014, consistently about 90 percent of people stopped and frisked in New York City by police were black or Latino, according to data by the New York Civil Liberties Union, gleaned from police reports themselves.
Even white felons are more trusted by employers than blacks with no criminal record. According to a recent study that attempted to measure racial discrimination in hiring practices,
Among those with no criminal record, white applicants were more than twice as likely to receive a callback relative to equally qualified black applicants. Even more troubling, whites with a felony conviction fared just as well, if not better, than a black applicant with a clean background.
Obviously, contemporary racism takes more insidious and subtler forms than its virulent predecessors. In the South during the 1950s, black people could not vote because of literacy tests, poll taxes, and threats of violence. Today Republicans cloak the denial of the right to vote in the subterfuge of countering voting fraud, even if it is so rare that it is virtually non-existent. For example, one can vote in Texas with a gun permit, but not with a college identification. A party that wants to deny people the right to vote is a moribund political party.
Therefore, movements, such as Black Lives Matter, besides being integral to developing the next generation of political leaders fighting for racial justice, are an extension of the civil rights struggle rooted in the 1960s. Now, today's activists may be angrier than the iconic civil rights leaders of the '60s, but this anger cannot be dismissed as illegitimate; for doing so would be a direct denial of the black experience in America, as the data on "stop and frisk" patterns suggests.
In a recent march in St. Paul, Minnesota, Black Lives Matter leaders shouted in unison "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon," one day after a policeman was gunned down in cold blood in Houston. Such demonstrations of questionable behavior will draw animus even from whites and others of good will. But shouting irresponsible, juvenile refrains is not the same as the cold-blooded killing of a police officer; and trying to connect the two, like O'Reilly does, is largely the work of someone who has not looked in his own heart to pry himself free of racial bigotries.
If the realities Black Lives Matter activists did not exist or were imagined, then Eric Garner would still be alive and not killed by a police officer in Staten Island who put him in an illegal chokehold for the shocking crime of selling loose cigarettes. With his dying breath, he repeated "I can't breathe" eleven times before succumbing.
When Fox News sycophants deny racism and condemn Black Lives Matter, they are disrespecting the death of Eric Garner and many others who died in police custody for no apparent reason. They are throwing dirt on the grave of Trayvon Martin, who was killed for walking down the street eating Skittles by a man-child who readily used as a defense the wide latitude given by Stand Your Ground laws to justify cold-blooded murder.
The white hegemony that conservatives are trying to protect no longer exists and they are the only ones who can't see it. No, the vision that O'Reilly and other conservatives have is largely one very reminiscent of a 1950s television drama where blacks were largely seen, but not heard. It is an anachronism as dated as any Norman Rockwell portrayal of Americana.
Whether it is Black Lives Matter who demand to be heard or others, Fox News will attempt to shout down the movement to protect their cherished vision of a monochrome America, instead of the messy, rigidly stratified America that so many face.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-meadors/on-the-republican-pretens_b_8068762.html
This is human interest because it is about opinion and beliefs.
Novelty-
The president, wearing orange rubber gloves, held up a large silver salmon for reporters to admire but hastened to add: "I didn't catch it. I don't want anybody thinking I'm telling, you know, fish tales."
He listened intently as a woman holding her own wiggly fish nonchalantly explained the fishing process.
As for the souvenir can of fish he received, Obama instructed aides not to go eating it.
Before leaving Dillingham, the president attended a cultural performance at a local school, where youngsters in traditional headdresses with jewels and fur waved their hands in the air and slapped their thighs as they danced and chanted.
Obama joined the last dance, declaring, "I've been practicing."
The president's visit to the fishing operation came with a serious goal of promoting the importance of environmental protection.
"If you've eaten wild salmon, it's likely to have come from here," Obama told reporters. "It's part of the reason why it's so critical that we make sure that we protect this incredible natural resource, not just for the people whose livelihood depends on it, but for the entire country."
Obama also stopped at a grocery store, saying he wanted to call attention to how the difficulty of getting goods to Alaska causes high prices.
"You're looking at prices that are double, in some cases, or even higher for basic necessities like milk," he said. A half-gallon of milk at the N&N Market cost $8.99 and a large bag of Doritos went for $7.99. Obama said his administration is exploring ways to address the situation.
Dillingham, which sits on an inlet off the Bering Sea, is the fishing hub for Bristol Bay, a world-renowned salmon fishery. Obama's visit to the town of fewer than 3,000 people briefly placed him at the center of a roiling conflict between fishermen and developers who want to build a gold-and-copper mine called Pebble Mine.
Although the company seeking to build the mine hasn't yet submitted any formal proposal, Obama's Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of pre-emptively blocking it out of concern it could harm the salmon population. That action triggered a lawsuit against the EPA.
Fishermen have banded together with locals and environmental groups in warning the mine would produce more than 10 billion tons of mining waste.http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/09/02/obamas-fish-tale-salmon-spawning-on-his-shoes
This would be novelty, because it is a strange event that normally wouldn't be in the news.
Conflict-
AMMAN, Jordan — The cash-strapped World Food Program has had to drop one-third of Syrian refugees from its food voucher program in Middle Eastern host countries this year, including more than 200,000 in Jordan who stopped receiving food aid in September, a spokeswoman said Friday.
The sharp cutbacks come at a time when growing numbers of desperate Syrians who initially found refuge in neighboring countries are trying to reach Europe. Since 2011, more than 4 million Syrians fled their country's civil war, most settling in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.
Abeer Etefa, a WFP regional spokeswoman, said the world must do more to support refugees in the regional host countries or face increasing migration.
"This is a crisis that has been brewing in the region for five years," she said. "Now it is getting the attention of the world because it moved one step further from the region to Europe. We have to help people where they are or they will move."
The U.N. agency has been distributing food vouchers to refugees since the beginning of the Syria crisis, but is facing increasing funding gaps. "Since the beginning of this operation, it has been hand to mouth," said Etefa. "It is nerve-wracking for the refugees and the staff."
Earlier this week, the U.N. warned that 40 percent of children from five conflict-scarred Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, are not in school, and that losing this generation will lead to more militancy and migration. said the agency needs $236 million to keep the program — even in its scaled-back version — funded through November. No major donors have come forward, she said.
Since the beginning of the year, the agency reduced the number of voucher recipients in the regional host countries from 2.1 million to around 1.4 million and sharply reduced the value of the vouchers. The maximum is now $14 per person per month for urban refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.
Etefa said the agency tries to give priority to the most vulnerable refugees, including single mothers.
This month, refugees in Jordan faced the biggest cuts.
Jordan hosts about 630,000 Syrian refugees, including more than half a million in communities and the rest in camps. As of September, 211,000 of 440,000 urban refugees who had been receiving some food aid lost their benefits, Etefa said. Those living in the camps continue to receive food vouchers.
With conditions in the host countries worsening, thousands of Syrian refugees have been trying to reach Europe, many attempting treacherous sea voyages.
On Friday, a man whose family died when a small rubber boat capsized on the way from Turkey to Greece buried his wife and two sons in their hometown in Syria.
The haunting image of one of the sons, 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach focused the world's attention on the wave of migration fueled by war and deprivation.
Earlier this week, the U.N. warned that 40 percent of children from five conflict-scarred Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, are not in school, and that losing this generation will lead to more militancy and migration.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/09/04/world/middleeast/ap-ml-syrian-refugees-food-aid.html?_r=0
This would be conflict, because there are a lot of issues with war refugees, and it is a major conflict in the world today.
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