Torpedoing prosecutions against Hezbollah drug traffickers is consistent with these decisions.
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Interestingly, torpedoing international trade proved not to be an effective political strategy.
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But it remains debatable which revelations are worth torpedoing a relationship over.
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Orange petals ripped from their stems joining the debris torpedoing through the field.
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The bottom line: Torpedoing the nuclear deal will not intimidate Iran into talks.
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Greek government officials accuse the fund of torpedoing their economy via tough austerity measures.
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McVay did everything he could in the wake of the torpedoing of the Indianapolis.
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Cavuto suggested that the president's personal conflicts are "torpedoing" his own tax reform plan.
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" Schumer added: "If he would stop torpedoing bipartisan efforts, a good bill would pass.
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It repeals the the law's individual mandate, torpedoing the very economic basis of ObamaCare.
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Torpedoing climate efforts is the ultimate "up yours" to liberals -- after all, that's the point.
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Torpedoing this tradition tends to trouble "team tetchy" (though this transcriber thinks that truculence tiresome).
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The poll also showed strong support for the border wall and torpedoing the visa lottery.
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France recently came close to torpedoing the start of EU membership talks for Macedonia and Albania.
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Apparently, that's a sacred bond that can't be broken by torpedoing your friend's terrible health care bill.
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He's completely blowing it — and potentially torpedoing his chances to do well at the polls in the process.
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Then Mr. Pence told them that their effort would not earn Mr. Trump's support, effectively torpedoing the talks.
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The strong dollar has been torpedoing everyone's international investments for the better part of a year or so.
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But instead of torpedoing the deal himself, he decided to put the fate of the bill in Congress's hands.
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He let his emotions and his pride cloud his judgment, ignoring Sansa's advice and torpedoing his own army's plans.
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Just to show who now leads the right, the League's Matteo Salvini refused to support him, torpedoing his chances.
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Kanye West, unfortunately, is not logging off after torpedoing his remaining public goodwill with a tweet defending Bill Cosby.
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Molly, aka The Thing of Evil, flashes a sinister smile after torpedoing the canine-feline peace talks in London. pic.twitter.
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And Democrats are looking ahead to see what can be done to stop a Republican minority from torpedoing future legislation.
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The first iPhone had an iPod inside it, essentially torpedoing the iPod momentum (Apple had already sold millions of them).
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Likewise, the disaster that is ObamaCare must be deconstructed and replaced beyond simply the recent torpedoing of the individual mandate.
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Finance Minister Alena Schillerova said the Social Democrats were "torpedoing" the state budget by demanding more cash for their ministries.
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Ford's name became public after the leak and she eventually testified at a dramatic hearing, nearly torpedoing Kavanaugh's nomination. Sen.
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European nations share some U.S. concerns but say that torpedoing the nuclear deal makes it far harder to address them.
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Innovations in tech, like cloud computing and artificial intelligence, are accelerating that change, creating new promising companies and torpedoing others.
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Torpedoing critical programs that help women to avoid unwanted pregnancy in the first place, however, is just cruel and stupid.
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"Senators McCain and Graham are torpedoing the budget by insisting on busting the budget caps for more spending," Paul tweeted Tuesday.
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Senator Joe Manchin is a Democrat who is definitely not down with torpedoing Judge Neil Gorsuch as the nom for SCOTUS.
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The way the Roys express respect is through subterfuge; if someone is worth torpedoing, then they must be doing something right.
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Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the nine members who called the meeting of "intentionally torpedoing" council consensus on the issue.
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MCW, meanwhile, was arguably the league's worst backup point guard last season, torpedoing the Buzz offense anytime he stepped on the court.
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And all the while, Conor McGregor was torpedoing his way up the divisional ranks, knocking heads into the bleachers as he did.
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"And it seems unlikely that Francisco would want his legacy and his role in the process to be torpedoing it," he said.
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They scrambled to come up with an alternative path that allowed Trump to send a message to Tehran without torpedoing the pact.
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It has spent the past year torpedoing Mr Moon's plans, most notably (and ironically) derailing legislation to curb the powers of the president.
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But it's obvious that the modern, ad-supported web has left companies in Silicon Valley extremely rich while torpedoing revenue in other industries.
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Rather than a stern warning directed at Putin and like-minded leaders, the executive order appears focused on torpedoing congressional action, experts said.
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Don't accusers realize that magazines are already weakened unto death, that they may be torpedoing the sinking ship while we're all still onboard?
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The Blue Jackets are coming off a last-place finish in the Metropolitan Division, torpedoing their season by losing their first eight games.
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NEW ORLEANS Actually, the way you're framing this makes you sound exactly like a tattletale angling to get ahead by torpedoing a colleague.
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The column said Trump had an "overarching deal" with the Kremlin to ease sanctions in return for Russian operatives torpedoing Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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However market optimism faltered when the DUP said it could not support the agreement, torpedoing any hopes of a smooth passage through parliament.
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This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.
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If it follows the Americans' lead, the bloc risks torpedoing a deal that it sees as key to its security and its economic interests.
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But he stopped short of torpedoing the deal altogether, and instead passed to Congress the decision of whether to reimpose nuclear sanctions on Tehran.
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" Logan Paul Making a Documentary About Torpedoing His Career Paul, 23, also jokingly replied to the fan&aposs message, writing: "Hold on one second now.
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Chung was initially banned for six years and fined 100,000 Swiss francs, torpedoing his plans to stand for the FIFA presidential election in February 2016.
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What we got was indeed zany, but nobody even came close to torpedoing their own career and dragging down hundreds of their coworkers with them.
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The unrest has spooked would-be investors and tourists, causing some hotels to fold and torpedoing attempts to revive the Caribbean nation's beleaguered tourism industry.
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Second, if parliamentarians succeed in securing a vote on May's negotiation strategy, they might end up torpedoing Britain's chances of striking anything but a bad deal.
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Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and others in torpedoing key elements of the Affordable Care Act that President Obama supported, like the much talked about public option.
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He said he was worried that Washington was determined to go through with the deportations, "even if it meant torpedoing the security relationship, the trade relationship".
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Whatever gains the United States might enjoy by torpedoing Nafta are unlikely to be enough to justify alienating two of its most important allies and neighbors.
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As Novtizky implies, it doesn't mean torpedoing main events that fans (and the UFC) expect—in fact, it might prevent last-minute fiascoes like UFC 177.
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Lloyd Doggett (TX) and Bill Pascrell (NJ) have expressed deep concern about the economic effects of simply torpedoing NAFTA after it's been in place for decades.
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It's good to keep in mind that though Democrats may fight the USMCA, they likely will want to avoid the economic consequences of totally torpedoing the deal.
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The West has blamed the Russian-backed advance for torpedoing the negotiations, the first peace talks for two years, which collapsed last week before they had begun.
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" Graham was responding to Paul's tweets, who wrote: "Senators (John) McCain and Graham are torpedoing the budget by insisting on busting the budget caps for more spending.
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These phallic works will make their way from the corners of the Internet, torpedoing themselves on to the walls of Melbourne's ArtBoy Gallery in Prahran from Feb.
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President Trump on Thursday called out three members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, accusing them of torpedoing the Republican healthcare plan and holding up tax reform.
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"We will not reduce dependence on Russia by torpedoing a pipeline such as Nord Stream 2 and then sourcing gas from Russia from other pipelines," Altmaier said.
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These Democrats — let's call them the "Shutdown Skeptics" — privately worry that forcing a government shutdown could end up torpedoing chances to cut an immigration deal with Trump.
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Senate Democrats retaliated Tuesday by torpedoing the continuing resolution needed to fund the government — putting us on what suddenly looked like a surefire course for a shutdown.
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"Senators [John] McCain and [Lindsey] Graham are torpedoing the budget by insisting on busting the budget caps for more spending," Paul said in a tweet on Tuesday.
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In the Senate, where 60 votes are needed for spending bills to pass, bipartisan leaders have worked tirelessly to avoid hot-button issues from torpedoing their legislation.
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As the year comes to a close, supporters of unaddressed legislation have grown increasingly anxious, treading a fine line between pressuring the governor and torpedoing their bills.
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Tester earlier this year was one of the lawmakers responsible for torpedoing Trump's nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson.
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Politico reported last month that Tillerson was furious with Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office, for torpedoing proposed nominees to key State Department posts.
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It might be an early sign that Democrats won't give Trump an easy win — though they'll likely want to avoid the economic consequences of totally torpedoing NAFTA too.
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For virtually the entire election cycle, Trump has been blaming Obama for torpedoing America's strategic position, hollowing out its military, and making the world a more dangerous place.
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Both the Trump and Clinton camps suspected a secret agenda focused on torpedoing their candidate while the public lost confidence in that once hallowed law enforcement institution, the FBI.
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Leadership analysis might give clues Russian defense minister: 'We won't do anything' in Europe unless US places missiles there MORE — to increase sales without torpedoing the understanding with Riyadh.
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Not to be lost among all of the fish jokes is that fact that torpedoing a salmon several hundred feet in the air is a significant feat of engineering.
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Any overt dirty tricks, however, risk bringing more international sanctions or torpedoing an already fragile, foreign-led mediation with the opposition that Maduro needs to improve his international image.
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Hell, Nick is the one who was running around Canada, right under Fred's nose, handing over secret packages to Luke, effectively torpedoing his boss' international mission in a single swipe.
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And the candidate has either failed to realize that he is torpedoing his own campaign or has concluded that the "general election pivot" Manafort recommended simply won't work for him.
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In a meeting that some said was at times 19 against one, the U.S. did not yield on key issues, essentially torpedoing earlier agreements as the G20 requires a consensus.
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In 2010, Seoul stopped all new investment in Kaesong, after accusing the North of torpedoing the navy ship Cheonan and killing 46 South Korean sailors -- an allegation the North denied.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius accused the Syrian government and its allies of "torpedoing" peace talks in Geneva with a Russian-backed offensive on the city of Aleppo.
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The White House continues to involve immigration hardliners who are ideologically closer to the anti-immigration platform Trump ran on in 2016, at the risk of torpedoing a deal altogether.
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The global spread of the coronavirus has been seismic, overburdening health care systems, torpedoing stock markets and requiring millions of people to submit to severe restrictions on their personal movement.
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"The strong dollar has been torpedoing everyone's international investments for the better part of a year or so," said Jamie Cox, Managing Partner at Harris Financial Group in Richmond, Virginia.
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A copy of the proposed sanction leaked three weeks ago, and the Obama administration pulled it back — perhaps to avoid torpedoing the prisoner swap and the completion of the nuclear deal.
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In a meeting that some said was at times 19 against one, the U.S. did not yield on key issues, essentially torpedoing earlier agreements as the G-20 requires a consensus.
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Judd filed a lawsuit against Weinstein in late April 2018 for allegedly torpedoing her career by spreading "false and malicious statements" regarding her "professionalism as an actor," according to the complaint.
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Also, he probably committed treason, secretly torpedoing a peace agreement with North Vietnam, to get himself elected in 1968—just as Trump may have done by colluding with Russia in 2016.
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The move is largely symbolic as trade and financial exchanges between the two Koreas have been barred since May 2010 following the torpedoing of a South Korean warship, which the North denied.
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But while the president has been criticized for constantly changing his position on immigration, including torpedoing a bipartisan agreement last week that led to the shutdown, he's been remarkably consistent on DACA.
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" Facebook then deactivated the group (it has since been revived by someone claiming to be anti-troll), which had also claimed responsibility for torpedoing audience scores for "Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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But the Louvre has closed and the French government has asked that all gatherings of more than 5,000 people be suspended, torpedoing the massive Livre Paris book fair for March 20-23.
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The U.S. and its European partners have been negotiating fixes to the deal, but some officials have grown concerned that Trump might decide to exit entirely, which would risk torpedoing the pact.
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As long as the White House continues to involve immigration hardliners who are ideologically closer to the anti-immigration platform Trump ran on in 2016, there's a risk of torpedoing a solution altogether.
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Washington (CNN)It seemed like a just-about-even, all-too-familiar fight: traditional corporate power players staring down scrappier and ultimately hungrier insurgents dead-set on torpedoing the Republican health care bill.
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Ashley Judd is suing Harvey Weinstein for allegedly torpedoing her career by spreading "false and malicious statements" regarding her "professionalism as an actor," according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles on Monday.
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This does not stop him from destroying everyone he loves in the process or from torpedoing his own life and many others' because he cannot, and will not, stop pushing for a conclusion.
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In 2005, he played a role in torpedoing the Supreme Court nomination of the White House counsel Harriet Miers, publishing damaging admissions from White House sources that Miers had not been properly vetted.
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You'll remember that in between torpedoing negotiations on keeping the government open and that eerie party, the president also celebrated the season by sending an angry foreign policy tweet to the wrong address.
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That's left African migrants in a lose-lose position: They're unable to leave southern Mexico without receiving permanent residency in Mexico, but they risk torpedoing their asylum case if they go that route.
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But millions of others are still litigating the notion that she is a Democratic operative, that she's being paid, that she is willingly torpedoing her life in order to retraumatize herself on national television.
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It was decided to request the American Ambassador in Berlin to expedite the transmission of his despatch to President Wilson, embracing the German official reply to questions relative to the torpedoing of the Sussex.
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Iran Also near the top of the list for Macron is winning Trump's agreement not to exit -- potentially torpedoing -- the Iran nuclear deal, which he has threatened to do as early as next month.
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But he could not protect the governor from the political ramifications of the scandal, which revealed a cutthroat reward-and-punish style of politics that played a part in torpedoing Mr. Christie's presidential hopes.
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Most damning was the suggestion that "Ishtar" was (anonymously) regarded as a potential "Heaven's Gate," the financial catastrophe that is often blamed for torpedoing its studio and taking down American 1970s cinema with it.
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From previous experience, it is likely that vested interests in the EU will have their way and the EU will refuse to place agriculture on the table, torpedoing the chances of a comprehensive EU-U.
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No matter how irritated Trump may be about Freedom Caucus members partaking in torpedoing the American Health Care Act (AHCA) — a good chunk of what motivated the tweet — the bill was an unquestionably bad one.
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While that strategy proved useful in torpedoing Congress' efforts to drum up public support for impeachment in the wake of the Russia probe, it could be politically fatal for President Donald Trump this time around.
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"France fully supports the (United Nations) special envoy's decision to suspend negotiations to which neither Bashar al-Assad's regime nor his allies clearly want to contribute in good faith, thus torpedoing peace efforts," he added.
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"What President Trump and what Mr Netanyahu are doing (is) torpedoing and destroying the two-state solution and moving towards imposing and dictating a solution which will not fly, it will not fly," said Erakat.
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Mr. Trump has already taken steps to isolate Iran, aligning closely with Saudi Arabia and right-wing forces in Israel, who have long made torpedoing any agreement a key goal in their relationships with Washington.
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Indeed, though much of the frustration from mainline Republicans has been directed at the Freedom Caucus, Republican lawmakers from pro-Clinton districts played just as big a role in torpedoing the American Health Care Act.
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And a Republican senator, John McCain, repaid Mr. Trump's 2015 insult to his war service by torpedoing the president's health care agenda with a dramatic middle-of-the-night thumbs down vote on the Senate floor.
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At the risk of torpedoing a deal, the White House continues to engage immigration hardliners — who are ideologically closer to the anti-immigration platform Trump ran on in 2016, and the views espoused by his top advisers.
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In November 2008, Saks sent shockwaves through the fashion industry when it slashed prices by 70 percent in an effort to clear out inventory; competitors like Barneys and Neiman Marcus quickly followed suit, torpedoing their profit margins.
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In its lawsuit filed with the Delaware Court of Chancery Thursday morning, Tribune accused Sinclair of torpedoing the deal by stubbornly refusing to accede to the demands of antitrust regulators at the FCC and the Justice Department.
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Russia has since proved an unreliable partner, not only refusing to pressure Assad to step down but also doubling down on his attacks on civilians, helping him grab territory such as Aleppo and torpedoing UN peace talks.
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The protests have begun to die down, but some analysts had wondered if Trump would capitalize on the Iranian government's vulnerability by torpedoing the deal and trying to extract bigger concessions from Tehran on its nuclear program.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new Socialist government signalled key cabinet member names on Tuesday, including the foreign, economy and budget ministers, as the former ruling party considered torpedoing its own 2018 budget proposal in the upper house of parliament.
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Polls show the ACA has recently hit record levels of support following the GOP's failed drive to upend the entire law, elimination of the unpopular individual mandate penalty and the right's new focus on torpedoing Medicare for All.
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His chilly response has angered unionist forces in Northern Ireland, who want to protect the territory's status as part of the United Kingdom and who say that Mr. Varadkar is torpedoing a proposal that they could finally embrace.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese parliament session is expected to be postponed on Tuesday because protests had prevented MPs from arriving, two parliamentary sources said, torpedoing the first session since demonstrations against the ruling elite erupted on Oct. 17.
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By pressing the head of the IAEA on things that aren't germane to the pact, like Hezbollah, the Trump administration is signaling that it's considering torpedoing the deal because it's angry about the things that aren't in the deal.
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When the Journal reported the rumored prohibition on content that would so much as raise an eyebrow, it also said that Tim Cook was instrumental for torpedoing Dr. Dre's semi-biographical Vital Signs, which he reportedly deemed too violent.
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She was among the first to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, and in April 2018 sued him for allegedly torpedoing her career by spreading "false and malicious statements" regarding her "professionalism as an actor" after she rebuffed his sexual advances.
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Academics not present at the UN meeting postulated that opponents had other motivations, too—namely torpedoing the resolution's statement that climate change is "one of the greatest challenges of our time," mandating first and foremost a radical reduction in emissions.
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But that attempt backfired: On Monday night — as Trump dined with Republican senators ostensibly to plot a way forward on health care — Lee came out against the Senate's plan, torpedoing the bill without even giving the president a heads up.
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"You have a president who is basically torpedoing this deal, not only with his environmental policy, but with the way he presents it to the world," said Oliver Stuenkel, international affairs expert at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo.
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NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A former associate of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in the "Bridgegate" lane closure scandal that played a part in torpedoing the Republican's White House ambitions.
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All of this helps explain why French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire's torpedoing of the proposed $35 billion merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles with Renault earlier this month reverberated beyond the trading floors and conference rooms of a few investment banks.
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BEIRUT, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A Lebanese parliament session is expected to be postponed on Tuesday because protests had prevented MPs from arriving, two parliamentary sources said, torpedoing the first session since demonstrations against the ruling elite erupted on Oct. 17.
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But along with those cheering the deal's demise, many hecklers from another faction appeared — those who supported Amazon coming to New York and blamed opponents for torpedoing a deal that would have brought sorely needed jobs and improvements to the community.
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The defense features a shrimpy ex-safety torpedoing around at linebacker (Deone Bucannon), a resurgent big-name import rushing the passer (Dwight Freeney), and a secondary that, at its best, accomplishes exactly what a net spread sideline-to-sideline would.
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"I thought I was in the midst of some magic mushroom-induced, psychedelic dream when I woke up at 6 AM." Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, meanwhile, have been hesitant to say anything on the record, fearful of torpedoing something so surreal.
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The United States and European Union accuse Russia of torpedoing diplomacy to pursue military victory in Aleppo, and say Moscow and Damascus are targeting civilians, hospitals and aid workers to break the will of 250,000 people living under siege in the city.
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Trump, meanwhile, had long made it unmistakably clear that he thought Comey was too easy on Clinton in 2016 — and he ended up torpedoing his aides' story by admitting the Russia probe played a role in his decision just two days later.
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LONDON — Red-faced and almost vibrating with anger, Mark Francois rose from the green leather benches of the House of Commons after his fellow lawmakers had voted to delay Brexit, torpedoing his dream of a no-deal plunge out of the European Union.
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Still, Democrats and other proponents of remaining in the agreement are skeptical that Trump can walk the line between getting tougher on Iran and torpedoing the nuclear accord — especially after his bombastic rhetoric towards Iran at last month's United Nations General Assembly.
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A boss who harasses the woman in the cubicle next to you may not be sexually coercing you or torpedoing your career, but his actions signal that he does not see women as competent co-workers entitled to a rewarding and effective workplace.
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Despite the announcement, the sanctions are expected to have little impact on North Korea's illegal activities to fund its weapons program as all trade and financial exchanges have been barred since May 2010 following the torpedoing of a South Korean warship by North Korea.
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She's still suing Rob for torpedoing the show, and he maintains the main reason the show was canned was because Chyna got a restraining order against him and it's impossible to do a reality show about 2 people when they're not allowed to interact.
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The American Merchant Mariners' Memorial, a bronze statue on a breakwater near the butt of Manhattan, commemorates the torpedoing of a merchant-marine vessel in the Second World War: three men are in a sinking boat and another man, already overboard, is desperately reaching up.
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Aaron Kall, editor of a new book, "The State of the Union Is ...," looking at how different presidents approached the annual speech, says Trump had a much more complicated assignment Tuesday than he did in February, especially given his record of torpedoing his own successes.
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On the other side, Amazon supporters denounced critics of the deal as leftist agitators bent on torpedoing a major investment in the city's economy that would have generated billions in tax revenue and have greatly raised New York's profile as a major tech hub.
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While Corker has said little about the nuclear accord in recent days, some Democrats believe that he and other moderate Republicans privately would have preferred that Trump certify Tehran's compliance — and that the same GOP group would support a compromise to avoid torpedoing the pact.
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It's a Republican base that's furious, for example, at John McCain for torpedoing efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and at Jeff Flake for not standing with Trump, but now, also seemingly angry with Trump himself for not living up to his campaign promises.
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Such generous appraisals fail to take into account the rippling consequences the strike has had on local developments that are undermining strategic advantages the U.S. once enjoyed, damaging the American position in the region and torpedoing what had been a series of promising steps towards deescalation.
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Despite the announcement, the sanctions are expected to have little to no impact on North Korea's illegal activities to fund its weapons programme as all trade and financial exchanges have been barred since May 2010 following the torpedoing of a South Korean warship by North Korea.
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Nothing that happens here is as bad as Rory moving in with her grandparents in season five or Lorelai deliberately torpedoing her own life in season six: Rory kisses Jess while she's still with Dean, and Lorelai wants to get back together with Christopher, and then doesn't.
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We're also told he's not worried about the injuries torpedoing his career ... doctors and the PT have assured him he'll be pretty much back to where he was before the accident, and he had nothing immediate on his plate work-wise, so he can focus on bouncing back.
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Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterNative American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown MORE (D-Mont.) circulated a series of accusations this week about his alleged misconduct as the White House physician, torpedoing his nomination.
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Meanwhile, a blockbuster trade that, if the league approves it, would send the Sacramento Kings' DeMarcus Cousins to the New Orleans Pelicans, would have a major impact on the Pelicans' season, either bolstering their playoff chances or torpedoing their season if Cousins decides he does not enjoy the Cajun lifestyle.
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Nadler negotiated the bill, which had some surveillance reforms but did not go as far as groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wanted, for months with Schiff, and outside stakeholders have blamed Schiff for torpedoing the effort, claiming Nadler was open to more significant reforms but faced opposition from Schiff.
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"I did honestly pitch Kathy Bates from Misery as a character [and] for some reason I wanted to do Daniel Day Lewis from Gangs of New York..." Ultimately, McKay says, it came down to whether the villains would be instantly recognizable, which ended up torpedoing the idea for Annie and Sherlock Holmes' Moriarty, among others.
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The arrival of Kim Yong-chol, and his stay at a hotel in Dupont Circle, was an unusual spectacle for a senior North Korean, particularly since the United States suspects him in the torpedoing of a South Korean naval ship, and one of the most aggressive cyber takedowns of an American company, Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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Cleveland did not play James at the five for a single second against Golden State during the regular season, but if their offense stalls and they want to alter the game's tempo or draw a couple cheap fouls by torpedoing LeBron toward rotating defenders at the hoop, they now possess an improved crew of shooters to pull it off.
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In March, following months of bluster and threats of torpedoing the 6-year-old KORUS (Korean-US) trade agreement, Korea consented to a new omnibus pact, agreeing at once to slash its average annual steel exports to the US. by 30 percent and have its aluminum exports to the US taxed at a 10 percent level.
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In the most recent kerfuffle over Trump's torpedoing of a bipartisan DACA deal, in which he made a racist attack against immigrants from African countries and Haiti, it became increasingly clear that Kelly was instrumental in influencing Trump to flip from a stance of openness and compromise back to a celestial alignment with immigration hard-liners.
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It's so bizarre to see him smiling so broadly next to the man who is partially responsible for putting 200,000 people in gulags and killing 46 South Korean soldiers in the North Korean torpedoing of the Cheonan naval corvette in March 2010, and hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment over the fictional depiction of Kim Jong Un in the 2014 comedy The Interview.
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Sergei Guriev, a professor of economics at Sciences Po in Paris and the former chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, said torpedoing the production agreement with OPEC is "not at all in Russia's interest" because it has only opened a price war with the Saudis and is unlikely to kill off competition from American shale oil companies.
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Liberals recognize that torpedoing Judge Kavanaugh will not be easy given the pressure on those Democratic senators facing re-election in states that Mr. Trump carried in 2016 by double-digits, but they say there is a precedent: the failed Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, in which Ms. Collins and Ms. Murkowski sunk the legislation by voting with Democrats.
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Systrom and Krieger became significantly less so—Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram was, in retrospect, an absolute bargain (analysts estimate that Instagram is worth roughly $100 billion today.) But none of these founders should get any credit for belatedly speaking truth-to-power after torpedoing two of the precious few companies capable of actually competing with some of the most powerful companies in the world.
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In fact, the alt-right organization that jump-started this saga by leaking Mr. Northam's racist yearbook photo on the first day of Black History Month admitted to doing so in the hopes of torpedoing the governor's policy agenda — and producing the sort of internal gridlock that would come from forcing the party to weigh its legacy on racial and gender equality against its desire to retain power in the state.
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Beneath the headlines of renegotiating NAFTA and torpedoing the TPP, President-elect Trump has often spoken about improving trade law enforcement, especially against China; indeed, on the campaign trail, he beat that drum in pretty much the same rhythm as Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE.
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Handcrafted reality at its finest:A woman argues with members of ARRAN, a Catalan Pro-independence and Socialist youth organization, as they block the main road towards the Mobile World Congress:A really concerned young man pleads with a stranger:Visitors use Oculus VR-powered devices at Deutsche Telekom pavilion:Not sure if that's a pair of sunglasses or a bra:Visitors try a virtual reality submarine experience at the SK Telecom stand:A submarine crew member judges your torpedoing skills:Visitors take a break on day 2 of the Mobile World Congress:Except this guy.
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Futures were pointing to a sharply lower open, following President Trump's announcement that he'd impose a 25.5% tariff on Mexican imports, beginning next month, if Mexico does not take action to "reduce or eliminate the number of illegal aliens" crossing into the U.S. (CNBC) * US 25.6-year yield collapses as surprise Mexico tariffs add to growing recession woes (CNBC)* Shares of US automakers plunge, led by GM, because they have major production in Mexico (CNBC)* Trump may 'end up torpedoing' the new NAFTA with his Mexico tariff threat (CNBC) On today's economic calendar, the government releases April personal income and consumer spending at 23.26:23.07 a.m.
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