Some lucky person in New Hampshire has won $560 million in a Powerball lottery, officials said Sunday, just two days after someone in Florida won a cool $450 million, helping push the weekend's total past $1 billion, apparently for the first time in US history.
Apple Inc shareholders Jana Partners and the California State Teachers' Retirement System are urging the smartphone maker to take steps to address what they say is a growing problem of young people getting addicted to Apple's iPhones, Jana partner Charles Penner said.
Jana, a leading activist shareholder, and CalSTRS, one of the nation's largest public pension plans, delivered a letter to Apple on Saturday asking the company to consider developing software that would allow parents to limit children's phone use, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Sunday.
Jana and CalSTRS also asked Apple to study the impact of excessive phone use on mental health, according to the publication.
CalSTRS and Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Jana and CalSTRS together control about $2 billion worth of Apple shares, the Journal reports.
The social rights issue is a new turn for Jana, which is known for pushing companies it invests in to make financial changes.
However, the issue of phone addiction among young people has become a growing concern in the United States as parents report their children cannot give up their phones. CalSTRS and Jana worry that Apple's reputation and stock could be hurt if it does not address those concerns, according to the Journal.
Half of teenagers in the United States feel like they are addicted to their mobile phones and report feeling pressure to immediately respond to phone messages, according to a 2016 survey of children and their parents by Common Sense Media.
The phone addiction issue got a high-profile boost from the former Disney child star Selena Gomez, 24, who said she canceled a 2016 world tour to go to therapy for depression and low self-esteem, feelings she linked to her addiction to social media and the mobile photo-sharing app Instagram.
By Elizabeth Dilts
(Reporting by Elizabeth Dilts; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's groveling apology on Sunday was apparently insufficient to soothe President Donald Trump's fury over revelations from Michael Wolff's bombshell book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Politico reported Sunday night that the mood inside the White House remains icy toward Bannon, in spite of a uncharacteristically humble statement that Bannon released on Sunday apologizing to Trump and his family.
"(I)nside the White House, Bannon's 297-word statement of contrition about comments he made in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House was seen as too little, too late for an operative unaware of the self-inflicted damage his hubris could cause," wrote Politico's Annie Karni.
The president is reportedly still enraged at Bannon, as are many of his former colleagues in the West Wing. When asked whether Bannon's words of contrition will be enough to win back the president's favor, an adviser curtly said, "Unlikely."
Bannon's allies -- those who remain after Trump urged his funders to cut him off -- are now left worrying if the president will side with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and ignore the so-called "populist" wing of far-right agitators who flocked to Bannon.
“The problem for Steve is that we were already into January 2018, and he doesn't really have a system, he doesn't have a fund, he doesn't have a political team,” said Trump booster Matthew Schlapp of the American Conservative Union. “Now it's going to take extra time to make things up, if he's able to, and repair the trust he had with the president. The clock is no longer on his side.”
Bannon allies told Politico that he hesitated to speak out because the Breitbart.com CEO doesn't remember saying that things that Wolff has attributed to him. His apology was reportedly further delayed by an attack by Trump on Twitter.
The president shows no signs of backing down in this fight. Anyone who has made a study of Trump will be familiar with how the former reality TV star prizes loyalty above all other qualities in the people around him.
Bannon was roundly mocked on Sunday for appearing to debase himself by asking for Trump's forgiveness. The move came after a week in which powerhouse GOP donor Rebekah Mercer followed her father's example and cut her funding to Bannon, releasing a chilly statement to the Washington Post and the Breitbart.com board reportedly considered firing Bannon for damaging their brand.
Talk show host, actress, author and producer Oprah Winfrey gave a fiery speech at Sunday's Golden Globes Awards after she was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
"What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have," Winfrey told the audience.
She paid respect to the women of the #MeToo movement and said she hopes a day will come when no one ever has to say, "Me, too" ever again.
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Sunday night, President Donald Trump had another "covfefe" moment when he accidentally called himself "an enormously consensual" president in a tweet, leading many to question what on earth he could mean.
"It must be executive time," wrote Twitter user "Kilgore Trout," a reference to the large spans of unstructured and undisciplined time Trump is working into his schedule in the new year.
As it happens, our president the "stable genius" meant "consequential."
But that didn't stop the web from having a field day with President "Grab 'em by the Pu**y's" Freudian Twitter slip.
MSNBC political analyst Sam Stein said on Sunday that the White House's attempts to defend President Donald Trump against charges of unfitness for office are having the opposite of their intended effect.
Stein said that White House adviser Stephen Miller's appearance on CNN was "performance art."
"It was so obvious what was transpiring in the moment," Stein said, that Miller had gone on Trump's least favorite TV network to function as an attack dog and please his master.
"If the White House's objective this week has been to prove that Trump is a sane, rational human being, they've done things I just don't understand," he continued.
Sending out Miller to attack a respected journalist? "This is not a sane thing," said Stein.
The bizarre two-screen video message in the White House briefing room when the president is less than 200 feet away "is not a sane thing to do," he continued.
"So they are taking steps that only reinforce this notion that the president has something going on and is a little bit obsessed with cable news and vindictiveness toward former aides," concluded Stein.
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After his interview with CNN's Jake Tapper was cut short on Sunday, White House aide Stephen Miller refused to leave the set and had to be escorted out, according to Business Insider.
Miller spent his segment on "State of the Nation" deflecting questions and attacking the network until finally Tapper cut him off, saying, "I've wasted enough of my viewers' time."
Two sources told Business Insider that as the network went to a commercial break, Miller was asked to leave several times, but refused.
Finally, security officers were called who escorted Miller from the premises.
Miller's interview was praised by his boss and panned by virtually everyone else, including a Fox News panel which recoiled from the adviser's obsequious show of devotion to the president.
Late night host Seth Myers didn't hold back during his opening monologue for the 2018 Golden Globes ceremony.
On the subject of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Myers said, "The only name that would make him angrier would be the Hillary Mexico Salad Association."
On the topic of "Call Me By Your Name," a gay coming-of-age movie, Myers said that we lost Kevin Spacey at "of age."
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Former U.S. Attorney for the middle district of Georgia Michael Moore said on CNN that President Donald Trump's defense that he "didn't know Steve Bannon that well" makes things look even worse for the Trump administration.
"The thing is, with Steve Bannon, we keep forgetting he was on the national security council," said Moore. "And then to come out and say, 'I don't really know him, he's Sloppy Steve' or whatever, he was their pick to be on the national security council. He helped run the campaign."
Moore continued, "And as far as Wolff goes, I listened to the president's comments that you just played there, it's concerning to me that you let a man inside the White House with that kind of access to the Oval Office and the people in the staff that you now say, 'I really didn't know who he was?'"
"That in and of itself to me calls into play some judgment questions," he concluded.
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CNN "Reliable Sources" host and media watcher Brian Stelter said on Sunday that if another country's leader acted like President Donald Trump, we'd "conclude that he is not well.”
According to Mediaite.com, Stelter was referring to the president's tweet at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un earlier this week in which he boasted that his "nuclear button" is bigger than Kim's.
That behavior on top of the revelations from Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, said Stelter, mean that it's no longer out of bounds to question the president's fitness for office.
“When a President of the United States threatens North Korea by invoking the size of his nuclear button, it is fair to ask about his fitness,” said Stelter. “If a leader of another country were to do the same thing, I think many commentators, many reporters will conclude that he is not well.”
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Two passenger jets collided at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Saturday, creating a fireball that sent passengers scrambling before they were evacuated on emergency slides.
The Washington Post said that 168 passengers were aboard a WestJet Boeing 737 that landed safely from Cancun, but then struck an empty Sunwing jet which workers were towing across the runway.
“There was an audible crunch, and the plane rocked slightly,” said passenger Gustavo Lobo to the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC). “Everyone was a little shocked and kind of chuckling at the situation.”
But then passengers noticed a liquid spraying from the wing.
“And then it set in that it’s not steam, it’s gas,” a passenger said to CTV News. “And then the whole thing ignites, and everyone starts panicking.”
"Big fire!" someone said as another voice called for calm, telling passengers, "Remain seated. Remain seated."
"Oh, f*ck me!" said another voice.
"Evacuate, evacuate," said a flight attendant coming down the aisle.
In spite of the record cold, passengers made it safely inside.
Around two hours after the crash, WestJet sent out a tweet that said, “Guests are safely in the terminal and they are in the process of clearing customs.”
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Author and journalist Michael D'Antonio told CNN on Saturday that even President Donald Trump's kids know that their father is grandiose and over-the-top and give "side-eye" at their father's exaggerations and "distant relationship" with the truth.
Anchor Ana Cabrera asked D'Antonio -- author of The Truth About Trump -- what he makes of Trump's angry tweets and press conference on Saturday in which the president defended his intellect and insisted that his mental capacities are undiminished.
"This is a new element of his defensiveness," D'Antonio said, "that has to be put into the context of a lifetime of defensiveness. This is a person who hits back almost before anyone has criticized him."
"The truth and the president have a very distant relationship," he continued. "Let's put it that way."
"He's had his children involved in his businesses for as long as they've been adults," said D'Antonio, then pointed to Michael Wolff's assertion that 100 percent of the people closest to Trump believe he's incapable of the job of being president.
"Even when I visited Trump Tower just about everyone at least gave me the side-eye," he said of his time working on The Truth About Trump.
"What are you talking about, that 'side-eye?'" Cabrera asked. "What was your takeaway that they were implying?"
"Well, even his children said to me directly that once they get the chance to run the company, they will do it differently," D'Antonio said. "It would be more conventional, less extreme in what they say and do."
"I think everyone realizes that he's an outsized personality," the author explained, "and that he goes too far sometimes."
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Columnist Joe Conanson got heated on Saturday when former Fox News contributor Jen Kerns said that she thinks it's appropriate for the Department of Justice to be opening politically-motivated investigations of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
Host Joy Reid pointed to a story in the New York Times detailing a new effort by state prosecutors to dig up dirt on the Clinton Foundation.
Kerns said that it's entirely appropriate to be asking, "Did the Clinton Foundation abuse its tax-exempt status?" and "Did they participate in a pay-to-play scandal?"
Reid pointed out that President Donald Trump's now-defunct Trump Foundation has been caught scamming donors, spending money on portrait paintings of Trump and allegedly using donor funds to bribe Florida Attorney Gen. Pam Bondi.
"Do you think the Donald Trump's foundation should be investigated by the DoJ?" Reid asked.
"No," said Kerns, "I don't."
"You know what's happening in Arkansas," said Conanson, "is they appointed a crony of Mike Huckabee as interim U.S. attorney and he's pretending to investigate this and they will find nothing there."
"I'd like to make a wager with Jen," he said, betting, "any amount you want that any criminal charges ever filed against the Clinton Foundation or anybody associated with it, what do you say? Let's go, right now."
Kerns said that she doesn't have the kind of money Mitt Romney does to lay down on bets, but that she'll accept.
"You want to be that there will be somebody criminally indicted in the Clinton Foundation?" Conanson said. "You're going to say that now?"
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