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Beto O’Rourke staffers kicked out a Breitbart News reporter from a campaign event in South Carolina this week — and on Wednesday defended their decision, saying the right-wing website walks a fine line between news and hate speech. Joel Pollak wrote Tuesday that a campus police officer ejected him from the speech at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina, after an O’Rourke campaign staffer saw his press credentials. The editor-at-large said a staffer “threatened this reporter, saying that I could either leave voluntarily or be ‘officially uninvited’ from campus, suggesting arrest.” A number of journalists from mainstream outlets on Wednesday shared Pollak’s story and denounced how the democratic presidential candidate’s campaign handled the situation. “No matter what you think of Breitbart, this is wrong. No campaign should be deciding who gets to cover its events. An event is either open to the press, or it is not,” tweeted New York Times repor...

SEATTLE — In a season that has been dominated by injuries to key players, the Yankees have their fingers firmly crossed that for the second time since Sunday they receive positive news to a big part of their season. Didi Gregorius, who hadn’t started the previous three games due to a bone bruise suffered in L.A. on Sunday, pinch hit for Gio Urshela in the sixth inning Wednesday after the third baseman left the 7-3 Yankees win with left groin tightness. “I think he is OK, just got a little tight in the groin so want to be safe with that and hopefully it is something that is not a big deal,’’ manager Aaron Boone said. Boone was unsure if Urshela will spend Thursday’s off day in an MRI tube. “I checked on him after the game and he didn’t seem to think it was a big deal,’’ Boone said of the third baseman — who is hitting .331 with 18 homers, 67 RBIs and a .926 OPS and providing Gold Glove defense. “We will see what we need to do with him on the off day.’’ Urshela, who singled and wal...

So, you want to study something in college that’ll actually pay off with a good-paying job? This has become a hot topic in this space. Here are the top five fields of study from a new survey by Bankrate.com, which takes into account salary for new hires, the unemployment rate in the field and number of college degrees needed beyond a Bachelor’s degree: naval/marine engineering, nuclear engineering, pharmacy, genetics and electrical engineering. The bottom five are drama and theatrical arts, visual and performing arts, composition and rhetoric, linguistics and comparative language and literature and fine arts. Here’s my modest proposal: Become an engineer for the money and act in community theater for the fun. Credit: Source link The post Here are the majors students should study in college appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2MJCgkq

That’s Omar-e! Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) apparently still shares a home with husband Ahmed Hirsi even as she fends off allegations of an affair with a married member of her political team — and reports that she and Hirsi have split. Although public records indicate that Omar and Hirsi took up separate residences after they and their three kids left the family home about five months ago, they were spotted at the same Minneapolis apartment building on Wednesday. At the trendy Mill District building that property records list under Hirsi’s name, Omar pulled out of a garage in a Toyota Camry early Wednesday. An electronic directory at the building, which sits a stone’s throw from the Mississippi River, lists an “Omar, I.” Hours later, Hirsi pulled up to the building in a BMW, repeating “No comment” when asked by The Post about his wife’s alleged dalliance. The arrangement played out a month after a published report that Omar and Hirsi had called it quits — again. The pair wed in a re...

Political unrest in Hong Kong is hurting sales of Tiffany & Co.’s pricey baubles, the luxury jeweler said Wednesday. The retailer, known for its Robin egg blue boxes, recently lost six sales days in Hong Kong — its fourth-largest market — due to political protests that have overtaken the Chinese territory for nearly 12 weeks, Chief Executive Alessandro Bogliolo revealed in an earnings call Wednesday. The protests, which even shut down Hong Kong’s international airport, could dampen full-year earnings if they continue, CFO Mark Erceg warned. “If, for example, the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong persists much longer at its current rate, we may find ourselves toward the lower end of our full-year reported sales and EPS guidance range,” Erceg said on the call. The protests add to Tiffany’s looming concern about a drop in Chinese tourists buying its goods — thanks to the president’s trade war with China. On Wednesday, Tiffany said it moved some of its most expensive items to Beijing a...

A North Carolina college student was allegedly plotting to “shoot up” his school — with cops catching him with a pistol and shotgun on campus this week, officials said. Paul Arnold Steber, a 19-year-old freshman at High Point University, admitted during police interviews that he wanted to “kill people” and had a “plan and timeline” of attack, according to authorities. He was caught on campus Tuesday with a shotgun, 9mm handgun and packs of ammunition, said High Point Police on Wednesday. Officers allegedly found the weapons inside of Steber’s dorm room. The Boston native was taken into custody and charged with two felony counts of weapons on campus or other educational property and one count of communicating a threat of mass violence on educational property. He was being held Wednesday on a $2 million bond for the weapons charges and $1 million for the threat of violence. News of Steber’s arrest — which comes just weeks after the Dayton and El Paso shootings — left HPU students s...

ALBANY — Domestic violence victims fleeing dangerous living situations will no longer be pegged with hefty phone and cable fines should they break contracts early, thanks to a new law signed Wednesday. Victims of domestic abuse who have sought and received a permanent order of protection will be exempt from footing the bill typically accrued when a person prematurely ends a multi-year contract with the phone, cable or satellite company. “Survivors of domestic violence should not have to handle the added stress and red tape that comes with contract termination penalties,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “When leaving an abusive environment, a clean break is critical and in New York we will give survivors the resources they need to move onto the next chapter of their lives.” Under a law approved in 2010, local telephone or cable companies are required to give domestic violence victims anonymous listings or fake names assigned to their phone number for free. But bill sponsors state Sen. Kev...

History says Roger Federer can’t keep playing with fire or his U.S. Open hopes are going to go up in smoke. Federer was victorious, but nowhere near sharp. Despite grinding out a 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 second-round rally against Damir Dzumhur, the five-time champ showed the same cracks in his game that have plagued him lately, and could make a title run tough. After suffering a straight-set rout in Cincinnati at the hands of Andrey Rublev, Federer dropped the opening set of his first-round in Flushing to 190th-ranked Sumit Nagal and looked even worse Wednesday against the 99th-ranked Bosnian. “When it happens like this back-to-back matches, it’s just a bit frustrating more than anything, especially when the level is that low and there is that many errors and the energy is not kind of there,” Federer said. “But can only do better, which is a great thing moving forward.” Moving forward — past either Daniel Evans or No. 25 Lucas Pouille in the third round, and to a serious run at his fir...

A teenage girl from Michigan was fighting for her life on Wednesday after contracting the rare Eastern equine encephalitis virus, her mother said. Savannah DeHart, 14, came down with what seemed like a simple headache earlier this month, but within days, her condition worsened, NBC 8 reported. “It got to the point where she didn’t want to move,” mom Kerri Dooley told the outlet. The teen was rushed to Bronson Children’s Hospital in Kalamazoo Aug. 17, and doctors there believe she contracted the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. State health officials on Monday announced that they had found three suspected cases of the disease in people living in Berrien and Kalamazoo counties. The teen is now in serious condition and has been put on a ventilator, her mom said. She missed her first day of freshman year at Vicksburg High School on Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press reported. “She just kind of lays there for now. Her brain is trying to heal itself and she can’t do anything un...

At a rainy Flushing Meadows, Madison Keys meeting with China’s Zhu Lin happened to be the only remaining match that wasn’t washed out Wednesday afternoon. As eager fans poured into Louis Armstrong Stadium, the 24-year-old American didn’t disappoint. Keys captured her eighth straight victory, earning a bid into the third round of the U.S. Open for the fifth straight year with a 6-4, 6-1 rout. “Very happy that we have two covered stadiums now and I was scheduled on one of them,” Keys said after the match with a smile. “I guess I kind of just knew that the stadium was probably a little bit more full than if all the other matches were going on. But with that stadium it’s hard to tell if there’s anything else going on.” The No. 10 seed struggled in the first set after a slow start, with Lin converting two-of-three break-point opportunities and catching Keys out of sorts to go up 3-1. Keys committed 12 unforced errors in the first four games, but cleaned it up with just three more for t...

A Chinese student was denied entry to the US when he arrived at Detroit Metro Airport with a bulletproof vest in his luggage — prompting Chinese social media users to come to his defense given the recent spate of gun violence in the US, according to a report. While going through security checks at the airport on Aug. 27, the unidentified student declared to customs officers that he had packed body armor in his luggage, prompting them to take him to a back room and search his belongings, according to the Chinese-language World Journal. The student told authorities the vest was for personal use and that he harbored no ill intentions. He returned to China, according to Shanghaiist. According to the US Customs and Border Protection website, there are no restrictions on importing “soft body armor” to the US, although it’s ultimately up to officials whether an item is permitted to be carried through a security checkpoint. Chinese social media users flocked to the student’s defense. “Am...

In her earliest U.S. Open exit in six years, Venus Williams fell to fifth-seed Elina Svitolina on Wednesday. It was Williams’ third straight defeat at the hands of Svitolina, falling 6-4, 6-4 at Louis Armstrong Stadium in the second round to snap her five-year streak of at least reaching the third round of the tournament. Svitolina played a clean match, which lasted just under two hours, owning the shorter rallies and making just 22 unforced errors compared to Williams’ 47. Both sets were neck-and-neck, unlike their previous two meetings, where Svitolina rolled past Williams. While Williams has struggled for most of the summer, she seemingly found her game at the Cincinnati Masters last week, where she reached the quarterfinals — defeating top-10 players Petra Kvitova and Kiki Bertens before losing to fellow American Madison Keys. With mounting speculation over what her future involvement in tennis will look like, the seven-time major singles champion said she intends to keep comp...

Cher Hubsher, of TLC’s reality series “sMothered,” is close with her mom, Dawn. So close that her dad once thought his wife was cheating on him when she was just hanging out with her kid. Unbeknownst to the rest of the family, Dawn had sneaked Cher out of school for a jaunt to a petting zoo. Her husband later found straw on her shirt and made a joke about “rolling in the hay” with someone else. She froze. Her reaction made him think it was true. She soon ‘fessed up to busting Cher out of school to play hooky — and while they all laughed about it, it was a pertinent foreshadowing: On “sMothered,” which is co-produced by the New York Post, Cher’s husband refers to himself as the “third wheel” in the ultraclose mother-daughter pairing. In the Hubshers’ new book, “A Bond That Lasts Forever,” the mom and daughter share anecdotes and life advice about how to cultivate a close mother-daughter bond. Here are some of the weirdest moments: Dawn wanted to have a daughter so badly that she f...

A college student who was interning in Washington, DC, for the summer was fatally stabbed in an apparent random attack on Tuesday, police and reports said. Margery Magill, 27, was walking a dog that she was looking after on Irving Street in the Northwest section of the city just before 9 p.m. when Eliyas Aregahegne, 24, allegedly knifed her to death, NBC Washington reported. Police and medics responded and rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she died, DC cops said. Cops arrested Aregahegne for the killing on Wednesday and charged him with first degree murder, authorities said. Police said Wednesday they believe the slaying was a random attack and not an attempted robbery or sexual assault, according to the NBC report. A relative of Magill told the news station that she was a student at the University of California in Davis, and that she was in the nation’s capital while interning for the summer. “She loved the city. She loved the energy. She really wanted to build her career ...

The Mets’ playoff hopes are dwindling, and first innings like Wednesday’s surely won’t help their cause. Noah Syndergaard gave up six runs — five earned — in the opening frame against the Cubs at Citi Field. After striking out Jason Heyward to begin the game, the blonde flame-thrower hit Nicholas Castellanos with a pitch and it all went wrong from there. Kris Bryant then singled, and an Amed Rosario throwing error kept Chicago’s momentum going. Ian Happ’s two-run shot off a changeup later on put the Cubs on top big. It was reminiscent of an April first inning in which Steven Matz gave up eight runs against the Phillies, and was pulled before recording an out. Syndergaard pitched the beginning of the second inning Wednesday with the score 6-1, but gave up a two-run homer to Kyle Schwarber. The Mets entered the game three games out of the NL wild card, where the Cubs and Nationals reside. Credit: Source link The post Noah Syndergaard flops in horrendous Mets first inning appea...