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In the latest addition to the still-expanding timeline of Russia’s possible collusion with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the
New York Times reports a business associate of the president once tried to orchestrate a business deal with Moscow that might have political ramifications. Specifically, the story details several emails between Felix Sater and Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen — both of whom have popped up in reports regarding Trump’s alleged ties to Russia and the mob — and their discussions about a new Trump Tower location and the involvement of Vladimir Putin.
The emails obtained by the Times suggest Sater believed he had strong ties to Putin’s government, and he thought he could use this relationship to secure real estate in Moscow. “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” he emailed Cohen. “I will get all of [Putin’s] team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.” The end goal? Per Sater’s emails, the businessman thought he could score Trump significant political points in the United States. “I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected ,” he boasted.
The emails date from the earliest days of Trump’s presidential campaign, when — as the
Times adds — “his associates viewed close ties with Moscow as a political advantage.” Like George Papadopoulos, the youngest member of the campaign’s foreign policy team, who tried repeatedly to set up a meeting between his candidate and Putin in early 2016. As Cohen told the Times in a statement, however, Sater’s emails were simply “colorful language” and “salesmanship.” What’s more, the lawyer concludes, they “ultimately determined that the proposal was not feasible and never agreed to make a trip to Russia.”
Aside from Cohen’s statement, the Trump Organization on Monday declared, “To be clear, the Trump Organization has never had any real estate holdings or interests in Russia.” Sater evidently didn’t offer the Times or anyone else a comment on the matter. On Monday, the Trump Org also turned over several emails to the House Intelligence Committee for its ongoing Russia probe. Some of these emails were those detailed by the Times .

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Up to one-quarter of preterm births might be prevented if women paid attention to three risk factors that are under their control, new research suggests.

Those factors include spacing pregnancies well, beginning at a healthy weight and gaining the recommended amount during the pregnancy, the researchers found.

“These are all risk factors for a really serious health outcome — preterm birth,” said study co-author Dr. Emily DeFranco. She is a researcher at the Center for Prevention of Preterm Birth at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

Babies born before 37 weeks’ gestation are considered preterm. Being born early puts babies at risk for breathing, heart, gastrointestinal and developmental problems, among other issues.

In the United States, the overall rate of preterm birth is 11.4 percent — more than twice as high as that in several other developed countries, the researchers said.

Experts have identified many risk factors for preterm birth, so DeFranco’s team looked at some that are manageable to see what role they might play.

The investigators used records of nearly 400,000 births between 2006 and 2011 to examine the three risk factors. None were multiple births.

More than 90 percent of the women had at least one of the three risk factors, the study findings showed.

Only 6 percent had none, providing what researchers called an “ideal” comparison group. Their pregnancies were well spaced, their weight was healthy at the start and the mothers gained no more, or less, than recommended during pregnancy.

These “ideal” women had a preterm birth rate of 7.6 percent, according to DeFranco, who is also an associate professor of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Women who had less than a year between pregnancies as well as those who gained too little weight during pregnancy had higher rates of preterm births, the study authors said.

The highest rate of preterm births — at 25 percent, more than triple that of the ideal group — occurred among women who were underweight when they got pregnant, had shorter gaps between pregnancies and inadequate weight gain during pregnancy, the researchers reported.

Women who are underweight are advised to gain 28 to 40 pounds during pregnancy, while normal weight women should aim for 25 to 35 pounds, according to Institute of Medicine recommendations. Overweight women should gain 15 to 25 pounds, and those who are obese should only gain 11 to 20 pounds.

A body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered a healthy weight. BMI is an estimate of body fat based on height and weight.

“You have some control over your risk of a preterm birth,” DeFranco said, urging women to pay attention to the factors they can adjust. Other risks are not changeable. For instance, black women are more likely to have preterm births, as are women who have had a previous one and those who conceive through in vitro fertilization, the researchers said.

Dr. David Mendez, a neonatologist at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, reviewed the study. He pointed out that the findings build on some things that doctors have suspected.

“It does appear to show that the uterus needs some recovery time, and the mom needs to be at a healthy weight to have the best outcome,” he said. Paying attention to the recommended weight gain is also important, he added.

For women who are trying to conceive, Mendez said, the message seems to be to try to get to a healthy weight ahead of time.

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Immigration authorities will require an in-person interview for certain applicants for green cards, a change likely to slow the process of obtaining one.
The new requirement, which was confirmed Friday by a spokesman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will apply to anyone moving from an employment-based visa to lawful permanent residency. Visa holders who are family members of refugees or people who receive asylum will also be required to undergo an in-person interview when they apply for provisional status, a stage that precedes receiving a green card, according to USCIS.
In fiscal year 2015, nearly 168,000 immigrants in these categories obtained lawful permanent residency, according to annual statistics from the Department of Homeland Security. Most (roughly 122,000) moved from an employment-based visa to a green card.
The interview mandate is part of President Donald Trump’s plan to apply “extreme vetting” to immigrants and visitors to the U.S.
The travel ban executive order signed by the president in January and revised in March called for federal departments to develop “uniform screening and vetting standards” to identify terrorists or people who “present a risk of causing harm.” The standards could include an in-person interview, the order stated.
Carter Langston, a spokesperson for USCIS, told POLITICO that the categories of visas that require interviews will expand in the future, calling it “an incremental expansion.” The policy, Langston said, is “part of a comprehensive strategy to further improve the detection and prevention of fraud and security risks to the United States.”
The requirement for an in-person interview is not, technically, new. But the agency currently waives the interview requirement for these visa holders “most of the time,” according to William Stock, a Philadelphia-based attorney and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Under the new policy, such waivers won’t be granted.
Stock said requiring more interviews would take the agency “back to the future.” Until about 10 years ago, in-person interviews for people moving from employment visas to green cards were standard. Waivers became ubiquitous during the past decade, he said.
“The immigration service realised that most of the time it was a colossal waste of everyone’s time,” he said.
An email sent to some USCIS staffers from acting Director James McCament said the new policy will take effect Oct. 1.
The added interview workload will almost certainly lengthen wait times from green card applications. As of June 30, the office was processing applications received more than six months earlier, according to a tracking tool on the agency’s website.
Stephen Legomsky, USCIS chief counsel from 2011 to 2013, said it’s difficult to say whether the interviews will be worth the effort.
“It probably does add some marginal value,” he said, “but whether that value is enough to offset that additional work is hard to say.”
Langston said the agency plans to take measures to speed up the interview process, including increased training and streamlining operations.
The agency did not provide details about where the interviews would take place.

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BREAKING: Let Me Speak The Truth And Die!!! APC, Including Myself, Have Failed, Do Not Vote For Us In 2019 – Dino Melaye Breaks Down In Tears

According to a report by Post-Nigeria, the controversial Senator representing Kogi-West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has admitted that he and the political elite have failed Nigeria and her teeming youths, hence are not qualified to be in power.

Melaye stated this while speaking at The Osasu Show Symposium, in Abuja

Melaye, who spoke as one of the Panellists at the symposium, themed: “The new economy and its impact on less privileged citizens”, said the government must build public trust to curb societal ills.

“When you speak the truth, you die, when you lie, you die; so it is better to speak the truth and die. I may sound very unpopular, but I will speak the truth. Apart from militocracy, politics is responsible for poverty and hunger in Nigeria”, Melaye said.

“Unfortunately, we the leaders, myself inclusive, have failed this nation and have failed the younger generation, myself inclusive. The reason why we are where we are today, is because there is a disconnect between leadership and followership.

“As I speak to you, the problem why we are where we are, is because of trust. There is no trust between the governed and those governing.

“Once there is no trust between the followership and the leadership, it will definitely have a negative concomitant effect on the economy, and every other facet of our national life.”

“Hunger and poverty have no political party, hunger and poverty have no religion. To have brought people to discuss on the line of APC or PDP is not correct, because the poor PDP man and the poor APC man all go to the same market.

“What we should fix is democracy; democracy is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. What we have is greediocracy; government of the greedy by the greedy, for the greedy.

“We the leaders want to win elections at all cost, so we spend money to win elections. The followership also is greedy, they accept money to vote. So, head or tail, there is a need for attitudinal change, and this is affecting everything.”

“Today, we are talking about the recovery of our economy; we are talking about poverty and how to fight it. The only way to fight poverty, is for we leaders to build trust among the people.”

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Though you may not think about your kidneys all too often, they do play a vital role in your health.

One of their major roles is as your body’s filtering and waste disposal system…

Almost 7,000 ounces of blood cycles through the kidneys each day. And in their workings they produce urine from unwanted chemicals, excess fluid or waste.

It’s common practice these days to take medications for our ailments. And while medications may be designed to assist your body in some way, they also have to take a trip to the kidneys for filtering.

And if you think your kidneys are “safe” from the effects of those drugs, think again — around 20 percent of acute kidney failure (nephrotoxicity) is caused by prescription medications.

That’s why you should know about six common medications that can damage the kidneys more than others…

Statins
High doses of the drugs known as statins seriously increase your risk of kidney damage. People taking relatively large amounts of these pharmaceuticals are 34 percent more vulnerable to a condition known as acute kidney injury (AKI). Every year, AKI kills about 40,000 people in the United States. Rosuvastatin, atorvastatin and simvastatin are statin drugs.

Antibiotics
Renal tubular cells are key players in kidney filtration, making them particularly vulnerable to toxic effects that drugs may expose them to. Tobramycin, from the antibiotic class known as aminoglycosides, can cause higher toxicity to the filtration cells.

Antimicrobial medications known as sulfonamides (thiazide diuretics, acetazolamide, sulfonylureas and some COX-2 inhibitors), can promote swelling and inflammation of the kidneys due to crystals they create that the kidneys can’t dissolve.

If you must take antibiotics on occasion, make sure you know how to take them safely.

Diuretics
Hydrochlorothiazide and furosemide are two medications commonly taken to reduce swelling and blood pressure. But unfortunately they lead to dehydration, which promotes swelling and inflammation in the kidneys.

Antivirals
Acyclovir, a drug used to treat herpes, shingles and chickenpox, produces crystals that the kidneys can’t filter. This can lead to urine blockage and cause harm to the kidneys.

Anti-inflammatories
Whether you’re using prescription or over-the-counter options, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs — ibuprofen, naproxen sodium and ketoprofen) cause the blood vessels leading into the kidneys to narrow. When there is decreased blood flow, the tissues in the kidneys become susceptible to damage or death.

Taking anti-inflammatories at high doses or for prolonged periods is known to cause chronic kidney disease (chronic interstitial nephritis), sudden kidney failure, and progressive kidney damage.

Analgesics (aspirin and acetaminophen) are common over-the-counter medications taken for pain and fever. Like anti-inflammatories they reduce blood flow to the kidneys and can impair kidney function if used over prolonged periods.

So how do you avoid kidney damage from drugs?
According to research, most adverse events due to medications occur due to errors with prescription, lack of monitoring of the medication, and errors in taking the drug appropriately.

But that’s no always the case. Numerous drugs have been fast-tracked by the FDA into the pharmaceutical market, only to be yanked off the shelves or denied prescription after adverse effects, even deaths, were reported.

Even OTC drugs that seem harmless, like NSAIDs (which have been tied to heart attack) have been shown to have a dark side.

The best advice is to consider whether you really need to take these medications. When possible choose natural remedies so you can minimize your use of medications overall — and the dangers they carry.

Foods, spices and mindful health practices can help alleviate pain and inflammation.

When taking medications make sure you drink adequate fluids (6-8 glasses of water a day) to prevent dehydration and promote optimal kidney filtering.

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper have appeared side by side in several instances this summer in which they have focused on influencing the national healthcare debate.

Now, there are rumors that Kasich, a Republican, and Hickenlooper, a Democrat, could embark on a joint independent presidential bid in 2020, Axios reported Friday.

The cross-party unity ticket would feature Kasich at the top, with Hickenlooper as his running mate, the publication reported.

In the coming months, Axios reports that the duo plans to extend the platform they’ve built up on healthcare and expand to immigration and job creation. They’re also discussing with major media outlets the possibility of a podcast or cable news show, Axios said.

John Weaver, a top Kasich adviser who served as chief strategist for the Ohio governor’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign, told Business Insider to expect to see a lot more of the pair in the coming months.

“They work very well together and will continue to lead on healthcare, immigration and probably other key issues,” Weaver told Business Insider in an email, adding a smiley-faced emoticon.

Kasich and Hickenlooper made their first major appearance together at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, in late June to criticize Republican healthcare legislation that was being debated in the Senate. They called on both parties to come together and form a better plan while seeking more stakeholder input, such as that of US governors.

The pair also signed onto multiple letters andstatements rejecting different iterations of the GOP-led healthcare legislation, leading a team of bipartisan governors who were critical of the Republican healthcare plan and process before it fell apart late last month.

On Tuesday, Kasich and Hickenlooper appeared together on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to urge for bipartisan fixes to the Affordable Care Act, the law better known as Obamacare. In another joint interview this month, the pair said they are “close” to presenting their own plan to help stabilize the nation’s health insurance markets.

“”We’re getting very close,” Kasich said. “I just talked to my guys today, men and women who are working on this with [Hickenlooper’s] people, and we think we’ll have some specifics here, I actually think we could have it within a week.”

Hickenlooper has tempered talk of a possible presidential ticket with Kasich, though he did say “you never know” when asked during a Politico Playbook Exchange event earlier this month.

Days later, he said it was “not in the cards.”

“We’re a two-party system, and that kind of a campaign generally distracts,” he told a local Denver reporter. “I mean, it’s symbolic, and I can understand the point of that, but I don’t think it’s in the cards. It’s fun to talk about but it’s not in the cards.”

Standing alongside Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez, he joked that the DNC leader would “kill me if I did something like that,” which elicited laughs from both men.

Kasich, who has not been shy about opposing Trump at times during his young presidency, has not ruled out a 2020 bid, hinting to reporters that he may again try to seek the presidency either as part of an independent presidential bid or as a Republican primary challenge to the sitting president.

A Hickenlooper representative did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider. A representative for Trump’s 2020 reelection effort also didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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