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"I think we have to find out what happened first," Trump told the Associated Press in an interview on Tuesday. "Here we go again with, you know, you're guilty until proven innocent. I don't like that."
How the crown prince, often referred to as MbS, emerges when the dust settles over Khashoggi's disappearance is a test of how the West will deal with Saudi Arabia in the future. At issue will be to what extent the West believes responsibility lies with MbS for Khashoggi.
"They made no exceptions to who they would hold accountable. They were very clear: they understand the important of this issue, they are determined to get to the bottom of it," Pompeo told reporters.
But there has been mounting criticism of some of the prince's moves.
These include Riyadh's involvement in the war in Yemen, the arrest of women activists and a diplomatic dispute with Canada. The kingdom also denied an assertion by France that it held Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri captive in November 2017.
Despite Western concerns about Saudi Arabia's human rights record, Trump still says he is unwilling to pull out of weapons sales agreements with Riyadh.
The annual Maryland blind site lottery day is coming up Tuesday, Aug. 7.
If you need any proof that summer is ticking away at an increasing pace, take note that the annual Maryland blind site lottery day is coming up Tuesday, Aug. 7.
There seem to be fewer and fewer open spots available for hunting each year while the long line of people hoping get one are as impressive as ever, but for the lucky few who draw a low number in the choosing order, this is still a great way to lock up a good duck hunting spot for the season.
Rules are still very much the same. You must be a Maryland resident, you’ll need a photo ID and a current or previous year Maryland hunting license, you have to show up at the location between 7:30-8 a.m. for the drawing, gates are closed at 8 a.m. and the drawing takes place at 8:30 a.m.
You can pick two spots for $20 each and you’ll have eight minutes to do so. The day ends at 4:30 p.m. and picks after that will happen at a central location for each region.
Plenty of the day is made up of unofficial rules, too, but you can count on all of it happening. As a rule, you can count on it being one of the hottest days of summer and shade will be at a premium. It seems odd to be thinking about and preparing for a sport that is at its best on a bitter cold January day at the peak...
Take a cooler of cold water with you, maybe a book and folding chair too, and keep them in your car. If you draw a high number and have to wait all day, you’ll be glad they’re close at hand.
Another thing you’re sure to see are the irate landowners who missed the landowner licensing deadline earlier in the year. You’ll know these folks by the upset facial expressions, handful of required maps and steady stream of comments that they are a taxpayer and shouldn’t have to do this.
If you’re one of these folks, remember to bring your tax maps of your property and know that you’ll have to draw a number and wait in line like everyone else — and everyone in front of you gets a crack at the open waters you forgot to license until you sit in the chair and lock it up. You’ll also see and hear scores of...
You’ll hear and probably join in with other waterfowlers talking about the successes and failures of the past season, as well as hopes for a better flight this year. And yes, you’re guaranteed to hear a few duck calls and see at least one tired old Labrador retriever brought along who just wants to lay in the shade.
Locations are the same as always for the first day. Dorchester licensing happens at LeCompte WMA south of Vienna, Worcester County licensing takes place at the Snow Hill Fire Department, Somerset licensing is at Wellington WMA and Wicomico hunters need to be at the Wildlife & Heritage office on Baptist Street in Salisb...
July 27-29: 5th annual Big Fish Classic, Talbot Street Pier, Ocean City, 410-213-0325.
Aug. 3-4: 10th annual Marlin Club Ladies Tournament, OC Marlin Club, Ocean City, 410-213-1613.
Aug. 6-10: 45th annual White Marlin Open, Harbour Island Marina, Ocean City, 410-289-9229.
Aug. 7: First day of Maryland blind site licensing, check listings for site and times in each county.
Aug. 23-26: OC Jeep Week, Beach crawls, Jeep Jam and OC Convention Center displays, http://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/2zq_CADXvPfXoGQliGIblN?domain=oceancityjeepweek.com.
Through Aug. 31: Maryland black bear hunt lottery application period.
Through Oct. 12: Maryland Chesapeake striped bass season, Bay and all tributaries, two per day 19-28 inches or one fish 19-28 inches and one more than 28 inches.
A Utah newspaper executive Tuesday said he would cancel the "Doonesbury" comic strip because of a series linking Frank Sinatra to reputed mobsters. Several other newspapers have pulled the strip.
"I telephoned Universal Press Syndicate this morning and informed them they would be getting a letter this week of cancellation," said Randy Hatch, managing editor of the Ogden Standard Examiner.
Hatch said he does not care if Garry Trudeau is controversial.
"That's not the issue," he said. "I have to edit the paper and, frankly, the series on Frank Sinatra and the one scheduled to follow that is something I would not put in my paper," he said.
The Orlando Sentinel decided to run the "Doonesbury" strip on the basis that it fell under the fair comment considerations afforded columnists and cartoonists, said Sentinel editor John Haile.
Trudeau's satire, while not very funny or particularly tasteful, was not libelous or offensively tasteless, Haile said.
"Hard-hitting, biting satire tends to stir people up. This one is hard- hitting. It wasn't something that should be kept from our readers. Sinatra's associations are fair game for comment. Our readers can see it for what it is and make their own decisions. It has, however, prompted some considerations of whether we oug...
Lee Salem, editorial director for the suburban Kansas City syndicate that distributes the strip, Tuesday said he was aware of nine or 10 newspapers that would not publish this week's strip, which is distributed to 835 newspapers.
Tuesday's "Doonesbury" included a photograph of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, described by Trudeau as an "alleged human" charged "with the murder of Gambino family member Charley Calise."
The Atlanta Constitution carried an explanation saying, "Aniello Dellacroce was indicted by a federal grand jury on racketeering charges in 1979. The indictment alleged that he ordered the 1974 murder of Charles Calise. Dellacroce was acquitted of all charges after a mistrial."
The Dallas Times Herald said that, on the advice of an attorney, it would not run this week's strips. Instead the Times Herald ran an earlier controversial "Doonesbury" series on abortion that Trudeau and his syndicate had agreed not to distribute because of its nature.
Sinatra issued a statement saying, "Garry Trudeau makes his living by his attempts at humor without regard to fairness or decency. I don't know if he has ever made any effort on behalf of others or has done anything to help the less fortunate in this country or elsewhere. I am happy to have the president and the people...
Montana’s only Orthodox rabbi seeks to remind Jews that God is the ultimate home protection in a state where many people believe that such security begins and ends with a gun.
Montana's small Jewish population is scattered across a huge state that has more rodeos than rabbis, but one man is logging thousands of miles to seek out the faithful one doorway at a time.
Rabbi Chaim Bruk has set his sights on making sure each Jewish home in Montana has a mezuzah at its entrance - and that those already hanging are kosher.
Montana's only Orthodox rabbi sees the project as a way of connecting Jews to their traditions. He says the mezuzahs - small parchments of handwritten biblical verses, rolled into roughly 4-inch cases and fastened to doorframes - are a reminder that God is the ultimate home protection in a state where many people belie...
"I'm young. I'm 31. I got a long life ahead of me - God willing - and I hope to get every house," he says. "Montana should be the most protected state in the union. Not only because of our weapons but because of our mezuzahs. We'll be protected by the Second Amendment and by the mezuzahs."
After his grandmother died shortly before Passover this year at age 90, Bruk wanted to perform a mitzvah - a religious good deed - to honor her memory. So the co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Montana secured funding from a relative to purchase an initial 200 mezuzahs to hand out for free.
Bruk says he has visited hundreds of Jewish homes in Montana and noticed too often that they either didn't have mezuzahs or that those hanging didn't adhere to Jewish law. He says he found text written on paper rather than parchment and cases hanging with no verses inside.
His mission is an ambitious one in a state with more than 147,000 square miles and a Jewish population estimated at 1,350 by the 2010 Census. Bruk scoffs at that number, which he believes is actually more than 3,000.
He has put up more than 30 mezuzahs in less than five weeks, traveling from Whitefish near Glacier National Park to Dillon in the southwestern part of the state. He has enlisted the help of two rabbinical students who are traveling in central and northeastern Montana.
Bruk is getting the word out by social media, email blasts and his website. He also calls those whose homes he knows don't have mezuzahs.
That's how Bruk came to install a mezuzah at the home of Jake Matilsky last week. Matilsky moved to Helena from Boston about a year ago and got to know Bruk by occasionally going to the rabbi's Shabbat dinners in Bozeman.
"I got a phone call. `Jake do you have a mezuzah on your door?' `No, I don't'. `Jake, you need a mezuzah on your door.' And here we are today," Matilsky said last Sunday.
Bruk sped through a blessing while Matilsky pressed the 4-inch transparent case against his doorway, giving the adhesive time to stick to the wood.
Matilsky completed the brief ceremony by pressing his hand to his mouth and then to the case for the mezuzah's inaugural kiss.
Just in time for his family's arrival from New Jersey, Matilsky says.
"Now you'll be very proud, your mother will see your mezuzah," Bruk says.
Bruk drew smiles and naysayers when he and his wife, Chavie, moved from New York City to Montana in 2006. His fish-out-of-water status led to newspaper stories from Jerusalem to New York, where the Post called him "the kosher cowboy."
That attention has had the effect of attracting people curious about his message and his programs, which include kosher certification for Montana food producers.
He has found Jews in Montana are "thirsting" for traditional Judaism, he says.
"It has opened up many doors, because people are just intrigued," he says. "Our motto's been baby steps. We're not here to make people Orthodox. We're here to make people comfortable with their traditional Jewish lifestyle."
Time is starting to run short for Jackson County to get the state of Missouri to commit to another 10 years of funding for Arrowhead and Kauffman stadium upkeep – funding crucial to meet the obligations of the leases keeping the Chiefs and Royals in Kansas City.
“That’s really our focus,” Fred Dreiling, the County Legislature’s chief lobbyist in Jefferson City, told county legislators this week.
Here’s the math behind the policy questions: In 2006, Jackson County voters approved a three-eighths-cent sales tax to pay for $850 million in renovations to Kauffman and Arrowhead stadiums, and the teams signed 25-year leases. Under those agreements, county pays $2 million a year for stadium maintenance and improvemen...
The county owns the stadiums, and despite the terms of the lease, the state says its $3 million obligation ends after next year. If the state didn’t come through with its $3 million, the county would either have to cover that or risk breaching the teams’ leases.
There’s more math that complicates things a little more: Missouri pays Kansas City $2 million a year for Bartle Hall. By contrast, it pays St. Louis $12 million a year for The Dome at America’s Center (formerly the Edward Jones Dome and, before that, the TWA Dome). It has sat nearly idle since the Rams football team mo...
But Dreiling sees a couple openings.
“People in Missouri have adopted the Chiefs,” he said, adding that, right or wrong, their success on the field could make keeping the funding easier.
Also, the St. Louis Blues want to replace their 25-year-old arena, and the team is asking for $2.5 million a year from the state. That could mean leverage in working out an overall funding deal, and Dreiling expressed a degree of optimism.
Stadium funding and jail funding have both been at the top of the County Legislature’s priority list for Jefferson City for years, and both have been unresolved for years.
County officials point out that the vast majority of people sitting in the Jackson County Detention Center in Kansas City are there on state charges but local taxpayers foot most of that bill. It costs the county about $105 a day to house an inmate, but the state only reimburses counties $22.58, and that’s only after a...
Gov. Mike Parson put money in his proposed budget to make good on the $31 million, but the Republican-controlled House took it out. He also budgeted bumping the $22.58 a day to $23.58, but the House took that out, too.
“We’re very hopeful that when we go over to the Senate we can put those dollars back in there …” Dreiling said.
HOLDERS Band C squeezed into the third round of the Liberal Club League Team Knockout despite a brave fightback from Flying Lady A.
Band held a 6-1 darts advantage but Lady gave them a scare at dominoes until Jeff Beech, Steve Hassall, Kev Tilley and Reg Beech helped ensure an 8-7 aggregate victory.
Pioneers A strolled to a 9-2 victory over Hawk.
Fred Smith’s 16-darter, Pete Boughey’s 19-darter and doms wins by John Speed, Ricky Busteed and John Woolley were key. Sam Williams was Hawk’s only darts winner.
Barry Cooper’s 17-darter and doms success from Betty Harding and Simon Charlton aided Commercial’s 9-4 win over Bridge A.
The only Premier Division team to fail were Hop Pole, who went down 8-7 to Division One outfit Amalgamated A.
Mark Woolrich’s 18-darter and 180, and doms wins from Dave Wells, Steve Faddes, Kev O’Connor, Bill Ryder and Dave Wells smoothed the way.
Another cliffhanger saw Rileys edge out Horseshoe 8-7.
Ben Snape’s 20-darter got them off to a good start and doms duo Berty Edwards and Karl Goodwin finished the job.
Paul Taylor’s 116 checkout assisted Kings A to a 9-4 victory over White Lion Copp B.
Nantwich Rd Aslef won 8-4 at Broughton, while there were home victories for Rockwood Golfers (8-6) and Vine A (8-4) over respective opponents Coppenhall Club and Waldron A.
There was more home success for Junction (9-6), Cheshire Cheese (8-4), Flying Lady B (8-3) and British Lion A (8-5) over respective opponents Foresters B, Pioneers B, Sydney Arms and White Lion FL B.
Woodside (8-5), Express (8-4) and Bridge C (8-4) all had easy away wins at Imperial, Waldron B and Prince of Wales B respectively.
It is not hard to find a motivation for the revival of the idea of ‘superheads’: talented individuals parachute into struggling schools and turn them around, without the need for policy-makers to grapple with any of that complex socio-economic stuff.
After a few high-profile failures saw this approach discredited and ditched at the turn of the century, the UK government has now retrieved it from the bin of discarded strategies. This time around, a ‘Champions League’ of headteachers will sort out failing schools, the equivalent, according to government sources, of s...
But is it realistic, or even possible, to expect one person to make such a difference? And if they can, how do they do it?
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), which represents many secondary stage (11-18) headteachers, is sceptical of faith in the ability of one individual to transform a school. “It is an unrealistic expectation,” he insists.
He argues the complexity of school improvement means it is too much for one person alone. Instead, it requires a team of both senior and middle leaders working alongside a principal. And this may define the most important contribution of a superhead: assembling an effective team who sign up to the core vision and ‘sell...
Despite reservations over the emphasis on one individual, ASCL is working with the Department for Education to nail down the ‘Champions League’ approach – due to start next September – in part motivated by concern over disincentives to lead challenging schools and a shortage of candidates for headteacher positions.
But while sustainable school improvement may require a team effort, there is evidence that it may start with the individual. A 2011 study for the National College of School Leadership found that federations where several schools were brought together under one executive headteacher outperformed those where each school ...
“Years of research shows that leadership is absolutely critical, and that one person can be enough to start a process whereby change takes place,” says Toby Greany, professor of leadership and innovation at the Institute of Education in London and a former director of research at the National College.
In this model, the principal provides the essential kick-start to school improvement; a strong team is needed to make sure change is embedded.
“We consistently see that one person can be the catalyst, the critical element, but they will almost always find ways of bringing in new capacity to turn it from a superhuman effort by one individual to a collective effort whereby lots of people are trying to do the same thing,” Greany says.
He agrees with Lightman that a core function of a headteacher in a failing school is to establish a new ethos, and to galvanise support for it. This also requires principals to be talent-spotters, identifying the key personnel who are able to put the vision into effect.
Not surprisingly, even principals with a proven track record shy away from the superhead label. Richard Thornhill prefers to see himself as a cross between a headteacher and a chief executive. As executive headteacher of the Loughborough Federation of Schools he oversees five primary (aged 5-11) schools in south London...
The federation was created after Thornhill’s original school was asked to help schools that were deemed to be struggling. The latest to join the group arrived only last week. “Our stock in trade is to work with schools that need support,” says Thornhill.
He acknowledges that it is often an individual who provides the impetus, but says the momentum comes from ensuring the vision is shared.
“It is very hard for one person to make a difference, although they can and headteachers do, but in the model we operate it is not just me,” he adds. The advantage of harnessing a team is that the impact is both bigger and faster, he says, with the growth of the federation increasing the capacity to drive change.
Five of the 11 schools in the Cabot Learning Federation, based in and around Bristol, joined the group after they were judged to be in difficulties by school inspectors. Sir David Carter, who has led the federation from the start, would seem to be a prime candidate to be a superhead, but he says his experience of schoo...
“I have seen too many examples of heads who have gone into a school and done a really effective job, but as soon as they leave it all falls apart,” he says.
This suggests a different kind of superhead model. Rather than single-handedly pulling a school up by its bootstraps, the superhead sets out the school’s values and aspirations and then hires people to turn that into results in the classroom. While much of the operational stuff is delivered by the team, there is still ...
This model puts the emphasis on the superheads’ ability to harness support for their vision, not just from senior staff at the school, but from classroom teachers, parents and students. A key requirement, therefore, is the ability to communicate effectively, Carter adds. “You have to take people with you,” he says.

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