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In a newly released interview with Yahoo Finance, activist and environmental lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr. asserted that President Donald Trump has tarnished the reputation of the U.S. around the world.

The criticism from Kennedy Jr., a nephew of President John F. Kennedy, came in response to a question from Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer regarding his view on whether its a good or bad thing that Trump has so many family members working with him.

Kennedy Jr. belongs to another notable American family deeply involved in politics his father, Robert Kennedy, served as attorney general under his brother, JFK, before Lyndon Johnson signed a law interpreted as barring presidents from appointing relatives to their Cabinet.

While Trump doesnt have any family members in his Cabinet, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, both serve as senior advisers. Kennedy Jr., however, says its not a good thing or a bad thing that Trump has family members with him in the White House.

I dont think thats the problem with the president, he said. I think the problem is, number one, he is a bully. And you know, I don't like bullies. And I don't think ... that that's part of America's tradition. I think, in many ways, he's discredited the American experiment with self-governance.

Kennedy Jr. made the comments during a conversation that aired in an episode of Yahoo Finances Influencers with Andy Serwer, a weekly interview series with leaders in business, politics, and entertainment.

For over three decades, Kennedy Jr. served as a chief prosecuting attorney for top environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated to the protection of the Hudson River. More recently, Kennedy Jr. hasquestioned the safety of vaccinesand campaigned against their use.

In relaying his concerns about Trump, Kennedy Jr. noted that hed worked all over the world and in China for many years. Just a decade ago, Kennedy Jr. noted, China looked to the U.S. as a model of democracy but thats not the case anymore, he says.

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If you go to China today and ask them, do you want a democracy like America has? You ask anybody in the world this, they will say no because why would we want a form of government that can produce leadership of a person who doesn't read books, who's not thoughtful about issues, who's bullying, who ... employs all the dark alchemies of demagoguery? he said. And it's, you know, it's destroying so much about the things about America that I admire and that make us an influence, that make us an exemplary nation.

Since his election in 2016, Trump has antagonized China as well as other parts of the world, at one point calling Chinas president, Xi Jinping, his enemy. He has pulled out of both the Paris climate agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal with a dozen Pacific Rim countries signed by President Barack Obama. Indeed, Trumps policies have sparked worldwide protests, most recently over his administrations decision to launch a drone strike killing Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.

Kennedy Jr. contrasted Trumps reputation overseas with that of his uncle, who was largely beloved both domestically and abroad. While his foreign policy contributed to the Vietnam War, JFK also eased certain foreign tensions during his presidency. Notably, he resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis before it escalated into a full-blown nuclear war.

If you go to any capital in the world, you'll see there is a boulevard named after John Kennedy. There are hospitals, schools, or universities. The biggest statue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is one of my uncle, he said. ...You will not find ... any boulevard in any nation in the world, named Donald Trump.

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Verizon and its subsidiaries, including Yahoo, have become known for massive data breaches, privacy blunders, and oddly named web entities, but now the internet service provider has launched a whole new search engine without Yahoo branding, one that it says will definitely not share your search results with advertisers or tailor results based on your search history.

On its ad-supported OneSearch platform, users can search the internet with increased confidence, knowing your personal and search data isnt being tracked, stored, or shared with advertisers, according to a statement from Michael Albers, head of consumer product at Verizon Media.

Ads on OneSearch will be generated based on keywords, not cookies, and there will be a self-destruct option for search results to be purged after a certain period. Search results will be generated by Microsofts Bing browser.

As consumers tire of having their every move tracked online, there are a growing number of browsers that claim to preserve users privacy, including Brave and DuckDuckGo, and ad- and tracker-blocking extensions like Ghostery.

If Verizons track record with search and privacy wasnt so spotty, this might be a welcome addition to the growing field of privacy-based browsers. When it combined AOL and Yahoo into Oath in 2017, Verizon was clear about its plans to use its network to target ads. And in 2016, the company paid a $1.3 million fine to the Federal Communications Commission for its use of super cookies that tracked users on their networks via their cellphones without asking for permission or providing an opt-out option. And dont forget Yahoos famous hack, where all 3 billion of its customers accounts were breached in 2013.

Why Verizon is introducing a new search engine brand when it already owns Yahoo is not clear, but as VentureBeat notes, Yahoo owned the oneSearch name long before it became part of Verizon.

According to the OneSearch privacy policy, search results will only be personalized based on location, which it will collect from IP addresses. OneSearch says that it will separate IP addresses from users and their search results.

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Crypto exchange giant Binance has announced two major partnerships with subsidiaries of Yahoo Japan. This is big news for the industry.

According to a company blog post Z Corporation, a subsidiary of Yahoo Japan, and TaoTao has begun negotiations with Binance for strategic partnerships in the Japanese market.

The significance here is that these two firms are affiliated with Yahoo Japan which has been far more successful than its US counterpart.

Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao was quick to point this out;

Many non-Japanese may not understand the significance of this. TaoTao & Z-Corp are subsidiaries of Yahoo Japan. YJ has been independent from Yahoo US for a long long time and is doing well. It is 48% owned by Softbank.

Z Corporation Inc. (Z Corp), is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Z Holdings Corporation which is the Softbank subsidiary formerly known as Yahoo Japan Inc. TaoTao Inc. is a Japanese licensed cryptocurrency exchange and a portfolio company of Z Corp.

The collaboration will enable Binance to enter the Japanese market offing trading and crypto services in a fully regulated environment. The announcement added through Binances cutting-edge technologies, the two firms will collaborate with the Financial Service Agency to ensure full regulatory compliance in the Japanese market.

Japans government clearly doesnt want its citizens to get burned and has made every effort to foster a safe crypto trading environment. Earlier this week the countrys financial regulator, the FSA, proposed lowering the leverage rate limit of cryptocurrency margin trading from 4x to 2x.

According to reports, the proposal would be a first for Japanese regulators involving the rate of crypto margin trading.

Not a week goes by without Binance rolling out new crypto trading pairs, fiat on-ramps, investment products or new offices.

So far this month the worlds most popular crypto exchange partnered with global fiat on-ramp solution Banxa to support Australian Dollars, Euros, and British Pounds.

It also opened fiat gateways for five new European currencies. Czech Koruny (CZK), Bulgarian Leva (BGN), Romanian Lei (RON), Polish Zloty (PLN), and Swedish Krona (SEK) were added to the list.

In Asia, it opened a Thai baht on-ramp through Thailands leading regulated digital asset exchange, Satang.

This latest development is big news for the crypto industry, especially in Japan which is already streets ahead of its western counterparts in terms of digital asset services.

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President Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on Apple (AAPL) to unlock two iPhones used by the suspect in a shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in December.

On Wednesday, Trump tweeted, "We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements."

The issue, however, is far more complicated than Apple simply unlocking the suspected shooter's iPhones. Thats because creating a so-called "backdoor" for a single iPhone instantly opens every other iPhone on Earth to the risk of attack. And even though Apple relies on Trump's tariff exceptions, the company is unlikely to change its mind.

While Apple has refused to unlock the phones used by accused Pensacola shooter Mohammed Alshamrani, the company has said it has given the government access to Alshamrani's iCloud account, and other documentation.

Why not unlock the iPhones then?Because every iPhone runs on Apple's iOS software. And if Apple were to attempt to unlock the phones used by Alshamrani, the company would have to purposely break iOS, creating a way to access all data stored on the devices.

But since the iPhones used by Alshamrani are, more or less, the same as those owned by you or me, any exploit Apple creates to unlock his phones, would work just as well on our phones.

"It's similar to, you know, why don't we just make it so that every single combination lock in the world that's made, the police have a combination they can input to get themselves into any lock," explained Justin Cappos, professor of computer science and engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

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"And why don't they have that? Because as soon as criminals figure out how to use that, then you're in trouble."

That's where the idea of some kind of "backdoor" falls flat. There isn't a single method that law enforcement can use to access all iPhones, or any devices for that matter, that will stay secret for long.

"Many people in the security community have expressed serious concerns about introducing a backdoor, as it is very difficult to monitor its use and contain the effects of any leaks e.g., someone leaking access to the backdoor," explained Petros Efstathopoulos, global head of research, NortonLifeLock Research Group.

In the world of cybersecurity criminals, hackers, and other malicious actors are constantly probing every piece of software they can find for weaknesses they can exploit to access your data, or take over your device.

Companies like Apple are, at the same time, continuously working to patch any potential flaws they find in their software to harden their defenses. The iPhone is especially secure, because Apple tightly controls its software compared to say Android, macOS, or Windows devices.

But because flesh and blood humans craft the operating systems we use, they are bound to introduce errors. Hackers then create viruses and malware, etc. that can exploit those errors to crack into your computer or other device.

And no matter how hard tech companies work to keep their devices and software safe, they'll always be one step behind the bad guys.

Purposely introducing a weakness into Apple's iOS, then, would make it all the easier for hackers to break open any iPhone they want.

"Apple is being very smart to say we don't want our phones to be hackable," Cappos said. "We don't want our phones to be weak. We want to protect someone who blogs about what's happening in Hong Kong. We want to protect anyone who uses our phone to have the right to privacy."

There's also the question of how foreign governments could abuse iPhone access, Cappos said.

"If you really, really trust your government in the United States and whoever is in power, you may be okay with law enforcement having a way to do this. But how do you handle situations when the Chinese government is asking for this? How do you handle situations when the Iranian government is asking to use this backdoor?"

Trusting the U.S. government's ability to keep the keys to every iPhone on Earth safe isn't a wise move either if past is precedent.

Take for instance, the National Security Agency's EternalBlue Windows exploit. The tool, developed by the NSA, was used to gain access to and take remote control of Windows PCs.

But EternalBlue became public in 2017 when a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers stole it from the agency, and released it to the world. From there, it was used to create the WannaCry virus and a slew of other pieces of malware, which continue to wreak havoc across the globe.

Importantly, EternalBlue was a tool the NSA developed by taking advantage of a then-unknown weakness in Windows. Now imagine what would happen if Apple purposely created a weakness in iOS, and you begin to understand why it could be such a dangerous move.

Every hacker would instantly begin poking at the operating system in an effort to access that weakness and attack as many iPhones as possible.

"As demonstrated by many cases in the past, if confidential information such [as] instructions or code allowing access to the backdoor mechanism is leaked, then everyone using that particular phone brand may be attacked," explained Efstathopoulos.

"This has obvious legal implications as well as practical implications on peoples lives, including physical safety."

What's more, the government has already proven it can break into iPhones without Apple's help. After the company refused a court order to give the Department of Justice a means to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters in 2016, the FBI announced it was able to break into the phone using a third-party tool.

Apple has made significant security improvements to iOS since then, which likely killed the avenue of attack used by that tool, but if the government was able to use a third party before, it stands to reason that it could do so again.

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Baseball Hall of Fame voters have had their morality tested in recent years. The same writers who wrote lovingly about the home-run surge in the 90s now have to grapple with the idea of voting suspected steroid users like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens into the Hall of Fame. Or, in Manny Ramirezs case, voters have to decide whether multiple positive tests should keep out one of the best hitters of his era.

But of all those players, none deserves more scrutiny than Curt Schilling. On a ballot filled with suspected and confirmed steroid users, Schilling is the most controversial player up for induction.

The baseball case for Schillings induction is easy. Over 20 seasons, Schilling was one of the most accomplished pitchers in baseball. He was a six-time All-Star, three-time World Series winner and arguably the best postseason pitcher of his era. By Jay Jaffes JAWS metric, Schilling did enough on the field to warrant a spot in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Despite all that, Schilling is the least deserving of the candidates to be seriously considered for the honor. The 53-year-old has spent the last few years rapidly disqualifying himself from the conversation by spreading hateful speech and dangerous rhetoric.

And yet, Schilling still finds himself trending in the right direction. As of Friday, Schilling has appeared on 79 percent of 2020 ballots, according to Ryan Thibodauxs fantastic Baseball Hall of Fame ballot tracker. While Schillings percentage will decline once private ballots get released, this is the best chance Schilling has at being inducted into the Hall.

His induction would be an egregious mistake. A vote for Schilling is confirmation that none of the abhorrent language hes pushed since his retirement matters. Schilling isnt held accountable for spreading hate speech or dangerous views. Instead, he gets rewarded with the largest possible platform and the most prestigious title in baseball. Its a slap in the face to the marginalized groups Schilling has targeted over the past couple years. It tells those communities baseball doesnt care about them, and turns those fans away from the game. A vote for Schilling confirms that baseball will not only accept, but reward horrible, hateful people.

While Schilling had been outspoken about his political beliefs during his playing career, he began to veer in a far more extreme direction once he retired and started working for ESPN. Schilling was suspended by the network in August 2015 after tweeting out a graphic that compared Muslims to Nazis. He was fired by ESPN in April 2016 after sharing a transphobic meme on his Facebook page. Schilling had been warned by ESPN multiple times that his conduct on social media violated the networks policy.

Months later, Schilling shared another tweet in which he applauded a shirt advocating for journalists to be hung. The following year, Schilling then working for Breitbart interviewed congressional candidate and white nationalist Paul Nehlen. Schilling agreed with and endorsed some of Nehlens opinions during the interview, which Breitbart quickly deleted in an effort to distance itself from Nehlen.

For a brief moment, it looked as though Schillings comments would doom him. Months after Schilling endorsed the journalists tweet, he lost support in his quest for the Hall of Fame. Schilling received 45 percent of the vote in 2017, a sign that there would be consequences for his words.

That was short-lived. Schilling saw his voting percentage rise to 51.2 percent in 2018 and 60.8 percent in 2019. Those increases came after Schillings podcast with Nehlen. The Hall of Fame voters were willing to punish Schilling when they felt slighted, but managed to look the away when others were attacked. Even more voters have taken that approach this time around.

Those who continue to cast votes for Schilling justify that vote in a couple ways. They argue that men with histories of questionable off-the-field behavior are already in the Hall of Fame, ignoring the fact that they dont have to keep that trend alive. They argue that they cant punish players for what they did off the field despite invoking the character clause to keep out suspected steroid users. But when more serious issues come into play, voters suddenly forget they can invoke the character clause. You only see voters use it when discussing Bonds alleged steroid use, not his multiple domestic-violence accusations. The character clause only gets used when voters find it convenient.

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The voters who use those justifications to support Schilling are only doing so to rationalize a bad decision. If they can find a loophole that allows them to conveniently ignore all the awful things Schilling has said, they dont have to grapple with the consequences of making him a Hall of Famer.

That line of thinking is, of course, deeply flawed. Voters cannot simply put Schilling in the Hall of Fame and then ignore everything that happens once hes there. Getting into the Hall of Fame is the highest honor a baseball player can achieve. Upon induction, that player is celebrated by thousands, gives an inspirational speech about his life and is forever immortalized in Cooperstown. It tells fans Schilling is a player deserving of adoration.

On the off chance Schilling doesnt make it this year, hes set up to eventually receive the honor. Players approaching the final years of eligibility usually gain votes in a last-ditch effort to get them in before they fall off the ballot.Schilling is in his eighth year of eligibility. Candidates remain on the ballot for 10 years before they lose eligibility.

Schilling doesnt deserve that push. It would ignore all the vitriol and hate hes pushed the past couple years. It taints the Hall of Fame, making it a worse, less inclusive place.

Voters can continue to rationalize their vote by telling themselves nothing Schilling has done away from the field matters, but they know thats not true. The hatred Schilling has spread matters more than anything he ever accomplished on a baseball field.

Every vote that pushes Schilling close to induction is complicit in both normalizing and rewarding his reprehensible behavior.

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When it comes to professional wrestling, surprises truly unexpected, jaw-dropping events are hard to come by. Over the past 25 years, fans of the medium can most likely count on one hand the moments where they were genuinely left in shock and awe by what transpired in front of them.

The major exception to that notion comes every January as WWE holds arguably its second-biggest pay-per-view of the year, the Royal Rumble.

Beginning in 1988, the event was built around an over-the-top-rope battle royale between 30 men (Female performers have sporadically appeared in the Rumble and, starting in 2018, received their own version of the match).

For more than three decades, the matchs structure has remained mostly unchanged.

The match starts with two entrants and at regularly timed intervals, another participant enters the ring. There is no limit to the number of participants in the ring at once and the only way to be eliminated is to be tossed over the top rope and having both feet touch the ground this rule results in some of the most fun moments in the matchs history, just ask Kofi Kingston.

Simply put, at some point every year the match becomes controlled chaos, with the winner earning a championship opportunity at that years WrestleMania.

The beauty of the Royal Rumble is that WWE purposely leaves some of the matchs participants unnamed. The air of unpredictability has resulted in several shocking moments, mostly in the form of injured stars making their triumphant return, a la John Cena in 2008 and Edge in 2010.

In January 2016 however, the Royal Rumble match featured a much different type of surprise, the third participant in the match wasnt a superstar returning from injury nor was he a talent that was working with the then-developmental NXT brand.

The entrant was A.J. Styles.

You have to think about it all, Styles told Yahoo Sports. Not only is it one of the biggest pay-per-views in WWE, its WWE in general. It was my first time under contract, working for a company that is easily the biggest in the world. Was I a little nervous? Oh yeah. Was anybody going to remember A.J. Styles? I had worked at this little place in Orlando, I was in Japan a lot, so I was a little nervous because I didnt know what to expect.

To hardcore wrestling fans, Styles coming to WWE was viewed as a near impossibility. At 38 years old, Styles was a well-known and respected veteran of the industry. Its rare someone with the stature and reputation Styles had garnered doesnt find him or herself in WWE at some juncture in their career, but to that point the Georgia native had worked primarily with competitors TNA and New Japan Pro Wrestling.

Styless celebrated run with NJPW had just ended earlier that month and, while it was known he was leaving the promotion, booking pre wrestlings hottest free agent into the Royal Rumble match needed to be something that was pulled off perfectly and covertly.

In retrospect, having Styles enter in one of the earliest possible positions made absolute sense. Fans who knew him would instantly become more engaged in the match, and those who were unfamiliar with his work were able to get a close-up look before the ring became too crowded.

I was in a position that gave me the opportunity to really shine, Styles recalled. When I walked out for the Royal Rumble, there was only one man in the ring. I went No. 3 and the spotlight was on me. The fans had no idea whose music was playing and then when they figured out who it was, it was even more exciting because they had no idea what would happen and they had no idea that AJ Styles was coming to WWE.

Styles was also able to get his own anxiousness out of the way early.

It couldnt have been any better. Once I step into the ring, those jitters and that nervousness goes away, that doesnt exist anymore. Walking down the aisle, yes, youre still feeling it.

Despite this being Styless first match with WWE in his career, there was little to no learning curve for the veteran star when it came to the technical aspect of the job. Traditionally, professional wrestlers will call the match while in the ring. This process entails one of the athletes essentially choreographing the match in real time. The participants will always know the outcome and will discuss major spots, but its on them to figure out how to get there.

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In the Royal Rumble, where there can be more than a dozen people in the ring at once, this is a near impossibility.

The way the match plays out is a little of both [forms of planning], Styles said. I had an idea of what was going to happen and what we were going to do, but once you get into that match, there are so many guys in there, you dont know who you are going to face when youre in there. Its unexpected. I had been in the business for 16, 17 years at that point so I was comfortable, all things considered.

Styles would last nearly 29 minutes in his first Royal Rumble, good for the 4th longest time in the hour-long match. It was his introduction to WWE and, while he didnt earn the spot in the main event of WrestleMania that April, Styles quickly skyrocketed to stardom in Vince McMahons company.

The three Royal Rumble events since his debut, Styles has either been WWE champion or challenged for the top title in the company, meaning he hasnt taken part in the pay-per-views signature match. This year, nearly four years to the day since his surprising debut, Styles gets another shot at winning the iconic match.

A.J. Styles is seen during an episode of "Monday Night Raw" on January 13, 2020. (Photo courtesy of WWE)

For me, even right now as we speak, Im excited because Ive only done one in my career in WWE, Styles said. I think it would be cool to be in it again because of the stature of the pay-per-view. We know WrestleMania is the biggest one, but which one comes second? I dont know. I find that more people think that the Royal Rumble is second. Its a big deal.

Royal Rumble takes place on January 26 at Minute Maid Park in Houston and can be seen on the WWE Network starting at 7pm ET.

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An evil mother has confessed to murdering her three year old daughter by leaving her home alone while she went on a week-long partying spree.

Maria Plenkina, 21, tragically deserted her infant daughter Kristina who was so hungry she tried to eat washingpowder, a Russian court has heard.

The girl was found naked having starved to death in a cold room in a rubbish-strewn apartment having eaten the small amount of food - yoghurt, chicken and sausages - her mother had left her.

Before leaving for her party week coinciding with Valentines Day last year, Plenkina turned off the water in the flat.

The girl's body was found by her grandmother Irina Plenkina, 47, whohad cometo wish her a happy third birthday.

The mother - branded evil by neighbours - now faces from eight to 20 years in jail for the cruel murder of her child.

Maria Plyonkina with baby Kristina. Source: Australscope

A criminal investigation into murder with extreme cruelty proved that Plenkina locked her daughter in the flat from 13 February and only returned on 20 February last year.

Psychiatrists found that she was sane and fully aware of her actions, the court was told.

The mother stayed with friend Anastasia Kurpina who said Plenkina lied to her that Kristina was being cared for by a friend.

Anastasia told investigators that she paid for her friends daily visits to nightclubs and cafes, buying her alcohol.

Not long before her week-long spree, Plenkina had split with her boyfriend.

Confessing to murder but saying she did not intend to kill her, Maria said she had left food for her child but gave contradictory accounts and could not say much many sausages.

Sobbing as she appeared in court, she said: I never wanted her to die.

A committee spokeswoman said: The girl's mother said that she deliberately closed the door of the apartment and left the house.

She was having a good time with friends and was on a spree.

Maria Plyonkina is facing 20 years in jail. Source: Australscope

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The childs distraught grandmother said she could have cared for the child if only she knew her daughter was leaving.

She lied to me that everything was fine, she said. She lied to everyone.

I never thought that Maria could do such a thing

If only I had had spotted something was wrong, I would have taken the girl to me.

There was never any sign of previous abuse, the grandmother claimed.

She has shown the highest class of professional acting - if you deceive everyone to such an extent.

I completely did not know my daughter,it turns out.

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