Bill de Blasio Says Bernie Sanders Would Have Beat Trump In 2016

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believes fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could have beaten Donald Trump in the 2016 election.

Asked whether Sanders would be in the White House today had he been the Democratic nominee in 2016, de Blasio told Politico that in his “heart” he believes the answer is yes.

“You know, hindsight’s 20/20, but I think when we look at it now, that was a moment where there was such desire for change,” said de Blasio, who endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

Though Clinton won the popular vote by more than 3 million votes in 2016, Trump ultimately prevailed in the Electoral College with 304 electoral votes to Clinton’s 227 electoral votes.

De Blasio, who ran Clinton’s successful Senate campaign in 2000, has lauded Sanders for years and dubbed meeting the Vermont senator as one of the highlights of his first term as mayor.

Still, de Blasio says he’s the best person to be president.

“I think the world of Bernie, but I would say I’m someone who has put these ideas into action consistently and effectively in a really tough environment,” said de Blasio, who is trailing far behind other Democratic candidates in the polls.

De Blasio joins several high-profile Democrats and Trump’s own pollster in speculating that Sanders would have won in 2016.

Head over to Politico to read the full interview with de Blasio.

2 women, 1 man dead after vehicle crashes into ravine: N.B. RCMP

Three people have died after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed down a cliff and landed in a ravine on Sunday.

New Brunswick RCMP says the crash in Prince William, N.B., near Nackawic, was reported shortly before 11:30 a.m.

Police believe the vehicle was traveling east when it drove across the median and went off the other side of the highway down a steep cliff, landing in a ravine.

An 83-year-old man, 91-year-old woman and 58-year-old woman – all from Ontario – died from their injuries.

Police are still investigating the cause of the crash.

TREASURIES-U.S. yield curve flattens more after Fed Bullard's view on trade

NEW YORK, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The spread between U.S. shorter- and longer-dated Treasury yields compressed more on Tuesday after St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard cautioned about protracted risks from trade for the Fed and the U.S. economy.

At 1:22 p.m. (1722 GMT), the two-year to 10-year part of the yield curve flattened to 11.2 basis points, its session low, while the five-to-30-year part of the curve flattened to 71.1 basis points. (Reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Dan Grebler)

U.S. 3-year notes sold at lowest yield in 2 years

NEW YORK, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sold $38 billion in three-year government notes at a yield of 1.562%, the lowest yield at an auction for this debt maturity since September 2017, Treasury data showed.

The ratio of bids to the amount of three-year notes was 2.41, up from 2.39 at the prior three-year auction in July. (Reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Dan Grebler)

Jon Huntsman resigns as Trump’s ambassador to Russia

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman has submitted his resignation to President Donald Trump and is reportedly mulling another run for governor of Utah. Huntsman’s resignation is effective Oct. 3, he said in his letter to Trump. The 59-year-old Huntsman is a former Utah governor who left that job in 2009 to serve as ambassador to China.

Check out this chart before blaming videogames for gun violence in America

When it comes to videogames causing gun violence in America, one expert told the New York Times in the wake of the shootings over the weekend that “the data on bananas causing suicide is about as conclusive.”

Still, many politicians continue to point their fingers at videogames — and, as gun-control advocates point out, just about anything other than the country’s lax gun laws.

For instance, following the mass shootings that left 31 people dead in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blamed videogames that “dehumanize individuals,” while President Trump said “gruesome” games create “a culture that celebrates violence.”

In fact, the blame game goes way back.

But even if videogames do lead to more aggressive behavior, as some studies suggest, that still doesn’t explain the outsized number of shootings in the U.S. relative to other countries.

Gamers, taking to the defensive, waved this chart from Vox around Twitter TWTR, +1.91% on Tuesday:

Meanwhile, the #videogamesaretoblame hashtag was trending, with all the snark you might expect from the social-media mob:

Brexit stand-off: Renegotiation or no-deal exit?

Today we look at how far Boris Johnson may have to go to deliver Brexit by the October deadline and discuss Wayne Rooney’s move to Derby as a player-coach.

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Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against New York Times back from the dead

NEW YORK — An appeals court has revived a defamation lawsuit Sarah Palin brought against The New York Times.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals restored the lawsuit Tuesday, saying Palin must be allowed to collect evidence to support her claims.

Still, it said Palin’s burden of proof was high to show the Times acted with actual malice when it published an editorial titled “America’s Lethal Politics” in 2017.

The onetime Republican vice presidential nominee sued over the editorial published after a gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers in Virginia, wounding U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise.

The Times’ editorial was corrected twice when readers complained it appeared to blame a political action committee belonging to Palin for “political incitement.”

A Times’ spokesperson says the newspaper is disappointed and will vigorously fight the lawsuit.

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