Most Republicans Feel Embarrassed by Campaign, Poll Says

Alarmed by the harsh attacks and negative tone of their presidential contest, broad majorities of Republican primary voters view their party as divided and a source of embarrassment and think that the campaign is more negative than in the past, according to a New York Times/CBS News national poll released on Monday.

The dismay has not set back their leading candidate, however. While about four in 10 Republican voters disapprove of how Donald J. Trump has handled the violence at some of his rallies, Mr. Trump has also picked up the most support recently as several rivals have left the race. Forty-six percent of primary voters said they would like to see Mr. Trump as the party’s nominee, more than at any point since he declared his candidacy in June. Twenty-six percent favored Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and 20 percent backed Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.

Fully three-quarters of Republican primary voters expect Mr. Trump to be their party’s nominee.

Compared with Republicans, far more Democratic primary voters see their side as unified and say the campaign has made them feel mostly proud of their party.

Yet Democrats are more sharply divided over their candidates. Hillary Clinton has only a slight edge over Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and growing numbers of Democratic primary voters are more excited about Mr. Sanders as their possible nominee. In the past month, the level of enthusiasm for Mrs. Clinton among Democratic voters has fallen eight percentage points to 40 percent, while it has grown for Mr. Sanders by 12 percentage points to 56 percent. Still, more than seven in 10 Democratic voters expect Mrs. Clinton to win the nomination.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/us/politics/republican-democratic-voters-poll.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=2

Apple unveils smaller iPhone SE; Cook defends privacy stance

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday unveiled a smaller, cheaper iPhone aimed at emerging markets and possibly China, the world’s biggest buyer of smartphones, as the technology company looks to reverse a decline in worldwide sales of its most important product.

The new device, called the iPhone SE, has a 4-inch (10-cm) screen and represents Apple’s second bid for the crowded mid-tier market after an unsuccessful foray three years ago.

The more compact phone design comes after its expanded the size of the screens in its high-end iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones in 2014 to as large as 5.5 inches. That was broadly seen as an attempt to match rival Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) with its large-screen Galaxy phones.

Before the launch at Apple’s leafy Cupertino, California headquarters, Chief Executive Tim Cook defended the company’s refusal to comply with a U.S. court order to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in a December attack in San Bernardino, California.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-products-idUSKCN0WN0HA

AUSTRALIA’S GUN LAW DID NOT PREVENT SHOOTING AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS

 And yet restrictive laws placed on the ownership of firearms did not prevent a shooting on Friday outside the New South Wales state police headquarters in western Sydney, Australia.

Prime Minister John Howard’s 1996 “reform” was not designed to prevent mass murder. It was enacted to confiscated firearms.

Since the passage of the law there has been a number of mass murders in the country. Following the Port Arthur massacre which prompted the government to confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens, the following incidents occurred:

• 12 people where killed by three serial murderers in Snowtown.
• An arsonist murdered 15 backpackers in Childers, Queensland.
• A student went on a shooting spree killing two in Melbourne.
• An arson attack killed 10 in Churchill, Victoria.
• A man beat to death five people of the Lin family in North Epping, New South Wales.
• 11 people were burned to death by a nurse in Sydney.
• A man shot to death his wife and three children in Lockhart, South Wales.
• A woman in Cairns, Queensland stabbed to death eight children.
• http://www.infowars.com/australias-gun-law-did-not-prevent-shooting-at-police-headquarters/

The Associated Press to move to new NYC headquarters near World Trade Center site in 2017

The Associated Press plans to move its global headquarters from Manhattan’s far west side to a smaller, less-expensive space adjacent to the World Trade Center site, the news cooperative’s president said Wednesday.

The move, planned for early 2017, would bring the AP to 200 Liberty St, which is across the street from the Sept. 11 memorial in a waterfront neighborhood that has blossomed as the city has recovered from 9/11. At the time of the terror attacks, the building was known as One World Financial Center.

“We’re going to a better building in a better location for less money,” said Gary Pruitt, AP president and CEO.

He said the lease will be for at least 21 years, cementing the AP’s presence downtown for the long term.

The building would be the 11th corporate address in New York for the AP since it was founded in 1846 by a group of newspapers that wanted to share the costs of covering the Mexican War. It stands just blocks from one of the AP’s earliest addresses, 83 Liberty St.

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2015/08/26/the-associated-press-to-move-to-new-nyc-headquarters-in-2017