Visit comes less than a week after Pompeo was sworn in as secretary of state and 'aims to solidify ties with US allies'.

An anonymous reader quotes Investor's Business Daily: Shares in Charter Communications plunged after the cable TV firm reported first quarter earnings and lost more video subscribers than expected, also sparking a sell-off in Comcast and Altice USA... Charter said it lost 122,000 video subscribers, nearly triple analyst predictions for a fall of 43,000. Comcast on Wednesday said it lost 96,000 video subscribers, exceeding estimates for a drop of 75,000.... With Friday's sell-off, Comcast stock is down 20% in 2018, with Charter falling more than 24%... Cable TV firms aren't the only losers. AT&T this week said it lost 187,000 pay-TV customers, including satellite TV subscribers and its U-verse landline business. AT&T's DirecTV Now internet streaming service added 312,000 customers. But AT&T garners much lower profit margins from video streaming. Cable companies are now raising prices on broadband services to compensate, according to the article. MarketWatch notes that Charter also lost 100,000 customers in the same three-month period in 2017, calling the ongoing trend "a fundamental shift in consumer behavior."

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Senior PA intelligence official behind bombing that targeted PM's convoy, Gaza's interior ministry spokesman says.

If I were going to try to launch a possible Facebook competitor, I would start with the core user experience of FB. No mystery what that is. It’s a browser-based discussion board. Designed a good ten years ago. So we know how to do better. BTW, I got a really good start on such a piece of software. Spent a full year working on it. Still works great. JS front-end, Node back-end.

Heading to Seattle next week. Just to hang out. I hear the weather is spectacular. And prices for Airbnb's are rock bottom. It's a good time to head west for a few days with friends.

With two journalists dead and at least 12 others injured, international criticism of Israeli tactics grows.

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Joy Reid's apology: "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things, because they are completely alien to me."

I think she's lying. Honestly. It's just not believable.

Here's what is believable.

It is still somewhat jarring to see two men walking in the park holding hands. But jarring is ok. In fact jarring is good. It means a limit you have, something that's holding you back, is breaking. Eventually jarring turns into unusual, which becomes nothing, just part of life in the big city.

I took a walk in the middle of writing this piece, and noticed a male couple in front of me, holding hands. Normally I wouldn't have noticed it, but now it's on my mind.

Get this -- 20 years ago it felt weird to me to hug another man. I got over it. But sometimes it still feels weird. It still feels more natural for me to hug a woman.

I think if Reid were honest she'd say -- yes it was jarring for me to see a man kissing a man. And go from there to a broader message of healing. It's hypocritical of us to put down other people for feeling this way. Maybe we can listen better, and accept that other people find jarring what we find normal and remember when it felt jarring for us, and not hold it against them, as we wouldn't want it to be held against us. Had Joy Reid said that, I would be cheering her.

Unless zombies did actually modify her blog post.

A 39-year-old motorist pointed his Tesla S60 down a highway at 40 mph -- while sitting in its passenger seat, leaning back with his hands behind his head. Another motorist spotted the empty driver's seat and filmed the car. Now (nearly a year later) the Tesla's owner "has been banned from driving for 18 months," the Guardian reports. The driver, from Nottingham, pleaded guilty to one count of dangerous driving after admitting he switched seats when he turned on the car's autopilot mode, leaving the car's brakes and steering wheel unmanned. The driver admitted that the stunt in May last year had been silly, but insisted that he was simply "the unlucky one who got caught" trying out the "amazing" feature on the car. As well as the 18-month driving ban he was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. He was also put on a 10-day rehabilitation programme and will have to pay £1,800 in costs. A police officer called the behavior "reckless," adding that autopilot controls like the ones on Teslas "are in no way a substitute for a competent motorist in the driving seat who can react appropriately to the road ahead."

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How Iran's nuclear deal and a host of other factors are forging a new crude reality.

Al-Shabab attacks have long left Somalia's youth trapped indoors in a claustrophobic boredom, but a rare music concert is bringing some relief and is a sign that things may be changing.

The first of its kind in the US, the new Palestinian art museum displays over 70 pieces, ranging from photography to abstract art.

Facebook earned $4.99 billion in the first three months of 2018 (on sales of $11.97 billion). But their quarterly report included some new warnings, according to the Bay Area Newsgroup: In its 141-page filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday, Facebook -- like all public companies -- warned of risk factors, the official version of what might keep CEO Mark Zuckerberg up at night. Chief among them is the possibility of other Cambridge Analyticas. "We anticipate that our ongoing investments in safety, security, and content review will identify additional instances of misuse of user data or other undesirable activity by third parties on our platform," Facebook said in its 10-Q filing. It is a point that Zuckerberg made again and again during his Congressional testimony earlier this month. What's more, Facebook knows it won't catch everything, even though the company is investigating and auditing away after revelations that political data consulting firm Cambridge Analytica accessed the information of up to 87 million Facebook users without permission... "We may also be notified of such incidents or activity via the media or other third parties."

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The ILA air show demonstrates a panoply of new aircraft technologies, but it is drone technologies that are stunning crowds this year.