Could Rosie O’Donnell Play Donald Trump Or Steve Bannon On ‘SNL?’

Lorne Michaels, your phone is ringing. Rosie O’Donnell, longtime nemesis of President Donald Trump, trended on Twitter late Monday as “Saturday Night Live” fans urged the show to cast her in a key role. Some suggested O’Donnell play White House chief strategist Steve Bannon while others ― no doubt remembering her 2006 impression of Trump on “The View” (above) ― were hoping she could play the president himself. The tweets were inspired by Melissa McCarthy’s unforgettable portrayal of White House press secretary Sean Spicer last Saturday, which drew rave reviews from fans. But at least one loyal viewer wasn’t very happy about the skit. Politico reported that Trump didn’t like that Spicer was played by a woman, which led to calls for more women playing Trump administration figures on the show, starting with O’Donnell: O’Donnell replied: Someone even came up with an image of what she might look like in the role: Others want O’Donnell to portray Trump. “SNL” already has a memorable Trump impersonator in Alec Baldwin. However, the actor told The New York Times in December that due to upcoming film roles, his appearances in future skits will be intermittent. So could O’Donnell play the president when Baldwin is off? She certainly doesn’t seem opposed to that idea: Trump, @Rosie, was upset that a staffer was played by a woman, and you do a great impression of him. Willing to take one for the team? — Calvin Enemy Philips (@calvininsf) February 7, 2017 @calvininsf – i am here to serve – alec has trump – melissa has spice – i would need a few days to prepare – so if called – i will be ready — ROSIE (@Rosie) February 7, 2017 Needless to say, fans were excited by the possibility: Dear @nbcsnl,Now that we know for sure that being played by a woman bothers Trump:ROSIE ROSIEROSIEROSIEROSIE@Rosie Rosie O’Donnell — Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) February 7, 2017 Nothing against Alec Baldwin, he’s been doing a great job. But imagine the steam shooting out of Trump’s ears if Rosie O’Donnell plays him. — Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 7, 2017 I love Rosie O’Donnell, & for her to have the last laugh on Trump by playing him or Bannon on SNL would be poetic justice. — LIZZY (@AprilLa32529573) February 7, 2017 No but seriously can we draft Rosie O’Donnell to play Bannon on SNL? It might be the only way to save America. — Kate Cronin-Furman (@kcroninfurman) February 7, 2017 Top choices to play Trump on SNL: 1. Rosie O’Donnell2. Meryl Streep3. Megyn Kelly4. Hillary Clinton — Brooklyn Spoke (@BrooklynSpoke) February 7, 2017

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Enormous Black Hole Chews Star For a Decade

U.S. researchers have been tracking the incredibly lengthy meal of a giant black hole consuming a star for a record-breaking decade. And it’s still not done. Most black holes dispense of stars in a year or less. This one, spotted by University of New Hampshire scientist Dacheng Lin and his team, began devouring the star in 2005. The phenomenon is unfolding in the center of a galaxy 1.8 billion light years from Earth, the researchers revealed in a report in Nature Astronomy. The black hole — dubbed XJ1500+0154 — has been tracked by three orbital telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, via a sustained “tidal disruption event” in space linked to the intense gravity when a black hole rips apart and consumes a star. During such an event, some stellar debris is flung outward while the rest is sucked back into the black hole. As the star travels deeper inward to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare. The black hole is believed to be supermassive, as are most black holes at the center of larger galaxies, notes NASA. “We have witnessed a star’s spectacular and prolonged demise,” said Lin in a statement. “Dozens of tidal disruption events have been detected since the 1990s, but none that remained bright for nearly as long as this one.” Researchers don’t know what it all means but are captivated by the evolution of the black hole. “For most of the time we’ve been looking at this object, it has been growing rapidly. This tells us something unusual — like a star twice as heavy as our sun — is being fed into the black hole,” said researcher James Guillochon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The black hole is expected to continue consuming its star for several years to come. “This event shows that black holes really can grow at extraordinarily high rates,” said co-author Stefanie Komossa of QianNan Normal University for Nationalities in Duyun City, China. “This may help us understand how precocious black holes came to be.”

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Like Many Americans, A Judge On The Court Weighing Trump’s Refugee Ban Was A Refugee

Judge Alex Kozinski isn’t assigned to the three-judge panel considering a federal court’s halt of the travel ban. LOS ANGELES ― A federal judge who sits on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is set to rule on a block of President Donald Trump’s refugee ban, came to the United States as a refugee when he was a boy. All of the judges on the panel descended from immigrants, but Judge Alex Kozinski is likely the only one who specifically entered the country as a refugee. Kozinski, one of the most well-respected judges on the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, fled with his parents, Moses and Sabine, from communist Romania in 1962. Kozinski has spoken publicly about his immigration experience for years, even joking that he went from being a committed communist as a boy to an “instant capitalist” after his first trip outside of the Iron Curtain to Vienna ― on his way to the United States ― where he was introduced to “bubble gum, chocolate and bananas.” Alex with his father, Moses, and his mother, Sabine, about a year before the Kozinskis left Romania. But his journey came full circle on Monday when HIAS ― a refugee agency that has been assisting Jews and others fleeing persecution since 1881 ― filed a legal brief with the 9th Circuit in strong opposition to Trump’s travel ban. HIAS was the same group that helped to resettle the Kozinski family, eventually helping them get all the way to the United States. Until contacted by The Huffington Post, HIAS officials were unaware that one of the children it helped decades ago was now serving on the court to which it was appealing. Officials at HIAS searched their records and found official documentation of arrival for the Kozinski family. HIAS provided it to The Huffington Post, and it is printed here with the permission of Judge Kozinski. The Kozinski family arrived in Baltimore in late October 1962. Alex was just 12, Moses was 47 and Sabine 43. “[HIAS] was very generous and kind to us in all respects,” Kozinski told The Huffington Post of his journey to America. Kozinski recalled that the paperwork, all arranged and prepared by HAIS, was completed in Vienna around 1962. The agency then supported the Kozinskis while Moses and Sabine sought employment. “Then we came to the U.S. on a Sabena four-propeller airliner ― it took about 18 hours to cross the Atlantic, with one stop somewhere in Newfoundland,” Kozinski said. The Kozinskis landed in New York, where they passed through customs, like so many immigrants before them and after them. They briefly settled in Baltimore, where HIAS continued to support the family until Moses and Sabine found steady work. “Our caseworker was named Mrs. Friedman,” Kozinski said. “I remember her quite well. She smoked Parliaments.” After about five years in Baltimore, the Kozinskis moved to California in search of warmer weather. They’d settle in the Los Angeles area, where Moses would open a grocery […]

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Sheriff Killed By Liquid Nitrogen Trying to Save Worker At Sperm Bank

Federal officials have launched a probe into the safety of the storage facilities of a Georgia sperm bank after a local deputy sheriff was killed when he apparently inhaled leaking liquid nitrogen while trying to save a worker. Richmond County Sheriff’s Sgt. Greg Meagher, 57, raced into the Augusta Xytex sperm bank — twice — on Sunday after an emergency phone call that a worker was in distress. He was attempting to aid employee Anita Wiles, who was unresponsive, when Meagher was apparently overcome by a leak of liquid nitrogen, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported. An autopsy is pending. Wiles was in critical condition at a local hospital Monday night. A hazardous materials team responded and shut off two liquid nitrogen tanks at the facility. Liquid nitrogen, used to freeze sperm donations, quickly turns into a gas once released into the air, displacing oxygen. Victims are asphyxiated. “They were actually pumping him, like giving him mouth” to mouth, a sperm bank neighbor told WSBTV. “It was sad to see something like that.” Three other deputies who responded to the scene were treated for breathing difficulties at a local hospital and released Colleagues and friends mourned Meagher, whom they hailed as a hero. His patrol car, parked in nearby Daniel Village, was covered in flowers and notes in a memorial tribute. He was an “awesome man, awesome friend, father, community citizen,” friend Debbie Smith told WRDW TV. “You just don’t find a better man than that.” Investigators said Sgt. Meagher ran into that cloud of liquid nitrogen twice to try and save a woman. He died. She’s in critical condition. pic.twitter.com/7RlpRY3zap — Richard Elliot (@RElliotWSB) February 6, 2017 He was a 33-year veteran of the force, who survived being shot in the face in 2004 while assisting federal agents in a drug bust. The company said in a statement: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Sgt. Greg Meagher, his fellow deputies and our injured employee.” Investigators from the federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration were on the scene Monday, NBC reported.

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Vizio To Pay Millions After Secretly Spying On Customers, Selling Viewer Data

Vizio has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission after the television manufacturer was caught gathering customer data without permission for years. According to a complaint filed by the FTC and the attorney general of New Jersey, Vizio began making TVs in 2014 that automatically tracked what people were watching. Older devices were retrofitted remotely through software updates, and all of the data was gathered without telling consumers and without their consent. Vizio eventually accumulated “as many as 100 billion data points a day from millions of TVs,” which it then sold to advertisers. “Consumers didn’t know that while they were watching their TVs, Vizio was watching them,” the FTC wrote in a blog post following the settlement. The FTC detailed how the electronics giant used hidden tracking software to spy on its customers: On a second-by-second basis, Vizio collected a selection of pixels on the screen that it matched to a database of TV, movie and commercial content. What’s more, Vizio identified viewing data from cable or broadband service providers, set-top boxes, streaming devices, DVD players and over-the-air broadcasts. Add it all up and Vizio captured as many as 100 billion data points each day from millions of TVs. …We’re not talking about summary information about national viewing trends. According to the complaint, Vizio got personal. The company provided consumers’ IP addresses to data aggregators, who then matched the address with an individual consumer or household. Vizio’s contracts with third parties prohibited the re-identification of consumers and households by name, but allowed a host of other personal details – for example, sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education and home ownership. And Vizio permitted these companies to track and target its consumers across devices. Aside from the monetary penalty, Vizio must also stop the tracking, delete most of the data it collected before March 1, 2016 and require consumers to give consent before collecting their information. The company released a statement following the settlement announcement, saying it “never paired viewing data with personally identifiable information such as name or contact information.” “Today, the FTC has made clear that all smart TV makers should get people’s consent before collecting and sharing television viewing information and Vizio now is leading the way,” Jerry Huang, the general counsel for the company, wrote.

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Chicago ‘Suitcase Killer’ Issues Startling YouTube ‘Confession’

A young Chicago mother serving time in an Indonesian prison after her dead mother was found stuffed in a suitcase in Bali has issued a troubling statement in a series of YouTube videos saying she alone was responsible for the murder. During the three-part video, Heather Mack, 21, exonerates her boyfriend, whom she had previously accused of killing her mother. Mack is serving a 10-year sentence as an accessory to the murder in Bali. She and beau Tommy Schaefer, now 23, were traveling there in 2014 when the body of Shelia von Wiese-Mack, 62, was discovered in a suitcase in a taxi outside the luxury hotel where they were staying. Now Mack says she alone killed her mother and that she placed incriminating messages on Schaefer’s phone. The two have a daughter together, Stella, who is being raised by Mack in Bali’s infamous Kerobokon prison until she turns 2 in March. She was pregnant during the murder. “Since I was a kid, I’ve heard the truth sets you free. I never understood,” Mack says in one of the videos. “But I’m Heather Mack, and I want to be set free. I don’t want to live in a lie anymore.” Mack, wearing a sky-blue shirt and makeup, is startlingly poised on camera, almost as if she’s acting in a movie. “I’m sorry, Tommy Schaefer. I love you, I really love you,” she says at one point. “If I could go back, I would do it myself. I’m sorry that everyone that ever knew you thinks you’re a murderer .… I’m sorry everybody thinks you’re some crazy killer.” It’s not known when the videos were made. They were posted to YouTube on Thursday. Tommy Schaefer and Heather Mack leave prison with their baby, Stella, for a court appearance in 2015 shortly before they were found guilty in the murder of Mack’s mother. Mack’s attorney told Reuters he suspects that Schaefer somehow pressured her into making the video, but he offered no details. The videos could end up tacking time onto Mack’s sentence. “If Mack is indeed the mastermind of the murder, the video can be used as evidence in the case, and the sentence should be heavier than it is now,” a spokesman for the Bali prosecutor’s office told Reuters. But CBS News reports that investigators have evidence that implicates Schaefer as well as a cousin, Robert Ryan Justin Bibbs, who pleaded guilty in a Chicago court to helping plot the murder. He’ll be sentenced in May. According to a text obtained by investigators, Schaefer told Bibbs around the time of the murder: “Now I’m a millionaire … In about a year or so I’ll have all that money … A couple mil prob.” Mack’s tape could also be part of a defense strategy to help establish an emotional distress or insanity appeal. For the first time on the videos she claims her mother killed her father in an Athens hotel room when Mack was 10 years old. She said she discovered […]

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Enormous Black Hole Chews Star For a Decade

U.S. researchers have been tracking the incredibly lengthy meal of a giant black hole consuming a star for a record-breaking decade. And it’s still not done. Most black holes dispense of stars in a year or less. This one, spotted by University of New Hampshire scientist Dacheng Lin and his team, began devouring the star in 2005. The phenomenon is unfolding in the center of a galaxy 1.8 billion light years from Earth, the researchers revealed in a report in Nature Astronomy. The black hole — dubbed XJ1500+0154 — has been tracked by three orbital telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, via a sustained “tidal disruption event” in space linked to the intense gravity when a black hole rips apart and consumes a star. During such an event, some stellar debris is flung outward while the rest is sucked back into the black hole. As the star travels deeper inward to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare. The black hole is believed to be supermassive, as are most black holes at the center of larger galaxies, notes NASA. “We have witnessed a star’s spectacular and prolonged demise,” said Lin in a statement. “Dozens of tidal disruption events have been detected since the 1990s, but none that remained bright for nearly as long as this one.” Researchers don’t know what it all means but are captivated by the evolution of the black hole. “For most of the time we’ve been looking at this object, it has been growing rapidly. This tells us something unusual — like a star twice as heavy as our sun — is being fed into the black hole,” said researcher James Guillochon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The black hole is expected to continue consuming its star for several years to come. “This event shows that black holes really can grow at extraordinarily high rates,” said co-author Stefanie Komossa of QianNan Normal University for Nationalities in Duyun City, China. “This may help us understand how precocious black holes came to be.”

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