The Daily Populous

Saturday March 17th, 2018 evening edition

image for Xi Jinping reappointed as China's president with no term limits

BEIJING -- China's rubber-stamp legislature on Saturday unanimously approved the reappointment of Xi Jinping as president with no limit on the number of terms he can serve.

The National People's Congress also appointed close Xi ally Wang Qishan to the formerly ceremonial post of vice-president.

All 2,970 members of the National People's Congress in attendance approved Xi's reappointment, while Wang received just one vote against.

Xi, who leads the ruling 90 million-member Communist Party, was also reappointed as head of the government commission that commands the military.

Last weekend, he was given the right to continue in office indefinitely after the legislature scrapped term limits for the president and vice-president.

Xi took office as president in 2013 and hasn't said how many additional five-year terms he intends to serve.

State media has said the removal of term limits will not alter conditions for retirement or create a president in perpetuity, but has offered no details. »

Justice Department Fires Embattled FBI Deputy Director Just Short Of Retirement

Authored by npr.org

Justice Department Fires Embattled FBI Deputy Director Just Short Of Retirement.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday even though he was on the doorstep of retirement and receiving his pension after two decades of service to the bureau.

The FBI and Justice Department's compliance offices found no problems with the situation but Republicans called it a conflict of interest. »

Yale Study: Sad, Lonely Introverts Are Natural Born Social Psychologists

Authored by inquisitr.com

Introverts prone to melancholy are exceptionally good at accurately assessing truths about human social behavior, without formal training or tools.

Cognitive curiosity, cognitive ability, melancholy, and introversion predict social psychological skill, a new Yale study shows.

Co-authored by Anton Gollwitzer and John Bargh, two Yale psychologists, the study titled “Social Psychological Skill and Its Correlates” explores and investigates social psychological skill; skill at predicting social psychological phenomena. »

Facebook suspends Trump-linked firm Cambridge Analytica

Authored by thehill.com

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, citing policy violations.

Facebook deputy general counsel and Vice President Paul Grewal wrote in a post Friday night that the decision was made after reports that the firm did not fully delete data given to them by a University of Cambridge professor in violation of Facebook policies.

Grewal said Aleksandr Kogan had passed data from his app, which used Facebook login, to Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), which houses Cambridge Analytica. »

Russia says it snuck nuclear attack submarines near US bases undetected

Authored by businessinsider.com

Russian media reported on Friday that its military snuck nuclear attack submarines near US military bases and left undetected.

Russian media reported on Friday that its military snuck nuclear attack submarines near US military bases and left undetected just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin hyped up his country's nuclear capabilities.

Both the US and Russia have heavily entrenched mutually assured destruction nuclear postures, meaning that any nuclear strike on the US by Russia would be immediately returned by US missiles fired from silos, submarines, and airplanes pummeling Russia. »