The Daily Populous

Tuesday July 17th, 2018 night edition

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Story highlights Donald Trump was asked Wednesday about a Tuesday report from Dutch investigators that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made rocket.

But Trump later said the culprit was "probably" Russia and pro-Russian fighters.

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump doesn't believe there is enough evidence to blame pro-Russian separatists for last year's downing of a commercial airliner over Ukraine -- despite the fact that the U.S. intelligence community believes "with confidence" that pro-Russian separatists shot it down.

"That's a horrible thing that happened," he said.

"It's disgusting and disgraceful but Putin and Russia say they didn't do it, the other side said they did, no one really knows who did it, probably Putin knows who did it.

Possibly it was Russia but they are totally denying it.".

Trump was responding to a question from CNN noting that the U.S. government assesses that the several points of available evidence all point to Russia. »

Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States

Authored by motherboard.vice.com

At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold.

"None of the employees, … including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software," the spokesperson said.

Wyden told Motherboard that installing remote-access software and modems on election equipment “is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.”. »

Jury Convicts Texas Man of Hate Crime in the Burning of Victoria, Texas, Mosque

Authored by justice.gov

The jury found Marq Vincent Perez, 26, of Victoria, guilty for a hate crime in the burning of the Victoria Islamic Center on Jan. 28, 2017, and for use of a fire to commit a felony.

In addition, they found he possessed an unregistered destructive device for an incident that occurred on Jan. 15, 2017.

The jury found Perez guilty on all counts as charged and deliberated for approximately three hours following a five-day trial. »

Massive study finds that a sizeable minority of us are in jobs that don’t fit our primary occupational interests

Authored by digest.bps.org.uk

In theory, our personal traits and interests should affect the jobs we pursue and where we thrive the most.

Now a surprising new study in the Journal of Vocational Behavior suggests that for many jobs, this simply isn’t true.

In fact, the first study showed no effect of occupational tenure – people longer in jobs did not have a better fit than newer incumbents. »

Decriminalize all drugs, Toronto health board urges Ottawa

Authored by thestar.com
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Canada’s largest public health board is calling on Ottawa to decriminalize all drugs, arguing that saving lives is more important than stigma-laced arguments against the idea.

Toronto’s public health board, a mix of city councillors and public appointees, voted 10-0 Monday to endorse the recommendation from Dr. Eileen de Villa, the city’s medical officer of health. »