The Daily Populous

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House of Representatives will file impeachment charges against US President Donald Trump for alleged abuse of power.

Impeachment is the first part - the charges - of a two-stage political process by which Congress can remove a president from office.

If, following the hearings, the House of Representatives votes to pass articles of impeachment, the Senate is forced to hold a trial. »

Michigan’s second-highest court has dealt a legal blow to Nestlé’s Ice Mountain water brand, ruling that the company’s commercial water-bottling operation is “not an essential public service” or a public water supply.

The Michigan environmental attorney Jim Olson, who did not represent Osceola township but has previously battled Nestlé in court, said any claim that the Swiss multinational is a public water utility “is ludicrous”.

“What this lays bare is the extent to which private water marketers like Nestlé, and others like them, go [in] their attempts to privatize sovereign public water, public water services, and the land and communities they impact,” Olson said. »

The removal of the Lightning cable, along with other differentiating updates, will boost shipments and the average selling price of the high-end iPhone models, Kuo, a top Apple analyst, wrote.

Speculation has been building for several years that Apple plans to remove the Lightning cable.

The charger uses USB-C and requires iPhone users to buy a specific cable that goes from the Lightning connector to USB-C ports. »

Happily, the weekend before I saw Ahmed, I heard a single from the first Who album in many years.

The song is Pete Townshend’s take on the world’s most infamous prison: “Down in Guantánamo, we still got the ball and chain.

Much more that could have been said, then, but given its subject The Report is a surprisingly entertaining film. »