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Chicago Tribune | Nov 03, 2020 at 10:21 AM When a 17-year-old thrust a gun in Roberto Avila-Juarez’s face in an attempt to rob him, Avila-Juarez, 20, made a quick calculation that helped him narrowly escape into his Hoffman Estates home on Oct. 26, according to prosecutors. But the following morning, in a window of about 30 minutes during which Avila-Juarez was alone in the home, the 17-year-old, Christian Armstrong, returned, entering through the unlocked front door and shot Avila-Juarez in the head at close range, killing him, according to Cook County prosecutors. Armstrong, of the 900 block of Grand Canyon Parkway in the northwest suburb, turned himself in to Hoffman Estates police Friday and was charged as an adult with attempted armed robbery and first-degree murder in connection with Avila-Juarez’s death, according to court records. He appeared in Rolling Meadows branch court before Cook County Judge Jill Cerone-Marisie, who ordered him held Monday in lieu of $100,000 bail with electronic monitoring should he post the $10,000 bond necessary to be released, according to court records and state’s attorney’s office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. The day before his death, Avila-Juarez had met up with two people, one of them Armstrong, who he previously had sold marijuana to, and Armstrong’s girlfriend, who contacted him on the video messaging app Snapchat to arrange a drug transaction, according to prosecutors. After the girlfriend drove Armstrong and Avila-Juarez somewhere else so Armstrong could buy marijuana, Armstrong, who was in the front seat, turned to Avila-Juarez in the back seat, pulled a gun and demanded his property, prosecutors said. Avila-Juarez said any additional property would be in his home in the 200 block of West Berkley Lane, according to court and police information. A witness told investigators she saw two males get out of a vehicle…

Filmmaker Kevin McCann writes for Culture about the late Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short-story writer, Dermot Healy, his collaborator on the short film Prison Door, which screens on RTÉ2 on Monday, November 9th. To celebrate the writer Dermot Healy who passed away in 2014, RTÉ will premiere the short film Prison Door on his birthday November 9th. I directed his screenplay for Prison Door and have many cherished memories of collaborating with the man once described by Roddy Doyle as "Ireland's greatest living writer". Irish artists, especially those of us from the border, hold the name of Dermot Healy up high. He was a beloved novelist, poet, short story writer and playwright. The late Séamus Heaney called him "the natural heir to Patrick Kavanagh". What struck me about Dermot was how he spoke with nature’s tongue. Silences, mutterings, long 'hmmmms' and musical tones were welcomed into the spake. In a conversation with Dermot, other parts of your spirit were speaking to other parts of his. A scene from Prison Door Dermot lived much of his life in Cavan, before moving to Sligo with his second wife Helen into a picturesque cottage right on the coast. For 26 years, they enjoyed the sound of the sea and a view of Benbulben sitting behind a limestone sea-ledge known as Serpents Rock. Irish artists, especially those of us from the border, hold the name of Dermot Healy up high. According to Helen, Dermot had a galvanised roof put on their cottage to hear the rain. Serpents Rock is a timeless place. With an old friend from Cavan, Skinny McArdle, he had fought back Atlantic waves by building cages of rocks to protect the road which ended at the cottage. Prison Door In 2012, I drove over to see Dermot to discuss working together. After…

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Twitter's board on Monday said Jack Dorsey will remain chief after a management review prompted by an activist investor's effort to push him out of the job.Twitter in March made a deal with key investors to end an effort to oust Dorsey, creating a new committee on the board of directors to keep tabs on company leadership.The plan called for a fresh investment in Twitter by private equity group Silver Lake, and a pledge by the social media group to launch a $2 billion share repurchase plan.The deal also enabled the hedge fund Elliot Management -- which had been pressing to remove Dorsey -- to get its partner Jesse Cohn a seat on the board of the San Francisco-based firm.As part of the agreement, Twitter created a temporary board committee to "build on our regular evaluation of Twitter's leadership structure."Twitter had been facing pressure by Elliott Management, which owns about four percent of the company, to replace Dorsey, amid concerns he has spread himself too thin by running Twitter along with the digital payments firm Square."The committee expressed its confidence in management and recommended that the current structure remain in place," the board said Monday in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.The board endorsed the committee's recommendations.gc/jh

(Reuters) - Twitter and Facebook late on Monday both flagged a post by President Donald Trump that called a U.S. Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania "very dangerous." The U.S. Supreme Court last week allowed extended deadlines for receiving mail-in ballots in Tuesday's election in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, states pivotal to Trump's re-election chances. The decision let stand a ruling by Pennsylvania's top court allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to three days later to be counted. "The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one," Trump wrote in his post on both platforms. "It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!" Twitter added a disclaimer to Trump's tweet, saying that its content was "disputed" and "might be misleading." The action was in line with Twitter's "civic integrity policy," a Twitter spokesman told Reuters, saying that the social media the platform will "significantly restrict engagements" on the tweet. Twitter's disclaimer included a link to information on how voting by mail is "legal and safe." Facebook posted a disclaimer saying that voting by mail and voting in person have a "history of trustworthiness" in the U.S., with voter fraud being extremely rare. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Susan Wojcicki, chief executive officer of YouTube.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump may dominate YouTube's home page on Election Day. But that slot won't be available for advertisers to buy in the same way again, according to a recent policy update by YouTube.The Google-owned company confirmed to CNBC Monday that it will be "retiring" reservations for full-day advertisements on its coveted home page ad spot known as its masthead beginning in 2021, a change it said it communicated to advertisers earlier this year. Instead, advertisers will only be able to buy that spot on a per-impression basis, making it harder for a single advertiser to dominate the page for a day at a time."For years, advertisers asked us for more flexible options for appearing in the YouTube masthead, which is why we introduced the cost-per-thousand (CPM) Masthead in 2019 and earlier this year told advertisers that it would be our primary masthead reservation option in 2021," the company said in an emailed statement. "This change gives advertisers more budget flexibility and applies across all verticals -- not just political advertisers."Google says the change affects all advertisers, and is not connected "in any way" to the election or political advertising broadly.The masthead costs approximately $2 million a day, according to the New York Times. It's not clear how many people see view the masthead or see that ad spot, but overall YouTube claims to deliver more than one billion hours of video every single day.The company has come under scrutiny in recent weeks as the U.S. presidential election drew nearer, with President Donald Trump purchasing the masthead slot in the two days preceding Election Day, along with Election Day itself. It has reportedly become a source of tension between the company and the Democratic National Committee, which claimed YouTube was not clear…

Defend East County, the controversial social media group formed after Black Lives Matters protests in La Mesa in May, has been removed from Facebook, but in a swift reaction, the creator of the group has re-established a similar page. It’s still not officially known why the original group was removed over the weekend. An email request from NBC 7.com to Facebook has yet to be returned. Download our free NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get San Diego’s latest First Alert Weather and breaking news. Local The group, which had more than 22,000 members, was established by Justin Haskins, who has also not responded to requests for comment from NBC 7. Defend East County’s logo can now be found on a page called Working Class Patriots. Haskins posted a message that said, “We are working to vet and approve.” By Monday afternoon, the page had grown to 1.6k members. Haskins also posted an interview that said Facebook was “suppressing conservative voices" and mocked the social media site as “Facistbook” for shutting down what he called the “most successful patriot group in California.” Defend East County has been a controversial site that some say promotes racism and violence. The foiled abduction plot of the Michigan governor has put a new spotlight on domestic militia groups. NBC 7's Artie Ojeda explains if there's any risk locally. In an October interview with NBC7.com, Haskins sought to distance the page from any militia groups, though he steadfastly said he supported the intent of militias. “Defend East County is a community,” Haskins said at the time. “The group grew very quickly, and we realized we had a platform, and I’ve tried to use that platform to bring the community together in defense and support of the community,” added Haskins in the October interview. Haskins did say at…

Between October 24 and 30, President Donald Trump’s campaign spent $4.48 million on Facebook ads while former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign spent $9.28 million. L to R: JIM WATSON/AFP-Getty Images, MORRY GASH/AFP/Getty Images While political advertising on Facebook has been part of presidential candidates’ campaigns for the past several election cycles, the hyper-targeted and fragmented nature of advertising on the platform has made taking a granular look at their strategies nearly impossible. This time, however, the social network has collected and made publicly available tens of thousands of ads from President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. That’s thanks to Facebook’s Ad Library, which debuted in 2018 as a way of improving transparency on the platform after foreign actors used it to influence the 2016 election. (Facebook’s political advertising came under additional scrutiny last week after the platform’s technical systems mistakenly blocked thousands of ads from Biden’s election campaign along with some from Trump’s as a part of its new ban on political ads a week before the election.) Now, every ad bought by a Facebook page on behalf of a political candidate or political or social issue is available for review and shows both the content of the ads running at any given time along with who they’re targeting, how many users they’re reaching and what they cost. Given the sheer scale and variety ads created and placed and the different groups they reach, it’s hard to concisely describe—let alone take stock of—both candidates’ ad libraries. (Facebook has also faced criticism for allowing politicians to run ads with lies, and recently sought to shut down a research project at New York University that examined the company’s practices around political ad-targeting.) However, looking at each candidates’ library allows users and voters alike to make decisions based on…