• Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead's" season nine, episode 11, "Bounty."
• Sunday's episode changed things up by partially showing AMC's zombie drama from the POV of a deaf character, Connie (Lauren Ridloff).
• Episode director Meera Menon told INSIDER the team checked in with Ridloff, a deaf actress, to make sure everything felt authentic to her experience. 
  
  

Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead" did something we've never seen before. Part way through the episode, AMC's zombie drama swapped points of view to show us the apocalypse from the viewpoint of Connie (Lauren Ridloff), a deaf character on the show. 

After hiding in a cornfield from the Whisperers, Connie ducks from safety to heroically save a baby from a group of the undead before hurtling herself into the corn maze. What follows is a scene which plays out like something in a mini-horror movie. With the sound garbled, we follow Connie as she scrambles through the field and you're able to experience the stress of the bleak situation alongside her as she fights off characters who could just as easily be walkers or Whisperers.

"[Showrruner] Angela [Kang], the very first conversations I had with her, they were very interested in playing that sequence in that aversive style, handheld work, kind of close angle, tight-angled on Connie, a little bit frenetic, a little bit disoriented, playing with sound design to really anchor our sense of Connie's point of view in this environment," episode director Meera Menon told INSIDER. "All of that stuff was kind of on the page from the very beginning, and then it was up to us to really be able to execute on it."

Filming in a corn maze also helped add to the viewer's disorientation, while heightening the sense of urgency.

"The corn maze, the good part about it, if you look in any given direction, you don't necessarily know where you are," Menon continued. "So we could shoot in one direction, shoot a bunch of stuff, shoot in another direction, shoot a bunch of stuff, and cut it together. If it didn't necessarily make sense, that was OK as a sequence."

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Menon says Ridloff, a former Broadway actress who was born deaf, had input on the scene as well to ensure it felt authentic.

"We were always checking in with Lauren about what felt right," said Menon. "There's a lot of looks that connect to Connie throughout the course of the episode once she hides in that field. She's spotting a lot of things. She's putting the puzzle pieces together based on what she sees. In terms of how I was staging it, I was always checking in with her to make sure, like, 'OK, can you really see this? Can you not see this? I want to make sure that it's real.'"

The added effect of not being able to hear who may be coming from any direction throws off the viewer as you're waiting to see whether or not Connie may be grabbed by a walker, Whisperer, or someone else in the 90-second sequence.

"Her biggest concern, and mine as well, and this would be across the board for any character, is to make sure the character's intelligence shines through," Menon added. "If they've made it this long in this world, those skills are sharp. You're always wanting to make sure that these characters come across in the smartest way possible. We really worked with Lauren to make sure that the staging of everything and how Connie was experiencing this made sense."

The baby Connie saved is safe and sound with Tammy Rose and Earl for now and it seems like the Whisperers aren't concerned about getting that baby back. But Connie just volunteered to go track down the Whisperers with Daryl and Dog to go after Henry and Lydia. They may not be as forgiving or as thankful Connie snatched up one of their own if they run into her again. 

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• The Oscars have repeatedly nominated and neglected numerous actors.
• They include Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Bradley Cooper, who all lost Oscars this year.

Each year, deserving performances lose out in the Oscars' best acting categories. But there are a handful of great actors that the Academy has repeatedly nominated and neglected. 

Both Amy Adams (six nominations) and Glenn Close (seven nominations) lost on Sunday to Regina King and Olivia Colman, respectively.

Both Bradley Cooper and Willem Dafoe were nominated for their fourth acting Oscars this year (Cooper has a total of seven nominations for producing "American Sniper" and "A Star is Born," and writing "A Star Is Born"). Both lost in the best actor race to Rami Malek for his performance in "Bohemian Rhapsody."

And all-time great Peter O'Toole, unfortunately, had it even worse.

Here are the 23 actors who have been nominated for at least four Oscars without winning once:

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Bradley Cooper — 4 nominations

Best actor nominations:"Silver Linings Playbook" (2012), "American Sniper" (2014), "A Star Is Born" (2018)

Best supporting actor nominations: "American Hustle" (2013)

Willem Dafoe — 4 nominations

Best actor nominations:"At Eternity's Gate" (2018)

Best supporting actor nominations:"Platoon" (1986), "Shadow of a Vampire" (2000), "The Flordia Project" (2017)

Michelle Williams — 4 nominations

Best actress nominations: "Blue Valentine" (2010), "My Week with Marilyn" (2011)

Best supporting actress nominations:"Brokeback Mountain" (2005), "Manchester by the Sea" (2016)

• Netflix's "Roma" won Oscars for best cinematography, foreign film, and director on Sunday.
• The cinematography win for director Alfonso Cuarón marked the first time a director of a movie won for shooting their own movie.
• It was also the second black-and-white movie to ever win for best cinematography after black-and-white and color movies were combined into the same category.
• The movie's best foreign film win was the first ever for a Mexican movie.
• Cuarón also won for best director.

It was quite an Oscar night for Netflix and its movie, "Roma." 

Alfonso Cuarón's semi-autobiographical look at his childhood growing up in Mexico City won Oscars for best cinematography, foreign film, and director. And some of those wins were historic.

Cuarón's win for shooting "Roma" made him the first director ever to win an Oscar for shooting their own movie. And the movie was also the second black-and-white movie to ever win the award since black-and-white and color movies combined into the same category over 50 years ago. The other winner was "Schindler's List" in 1994.

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And with "Roma" winning best foreign film, it marked the first time a Mexican movie had won in that category.

Cuarón also won for best director. It was his second time winning this category in his career. He previously won in 2014 for "Gravity."

But the movie could not get the night's big award. It lost best picture to "Green Book." Netflix, which made a big push into original movies last year, has never won the Academy's top prize.

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• Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga performed "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born" on Sunday night at the 91st Academy Awards at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. 
• To start the performance, Cooper and Gaga walked straight on stage from their seats in the audience. After they finished singing, the crowd went wild and gave them a standing ovation. 
• Cooper and Gaga then exited backstage and the Oscars went to a commercial break. 
• During the break, the two stars came back on stage so they could head back to their seats. 
• The Hollywood Reporter's Chris Gardner recorded a video showing the crowd giving Cooper and Gaga a second standing ovation when they came out. Watch the unprecedented moment below. 

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• "Green Book" won the best picture Oscar on Sunday.
• But controversy has surrounded the movie this entire awards season.
• One of the writers, Nick Vallelonga, deleted his Twitter account last month after a controversial 2015 reply to Donald Trump resurfaced.
• Director Peter Farrelly apologized last month for flashing his genitals in front of colleagues in 1998.
• Relatives of Don Shirley, who Mahershala Ali plays in the movie, have raised concerns that "Green Book" misrepresents the real-life musician.

Universal's "Green Book" won the best picture Oscar on Sunday after facing multiple controversies throughout this awards season.

"Green Book" tells the true story of Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer at clubs in New York City who takes a job driving African-American musician Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) during a tour through the Deep South in the 1960s. It's directed by Peter Farrelly, who's known for slapstick comedies like "Dumb and Dumber," and written by Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, and Tony's son, Nick Vallelonga.

The movie also won best supporting actor for Ali and best original screenplay. Last month, it won three Golden Globes, including best comedy or musical, best supporting actor (Ali), and best screenplay, as well as the Producers Guild Award for best film. 

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The recognition wasn't without backlash, though.

Nick Vallelonga deleted his Twitter account last month after a 2015 tweet resurfaced, in which Vallelonga replied to a claim by Donald Trump that "thousands of people" were cheering in Jersey City, New Jersey after the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Vallelonga apologized for the tweet after it resurfaced. 

"100% correct. Muslims in Jersey City cheering when towers went down. I saw it, as you did, possibly on local CBS news," Vallelonga tweeted.

The claim was debunked by multiple outlets including The Washington Post, which wrote in 2015, "an extensive examination of news clips from that period turns up nothing," and "neither can we find any examples of Trump previously talking about this." 

Farrelly also came under fire last month after The Cut resurfaced 1998 reports that Farrelly flashed his genitals in front of colleagues. Farrelly quickly apologized for his past behavior.

"I was an idiot," Farrelly told The Hollywood Reporter. "I did this decades ago and I thought I was being funny and the truth is I'm embarrassed and it makes me cringe now. I'm deeply sorry."

Additionally, the contents of the movie itself have sparked criticism from a number of Shirley's family members, who claim the movie misrepresents him. Both Vallelonga and Shirley died in 2013.

"They decided to make Don Shirley estranged from his black family, though that was not true," Shirley's great niece, Yvonne Shirley, told The Hollywood Reporter. "They decided to make him absurdly disconnected from black community and culture, though that was not true. They decided to depict him as having spent his formative years in Europe, though he spent them in the Deep South where he was born and raised. They decided to create a story of a white man's redemption and self-realization using an extraordinary black life and a history of black oppression in this country as their backdrop."

Farrelly and Vallelonga have pushed back against the Shirley family's concerns. In an October email provided to THR, Farrelly wrote to one of Shirley's relatives, "At no time in the film do we state that Dr. Shirley was never close to his family; we just show that during that two-month period in his life, they weren't particularly close, which makes sense."

Vallelonga told THR that he interviewed both his father and Shirley in the 1980s for research. He claimed that Shirley requested that the script only focus on his and Vallelonga's relationship, that he not interview anyone else, and that the movie not be released during his lifetime.

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• Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead's" season nine, episode 11, "Bounty."
• INSIDER breaks down some of the smaller moments and nods you may have missed on Sunday's episode of the AMC zombie series, including a mention that Oceanside's still intact and parallels to season four with another villain.

Jesus returned! (Sort of.) Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead,""Bounty," kicked off with a nice flashback sequence which showed us more of Tom Payne's dearly departed Jesus, who was killed off the show in November's mid-season finale. 

The majority of Sunday's episode was split between the Hilltop's standoff with Alpha and King Ezekiel's side mission to an abandoned theater to gather an important item for his upcoming fair to bring the communities closer. 

We're mixing it up a little bit this week. In addition to some nods and references to past episodes, I'm adding in a few plot details you may have overlooked, which I think may be good to keep in mind as the season continues. Keep reading to see what you may have missed on Sunday's "The Walking Dead."

The Easter eggs start right as the episode opens with Ezekiel's watch.

If you weren't looking at your screen right as the episode started you may have missed Ezekiel's watch turn to 9:11 a.m. "Bounty" is the 11th episode of season nine.

Tara hands over a stolen charter for the new communities to King Ezekiel. A close look at the words on it call back to season eight.

We first saw Michonne start to work on that charter before Rick left the show. Michonne had first looked at a poster highlighting the US Constitution on the season nine premiere for inspiration as she and the group raided Washington, D.C. for supplies.

According to "Talking Dead," if you look closely at the finished charter, part of it reads, "The world is ours by right." That's something Rick famously said on the season eight premiere when addressing multiple communities against Negan. 

As he's discussing plans for the upcoming fair, Ezekiel mentions Oceanside in passing.

I thought this was a significant mention that may be overlooked. We haven't seen the ramifications of the time jump on Oceanside or its leaders since Rick departed the show on the helicopter. It wasn't clear whether or not the group even still existed. They could have been wiped out similar to the Sanctuary. 

Here, Ezekiel makes it clear at least some of that group is intact when suggesting gathering enough food to share with them. 

• "Green Book" took home the Oscar for best picture.
• It's a controversial pick, as the movie dealt with bad press through award season.
• Controversies included an anti-Muslim tweet by one of its screenwriters and the questioning of its portrayal of real-life events.
• Despite that, along with the best picture Oscar, the movie also won best original screenplay while its star Mahershala Ali won for best supporting actor.

Universal's "Green Book" took home the best picture Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday night, and that's not sitting well for many. 

Though the movie was a frontrunner through most of award season, it weathered many controversies leading up to Hollywood's biggest night.

Days after the movie won two Golden Globes, including one for best comedy or musical, one of the movie's screenwriters, Nick Vallelonga, deleted his Twitter account after a 2015 tweet resurfaced in which Vallelonga replied to a claim by Donald Trump that "thousands of people" were cheering in Jersey City, New Jersey, after the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.

"100% correct. Muslims in Jersey City cheering when towers went down. I saw it, as you did, possibly on local CBS news," Vallelonga tweeted.

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That claim was debunked by numerous media outlets in 2015.

And the movie's director, Peter Farrelly, came under fire after the Globes when stories from 1998 resurfaced of the director — who is known best for making gross out comedies like "Dumb and Dumber" and "There's Something About Mary"— flashing his genitals in front of colleagues. 

"I was an idiot," Farrelly told The Hollywood Reporter after the resurfaced stories came out."I did this decades ago and I thought I was being funny and the truth is I'm embarrassed and it makes me cringe now. I'm deeply sorry."

There were also knocks about the movie on how it portrayed the real-life events it's based on.

"Green Book" tells the true story of Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer at clubs in New York City who takes a job driving African-American musician Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) during a tour through the Deep South in the 1960s.

A number of Shirley's family members claim the movie misrepresents him. Both Vallelonga and Shirley died in 2013.

"They decided to make Don Shirley estranged from his black family, though that was not true," Shirley's great niece, Yvonne Shirley, told The Hollywood Reporter. "They decided to make him absurdly disconnected from black community and culture, though that was not true. They decided to depict him as having spent his formative years in Europe, though he spent them in the Deep South where he was born and raised. They decided to create a story of a white man's redemption and self-realization using an extraordinary black life and a history of black oppression in this country as their backdrop."

Nick Vallelonga told THR that he interviewed both his father and Shirley in the 1980s for research. He claimed that Shirley requested that the script only focus on his and Vallelonga's relationship, that he not interview anyone else, and that the movie not be released during his lifetime.

These controversies led to many taking to social media throughout the rest of award season speaking out against the movie. And on Oscar night there was even some shade thrown at the movie.

If you look closely, you can see presenter Samuel L. Jackson giving a puzzled look when opening the envelope for best original screenplay and seeing "Green Book" was the winner.

Then he gives the side eye to "Green Book" screenwriter Brian Hayes Currie when handing him his Oscar.

Despite all the negative press leading up to Oscar night, "Green Book" came out on top.

It won best picture and best original screenplay wins, while its star Ali picked up the Oscar for best supporting actor.

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• Paul Rudd appeared at the 2019 Oscars on Sunday night at the Dolby Theatre to present the award for best visual effects with Sarah Paulson.
• Viewers said that the 49-year-old actor seemed to be "aging in reverse."
• They also said that his appearance hasn't changed since he starred in the 1995 movie "Clueless."

Paul Rudd appeared at the 2019 Oscars, and viewers couldn't stop talking about his "ageless" appearance.

On Sunday at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre, Rudd, who stars as Scott Lang/Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, presented the award for best visual effects with Sarah Paulson (which went to "First Man"). Fans took to social media to gush over the 49-year-old's youthful look. 

Viewers said that Rudd 'ages like a fine wine.'

They also said that his appearance hasn't changed since he starred as Josh in the classic 1995 movie 'Clueless.'

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Many people were curious to know more about Rudd's skincare routine.

Others compared the actor to vampires, supernatural creatures that are known for being immortal.

Some people also thought it was funny that Rudd was presenting the award for best visual effects.

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Digital has transformed retail possibilities.

And with e-commerce sales growing at nearly five times the rate of brick-and-mortar sales, retailers need to find cheaper and more efficient ways to deliver e-commerce orders.

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Drone technologies continue to improve at a rapid pace and are slowly pushing the unmanned aircraft toward the mainstream. Companies in a variety of industries are now looking to use drones to cut costs, boost efficiencies, and create new revenue streams and business values, such as last-mile retail deliveries.

But regulatory roadblocks are still holding back widespread commercial drone use in most large, developed markets. Many countries still have laws on the books that regulate drones as other aircraft, such as planes or helicopters, and prevent unmanned aircraft from flying beyond a few miles from the operator. That makes laws and regulations arguably the chief determining factor in the development of the commercial drone industry worldwide. 

This new report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, will give a high-level overview of commercial drone regulations around the world. We detail the major changes in global drone regulations over the past year, and show how regulators are working to stay ahead of the nascent, yet valuable devices. In addition, we show how regulatory changes will impact the industry and allow for new enterprise use cases in the next few years.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

• Regulations have helped the US, Europe, and China become the three largest potential markets in the world for commercial drone use.
• In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) governs all commercial and consumer drone use. Meanwhile, a slew of states have their own regulations that companies deploying drones have to navigate through.
• In Europe, the lack of EU-wide drone regulations creates a patchwork of national regulations that resembles the state-level rules in the US.
• In China, the military controls over half of the airspace, confining drones to a small area of the country relative to the US and other nations.
• While on paper several of the regulations in Europe are the same as in the US, many European countries have been far more lenient in granting exemptions to their requirements.
• Commercial drone laws in most of these countries are set to change to allow for more widespread use in the next couple years, helping operators fly their aircraft in new locations and for new use cases.

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• Disney released a new teaser for "The Lion King" remake during the Oscars that didn't really show off much new footage.
• What you should be excited about is a new poster that was also revealed. It gives us our first glimpse of Mufasa in the movie.
• "The Lion King" will be in theaters July 19, 2019. 

Disney released a new teaser trailer for its upcoming "The Lion King" movie. If you were hoping for more new footage from the movie and reveals of some of its other characters like Scar, Timon, and Pumbaa, you were out of luck.

While the teaser didn't offer up much exciting new footage, Disney also released a new poster for the movie that had people talking. 

Not only does the poster channel one for the animated movie's theatrical release, but it also gives us our first glimpse of Mufasa. Take a look:

There are a few takeaways from this poster, but the biggest is that we're getting our first real look at Mufasa.

The poster depicts a scene from early on in the animated movie when King Mufasa tells Simba that everything the light touches is part of their kingdom. Directly after, the two walk among the plains and Mufasa tells his son that they are all connected in the great circle of life. 

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If the poster itself felt familiar, it's because it channels another one from the theatrical IMAX re-release of "The Lion King" in December 2002, which uses the same warm color palette. 

Here they are larger, side by side: 

Disney's marketing for the movie is heavily leaning on the nostalgia factor for the movie. Its first teaser trailer was a near recreation of the animated movie's opening. 

One more thing to take note of on the poster is the order of the voice talent listed at the top. 

Seth Rogen is second to Donald Glover's Simba, suggesting Rogen's role as Pumbaa may be larger than what we thought. His name appears before Chiwetel Ejiofor, who voices the villain, Scar, and a few spots ahead of Billy Eichner, who lends his voice to Timon. And, yes, in case you were worried, James Earl Jones is returning to reprise his role as the King of Pride Rock. 

"The Lion King" will be in theaters July 19, 2019.

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. Huawei unveiled a 5G foldable phone, the Mate X, at Mobile World Congress. Huawei one-upped Samsung with a 5G version of its folding phone.
2. Microsoft revealed the HoloLens 2, its new $3,500 holographic headset that seems to improve on the original in every way. Business Insider got hands-on with HoloLens 2 back in January, and found it to be futuristic and promising, but also a little glitchy in the early form in which we tried it.
3. Microsoft and the creator of "Fortnite" have formed an alliance that could put a ton of pressure on Apple and Google. Microsoft has said that it will allow anybody to open an app store for its new HoloLens 2 headset, and the plan has won over Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.
4. After a big privacy backlash, Google's Nest explains which of its products have microphones and why. Last week Google told Business Insider that the microphone in its Nest Guard home security device was "never intended to be a secret."
5. Nokia's new $700 smartphone has an insane 5 cameras, blowing up the 2019 trend for 3 lenses. The five cameras are arranged in a pentagon shape on the rear of the phone, and impressively don't add any extra bump or bulk.
6. Jeff Bezos gave a 30-minute private talk to a members-only event at the Yale Club in New York. Bezos said his private aerospace company, Blue Origin, would launch its first people into space aboard a New Shepard rocket in 2019.
7. Netflix's "Roma" made history with its Oscar wins despite losing best picture to "Green Book." Netflix's "Roma" won Oscars for best cinematography, foreign film, and director on Sunday.
8. A whole crop of new Android phones just got dedicated Google Assistant buttons, whether people want them or not. LG, Nokia, Xiaomi, and Vivo are all bringing out new devices with the button, but Huawei and Samsung are holding out.
9. Criminal groups are offering $360,000 salaries to accomplices who can help them scam CEOs about their porn-watching habits. "Sextortion" email scams have raked in more than $330,000 from scared victims since July 2018, a new report from cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows claims.
10. YouTube won't let anti-vaccine videos make advertising money for their creators, citing a policy around "dangerous or harmful" content. Some channels promoting anti-vaccination content were reportedly able to monetize for some time, in violation of the policy, and a number of advertisers became upset after learning their ads were running alongside the harmful content.

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• The EU is reportedly considering delaying Brexit by up to 2 years.
• The proposal comes after May once again delayed a parliamentary vote on her deal.
• MPs will now not get to vote on it until March 12, just days before Britain is due to crash out of the EU.
• Senior ministers in May's government are threatening to resign this week unless she rules out a no-deal Brexit.

LONDON — Theresa May is under growing public pressure from senior members of her government to rule out leaving the EU without a deal, as European diplomats consider delaying Brexit by up to two years.

The UK is due to leave the EU on March 29. However, the prime minister once again delayed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal this week in order to head off another heavy defeat.

MPs are now not expected to vote again on the deal until March 12, just 17 days before Britain is due to crash out without a deal.

With the prospect of a chaotic exit looming, senior EU figures are now reportedly considering offering the UK a two-year extension of the Article 50 process for leaving the EU, meaning Britain could not exit the bloc until 2021.

"If [EU] leaders see any purpose in extending, which is not a certainty given the situation in the UK, they will not do a rolling cliff-edge but go long to ensure a decent period to solve the outstanding issues or batten down the hatches,” one EU diplomat told the Guardian.

Any delay would need to be agreed by all EU member states.

The proposal comes as Defence minister Tobias Elwood told the BBC Radio 4 programme this morning that the prime minister, who is currently in Egypt for talks with EU leaders, must rule out no-deal when she returns.

"I don't support the idea that we go forward to a no-deal," he said, adding that "the prime minister is listening..."

Asked if he believed May would announce a Brexit delay upon her return to the UK, he replied: "You need to wait to hear what she has to say when she gets back."

The prime minister faces a potential wave of resignations from her Cabinet this week if she refuses to rule-out a no-deal Brexit in her planned statement to parliament on Tuesday.

Dozens of members of her cabinet are considering backing a Brexit amendment, due to be voted on this Wednesday, which could begin the process of forcing the prime minister to delay Brexit.

Three senior Cabinet ministers including the business secretary, signaled over the weekend that they could walkout of government in order to back the amendment.

The prime minister is also under growing pressure from senior members of her government to spell out when she will resign.

May has previously indicated that she will not lead the party into the 2022 general election. However, some ministers now want her to step down as soon as the first stage of Brexit negotiations are over.

The prime minister all but ruled that out over the weekend, telling reporters that"There is still a domestic agenda that I want to get on with."

Under Conservative party rules May cannot be forced out until the end of this year, after a previous attempt by more than a third of Tory MPs to oust her before Christmas failed.

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• Global stock markets rallying after President Donald Trump tweets about "substantial progress" in trade talks with China. The Shanghai Composite Index soared 5.6%, its best one-day rally since 2015. 
• "The US has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China on important structural issues," Trump tweeted Sunday.
• "There's nothing quite like kicking the can down the road for another day to deliver a sugar rush to markets," said one analyst. 

Stock markets around the world are rallying after President Donald Trump's tweets about "substantial progress" in trade talks with China fueled optimism about a swift resolution to the US-China trade war. 

"I am pleased to report that the US has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China on important structural issues including intellectual property protection, technology transfer, agriculture, services, currency, and many other issues," Trump tweeted Sunday. "As a result of these very productive talks, I will be delaying the U.S. increase in tariffs now scheduled for March 1."

The delay comes less than a week before the 90-day trade war truce agreed to by Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was set to expire. After the original March 1 deadline, US tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods were set to increase from 10% to 25%.

"There's nothing quite like kicking the can down the road for another day to deliver a sugar rush to markets," said Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com. "However, we must always caution that the US and China still need to work hard to secure a deal. This is an extension of the truce, not a peace treaty."

Chinese and Trump administration officials have held three rounds of formal talks among high-level officials since the original truce was agreed to in December. Chinese officials stayed over the weekend to continue talks in Washington, adding on two days to their original trip.

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• The Shanghai Composite Index ended the trading session with its best close since July 9, 2015, up 5.6%. 
• US futures tracking the Nasdaq and the Dow are rallying at least 0.4%, while those for the S&P 500 are up 0.3%.
• European markets are also up: The Euro Stoxx 50 and Germany's DAX are up at least 0.3%, while France's CAC Index is up 0.1%.

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• Robert Lighthizer, the man in charge of leading US trade negotiations with China, publicly clashed with President Donald Trump over the likely form that a mooted trade agreement with Beijing will take.
• Trump and Lighthizer clashed during a press conference at the White House Friday, with the pair disagreeing on the definition of a so-called memorandum of understanding (MOU).
• An MOU generally sets out the requirements and responsibilities of two parties entering contract negotiations, but is among the first steps to establish a legally binding contract.
• Video shows the pair discussing the meaning of such an agreement for around two minutes in the Oval Office.
• The president reportedly admonished Lighthizer in the clash, saying he had been "embarrassed" by the trade representative's public subordination.

Robert Lighthizer, the man in charge of leading US trade negotiations with China, publicly clashed with President Donald Trump over the likely form that a mooted trade agreement with Beijing will take.

Late Sunday, a video of Trump speaking to reporters at the White House last Friday, began to circulate on social media networks, showing the president and US Trade Representative Lighthizer clashing over the definition of a so-called memorandum of understanding (MOU), a key document generally created during the negotiation of a contract.

You can see the full exchange below:

After the clash, Trump privately admonished Lighthizer for directly contradicting him in public, saying the incident had left him embarrassed, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Bloomberg also reports that Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Lighthizer, driven by the major stock market plunge witnessed late last year, which saw US stocks have their worst end to a year since the Great Depression, almost 90 years ago.

Frustration is reportedly mutual, with Bloomberg adding that Lighthizer "has been growing irritated with Trump’s interventions."

Trump's confusion over the meaning of an MOU

When asked by a reporter if an MOU — which sets out the requirements and responsibilities of two parties entering contract negotiations — would be a "long term deal," Trump replied by saying that such agreements "don't mean anything."

"I think the MOU is going to very short term," he said.

"We expect to go into it. I don’t like MOUs because they don’t mean anything. You’re better off just going into a document. I was never a fan an MOU," the president continued.

He was, however, interrupted by Lighthizer, who attempted to describe the legal meaning of the term: "An MOU is a contract. It’s the way trade agreements are generally used. People refer to it like a term sheet. It’s not a term sheet, it’s an actual contract between two parties. A memorandum of understanding is a binding agreement between two people, and that’s what we’re talking about."

Trump then shot back, saying: "By the way, I disagree, I think that a memorandum of understanding is not a contract to extent that we want."

"We’re doing a memorandum of understanding that will be put into a final contract I assume, but to me the final contract is really the thing Bob — and I think you mean that too — that means something."

The pair then went back and forth with one another, before Lighthizer eventually suggested that the team would do away with the term altogether to prevent confusion. They would from then on, Lighthizer said, call the MOU a "trade agreement."

"Good, I like that much better," Trump replied.

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Footage of the clash was taken just two days before Trump said that his administration would delay the increase of tariffs on Chinese goods as talks to end the trade war between the world's two largest economies continue.

The delay, which comes less than a week before the previously set deadline, has been greeted with delight in financial markets, with stocks in Asia witnessing huge gains Monday. China's benchmark index, the Shanghai Composite, saw its biggest single day rally since 2015 on the day, jumping close to 6%.

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This is a preview of The Reverse Logistics Report from Business Insider Intelligence. Current subscribers can read the report here.

With e-commerce becoming a lucrative shopping channel, retailers and their logistics partners have been primarily focused on how to quickly move goods through the supply chain and into the hands of consumers — a process commonly referred to as forward logistics. However, the opportunities presented by the growing popularity of e-commerce also come with a challenging, multibillion-dollar downside: returns.

Return rates for e-commerce purchases are between 25% and 30%, compared with just 9% for in-store purchases. Turning reverse logistics — the process of returning goods from end users back to their origins to either recapture value or properly dispose of material — into a costly and high-stakes matter for retailers.

Not only are retailers experiencing more returns as a result of e-commerce growth, but consumer expectations also demand that retailers provide a seamless process. In fact, 92% of consumers agree that they are more likely to shop at a store again if it offers a hassle-free return policy (e.g. free return shipping labels). Some consumers even place large orders with the intention of returning certain items. 

And e-commerce sales are only going up from here, exacerbating the issue and making retailers' need for help more dire. However, for logistics firms that can offer cost-effective reverse logistics solutions, this has opened up a significant opportunity to capture a share of rapidly growing e-commerce logistics costs in the US, which hit $117 billion last year, according to Armstrong & Associates, Inc. estimates. 

InThe Reverse Logistics Report, Business Insider Intelligence examines what makes reverse logistics so much more challenging than forward logistics, explores the trends that have driven retailers to finally improve the way in which returns move through their supply chains, and highlights how logistics firms can act to win over retailers' return dollars.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:

• E-commerce is now a core shopping channel for retailers, and it's still growing. US e-commerce sales are set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% between 2018 and 2023, surpassing $1 trillion in sales, according to Business Insider Intelligence estimates.
• Booming e-commerce sales have driven product returns through the roof. Business Insider Intelligence estimates that US e-commerce returns will increase at a CAGR of 19% between 2018 and 2023, surpassing $300 million dollars. 
• Consumers have high expectations about how returns are handled, and retailers are struggling to find cost-effective ways to meet their demands. Sixty-four percent of shoppers stated they would be hesitant to shop at a retailer ever again if they found issues with the returns process. And retailers don't have the expertise to effectively keep up with how demanding consumers are about returns — 44% of retailers said their margins were negatively impacted by handling and packaging returns, for example.
• Logistics firms are well positioned to solve — and profit from — returns. These companies can take advantage of their scale and expertise to solve pain points retailers commonly experience as goods move through the reverse supply chain. 
• Reverse logistics solutions themselves present a lucrative opportunity — but they're also appealing in the potential inroads they offer to supply chain management. The global third-party logistics market is estimated to be valued at $865 billion in 2018, according to Bekryl. 

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• 14 members of Congress wrote to Apple and Google's CEOs on Thursday demanding they remove a widely criticised Saudi government app.
• Reps. including Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Katherine Clark, and Jackie Speicer accuse Google and Apple of being "accomplices in the oppression of Saudi Arabian women" for hosting the app — called Absher — on their app stores.
• INSIDER reported extensively how "Absher" let men control where women travel, and offers alerts when they use their passports to leave Saudi Arabia.
• Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google both promised to investigate the app two weeks ago, but have not made any obvious progress since.
• Scroll down to read the letter in full.

14 members of Congress have written to Apple and Google to demand that they stop hosting a Saudi government app which men can use to control and monitor women.

The group of Democratic lawmakers says that by hosting the app, called Absher, Apple and Google are "accomplices in the oppression of Saudi Arabian women."

INSIDER was first to report at length how Absher — an all-purpose app Saudis use to interact with the authorities — can be used to grant and rescind travel permission for women, and to set up SMS alerts to track when women use their passports. 

The 14 representatives — including Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Katherine Clark, and Jackie Speicer — wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai calling for the app to be removed.

In mid-February, after widespread outrage, Apple and Google both pledged to investigate. But in the weeks since, neither company has said anything, and has avoided requests for comment from INSIDER.

In Thursday's letter, the signatories said Google and Apple need to remove Absher as it "serves as [a] tracking device" used to "prevent the free movement of Saudi women."

They said: "Twenty first century innovations should not perpetuate sixteenth century tyranny."

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"Keeping this application in your stores allows your companies and your American employees to be accomplices in the oppression of Saudi Arabian women and migrant workers," the letter said.

The letter gives a deadline of February 28 for the two companies to respond.

"We ask that your companies remove Absher from your app stores," they said, "we look forward to a response from both of you on your companies' next steps by February 28, 2019."

The deadline is not enforceable.

They also highlighted a function of Absher which allows Saudis to manage migrant workers they employ. The letter said Absher lets men "constrain the movements of migrant laborers working for them." 

Here are the 14 representatives who signed the letter:

Jackie Speier (D-14), Donald S. Beyer Jr. (D-VA,) David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Henry "Hank" C. Johnson Jr. (D-GA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Nydia Velazquéz (D-NY), David Trone (D-MD), Jim Cooper (D-TN), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), and Brad Sherman (D-CA).

It echoed a similar letter to the tech giants from US Senator Ron Wyden on February 12, where he told Pichai and Cook the app "flies in the face of the type of society you both claim to support and defend." 

Wyden wrote to the tech behemoths after a wave of criticism from human rights groups broke over Google and Apple for hosting the app on Google Play and the App Store. 

Human Rights Watch told INSIDER: "Apps like this one can facilitate human rights abuses, including discrimination against women."

Read more:People are leaving scathing App Store and Google Play reviews to discredit a Saudi government app that lets men control where women travel

Read the full letter below:

Dear Mr. Cook and Mr. Pichai,

By now you have been informed that your app stores currently offer a mobile app for the Saudi Ministry of Interior’s website Absher. Though the app allows millions of users to perform a variety of routine functions, we are writing to express our alarm over the app’s features which prevent the free movement of Saudi women and migrant workers. By sending a text notifying a male "guardian" when a woman's national identification card or passport is used at an airport, the app serves as tracking device. In a few publicized cases, women fleeing persecution in Saudi Arabia had to defeat this application to leave the country and seek asylum.

Beyond facilitating harm to the human rights of Saudi women, the app allows Saudi men to constrain the movements of migrant laborers working for them. Human Rights Watch has documented abuse and exploitation of migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, some of which amounts to forced labor, trafficking, or slavery-like conditions. With a few taps of his finger on an app offered on your companies' app stores, a Saudi man can exert near total control over the livelihood of these vulnerable migrant workers.

The ingenuity of American technology companies should not be perverted to violate the human rights of Saudi women. Twenty first century innovations should not perpetuate sixteenth century tyranny. Keeping this application in your stores allows your companies and your American employees to be accomplices in the oppression of Saudi Arabian women and migrant workers. We ask that your companies remove Absher from your app stores.

We look forward to a response from both of you on your companies' next steps by February 28, 2019.

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• Rami Malek took home the Oscar for best actor in a leading role on Sunday at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre.
• After he claimed his trophy, though, the "Bohemian Rhapsody" actor took a tumble off the stage and paramedics were called to check him over, according to People magazine.
• Malek didn't seem to have sustained any significant injuries as he later made no mention of his fall to press backstage.
• Read all of INSIDER's 2019 Oscars coverage here.

Rami Malek was flying high after he won the award for best actor in a leading role at Sunday's 91st Academy Awards at Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre.

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Evidently, Malek — who played Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody"— wasn't paying too much attention to his surroundings after he made his speech as he tumbled off the stage.

Getty photographers caught the 37-year-old being helped up off the floor with a shocked expression on his face, but it looks like his Oscars trophy stayed in one piece.

According to People, paramedics were called to treat the actor and he was sat on a chair in the audience area.

Malek seemed to have no significant injuries, though, as he made no mention of it when he later spoke to reporters backstage, the BBC reported.

"I think about what it would have been like to tell little bubba Rami that one day this might happen to him, and I think his curly-haired little mind would have been blown," Malek said in his acceptance speech.

"That kid was struggling with his identity, trying to figure himself out, and to anyone struggling and trying to discover their voice — listen, we made a film about a gay man, an immigrant, who lived his life unapologetically himself.

"And the fact I'm celebrating him and this story with you tonight is proof that we're longing for stories like this."

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• The notorious angry baby cartoon that showed Serena Williams with grossly exaggerated features spitting out a pacifier is not racist, a watchdog says.
• The cartoon was twice published in The Herald Sun last year and attracted global condemnation for seemingly relying on racist tropes.
• Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian said it was "racist and misogynistic."
• But the Australian Press Council has ruled it not racist and simply showed the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion having "a highly animated tantrum."

A cartoon that depicted Serena Williams as an angry baby with grotesque features including an oversized nose and lips is not racist, according to an Australian media watchdog.

The cartoon was published twice in the Australian newspaper The Herald Sun in September, 2018, shortly after Williams' infamous meltdown in the US Open final.

Williams was given three code violations during her straight-sets loss to eventual US Open champion Naomi Osaka for coaching, smashing her racket, and calling the umpire Carlos Ramos a "thief."

Williams was fined $17,000 which was deducted from her prize money of $1.85 million as the tournament's runner-up. She was then lampooned by The Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight.

Williams is shown with grotesque features including an oversized nose and lips and is pictured jumping up and down with a broken racket and a pacifier nearby, insinuating that Williams acted like a baby having a temper tantrum during the final. The drawing was called "racist and misogynistic" by Williams' Reddit co-founder husband Alexis Ohanian.

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The cartoon featured in the newspaper, attracted global condemnation, and was then subsequently splashed across the front-page in another edition.

The front page is here:

But the Australian Press Council has accepted the newspaper's reasoning for publishing the cartoon, and has declared it not racist.

'It does not depict Williams as an ape'

The watchdog said the newspaper "said it was depicting the moment when, in a highly animated tantrum, Ms Williams smashed a racket and loudly abused the chair umpire, calling him a thief, a liar, and threatening that he would never umpire her matches again,"a statement in The Guardian read.

"It said it wanted to capture the on-court tantrum of Ms Williams using satire, caricature, exaggeration, and humour, and the cartoon intended to depict her behaviour as childish by showing her spitting a pacifier out while she jumps up and down."

The watchdog "acknowledged that some readers found the cartoon offensive" but ultimately accepted the newspaper's "claim that it does not depict Ms Williams as an ape,"according to AP.

It concluded that the cartoon is a "non-racist caricature familiar to most Australian readers."

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This follows Damon Johnston's response at the time, when the newspaper's editor said the "cartoon is not racist or sexist" that "it rightly mocks poor behavior by a tennis legend" and that "Mark has the full support of everyone at The Herald Sun."

'The world has just gone crazy'

Knight himself said last year that he drew the cartoon after watching the US Open final"and seeing the world's best tennis player have a tantrum and thought that was interesting."

Knight added: "It's been picked up by social media in the US and my phone has just melted down… The world has just gone crazy."

Knight was reportedly "very happy" with the watchdog's verdict. "I will not be changing the way I draw cartoons," he said, according to AP. "I think I'm a very free and fair cartoonist and I accept issues on their merits and draw them as such."

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• "Bohemian Rhapsody" won four Oscars this year, but not everyone was happy about it.
• Some critics slated the film when it was first released.
• Other viewers have concerns over the film's former director Bryan Singer, who is facing sexual misconduct allegations.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" won four awards at this year's Oscars hosted at LA's Dolby Theatre on Sunday. The film depicting the life of Freddie Mercury and the creation of legendary band Queen picked up best sound mixing, sound editing, and film editing, while Rami Malek won best leading actor for his portrayal of the frontman.

But while the film was a success both at the awards and in the box office, it was slated by many critics and viewers on social media when it was first released.

And it looked like many viewers didn't change their minds after the Oscar wins either, with many on Twitter expressing their disappointment.

Some Queen fans weren't happy with the narrative of the film, feeling it wasn't believable or true to the real story. Other critics said Malek's performance was all that saved the film, while a Guardian review said it "feels less a pioneering musical odyssey than a really good covers band," and New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote: "You can do better with YouTube and a stack of vinyl records."

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The Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw later said: "he [Malek] wasn't as good as the other four nominees: Christian Bale for Vice, Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born, Willem Dafoe for At Eternity’s Gate and indeed Viggo Mortensen for Green Book."

Meanwhile, The Telegraph's Robbie Collin called Malek, "the most embarrassing winner in years."

Other viewers expressed their distaste for Bryan Singer, the film's original director, receiving money or recognition for the win. Singer is currently facing sexual misconduct allegations, and was fired for not showing up and clashing with the cast and crew. He was replaced by Dexter Fletcher, although he is still credited as a director.

However, some people pointed out that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was a joint effort, and it was enjoyed by millions of people (it has 8.2/10 on IMDb and 61% on Rotten Tomatoes).

"Brian Singer was not the only person involved in making that movie,"wrote one person on Twitter. "Don't negate the hard work of all the other talented, driven people that helped create it."

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