Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Trump’s 2020 Campaign Announcement Had a Very Trumpian Rollout

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http://ift.tt/wEcZxH selection of a close ally of Jared Kushner to run the president’s 2020 campaign was seen as a power move by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law. Elsewhere, Mr. Kushner had a rough day.

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Most Americans Want More Gun Control. Why Doesn’t It Happen?

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http://ift.tt/2rqKPTL show solid support for stricter laws, especially after mass shootings. But there are also deep disagreement, staunch opposition and growing disenchantment with gun control.

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Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump

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http://ift.tt/2g5Lswb. Hicks, the White House communications director, told lawmakers investigating Russia’s election interference that she has not lied about matters relevant to their inquiry.

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Will the Syria Conflict Continue to Escalate?

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Will the Syria Conflict Continue to Escalate?Moscow, Washington, Tehran and Ankara are all jockeying for power. In early February, western media reported that the United States had led a strike on the Russian mercenaries of Wagner PMC. Bloomberg News reported hundreds, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced a smaller number and noted that “Russian citizens” were injured.




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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

China punters bet on 'Emperor' Xi after term-limit news

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China punters bet on 'Emperor' Xi after term-limit newsSuperstitious Chinese investors rushed to buy stock in companies with "emperor" in their names Monday following the latest power boost for President Xi Jinping, who has been likened to a modern-day sovereign. State media said on Sunday that the ruling Communist Party had proposed abolishing rules limiting leaders to two five-year terms, a move that could allow the increasingly powerful Xi to rule indefinitely like an emperor. The millions of mom-and-pop investors who dominate trade in Chinese securities often do so more on superstition or perceived portent in corporate names rather than fundamentals, and they appear to have leapt into action again on Monday.




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Deadly weather in Eastern US as tornadoes rip through five states

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Deadly weather in Eastern US as tornadoes rip through five statesAt least five different tornadoes ripped through parts of Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky, tearing roofs off buildings and flattening homes, as other areas experienced strong winds and flooding.




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Johnnie Walker Whisky Bottles Have a Female Logo Now. Meet 'Jane Walker'

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Johnnie Walker Whisky Bottles Have a Female Logo Now. Meet 'Jane Walker'Johnnie Walker is rolling out a female version of its iconic logo, an attempt to draw more women to the world’s best-selling scotch




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Stunning Photos Capture The 2018 Olympics' Closing Ceremony In All Its Glory

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Stunning Photos Capture The 2018 Olympics' Closing Ceremony In All Its GloryThe 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, went out with a bang on Sunday, with its closing ceremony featuring an array of fireworks, light shows, roller-blading pandas, K-pop musicians and ― of course ―some of the world’s top athletes.




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Washington Governor confronted Trump over his idea to arm teachers

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Washington Governor confronted Trump over his idea to arm teachersDuring President Trump's meeting with governors from across the U.S., Washington Gov. Jay Inslee told Trump what he thought about his suggestion to arm teachers.




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BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political Power

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BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political PowerBlack Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has created a new initiative aimed at helping black communities achieve greater political power.




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Florida House Republicans Demand Sheriff's Ouster Over Parkland Shooting Response

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Florida House Republicans Demand Sheriff's Ouster Over Parkland Shooting ResponseNearly every Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives is calling on Gov. Rick Scott (R) to suspend a county sheriff over his office’s response to a deadly mass shooting at a local high school earlier this month.




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Romanians march in support of anti-corruption chief

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Romanians march in support of anti-corruption chiefThousands of Romanians braved freezing temperatures on Sunday to show their support for the popular head of the country's anti-corruption investigation body, who the left-wing government is trying to oust. Justice Minister Tudorel Toader from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) launched a procedure on Thursday to sack Laura Codruta Kovesi, the chief prosecutor of the DNA anti-corruption body, accusing her of being "authoritarian". About 3,000 protesters gathered near the government building in capital Bucharest, according to news agency Agerpres, chanting "Codruta, don't forget, we are with you", and "Justice not corruption".




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Iran says Damascus suburbs assault to continue as fighting rages

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Iran says Damascus suburbs assault to continue as fighting ragesIran said pro-Damascus forces would press ahead with attacks on an insurgent enclave near the Syrian capital, as ground fighting raged on there in defiance of a U.N. resolution demanding a 30-day truce across the country. Turkey, too, said its military operations in another theater of war in the north of Syria would not be affected by the unanimous Security Council vote demanding the truce to allow for aid access and medical evacuations. Anti-government rebels said they clashed with pro-government forces near Damascus on Sunday, as rescuers and residents said warplanes struck some towns in the eastern Ghouta pocket.




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Students too scared to return to Nigeria school after attack

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Students too scared to return to Nigeria school after attackLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Frightened students on Monday stayed away from the school in northern Nigeria where Boko Haram extremists seized 110 girls in a raid a week ago, while the military said it had handed over the town's security to police ahead of the attack because it was "relatively calm."




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PNG troops respond to major 7.5 quake as aftershocks feared

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PNG troops respond to major 7.5 quake as aftershocks fearedPapua New Guinea sent troops and rescue workers Monday to respond to a powerful earthquake in the Pacific nation's mountainous interior, with unconfirmed reports of fatalities and warnings of aftershocks and landslides. Assessment teams were heading to affected areas near the 7.5-magnitude quake's epicentre, which the US Geological Survey said was some 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Porgera in Enga province. "It is advisable to stay out of multi-story buildings, to be aware of the potential of landslides, and to be prepared to move to open ground in the event that an aftershock is felt," the chief secretary to the government, Isaac Lupari, said in a statement.




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Georgia state official says he would ‘kill any legislation’ to benefit Delta after end of NRA discount

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Georgia state official says he would ‘kill any legislation’ to benefit Delta after end of NRA discountA Georgia state official has said that Delta could lose out on any jet fuel tax breaks as a result of the airline discontinuing its discount for National Rifle Association (NRA) members. Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle tweeted that he would “kill any legislation that benefits Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with NRA" and just hours later, the Georgia Senate blocked the $50m tax break bill that Delta had been seeking to renew after it had expired several years ago. Delta’s decision was made a few weeks after the 14 February mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida during which 14 children and three adults were killed by a gunman using an AR-15 assault-style weapon.




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California Democrats Decline To Endorse Dianne Feinstein For Re-Election

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California Democrats Decline To Endorse Dianne Feinstein For Re-ElectionThe California Democratic Party rebuked its senior senator early Sunday by declining to make an endorsement in the state’s U.S. Senate race.




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Jake Tapper Skewers Florida Sheriff Over Failure To Act On Shooter Red Flags

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Jake Tapper Skewers Florida Sheriff Over Failure To Act On Shooter Red FlagsCNN’s Jake Tapper tore into a Florida sheriff Sunday about his office’s handling of over a dozen warnings from people about Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who police say confessed to the deadly mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, earlier this month.




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Church leaders shut Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre in land, tax protest

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Church leaders shut Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre in land, tax protestBy Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli tax policy and a proposed land expropriation law which they called an unprecedented attack on Christians in the Holy Land. Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian church leaders said the holy site, a popular stop for pilgrims and where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried, would remain closed until further notice. After the protest move, an Israeli cabinet committee delayed by a week its scheduled consideration on Sunday of a bill that would allow the state to expropriate land in Jerusalem sold by churches to private real estate firms in recent years.




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Vladimir Putin defies UN by ordering temporary ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta

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Vladimir Putin defies UN by ordering temporary ceasefire in Eastern GhoutaVladimir Putin defied the UN on Monday by ordering a series of brief daily ceasefires in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta but refusing to meet the Security Council’s demand for a full 30-day truce across all of Syria. Nine days into an intensive bombing campaign which has killed more than 500 civilians, the Russian president said he would allow for a daily five-hour “humanitarian pause” starting Tuesday and lasting from 9am until 2pm each day.  He also said Russia would begin setting up a “humanitarian corridor” to allow some of the 400,000 civilians inside Eastern Ghouta to leave the area for regime-held neighbourhoods.  “On the instructions of the Russian president, with the goal of avoiding civilian casualties in Eastern Ghouta, from February 27 - tomorrow - from 9am to 2pm there will be a humanitarian pause,” said Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s defence minister.  Mr Putin’s order came two days after all 15 members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, voted unanimously to impose a month-long nationwide ceasefire across the whole of Syria.  Mr Putin's orders fell far short of the UN's demand Credit: Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP, File The UN also demanded that combatants allow aid to be delivered to besieged areas and for medical teams to evacuate the wounded. Mr Putin’s instructions did not appear to address either of those issues.  The UK denounced the Kremlin's instructions as "cynical games". “That is not compliance, that is not implementation of the resolution passed on Saturday," said Jonathan Allen, the UK's deputy ambassador to the UN.  "If it is able to do a five-hour pause it is able to do a 24-hour pause. It’s up to Russia whether it wants to implement fully the resolution it signed up to and voted for, or if it wants to play cynical games." Even a brief lull in the fighting could go some way to easing the humanitarian suffering in Eastern Ghouta, giving residents time to leave their makeshift basement bomb shelters to find food and supplies.  But people were deeply sceptical as the news of Mr Putin’s ceasefire order spread. “The Russians are laughing at laughing at the world,” said one medic. “They don’t care about human blood and they don’t care about the resolution of the UN security council.” Haitham, a father sheltering in a basement with his four-year-old son, shrugged at the news. “We don’t rely much on the dead conscience of Russia,” he said.  Activists said bombing was slightly less intense on Monday than it had been before the UN Security Council vote on Saturday. But aerial attacks continued and ground fighting still raged between rebel forces and regime troops. An airstrike on the Douma neighbourhood killed ten people, nine of whom were from one family, according to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights. Photographs showed the dead of the Hitawi family wrapped in white shrounds. Rescuers were unable to find several bodies beneath the rubble.  The Observatory also said a young boy died Sunday night from a suspected regime chemical weapons attack, which injured another 13 people. Russia denied the regime had used chemical weapons and said rebels may have staged the attack as “a provocation”. Multiple UN investigations have concluded that the Syrian regime has regularly used chemical weapons, including in a 2013 attack in Eastern Ghouta which the US estimates killed more than 1,400 people.  Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has said in the past that France would carry out strikes against the regime in response to chemical weapons attacks. There was no immediate comment from Paris on the alleged chlorine attack.  Russia set up “humanitarian corridors” during the siege of East Aleppo in 2016, saying that civilians should use the corridors to exit rebel-held areas and come to safety on the regime side.  Few civilians ultimately used the corridors and the two sides exchanged angry accusations over them.  Russia said the rebels refused to allow civilians out. The rebels said civilians would rather stay under siege than risk torture and death in the Assad regime’s prisons.  Earlier in the day, the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, demanded that the ceasefire in Syria be implemented on the terms laid out in Saturday’s Security Council resolution.  "Security Council resolutions are only meaningful if they are effectively implemented,” he said. "That is why I expect the resolution to be immediately implemented and sustained.” A video posted online by a member of the Tiger Forces, a special forces unit involved in the attack on Eastern Ghouta, gave a sense of the mood among regime troops. Crouching on a balcony he gestured towards smoke rising from airstrikes on the besieged suburb. “Yes, there was a meeting in the security council but what’s important for is that Ghouta is behind me and the Syrian Arab Army will liberate it,” he said.




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Slovak police probe murder of investigative journalist

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Slovak police probe murder of investigative journalistSlovakian police launched a murder probe on Monday after a leading investigative journalist known for writing about high-profile tax fraud was found dead along with his girlfriend, officials said. The body of Jan Kuciak, a 27-year-old reporter for the aktuality.sk news portal, was discovered alongside that of Martina Kusnirova at their home in Velka Maca, some 65 kilometres (40 miles) from the Slovak capital Bratislava. Police commander Tibor Gaspar told reporters Kuciak died of a gunshot wound to the chest while his partner was shot in the head.




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2 lions from Mideast war zones reach South African refuge

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2 lions from Mideast war zones reach South African refugeLIONSROCK BIG CAT SANCTUARY, South Africa (AP) — Two lions rescued from neglected zoos in war zones in Iraq and Syria arrived in South Africa on Monday to live at a sanctuary with other animals that survived harsh conditions in captivity elsewhere in the world.




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Donald Trump's Personal Pilot Reportedly On Shortlist To Run FAA

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Donald Trump's Personal Pilot Reportedly On Shortlist To Run FAAPresident Donald Trump’s personal pilot is reportedly one of several people under consideration to lead the Federal Aviation Administrations.




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First woman nominated for a cinematography Oscar sees big picture

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http://ift.tt/2przx3z to her profession, Rachel Morrison, the first woman ever nominated for an Oscar in the best cinematography category, is trying to keep her focus on the big picture.

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The legacy of Gustav Klimt and his enduring 'Kiss'

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http://ift.tt/1AlqXNK an upmarket Vienna suburb stands an elegant white villa that once contained the studio of Gustav Klimt. With this month marking 100 years since the painter's death, a visit still reveals much about how he lived and worked.

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Ivanka's answer is exactly why nepotism laws exist

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http://ift.tt/1AlqXNK an interview with NBC that ran Monday morning, Ivanka Trump was asked a simple question: "Do you believe your father's accusers?"

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High court won't intervene in 'dreamers' case

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http://ift.tt/wEcZxH Supreme Court said on Monday that it will stay out of the dispute concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for now, meaning the Trump administration may not be able to end the program March 5 as planned.

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'Happy space suits' may prevent depression in astronauts

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Scientists are developing 'happy space suits' that can monitor symptoms of depression in astronauts, and provide real time feedback to improve the atmosphere of the spacecraft as well as boost the occupants' mood.

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Singapore proposes measure to bar communications from terror attack sites

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Singapore on Tuesday proposed a new law to deal with terror attacks by preventing people in the area from taking photos or videos of the incident and communicating about police operations.

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Saudi Arabia allows women to join military

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Saudi Arabia has for the very first time opened applications for women to enlist in the military as the kingdom continues to enact reforms granting females more access to a wide range of previously forbidden careers.

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Former US First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir to be called BECOMING, set for worldwide release on November 13

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States, is regarded as one of the most iconic and compelling women of the present times.

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Angela Merkel quells party rebellion ahead of coalition deal vote

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J German Chancellor Angela Merkel will put a hard-fought coalition deal to a vote Monday by her conservative party, which is expected to give its approval after she moved to quash a right-wing rebellion.

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Pakistan caught in quicksand, may be blacklisted by global terrorist financing watchdog by June

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Between now and June, Pakistan will have to work comprehensive action plan to eradicate terrorist financing. Failure to do so could trigger the process 

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