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• School system's appeals process leaves some minorities out

  03-02-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  McLEAN, Va. (AP) — It's an annual rite in Fairfax County, which has one of the wealthiest, best-educated populations in America: Hundreds of second-graders troop off to private psychologists for IQ tests to prove they're worthy of advanced academic programs in the public schools.
  
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• Trump says Republican memo vindicates him in Russia probe

  03-02-2018 23:18 via yahoo.com
  By Ayesha RascoePALM BEACH, Fla (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a controversial memo attacking federal law enforcement written by congressional Republicans vindicates him in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Trump's fervent embrace of the memo raised again the prospect that he may use it as justification to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting the investigation, or Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who overs
  
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• Mkhitaryan, Sanchez prosper at new homes after transfer swap

  03-02-2018 23:16 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — After a rare English Premier League swap deal, Alexis Sanchez and Henrikh Mkhitaryan made an immediate impact at their new homes on Saturday.
  
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• Uma Thurman's story about Quentin Tarantino adds another layer to the #MeToo conversation

  03-02-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  AfterThe New York Times published Uma Thurman's #MeToo account on Saturday, one person dominated the coverage — Harvey Weinstein. But the actress recounted two stories of abuse in theTimes piece, one featuring Harvey Weinstein and the other, Quentin Tarantino. Only the Weinstein story featured sexual assault and misconduct, which is why only one would be classified as a traditional #MeToo story. The allegations against Tarantino are harder to classify. They don't involve sexual assault or
  
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• Rio de Janeiro street party targets mayor

  03-02-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  Rio de Janeiro's mayor came in for some colorful criticism Saturday at the biggest of scores of pre-carnival street parties that took over the city.One person not getting any sympathy was Mayor Marcelo Crivella, whom carnival-goers accuse of giving the annual extravaganza a cold shoulder.The mayor, an important figure in Brazil's growing evangelical Christian movement, has cut city funding for the carnival.
  
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• Fed orders Wells Fargo to halt growth over compliance issues

  03-02-2018 22:34
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co detailed new regulatory restrictions imposed by the U.S. Federal Reserve on Friday that sent its shares down sharply in after-hours trading, as the...
  
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• These Pups Rescued From Puerto Rico Are Part Of This Year's Puppy Bowl

  03-02-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Sunday’s Puppy Bowl XIV will include two extra special canine athletes.
  
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• Mexico: 300 migrants found in dangerously cramped trucks

  03-02-2018 22:29 via yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three hundred Central American migrants being transported in dangerous conditions in tractor-trailers were rescued in two Gulf coast states, Mexican authorities reported Saturday.
  
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• Russia hits out at ‘bellicose’ US after Trump nuclear review calls for more aggressive approach against Moscow

  03-02-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  Russia has hit back at the “bellicose” nature of the Trump administration’s proposed new nuclear policy – which advocates a more aggressive approach towards Moscow.The US Department of Defence’s latest Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) argues that Washington must create a more effective nuclear deterrent, with Russia and other nations holding the “misconception” that the US would not use its large-scale strategic nuclear weapons in response to nuclear aggress
  
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• 5-Year-Old Girl Permanently Disfigured in Voodoo Ritual, Police Say

  03-02-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  The little girl was permanently disfigured as a result of the burns
  
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• Paul Ryan: Secretary Getting $1.50 More A Week Shows Effect Of GOP Tax Cuts

  03-02-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  really wants you to know how great the Republican tax cuts are.
  
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• A Controversial Bill Would Allow Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders in Oklahoma

  03-02-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Only seven states have similar laws
  
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• Poland's top politician: Holocaust bill is 'misunderstood'

  03-02-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The powerful leader of Poland's ruling party said Saturday that the president should approve a divisive bill that criminalizes certain statements about the Holocaust.
  
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• Russian pilot killed after plane downed over Syria

  03-02-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  A Russian pilot was killed Saturday in fighting with Islamists after his warplane was downed over northwest Syria, Russia's defence ministry and a monitor said.Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a powerful jihadist-dominated alliance, said it had shot down the plane on an affiliated media channel but made no mention of the pilot.
  
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• The Latest: Italian gunman had far-right extremist ties

  03-02-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  MILAN (AP) — The Latest on drive-by shootings in Italy (all times local):
  
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• Suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan kills 11 soldiers

  03-02-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bombing in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley killed 11 soldiers and wounded 13 on Saturday in what authorities said was the first attack in over three years in the region once ruled by militants.
  
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• Years Of U.S. Government Lies Could Soon Result In A Kurdish Massacre

  03-02-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration is doubling down on a lie the U.S. government has promoted since it first began cooperating with the Syrian Kurds against the Islamic State group in 2014: that the Kurds it is working with in Syria differ from those that are anathema to NATO ally Turkey.
  
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• Syrian Militants Down Russian Fighter Jet and Kill Ejected Pilot

  03-02-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Russia said the pilot was killed in fighting with "terrorists"
  
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• Pressure mounts on Poland to back away from Holocaust bill

  03-02-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  By Lidia Kelly and Anna WlodarczakWARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism over pending legislation that would impose jail terms for suggestions that the nation was complicit in the Holocaust, local minority groups warned, as pressure mounts on the president to veto the bill.Parliament passed the measure on Thursday, drawing outrage from Israel, U.S. criticism and condemnation from a number of international organizations.President Andrzej Duda has 21 days to decide wheth
  
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• Nassar Reportedly Abused Over 2 Dozen Girls And Women During Sluggish FBI Investigation

  03-02-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  At least 27 girls and women said disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar sexually assaulted them while he was under FBI investigation for similar behavior, according to a new Saturday report from The New York Times.
  
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• Man Charged With Selling Armor-Piercing Bullets to Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock

  03-02-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  He said he had no idea what Stephen Paddock would do.
  
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• Lost Mayan City Discovered Under Guatemala Jungle

  03-02-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  The discovery suggests that millions more lived there than previously thought
  
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• Police: 5-year-old girl burned in voodoo ritual; 2 charged

  03-02-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) — Two sisters tied down and burned a 5-year-old girl, permanently disfiguring her, in a voodoo ritual meant to rid her of a demon causing her to misbehave, police said. The women also threatened to cut off the head of the girl's 8-year-old brother with a machete, authorities said.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's week of faulty claims

  03-02-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump struck a variety of false notes in his big speech to Congress this past week and followed up with a curious coda — a plain-as-your-face exaggeration about the TV audience that tuned in for it.
  
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• 'Porsche Effect' exhibit debuts iconic Porsche sports cars at Petersen Museum

  03-02-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  For the next year, you'll be able to see an ultimate Porsche display at the Petersen Automotive Museum called "The Porsche Effect."
  
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• Syrian rebels down Russian plane, kill pilot

  03-02-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Polina DevittAMMAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian rebels shot down a Russian warplane on Saturday and killed its pilot on the ground after he ejected from the plane, Russia's defense ministry and Syrian rebels said.The incident took place in an area of Syria's northern Idlib province that has seen heavy air strikes and fighting on the ground between government forces backed by Russia and Iran, and rebels who oppose President Bashar al-Assad.Syrians opposed to Assad see Russ
  
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• At least five killed in clashes near Libyan oilfield: local official

  03-02-2018 19:18 via yahoo.com
  Libyan forces killed three suspected Islamic State fighters near an oilfield in the southeast of the country, a local official said on Saturday.Two soldiers were also killed and five wounded during clashes over two days, one of which took place near the Dhahra oilfield on Saturday, said Umar al-Faqeh, head of the Maradah administration to which the area belongs.The Dhahra field is operated by Waha, a joint-venture between Libya’s state National Oil Company and U.S. firms Hess, Marathon and
  
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• The Latest: Pakistan death toll in suicide blast rises to 11

  03-02-2018 19:17 via yahoo.com
  MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — The Latest on suicide bombing in Pakistan's Swat Valley (all times local):
  
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• Syria blasts US accusations on chemical weapons use as 'lies'

  03-02-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  "The foreign ministry condemns the false claims by the United States that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta," a foreign ministry source said, cited by Syrian state news agency SANA.Eastern Ghouta is a rebel-controlled enclave adjacent to Damascus.
  
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• Egypt says 4,400-year-old tomb discovered outside Cairo

  03-02-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,400-year-old tomb near the country's famed pyramids at the Giza plateau just outside Cairo, the Antiquities Ministry said Saturday, the latest discovery that authorities hope will help revive the country's staggering tourism sector.
  
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• Russia says one of its warplanes downed in Syria, pilot killed: TASS

  03-02-2018 18:52 via yahoo.com
  A Russian Su-25 warplane was brought down in Syria's Idlib province on Saturday, and the pilot was killed during "a fight" after ejecting by parachute, the TASS news agency quoted Russia's Defense Ministry as saying.Russia's Defense Ministry said that the aircraft was downedby a MANPAD portable surface-to-air missile during a flight around the de-escalation zone in the province.Russia and Turkey, which is in charge of the Idlib de-escalation zone, are "taking measures" to return the body of thep
  
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• Syrian Kurds mourn female fighter shown mutilated in video

  03-02-2018 18:41 via yahoo.com
  Afrin (Syria) (AFP) - Thousands of Kurds gathered in Syria's Afrin Saturday to mourn fighters and civilians killed in a blistering Turkish assault on the region -- including female combattant Barin Kobani.
  
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• Syria rebels down Russian plane, pilot killed: monitor

  03-02-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  A Russian pilot was killed Saturday after his warplane went down over Syria's northwest province of Idlib and he clashed with Islamists on the ground, Russia's defence ministry and a monitor said."The pilot was killed as he fought Islamist rebels who had shot down his plane and were taking him captive," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman.According to the British-based monitor, the Sukhoi 25 was shot down over the town of Maasran in Idlib and the pilot came down
  
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• Woman who cut baby from pregnant neighbour's womb weeps as she apologises in court: 'There is no excuse. There is nothing'

  03-02-2018 18:37 via yahoo.com
  Brooke Crews, who was convicted of murder, told a court she wished she could take the pain away from the victim’s family.The details of how 22-year-old Savanna Greywind bled to death after Crews cut her were revealed for the first time at a hearing in North Dakota.Crews, 38, had pleaded guilty to the crime, which officials had previously described as a “cruel and vicious act of depravity".
  
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• Israel moves to 'legalise' rogue settlement

  03-02-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  The Israeli government is due on Sunday to discuss giving retroactive approval to a wildcat settlement in the occupied West Bank, where an Israeli rabbi was shot dead last month.The official agenda for Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting says ministers will hear a motion to designate the 15-year-old Havat Gilad outpost as a "new community" which will have the necessary building permits and a state budget.Rabbi Raziel Shevah was shot dead near Havat Gilad, where he lived, on January 9.
  
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• Trump and Tillerson: Who speaks for America?

  03-02-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were both addressing drug smuggling and immigration across the southern US border.Tillerson was on the Mexican leg of a Latin American tour, talking to local officials about a shared effort to combat international organized crime on both sides of the border.At the Border Patrol National Targeting Center, Trump also heard about US efforts to partner with Latin American countries to stem the flow of drugs and illegal migrants.
  
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• Suspect arrested in Italy after gun attack on foreigners

  03-02-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  Italian police have arrested a far-right supporter suspected of wounding several foreigners in a drive-by shooting on Saturday, in what local media called a racially motivated attack.After the assault in the central town of Macerata, the suspect got out of his car and made a fascist salute with a tricolour Italian flag draped over his shoulders, Italian media reported.Reports named the suspect as Luca Traini, a member of the far-right Northern League party, who had run in local elections last ye
  
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• Teacher on Leave for Allegedly Assaulting Student Who Refused to Stand for Pledge

  03-02-2018 17:54 via yahoo.com
  A middle school teacher in Colorado is under investigation after she was accused of assaulting a student who didn`t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
  
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• Moscow denounces "anti-Russian" US nuclear policy

  03-02-2018 17:42 via yahoo.com
  Moscow on Saturday denounced the "bellicose" and "anti-Russian" nature of new US nuclear policy, warning it would take necessary measures to ensure its own security."The bellicose and anti-Russian nature of this document is obvious," the foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that it was "deeply disappointed"."We must take into account the approaches that are now circulating in Washington and take necessary measures to ensure our security," the ministry said.
  
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• Uma Thurman Says Harvey Weinstein Assaulted Her

  03-02-2018 17:36 via yahoo.com
  Uma Thurman is speaking out about Harvey Weinstein.
  
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• Turkey says Assad must go 'at some point'

  03-02-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Turkey on Saturday said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should leave office "at some point" in the future but denied there was any kind of contact between Ankara and Damascus over ending the seven year civil war.Ankara has been a prime foe of Assad throughout the conflict but has occasionally softened its rhetoric in the last months as Turkey strengthened cooperation with the regime's main ally Russia.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesperson, Ibrahim Kalin, told journalists in Istanbu
  
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• Donald Trump Is Already Using The Nunes Memo To Undermine The Russia Investigation

  03-02-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  Just a day after the release of an underwhelming Republican-authored House Intelligence Committee memo alleging inappropriate law enforcement spying on Donald Trump’s campaign, President Donald Trump is already using it to cast aspersions on the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.
  
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• Trump calls disclosures in GOP memo 'an American disgrace'

  03-02-2018 17:33 via yahoo.com
  President Trump is not happy about the claims made in the memo drafted by Rep. Devin Nunes about wiretapping Carter Page during the campaign.
  
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• Hawaii man says he's devastated about sending missile alert

  03-02-2018 17:31 via yahoo.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — A former Hawaii state worker who sent a false missile alert last month said Friday he's devastated about causing panic but was "100 percent sure" at the time that the attack was real.
  
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• Democrats heated over release of Nunes memo

  03-02-2018 17:29 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Henry Cueller responds to GOP's FISA memo.
  
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• Larry Nassar: Thousands raised for father who charged at paedophile doctor jailed for abusing his gymnast daughters

  03-02-2018 17:21 via yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of dollars have been raised in the name of a distraught father who tried to attack paedophile former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, after he was jailed for sexually assaulted the man's three daughters.Randall Margraves tried to grab Nassar while one of his daughters, Madison Margraves, was addressing the court during the latest hearing in Michigan.Moments earlier, Mr Margraves had asked the judge to give him "five minutes in a locked room" with the ex-doctor, who he descri
  
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• North Korea makes $200m by 'flouting' sanctions

  03-02-2018 17:18 via yahoo.com
  North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent U.N. monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar. David Doyle reports.
  
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• Trump claims Nunes memo 'totally' vindicates him as FBI says 'talk is cheap'

  03-02-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  What is the Nunes memo and why is it important?Donald Trump waves from Air Force One before departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Friday as he travels to Mar a Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend.Amid swirling partisan rancor in Washington, mere days after Donald Trump appealed for unity in his State of the Union address, the president fired yet another broadside at special counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation into Russian election meddling.
  
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• Lasers on planes used to reveal massive massive complex of Mayan ruins

  03-02-2018 17:11 via yahoo.com
  With the high-tech help scientists have found that Maya civilization was more advanced and populous than previously imagined.
  
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• Alaskan copper mine proposal sparks concern about wild salmon fishery

  03-02-2018 17:08 via yahoo.com
  The permitting process for the copper mine is underway with the blessing of the Trump administration, which could prove risky to the Dillingham fishery.
  
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