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• Arctic Marines? an Inside Look at the American Marines Training in the Harshest Elements

  25-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  NBC Nightly News went to northern Norway where American marines are training with Norwegian and British troops this month in Operation Joint Viking — a show of force just a few hundred miles from Russia’s border.
  
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• Pentagon Opens Investigation Into Whether U.S. Airstrikes Killed 200 Civilians in Mosul

  25-03-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Senior military and defense officials are investigating reports that scores of civilians — potentially nearly 200 — were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Iraqi city of Mosul last week.
  
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• Former Penn State President Found Guilty of Child Endangerment

  25-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  The university’s former president Graham Spanier was convicted Friday on a misdemeanor count of child endangerment. The charges came five years after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing young boys.
  
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• After Stinging Defeat Over Healthcare Bill, White House Moves Ahead to Tax Reform

  25-03-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence addressed supporters in West Virginia and President Trump tweeted that Obamacare would “explode” — but both seemed ready to move to another signature campaign promise: tax reform.
  
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• Vegas Strip shooting

  25-03-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Las Vegas police say the gunman in a fatal shooting on the Strip who barricaded himself inside a public bus has surrendered peacefully after shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours.
  
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• Microcosmic representation: Hong Kong's election committee

  25-03-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Billionaire tycoons, an Olympic cyclist and even an operatic tenor are all part of the select band who will choose Hong Kong's next leader Sunday.Representing sectors from sport and the arts to real estate and agriculture, the city's election committee comprises 1,194 members from a variety of special interest groups.Elected committee members are chosen by 246,440 voters from their sectors.
  
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• With asylum grant, did the US just reward hate speech?

  25-03-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  When Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, passed away in 2015, 16-year-old Amos Yee made an obscenity-filled YouTube video denouncing the late leader as a “tyrant.” That and other postings earned him a four-week jail sentence for “wounding religious feelings and obscenity.” Not long after, he earned another six-week sentence for derogatory comments on Islam and Christianity.On Friday, US Immigration Judge Samuel B. Cole granted asylum to Mr. Yee, now 18,
  
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• Photos of the day - March 25, 2017

  25-03-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  A woman dressed as “Europa" performs during a rally in Berlin marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome; a woman, pushed to the ground by police, tries to defends herself as the police detain an activist during an opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus; Pope Francis waves to the faithful from the Popemobile in Milan, Italy, as Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, looks on, after the Angelus in Duomo Square. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• U.S. confirms coalition strike in Mosul district where dozens reported killed

  25-03-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patrick MarkeyMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday a U.S.-led coalition strike had hit an Islamic State-held area of Iraq's Mosul where residents and officials say as many as 200 civilians may have been killed as result of an air raid.The American confirmation followed a decision by Iraqi government forces to pause their drive to recapture west Mosul on Saturday because of the high rate of civilian casualties, a security forces spokesman said, a move apparently motivated
  
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• Brazil tainted meat: Three key markets resume imports

  25-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil won a major victory Saturday in the fight to restore credibility amid a tainted meat scandal, with key markets China, Egypt and Chile lifting their bans on its products.The three countries, which had totally closed their markets to Brazilian meat at the beginning of the week, said they would open them to all but imports from the 21 Brazilian processing plants under investigation.About 20 countries this week -- including the European Union, Japan and Mexico -- close
  
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• Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason

  25-03-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group's enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for "high treason" on Saturday.Saudi Arabia and a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition have launched thousands of air strikes and a small number of ground troops to try to dislodge the Houthis and restore Hadi to power.The Houthis, allied to Saudi Arabia's arch-enemy Iran, have progressiv
  
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• Monaco on high alert after brazen Cartier heist

  25-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Monaco police were hunting for two suspects Saturday after a daring afternoon robbery at the famous French jeweller Cartier, prompting a brief lockdown of the tiny principality and jet set haven.Three men entered the boutique toward 3:40 pm (1440 GMT) while a driver waited in a car, the Monaco prosecutor's office said, adding that no shots were fired and no one was wounded or taken hostage.Clients in the showroom as well as tourists who found themselves in the zone were confined for part of the
  
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• U.N. envoy calls on powers to salvage Syrian ceasefire

  25-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura called on Russia, Turkey and Iran on Saturday to salvage the tattered ceasefire in Syria thatwould also help keep peace talks on track.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies, Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias from nearby countries, are seeking to staunch the biggest rebel assault in months, which began this week in the capital Damascus and the Hama countryside.
  
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• Zelda: Dragon Locations for Scales, Claws, Fangs and Horns

  25-03-2017 19:50
  See where you can find mythical dragons - and the best ways to get dragon parts in Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
  
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• UN Syria envoy urges foreign powers to help restore ceasefire

  25-03-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations' Syria envoy sent an urgent appeal Saturday to Russia, Iran and Turkey seeking help to restore a ceasefire, warning that escalating violence was threatening peace talks in Geneva.UN mediator Staffan de Mistura sent letters to Moscow and Tehran -- which back the Damascus regime -- as well as Ankara which supports the Syrian opposition, expressing concern over surging violence around the Syrian capital and central Hama province."Growing violations in recent days are undermining
  
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• Airstrikes across rebel-held Syria kill and wound scores

  25-03-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes hit a women's prison and a clinic in rebel-held parts of Syria on Saturday, killing and wounding scores of people amid clashes on multiple fronts between government forces and insurgent groups in some of the country's worst violence in weeks, opposition activists said.
  
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• 3 dead, 1 injured in Mexico prison riot

  25-03-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fight between inmates at a northern Mexican prison left three inmates dead and one injured, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• Officer is Found Guilty in Shooting Death of 6-Year-Old Boy With Autism

  25-03-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Jeremy Mardis was shot to death while in his dad's car in 2015.
  
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• Congolese militia decapitates more than 40 police: Officials

  25-03-2017 18:51 via yahoo.com
  
  BENI, Congo (AP) — A Congolese militia group has decapitated 42 policemen after ambushing them in an increasingly violent region where the U.N. is searching for missing American and Swedish investigators, a local official said Saturday.
  
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• Woman Stunned to Get Her Stolen Wallet Back 8 Years Later... With $141 Still Inside

  25-03-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Incredibly, Courtney Connolly desperately needed $140 to enter a competition this summer.
  
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• Airstrikes in Mosul kill civilians: Are US rules of engagement getting slacker?

  25-03-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul say a series of airstrikes carried out there in recent weeks by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State could have killed as many as 200 civilians, in what would be the highest civilian death toll in a US-led air campaign since the peak of the Iraq war.Iraqi rescue workers Saturday were combing through the rubble of a building where residents say as many as 137 civilians were killed in a single airstrike last week, in a part of the city now under coali
  
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• Troubled EU renews vows on 60th anniversary

  25-03-2017 18:04 via yahoo.com
  
  European Union leaders renewed their vows at a special summit in Rome on Saturday, celebrating the troubled bloc's 60th anniversary with a commitment to a common future without Britain.With British Prime Minister Theresa May absent, the other 27 countries signed a new declaration on the Capitoline Hill where six founding states signed the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957.Pro- and anti-EU protests took place in Rome, while in London tens of thousands of people marched against Brexit, which May wi
  
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• More Americans reach for a daily coffee in 2017: NCA

  25-03-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  
  More Americans are drinking a daily cup of coffee in 2017, a reversal of four years of declines, as gourmet brews gain in popularity, according to an industry group's report released on Saturday."More of us are drinking coffee, and younger consumers appear to be leading the charge," said National Coffee Association USA (NCA) Chief Executive Officer Bill Murray."A steadily growing taste for gourmet varieties is also driving a wider trend toward specialty beverages," he said.
  
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• Malaysia Could Soon Analyze Its Own Black Boxes

  25-03-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi announced Thursday that Malaysia intended to create a laboratory with the capability to analyze flight recorders.
  
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• Ex-CIA chief: Flynn's firm discussed removing cleric from US

  25-03-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director James Woolsey has accused the Trump administration's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, of participating in a discussion with Turkish officials about possibly subverting the U.S. extradition process to remove a Turkish cleric from the United States.
  
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• Walking on frozen bubbles

  25-03-2017 17:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Paul Zizka, from Alberta, Canada, visits this lake every year — but this is the first time he photographed the magical bubbles at sunrise.The 37-year-old Zizka said there were thousands of bubbles trapped under the ice and he was lucky to see them.
  
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• Justice League: first full trailer debuts Aquaman's trident power, almost-cheerful Batman

  25-03-2017 16:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Warner Bros. has finally released a new trailer for Justice League, and it’s packed with ...
  
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• China lifts ban on Brazilian meat imports

  25-03-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Brazil, trying to recover from a rotten meat scandal that has pummeled its agribusiness industry, said Saturday that major trading partner China had lifted a ban on imports of its products."China announced today it has fully reopened its market to Brazilian meat," Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said in a statement.Maggi did not say when the resumption of Brazilian meat imports, suspended Monday by China, would take effect.
  
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• London attacker: 'Jack the lad' turned killer

  25-03-2017 16:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Khalid Masood, the Briton behind this week's terror attack on parliament, was a Muslim convert with a history of violence who was known to security services but only as a "peripheral" figure.Police said the 52-year-old father, who also used the names Adrian Elms and Adrian Russell Ajao, was not under investigation when he went on the rampage in Westminster on Wednesday, killing four people.Masood was born on Christmas Day 1964 to a single mother, who remarried when he was young and brought him a
  
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• This $19 iPhone dock is basically the same as Apple’s $49 dock

  25-03-2017 16:03 via yahoo.com
  
  If you want a dock for your iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, or any other modern iPhone that uses a Lightning connector, Apple's own dock is a terrific option... as long as you don't mind spending $49 on a tiny little dock. Of course, you could also get the Stouch Aluminum Lightning Charging Dock, which is basically the same thing but costs less than $19. The Stouch dock looks exactly like the Apple model, but there are two main differences. The first is that you plug a microUSB cable into the back inst
  
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• Gunman Wearing a Pig Mask Robs Jewelry Store in Las Vegas' Iconic Bellagio Casino: Reports

  25-03-2017 15:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Multiple suspects were involved in the robbery, police said.
  
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• Hundreds detained as Belarus struggles to quell protests

  25-03-2017 15:34 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrei MakhovskyMINSK (Reuters) - Belarus authorities detained hundreds of people on Saturday during an attempt to hold a street protest in the capital Minsk, amid rising public anger over falling living standards and an unpopular tax on the unemployed.A Reuters reporter saw hundreds of police deployed to block off access points to the square where the protests were due to take place.Saturday's demonstration is the latest in a wave of protests since February that pose the biggest challenge in
  
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• Ex-guerrilla leader vows to keep fight for East Timor unity

  25-03-2017 15:08 via yahoo.com
  
  DILI, East Timor (AP) — A former guerrilla fighter vowed Saturday to keep peace and unity as East Timor's new president, delivering a victory speech after the final tally showed he was on course to win the election.
  
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• Britain's UKIP loses sole MP as he quits party

  25-03-2017 14:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Britain's anti-immigration, anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) lost its only MP on Saturday when Douglas Carswell quit the party, just days before Prime Minister Theresa May is to launch the formal Brexit process.Carswell defected from the ruling Conservative Party in 2014 to become the only UKIP member of the 650-seat House of Commons, but he has long been at odds with the party's founder, Nigel Farage.In a blog post, Carswell said the party had played a leading role in last year's referendum
  
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• Congo must help search for missing UN experts: Rights group

  25-03-2017 14:27 via yahoo.com
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo's government must cooperate with United Nations efforts to locate experts who have been missing in the violent Kasai region for nearly two weeks, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.
  
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• Showing common touch, Pope visits Muslim, elderly families in Milan

  25-03-2017 14:20 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaMILAN (Reuters) - Pope Francis showed the common touch during a trip to Italy's business capital on Saturday, visiting the homes of working-class families, including a Muslim one, and using an outdoor portable toilet.Instead of making his entry into the northern city via its grand center, site of a gothic cathedral, top fashion labels and the famed La Scala opera house, he started his one-day visit at a bleak public housing project on the outskirts.
  
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• Gorsuch hearings show him as careful, folksy, testy at times

  25-03-2017 13:24 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nominees appearing before the Senate all have one goal in mind: Win confirmation. And when one party controls the Senate and the White House, the strategy of saying as little as possible doesn't vary much. But because Supreme Court nominees spend several long days in televised hearings, they still manage to reveal a few things about themselves, professionally and personally.
  
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• Will Vladimir Putin Endorse French Presidential Candidate Marine Le Pen?

  25-03-2017 13:10 via yahoo.com
  
  The Russian president hasn't formally endorsed the far-right, populist French politician, but his government has given her both financial and verbal support.
  
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• U.S. judge grants Singaporean blogger's asylum request

  25-03-2017 13:01 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. immigration judge in Chicago on Friday granted asylum to a Singaporean blogger, saying he was persecuted for his political opinions in the Southeast Asian city-state.Amos Yee, 18, who had been jailed twice in Singapore, qualifies as a political refugee, according to a 13-page opinion by the U.S. immigration judge.Yee is immediately eligible for release after having been held in U.S. immigration detention since Dec. 16, 2016, according to his attorney, Sandra Grossman, who is based in Beth
  
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• North Korea Threatens US Over Preemptive Strike

  25-03-2017 13:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Kim Jong Un's regime said the U.S. should be prepared for “catastrophic consequences” if it attempts to engage Pyongyang.
  
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• Two charged over supplying gun to French airport attacker

  25-03-2017 12:25 via yahoo.com
  
  French anti-terrorism judges have charged two men suspected of involvement in supplying a weapon to the gunman killed at Paris's Orly airport after attacking soldiers, a judicial source said Saturday.The suspects, aged 30 and 43, were charged Friday for "association with terrorist criminals" over the March 18 incident, the latest in France which remains on a state of emergency after a series of deadly jihadist attacks.The 30-year-old detained Friday is suspected of having given Ben Belgacem a re
  
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• Weary flyers shrug as Middle East laptop ban takes off

  25-03-2017 12:18 via yahoo.com
  
  A controversial ban on carry-on laptops and tablets on flights from the Middle East to the United States and Britain went into effect Saturday -- with less fanfare and frustration than expected.At Dubai International, one of the world's busiest hubs, flag carrier Emirates dispatched staff to guide passengers through one of the most intense travel weekends of the year.
  
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• Major nations responsible for keeping world peace: China vice premier

  25-03-2017 11:20 via yahoo.com
  
  The world's major nations are responsible for maintaining global peace, and all countries should remain committed to a road of stable and peaceful development, China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli said on Saturday.Earlier this month, Pyongyang launched four ballistic missiles in response to joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises, which it regards as preparation to war."Large countries have the responsibility to maintain global peace, should increase strategic dialogue, increase mutual trust, and
  
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• 'Prove you are leaders of Europe,' Tusk tells Rome summit

  25-03-2017 11:20 via yahoo.com
  
  EU President Donald Tusk called for leadership to steer Europe out of crisis at a special summit in Rome on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc's founding treaties."Prove today that you are the leaders of Europe, that you can care for this great legacy we inherited from the heroes of European integration 60 years ago," former Polish prime minister Tusk said in a speech.Twenty-seven leaders are meeting without British Prime Minister Theresa May to celebrate the signing of the Europe
  
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• Readers write: Immigration path, talent at home, science knowledge

  25-03-2017 11:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Regarding the Feb. 22 editorial, “Trump’s mixed message on immigration: An opening for a deal?” (CSMonitor.com): Three cheers for the Monitor editorial staff.Immigration was not my priority issue.Recommended:Could you pass a US citizenship test?
  
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• Erdogan's tussle with Europe, The shame of the world, Regional support for Venezuela is vital, Scotland's place in the United Kingdom, US reengagement in the Middle East

  25-03-2017 11:00 via yahoo.com
  
  “It is a matter of grave concern that, according to a UN estimate, twenty million people are facing starvation in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria...," states an editorial. "It is indeed disturbing to note that man-made disasters like war and famine continue to bleed nations while international politics fails to come to a consensus on how to reach a stasis in parts of the Middle East, Northeast Nigeria and vast swathes of Somalia.... We urge the international community to infuse imm
  
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• Zelda: Don't Miss These Hidden Fairy Fountains to Upgrade Armor

  25-03-2017 10:02
  The Great Fairies of Zelda: Breath of the Wild can offer some great upgrades - if you're willing to pay for them.
  
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• Lebanon university settles US lawsuit over Hezbollah

  25-03-2017 09:45 via yahoo.com
  
  A Lebanese university will pay $700,000 to settle a US lawsuit over allegations it provided "material support" to entities linked to Hezbollah, US officials said.The American University of Beirut confirmed in a statement Friday it was settling the lawsuit, which charged it had violated the terms of grants it received from US Agency for International Development (USAID).The US Attorney's Office in Manhattan announced the deal on Thursday, saying AUB would be required to pay the US government $700
  
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• Dialysis supplies dwindle for besieged Syrians

  25-03-2017 09:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Dania, 14, was writhing in pain ahead of her first ever dialysis session.Renal insufficiency limits the kidney's ability to filter waste out of the bloodstream or regulate hormones, and is typically treated with several dialysis sessions per week.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's promise on repealing health care law

  25-03-2017 08:51 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the failure of Republican health care legislation, President Donald Trump's campaign promise to replace so-called Obamacare "immediately" has been broken.
  
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