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• Julian Zelizer: Trump is winning

  12-03-2017 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  Even with the strong jobs report and booming stock market, it is easy to look at President Trump and see total chaos.
  
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• Biden says would have liked to be the U.S. president who ended cancer

  12-03-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former Democratic U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday in one of his first major speeches since leaving office this year that he would have liked to have been the U.S. president who ended cancer as we know it.Biden, whose son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015, delivered an emotional speech at the South by Southwest technology summit in Austin, Texas, about continuing the work he led under former Democratic President Barack Obama in the so-call
  
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• Cat dad uses piano to induce feline bliss

  12-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Some dog people wonder: Are cats evil? Probably not, but they are definitely better at giving zero f*cks about your human feelings than, say, every other furry pet on earth. Nevertheless, one talented cat dad in Istanbul proves that if you can generate the proper amount of musical entertainment, cats will not only pretend to care about you, they might actually love you. SEE ALSO: Every day a sweet dog peeks out from under a gate, waiting for his friendMusician Sarper Duman regularly serenad
  
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• What to do if someone posts an explicit image of you online

  12-03-2017 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  Maybe you've taken a naked selfie for your significant other, or you've let someone take a photo of you in the nude. Once that kind of photo exists, it's all too easy for someone to send or post it without the subject's consent.
  
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• Syrian jihadists say responsible for Damascus double bomb attack

  12-03-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  
  A Syrian alliance of jihadist groups known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said on Sunday it was responsible for a double suicide bomb attack in the capital Damascus that killed dozens of people.The group said the attack on Saturday targeted Iranian-backed militias in revenge for what it said was their role in supporting President Bashar al Assad's "tyrannical rule", holding them responsible for "killing and displacing" Syrians.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said m
  
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• Photos of the day - March 12, 2017

  12-03-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Colored powder is thrown at a man during celebrations of the Holi Festival in Kathmandu; an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man dressed in a likeness of President Trump takes part in the reading from the Book of Esther ceremony performed on the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem; and Bucknell celebrates at center court after defeating the Navy in overtime of an NCAA college basketball Patriot League Championship game in Lewisburg, Pa. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• Landslide at landfill kills 46

  12-03-2017 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  A landslide killed at least 46 people at a waste dump outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Sunday, according to the country's communications minister, Negeri Lencho.
  
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• Opinion: 'SNL' is right: Ivanka is complicit

  12-03-2017 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live" has comically devastated Donald Trump -- both as a candidate and now as President. The show's comedic barbs targeting Trump have been so on point that in October 2016 Trump stunningly demanded that the iconic show be cancelled.
  
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• Rep. Steve King: ‘We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies’

  12-03-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Congressman Steve King has a history of stirring controversy.Iowa Rep. Steve King is facing a fierce backlash over a tweet that critics say is an open embrace of white nationalism.On Sunday, King retweeted a political cartoon featuring Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician whose anti-Muslim rhetoric and blown-out hairstyle have drawn plenty of comparisons to Donald Trump.
  
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• Opinion: The President who got ousted for being embarrassing

  12-03-2017 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  South Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye, is now also the nation's first impeached president. The Korean Constitutional Court on Friday voted unanimously to remove her from office, and snap elections for a new president will be held within 60 days.
  
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• Opinion: Don't expect Trump to get impeached like Park

  12-03-2017 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  South Korea's first female president, Park Geun-hye, is now also the nation's first impeached president. The Korean Constitutional Court on Friday voted unanimously to remove her from office, and snap elections for a new president will be held within 60 days.
  
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• McCain: Trump should clarify wiretap claim

  12-03-2017 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped him in the final weeks of the presidential campaign and added he expects more to come on Russia's meddling in the US election.
  
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• Paris mayor to spend 1.5 million euros for 'war on rats'

  12-03-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The mayor of Paris said Sunday the city would spend 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to rid the French capital of rats and install more public ashtrays to clean up the city's streets.In an interview with Journal du Dimanche weekly, Mayor Anne Hidalgo unveiled a 10-point plan aimed at making cleanliness a "priority".Municipal workers collect more than 150 tonnes of cigarette butts every year in Paris.
  
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• Jordanian soldier who shot Israeli schoolgirls walks free from jail

  12-03-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  By Suleiman Al-KhalidiAMMAN (Reuters) - A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls has been freed after serving 20 years in prison, with many Jordanians celebrating his release and calling him a national hero, witnesses and family sources said on Sunday.Ahmad Daqamseh, 45, was taken to his family home in the village of Ibdir near the city of Irbid in northern Jordan where dozens of relatives and wellwishers gave him a rousing welcome.In July 1997, a five-member Jordanian military t
  
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• Kremlin: 'Russia is being demonized'

  12-03-2017 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday that Russia is being demonized, and that it was impossible for his country to have interfered with the 2016 election, despite US claims.
  
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• Denmark postpones meeting with Turkish PM

  12-03-2017 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Netherlands of sacrificing Turkish-Dutch relations and warned, "You will pay the price."
  
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• What do we mean by self-employment, anyway? | Letters

  12-03-2017 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  As a self-employed project manager for 20 years I can see from comments in the media from both politicians (Reports, 10 March) and journalists that many assume that the self-employed are paid at the same rate as the employee for the equivalent job. In general they are not. They charge more for their time to compensate for the lack of employee benefits.I have given work to hundreds of self-employed staff across the UK, on projects at both the high end of the market in IT and at the lower end in c
  
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• Countdown to Dutch elections overshadowed by diplomatic row

  12-03-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Three days before key Dutch elections campaigning was reaching fever pitch Sunday with the far-right poised to make huge gains, and the poll overshadowed by a bitter diplomatic row with Turkey.The stakes are high, with Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Liberals (VVD) predicted to return as the largest party in the 150-seat parliament scooping up between 23 to 27 seats, according to the latest aggregated polls.Rutte, who is bidding for a third term, is facing a strong challenge from far-right anti-Isla
  
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• Netherlands 'will pay the price' for blocking Turkish visit – Erdoğan

  12-03-2017 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Turkey’s president accuses west of nazism as row escalates after minister is turned away from Rotterdam consulateThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has warned the Netherlands it will “pay the price” for a diplomatic stand-off after a Turkish minister was blocked from visiting her country’s consulate in Rotterdam and tensions between the two countries exploded in angry protests. Erdoğan described the treatment of Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, minister fo
  
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• Iraqi forces take third of west Mosul, jihadists 'trapped'

  12-03-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi forces recaptured a third of west Mosul and trapped Islamic State group fighters inside as they made further gains in their battle to retake the city, officials said Sunday.Fierce fighting has shaken Mosul in recent days as thousands of US-backed Iraqi soldiers and police battle to reclaim the country's second city.A renewed push against the jihadists launched on March 5 has seen IS forced from several neighbourhoods and key sites, including the main local government headquarters and the f
  
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• Viral video hijacked by children sparks fierce debate on social media

  12-03-2017 20:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Widespread assumption that Asian woman in video was a nanny – and not the mother – leads to accusations of racism It lasted less than one minute but has been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The BBC interview with political scientist Prof Robert Kelly, from his spare room, on South Korean president Park Geun-hye is a global hit after being spectacularly hijacked by the professor’s two young children.Amid the mirth and chatter the video clip has generated on social media, h
  
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• The Latest: French candidate Macron condemns Turkey

  12-03-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the diplomatic tensions between Turkey and the Netherlands (all times local):
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: 'SNL' is right: Ivanka is complicit

  12-03-2017 20:02 via cnn.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live" has comically devastated Donald Trump -- both as a candidate and now as President. The show's comedic barbs targeting Trump have been so on point that in October 2016 Trump stunningly demanded that the iconic show be cancelled.
  
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• Coalition colleagues urge Malcolm Turnbull to head off energy crisis

  12-03-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister told to adopt a domestic gas reservation policy to deal with forecast LNG shortagesThe prime minister is under mounting internal pressure to adopt a domestic gas reservation policy to deal with forecast shortages. The chairman of the government’s backbench committee on energy and the environment, Craig Kelly, has said it is something Malcolm Turnbull should consider.With Turnbull due to meet senior executives from the east coast gas companies on Wednesday, Kelly told Guardia
  
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• Trump fires high-profile prosecutor

  12-03-2017 19:55 via cnn.com
  
  The high-profile US attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, has indicated he will not submit a letter of resignation as requested by the Trump administration Friday -- placing the President in the position of having to fire him in a public standoff, sources tell CNN.
  
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• No-deal Brexit 'would put UK in worst trading position of rich nations'

  12-03-2017 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Research finds no G20 countries interact with EU without arrangements over trade, as UK could do if it leaves without dealIf Britain leaves the European Union without a replacement trade deal its commercial links with the bloc will overnight become less favourable than any other major industrialised nation, a cross-party campaign has warned as Theresa May prepares to trigger article 50. Research commissioned by Open Britain, which campaigns for continued ties with Europe in the aftermath of Brex
  
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• Poland accuses EU of 'cheating', after defeat in Tusk vote

  12-03-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Poland, which lost a diplomatic campaign to oust its former premier Donald Tusk from his post as European Council president, has now accused the EU of "cheating" and announced a "negative" policy towards Brussels."It turned out that EU policy is one of double standards and cheating", Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski in the weekend edition of the Super Express newspaper.Waszczykowski was referring to last week's clash at a Brussels summit of EU leaders, when Poland cast the sole vote against
  
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• Bus crashes into parade in Haiti, killing at least 34 and injuring 17

  12-03-2017 19:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Driver and passengers held in police station, official says
  Paraders reportedly threw rocks at bus after crashAt least 34 people were killed and 17 injured in northern Haiti late on Saturday after a bus crashed into a parade of pedestrians, the country’s civil protection authorities said on Sunday. The bus, which was coming from Cap Haitien to the capital, Port-au-Prince, crashed into a “rara” parade in the town of Gonaives in the northern part of the country, authorities said.
  
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• Impeached president says goodbye

  12-03-2017 19:04 via cnn.com
  
  South Korea's impeached president Park Geun-hye released a statement through a spokesperson as she moved out of the official presidential residence. CNN's Ivan Watson reports.
  
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• Trump health chief says no one will lose money under plan, despite expert views

  12-03-2017 18:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Tom Price joins Republicans in touting plan on talkshows, with Paul Ryan praising ‘freedom’ as analysts foresee sharp cuts to tax credits and MedicaidThe Trump administration claimed on Sunday that no Americans would lose money under the controversial Republican plan to overhaul healthcare, an extraordinary promise that experts have so far widely contradicted.Tom Price, Trump’s health and human services secretary, told NBC’s Meet The Press that “nobody will be worse
  
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• Good Samaritans Save Elderly Woman Walking Across Train Tracks Just in the Nick of Time

  12-03-2017 18:48 via yahoo.com
  
  She was uninjured.
  
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• Bus Kills 34 Pedestrians in the Haitian City of Gonaives

  12-03-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The bus initially killed 1 pedestrian but attempted to flee, killing dozens more.
  
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• Teaching Trump: Should teachers offer up their own politics?

  12-03-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  
  NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City teacher was warned over a homework question critical of President Donald Trump. An Alabama district fielded complaints for a teacher's "Obama, you're fired!" caption under a Trump display. And video caught a Texas art teacher shooting a squirt gun at an image of the president, and yelling, "Die!"
  
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• Denmark cancels meeting with Turkish PM

  12-03-2017 18:21 via cnn.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Netherlands of sacrificing Turkish-Dutch relations and warned, "You will pay the price."
  
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• Italy vows to uphold free speech after clashes

  12-03-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Italy's government vowed Sunday to defend far-right Northern League leader Matteo Salvini's right to free speech after violent clashes marred his first rally in Naples, proud capital of the country's poor south."Something very important happened yesterday which we have to reflect on," Interior Minister Marco Minniti said after the violence between masked protesters and riot police erupted on the margins of an otherwise peaceful demonstration in the sprawling port city on Saturday.Minniti's inter
  
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• Purim celebrations in London – in pictures

  12-03-2017 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Every year at Purim Jews around the world gather in fancy dress to hear a reading of the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the defeat of Haman, an adviser to the Persian king, who plotted to massacre the Jewish people 2,500 years ago, an event that was prevented by Esther’s courage. Photographers Dan Kitwood and Matthew Chattle join the celebrations among observant Jews in Stamford Hill, north London Continue reading...
  
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• Mosul museum left in ruins

  12-03-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi forces liberate Mosul museum, where all that is left after two and half years under Islamic State control are traces of looting and destruction. Francis Maguire reports.
  
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• Slaying of thief fuels Italy's debate on legitimate defense

  12-03-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Italian opposition politicians from the far right populist parties and other conservative forces on Sunday demanded a new law quickly on legitimate defense to protect law-abiding citizens.
  
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• ‘She’s complicit’: Ivanka Trump torched by ScarJo on ‘SNL’

  12-03-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, imagining how the president would respond to an “Independence Day”-style alien invasion during the cold-open sketch. (Hint: It involves wearing a bomber jacket.) But it was Scarlett Johansson’s portrayal of Ivanka Trump that stole the show.
  
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• Coalition official: IS-held Mosul completely surrounded

  12-03-2017 17:50 via yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The remaining western Mosul neighborhoods held by the Islamic State group are now completely surrounded and IS has lost more than 60 percent of the territory the militants once held in Iraq, according to a senior coalition official.
  
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• Editor of The Nation on GOP health care bill: 'This is a betrayal of Trump's own voters'

  12-03-2017 17:34 via yahoo.com
  
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• Major Cheese Recall Announced After Two People Died

  12-03-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Back at market with all the usual suspects, come get some! A post shared by @vultocreamery on May 10, 2015 at 7:39am PDT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just announced a cheese recall after a listeria outbreak that began spreading in September left six people hospitalized. Soft, raw-milk cheese created by Vulto Creamery in Walton, New York has been recognized as the likely cause of the outbreak. Six people across four states have been diagnosed with listeria, ...
  
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• Trump associate plays down contact with alleged hacker

  12-03-2017 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Roger Stone, the flamboyant political adviser who has been connected to President Donald Trump for years, is defending his contacts with "Guccifer 2.0"-- the online persona who claims responsibility for hacking the Democratic National Committee -- as an innocuous "brief exchange" of a few direct messages that he says amount to nothing.
  
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• Trump aide downplays contact with 'hacker'

  12-03-2017 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Roger Stone, the flamboyant political adviser who has been connected to President Donald Trump for years, is defending his contacts with "Guccifer 2.0"-- the online persona who claims responsibility for hacking the Democratic National Committee -- as an innocuous "brief exchange" of a few direct messages that he says amount to nothing.
  
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• Freed Jordanian who killed 7 Israeli girls shows no remorse

  12-03-2017 17:25 via yahoo.com
  
  IBDIR, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was unrepentant after his release from prison Sunday, lashing out at Israelis with harshly derogatory remarks.
  
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• Will article 50 be triggered on Tuesday – or later in the month?

  12-03-2017 17:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Speculation continues, as Liam Fox’s comments do little to quell rumours, but it could be triggered before Dutch election“It will definitely be this week or next week or the week after.”
  After much speculation about the exact timing of when the government will trigger Britain’s two-year exit from the European Union, Liam Fox’s comments on Sunday will do little to quell the rumours.Continue reading...
  
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• Report: Serbia to get Russian jets before election

  12-03-2017 17:06 via yahoo.com
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's defense minister has said that the country is expecting Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval for the delivery of fighter jets, which could worsen tensions with neighboring states.
  
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• Assault on ISIS: Almost 100,000 displaced

  12-03-2017 17:06 via cnn.com
  
  Nearly 100,000 people have been displaced since the operation to liberate western Mosul began last month, according to Iraq's Ministry of Migration And Displaced.
  
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• Ashley Biden on athleisure and why her father would make a fantastic president

  12-03-2017 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  The daughter of the former vice-president has brought her interest in welfare to the world of fashion with a new line of hoodies for charity – and her dad has been right there with her. So might he run in 2020?Ashley Biden first came into the public eye with a chat about dolphins. Concerned about the very real issue of tuna bycatch, she ended up, with the help of her father Joe Biden (then a Democratic senator in Delaware), on the floor of Congress talking to Republican senators about the
  
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• Turkey warns 'fascist' Netherlands will pay in rally row

  12-03-2017 16:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned the Netherlands would pay a price for preventing his ministers from holding rallies to win support in a referendum on expanding his powers, as a crisis escalated with Turkey's key EU partners.Erdogan also repeated hugely controversial accusations that the Netherlands -- occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II -- was behaving like fascists in its treatment of Turkish ministers.Also this weekend, The Hague refused to allow Foreign Minister M
  
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