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| Quincy Jones will discuss diversity, but not on Oscar show Posted: 28 Feb 2016 04:21 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Quincy Jones wants to talk about diversity, just not on the Oscar show.
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| Rubio, Cruz release tax summaries in challenge to Trump Posted: 27 Feb 2016 09:56 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz released summary pages of their recent tax filings on Saturday, seeking to capitalize on GOP front-runner Donald Trump's refusal to release similar information.
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| Democratic Party slams GOP candidates on climate change Posted: 28 Feb 2016 03:01 PM PST  The Democratic Party released a video on Sunday slamming Republican presidential hopefuls for their opposition to action on climate change, suggesting the views clash with the reality of rising sea levels and shifting weather patterns. The video features Republican front-runner Donald Trump and his two closest rivals, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, denying man-made global warming, juxtaposed with images of U.S. flooding, wildfires, droughts and heat waves. "I'm not a believer in climate change," Trump says during a television news interview featured in the clip.
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| U.S. court test on abortion reflects success of strategy shift Posted: 28 Feb 2016 05:05 AM PST  When the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a major abortion case for the first time in nearly a decade, the regulations at issue will not involve fetuses or the mother, but rather standards for doctors and facilities where the procedure is performed. "It took a while to see the impact" of state laws imposing regulations on abortion providers, said Elizabeth Nash, a policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortion policy and supports abortion rights. One of the two Texas regulations before the court requires doctors who provide abortions to have "admitting privileges" at a local hospital so they can treat patients needing surgery or other critical care.
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| Iran's Rouhani welcomes poll wins that could mean faster reform Posted: 28 Feb 2016 12:33 PM PST  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and reformist partners won a big vote of confidence in elections that could speed up Iran's emergence from isolation, and a key ally told long dominant hardliners to accept that voters wanted them to step aside. The polls for parliament and a leadership body were seen by analysts as a potential turning point for Iran, where nearly 60 percent of its 80 million population is under 30 and eager to engage with the world following the lifting of most sanctions. While advances by moderates and independents in Friday's polls were most evident in the capital, the scale of the gains in Tehran suggests a legislature more friendly to the pragmatist Rouhani is now a distinct possibility.
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