| Mike Huckabee Resigns From Country Music Board After Criticism Of His Anti-LGBTQ Views Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:21 PM PST  "If the industry doesn't want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it," Huckabee wrote in his resignation letter, which came just one day after he was announced as the CMA Foundation's newest member. "Until recently, the arts was the one place America could set aside political, geographical, racial, religious, and economic barriers and come together ... At the end of the day, I'm not worth the fight, but the kids are." The letter was published in Nashville's The Tennessean. Although CMA Foundation Chairman Joe Galante had touted Huckabee's "policy experience with education reform" when announcing the former Arkansas governor's appointment to the board Wednesday, the news immediately set off a firestorm of criticism.
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| A Climate Change Litmus Test For Democrats Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PST  In April 2016, at a campaign stop on the campus of SUNY Purchase, just north of New York City, I filmed a short video of Hillary Clinton. The video quickly went viral, partly because of the outsized response from a famously tight-lipped politician, partly because it played so well into the Democratic primary narrative that pitted Clinton, buddy-buddy with Wall Street, against the people-powered challenge of Sen. Bernie Sanders. The furor that the video generated sprang from fissures in the Democratic Party that perfunctory resistance to President Donald Trump has only papered over.
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| At least eight dead after Nor’easter slams east coast Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:55 AM PST  Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, with residents along the coast battling cold, wind and flooding, and more than a million across the Northeast are without power.
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| Central Michigan University shooting suspect apprehended after manhunt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:57 AM PST  19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr. was taken into custody by law enforcement overnight, hours after his parents were shot and killed inside a Central Michigan University dorm room.
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| A Man Who Shot Himself Near the White House Has Died, Officials Say Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:26 AM PST  An individual reportedly has a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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| Florida Teacher Linked To White Supremacist Podcast Removed From The Classroom Posted: 04 Mar 2018 03:49 PM PST  A Florida middle school social studies teacher was removed from the classroom while her school district investigates a HuffPost report that she hosted a white supremacist podcast under a pseudonym, shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and suggested that Muslims be eradicated from the planet. HuffPost, in an article published on Saturday, revealed that Volitich was hosting a podcast titled "Unapologetic" under the name "Tiana Dalichov." Volitich also used that name on a Twitter account and two Facebook pages, in addition to several other podcasts and YouTube pages.
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| Hunt for missing Malaysian plane likely to end in June Posted: 03 Mar 2018 04:30 PM PST  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. company will likely end in June, a Malaysian official said, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane's disappearance with renewed hope that the world's biggest aviation mystery will be solved.
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| Honduras energy executive arrested over activist murder Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:45 PM PST  Honduran authorities said they have arrested an energy company executive allegedly behind the high-profile 2016 murder of prominent environmental activist Berta Caceres. Police detained electrical engineer Roberto David Castillo Mejia "as the intellectual perpetrator" behind Caceres's murder, the prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday. Officials said Castillo had served as CEO of the company Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA) -- which Caceres actively campaigned against over plans to build a hydroelectric dam -- at the time of the activist's slaying.
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| Putin Tells Megyn Kelly Russia Will 'Never, Never' Extradite Accused Hackers to the United States Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:57 PM PST  In an exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the his government had nothing to do with any meddling in the 2016 election.
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| Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Want People To See Video Of His Heckled UCLA Talk Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:56 PM PST  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doesn't want you to see what happened when he spoke at the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday. The Burkle Center for International Relations invited Mnuchin to speak with "Marketplace" public radio host Kai Ryssdal for an open discussion on the Trump administration, its policies and the U.S. economy at the university. The public event went so poorly, however, that Mnuchin asked UCLA not to publish any video of it, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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| Trump praises Chinese president extending tenure 'for life' Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:04 PM PST  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping Saturday after the ruling Communist party announced it was eliminating the two-term limit for the presidency, paving the way for Xi to serve indefinitely, according to audio aired by CNN. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday," Trump said to cheers and applause from supporters. It is not clear if Trump, 71, was making the comment about extending presidential service in jest.
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| Roy Moore Is Now Asking For Money On Facebook To Defend Himself Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:46 AM PST  Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has asked supporters for financial assistance to defend against a defamation lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old. In a Facebook post this week, Moore said his "resources have been depleted" and he has "struggled to make ends meet" due to legal fees and expenses. "I now face another vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D. C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me and ensure that I never fight again," he wrote in the lengthy screed.
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| Senate Democrat: Gun reform won't happen if Trump is 'not willing to lead' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:52 AM PST  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with one of the leading Democrats on gun control, Sen. Chris Murphy.
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| Panel: Chaos Rules in the 'Reality Show' White House Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:41 PM PST  Tom Brokaw, Katy Tur, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Al Cardenas discuss the chaotic week in the White House, after President Trump's Communications Director and longtime aide Hope Hicks announced her resignation.
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| Apparent explosive device found on Mexican ferry off Cozumel Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:49 PM PST  PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — What appeared to be undetonated explosives were found on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel, authorities said Friday, less than two weeks after a blast shook another ferry plying the same route.
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| Large Avalanche Hits California's Busy Mammoth Ski Resort Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:05 PM PST  A large avalanche roared down a slope on Mammoth Mountain in California on Saturday morning. "Essentially the top of the mountain came loose," skier Barbara Maynard told The Los Angeles Times. The resort is located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range about 300 miles north of Los Angeles.
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| $275K going to family of each person slain in Vegas shooting Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:24 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $31.5 million victims' fund that started as a GoFundMe effort announced plans Friday to pay $275,000 to the families of each of the 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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| Bronze stars for an elite team of Air Force surgeons Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:13 AM PST  Members of the Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team can set up an operating room on the battlefield in just 15 minutes. Their skills are tested in Syria as they treat civilians, many of them children.
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| We Now Know Why Russia Wants a 100-Megaton Nuclear Torpedo Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:20 PM PST  In a speech on March 1, 2018, Russian president Vladimir Putin detailed a half-dozen "invincible" new Russian weapons under development, which he assured would give his nation the ability to launch "unstoppable" nuclear attacks on the United States. The speech, which was met with cheers by the audience, was accompanied by a video presentation that included an animation of a separating nuclear warheads raining down on Florida, apparently in the vicinity of President Trump's retreat in Mar-a-Lago. The bellicose rhetoric is surely intended to rally political support for Putin's reelection on March 18, as well a reflection of Moscow's own insecurity, stemming from fears that new U.S. ballistic-missile defenses may eventually render Russia's nuclear deterrence ineffective.
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| DOJ Report To Knock Trump's Favorite FBI Foil Over Leak That Helped Trump's Own Campaign Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:19 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― The Justice Department's top oversight official is set to release a report slamming an FBI official President Donald Trump has portrayed as a Hillary Clinton stooge — for allegedly authorizing leaks of information that hurt Clinton's campaign. Trump and his supporters have used the fact that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife ran for a state Senate seat as a Democrat to paint him as a Democratic partisan out to get Trump.
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| U.N. halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town after humanitarian workers killed Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:19 AM PST  The United Nations has suspended aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing, possibly kidnapped. The suspension of aid work in the town of Rann, which hosts a camp for 55,000 people displaced by the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, was announced late on Friday in a statement from the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General. "At the time of the attack, over 40 humanitarian workers were in Rann," said the UN statement.
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| 2-Year-Old Girl Dies After Mirror Falls on Her at Payless Shoe Store Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:36 AM PST  The child was rushed to the hospital but did not survive
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| Ohio inmate whose execution halted dies of natural causes Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PST  CLEVELAND (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer whose execution in November had to be halted when a usable vein couldn't be found to administer execution drugs died Saturday morning of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said.
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| 'Black Panther' Passes The $500-Million Mark At The Box Office Posted: 04 Mar 2018 02:40 PM PST  This weekend, Marvel Studio's blockbuster "Black Panther" made another $65 million. The film has now raked in over $500 million after just 17 days in theaters, making it the 10th highest-domestic-grossing movie in history. The film is sure to eclipse the ninth spot on the list, 2017′s "Beauty and the Beast," which made $504 million domestically. The superhero film could even pass "The Avengers," which made $623 million domestically in 2012 and is the highest-grossing Marvel film of all time. It brought in $242 million domestically in its four-day opening weekend — just behind "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Those numbers make "Black Panther" the fifth largest opening of all time, and the top February opening weekend.
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| Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:04 PM PST ![Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture]( "Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture") DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An unidentified young man stabbed a prominent teacher, writer and promoter of secular values at a university in a northeastern city in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
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| Tiger and Bear Battle it Out Over Territory in Intense Video Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PST  The bear fought back to protect her cub.
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| Hicks resigns, Kushner loses top security clearance, Trump attacks his AG Sessions Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:27 AM PST  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports the latest week in the Trump administration.
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| Trump's Tariff Can't Start A Trade War Because It Started Years Ago Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:13 PM PST  President Donald Trump's announcement that he would place tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has economists cringing. Conservative Republicans are dusting off the principles they learned in Econ 101, liberal Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is warning that Trump will start an economically destructive trade war, and prominent world leaders are vowing to prove Krugman right. On Friday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to retaliate against "unfair" U.S. tariffs with new levies on American motorcycles, bourbon and blue jeans.
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| Slovakia releases suspects detained over journalist's murder: police Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:31 AM PST  Slovak authorities released all seven people detained in connection with the murder of an investigative journalist, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday. Police detained the suspects on Thursday in an investigation into the murder of Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, who were found shot dead in their home last weekend. "During the legal timeframe - 48 hours - (police) checked and searched for facts needed for an indictment.
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| Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PST ![Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma]( "Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma") What do we leave behind in space?
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| China downplays lifting of presidential term limit Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:18 PM PST  China sought on Sunday to downplay the Communist Party's move to scrap presidential term limits, a decision that could pave the way for Xi Jinping to remain president for life. The National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, will vote on March 11 on constitutional amendments which include the scrapping of a rule limiting the top leader to two five-year terms. NPC spokesman Zhang Yesui told a news conference that the move will merely align the presidency with the titles of Communist Party general secretary and Military Commission chairman, which do not have term limits.
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| APNewsBreak: 1st lawsuit filed in Grand Canyon copter crash Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:48 PM PST  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The parents of a British tourist who died after the Grand Canyon sightseeing helicopter he was in crashed filed the first wrongful death lawsuit Friday related to last month's crash.
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| Hollywood braced for best picture photo finish at Oscars Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:37 AM PST  Hollywood is set for a real-life cliffhanger Sunday at the Oscars -- the race for best picture is coming down to the wire to cap an awards season overshadowed by scandal over sexual misconduct in showbiz. Dark crime comedy "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" has begun to pull away in late betting for the industry's biggest prize, but Oscarologists believe fairy tale romance "The Shape of Water" and socially-conscious horror movie "Get Out" will make it a photo finish. There are at least four strong possibilities to win," Variety's awards editor Tim Gray told AFP, adding Christopher Nolan's sweeping war epic "Dunkirk" to the mix.
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| FBI director makes historic visit to Navajo Nation Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:30 PM PST  GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray met with tribal officials of the largest Indian reservation in the U.S. this week, becoming the first head of the federal law enforcement agency to visit the Navajo Nation.
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| Bomb-sniffing dogs mistreated by US Army after returning from service in Afghanistan Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:42 AM PST  Bomb-sniffing dogs were mistreated by the US Army after returning from duty in Afghanistan, according to an official report. Several dogs had to be rescued by the soldiers they served with during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Army allowed one dog described as having canine PTSD and another which may have received bite training to go to families with children.
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| Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:16 AM PST ![Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League]( "Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League") Marcador de la vigésima novena jornada de la Premier League:
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| Trump Mocks George W. Bush, Calls Iraq Invasion 'Single Worst Decision Ever Made' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:30 AM PST  "Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time," Trump said. As CNN noted, Trump has used this faulty assessment about the WMDs to question the reliability of the U.S. intelligence community, particularly regarding its conclusions about Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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| UK police charge three men over shop blast that killed five in Leicester Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:46 AM PST  British police investigating a shop blast a week ago which killed five people in the central English city of Leicester, said on Saturday they had charged three men with manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life. The five died when a blast ripped through a Polish convenience store and a home last Sunday, turning the building into rubble. Police said in a statement they had charged three men over the case: Aram Kurd, 33, from Leicester, Hawkar Hassan, 32, from Coventry and Arkan Ali, 37, from Oldham.
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| Swiss vote for public media Posted: 04 Mar 2018 08:46 AM PST  Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal that would have cut taxpayer funding to public broadcasters, after a campaign that stirred debate about the media's role in fostering national unity. The "No Billag" initiative -- a reference to the Billag firm that collects the media licensing fee -- divided Switzerland on political and generational lines. Rejection of the initiative was "a strong sign for the public service and for private regional radio and television," said the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR) director Gilles Marchand.
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| Saudi crown prince lands in Egypt on first public trip Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:15 AM PST  Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Sunday to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on his first public trip abroad since he became crown prince last year and purged the kingdom's political and economic elite. The Saudi prince will head for Britain on March 7 following his three-day visit to Cairo and then the United States, Riyadh's closest Western ally, later in the month. Also on Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump called Sisi to discuss with him "regional issues" and "ways of combating terrorism", a statement from the Egyptian presidency said.
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| Three Australians die from contaminated melon Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:12 AM PST  Three Australians have died after consuming melon contaminated with listeria amid an outbreak that has prompted health authorities to warn those at risk to throw out pre-cut melons. At least 15 cases of listeriosis have been reported since authorities were first alerted to the outbreak last month. Health authorities in New South Wales state confirmed the death of two people from the outbreak this week, with authorities in Victoria confirming the third.
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| Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:56 AM PST ![Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more]( "Florida python devours deer that weighs nearly 4 lbs. more") NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they'd never seen before: an 11-foot-long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.
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| VIDEO: Man buried in snow rescued after avalanche at California ski resort Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:13 PM PST  An avalanche crashed down on five people Friday at a Sierra Nevada ski resort, which fully buried at least one man who was rescued out.
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| Russia's Navy Might Be Modernizing—But It's Overstretched Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:17 PM PST  President Vladimir Putin's speech on the first of March revealed a whole panoply of new nuclear capabilities, from cruise missiles with nearly unlimited range to unmanned undersea vehicles also operating with extraordinary range, together with unprecedented speed and depth capabilities. Along the maritime periphery of Russia, tensions continue to escalate. Russian warships sortied en masse into the Baltic Sea on 20 February as part of a readiness drill, and in January, Russian news reported that a U.S. drone made a long-range intelligence-gathering sortie along Russia's Black Sea border in the vicinity of Kerch, Sochi, and the Crimea.
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| Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping's powergrab: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day' Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:28 PM PST  Donald Trump praised Xi Jinping on Saturday after the ruling Communist party announced it was eliminating the two-term limit for the presidency, paving the way for the Chinese leader to serve indefinitely, according to audio aired by CNN. "He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great," Mr Trump said of the Chinese president, according to audio of excerpts of Mr Trump's remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in Florida aired by CNN. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday," Mr Trump said to cheers and applause from supporters. US presidents by tradition served a maximum of two four-year terms until President Franklin Roosevelt was elected a record four times starting in 1932. An amendment to the US Constitution approved in 1951 limits presidents to two terms in office. China's annual parliament gathering kicks off on Monday as Mr Xi presses ahead with efforts to ward off financial risks without undermining the economy. Xi Jinping | The wisdom of Xi The Communist party announced on February 25 the end of the two-term limit for the president - and the parliament is expected to ratify the move. During the remarks, Mr Trump praised Mr Xi as "a great gentleman" and added: "He's the most powerful (Chinese) president in a hundred years." Mr Trump said Xi had treated him "tremendously well" during his visit in November. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment late on Saturday. Mr Trump has often praised the Chinese leader, but in January Mr Trump told Reuters the United States was considering a big "fine" as part of a probe into China's alleged theft of intellectual property. He has been critical of China's trade policies. Profile | Xi Jinping Mr Trump told The New York Times in December that because of North Korea he had "been soft on China because the only thing more important to me than trade is war." During the speech in Florida, Mr Trump also complained that his actions during the 2016 campaign remained under scrutiny while those of his former rival, Hillary Clinton, were not. "I'm telling you, it's a rigged system folks," Mr Trump said. "I've been saying that for a long time. It's a rigged system. And we don't have the right people in there yet. We have a lot of great people, but certain things, we don't have the right people." The president has been critical of Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently. Mr Trump attacked Mr Sessions for asking the inspector general to investigate potential surveillance abuses by the FBI in the early stages of the Russia investigation, saying that such a probe should be handled instead by "Justice Department lawyers." Mr Sessions later defended himself in an unusual statement. Donald Trump criticised George W Bush, saying the Iraq invasion "the single worst decision ever made" Credit: AP The president also took aim at former President George W Bush over his decision too invade Iraq. "Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time," he said, calling the Iraq invasion "the single worst decision ever made". "That was Bush. Another real genius. That was Bush," Mr Trump said sarcastically. "That turned out to be wonderful intelligence. Great intelligence agency there."
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| All The Gorgeous Looks From The 2018 Oscars Red Carpet Posted: 04 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PST  There's no red carpet event quite like the Oscars.
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| Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:22 PM PST ![Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees]( "Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees") PARIS (Reuters) - An avalanche in the French Pyrenees swept away five Spanish skiers on Saturday, killing two, local authorities said. The avalanche hit near the Aragnouet-Bielsa tunnel linking France to Spain. Three of the skiers managed to extract themselves from the snow and were unharmed. One skier was killed at the scene and the other died after being evacuated to hospital in the city of Toulouse. On Friday, an avalanche in the French Alps killed four people.. Their guide escaped unharmed and was questioned by police on Friday evening. He was released on Saturday. ...
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| Vietnam seeks to pacify China as landmark U.S. carrier visit signals warming ties Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:14 PM PST  By Greg Torode and Mai Nguyen HONG KONG/HANOI (Reuters) - The visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier to Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War is a powerful symbol of the growing strategic ties between the former foes. For months now, Vietnamese envoys have been working to ease the concerns of their giant Chinese neighbor over the visit and the prospect of broader security co-operation between Hanoi and Washington, according to diplomats and others familiar with discussions. Vietnamese diplomats and military officers have repeatedly stressed the country's independent foreign policy and its desire for broad foreign relations - hoping to maintain stable ties with China while standing up to it over the South China Sea, the sources said.
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