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Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims | US news | The ... - 0 views

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  • North Korea rarely plays a prominent role in US congressional elections, but Rick Saccone – the Republican candidate for Congress in Tuesday’s crucial special election in Pennsylvania – has made much of his experience in the reclusive country.
  • According to former colleagues, although Saccone is one of the few Americans to have dealt with North Korean officials, he was not a diplomat, and was not engaged in traditional diplomacy.
  • Kim Joong-keun, the South Korean representative on the project who worked with Saccone, agreed that the candidate’s account was “inaccurate”.
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Death of investigative journalist sparks mass protests in Slovakia | World news | The G... - 0 views

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  • Tens of thousands of Slovaks have rallied to demand the resignation of prime minister Robert Fico’s government following the murder of a journalist that has shocked the central European nation and stoked anger over sleaze in public life.
  • Organisers demanded a thorough investigation of Kuciak’s death and a “new trustworthy government”. “Politicians in power have lost our trust,” said protester Maria Kuliovska, a 30-year-old mother on maternity leave. “We don’t trust them to guarantee an independent investigation. They have failed to investigate all previous scandals.”
  • Kiska, Fico and parliamentary speaker Andrej Danko – the country’s three highest officials – failed to agree a planned written declaration to help defuse tensions in talks on Friday.
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Pro-choice campaign calls 40,000 Irish expats home for abortion vote | World news | The... - 0 views

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  • Three years ago thousands of Irish citizens returned home to vote on same-sex marriage legislation, boosting the remarkable two-thirds majority for changing the law. Campaigners now hope to repeat the feat.
  • The referendum will ask whether article 40.3.3 of the Irish constitution – known as the eighth amendment – should be repealed. This gives a foetus the same rights to life as a pregnant woman, and has been in place since 1983, enshrining in the constitution a ban on abortion, even in cases of rape and fatal abnormality of the foetus.
  • If it is overturned in a referendum expected on 25 May, legislation giving women an unrestricted right to abortion up to the 12th week will be introduced
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Gun control: US justice department moves to ban rapid-fire bump stocks | US news | The ... - 0 views

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  • The US Department of Justice on Saturday moved to ban bump stocks, firearm accessories used to mimic automatic fire.
  • Officials said the Las Vegas gunman had 12 rifles fitted with bump stocks in the hotel room where he carried out the attack that left 58 dead and more than 850 injured.
  • The NRA, which donated $30m to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, has not supported an outright ban on bump stocks.
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North Korea talks: Trump praises own role but Washington frets over details | US news |... - 0 views

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  • Donald Trump’s sudden acceptance of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has cast a cloud of uncertainty over Washington, with few details emerging over the terms of a potentially historic meeting that is fraught with risk.
  • Trump later tweeted that “the deal with North Korea is very much in the making and will be, if completed, a very good one for the world. Time and place to be determined”.
  • Nonetheless, Trump has expressed his confidence in the North’s sincerity. On Saturday, he tweeted: “North Korea has not conducted a Missile Test since November 28, 2017 and has promised not to do so through our meetings. I believe they will honor that commitment!”
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How to persuade people (hint: not by telling them they're stupid) | Business to busines... - 0 views

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  • Were the Democrats to seek his advice this time, Cialdini would tell them to resist blaming the president’s supporters. “[Trump voters] don’t want to believe that they were stupid,” he says. “Cognitive dissonance research shows that the more consequential your error, the less willing you are to believe it was an error, because that undercuts your view of yourself as a good decision maker.”
  • Reassuring Trump voters that the consequences of their actions couldn’t have been predicted and allowing them to save face is the more persuasive approach
  • Trump also presented himself as someone who had conquered the world of business to establish himself as an authority figure, another persuasive tactic. This approach is something the Democrats could now turn to their advantage if they characterise Trump’s view of the US government as a company he owns and can do what he wants with, Cialdini believes. “I think most people would have a negative reaction to that.”
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US government accused of unlawfully separating hundreds of migrant families | US news |... - 0 views

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  • There have been at least 429 cases of immigrant parents being separated from their children in the past two years, according to a class-action lawsuit filed on Friday against the Trump administration.
  • Immigrant rights groups said they had seen hundreds of parents separated from their children under the Trump administration and that they expected the practice to continue.
  • These cases included parents and children separated while being placed into immigration proceedings and others separated after the parent was prosecuted for immigration violations while seeking asylum, according to court documents. The suit also claims there is no process for parents to contest a separation.
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'Hollowed out' White House: Trump is on a dangerous path toward no advisers | US news |... - 0 views

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  • There has never been such a rapid turnover of personnel in a US administration in modern times. If anything, the stampede to the exits appears to be accelerating, raising fears of a “brain drain” that will leave key jobs unfilled and make it ever harder to recruit new talent.
  • This threatens to leave Trump in ever greater isolation, trusting his gut on policy decisions rather than a dwindling band of advisers whom he relishes setting against each other. “I like conflict,” he said at this week’s joint press conference, as the Swedish prime minister, Stefan Lofven, looked on with a poker face.
  • Seven of Trump’s 12 most senior advisers have resigned, been fired or been reassigned. Staff secretary Porter was forced out a month ago after the domestic abuse allegations against him became public. Communications director Hope Hicks, one of Trump’s closest confidantes dubbed his “real daughter”, announced last week that she would resign. The departure of Cohn suggests that there could now be a runaway effect.
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Donald Trump advocates death penalty for drug dealers in rambling speech | US news | Th... - 0 views

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  • Donald Trump advocated the death penalty for drug dealers in the course of an hour-long rambling campaign style speech where he bashed television anchors, unveiled his re-election slogan and discussed nuclear arms negotiations with North Korea.
  • But Trump spent most of his hour and 20 minutes on stage talking about almost every other topic under the sun. He confirmed reports that that he had been floating the idea of imposing a death penalty on drug dealers by a long discourse where he praised the criminal justice system in China. Trump noted China once had a problem with “the opium” that was “devastating” and went on to explain his bafflement that murderers were treated more harshly than drug dealers.
  • As Trump often does, he went on several tirades about the media. He derided NBC news host Chuck Todd as “a sleepy son of a bitch”, called CNN “fake as hell” and vented about a Wall Street Journal columnist, calling him “a Neanderthal”.
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Peter Navarro; the economist shaping Trump's economic thinking | US news | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • During the campaign, Navarro, the only economics PhD in the Trump team, described his role as merely a facilitator. “The president – he’s the man who leads,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “He says, ‘I want to do this. How do we do it?’ The way I help is figuring out how you might do it.”
  • Navarro has long argued that trade imbalances and intellectual property theft by China are the true threat to US economic power
  • Navarro argued that “running large and persistent trade deficits also facilitates a pattern of wealth transfers offshore”. He warned “that foreigners will eventually own so much of the US that Americans will wind up working longer hours just to eat and to service the debt.”
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Elizabeth Warren seeks to use Trump Pocahontas 'racial slur' as political tool | US new... - 0 views

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  • Elizabeth Warren has responded to Donald Trump’s latest “Pocahontas” jibe by highlighting the problem of sexual violence against Native American women, a tactic she said she would pursue each time the president “threw out” such a “racial slur”.
  • I went to speak to Native American leaders and I made a promise to them: that every time President Trump wants to try to throw out some kind of racial slur, he wants to try to attack me, I’m going to try to use it as a chance to lift up their stories
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'I'm not going away': Florida father demands gun reform | US news | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Three weeks before, his daughter Jaime had been shot to death in her high school hallway. The 14-year-old had been running away from the shooter, her father said, when a bullet severed her spinal cord
  • His daughter and her classmates had been hunted in their own school, and politicians needed to admit that guns were the problem and ban military-style assault weapons.
  • Pressure on politicians will reach a crescendo later this month when the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas lead the March For Our Lives in Washington on 24 March.
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Acerbic Politics: Here's how immigrants from countries Trump slammed really do in the US - 0 views

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  • President Trump’s comment about not wanting immigrants from “shithole countries,” — which he has unpersuasively denied — came in a very specific context: He was discussing with lawmakers under what conditions Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras might be renewed.
  • In fact, we have quite a lot of data on how immigrants from TPS-receiving countries (and Africa more generally) do after arriving in the US. Countries receiving TPS have, by definition, experienced a severe disaster creating large amounts of emigrants. They also are almost always very poor countries
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  • MOSCOW (AP) Russian President Vladimir Putin says accusations of U.S. President Donald Trump's collusion with Russia have damaged the U.S. political system and demonstrated disrespect for those who voted for Trump.
  • He voiced hope for a recovery in the U.S.-Russian ties, emphasizing that the two countries need to cooperate on tackling global challenges.
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US Nobel laureate fears US politics could undermine science | Hosted - 0 views

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  • An American scientist who shared this year's Nobel Prize for medicine bluntly criticized political developments at home in his address at the awards' gala banquet, saying that U.S. scientists are facing funding cutbacks that will hurt research.
  • "We live today in a time of growing tribal enmities of communities fracturing into bitterly opposed groups," said Ishiguro
  • he treaty has been signed by 56 countries — none of them nuclear powers — and ratified by only three. To become binding it requires ratification by 50 countries.
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VIDEO/PHOTOS: US Israel Security Alliance Urges Congress To support Statehood For Kurdi... - 0 views

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  • In response to recent political developments regarding Kurdish aspirations, the US Israel Security Alliance comprised of American Jewish business and communal leaders led a delegation urging Congress to step up its support for the Kurdish people
  • We felt it was productive hear the views from the members of Congress on this important topic from their vantage point so that we can further develop our own perspective” said Leon Goldenberg who co-chaired the Mission
  • Kurdistan, if and when achieving statehood will become an important player on the Middle East stage and will be a positive development for the United States and the State of Israel”, said Ken Abramowitz
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Nikki Haley for US president? UN diplomats bet Trump envoy has ambitions | Stuff.co.nz - 0 views

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  • Whether leading efforts to isolate North Korea or hailing cuts to the United Nations budget, the US ambassador to the UN's ability to channel Trump's blunt style is prompting fellow UN envoys and foreign policy specialists to wonder whether the 45-year-old former South Carolina governor is laying the groundwork to succeed her boss in the Oval Office.
  • Speculation about Haley's future kicked back into gear after the American ambassador's speech to the UN General Assembly last month, just before the global body condemned on a 128-9 vote Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the US embassy there from Tel Aviv
  • "We will no longer let the generosity of the American people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked," Haley said. In future negotiations, she said, "you can be sure we'll continue to look at ways to increase the UN's efficiency while protecting our interests".
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Mahmoud Abbas Says Donald Trump Plan: 'Slap of the Century' | Time - 0 views

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  • The Palestinian president railed at President Donald Trump in a fiery, two-hour-long speech on Sunday, saying “shame on you” for his treatment of the Palestinians and warning that he would have no problem rejecting what he suggested would be an unacceptable peace plan
  • He (Trump) said in a tweet: ‘We won’t give money to the Palestinians because they rejected the negotiations,'” Abbas said. “Shame on you. When did we reject the talks? Where is the negotiation that we rejected?
  • Abbas has said that by siding with the Israelis on a sensitive issue, the announcement had destroyed Trump’s credibility as a Mideast peace broker.
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  • Rep. Trey Gowdy stepped down from the House Ethics Committee this week after five years of serving on the panel
  • "Four committee assignments, including a chairmanship, is a challenging workload," Gowdy wrote in his letter.
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  • M any medical schools don’t encourage political thought in their students, far less nurture it. That’s a shame because it squanders an opportunity to equip future thought leaders to deal with serious concerns facing the U.S. population, many of which have their tentacles in politics.
  • Politics is the way that civilized societies are supposed to decide how limited resources should be distributed. It makes sense, then, to say that health care is a political issue.
  • What good is teaching medical students to recommend treatments that patients won’t use because they can’t afford them?
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