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| April 30, 2016 |
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| They've set a new course. After big losses in four out of the five Northeast primaries last Tuesday, and amid rumors of major staff layoffs, Bernie Sanders has been all but mathematically eliminated from winning the Democratic presidential nomination. In recent interviews, the candidate has shifted his rhetoric from talk of victory to taking the race "to California," the final state before his party's nominating convention. It's still unclear what his ultimate goal is - influencing the party platform or honoring his base supporters - but winning the White House may be off the table. |
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| They'd pray for deliverance, if they could. But clerics told Aleppo's faithful to stay home after 15 were killed in a Friday rocket attack on a mosque in a government-held area of the city. The U.N. cited a "monstrous disregard" for life after some 200 deaths this week, including 50 late Wednesday in a hospital serving a rebel-held neighborhood. Starting at 1 a.m. today, the Syrian military has declared a U.S.-negotiated cease-fire in contested areas near Damascus, but there's little expectation that the "regime of silence" will be extended to Aleppo. |
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| They're up in arms. Military brass past and present predict mass resignations if Donald Trump is elected president. His outlandish statements - calling avoiding STDs in the 1980s "my personal Vietnam" and advocacy for torture, among other pronouncements - have the Pentagon and intelligence agencies on edge. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has already said Trump's ideas on torture and retaliation "aren't legal." And while an exodus of political appointees is, as a former Pentagon aide put it, "just politics," when a top general resigns, "it's a crisis." |
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| His money's where his mouth is. After suggesting the World Bank should be abolished for the damaging austerity it promoted, Jim Yong Kim was elected president of the institution in 2012. The billions it doles out can help, he says, but when countries like India have outgrown their dependency and only 10 percent of the world's population lives in extreme poverty, the bank's relevance remains questionable. So he's switching gears, tackling transnational issues such as climate change, public health and Europe's refugee crisis, while opponents say he may ultimately accomplish his original goal. |
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U.S. military: 'Errors' led to deadly strike on Afghan hospital. (NYT)
Anti-Trump protesters mob California GOP Convention. (CNN)
Kenyan rains cause slides, fatal Nairobi building collapse. (BBC)
Texas authorities rescue children chained like animals. (AP)
Car bomb kills Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad market. (Reuters) |
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| What happens when a Spanish-speaking mom unseats a powerful member of her own party? Well, look no further than the California State Assembly, where 43-year-old Patty López, an immigrant with little formal schooling and no political expertise, worked her way from a factory assembly line to elected office. Having sold tamales to finance her campaign two years ago, she's passed bills concerning child care and foster kids. But this year, the party establishment is fighting back, hoping to force this "consummate outsider" out of their clubhouse. |
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| They're worth more dead. Congo's Garamba National Park was home to 22,000 elephants just 35 years ago. But 95 percent of them are now gone, and rangers with outdated guns are fighting rebel groups aiming to profit from illegally sold tusks. While they fight and die for the pachyderms on the ground, Kenya is staging the largest ivory burn ever today, attended by celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio. Destroying the $30 million cache may help convince upwardly mobile Asian consumers to value the majestic animals more than cream-colored carvings - before they're wiped out for good. |
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| They can't let it ride. When the Holland Tunnel linking New York City to New Jersey opened nearly 90 years ago, the future of transportation looked bright. But today, the American Society of Civil Engineers says it would cost around $3.6 trillion to repair America's crumbling infrastructure, and experts insist more roads haven't done much to alleviate traffic. Instead, they suggest that a hybrid approach of ridesharing, bicycle friendly cities, public transportation and driverless vehicles may be the only route ahead for policymakers and commuters alike. |
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| There's just enough sugar. Queen Bey's groundbreaking visual album Lemonade is about empowering African-American women, declares writer Dominique Matti, even though her husband's alleged betrayal is its central story. By demanding Jay Z answer for his infidelities, Beyoncé is standing up for Black women who too often shove their feelings aside, she writes. With this new work, the megastar is telling women of color that it's enough to own their pain, Matti says, while ensuring that anyone who hurts them can taste the bitterness they feel. |
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| They were branded as hooligans. But a generation after 96 Liverpool fans were fatally crushed entering Sheffield's Hillsborough Stadium, a two-year inquest - Britain's longest - has repudiated that story. The cause wasn't rowdiness, but covered-up mistakes by police and other authorities, like opening a gate to a crowded area and neglecting the care of victims - 58 of whom might otherwise have survived. Now vindicated in their insistence that the victims weren't responsible for the 1989 tragedy, loved ones are moving forward with a lawsuit against police. |
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