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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A body found in a shallow grave in Northern California was identified Wednesday as an aspiring model and actress from Macedonia who had been missing from Los Angeles for more than a month, authorities said.

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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Calls For Second Amendment Repeal

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Calling it "a relic of the 18th century," retired Supreme Court Justice John

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‘Time to join the NRA.’ Calls to repeal the Second Amendment set off commenters

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“Everyone has an opinion, thankfully we have the constitution.” “I can think of fewer things that would create a state of open rebellion in the United States.” Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s call for a repeal of the Second Amendment has Newsroom readers up in arms. In a New York Times op-ed piece, Stevens said March for Our Lives protesters asking for gun law reform should ask for more: “They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.” The vast majority of the thousands of Newsroom comments on the Yahoo News report show strong opposition: “I have never owned a gun in my life, but fully understand the importance of the Second Amendment.” President Trump, meanwhile, completely dismissed Stevens’s call to repeal, tweeting, “The Second Amendment will never be repealed!” The Second Amendment says: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Stevens called for the repeal in order to weaken the National Rifle Association. The NRA answered back with its own statement: “We will unapologetically continue to fight to protect this fundamental freedom.” What do you think? Join the conversation in Newsroom.

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At Least A Dozen States Plan To Sue Over New Census Citizenship Question

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At least 12 states have responded with a wave of fury and legal action this

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China and Russia accused of waging 'war on human rights' at UN

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The UN Human Rights Up Front initiative was established in 2014, after a series of UN failures in preventing or sounding the alarm over atrocities. China and Russia are leading a stealthy and increasingly successful effort at the United Nations to weaken UN efforts to protect human rights around the world, according to diplomats and activists. The two countries have used the UN budget panel, known as the fifth committee, to cut funding for human rights monitors and for a senior post in the secretary general’s office which is supposed to ensure that human rights – one of three pillars of the UN’s function – are not forgotten in its day-to-day work.

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Leaked EPA email tells staff to play up climate denial, ignore actual data

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It's no secret that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt disagrees with the overwhelming evidence tying human emissions of greenhouse gases to increasing global average temperatures, sea level rise, and a host of other problems for humanity. He has, after all, moved to scuttle the Obama administration's regulations that would limit such emissions from power plants, ordered the EPA's climate change websites to go dark, and advocated for a televised debate on climate science, among other actions. Now comes word that on Tuesday, EPA officials distributed talking points about climate science to its top public affairs staff throughout the country, providing eight talking points about the agency's work on helping America adapt to a warming planet. SEE ALSO: In court, oil company admits reality of human-caused global warming, denies guilt The talking points, first reported by the HuffPost, are contradicted by both the agency's previous climate science website as well as a federal climate report that EPA scientists contributed to. The email including the new talking points was sent on behalf of Joel D. Scheraga, the agency's senior advisor for climate adaptation — a program that, ironically, Pruitt has sought to eliminate. I think it’s only fair that if climate scientists have to explain AGAIN why we’re warming the planet, physicists should have to explain how come stuff falls down https://t.co/CNxwYz60gb — Kate Marvel (@DrKateMarvel) March 28, 2018 According to the email in the HuffPost report, which the EPA confirmed to them as authentic, two of the bullet points outright contradict and distort the findings of mainstream climate scientists, saying: "Human activity impacts our changing climate in some manner. The ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact, and what to do about it, are subject to continuing debate and dialogue." "While there has been extensive research and a host of published reports on climate change, clear gaps remain including our understanding of the role of human activity and what we can do about it." A federal report published in November, known as the Climate Change Special Report, states clearly and unequivocally that the burning of fossil fuels for energy and other human activities cause global warming. The report — which is the most which is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to climate science findings — states (original emphasis included): (In the language of the report, "extremely likely" means a greater than 95 percent chance.) Global annual average radiative forcing change from 1750 to 2011 due to human activities.Image: NCA 4, CSSR. Presumably, these inaccurate EPA talking points will now be parroted by EPA public affairs officials when they deal with the media and the public, since the email was sent to communications directors and regional public affairs chiefs. That could, in effect, spread Pruitt's climate denial around the country under the guise of a respected government agency. Pruitt has often said it's uncertain how much global warming is natural versus human-caused, a point included in the email that was leaked to the Huffington Post. However, the November 2017 federal report specified the exact range of what the human contribution is, something that previous climate studies had not done. It found that human activities have likely contributed between 92 percent and 123 percent of the observed temperature change from 1951 to 2010. (The contribution may be above 100 percent because, absent human activities, it's likely the climate would be cooling over time.) Earth’s average global temperature from 2013 to 2017, as compared to a baseline average from 1951 to 1980.Image: NASA/GSFC/Scientific Visualization Studio."The likely contributions of natural forcing and internal variability to global temperature change over that period are minor," the dozens of scientists who wrote that report concluded. "This period is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization," the report found. The EPA's now archived climate change website was also unambiguous about what is causing global warming, stating that "humans are largely responsible for recent climate change." It also explains that global warming "... is caused mostly by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere." For Pruitt, conceding the reality of human-caused global warming would necessitate pursuing a radically different policy agenda at the EPA. To date, Pruitt's approach has been to try to dismantle the EPA, particularly its work on climate change but also in other areas — the science be damned. These bullet points mark the spread of his climate science denial beyond EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to the agency's offices around the country. WATCH: 'Supercolony' of 1.5m penguins discovered in Antarctica

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Two charged with anti-Semitic murder of elderly French Jewish woman

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French prosecutors have charged two people, one of them a neighbour, with the murder of an 85-year-old Jewish woman who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic. Mireille Knoll, who escaped the mass roundup and deportation of Jews from Paris during World War II, was found dead in her bed in her small apartment in eastern Paris on Friday by firefighters called to extinguish a blaze. Two men are in custody on charges of murder as well as aggravated robbery and damaging property in a case investigators are treating as anti-Semitic.

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Trump eyes having the U.S. military pay for his border wall

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President Trump has figured out who's going to pay for his wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. Hint: It's not Mexico.

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Man taken to New York airport for deportation slips away from ICE agents and escapes in taxi

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A manhunt has been launched for a detainee scheduled for deportation from the US who managed to escape from officers and flee from New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport in a taxi. Law enforcement officials said CCTV footage showed the prisoner leaving the airport in a yellow taxi. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been contacted for comment.

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Southern Baptist Leader Resigns Over 'Morally Inappropriate Relationship'

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A leading figure in America's largest Protestant denomination has resigned

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'Roseanne' Reboot Snags More Viewers Than 1997 Season Finale

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"Roseanne" is loud, proud and raking in the ratings.

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Ecuador cuts WikiLeaks founder Assange's internet at embassy

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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's government said Wednesday it has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet connection at the nation's London embassy after his recent activity on social media decrying the arrest of a Catalan separatist politician.

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Alabama settles with inmate after botched execution attempt

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The agreement was reached in a civil lawsuit brought by convicted murderer Doyle Hamm against the state, court papers filed on Monday showed. Officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the attorney general's office have not responded to numerous requests to discuss the case. The botched execution prompted a federal court review of Alabama's death chamber protocols.

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Woman Arrested After Raunchy Come-On To Easter Bunny

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Trying to make out with the Easter Bunny isn't egg-zactly appropriate behavior

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Pentagon confirms Qaeda higher-up killed in Libya strike

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A senior Al-Qaeda operative and another jihadist were killed in a US air strike in Libya, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday. The March 24 strike near Ubari in southern Libya killed "two Al-Qaeda terrorists, including Musa Abu Dawud, a high-ranking Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) official," the US military's Africa Command said in a statement.

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Parkland student protesters become right-wing targets

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From inflammatory Photoshopped images to insults from legislators to far-right conspiracy theories, the teens are being smeared for their gun-control activism.

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Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport Concept: Five for Fighting

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A smaller, sportier Atlas.

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Political tensions cloud tribute to slain Holocaust survivor

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PARIS (AP) — The silent decorum of a march to honor an 85-year-old woman who survived Nazi horrors only to be stabbed to death last week in an alleged anti-Semitic attack was shattered Wednesday, with crowds shouting "Nazi! Nazi!" and other insults at France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

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Fox News Breaking News Alert

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'Violent deportee' ID'd after escaping ICE custody at JFK Airport

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Suspicious package in mail facility in D.C. likely linked to man in custody

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Malala Yousafzai returns to Pakistan for first time since shooting

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The Nobel Peace Prize winner was shot by the Taliban in 2012 for campaigning for girls' education.

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Venezuela fire: 68 die in Carabobo police station cells

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The blaze swept the facility in Valencia, Carabobo state, during a reported breakout attempt.

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Trump picks his doctor to replace Shulkin as veterans secretary

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Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor, is nominated to replace David Shulkin.

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Mireille Knoll: Crowds jeer French far-right, far-left leaders after 'anti-Semitic' murder

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Leaders of both the far right and left turned up for a march against anti-Semitic violence in Paris.

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'I felt dead', kidnap survivor Amanda Lindhout tells court

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Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout speaks at the sentencing hearing of one of her Somali kidnappers.

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Miguna Miguna : Kenya opposition figure deported again

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Miguna Miguna had been held at Nairobi airport since Monday amid an ongoing citizenship row.

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Trump loses bid to dismiss hotel lawsuit

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A judge allows a case to determine if the president is improperly profiting from business operations.

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NFL cheerleader claims she was fired over Instagram photo

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Bailey Davis is accusing the New Orleans Saints football team of gender discrimination.

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Poland signs $4.75bn deal to buy US Patriot missiles

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The largest weapons contract in Poland's history is likely to trigger strong criticism from Russia.

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Julian Assange has internet cut at Ecuadorian embassy in London

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Ecuador says the move is to prevent the WikiLeaks founder from interfering in other countries' affairs.

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Houston officer kills unarmed man walking with trousers down

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Video shows Danny Ray Thomas, 34, walking towards police before he is shot once in the chest.

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Ireland's abortion referendum to be held on 25 May

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Ireland's referendum on amending its abortion laws will be held on 25 May.

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Former Disney actor, 22, joins White House

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Caroline Sunshine, who starred in the Shake It Up TV series, will work in Mr Trump's press office.

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Inxeba wins South Africa film award despite ban attempt

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Traditional leaders were furious at the film's portrayal of gay love within a Xhosa cultural initiation.

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Spain police recover artefacts looted by IS in Libya

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Two people are arrested accused of buying and selling the ancient objects looted from Libya.

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Paris ceremony for police officer Arnaud Beltrame

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Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame, 44, offered himself in exchange for a hostage in an Islamist attack.

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Aziza Oubaita on the fight of her life

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This 46-year-old French flyweight boxer has successfully recovered from a heart transplant.

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Carnival Cruise offers teen free trip for Snapchat handle

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The cruise line showed up at a Virginia teenager's door to bid on his Snapchat handle, @CarnivalCruise.

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Madrid police dogs get 'Mozart effect' music therapy

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Madrid's police dogs will get music therapy after a refurbishment to their living facilities.

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'Lost' film predicting rise of Nazism returns to screen

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A 1924 silent movie rediscovered in a Paris flea market is back in cinemas after a restoration campaign, reports the BBC's Bethany Bell in Vienna.

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Cycling the length of the Dakota Access pipeline

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Martin Eberlen's images of those who live and work along the controversial route that transports oil across four US states.

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Does Justin Trudeau apologise too much?

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The PM has outdone other Canadian leaders when it comes to issuing mea culpas for historic wrongs.

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Parkland's student activists targeted with smears and lies

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As Parkland shooting survivors pursue gun control, they are facing a new challenge - vindictive personal smears.

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Anti-Semitic slaying of 85-year-old prompts outcry in France

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PARIS (AP) — Like many who survived Nazi horrors, Mireille Knoll embraced life, eating out and going to the theater despite limited means. Even as age and Parkinson's disease took their toll, she delighted in receiving guests — until one of them allegedly stabbed the 85-year-old to death because she was Jewish.

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Trump Administration Decides To Add A Question About Citizenship To 2020 Census

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The Commerce Department announced late Monday that the 2020 census would ask

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A 13-Year-Old Boy Said He Wanted to Be the Next School Shooter and 'Kill a Lot of Kids,' Police Say

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He told investigators that he "wanted to kill a lot of kids"

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'Flagrant violations' of safety norms cited in Siberia inferno

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Russian authorities on Monday denounced what they called "flagrant violations" of safety norms that led to the deaths of 64 people, many of them children, in a fire at a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia. Investigators and witnesses said emergency exits were locked shut -- notably at a multiplex cinema where children were watching cartoons -- and alarm systems were not working at the Winter Cherry shopping centre in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. "Investigators have already obtained proof of the flagrant violations that led to such serious consequences," Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

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North Korea buying time to develop nuclear weapons, says Trump's new security adviser John Bolton

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Incoming US national security adviser John Bolton on Sunday vowed to maintain a hardline stance in upcoming negotiations with North Korea, warning that Pyongyang was only coming to the table in an effort to buy time to develop its nuclear weapons programme. In his first interview since his nomination, Mr Bolton told the Cats Roundtable radio show that preparations were already underway for a historic US-North Korea summit, which should take place sooner rather than later to prevent Pyongyang from finalising missiles capable of striking the US. “I think we have to look at what North Korea’s motivation is here,” he cautioned. “They’ve got a very limited number of things that they need to do in North Korea to make their nuclear warheads actually deliverable on targets in the United States so they want to try to slow roll the negotiations to buy more time,” Mr Bolton said. “Although it’s certainly true that the normal route is months and months and months of preparation, that would simply play into the North Korean playbook, what they’ve done many times before,” he continued. The talks should be a “straightforward” discussion, Mr Bolton added. North Korean Hyon Song Wol, left, head of a North Korean art troupe, exchanges documents with her South Korean counterpart Yun Sang after a meeting at the North side of Panmunjom last week “Is North Korea going to give up its nuclear weapons, how are we going to do it, how are we going to take it out of the country? Not a theoretical discussion about these issues, but very concretely how they are going denuclearise North Korea. The sooner we get to it and cut to the chase, the better.” The announcement of Mr Bolton’s nomination as national security adviser on Friday gave rise to much debate over the weekend about the possible impact of his new role on a future, and unprecedented, summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump surprised the world, and much of his own administration, earlier this month when he accepted an invitation to meet Mr Kim and said it would take place “by May”. Pyongyang, however, has yet to formally confirm its participation. As national security adviser, Mr Bolton will hold huge sway over the White House’s preparation for the talks and the tone of the meeting itself. In an interview with Radio Free Asia early last week, Mr Bolton, widely considered to be hawkish on foreign policy, said that discussions at the proposed summit should be similar to those that led to components of Libya’s nuclear programme being shipped to the US in 2004. North Korean missile ranges “Let’s have this conversation by May, or even before that, and let’s see how serious North Korea really is,” he said. “If they’re not prepared to have that kind of serious discussion, it could actually be a very short meeting.” But Mr Bolton’s long-time tough approach to foreign policy could lead to a breakdown in the recent diplomatic détente with Pyongyang that was forged during the Winter Olympics, fear some North Korea analysts. In the early 2000s, after a trading of insults between Mr Bolton and Pyongyang, the North Koreans refused to negotiate if he was at the table, pointed out Ankit Panda, senior editor at The Diplomat magazine. In the recent past, Mr Bolton has publicly supported the idea of regime change, and laid out the legal case for striking North Korea first. “Bolton... is a vehement proponent of preventative war. His appointment does not bode well for a successful first US-North Korea summit,” Mr Panda told the Telegraph. Others have warned that the failure of the high-stake talks would increase the chances of military action. “People are genuinely nervous,” said Robert Kelly, professor of political science at South Korea’s Busan University, adding that the North Koreans may be more hesitant to join talks with Mr Bolton in the room. “The North Koreans still haven’t technically accepted the summit… I wonder if this is going to deter them from accepting it all.”

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Jimmy Carter Calls Trump's Hiring Of John Bolton His 'Worst Mistake' Yet

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In a CBS interview scheduled to air Tuesday, Jimmy Carter did not mince words

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Mom arrested in deaths of baby, toddler found in car seats

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SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — A 20-year-old mother was being held Tuesday on a $2 million bond on suspicion of first-degree murder after her two children were found dead in car seats inside a car, officials said.

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White House Probes Kushner Business Loans After Ethics Questions

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The White House is investigating whether loans made to the Kushner family real

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Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war

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By Marwa Rashad, Sarah Dadouch and Abdulrahman al-Ansi RIYADH/SANAA (Reuters) - The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen vowed on Monday to fire more missiles into Saudi Arabia unless it stops bombing the country, after one of its missiles caused casualties in the Saudi capital for the first time. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis accused them of using Iranian-made missiles. Spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said the coalition reserved the right to respond to Iran "at the appropriate time and manner", under international law and within the framework of the United Nations, to protect Saudi Arabia.

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These Companies Have Cut Their Ties With Facebook Amid the Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

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Pressure is piling on the embattled social network

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N. Korea's Kim shows unity with China's Xi in first foreign trip

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was treated to a lavish welcome by Chinese President Xi Jinping during a secretive trip to Beijing as both sides seek to repair frayed ties ahead of landmark summits with Seoul and Washington. On his first trip abroad since taking power, Kim and his wife were met with honour guards and a banquet hosted by Xi, according to state media, which confirmed the "unofficial" visit on Wednesday only after Kim had returned to North Korea. The two men held talks at the stately Great Hall of the People during which they hailed their nations' historic relations, with Kim pledging that he was "committed to denuclearisation" on the Korean peninsula, according to China's Xinhua news agency.

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Russia fire: Tragedy as parents recall final words with children trapped in shopping mall

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The parents of three sisters have described receiving desperate phone calls from their trapped daughters just minutes before they died in a locked cinema as flames engulfed a Russian shopping centre. On Monday, a litany of fire safety violations were blamed for the death toll in the fire in the industrial Siberian city of Kemerovo reaching as high as 64. Investigators said fire exits were blocked and the fire alarm system was switched off by a security guard shortly after the fire broke out. Authorities launched a criminal investigation into the fire. Four people were arrested and questioned by police on Monday, including the head of the company responsible for servicing the fire alarm system and the technical director of the company that owned the shopping centre. “Our children burned while we just watched,” said Olga Lillyevyali, who rushed to the shopping centre as the fire was underway, Russian news website Meduza reported. Her three daughters, twins aged 11 and their five-year-old sister, had been dropped off at the cinema by their father, Alexander Lillyevyali, to see children’s film Sherlock Gnomes earlier that afternoon. A view of the smoldering shopping centre from above on Monday morning Credit: Kirill Kukhmar/ TASS When he got a phone call an hour later from one of his daughters to say she was stuck behind locked doors as the fire spread, he raced upstairs. Russian media reported local people saying that the cinemas in the shopping centre locked their doors to stop people entering without a ticket. “I started to crawl but I realised I had no strength,” Mr Lillyevyali. “I had inhaled so much smoke that I was on the verge of fainting. My daughter was ringing and ringing me. I could only shout down the phone that she should try and get out of the cinema but I couldn’t do anything – there were flames in front of me.” Media reports suggested the initial blaze broke out on the fourth floor of the building, possibly at a trampolining centre, and spread rapidly, generating huge clouds of billowing black smoke. Eyewitnesses said that staff did not arrange for evacuation from the building, which was converted from a former confectionery factory in 2013. Some were quick to blame lax regulations on Russia’s fire safety inspection authorities, who have been accused of taking bribes to turn a blind eye to breaches. The Winter Cherry shopping centre, in Kemerovo, engulfed in flames on Sunday Credit: Danil Aikin/TASS via Getty Opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny wrote on Monday: “the whole system of fire safety oversight has become a huge trough of corruption. It hasn’t had any other goals for a long time.” The Prosecutor General's Office on Monday ordered all shopping malls in Russia to be checked for fire safety features. President Vladimir Putin, re-elected last weekend, has yet to speak publicly about the tragedy, which has stirred deep anger in Kemerovo, a coal-producing region about 3,600 km (2,200 miles) east of Moscow. The Kremlin published a statement, saying Mr Putin "expressed his deep condolences to the relatives and loved ones of those who died." It was not immediately clear how many other children had died in the blaze, with authorities saying 8 of the 23 victims so far identified were kids, but the shopping centre was full of families enjoying the first weekend of the Easter school holidays. A young girl from the central Russian city of Kazan, Maya Yerokhina, believed to be among the victims, updated the status on her profile page on Russian social networking site Vkontakte during the fire to read: “this is the end.” Video showed people jumping from windows to escape the flames Credit: Danil Aikin /TASS/Getty An eleven-year old boy was in intensive care on Monday after jumping from a third-floor window to escape the thick smoke during a dramatic escape caught on camera. Both his parents and a sibling were reported to have died. One piece of footage aired by state television showed people desperately trying to escape by battering down a closed door as flames crept closer. Eight children, mostly aged between 11 and 12, from the same school in the local village of Treschevsky perished in the blaze while on a trip marking the end of the school term. One of the girls from the group, 12-year old Viktoriya Pochankina, reportedly got through to her aunt from the burning cinema and asked her aunt to tell her mother she loved her. The ceilings of two cinema theaters in the mall reportedly collapsed Some 200 animals, including rabbits, turtles, pigs, goats are also believed to have died in the shopping centre's petting zoo. As Russia tried to process what had happened, an official period of mourning was declared and locals brought flowers and candles to the blackened remains of the shopping centre. One sign left at the site read: "Forgive us, children." Local hospitals reported an influx of people wanting to donate blood for the victims. Stories of feats of bravery also emerged. Local schoolteacher Tatyana Darsaliya, 36, reportedly led her own daughter to safety and then returned to the burning building to try and save other children. Darsaliya’s daughter, Eleonora, wrote on Monday that her mother had “died like a hero.” Flames lick a window frame at the shopping centre, where some witnesses said the fire alarm did not go off Credit: Danil Aikin/TASS/Barcroft Images Roof collapsed in two cinemas at shopping centre Preliminary findings of an inquiry said the fire started in one of the cinema halls and destroyed more than 10,700 square feet (1,000 square metres) of the centre, news agencies reported. "The roof collapsed in two theatres in the cinema," the Investigative Committee said. Hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze for hours Credit: Danil Aikin/TASS via Getty Around 120 people had been evacuated from the burning centre, rescuers said. "This shopping centre on several floors was packed with people mid-day Sunday," said Alexandre Eremeyev, an official with the local Russian emergency services ministry. Burnt debris outside the shopping centre Credit: Maxim Grigoryev /TASS/Getty He added: "No one knows exactly how many people there were inside when the fire broke out. "Where to look for people? How many are there? That has greatly complicated the work of the firefighters." Hundreds of firefighters spend hours tackling blaze Around 300 firefighters and rescue personnel rushed to the scene and tackled the blaze for more than 17 hours. Russia's minister of emergency services, Vladimir Putchkov has gone to Kemerovo, RIA Novosti said. Hundreds of firefighters were scrambled to the scene Credit: Danil Aikin /TASS/Getty Deadliest blaze in Russia for almost a decade The Winter Cherry shopping centre fire was the deadliest blaze in Russia in recent years: A shopping centre fire in March 2015 killed 11 people in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan some 500 miles east of Moscow. In April 2013, a fire ravaged a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region, killing 38 people, most of them patients who were engulfed by flames as they slept behind barred windows. Just months later, in September 2013, 37 people were killed when a fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in the village of Luka in northwest Russia. In 2009, 156 were killed in a nightclub fire in the city of Perm, 745 miles east of Moscow in one of the deadliest accidents in Russia's modern history.

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