| Man Accused Of Breaking Off Terra-Cotta Warrior’s Thumb For Souvenir Posted: 19 Feb 2018 01:56 PM PST  Some people's idea of justice is an eye for an eye, but China wants "severe punishment" for a man who stole a clay thumb.
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| 'It's Very Clear that Russia Meddled in the Election': White House Press Secretary Posted: 19 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST  President Trump has never called for punishing Russia and has not fully implemented sanctions.
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| How Pennsylvania's new districts could impact Congress Posted: 20 Feb 2018 01:46 AM PST  After a lengthy court battle over gerrymandering, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court redrew the state's districts . MSNBC's Steve Kornacki explains how the new map could prove to be a big win for Democrats.
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| Syria's Child Death Toll Prompts Scathing 1-Sentence Statement From UN Agency Posted: 20 Feb 2018 07:12 PM PST  The United Nations agency that helps the world's needy children issued a terse statement on Tuesday about the escalating death toll in Syria as pro-government forces hammer rebel-held areas.
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| Hero Teacher Killed in Florida Gave Fiancée Funeral Instructions in Case He Died in School Shooting Posted: 20 Feb 2018 07:13 AM PST  Scott Biegel's partner, Gwen Gossler, followed his wishes.
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| Clarence Thomas Sexually Harassed Me. Yes, He Should Be Impeached. Posted: 19 Feb 2018 02:48 PM PST  The impeachment of Clarence Thomas is a pipe dream.
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| Man who died in Yellowstone was looking for hidden treasure Posted: 20 Feb 2018 03:31 PM PST  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A 53-year-old Illinois man who fell to his death in Yellowstone National Park last year was looking for a supposed hidden cache of gold and jewels that has inspired thousands to hunt in vain across remote corners of the Western U.S., according to a report by park authorities.
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| Photos: Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupts, spews towering ash cloud Posted: 20 Feb 2018 05:04 AM PST  Mount Sinabung erupted on Monday morning, sending an ash cloud more than 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) towering into the atmosphere. No fatalities or injuries have been reported.
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| Duterte slammed for barring Philippine news site from his events Posted: 20 Feb 2018 09:01 PM PST  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's move to ban a critical news website from covering the presidential palace is a threat to press freedom, rights and media groups said on Wednesday. Rappler, set up in 2012, is among a clutch of Philippine news organisations that have sparred with Duterte over their critical coverage of his drug war which the government says has claimed the lives of nearly 4,000 suspects. Human rights groups charge that thousands more have been killed by shadowy vigilantes.
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| Profiles in expediency: 'Dumb' Romney welcomes endorsement of 'con man' Trump Posted: 20 Feb 2018 06:28 AM PST  The relationship between Donald Trump and Mitt Romney — who has been criticized for having particularly malleable positions — has followed a long and tortuous path, and more twists and turns likely lie ahead. Here is a timeline of the more head-snapping reversals in recent years.
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| Gun control rally in Tallahassee; Parkland students meet with lawmakers Posted: 21 Feb 2018 08:32 AM PST ![Gun control rally in Tallahassee; Parkland students meet with lawmakers]( "Gun control rally in Tallahassee; Parkland students meet with lawmakers") Student activists from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff were shot and killed will call for a ban on assault-style weapons when they meet with lawmakers and hold a rally on Wednesday in Tallahassee, the state capital. Last week's massacre, the second deadliest shooting at a public school in U.S. history, has inflamed a national debate about gun rights and prompted young people from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and across the United States to demand stricter firearms controls. "We're here to make sure this never happens again," Diego Pfeiffer, a senior at Douglas, told a rally that included hundreds of students from a Tallahassee high school on Tuesday after arriving at the capital.
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| Dallas Politician Tells NRA To Get Lost Unless It's Ready To Talk Reform Posted: 20 Feb 2018 03:58 AM PST  A gun-owning Dallas politician said he won't support the National Rifle Association holding its annual convention in his city this year after last week's Florida school shooting unless the group will discuss gun law reform.
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| Turkey 'opens fire on Syrian regime forces' coming to the aid of Kurds in Afrin Posted: 20 Feb 2018 10:42 AM PST  Turkish forces shelled a column of pro-Assad regime fighters as they tried to join with Kurdish forces resisting a Turkish incursion into northern Syria, Turkey's resident Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The regime has been saying for days that it would dispatch fighters to support the Kurds as they battle to keep Turkey from taking control of the Kurdish-held pocket of Afrin. The confrontation pits the Turkish army and allied Syrian rebel groups directly against the military alliance backing the government of President Bashar al-Assad, further scrambling northwest Syria's already messy battlefield. Mr Erdogan described the convoy as being made up of "terrorists" acting independently. He said Turkish artillery fire had forced it to turn back, although the Kurdish militia denied this. "Unfortunately, these kind of terror organisations take wrong steps with the decisions they take. It is not possible for us to allow this. They will pay a heavy price," he said. Syrian television had earlier shown the group of fighters passing through a checkpoint that bore the insignia of the Kurdish security force, some chanting "one Syria, one Syria", and driving further into Afrin. Pro-regime fighters drive past a banner of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan Credit: GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images Ankara's month-old offensive is aimed at driving the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a big security threat on its border, from Afrin. The YPG hailed the arrival of the pro-government forces - which included militias allied to Assad but not the Syrian army itself - and said they were deploying along the front line facing the Turkish border. It made no mention of a deal that a Kurdish official said on Sunday had been struck with Assad's government for the Syrian army itself to enter Afrin. Erdogan said he had previously reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Assad's main international backers, to block Syrian government support for the YPG fighters. He described the pro-government fighters coming to the YPG's aid as Shi'ite militias, and said they would pay a heavy price. YPG media adviser Rezan Hedo denied Erdogan's assertion that the convoy had turned back under Turkish artillery fire, but he gave no details on its size or composition. A Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said one convoy had entered Afrin while another turned back. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his forces had driven back regime troops Credit: Pool Photo via AP Earlier on Tuesday, Erdogan said he had received Putin's agreement to block a Syrian government deployment in Afrin. Turkey and Russia have supported opposite sides throughout the war, with Moscow the closest ally of Assad and Ankara one of the principal supporters of rebels fighting to overthrow him. However, in recent months Turkey has lent support to a Russian-led effort to end the war with most population centres in the hands of Assad's government. Ankara said last month it sought Moscow's agreement before launching the Afrin assault. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the Afrin crisis could be resolved through direct negotiations between Damascus and Ankara. Assad's other main ally, Iran, is more closely involved than Russia with the militias that back the Syrian government on the ground, such as those who entered Afrin on Tuesday. The Turkish offensive has made gains along almost all the border area with Afrin, pushing several km (miles) into Syria and seizing villages. But the YPG still holds most of the region including its main town, also called Afrin.
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| Florida School Shooting Suspect Obtained 10 Rifles In Roughly The Past Year Posted: 19 Feb 2018 03:43 PM PST  The suspect in last week's mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, obtained 10 rifles in the past year or so, an unnamed law enforcement source told CNN Monday.
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| Hundreds of students leave school, walk to shooting site Posted: 20 Feb 2018 03:45 PM PST  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of their Florida high school Tuesday and made their way to the site of a school shooting about 10 miles (16 kilometers) away in a show of solidarity for bringing an end to gun violence.
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| North Korea’s Tunnel Network Is Impressive (But Not Invulnerable) Posted: 20 Feb 2018 08:20 AM PST  Here is how America could even the fight with Pyongyang. A recent article described a newly noted but apparently abandoned railroad tunnel in North Korea, located near Dancheon on the east coast roughly midway between Hamhung and Chongjin. The lack of information regarding military usage cries out for discussion, for North Korea has used tunnels and other underground structures for a multitude of military and civil-defense purposes for decades.
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| Sedan of missing man Joshua Thiede found in Los Angeles neighborhood Posted: 20 Feb 2018 12:27 AM PST  The vehicle of missing man Joshua Thiede, who is an Uber and Lyft driver, was found in an area of Los Angeles just east of Hollywood Monday.
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| Trump claims he 'never met' the woman who says he forcibly kissed her at Trump Tower Posted: 20 Feb 2018 09:46 AM PST  President Trump turned his Twitter attention Tuesday to previously disclosed claims by Rachel Crooks, who says he forced himself on her at Trump Tower in 2006.
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| Trump Administration Takes Another Step To Roll Back Obamacare Posted: 20 Feb 2018 06:52 AM PST  Republican efforts to roll back the Affordable Care Act's insurance reforms continued Tuesday, when the Trump administration proposed regulations that would make it easier for health insurers to sell cheap, short-term policies that leave out key benefits and are available only to people in good health.
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| US-Russia ties will be hard to repair: Moscow Posted: 21 Feb 2018 12:39 AM PST  Moscow on Wednesday said it would be "very difficult" to improve US-Russia relations, which have plummeted to Cold War lows on accusations of election meddling and crises in Syria and Ukraine. Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov accused the US of trying to meddle in Russia's internal affairs ahead of a presidential election next month, after Washington indicted 13 Russians for an alleged covert effort to interfere in 2016 US polls. "Paradoxically, the Americans are taking steps towards meddling in our internal affairs and exacerbating tensions in bilateral relations ahead of the presidential election" in Russia on March 18, Ryabkov told the news agency Interfax.
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| Stakes rise in Turkey's Afrin assault as pro-Assad militia arrive Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:26 AM PST  By Ellen Francis and Ece Toksabay BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey warned on Wednesday that pro-Damascus forces would face "serious consequences" for entering Syria's Afrin region to help Kurdish fighters repel a Turkish offensive. The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish planes bombed a town in Afrin and fighting raged on the ground on Wednesday.
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| The 10 Best Beaches In The World In 2018, Revealed Posted: 21 Feb 2018 06:00 AM PST  Need some travel inspo for your upcoming beach vacation?
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| 7th-grader with distraction device shoots himself at school Posted: 20 Feb 2018 02:15 PM PST  MASSILLON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio seventh-grader who brought a gun to school and shot himself inside a restroom just before classes began on Tuesday also had a device in his backpack meant to cause a distraction, police said.
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| Congressman Booed at Town Hall as People Demand Action on Guns Posted: 21 Feb 2018 08:36 AM PST  A Colorado congressman was met with boos at a town hall on Tuesday night as he repeatedly declined to back an assault-weapons ban.
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| Teens hold a 'lie-in' at White House calling for gun control Posted: 19 Feb 2018 10:59 AM PST ![Teens hold a 'lie-in' at White House calling for gun control]( "Teens hold a 'lie-in' at White House calling for gun control")
A group of Washington, D.C., teenagers staged a "lie-in" outside of the White House on Monday to show their support for the victims of last week's mass shooting at a Florida high school — and to demand action from President Trump on gun control. "We have organized this protest in solidarity with all of those who were affected by the horrific school shooting in Florida," the organization said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. "We call on President Trump and leaders from both parties to finally act in the interest of America's youth and end these tragic mass shootings!" Dozens of teenagers participated in Monday's lie-in. More than 700 people RSVP'd for the event on Facebook. Read the FULL STORY by Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News >>> _____ See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
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| Report Alleges Rampant Sexual Misconduct At Dallas Mavericks Posted: 21 Feb 2018 03:57 AM PST  A Sports Illustrated report detailing widespread workplace sexual misconduct in the Dallas Mavericks organization that involved its former CEO is sending shock waves through the league and drawing sharp criticism.
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| New York Daily News Rips Donald Trump For Visiting Golf Course During Florida Funerals Posted: 20 Feb 2018 01:23 AM PST  The New York Daily News tore into President Donald Trump for visiting his Florida golf course while funerals for the Parkland school massacre victims were taking place "just miles away."
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| Florida lawmakers refuse to consider assault weapons ban despite call for tougher gun control laws Posted: 20 Feb 2018 01:31 PM PST  Florida state lawmakers have rejected a bill that would ban assault rifles, less than a week after 17 people were killed in a shooting at a Florida high school. The Florida House voted 36-71 against a motion to consider legislation to outlaw assault rifles and large capacity magazines, effectively killing the bill for the time-being, according to the Associated Press. The vote came as members of Congress, state legislators, governors and student survivors of the Parkland shooting called for tougher gun control laws.
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| Syria pro-government forces enter Afrin to aid Kurds against Turkey Posted: 20 Feb 2018 12:42 PM PST  By Gulsen Solaker and Ellen Francis ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Pro-Syrian government forces entered Syria's northwestern Afrin region on Tuesday to help a Kurdish militia there fend off a Turkish assault, raising the prospect of a wider escalation of the conflict. Soon after the convoy of militia fighters - waving Syrian flags and brandishing weapons - entered Afrin, Syrian state media reported that Turkey had targeted them with shellfire. The confrontation pits the Turkish army and allied Syrian rebel groups directly against the military alliance backing the government of President Bashar al-Assad, further scrambling northwest Syria's already messy battlefield.
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| A U.S. Postal Worker Has Been Found Fatally Shot Inside a Mail Truck in Texas Posted: 19 Feb 2018 06:08 PM PST  Investigators are treating the case as a homicide
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| Some Conservatives Are Trying To Discredit Outspoken Florida Shooting Survivors Posted: 20 Feb 2018 11:30 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― After what seems like a never-ending stream of deadly mass shootings, many gun reform proponents fear that Americans have become too desensitized to bloodshed to demand action to end gun violence.
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| In honor of Rihanna's birthday, we're sharing our favorite Fenty Beauty products Posted: 20 Feb 2018 11:30 AM PST  It's hard to believe that it was over 10 years ago when we first heard 'Pon de Replay' on the radio by an 'unknown' Rihanna at the time.
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| Democrats Flip Kentucky State House Seat Where Trump Won Overwhelmingly Posted: 20 Feb 2018 05:30 PM PST  Democrats flipped a GOP-held Kentucky state House seat on Tuesday, handing the party its 37th state legislative pickup nationwide since Donald Trump won the presidency.
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| Pit bull dog 'protects child from burglar' in Nebraska Posted: 19 Feb 2018 10:37 AM PST  A pit bull protected a nine-year-old boy who was home alone during an attempted robbery in Nebraska. Shane Shafer's mother had left him to go and pick up her other children. While he was alone, a man with ski mask broke in and Shane called on his dog, Baby Girl, to help.
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| Ice dancing pair overcomes costume issue, nabs the silver medal Posted: 20 Feb 2018 08:11 AM PST  Ice dancing pair Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron brought home a silver medal for France, despite an unexpected setback during Monday's short program. At the start of the pair's short dance performance at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Papadakis suffered a costume issue when a clasp at the nape of her neck came undone, forcing her to balance holding her top in place with skating a difficult program. SEE ALSO: How to calm your nerves while watching the Olympics Papadakis and Cizeron perform their short dance program on Monday in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Early in the performance, Papadakis experienced an unexpected setback when a clasp on her costume came undone.Image: Getty ImagesNBC Sports has video of the challenging performance here. During a presser after the performance, Papadakis addressed the incident. But on Tuesday in Pyeongchang, Papadakis and Cizeron managed to secure the silver medal after an excellent free dance performance. The couple came in second behind Canada's Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, the maybe-couple of everyone's Olympic dreams. As the Associated Press reported, Papadakis wasn't the first skater to experience a costume issue at this year's Winter Games. Yura Min of South Korea also had an issue with a clasp during a performance earlier this week. WATCH: This is how Margot Robbie looked like a master figure skater on 'I, Tonya'
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| More bombs hit Syria's Ghouta, death toll highest since 2013 Posted: 20 Feb 2018 02:06 PM PST  By Ellen Francis and Angus McDowall BEIRUT (Reuters) - Pro-government forces pounded the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday, in a surge of violence that a war monitor said had killed at least 250 people since Sunday night. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was the highest 48-hour death toll in the Syria conflict since a 2013 chemical attack on eastern Ghouta, the last major rebel bastion located near the capital. Damascus says it only targets militants.
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| Iran TV airs images of site of airplane crash that killed 65 Posted: 20 Feb 2018 11:19 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian search-and-rescue teams on Tuesday offered the first images of the site of an airplane crash in southern Iran that killed 65 people, with officials hoping to reach the aircraft's "black boxes" to learn exactly what downed the flight.
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| FBI charge British engineer with murdering wife on yacht in Caribbean Posted: 20 Feb 2018 09:14 AM PST  A British engineer has been charged by the FBI with murdering his wife after she disappeared at sea as they cruised around the Caribbean on a belated honeymoon. Lewis Bennett, 41, who holds dual British and Australian citizenship and is originally from Poole, Dorset, was accused of second-degree murder over the death of Isabella Hellmann, 41, on May 15 last year. He was charged in a Miami court where, according to local television station WPTV, he was also sentenced to seven months in jail for transporting valuable rare coins. After his wife's disappearance Bennett told investigators she was lost at sea when their 37ft catamaran, Surf into Summer, was struck by an unknown object near the Bahamas. According to to the FBI Bennett said he had gone below deck and left Ms Hellmann above to keep watch. He described being woken up at 1am by a jolt and the vessel was taking on water. Bennett told investigators he could not find his wife and had to abandon ship on a life raft. In an affidavit FBI special agent James Kelley said the bureau now believed Bennett "knowingly and unlawfully killed" Ms Hellmann. The FBI affidavit claimed Bennett had damaged the inside of the boat causing it to flood. Isabella Hellman and her British husband Lewis Bennett. She went missing during a honeymoon sailing trip. When Ms Hellmann disappeared the couple, who had a daughter now aged 17 months, were sailing back from Havana, Cuba to their home in Delray Beach, Florida. The daughter was not on the boat. Bennett made an SOS call in the early hours and was later spotted by a US Coast Guard helicopter. He was rescued alone from the life raft. The search for Ms Hellmann was called off three days later and her body was never found. When Bennett was rescued nine plastic tubes of silver coins were found in the life raft. They included 158 English "Year of the Horse" one-ounce silver coins and 77 Canadian Maple Leaf coins, worth about £3,200. The coins were among a batch that had been reported stolen from another boat in St Martin the previous year. Bennett had been a crew member on that boat. According to the owner of the boat the total value of the coins stolen in 2016 was around $100,000. After he was rescued Bennett said of his wife: "She is my soulmate. I thought we were going to be together forever. "I understand why they have to investigate and that is fair enough. I have got nothing to hide. They have to do what they have to do."
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| The One Scandal The Trump White House Can't Lie Its Way Out Of Posted: 20 Feb 2018 04:49 AM PST  TOP STORIES (Get this roundup directly in your inbox each weekday ― sign up for The Morning Email here.)
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| Chris Cornell's Widow Says Singer Would 'Never Have Ever Left This World' Posted: 20 Feb 2018 04:46 PM PST  Vicky Cornell, the widow of rock singer Chris Cornell, believes a prescribed medication is the reason her husband of 13 years killed himself in a Detroit hotel room last May.
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| Anderson Cooper Shreds Trump: ‘He Went To Play Golf While They Held Funerals’ Posted: 19 Feb 2018 09:33 PM PST  CNN's Anderson Cooper took Donald Trump to task on Monday for a weekend in which the president fired off angry messages on Twitter about Democrats, the Russia investigation, Oprah Winfrey and more.
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| Florida school shooting: Conspiracy theory about victims heads to the top of YouTube Posted: 21 Feb 2018 07:08 AM PST  One of YouTube's most popular videos is pedalling a conspiracy theory about the deadly Parkland school shooting. The post – currently at the top of YouTube's "Popular Right Now" playlist – shows David Hogg, one of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who has led the push for gun reform in the wake of the shooting at the school. Mr Hogg became well-known in the wake of the shooting when it emerged he had interviewed class mates while the shooting was taking place, and gave an interview where he looked into the camera and called for politicians to bring change.
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| Nancy Pelosi warns of tax cut effects during Phoenix visit Posted: 20 Feb 2018 04:17 PM PST  PHOENIX (AP) — U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told supporters in Phoenix Tuesday that the Republican tax cuts will have dire effects on the middle class in Arizona and across the nation.
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