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Have they got the Trump card? The Republican National Convention Rules Committee just might. The 112-member panel meets Wednesday, less than a week before the Cleveland confab. Members are considering freeing delegates on the first ballot, possibly giving "Stop Trump" forces a shot at picking an alternate nominee. In the wake of his campaign retweeting a seemingly anti-Semitic image and Trump reiterating his praise for Saddam Hussein, Republicans may be looking for any life raft they can grab - but it may be too little, too late to stop the Teflon Don. |
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"This is now war. Watch out Obama," tweeted former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh following Thursday's Dallas shootings that killed five police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest. The tweet disappeared and Walsh backtracked, but the wound still festers. Recent police killings of Black men in Louisiana and Minnesota angered millions, while millions more were infuriated by white officers being targeted by a Black Afghanistan veteran before he was killed by a police robot bomb. Obama, attending a NATO summit in Europe, is cutting his trip short tomorrow to visit Dallas and "find common ground." |
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It was a mistake. That's the sum of 2.6 million words released Wednesday by the U.K. government committee led by Sir John Chilcot. "Wholly inadequate" planning by Americans and their British allies precipitated a disastrous 2003 Iraq War that was not the "last resort" as claimed by former prime minister Tony Blair, who expressed regret but stood by his decision. That seemed cold comfort for the families of more than 280 victims of Sunday's Baghdad bombing - the worst since the war's 2007 climax. But it's a new war, and this one's far from over. |
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Is it a cold war's warm embrace? Donald Trump has lavished praise on Russian president Vladimir Putin, much of his inner circle has been involved in Kremlin-linked affairs, and Russia appears to be subtly boosting Trump's business ventures. The real estate mogul has a history of trying to curry favor in the interest of securing Russian development projects. And should the Donald become the president, Putin could leverage America's diminished international leadership as European populists - boosted by Kremlin-supported websites and cash - sow discord that threatens NATO and the EU. |
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South Korea: North launched submarine missile that failed in flight. (NBC)
Utah patient becomes the first in the U.S. to die of Zika virus. (CBS)
Fifty more British troops increase Afghanistan military contingent to 500. (BBC)
U.N. chief says new South Sudan Clashes threaten peace process. (Reuters)
Lottery jackpot reaches $540 million as winning ticket sold in Indiana. (ABC) |
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La vita's not so dolce anymore. Facing tough times, 150 Italian nobles have banded together to market their lush estates as boutique hotels, while others are working the land and, in some drastic cases, selling off their holdings. It may run counter to the dream of palace life, but it's necessary given expensive upkeep, high taxes and economic woes. The idea is to form a pan-European "aristocracy route" to attract tourists to their castles and mansions and offer what Machiavelli called a "tinge" of greatness before they lose their flavor.
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They're tiny and they're taking over. But the rising tide of so-called cabin porn, feted on blogs, DIY networks and a show called Love Yurts, is buoyed by privilege. The fantasy of a simpler, pared-down lifestyle is, in many ways, limited to privileged white people who find it liberating and have the means to choose to live with less. Though there are people of color in the tiny house movement, they fear hostility in rural areas, which are otherwise tolerant - from a regulatory standpoint - of homes that happen to be mobile. |
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It's a frightening reversal. At the extreme end of the autism spectrum, childhood disintegrative disorder, or CDD, turns back the clock on cognitive development with ghastly speed - dismantling everything from language skills to bowel control in a matter of months. Effects can be divergent: While doctors deemed one 24-year-old woman to have a toddler's brain age, she could still ride a bike, ace word games and read fifth-grade books. Two doctors are proposing a deep investigation of the rare disease, using biological clues unknown when the disorder was first identified in 1908. |
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Can you hear the pitter-patter of tidy feet? That's the army of acolytes being trained by simplification guru Marie Kondo, and they're coming to slim down your life. Kondo's best-seller, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, asks that you hold each possession in your hands, and if it doesn't spark joy, release it. Her KonMari method has elicited eye rolls from some professional organizers, who see her approach as too foreign for Americans with harried, complicated lives - but Kondo's "Konverts" are determined to stamp out disconsolate consumerism. |
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She was ahead of them all. In 1984 - two years before Greg LeMond became the "first" American to win the world's top bike race - Coloradan Marianne Martin won the inuagural women's version of the competition. It was one-fourth the distance and died for lack of support six years later - only to be revived in 2014 as a one-day race. But Martin, who went into debt to finance her title ride, remembers it as a "fairy tale," especially when her unsupportive dad surprised her at the finish line. |
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