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| August 13, 2016 |
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Is the calligraphy on the wall? After big losses in Fallujah and other areas, the days of the group's murderous reign in Iraq and Syria seem numbered. There are indications pointing to an imminent confrontation with Iraqi soldiers, militias and U.S. warplanes in the group's Mosul birthplace, and its Afghanistan and Pakistan leader's been killed. It's not quite the ultimate battle the apocalyptic group foretold, and local ISIS fighters are said to crave refuge rather than martyrdom. They're said to be seeking forces - unlike Iraqi Shiites - who won't immediately kill them. |
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Are we talking about policy now? In the last week, Donald Trump disappointed no one expecting outrageous stump declarations, in particular accusing President Obama of being a "founder" of ISIS. But along the way, both he and his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, laid out economic policy visions and actually agreed with each other on one major talking point. Both candidates oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would ease trade between the U.S. and East Asian nations, excluding China. It's something America's working-class voters believe: More foreign trade won't keep them employed. |
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It's not simply about one justice. Republicans have done their best to slow the process - paging Merrick Garland - but President Barack Obama has spent eight years remaking a third of the federal judiciary, with more minority, female and openly gay judges than ever. It's also more liberal, with nine of the nation's 13 appellate courts now seating a majority of Democrat-appointed judges. Early results can be seen in the Fourth Circuit striking down North Carolina's voter ID law as discriminatory, and the effects will be felt for decades to come. |
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Even Simone Biles won't try it. But two medal-hungry gymnasts will go for it Sunday in Rio - risking catastrophic injury with the notorious Produnova vault. It starts with a front handspring that catapults into a double somersault, meaning that competitors must reach truly impressive heights to avoid high-impact landings on their backs ... or backsides. Dipa Karmakar, India's first female Olympic gymnast, is slated to perform the move. She's succeeded 1,000 times in recent months, acknowledging the maneuver is "very dangerous." But she adds: "I like risk." |
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Know This: Michael Phelps announces that his record 22 gold medals is enough. Hillary Clinton's released her 2015 tax returns and again urged Donald Trump to show his. And a federal magistrate gave Wisconsin 90 days to free one of the two men whose convictions were dissected in Netflix's Making a Murderer.
Hear This: We've come a long way from radio Fireside Chats. Clinton's launched a podcast called With Her about what's up with the campaign.
Read This: Future is now. That's Future, the rapper who's crushed it with three No. 1 albums in seven months. |
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| What Does It Take to Win the Most Powerful Job on Earth? |
Bruising. Visceral. Unpredictable. Presidential politics is a blood sport with all the intensity and thrill that we've come to expect in the sporting arena. Every four years, a few intrepid men and women embark on a quest for the world's highest office, and the power that comes with it. As America prepares to elect its next commander in chief, OZY launches The Contenders: 16 for '16, a multipart documentary series that reveals the twists of fate, surprising mistakes and back-channel dealings of the most compelling and tumultuous presidential campaigns in modern history. Watch for it every Tuesday on PBS, starting Sept. 13.
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The clock lost. Katie Ledecky continued her eye-popping Rio run Friday, breaking the world record in a crushing 800 freestyle win for her fourth gold. Fellow American swimmer Maya DiRado upset Hungary's "Iron Lady" Katinka Hosszu to win gold in the 200-meter backstroke. Singapore's Joseph Schooling won the 100-meter butterfly and his nation's first ever gold - ahead of Michael Phelps (and his Olympic record), who amazingly silvered in a three-way tie. And 16 years after his first gold, Anthony Ervin, 35, won his second in the 50 free. |
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The Jews of conflict-ravaged eastern Ukraine needed to escape, and Rabbi Moshe Azman wanted to help. He bought land near Kiev for a refuge - coincidentally in the middle of a patchwork of 19th century shtetls or Jewish villages. Thus began the Anatevka Jewish Refugee Community in the place immortalized by the author who inspired Fiddler on the Roof. It's part of Ukraine's tenuous reckoning with an anti-Semitic past that includes electing a Jewish premier and plans for a new monument at the site of the Nazis' 1941 Babi Yar massacre. |
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It should be easier. That's what Sam Stoddard thought as he went through the costly, mind-numbing process of getting a green card for his South Korea-born wife. Some fellow students in international marriages at Brigham Young University had the same problem. So Stoddard launched SimpleCitizen, aiming to save applicants hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars in lawyer fees. With 3 million potential clients going through the process each year, there's a big market for the $249 service - which includes a legal review and translation, if necessary. |
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Welcome to the world. Scientists from Michigan to Australia are developing an external placenta that could soon be put to work for ultra-premature births in the U.S. Half of extremely low gestational-age newborns die, and many others suffer permanent brain damage or other severe health problems. But survival rates could improve using a mechanical womb - if researchers can make it easier on babies' delicate lungs. It could also upend a hot-button debate: If viability is pushed back below 24 weeks, could states move the needle on when they can ban abortions?
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Many are offered; few are chosen. The new crop of serialized dramas is struggling to hold viewers' attention. Seventeen years ago, The Sopranos pioneered long-form, open-ended narratives - tilling the soil for shows like Orange Is the New Black and The Americans. But shifting consumption modes have favored shows for the commitment-averse. Dramas with a predetermined end point, like Fargo, give obsessive viewers something to plan their lives around. But groundbreaking epics like Game of Thrones still seem to surface once a generation, so enjoy winter while it lasts. |
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