Friday, 10 March 2017

Evening Edition: Trump stands with House GOP on plan to revise Obamacare, spokesman says

South Korean impeachment could reset relations with China, North Korea and the U.S.; First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts starting in July; The mystery of Donald Trump and the New Jersey cemetery; Trump ignores repeated questions to provide evidence of wiretapping; How Trump's first jobs report looks, based on the 'real' metrics he touted in 2016; Trump to select Scott Gottlieb, a physician with deep drug-industry ties, to run the FDA; Justice Dept. tells remaining 46 Obama administration U.S. attorneys to resign; San Francisco Police Department pulls out of FBI anti-terrorism task force; Chinese media was fooled by a Borowitz Report column. Is this kind of 'satire' okay in a fake-news era?; ‘Go buy Ivanka’s stuff,’ Kellyanne Conway said. Then the first daughter’s fashion sales exploded.; Police told a man he couldn't film them. 'I'm an attorney,' he said. 'I know what the law is.'; Sean Spicer's flag pin was upside down. The Internet lost its mind.; Author of best-selling 'Bridges of Madison County' dies at 77; Adorable kids burst through door, crash live BBC interview to bother their apologetic dad; My in-laws clearly favor their other son, and I'm fed up;
 
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Evening Edition
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Trump stands with House GOP on plan to revise Obamacare, spokesman says
The White House and GOP leaders defended their plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act against criticism from conservatives who want a more aggressive attack on the law. "It's not a question of negotiation," press secretary Sean Spicer said as the president finds himself at the center of a fierce intraparty clash.
South Korean impeachment could reset relations with China, North Korea and the U.S.
Moon Jae-in, a progressive who may replace Park Geun-hye as president, is a proponent of the "sunshine policy" of engagement with North Korea — the liberal idea from the late 1990s that engagement can help open up the closed state and narrow the gap between the two Koreas.
 
First-year doctors will be allowed to work 24-hour shifts starting in July
The controversial decision ends the latest phase in a decades-old discussion over how to balance physician training with the safety and needs of patients. The current cap is 16 hours of patient care.
 
The mystery of Donald Trump and the New Jersey cemetery
Trump has been talking about building cemeteries in Bedminster, N.J., for a decade. And when officials at one point expressed concerns about the plans, he suggested that his personal tomb could be versatile — perhaps host a wedding. Local officials weren't fooled by that and were left wondering what angle Trump was playing.
 
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Trump ignores repeated questions to provide evidence of wiretapping
An ABC reporter repeatedly, and bluntly, asked whether the president has proof to support accusations he made last week against the Obama administration.
 
Analysis
How Trump's first jobs report looks, based on the 'real' metrics he touted in 2016
As a candidate he cobbled together unorthodox measures to discuss at campaign stops and in interviews to suggest that the economy was in turmoil. But by the president's own measures, February wasn't a runaway success.
 
Trump to select Scott Gottlieb, a physician with deep drug-industry ties, to run the FDA
If confirmed, the conservative doctor would bring a strong pro-industry, deregulatory approach to an agency that Trump has criticized as being overly restrictive.
 
Justice Dept. tells remaining 46 Obama administration U.S. attorneys to resign
Previous administrations have taken a similar step at the start of their presidencies.
 
San Francisco Police Department pulls out of FBI anti-terrorism task force
Concerns over protecting immigrants and religious minorities clashed with the agency's aim of preventing attacks.
 
Analysis
Chinese media was fooled by a Borowitz Report column. Is this kind of 'satire' okay in a fake-news era?
It's a weird moment to make political satire online. But is the onus on readers to be more discerning, or on satirists and publishers to rethink their approach?
 
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‘Go buy Ivanka’s stuff,’ Kellyanne Conway said. Then the first daughter’s fashion sales exploded.
The largest fashion e-commerce website in the world, Lyst, said sales of Ivanka Trump's fashion line went up by 346 percent from January to February.
 
Police told a man he couldn't film them. 'I'm an attorney,' he said. 'I know what the law is.'
Jesse Bright was surprised to hear a Wilmington, N.C., police officer falsely tell him that there was a new state law that prohibited him from recording police.
 
Sean Spicer's flag pin was upside down. The Internet lost its mind.
"Is Spicer's upside down flag lapel pin a distress signal?" one person wrote on Twitter. "Blink twice if you need help, Sean."
 
Robert James Waller | 1939–2017
Author of best-selling 'Bridges of Madison County' dies at 77
Robert James Waller purportedly wrote the melodramatic romance novel in less than two weeks. But through word of mouth, the sentimental book found an audience, becoming a bestseller and later a film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
 
Adorable kids burst through door, crash live BBC interview to bother their apologetic dad
"I think one of your children has just walked in," the BBC World News presenter told Pusan National University professor Robert Kelly.
 
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My in-laws clearly favor their other son, and I'm fed up
The advice columnist takes your questions about the strange train we call life.
 
 
     
 
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