Friday 21 April 2017

Friday's Headlines: American detained in Egypt for 3 years returns to U.S. after Trump intervention

Deadly Paris shooting could influence voters on eve of French presidential election; Arkansas carries out first execution since 2005 after Supreme Court denies stay requests; If 'Fearless Girl' symbolizes women's rights, what happens to artists' rights?; White House turns up heat on Congress to revise the Affordable Care Act;
 
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American detained in Egypt for 3 years returns to U.S. after Trump intervention
Aya Hijazi, a charity worker, was incarcerated without trial on charges that were widely derided. President Trump and his aides worked for weeks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to secure freedom for Hijazi, her Egyptian husband and four other humanitarian workers.
Deadly Paris shooting could influence voters on eve of French presidential election
National Front candidate Marine Le Pen called for new border checks and expelling certain foreigners after the Islamic State took responsibility for the attack.
 
Arkansas carries out first execution since 2005 after Supreme Court denies stay requests
The execution of Ledell Lee late Thursday followed a wave of criticism and tumult in Arkansas, which had set an unprecedented schedule of executions before court orders halted at least some of them for now.
 
If 'Fearless Girl' symbolizes women's rights, what happens to artists' rights?
The creator of Wall Street's famous "Charging Bull," who donated the sculpture after the 1987 stock market crash, is threatening to sue over the placement of a statue of a little girl, which he says turns his work into a symbol of male chauvinism and which was commissioned as part of an advertising campaign for one of the world's biggest banks.
 
White House turns up heat on Congress to revise the Affordable Care Act
The fresh pressure was met with skepticism by some Capitol Hill Republicans and their aides.
 
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The federal government warned NFL doctors about drug laws in 2011. It didn't go well.
A DEA presentation to the league about painkillers was met with groans, catcalls and boos. But the issues mentioned would fuel a probe into the NFL's prescription drug practices and a lawsuit involving many former players. 
Berkeley reverses decision to cancel appearance by conservative pundit Coulter
Repeated violent outbursts by campus protesters since President Trump's election forced the university to weigh the values of free expression that it has championed against safety concerns.
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Jeff Sessions doesn't think a judge in Hawaii — a.k.a. 'an island in the Pacific' — should overrule Trump
In his criticism of the judge who struck down President Trump's travel ban, the attorney general stumbles into a factual minefield: Hawaii is a state and has been since 1959, and Derrick Watson isn't a Hawaiian judge — he's a federal judge who serves on a district court in Hawaii.
'Can He Do That?'
Do power struggles among staffers help the White House or hurt it?
Do staff tensions interfere with President Trump's ability to govern? Are these rivalries by Trump's design? Former campaign strategist Sam Nunberg talks to The Post about what it's like to work for Trump -- and get fired by him.
Why scientists will march on Washington and hundreds of other cities
Organizers insist that the March for Science, although political, is not a partisan event. But it may prove too delicate a distinction when people show up on Saturday with their signs and their passions.
New suspect in German soccer attack motivated by greed, not radical Islam
The Russian-German suspect is accused of planting three bombs near the hotel where the Borussia Dortmund club was staying. Defender Marc Bartra and a police officer were injured in the attack.
Former teacher accused of kidnapping ‘troubled’ teenager captured at a remote California cabin
Tad Cummins was the focus of a Tennessee Bureau of Investigations manhunt after he disappeared with a 15-year-old girl in March. Authorities said the girl has been "safely recovered."
 
     
 
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