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    World Melania Trump to Attend State of the Union Despite Fury Over Trump Porn Star Affair...

    First Lady Melania Trump will make her first public appearance with President Donald Trump at Tuesday’s State of the Union address, after being blindsided by reports Trump’s lawyer paid hush money to a porn star after an alleged affair. The New York Times reported Monday that Melania Trump was...
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    World Parents are making their kids drink bleach to “cure” them of autism – Newsweek

    Parents are making their children drink industrial bleach to "cure" them of autism, with the potentially deadly practice traced back to a cult in the United States. According to the British tabloid Sunday People, six British police forces probed cases in which children as young as 2 were forced...
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    World For Sudanese Refugees Released From a Libyan Kidnap Gang, a New Torture Awaits at Home –...

    A man lies on his stomach on a patterned floor, writhing. Over him stands a masked figure, pointing a gun at his victim’s head as another dangles a rod over his body. He shrieks and wails as an orange molten liquid is dripped onto his back. El Sadiq Abaker Ahmed, 22, tries … Continue...
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    World Trump Tells Russia He Wants to Make Things Better Between Them, Putin ‘Fully’ Agrees – Newsweek

    President Donald Trump has reportedly expressed his interest in establishing talks between the U.S. and Russia in a bid to restore relations between the world’s top two military powers. Trump delivered a highly anticipated speech Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he...
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    World Psychiatrist Who Briefed Congress Trump’s Mental Health is ‘Unravelling’ Receives Death...

    A psychiatrist who briefed members of Congress on President Donald Trump’s mental state said she is receiving thousands of death threats every day. Dr. Bandy X. Lee, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, told the New Haven Register that the threats were...
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    World China says shutdown shows U.S. democracy chaotic and chronically flawed – Newsweek

    China’s official news agency said in a commentary on Sunday that the shutdown of the U.S. government exposed “chronic flaws” in the U.S. political system. Funding for federal agencies ran out at midnight on Friday in Washington after lawmakers failed to agree on a stopgap funding bill. President...
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    World FBI Investigates if Trump Campaign Received Russian Money Funneled Through NRA – Newsweek

    The FBI is investigating a Russian banker for allegedly funneling money to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign through contributions made to the National Rifle Association. As special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe continues, investigators are now looking into Russian banker Alexander...
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    World Iran Oil Tanker Leaves 10-Mile Long Flaming Slick, ‘No Hope’ of Saving Crew – Newsweek

    A burning Iranian oil tanker that exploded and sank off China on Sunday has left a 10-mile long flaming oil slick, according to local media, while an Iranian official has admitted that there was no hope of finding survivors. The tanker, named Sanchi, had been adrift and ablaze after crashing...
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    World 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes That Still Resonate In Today’s America – Newsweek

    It has been five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, but his words still carry power for activists, politicians, journalists, and everyday Americans, despite them being consistently misattributed. King wrote five books and delivered around 450 speeches a year, according to...
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    World China Demolishes Another Church, Sparking Fears of Campaign Against Christianity – Newsweek

    Authorities in northern China have demolished another church, sparking fears that the officially atheist Communist Party may be enforcing a campaign against Christianity. The Golden Lampstand, a well-known evangelical megachurch in the city of Linfen, Shanxi province, was dramatically demolished...
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    World Mexican Drug Cartels May Use Legal Marijuana to Take Over Northern California – Newsweek

    The four men bolted through the forest, exhausted and bleeding from multiple cuts. When they emerged from the trees on that dry summer night in 2016, they spotted a house in the distance. They ran up to it and knocked on the stranger’s door, then frantically asked for help in broken … via...
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    World China is building a new base for warships in Pakistan, America’s newest enemy – Newsweek

    As the Trump administration announced plans this week to cut all security funding to Pakistan, Beijing revealed it would build an offshore naval base near a strategic Pakistani port. The naval base will be located in the Gwadar port in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. Chinese military...
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