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White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's longest-running aides, appeared Tuesday before a congressional panel probing his campaign's links to Russia, but it is not clear how many questions she was willing to answer. The House Intelligence Committee is meeting behind closed doors with Hicks, who first worked for the Trump family as a public relations spokeswoman for Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, to promote her clothing business before later joining Trump's... Читать дальше...

Exchange-traded funds tracking emerging-market equities slumped on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar spiked during Federal Reserve head Jerome Powell's first congressional testimony. The Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF sank 2.1% and was on track for its biggest one-day percentage decline since Feb. 8. Separately, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF was down 2.2% while the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF lost 2.1%. All three were on track for a day of higher-than-average trading volume. Читать дальше...

PARKLAND, Fla. — Nearly two weeks after a shooting at a high school killed 17 people, the Florida Legislature is debating a school safety bill. On Tuesday, House Republicans rejected Democratic-filed amendments that would ban assault weapons, strip language that would allow some teachers to carry guns in schools and require a mental health examination before someone could buy a gun. The House appropriations committee is considering a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy rifles from 18 […]

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Spring Break is next month for many Americans, and a lot of people will be heading to the City Beautiful, according to a new study.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida state lawmaker is being sued for blocking one of his constituents on official social media accounts. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida said Tuesday it filed the lawsuit against state Rep. Chuck Clemons, a Republican who represents a north Florida district. The lawsuit accuses Clemons of discrimination for excluding a Gainesville man from otherwise publicly accessibly social media accounts. The ACLU says Morgan Attwood was blocked on Twitter and Facebook... Читать дальше...

The memoirs of France's former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, due to hit bookstores this week, have already sold out, his publisher said Tuesday while announcing a new print run to cope with demand.

TOMAH, Wis. (AP) — Former employees of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources are among those questioning the agency's decision to allow a Georgia company to fill in rare wetlands for a frack sand processing facility. The employees testified at a hearing Monday in Tomah where the DNR is defending its decision against a challenge by the Ho-Chunk Nation and Clean Wisconsin. A project that allows Meteor Timber to fill in about 16 acres of wetland in Monroe County is on hold. A hearing before an administrative law judge could last all week. Читать дальше...

A senior minister on Tuesday defended Britain's plans to cut EU ties to pursue an independent trade policy post-Brexit, after his former top official compared the approach to swapping a three-course meal for a packet of crisps.

Manchester City are on course to break another Premier League record this season. Pep Guardiola’s truly superb side have wowed audiences throughout the 2017/18 campaign with some brilliant displays of attacking football. They set the record for the most games won in a row in Premier League history – 18 – and could break Chelsea’s record for the most points won in a single campaign. That total currently stands at 95, and was set 13 years ago by the Blues in... Читать дальше...

Pope Francis sparked a media frenzy in 2015 with the release of his second encyclical, Laudato Si. One of the highest forms of official Catholic Church teaching, the document presented the moral case for tackling climate change on behalf of the poor and vulnerable. But there was another, less-noticed purpose for Francis’s document: To reject an insidious notion among Christians that God wants humans to exploit the Earth’s natural resources.

US Navy

• The USS John F. Kennedy is the second of the Navy's Gerald R. Ford-class advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
• The Kennedy reached 70% completion in late February.
• Construction on the Kennedy started in February 2011.

The USS John F. Kennedy, the second of the Navy's Gerald R. Ford-class advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, reached 70% completion in late February, according to shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls.

Like the first-in-class Gerald R. Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Feb. 27 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says that how US, UK, and France tried to pass a resolution on Yemen showed how they are evading responsibility and misguiding the public opinion.

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The check-in for the EC 2018 will take place in the Headquarter in Hotel “Pojezierze” ul. Wyszynskiego 69a, 78-400 Szczecinek today, from 19:00. Please come personally or give a proxy to somebody from your fleet to collect the stickers.   The Prizegiving Ceremony for the Worlds we arranged in Centrum Konferencyjne ZAMEK, Szczecinek, ul. Mickiewicza 2.  It will start at 19:00 on 28 February. A Party will be held after the ceremony with delicious food and drink. All are welcome.   Your Commodore Attila... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police in Las Vegas say an employee of the Bellagio casino-resort has been arrested for stealing 25 lobster tails. Authorities say cook Alex Hernandez was detained by hotel security Sunday after he was caught putting the lobster in his backpack and walking out a back door. The lobster tails were worth about $1,900. Police say the 49-year-old man is facing one count of embezzlement. Hernandez on Monday was booked into the Clark County Detention Center. Bail was set at $5,000. Records... Читать дальше...

Sixteen inmates were indicted on “mob action” charges after a fight broke out in the Cook County Jail’s maximum security division on February 16, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. Two inmates were taken to area hospitals following the brawl for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, including puncture wounds. Others were treated at the jail, the statement said. The Cook County Sheriff released this footage of the incident, which shows several inmates involved in a confrontation before prison security intervene. Читать дальше...

St. Ambrose University Men's Golf Coach Jeff Griebel is excited to announce the signing of one of the top high school golfers from the State of Iowa.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are voting against a plan to roll back a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bolstered police power to use evidence even if officers did something wrong to get it. A legislative committee voted Tuesday to hold the bill that would bar evidence gathered after an illegal stop. Supporters said it would prevent possible police abuse of power, but critics argued it would wrongly tie officers' hands. The bill came after the Supreme Court decided Edward Joseph Strieff could... Читать дальше...

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• This post is part of Business Insider's ongoing series on Better Capitalism.
• AOL cofounder Steve Case thinks we're at the beginning of a new area of American entrepreneurship where the US coasts are less important than they used to be.
• Case's investment firm Revolution is putting $150 million toward startups in overlooked American cities through the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.
• Revolution has invested more than $1 billion outside of Silicon Valley. Читать дальше...

Google has played by the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” rules since 2014, when the European Court of Justice introduced a law that allowed European citizens to request that search engines erase information about them from search results. In its latest annual Transparency Report, Google reveals that it was asked to delist 2.4 million URLs from …

Casper started out as an online mattress brand, but it's now opening 200 stores across the United States. We visited its first permanent store, which opened in February in New York City.

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• Mattress startup Casper has opened its first permanent store in New York.
• The store is designed to be a testing ground for the company to trial new products and see how customers interact with them. 
• Casper is a digitally native brand that launched in 2014. The company's total revenue since inception reached more than $600 million in 2017, and it counts Target and 50 Cent among its investors. 

Casper wants to create the Disneyland of mattress shopping. Читать дальше...

Criticism of ebooks is the last thing you'd expect from the chief executive of global publishing company Hachette Livre.