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Governor Cuomo announces legal advice hotline
Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced the creation of a confidential toll-free hotline through which New Yorkers may report people who are missing or may be detained on flights coming into the state. Kennedy International Airport on January 28, 2017 in New York City. He added that New Yorkers are particularly aware of the threat of terrorism in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
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U.S. needs to buy billions of avocados to pay for Mexico wall
Trump's potential plan to fund the wall would place this 20 percent tax on all Mexican imports, which, according to Spicer, is something many other countries do. On Friday, The Associated Press reported that Trump and Peña Nieto held a telephone call about the wall dispute. "This coordination includes the dismantling of cartels and keeping illegal weapons and cash from flowing out of America and into Mexico", he said.
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"Horrific and bad:" Protests continue nationwide over Pres. Trump's immigration ban
Jennie Pasquarella, director of immigrant rights for the ACLU in California, said the advocacy group had filed habeas petitions on behalf of seven people who were detained at LAX on Saturday. "We are Muslims, and we love everyone and respect everyone", said Azhar Dalal, 37. He worked with the U.S. government for 10 years after the United States invaded Iraq.
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Who's the Royal Rumble's most dominant performer?
Many spots left, will we see some returns? The Kickoff Show will be headlined by the tag team title match while the crowd is going to be fired up for "The Boss" Sasha Banks in her battle with Nia Jax . WWE's spacing of these returns has generally been impeccable, and they know when they have someone big in the back ready to go. But, this is my thought process behind Triple H, I just don't think you want Triple H in that Rumble match.
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NCAA Basketball: Three takeaways from the Villanova, Virginia thriller
It trailed by as many as 13 points after a awful first half on Sunday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, but No. 1 Villanova stormed back and put itself in position for a 61-59 win over the No. Two free throws from Jalen Brunson capped an 11-0 run, giving Villanova its first lead of the game at 50-49. Perrantes leads in points with 12.3 and in assists with 3.7 per ame.
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Pence Declares 'Life Is Winning Again' at Anti-Abortion March
The anti-abortion march has been held every year in Washington for the past 43 years to protest the Supreme Court decision known as Roe v Wade . Former U.S. "And I think the March for Life is a powerful testament to that". "On Monday, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy to prevent foreign aid from funding organizations that promote and perform abortions worldwide", says Pence.
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Global Backlash Grows against Trump's Immigration Order
Authorities said a sixth US -bound migrant, identified as a Yemeni national, had left the airport and returned to the capital. Hours after Trump's decree, news outlets began reporting from U.S. At the same time, many Christian groups that resettle refugees in the United States decry the persecution of their brethren overseas but said the country should not give favour to fellow Christians or bar Muslims.
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Quakers for Life president is optimistic after March for Life
She said Pence has shown "how one person can, indeed, make a difference in the ultimate human right - the right to life". Pence was the first USA vice president to address the march in its history. "We will not grow tired", Pence said in a 10-minute address to the crowd at the monument. He said he felt encouraged by what Pence and Conway's speeches meant for his group, and optimistic about the new administration's stance on abortion.
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Utah Has Its First-Ever March For Life Protest
The rally comes days before Mr Trump announces his nominee for Supreme Court justice. " Pro-life leaders, activists, volunteers and marchers will be thrilled to hear from Vice President Pence and are bound to leave the March for Life even more energized than when they came".
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Protesters gather at Denver airport to demonstrate against immigration ban
Hundreds descended at New York City's JFK Airport to demonstrate and a rally happened at Washington Dulles International Airport to welcome home refugees. More protests are expected Sunday across the United States and in Charlotte. A protest is underway Sunday afternoon at RDU Airport against President Trump's executive order regarding citizens of seven Muslim nations.
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Trump executive order suspends Syrian refugee program
Citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran , Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen are now barred from entering the country, no matter how long they have lived and/or worked in U.S. "It will mean turning away children fleeing barrel bombing in Syria , women and girls fleeing human rights violations in Sudan and Somalia, and fearless people who risked their lives to work with our troops in Iraq", he said.
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Massive attendance at March for Life could extend crowd size chatter
Conway said public opinion is shifting decisively against permissive abortion policies. " Life is winning again in America ", Vice President Mike Pence told the gathered crowd, some of whom hailed from the Diocese of Rockville Centre. Organisers expected thousands of people to join the event, held each year to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalising abortion.
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Booker: Trump ban on admitting refugees 'fundamentally un-American'
The countries were not named in the order, but several news outlets reported them as Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Iran , Yemen and Sudan. Hundreds of protesters have gathered at airports in Dallas, Chicago, New York, Portland , Logan, Hartsfield to protest against the executive order.
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PD Editorial: Fear, confusion over Trump's border orders
The Sanctuary City designation comes from the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s, which sheltered Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees at churches and private homes. And the leader of the California State Senate, Kevin de Leon, seemed to hint that if Trump moves forward to cut off funding to California's sanctuary cities, he would challenge the move in court.
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Trump puts 'dishonest' NY Times, WashPost on blast in Twitter rant
As we've seen in the past, this probably won't be the last time Trump tweets Sunday. He said the "failing" New York Times was "wrong about me from the very beginning" with its prediction that he would not win the presidency. Trump and Slim dined in NY this December during the presidential transition. Saturday's tweets are just the latest salvo in what Trump called his "running war with the media" on Monday while speaking at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters.
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Wall stonewalls Mexican President's trip to US
White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Mr Trump would propose a 20 per cent tariff on all goods imported from Mexico to the United States in order to pay for his promised wall. "If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting". Talks have been scheduled to take place at the White House next week.
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France's Hollande warns Trump against protectionism
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a reception of German carnival societies at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. The measures by Obama, who accused Moscow of "efforts to harm United States interests", included the expulsion of 35 alleged intelligence agents and financial sanctions on Russia's top intelligence agencies.
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Trump signs executive orders on lobbying, ISIS and National Security Council
But it was not immediately clear how either one would be enforced. Trump, a billionaire businessman whose campaign was based partly on getting rid of lobbyists in Washington, himself has come under pressure to distance himself from his business, and allow his sons run it in order to prevent conflicts of interest.
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The refugee travel ban is certainly shaking things up
A refugee who was detained in a NY airport due to President Trump's immigration ban has been released into the USA, two lawmakers announced Saturday. Minnesotans planned a 5 p.m. "This is a stupid, awful decision which will hurt the American people more than us or anybody else, because it shows that this President can't manage people, politics or global relationships", Najeed Haidari, a Yemeni-American security manager for an oil company in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, told Reuters.
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March for Life: First time Ever VP as Speaker
An expected crowd of about 500,000 pro-life supporters, including Vice President Mike Pence (R) and 3,000 Missourians, attended today's March for Life in Washington D.C. On Tuesday, Trump signalled his intention to nominate an anti-abortion justice to the Supreme Court and has already revived an old policy banning funding for groups overseas that pay for abortions or provide information about abortion.
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Anti-abortion groups hold triumphant rally after Obama years
The second-term representative from Utah acknowledged that it "would've been easier for them to have an abortion", rather than keep her and struggle even more financially. "If women and girls are denied safe options they will seek any method to end a pregnancy", she said. "Honestly, I felt like there were more people here this year".
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Unfamiliar Phone Number? You May Not Want to Answer
The BBB's official recommendation: If you get any unsolicited robocalls, hang up. Saying anything or pressing buttons when prompted may help the scam artists identify that you have an active phone number. People who have an actual reason to get in contact with you will likely leave a message; scammers won't. They already obtained a phone number, and many phone providers pass through third-party charges.
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Karnataka ex-Chief Minister SM Krishna quits Congress
Krishna, Dr. Parameshwara said, "This news is shocking". Krishna, a former chief minister of Karnataka, wrote to Congress President Sonia Gandhi informing her of his decision, and has called a press conference on Sunday to explain his decision and his future course of action, The Indian Express reported.
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Trump to have telephone talks with Abe on Sat.: White House
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Saturday to meet early next month for broad-ranging discussions, while confirming the importance of the bilateral alliance. The US participation was seen as key to the agreement. On Thursday, Trump told congressional Republicans that new trade deals will be one-on-one with each country and "will not be a whole big mashed pot".
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Trump administration backtracks part way on ACA enrollment outreach
Despite a Trump administration executive order , Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace enrollment remains open until January 31. Asked about his plan to replace the sweeping health care law, Trump continued to slam it in hyperbolic language during an interview with ABC News , but provided little detail about how he'd take care of the 18 million people who stand to lose coverage under a repeal.
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Barbaric! Caretaker filmed hitting elderly woman for giving human food to dog
Floyd, 59, worked for the family as a home health aide for about three years. On the video, Floyd began slapping Dorothy Bratten in order to wake her up while she slept in a chair, then continued slapping Bratten in the head, yelling and cursing at her, as she got up to use her walker.
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Abortion foes, led by Pence, upbeat during DC march
Pence, who advanced several pro-life reforms-including a 20-week abortion ban-as governor of IN, told the crowd that "life is winning" at the state and national level with the ascendency of Republican majorities IN Congress, the White House , and a record number of state governments.
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Immigration ban sows panic, anguish and confusion at airports around the globe
Trump's order barred all refugees from entering the USA for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria. The newspaper offered the example of an Iraqi person entering the USA on a British passport would also be banned, though British citizens don't normally require a visa to enter the country.
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Malia Obama Joins Pipeline Protest
Obama joined Anti-DAPL advocate Shailene Woodley and the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in an attempt to prevent the creation of the pipeline that could possibly contaminate the Sioux tribe's water supply. But Energy Transfer Partners, the company that wants to build the pipeline, disputed that and said the pipeline will be safe. Analysts also believe it will create up to 12,000 construction jobs , and provide millions in state and local revenues during the construction phase.
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Feminist author Roxane Gay drops book publisher over Milo Yiannopoulos deal
It didn't sit well with Gay either, she said in her statement , but at first she thought she didn't have anything to do with it - until she remembered TED Books' association with the publisher. "I do hope the book is published someday". In a statement to Buzzfeed , Gay said that "I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation".
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Pence fires up anti-abortion activists in March for Life
Blocking that funding has always been a goal for anti-abortion lawmakers. When Maureen Groppe , a reporter for The Indianapolis Star's Washington bureau, interviewed Vice President Pence this month, he told her it is Donald Trump who will serve as the champion of pro-life activists for the next four years.
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Trump could sign order to look into alleged voter fraud this week
Langer is a German citizen who can't legally vote in the US. Trump said on Wednesday he would seek an investigation into illegal voting after being repeatedly challenged over his assertions that he lost the popular vote in the November 8 election to Democrat Hillary Clinton due to voter fraud.
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March for Life Crowd Headed to National Mall on Friday
As governor of Indiana, Mr Pence signed some of the most restrictive laws created to prohibiting the procedure. Last Saturday, President Donald Trump reinstated a federal ban on USA aid to fund abortion , and he has promised to nominate an anti-abortion Supreme Court justice.
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Watch pickup truck crash into, get stuck in Centro bus in Syracuse
Neil Brownell, the driver of the pickup, was driving off Interstate 81 north at Park Street around 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19 when the accident happened, said the Syracuse Police Department. The man ended up lodging his truck in the side of the transit bus. His wife, 75-year-old Jerrie Brownell, who was in the passenger seat in the pickup, was taken to the hospital for chest pain.
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Elgin pro-life supporters upbeat as March for Life gets new life
Wade , the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Mr Trump has already signed an executive order banning United States aid to foreign groups that provide abortions. Glenn Miller, a 60-year-old cabinet maker from Coventry, Connecticut, says this is his fourth march and it's easily the most enthusiastic. Pence regularly spoke at March for Life during the 12 years he served in Congress.