Saturday, February 27, 2016

Saturday's Headlines: In South Carolina, will Clinton’s expected win shift momentum?

Trump and Rubio now in all-out brawl for the future of the GOP; The 'Bernie-crats' want to revolutionize Congress. Almost all of them are doomed.; The best African American figure skater ever is bankrupt and living in a trailer; Kansas shooting rampage deviated from pattern of recent tragedies;
 
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In South Carolina, will Clinton's expected win shift momentum?
Hillary Clinton wants to affirm her Democratic front-runner status going into Super Tuesday, when several contests will take place in states with large populations of black voters. Sen. Bernie Sanders is looking to later primaries where he has better chances of winning.
Trump and Rubio now in all-out brawl for the future of the GOP
The front-runner and his closest rival in the Republican presidential race have become the main antagonists in a fight that reflects the party's identity crisis.
 
The 'Bernie-crats' want to revolutionize Congress. Almost all of them are doomed.
More than 30 Bernie Sanders supporters are running for Congress. Their candidacies show the promise — and the shortfalls — of his upstart, wildly ambitious campaign.
 
The best African American figure skater ever is bankrupt and living in a trailer
Debi Thomas won a medal at the Olympics. She graduated from Stanford. She became a surgeon. She wanted it all. And for a time, she had it. But then her life took several turns.
 
Kansas shooting rampage deviated from pattern of recent tragedies
Gunman Cedric Larry Ford was African American — research shows that whites commit the majority of mass public shootings. And unlike most mass shooters, he had an extensive criminal record, which may have kept him from buying guns legally.
 
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In D.C., reminders of America's dark history of segregation
 
What Trump and Clinton have in common
 
How to cool down Donald Trump
 
Clinton and Trump's black-and-white politics
 
Evangelicals are so sick of losing that they're voting for Trump
 
GOP candidates race to the bottom on deportation
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Cease-fire goes into effect in Syria
A U.N. envoy said the deal brokered by the United States and Russia is "the best opportunity we can imagine" to see "something related to peace."
U.S.-made missile goes up against one of Russia's most advanced tanks
Syrian rebels released a video that has rare footage of a TOW anti-tank missile hitting a Russian T-90 in combat.
A dangerous export: U.S. car-battery waste makes Mexican communities ill
As many as one in five lead-acid batteries from American vehicles go to Mexican recycling plants where work conditions range from adequate to abysmal, according to industry observers. 
How low will interest rates go?
The drop in interest rates amid a global economic slowdown shows the difficulty of trying to time mortgage refinancing — often the single-biggest investment of many Americans — to the vagaries of the financial market.
Police: Black students at SUNY Albany faked hate crime
"The only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants," the university police chief said of the students, who now face assault charges.
Duke's Grayson Allen plays dirty, and Coach K declines to put his foot down
Allen has been branded a dirty player, and considering that he has twice blatantly tripped an opponent, it's hard to argue against the label. Is Coach Mike Krzyzewski ever going to do something about it?
Tennessee's new official state rifle is so powerful it can ‘destroy commercial aircraft’
One of "the most destructive weapons legally available to civilians" joins the tomato, the raccoon and the Tennessee cave salamander as one of the state's official symbols.
Birth defects, miscarriages documented in pregnant U.S. women with Zika
Health officials have tracked at least nine pregnant women in the United States infected with the Zika virus. At least two women had abortions after the diagnosis, and two others suffered miscarriages.
#OscarsSoWrong: A revisionist history of which films should have won
With the perspective lent to us by the passage of time, we can now look back and discern what was actually the best picture.
Should our kids have homework at all?
The age at which homework is being assigned has dropped lower and lower over the past 30 years.
Modern upholstery can refresh any room
See how furniture with clean lines and a versatile ottoman transformed the living space in a Colonial.
 
     
 
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