Monday, March 21, 2016

Evening Edition: Raúl Castro and Obama spar on human rights, closing of Guantánamo

The beginning of Cuba’s business comeback; Trump questions need for NATO, outlines policy of nonintervention; What Republicans did 15 years ago to help create Donald Trump today; Clinton takes aim at Trump's dealmaking: 'Israel's security is nonnegotiable'; And the winner is ... ‘A Peep Inside (Out) Donald J. Trump’; Apple unveils the iPhone SE, smaller iPad Pro; A majority of Americans say Merrick Garland should be confirmed; Police officer: Trump protesters were ‘the most hateful, evil people I’ve ever seen’; A NATION, DIVIDED; Researchers hope to unlock secrets behind obsessive-compulsive disorder; Scientists say current carbon release is unparalleled in 66 million years; Gay rights group wants Hollywood to leave Georgia if it enacts religious rights bill;
 
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Raúl Castro and Obama spar on human rights, closing of Guantánamo
During a news conference with President Obama, Castro said relations will never be normal until the U.S. leaves Cuban territory and ends the sanctions that he says have been so damaging to the country's economy.
The beginning of Cuba’s business comeback
Obama's visit is expected to trigger a cascade of new commerce between the longtime foes as the administration pushes the legal boundaries of the trade sanctions and increasingly renders them meaningless.
 
Trump questions need for NATO, outlines policy of nonintervention
The Republican presidential front-runner, for the first time, listed five of the people who are part of a team, chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions, that is counseling him on foreign affairs.
 
What Republicans did 15 years ago to help create Donald Trump today
A vote on the floor of the House of Representatives set off a political earthquake.
 
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Clinton takes aim at Trump's dealmaking: 'Israel's security is nonnegotiable'
With Trump slated to speak hours after her appearance at AIPAC, Clinton set the table by implying that Trump's policy view in Israel is "dangerously wrong."
 
And the winner is ... ‘A Peep Inside (Out) Donald J. Trump’
The presidential election may be months away, but this satirical take on the Republican candidate's brain — seen as a command center like the one in the 2015 Pixar film, "Inside Out" — was a yuuuge winner. Take a spin through the winning diorama, as well as the four finalists, with our 360-degree interactive.
 
Apple unveils the iPhone SE, smaller iPad Pro
Chief executive Tim Cook kicked off the event by addressing the company's stance against the government's efforts to force it to unlock an iPhone used by terrorists in the San Bernardino shootings last year.
 
A majority of Americans say Merrick Garland should be confirmed
A new poll found that the nominee's numbers are very similar to other recent Supreme Court appointees, but few people are demanding that the Senate confirm him.
 
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Police officer: Trump protesters were ‘the most hateful, evil people I’ve ever seen’
Tucson officer Brandon Tatum attended the rally as a civilian just to see what was going on. He thought there was going to be "a full-fledged riot" because of the protesters.
 
A NATION, DIVIDED
In the final leg of a cross-country quest to sort out what is happening in America, the threads of the story weave through Michigan and Texas, where a debate rages over different definitions of what it means to be an American.
 
Researchers hope to unlock secrets behind obsessive-compulsive disorder
Scientists are using breakthroughs in technology to find what goes wrong in the brains of people with OCD, which affects about one in 40 American adults.
 
Scientists say current carbon release is unparalleled in 66 million years
Researchers say humans are pumping more carbon into the atmosphere than the planet did in the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, an event that resulted in a hothouse world from pole to pole.
 
Gay rights group wants Hollywood to leave Georgia if it enacts religious rights bill
The NFL has also suggested that the bill could affect Atlanta's attempts to host the Super Bowl.
 
 
     
 
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