Tuesday's Headlines: White House struggles to silence talk of Trump’s mental fitness
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The president is said to resent the now-regular chatter on cable television news shows about his mental health, and some of his allies believe his aides haven't pushed back hard enough on questions about Trump's fitness for office.
U.S. Special Forces and airstrikes helped push the extremists from their onetime stronghold of Sirte. But the task of resurrecting the deeply scarred city has been painful and costly for the residents who remained and for those who are returning to a landscape of obliterated houses and streets covered in garbage.
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The clamor demonstrated that the party lacks a front-runner or someone who could easily unite the key coalitions of women, minorities and working-class voters.
There was no immediate confirmation from the northern side, but the South's announcement was in line with North Korean signals that it was willing to send competitors to the Games next month in PyeongChang. The tentative agreement constitutes a rare moment of consensus between Kim Jong Un's regime and the outside world.
Backup quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, a freshman from Hawaii who entered after halftime, threw the game-winning touchdown in overtime to secure the Crimson Tide its fifth national title since 2009.
The NAACP encouraged people who disagree with Trump to wear white — a move meant to mock conservatives who sometimes call liberals "snowflakes" — and to tweet alleged falsehoods told by the president.
The woman who burst onto the social scene of a clubby, upscale apartment building in the Washington suburbs with tales of jet-setting glamour and unusual access to some of the world's most powerful people has slipped away in a fog of suspicion and unpaid rent.
Rep. Stephen Alford's attempt to explain why "all drugs" were outlawed in the United States in the 1930s contained echoes of that era's racial drug propaganda.
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