Top News public: May 2018

Twins in school: To separate or not to separate?

Some mothers want their twins kept together, some prefer separate classes and others say "they'll find their own way regardless".

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What could Brexit mean for the UK's creative talent?

From Britain's film industry and political playwrights to touring musicians and Eurovision.

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Stop Treating The Misogyny In Philip Roth’s Work Like A Dirty Secret

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In ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ The Greatest Threat Is A Woman With A Pen

In Season 2, Episode 7, Serena and June finally meet as equals.

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Stephen King Has Some Advice On How To Deal With Trump Supporters

Escape from a nightmare scenario with the help of one of America's bestselling authors.

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NY Post Ripped Over 'Sexist And Pathetic' Cover On Trump's Kim K Meeting

Tabloid called out as "rude," "mean-spirited" and "disgraceful."

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Harvey Weinstein Indicted On Rape Charges

He faces three sex crime charges against two women after dozens accused him of sexual misconduct.

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Texas Governor's School Safety Plan Proposes Modest Changes To Gun Laws

But most of the 43-page blueprint is focused on measures to ramp up school security and improve risk assessment and mental health services.

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The Big NBA Mystery: Did A Philly Exec Use Burner Accounts To Trash His Players?

Or did somebody else burn Philadelphia 76ers president Bryan Colangelo?

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Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To 'Prove' Biracial Son Was Hers

“She said, well, how do I know that you’re the mother?” Lindsay Gottlieb recalled an airline employee asking her.

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Driver Shouts 'Go Back To Your Country B***h' At Asian-American Family

This is the second time in two weeks a racist incident against Asian Americans in the Bay Area has gone viral.

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Meghan Markle's Wedding Veil Makers Washed Their Hands Every 30 Minutes

Embroidering the veil for the royal wedding took hundreds of hours, which meant a lot of soap and water.

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Florida Officer Suspended After Hoping For Car Accident At Student Protest

Officer Brian Valenti wrote that he hoped a driver would lose control of her vehicle near a gun violence protest.

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Trump Wants Medicaid To Push For Lower Drug Prices – But Will Patients Be Hurt?

The change might save taxpayer dollars – but people with certain conditions may be denied the specific medicines that work best for them.

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Roseanne Returns To Twitter To Push More Racism

The comedian's posts have cost her more than just a sitcom.

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Supreme Court Sets New Limits On Warrantless Vehicle Searches Near Homes

In an 8-1 decision, the court ruled that police officers must generally have a warrant before searching vehicles parked at or near a private home.

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Who Is Kim Yong Chol? North Korea’s 'Go-To Diplomat' And Ex-Spy Chief Headed To U.S.

Referred to as Kim Jong Un’s “right-hand man,” the four-star general has represented the North Korean leader at several major diplomatic events this year.

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Roseanne Gets A Brutal Wakeup Call As Tweeters Mock Her Ambien Defense

"Does Ambien unlock latent racism?"

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Texas Animal Shelter Overwhelmed With Hundreds Of Dog And Cat Surrenders Over Memorial Day Weekend

The overcrowded shelter resorted to putting as many as four animals in enclosures intended for one or two.

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Mexican President Sends Trump A Blunt Message About Paying For The Wall

Enrique Peña Nieto says he's speaking for all of Mexico.

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Roseanne Returns To Twitter, Apologizes, Retweets New Attacks On Valerie Jarrett

She also appeared to blame the drug Ambien for her racist tweet.

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Fox News Anchor Demolishes Trump's Tweet As 'Not Based In Fact'

Shepard Smith finds multiple errors of fact in President Donald Trump's 46-word tweet.

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Trump Attacks 'Filthy' Jay-Z, Is Quickly Called Out Over His Own Potty Mouth

The president also boasted that he gets bigger crowds.

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Video Game Simulating School Shooting Ignites Outrage And Petition

"Active Shooter" encourages users to gun down high school students and responding law enforcement officers.

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Dictionary.com Accurately Defines Roseanne's Tweets, In Case Anyone Was Confused

The site is calling out media outlets that label Barr's remarks merely “bizarre” or “offensive.”

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Body Of Missing National Guardsman Found After Flooding In Maryland Town

Eddison Hermond was last seen helping a woman with a cat escape Ellicott City's floodwaters, police said.

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Gay Couple Stabbed While Holding Hands Outside Denver Nightclub

"We were just holding hands minding our business," one of the men said.

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'Roseanne' Canceled By ABC Following Backlash Over Star’s Racist Tweets

The Trump favorite was pulled after Roseanne Barr compared former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape.

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Giuliani Booed At Yankees Game

Yankees fans booed former mayor Rudy Giuliani, right on the heels of admitting in an interview the White House is intentionally trying to discredit the Russia investigation.

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Porn Leads To School Shootings, GOP Congresswoman Says

"I think that is a big part" of the spike in such attacks, Rep. Diane Black asserts.

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Hurricane Maria's Death Toll In Puerto Rico 70 Times Higher Than Official Estimates: Study

Over 4,600 people died in the aftermath of Maria, according to a new Harvard study. The official death toll is 64.

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Everyone's Welcome: Saving Families With Movie Nights And Meetups

New York is trying to encourage parents to tap into their own problem-solving skills – and avoid getting enmeshed in the foster care system.

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No Charges For Teacher Who Drowned Raccoons In Front Of Students

The state attorney's office said the teacher did not intend to "torture or torment" the animals.

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What’s on TV Thursday: N.B.A. Finals and ‘A Bronx Tale’

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Race Against the Rains

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Mario Batali's Vegas Restaurants To Close After Sexual Assault Claims

The announcement comes days after authorities launched an investigation into the celebrity chef.

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Spain Is Next to Test Europe’s Stability as Rajoy Faces No-Confidence Vote

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U.S., North Korea enter second day of nuclear talks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and high-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong Chol enter a second day of meetings in New York on Thursday as they try to settle nuclear weapons disagreements and set the stage for an historic summit between their two leaders.

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The man sent by North Korean leader to U.S. for high-level talks

WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - Kim Yong Chol landed in New York on Wednesday as the most senior North Korean envoy to hold talks with American officials on U.S. soil in 18 years.

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Kremlin critic turns up alive at televised briefing about his 'murder'

KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A dissident Russian journalist reported murdered in Kiev on Tuesday dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday during a televised briefing by Ukrainian state security about the killing, which they then said they had faked.

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Assad says U.S. will leave Syria, vows to retake SDF-held areas

BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad said he would recover areas of Syria held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and that U.S. forces should learn the lesson of Iraq and leave the country.

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Exclusive: Mexico front-runner's lead widens a month before vote - poll

(Reuters) - Mexican presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has extended his lead well beyond his nearest rivals with just a month to go before the July 1 election, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.

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In symbolic nod to India, U.S. Pacific Command changes name

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Wednesday renamed its Pacific Command the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in a largely symbolic move underscoring the growing importance of India to the Pentagon, U.S. officials said.

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KCNA says Russian foreign minister has arrived in North Korea

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's state-run news agency said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the North on Thursday at the invitation of North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.

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Korean Air HQ raided by prosecutors over suspected embezzlement by owning family: Yonhap

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors raided the headquarters of Korean Air Lines Co Ltd over suspected embezzlement and breach of trust by members of its owning family, Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday.

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Spectacular blaze engulfs office building in Australia's Sydney

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Flames raced up scaffolding at a Sydney building site on Thursday, in a morning rush-hour fire that prompted the evacuation of nearby offices and caused downtown traffic gridlock.

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Key North Korea official meets Pompeo in New York

Talks on preparing a summit with the US are under way in New York, Singapore and on the Korean border.

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Arkady Babchenko: Ukraine condemned for faking journalist's murder

Ukraine says it acted to foil a Russian plot to assassinate journalist Arkady Babchenko.

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Melania Trump tweets 20 days after last public appearance

"Rest assured, I'm here at the @WhiteHouse w my family," a tweet posted on her account says.

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Australian minister Greg Hunt accused of misogyny

Greg Hunt has not responded to that assertion, but apologises for swearing at a town mayor.

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US military renames Pacific Command

It will now be called the US Indo-Pacific Command to mark the growing importance of the Indian Ocean.

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Kim Kardashian asks Trump to pardon Alice Marie Johnson

The star meets the president on behalf of a 63-year-old woman jailed for a first-time drug offence.

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Trump tariffs: Europe braced for US tariffs on steel and aluminium

The White House reportedly plans to let a temporary exemption granted to European steel and aluminium expire.

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Algeria seizes 700kg of cocaine on container ship

More than 20 people are arrested over the haul, which was hidden in boxes marked "halal meat".

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White House comes out fighting on Roseanne racism row

President Trump weighed in after ABC cancelled Roseanne's show over the tweet about an ex-Obama aide.

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Roxana Hernandez: Anger over transgender migrant's death in US

Roxana Hernandez, 33, was being held by immigration authorities in New Mexico when she fell ill.

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Apple and Russia face off over Telegram on App Store

Russian regulators have given the company one month to remove the messaging app from its App Store.

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Liege shootings: Gunman 'had killed day before attack'

A man shot dead by police after a murder spree is also suspected of killing a man he met in jail.

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Arkady Babchenko: Russian journalist 'back from the dead'

Ukraine staged Arkady Babchenko's murder in Kiev on Tuesday to "foil a Russian assassination plot".

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The mystery of Russia's missing IS brides

More than 2,000 Russian women who lived under the Islamic State group have disappeared.

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Do these photos change your view of pigeons?

This photographer has been on a 10-year mission to teach people that pigeons are beautiful.

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Liège shooting: Belgium gunman caught on camera

Footage of the man who shot dead two police officers and a civilian in Liège shows him with two guns.

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North Koreans dare to criticise 'vampire leader'

Market trader 'Sun Hui' gives her view on Kim Jong-un from inside the country.

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Meet the Russians turning the turntables on male DJs

How two female DJs from St Petersburg are challenging stereotypes, ahead of the World Cup in Russia.

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Russia and the Central African Republic: A curious relationship

Russia is providing military support to the Central African Republic (CAR) – but what is Moscow getting in return?

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Neighbours to show Australian TV's first gay wedding

The long-running soap will air Aaron Brennan and David Tanaka's nuptials in September.

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Pompeii victim crushed by boulder while fleeing eruption

Archaeologists find a man who, fleeing the initial Vesuvius eruption, was hit by a giant boulder.

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Iceland's pagan Zuist religion hopes to build temple

Faith movement based on ancient Sumerian gods attracts thousands of registered followers.

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Ballet and football collide on the Russian stage

Choreographer puts on football ballet to celebrate Russia's World Cup

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Hungry bears raid Baltic beehives

Concern as wild animals come ever closer to populated areas to find food in Finland and Estonia.

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Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead

Bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana as families bicker over funeral arrangements.

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Chile transgender: 'Growing up here is torture'

Why members of Chile's transgender community are lobbying for a change in the law.

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Profile: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros

The hedge fund investor turned liberal philanthropist is politically divisive around the world.

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How Sweden is preparing for its election to be hacked

Will a "Facebook hotline" and propaganda lessons keep polls free and fair?

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The story of Pakistan's 'disappeared' Shias

Activists say they are detained without due process over suspected links to a secretive militia in Syria.

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