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Today's Top News Compilation - Sunday, Mar. 15, 2020

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Gaza community kitchens warn food is running out after two months of Israeli blockade

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.
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Four ways the film Conclave sheds light on the secretive way popes are chosen

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Bafta award-winning film gives viewers a window into a "highly secret and a deeply private process".
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China says it's evaluating the possibility of trade talks with the U.S.

  • News source: Anniek Bao, CNBC
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China said it is evaluating U.S. overtures to initiate trade negotiations, potentially paving the way for the world's two largest economies to start talks to resolve a trade war that has rumbled financial markets and cast a pall on global economic activity.

Senior U.S. officials have reached out recently "through relevant parties multiple times," hoping to start negotiations with China on tariffs, a spokesperson for the commerce ministry said in a statement Friday.

While assessing the possibility of starting any negotiations, Chinese authorities...
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War in Ukraine not ending 'any time soon', Vance says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The US vice-president says it is still up to Russia and Ukraine to end the "brutal" conflict.
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Ground-breaking musician Jill Sobule dies in house fire

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Her song I Kissed a Girl is widely considered the first openly gay-themed song to crack the Billboard Top 20.
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Deadly clashes in Syria's Druze areas raise fears of widening unrest

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The sectarian violence involving Islamist factions, security forces and Druze gunmen is another sign of the fragile security situation.
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Talks or no talks: who blinks first in US-China trade war?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are locked in a game of chicken - despite wanting the same outcome.
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Trump signs executive order cutting funding to PBS, NPR

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged "bias" in the broadcasters' reporting.

The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies "to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS" and further requires that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. The White House, in a social media post announcing the signing, said the outlets "receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda...
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Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Senate on Thursday approved an effort to overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule tied to the Clean Air Act and designed to limit seven of the most hazardous air pollutants that are emitted by heavy industry.

The 52-46 party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.

Senate Republicans utilized the Congressional Review Act to overturn the regulation, which was passed by the Biden administration in 2024.

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DOJ sues four blue states over 'unconstitutional' climate laws threatening US energy security

  • News source: FOX News
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The Justice Department (DOJ) has filed lawsuits against four Democrat-led states: Hawaii, Michigan, New York and Vermont, over what it calls unconstitutional climate policies that threaten U.S. energy independence and national security.The move follows President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14260, Protecting American Energy from State Overreach, directing federal action against state laws that burden domestic energy development."These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s...
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Donald Trump is looming over Australia's election

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Foreign policy is rarely a big factor in Australia's poll - but the US president has changed that.
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'Well there you go' - watch moment spokeswoman learns Waltz news

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Tammy Bruce found out about Mike Waltz's job change from a reporter during a news briefing on Thursday.
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Trump tells University of Alabama graduates not to be a 'victim,' says in America 'we reject that idea'

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump spoke at the University of Alabama on Thursday night ahead of their official commencement ceremonies starting Friday, and urged students not to consider themselves a "victim" in their futures, noting that far too many young people think that way.

The special address to graduates also included remarks from the university's president, Stuart R. Bell, and former Alabama Crimson Tide head football coach, Nick Saban. Trump touted success during his first 100 days as president, and took a few opportunities to jab at his political...
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Trump claps back at courts for 'interfering' with job, asks 'how you can give due process' to illegal migrants

  • News source: FOX News
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During a special commencement address to students at the University of Alabama, President Donald Trump questioned how you can give due process to people who have illegally entered the United States, in a rebuke to judges who Trump said were "interfering" with his efforts to do his job as president.

Trump's comments came the same day a federal judge permanently barred his efforts to use the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport illegal alien gang members.

"As you've been reading, the courts are trying to stop me from doing the job that...
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Jasmine Crockett sets sights on top Democratic seat on Oversight Committee: reports

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, is looking for support from fellow Democrats with her eyes on a possible run for the top Democratic spot on the
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