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Today's Top News Compilation - Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2020

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India's Modi and US Vice President Vance optimistic on New Delhi-Washington trade deal

  • News source: Lim Hui Jie, CNBC
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Monday hailed the "significant" progress made in trade talks between the two sides during Vance's visit to India.

Vance, who was in India on a mostly personal trip with second lady Usha Vance and his family, met Modi in New Delhi.

A statement from Modi's office said the two leaders "welcomed the significant progress in the negotiations for a mutually beneficial India-U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement."Vance and Modi also reviewed and positively assessed the progress in various...
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Pontiffs and presidents: White House-Vatican relationship stretches a century, including fighting communism

  • News source: FOX News
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The Vatican and White House have for decades kept a close relationship, with various popes and presidents meeting in the nation’s capital and in Vatican City across the years.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, following years of health issues, including chronic lung disease. Francis was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 2013 until his death, and had met with three U.S. presidents across his tenure.

Francis’ last high-profile meeting with a U.S. leader was held just hours before his death, when Vice President JD Vance...
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Pope's funeral to take place on Saturday, says Vatican

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ahead of the funeral, the pontiff's body will lie in St Peter's basilica from Wednesday.
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Why Pope's death leaves Argentines 'orphaned' in more ways than one

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Pope Francis was a source of pride for Argentina - but his failure to visit was a disappointment for many.
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Trump issues full-throated endorsement of Sen. Steve Daines: 'HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!'

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., calling the lawmaker "a Great Man, and TREMENDOUS Senator" in a post on Truth Social.

"I love Montana, won every one of my Races there by a landslide, and would only recommend the best to represent you in the Senate!" the president declared.

"Senator Steve Daines, of the Great State of Montana, has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!"

TRUMP CAN USE TARIFFS AS ‘IMPORTANT LEVERAGE,’ SAYS SEN. STEVE DAINES

Daines served as National Republican Senatorial Committee...
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Trump Energy chief recounts evolution of US environs over 55 'Earth Days': ‘A handily energized society works'

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: In honor of Earth Day, Energy Secretary Chris Wright released a video retelling his own experiences growing up in a much dirtier world in Denver, and watching wildlife and greenery return to the mountains as he grew older, and how the effects of smarter energy were at the forefront of that continuing change:

Wright was a young kid in Denver when the first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, on Belmont Plateau in West Philadelphia.

But, while the green movement was getting its roots in industrial Pennsylvania, Colorado was dealing...
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Dem senator hosts businesses concerned 'enormous uncertainty' of tariffs could kill crucial tourism industry

  • News source: FOX News
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Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., hosted his latest in a series of roundtables with small businesses around the Green Mountain State, and the attendees said the Trump administration’s tariff actions will hurt their operations directly and damage the state’s key tourism industry.

"These tariffs are a self-inflicted wound," Welch, who also co-sponsored a bipartisan bill to repeal them, told Fox News Digital on Monday.

"And they’re already raising prices for businesses, farmers and working families across rural America. Everyone will be affected by President...
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Mission to boldly grow food in space labs blasts off

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The mission will explore new ways of reducing the cost of feeding an astronaut.
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Harvard University sues Trump administration to stop funding freeze

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The lawsuit signals a sharp escalation of a feud between the elite institution and the new presidency.
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Burkina Faso army says it foiled 'major' coup plot

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The plotters, some ex-army officers, hatched the plan in Ivory Coast, the authorities say.
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Man missing after rare shark attack in Israel

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage posted online shows a swimmer flailing in the distance as beachgoers yell in shock.
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Watch: Might the next pope come from Africa?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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As the world mourns the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church faces a critical moment in choosing its next spiritual leader.
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State of War: How Trump is fighting a 9-front battle

  • News source: FOX News
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President Trump is fighting a war with many battlefields.

It’s a nine-front crusade, although I could easily double that number.

If there’s a common thread here, it’s the president taking on elite institutions that he has long resented or reviled.

That’s why his first three months seem stuck on hyperspeed – critics would say chaos – because he’s broken with the traditional model of tackling one or two issues at a time. Voters gave him a second term to shake things up. It’s the first Trump term on steroids.

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Modi, Vance praise progress in trade talks as higher tariffs loom

  • News source: BBC News - World
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US Vice-President JD Vance is currently on a four-day visit to India with his wife and three children.
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US watchdog sues Uber over subscription practices

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The FTC accused Uber of charging people for its Uber One subscription service without getting their consent.
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