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Edelman’s catch spurs Patriots to 34-28 win over Atlanta in Super Bowl LI

HOUSTON — Nearly nine years ago to the day, New York Giants receiver David Tyree ripped the New England Patriots’ hearts out with what became known as “The Helmet Catch.” On Sunday, in Super Bowl LI, the Patriots’ Julian Edelman delivered a sweet, soul-clearing, memory-sweeping salve to millions of Patriots’ fans with an absurd catch

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Trump’s comparison of Russia’s sanctioned killings with US violence causes a stir

President Donald Trump’s professed admiration for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is again causing headaches for fellow Republicans and drawing fire from Democrats �� but this time, with a twist. When Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly observed while interviewing Trump that Putin is “a killer,” the president retorted: “You think our country is so innocent?” Vice

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International, USA

Legal battle over travel ban looms as Trump continues attacks on judge

After a federal appeals court on Sunday rejected President Donald Trump’s emergency bid to reinstate his contentious travel ban, the White House signaled fresh determination to push forward in a legal dispute that is fast becoming a test of executive power. Meanwhile, visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries targeted by Trump’s temporary ban hurried to board

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International, Middle East, USA

Tehran Vows To Destroy US Military Base If President Trump ‘Makes A Mistake’

A senior Iranian government official said Saturday Tehran was prepared to attack Tel Aviv and destroy a U.S. military base in Bahrain if the Trump White House ordered a military strike against Iran. Mojtaba Zonour, a member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and a former Islamic Revolution Guards Corps official, said Iran

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International, Middle East, USA

President Rooted For New England Patriots From His Winter White House

When President Donald Trump isn’t on Twitter or signing executive orders, he apparently likes to watch the Super Bowl along with the rest of us. The difference is while you were either at a bar or sitting down on your living room couch drinking beer as the New England Patriots faced down the Atlanta Falcons,

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Erekat: Investigate ‘occupation crimes’ in Hague

PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat called on the Hague court to immediately open an investigation into Israel’s “occupation crimes” and especially the “colonial settlement of occupied Palestine, including eastern al-Quds.” Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In an official statement, Erekat said, “it’s time to move to the next stage, and to open an investigation

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International, Middle East

Wife of former Brazilian president Lula dies aged 66

Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Marisa Leticia Rocco, the wife of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, died Friday in a Sao Paulo hospital aged 66, multiple local media reports confirmed. Rocco was Thursday declared brain dead in the Hospital Sirio Libanes where she had been admitted after suffering a stroke. Lula’s predecessor,

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International, Obituaries & memorials

No more ‘B.S.!’ Look who Trump picks for EU ambassador

Donald Trump WASHINGTON – The next U.S. ambassador to the European Union is warning that his boss, President Donald Trump, won’t take any “bull–” from Brussels. How’s that for start to diplomacy? Ted Malloch, Trump’s pick for the post, shocked BBC presenters Sunday morning with his bluntness, predicting the impending collapse of the EU as

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International, USA

‘Late Night’ host Seth Meyers riffs on Trump in Morristown

MORRISTOWN — Seth Meyers once riffed, with Donald Trump in the audience, about Trump someday running for president — not as a Republican, but as a joke. “Some people have actually blamed me for the fact that Donald Trump decided to run,” Meyers said of his 2011 roasting of Trump at the White House Correspondents’

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Anti-Semite vandalizes Chicago Loop Synagogue

Chicago Police are investigating an attack on the Chicago Loop Synagogue. The synagogue’s surveillance cameras show a dark-clothed man wearing a mask exit a dark vehicle, plaster swastika stickers on the synagogue’s front door, smash the synagogue’s front windows with a metal object, then run back to his car. Construction workers working nearby noticed the

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Jewish Religion, USA