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Donald Trump has come under fire for not explicitly denouncing white supremacists in the aftermath of violent clashes in Virginia, with the president being urged to take a public stand against groups that espouse racism and hate.
Mr Trump, while on a working holiday at his New Jersey golf club, addressed the nation on Saturday soon after a car ploughed into a group of anti-racist counter-protesters in Charlottesville, where neo-Nazis and white nationalists had assembled for a march.
The president did not single out any group, instead blaming "many sides" for the violence.
"Hate and the division must stop, and must stop right now," he said. "We have to come together as Americans with love for our nation and... true affection for each other."
He condemned "in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides".
He added: "It's been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump. Not Barack Obama. It's been going on for a long, long time."
On Sunday, the White House issued a statement seeking to expand on the president's remarks. It said: "The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups.
"He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together."
During his address on Saturday, Mr Trump did not answer questions from reporters about whether he rejects the support of white nationalists or whether he believes the car crash was an example of domestic terrorism.
Aides who appeared on the Sunday news shows said the White House does believe those things, but many fellow Republicans have demanded Mr Trump personally denounces the white supremacists.
Senator Cory Gardner tweeted: "Mr. President - we must call evil by its name. These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism."
Senator Marco Rubio added: "Nothing patriotic about #Nazis,the #KKK or #WhiteSupremacists. It's the direct opposite of what #America seeks to be."
Republican Chris Christie, a staunch Trump supporter, wrote: "We reject the racism and violence of white nationalists like the ones acting out in Charlottesville. Everyone in leadership must speak out."
On the Democrat side, Senate minority leader Charles Schumer said: "Of course we condemn ALL that hate stands for. Until @POTUS specifically condemns alt-right action in Charlottesville, he hasn't done his job."
Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe, who spoke to Mr Trump in the hours after the clashes, said he twice "said to him we have to stop this hateful speech, this rhetoric", and he urged the president to "come out stronger" against the actions of white supremacists.
Mr Trump's national security adviser HR McMaster said on Sunday that he considered the attack in Charlottesville to be terrorism:
"I certainly think anytime that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism," he told ABC's This Week.
"It meets the definition of terrorism. But what this is, what you see here, is you see someone who is a criminal, who is committing a criminal act against fellow Americans."
The president's homeland security adviser Tom Bossert defended the president's statement by suggesting that some of the counter-protesters were violent too.
When pressed, he specifically condemned the racist groups.
The president's daughter and White House aide Ivanka Trump tweeted on Sunday morning: "There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis."
White nationalists had assembled in Charlottesville to vent their frustration against the city's plans to take down a statue of Confederal general Robert E Lee.
Counter-protesters massed in opposition. A few hours after violent encounters between the two groups, a car drove into a crowd of people peacefully protesting against the rally, and the driver was later taken into custody.
Alt-right leader Richard Spencer and former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke attended the demonstrations, and Mr Duke told reporters the white nationalists were working to "fulfil the promises of Donald Trump".

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Donald Trump's ex-press secretary has slammed his former boss for not taking a harder line against the white supremacists after the Charlottesville tragedy.
Anthony Scaramucci l eft his post just 11 days after replacing Sean Spicer as press secretary, and gave his first interview since his resignation.
He told ABC's 'This week with George Stephanopoulos that he would have urged Trump to take a different approach.
Trump, Scaramucci said: "He likes doing the opposite of what the media thinks he should do."
Scaramucci also hinted that the days are numbered for Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon.
He decried what he called the "Bannon-Bart" influence at the White House, labelling it "nonsense."
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It was a reference to Bannon's former job running Brietbart.com, the right-wing site that has also been associated with the alt-right.
Trump "has got to go more to the mainstream," Scaramucci said. He added that he thinks "the president knows what he is going to do with Steve Bannon," and that Trump "has an idea of who the leakers are".
The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza published an expletive-filled interview with Scaramucci, in which he bashed then-chief of staff Reince Priebus and used a sexually-vulgar term to describe Bannon.
Stephanopoulos played portions of the conversation Scaramucci had with Lizza, as Scaramucci listened.
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But he steered clear from using over-the-top statements.
He said that he thought that the phone call was off the record, and called it a "very deceitful thing" for Lizza to publish his quotes.
But he acknowledged that he "made an unforced error," and said that he was a target from the start.
"There were probably one or two people who wanted me in that job," including Trump, Scaramucci said. "There were probably 200 people that didn't want me in that job."
He also said that how he sounds on the audio of the conversation is different to how he comes across in print.
Despite his departure from the White House, Scaramucci said that he remains a loyal and supportive of the president, and HAD talked to him in the past week.
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He said that some of the turbulence of Trump's first six months is because "the president is not a representative of political establishment class, and for whatever reason people want to eject him".
He ADDED that Trump had created an "opening" for corporate CEOs to "enter the system," and mentioned Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and The Walt Disney Co.'s Bob Iger as corporate chieftains who have expressed an interest in politics.
He said that one of his faults in taking the job was that "I was running too hard like a corporate CEO than a political operative."
"I went in there with my heart and soul," he said. "I am a straight talking person."
He also compared himself to a pop culture figure -- Winston Wolf, the clean up guy in "Pulp Fiction."
Appearing on a Facebook Live conversation with ABC News' Rick Klein, Scaramucci talked more about Bannon and whether he should have a role at the White House.
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Asked whether Bannon and the alt-right we having an influence on Trump, Scaramucci said that "I think the president is his own person." He said that Bannon's influence "is not as great as you would think."
But he said that "the fact that [Bannon] is sitting there in the White House makes people think he has influence."
He did say that some of the topics that Bannon and Brietbart.com have brought up is "very worthwhile," like "economic desperation," but "the other nasty stuff that is on that website I think is disgusting."
He said that he was not being critical of Trump in saying that he would have recommended that the president call out white supremacy, but "I think he needs to hit it a little harder."
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Three people died and several others seriously injured when protests in Charlottesville turned violent on Saturday.
Trump has faced criticism for 'waiting too long' to address the violence and failing to explicitly condemn the white supremacist marchers who ignited the melee.
The White House said the president's remarks condemned all forms of violence and bigotry, including neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan.
Trump said "many sides" were involved in the Charlottesville incidents, drawing fire from across the political spectrum for not specifically denouncing the far right.
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The violence presented Trump with perhaps the first domestic crisis of his administration.
“We’re closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia," Trump told reporters at his New Jersey golf course.
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides."
A reporter shouted a question to Trump about whether he had spoken out strongly enough against white nationalists but the president made no comment.
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On Sunday the far right organiser of the rally had to be escorted away by riot police after angry mobs descended upon his makeshift press conference.
Jasson Kessler is a white supremacist who organised the Unite the Right protest in the liberal town of Charlottesville, which resulted in three deaths and many other serious injuries on Saturday.
A 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyes, was killed after an alt-right protester drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully carrying out a counter protest.
Kessler attempted to make a public speech blaming the lack of security for the atrocities which occurred at the deadly protests on Saturday.
But his words were soon drowned out by chants of "murderer" and "Nazi" before crowds of people poured onto the podium and the far right leader had to be escorted away by riot police.
Angry mobs chased the President of 'America First' away, with many attempting to pull him to the ground.
As armed police in protective gear pulled Kessler away a crowd member can be heard to say "her name was Heather, sir, her name was Heather, Jason, her blood is on your hands".
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Another heckler can be heard to say: "Jason, what do you have to say for yourself?".
The white nationalist blogger had previously said supporters of the rally would not back down and would stage more events.
He said: "Absolutely we are going to have further demonstrations in Charlottesville because our constitutional rights are being denied."
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Far right protester James Alex Fields Jr, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder following Heather Heyer's death.
The FBI confirmed that a civil rights investigation has been launched into the crash.
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Earlier in the day, Fields was photographed standing with members of alt-right Vanguard America at a far-right rally that turned violent with fights in the streets before the alleged car attack.
Fields was pictured holding a black shield bearing the neo-Nazi group's logo, and wearing its uniform consisting of a white polo shirt and khaki trousers.
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"Blood and soil", the group's motto, which is derived from a Nazi slogan, was chanted by white nationals at the rally.
The Southern Poverty Law Center calls Vanguard America a "racist right-wing organisation" and said it helped to organised the Unite the Right rally.
In the aftermath of the alleged car attack, Vanguard America denied that the suspect was one of its members.
It wrote on Twitter: "The driver of the vehicle that hit counterprotesters today was, in no way, a member of Vanguard America.
"All our members had been safely evacuated by the time of the incident.
"The shields seen do not denote membership, nor does the white shirt. The shirts were freely handed out to anyone in attendance."
Fields' Facebook page allegedly featured a number of alt-right and Nazi images, including Adolf Hitler's baby photo, before it was taken offline, the New York Daily News reports .
Fields' former teacher Derek Weimer told the TV news station WCPO : “He was very infatuated with the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler.
"He also had a huge military history, especially with German military history and World War II. But, he was pretty infatuated with that stuff.”
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Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal, was killed and 19 others were injured when a Dodge Challenger ploughed into a group peacefully protesting and then slammed into another vehicle while tensions in the street were high and a number of fights had already broken out.
Her final public Facebook post read : "If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention."
Mourners returned to the crash scene today to place flowers, cards and other objects in tribute to Ms Heyer.
Shocking footage showed the car hitting pedestrians as bystanders rushed to help the injured.
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Some described the collision as "deliberate terrorism" - and called on officials and US President Donald Trump to "treat it" as a terror attack.
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After smashing into the activists, the car was filmed reversing back down the street at speed, with a single, red shoe flying out from under its wrecked bumper.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency due to the violence.
Two Virginia State Police officers were also killed when a helicopter, which had been monitoring the violence from the air, crashed and burst into flames.
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The officers were identified as pilot Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 48, and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, 40.
Dramatic footage from earlier in the day showed people throwing punches and hurling objects, including bottles and rocks, as the two sides clashed.
A number of people were treated for injuries at the scene as fighting continued.
Men dressed in military-style uniforms were seen carrying rifles and shields in the area.
Other clips showed chemical sprays and smoke bombs being used.
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It was around a couple of hours later that the car was filmed ploughing into protesters.
Mayor Mike Signer who tweeted throughout the chaos, pleaded with people to go back home following the smash.
Mr Signer tweeted: "I am furious & heartsick by the car crash that has injured many. Please all-go home to your families. We can work tomorrow. GO HOME! PLEASE!"
Around half an hour later, he added: "I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here. I urge all people of good will - go home."
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The white supremacist rally was organised in protest over Charlottesville's decision to remove a statue of a Confederate general from a local park.
However, riot police were forced to intervene after the clashes erupted, with helmet-clad officers spotted confronting demonstrators at the scene.
Mr McAuliffe, a Democrat, halted the planned rally, but that did not stop the violence.
About 15 people were injured after rival groups fought pitched battles using fists, rocks and pepper spray.
Addressing the white supremacists, the governor said: "There is no place for you here. There is no place for you in America."
Former president Bill Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders also tweeted about the incident, hitting out at the white supremacists.
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Mr Clinton posted: "Even as we protect free speech and assembly, we must condemn hatred, violence and white supremacy. #Charlottesville."
Mr Sanders said: "The white nationalist demonstration in #Charlottesville is a reprehensible display of racism and hatred that has no place in our society."
They also encircled and chanted at the counter-demonstrators while standing at the base of a statue of former US president Thomas Jefferson.
Their chants reportedly included the words: "White lives matter".
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A university spokesman said one person had been arrested while several people were injured.
The events highlight a persistent debate in the US South over the display of the Confederate battle flag and other symbols of the rebel side in the Civil War, fought over the issue of slavery.
On Friday night, hundreds of white marchers had clashed briefly with counter-protesters on the Charlottesville campus of the University of Virginia.
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The marchers were seen carrying blazing torches during the incident, which occurred on the eve of the planned "Unite the Right" rally.
About two dozen people were arrested in Charlottesville in July when the Ku Klux Klan rallied against the plan to remove the statue.
Torch-wielding white nationalists also demonstrated in May against the removal.


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TORONTO — A number of laws passed by Ontario's previous Liberal government have been put on hold by the newly elected Progressive Conservative regime, including measures to tighten rules around vaping and to cap resale values for sports and concert tickets.
A spokesman for the Progressive Conservatives said Wednesday the new government, which was sworn in Friday, wants more time to consult and examine the laws before they come into effect.
Simon Jefferies said the government will delay the implementation of new rules around vaping, which would have regulated the activity in much the same way as smoking.
"The government will work with the public, experts, and businesses to re-examine the evidence related to vaping as a smoking cessation tool to ensure that any changes are in the best interests of everyone and protect Ontarians' health and safety," he said in a statement.
Halting the new regulations will not change the current provisions in the Smoke Free Ontario Act and the Electronic Cigarettes Act, he said.
Maria Papaioannoy-Duic, spokeswoman for the Vapor Advocates of Ontario, lauded Premier Doug Ford and new Health Minister Christine Elliott for the move.
Vaping advocates have argued that the activity is safer than smoking and moves people from the toxic chemicals found in tobacco to an alternative, which can help them break their habit.
"We're excited that the government ... (has) recognized our efforts and have paused the implementation of these regulations," she said in a statement. "We have the utmost confidence that they are going to look at the regulations based on science and not guesswork."
The government also confirmed Wednesday it has delayed a law which would have capped sports and concert ticket resale prices at 50 per cent above original face value will not immediately move ahead.
"The previous government attempted to institute a cap on ticket resales with no way to enforce that cap, resulting in less consumer protection," Jefferies said. "We have paused the implementation of this section until we can review this provision in full to make sure it is in the best interest of Ontarians."

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The newly minted Ontario government’s decision to withdraw from the cap-and-trade carbon pricing scheme may have put the province’s slice of a $1.4-billion green fund in jeopardy.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in a statement on Wednesday that the government is currently evaluating what Premier Doug Ford‘s plans will mean for the portion of federal funds that went towards a now-axed provincial renovation rebate program, along with Ontario’s funding under the Low-Carbon Economy Leadership Fund as a whole.
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The program provides funding to provinces that adopt the federal climate-change plan, which requires a price be put on carbon emissions.
“By cancelling Ontario’s cap-and-trade plan, the Ontario government is making it clear that it is not taking climate action, and is effectively withdrawing from Canada’s national climate-change plan without a plan of their own,” McKenna stated.
READ MORE: Doug Ford says his first order of business as Ontario premier is cancelling cap and trade
Ontario was slated to receive nearly $420 million towards fulfilling greenhouse-gas emissions-reduction targets. This spring, as part of that commitment, the federal government announced up to $100 million for GreenON, which provides rebates for residential and commercial energy-efficiency retrofits.
No funds have been delivered to Ontario so far under the program, a spokesperson for the minister said.
Ford’s government, which was elected to a 76-seat majority last month, has announced the program is being discontinued.
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Premier Ford campaigned on a plan to withdraw from the cap-and-trade market with Quebec and California as part of his promise to lower the price of gasoline by 10 cents per litre.
The cap-and-trade plan, implemented by the Liberals last year to tackle climate change, limits the amount of pollution companies in certain industries can emit, but allows them to purchase more from the government or other companies.
WATCH: Doug Ford says his first act as Premier will be to scrap the ‘carbon tax’
Cap-and-trade auctions in Ontario have generated close to $3 billion already, some of which went towards funding programs such as GreenON.
Ford has called cap and trade a government “cash grab” that does nothing for the environment and makes fuel and other products more expensive for consumers.
In his election platform, Ford also vowed to fight a federal carbon tax, earmarking $30 million to do so.
— With files from Amanda Connolly and The Canadian Press


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Question: Nash Rawiller hopes Group 1 win in Hong Kong will extend his international career

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NASH Rawiller hopes a Group 1 breakthrough in Hong Kong will indefinitely extend his international career.
The Victorian ended a three-year Group 1 drought when he claimed the Longines Sprint on Mr Stunning at Sha Tin on Sunday for fellow expatriate John Size.
Winless at the highest level since the 2014 All Aged Stakes, Rawiller is optimistic the victory will open doors in the ferociously competitive Hong Kong market.
Camera Icon Rawiller kisses Mr Stunning after winning the Longines Hong Kong Sprint. Picture: Getty Images
“It is very special, I can’t play it down, it is probably one of the most important wins I’ve had really,” he said.
“It gives me an opportunity to capitalise on it for the next five or six years.
“I’m just thankful I got the opportunity, I didn’t even know I was on him.
“I didn’t even ask for the ride, it was one trial morning, I looked at the fields, saw I got a ride, Mr Stunning, ‘Oh that’s good’, I knew once I rode him once he was going to take some beating the whole preparation.”
Rawiller is unbeaten in three rides on the sprinter since succeeding Joao Moreira.
He credited his teenage son Campbell for helping revitalise his career after the 43-year-old struggled early in Asia after moving from Sydney.
Campbell Rawiller is a fixture at trackwork, armed with a notepad and pen, zeroing in on the horses he believes his father should partner.
Camera Icon Rawiller credited his teenage son Campbell for helping revitalise his career. Picture: Getty Images
Rawiller said his son’s enthusiasm has helped him lose some of his natural shyness and be more aggressive chasing rides.
Rawiller said the most enjoyable part of his important Hong Kong success was the trackside presence of his father Keith.
“It is special, I tell you, it has been hard work trying to get Dad over here, it has taken three-and-a-half years to get him over, he doesn’t like leaving Australia,” he said.
“I owe a lot to him throughout my career obviously, he is an emotional old fella, he bloody loves his racing and he loves seeing us win and I think this is as good a thrill he has had since me winning the Caulfield Cup (on Elvstroem in 2004).
“It is great having him here, along with (son) Campbell and the family as well.”
Rawiller is fourth on the jockey’s premiership with 19 wins, trailing Joao Moreira (41), Zac Purton (36) and Karis Teetan (23).
Chad Schofield is sixth with 14 wins, Sam Clipperton ninth with 11 and Brett Prebble 11th with nine.
Tommy Berry is 18th with five wins.

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Winx is officially on top of the world, sharing the No.1 spot with American horse Gun Runner in the latest rankings.
In the first ratings for the year, the two were on 129, five points clear of another United States horse, West Coast.
Winx earned her rating for her outstanding return in the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes while Gun Runner won the Pegasus World Cup in January at his final start, beating West Coast.
Canterbury Stakes winner Happy Clapper sits at No.4 on 121, sharing that ranking with Redkirk Warrior, winner of the Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap.
Winx will have a race day gallop at Rosehill on Saturday ahead of her next start in the George Ryder Stakes a week later as she aims to extend her winning streak to 24.
The Chris Waller-trained mare will be ridden by Kerrin McEvoy in the work-out, replacing Hugh Bowman who has been sidelined by concussion.
For the past two years, Winx has been ranked the world's leading horse on turf in the Longines World's best but second overall to the now-retired Arrogate whose wins have been on dirt including the 2017 Dubai World Cup.


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Question: Amish or not, sellers and buyers pony up at horse auction

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Amish men lead muscular horses across a concrete threshold, their straw hats only as high as the beasts' shoulders, the clip-clop of huge hooves echoing loudly.
Nearby, a black stallion glistens as a boy in suspenders washes it with a garden hose. An auctioneer holds court in a sea of bridles, bits and buckets. Bay doors open and snow blows in as harness horses clamber into holding stalls.
At the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, at the nation's first major horse auction of the year, the activity bustles along like a well-oiled buggy.
Amish from all over the country come here to buy and sell their massive draft horses and magnificent harness horses. It also draws non-Amish horse fans, lured by the "Cadillac" quality of the animals, and vendors of everything from saddles to buggies to custom-made harnesses.
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The public auction was held this year Jan. 16 and 17. It's actually three sales rolled into one, offering draft horses for use in the fields, harness horses and a separate Morgan horse sale.
The first day is all about presentation, with sellers hitching up their animals and taking them for a spin around the dirt-floored arena. It gives potential buyers a sense of how the horse moves and its demeanor as the announcer describes its family heritage.
About 85 percent of the buyers and sellers are Amish, said Dale Stoltzfus, an organizer of the sale.
On the first day, potential buyers in traditional straw hats chatted in Pennsylvania Dutch as they took notes in the 200-page guide that listed horses. Buyers could sleep on it and come back for the auction the next day ready to bid.
About 500 horses were up for sale this year, Stoltzfus said, and the crowd was estimated at about 10,000 people. On one side of the complex was a live auction of farm and horse equipment; in the center were vendor stalls selling everything an Amish farmer could need: wagons and buggies; barn construction; blacksmithing and horseshoeing services; handcrafted harnesses, saddles, bits and blankets; and whoopie pies, cream-filled doughnuts, milkshakes and soft pretzels.
Included in the audience at the draft horse presentation was Shelley Thorne-Le Blanc, the co-owner of Butternut Ridge Belgians in New Brunswick, Canada.
She drove over 13 hours to Harrisburg with a group of Canadians who show Belgians at fairs around Canada and in the U.S.
"It's worth the drive for us," she says. "The quality of horses is good."
She was filming horses that sparked her interest and said she would compare her thoughts with her husband's later that night.
"We look for the diamonds in the rough," she said "We don't mind something that takes a little bit of work. We enjoy the challenge of getting a horse going."
There was a lot of audience excitement about No. 95, named Eastview Thunder, but in the end the horse was a no-sale because the bids were too low and the owner refused.
The highest price paid at the sale was for a draft horse by the name of Watersedge Flash Impressive, which sold for $25,000 to a family in Maine, Stoltzfus said. They'll use him as a show horse, rather than plowing fields or pulling farm equipment.
Stolzfus said he has learned you can never predict which horses will bring the big money.
"It's the whims of the buyers that determine what happens," he said.
Shannon Crabb, co-owner of Maple Creek Belgians, in Ottawa, Ontario, agreed.
"It only takes two people to fall in love with the same horse to make the price go up," she said.

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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk delivers a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris. For years, Tesla has boasted that its cars and SUVs are safer than other vehicles on the roads, and CEO Elon Musk doubled down on the claims in a series of tweets this week. Francois Mori, File AP Photo

“It’s easy, at a time of rolling scandals and hourly push alerts, to lose sight of how extraordinary this moment is,” CJR Editor and Publisher Kyle Pope writes in the opening pages of our new print issue. The past year has been unlike any the US political world has ever seen. Donald Trump’s rise from reality-TV celebrity to reality-TV president challenged and changed journalism in myriad ways. CJR’s fall magazine looks at the people, moments, and news organizations Trump’s presidency has affected.
From Ivanka to “the dossier” to a moment of reckoning for the political press, the issue tackles some of the biggest personalities and existential questions that have become part of the daily conversation in Washington.
In the days to come, we’ll be posting great pieces, including CJR’s Pope on his time as editor of The New York Observer under Jared Kushner (which publishes on cjr.org at noon today), McKay Coppins on the threat posed by right-wing media, Collier Meyerson on covering a country where race is everywhere, and many more. So keep checking in as we roll out the new issue, and if you’re not already a member, we’d be grateful for your support—$50 gets you a year of access to exclusive content, four issues of the print magazine, and invitations to CJR events.
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Best press he’s ever had : In perhaps my favorite piece in the issue, former New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove looks at Trump’s complicated and profitable relationship with tabloid journalism.
In perhaps my favorite piece in the issue, former New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove looks at Trump’s complicated and profitable relationship with tabloid journalism. Trump and the Watergate effect : The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan wonders whether the work being done by journalists today will inspire the next generation of Woodwards and Bernsteins.
The Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan wonders whether the work being done by journalists today will inspire the next generation of Woodwards and Bernsteins. Can the First Amendment save us? : Columbia University President and First Amendment scholar Lee C. Bollinger writes about battles over press freedom and trust in the Trump era.
Columbia University President and First Amendment scholar Lee C. Bollinger writes about battles over press freedom and trust in the Trump era. When all the news that fits is Trump: Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson praises the work that journalists have done in the first year of the new presidency, but warns of the pitfalls of the Trump bump.
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Question: Four Continents figure skating championships returning to US

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The ISU Four Continents figure skating championships are returning to the U.S. for the first time in seven years.
The meet is scheduled for Feb. 7-10 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, home to the NHL's Anaheim Ducks.
The competition in singles, pairs and ice dancing features skaters from the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
The U.S. team will be made up of three skaters or teams in each discipline and will be named after the U.S. nationals in Detroit on Jan. 19-27.

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U.S. Figure Skating championships: 2-minute drill with Nathan Chen
Interview with Nathan Chen, 17-year-old phenom and quad jump machine who has chance to win men's competition at U.S. Figure Skating championships at Sprint Center.


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The Killers have released a new single titled “The Man.”
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The track is the first new music from the band since their 2012 album Battle Born (assuming you don’t count their 2016 Christmas album Don’t Waste Your Wishes). Hopefully, this signals a fifth studio effort is imminent.
Check out the latest from The Killers below.

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The Information – I Love Trouble
Ad Frank – The World’s Best Ex-Boyfriend
Mellow Bravo – I Wanted A Girl
Watts – She’s So Electric
Gene Dante and the Future Starlets – The Love Letter Is Dead
Carissa Johnson – Fuel Heart
Cruel Miracle – Just Take It Now
Something Sneaky – Nada
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Plastic Waves – Friendly
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Deep Secret – Entertained Forever
Wildcat Slim – What the Hell?
–Weds, Feb 15 at O’Brien’s Allston for Cheap Chocolate Day with The New Limits, Threat Level Burgundy
Rolling Nectar – Set Yourself Free
-Tues, Feb 14 at Middle East upstairs
Aaron Lippert – Beautiful Boy
Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Lady Pills – Eat Them
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Sinnet – Minnie Moon
–Release show this Saturday, Feb 18 at Lily Pad, Cambridge with Junior Classics, Teenender
Matt York – When The War Began
Stars Like Ours – Radio
Mean Creek – It’s Good To Be Back Again
Heel and Arrow – …A Conclusion
The Humanoids – Heavy Metal
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Sam Black Church – We Come In Peace
Roadsaw – Satellite
Destruct-a-thon – 9 Squares
White Dynomite – White Dynomite
Hey Zeus – Nirvana
Caspian – Hymns For The Greatest Generation


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Question: Syrian Kurds outraged over mutilation of female fighter by Turkish backed 'rebels'

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Turkish-backed rebels accused of filming mistreatment of Women's Protection Units memberTurkey and allied Syrian rebels have pressed an offensive since 20 January against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, whose Kurdish fighters Ankara views as terrorists.A Kurdish official identified the woman as Barin Kobani, who took part in a US-backed campaign to drive the Islamic State jihadist group from the northern town of Kobani.The Kurds blamed the "terrorist allies of the enemy Turkish state" for mutilating the body of Kobani, who was a member of the all-female Kurdish Women's Protection Units.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain, said it received the video from a Syrian rebel fighting with Turkish forces in the Afrin offensive.The rebel told the group the footage was filmed on Tuesday after rebels found the young woman's corpse in the village of Qurna near the Turkish border in the north of the enclave. In the footage, a dozen men, some armed, gather around the badly mutilated body of a woman lying on the ground.The Kurdish community reacted with outrage, and social media users shared a portrait of Kobani smiling next to another shot of her brutalised body."Barin did not surrender. She fought to the death," said Amad Kandal, an official with the Women's Protection Units, vowing to avenge her comrade's brutal murder. "This kind of behaviour will only serve to reinforce our determination to resist until victory."Male and female YPG fighters have taken part in the battle by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to expel Isis from large parts of Syria.An SDF spokesman, Mustefa Bali, said the video was reason to continue fighting back against Turkey and its allies. "Imagine the savagery of these invaders with the bodies of our daughters. How would they behave if they took control of our neighbourhoods?" he wrote on Facebook. "All this hatred and barbarity leaves us with a single option: to continue the resistance."An Afrin resident Hussein Cheikho, 65, said he was "deeply pained" when he saw pictures of Kobani's mutilated body but said her death would not be in vain. "The death of a young man or a young woman will not weaken us. Out strength will be bolstered every day," he said.The Syrian National Council, the main opposition body in exile, condemned the "criminal acts" and called for "an immediate investigation to punish those responsible.Agence France-Presse in Afrin

People gesture at U.S military vehicles driving in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
People gesture at a U.S military vehicle driving in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) head a convoy of U.S military vehicles in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
A man gestures at U.S military vehicles driving in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
A member of U.S forces rides on a military vehicle in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) head a convoy of U.S military vehicles in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
U.S forces on their military vehicle drive in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) stand near a U.S military vehicle in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
U.S military vehicles drive in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) stand near a U.S military vehicle in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
A Kurdish fighter from the People's Protection Units (YPG) gestures at a convoy of U.S military vehicles driving in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
U.S military vehicles and Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) drive in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said
DARBASIYA, Syria A commander of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Friday U.S. forces would begin monitoring the situation along the Syria-Turkey frontier after cross-border fire between the Turkish military and YPG this week.
The monitoring had not yet begun, but the forces would report to senior U.S. commanders, Sharvan Kobani told Reuters after meeting U.S. military officials in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border.
The officials had toured Darbasiya which was hit by Turkish artillery fire earlier in the week.
Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes against Kurdish militants in northeastern Syria and Iraq's Sinjar region on Tuesday in an unprecedented bombardment of groups linked to the PKK, which is fighting an insurgency against Ankara in Turkey's southeast.
Those attacks killed nearly 30 YPG fighters and officials, a monitoring group reported.
Since Tuesday the YPG and Turkish forces have traded artillery fire along the Syria-Turkey border.
Turkey's bombardment of YPG positions complicates the U.S.-backed fight against Islamic State in Syria, where the YPG has been a crucial partner on the ground for Washington.
The YPG is a key component of the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighting groups involved in a campaign to drive Islamic State out of its Syria stronghold, Raqqa.
U.S. NATO ally Turkey views the YPG and other PKK-affiliated groups as terrorists.
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said on Friday U.S. troops were deployed along the border.
"We continue to urge all the parties involved to focus on the common enemy which is ISIS (Islamic State)," he told reporters.
Hundreds of U.S. troops are deployed on the ground in Syria to support the Raqqa offensive.
(Reporting by Rodi Said; additional reporting by Idrees Ali in Washington; Writing by John Davison; Editing by Ralph Boulton)


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Question: Travel broadens the mind at Theatre Royal

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Around The World In 80 Days comes to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal from July 11-15.
Adapted from the Jules Verne story by Laura Eason and directed by Theresa Heskins, in this play the mysterious and fabulously wealthy Phileas Fogg wagers his life’s fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days.
Join him and his loyal valet Passepartout, as they voyage from the misty alleys of Victorian London to the exotic subcontinent and the Wild West in a race against the clock.
Theresa Heskins’s celebrated production is on six month UK tour including a summer season in London and a Christmas engagement at the Lowry.
A cast of eight play over 125 characters in this imaginative, high-spirited escapade including six trains, five boats, four fights, three dances, two circus acts and an elephant!
Tickets are £27.50 - £12.50. Go to www.trch.co.uk or call 0115 989 5555.

A plucky spirit: Georgia Kelly rode her harp to New Age notoriety in the 1970s; today she finds peace in Praxis. Georgia Kelly introduces George Lakoff, the Praxis Peace Institute guest at a Jan. 29 lecture at a sold-out Vintage House, with about 300 people in attendance.
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A quarter-century after testimony began in the Sheff v. O'Neill case, the civil-rights attorneys who filed the suit were back in court Wednesday, asking a judge to block what they say is the state's effort to weaken school-desegregation efforts in Hartford.
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-- Border Patrol Agent Acquitted In 2012 Fatal Shooting Of Mexican Teen.
-- Prince's Family Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Hospital, Pharmacy Chain.
-- Facebook Updates Community Standards, Expands Appeals Process.
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Report: Confirmation Hearing To Be Delayed For V.A. Nominee. (Washington Post)
Suit Filed Against New Indiana Abortion Law. (Indianapolis Business Journal)
Government Seeks E-Coli Source In Contaminated Lettuce. (Washington Post)
Despite Government Action, Nicaragua Protests Continue. (Los Angeles Times)
New Afghanistan Attacks Leave 9 Dead. (RFE/RL)
Ukrainian Agency Hit By Ransomware. (Reuters)


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More than two hundred people have been killed and hundreds more are still missing after torrential rains on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown caused a mountainside to collapse onto a residential community.
A government morgue has received 205 bodies from the mudslide, and at least 71 injured people have been transferred to hospitals, Abu Bakarr Tarawallie, the head of communications for Sierra Leone's Red Cross Society, tells The Two-Way.
Some 600 people remain unaccounted for as rescuers continue digging through the mountain of mud to find survivors and recover bodies, Tarawallie said.
"It is likely that hundreds are lying dead underneath the rubble," Sierra Leone's Vice President Victor Foh told Reuters while visiting the scene of the mudslide. "This disaster is so serious that I feel myself broken. ... We're trying to cordon the area. Evacuate the people."
Tarawallie says recovery efforts face serious challenges. "We are not sure if we will be able to recover all of them considering the herculean task of reaching them out of the depths of the huge mud brought down by the slide," Tarawallie says. "We're not sure of the capacity that exists for them to be reached before they decompose."
Video posted by the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation show strong, churning rivers of mud flowing down streets and through houses. "It appears many people were still sleeping when heavy rains triggered the mudslide which engulfed the area," NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reported.
The damage is extreme, says International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Programme Coordinator Abdul Nasir: "In places, entire communities seem to have been washed away and whatever is left is covered in mud," he said.
Up to 3,000 people are believed to have lost their homes, Tarawallie says. "It is estimated that over 100 houses are affected, and about 25 houses were submerged in the mud."
Efforts to aid the people who have lost their homes have been "a little bit chaotic," he says. "No organized structure or shelter has been put in place for them." He says that the Red Cross is currently working on a response to help the people who have survived the mudslide.
Reuters spoke with Salimatu Bangura, who lives in the flooded area and lost her brother this morning. "We were asleep when we heard the noise of one of the walls falling down. By the time we got up water was flowing in and the whole house was flooded," she said.
Tarawallie stresses that Sierra Leone regularly experiences floods and mudslides due to heavy downpours. He adds: "The only particularity of this is that it is unprecedented that for the first time we are having this magnitude of impact and huge loss of property and lives."
According to the wire service, deforestation and poor urban planning have exacerbated the dangers in Sierra Leone during the rainy season.
"There is little to no urban planning going on in the city at all levels of society," Jamie Hitchen of the Africa Research Institute told The Guardian. "The government is failing to provide housing for the poorest in society. There is a chronic housing deficit in the city and the issues only get discussed on an annual basis when flooding happens and [it] comes into the spotlight."

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NEW YORK (AP) — Whitney Houston's mother had no clue about allegations that her son and superstar daughter were molested as children until the making of the new documentary "Whitney," says the film's executive producer.
Patricia Houston, the sister-in-law of Whitney, is responsible for getting the film, out Friday, to screen. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, "Whitney" paints an intimate portrait of the Grammy-winning pop queen and movie star through interviews with her brothers, her mother, friends, and behind-the-scenes footage. Houston's regal image over the decades was eroded by erratic behavior due to her drug use; she died in 2012, on the eve of the Grammys, after being discovered unresponsive in a hotel bathtub. She was 48.
It's the second documentary on Houston: "Whitney: Can I Be Me" was released earlier this year.
Patricia Houston, wife of Gary Garland-Houston, said it was difficult making "Whitney" because it hit so close to home — and because she was the one who had to tell Cissy Houston not only that there were abuse allegations, but they would be in the film.
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"It was deeply a revelation for her. You think about her, and it being a bit overbearing for her to hear — and her kids not telling her. That's pretty tough to have to deal with," said Houston.
Dee Dee Warwick, the niece of Cissy Houston and sister to Dionne Warwick, was the alleged abuser. The alleged incidents took place when Gary and Whitney were between the ages of 7 and 9 and Cissy was touring. Warwick, who was 18 years older than Whitney Houston, died in 2008.
The documentary suggests that the sexual abuse endured by the children was a significant contributor to their struggles with drugs as adults.
"I don't think you can explain anyone's life from one particular event that's happened to them. But I think that it's certainly fair to say that it's maybe, in my opinion, the major contributor to Whitney's unhappiness," MacDonald said. "That and the fact that she never talked about it, and that nobody in the family talked about this and clearly it happened as you'd learned in the film."
MacDonald says the secrets in Houston's life took their toll on the Grammy-winning singer. He cites a clip in the film shot in the mid-2000s that shows her in conflict.
"I think there's an amazing piece of home movie footage in the film, which was from the early 2000s where Whitney is sort of really looking despairing. ... she's talking to herself, really going, 'Nippy calling Whitney. Whitney calling Nippy.' And Nippy was her sort of nickname that everybody close to her knew her as Nippy. And Nippy was the real her, as it were, the intimate her. Whitney was the persona," Macdonald said.
"I think what you see in that home movie clip is this confusion that she has. I think it got progressively worse as she got older. The confusion between what's the real me, and what's not the real me. And obviously, the drugs didn't help with that," Macdonald said.

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Question: Rachel Platten Announces New Album ‘Waves’

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Pop singer Rachel Platten is set to return with a new album, Waves, which will be released on Oct. 27.
Related: Rachel Platten Debuts New Single ‘Broken Glass’
“I loved making this album, I’ve never felt so free creatively,” Platten revealed in a press statement. “I wrote all of these songs without getting in the way, and I just let whatever needed to come through me just come. I worked out a lot of heavy stuff on some of the songs and cried on my piano at 3 a.m. some nights, but I also woke up some days and jumped into the ocean and felt amazing and just wanted to write songs I could dance to. This album is raw and it’s emotional, but it’s also fun and sweet and it’s real. It’s honestly just all of me and I am so damn proud of it.”
Among the producers on Waves include OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder and Stargate.
Check out the full tracklist for Platen’s new album below.
1. Perfect For You
2. Whole Heart
3. Collide
4. Keep Up
5. Broken Glass
6. Shivers
7. Loose Ends
8. Labels
9. Loveback
10. Hands
11. Fooling You
12. Good Life
13. Grace

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A Classic Case of Casino Capitalism
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Eurozone Factory Output Slides
Activity at the eurozone's factories, mines and utilities fell at its sharpest pace in 2017 during June, an indication that the economy may be settling down after an acceleration in growth during the first six months of the year.
Fed Paper Finds Natural Unemployment Rate Quite Steady Over Last Century
The level of unemployment that stands as the break-even point between rising and falling inflation has been "remarkably stable" over the last century, new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco finds.
China Data Show a Slowdown as Debt Crackdown Takes Hold
Economic data out of China indicated a slowdown in July as Beijing's crackdown on property speculation and rising debt levels started to filter through into the world's second-largest economy.
Japan Posts 4.0% Annualized GDP Growth in April-June Quarter
Japan's economy grew more quickly than expected in the April-June quarter, with strong household spending driving the sixth straight quarter of growth under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Canada Wants to Make Nafta More 'Progressive'
Canada will enter talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with a goal to seek exemptions from Washington's Buy America directives, and push for stronger labor and environmental standards in the pact.
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Oil prices wavered between gains and losses amid mixed signals for crude demand.
Gold Falls as Geopolitical Tensions Ease
Gold prices fell as the dollar edged higher from last week's lows and tensions between the U.S. and North Korea eased.
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Question: Sabres sign Olofsson, who led Swedish league with 27 goals

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - The Buffalo Sabres have signed Victor Olofsson to a two-year contract after he scored a Swedish Hockey League-leading 27 goals last season.
Olofsson was selected by the Sabres in the seventh round of the 2014 draft. The forward has spent the past three seasons in the SHL, collecting 50 goals and 49 assists in 150 regular-season games. Overall, Olofsson had 60 goals and 117 points in 200 games.
He is coming off a career-best season in which he finished with 43 points in 50 games during his second year with Frolunda HC.
The 22-year-old is listed at 5-foot-11 and 173 pounds.
The Sabres announced the agreement on Tuesday.
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Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar is having the best season of his career. (Photo: Stephen R. Sylvanie, USA TODAY SPorts)
If you want to be respectful to every NHL player who has carried his team for an extended period this season, you need to put at least 10 players on your Hart Trophy candidate list.
Ten candidate slots may not be enough for one of the more competitive races in recent years.
Nathan MacKinnon. Evgeni Malkin. Nikita Kucherov. Taylor Hall. Claude Giroux. Connor McDavid. Blake Wheeler. Alex Ovechkin. Anze Kopitar. Pekka Rinne. And take your pick of Brad Marchand or Patrice Bergeron, depending upon how you view Bergeron’s injury situation.
Here are questions that come into play:
How much did he help his team? The award says that it should go the player judged to be the most valuable to his team. That wording would appear helps MacKinnon (Colorado Avalanche) and Hall (New Jersey Devils) whose teams wouldn’t be in contention without them. Maybe Giroux (Philadelphia Flyers) also gets a boost for leading a younger team.
How consistent was the player? That favors Kucherov who was impressive in October as he is today. He’s been at the top of the points leaders from the beginning.
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How dominant is the player? That question points to Malkin who has 20 goals in his past 22 games. He is playing as well as he did when he won the Hart in 2011-12.
What are the intangibles? It’s being debated on social media whether a player has to be on a playoff team to win the Hart Trophy. Nothing against it in the rules. Does that debate make it easier to vote for McDavid? Should writers consider goalies more often? If you think like that, Rinne’s play has carried Nashville to the top of the standings.
The only aspect of the race that is clear is that the last three weeks of the season will have an impact.
Here are USA TODAY's power rankings of the teams, with an emphasis on some standout players.
1. Nashville Predators: The Predators’ top four defensemen – P.K. Subban, Roman Josi, Mattias Ekholm and Ryan Ellis – have a combined for 42 goals. That's why Nashville ranks seventh in goals per game (3.2).
2. Boston Bruins: U.S. Olympian Brian Gionta, signed after the Winter Olympics in South Korea, has been solid addition, posting two goals and six points in nine games.
3. Tampa Bay Lightning: Is rookie Yanni Gourde the NHL’s most anonymous 24-goal scorer? His season has been lost in the brilliance of rookie Mathew Barzal and the Lightning’s strong season.
4. Vegas Golden Knights: William Karlsson has 39 goals in 72 games for Vegas after scoring 18 goals in first 183 NHL games.
5. Winnipeg Jets: How much is Paul Stastny helping Winnipeg? He has three goals, seven assists and is plus-8 in the nine games he has played with the Jets.
6. Toronto Maple Leafs: Nazem Kadri has 60 goals and 110 points in his last 152 games with Toronto. The decision to make Kadri part of Toronto's rebuild was as important as the draft picks.
7. Washington Capitals: Lars Eller’s 17 goals and 35 points represent the best season of his career.
8. Minnesota Wild: Shame on everyone who believed Eric Staal, 33, had permanently lost his game when the Hurricanes dealt him in 2016. Given his importance to the Wild, his season -- with 38 goals and 70 points -- has to rank among the best of his career.
9. San Jose Sharks: With five goals and five assists in nine games, Evander Kane is a contender for the unofficial title of best trade deadline acquisition.
10. Colorado Avalanche: With six goals and 10 points in his past five games, Nathan MacKinnon is making a case to be MVP. The award’s wording of “most valuable to his team” plays in his favor.
11. Pittsburgh Penguins: With 22 goals, Patric Hornqvist has enhanced his reputation as one of the most consistent scorers. If not for the shortened 2012-13 season, he would have nine consecutive seasons of 20 or more.
12. Anaheim Ducks: Josh Manson might be Anaheim’s most effective player. He leads all 20-minute defensemen with a plus-27 plus-minus. He has 31 points.
13. Philadelphia Flyers: Claude Giroux, with 84 points, has a chance to record a career high. He is having his best season since 2011-12 when he posted 93. He’s shooting much less than he did then, with 164 shots this season.
14. Los Angeles Kings: Anze Kopitar had the worst season of his career in 2016-17, and he’s having the best season of his career now with 29 goals and 51 points in 72 games.
15. Columbus Blue Jackets: The Blue Jackets are 8-2-0 in their last 10 games. Defenseman Seth Jones has led the way with six goals, seven assists and a plus-6 rating in those games.
16. St. Louis Blues: Goalie Jake Allen has posted save percentages under .900 in nine of his last 12 appearances. That sums up the disappointment of his season.
17. Dallas Stars: Defenseman Esa Lindell (25 points, plus-16) has become one of the most underrated players.
18. New Jersey Devils: Maybe more impressive than rookie defenseman Will Butcher’s 33 assists is his plus-3 plus-minus. The hardest adjustment for any young defenseman is the defensive side of the game.
19. Florida Panthers: Evgenii Dadonov’s return from the Kontinental Hockey League has helped the Panthers more than any other move this season. He has 54 points in 61 games.
20. Calgary Flames: Michael Ferland's growing offensive game has net him 21 goals this season, though only one in his past 18 games.
21. New York Rangers: Could Ryan Spooner end up being the most important player in the Rick Nash deal? Don’t rule it out. Spooner is a skilled offensive player, proven by 13 points in his first 11 games with the Rangers.
22. Carolina Hurricanes: After going without a goal in the first 15 games, Sebastian Aho has 25 in his last 53 games.
23. Chicago Blackhawks: Alex DeBrincat’s 25 goals is already four more than Patrick Kane scored in his rookie combine. His play, along with Nick Schmaltz’s 20-goal season, is chief among the Blackhawks’ highlights this season.
24. New York Islanders: Jordan Eberle has recorded 20 or more goals in five consecutive seasons (and it would be seven if the 2012-13 wasn't shortened). Do the Edmonton Oilers have regrets about dealing him?
25. Edmonton Oilers: As the Oilers begin assessing what went wrong, the only sure fact is Connor McDavid is blameless. He is still playing as if they are competing for the Cup, with 11 goals and 12 assists in his past 15 games.
26. Ottawa Senators: With six goals and 11 points in his past 11 games, Matt Duchene, 27, has looked very much like a player who should be part of Ottawa’s future.
27. Montreal Canadiens: In the midst of the Canadiens' struggles, Brendan Gallagher's career-best 26 goals have been overlooked.
28. Buffalo Sabres: While Jack Eichel is clearly the key to the Sabres’ future, Sam Reinhart has 22 points in his past 22 games.
29. Arizona Coyotes: With 52 points in 71 games, Clayton Keller is on pace to break Peter Mueller’s rookie record of 54 points, set in 2007-08.
30. Vancouver Canucks: While the Canucks have lost six games in a row, Bo Horvat has remained a foundation piece, with seven goals in his past 17 games.
31. Detroit Red Wings: Four key forwards to the Red Wings’ rebuild are Dylan Larkin, Anthony Mantha, Andreas Athanasiou and Tyler Bertuzzi. In the Red Wings 0-9-1 losing streak, Larkin has three points and is minus-7; Athanasiou has three points and is minus-3; Mantha has five points and is minus-6; and Bertuzzi has seven points and is minus-four.


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The Climate Council says the federal and Queensland governments have failed to tackle climate change, with new research revealing coral on the Great Barrier Reef could be killed off every two years unless more is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A report released by the Climate Council says coral bleaching events caused by marine heatwaves were once separated by 27 years.

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Question: Rihanna, Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg, Cardi B, Others Rally Behind Bullied Boy

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An emotional video of a young boy talking about the pain of being bullied has gone viral and many artists including Rihanna, Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg and Cardi B are standing up for him.
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“Just out of curiosity, why do they bully?” Keaton Jones, a Tennessee native, asked in the video. “What’s the point of it? Why do you find joy in taking innocent people and finding a way to be mean to them? It’s not okay.”
He explained that kids make fun of his nose and during lunch they pour milk on him and throw food at him. The video was shot by Jones’ mother after she picked him up from school when he told her he was afraid to go to lunch.
After viewing the clip on social media, Katy Perry, Cardi B, Snoop Dogg, Hailee Steinfeld, and others provided words of encouragement to Jones.
“#KeatonJones Hero!!! Thank you young KING for inspiring us all who have been in your shoes at any capacity!” wrote Rihanna on social media. “If you have, or currently are going through any form of bullying, my heart and my prayers go out to you! Bullies…y’all corny!”
“This broke my 💔today. Please be kind to one another,” Katy Perry wrote in a caption for Jones’ video.
“Say lil Man U gotta friend in me for life hit me on dm so we can chop it up love is the only way to beat hate,” commented Snoop Dogg.
Zedd and Cole Swindell offered tickets to their concerts while Hailee Steinfeld invited Jones to be her guest at the Pitch Perfect 3 premiere.
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#KeatonJones Hero!!! Thank you young KING for inspiring us all who have been in your shoes at any capacity! If you have, or currently are going through any form of bullying, my heart and my prayers go out to you! Bullies...y'all corny! A post shared by badgalriri (@badgalriri) on Dec 11, 2017 at 4:36am PST
This broke my 💔today. Please be kind to one another. #standwithkeaton A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on Dec 10, 2017 at 2:56pm PST
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buddy next time I make it home to Knox I'm going to walk into that lunchroom with you and watch the bullies say the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… —
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Hey, @Lakyn_Jones .. bring your brother Keaton by the bus before my show in Knoxville, TN next month if ya want.. w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… —
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Stay strong Keaton. Takes a lot of courage to send such an honest message like this to the world. For anyone being… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… —
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Hey Keaton Jones, I’d like to invite you to be my guest at any show of mine of your choice. I’ll cover ur flights a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9… —
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s drive to wean poor people from government benefits by making them work has been slowed by a federal judge framing a fundamental question: Are poverty programs meant to show tough love or to help the needy?
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington last week halted Kentucky’s first-in-the-nation experiment with Medicaid work requirements, ruling that the Trump administration glossed over potential coverage losses. He sent the state’s plan back to federal authorities for a harder look.
The debate goes well beyond Medicaid, the federal-state health program for low-income and disabled people.
This spring, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing cabinet agencies to add or strengthen work requirements for programs including subsidized housing, food stamps and cash welfare. The government’s biggest assistance program for low-income people — the Earned Income Tax Credit — is already designed to supplement earnings from work.
Boasberg found that “medical assistance” is by law a “central objective” of Medicaid. While work requirements might be allowable if that’s what a state wants, “there may be limits to how much (coverage) loss is too much,” he wrote.
Kentucky’s Republican Gov. Matt Bevin wanted to impose work requirements on some 428,000 state residents who got Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act’s expansion. Optional for states, the expansion passed under former President Barack Obama covers about 12 million people nationally, mainly adults.
Kentucky expanded Medicaid under a Democratic governor. Bevin argues that the cost is unsustainable for his state, even with Washington paying at least 90 percent of the bill, because many more people signed up than initially expected. The state estimated that work requirements would save money, reducing the Medicaid rolls by about 95,000 people over five years.
That number got the judge’s attention.
Boasberg ruled that the federal Health and Human Services department didn’t dig deeply enough into the potential coverage losses. The department “paid no attention to that deprivation,” he wrote, and “this oversight is glaring,” amounting to rubber-stamping the state’s request.
Although state and federal officials contend that many people leaving Medicaid would find private coverage, Boasberg said there was no hard analysis, no “bottom-line estimate.”
The ruling seemed to catch the Trump administration unprepared.
Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, called it “disappointing.” The administration may appeal, or it may re-run its evaluation of the Kentucky plan to meet the judge’s concerns. Medicaid work requirements in a few other states are unaffected.
However, the ruling may make it much harder to approve work requirements in states that have not expanded Medicaid. In such states, Medicaid recipients would face a high risk of losing health care because even paltry earnings could make them ineligible for continued coverage.
Verma said the administration won’t be deterred from nudging the poor to go to work.
“We will continue to support innovative, state-driven policies that are designed to advance the objectives of the Medicaid program by improving health outcomes for thousands of low-income Americans,” she said in a statement. Work improves health, the administration argues.
The nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that about 60 percent of adults with Medicaid are already working, and among those not working, most either have health problems, are taking care of home or family or are students.
Advocates for low-income people say they feel like a corner has been turned, even if the issue is far from settled.
“What’s particularly significant is that the judge basically said you have to look at the purpose of Medicaid, which is to provide coverage,” said Judy Solomon of the nonprofit Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Work requirements “were outside the core objectives of the Medicaid program, and he basically said you can’t ignore the core objectives.”
Others point out that the judge stopped short of deciding the merits of the case, focusing instead on problems with the process that HHS followed in approving Kentucky’s request.
Matt Salo, executive director of the nonpartisan National Association of Medicaid Directors, said work requirements may serve the purposes of Medicaid in some states, particularly if that helps convince conservative lawmakers to expand coverage to more uninsured people.
“There’s a broader issue at play here about maintaining political support and the sustainability of the program,” said Salo. “Does the inability to do a work requirement lead to a scenario where Kentucky is going to get rid of the entire expansion?”
So far that hasn’t happened, but Bevin did cut Medicaid dental and vision coverage in response to the judge’s ruling.
The case is Stewart vs. Azar.
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— Governor signals support for bill eliminating requirement for concealed weapons permits to carry handguns in SC.
— Gov. McMaster also suggests staffing issues to blame for recent prison inmate murders.


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Question: Massachusetts police officer on Charlottesville crash: 'Hahahaha love this'

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police department is investigating a Facebook comment by an officer who wrote "Hahahaha love this" in response to a story about a car crashing into counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring at least 19 others.
Springfield Police Commissioner John Barbieri says he received a complaint about the comment Sunday and opened an internal investigation.
Officer Conrad Lariviere wrote in response to the violence: "Hahahaha love this, maybe people shouldn't block road ways."
In a Facebook interview with Masslive.com, Lariviere says he's a "good man who made a stupid comment."
Democratic Mayor Domenic Sarno says: "There is no place for this in our society, let alone from a Springfield Police Officer."
An Ohio man is charged with second-degree murder and other counts over the crash.

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More details continue to come to light surrounding the Charlottesville attack over the weekend.
James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old Ohio man who deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was denied bail today and is set to appear back in court on August 25.
Here's what we know about his violent past so far.
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According to TMZ, police records show several phone calls to the cops from 2010 and 2011 after Fields threatened his own mother, Samantha Bloom.
When he was just 13 and 14 years old, Fields was arrested and detained for spitting in his wheelchair-bound mom's face before intimidating her with a 12-inch knife.
Another time, Fields attacked Bloom by hitting her in the head and covering her mouth after she asked him to stop playing video games. So scary.
Despite his past, Bloom told AP that she doesn't believe her son is a white supremacist — claiming she thought the rally had "something to do with Trump":
"I just knew he was going to a rally. I mean, I try to stay out of his political views. You know, we don't, you know, I don't really get too involved, I moved him out to his own apartment, so we … I'm watching his cat. I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist."
Are we sure about that?
Anyway, she also told the outlet that her son "had an African-American friend" so clearly he's not racist. Side eye.
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Question: Master plan for $8 million redevelopment of Casino site

Richmond Valley Council is seeking input on the redevelopment of the Casino showground.
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A MASTER plan for the $8 million redevelopment of the Casino showground and racecourse site has been revealed.
And now Richmond Valley Council is seeking community feedback on the plan.
The council has been working with regular users of the site for the past 12 months, and the draft master plan is based on information gathered in workshops and consultation with key stakeholders.
Consideration was given to what is currently happening on the site, the needs of the community, the wider surroundings, social, environmental and economic considerations and planning constraints and opportunities.
The council's general manager, Vaughan Macdonald, said there was the potential to "greatly enhance the facilities for the future”.
The sporting and community-based facility would be turned into a modern precinct, attracting people from around the region and interstate.
Mr Macdonald said the associated infrastructure would allow for major regional events which would provide an economic boost to the Richmond Valley.
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"Exciting additions proposed for the site include an indoor equestrian arena, redevelopment of the horse racing training stables, and renewal of the sand track and racecourse proper,” Mr Macdonald said.
"Council recognises the importance of the showgrounds area to the town and people of the Richmond Valley area, and would like to see the site upgraded for the enjoyment of a wide variety of people, of all ages and abilities.”
Richmond Valley Council Mayor Robert Mustow said he hoped Council's vision for the showgrounds would start to become a reality within the very near future.
Cr Mustow said the draft master plan would be used to support an $8 million Regional Sports Infrastructure Fund Grant application for the proposed works.
He said the time was right for this type of redevelopment to ensure not only current activities survived and flourished, but for new ones to start up.
"The showgrounds have an important historical and social significance and are home of the Casino Show, the Beef Week and Gold Cup races, gymkhanas and camp drafts but you can do so much more with it,” Cr Mustow said.
"The showgrounds belong to the community and we'd like to improve these facilities for everyone to use.”
Council is inviting public comment on the draft master plan, which can be viewed at Council's offices in Casino and Evans Head, or downloaded from Council's website www.richmondvalley.nsw.gov.au
If you would like to make a submission, address it to the General Manager, Richmond Valley Council, Locked Bag 10, Casino NSW 2470 or email council@richmondvalley.nsw.gov.au You can also make a submission via an online form at www.richmondvalley.nsw.gov.au/page/Your_Council/On_Exhibition/
Written and online submissions will be accepted by Council until 4.30pm Friday 3 August.
Further information is available from Council on 6660 0300.

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Residents are getting their first look at an updated draft of the Downtown Hamilton Secondary Plan that sets out the parameters for future growth.