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Cuba recently re-opened over Maryland's spring break. When Cuba re-opened this sent many people there like the Kardashian clan And President Obama. With these new relations open with Cuba I have high hopes that we commence trading with them again. This is big because President Obama is the first President to visit Cuba in over 88 year

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's decision to travel to Cuba next month and meet with President Raúl Castro reflects his determination to do as much as possible before he leaves office to pry open the historic and ideological barricades that have separated the United States from its neighbor since the Cold War.

It also represents something of a familiar gamble for Mr. Obama, who in becoming the first sitting American president to visit Cuba in 88 years will be testing his conviction that aggressive engagement, rather than harsh isolation, is the best way to prod an adversary to change.

In announcing the trip on Thursday, Mr. Obama was betting on the power of his office and the force of his personal diplomacy to persuade Mr. Castro to do more to open his mostly state-run economy and respect human rights. The Cuban leader has been unwilling to take those steps since the two presidents announced in December 2014 that they would move toward normalized relations after a half-century of hostility.

If Mr. Obama is wrong, the visit could instead highlight the deep differences that persist between the two nations.

While the administration has rushed over the past year to loosen restrictions on travel and commerce and remove Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House conceded on Thursday that Cuba had done comparatively little to change its behavior despite the new spirit of openness.

"We believe the best way to try to push this forward is for the president to go," said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser and the White House's point man on Cuba, arguing that Cuba had been in many ways unprepared to engage with the United States.

"The way to carry this policy forward is to keep leaning forward," Mr. Rhodes said. "It's not a quid pro quo, but we would like the trip to show concrete progress in normalization, so it's an opportunity to demonstrate results."

Mr. Obama, who will be accompanied by his wife, Michelle, plans to meet with political dissidents in addition to Mr. Castro. But he does not intend to see Fidel Castro, the architect of the 1959 revolution that led to the rupture with the United States.

The trip, planned for March 21-22, drew denunciations from critics in both parties of Mr. Obama's Cuba policy, many of them Cuban-Americans who have long opposed any engagement with the Castro government.

"To this day, we have not seen one substantial step toward transparent democratic elections, improved human rights, freedom of assembly, or the ability to form independent political parties and trade unions in Cuba," said Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey. "Despite the lack of reciprocity from a despotic and reinvigorated Castro regime, our president is rewarding this oppressive regime with a visit."

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a Republican presidential candidate, released a letter to Mr. Obama urging him to reconsider the trip.

"Having an American president go to Cuba simply for the sake of going there, without the United States getting anything in return, is both counterproductive and damaging to our national security interests," Mr. Rubio wrote. "You will send the message to the oppressed Cuban people that you stand with their oppressors."

But the planned visit was met with jubilation from lawmakers who have begun pressing to repeal the embargo against Cuba.

"For Cubans accustomed to watching their government sputter down the last mile of socialism in a '57 Chevy, imagine what they'll think when they see Air Force One," said Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona.

Mr. Obama has used his executive power to forge closer ties with Cuba in the face of continued resistance in Congress to lifting the embargo. The two governments opened their long-shuttered embassies in Washington and Havana last summer, and the Commerce and Treasury Departments have issued several rounds of regulatory changes that essentially poke holes in what Cubans derisively refer to as the "blockade."

American officials traveled to Havana on Tuesday to sign a pact that will for the first time in decades allow scheduled commercial flights between the United States and Cuba. And Cuban officials are in Washington this week for a round of talks aimed at expanding business ties.

The presidential trip had been under discussion for months, and Mr. Obama had made little secret of his eagerness to visit Cuba. But officials had said they wanted to see concrete progress toward normalization before promising that the president would make the journey.

On Thursday, Mr. Rhodes said Mr. Obama had ultimately concluded that it was better to make the trip early in the year, when he still had the time to make progress toward normalization before his term ends.

"Given the choice between going in December, when, frankly, it would just kind of be a vacation down to Cuba, or going now and trying to get some business done, we believe that the time is right to go and lean in and try to get as much done on this trip as we can," Mr. Rhodes said.

The president, for one, is excited. "It will be fun," he told reporters in a brief exchange at the White House on Thursday.

Mr. Obama will be the first president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge went in 1928. The president also plans to use the trip to highlight his efforts to foster closer ties with the rest of Latin America. After Cuba, he will travel to Argentina to visit Mauricio Macri, the new president, who has said he wants to improve relations with the United States after an era of strain.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: With Cuba Visit, Obama Gambles on Engagement . Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Obama Going to Cuba; First Visit by U.S. President in 88 Years

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WASHINGTON - President Obama's decision to travel to Cuba next month and meet with President Raúl Castro reflects his determination to do as much as possible before he leaves office to pry open the historic and ideological barricades that have separated the United States from its neighbor since the Cold War.

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The Middle east is taking all the heat because of ISIS. The terrorists are threatening all the country s in the middle east. These terrorists take by force and if non comply they kill. To make people fear them or join them they set out bombs like the Paris Attacks, Brussels Attacks and now the Attacks in Istanbul. this is a serous problem we need to take action and stop these villainous Acts of danger. This can put the whole world in danger possibly causing a new world war.

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ISTANBUL-A car bomb targeting a police bus in central Istanbul on Tuesday killed 11 people and injured dozens, including civilians, officials said, in the latest in a string of attacks as Turkey fights Kurdish insurgents and Islamic State militants.

The blast hit at around 8:40 a.m. in the city's Vezneciler district, not far from Istanbul University and the tourist landmarks of the historic center.

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At Least 11 Killed in Istanbul Bomb Blast Targeting Police

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ISTANBUL-A car bomb targeting a police bus in central Istanbul on Tuesday killed 11 people and injured dozens, including civilians, officials said, in the latest in a string of attacks as Turkey fights Kurdish insurgents and Islamic State militants. The blast hit at around 8:40 a.m.

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A husband and wife that are Muslim people went into a work party and committed man slaughter towards the people at the office party. Now what does this have to do with an iPhone ? For 15 minutes after the murder the two drove around doing who knows what on a iPhone. They might have been calling a terrorist saying "the job is done ". This is why it was important for the CIA to come in a want apple to unlock the iPhone found that belonged to that couple . Apple refused because if they opened the iPhone  they would need new software potentially putting the security of all iPhone's in the world at hand. So the CIA sued them. But that didn't work so they went to people that knew how to unlock it and it got unlocked. the lesson from this is if they say no, go and find someone else to do the deed or do it yourself because it is not worth wasting someones time. I am pretty sure that couple did it as an act of aggression not terrorism and just because there Muslim does not mean you have to judge them by there race or color.

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The dispute between Apple Inc. and federal investigators over access to a terror suspect's phone could turn on a centuries-old law that the Justice Department uses to conscript reluctant companies into service.

In a ruling unsealed Tuesday, a magistrate judge in California ordered Apple to provide software to the Justice Department to help investigators unlock a phone used by one of the suspects in the December terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif.

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Apple's iPhone Dispute with Government Puts Focus on Centuries-Old Law

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The dispute between Apple Inc. and federal investigators over access to a terror suspect's phone could turn on a centuries-old law that the Justice Department uses to conscript reluctant companies into service.

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Gay marriage has been difficult barrier to pass . Most recently, The Supreme Court passed laws stating that LGBT couples can have and do have the right to get married. This is a great impact on society. This has brought many people joy and happiness. I think this shows that the government is actually paying attention to what is happening in society today.

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Beth Robinson and Susan Murray were on my mind last spring as I prepared to argue the case for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme Court. From a snowy drive to a meeting in Vermont to a steamy June day in D.C. when the Court announced its decision in Obergefell, I had travelled many miles and put in many hours with these two brilliant, brave, determined, and compassionate lawyers.

We met one December 1996 day at Beth's house to confirm plans about going forward with what some thought to be a crazy dream: securing marriage equality in Vermont. They had already been at work in building community and legislative support and the legal memos were thick even then. We agreed to team up and co-counsel in the first freedom to marry case since Hawaii. The national environment wasn't great: it was just six months after Congress had passed the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and states had started passing policies against "same-sex marriage." We thought Vermont was in a different place. For all of the angst on this issue, we saw only double standards, different treatment of same-sex couples, and no argument that could hold water against our constitutional claims. In July 1997, Beth and Susan at Langrock, Sperry & Wool and GLAD filed Baker v. State of Vermont. And the rest, as they say, is history.

The making of the documentary The State of Marriage enabled me to spend more time with Beth (now a justice on the Vermont Supreme Court) and Susan (still providing insightful and first rate legal services to her clients), enjoying their camaraderie, reviewing the building blocks and breakthroughs, and reflecting on the many roads that brought us to this moment. And of course we talked about how much work there is still to do!

The movie lifts up the human drama and painstaking work that social justice movements demand. For even before Baker was filed, Beth and Susan had been criss-crossing the state to help Vermonters get to know and understand their gay and lesbian neighbors. Long after the decision in Baker was announced in December 1999- granting full rights to same-sex couples but not the word "marriage" - Vermonters worked nearly another decade to achieve full marriage equality. The moment of its arrival was dramatic. In April 2009, the legislature overrode the governor's veto by one vote to become the first state in the nation to enact a marriage law, something our opponents vowed would never happen.

I cherish the time we spent preparing the legal arguments in Baker, both at the trial court and at the Vermont Supreme Court. It was a different era and we exchanged marked up copies of drafts by fax machine followed up by hours-long conference calls. Beth brilliantly carried the day at oral argument in the state high court in November 1998, with me and Susan at her side. I am very grateful for those experiences - not only for the friendships, but because the Vermont experience informed me and GLAD as we prepared to file Goodridge in Massachusetts and in all of our legislative and public education work on marriage and DOMA. We knew that winning in court would not be enough; we would have to win hearts and minds, and we would have to win at the statehouse as well.

In Vermont, I saw firsthand the power of keeping the focus on the people seeking to marry and their various stories. That case was very much about Stan Baker and Peter Harrigan, Lois Farnham and Holly Puterbaugh, and Nina Beck and Stacy Jolles, even as it was about all of us. All three couples lived in the greater Burlington area. Two of the three couples were parents. Their sharing the story of their love and their families allowed others to consider the fairness issues from our points of view. Nina and Stacy described how, for example, during their son Noah's birth, hospital agents had challenged Stacy's right to be there even with her documents in hand. Holly and Lois and Stan and Peter repeatedly shared their lives throughout the litigation. Tragically, early in the litigation, Noah's heart failed and a donor heart never came. After a period of grieving, Nina and Stacy returned, determined to make this a case for the benefit of all children of LGB parents. I am still amazed at their courage.

Exquisitely well told, The State of Marriage shows how pivotal Vermont was in getting us the freedom to marry. With thoughtful treatment of both sides, it is riveting, and full of drama.

The year since the Obergefell decision has been transformative. It has also been very hard. There's been tremendous pushback focused not just on marriage equality but on transgender people and attempts to put non-discrimination laws out of reach. Racial and economic disparities persist; LGBTQ youth are disproportionately homeless, and the high HIV rates among young black men are unacceptable. While the pushback is real, so is our knowledge of what we can do when we work together. Remember what we won last June 26! Let's use the tools we've acquired and the skills we've learned to keep moving forward, with all the urgency the moment demands.

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Mary Bonauto is the Civil Rights Project Director for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders. THE STATE OF MARRIAGE is now available on iTunes and Digital Platforms.

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Beth Robinson and Susan Murray were on my mind last spring as I prepared to argue the case for marriage equality before the U.S. Supreme Court. From a snowy drive to a meeting in Vermont to a steamy June day in D.C.

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The dagger that kiolled tut was from space

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The dagger that kiolled tut was from space

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King tut was the Pharaoh of Egypt. he was killed at a very young age and we still do not know who killed him. But, we do know what killed him. A dagger was logged into to him. This dagger was believed to be a meteorite from space. The Egyptians believed in the gods. This is important because if he had not died society may be different today and that is because he is a pharaoh and he had a large influence on society . Without him dying our society could be different today.

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It even suggests the Egyptians knew what they were working with.

Archaeologists and historians have been fascinated by King Tut's mummified remains and the mysterious objects found in his tomb since their discovery in the 1920s.

In the past, scientists have claimed that an iron dagger, found along with a gold blade in King Tut's tomb, may have come from meteorites.

Other ancient Egyptian iron artifacts have also been suspected to be meteoritic, since smelted iron was rarely used.

But now, researchers from Italy and the Egyptian Museum have used X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to accurately find out what King Tut's knife was made of, according to an article published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

They found its makeup of iron, nickel and cobalt matched other meteorites in a database, and "strongly suggests its meteoritic origin."

The authors said the Egyptians knew what they were using.

"We suggest that ancient Egyptian attributed great value to meteoritic iron for the production of fine ornamental or ceremonial objects," the article said.

In fact, the authors say their findings may explain why Egyptians in the 13th Century BCE referred to a new hieroglyph that translates literally into "iron of the sky."

This, the researchers say, "suggests that the ancient Egyptians, in the wake of other ancient people of the Mediterranean area, were aware that these rare chunks of iron fell from the sky already in the 13th C. BCE, anticipating Western culture by more than two millennia."

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King Tut's dagger was 'made from a meteorite'

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It even suggests the Egyptians knew what they were working with. Archaeologists and historians have been fascinated by King Tut's mummified remains and the mysterious objects found in his tomb since their discovery in the 1920s. In the past, scientists have claimed that an iron dagger, found along with a gold blade in King Tut's tomb, may have come from meteorites.

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The last dog that searched for body's in and after 9/11 happened was layed to rest. This ca show a new era in our country. This also shows that we are moving on as a country but, we always keep in memory and remember the thing that happened that day. When that day happened our country changed the perspective on the Muslim race.

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Bretagne, believed to be the last surviving 9/11 Ground Zero search dog, was euthanized Monday. The golden retriever was 16. Old age had slowed her down.

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The 2016 summer Olympic games are to be held in Rio. But un-fortionetly Rio has been struck with a virus from mosquito names zika. This virus makes baby's heads smaller and deformed causing some serious birth defects. I think they should immediately shut down the Rio games and move the games to another country. Maybe move to a country where the zika virus is not likely to spread or just host the games on live TV with no audience

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A group of 125 public health experts sent a letter to World Health Organization director Dr. Margaret Chan to urge delaying or moving the 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil due to concerns about the Zika virus.

Gillian Mohney of ABC News passed along details from the group, which includes scientists, doctors and medical ethicists. They believe the issue could have a negative impact on the individuals traveling to the region for the Games:

Currently, many athletes, delegations, and journalists are struggling with the decision of whether to participate in the Rio 2016 Games. We agree with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommendation that workers should 'Consider delaying travel to areas with active Zika virus transmission.' If that advice were followed uniformly, no athlete would have to choose between risking disease and participating in a competition that many have trained for their whole lives.

The group cited numbers from the Brazilian government, including 120,000 probable Zika cases, as part of the reasoning. There have also been 1,300 confirmed cases of microcephaly, a birth defect that can occur if a pregnant woman is infected.

NYU Division of Medical Ethics director Art Caplan, one of the experts involved in the letter, told ABC News one of the biggest concerns when bringing people from around the world together is that the virus can be taken back to areas that hadn't previously been infected.

"We're worried about bringing the mosquito back to places it isn't, like India," Caplan said. "You have people who will be infected and ... there are people literally coming from everywhere."

Sandee LaMotte of CNN provided further details about Zika, noting it's a flavivirus from the same family as yellow fever and West Nile virus. The Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits the virus, which does not yet have a preventable vaccine or medication to treat an active case.

United States women's national soccer team goalkeeper Hope Solo has been outspoken about the issue in the months leading up to the Games. Matthew J. Belvedere of CNBC noted earlier this month she's decided to go "begrudgingly" after stating back in February she might skip the event.

"I strongly believe that no athlete should be put into this position-to decide between your Olympic dreams and your own health," Solo said on CNBC's Squawk Box.

She added: "I'm not sure I'm even going to be leaving the hotel room, outside of practice."

The BBC passed along a statement from International Olympic Committee medical director Richard Budgett in early May:

The clear statements from WHO that there should be no restrictions on travel and trade means there is no justification for canceling, delaying, postponing or moving the Rio Games.

The IOC will continue to monitor the situation very closely and work with the WHO, and we're confident as we've been advised by the experts that the situation will improve over the next three months.

Unless the IOC and WHO reverse course, the Opening Ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics will take place Aug. 5 in Rio.

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Public Health Experts Want 2016 Rio Olympics Moved Due to Zika Virus Concerns

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Felipe Dana/Associated Press A group of 125 public health experts sent a letter to World Health Organization director Dr. Margaret Chan to urge delaying or moving the 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil due to concerns about the Zika virus.

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Muhammad Ali was a world renown boxer a three time world heavyweight boxing champion. He never saw the color boundaries like other people did in the 1960's. Muhammad helped influence the public and community towards the movement of racial integration. He will always be remembered for his brave acts of courage.  Muhammad Ali is gone but his spirit and heart will always be with us.

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muhammad ali: inside his final hours - cnn

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Muhammad Ali, the iconic three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who died Friday, had recently shunned the public spotlight he once seemed to revere.

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Young Boy Falls into Endangered Gorilla Pit/Cage Killing Gorilla

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Young Boy Falls into Endangered Gorilla Pit/Cage Killing Gorilla

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A young 3 year old boy "fell" into a enclosed gorilla cage.This gorilla was a endangered Silver Back gorilla named Harambre. This is a very serious issue. The zoo staff said they killed the gorilla because the tranquilizer darts would have angered and frustrated the animal. This act had the potential to seriously injure the boy. I think this issue should not have been blown up as largely as it has been because issues like this have occurred in the past. My one question is...where were the parents during all of this ?

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gorilla killing: 3-year-old boy's mother won't be charged - cnn

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Gorilla killing: 3-year-old boy's mother won't be charged

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No charges will be filed against the mother of the 3-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo, the Hamilton County prosecutor's office in Ohio said Monday.

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Donald Trump is the Potential Rupublican Canadate 

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Donald Trump is the Potential Rupublican Canadate 

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In early 2016 Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee. This happened because Ted Cruz dropped out and then John Kasich dropped out soon after Cruz. This left trump as the Republican candidate. Trump has threatened many Americans that are different races and skin colors. Everyone thought his presidential candidacy was a joke at first this is no longer a joke this is a serious issue.

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How Did Donald Trump Become The Likely GOP Nominee?

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Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson traces Trump's path from his announcement to his primary election and caucus victories.