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Obama's transgender bathroom mandate and strange bedfellows

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Credit Suisse to cut up to 6,500 jobs after reporting $2.4 billion loss

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Dinner at Mar-a-Lago turned into a public situation room on Saturday night when President Donald Trump, who spent the day at the private club with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, received information that North Korea launched a new ballistic missile. As CNN reported, aides used flashlights on their mobile phones to help Trump and Abe read documents about the incident.

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It's Valentine's Day!!!!!!!

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The Expedia CEO said at the end of an otherwise routine conference call,"Just a big thank you to our global employee base for an improved 2016 and certainly an improved end to the year. And hopefully we will all be alive to see the end of next year."

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Flynn resigns amid controversy over Russia contacts

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People had to evacuate the city of Oroville California after threats of the Oroville dam breaking. Crews are working to fix the faulty system.

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But Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea on Tuesday cautioned residents and business owners to "maintain situational awareness" with a series of storms forecast for later in the week.

"People who have special needs or require extended time to evacuate should consider remaining evacuated," the sheriff said.

Heavy rains last week caused the lake level to rise until the water began to pour down the emergency spillway on Sunday. Authorities ordered people to leave the area when a hole developed in an eroded area of the spillway, affecting about 188,000 residents. Officials worried the spillway would fail, and one warned a "30-foot wall of water" could flood the communities below the dam.

Fears of such a disaster have largely been alleviated. Lake Oroville was down to a level of 887 feet on Tuesday, still 37 feet above where officials want it to be ahead of the forecast rain.

Dump trucks and cement mixers shuttled in material as workers rushed to fortify the damaged emergency spillway, which allows excess water to run out when the lake level rises above 901 feet. They dropped huge white bags filled with rocks into the hole that had opened up in the spillway, and deposited large chunks of concrete to protect it from future erosion.

With the work being done to increase outflow, Bill Croyle, the state's acting director of water resources, didn't expect that the emergency spillway will be needed, particularly since less rainfall is expected this week than in previous storms. The spillway should be repaired within 24 hours, he said.

"We have addressed the issue ... but will continue to increase our mitigation measures to increase its ability to handle a high-water event," Croyle told reporters.

Help from the air

Helicopters have been dropping bags of rocks into the gouged portion in an effort to plug the hole.

"Our crews are working around the clock, 24/7, to try to get as much rock as possible onto the damaged spillway before the next storms come," Cal Fire spokesman Josh Janssen said.

"We are feeling positive," said Al Duncan, spokesman for the response team.

Janssen said the lake level has been dropping about a foot every three hours -- and that rate could improve.

"Lakes are shaped like funnels, so we could see the water level start to drop faster," he said.

More rain expected

The next wave of rainfall will come overnight Wednesday into Thursday, CNN senior meteorologist Dave Hennen said. A series of storms will follow and last through the weekend.

Rainfall over the next week could total 5 to 12 inches and will likely push hundreds of billions of gallons of water back into Lake Oroville, Hennen said.

The National Weather Service forecast for the next seven days includes a chance of rain each day.

Request for federal aid

Gov. Jerry Brown said he had requested federal response aid. President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved federal funding through the the Federal Emergency Management Agency and declared an emergency in the state.

"FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide, at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the effects of the emergency," the White House said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer earlier cited the situation with the dam as "a textbook example of why we need to pursue a major infrastructure package in Congress. Dams, bridges, roads and all ports around the country have fallen into disrepair."

Tallest dam in the US

The Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in the United States, provides flood control for the region. The dam itself has no structural issues, but the two spillways that release water from the lake to prevent overflow have structural problems.

The main spillway, which is lined, or paved, has a hole almost the size of a football field and at least 40 feet deep.

It's being used to drain the lake at a rate of 100,000 cubic feet per second in an effort to reduce the water level. Normal flows down the main spillway are about 55,000 cubic feet per second.

The emergency spillway, which is an embankment covered with trees, is a last resort and was used for the first time in its 48-year history on Saturday. Lake water began washing into it this weekend and prompted the evacuation order when officials noticed damage.

How did we get here?

Questions remain over how it got to this point at Lake Oroville. Why weren't more efforts made to prevent spillway erosion after concerns were raised more than 10 years ago?

Croyle said he was "not familiar with 2005 documentation or conversation" about spillway concerns and emphasized the efforts underway to understand the current dynamics of the dam.

"We're going to continue to work on the challenges we have," he said.

The governor defended the state's flood infrastructure Monday and said he welcomed "more scrutiny" as efforts continue.

Evacuee: 'They've all been good to us'

Oroville resident Cheri Rorick said Tuesday she has always thought the Oroville Dam is one of the prettiest spots in the county.

"I don't think you even think about it. It's beautiful, you want to go look at it," she said while folding clothes in the back of her pickup.

Rorick, who had been forced from her home and into a shelter just off a rural two-lane stretch of Oroville Bangor Highway, thinks that now "maybe it's not so pretty."

She said when she first heard about the dam's problems, she didn't believe it. Then her landlord told her to evacuate. She hastily gathered her things.

"It didn't sink in right away, but when it did you just kind of piled everything together and did what you could. I couldn't fit everything in my suitcase, so I just kind of brought it like that," Rorick said, pointing at the suitcase she was trying to organize on the bed of her pickup.

Rorick was staying at the shelter with her mother and her aunt and uncle, who are visiting from Ohio.

"They've all been good to us here," Rorick said.

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But Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea on Tuesday cautioned residents and business owners to "maintain situational awareness" with a series of storms forecast for later in the week. "People who have special needs or require extended time to evacuate should consider remaining evacuated," the sheriff said.

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he British government has formally rejected the online petition calling for President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK to be canceled or downgraded.

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In a statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office posted Tuesday on the petition's web page, the government said it "recognizes the strong views expressed by the many signatories of this petition, but does not support this petition."

The statement added that the invitation, which Prime Minister Theresa May extended to President Trump during her visit to Washington last month, "reflects the importance of the relationship between the United States of America and the United Kingdom."

No date fixed yet

Final dates for Trump's visit have yet to be agreed, but the Foreign Office reply to the petition confirmed "HM Government believes the President of the United States should be extended the full courtesy of a State Visit. We look forward to welcoming President Trump once dates and arrangements are finalized."

The petition attracted over 1.8 million signatures, easily crossing the 100,000 signature threshold required for it to be debated in Parliament.

Embarrassment to Queen

The petition stopped short of calling for a ban on Trump's proposed UK visit but said he "should not be invited to make an official State Visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."

The Government was compelled to reply to the petition, which recognized Trump's right to come to the UK because it garnered more

MPs are scheduled to debate the petition in the House of Commons on Monday.

They will also debate a rival 310,000-strong petition in support of the state visit after they both reached the 100,000 signatures threshold to be considered for discussion in Parliament, the Press Association reported.

Support for the call to downgrade Trump's visit snowballed after he imposed a travel ban on nationals from seven mainly Muslim countries.

Gun salute for Trump

May's invitation to Trump, which was made during a joint press conference in Washington last month, caused anger both inside Parliament and with the public.

Last month, in an letter to The Times newspaper the former head of the Foreign Office, Peter Ricketts, said May had put the Queen in a "very difficult position" and should protect her by downgrading Trump's invitation to an "official visit".

This would deprive President Trump of a ride in the Queen's carriage, gun salutes, a banquet at Buckingham Palace and other ceremonial honors.

An official visit usually means just talks with the Prime Minister and a low-profile courtesy call on the monarch.

No US President has received a state visit in his first year in office, making Trump's invite unprecedented.

President Barack Obama was afforded the honor 28 months into his tenure, while George W. Bush was extended the invite after 32 months.

House of Commons Speaker opposed to Trump address

Last week the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, said he was "strongly opposed" to letting Trump address lawmakers during his visit because of Parliament's "opposition to racism and sexism."

Bercow is one of three parliamentary officials who must approve any invitation for someone to speak in Westminster Hall, the venue typically used for grand occasions of state.

Speaking in response to a motion signed by 163 MPs calling for Trump not to be afforded a Westminster Hall audience, Bercow said "an address by a foreign leader to both Houses of Parliament is not an automatic right, it is an earned honor." His comments have led to calls for his resignation from fellow Conservative MP's who support Trump.

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In a statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office posted Tuesday on the petition's web page, the government said it "recognizes the strong views expressed by the many signatories of this petition, but does not support this petition."

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Blue Valley High School coach hospitalized

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MGM Grand was packed full when former UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva takes on Nate Diaz. Anderson holds the longest title streak. He got injured not to long ago, this was his first fight back

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MMA News & results for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Strikeforce & more Mixed Martial Arts fights

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Woman in NYC dies from escalator fall

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Avery Antill - Kim Jong Un's half-brother assassinated in Malaysia

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Mexico is one of the top buyers of American corn in the world today. And Mexican senator Armando Rios Piter, who leads a congressional committee on foreign relations, says he will introduce a bill this week where Mexico will buy corn from Brazil and Argentina instead of the United States.

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Michael Flynn resigns amid controversy over Russia contacts

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Uconn Women basketball wins 100 straight games 98 of those were by double digits and 56 by 40 points or more

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Mr. Kohl- UConn women's basketball RECORDS 100TH STRAIGHT WIN! A record that will never be broken.

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Mr. Kohl- UConn women's basketball RECORDS 100TH STRAIGHT WIN! A record that will never be broken.

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Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999.

STORRS, Conn. -- So little about this makes sense. What is one more unfathomable number?

It doesn't make sense that a basketball program that hadn't won 100 games in its history when Geno Auriemma arrived prior to the 1985-86 season has now won 100 games in a row.

It doesn't make sense that the year after Connecticut won a fourth consecutive national title on the strength of a senior class comprised of arguably the three best players in the nation, those who remained behind have beaten six of the top eight teams in the most recent AP Top 25.

It doesn't make sense that on a night when Katie Lou Samuelson couldn't hit a shot, Kia Nurse couldn't run and Napheesa Collier couldn't stay out of foul trouble, No. 1 UConn beat No. 6 South Carolina 66-55 in large part by outplaying the best post tandem in the country.

It doesn't make sense that amidst Connecticut countryside recently buried under so much snow that even Gabby Williams couldn't leap over the drifts, students said they waited outside for six hours to secure seats in the front row at Gampel Pavilion.

What Williams does on a basketball court definitely doesn't make sense. On any level.

So, yes, it is difficult to know what to do with this latest number. It is ridiculous. The two longest winning streaks in women's basketball not involving UConn add up to only 100.

It's why someone recently asked Auriemma what makes his program different. It's not a new question but a pertinent one that 300-plus other Division I programs still can't answer.

"Unless you're in our locker room every day and unless you're at our practice every day," Auriemma said, "and unless you go through what these kids go through every day and put up with what they put up with every day from us as a coaching staff, it's impossible to explain."

With 26 points and 14 rebounds, Gabby Williams helped seal the Huskies' landmark 100th straight win -- and the junior forward embodies all the qualities that have made UConn the standard-bearer.

A group of UConn legends -- from Breanna Stewart to Maya Moore to Sue Bird -- were at Gampel Pavilion on Monday night to watch the Huskies' streak hit the 100 mark.

UConn hadn't lost since November 2014, winning an NCAA-record 111 straight games that included two NCAA titles and a 38-0 season in 2015-16. Mississippi State snapped the historic run Friday.

But not impossible to demonstrate.

No group of players has been better at that than this group.

"You figure it out right away," said Nurse, who wouldn't comment on any possible injury but whom Auriemma noted, confirming what was readily apparent, could barely run. "And I think it's the way the vets teach you how we do every drill, how we lift, how we work out. And the importance of each little detail in what we do. That's something that you learn right away."

That wasn't supposed to be enough for this team. Institutional memory has its limits. Even here. UConn entered the season as a four-time defending champion working on one of the longest winning streaks in history. It did not enter the season ranked No. 1, which tells you something about the benefit of doubt not extended this particular group of returning players.

Still, the Huskies survived the frantic final seconds of the season opener against Florida State and grew through wins against Baylor, Maryland, Notre Dame and Texas that were, by and large, more convincing than fraught. But Auriemma, rarely prone to false humility or perfunctory platitudes, contended that Monday's game against South Carolina worried him more than any of those had.

UConn's liabilities this season are its short bench and its lack of size, Collier and Williams often surrendering inches in the post. South Carolina's strength was its size, A'ja Wilson and Alaina Coates the twin hearts of a lineup that had produced 223 more rebounds than their opponents, opponents who had committed 95 more fouls than the Gamecocks.

Williams and Collier finished with 44 points and 23 rebounds, Wilson and Coates 27 points and 20 rebounds.

Auriemma warned people his team was an injury away from being average. Nurse looked far from her normal self in limited minutes but freshman Crystal Dangerfield came off the bench to play 30 minutes and total seven assists that mostly involved disappearing amidst bigger South Carolina bodies.

Others worried that too many points came from too few sources. Samuelson had perhaps her worst shooting performance (2-for-12 from the field) of the season. It didn't matter.

Both teams missed shots they might make other nights, but it was South Carolina that made the mistakes -- committed the turnovers and gave up the rebounds that decided the outcome. Connecticut didn't beat itself. And no one else has proved capable of it.

"Our defense was not bad," South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. "I thought we did a really good job with that. It's just we let our guard down, and when you let your guard down, a team like UConn is going to make you pay every time."

She paused for a beat, then almost whispered the final two words again. Every time.

One hundred times in a row, for those counting.

"Given where we started and where people projected us to be," Auriemma said of reaching triple digits, "given who we have coming back and given who everybody else had coming back, for them to do it is, I think, very appropriate. And they probably feel better about it than maybe last year's team would have, a big win like this against a really good team in an amazing environment. We had to do it under somewhat difficult circumstances. ... But somehow or another we figured out a way to do it."

This is not a team that is great by UConn standards, not yet and maybe not ever. When the comparison points are teams that had the likes of Sue Bird, Swin Cash and Diana Taurasi or Moriah Jefferson, Breanna Stewart and Morgan Tuck, the bar is set high. Many of those former stars were seated a few rows behind the UConn bench on Monday, close enough that Auriemma joked he thought about using a couple of them when he looked at his scant substitution options.

But what they saw had to look familiar. It is familiar to those students who waited to see history (and, yes, get some face time on national television), even though some weren't old enough to have firsthand memories of the Bird highlights that played in the arena.

"We're extremely conscious," Nurse said of the history. "We understand that everything that we have here, all the opportunities we have and the benefits that we have about being this program strictly come from what they've done to build it into what it is today. I think even in practices, when you're dead tired, you can see the banners on the wall with their names and understand that they went through it and they pushed through it and they got this to what it is."

It makes this group the perfect group to reach a number like 100. The streak wasn't their creation, little of it their work. But it was theirs to maintain. It was entrusted upon them.

Nothing changes at UConn. Now not even the results.

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Feb 14, 2017 Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. STORRS, Conn. -- So little about this makes sense. What is one more unfathomable number?

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FYI that if you like Sargento cheese they are having a recall onproducts due to Listeria.

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Sargento Foods Inc. announced over the weekend that certain packages of its Ultra Thin Sliced Longhorn Colby and Chef Blends Shredded Nacho & Taco Cheese must be recalled "due to a potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes."

Listeriosis is a serious infection that's usually caused by eating contaminated food and can be particularly dangerous for pregnant women and older people. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches and sometimes diarrhea or other gastrointestinal problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Approximately 1,600 cases are reported in the United States every year, with 260 resulting in death, according to the CDC.

Sargento said on its website that it ordered the recall after being notified by a supplier in Indiana that its Longhorn Colby cheese may have been contaminated.

The cheese in question was all packaged at Sargento's plant in Plymouth, Wisconsin. The company said it was recalling five additional products packaged at that same facility "out of an abundance of caution."

Those include Sliced Colby-Jack Cheese, Sliced Pepper Jack Cheese, Chef Blends Shredded Taco Cheese, Off The Block Shredded Fine Cut Colby-Jack Cheese and Off The Block Shredded Fine Cut Cheddar Jack Cheese.

Sargento said there have been no confirmed reports of illnesses. The company urges consumers to go online and check the UPC code on their cheese to see whether it is affected by the recall.

"The safety of our consumers and our employees is our top priority at Sargento and at the very heart of all we do," said a statement on the company's website.

Other companies have also started recalling items that may have used Sargento products.

The recall prompted Taylor Farms to recall 6,630 pounds of chicken and pork salad products that may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes. Sargento supplies some cheese products to Taylor Farms.

Taylor Farms said certain packages of its Signature Cafe Southwest Chicken Premade Salad, Signature Café Southwest Style Salad with Chicken and H-E-B Shake Rattle & Bowl Rowdy Ranch Hand were subject to the recall.

A statement from the US Food Safety and Inspection Service said the salad products being recalled had been shipped to distribution centers in Los Angeles and Tracy, California; Portland, Oregon; and Houston, Roanoke and San Antonio, Texas.

Country Fresh is recalling 2,552 cases of cooking and snacking products that contain Sargento-branded cheeses.

The recalled products include Tuscan Style Mushrooms, Stuffed Mushrooms, Southwest Stuffed Mushrooms, Marketside Garlic Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms and Ready Fresh Go Fruit and Hatch Pepper Cheese.

The products were shipped to retailers in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

MDS Foods recalled products found to be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes and other products that may have been contaminated.

The contaminated products include Amish Classics Colby Deli (Mini) Horns, Amish Classics Colby Fullmoons, Deli Readi Colby Mini Cheese Slices, Deli Made EZ Colby Cheese Slices, Meijer Colby Jack (Mini) Horns and Meijer Colby (Mini) Horns.

The list of other cheese products being recalled by MDS Foods can be found here.

Choice Farms initiated a recall of seven individual trays of stuffed mushrooms with contaminated cheese that were sold Friday at a handful of Kroger stores in Texas and Kansas.

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Sargento Foods Inc. announced over the weekend that certain packages of its Ultra Thin Sliced Longhorn Colby and Chef Blends Shredded Nacho & Taco Cheese must be recalled "due to a potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes." Listeriosis is a serious infection that's usually caused by eating contaminated food and can be particularly dangerous for pregnant women and older people.