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Last Look: Russia's Arctic expansion

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Fareed takes a look at a Russian military drill, complete with reindeer and huskies. What's behind their moves in the Arctic?

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Space changes chemical make up of body

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Fighting flares in eastern Ukraine. Fighting in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian armed forces is escalating, officials have warned.

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L.A Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets in a fairly close game

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Muneera Begum, now aged 19, lives in Hyderabad, India. She says she was just 12 years old when her parents sold her into a forced marriage with a man from Oman. He was aged 70.

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Woman Calls Police to Report Her Drug Dealer For Hiking Prices

The unnamed woman rang officers in the remote Northern Territory, Australia, in the hope they would intervene over the cost of marijuana.

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For Honor Open Beta coming February 9th

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For Honor Open Beta Coming To a System Near You

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For those that didn't get to play in the For Honor closed beta last weekend. Ubisoft has confirmed that the For Honor open beta will take place from February 9-12. The open beta will include the new

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Girl diagnosed with "tree man"syndrome

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Heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine

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Apple considering legal action over Trump's travel ban

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Army Corps ordered to approve final step to finish Dakota Access Pipeline

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Dakota Access Pipeline: 'Rogue' protesters arrested

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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe says a "rogue group of protesters" have put their cause at risk after reports that the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline project may have cleared a final hurdle.

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Oreo lovers: You may want to book a flight to Asia soon as McDonald's Hong Kong now has a menu crafted just for you.

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Oreo lovers: You may want to book a flight to Asia soon as McDonald's Hong Kong now has a menu crafted just for you.

The Golden Arches chain has rolled out a menu devoted entirely to the chocolate-creme sandwich cookie that includes shakes, cakes, pies, pastries and flavored coffee.

Pop Sugar reported the McCafé x Oreo menu includes a Chocolate Cheese Tart and Oreo Tiramisu, as well as the Oreoccino in either hot or iced, and the Oreo Tiramisu Latte, which is served hot with a dollop of whipped cream and Oreo crumbles on top.

Foodies in Hong Kong are already taking to Instagram to share what they're noshing on at the McCafé by using the hashtag #ANewWayToTwist, nodding to some Oreo fanatics' preference to twist the top off the sandwich cookie.

Oreo's most popular flavor is still the chocolate cookie with a plain creme but the chain has been experimenting with several wacky flavors recently - an approach Nabisco argues has helped extend the treat's life span. In 2016, the brand released Cinnamon Bun Oreos, Chocolate Chip Cookie Oreos and even Swedish Fish Oreos.
THE WORLD'S MOST BIZARRE OREOS

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McDonald's Hong Kong rolls out Oreo-only menu

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Oreo lovers: You may want to book a flight to Asia soon as McDonald's Hong Kong now has a menu crafted just for you. The Golden Arches chain has rolled out a menu devoted entirely to the chocolate-creme sandwich cookie that includes shakes, cakes, pies, pastries and flavored coffee.

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Missouri plays Florida tomorrow at 7:00

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Resistance from within: Federal workers push back against Trump

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Woman called police over drug dealer's 'outrageous' marijuana price hike

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Australian authorities received a call from a woman complaining about the price increase of marijuana in her community.

Sound unusual? That's because it is! It managed to top the list of 'unusual' calls according to a Facebook post from The Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services.

The post that recounts the bizarre incident has been shared over 13,000 times.

According to authorities, "completely offended, the woman demanded that police investigate this 'outrageous' price hike." However, when she was asked for further details she hung up.

In the post, police went on to say "If you know a drug dealer who is ripping you off, give us a call, we'd love to help."

Is your drug dealer ripping you off? A call to police yesterday had to top the list of 'unusual'. A woman called...
Posted by Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services on Sunday, January 29, 2017

Some people got a major kick out of the post, calling it "golden" and "best police post."

Others, perhaps felt more or less like the woman who made the call.

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Woman called police over drug dealer's 'outrageous' marijuana price hike

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Australian authorities received a call from a woman complaining about the price increase of marijuana in her community. Sound unusual? That's because it is! It managed to top the list of 'unusual' calls according to a Facebook post from The Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services.

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Volunteer wrestling coach at Lee’s Summit HS accused of ‘inappropriate contact’ with two female students

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Frank Pellegrino, dies at the age 72 after a long battle with lung cancer

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No. 4 OLB fools audience with USC choice - ESPN Video

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Levi Jones starts with Florida, switches to Florida State and then changes shirts at the last moment to USC.

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Senate Republicans took an extraordinary step Wednesday to move forward with two of President Donald Trump's top Cabinet nominees after confronting a boycott from Democrats.

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The US Army has been ordered to allow the construction of the final section of a controversial oil pipeline.

North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said the Army Corps of Engineers had been directed to allow work under Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River.

Native Americans, who have protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline for months, vowed legal action to stop it.

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order signalling his support for the pipeline.

But the president has insisted the order was contingent upon pipeline makers using US-made materials and equipment.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, which has approval authority, decided last year to explore other routes for the pipeline amid huge protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

What is the Dakota Pipeline?

In pictures - Standing Rock protests

In an announcement on Tuesday, Mr Hoeven said that the acting Secretary of the Army, Robert Speer, had ordered the corps to allow the work necessary to complete the pipeline.

The US Army said on Wednesday it had taken the first steps to "expeditiously review requests for approvals" to build and operate the pipeline, but that does not mean the project is set to move forward.

"The Assistant Secretary for the Army Civil Works will make a decision on the pipeline once a full review and analysis is completed in accordance with the directive," the Army said in a statement.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe had earlier said that the Army has to wait for the results of a scheduled environmental impact study (EIS) that was ordered in January.

"The Army Corps lacks statutory authority to simply stop the EIS," they said in a statement.

The $3.7bn (£2.8bn) pipeline is designed to transport about 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day across four states, from North Dakota to a terminal in Illinois, where it can be shipped to refineries.

The Sioux say the final section would contaminate drinking water and damage sacred burial sites. They and their supporters have set up a Sacred Stone spiritual camp near the Missouri river.

Just four days after taking office, President Trump signed an executive order in favour of the pipeline. He told the Army to quickly reconsider its decision to explore other routes.

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The US Army has been ordered to allow the construction of the final section of a controversial oil pipeline. North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said the Army Corps of Engineers had been directed to allow work under Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River.

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The US army is manufacturing bullets that won't kill someone once they hit them. They will be used for warfare training.

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The US army is seeking proposals for biodegradable ammunition to replace the existing rounds used in training -- including grenade and tank rounds - citing environmental concerns.

"Components of current training rounds require hundreds of years or more to biodegrade," states the Department of Defense brief. "Some of these rounds might have the potential to corrode and pollute the soil and nearby water."

The DoD stipulates that the new ammunition should, instead, contain seeds that produce food for animals: "This effort will make use of seeds to grow environmentally friendly plants that remove soil contaminants and consume the biodegradable components developed under this project. Animals should be able to consume the plants without any ill effects."

This eye-catching proposal may seem far-fetched, but the brief goes on to claim that US army researchers have already succeeded in embedding seeds into biodegradable material to flower months later.

Ripe targets

Military facilities account for 900 of the 1300 most polluted sites in the US, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A comprehensive clean-up could cost $165 billion, according to the DoD.

Much of the damage is historic, pre-dating awareness of environmental issues.

"(Military bases) tend to have older buildings with lead paint and asbestos problems," says Skip Kazmarek, an environmental lawyer who has studied military sites. "If a base was operating in World War Two it might have burn pits for waste oil and solvents, and it can be a pretty nasty area."

But modern sites also generate toxic waste; from burning explosives to chemical leaks and heavy metal deposits -- including massive lead pollution.

Lead poisoning can cause serious health conditions including brain damage, as well as polluting the environment. Millions of lead bullets are fired each year on military firing ranges, which rapidly reach high levels of contamination according to an Environmental Working Group report.

"The lead in ammunition tends to build up over years and it can leach into groundwater and pose threats to wildlife," says Kazmarek. "You could improve environmental quality with a change from lead bullets."

The future's green?

Efforts to produce sustainable ammunition are intensifying, and producing a series of innovations.

The US army has experimented with tungsten bullets, but reverted to lead over health risks. Canada recently unveiled a new " green" bullet designed to reduce contamination.

"This idea of reducing toxic metal poisoning has been gaining traction for the past 25 years," says Nic Jenzen-Jones, director of the Armament Research Services. "Particularly over the last 10 years there has been a push towards assessing the projectiles of different weapon systems to see if they can be made less harmful to users and the environment."

Western militaries are scaling up research and development of ammunition with a neutral or positive environmental impact, says Jenzen-Jones, citing the progress of Norwegian company Nammo in producing lead-free bullets that have been adopted by the Swedish army.

There are hurdles to overcome -- such as cost, performance and compatibility with existing equipment -- but the arms expert believes that sustainability has become a priority.

"Militaries understand the cost trade-off of going green (and) they are happy to spend a little more to receive the environmental benefits," says Jenzen-Jones. He points to the DoD's increasing role in conservation and species protection as a sign of intent.

Military practices could follow the example of sport shooting, which has pioneered sustainable ammunition. Nations such as Denmark have banned lead bullets for hunting, and former President Obama made one of his final commands a crackdown on their use in wildlife refuges.

Hunters are also leading civil society campaigns against lead pollution.

The edible grenades may be some time in arriving, but the US army appears ready to do battle with its toxic footprint.

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Ted Cruz reportedly says nuclear option is on table in Supreme Court pick

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in an interview Tuesday that "all procedural options are on the table" when it comes to confirming a strong conservative to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.

President Trump nominated federal Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, choosing a jurist widely seen by conservatives as a fitting successor to the late Scalia - and touching off what is sure to be a fierce confirmation battle with Senate Democrats already vowing resistance.

"The Democrats are not going to succeed in filibustering the Supreme Court nominee," Cruz told Politico. "All procedural options are on the table. The bottom line is we will confirm a strong conservative to replace Justice Scalia."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will oppose any nominee outside the mainstream. He will likely decide whether to try to lead an effort to block, or filibuster, based on the nominee's performance in confirmation hearings and feedback from his Democratic caucus, including the 10 senators who are up for re-election in states that Trump won last year.

The advantages of trying a filibuster are clear - make Republicans work to find the 60 votes needed to end it, including at least eight Democrats, and as a result, delay or block the nomination. Republicans hold a 52-48 majority.

But there are also downsides. Democrats running for re-election next year in states Trump won in 2016 could face political consequences for their party's attempted obstruction. And if Republicans change the rules and eliminate the filibuster altogether, Democrats would have lost their most powerful weapon in future Supreme Court fights.

Republicans did not try to filibuster either of former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominees. The only filibuster attempt in the past few decades was by Democrats against Justice Samuel Alito, nominated by former President George W. Bush. The effort failed and Alito was confirmed.

If Republicans are unable to secure enough Democratic votes for Trump's pick, they can change the rules and curb the filibuster.

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., did that for lower court nominees and other nominations in 2013.

Trump has called on McConnell to kill the filibuster if Democrats resist his pick, but McConnell said the decision is not up to Trump.

"That's not a presidential decision. That's a Senate decision," McConnell told Politico.
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in an interview Tuesday that "all procedural options are on the table" when it comes to confirming a strong conservative to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.

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Mr. Kohl- President Trump tapped federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court.

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Mr. Kohl- President Trump tapped federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court.

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Within minutes of President Trump's nomination of federal judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, several hundred demonstrators had converged on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to protest his selection.

Waving signs proclaiming, "Gorsuch: Extreme and Dangerous" and "#NoWall #NoBan," the protesters and a stream of speakers linked the conservative nominee to the administration's unconstitutional ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries, and pledged to defy both.
"This is the most egregious insult in the history of Supreme Court nominations," declared Terry O'Neil, president of the National Organization of Women, triggering a chant of "Stolen seat, stolen seat!"

"Until this administration begins to respect the U.S. Constitution, it would be unconscionable to consider an extremist nominee to the court," said Ben Wikler, Washington director of MoveOn.org.

"Leave it to Trump to distract the country from a constitutional crisis by appointing a right-wing litmus test judge to the court," said Nancy Schoolmacher of College Park, Maryland. "We just had to come down and do something," added her friend, Barb Considine, standing in the throng of people and TV cameras.

The night began when Trump, in a short White House speech, nominated Judge Gorsuch from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver to the court. Calling his nomination process the "most transparent" ever, President Trump picked an ultraconservative who is expected to follow in the footsteps of the justice he is replacing, Antonin Scalia, the court's most ideological right-winger, who died last February.

Gorsuch's nomination sets the stage for one of the biggest domestic political fights in years, after Senate Republicans spent nearly a year willfully ignoring their constitutional responsibility to consider President Obama's nominee to the court, Merrick Garland. Gorsuch, despite a reportedly mild-mannered temperament, is known for his anti-choice and anti-LGBT stances, pro-employer rulings in labor disputes, anti-regulatory attitudes, dismissal of scientific expertise, and pro-police bias in brutality cases, according to statements from public interest groups issued after the announcement.

The nomination comes amid unprecedented political and popular resistance to Trump's presidency. In recent days, there have been escalating protests over Trump's anti-Muslim executive orders, his firing of the acting attorney general late Monday night after she said that Trump's decrees were unconstitutional and violated the Justice Department's historic civil rights mission, and after Democratic senators refused to attend confirmation hearings Tuesday for two Trump cabinet nominees they said had lied to them.

"During his over 10 years on the federal bench, Judge Gorsuch has proven to be a conservative ideologue who has consistently ruled against civil rights, women's rights and workers' rights. And he has expounded a judicial philosophy that would prevent the federal government from properly enforcing countless acts of Congress," said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "The president could have nominated an independent or consensus candidate for this seat, someone like Merrick Garland, whose record has proven to be unimpeachable. Instead, he chose Neil Gorsuch to be a rubber stamp and another 'yes man' for this administration."

Michael Keegan, president of People for the American Way, was also quick to criticize Gorsuch as an extreme right-winger. "Over the course of his career, he's turned his back on fundamental American rights, from shutting down claims of gender discrimination in the workplace, to trying to limit Americans' ability to join class-action lawsuits to challenge corporate wrong-doing, to ruling in the original Hobby Lobby [Obamacare] decision that corporations are people and can refuse to offer their employees birth control, to claiming that a police officer could not be sued for using excessive force when his stun gun killed a young man running from police simply because he was growing marijuana plants," he said. "That's appalling."

"Over the past 10 years... Gorsuch has written at least 15 labor and employment rulings," said National Nurses United's statement. "Gorsuch's opinions aligned with employers in eight of the 12 cases. Additionally, Gorsuch wrote three opinions upholding National Labor Relations Board rulings against both employers and unions."

"With Judge Neil Gorsuch, the stakes couldn't be higher when it comes to women and our lives," said NARAL Pro-Choice America's president Ilyse Hogue. "Gorsuch represents an existential threat to legal abortion in the United States and must never wear the robes of a Supreme Court justice."

Indeed, virtually every issue and concern that is in the public interest is threatened by the Supreme Court nomination. After Scalia died in early 2016, the court was left with a four-four conservative-liberal split on most contentious social and economic issues. The GOP, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, refused even to hold hearings for Obama's nominee, a federal appeals court chief judge who sailed through nomination hearings for that post several years before.

Supreme Court justices typically serve for a quarter century or more, meaning that the court's ideological center was poised to move to the left. The Republicans essentially stole Obama's final appointment, hoping that a Republican president would be elected in 2016 and keep the court as a right-wing majority.
Day of Growing Rage On the Hill
Trump's announcement comes against a backdrop of mounting opposition by Democrats in Congress and large swaths of the public in both blue and red states. Even before he fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates late Monday, Senate Democrats had flocked to airports and attended rallies to protest Trump's decree that the U.S. would take no more war refugees from Syria and would block travelers from seven Muslim counties for 90 days. (He also issued orders to ramp up the domestic deportation machinery and to penalize sanctuary cities that would not cooperate with immigration police.)

On the Supreme Court steps Monday night, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY; Sen. Ben Cardin, D-MD; Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA; Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT; Sen. Al Franken, D-MN; and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CN all held forth against the executive order banning travelers from Muslim countries, including, initially, legal residents who hold green cards.

What was notable in their statements was their determination to resist Trump's right-wing policies.

"We now must be determined to fight for the long haul," Booker said.

"We stand with our fellow human beings who flee terrorism," Warren said. "We will band together to fight Donald Trump as he tries to put himself above the law of the United States."

"We do not hate the Muslim people and we want them to know that," Sanders said. "So we say to President Trump, rescind that ban."

Those protests were a prelude to Tuesday's boycott by Democrats of the Senate Finance Committee's proceedings to vote on Steve Mnuchin's nomination for Treasury Secretary and Rep. Tom Price's nomination for Health and Human Services Secretary, denying the a quorum needed to vote on their nominations and bring them before the full Senate. The Democrats cited Mnuchin's and Price's false statements, with Mnuchin denying that the mortgage lending giant he oversaw had not abused borrowers, and Price denying that he cashed in on stocks in healthcare companies under his congressional jurisdiction.

The Democrats' absence forced the GOP to postpone voting on those nominees. At the same time in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats railed against Trump's firing of Sally Yates and said that Trump's pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL, helped design the Muslim travel ban that Yates called unconstitutional and refused to implement.

"Yesterday, early in the evening, we saw what a truly independent attorney general does," the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, said. "That is what an attorney general must be willing and able to do. I have no confidence that Sen. Sessions will do that. Instead, he has been the fiercest, most dedicated and most loyal promoter in Congress of the Trump agenda, and has played a critical role in the clearinghouse for policy and philosophy to undergird the implementation of that agenda."

The Democrats managed to postpone the Judiciary Committee's vote on Sessions on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, ran into new opposition when Democrats discovered that some of her answers to their questionnaire had apparently been plagiarized, according to the Washington Post.

Elsewhere, however, Senate committees confirmed Elaine Chao-Mitch McConnell's wife-to beTrump's transportation secretary, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be energy secretary and Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-MT, for interior secretary.

At the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-UT, told a half-empty room that the Democrats do not have the votes to stop any of Trump's cabinet appointments. That is because the GOP needs only a simply majority to confirm them.

"I'm really disappointed that my friends on the other side, Democrats on the other side, are deliberately boycotting," he said. "Why that's an important thing for them, I'll never understand, because these two nominees are going to go through regardless."

"I think this is a completely unprecedented level of obstruction... We did not inflict this kind of obstructionism on President Obama," Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, R-PA, chimed in. "This is not what the American people expect of the United States Senate."

Both of those statements-and others like them from Republican senators-are utterly disingenuous, especially in light of the Senate GOP's obstruction and theft of Obama's Supreme Court nomination. Under the Senate's current rules-which the Republicans may yet jettison-Trump's nominee needs 60 votes to be confirmed. This is Trump's only appointment that Senate Democrats have the power to block, and the stakes could not be more consequential.

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Neil Gorsuch: President Trump's anti-choice pick for the Supreme Court

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Within minutes of President Trump's nomination of federal judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, several hundred demonstrators had converged on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to protest his selection.