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Mattis' Pentagon pick seen as supporter of Muslim Brotherhood, group Trump may outlaw

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President Trump's defense secretary wants the Pentagon's top civilian job to go to a onetime prominent supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, a group Trump may designate as a terrorist organization.

Not surprisingly, the White House is resisting the choice by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general, of Anne Patterson to be undersecretary of defense for policy -- the Pentagon's fourth most powerful position.

While Patterson's bona fides are not in question - she has served as an ambassador to Egypt, Pakistan, Colombia, El Salvador and the United Nations, along with being President Obama's assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs - there is widespread concern, both at home and abroad, about her close ties to ousted Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Patterson's support of Morsi and his Islamist government - and her denunciation of the 2013 protests against the Egyptian leader as mere "street protests" - saw herself become the target of widespread criticism. Demonstrators plastered her face on signs and banners and made her the public face of the Obama administration's policies in the North African nation.

"President Trump must go ahead with his listing of the Brotherhood."

- Sheikh Mohammed el Hajj Hassan, American-Muslim Alliance

"The biggest pushback [from the White House] is that she was ambassador to Egypt immediately before and after the Morsi presidency," a person familiar with the conversations told Politico. For Mattis' part, he has "put her name forward and he doesn't quite understand why people have an objection," the person said.

Her poor standing among the Egyptian public seems to have rubbed off on President Trump and others within the White House at a time when the president is considering declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

Trump himself was often critical of President Obama's outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has proposed a bill to call for declaring the Brotherhood a terror organization. In the past, it has been accused of supporting terrorist groups around the world, and several countries, including Muslim nations, have banned them.

The Brotherhood's critics include prominent Muslim leaders in the U.S. and around the world, with prominent sheikhs of both Shia and Sunni Muslim groups accusing it of engaging in terrorism.

"President Trump must go ahead with his listing of the Brotherhood," Sheikh Mohammed el Hajj Hassan, founder of the American-Muslim Alliance, told Fox News. "This group since its inception practiced killing, crimes and terror attacks in the Arab world. In Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and other countries their clerics call for violence."

The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt in the 1920s with the stated goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic caliphate, or empire, ruled under Sharia law. Egypt declared it a terror group in 2013 after the government blamed it for a bombing of a police headquarters that killed 16, even though the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood denied involvement and condemned the attack.

The Defense Department isn't the only government agency that has been battling with the White House over its picks - last month Secretary of State Rex Tillerson saw his top choice for deputy secretary of state denied by Trump - but Mattis appears to be the most adamant about staffing his department and has the least amount of qualms with battling it out with the White House.

The tug-of-war between Mattis and the White House has meant that not a single undersecretary or deputy secretary to the Defense Department has been nominated to a post. For his part Mattis' deputy, Robert Work, is a holdover from the Obama administration and is only staying on until the secretary can get his own deputy nominated.

"Mattis is a guy who cares very much about personnel," a friend close to Mattis said. "He doesn't want people off the tracks that he has laid down and that he's running his train on."

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Mattis' Pentagon pick seen as supporter of Muslim Brotherhood, group Trump may outlaw

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has apparently run into stiff opposition from President Trump and his staff over the retired Marine Corp general's choice of former ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson to fill the role of the fourth most powerful person at the Pentagon.

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Coaches and execs all around the U.S make educated picks for the March Madness tournament Champions

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138 coaches and execs make their NCAA Tournament champion picks

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We polled some of basketball's top minds on who will win the NCAA Tournament.

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South korean president park guene hye was impeached today by unanimous votes

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No. 1 bestseller on Amazon is a 266 blank page book

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Amazon bestseller: 266 blank pages on why to vote Democrat

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Knowles is a Yale graduate and correspondent for the Daily Wire, a conservative website. He self-published the book, which contains only headers and a bibliography, along with 266 empty pages. The book, a clear attempt to troll Democrats, has set the internet on fire and vaulted to the No.

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Royal Caribbean came out with a flurry of announcements Wednesday, including the name and details of their newest and largest ship to date.

Here's what you need to know.
1. Symphony of the Seas will be the new largest ship in the world.
The newest ship in the Royal Caribbean fleet, which they've named Symphony of the Seas, will launch in April 2018 as the largest ship in the world, surpassing its sister ship Harmony of the Seas.

Weighing in at 230,000 gross tons, Symphony will be more like a small floating city than a cruise ship. Its 18 decks will hold a whopping 6,780 passengers - 370 more than Harmony - with an additional 28 staterooms. The ship is so big that, like Oasis-class Royal Caribbean ships, it will have seven distinct neighborhoods.

There will also be a dizzying array of activities on board. Like Harmony of the Seas, the ship will have a 10-story slide, a trio of water slides, and a water park for kids. And, in addition to Royal Caribbean staples like a rock climbing wall, surfing simulator, and aqua theater, there will be some new features, which the line plans to announce soon.

The ship's inaugural season will be in the Mediterranean, sailing from Barcelona to Naples, but the ship will move to Miami in November, where it will home port before cruising to the Eastern and Western Caribbean.
2. Royal Caribbean is building a brand new terminal in Miami.
Royal Caribbean has just broken ground on building a 170,000 square-foot terminal - Terminal A, which they're also calling the "Crown of Miami" - projected to be finished just in time for the arrival of Symphony of the Seas. The new ship, along with Allure of the Seas will home port there when it opens in November.
3. The line is enhancing their private island, CocoCay.
Royal Caribbean just signed a multi-year agreement with the Bahamas to employ locals, and to roll out a multi-phase enhancement of their private island, CocoCay. The plans include the construction of a pier and the addition of new vendors and amenities. Both Symphony of the Seas and Allure of the Seas will call on CocoCay by the time the renovation is complete in 2019.

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Meet the new largest cruise ship in the world

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Royal Caribbean came out with a flurry of announcements Wednesday, including the name and details of their newest and largest ship to date. Here's what you need to know. 1. Symphony of the Seas will be the new largest ship in the world.

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No. 1 Amazon bestseller: 266 blank pages on why to vote Democrat

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Knowles is a Yale graduate and correspondent for the Daily Wire, a conservative website. He self-published the book, which contains only headers and a bibliography, along with 266 empty pages. The book, a clear attempt to troll Democrats, has set the internet on fire and vaulted to the No.

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danaya vann - Little girl takes flight due to heavy winds

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danaya vann - Little girl takes flight due to heavy winds

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Parents in Lyndhurst, Ohio, had a scare -- and then a big laugh -- when their 4-year-old was blown away on a windy Wednesday. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/us/girl-blown-away-by-wind-trnd/index.html

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The next iPhone is going to be a major refresh for the product, according to a various reports and rumors.

The so-called iPhone 8 is said to have an all-glass design, an organic LED display for better images, no home button, new screen sizes, and more. We've also reported that Apple is working on adding built-in augmented reality features — think Pokemon Go, but for all kinds of apps — but that might not make it into the next phone.

2017 will mark the iPhone's tenth birthday, so expect Apple to go all out to mark the occasion.

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Boy keeps his cool as mom steers them to safety after he’s shot while riding in car on I-435.  A 12-year-old boy was shot as he and his family were driving on Interstate 435 near 63rd Street on Wednesday night. Daniel Sneed was in the passenger seat of his mother's car when someone fired a single shot at them.

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Orthodontists warn against uptick in DIY teeth straightening

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Deadly fungal infection that doctors have been fearing now reported in U.S.

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Body found in Downtown Kc

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Seven killed after helicopter slams into TV tower near Istanbul

Seven people died after a helicopter carrying business executives slammed into a television tower and crashed to the ground Friday in Turkey, the mayor of Istanbul announced.

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Parents in Lyndhurst, Ohio, had a scare -- and then a big laugh -- when their 4-year-old was blown away on a windy Wednesday.

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Security video caught the moment when Madison Gardner ran to open the front door of her home with a phone in one hand. When she opened the door with her other hand, the heavy winds swung open the door, and the girl went flying with it.

Brittany Gardner, Madison's mother, told CNN affiliate WEWS she saw her "pinned against the siding and the glass door. I had to unlatch her from the handle."

Gardner later told CNN that Madison was a little embarrassed at first, but she was laughing after seeing the surveillance video herself.

Madison's parents posted the video on Facebook, and got a little creative, adding Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me" song.

When asked if Madison is thinking of any career plans in the aeronautical field, her mom laughed and said, "No, (she's) still looking at Disney princesses."

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1,100 pound woman undergoes surgery.

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A team of archaeologist has discovered a giant 3,000 year old statue thought to depict Ramses ll

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Brian Murphy survives an act of terror by being shot 15 times. His scars on his face, arms, hands, legs, neck, and head will never let him forget his near death experience.

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'American Crime,' 'Shots Fired' tackle challenge of topical drama

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Russian dissident Dadin detained at first protest after release from jail

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SPRING YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD 1 HOUR SATURDAY FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!

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Mr. Kohl- South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been removed over alleged corruption. The country's first female president is now its first president to be impeached and thrown out of office.

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Mr. Kohl- South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been removed over alleged corruption. The country's first female president is now its first president to be impeached and thrown out of office.

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SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean court removed the president on Friday, a first in the nation's history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time.

Her removal capped months of turmoil, as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets, week after week, to protest a sprawling corruption scandal that shook the top echelons of business and government.

Park Geun-hye, the nation's first female president and the daughter of the Cold War military dictator Park Chung-hee, had been an icon of the conservative establishment that joined Washington in pressing for a hard line against North Korea's nuclear provocations.

Now, her downfall is expected to shift South Korean politics to the opposition, whose leaders want more engagement with North Korea and are wary of a major confrontation in the region. They say they will re-examine the country's joint strategy on North Korea with the United States and defuse tensions with China, which has sounded alarms about the growing American military footprint in Asia.

Ms. Park's powers were suspended in December after a legislative impeachment vote, though she continued to live in the presidential Blue House, largely alone and hidden from public view, while awaiting the decision by the Constitutional Court. The house had been her childhood home: She first moved in at the age of 9 and left it nearly two decades later after her mother and father were assassinated in separate episodes.

Eight justices of the Constitutional Court unanimously decided to unseat Ms. Park for committing "acts that violated the Constitution and laws" throughout her time in office, Acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi said in a ruling that was nationally broadcast.

Ms. Park's acts "betrayed the trust of the people and were of the kind that cannot be tolerated for the sake of protecting the Constitution," Justice Lee said.

As the verdict was announced, silence fell over thousands of Park supporters who rallied near the courthouse waving South Korean flags. Soon, they tried to march on the court and called for "destroying" it. When the police blocked them, some of the mostly elderly protesters attacked the officers with flagpoles, hurling water bottles and pieces of the sidewalk pavement. Two pro-Park demonstrators, ages 60 and 72, died during the unrest.

Ms. Park did not comment on the ruling, and remained in the presidential palace after her removal from power. But In Myung-jin, the leader of Ms. Park's conservative Liberty Korea Party, said he "humbly respected" the ruling.

With the immunity conferred by her office now gone, Ms. Park, 65, faces prosecutors seeking to charge her with bribery, extortion and abuse of power in connection with allegations of conspiring with a confidante, her childhood friend Choi Soon-sil, to collect tens of millions of dollars in bribes from companies like Samsung.

By law, the country must elect a new president within 60 days. The acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, an ally of Ms. Park's, will remain in office in the interim. The Trump administration is rushing a missile defense system to South Korea so that it can be in place before the election.

After the ruling, Mr. Hwang called key Cabinet ministers to put the nation on a heightened state of military readiness, saying the lack of a president represented a national "emergency." He also warned North Korea against making "additional provocations."

The last time a South Korean leader was removed from office under popular pressure was in 1960, when the police fired on crowds calling for President Syngman Rhee to step down. ( Mr. Rhee, a dictator, fled into exile in Hawaii and died there.)

In a sign of how far South Korea's young democracy has evolved, Ms. Park was removed without any violence, after large, peaceful protests in recent months demanding that she step down. In addition to the swell of popular anger, the legislature and the judiciary - two institutions that have been weaker than the presidency historically - were crucial to the outcome.

"This is a miracle, a new milestone in the strengthening and institutionalizing of democracy in South Korea," said Kang Won-taek, a political scientist at Seoul National University.

When crowds took to the streets, they were not just seeking to remove a leader who had one year left in office. They were also rebelling against a political order that had held South Korea together for decades but is now fracturing under pressures both at home and abroad, analysts said.

Ms. Park's father ruled South Korea from 1961 to 1979. He founded its economic growth model, which transformed the nation into an export powerhouse and allowed the emergence of family-controlled conglomerates known as chaebol that benefited from tax cuts and anti-labor policies.

Ms. Park was elected in 2012 with the support of older conservative South Koreans who revered her father for the country's breakneck economic growth.

But the nexus of industry and political power gave rise to collusive ties, highlighted by the scandal that led to Ms. Park's fall.

The scandal also swept up the de facto head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, who was indicted on charges of bribing Ms. Park and her confidante, Ms. Choi.

Samsung, the nation's largest conglomerate, has been tainted by corruption before. But the company has been considered too important to the economy for any of its top leaders to spend time behind bars - until now. The jailing of Mr. Lee, who is facing trial, is another potent sign that the old order is not holding.

In the wake of the Park scandal, all political parties have vowed to curtail presidential power to pardon chaebol tycoons convicted of white-collar crimes. They also promised to stop chaebol chairmen from helping their children amass fortunes through dubious means, like forcing their companies to do exclusive business with the children's businesses.

With the conservatives discredited - and no leading conservative candidate to succeed Ms. Park - the left could take power for the first time in a decade. The dominant campaign issues will probably be North Korea's nuclear weapons program and South Korea's relations with the United States and China.

If the opposition takes power, it may try to revive its old "sunshine policy" of building ties with North Korea through aid and exchanges, an approach favored by China. That would complicate Washington's efforts to isolate the North at a time other Asian nations like the Philippines are gravitating toward Beijing.

Moon Jae-in, the Democratic Party leader who is leading in opinion surveys, has said that a decade of applying sanctions on North Korea had failed to stop its nuclear weapons programs. He has said that sanctions are necessary, but that "their goal should be to draw North Korea back to the negotiating table."

He believes that Ms. Park's decision to allow the deployment of the American missile defense system - known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad - has dragged the country into the dangerous and growing rivalry between Washington and Beijing; China has called the system a threat to its security and taken steps to punish South Korea economically for accepting it.

Conservative South Koreans see the deployment of the antimissile system not only as a guard against the North but also as a symbolic reaffirmation of the all-important alliance with the United States. Mr. Moon's party demands that the deployment, which began this week, be suspended immediately. If it takes power, it says it will review the deployment of the antimissile system to determine if it is in South Korea's best interest.

As South Korea has learned, it cannot always keep Washington and Beijing happy at the same time, as in the case of the country's decision to accept the American missile defenses.

Yet Ms. Park's impeachment was also a pushback against "Cold War conservatives" like her father, who seized on Communist threats from North Korea to hide their corruption and silence political opponents, said Kim Dong-choon, a sociologist at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul.

Ms. Park's father tortured and executed dissidents, framing them with spying charges. Now, his daughter faces charges that her government blacklisted thousands of unfriendly artists and writers.

"Her removal means that the curtain is finally drawing on the authoritarian political and economic order that has dominated South Korea for decades," said Ahn Byong-jin, rector of the Global Academy for Future Civilizations at Kyung Hee University in Seoul.

Analysts cautioned that political and economic change will come slowly.

As Mr. Moon put it recently: "We need a national cleanup. We need to liquidate the old system and build a new South Korea. Only then can we complete the revolution started by the people who rallied with candlelight."

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South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye

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SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean court removed the president on Friday, a first in the nation's history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time. Her removal capped months of turmoil, as hundreds of thousands of South Koreans took to the streets, week after week, to protest a sprawling corruption scandal that shook the top echelons of business and government.