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Alex and Clara Cazeau and Ricky and Emilee Player are a blended family raising Maelyn Player, 4, the daughter of Clara Cazeau and Ricky Player.
The four parents unintentionally showed off their co-parenting skills at Maelyn’s soccer game by wearing customized jerseys identifying them each as mommy, daddy, stepdad and stepmom.

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General Motors has begun equipping 2017 Cadillac CTS sedans with vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology. New CTS sedans will feature the technology as standard equipment as part of a mid-model-year update, the automaker announced today.

Cars with V2V technology can communicate information about their speed and location to other similarly equipped vehicles on the road. Armed with this data, the vehicles can warn drivers of potential road hazards ahead, allowing more time to react to dangerous situations. The CTS can receive up to 1,000 messages per second from vehicles nearly 1,000 feet away using dedicated short-range communications and GPS technology.

"Connecting vehicles through V2V holds tremendous potential, as this technology enables the car to acquire and analyze information outside the bounds of the driver's field of vision," Richard Brekus, Cadillac global director of Product Strategy, said in a statement. "As an early mover, we look forward to seeing its benefit multiply as more V2V-equipped vehicles hit the road."

Alerts will pop up on the CTS' instrument cluster warning of slippery conditions, disabled vehicles, or other hazardous situations. Using the CUE infotainment system, drivers can customize how they want to see the information on the instrument cluster or head-up display.

Government regulators have been working for years to advance V2V technology in the hopes that it will make roads safer. Last year, the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed a rule that would mandate all new cars come equipped with technologies for communicating with other vehicles. If enacted, the rule would go into full effect in 2023.

Source: Cadillac

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2017 Cadillac CTS Now Standard With V2V Technology

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General Motors has begun equipping 2017 Cadillac CTS sedans with vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology.

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A Canadian federal judge who asked a woman in a rape trial why she couldn't keep her knees together resigned Thursday after a disciplinary council recommended he be removed from the bench.

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A 72 year old farmer consumed poison and took his life after a bank manager harassed and verbally hurt him.

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"I requested the bank six months' time to pay back both my pending loans. But the manager ordered me to get out, gave me some receipt and said things that deeply hurt me."

These words are part of 72-year-old Vembukrishnan's last message to his family, friends and authorities. After writing this letter addressed to the Zonal head of the Indian overseas bank, the farmer from Tirunelveli district consumed poison and took his life on Thursday.

Vembukrishnan from Keezha Pillaiyarkulam, had visited the IOB branch in Manur on Tuesday to retrieve the jewellery he had mortgaged, but had come back home empty-handed.

The agriculturalist, in his letter, explains the alleged circumstances under which he decided to take the drastic step.

"I am a mere farmer from the above mentioned address. In 2007-2008, based on advice given by the Agricultural department, I took a loan from IOB for drip irrigation in my field. After this I took more loans to sow mango, chilli, plantain and paddy. I paid back the debt I incurred for mango and chilli plantations, but couldn't pay back the money I borrowed for plantain and paddy. I had dues up to Rs. 90,000. Despite the difficulties, I was facing, I paid the bank on a yearly basis. Only last year, I defaulted because I was ill. So, I mortgaged my wife's thaali (mangalusutra) to get additional money for agriculture. On the 7th of March I went back to pay Rs. 50,000 to the bank and get back the chain. They made me wait till 3pm in the bank. Then they told me I can't take back the thaali till I pay back the other loan. I promised the bank manager that I will re-mortgage my wife's thaali and pay off all my loans. But he said no. I was told I have to pay back my pending loan to get back her chain."

Following the farmer's suicide, the police have filed an FIR against the manager who allegedly insulted the farmer.

But Vembukrishnan's family is inconsolable. "What did they say to my uncle to make him want to take this cowardly step?" ask Karrupaiah, a relative, angrily. "How can these bank authorities harass us like this? This is not new. They have always spoken disrespectfully to farmers in the area. Even elderly men are treated with scorn," he alleges.

But this is not a tragedy that is new to Tamil Nadu. In January, a farmer near Erode committed suicide by hanging himself to death because he was unable to repay the loan he had availed to purchase a tractor and a cow. Incidentally, he had borrowed from IOB as well. According to media reports, he was notified by the bank after he failed to pay his dues last year.

Farmers unions have been up in arms against what they claim to be 'murder of farmers'. "These banks can't do anything to a Vijay Mallya who has borrowed thousands of crores and not returned it. But a poor farmer who has borrowed to make ends meet is pushed to death. This was not a suicide. It is a murder fueled by apathy for our plight," alleges Dheiva Sigamani, Head of the Tamil Nadu Vivasayi Sangangal Kootu Eyakkam. "To make matters worse, we are facing the worst drought in 140 years. Our lands are parched and farmers are helpless. Things are bound to get worse," he adds.

In January, the National Human Rights Council had issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu Government regarding continuing farmer deaths in the state. According to a Livemint report, the notice said, "The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports regarding the deaths of 106 farmers during a period of one month in Tamil Nadu which it considers as a matter of concern."

A month later, Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami, sanctioned the release of a Rs 2,247-crore package for drought-hit farmers. According to media reports, farmers who depend on irrigation for their crop were to get Rs 5,465 per acre while those who depend on seasonal rain would get Rs 3,000 per acre.

But Krishnan's family, claims they have received no relief so far. "My uncle was under immense pressure because the crop on his 5-acre land failed," says Karuppaiah. "He didn't say anything when he came back from the bank. He looked sad but we attributed it to the condition of our crop. On Thursday night, he said he was going to buy medicine and went out. He then came back, wrote the letter and killed himself. We are shattered by his death and our situation now has only gotten worse, "he says, before leaving to attend to relatives visiting their home.

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The suicide note of a helpless Tamil farmer: Another death, just another statistic

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If You Can’t Beat Them Join Them

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Court unanimously ousts South Korea's leader for corruption

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Winners and losers of NFL free agency Day 1

The upside for both Mike Glennon and Chicago is high, the Texans-Browns trade is an out-of-the-box move and the Bengals are crumbling before our eyes.

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Trump administration hits the 50-day mark

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&#151; -- Time flies: Today marks the 50th day of President Donald Trump's administration and the halfway point in the storied "first 100 days."

More than a week ago, Trump said that he would give himself an A for achievement but a C in messaging, though that self-assessment came before his address to a joint session of Congress, for which he was roundly praised by members of his own party.

In the lead up to today's milestone, the president has been using his Twitter account to tout what his team sees as successes in consumer confidence, jobs numbers and the push for healthcare reform.

Beyond those topics, Trump and his team have launched into action on several key campaign initiatives during the first leg of the administration, but have faced some setbacks along the way.

Here's a quick recap of the road to the 50-day mark.

Acting on his campaign promises

Trump has gotten the ball rolling on a number of issues he spoke about repeatedly on the campaign trail, including building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, reforming national health care and more.

He has issued a number of executive orders and presidential memorandums to take specific actions, such as backing out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and restarting development of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Trump's long-promised travel ban came in the form of two executive orders, with the second issued after the first encountered legal challenges that blocked it from taking effect.

Judge Neil Gorsuch speaking in the East room of the White House after being nominated by President Trump for the vacant seat at the US Supreme Court, Jan. 31, 2017.

One key appointment that he has named and is also awaiting final word on is his pick of Judge Neil Gorsuch as a nominee for the Supreme Court. The roll out of the announcement, and Gorsuch's pick in general, were roundly praised by Republicans.

Personnel scandals

One unexpected removal from the Trump train came when Michael Flynn, his national security adviser, was asked to resign after it became clear that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his transition-era conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S.

Flynn wasn't the only one to run into trouble over his conversations with Kislyak, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any existing or future Department of Justice probes related to Trump's 2016 presidential campaign because of questions that were raised about his alleged ties to Russian officials -- specifically Kislyak.

Sessions met with Kislyak on the sidelines of an event hosted by a think tank during the Republican National Convention in July and Sessions had a second meeting with Kislyak in September in the then-senator's office with his staff in tow.

Sessions failed to disclose those meetings during his confirmation hearing when he said "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and I didn't have -- did not have communications with the Russians."

On Thursday, the White House did not deny that Trump himself met Kislyak briefly at a foreign policy forum during the presidential campaign, which comes in contrast to his earlier repeated denials.

Self-inflicted highs and lows

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Feb. 28, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Trump was widely praised for his address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28, making a call for unity and a plea that the "trivial fights" should come to an end.

He listened to his own advice, but only for a few days. One of the most explosive series of tweets that Trump sent so far came on the morning of March 4, when Trump accused former President Obama of wiretapping him during the campaign but offering no evidence.

How Trump thinks it's going

The White House press office did not return ABC News' request for comment on how it thinks the first 50 days have gone, but Trump has put out several messages on Twitter that could be viewed as answers.

He's boasted about how the " Stock Market has posted $3.2 trillion in GAINS and consumer confidence is at a 15 year high" since Election Day, shared a Fox News graphic about a high jobs report, and said that his administration is "getting along great, and getting major things done!"

On Thursday alone -- the eve of the 50th day milestone -- he also tweeted about how the Republicans' healthcare initiative is "coming along great" and "will end in a beautiful picture!" He also shared a Bloomberg report that states consumer confidence is the highest it has been in a decade.

The White House released a list detailing what they call "President Trump's first 50 days of action," breaking down what they view as improvements on nine fronts: Job creation, "cutting government red tape," reforming Washington, tackling health care reform, national security, public safety, immigration reform, impacts on women and minorities, and his nomination to the Supreme Court.

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The Paul George Nike PG 1 to Release Spring 2017

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George is just the fourth active Nike Basketball athlete to have a signature shoe, joining an elite group of players with custom kicks.

The PG1 Ferocity colorway has George's fingerprints all over it. From its Indiana Pacers themed colors, to the birthdate of his daughter, the shoe is meant to be part biographical and part representative of George's two-way playing style.

For instance, the shoe's traction pattern resembles fish scales, which symbolizes George's love of fishing. But the scales aren't just for show - the multidirectional blade traction enables serious court grip for lockdown defense. The colorway's name, Ferocity, is inspired by George's tenacious effort on both ends of the floor.

The retail price of the shoes is $110. Last weekend, the PG1 Shining colorway - a mostly black and silver color scheme with a unique sequential number - was released and quickly sold out.

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Paul George's PG1 Ferocity Hits Shelves Saturday

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Paul George's signature Nike shoe, the PG1 Ferocity, is set to hit shelves on Saturday, March 4th at 10 AM ET. George is just the fourth active Nike Basketball athlete to have a signature shoe, joining an elite group of players with custom kicks. The PG1 Ferocity colorway has George's fingerprints all over it.

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A blaze that killed at least 35 girls at a shelter for troubled youths erupted when some of them set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution

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Professor Robert Kelly's live television interview on the BBC was interrupted by his two children.

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Professor Robert Kelly's live television interview on the BBC was interrupted by his two children.

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3,000-year-old statue unearthed from Cairo pit

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A team of archaeologists has discovered a large 3,000-year-old statue - thought to depict Ramses II, also known as Ozymandias - in Cairo.

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Malaysian police formally ID Kim Jong Nam in airport attack.

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A 2 year-old boy was not very impressed by meeting Queen Elizabeth and through a tantrum in front of her.

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Colossal 3,000-year-old statue unearthed from Cairo pit

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35 girls were killed after they were locked in a shelter while it was on fire.

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35 girls killed in Guatemala shelter fire may have been locked in

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Human rights officials in Guatemala said Thursday that the victims in the major shelter fire may have been locked inside during the blaze.

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RadioShack has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in just two years. The electronics retailer announced Wednesday that it will close about 200 stores.

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‘She shoved her like a rag doll’: Video shows day-care worker pushing 4-year-old down the stairs

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statue of what is believed to be Pharoah Ramses II found in Cairo pit

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The unemployment rate dipped to a low 4.7 percent from 4.8 percent, so the US added 235,000 jobs

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Boy finds remnants of WWII plane and pilot in his yard

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A 14-year-old boy in Denmark discovered possible wreckage of a German World War II fighter plane.

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Srinivas Kuchibhotla, shot to death last month in a Kansas bar, shared a dream with many other Indians.

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Boy sees color for the first time.

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Moment boy sees color for the first time

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10-year-old Cayson Irlbeck was born colorblind but now can see certain colors for the first time. Video courtesy of KCCI and the Irlbeck family.

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Houston Texans trade their starting quarterback Brock Osweiler to the Cleveland Browns for 2018 second round pick, might pursue Tony Romo

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Texans trade quarterback Osweiler to Browns

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The Texans have traded QB Brock Osweiler and his $16M salary, a second-round pick and a sixth-round selection to the Browns for a fourth-round pick.

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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.