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Coaches think Baylor is the team to end Kansas' reignNobody knows what Baylor is capable of better than the coaches who have faced the Bears this season. We turned to them to assess Baylor's chances of bringing down the Jayhawks.8:00 PM CT ESPN2 2Baylor20-1 3Kansas19-2

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Coaches think Baylor is the team to end Kansas' reignNobody knows what Baylor is capable of better than the coaches who have faced the Bears this season. We turned to them to assess Baylor's chances of bringing down the Jayhawks.8:00 PM CT ESPN2 2Baylor20-1 3Kansas19-2

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Tyler Warren

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A Muslim girl and Jewish boy,  rallying for the same cause alongside their dads, warmed the hearts of audiences across social media

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The 69-year-old Butch Trucks shot himself in the head Jan. 27 at his home in front of his wife.

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Demi's house is unsafe due to the land around it, there were storms which cause mudslide.

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Gordon The Robot Barista

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A cool start up cafe called Cafe X has opened it first robotic cafe in San Francisco. While using an application you can place your order prior to arriving. This robotic cafe is a cool concept. This e

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madonna: 'blowing up white house' taken out of context - cnn

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Madonna: 'Blowing up White House' taken out of context

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Madonna was just trying to express herself at the Women's March on Saturday.

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Former NBA player Derek Fisher reportedly was robbed 300,000 dollars worth of jewelry, including his five NBA championship rings.

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Scores, player and team news, sports videos, rumors, stats, schedules, fantasy games, standings for the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, NCAA Football, Basketball and more on Fox News.

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Air Force Base: 1 Killed, 1 Injured in New Mexico Training

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The Dakota pipeline, even after months of native tribes protesting, is going to be planned and finished.

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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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Derek Fisher reportedly has 5 NBA championship rings stolen in burglary

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Derek Fisher reportedly has 5 NBA championship rings stolen in burglary

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Former NBA point guard Derek Fisher told authorities he was robbed of more than $300,000 worth of jewelry, including his five NBA championship rings, TMZ Sports reported Tuesday.

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Bart the python gets stuck in his owner's earlobe! She tells CNN's Jeanne Moos how ER doctors extricated the snake.

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Bart the python gets stuck in his owner's earlobe! She tells CNN's Jeanne Moos how ER doctors extricated the snake.

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The U.S. Coast Guard is searching the Atlantic off of the Florida Keys for a missing Canadian scuba diver 37-year-old Rob Stewart.

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A dad of two little girls died after his tooth infection spread to his lungs.

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A California long-haul trucker died early Monday after a tooth infection spread to his lungs, Fox 40 reported.

Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, 26, was the father of two small children. He started to complain of a toothache a few weeks ago, before a drive to New York. He visited a dentist in Oklahoma and had his tooth cleaned and was prescribed antibiotics.

The medication reportedly did little to help the man, and his face began to swell. His brother went out to meet him because he was too weak to drive back, and they checked in to a hospital in Utah. His wife, Nataliya, told the station she received a call from doctors.

They "said tonight is the night he's going to die," she said. They told her that they were unable to stop the infection.

"I know he's in heaven. He's a happy person right now. He's gonna be my angel for the rest of my life and he's gonna help me through this whole time without a dad and without a husband," Nataliya said.

A GoFundMe set up on behalf of the family described Anatoliyevich as a "humble and calm person." A post on the fundraising website said all proceeds will help the family cover medical expenses and the cost of transporting his body back to California.

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Tooth infection leads to 26-year-old California dad's death

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A California long-haul trucker died early Monday after a tooth infection spread to his lungs, Fox 40 reported. Vadim Kondratyuk Anatoliyevich, 26, was the father of two small children. He started to complain of a toothache a few weeks ago, before a drive to New York.

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Officials at Holloman Air Force Base say one person was killed and another injured in a training accident on a military range in southern New Mexico.

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Obama may challenge Trump more forcefully in coming months, report says.

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It took former President Obama 10 days from leaving the White House before he spoke out against President Trump's order to temporarily ban people from seven predominately Muslim countries.

The statement was from a spokesman, and it did not attack Trump directly. Rather it appealed to protesters.

"President Obama is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country," Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for the former president, said in a statement. "Citizens exercising their constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake."

Obama and his team are not ruling out a forceful challenge to Trump in the coming months, Politico, citing people in contact with the former president, reported.

There is debate on how to approach a Trump attack. There is fear that if Obama comes out too early against Trump it could lessen the effectiveness of the message. His team reportedly does not want Obama to be the face of the anti-Trump protests.

"I wouldn't be opposed if he spoke out," Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., told Politico. "I just don't know what effect it would be."

He continued, "In hindsight, I believe it was wrong for Barack Obama to normalize Donald Trump," he said.

Sources told the magazine that Obama is likely saving a more assertive challenge because "knows he only gets one change at it being the first time that he takes on Trump himself."

Polls show Obama left the office both popular and trusted.He had appeared more cautious about diluting his influence by quickly second-guessing Trump. Doing so could make it easier for Trump to dismiss critiques as predictable partisan nitpicking. And becoming the face of Trump's opposition could make it harder for the next generation of Democratic leaders to emerge.

Obama said nothing Monday when Trump fired his former appointee Sally Yates, who was serving as acting attorney general. He also won't opine on Trump's announcement of a Supreme Court nominee, former White House aides in touch with Obama said.

When Trump's White House claimed Obama, too, temporarily banned Iraqi refugees, the ex-president's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes shot back: "This is a lie."

Obama loyalists said the expressions of opposition aren't part of an organized campaign. They reported being energized by a series of group text messages, Facebook groups and email chains in which some of the thousands of one-time Obama staffers are sharing their dismay.

One notably silent figure: Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has yet to criticize Trump since leaving office. An aide said Biden planned to speak out on matters he cares most about, such as foreign policy and women's issues. The aide wasn't authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.

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in summertime, an illness typically plagues small towns of India, scientists now have research finding that the fruit lychee may have started the disease

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lychees behind mystery killer disease in india

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Lychee cause of mysterious killer disease, researchers say

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A new report published in The Lancet Global Health medical journal claims to have discovered what's behind a devastating disease affecting children in the town of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, India.

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A tooth infection leads to a 26 year old death after it spreads to his lungs.

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Police kills man whose stabbing rampage injured 3 on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

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Young Indian girls sold to sex tourists for sham marriages

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Pharrell Williams wife is pregnant with triplets

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Pharrell Williams, wife Helen Lasichanh welcome triplets

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Pharrell Williams and wife Helen Lasichanh are celebrating some happy news.

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Lawsuits have been filed from Trump's executive order to ban some immigrants

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13 Legal Actions Challenging Trump's Immigration Executive Order

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All the lawsuits filed so far that challenge his immigration executive order.

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US Army pursues 'biodegradable' bullets for training purposes

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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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Tunisian IS Suspect Arrested Over Attack Plot in Germany

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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.