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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Markets Right Now: Solid earnings send US stocks higher
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"NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):\n9:35 a.m.\nStocks are opening broadly higher on Wall Street as a handful of solid company earnings reports put investors in a buying mood.\nVerizon, Harley-Davidson and Fifth Third Bancorp all rose sharply in early trading Tuesday after reporting results that came in ahead of analysts' forecasts.\nGoogle parent Alphabet also reported surging earnings, but its stock fell 2.2 percent as the company said spending rose sharply.\nDrugmaker Shire rose 3.3 percent after saying it had received another takeover offer from Japanese rival Takeda.\nThe S&P 500 index rose 9 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,680.\nThe Dow Jones industrial average climbed 71 points, or 0.3 percent, to 24,523. The Nasdaq increased 34 points, or 0.5 percent, to 7,162.\nBond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.99 percent."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about AP Explains: What's next after Turkey seizes Syria's Afrin
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"BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey's seizure of the town of Afrin in northern Syria is a significant military achievement for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that gives him control over a large chunk of Syrian territory but also entrenches his troops as an occupying force in a crowded terrain packed with adversaries.\nIgnoring criticism by the United States and Europe of his eight-week military offensive, Turkish forces and allied Syrian militiamen swept into Afrin on Sunday, marching victoriously into the town's center and shooting in the air in celebration.\nAnd it doesn't stop there, Erdogan says.\nEmboldened, he vowed on Monday to expand military operations into other Kurdish-held areas in Syria and even into neighboring Iraq — a move that would potentially put his troops in direct confrontation with U.S. troops stationed nearby.\nThe main Kurdish militia, acknowledging defeat in Afrin, has vowed to turn to guerrilla warfare to confront Turkish troops.\nHere's a look at Turkey's seizure of Afrin, and what lies ahead:\n___\nWHAT DOES ERDOGAN REALLY WANT?\nAt this point, that question is anyone's guess. Turkey has long backed rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Assad from power, opening its borders to foreign fighters to join the war in Syria.\nBut the war has greatly empowered Erdogan's No. 1 enemy, the Kurds, whose rag-tag fighters Turkey considers to be \"terrorists\" and an extension of its own Kurdish insurgency. In the chaos of war, the Kurdish fighters have partnered with the United States to fight the Islamic State group and carved out a huge autonomous region along the border with Turkey, amounting to a quarter of Syria's entire territory.\nThat has led Ankara to recalibrate its focus toward halting Kurdish expansionism.\nErdogan, who first launched military operations in Syria in 2016, has repeatedly said Turkey will not allow a \"terror corridor\" along its border and has vowed to push eastward in Syria after Afrin, to prevent the Kurdish militia from linking up territories it controls in eastern and western Syria. Turkey is home to some 3 million Syrian refugees, and Turkey has also said Afrin could be a place where those refugees would return to.\nAfrin, a separate Kurkish-run canton cut off from the rest of Kurdish-held territory by a Turkish-held enclave, was an easy target.\nBut by pushing eastward as he is threatening to do, Erdogan risks overplaying his hand and getting bogged down in a fight bigger than Turkey can handle.\n___\nWHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE KURDS?\nIt's a huge setback. Until a few months ago, Syria's long-marginalized Kurds were described as the biggest winners in Syria's civil war. They bragged of being the main ground force that ousted the Islamic State group out of its strongholds in Syria, including Raqqa, the extremist group's de facto capital.\nBut the Kurds' dream of self-rule is looking increasingly fragile. They have been historically used and cast aside, and may once again become the losers in the big powers' play over influence in Syria.\nThe Turkish offensive on Afrin, which began Jan. 20, has put the U.S. in a tough spot, juggling between the interests of the Kurds, its only ally in war-torn Syria, and its relations with Turkey, a key NATO ally. It did not move a finger to help the Kurds fight for Afrin.\nThe Kurds vowed to defend the enclave until the end, describing it as an existential fight to preserve their territory. They relocated hundreds of fighters from front lines with the Islamic State group to bolster the defense of Afrin.\nIn the end, they were no match for Turkey's NATO army's overwhelming firepower.\nThe Kurds lost more than 800 fighters in the 58 days of fighting for Afrin. An estimated 500 civilians were killed, and tens of thousands of Afrin residents streamed out of the town before the Turkish troops entered.\nThe Kurdish fighters also withdrew, ostensibly, to spare the remaining civilians.\n___\nWHAT HAPPENS NEXT?\nA lot hinges on whether Erdogan goes ahead with his threat to expand military operations eastward, toward the town of Manbij and other areas east of the Euphrates River controlled by U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces, and where U.S. bases are also housed.\nWhile the U.S. was able to distance itself from the fighting in Afrin, it can't sit by silently if Turkey expands the fight to Manbij. Kurdish guerrilla-type attacks against Turkey and its Syrian allies could also jeopardize the U.S.-led mission to stabilize areas that have been captured from IS.\nPresident Bashar Assad's response is also an open question. His forces are now preoccupied with recapturing eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, and other areas deemed more essential. But he has condemned Turkish \"occupation\" of parts of northern Syria and vowed to eventually recapture the region.\nAnother major question is whether the takeover would lead to ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish majority there. Images that emerged Sunday following Afrin's takeover bode ill for the future of the ethnically-mixed region. Afrin residents reported widespread looting and pillaging soon after Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters marched into the town center Sunday.\nTurkey, along with its Syrian allies, already controls large chunks of territory east of Afrin. But its presence there was more accepted than in Afrin because it chased IS militants from those areas.\nSome 200,000 people fled Afrin over the past few days, and whether they will be permitted to return remains an open question."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Ricky Rubio's play points to winning ways in NBA postseason
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"OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A poised and productive Ricky Rubio has been smiling and laughing, masterfully running Utah's offense in his matchup with Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook.\nMeanwhile, the reigning league MVP has been scowling, shoving, fouling, complaining and most of all — losing.\nIt's fair to say Rubio has been more effective for the Jazz.\nThe Rubio-Westbrook matchup mirrors what is happening throughout the NBA playoffs: The team that gets the best point guard play usually wins.\nRubio's all-around success has the Jazz on the brink of advancing. Utah has a 3-1 lead on the Thunder and can finish the series Wednesday night in Oklahoma City.\nHe summed up his play after Game 2, saying \"I did my job, looking for my teammates, and looking for my shot too when it was open. I just took what the game gave me and watched film and got better and we played as a team.\"\nMaybe it is just that simple.\nRubio is averaging 18.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8 assists per game against Oklahoma City, all well above his regular season numbers. The 27-year-old is in the first playoff series of his seven-year career, yet he is playing like a seasoned veteran.\nWestbrook and the Thunder have tried to throw Rubio off his game, maybe to a fault.\nWestbrook has lost his focus at times. He is averaging 21.3 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.3 assists in the series, but he's shooting just 37 percent from the field and 21 percent from 3-point range.\nRubio went for a triple-double in a Game 3 victory , the first playoff triple-double for the franchise since John Stockton had one in 2001.\nWestbrook said he'd shut down Rubio in Game 4.\nHis efforts backfired — Rubio got more of Westbrook's attention, and the Thunder weren't as effective helping on Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert, Utah's two best players. Westbrook was overly aggressive and had four fouls at halftime. The Jazz rolled 113-96 .\nWestbrook toned it down after the game.\n\"It wasn't about me or him,\" he said. \"Let's get past that. We're done with that.\"\nLooking around the playoffs, that's probably a good thing.\nHow goes a team's point guard, so goes the team.\nNew Orleans' Rajon Rondo and Philadelphia's Ben Simmons are among the point guards whose play has lifted their teams.\nThat has been true in the matchup between Toronto's Kyle Lowry and Washington's John Wall. In Toronto's two wins, Lowry averaged 10.5 assists, but 6.5 in two losses. Wall averaged 27.5 points and 14 assists as Washington won two games to even the series.\nThe 32-year-old Rondo appeared to be overmatched heading into the matchup with Portland's Damian Lillard but showed he is not past his prime.\nRondo averaged 11.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 13.3 assists to help the New Orleans sweep the Trail Blazers. Lillard averaged just 18.5 points in the series, eight below his regular-season average, and shot just 35 percent from the field.\nPhiladelphia's Simmons has averaged 19.3 points, 10.8 rebounds and 9.8 assists t help the 76ers take a 3-1 lead in their series against the Miami Heat. In Game 4, he had the first triple-double for a rookie in a playoff game since Magic Johnson in 1980.\nMiami's Goran Dragic is playing well, too — he's averaging 19.5 points and shooting 49 percent. But when Simmons has been special, the 76ers have won.\nMilwaukee's Eric Bledsoe and Boston's Terry Rozier have gone back and forth on the court and in the media. Rozier dominated the first two games — both Boston wins — averaging 23 points on 47 percent shooting while Bledsoe averaged 10.5 points and shot 36 percent.\nBledsoe won the next two matchups, and so did the Bucks. Bledsoe averaged 13 points on 50 percent shooting while Rozier averaged 9.5 points on 26 percent shooting.\nRubio doesn't have to statistically out-perform Westbrook, who has averaged a triple-double the past two seasons. For Rubio, the key has been not trying to do too much. Just be the team's floor general.\nOn offense, he takes open shots and finds his teammates. On defense, he can take chances because the 7-foot-1 Gobert can erase most mistakes.\n\"That is our strength,\" Rubio said. \"Play as a team and get a win.\"\nOne more Utah win and Oklahoma City's season is done.\n___\nFollow Cliff Brunt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CliffBruntAP\n___\nFreelancer John Coon in Salt Lake City, Utah, contributed to this report.\n___\nFor more AP NBA coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about 2020 Tokyo Olympic costs keep rising despite efforts to cut
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"TOKYO (AP) — The price tag for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics keeps going up despite attempts to rein in the spending.\nOver the last year, organizers have shifted several venues away from central Tokyo and have looked for existing facilities instead of building new ones.\nHowever, in the last week Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has explained that the city will need to more than double the billions it is already budgeting to stage the games. The International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers contest this, saying the city's added costs are for many projects that would have been done — with or without the Olympics.\nIn late December, Tokyo Olympic organizers said the games would cost 1.35 trillion yen, which is about $12.4 billion at the present exchange rate of 109 yen to the dollar. But at a news conference last Friday, Koike said the city would spend an added 810 billion yen ($7.5 billion), bringing total games-related spending to 2.16 trillion yen (roughly $20 billion).\nTokyo organizers and the International Olympic Committee have talked openly about the need to cut rising costs, which have plagued recent Olympics and driven away possible bidding cities.\nIn emails to The Associated Press, the IOC and organizers said the new spending should not be viewed as part of the Olympic costs.\nThe IOC called the expenses \"regular administrative costs\" for the city that fall \"outside the overall games budget.\" Local organizers said the same thing.\nKoike contradicted their position.\nShe said the new costs were for \"projects directly and indirectly related to the games.\" She included building barrier-free facilities for Paralympic athletes, training programs for volunteers, and advertising and tourism plans.\nShe said the budget numbers still needed to be studied, and city's legislature still needed to approve the spending.\n\"We just presented the rough scale of the costs,\" she said. \"Tokyo will be the one to cover it, so I presented it because I wanted the Tokyo residents to be aware of it.\"\nAsked about further cost-cutting sought by the IOC, Kioke said \"it's not a task only for Tokyo, but the effort should be made as a whole.\"\nShe also played up the decades-long impact of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, which showed the world a modern, fast-moving and rebuilt country following World War II.\n\"Think about all that still remains as legacies from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics — the metropolitan expressway and the bullet-train system, for instance,\" she said.\nTokyo's 2020 Olympics are being funded largely by public money. The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics were billed as a split between public and private money. The eventual price tag was about $13 billion — and some estimates put it at $20 billion.\nUnder Koike's plan, the Tokyo city government will now chip in 1.41 trillion yen ($13 billion), and the national government will spend 150 billion yen ($1.4 billion). This represents 72 percent of spending to prepare the Olympics. The remaining part comes from the local organizing committee, which will add 600 billion yen ($5.5 billion) in private money.\nTokyo's winning bid in 2013 was listed at 730 billion yen, about one-third of the list price now.\nBent Flyvberg, in a 2016 study at Oxford University, found the Olympics \"have the highest average cost overrun of any type of megaproject. Moreover, cost overrun is found in all games, without exception.\"\nFlyvberg added in his study that \"for a city and nation to decide to stage the Olympic Games is to decide to take on one of the most costly and financially most risky type of megaproject that exists, something that many cities and nations have learned to their peril.\""
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Dead body found in Massachusetts home; resident charged
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"WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been charged with disinterment after a body was found at his home.\nWorcester police say they responded to a city home on Monday night and discovered a man's body.\nThey charged a resident of the home, 32-year-old Xavier Broughton, with disinterment of a human body and misleading a police investigation.\nThe body has not been positively identified and an autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death.\nPolice did, however, confirm to The Telegram & Gazette that the address where the body was found was the location of a party earlier this month where 27-year-old Justin Ramos was last seen alive.\nBroughton was in custody, and it was not clear if he had a lawyer."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The top iPhone and iPad apps on App Store
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"App Store Official Charts for the week ending April 22, 2018:\nTop Paid iPhone Apps:\n1. Minecraft, Mojang\n2. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.\n3. Plague Inc., Ndemic Creations\n4. Facetune, Lightricks Ltd.\n5. iSchedule, HotSchedules\n6. Sky Guide AR, Fifth Star Labs LLC\n7. Bloons TD 5, Ninja Kiwi\n8. Geometry Dash, RobTop Games AB\n9. NBA 2K18, 2K\n10. PlantSnap Plant Identification, PlantSnap, Inc.\nTop Free iPhone Apps:\n1. Rise Up, Serkan Ozyilmaz\n2. Fortnite, Epic Games\n3. Love Balls, Super Tapx\n4. YouTube: Watch, Listen, Stream, Google, Inc.\n5. Helix Jump, Voodoo\n6. Instagram, Instagram, Inc.\n7. Snapchat, Snap, Inc.\n8. Messenger, Facebook, Inc.\n9. Facebook, Facebook, Inc.\n10. PUBG MOBILE, Tencent Mobile International Limited\nTop Paid iPad Apps:\n1. Minecraft, Mojang\n2. Procreate, Savage Interactive Pty Ltd\n3. GoodNotes 4, Time Base Technology Limited\n4. Geometry Dash, RobTop Games AB\n5. Toca Life: After School, Toca Boca AB\n6. SpongeBob Moves In, Nickelodeon\n7. Notability, Ginger Labs\n8. Five Nights at Freddy's, Scott Cawthon\n9. LEGO Jurassic World, Warner Bros.\n10. Terraria, 505 Games (US), Inc.\nTop Free iPad Apps:\n1. Love Balls, Super Tapx\n2. Fortnite, Epic Games\n3. Rise Up, Serkan Ozyilmaz\n4. YouTube: Watch, List n, Stream, Google, Inc.\n5. Impossible Bottle Flip, tastypill\n6. Granny, Dennis Vukanovic\n7. Netflix, Netflix, Inc.\n8. ROBLOX, Roblox Corporation\n9. Helix Jump, Voodoo\n10 PUBG MOBILE, Tencent Mobile International Limited\n__\n(copyright) 2018 Apple Inc."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Splunk Customers Accelerate Business Value Through Artificial Intelligence
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"SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), first in delivering “aha” moments from machine data, today announced new and expanded artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its product portfolio. With the power of AI, Splunk customers can use Splunk solutions to help boost their profitability, performance and security. Splunk also expanded integration capabilities with open source software and cloud-native technologies as part of its ongoing commitment to provide a true, open machine data platform for customers. To learn more and experience Splunk ® Enterprise and Splunk Cloud™, visit the Splunk website.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005597/en/\n“Organizations frequently consume high amounts of staff time and resources to monitor, analyze and respond to IT operational alerts. Splunk’s new AI enhancements, including the ability to correlate metrics and activity data, enable customers to get answers from their machine data more efficiently,” said Tim Tully, chief technology officer, Splunk. “Our latest wave of innovation is intended to arm customers with the tools needed to translate AI into actionable intelligence. While AI and machine learning often seem like unattainable and expensive pipe dreams, Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise now make it easier and more affordable to monitor, analyze and visualize machine data in real time.”\nSplunk Platform Helps Accelerate Customers’ Digital Transformation Through AI and an Expansive and Open Ecosystem\nSplunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise 7.1 deliver AI through machine learning to help customers monitor, search and alert on the critical information organizations need to accelerate their business. These latest releases include an updated metrics engine to power customers’ ability to monitor and alert on numeric data points - from CPU speeds and available hard disk space in a complex IT environment, to temperature readings in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors. The latest versions are also the only enterprise-class data analytics solutions that can ingest petabytes of data per day, as well as search, monitor and alert on that data in real time. With these enhancements, users are better positioned to make sense of their machine data to predict future IT, security and business outcomes.\nSplunk Cloud offers customers maximum control and real-time access to their data. This Splunk Cloud release features Dynamic Data: Self-Storage, arming customers with the flexibility to move data from Splunk to their own Amazon S3 storage environment.\n“At T-Mobile we’re all about putting customers first, and with Splunk Enterprise we can ensure our customers get the best experience possible when they’re activating a phone, making a call or paying a bill,” said Jonathan Silberlicht, senior director, network service management, T-Mobile. “For example, with the new Splunk Connect for Kafka, we are expanding our real-time analytics capabilities, in turn empowering our front line to make better informed decisions when serving customers. We plan to continue to rely on Splunk Enterprise, Splunk IT Service Intelligence and Splunk Machine Learning to help us scale at Un-carrier speed.”\nTo expand its open technology ecosystem, Splunk introduced new data integrations with open source software projects and cloud-native technologies including:\nSplunk Connect for Kafka integrates the Splunk platform with Apache Kafka, a highly scalable and reliable method for handling real-time streaming data. Splunk Connect for Kubernetes and Splunk Connect for Docker unify the Splunk platform with the leading solutions for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications.\n“Splunk Connect for Kafka will improve our investigation of web activity, performance and security use cases,” said John Swanson, security incident response manager, GitHub. “We're now able to ingest large, near-real-time data streams and are consuming terabytes of logs from our Kafka cluster into Splunk Enterprise every day.”\nSplunk Machine Learning Toolkit Adds Experiment Management Interface and New Algorithms for Pattern Prediction\nSplunk is also announcing a new Experiment Management Interface for its Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK). This interface makes it easier to view, control, evaluate and monitor the status of machine learning experiments. The latest Splunk MLTK also includes new algorithms for identifying patterns and determining the best predictors for training machine learning models.\n“Hyatt uses machine learning in Splunk Enterprise to predict when and where we should act fast or plan differently to best serve our customers,” said Cesar Mendoza, application development manager, strategic systems and innovation, Hyatt. “We used the free Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to benchmark typical Wi-Fi usage from customers across hotel sites, and used that baseline to spot low traffic. We immediately contacted our wireless service provider to correct connection issues before our customers had to call us. We’re using artificial intelligence through Splunk to more proactively serve our customers in this way every day.”\nSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Predicts Outages and Service Health and Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) Accelerates Threat Identification via Machine Learning\nIn the latest release of monitoring and analytics solution Splunk ITSI, customers can leverage AI to help predict imminent outages and how their service health could be impacted by these outages before they occur, reducing the risk of negative impact to end-customer experience and revenue. Splunk ITSI also applies machine learning to help reduce event noise and automatically identify the events that are most business critical, so that customers can resolve those first. Similarly, the Splunk UBA updates include new machine learning models and enhancements to existing models to help customers identify and address time-sensitive security problems and insider threats more quickly.\nPrescriptive Solutions Help Customers Solve Unique Challenges\nNew solutions focused on the IoT and other use cases are helping Splunk customers solve defined challenges. Splunk recently announced the limited availability release of Splunk Industrial Asset Intelligence, which helps manufacturers monitor and analyze industrial IoT data in real time.\nContinuing this prescriptive approach, the Splunk Essentials series are free, easy-to-install applications that show users exactly how to use Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud to address mission critical use cases. Splunk Security Essentials covers use cases such as brute force detection, malware and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance while Splunk Security Essentials for Fraud Detection covers use cases such as healthcare insurance billing and wire transfer fraud. Both applications and forthcoming Splunk Essentials are available for free at https://splunkbase.splunk.com/.\nAbout Splunk Inc.\nSplunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges. Join millions of passionate users and discover your “aha” moment with Splunk today: http://www.splunk.com.\nSocial Media: Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | Facebook\nSplunk, Splunk>, Listen to Your Data, The Engine for Machine Data, Splunk Cloud, Splunk Light and SPL are trademarks and registered trademarks of Splunk Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective owners. © 2018 Splunk Inc. All rights reserved.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005597/en/\nCONTACT: Splunk Inc.\nMedia Contact\nMelanie Duzyj, 415-510-7808\[email protected]\nor\nInvestor Contact\nKen Tinsley, 415-848-8476\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY DATA MANAGEMENT INTERNET SOFTWARE SECURITY\nSOURCE: Splunk Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 08:00 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 08:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005597/en"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Kansas officer fired for violating policy in deadly shooting
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"LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police officer who fatally shot a man in an SUV outside the man's home six months ago has been fired for violating department policy in the shooting, a police chief said Monday.\nLeavenworth Police Chief Patrick Kitchens said in an email that Officer Matthew Harrington was terminated Friday for violating the department's use of deadly force policy in the shooting that killed 47-year-old Antonio Garcia Jr. Prosecutors are still reviewing the case.\n\"It was my conclusion the use of deadly force was unreasonable,\" Kitchens said.\nPolice have provided few details about what led up to the shooting, including whether Garcia was armed. It happened after Harrington responded in July to a domestic argument at Garcia's home over possession of an SUV that initially was reported as stolen, according to police. Garcia left before Harrington arrived, then returned and had an \"encounter\" with Harrington in the driveway, according to a news release from police. Garcia was shot while in the SUV.\nHarrington doesn't have a listed phone number. His attorney, Jeff Kratofil, didn't immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.\nLeavenworth County prosecutor Todd Thompson said in a news release that his staff hopes to complete its review soon, noting that his office is awaiting requested information. Thompson's release noted that the criminal investigation is separate from the police inquiry.\n\"The standard for terminating an employee based on upon professional standards is also a much lower burden than the burden used to charge and/or convict someone of a crime,\" the release said. \"We have an ethical duty to do our best to fully vet a matter before we file charges on anyone.\"\nGina Mays, who raised Garcia starting when he was a teen, told The Kansas City Star that Garcia \"did not deserve to die\" and that the family wanted to see body camera footage.\n\"We're all hoping to see this,\" Mays said. \"I want answers like everyone else. There is a man dead here because of neglect.\"\nKitchens said police aren't releasing body camera footage because the investigation is ongoing and it's classified as evidence."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Shiite cleric who lost citizenship back in Bahrain hospital
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"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Supporters say a prominent Shiite cleric who lost his citizenship and remains under house arrest in Bahrain has returned to a local hospital for surgery.\nSheikh Isa Qassim left his home in Diraz on Wednesday.\nSheikh Maytham al-Salman of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights said Sheikh Isa will undergo a hernia surgery. Sheikh Isa was in the hospital in December as well.\nThe cleric could be deported at any time after authorities stripped his citizenship in June 2016 over accusations that he fueled extremism and laundered money. His supporters deny the allegations.\nBahrain's Sunni rulers are cracking down on all dissent on the Shiite-majority island, imprisoning or forcing politicians and activists into exile.\nBahrain is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about US, Qatar reach agreement on subsidy spat with airlines
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Qatar have reached a deal to resolve a years-old quarrel over alleged airline subsidies, as Qatar's government works to defuse tensions with the Trump administration.\nA formal announcement could come Tuesday, when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis meet with a Qatari delegation.\nThe agreement will see state-owned Qatar Airways agree voluntarily to open up its accounting books, the individuals said. U.S. airlines say the company receives billions of dollars in government payments that leave them at a competitive disadvantage. Qatar will also make a loose commitment that the flag carrier won't launch flights to the United States from Europe or other non-Qatari cities, creating yet more competition for the U.S. airlines.\nThe individuals briefed on the agreement demanded anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss it ahead of a formal announcement.\nBoth sides of the dispute can claim the agreement as a victory — for very different reasons.\nThe U.S. airline industry can claim the increased transparency will create a powerful disincentive to unfair subsidies, as Qatar will no longer be able to mask such payments through creative accounting. The three major U.S. carriers — Delta Airlines, American Airlines and United Airlines — have spent huge sums over the last three years pressing the Obama administration and Trump administration for tough action. They're eager to show a win.\nYet for Qatar, the agreement averts the more serious step U.S. airlines wanted: re-opening the so-called open-skies treaties that could lead to less favorable conditions for Persian Gulf airlines.\nQatar, denounced by President Donald Trump last year for allegedly funding terrorism, can also show it's cooperating closely and productively with U.S. regulators. That could help the tiny gas-rich kingdom draw a contrast with the United Arab Emirates, whose two airlines are also accused of improper subsidies but have yet to reach an agreement with Washington.\n\"Everybody gets to claim victory in this,\" said Helane Becker, an airline analyst for Cowen and Co.\nIndeed, even before any announcement, American, the world's biggest airline by passenger traffic, praised the deal as a way to \"thoughtfully address\" Qatari subsidies. And United CEO Oscar Munoz applauded the agreement while thanking Trump's administration for \"effectively representing the interests of the American aviation industry.\"\nThough on the same side of the airline dispute, Qatar and the UAE oppose each other in a bitter, unrelated standoff. Last year, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations blockaded Qatar after accusing it of supporting extremism and fomenting dissent throughout the region. Qatar hopes to change that narrative by enhancing counterterrorism cooperation and allowing greater U.S. visibility into its finances and banking practices.\nIn an eight-paragraph document laying out \"understandings\" between Qatar and the U.S., the Gulf nation will commit within one year to releasing audited financial statements for Qatar Airlines \"in accordance with internationally-recognized accounting standards,\" according to a text of the agreement obtained by The Associated Press. Within two years, Qatar Airways is to disclose any transactions with other state-owned entities, such as caterers or other companies that support airline operations, closing what the U.S. airlines have claimed is a backdoor used by Gulf nations to hide illicit subsidies.\nA side-letter to the agreement will state that Qatar's civilian aviation authority is unaware of any plans by Qatar Airlines to start so-called \"Fifth Freedoms\" flights — routes from third countries to the United States. Under the scenario U.S. airlines fear, Qatar Airways could offer flights from its Doha hub to, say, Paris or London, stop to pick up more passengers, then fly on to New York.\nThe side-letter only says there are no current plans to operate such service. That's short of a binding guarantee. There's also no commitment Qatar Airways won't expand its offering of Qatar-U.S. flights.\n\"This appears to be the administration essentially throwing a meatless bone to the three U.S. carriers to put an end to their rants against the Gulf carriers,\" said John Byerly, who was the chief open skies negotiator in the Obama administration and has also consulted for Emirates Airline and UPS.\nThe two UAE airlines — Dubai-based Emirates and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways — aren't a party to the U.S.-Qatar agreement. Emirates Airline currently offers \"Fifth Freedom\" flights in which passengers can fly from New York-area airports to Milan, Italy or Athens without ever setting foot in the UAE.\nAll three Gulf airlines have long denied receiving unfair government subsidies. A Qatari government spokesman declined to comment on the agreement. There was no immediate reaction from either Emirates or Etihad.\n___\nAP Airlines Writer David Koenig in Dallas and AP writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.\n___\nReach Josh Lederman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Columbia Sportswear Company Announces Appointment of Snow Burns as Mountain Hardwear Brand Head of Marketing
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"RICHMOND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Columbia Sportswear Company (Nasdaq: COLM) today announced the appointment of Snow Burns to serve as Global Vice President of Marketing for the Mountain Hardwear brand, effective April 16, 2018.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005270/en/\nSnow Burns, Global Vice President of Marketing for Mountain Hardwear (Photo: Business Wire)\nIn her new role, Burns will be based at Mountain Hardwear’s headquarters in Richmond, California, where she will develop and drive all aspects of the brand’s integrated marketing strategy. Bringing over 10 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Burns will engage a global community of climbers on the brand’s commitment to thoughtfully designed technical equipment, outerwear and sportswear for use by climbers and other people going to the mountains. Burns’ extensive global digital marketing experience will help Mountain Hardwear redefine how an outdoor brand communicates and connects with its audience in this new digital age.\nMountain Hardwear President Joe Vernachio, to whom Burns will report, commented, “We are excited to have Snow bring her expertise to our brand and industry. We feel there is a more modern way of communicating that outdoor brands fail to tap into. We think Snow brings just the right mix of ‘Silicon Valley know-how’ with a personal passion for the outdoors.”\nBurns has over 10 years of experience leading marketing efforts for startups, not-for-profits and global enterprises. Prior to joining Mountain Hardwear, she led the strategy, social media and analytics teams at John McNeil Studio, crafting analytics-based brand strategies and global campaigns across a tech and e-commerce client base with a special focus on digital, social and experiential. Prior to John McNeil Studio, she was head of global social content strategy at CA Technologies.\nAbout Mountain Hardwear\nFounded on the principles of innovation and irreverence, our purpose is to build essential equipment for climbers and the outdoor industry that enables people to push as far, as high and as wide as their aspirations carry them. Our expedition tents have summited more of the world’s top peaks than any other brand, and every product we make is designed and built with technical precision from this foundation. At Mountain Hardwear, Everything is Equipment. Mountain Hardwear, Inc., founded in 1993 and based in Richmond, CA, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company and distributes its products through specialty outdoor, running, and sporting goods retailers in the United States and 58 countries worldwide. To learn more, visit www.mountainhardwear.com.\nAbout Columbia Sportswear Company\nColumbia Sportswear Company has assembled a portfolio of brands for active lives, making it a leader in the global active lifestyle apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment industry. Founded in 1938 in Portland, Oregon, the company’s brands are today sold in approximately 90 countries. In addition to the Columbia® brand, Columbia Sportswear Company also owns the Mountain Hardwear®, SOREL® and prAna® brands. To learn more, please visit the company’s websites at www.columbia.com, www.mountainhardwear.com, www.sorel.com and www.prana.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005270/en/\nCONTACT: Mountain Hardwear\nMarketing\nLina Adams, 503-451-9727\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: OUTDOORS RETAIL FASHION SPECIALTY SPORTS\nSOURCE: Columbia Sportswear Company\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 12:00 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 12:01 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005270/en"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about AP FACT CHECK: No Trump order to deport welfare immigrants
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A widely circulated report that President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for the deportation of immigrants who accept government welfare is false.\nTrump has signed executive orders focusing on immigration, including a travel-and-immigration ban that has been put on hold by a federal court in Washington state, but none focused on deporting immigrants who receive welfare.\nIn recent weeks, drafts of possible executive orders have been leaked and one such draft did address immigrants who become a so-called \"public charge\" by accepting certain government benefits. The draft order was obtained by The Associated Press.\nThe draft order did call for such immigrants to face deportation, but it hasn't been signed by the president. And even if it were to be signed, it wouldn't change much. There's already a law that says immigrants who become dependent on certain government benefits can be kicked out of the country, though it's rarely, if ever, enforced. Immigrants in the United States illegally are also barred from receiving welfare and other public benefits.\n__\nThis story is part of an ongoing Associated Press effort to fact-check claims in suspected false news stories. Find all AP Fact Checks here: http://apne.ws/2kbx8bd"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about 'Alternative facts' remark tops 2017 list of notable quotes
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"NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The use of the term \"alternative facts\" by Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to President Donald Trump, tops a Yale Law School librarian's list of the most notable quotes of 2017.\nThe statement Conway made when asked why Trump's then-Press Secretary Sean Spicer mischaracterized the size of inauguration crowds is one of many Trump-related quotations on the list, assembled by Fred Shapiro, an associate director at the library.\n\"I actually had to limit the amount of Trump-related quotations on the list so as not to have the list overwhelmed by him,\" Shapiro said.\nThe yearly list is an update to \"The Yale Book of Quotations,\" which was first published in 2006. Shapiro chooses quotes that are famous or revealing of the spirit of the times, and not necessarily eloquent or admirable.\n___\nTHE LIST\n1. \"Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts.\" — Kellyanne Conway, interview on NBC \"Meet the Press,\" Jan. 22.\n2. \"Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods.\" — Chuck Todd, interview of Kellyanne Conway on \"Meet the Press,\" Jan. 22.\n3. \"I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.\" — Trump, as reported by The New York Times, explaining the firing of James Comey to visiting Russian officials, May 10.\n4. \"With respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr. Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.\" — Sallie Hofmeister, spokeswoman for Harvey Weinstein, Oct. 10.\n5. \"Make our planet great again.\" — Emmanuel Macron, statement on the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement, June 1.\n6. \"We can't have the inmates running the prison.\" — Robert McNair, owner of the Houston Texans football team, describing players protesting the national anthem, as quoted in ESPN The Magazine, Oct. 27.\n7. \"Yes.\" — Elizabeth Warren, responding to Jake Tapper's question on whether the 2016 Democratic primaries were rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton, in an interview on CNN's \"The Lead,\" Nov. 2.\n8. \"And the Academy Award ... for Best Picture ... La La Land.\" — Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, mistakenly reading the wrong winner for Best Picture in an envelope mix-up, Academy Awards ceremony, Feb. 27.\n9. \"It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.\" — Bob Corker, Republican senator from Tennessee, in a tweet, Oct. 8.\n10. \"There is too much money in the world.\" — Lawrence Luhring, art dealer, reacting to the sale of a painting possibly by Leonardo da Vinci for over $450 million, as quoted in The New York Times, Nov. 16."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Tick tock of terror: New details in Hawaii missile timeline
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"HONOLULU (AP) — The missile alert mistakenly sent on Jan. 13 by Hawaii officials came just a few minutes after a shift change at state Emergency Operations Center in Diamond Head Crater.\nHere's a timeline of what happened:\n8:05 a.m. — The midnight shift supervisor started a no-notice ballistic missile defense drill at shift change. In a phone call, the supervisor pretended to be U.S. Pacific Command to initiate the drill. The supervisor said ahead of and after the drill, \"Exercise, exercise, exercise.\" However, it also contained the language, \"This is not a drill.\" The day shift warning officers received the message on a speaker phone. The FCC says while the other officers understood this to be a drill, the person at the alert origination terminal \"claimed to believe, in a written statement\" that this was a real emergency and not a drill. The officer responds, as trained, by sending a live incoming missile alert.\n8:07 a.m. — The state emergency agency employee selects the template for a live alert from a drop-down menu, and clicks 'yes' in response to a prompt that reads, 'Are you sure that you want to send this Alert?'\n8:08 a.m. — The head of the Emergency Management Agency, state adjutant general Maj. Gen. Joe Logan, speaks to the warning center and is notified of false alert.\n8:09 a.m. — Logan calls and informs Gov. David Ige. Agency notifies counties there's no missile threat.\n8:10 a.m. — Logan confirms with U.S. Pacific Command that there was no missile launch. Honolulu police are notified of the false alarm.\n8:12 a.m. — The state issues a cancellation that prevents the message from being sent to phones that hadn't previously received it, such as those out of cellphone coverage range or had been turned off.\n8:13 a.m. — Officials begin outreach, but phone lines become congested.\n8:19 a.m. — If there had been a real missile, this is about when it would have hit the islands. It is estimated that a missile would take about 20 minutes to reach Hawaii from North Korea. Officials say it would take about five minutes for the military to analyze the launch trajectory and notify the state, leaving only 12 to 15 minutes of warning time before impact.\n8:20 a.m. — Officials post to Facebook, Twitter accounts that there is no missile threat.\n8:24 a.m. — Gov. David Ige retweets the cancellation notice.\n8:27 a.m. — Officials determine that a Civil Emergency Message is the best way to correct this message, which the Federal Emergency Management Agency confirms three minutes later.\n8:30 a.m. — Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say they received a call from Hawaii seeking guidance on sending correction of alert. State officials say the call was about a minute long. Ige posts cancellation notice on his Facebook page.\n8:31 a.m. — An emergency management supervisor logs into alert system to start crafting false alert correction.\n8:45 a.m. — Cancellation of warning sent to cellphones: \"There is no missile threat or danger to the State of Hawaii. Repeat. False Alarm.\" The state said it issued the cancellation after getting authorization from FEMA. However, FEMA said its approval was not required.\nSource: Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, FCC."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Kenya awaits opposition leader's 'swearing in'
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Streets are quiet in the central business district of Kenya's capital ahead of the opposition's plan to \"swear in\" its leader, Raila Odinga, as an alternative president despite the attorney general's warning that such an act challenging the official president will amount to treason.\nThe U.S. has advised Odinga against the so-called inauguration Tuesday, as East Africa's economic hub tries to move beyond months of deadly election turmoil. Police have vowed to block opposition supporters from attending the event.\nHeavy police deployment was withdrawn Tuesday without explanation at the Uhuru Park where the opposition had said the event would take place. A heavy police presence remains in city slums, which are opposition strongholds."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Today in History
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"Today in History\nToday is Thursday, June 15, the 166th day of 2017. There are 199 days left in the year.\nToday's Highlight in History:\nOn June 15, 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army.\nOn this date:\nIn 1215, England's King John put his seal to Magna Carta (\"the Great Charter\") at Runnymede.\nIn 1520, Pope Leo X issued a papal bull in which he threatened to excommunicate Martin Luther if he did not recant his religious beliefs, a threat that was carried out the following January.\nIn 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state.\nIn 1849, James Polk, the 11th president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee.\nIn 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York's East River.\nIn 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act making the National Guard part of the U.S. Army in the event of war or national emergency.\nIn 1944, American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan (sy-PAN') during World War II. B-29 Superfortresses carried out their first raids on Japan.\nIn 1955, the United States and Britain signed a cooperation agreement concerning atomic information for \"mutual defence purposes.\"\nIn 1967, the war film \"The Dirty Dozen\" was released by MGM.\nIn 1977, Spain held its first free elections in four decades; the Union of the Democratic Center won the highest number of seats in the Congress of Deputies.\nIn 1985, the Shiite Muslim hijackers of a TWA Boeing 727 beat and shot one of their hostages, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem (STEE'-them), 23, throwing him out of the plane to die on the tarmac at Beirut airport.\nIn 1992, during a visit to an elementary school in Trenton, New Jersey, Vice President Dan Quayle, relying on a faulty flash card, erroneously instructed sixth-grader William Figueroa to write \"potato\" as \"potatoe\" on a blackboard during a spelling quiz.\nTen years ago: During his ethics trial, a tearful Mike Nifong announced he would resign as district attorney of Durham County, North Carolina, after admitting that he'd made improper statements about three Duke University lacrosse players who were once charged with raping a stripper. (The players were later declared innocent by state prosecutors.) Retired \"Price Is Right\" host Bob Barker won his 19th Daytime Emmy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a crane lifted out a water-damaged 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that had been buried in an underground concrete vault half a century earlier to celebrate 50 years of statehood.\nFive years ago: President Barack Obama eased enforcement of immigration laws as he announced a new policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. Republican Mitt Romney launched the next phase of his presidential campaign, kicking off a six-state, small-town bus tour and telling middle-class Americans that President Obama hadn't given them \"a fair shot.\" An armored car heist at the University of Alberta in Canada left three armed guards dead; fellow guard Travis Baumgartner later pleaded guilty to murder charges and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 years. Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls. (The feat was broadcast live by ABC-TV, which required Wallenda to wear a safety tether.)\nOne year ago: The interim police chief in Oakland, California, Ben Fairow, was abruptly removed after six days on the job by Mayor Libby Schaaf, who said she had lost confidence in Fairow's ability to lead the department amid a widening sex scandal in which a number of officers allegedly had sex with a teenage prostitute. A public funeral was held in Detroit for hockey legend Gordie Howe, who had died five days earlier at age 88.\nToday's Birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Ruby Nash Garnett (Ruby and the Romantics) is 83. Rock singer-actor Johnny Hallyday is 74. Funk musician Leo Nocentelli (The Meters) is 71. Actor Simon Callow is 68. Singer Russell Hitchcock (Air Supply) is 68. Rock singer Steve Walsh is 66. Comedian-actor Jim Belushi is 63. Country singer Terri Gibbs is 63. Actress Julie Hagerty is 62. Actress Polly Draper is 62. Rock musician Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) is 60. Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is 59. Actress Eileen Davidson is 58. Bluegrass musician Terry Smith is 57. Actress Helen Hunt is 54. Rock musician Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche) is 54. Actress Courteney Cox is 53. Country musician Tony Ardoin is 53. Country musician Michael Britt (Lonestar) is 51. Contemporary Christian musician Rob Mitchell is 51. Rock musician Jimmy McD is 49. Actor-rapper Ice Cube is 48. Actress Leah Remini is 47. Actor Jake Busey is 46. Bluegrass singer-musician Jamie Johnson is 45. Rock musician T-Bone Willy (Save Ferris) is 45. Actor Neil Patrick Harris is 44. Actor Greg Vaughan is 44. Actress Elizabeth Reaser is 42. Rock singer Dryden Mitchell (Alien Ant Farm) is 41. Rock musician Billy Martin (Good Charlotte) is 36. Rock musician Wayne Sermon (Imagine Dragons) is 33. Actor Denzel Whitaker is 27. Olympic gold medal gymnast Madison Kocian is 20. Actress Sterling Jerins is 13.\nThought for Today: \"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.\" — Anatole France, French author (1844-1924)."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Reynolds keeping donations from firm that did pro-Saudi work
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"DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's governor is keeping campaign donations tied to a firm that profited from a controversial lobbying blitz funded by Saudi Arabia.\nGov. Kim Reynolds in November returned a $100 contribution from executive branch appointees Kim and Connie Schmett, saying she disagreed with their side work as foreign agents. The couple collected $100,000 opposing a law allowing victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.\nBut her campaign kept several larger donations linked to the LS2Group, a Des Moines-based firm that received $76,500 from the same Saudi-funded work.\nLS2Group executive Chuck Larson Jr. hosted a Reynolds fundraiser last summer. He and other LS2 employees gave thousands to Reynolds, and LS2Group's political arm gave $250.\nReynolds' campaign spokesman notes LS2Group is a private business while the Schmetts are state officials.\nConnie Schmett was fined $250 last week by an ethics board for disclosure violations."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Study: Most drivers, not just young, are taking risks
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"DETROIT (AP) — Young drivers aren't alone in behaving badly on U.S. roads, a trend that could be contributing to a spike in highway deaths.\nWell over half of drivers in every age group have texted behind the wheel, run a red light or driven faster than the speed limit in the last 30 days, according to a new study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.\nYounger drivers are the worst offenders. Eighty-eight percent of drivers ages 19 to 24 admitted to at least one of those behaviors. But even mature drivers skirted the rules more often researchers expected. For instance, 10 percent of drivers between 60 and 74 have texted or sent email from behind the wheel, while 37 percent of drivers over 75 said they'd driven through a light that had just turned red.\n\"It was a surprise that there were relatively high rates of these behaviors among the drivers we think of as safer,\" said Lindsay Arnold, a research associate with the AAA Foundation.\nArnold said the responses were similar to those in past years, indicating a troubling trend. In 2015, U.S. traffic deaths rose 7 percent to 35,092, the largest single-year increase in five decades. They're expected to rise again in 2016 when that data is finalized.\n\"It points to the need to improve driver behavior if we're going to reverse this alarming trend,\" Arnold said.\nTeen driver education campaigns have had some success, foundation spokeswoman Tamra Johnson said. Now the organization is considering the best ways to reach drivers of other ages.\nThe study found broad agreement on some issues. Eighty-seven percent of drivers said they have never driven when they thought they were close to the legal alcohol limit. Ninety-five percent said they had never driven within an hour of using marijuana. Eighty-eight percent of drivers say it's unacceptable to drive without a seat belt, and 82 percent support laws requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets.\nBut drivers' behavior sometimes contradicted their own instincts. More than three-quarters of drivers say it's unacceptable to text or email while driving, but 31 percent had done so in the last month and 8 percent do so often. Ninety-six percent of drivers say drowsy driving is a serious safety threat, but 29 percent had recently driven when they were so tired they had trouble keeping their eyes open.\nThe study questioned 2,511 licensed drivers aged 16 and over. Among its findings:\n— The youngest drivers — those ages 16 to 18 — were less likely to engage in speeding, running red lights or texting while driving than drivers in their 20s through 50s.\n— Eighty-three percent of drivers — and 86.5 percent of drivers 75 or older — said they were more careful than other drivers on the road.\n— Just over half of drivers feel seriously threatened by drivers talking on cell phones, but 68 percent made a call while driving in the last 30 days.\n— Drivers ages 40-59 were the most likely to use a hands-free phone in the car. Drivers ages 16-18 and 75 or older were the most likely to hold their phones and talk while driving.\n— Twenty-three percent of drivers — and 36 percent of those ages 19 to 24 — think it's acceptable to drive 15 mph over the speed limit on a freeway. Forty-six percent of drivers say they have driven that fast on a freeway in the last 30 days.\n— Sixty percent of drivers say people who drive after using illegal drugs are a serious threat, but just 34 percent say the same about people who drive after using prescription drugs."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Europe's sunny weather makes for a sorry summer in Reykjavik
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"REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Pop singer Helgi Bjornsson, who is well-known in his native Iceland for a 1980s hit titled \"I Do Like the Rain,\" recently appeared on national television while a deadpan reporter challenged him to defend the song's premise.\nThe people of Reykjavik do not like the rain anymore. This summer has been so gray and wet in the capital of Iceland that meteorologists have to look as far back as 1914 to find records for a worse May and June.\nIn other parts of Europe, especially Britain and Scandinavia, a heat wave is expected to continue well into July.\nThe stark contrast is no coincidence. High pressure over western Europe alters the jet stream and pushes clouds and rain over the continent's northern posts, causing foul weather in this North Atlantic island nation.\n\"It's the other side of the heat wave token,\" Iceland meteorologist Trausti Jonsson said. \"The people of Reykjavik are paying for the sunshine in England and southern Scandinavia.\"\nDuring June, the month of midnight sun and camping holidays in Iceland, sunshine touched Reykjavik for a total of 70 hours. The temperature reached 13.2 degrees Celsius (56 F) on the warmest day, two degrees shy of Reykjavik's average for the month.\nIn May, it rained every single day.\nSummer's delayed arrival has spurred a weather forecast obsession and constant disappointment in the world's northernmost capital city.\nA forecast calling for 11 hours of clear sky on Thursday brought giddy excitement, with many posting on social media how they planned to spend the sunniest day in two weeks.\nBut then the forecast changed. The sun now is expected to give way to clouds by noon, according to the Icelandic Met Office.\nSome here have given up hope. One travel agent told local media that bookings for last-minute beach holidays are coming in \"without any marketing on our behalf.\" Tanning salons are making a comeback, while ice cream vendors, house painters and the staffs of outdoor swimming pools struggle with low demand for their services.\n\"You need about two days of sun for outdoor wood to completely dry,\" house painter Mar Gudmundsson lamented. \"I don't think we have had that.\"\nSummer is Iceland's main tourist season and many travelers sleep in tents during their stays.\nThe Laugardalur campsite in Reykjavik is seeing slightly fewer guests than in previous years. But manager Oddvar Arnason observed that \"most people don't change their means of accommodation after arrival and simply adjust.\"\nAlex Moreno, a 17-year-old camper from Granada in Spain, said he found the brisk climate more pleasant than the boiling weather at home.\n\"Just put on a jacket and it's fine here,\" he said.\nThings have been worse. In June 1914, when the slaying of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria plunged the globe into World War I, Europe was under a hot spell and Reykjavik, in return, got biblical rainfall.\nHistorian Gudjon Fridriksson said Reykjavik at the time was a town of about 15,000 people with an undeveloped sewage system and mostly dirt roads.\n\"Getting from place to place meant crossing mud and a lot of puddles,\" he said.\nAs for the remainder of 2018's alleged summer, Fridriksson has an it-can-only-get-better attitude, a widespread expression of resilience and hope in this weather-beaten capital.\n\"Besides,\" the prolific historical writer said, \"this is the perfect weather to finish my next book.\""
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Third Annual Make March Matter™ Campaign Raises $2 Million
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"LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--The third annual Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Make March Matter fundraising campaign raised $2 million dollars, the hospital announced Tuesday. The campaign doubled its $1 million fundraising goal thanks to partnerships with 95 businesses in Los Angeles and the Coachella Valley who rallied community participation to give in support of critical, lifesaving care for children in Los Angeles.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005632/en/\nActors Patrick J. Adams and Troian Bellisario supported the Make March Matter campaign by volunteering at Children's Hospital Los Angeles on March 15, 2018. (Photo: Business Wire)\n“Every year I am astounded by the level of compassion and generosity exhibited by the businesses and corporate partners and their followers in the community who support the Make March Matter campaign and help us fulfill our mission of creating hope and building healthier futures for our patients and their families,” says Children’s Hospital Los Angeles President and CEO Paul S. Viviano.\n“There was something for everyone with this year’s campaign, which featured 40 events in 31 days and a variety of fundraising activities and opportunities from shopping to dining to exercising -- all in support of CHLA,” says Dawn Wilcox, vice president of Corporate Partnerships at CHLA.\nMake March Matter was created by CHLA in 2016 as a way to identify a time of year devoted specifically to children’s hospitals and children’s health. The month of March was selected as it signifies the start of spring. And with the new season comes a feeling of hope, new beginnings, and life. This year Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC joined the movement by launching their own inaugural Make March Matter campaign.\nNumerous promotions and events highlighted this year’s campaign including shopping events and promotions at Intermix and Theory, Calleen Cordero, Trina Turk and may more; CHLA-themed fitness classes at Cycle House, Orangetheory and Body by Simone; and Drybar donated 100 percent of proceeds for blowouts at their Culver City location. Teen fashion designer Grace Rose hosted a fashion show at The Americana at Brand and donated a portion of sales from her Rosie G clothing line, and the Los Angeles Kings and the Los Angeles Galaxy hosted special CHLA-themed games at Staples Center and the StubHub Center, respectively. For the third consecutive year, Panda Express earned top campaign contributor honors by raising $390,000.\n“Our associates and our customers are passionate about helping Children’s Hospital Los Angeles continue to offer groundbreaking medical treatment to the precious patients they treat,” says Peggy Cherng, Panda Express co-chair and co-chief executive officer. “I’m thrilled that their efforts raised $390,000 for the Make March Matter campaign.”\nCelebrities who gave CHLA hands-on support throughout March include Patrick J. Adams, Victoria Arlen, Troian Bellisario, Jacey Duprie, Yael Grobglas , the KOST 103.5 Ellen K Morning Show team, Elliot Knight, Brooke Lyons, Lea Michele, Italia Ricci, Louise Roe, Becca Tobin and Patrick Schwarzenegger.\n“We are so grateful for the enthusiasm and commitment from the businesses and the community extended to CHLA,” Wilcox says. “Thanks to their support, we can continue to provide expert medical care to the pediatric patients we treat.”\nMake March Matter\nMake March Matter is an annual fundraising campaign that builds awareness and support for children’s health in Los Angeles. The campaign supports Children’s Hospital Los Angeles—a nonprofit pediatric academic medical center dedicated to offering more than 350 specialty programs and services to help the health of children. The goal of the campaign is to raise money in support of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to ensure that all of its pediatric patients receive the critical lifesaving care they need.\nAbout Children's Hospital Los Angeles\nFounded in 1901, Children's Hospital Los Angeles is ranked the top children’s hospital in California and sixth in the nation for clinical excellence with its selection to the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Clinical care is led by physicians who are faculty members of the Keck School of Medicine of USC through an affiliation dating from 1932. CHLA is home to The Saban Research Institute, one of the largest and most productive pediatric research facilities in the United States. For more information, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, and visit our child health blog ( CHLA.org/blog ) and our research blog ( ResearCHLABlog.org ).\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005632/en/\nCONTACT: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles\nMonica Rizzo, (323) 361-5745\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: OTHER CONSUMER ENTERTAINMENT HEALTH CELEBRITY HOSPITALS OTHER HEALTH PHILANTHROPY CONSUMER FUND RAISING\nSOURCE: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 07:00 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 07:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005632/en"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about US declares Laos casino operators a criminal network
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is declaring the Zhao Wei network that operates a casino in Laos to be a transnational criminal organization.\nThe Treasury Department imposed sanctions Tuesday on four individuals and three companies across Laos, Thailand and Hong Kong, freezing any U.S. assets and prohibiting Americans from dealing with them.\nTreasury officials say the Kings Romans Casino is a hub for trafficking in drugs, people and wildlife. The department says the network stores and distributes heroin and methamphetamine, and smuggles endangered animals, including Asiatic black bears, pangolins, tigers, rhinos and elephants. The casino is reportedly a draw for gamblers from nearby China and sells food and other products derived from exotic animals.\nThe sanctioned individuals include Chinese national Zhao Wei, co-owner of the three companies linked to the casino."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about 'Infinity War' caps a decade of success for Marvel Studios
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige talks about his job like a fan who's just lucky to be there.\nTo hear his genuine enthusiasm about the movies, the actors, the audience and the stories almost belies the fact that he is essentially the architect of and driving force behind Hollywood's most valuable brand that has in just over 10 years netted over $14.8 billion in worldwide grosses (according to comScore) and become the envy of every studio executive in town.\nHe's a mogul with a fanboy's verve who has helped to change the very fabric of the entertainment industry.\nTen years ago, many moviegoers didn't know who Iron Man was, and those who did thought of him as a minor comic book character. On Thursday, Marvel Studios' 19th film, \"Avengers: Infinity War,\" an epic mashup of characters once considered to be part of the \"superhero B-list,\" from Iron Man to Star Lord, opens in theaters worldwide. It is cruising for a record-breaking debut that could surpass \"Star Wars: The Force Awakens\" as the biggest opening ever.\nThe scope of the Marvel effect is somewhat difficult to pin down, especially with a force as formidable as The Walt Disney Co. behind it. (Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion in 2009.)\nIt's revitalized careers (Robert Downey Jr.), minted movie stars (Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans and Chris Pratt, to name a few), and become an outpost for Oscar-winners too (like Robert Redford, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, Michael Douglas and Cate Blanchett).\nAnd beyond that, every few months the studio seems to be breaking new ground, whether it's as small as a change in tone, like \"Thor: Ragnarok,\" or as big as producing a downright cultural phenomenon, such as \"Black Panther,\" now the third highest-grossing domestic film of all time.\n\"We dream big at Marvel Studios. We have very lofty aspirations at Marvel Studios. For those dreams to be surpassed is saying something,\" Feige, 44, said of \"Black Panther's\" success.\nAnd it shows no sign of slowing down, or running out of story. They have 70 years of comic book source material to draw on, after all.\n\"There are still things that are key elements to a lot of our characters in their comic incarnations that we haven't even done yet for characters who have had three or four movies,\" Feige said. \"It is an amazing wealth of creative material to pull from.\"\nFeige is amused when reporters try to predict Marvel's next move, or make big conclusions based on what's just happened. Under Feige, Marvel is not looking in the rear-view mirror.\nWhen \"Thor: Ragnarok\" came out, he remembers reading articles declaring that, \"Marvel is committing to a surrealist, silly tone\" and just laughed.\n\"I thought, 'We have 'Black Panther' coming out in three months! They don't even know what's coming,'\" Feige said. \"We're always thinking ahead. Just when people think they can pin us down, we go somewhere else and that's going to happen again after 'Infinity War' in the build-up to the next Avengers film. And we had meetings earlier today about 2024 and 2025.\"\nMisunderstanding Feige's vision is almost a tradition at this point, going back to Comic-Con in 2006 where he revealed his plans for the first few films —Iron Man, Ant-Man and The Incredible Hulk — and all anyone wrote about is how Marvel Studios didn't have the rights to Spider-Man (Sony does), the X-Men or the Fantastic Four (those reside at 20th Century Fox).\nNow, few would argue that Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, the Guardians of the Galaxy and even Doctor Strange and Ant-Man aren't veritable A-listers on their own, and even more powerful together, making up what is perhaps Marvel's greatest innovation — the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This idea of an interconnected, ever-expanding \"universe\" of characters and films is something that many have since tried to copy to varying degrees of success. It seems audiences don't begrudge Marvel for creating the concept, but are somewhat more skeptical of those trying to capitalize on it.\n\"(Marvel's) approach doesn't seem nearly as cynical as when you see another studio trying to do it with, say, Ghostbusters or DC,\" said Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz, who delves into Marvel's history in the book \"The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies.\" ''People are like, 'Oh I know what you're doing, you're trying to copy Marvel.' But Marvel did it first and Marvel has still done it best.\"\n\"Sequel fatigue\" doesn't even seem to apply to Marvel films anymore.\n\"I think you can look at Marvel as a grand narrative experiment,\" said 'Infinity War' co-director Joe Russo. \"Never before in films have we seen this many franchises combined over this many years into one giant mosaic. Two-hour, two-dimensional storytelling has dominated American culture for 100 years and now we're consuming content with such extreme speed that we need new forms of storytelling. I think what Marvel is doing is a new form of storytelling.\"\n\"Infinity War\" co-screenwriter Stephen McFeely, who also co-wrote the three Captain America films, said Feige should get the film academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his impact on the industry.\n\"He's clearly changed the way Hollywood works, or at least the top box office end of it,\" McFeely said. \"It's in part because Kevin has a really good mind for story — he's ambitious — but he's not so ambitious that he's not going to do the right thing for the movie in front of his face.\"\nWhile navel-gazing isn't Feige's favorite activity, the 10-year anniversary of \"Iron Man\" hitting theaters has provided an excuse to reflect a bit. He still remembers the early days, when they had everything to prove and felt grateful for the chance to produce films on their own. While the grand plans and concurrent filmmaking have gotten more complex over the years and \"the days have gotten longer,\" Feige said the fundamental processes for how they make films goes back to the beginning.\n\"It was in the cutting rooms of 'Iron Man 1' that in a lot of ways the Marvel Studios process was born — of just keep trying things and keep turning things over and don't rest on your laurels and just because something is working doesn't mean it can't work better,\" Feige said.\nAudiences won't have to wait too long for another Avengers, either. The fourth Avengers film, also directed by Joe and Anthony Russo and written by McFeely and Christopher Markus is just around the corner, set for a May 2019 release. It's a continuation of the story that begins in \"Infinity War,\" where a still-fractured Avengers face Thanos (Josh Brolin). Little is being revealed beyond that. The film premiered Monday night in Los Angeles and is said to be full of surprises.\n\"We make movies we believe in. We make movies that we think will be entertaining to ourselves and think about ourselves as the first audience members for any movie we make. Any idea that comes up in a room: Would we be entertained by this? Would we be moved by this? Would we be surprised by this?\" Feige said.\n\"It goes back to the movies I loved growing up. I always loved sequels. I never found myself being cynical or dismissive of sequels. If they were bad, I was disappointed. But I always loved the promise of seeing the further storylines or further adventures of characters I'd grown to love. That's all we're doing.\"\n___\nFollow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr"
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I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Hutton continues to roll, Blues shut down Canadiens 3-1
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"ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carter Hutton made 33 saves and Ivan Barbashev broke a scoreless tie in the second period to help the St. Louis Blues beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Tuesday night.\nSt. Louis, which beat Montreal for the fifth successive time, has won five of six overall. The struggling Canadiens have lost 11 of 15.\nPatrik Berglund pushed the lead to 2-0 with a power-play goal early in the third. Alexander Steen added an empty-netter with 2:17 left.\nCharles Hudon ended Hutton's shutout bid by scoring a 6-on-4 goal with 1:07 remaining.\nHutton has started the Blues' last six games and appears to have supplanted Jake Allen as their No. 1 netminder. A 32-year-old journeyman, Hutton improved to 13-4-1. He has stopped 94 of his past 96 shots and is 8-1-1 in his last 10 starts.\nBarbashev, who spent 21 games in the minors this season, whipped a wrist shot past goalie Carey Price from the top of the faceoff circle at 4:38 of the second.\nBerglund scored his seventh of the season on the rebound of a shot by Tage Thompson. The Blues had come up empty on their previous 34 power-play attempts against the Canadiens dating back to Jan. 20, 2010.\nMontreal is 2-4-2 in its last eight games and remains 10 points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.\nNOTES: Montreal C Phillip Danault missed his seventh consecutive game with a concussion. ... The Blues have earned at least one point in eight of their last 10 games against Montreal. ... Canadiens D Joe Morrow returned to the lineup in place of Jordie Benn. Morrow had been a healthy scratch in the previous seven games. ... The Canadiens recorded the first nine shots of the game.\nUP NEXT\nCanadiens: Play at Carolina on Thursday.\nBlues: Play at Boston on Thursday.\n___\nMore AP hockey: https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about AmericanTours International Honored as Leading Visit USA Travel Company with Top Britain, Germany and China Tour Operators
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"LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2018--AmericanTours International (ATI) was honored by the U.S. Travel Association (USTA) and Brand USA as one of America’s highest-volume tour operators at the Chairman’s Circle Honors Awards ceremony during the association’s 50th annual IPW in Denver, Colorado. This elite awards event —co-hosted by Brand USA— honored international travel buyers for outstanding efforts to bring the world to America.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006439/en/\nL-R Chris Thompson CEO of Brand USA, Nick Hentschel COO of ATI, Noel Irwin Hentschel CEO of ATI and Roger Dow President USTA (Photo: Business Wire)\n“IPW’s goal is to bring the world to America, and this year’s Chairman’s Circle honorees do all that they can to make that vision a reality,” said USTA President and CEO Roger Dow. “The honorees do tremendous work to ensure that travelers all around the world know that the U.S. is a great place to visit and they have my deepest gratitude for their contributions to the U.S. travel industry.”\nPresented with the award by Roger Dow, ATI Chair/CEO Noel Irwin Hentschel stated, “It is an honor to be recognized by USTA and Brand USA for ATI’s passionate work in showcasing America to the world. ATI appreciates our partnerships with all the international tour operators, hotel companies and great destinations like Las Vegas, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Parks. We roll out the red carpet welcoming travelers to visit all 50 states with ATI-every visitor to the USA is a VIP.”\nHentschel was recently appointed to the board of directors of Brand USA by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Brand USA is the destination marketing organization for the United States and a public-private partnership created by the Travel Promotion Act to increase incremental international visitation to fuel the nation’s economy and enhance the image of the USA worldwide.\nATI revolutionizes the inbound travel industry setting standards for quality of service, product innovation, and technological expertise. ATI creates and operates unique motorcoach tours, creative incentives, customized special interest group experiences and DriveAmerica fly-drive itineraries in multiple languages. ATI packages wholesale hotel and attraction inventory from 30,000 suppliers across all 50 states in over 70 international markets.\nATI is America's largest privately held, American-owned, full-service Visit USA destination management and marketing organization. Headquartered in California and Florida with offices in New York and Hawaii, ATI serves nearly one million visitors generating an estimated $3 billion into the U.S. economy annually.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006439/en/\nCONTACT: AmericanTours International\nRebecca Rueseler\n310-590-4118\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TRAVEL DESTINATIONS VACATION COMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISING MARKETING\nSOURCE: AmericanTours International\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/30/2018 04:27 PM/DISC: 05/30/2018 04:27 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530006439/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about CAA to form legal defense fund for harassment victims
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — The powerful Hollywood talent agency CAA is canceling its annual Golden Globe Awards party and planning to form a legal defense fund to assist workplace harassment victims across all industries.\nA person with knowledge of the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly said Monday that the funds normally used for the Globes party, which would celebrate nominated clients like Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Tom Hanks, will be instead be redirected to establish the fund.\nThe agency has also committed itself to establishing gender parity in its leadership by the year 2020, following the lead of ICM Partners.\nThe Hollywood Reporter first reported the news.\nThe Golden Globes will be handed out Jan. 7 and will be followed by several after-parties."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The Latest: Branch fell from 100-year-old tree, killing 2
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"ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on a tree branch that fell on spectators, killing two, at a western Illinois fireworks display (all times local):\n1:45 p.m.\nA western Illinois sheriff says the branch that fell on spectators during a fireworks display, killing two, measured more than 8-feet (2.5 meters) around at its base and was about 45 feet (14 meters) long.\nRock Island County Sheriff Gerald Bustos said Wednesday the branch fell from an oak tree that's believed to be about 100 years old. It fell about 25 feet (8 meters) during a Tuesday night event outside the courthouse in Rock Island.\nBustos said autopsies will be conducted later Wednesday on 61-year-old Daniel Mendoza Sr. of Rock Island and 72-year-old Lawrence Anderson of Moline.\nSix other people were treated for injuries, including a 21-year-old pregnant woman from East Moline who was near term. Bustos said the woman was taken to a local hospital where she gave birth. He says mother and baby are in good health.\n___\n12:40 p.m.\nAuthorities say two people have died after a tree branch fell on spectators during a fireworks display in western Illinois.\nThe Rock Island County Sheriff's Office says the branch fell from a large oak tree outside the county courthouse in Rock Island around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday.\nDozens were sitting near the tree watching the fireworks when the branch fell about 25 feet (8 meters) and crushed some of the spectators. Some of those who weren't hurt tried to lift the branch to free the people trapped beneath.\nAuthorities said 61-year-old Daniel Mendoza Sr. of Rock Island was pronounced dead at the scene. Seventy-two-year-old Lawrence Anderson of Moline died at a hospital.\nAuthorities have not provided the causes of death.\nFive other people were injured."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about In Egypt election, el-Sissi imposes stability over democracy
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"CAIRO (AP) — The sole candidate running against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has had two showcase campaign rallies in downtown Cairo.\nThe first was a disaster. No one showed up except a few campaign workers.\nThe second was a slight improvement: 30 people attended. They held banners and chanted slogans, though the chants weren't exactly resounding victory cries for their candidate, an almost unknown politician named Moussa Mustafa Moussa.\nThey shouted: \"Whether Moussa wins or el-Sissi wins, either is our president!\"\nThere's no question the general-turned-president el-Sissi will win a second four-year term. But the March 26-28 election will likely be remembered as the event that signaled Egypt's break with what pretense it had left of democratic rule, seven years after a popular uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in the name of democracy."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Global Forecast-Celsius
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"Global Forecast as of 12:00 GMT Tuesday, January 30, 2018\n_____\nCity/Town, Country;Tuesday's Weather Condition;Tuesday's High Temp (C);Tuesday's Low Temp (C);Wednesday's Weather Condition;Wednesday's High Temp (C);Wednesday's Low Temp (C);Wednesday's Wind Direction;Wednesday's Wind Speed (KPH);Wednesday's Humidity (%);Wednesday's Chance of Precip. (%);Wednesday's UV Index\nAbidjan, Ivory Coast;Partly sunny;32;25;A shower in the a.m.;31;25;SW;11;79%;66%;9\nAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;More sun than clouds;21;17;Partly sunny, breezy;21;16;NW;29;53%;2%;5\nAleppo, Syria;Plenty of sunshine;13;3;Partly sunny;14;3;W;7;71%;7%;3\nAlgiers, Algeria;Plenty of sun;16;8;More clouds than sun;17;11;SE;9;63%;4%;2\nAmsterdam, Netherlands;Mainly cloudy;7;3;Cloudy, rain ending;8;3;WSW;35;87%;82%;0\nAnchorage, United States;Sunny, but cold;-7;-15;Cold with sunshine;-8;-17;N;15;62%;8%;1\nAshgabat, Turkmenistan;Not as cold;5;-5;Mostly sunny, chilly;7;-3;ESE;8;31%;3%;3\nAstana, Kazakhstan;Plenty of sunshine;-13;-25;Mostly cloudy;-11;-24;S;12;75%;0%;2\nAsuncion, Paraguay;A shower in the a.m.;32;24;A couple of t-storms;32;24;ESE;10;72%;70%;6\nAthens, Greece;Mostly sunny;18;7;Partly sunny, nice;17;8;SSW;8;65%;2%;3\nAuckland, New Zealand;Turning sunny, humid;25;20;A thick cloud cover;26;21;NE;24;60%;26%;5\nBaghdad, Iraq;Plenty of sun;17;3;Plenty of sun;17;4;N;7;44%;1%;4\nBanda Aceh, Indonesia;Occasional rain;33;24;A downpour;31;23;E;7;75%;74%;7\nBangalore, India;Sunny and nice;29;14;Sunny and pleasant;29;13;ESE;11;37%;0%;8\nBangkok, Thailand;Partly sunny, humid;34;24;A few showers;32;23;S;8;71%;83%;5\nBarcelona, Spain;Sunshine;15;6;Partly sunny;15;7;W;19;68%;5%;3\nBeijing, China;Plenty of sunshine;5;-7;Plenty of sunshine;3;-8;SW;12;18%;0%;3\nBelgrade, Serbia;Partly sunny, mild;13;0;Partly sunny, mild;12;1;SE;10;67%;4%;2\nBerlin, Germany;Clouds and sunshine;6;2;A little rain;9;2;W;20;74%;86%;0\nBogota, Colombia;Mostly cloudy;20;7;Clouds and sun;20;7;SE;10;67%;34%;10\nBrasilia, Brazil;Showers and t-storms;27;20;Cloudy, a t-storm;26;19;NW;16;71%;82%;5\nBratislava, Slovakia;Cooler;8;0;Becoming cloudy;7;2;SSE;11;80%;38%;2\nBrussels, Belgium;Mostly cloudy;8;5;Cloudy, rain ending;9;2;WSW;24;72%;81%;0\nBucharest, Romania;Partly sunny, mild;12;-2;Sun and some clouds;8;-3;E;5;70%;0%;2\nBudapest, Hungary;Partly sunny, mild;10;-1;Clouds and sun;8;3;S;7;69%;34%;2\nBuenos Aires, Argentina;Sunny and pleasant;31;23;Partly sunny;31;23;ESE;11;57%;3%;11\nBujumbura, Burundi;Variable clouds;28;19;Mostly cloudy;32;19;WSW;6;40%;44%;9\nBusan, South Korea;Mostly sunny, chilly;5;-4;Increasing clouds;6;-3;NNW;9;53%;29%;3\nCairo, Egypt;Sunny;20;9;Partly sunny;20;10;NNE;10;51%;2%;4\nCape Town, South Africa;Cooler;25;17;Mostly sunny;24;15;SE;34;53%;0%;11\nCaracas, Venezuela;Partly sunny;26;19;A shower in places;27;19;ENE;6;58%;65%;7\nChennai, India;Nice with sunshine;30;19;Sunny and nice;31;18;ENE;11;58%;0%;7\nChicago, United States;Periods of sun;0;-2;Milder;7;-3;W;23;56%;19%;1\nColombo, Sri Lanka;A t-storm in spots;32;24;A t-storm or two;30;23;NE;14;80%;93%;3\nCopenhagen, Denmark;Clouds and sun;5;2;Periods of rain;5;1;WSW;22;75%;86%;0\nDakar, Senegal;Mostly sunny, breezy;21;16;Breezy with some sun;21;16;N;28;69%;0%;7\nDallas, United States;Mostly sunny;16;7;Partly sunny, breezy;21;11;SSW;26;48%;0%;4\nDar es Salaam, Tanzania;Turning sunny;33;24;Sun and some clouds;32;24;NE;18;71%;22%;10\nDelhi, India;Partly sunny;26;12;Hazy sunshine;24;12;W;20;56%;0%;4\nDenver, United States;Mostly cloudy, mild;17;2;Partly sunny;12;-3;ENE;13;36%;48%;3\nDhaka, Bangladesh;Partly sunny, nice;24;13;Hazy sun;27;14;ENE;7;59%;2%;5\nDili, East Timor;A bit of rain;32;24;Cloudy with showers;29;24;WSW;12;78%;77%;4\nDublin, Ireland;Overcast;8;2;Spotty showers;6;2;W;38;77%;82%;1\nDushanbe, Tajikistan;Not as cold;3;-4;Not as cool;11;-2;SW;7;22%;50%;3\nGibraltar, Gibraltar;Spotty showers;16;14;Breezy with rain;16;13;SE;40;82%;88%;2\nHanoi, Vietnam;Cloudy and cool;13;8;Cloudy and cool;12;10;N;16;64%;29%;1\nHarare, Zimbabwe;A shower or t-storm;25;17;Cloudy, a t-storm;26;18;E;10;69%;66%;8\nHavana, Cuba;Partly sunny, cooler;21;18;Periods of sun;23;17;E;21;56%;1%;2\nHelsinki, Finland;Cloudy, snow showers;-2;-7;Clouds and sun;-3;-5;SE;8;83%;71%;1\nHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam;A shower in the p.m.;33;23;Clouds and sunshine;32;22;SW;8;77%;37%;8\nHong Kong, China;Cloudy;14;8;A morning shower;12;7;NNE;20;81%;60%;1\nHonolulu, United States;Periods of sun;28;22;Rain at times;27;22;SW;18;68%;86%;2\nHyderabad, India;Sunny and pleasant;31;14;Mostly sunny, nice;31;15;ENE;10;27%;0%;6\nIslamabad, Pakistan;Decreasing clouds;21;7;Mostly cloudy;22;9;N;6;58%;30%;2\nIstanbul, Turkey;Plenty of sun;13;5;Sunshine;11;4;ENE;11;78%;1%;3\nJakarta, Indonesia;A t-storm or two;31;24;Spotty showers;31;24;W;17;75%;84%;8\nJeddah, Saudi Arabia;Decreasing clouds;28;19;Sunny and pleasant;28;20;NNE;10;46%;2%;5\nJohannesburg, South Africa;A shower or t-storm;24;14;A t-storm in spots;26;15;ENE;11;61%;72%;13\nKabul, Afghanistan;Mostly sunny;8;-4;A couple of showers;4;-5;NNW;10;51%;80%;1\nKarachi, Pakistan;More sun than clouds;30;15;Hazy sunshine;29;16;W;10;51%;0%;5\nKathmandu, Nepal;Mostly sunny;16;5;Sun and some clouds;19;6;S;7;68%;30%;5\nKhartoum, Sudan;Sunny and pleasant;29;13;Sunny and beautiful;29;14;N;22;22%;0%;7\nKiev, Ukraine;Showers of rain/snow;7;-1;Rain and snow shower;3;-2;WSW;21;56%;51%;1\nKingston, Jamaica;A p.m. shower or two;31;24;A shower;31;23;NNE;8;64%;75%;6\nKinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo;Partly sunny;33;23;A morning t-storm;32;23;SSW;9;69%;66%;6\nKolkata, India;Sunny and pleasant;27;12;Hazy sunshine;28;13;WNW;10;48%;0%;5\nKuala Lumpur, Malaysia;A stray p.m. t-storm;33;23;A t-storm in spots;33;22;NE;5;78%;69%;10\nLa Paz, Bolivia;Cloudy;14;6;A t-storm in spots;14;6;ENE;10;74%;81%;6\nLagos, Nigeria;Partly sunny;33;24;Partly sunny;33;24;SW;9;73%;26%;8\nLima, Peru;Partial sunshine;25;20;Clouds and sun;24;20;S;13;74%;18%;12\nLisbon, Portugal;Partly sunny;17;8;Periods of sun;16;8;NE;13;67%;7%;3\nLondon, United Kingdom;Partly sunny;8;5;A morning shower;8;3;WSW;27;70%;74%;2\nLos Angeles, United States;Partly sunny;29;13;Mostly sunny, warm;26;12;NE;7;33%;2%;4\nLuanda, Angola;Clouds and sun;30;25;Mostly cloudy;31;25;SSW;10;72%;39%;6\nMadrid, Spain;Mostly sunny;14;0;Partly sunny;15;2;NE;6;56%;9%;3\nMale, Maldives;A t-storm in spots;30;25;A.M. showers, cloudy;29;27;NE;23;77%;100%;4\nManaus, Brazil;A t-storm in spots;31;24;Cloudy, a t-storm;30;23;ENE;11;77%;85%;6\nManila, Philippines;Partly sunny;30;23;A shower in places;31;23;E;8;67%;55%;3\nMelbourne, Australia;A little rain;20;13;A shower in the a.m.;18;11;SSE;22;56%;55%;3\nMexico City, Mexico;Partly sunny;16;5;Partly sunny, nice;21;7;SSE;7;38%;11%;5\nMiami, United States;Not as warm;22;16;Partly sunny;22;18;ENE;21;52%;31%;3\nMinsk, Belarus;Snow, rain mixing in;3;-3;Mostly cloudy;0;-3;S;15;68%;74%;1\nMogadishu, Somalia;Mostly sunny;30;24;Clouds and sun;30;24;ENE;22;61%;26%;9\nMontevideo, Uruguay;Sunny and pleasant;30;20;Partly sunny, nice;29;19;ENE;12;61%;2%;11\nMontreal, Canada;Mostly cloudy;-8;-14;Afternoon snow;-6;-6;S;5;64%;92%;2\nMoscow, Russia;Snow showers;1;-3;A little a.m. snow;-1;-12;NW;15;76%;64%;0\nMumbai, India;Partly sunny;35;18;Hazy sunshine;33;17;NNE;8;41%;0%;6\nNairobi, Kenya;Turning cloudy;30;14;A t-storm in spots;29;14;NE;20;42%;42%;12\nNew York, United States;A bit of p.m. snow;4;-5;Mostly sunny, cold;1;-1;SSW;13;36%;15%;3\nNicosia, Cyprus;Mostly sunny;17;5;Partly sunny;17;6;S;8;69%;9%;3\nNovosibirsk, Russia;Clearing;-15;-23;Mostly sunny;-16;-23;SE;10;87%;1%;1\nOsaka-shi, Japan;Chilly with some sun;6;-4;Clouding up, chilly;7;0;NE;8;58%;28%;3\nOslo, Norway;Partly sunny;0;-5;Periods of snow;1;-2;SE;14;82%;88%;0\nOttawa, Canada;Mostly cloudy;-8;-17;Heavy snow;-6;-7;SSE;15;71%;92%;2\nPago Pago, American Samoa;Cloudy with a shower;30;27;Mostly cloudy;30;26;NW;18;76%;68%;6\nPanama City, Panama;Partly sunny;33;24;Spotty showers;33;25;NNW;18;68%;78%;8\nParamaribo, Suriname;Sun and some clouds;31;23;A shower in spots;30;24;ENE;13;74%;57%;8\nParis, France;Spotty showers;10;8;Breezy with rain;10;3;W;25;73%;82%;0\nPerth, Australia;Sunny and breezy;29;17;Sunny and pleasant;29;20;ESE;18;37%;0%;11\nPhnom Penh, Cambodia;A shower or two;33;23;A shower in the p.m.;31;23;SW;7;71%;66%;7\nPort Moresby, Papua New Guinea;Clearing;32;24;Brief p.m. showers;30;22;NNW;28;66%;91%;3\nPort-au-prince, Haiti;Partly sunny;33;20;Mostly sunny;33;21;ENE;8;45%;28%;6\nPrague, Czech Republic;Partly sunny;7;0;A little rain;9;3;SW;18;65%;85%;1\nPyongyang, North Korea;Sunny, not as cold;1;-13;Plenty of sunshine;-1;-18;W;8;38%;0%;3\nQuito, Ecuador;Showers around;22;12;A t-storm in spots;22;12;NW;13;52%;66%;8\nRabat, Morocco;Partly sunny;20;8;A passing shower;15;7;S;6;78%;58%;2\nRecife, Brazil;Rain, a thunderstorm;31;26;Spotty showers;31;26;E;16;67%;67%;12\nReykjavik, Iceland;Mostly cloudy;1;-3;Partly sunny;0;-5;NNE;14;56%;4%;1\nRiga, Latvia;A little snow;1;-2;Mostly cloudy;1;-1;SSE;7;91%;72%;0\nRio de Janeiro, Brazil;Rain, a thunderstorm;26;23;A little a.m. rain;29;22;WNW;14;64%;75%;10\nRiyadh, Saudi Arabia;Decreasing clouds;17;6;Plenty of sunshine;18;7;ENE;8;25%;0%;5\nRome, Italy;Partial sunshine;15;5;A shower;13;8;S;8;73%;80%;2\nSaint Petersburg, Russia;A little snow;-6;-10;Clouds and sun;-6;-13;ESE;12;76%;23%;1\nSan Francisco, United States;Partly sunny;17;8;Partly sunny;16;9;NW;10;78%;1%;3\nSan Jose, Costa Rica;Partly sunny;26;19;Clouds and sun, nice;26;19;ENE;20;63%;3%;9\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico;Partly sunny;28;22;Partly sunny, nice;27;22;E;16;60%;7%;6\nSan Salvador, El Salvador;Periods of sun;25;18;Partly sunny, nice;25;17;N;19;67%;17%;8\nSana'a, Yemen;Mostly sunny, nice;23;5;Mostly sunny, nice;22;5;ESE;8;43%;5%;8\nSantiago, Chile;Sunny and pleasant;31;15;Plenty of sunshine;33;16;SW;11;34%;0%;11\nSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic;Partly sunny;27;21;Mostly sunny;27;20;NNE;11;71%;32%;6\nSao Paulo, Brazil;Mostly sunny;18;4;Mostly sunny;18;2;ENE;7;64%;4%;3\nSeattle, United States;Spotty showers;9;4;A touch of rain;8;5;S;12;76%;80%;1\nSeoul, South Korea;A bit of p.m. snow;-1;-5;Mostly cloudy;1;-8;N;9;41%;0%;1\nShanghai, China;Mostly cloudy;4;-1;Cloudy and chilly;3;-2;NNW;11;62%;5%;1\nSingapore, Singapore;A t-storm in spots;33;25;A shower;32;25;N;18;76%;69%;10\nSofia, Bulgaria;Mostly sunny, mild;12;-5;Partly sunny, mild;10;-4;S;7;70%;0%;3\nSt. John's, Antigua and Barbuda;Mostly sunny, nice;27;22;Mostly sunny;27;21;NE;13;57%;25%;6\nStockholm, Sweden;Clouds and sun;0;-4;Snow and rain;3;1;SE;15;91%;90%;0\nSydney, Australia;Mostly sunny, nice;29;18;Cooler;21;18;S;33;68%;81%;6\nTaipei City, Taiwan;Rain and drizzle;14;13;Rain and drizzle;16;11;NNE;18;79%;92%;1\nTallinn, Estonia;A little snow;0;-3;Clouds and sun;-1;-3;SE;9;54%;71%;1\nTashkent, Uzbekistan;Mostly sunny, cold;1;-6;Not as cold;6;-4;SE;6;47%;8%;3\nTbilisi, Georgia;Decreasing clouds;9;-2;A p.m. shower or two;7;0;NW;11;73%;83%;3\nTehran, Iran;Turning cloudy, cold;3;-4;Sunny, but chilly;6;-2;NNE;11;28%;0%;4\nTel Aviv, Israel;Partly sunny;18;9;Sunshine;18;8;NE;8;67%;2%;4\nTirana, Albania;Partly sunny;16;2;Partly sunny;15;3;SE;5;60%;9%;3\nTokyo, Japan;Mainly cloudy;6;-2;Mostly sunny, chilly;8;1;N;9;57%;27%;3\nToronto, Canada;Mostly sunny;-5;-10;Cloudy, not as cold;2;0;SW;29;67%;59%;1\nTripoli, Libya;Mostly sunny;19;9;Plenty of sunshine;18;9;ESE;4;61%;0%;4\nTunis, Tunisia;Mostly sunny;18;6;Mostly sunny, nice;18;8;SSW;5;69%;0%;3\nUlan Bator, Mongolia;Sunny and cold;-16;-30;Increasing clouds;-17;-31;N;8;75%;44%;2\nVancouver, Canada;Spotty showers;7;1;An afternoon shower;6;2;ENE;7;65%;72%;1\nVienna, Austria;Mostly cloudy, mild;10;0;Turning cloudy, mild;10;2;SSE;8;76%;31%;2\nVientiane, Laos;Not as warm;25;17;Mostly cloudy;24;13;E;10;57%;17%;2\nVilnius, Lithuania;Snow and rain;2;-3;Mostly cloudy;2;0;S;11;65%;67%;1\nWarsaw, Poland;Rain and snow shower;6;0;Cloudy;5;2;SSW;16;82%;75%;1\nWellington, New Zealand;Windy, not as warm;24;19;Clouds and sun;24;20;NNW;35;71%;4%;9\nYangon, Myanmar;Plenty of sunshine;34;14;Sunny and nice;31;13;SW;7;48%;0%;6\nYerevan, Armenia;Sun and some clouds;4;-7;Mostly sunny;5;-1;SE;4;48%;53%;3\n_____\nCopyright 2018 AccuWeather\n_____\nKeywords: Forecast, Global, Celsius"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Sanders 'sickened,' shooter possibly linked to '16 campaign
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who shot a congressman and four other people Wednesday had apparently volunteered for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, the Vermont senator said Wednesday before assailing violence as \"unacceptable in our society.\"\n\"I am sickened by this despicable act,\" said Sanders, an independent.\nSanders, 75, unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton. He ran a passionate, anti-establishment campaign that won support from many younger, liberal voters and gave Clinton a closer race than many expected, but he eventually backed her candidacy.\nThe senator spoke hours after a man identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, opened fire on Republican lawmakers, aides and others practicing baseball in suburban Alexandria, Virginia. Officers shot Hodgkinson, who later died.\nSanders issued a two-paragraph statement on the shooting and read it nearly verbatim on the Senate floor. He ignored a reporter's attempt to ask him questions, walking briskly out of the Capitol after a vote.\n\"Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms,\" Sanders said. \"Real change can only come about through nonviolent action, and anything else runs against our most deeply held American values.\"\nRobert Becker, director of Sanders' Iowa campaign, said staff workers could not recall Hodgkinson. Hodgkinson was said to have been among 1,000 volunteers around Davenport, but Becker said, \"Nobody has a recollection of this guy coming in.\""
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Jets sign LB Brandon Copeland, re-sign DL Xavier Cooper
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"NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Jets have signed former Lions linebacker Brandon Copeland and re-signed defensive lineman Xavier Cooper.\nCopeland missed last season after tearing a pectoral muscle during the preseason. He had 30 tackles and one forced fumble in 32 games the previous two seasons with the Lions. The 26-year-old Copeland will be a backup on defense and be a key part of the Jets' special teams unit.\nHe signed with Baltimore as an undrafted free agent out of Penn in 2013 and spent time later that season on Tennessee's practice squad. After signing with Orlando of the Arena Football League in 2015, Copeland impressed Detroit after participating in the NFL Veterans Combine.\nCooper was not tendered as a restricted free agent, but was brought back after he had 16 tackles and one sack in eight games. His play increased when Muhammad Wilkerson was benched at the end of the season.\n___\nFor more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP_NFL"
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I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Review: A star is born in Oscar-nominee 'A Fantastic Woman'
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"The lead character of Sebastian Lelio's film \"A Fantastic Woman \" is named Marina. She is a nightclub singer and a waitress. She has a boyfriend, Orlando, who is much older than her, but that matters little. They are clearly smitten with one another and in that post-honeymoon phase of the relationship where things are still passionate, but also calm and comforting. They're planning a trip together. She's moving in. Life is moving along nicely it seems.\nMarina is also a transgender woman, portrayed by a transgender actress, Daniela Vega. If you've heard of \"A Fantastic Woman,\" which recently picked up a best foreign language film nomination for Chile, you've likely heard this fact. It might even be the only thing you know about it.\nWhat's astonishing about the actual experience of watching \"A Fantastic Woman\" is how small of \"a thing\" it really is, and in that way perhaps one of the truest expressions of modern transgender life that we've ever seen in a fictional film. Marina is just Marina. She has a delicate beauty, and a cool choppy Alexa Chung-like haircut and style. On stage, she's performs with a sultry confidence. Off stage, she's quieter and almost reserved, but very present, especially around Orlando (Francisco Reyes).\nBut one night, Orlando dies suddenly and Marina's tranquility is thrown into a tailspin — not just from the death of her love, but from all the unnecessary and often ridiculous complications, some bureaucratic, some purely emotional, that emerge and seem to stem from the fact that she is transgender.\nAt the hospital where Orlando dies, the fact that her legal name is still her birth name and not Marina becomes an issue with a cop (who an uncomfortable doctor calls when she leaves the scene after he's pronounced dead). A social worker, too, becomes obsessed with checking on Marina, which she continues to explain is just a matter of procedure and to ensure that she was not abused or a sex worker, but which feels nothing but invasive and inappropriate from Marina's perspective. Orlando's family, too, is unconscionably cruel to her — save for his brother, Gabo (Luis Gnecco), who seems to be the only person in the film empathetic to the fact that Marina is just a human who has lost a loved one.\nEvery day is filled with the ever-present threat that someone is going to be uncomfortable with her. Marina is gracious and accommodating almost to a fault, both to the insidiously subtle kinds of judgment and the more outward violence and hatred. Orlando's ex-wife tells her in no uncertain terms that she is not welcome at the funeral or wake. His grief stricken son is disgusted by her and makes no attempt to hide. And all Marina wants to do is grieve in her own way.\nLelio's film occasionally delves into some magical realism as Marina struggles to maintain her composure amid such callous inhumanity from so many people, which is a beautiful if jarring disruption in a film that's otherwise so committed to reality.\nIt's Vega's extraordinary performance, full of grace and depth, that keeps \"A Fantastic Woman\" in check from becoming something either too campy or too sanctimonious. It's one that has the power to make an audience really understand and internalize why it is an act of bravery to simply live life as herself, and perhaps even change some minds in the process.\n\"A Fantastic Woman,\" a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for \"language, sexual content, nudity and a disturbing assault.\" Running time: 104 minutes. Three stars out of four.\n___\nMPAA Definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.\n___\nFollow AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ldbahr"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Neal Analytics Expands Executive Pool; Names John Frankovich as Chief Customer Officer
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"BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Neal Analytics, a leading provider of Modern Data and Intelligence solutions, today announced the appointment of veteran technology executive John Frankovich to the newly created role of Chief Customer Officer as the company looks to scale operations and expand customer success programs during this time of high growth.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006121/en/\nJohn Frankovich, Neal Analytics' Chief Customer Officer. (Photo: Business Wire)\nFrankovich has built a reputation as an industry thought leader and has built and led numerous national and international businesses and subsidiaries. John comes to Neal Analytics after spending more than 5 years as Global Vice President at Comcast NBCU where he led their global Digital Streaming Video consulting business. Previously he served as CEO of multiple advanced technology companies including Vortex Consulting Partners and the Ramp Technology Group. Before that, he was a Senior Vice President at the big 6 management consulting firm Capgemini. Frankovich holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master's of Science in Software Engineering. He will report directly to Dylan Dias, CEO and Managing Partner of Neal Analytics.\n\"The essence of Neal Analytics success is simple: We have an unwavering commitment to delivering outstanding Analytics results for our clients by leveraging our industry-leading skills in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud Technologies,\" said Dylan Dias. \"We are delighted to have John join the team. His deep business experience and proven effectiveness in driving client-centered operations re-enforces our ability to scale the business while providing game-changing results to our clients.\"\nFrankovich added, \"Neal Analytics’ ability to seamlessly combine their award-winning Deep Analytics Products and Services with their world class team of Data Scientists, Business Experts, and Technology leaders sets them apart in the market.” John continued “Business leaders today are seeking truly robust, integrated and value-based partners. I'm very excited to join this highly regarded team and leverage my experience to help us seize current opportunities and continue to build Neal’s loyal client base.\"\nAs CCO and member of the Executive Leadership Team, Frankovich will be responsible for leading the day-to-day management of the firm’s domestic and international Professional Services Division, Customer onboarding & training, Customer Success, and the Customer Engagement Lifecycle. His overall goal is to help all customers get the highest possible value from their solutions and products.\nAbout Neal Analytics\nEstablished in 2011, Neal Analytics is a global Digital Solutions Provider that specializes in fulfilling the “promise of Digital” by transforming corporate data into valuable assets and a competitive advantage. Neal has unique reach among Fortune-50 clients and the ability to make a difference when solving the toughest business problems. With pragmatic approaches to technologies ranging from Data warehousing, Dashboards, Big Data, Cloud, IoT, Advanced Analytics, Deep Learning, AI, and beyond, Neal Analytics has the skills and experience to deliver game-changing results.\nNeal Analytics is the proud recipient of Microsoft's Global Partner of the Year for Business Analytics (2017).\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006121/en/\nCONTACT: Neal Analytics\nKevin Wang, Marketing Manager\n(206) 286-9200\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA WASHINGTON\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY DATA MANAGEMENT NETWORKS OTHER TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSULTING\nSOURCE: Neal Analytics\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 12:53 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 12:53 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006121/en"
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I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Israel survey finds deep divisions, displeasure with leaders
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"JERUSALEM (AP) — It's no secret that Israel is a deeply polarized nation, with its prime minister facing a slew of corruption allegations, the peace process at a standstill and the government moving to stifle critics.\nBut a new survey released on Tuesday shows just how divided the country has become. Seventy-two percent of left-wing voters fear Israel's democracy is in danger, an even higher figure than the 65 percent of Arab citizens who feel that way.\nThe annual Israeli Democracy Index interviewed 1,024 people in May and had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. The margin increased to 3.4 points for Jewish respondents and 7.9 points for the smaller Arab sample size.\nThe survey found that 68 percent of all respondents felt that parliament members don't perform their duties properly."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Two winning tickets split NT$1.17 billion Taiwan Power Lottery jackpot
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"TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Two lucky winners now share the Power Lottery's (威力彩) whopping NT$1.17 billion jackpot, with the lucky tickets purchased in Taichung and Tainan, announced the Taiwan Lottery on Monday.\nThe winning number for the Power Lottery (威力彩) are 38, 16, 15, 03, 23, 10 in the first section, while the winning number in the second section is 03.\nThe winning ticket in Tainan was purchased at the Sanyou (三友) lottery store in the city's Rende District, while the winning ticket in Taichung was purchased at the Tianjiangcai (天降財) lottery store in the city's East District."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about West Indies 106-5 at lunch on day 4, 2nd test vs NZ
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"HAMILTON, New Zealand (AP) — Trent Boult claimed his 200th test wicket as New Zealand closed in on a match and series win over the West Indies on the fourth day of the second test.\nThe West Indies, needing 444 runs to win the test and level the two-test series, were 106-5 at lunch on Tuesday, still 338 runs behind. Roston Chase was 32 not out, Raymon Reifer was unbeaten on 9 and Sunil Ambris retired hurt. New Zealand won the first test by an innings and 67 runs.\nBoult dismissed West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite (20) in the sixth over of the morning to become the fifth New Zealander after Richard Hadlee (433), Daniel Vettori (361), Chris Martin (233) and Chris Cairns (218) to take 200 wickets in test cricket.\nBoult took 4-73 in the first innings, scored 37 not out at No. 11 as New Zealand made 373 batting first, took two catches as the West Indies were dismissed for 221 in their first innings and had 2-38 at lunch.\nBrathwaite, leading the West Indies in this test in place of the suspended Jason Holder, top-scored in the first innings with 66. His seemed the critical wicket Tuesday and Boult claimed it early after the West Indies resumed at 30-2.\nBrathwaite had moved to 20 when he cut a ball from Boult directly to Kane Williamson, who took an easy catch at gully.\nNeil Wagner, who used leg theory to take 7-39 in the first innings of the first test, setting up New Zealand's series-opening win in Wellington, hit Hope on the forearm with a short delivery early in the day. Hope had reached 23 but was unsettled after being struck and fell at 68-4 when he hooked another short ball from Wagner to Colin de Grandhomme at backward square.\nWagner also struck Ambris (5), who retired hurt with a wrist injury and was taken to hospital for tests. The incident continued an eventful start to Ambris's test career; he has been out hit wicket twice in his first three innings, including to the first ball he faced in tests.\nWicketkeeper Shane Dowrich, who went to the crease in place of Ambris, lasted two balls and hadn't scored when he parried a short ball from Wagner to Henry Nicholls at short leg.\nChase batted soundly for his 32 from 52 balls and Reifer, on test debut, again showed his stickability. He made an unbeaten 23 in the first innings."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Ovechkin helps Capitals beat Golden Knights 3-2, even series
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"LAS VEGAS (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored and blocked a shot in the second period and Braden Holtby made spectacular saves, lifting the Washington Capitals to a series-tying 3-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night.\nLars Eller had a goal and two assists as the Capitals secured the first win in the Final in franchise history. Washington was swept by Detroit in the 1998 Final.\nBrooks Orpik scored Washington's third goal midway through the second period, ending a 220-game drought.\nJames Neal gave the Golden Knights a 1-0 lead 7:58 into the game and Shea Theodore pulled them within a goal late in the second.\nGame 3 is Saturday night in Washington.\n___\nMore Stanley Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/StanleyCupFinals"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Curry, Durant committed to keeping Golden State on top
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"OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry will likely go from being the NBA's biggest bargain to signing the richest contract in the league at more than $200 million. And he looks forward to the nice payday.\nYet the two-time reigning MVP and new NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant said Wednesday they would seriously consider less money to keep the core of the champion Golden State Warriors intact.\nTwo days after capturing the franchise's second title in three years against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Warriors prepared to part ways for what will be a busy offseason for general manager Bob Myers and the front office.\nDurant hinted he would opt out of a deal that pays him the maximum he can get in order to help Golden State's chances of re-signing Andre Iguodala or Shaun Livingston.\n___\nMore AP NBA: http://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Dangerous winds persist as wildfires roar in California
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — The winds aren't changing for Southern California's wildfires yet.\nThe fifth largest blaze in state history was threatening thousands of homes as it churned through coastal mountains amid persistently dangerous weather conditions.\nRed Flag warnings for fire danger due to Santa Ana winds and a critical lack of moisture were extended instead of expiring Monday afternoon as was initially forecast.\nThe National Weather Service tweeted, \"It doesn't get much drier than this,\" signaling that the dangerous fire conditions just aren't going away.\nThe wildfire has destroyed 683 homes and burned over 360 square miles of dry brush and timber."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Bond set for Polish-born doctor jailed for 1992 misdemeanors
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"KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — An immigration judge in Detroit has set bond at $10,000 for a Polish-born Michigan doctor arrested last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials because of two misdemeanor convictions about 25 years ago.\nWWMT-TV reports Lukasz Niec was able to post bond and is expected to be released Thursday from the Calhoun County Jail.\nICE officials said Niec was arrested Jan. 16 for \"administrative immigration violations\" and that the 43-year-old can be deported for those 1992 convictions — malicious destruction of property and receiving stolen goods. They date back to when he was in high school.\nNiec came to the U.S. legally as a young child.\nRelatives say he pleaded guilty through a state program designed to help young offenders and was told it wouldn't be used in a deportation.\nWOOD-TV reports Niec's next hearing is Feb. 22."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Many people of color not won over by Trump call for unity
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"President Donald Trump's call for American unity in his first State of the Union address struck an us-versus-them tone for many minorities, raising questions as to what extent Americans are put off by a leader who continually draws criticism as bigoted and xenophobic.\nFor many people of color, Trump's address before Congress on Tuesday night hardly reflected a shift in his ideology or his bruising style of governance. It was not lost on them that the president simply softened what he's been saying all along, particularly when it comes to immigration, and sought to add a veneer of tolerance by using the stories of people of color to illustrate his points.\n\"After more than a year of toxic policies and attacks on marginalized communities, the time for hoping Trump might change is long over,\" said Color of Change Executive Director Rashad Robinson. \"Behaving like an adult for one speech doesn't change those facts.\"\nIn taking credit for a drop in black unemployment, Trump showcased a black welder's journey from unemployment to a meaningful career. At one point, he reiterated his disgust for NFL players' national anthem protests against systemic racism by praising a 12-year-old white boy's act of patriotism. And he conflated immigration with urban gun violence by highlighting two Long Island families who were victimized by gang members who were in the country illegally.\nThe result was a rhetorical throwback to mean-spirited race baiting of the past, said Brookings Institute research fellow Andre Perry.\n\"You replace 'immigrant' with 'black person,' and you're talking 1950s rhetoric,\" Perry said. \"If you're a person of color, it wasn't a dog whistle — it was a direct attack. It wasn't that long ago that blacks and women were not full citizens, but we were members of society denied rights under the law.\"\nWhile some praised Trump for staying on message and striking a more presidential tone, others pointed out that his tone contradicted his actions.\n\"President Trump can pause his Twitter habits long enough to deliver a prepared speech to a national TV audience, but isn't doing anything real to bring us together or improve the lives of everyday Americans,\" Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said in a statement.\nReps. John Lewis of Georgia, Maxine Waters of California and Al Green of Texas — all Democrats who have criticized Trump— decided to skip the speech entirely.\n\"I'm part of those who decided that we would protest outside as a matter of principle to say to the president, 'We disapprove of what you're doing,'\" Green said Tuesday night.\nOthers wore black to show their displeasure, and several wore sashes or ties made of African Kente cloth, a nod to the president's reference to African nations as \"shithole countries.\" Some wore buttons bearing the name of Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman gang raped by white men during the Jim Crow era; she died in late December at age 97.\n\"There was nothing to clap for, nothing to be happy about, nothing to smile about and nothing to be applauding about,\" said Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat who ordered the Recy Taylor buttons. \"He takes credit for things he has no right to take credit for. He really did not speak to how racist he's been or xenophobic he's been or sexist he's been, so he really didn't speak to the things that I expected him to or would want him to have addressed.\"\nAs Trump touted the low black unemployment rate, several black members of Congress sat stone-faced amid cheers from their Republican colleagues.\nThe speech, historically a list of priorities for presidents, was also about what Trump didn't say. There was scant reference to hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, no mention of the racial violence that erupted last summer in Charlottesville, Virginia, nor of the evolving #MeToo movement against sexual harassment.\nThe president has denied that he is a racist. However, soon after his inauguration, he signed an executive order banning people from several Muslim countries from coming to America, prompting protests nationwide. To kickoff Black History Month last February, he clumsily referenced 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass as if he were still alive. He defended white supremacists after they rallied in Charlottesville, blaming \"both sides\" for deadly violence there. And he has repeatedly labeled immigrants as criminal and targeted so-called sanctuary cities who refuse to aid federal law enforcement.\nSuch actions, Perry said, can't be covered by \"platitudes of American togetherness that mask rabid, structural racism and really doesn't include black people, Latinos, immigrants and others.\"\n\"It's outrageous that people aren't seeing the hypocrisy,\" Perry added.\n___\nAssociated Press video journalist Noreen Nasir contributed to this report. Errin Haines Whack is The Associated Press' national writer on race and ethnicity. Follow her work on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/emarvelous"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about National Hockey League
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"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 50 34 13 3 71 176 128 Boston 48 29 11 8 66 157 119 Washington 50 30 15 5 65 155 141 Toronto 52 29 18 5 63 167 146 Pittsburgh 52 28 21 3 59 156 155 New Jersey 49 25 16 8 58 147 147 Columbus 50 27 19 4 58 133 140 Philadelphia 50 24 18 8 56 144 146 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 N.Y. Islanders 52 25 22 5 55 173 189 Carolina 50 23 19 8 54 139 155 Florida 48 20 22 6 46 136 159 Detroit 48 19 21 8 46 126 146 Montreal 50 20 24 6 46 130 159 Ottawa 48 15 24 9 39 125 168 Buffalo 50 14 27 9 37 115 166 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 49 33 12 4 70 168 130 Winnipeg 51 30 13 8 68 167 137 Nashville 48 29 12 7 65 146 125 St. Louis 52 31 18 3 65 151 131 Dallas 51 28 19 4 60 155 137 San Jose 49 26 16 7 59 145 138 Minnesota 50 27 18 5 59 147 142 Los Angeles 50 27 18 5 59 142 121 Anaheim 51 25 17 9 59 144 142 Colorado 49 27 18 4 58 160 143 Calgary 50 25 17 8 58 139 139 Chicago 50 24 19 7 55 148 137 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 Vancouver 50 20 24 6 46 131 162 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nTuesday's Games\nMinnesota 3, Columbus 2, SO\nPittsburgh 5, San Jose 2\nFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 1\nAnaheim 3, Boston 1\nCarolina 2, Ottawa 1\nNew Jersey 3, Buffalo 1\nWinnipeg 3, Tampa Bay 1\nSt. Louis 3, Montreal 1\nChicago 2, Nashville 1\nLos Angeles 3, Dallas 0\nVegas 4, Calgary 2\nVancouver 4, Colorado 3, OT\nWednesday's Games\nToronto 5, N.Y. Islanders 0\nWashington 5, Philadelphia 3\nSan Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nFriday's Games\nWashington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nDetroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nSaturday's Games\nOttawa at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.\nAnaheim at Montreal, 1 p.m.\nDetroit at Florida, 7 p.m.\nPittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nColumbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nMinnesota at Dallas, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nChicago at Calgary, 10 p.m.\nArizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Australians commemorate 103rd anniversary of Turkish battle
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"Thousands of Australians have gathered at pre-dawn services around the country to commemorate the moment when Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops waded ashore at the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey 103 years ago in their first major battle of World War I.\nBecause extremists have targeted annual ANZAC Day April 25 ceremonies in the past, concrete barriers were placed around the service in downtown Sydney to protect those who gathered at Martin Place against vehicle attacks.\nPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, his French counterpart Edouard Philippe and the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, will mark ANZAC Day in France with a service that also commemorates the 100th anniversary of Australian troops taking the town of Villers-Bretonneux from the Germans.\nHome Affairs Minister Peter Dutton represents the Australian government at a service at ANZAC Cove at Gallipoli where the Australian and New Zealand troops landed under British command in an ill-fated attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about El Salvador: Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage blocked
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"SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Supreme Court is putting the brakes on a constitutional change that would bar same-sex marriage.\nThe ruling blocks lawmakers from ratifying the measure, which also would constitutionally recognize matrimony as being between a man and a woman \"born that way\" and prohibit same-sex couples from adopting children.\nThe Legislative Assembly approved the measure in April 2015. For it to be ratified, it would need 56 of the 84 lawmakers in the current assembly to vote in favor.\nThe Supreme Court ruled Wednesday there were procedural missteps as it was fast-tracked through the assembly and voted on \"urgently\" with just days left in the session.\nThe court said that was improper for a constitutional change and there was no opportunity for the public to be informed and weigh in."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Seth Meyers' 'Closer Look' segments are 'Late Night' staple
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"NEW YORK (AP) — From \"covfefe\" to Sean Spicer's press briefings, the Trump administration has provided a steady stream of material for late-night shows.\nNBC's \"Late Night with Seth Meyers\" now devotes up to 12 minutes of airtime three to four days a week with a segment called \"A Closer Look.\"\nDuring these segments, Meyers and his writers take an element of news and do a deep dive. On Monday it was President Donald Trump's efforts to discredit former FBI Director James Comey while also trying to bolster his own reputation. He asked Cabinet members to give him compliments in an on-air round table.\n\"Is there anything creepier than Trump making his staff go around the room and praise him? Even Kim Jong Il is like, 'Dude, have some self-respect,'\" joked Meyers in \"A Closer Look\" segment.\nMeyers says his interest in current events and politics stems from his childhood.\n\"My parents are very much into reading newspapers, watching the news every night,\" he says. \"I grew up in New Hampshire, so presidential politics were on our front door every four years for six months.\"\n\"Late Night\" head writer Alex Baze says people are paying attention to politics.\n\"You can do your best work when the audience has a lot of information,\" he said. \"When you have to explain the whole story and then make a joke, it really loses steam along the way.\"\nSal Gentile, designated writer for \"A Closer Look,\" says it's \"a lot of rapid-fire joke writing.\"\n\"First you're processing news and on top of that you've got to write jokes,\" he says. \"It requires speed and discipline.\"\nThe \"Closer Look\" segment appears three or four times a week, and \"Late Night\" producer and showrunner Mike Shoemaker says it's \"the thing that excites us.\"\n\"If you asked me a few years ago, 'Do you think you'll have 12-minute segments that will even go on YouTube much less get a million views by the next day,' I'd be very surprised. ... People accept it at every length and sometimes even the longer ones do better,\" he says. \"We learned to let the segment run and figure out the rest.\"\nMeyers says there are no rules about \"A Closer Look.\"\n\"I think one of the great advantages we have over real journalists who wonderfully have higher standards than we do is, when you're dealing with an administration that often doesn't have a lot of respect for integrity, comedy shows like ours are kind of better suited to call them out,\" he said.\nHe says the main goal of the segments is to entertain, but it's cathartic for him as well. \"It's the best feeling to have a day where there are things in the news that are frustrating to you and stressful, but if you can go out and tell jokes, it is the best feeling. I'm very lucky. I feel very fortunate to tell jokes now more than ever.\"\n___\nOnline:\nhttp://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Publisher of Argentina's Clarin paper Herrera de Noble dies
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"BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's Clarin newspaper says that its longtime publisher Ernestina Herrera de Noble has died at age 92.\nHerrera de Noble led Argentina's widest-circulation newspaper for nearly 50 years and helped build one of Latin America's largest media conglomerates.\nGrupo Clarin says died Wednesday and that her health had been deteriorating over the past three weeks. No other details have been provided.\nThe media group owns dozens of cable systems, radio stations and TV channels in addition to its flagship daily newspaper.\nClarin and former President Cristina Fernandez became bitter opponents during her 2007-2015 administration."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Spain PM urges Catalonia to opt for "clean candidate"
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"MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is urging the Catalan parliament not to press ahead with the candidacy of fugitive leader Carles Puigdemont for regional president and instead to opt for a lawmaker free of legal proceedings.\nSpeaking Tuesday on Spanish National Television hours before the parliament is scheduled to hold an investiture vote for Puigdemont, Rajoy said the parliament speaker will face legal consequences if he disobeys a Constitutional Court order saying Puigdemont can only be voted on if he is physically present and has previously obtained court permission.\nPuigdemont faces arrest if he returns to Spain.\nRajoy said the \"most sensible\" thing for the parliament speaker would be to propose a \"clean candidate\" who is willing to obey the law and work for the return of normality in Catalonia."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Reports: Gouri, Israeli poet of founding generation, dies
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"JERUSALEM (AP) — Haim Gouri, a leading Israeli poet of the state's founding generation, died Wednesday, according to media reports. He was 94.\nPresident Reuven Rivlin in a statement mourned his passing as \"the national poet of our time\" and a \"life teacher.\"\nGouri was born in Tel Aviv and fought in the Palmach, the elite force of the pre-state militia later serving in Israel's army, reports said.\nHe was a prolific and influential poet with songs about the birth of modern Israel that became deeply rooted in the country's ethos.\nHe was not shy in airing his political views and was critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. Five years ago he told parliament that despite \"knowing almost every stone in this land\" he now \"has difficulty recognizing it.\"\nGouri was the recipient of several prestigious awards for his work, including the Israel Prize, the country's top honor."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Lawsuit: Teen prisoner raped by inmate, infected with HIV
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"BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A teenage inmate who was incarcerated with adults was raped by a prisoner who infected the teenager with HIV, according to a federal lawsuit that accuses the Louisiana jail of negligence.\nThe lawsuit, filed Monday, also accuses East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux and two deputies of violating the teen's constitutional rights and disregarding a federal law that should have kept the teen segregated from the general population inmates. It seeks unspecified monetary damages from the sheriff, the jail's warden and another deputy.\nThe teen was 17 years old, met the criteria for a \"high risk sexual victim\" under the Prison Rape Elimination Act and should have remained segregated, the suit said. Instead, it said, the teen was transferred from the juvenile wing and attacked last February by a man awaiting trial on rape and robbery charges.\n\"This sexual predator, armed with a deadly disease, was at high risk not only of raping other inmates, but infecting them with HIV. He should have been put in isolation to protect the other inmates,\" the suit said.\nBut a sheriff's office spokeswoman, Casey Rayborn Hicks, disputes that the teen should have been classified as a high-risk sexual victim and said he was placed in general population only after he turned 18. Hicks said investigators believe the rape occurred in May 2017, roughly three months after his 18th birthday.\n\"Unfortunately, those that file lawsuits against the Sheriff's Office can make claims that have no merit and must be disputed in court,\" Hicks said in an email Tuesday. \"In addition, when such inmates make claims in reference to their medical status, due to legal restrictions, the Sheriff's Office cannot publicly refute these claims even when they have no merit.\"\nThe suit says the teen, who was awaiting trial in a burglary case, was 5-foot-10 (1.7 meters), weighed 125 pounds (56 kilograms) and is \"mildly mentally handicapped\" from fetal alcohol syndrome. His age, size and \"mental makeup\" left him at high risk of being sexually assaulted in jail, according to the suit.\nHicks, however, said the jail has no record of the teen reporting or exhibiting \"problems in terms of mental capacity.\" Medical records show the inmate weighed 150 pounds (68 kilograms) upon his arrival at the jail, 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) heavier than the threshold for classifying an inmate as high risk under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, she added.\nWarden Dennis Grimes served the teen up to his assailant \"like a sacrificial lamb\" by authorizing his transfer from the juvenile wing to a locked two-man cell in the general population, the suit said.\n\"The results were predictable and catastrophic,\" the suit said.\nIn 2016, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a law that raised the state's adult prosecution age from 17 to 18. But the change hasn't taken effect yet because the law will be phased in over several years.\nThe teen's attorney, Joseph Long, said the Baton Rouge jail typically keeps 17-year-old prisoners housed in the juvenile wing. He said he doesn't know why his client was transferred to general population before his 18th birthday.\n\"Who authorized it and why?\" he said. \"We're going to find out.\"\nThe suit said the inmate threatened to kill the teen if he reported the rape. Deputies separated them and took the teen to the infirmary only after he smuggled a note out of his cell to report the rape, it said.\nThe teen tested positive for HIV in December, according to the suit. Jail officials allowed the teen's assailant to \"roam freely in general population\" even though they knew or should have known that the man was HIV positive, it said.\nHicks said the jail randomly tests inmates for HIV, but only if they consent.\n\"An inmate does not have to take an HIV test if they do not want to,\" she said.\nHicks said 224 inmates received HIV treatment last year.\n\"We cannot logistically segregate them nor can they be housed out of parish,\" she added."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Judge: Not enough evidence to charge ex-US Olympian in PR
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"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge in Puerto Rico has found there is not enough evidence to charge a former U.S. Olympic volleyball player from Louisiana in the 2016 death of her young daughter.\nPolice had accused Kim Willoughby of murder and child abuse in the case. It was not immediately clear if Willoughby had an attorney.\nPolice had said in 2016 that Willoughby told them her 3-year-old daughter slipped in the shower and died after hitting her head.\nOn Friday, police presented charges but a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to charge her.\nWilloughby had played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won a silver medal. She later played with a team in Puerto Rico."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Game on: Tragedy won't stop congressional baseball game
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The game will go on.\nThe annual Congressional Baseball Game, which dates to 1909 and is a summertime tradition on Capitol Hill, will be played on Thursday despite Wednesday's shooting at the GOP squad's practice in Alexandria, Virginia.\nIt's an annual event in which aging former Little Leaguers don their spikes and dust off their gloves in a game played for bragging rights and to benefit several charities.\nHouse Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., assured lawmakers assembled at a members' briefing that the game will go on, prompting a standing ovation.\nOnce a relatively cozy affair, played at a minor league ballpark in Maryland, the game has gone big time in recent years and has been played at Nationals Park, just a few blocks from the Capitol."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about New leader of Olympic boxing body linked to organized crime
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"GENEVA (AP) — A boxing official described as \"one of Uzbekistan's leading criminals\" by United States authorities has been named interim president of the Olympic sport's governing body.\nThe International Boxing Federation (AIBA) said its vice president Gafur Rakhimov was promoted on Saturday after the \"unexpected resignation\" of interim leader Franco Falcinelli.\n\"Rakhimov has been described as having moved from extortion and car theft to becoming one of Uzbekistan's leading criminals and an important person involved in the heroin trade,\" the U.S. Treasury Department said last month when it announced freezing any assets he held under American jurisdiction.\nStill, the long-serving AIBA vice president is set to lead the Switzerland-based organization for the next nine months until a scheduled election in Moscow.\nAIBA was \"obligated to follow the statutes\" requiring the senior vice president to fill any vacancy, executive committee member Pat Fiacco told The Associated Press. He spoke by telephone from Dubai where national boxing federations held a special congress.\n\"There is nothing negative that the executive committee can say,\" Fiacco said, adding that Rakhimov has \"contributed positively\" to AIBA.\nRakhimov was linked last month to \"Thieves-in-Law\" by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which said the group \"originated in Stalinist prison camps.\"\n\"The Thieves-in-Law has grown into a vast criminal organization which has spread throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States, engaging in a variety of crimes, such as money laundering, extortion, bribery, and robbery,\" the federal office said.\nRakhimov allegedly has supported the criminal group by \"providing warning of law enforcement issues, arranging meetings, and addressing other problems.\"\nA federal document said Rakhimov is resident in Dubai, where AIBA members met on Saturday. The meeting was called to deal with fallout and financial problems from the previous presidency of C.K. Wu, a Taiwanese member of the IOC who left office last year.\n\"We must work closely with national federations and with the International Olympic Committee to restore confidence in AIBA's financial management and in its integrity,\" Rakhimov said in a statement on AIBA's website.\nRakhimov was key to renegotiating a $10 million loan from the troubled governing body's main creditor, Benkons, a company from Azerbaijan.\n\"He did that on his own,\" Fiacco said of the new president's work. He was \"not aware of any travel issues at this stage\" that would prevent Rakhimov working at AIBA headquarters in the Olympic capital Lausanne.\nIn the AIBA statement, outgoing interim president Falcinelli praised his successor. \"I am confident that he will provide the leadership to restore AIBA to greatness.\"\nThe IOC, which was represented in Dubai by its sports director Kit McConnell, did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Facebook says it's banned 'misleading' financial ads
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook says it is banning ads for financial products often associated with deceptive practices, including those involving cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.\nThe new policy says ads can't promote such services, which also include those involving initial coin offerings. Those offerings are a means of raising capital by selling digital currency that can then be traded. The digital coins or tokens represent an interest in a company.\nFacebook says examples of fraudulent ads include phrases like \"use your retirement funds to buy Bitcoin!\""
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Avalara Names Danny Fields EVP Engineering and CTO
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"SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2018--Avalara, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, today announced that tech industry veteran Danny Fields has joined the company as EVP Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. His responsibilities include shaping and leading the delivery and execution of Avalara’s technology vision, and overseeing the company’s global engineering teams.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005484/en/\nDanny Fields, Avalara's new EVP Engineering and CTO (Photo: Business Wire)\nMr. Fields brings 28 years of engineering and executive management experience to Avalara. He has led teams in locations throughout the world, building complex enterprise cloud and on-premise solutions. He comes to Avalara from MobileIron, a global leader in mobile device management and enterprise mobility services, where he served as SVP of Engineering and Chief Software Development Officer.\nPrior to MobileIron, Fields worked at Oracle where he was a Group Vice President responsible for building the Oracle Service Cloud, which powers thousands of customer service centers around the world and is used by hundreds of thousands of support agents. He joined Oracle as part of its $1.8B acquisition of RightNow Technologies. Fields was Vice President of Engineering, building the RightNow Service Cloud.\n“Danny brings a highly sought-after combination of time-tested engineering skills and leadership to Avalara,” said Scott McFarlane. “Our customers require reliability and efficiency in our products. They expect us to deliver innovation within our products to keep pace with the accelerating complexity of tax. Danny will lead our distributed technology teams to achieve and exceed our promises for customers.”\nAbout Avalara\nAvalara helps businesses of all sizes achieve compliance with transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and other tax types. The company delivers comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use. The Avalara Compliance Cloud® platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world.\nAvalara offers more than 600 pre-built integrations into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications, making the integration of tax and compliance solutions easy for customers. Each year, the company processes billions of indirect tax transactions for customers and users, files more than a million tax returns, and manages millions of tax exemption certificates and other compliance documents.\nA privately held company, Avalara’s venture capital investors include Sageview Capital, Battery Ventures, Warburg Pincus, Technology Crossover Ventures, Arthur Ventures, and other institutional and individual investors. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and overseas in the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India. More information at www.avalara.com\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005484/en/\nCONTACT: Hotwire for Avalara\nChristine Penwell, 415-820-4160\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA WASHINGTON\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FINANCE\nSOURCE: Avalara, Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/30/2018 11:00 AM/DISC: 05/30/2018 11:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005484/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Chinese firm told to suspend $20 bln Malaysia rail project
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"KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Chinese company building a key rail link in Malaysia says it has been told to suspend work pending negotiations. It urged the new government elected two months ago to honor the contract.\nThe suspension Wednesday came a day after the government called for a sharp reduction in cost for the 688 kilometer (430 miles) East Coast Rail Link.\nOfficials say the project's actual cost is 81 billion ringgit ($20 billion), nearly 50 percent more than estimated by the previous government.\nChina Communication said Wednesday the suspension could add to costs, losses and damages. It called for a \"win-win situation\" in negotiations and urged the government to \"honor and respect\" the deal.\nThe project is part of China's regional \"Belt and Road\" infrastructure initiative."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Report: Nigeria's military kills dozens in communal violence
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"DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Amnesty International says Nigeria's military has killed at least 35 people this year as it tries to calm growing violence between farmers and herdsmen.\nThe human rights group in a new report Tuesday says the communal violence over land has killed at least 168 people and displaced thousands across five states in Nigeria. The report says the military's response isn't curbing the fighting and further threatens the communities it is trying to protect.\nAmnesty's Nigeria director Osai Ojigho is calling on the government to change its response to the deadly clashes to avoid worsening the crisis. He also calls for investigations to bring those responsible for the killings to justice.\nAmnesty is blaming the unlawful killings and the military's excessive use of force on soldiers being deployed too frequently."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about EU's Tusk favors Western Balkans integration into the bloc
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"TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Donald Tusk, one of the European Union's top officials, says the road to European Union membership for Albania and Macedonia will be tough.\nThe president of the European Council started Tuesday a weeklong tour of the Western Balkans countries, urging more work in the rule of law and the fight against organized crime and corruption.\nThe 28 EU member states must agree unanimously for any country to become a member. Accession to the bloc has been a powerful driver of political and democratic reform in post-communist countries.\nLast week, the EU's executive Commission said enough progress has been made for accession talks to begin.\nEU and Balkans leaders will meet in Bulgaria on May 17 in a summit."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about China's November auto sales growth flat
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"BEIJING (AP) — China's auto sales were flat in November compared with a year earlier, leaving total purchases in the world's biggest market up an anemic 1.9 percent for the first 11 months of 2017, an industry group reported Monday.\nChinese drivers bought 2.6 million sedans, SUVs and minivans, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Total vehicle sales, including trucks and buses, edged up 0.7 percent to just under 3 million vehicles.\nChinese auto sales have struggled this year after a temporary tax cut boosted 2016's growth to 15 percent. Sales contracted in April and May before growing feebly in recent months.\nThat weakness is a setback for global automakers that look to China to drive future revenue, though some have grown faster than the market, taking share from Chinese and other rivals.\nIn November, SUV sales rose 8.9 percent over a year earlier to 11 million, while sedan purchases shrank 4.8 percent to 12.2 million. For the first 11 months of the year, sales totaled 22.1 million.\nChinese demand has weakened as economic growth slowed and Beijing and other major cities tightened restrictions on ownership to curb smog and congestion.\nSales by Chinese domestic brands overall rose 5 percent to 1.2 million vehicles, according to CAAM. Their share of the market expanded by 1.6 percentage points to 45.8 percent.\n— General Motors Co., which competes with Volkswagen AG for the status of China's most popular automaker, said sales by the company and its Chinese manufacturing partners rose 13 percent from a year earlier to 418,225 vehicles.\n— Ford Motor Co. sales fell 8 percent to 117,593 vehicles. Year-to-date sales were off 6 percent at just under 1.1 million.\n— Nissan Motor Co., the most popular Japanese brand in China, said monthly sales rose 21.8 percent to 165,384 vehicles. Sales through November were up 12 percent at 1.3 million.\n— Toyota Motor Co. sales gained 9.9 percent to 109,600. Year-to-date sales grew 10.7 percent to 1.2 million.\n— BMW AG said November sales rose 12 percent to 55,293 vehicles. Year-to-date sales were up 14.7 percent to 542,362.\n___\nChina Association of Automobile Manufacturers: www.caam.org.cn"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about New Zealand, Australia to play test in Yokohama
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"WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Rugby has confirmed the third Bledisoe Cup test between the All Blacks and Wallabies will be played in Yokohama, Japan.\nThe Oct. 27 match will be the second between New Zealand and Australia to be played in Japan after their 2009 Bledisloe Cup clash in Tokyo.\nNZR chief executive Steve Tew said \"the 2009 match was a fantastic event this year's test at the 72,000-seat stadium in Yokohama will be at another level. The All Blacks have huge support in Japan so the Bledisloe Cup test will be important for the team as we build support ahead of Rugby World Cup 2019.\"\nNew Zealand will play a test against Japan on the following weekend, Nov. 3, at Tokyo's Ajinomoto Stadium.\nThe All Blacks will also open their 2019 World Cup schedle against South Africa in Yokohama."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about The Latest: California helicopter crash victims identified
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"NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal helicopter crash in Southern California (all times local):\n10:07 a.m.\nCalifornia authorities have released the name of all three people killed when a small helicopter crashed in a Newport Beach neighborhood.\nThe Orange County Sheriff's Department says the dead are 60-year-old Joseph Anthony Tena of Newport Beach, 45-year-old Kimberly Lynne Watzman of Santa Monica and 56-year-old Brian R. Reichelt of Hollywood.\nThe crash Wednesday in a neighborhood involved four people in the helicopter and a bystander. Newport Beach police spokeswoman Jennifer Manzella says all three people killed were in the helicopter.\nThere's no information about two people who were injured.\n___\n11:03 p.m.\nOfficials say three people were killed and two more injured when a helicopter crashed into a home in a suburban Southern California neighborhood.\nAuthorities say four people were aboard the Robinson R44 helicopter when it went down in Newport Beach on Tuesday afternoon just a few minutes after taking off from John Wayne Airport.\nOne person who was outside on the ground was involved in the crash, though officials did not specify who died and who was injured.\nNeighbor Marian Michaels says she thought it was an earthquake when the helicopter slammed into the house.\nAnother neighbor, Roger Johnson, says he heard a scream that sounded like it was from a horror movie before rushing to the scene to try to help."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Attorney: Ex-'Glee' star Mark Salling, who had been awaiting sentencing on child porn charges, dies in Los Angeles area
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorney: Ex-'Glee' star Mark Salling, who had been awaiting sentencing on child porn charges, dies in Los Angeles area."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Suspect in killing of German woman arrested in Spain
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"BERLIN (AP) — German authorities say Spanish police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a woman in Berlin in May.\nBerlin prosecutors said Wednesday that the 38-year-old man was arrested a day earlier and his extradition to Germany is being sought\nThe 30-year-old victim, Melanie Rehberger, was found dead in a park next to a railway line in the north of Berlin on May 27, two days after going missing during a work break.\nProsecutors said the suspect, who had been living in Berlin but didn't have a fixed address, fled the country after the killing. The man wasn't identified by name.\nProsecutors said evidence found at the crime scene was clearly matched to the arrested suspect."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Morality push may outlaw sex outside marriage in Indonesia
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"JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Riding a tsunami of moral conservatism and anti-gay prejudice, Indonesia's Islamic political parties appear on the cusp of a major victory: outlawing all sex outside marriage.\nRevisions to Indonesia's criminal code being considered by Parliament would allow prison sentences of up to five years for sex between unmarried people. Those changes would also criminalize gay sex, the bugbear of Indonesia's Islamic and secular political parties.\nRights groups and legal experts fear a profound setback to human rights and privacy in Indonesia, one of the world's largest democracies, and the spread of vigilantism, already common in parts of the sprawling Muslim-majority nation of more than 250 million people. They are racing to organize opposition. An online petition launched this week has gathered more than 20,000 signatures.\n\"Indonesia, whose constitution guarantees human rights and has ratified many human rights covenants, will be ridiculed by the world for creating a law that is potentially violating many of those rights,\" said Said Muhammad Isnur, head of advocacy at the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute Foundation.\nWhile the possible criminalization of sex between unmarried consenting adults has grabbed attention, the revised criminal code, which has nearly 800 articles, also contains changes that could weaken checks and balances in Indonesia's young democracy. One article potentially makes criticism of the president defamation and other articles could be used to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission, one of Indonesia's most effective public institutions.\nAsrul Sani, a lawmaker from the Islamic-based United Development Party, has told reporters that a 25-member parliamentary working committee has agreed on nearly all the articles in the revised code. It and another Islamic party are seeking longer prison sentences for gay sex in circumstances that involve force, public acts or pornography and that is still being argued, he said.\nStatements from different committee members indicate there isn't total agreement but a majority of parties appear to have swung behind at least criminalization of gay sex. Bambang Soesatyo, the speaker of Parliament and a lawmaker from the major secular party Golkar, said same-sex relationships should be criminalized because they could \"corrupt the morality of the nation.\" A few politicians outside the committee have raised concerns about the fundamental threat to privacy.\nOne of the obstacles in the way of the Islamic parties is President Joko \"Jokowi\" Widodo's power of veto. But with provincial elections due this year and a presidential race in 2019, it's unclear whether Jokowi is willing to risk political capital on protecting a hated and misunderstood minority or being seen as soft on morality issues.\n\"The Islamic parties are really using this issue as their marketing going into the political years, this year and next year,\" said Bivitri Susantri, a constitutional law expert who helped establish the Indonesian Center of Law and Policy Studies.\n\"The only thing we can do is to push the government, the president, to stop this,\" she said. \"Because if we see how the political parties, both the secular ones and the Islamic ones discuss this, I think this draft law will be passed as it is now.\"\nIslamic parties make up four of the 10 factions in Indonesia's Parliament and due to the popular vote threshold being raised to 4 percent, are at risk of losing their seats in Parliament next year if they can't rouse their bases.\nThey have typically commanded far less votes than secular parties, but their concerns resonate with a broad cross-section of Indonesians. Hard-line Muslim groups considered fringe a decade ago, such as the Islamic Defenders Front, have moved into the mainstream and shook Jokowi's government last year with a mass movement against the minority Christian governor of Jakarta, who was subsequently imprisoned for two years for blasphemy.\nConservative groups such as the Family Love Alliance believe Indonesia is being overwhelmed by immoral behavior such as sex between unmarried young couples, and in December nearly succeeding in convincing Indonesia's Constitutional Court to outlaw gay sex and sex outside marriage.\nModerate groups, meanwhile, have struggled to muster their forces. While many speak out online, that has little impact compared with the ability of Islamic groups to summon tens of thousands for mass protests.\nThe Islamic parties' message is perhaps at its most politically potent when aimed at Indonesia's besieged LGBT minority, which for the past two years has been the target of an escalating campaign of raids, arrests, hateful rhetoric from government officials and vigilante attacks.\nPolice in the conservative province of Aceh, which practices Shariah law, over the weekend rounded up 12 transgender people who worked in hair salons and publicly humiliated them by forcing them into men's clothing and cutting their hair.\nSusantri and other legal experts said enforcement would be a huge and impossible burden on police and encourage vigilante acts from self-appointed \"guardians of morality,\" undermining an already fragile rule of law in Indonesia.\nShe said people who practice religions not recognized by the state could also be criminalized because their marriages aren't recognized.\n\"The president should say no to this law,\" Susantri said. \"But looking at how Jokowi is handling issues related to Islam I think he wouldn't do that.\"\n___\nAssociated Press writers Niniek Karmini and Ali Kotarumalos contributed to this report."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Snow volleyball will make case for Olympics in Pyeongchang
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"A snow volleyball exhibition is planned for Pyeongchang to help the sport's international governing body make the case for it to be added to the Olympics.\nIf successful, volleyball would be the first sport to be on the program at both the Winter and Summer Games .\nSnow volleyball is similar to the beach discipline, with two-person teams. With many of the tournaments hosted by ski resorts as a diversion for their guests, it also borrows the party atmosphere of the sandy side of the sport.\nBut those who have played it say the cold and snow are new challenges that make it a very different sport.\nThe exhibition on Feb. 14 at the Austria House will include Olympic medalists from the beach and indoor disciplines, as well as South Korean players.\nThere are already 17 European countries hosting national snow volleyball championships and a tour that will culminate in an inaugural European championship in Austria in March.\n___\nMore AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about This is peak investing: Stocks, bonds and concerns are up
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Everything is awesome for investors. Everything.\nStocks are at peak levels. Bonds are making money despite a raft of predictions to the contrary at the start of the year. Stock markets overseas, notoriously poor investments for much of the last decade, are perking higher. Even gold, which typically glitters brightest when other markets are struggling, is up this year.\nIf it feels precarious to have so many investments doing so well, particularly when the economy itself is still growing only modestly, markets are giving few indications of worry. The volatility index that traders use to measure fear in the U.S. stock market hit its lowest, as in calmest, level last week since 1993. And stocks have been so strong for so long that investors have been rewarded for using any dip in prices that does happen as an opportunity to buy low.\nThe latest example was the pullback for big technology stocks that began on Friday. Apple, Facebook and other technology giants that had been among the market's biggest stars slumped, seemingly on the simple worry that their runaway success had made them too expensive. But the rest of the market held steady through the mini-bout of tumult, and the tech giants got back to climbing again on Tuesday.\nAnalysts pin much of the credit for the upsurge in markets on all the stimulus that central banks have thrown at them. By keeping interest rates low and buying trillions of dollars of bonds, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and others have helped lift prices for bonds. And when bonds get more expensive, it makes stocks and other types of investments more attractive in relative terms, even if their price tags no longer look cheap at face value.\nThat has some contrarians worried about what will happen as the Federal Reserve continues raising interest rates and talks about paring back its bond investments. And, perhaps more importantly, what will happen when other central banks join in. Mom-and-pop investors seem relatively unfazed for now. They have been plowing cash into stock and bond funds this year, but concerns are bubbling up elsewhere.\nBill Gross, the famed bond fund manager, recently cautioned investors to not \"be mesmerized by the blue skies created by central bank\" actions. \"All markets are increasingly at risk,\" he wrote in his most recent investment outlook.\nBig institutional investors have begun cashing in some of their winnings and have sold some stocks or moved into less-risky areas of the market, said Kirk Hartman, global chief investment officer for Wells Fargo Asset Management. Even he himself has dialed back a bit on stocks.\n\"In my own portfolio, do I have more cash than earlier in the year?\" he said. \"Absolutely.\"\nIf stocks do end up having a sharp pullback, he wants to have cash on hand to pounce quickly and buy some more.\nHere's a look at what's been driving markets, and what risks lie beneath:\n— THE U.S. STOCK MARKET\nWhy it's so high: Corporate profits are climbing again, and analysts expect earnings for S&P 500 companies to rise 10 percent to a record this year after stalling or falling the last two years.\nRevenue growth is also stronger for companies, which offers a more sustainable and healthier route to gains. For years, businesses depended instead on cutting costs and buying back their own stock to squeeze out more earnings per share.\nIf Washington is able to cut tax rates, as Republicans have promised to do, profits could be set for an even bigger bounce. And stock prices, at their heart, reflect how much profit companies are producing or will.\nWhat could trip it up: Price tags are high.\nThis most recent quarter notwithstanding, companies' stock prices have been rising faster than their profits. When measuring the S&P 500 against its expected earnings over the next 12 months, stocks have been this expensive just 1 percent of the time over the last 10 years, according to Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank.\nAnother way to measure stock prices popularized by Robert Shiller, a Nobel prize winner in economics, looks at how much companies have earned over the prior 10 years, in hopes of smoothing out the effects of boom-and-bust periods. That measure says the S&P 500 is at its most expensive level since the dot-com bubble was deflating in 2002.\n— THE BOND MARKET:\nWhy it's so high: Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world have reached deep into their toolbox to support markets. The Fed, for example, owns $4.5 trillion in Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and other investments. With central banks hoovering up so many of the world's available bonds, prices have been high.\nThis year, many analysts expected bond prices to drop in tandem with a rise in interest rates. When rates climb, newly issued bonds pay more in interest and make the lower yields paid by older bonds less attractive. With expectations for the economy to improve, inflation to tick higher and the Fed to continue raising short-term interest rates, the general call at the start of the year was for rates to rise.\nThe opposite happened. Economic growth has remained sluggish, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury is at 2.13 percent after starting the year at 2.47 percent. That drop in rates has pushed up prices for bonds, and the most common type of bond fund has returned 2.7 percent this year, more than it has in two of the last five full years.\nWhat could trip it up: A rise in rates, which many Wall Street watchers still expect to happen. Economic growth may still be only modest, but the job market has improved, and the Federal Reserve is itchy to pull rates further from their record lows.\nThe Fed raised short-term rates Wednesday, the third time it's done that since December. It also said it plans to start paring its bond investments later this year. Other central banks around the world aren't yet pulling back on stimulus. But when they do, the pullback in stimulus would mean fewer dollars chasing after bonds, and the fear is that could lead to a cascade of pressure pushing down on prices across different investments.\n\"My worry is more about the bond market than it is in the equity market,\" said Wells Fargo's Hartman. \"The good times are rolling, but I worry that at some point it has to end.\""
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about 2018 Taipei Film Festival reveals winner of International New Talent contest
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"TAIPEI (Taiwan New)- The 2018 Taipei Film Festival presented its Grand Prize, Special Jury Prize and Audience Choice Prize winners from 12 selected international movies on July 3, with the top prize going to \"The Nothing Factory\" from Portugal.\nThis year, there are 533 works enrolled for the contest, but only 12 films from 11 countries were selected for the final round. Taiwanese films \"Dear Ex\" and \"Xiao Mei\" both entered the final competing stage.\nTaipei Film Festival chairman, Mark Lee Ping-Bing, presented the certificates to the selected films. (Photo from Taipei Film Festival)\nThe chairman of the festival, Mark Lee Ping-Bing, presented certificates to the 12 selected movies. He thanked the casts and crews for highlighting the Taipei Film Festival with their works.\nThe jury team lineup from the left: Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Taiwanese editor Liao Ching-Song, Rotterdam film selector Müge Demir and Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui. (Photo from Taipei Film Festival)\nThe head of the jury is a well known Taiwanese film editor, Liao Ching-Song. He led the jury team to reveal the Grand Prize, Special Jury Prize and Audience Choice Prize after 4 restless days of discussion.\nThe award winning directors and cast. (Photo from Taipei Film Festival)\nThe Grand Prize and monetary award of NT$600,000 (USD$20,000) went to Portuguese director Pedro Pinho's \"The Nothing Factory\". The Special Jury Prize and a monetary award of NT$300,000 (USD$10,000) went to Danish director Milad Alami's \"The Charmer\".\nAdditionally, the most popular Audience Choice Prize went to Taiwanese comedy \"Dear Ex\" with co-directors Mag Hsu and Chih-Yen Hsu.\nFor more information see 2018 Taipei Film Festival website and Facebook. The 3 winning movies' official trailers are as follows.\nGrand Prize winner \"The Nothing Factory\" trailer\n(Video from Taipei Film Festival)\nSpecial Jury Prize winner \"The Charmer\" trailer\n(Video from Taipei Film Festival)\nAudience Choice award winner \"Dear Ex\" trailer\n(Video from Taipei Film Festival)"
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Propylene Oxide Procurement Research - Market Trends and Spend Analysis by SpendEdge
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"LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--, a global procurement intelligence advisory firm, has announced the release of their ‘ .’ The insights and data in this report provide a strategic analysis of the supply markets, factors influencing purchasing decisions, procurement best practices, pricing models, supplier landscape, and an analysis of the supplier capability matrix for the . This report breaks down the data and analysis behind the procurement of propylene oxide and acts as an all-inclusive guide for making smart purchasing decisions.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180422005104/en/\nPropylene Oxide Procurement Report (Graphic: Business Wire)\n“The propylene oxide market will witness a promising growth with the growing demand from end-user industries such as food and beverages, automobile, and construction,” says SpendEdge procurement analyst Anil Seth. “Also, the market in APAC will experience a moderate growth during the forecast period,” added Anil.\nLooking for more insights from this report?\nSpendEdge sample reports are free of charge and provide insights that focus on cost-saving aspects of procurement and optimization of category spend.\nProcurement analysts at SpendEdge highlight the following top three market trends that are contributing to the growth of the Global Propylene Oxide Market:\nShifting of polypropylene oxide production to regions with low-cost feedstocks Rapid adoption of vertical integration by leading suppliers Increasing focus on adoption of circular economy by suppliers\nThis report is available at USD 1000 discount for a limited time only:\nShifting of polypropylene oxide production to regions with low-cost feedstocks\nIn the recent years, there has been an increase in the availability of low-cost feedstocks, such as shale gas and coal used in the production of polypropylene. The availability of low-cost feedstocks reduces the cost of raw materials.\nRapid adoption of vertical integration by leading suppliers\nGlobally, the suppliers are increasingly focusing on adopting vertical integration strategies. This helps the buyers reduce the dependence on third-parties of raw materials, which further leads to a reduction in the lead time.\nIncreasing focus on adoption of circular economy by suppliers\nIn the propylene oxide market, the suppliers are investing in various initiatives to attain circular economy. The adoption of supplier economy helps the suppliers enhance their brand value. In addition, the suppliers can also reduce carbon footprints in their operations.\ngain detailed insights into the current market trends.\nGet unlimited access to all our reports. Our Insights platform provides ready-to-use procurement research reports, latest supplier news, innovation landscape, markets insights, supplier tracking, and much more at the click of a button.\nWe also reports to meet clients’ requirements.\nRelated Reports:\nAbout SpendEdge\nSpendEdge shares your passion for driving sourcing and procurement excellence. We are a preferred procurement market intelligence partner for Fortune 500 firms and other leading companies across numerous industries. Our strength lies in delivering robust, real-time procurement market intelligence that helps sourcing and procurement professionals make informed decisions. These innovative procurement solutions help enterprises transform structural capabilities, improve execution efficiency, and fast-track time to savings.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180422005104/en/\nCONTACT: SpendEdge\nAnirban Choudhury\nMarketing Consultant\nUS: +1 630 984 7340\[email protected]\nKEYWORD:\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS ENGINEERING\nSOURCE: SpendEdge\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 01:31 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 01:31 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180422005104/en"
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Large wave overturned B.C. whale-watching boat that killed 6
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"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canada's Transportation Safety Board says the capsizing of a whale-watching boat that killed five British nationals and one Australian was caused by a rogue wave higher than the boat.\nThe board says in a report released Wednesday that 24 passengers and three crew were aboard the Leviathan II when a deckhand heard a noise and saw a large breaking wave on Oct. 25, 2015.\nThe captain attempted to turn the 20-meter (65-feet) boat to minimize the wave's impact, but TSB investigator Clinton Rebeiro says it struck before his actions could be effective.\nThe boat capsized about 9 miles (14 kilometers) off Tofino, a popular destination for whale watchers at the very tip of a peninsula some 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of Victoria, the capital of British Columbia."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Former Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka says home was attacked by grenade and gunshots in "assassination attempt"
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Former Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka says home was attacked by grenade and gunshots in \"assassination attempt\""
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Artist, her emotional support peacock denied entry on flight
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"NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A United Airlines passenger who tried to take her emotional support peacock with her on a cross-country flight has had the bird turned away by the airline because of health and safety concerns.\nNew York City-based photographer and performance artist Ventiko says she bought a ticket for her peacock, Dexter, so he would have his own seat on Sunday's flight from New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport to Los Angeles.\nA spokeswoman for Chicago-based United says the peacock didn't meet guidelines for several reasons, including its size and weight. Spokeswoman Andrea Hiller says the issues had been explained to the passenger three times \"before they arrived at the airport.\"\nDexter's Instagram account notes his \"human friends\" will be driving him cross-country."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about BC-US--Index, US
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"NEW YORK (AP) — Standard and Poor's Stock Indexes for Tuesday\nClose Change MidCap 400 1957.46 Down 21.14 500 Stocks 2822.43 Down 31.10 100 Stocks 1251.93 Down 13.63"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Britain's information commissioner plans to seek a warrant to access servers of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica
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"LONDON (AP) — Britain's information commissioner plans to seek a warrant to access servers of data mining firm Cambridge Analytica."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about German center-left leader to join Amazon protest
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"BERLIN (AP) — The new leader of one of Germany's governing parties says she plans to join a protest against working conditions at Amazon during a visit by company CEO Jeff Bezos to Berlin.\nAndrea Nahles, the chairwoman of the center-left Social Democrats, said she would take part in a demonstration Tuesday outside publisher Axel Springer's Berlin offices, where Bezos is to be presented with an award for his \"visionary entrepreneurship\" in online business and digitalization strategy at the Washington Post.\nNahles argued that Amazon's tax practices and working conditions aren't worthy of a prize.\nShe is seeking to boost her party's profile after a disastrous election result last year and its decision to enter the new German government as conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior partner."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Woman says Steven Seagal sexually assaulted her at audition
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — An aspiring actress says she was 17 when actor Steven Seagal sexually assaulted her during a supposed casting session in 2002.\nFaviola Dadis said at a news conference Monday that she had recently moved to the U.S. from the Netherlands when she was invited to a Beverly Hills hotel room to audition for Seagal for a film he planned to make about Genghis Khan.\nThe 33-year-old former model says only Seagal and his bodyguard were in the room when the actor reached under her bikini top and then grabbed her genitals.\nDadis said she ended the audition and immediately left. She says she feared being blacklisted if she reported Seagal, and only recently filed a police report. Los Angeles County prosecutors say they are reviewing the case.\nSeagal's attorney Anthony Falangetti did not immediately return a message seeking comment."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Romanian parliament passes law that may dilute graft fight
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"BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian lawmakers have approved changes that critics say will weaken the European Union member's efforts to root out high-level corruption.\nParliament voted 167-70 Monday to change a law that obliges public officials to declare their assets and regulates conflicts of interest. Lawmakers and public officials banned from holding office due to rules violations could now see the ban lifted.\nLawmakers also approved a law obliging judges and prosecutors to pay financial damages for judicial errors made \"in bad faith or grave negligence,\" which critics say could make magistrates wary of prosecuting or issuing rulings.\nOpposition lawmakers whistled as the laws were approved, while members of the left-wing governing coalition cheered.\nThousands of Romanians have protested against the proposals saying they will make it harder to punish high-level corruption."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about No. 2 Oklahoma leads with 3 1st-team AP All-Americans
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"No. 2 Oklahoma will bring three All-Americans to the College Football Playoff.\nQuarterback Baker Mayfield, offensive tackle Orlando Brown and tight end Mark Andrews of Oklahoma were selected to the Associated Press All-America team, giving the Sooners more players on the first team than any school. The All-America team, which dates to 1925 and was selected this season by a panel of 17 Top 25 voters, was released Monday.\nFour of the top five vote-getters for the Heisman Trophy made the first team, including the runaway winner Mayfield. Stanford's Bryce Love, the Heisman runner-up, and San Diego State's Rashaad Penny, the nation's leading rusher and fifth-place finisher for the Heisman, were the first-team running backs. Penn State's Saquon Barkley, who finished fourth in the Heisman voting, made the team as an all-purpose player.\nLouisville's Lamar Jackson, last year's Heisman winner and All-America quarterback, was selected to the second team.\n___\nALL-AMERICA POINTS\n— The other three playoff teams each have one player on the first team, all on the defensive side. No. 3 Georgia, which faces Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl semifinal on Jan. 1, is represented by linebacker Roquan Smith. No. 1 Clemson placed defensive end Clelin Ferrell on the first team. Alabama safety Minkah Fitzpatrick is the only player to make first-team All-America for the second straight season. The Tigers face the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl semifinal on Jan. 1.\n— Notre Dame (offensive linemen Mike McGlinchey and Quenton Nelson), Ohio State (center Billy Price and cornerback Denzel Ward), Iowa (linebacker Josey Jewell and cornerback Josh Jackson) and Texas (safety DeShon Elliott and punter Michael Dickson) each have two players on the first team.\n— Clemson had the most players selected to all three teams with six. Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, linebacker Dorian O'Daniel and offensive tackle Mitch Hyatt made the second team. Defensive end Austin Bryant and guard Tyrone Crowder were third-team picks.\n— Wisconsin placed five players on the three teams, led by linebacker T.J. Edwards on the first team. Running back Jonathan Taylor and tight Troy Fumagalli made the second team and offensive linemen David Edwards and Beau Benzschawel made the third team.\n— Oklahoma had four picks overall with linebacker Ogbonnia Okoronkwo making the second team.\nMOVING UP\n— Four of the five All-America offensive linemen made either second- or third-team last year. Brown and Price moved up from second to first. McGlinchey and Nelson went from third to first.\n— Mayfield also jumped from third team to first team. He was selected to the second team in 2015.\n— Dickson and Barkley also made the third team last year and moved up to first this season, though Barkley was a third-team running back last year.\nMOVING DOWN\n— Jackson was not the only 2016 All-American to slide this season. Washington State guard Cody O'Connell went from first team to second team. Utah punter Mitch Wishnowsky went from first to third.\nCONFERENCE CALL\nFirst-team All-Americans by conference:\nBig Ten — 7\nBig 12 — 6\nPac-12 — 3\nSEC — 3\nACC — 2\nIndependent — 2\nAmerican — 1\nMountain West — 1\n___\nAll-Americans, all three teams, by conference:\nSEC — 15\nACC — 14\nBig Ten — 13\nBig 12 — 12\nPac-12 — 11\nMountain West — 3\nAmerican — 2\nC-USA — 2\nIndependent — 2\nMAC — 1\n___\nFollow Ralph D. Russo at www.Twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP\n___\nMore AP college football: http://collegefootball.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP_Top25"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Toro Supports 2018 Wyland National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation
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"RIVERSIDE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--April is Water Conservation Month, making this an ideal time to for people everywhere to take steps to conserve and protect one of earth’s most vital resources. April also means the Wyland National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation, the largest community-based challenge for water conservation, is in full swing.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005115/en/\nFurthering education and awareness in water conservation, Toro continues its support of the Wyland National Mayor's Challenge for Water Conservation (Photo: The Toro Company)\nHeld every year from April 1-30, the National Mayor’s Challenge is presented by the Wyland Foundation with sponsorship and support from The Toro Company. The 7 th annual challenge kicked off with Plano, Texas, Mayor Harry LaRosiliere challenging mayors throughout the U.S. to help spread the word about the importance of water.\nThe challenge rewards individual residents who make pledges online at www.mywaterpledge.com to perform specific water-saving activities throughout the month. By simply pledging their commitment to easy water-saving actions, residents are eligible for a chance to win many exciting prizes – $5,000 toward home utilities payments, water-efficient home irrigation products like Toro smart irrigation controllers, and other eco-friendly products. This year residents can also nominate a local charity from a participating city to win a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid vehicle.\nToro has been a partner with the Wyland Foundation since 2015, supporting outreach and activities around water conservation throughout the year. “Our partnership is a natural fit in our mission to support sustainability through the efficient use of water,” says Phil Burkart, vice president of Toro’s Irrigation & Lighting Businesses. “We recognize the limited resources and availability of water. It’s why we are dedicated to providing water-saving innovation and education to our customers worldwide.”\n“As a worldwide leader in irrigation technology and innovation for homes, golf courses, sports fields, municipalities and agriculture, Toro recognizes the importance of protecting water resources for future generations,” says renowned marine life artist and conservationist Wyland. “Toro’s support for Wyland Foundation and the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation further demonstrates their commitment to ensure availability for people around the world and to educate the masses on how to successfully use water without waste.”\nThe National Mayors Challenge continues through April 30, 2018. Other sponsors include Toyota, EPA WaterSense ®, National League of Cities, Conserva Irrigation, Earth Friendly Products, makers of ECOS, and southern California broadcast partner KCAL9/KCBS2. The challenge is designed to bring together all facets of the community to follow their city’s progress throughout the month and to use that information to encourage neighbors, businesses and civic groups to spread the word. At the midway point in the annual challenge, residents across the United States have already committed to reducing their water waste by approximately 1 billion gallons.\nAbout The Toro Company\nThe Toro Company is a leading worldwide provider of innovative solutions for the outdoor environment including turf maintenance, snow and ice management, landscape, rental and specialty construction equipment, and irrigation and outdoor lighting solutions. With sales of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2017, Toro’s global presence extends to more than 125 countries. Through constant innovation and caring relationships built on trust and integrity, Toro and its family of brands have built a legacy of excellence by helping customers care for golf courses, sports fields, public green spaces, commercial and residential properties and agricultural operations. For more information, visit www.toro.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005115/en/\nCONTACT: The Toro Company\nAlexis Bookman\[email protected]\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA TEXAS\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENERGY UTILITIES NATURAL RESOURCES AGRICULTURE OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES LANDSCAPE URBAN PLANNING ENVIRONMENT CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY\nSOURCE: The Toro Company\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 08:30 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 08:30 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005115/en"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about French Open glance: Serena, Nadal back on court on Day 5
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"PARIS (AP) — A quick look at the French Open:\nLOOKAHEAD TO THURSDAY\nTop-ranked Rafael Nadal is back on court as he resumes his bid for a record-extending 11th title at the French Open against Guido Pella in the second round. After a straight-sets win in her first Grand Slam match following maternity leave, Serena Williams faces a tougher test on center court against 17th-seeded Ash Barty of Australia in another second-round match. Serena won their previous encounter, but that was in a completely different context four years ago at the Australian Open. Two-time winner Maria Sharapova is also in action against Donna Vekic of Croatia. The Russian has never lost a second-round match in Paris.\nTHURSDAY'S FORECAST\nSunny spells with a risk of storms. High of 74 degrees (23 Celsius).\nWEDNESDAY'S WEATHER\nSunny. High of 77 degrees (25 Celsius).\nWEDNESDAY'S WINNERS\nSeeded winners in the men's second round: No. 2 Alexander Zverev, No. 4 Grigor Dimitrov, No. 8 David Goffin, No. 10 Pablo Carreno Busta, No. 13 Roberto Bautista Agut, No. 19 Kei Nishikori, No. 20 Novak Djokovic, No. 26 Damir Dzumhur No. 30 Fernando Verdasco, No. 32 Gael Monfils.\nSeeded winners in the women's first round: No. 1 Simona Halep.\nSeeded winners in the women's second round: No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 4 Elina Svitolina, No. 8 Petra Kvitova, No. 10 Sloane Stephens, No. 13 Madison Keys, No. 14 Daria Kasatkina, No. 21 Naomi Osaka, No. 25 Anett Kontaveit, No. 26 Barbora Strycova, No. 31 Mihaela Buzarnescu.\nWEDNESDAY'S LOSERS\nSeeded losers in the men's first round: No. 17 Tomas Berdych.\nSeeded losers in the men's second round: No. 12 Sam Querrey.\nSeeded losers in the women's second round: No. 23 Carla Suarez Navarro, No. 32 Alize Cornet.\nSTAT OF THE DAY\n25 — The number of points dropped by second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki in her 6-1, 6-0 win over Georgina Garcia Perez.\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"She's the greatest female athlete of all time, probably, and she keeps on coming back and inspiring everyone.\" — Djokovic, talking about Serena Williams.\n___\nMore AP tennis coverage: https://www.apnews.com/tag/apf-Tennis"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Liverpool bounces back with 3-0 win at Huddersfield
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"HUDDERSFIELD, England (AP) — Liverpool bounced back from two straight losses with a 3-0 win at Huddersfield that cemented the team's place in the top four of the Premier League on Tuesday.\nEmre Can opened the scoring with a fiercely-struck shot on the bounce from outside the area and Roberto Firmino doubled the lead on the stroke of halftime, squeezing in a finish from an acute angle.\nMohamed Salah grabbed the third from the penalty spot after Can was fouled, as Liverpool recovered from losses to Swansea in the league and West Bromwich Albion in the fourth round of the FA Cup.\n\"It was important for us after the last two results and performances that we weren't happy with,\" Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson said.\nCan, who also won the penalty, produced an impressive performance amid continued speculation linking him with a move to Juventus, though Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp said he was not bothered by the uncertainty over the midfielder's future.\n\"What is the problem, as long as he plays like this?\" Klopp said. \"As long as people behave like Emre now behaves and delivers and then, if, in the end, we have to do it, we shake hands and say goodbye. And if he stays, we say hello again.\"\nHuddersfield, which hasn't beaten Liverpool since 1959, is only a point above the relegation zone."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Dodgers send prized prospect Buehler to Single-A for now
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"LOS ANGELES (AP) — Walker Buehler, the Dodgers' prized pitching prospect, has been optioned to Single-A Rancho Cucamonga, although the right-hander could be back in the majors this weekend.\nBuehler made his first big league start on Monday night against Miami. The 23-year-old allowed four hits over five scoreless innings and struck out five, but didn't factor in the decision in the Dodgers' 2-1 win.\nManager Dave Roberts said the team wanted to keep Buehler in the same time zone and nearby so it would have the option of starting him on Saturday at San Francisco.\nIn a related move, the Dodgers selected the contract of right-hander Daniel Hudson from Triple-A Oklahoma City, bringing the big-league roster to 40.\nHudson spent last season with the Pirates, making a career-high 71 appearances. He was 2-7 with a 4.38 ERA. He signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers on March 30. Hudson has yet to allow a hit in 4 2/3 innings in five relief appearances with Oklahoma City.\n___\nMore AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tags/MLBbaseball"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Business events scheduled for Thursday
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"Major business and economic events scheduled for Thursday:\nWASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases personal income and spending for April, 8:30 a.m.\nWASHINGTON — Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates, 10 a.m.\nWASHINGTON — National Association of Realtors releases pending home sales index for April, 10 a.m."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare says it plans to require hospitals to post their standard prices online and to make electronic medical records more readily available to patients.\nThe head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Seema Verma, said Tuesday the initiative reflects the Trump administration's effort to encourage patients to become decision makers in their care.\nHospitals are required to disclose prices publicly, but the latest change would put that information online in machine-readable format that can be easily processed by computers.\nLikewise, many health care providers already make computerized records available to patients, but starting in 2021 Medicare would base part of a hospital's payments on how well they do.\nVerma also announced Medicare is starting a comprehensive review of how it will pay for costly new forms of immunotherapy."
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about APNewsBreak: Transgender people can enlist in military Jan 1
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon official tells The Associated Press that transgender people can enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite President Donald Trump's opposition.\nThe new policy reflects growing legal pressure on the issue and the difficult hurdles the federal government would have to cross to enforce Trump's demand to ban transgender individuals from the military. Two federal courts already have ruled against the ban.\nPotential transgender recruits will have to overcome a lengthy and strict set of physical, medical and mental conditions that make it possible, though difficult, for them to join the armed services.\nMaj. David Eastburn says the enlistment of transgender recruits will start Jan. 1 and go on amid the legal battles. The Department of Defense also is studying the issue."
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Gaza truce brings little relief to volatile situation
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"JERUSALEM (AP) — With a cease-fired declared Wednesday, Israel and Hamas appear to have pulled back from a fourth war after a day of intense rocket fire and airstrikes. But the situation could explode at any moment.\nTuesday's fighting was the heaviest since a 2014 war, with Palestinian militants firing scores of rockets and mortars into Israel, and Israel carrying out dozens of airstrikes in Gaza.\nBoth sides appeared to have accomplished some short-term goals. But the underlying issues that helped fuel the fighting remain in place.\nHamas, weakened by a decade-long blockade of Gaza, remains defiant and in distress. A confident Israel appears unrestrained by the United States or its Middle Eastern neighbors. Palestinian militants still have an arsenal of rockets and could potentially inflict damage or casualties in Israel, followed by Israeli retaliation.\nHere's a look at the current state of play and potential for escalation.\n___\nHOW DID WE GET HERE?\nEleven years after seizing control of Gaza from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas is in trouble.\nGaza's economy has been battered by an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, imposed to prevent the group from arming. Three wars with Israel have brought widespread destruction, and the Islamic militant group has no close international allies to bail it out.\nFrustrated with his inability to regain control of Gaza, Abbas has stepped up economic pressure on Hamas by cutting the electricity supply and reducing the salaries to tens of thousands of former civil servants in Gaza.\nRunning out of options and rejecting calls to disarm, Hamas has led a series of weekly mass protests along the Israeli border during the past two months to draw attention to Gaza's poor conditions and pressure Israel to ease the blockade.\nIsrael has fired live bullets and tear gas to break up the protests and prevent a mass breach of the border fence, killing over 110 Palestinians, the vast majority unarmed. Some of the Palestinian protesters hurled fire bombs, burned tires or tried to breach the fence, undermining Hamas' claims that the protests were entirely peaceful.\nIsrael says Hamas is responsible for the bloodshed, and accuses the group of using the demonstrations as a cover for attacks.\nStill, Israel has come under heavy international criticism for its use of deadly force. But the protests have not succeeded in easing the blockade.\n____\nHOW DID THINGS ESCALATE?\nEarlier this week, Israel carried out a pair of deadly strikes on military posts belonging to Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group, contending militants planted explosives and tried to break through the border to carry out an attack. Four militants were killed.\nEarly Tuesday, Islamic Jihad retaliated by firing a barrage of mortar fire into southern Israel near the Gaza border. Hamas later fired rockets for the first time since the 2014 war ended with an informal cease-fire.\nThe cross-border exchange lasted throughout the night, but both sides showed restraint. Israel targeted empty Palestinian military training and weapons sites, while the militants avoided use of powerful longer-range rockets capable of striking deeper into Israel. Both were signs that neither side wants to go to war.\n___\nWHAT DID EACH SIDE ACCOMPLISH?\nThe Palestinian militants, who accuse Israel of violating the terms of the 2014 cease-fire by targeting their military observation posts, believe they sent a powerful reminder that they still possess arsenals capable of disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis on the other side of the border.\n\"Israel used to initiate the strikes and end them unilaterally and impose new rules,\" said Adnan Abu Amer, an independent analyst in Gaza. \"This time the resistance took the initiative. ... The resistance came out from this round in a superior position.\"\nFrom Israel's perspective, the military delivered a measured, but powerful response that made Hamas realize quickly that fighting is not in its interest. Israel did not signal that it is willing to ease the blockade.\n___\nWHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?\nWhile Israel's military and the Palestinian militant groups flexed their muscles, little was resolved.\nAny time Hamas or Islamic Jihad resort to firing rockets, they risk triggering a fierce Israeli response, especially if there are serious casualties on the Israeli side.\nIsrael's \"Iron Dome\" rocket defense system intercepted dozens of incoming projectiles on Tuesday. But the system is not fail-safe. One mortar shell landed next to an Israeli kindergarten shortly before it opened, and four Israelis were wounded by Palestinian fire.\nIt was not immediately clear if Islamic Jihad, a much smaller, Iran-backed militant group, acted independently Tuesday or at least had the tacit blessing of Hamas. At times, Islamic Jihad has pursued objectives that differ from those of Hamas.\nIsrael, meanwhile, appears to have made progress in defusing long-term threats posed by Hamas. Its air defenses have largely mitigated the rocket threat, and its military has made great progress in destroying Hamas' system of attack tunnels along the border.\nThe Trump administration has shielded Israel from critics in Europe and the human rights community who say Israel's open-fire orders are illegal because they allow deadly force even when soldiers are not in life-threatening situations.\nIsrael has quietly forged good behind-the-scenes ties with Egypt and Gulf Arab states that have little empathy for Hamas, an offshoot of the regional Muslim Brotherhood movement.\nBut Israel's apparent military and diplomatic advantage does not solve the underlying problem of having a volatile, impoverished territory on its doorstep. Many analysts and members of the international community believe it is only a matter of time before Gaza boils over again as long as the blockade remains in place.\nThat could happen sooner than later. Next Tuesday, Hamas plans another mass protest along the border.\n___\nAssociated Press writer Fares Akram in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report."
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Devils snap 4-game skid with 3-1 win over Sabres
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"BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Taylor Hall scored in his first game after missing three with an injury to his right hand, and the New Jersey Devils snapped a four-game skid with a 3-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday night.\nKyle Palmieri scored an empty-netter and added an assist, and Miles Wood also scored for the Devils. Backup goalie Keith Kinkaid stopped 27 shots in his first game since missing three with a groin injury. He started in place of Cory Schneider, who missed his fourth game since also hurting his groin.\nSabres defenseman Jake McCabe spoiled Kinkaid's shutout bid by scoring a power-play goal with 5:02 remaining. Buffalo, however, failed to convert on another power-play opportunity when Devils rookie Nico Hischier was penalized for cross-checking with 2:45 remaining.\nKinkaid made a key save during the Sabres' final man-advantage during a scramble in front with 1:30 left. He reached out with his left arm to turn aside Ryan O'Reilly's chance from in close.\nHall showed no effects of the hand injury, putting the Devils up 2-0 with 14:29 remaining. Set up alone on the left wing by Jesper Bratt's no-look backhand pass, Hall stepped into the circle and fired a shot that went in despite goalie Robin Lehner getting a piece of the puck with his glove.\nWood used his speed to open the scoring 5:49 into the second period. Will Butcher sent a pass that hit Wood in stride while streaking up the left wing, catching Sabres defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen flatfooted. Wood made a bee-line toward the net a step ahead of Ristolainen and cut through the crease before backhanding the puck into the open far side.\nWood's goal ended the Devils' scoring drought at 116 minutes, 46 seconds, dating to Damon Severson's goal in the second period of a 3-2 loss at Boston last Tuesday. New Jersey was shut out the following game, a 3-0 loss to Detroit on Thursday.\nThe Sabres, meanwhile, were coming off consecutive shutouts and allowed their first goal in a span of 199:19 — a little under 27 minutes short of the franchise record — shared by Lehner and backup Chad Johnson.\nLehner, who finished with 25 saves, set a career best with his shutout streak that ended at 145:15, topping his previous best by more than 19 minutes. He had stopped a combined 63 shots in a 5-0 win over Edmonton and a 4-0 victory over Vancouver last week.\nNOTES: Before the game, the Sabres held a moment of silence in tribute to USA Hockey executive Jim Johannson, who died unexpectedly on Jan. 21. General manager Jason Botterill, U.S.-born coach Phil Housley and forward Jack Eichel spoke fondly of Johannson in a video broadcast on the scoreboard. Housley referred to Johannson as \"the classiest guy you'd ever want to meet.\" ... Devils coach John Hynes said Schneider is scheduled to begin skating on his own in the next day or so. Schneider missed his second game since hurting his groin in the loss at Boston last Tuesday. ... D Mirco Mueller returned after missing 31 games with a broken clavicle. ... In discussing the Devils' skid earlier in the day, Taylor provided an amusing quote that didn't exactly add up by saying: \"Hockey's a funny game. It goes in 10-game segments. We started off 9-2 and then in our last 11, I think we're 2-9-2. So what team are we?\"\nUP NEXT\nDevils: Host the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday.\nSabres: Continue their five-game homestand against the Florida Panthers on Thursday.\n___\nMore AP hockey: https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey"
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Syria's Kurds push US to stop Turkish assault on key enclave
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"BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Kurdish militia is growing frustrated with its patron, the United States, and is pressing it to do more to stop Turkey's assault on a key stronghold in Syria.\nThe issue reflects a deeper concern among the Kurds over their alliance with the Americans, which proved vital to defeating the Islamic State group in Syria. The Kurds fear that ultimately they and their dream of self-rule will be the losers in the big powers' play over influence in Syria. Already the U.S. is in a tough spot, juggling between the interests of the Kurds, its only ally in war-torn Syria, and its relations with Turkey, a key NATO ally.\nThe Kurdish militia views defending the Kurdish enclave of Afrin as an existential fight to preserve their territory. Afrin has major significance — it's one of the first Kurdish areas to rise up against President Bashar Assad and back self-rule, a base for senior fighters who pioneered the alliance with the Americans and a key link in their efforts to form a contiguous entity along Turkey's border. The offensive, which began Jan. 20, has so far killed more than 60 civilians and dozens of fighters on both sides, and displaced thousands.\n\"How can they stand by and watch?\" Aldar Khalil, a senior Kurdish politician said of the U.S.-led coalition against IS. \"They should meet their obligations toward this force that participated with them (in the fight against terrorism.) We consider their unclear and indecisive positions as a source of concern.\"\nKhalil, one of the architects of the Kurds' self-administration, and three other senior Kurdish officials told The Associated Press that they have conveyed their frustration over what they consider a lack of decisive action to stop the Afrin assault to U.S. and other Western officials. They said U.S. officials have made confusing statements in public. One of the officials who agreed to discuss private meetings on condition of anonymity said some U.S. comments even amounted to tacit support for the assault.\nThe fight for Afrin puts Washington in a bind with few good options. The Americans have little leverage and no troops in Afrin, which is located in a pocket of Kurdish control at the western edge of Syria's border with Turkey and is cut off from the rest of Kurdish-held territory by a Turkish-held enclave. The area is also crowded with other players. Russian troops were based there to prevent friction with Turkey until they withdrew ahead of the offensive, and the area — home to more than 300,000 civilians — is surrounded by territory held by Syrian government forces or al-Qaida-linked militants.\nThe Americans' priority for the YPG — the main Kurdish militia that forms the backbone of forces allied to the U.S. — is for them to govern the large swath of territory wrested from the Islamic State group in northern and eastern Syria, including the city of Raqqa. Washington wants to prevent IS from resurging and keep Damascus' ally, Iran, out of the area.\nAfrin is not central to those American goals and U.S. officials say it will distract from the war on IS.\nThe U.S-led coalition has distanced itself from the Kurdish forces in Afrin, saying they have not received American training and were not part of the war against the Islamic State group in eastern Syria. But it also implicitly criticized the Turkish assault as unhelpful.\n\"Increased violence in Afrin disrupts what was a relatively stable area of Syria. Furthermore, it distracts from efforts to ensure the lasting defeat of Daesh and could be exploited by Daesh for resupply and safe haven,\" the coalition said in an emailed statement to the AP, using the Arabic acronym for IS.\nFor its part, Turkey views the YPG as an extension of its own Kurdish insurgent groups and has vowed to \"purge\" them from its borders.\nWhile the U.S. may distance itself from the fighting in Afrin, it can't sit by silently if Turkey goes ahead with its threat to expand the fight to Manbij, a Syrian town to the east where American troops are deployed alongside Kurdish forces that took the town from IS in 2016.\nOne option is a proposal by the Kurds to persuade Assad to deploy his troops as a buffer between the Kurds and Turks in Afrin. Nobohar Mustafa, a Kurdish envoy to Washington, said the Americans appear open to that proposal. However, so far Assad's government has refused; they want full control of the area.\nAnother option could be to seek a compromise with Turkey by withdrawing U.S. and Kurdish forces from Manbij, said Elizabeth Teoman, a Turkey specialist with the Institute for the Study of War.\n\"The Turks may accept that as an intermediate step, but the U.S. will consistently face threats of escalation from Turkey as long as we maintain our partnership with the Syrian Kurdish YPG,\" Teoman said.\nU.S. officials have reportedly said recently that they have no intention of pulling out of Manbij.\nKurdish officials say they don't expect the Americans to go to war with Turkey or send troops to fight with them in Afrin.\nBut \"this doesn't mean the U.S. doesn't have a role in stopping the war on Afrin,\" said Mustafa, the Kurdish envoy to Washington. She said Kurdish officials weren't surprised the Americans have distanced themselves from the Afrin dispute \"but we didn't expect their stance to be that low.\"\nShe and Khalil have lobbied Washington and Europe for a more aggressive stance against Turkey's advances. Other than the proposal to allow Syrian border guards to deploy, they have suggested international observers along a narrow buffer zone. Mustafa said the U.S. could argue that the YPG presence in northwestern Syria, where al-Qaida-linked militants have their stronghold, is necessary to fight terrorism. Khalil said he has pressed other NATO members to urge Turkey to stop airstrikes.\nMeanwhile, a heated media campaign has been launched to \"Save Afrin,\" while Kurdish supporters in Europe have staged regular protests and a senior YPG official wrote an op-ed for the New York Times.\nIn Washington, U.S. officials rejected the notion that the United States hasn't tried hard enough to rein in Turkey. In addition to publicly urging Turkey to limit its operation and avoid expanding further east, they noted that President Donald Trump spoke about it directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The White House said that Trump used that call to urge Turkey to \"deescalate, limit its military actions, and avoid civilian casualties and increases to displaced persons and refugees.\"\nThey say that since Turkey has proceeded, the U.S. has been left with only bad options.\nAlthough the U.S. doesn't want to see Assad's government return to the area between Afrin and Turkey, it may be the \"least worst situation,\" said a U.S. official involved in Syria policy.\nThe United States has less ability to influence negotiations about how to secure the border than Russia, whose forces have long had a strong presence in the area, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private diplomatic discussions.\nThe Trump administration has also quietly acknowledged that ultimately, the Kurds may be disappointed if they are expecting loyalty even on matters where U.S. and Kurdish interests diverge. Turkey, after all, is a NATO ally. Asked recently if Washington had a moral obligation to stick with the Kurds, senior Trump administration officials said Trump's \"America first\" doctrine dictated that the U.S. must always prioritize its own interests.\nFrom the Kurdish perspective, \"the Americans are missing the whole point. If Erdogan is not stopped at Afrin, he will turn eastward and will not stop until he has destroyed the entire edifice\" built by the Kurds in eastern Syria, said Nicholas Herak, of the Center for a New American Security.\n\"The challenge for the YPG is that it has power only so long as it continues to act as the key, local proxy for the U.S. mission in Syria,\" Herak said.\n_____________\nAssociated Press writers Josh Lederman and Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed to this report."
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Georgia silo holding pecan shells explodes, no injuries
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"VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say a silo used to store pecan shells has exploded in south Georgia, shattering windows at businesses blocks away.\nNo injuries have been reported.\nWorkers said nearby buildings shook just before 1 p.m. Wednesday when the silo exploded outside the offices of South Georgia Pecan in Valdosta, a city of 56,000 people near the Georgia-Florida state line.\nThe Valdosta Daily Times reported windows shattered in a clothing shop, jewelry store and other businesses in the city's downtown. Twisted metal littered a parking lot.\nThe cause of the blast wasn't immediately determined.\nThe U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reported more than 500 silo explosions in the U.S. since 1976. Dust collecting in agricultural silos can be highly combustible and may ignite like gunpowder if triggered by a spark.\n___\nInformation from: The Valdosta Daily Times, http://valdostadailytimes.com/"
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about LeBron gets 24, Cavs top Heat 91-89 in 1st game without Love
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"CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James scored 24 points, Jae Crowder made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:21 left and the Cleveland Cavaliers began a long stretch without injured All-Star Kevin Love by holding off the Miami Heat 91-89 on Wednesday night.\nThe Cavs rebounded from a troubling loss at Detroit — Cleveland gave up 125 points to the undermanned Pistons — and prevented the Heat from overtaking them for third place in the Eastern Conference standings.\nCleveland played its first game since Love broke his left hand against the Pistons. The five-time All-Star is consulting with surgeons in New York, and it's possible he'll undergo an operation as early as Thursday. Love, who could miss two months, already has screws in the hand from a previous procedure after he broke it in 2009 with Minnesota.\nGoran Dragic scored 18 and Josh Richardson 15 to lead the Heat, who went just 3 of 28 on 3-pointers.\nCELTICS 103, KNICKS 73\nBOSTON (AP) — Terry Rozier filled in nicely for Kyrie Irving, logging his first career triple-double in his first NBA start and leading Boston over New York.\nRozier had 17 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists to become the second player in NBA history with a triple-double in his first start, joining Tony Wroten for Philadelphia on Nov. 13, 2013, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Irving was sidelined by a bruised right quadriceps after he got hurt during Monday's win in Denver.\nMarcus Morris scored 21 points for the Celtics, and Jayson Tatum had 15. Al Horford and Jaylen Brown scored 14 apiece.\nMorris left late in the third quarter with a bruised left hip.\nEnes Kanter had 17 points and 17 rebounds for the Knicks, and Kristaps Porzingis scored 16.\nNETS 116, 76ERS 108\nNEW YORK (AP) — Spencer Dinwiddie scored 27 points, D'Angelo Russell added 22 in his best performance since returning from knee surgery, and Brooklyn snapped a four-game skid with a victory over Philadelphia.\nRookie center Jarrett Allen, making his first start at home, had 16 points and 12 rebounds for the Nets, who took charge of a close game with an 11-0 run early in the fourth quarter.\nDinwiddie had six points during the spurt and a pair of recent 76ers contributed the other five in the first meeting since a trade between the teams last month.\nJoel Embiid had 29 points and 14 rebounds for the 76ers (24-24), who dropped their third straight. Ben Simmons scored 24 and J.J. Redick had 20 in his return from a seven-game absence with a leg injury.\nMAGIC 127, LAKERS 105\nORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Marreese Speights scored 21 points in his second start of the season, Evan Fournier added 19 and Orlando ran away from Los Angeles in the third quarter.\nWinning for only the fourth time in 24 games, the Magic made a franchise-record nine 3s in a 43-point third period, their highest-scoring quarter of the season. They shot 18 for 32 (56 percent) from behind the arc in the game.\nWith 15 points and six assists, Elfrid Payton was one of seven players to score in double figures for the Magic (15-35).\nJulius Randle and Jordan Clarkson scored 20 each for the Lakers, who never led after the first quarter.\nPACERS 105, GRIZZLIES 101\nINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Myles Turner had 15 points and 11 rebounds in his return to the starting lineup, and Indiana beat Memphis for its third straight win.\nTurner gave the Pacers a 102-101 lead by hitting two free throws with 34 seconds left.\nWith two seconds remaining, Wayne Selden missed a floater in the lane that would have given the Grizzlies the lead. Indiana came up with the rebound and sealed it at the foul line with less than a second left.\nAll five Pacers starters scored in double digits. Bojan Bogdanovic and Darren Collison each had 21 points, Victor Oladipo added 13 and Thaddeus Young had 10.\nMarc Gasol had 23 points and nine rebounds for Memphis. Selden led the Grizzlies with 24 points but was ejected with 0.7 seconds remaining after arguing he was fouled on his missed shot.\nHORNETS 123, HAWKS 110\nATLANTA (AP) — Kemba Walker hit a career-high nine 3s and scored 38 points, leading Charlotte to a dominant win over Atlanta.\nThe Hornets never trailed while building double-digit leads in each half.\nDwight Howard had 20 points and 12 rebounds in his return to Atlanta after spending one season with his hometown Hawks. It was Howard's second double-double in less than a week against the Hawks. He had 18 points and 15 rebounds in Charlotte's 121-110 victory Friday.\nNicolas Batum had 10 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for Charlotte.\n___\nFor more NBA coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball"
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1831
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about French budget chief under pressure after rape accusation
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"PARIS (AP) — Pressure is mounting on a member of French President Emmanuel Macron's government accused of rape.\nBudget Minister Gerald Darmanin strongly denies wrongdoing, and other government members have rallied around him. Darmanin is the highest-ranking French official accused of sexual misconduct since the Hollywood scandals that broke last year.\nNearly 3,000 people signed an online petition launched by a feminist group urging the prime minister to fire Darmanin. It argues that ministers facing corruption investigations have lost their jobs in the past, and asks whether being accused of a sexual crime \"is less serious.\"\nPrime Minister Edouard Philippe's office said Monday that he continues to have confidence in Darmanin.\nA preliminary investigation is underway into an accusation that Darmanin raped her when she sought legal help in 2009."
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1832
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about UN promises justice in Congo against peacekeeper attacks
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"BENI, Congo (AP) — The United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Congo says military offenses will be launched against rebels who killed at least 15 Tanzanian U.N. peacekeepers last week in eastern Congo.\nIn a memorial ceremony Monday David Gressly said those who staged the assault, which wounded 50 others, will pay for their actions. The Dec. 7 attack about 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Beni was the deadliest single attack on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in nearly 25 years.\nAt least five Congolese soldiers also were killed in the attack. The peacekeeping base has been repeatedly attacked by rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces group.\nTanzania's ambassador in Congo Paul Ignace Mella called on the U.N. to protect its peacekeeping soldiers. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is the largest in the world."
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1833
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Pakistani PM to appear before panel probing graft charges
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"ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is appearing before a Supreme Court-appointed team investigating allegations against his family's offshore companies and money laundering.\nAuthorities have made strict security arrangements at a building where Sharif will appear before noon Thursday. His two sons have already testified and denied the allegations against their family's financial affairs.\nSharif, who says he never misused his authority to enrich himself, has been under pressure to resign since reports based on documents leaked from a Panama-based law firm indicated his sons owned offshore companies.\nThe Supreme Court, after hearing petitions for months against Sharif and his family, has ruled there was not enough evidence to remove him from office but ordered an investigation team to look further into the allegations."
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1834
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Scotland makes 8 changes for rugby test against Australia
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"SYDNEY (AP) — Coach Gregor Townsend has made eight changes to Scotland's starting lineup to face Australia in Saturday's rugby test.\nScotland will field an entirely new front row and back three to the team that started in last weekend's 34-13 victory over Italy in Singapore.\nAustralia, which beat Fiji 37-14 at Melbourne last Saturday, was expected to announce its team later Thursday.\n____\nScotland: Greig Tonks, Lee Jones, Alex Dunbar, Duncan Taylor, Rory Hughes, Finn Russell, Ali Price; Hamish Watson, John Barclay, Jonny Gray, Ben Toolis, Zander Fagerson, Fraser Brown, Gordon Reid. Reserves: Ross Ford, Allan Dell, Willem Nel, Tim Swinson, Josh Strauss, Henry Pyrgos , Ruaridh Jackson, Matt Scott."
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1835
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Wednesday's Major League Linescores
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"AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 000 002 002—4 6 1 Boston 001 012 02x—6 11 1\nGaviglio, Oh (7), Tepera (8) and Maile; Rodriguez, Barnes (7), B.Johnson (9), Kimbrel (9) and C.Vazquez. W_Rodriguez 6-1. L_Gaviglio 2-1. Sv_Kimbrel (18). HRs_Toronto, Hernandez (8). Boston, Nunez (4), Martinez (18).\n___\nChicago 000 000 001—1 5 2 Cleveland 205 200 00x—9 13 0\nLopez, Volstad (3), Avilan (4), Rondon (5), Fry (6), N.Jones (7), Soria (8) and Narvaez; Kluber, Beliveau (7), Marshall (8), B.Taylor (9) and Gomes. W_Kluber 8-2. L_Lopez 1-4. HRs_Chicago, Sanchez (3). Cleveland, Ramirez (17), Encarnacion (13).\n___\nHouston 000 020 001—3 7 0 New York 100 022 00x—5 8 1\nKeuchel, McHugh (6) and Stassi; L.Severino, Dav.Robertson (8), A.Chapman (9) and Au.Romine. W_L.Severino 8-1. L_Keuchel 3-7. Sv_A.Chapman (12). HRs_Houston, Stassi (5).\n___\nLos Angeles 001 000 000—1 7 0 Detroit 100 005 00x—6 9 0\nOhtani, Bedrosian (6), J.Johnson (6), Morris (8) and Maldonado; Fiers, Jimenez (8), Greene (9) and Greiner. W_Coleman 2-0. L_Bedrosian 1-1.\n___\nMinnesota 001 124 000— 8 11 0 Kansas City 270 000 11x—11 16 0\nRomero, Slegers (2), Pressly (8) and B.Wilson; Keller, Oaks (4), B.Smith (5), Flynn (6), McCarthy (7), Hill (8), K.Herrera (9) and S.Perez. W_McCarthy 4-2. L_Romero 2-2. Sv_K.Herrera (12). HRs_Minnesota, Dozier (8), Adrianza (1). Kansas City, Moustakas (12), Soler (8), Dozier (1).\n___\nTampa Bay 013 000 020—6 10 0 Oakland 000 000 000—0 1 4\nEovaldi, Font (7), Nuno (9) and Sucre; Manaea, Ramirez (6), Coulombe (8), Hatcher (9) and Lucroy. W_Eovaldi 1-0. L_Manaea 5-6. HRs_Tampa Bay, Refsnyder (2), Field (5).\n___\nTexas 000 201 400—7 11 0 Seattle 001 301 001—6 13 0\nMoore, Barnette (6), Leclerc (7), Claudio (8), Kela (9) and Chirinos; Paxton, Altavilla (6), Cook (7), Rzepczynski (7), Nicasio (7), Bradford (9) and Zunino. W_Barnette 1-0. L_Rzepczynski 0-1. Sv_Kela (12).\n___\nINTERLEAGUE Washington 001 000 100—2 7 0 Baltimore 000 000 000—0 4 0\nScherzer, Doolittle (9) and P.Severino; Hess, M.Castro (7), Hart (8), Wright Jr. (9) and Sisco. W_Scherzer 9-1. L_Hess 2-2. Sv_Doolittle (13). HRs_Washington, Harper (18).\n___\nNATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 000 200—2 8 1 Milwaukee 000 010 20x—3 10 1\nA.Reyes, Gant (5), Lyons (7), Tuivailala (7) and Kelly; Guerra, Jeffress (7), Hader (8), Knebel (9) and Kratz, Pina. W_Jeffress 5-0. L_Tuivailala 1-1. Sv_Knebel (5). HRs_St. Louis, Bader (5). Milwaukee, Yelich (7).\n___\nCincinnati 000 402 001—7 12 0 Arizona 301 000 000—4 13 1\nRomano, W.Peralta (6), Hughes (7), Garrett (7), R.Iglesias (8) and Barnhart; Corbin, Salas (7), Chafin (8), McFarland (9) and Murphy. W_Romano 3-6. L_Corbin 5-2. Sv_R.Iglesias (9). HRs_Cincinnati, Schebler (6), Duvall (10). Arizona, Goldschmidt (7), Murphy (7).\n___\nChicago 100 000 000—1 9 1 Pittsburgh 110 000 00x—2 9 0\nHendricks, R.Rosario (6), Mazzoni (7), J.Wilson (7) and Contreras; Musgrove, Crick (8), F.Vazquez (9) and Cervelli. W_Musgrove 2-0. L_Hendricks 4-4. Sv_F.Vazquez (10). HRs_Pittsburgh, Harrison (2).\n___\nNew York 000 100 111—4 9 1 Atlanta 000 000 100—1 5 0\nVargas, T.Peterson (6), Familia (8), Gsellman (9) and Plawecki; Teheran, Carle (8), S.Freeman (8), Socolovich (9) and Suzuki. W_Vargas 2-3. L_Teheran 4-3. Sv_Gsellman (2). HRs_Atlanta, Camargo (4).\n___\nSan Francisco 020 220 010—7 11 0 Colorado 310 000 000—4 11 0\nHolland, Moronta (6), Watson (7), S.Dyson (8), Strickland (9) and Posey; Gray, Musgrave (4), Oberg (6), McGee (8), Rusin (9) and Wolters. W_Holland 3-6. L_Musgrave 0-1. Sv_Strickland (11). HRs_Colorado, Arenado (11).\n___\nMiami 000 200 000—2 4 1 San Diego 000 100 002—3 6 0\nUrena, Steckenrider (7), Barraclough (8), Ziegler (9) and Realmuto; Richard, Strahm (8) and Lopez. W_Strahm 1-2. L_Ziegler 0-5. HRs_Miami, Castro (3). San Diego, Reyes (4).\n___\nPhiladelphia 000 000 101—2 8 1 Los Angeles 103 120 01x—8 13 0\nEflin, Arano (5), Hutchison (7) and Alfaro; Stripling, Garcia (8), Venditte (9) and Grandal. W_Stripling 3-1. L_Eflin 1-2. HRs_Philadelphia, Williams (6). Los Angeles, Muncy (7), Kemp (7)."
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1836
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Authorities say 3 people have died and 2 people are injured after a helicopter crashed into a Southern California home
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"NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say 3 people have died and 2 people are injured after a helicopter crashed into a Southern California home."
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1837
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Taiwan talk show host in intensive care
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"TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Talk show host Wang Ben-hu was in critical condition at the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan Wednesday, with reports saying a priest had been called in to pray with him.\nEarlier in the day, hospital officials rejected media reports that the veteran supporter of Taiwan independence had already passed away.\nLast month, reports emerged that Wang, 63, suffered from a rare disease which needed a bone marrow transplantation to cure. He was taken to hospital where his situation apparently deteriorated, but out of respect for his and his family’s privacy, the institution refused to comment on the precise details of his condition.\nA news team visited Wang’s church Wednesday morning and was reportedly told the local priest and other members of the congregation had visited him in hospital to pray and sing hymns.\nHis current disease was reportedly not related to a cancer from which he recovered in 2013."
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1838
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Scientists create hybrids in race to save rhino sub-species
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"BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say they're several steps closer to perfecting a method for saving the northern white rhino from extinction.\nWriting in the journal Nature Communications, researchers said Wednesday they've succeeded in creating embryos using frozen northern white rhino sperm and eggs from a southern white rhino.\nIt's the first time such hybrid embryos have been created, and the scientists from Europe and the United States hope it will provide a pathway to saving the northern white rhino sub-species, of which only two females remain.\nThey plan to harvest the females' egg cells soon and produce \"pure\" northern white rhinos to be borne by a southern white surrogate in three years. They're also working on a second method that would see sperm and eggs produced from preserved cells of northern white rhinos."
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1839
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about New Zealand space launch scrubbed from remote launch site
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"WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A space launch has been scrubbed from a remote launch site in New Zealand after an engine glitch caused engineers to abort the flight.\nThe command to abort Tuesday came two seconds after the engine of the Rocket Lab Electron rocket fired on its launch pad at Mahia Peninsula on North Island's east coast.\nThere was no immediate explanation for the launch attempt being called off, although mission control said the problem had been reported as the engine built toward liftoff.\nIn a tweet, Rocket Lab said the launch of the rocket nicknamed \"'Still Testing' (was) scrubbed for the day while team reviews data. Updates on a new attempt to follow.\"\nThe 23-meter (75-foot) rocket had three satellites on board for Tuesday's launch, each about the size of a shoebox."
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1840
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I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Trump to discuss recent tax cuts during session with workers
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"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is following up on his State of the Union address by hosting a tax discussion with American workers.\nWhite House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters say Trump will discuss the new tax cuts during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday afternoon with workers at companies such as Jergens and Aflac. The companies are in Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Missouri and Ohio.\nWalters says more than 275 companies have announced worker bonuses, expanded benefits or new jobs as a result of the tax overhaul that Trump signed into law before Christmas.\nThe law significantly cut taxes for corporations while providing more modest tax breaks for middle-class families.\nTrump cited the tax cuts in Tuesday night's speech."
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1841
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I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Mississippi governor signs nation's most restrictive abortion law, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks
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"JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi governor signs nation's most restrictive abortion law, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks."
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1842
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I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about France to name winners of anti-Trump climate change grants
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"PARIS (AP) — Several U.S.-based climate scientists are about to win multi-year, all-expenses-paid grants to relocate to France.\nThe \"Make Our Planet Great Again\" grants are an effort by French President Emmanuel Macron to counter U.S. President Donald Trump on the climate change front. Macron announced a competition for the grants hours after Trump declared he would withdraw the U.S. from the global accord reached in Paris in 2015 to reduce climate-damaging emissions.\nMacron is unveiling the winners Monday evening ahead of a climate summit Tuesday aimed at giving new impetus to the Paris accord and finding new funding to help governments and businesses meet its goals.\nMore than 50 world leaders are expected in Paris for the \"One Planet Summit,\" co-hosted by the U.N. and the World Bank. Trump was not invited."
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1843
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I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about The Latest: Texas inmate seeking to block Tuesday execution
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"HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of Texas inmate William Rayford (all times local):\n9:40 a.m.\nA federal judge says she doesn't have the authority to rule on an appeal that could halt a Texas execution, and she's asking an appeals court to step in.\nWilliam Rayford is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening for killing his ex-girlfriend in Dallas in 1999.\nHis attorneys filed an appeal raising several issues, including that courts improperly denied his lawyers money to hire a forensic medical examiner to determine whether the woman was dead before her body was moved to a drainage ditch. They say that's a key distinction in a capital murder case.\nIn a ruling late Monday, U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle sent the case to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But she said that if the appeals court sends the case back to her, she'll deny Rayford's request.\nAnother appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.\n____\n11:49 p.m.\nA Texas death row inmate is asking the federal courts to keep him from being executed for the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend while he already was on parole for killing his estranged wife.\nWilliam Rayford would be the nation's second inmate executed this year, both in Texas.\nThe 64-year-old Rayford is facing lethal injection Tuesday evening for beating, stabbing and strangling 44-year-old Carol Lynn Thomas Hall. Her body was found about 300 feet (91 meters) inside a drainage pipe behind her home in South Dallas' Oak Cliff area. Hall's 11-year-old son also was stabbed in the attack but survived to testify against Rayford.\nRayford was convicted of murder in 1986 for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and received 23 years in prison. He was paroled after eight years."
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