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Amy Held

North Korea’s foreign minister gave an account about its demands for a deal that differed from Trump’s account and said Pyongyang would be unwilling to change its offer.
Gang rapes, abductions and killings have grown commonplace in South Sudan, according to the Commission on Human Rights, whose new report outlines widespread violence in the country’s ongoing conflict.
Police say the designer who built a billion-dollar brand of luxury handbags and accessories was found dead in her Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan on Tuesday. She was 55.
Cambridge Analytica concedes it improperly received Facebook users’ personal information but denies using it for the campaign. Facebook said the company may not have deleted the data as promised.
Officials attributed at least two deaths to the flooding, which has reached historic levels in some areas.
Art
Steeped in cultural significance, the film opened to $192 million domestically, the biggest February debut ever, said Disney. It’s also already the highest-grossing film by a black director.
Marchers united largely in opposition to President Trump, who tweeted Saturday that protesters should be celebrating “the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success” of his presidency.
The Santa Ana winds gave firefighters a small reprieve but were expected to pick up once again. Air quality was at hazardous levels in some areas.
“I know this photo looks bad. But, remember, it also is bad,” said Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost of the image appearing to show Franken groping a sleeping woman.
The near-four decade rule of Robert Mugabe appeared to be coming to an end after the ruling ZANU-PF party voted to remove him.
Mexican officials say they seized a bazooka adapted to shoot drugs alongside nearly a ton of marijuana in the town of Agua Prieta on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The doll is modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammed, the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete in a hijab, who said she would sew head scarves onto her Barbies as a child.
The coffee company faced its own boycott after it announced it stopped an advertisement from airing, following controversial remarks a TV host made about embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Two days after the regional government voted to secede from Spain, demonstrators rejecting the move marched and brandished Spanish flags in Catalonia’s capital.
Scrutiny is intensifying into the $300-million contract awarded to a tiny Montana-based company to help get Puerto Rico’s power grid back online.
The U.S. 7th Fleet said Tuesday that this summer’s crash of the USS John S. McCain was preventable. The August collision was the latest in a string of Navy mishaps in the Pacific this year.
The network said the host of “SportsCenter” violated social media guidelines when she weighed in on the controversy around NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.
The beauty brand pulled the ad for body wash from its Facebook page following a backlash from social media users.