| Meghan McCain Rips Liz Cheney For Explaining Torture To Her Father Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:46 PM PDT  After Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) appeared to explain the value of so-called
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| The Most Powerful Signs From National School Walkout Day Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:32 AM PDT  Historically, we've seen what happens when the younger generation comes to take their power
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| Malfunctioning ski lift in Georgia flings off tourists in horrifying viral video Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:26 AM PDT  A ski lift at a resort in Georgia malfunctioned this week, creating a
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| U.S. troops who came under fire from Russian mercenaries prepare for more attacks Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:48 AM PDT  NBC News' Richard Engel took an exclusive trip inside Eastern Syria with U.S. Special Forces Gen. Jonathan Braga, who said troops would be ready for another attack.
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| My Lai massacre photographer laments US 'carnage' fifty years on Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:43 AM PDT  Fifty years after taking photos of an American massacre of Vietnamese villagers, a former US army photographer said he is sorry for the "carnage" his countrymen unleashed in one the war's worst atrocities. Ronald Haeberle told AFP he started snapping instinctively, capturing the chilling photos that would later expose the full extent of the My Lai massacre: 504 Vietnamese dead in a single day, mostly unarmed women, children and older men. "I wanted to remember what was happening there, I wanted to capture a moment in time, and I did," he told AFP while touring the My Lai massacre museum in the village on Friday, the 50th anniversary of the killings.
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| Zinke says Interior negotiating lower price for $139K doors Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:47 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Interior Department has negotiated a significantly lower price for a $139,000 project to upgrade double doors in his office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday.
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| Sarah Sanders Changes Her Tune With Message Chastising Russia For UK Poisoning Posted: 14 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PDT  Just one day after Sarah Huckabee Sanders went through verbal hoops to avoid
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| Fatalities reported after bridge collapses in Miami, falls on traffic passing underneath Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:48 AM PDT  A newly constructed pedestrian bridge in Miami collapsed on Thursday afternoon, falling onto eight vehicles passing underneath.
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| Family forced off Southwest flight after witness says child got nervous on plane Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:17 AM PDT  A family was forced off a Southwest Airlines flight after a witness says the child got nervous riding on a plane.
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| Mueller subpoenas Trump Org, Democrats point to Russian bank deal Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Rachel Maddow about evidence House Intel Democrats say they've seen that shows the Trump Organization negotiating a deal with a sanctioned Russian bank during the election season.
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| Saudi crown prince amassing power by hiding his mother Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:52 AM PDT  The Saudi crown prince who has been a controversial figure is accused to hiding his mother in order to solidify his authority and succession to rule.
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| Hillary Clinton treated at India hospital after suffering minor injury Posted: 16 Mar 2018 06:57 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton required brief medical attention this week after suffering a
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| Anderson Cooper And Longtime Boyfriend Benjamin Maisani Split Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:48 PM PDT  Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend of nine years, Benjamin Maisani, broke up,
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| Mueller Subpoenas The Trump Organization: Report Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PDT  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed documents from the Trump
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| 'Stephen Hawking proved you can achieve remarkable things - even once you've lost control of your body' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:47 AM PDT  In what can sometimes feel like a sea of darkness, Stephen Hawking was a shining light for motor neurone disease sufferers. I cannot emphasise enough how important he has been to me personally since my own diagnosis with the same disease last year, and I am sure thousands more people around the world. When you are told that you might have MND - an agonising process that takes months - your head spins. The first thing you see online is that life expectancy is between one to three years from diagnosis. Fear sweeps over you. The next thing you look for is examples of people who have defied MND and there is no better example than Professor Hawking. Like most people, he was told he only had a few years to live when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of MND, at 22. He ended up sticking around for more than 50 years. That may be a statistical anomaly but straight away, you think: 'why can't that be me too? Why can't I live until I am 76 or longer?' He was the first person that made me realise that the doctors might be wrong and that the worst-case scenario can be overcome. But it is not just how long he lived, but how he lived. MND will take away most of your bodily functions and your independence, something that, as a former Scotland rugby international, I can barely comprehend, but there is one thing that it does not affect - your brain. Professor Hawking proved that you can still achieve truly remarkable things even once you have lost control of your body. He refused to let his circumstances dictate what he could accomplish and he changed our understanding of science in the process. The wheelchair was made entirely irrelevant; I just found that so inspiring. What I have found since being diagnosed aged 47 is that hope is the single best pill you can take for MND. If you think positively that you are going to beat it, that filters into everything you do. The day you think that MND has got you is the day the disease wins. That means you have to think positively every day. You are trying to do things to prove that MND isn't going to get a hold of you all the time, whether that is simply lifting a coffee cup, or going to the gym and lifting weights. Doing all these little things gives a middle finger to MND to say: 'you are not going to stop me living my life.' Doddie Weir, left, and Scott Murray during training at Murrayfield in 1999. Credit: RUI VIEIRA /AP The issue with MND is that your own timetable becomes a mystery. When it came to my own diagnosis, which followed a year and a half of symptoms, I was told that I would be in a wheelchair within a year: yet here I am, still standing, still telling bad jokes and wearing terrible suits. You have to believe that you can at least influence your own timetable, even though you don't know what that is going to be. I know I will eventually be trapped inside my own body, but his example shows that life does not end there. Without wishing to pretend that I knew his circumstances particularly well, I am sure he relied upon a team of people, family, friends and carers to help him through some of the dark times. Sometimes the support of those crucial people can be forgotten. Yesterday was a tremendously sad day, and so too are the ones that will follow: for so long, he has been a figurehead within the MND community, and now he is gone. We will have to ask, 'who is going to be the next Stephen Hawking? Who is going to be the next person in the MND community who we look up to?' Even now, he leaves the most inspiring of legacies. He may have lost the final battle, but he definitely won the war against this wicked disease. One day, hopefully, we will develop the drugs that allow every MND sufferer to live as long as Professor Hawking did, and to enjoy an even better quality of life. That has become my mission with the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. If I was to take one message from his life, it would be never give up, and I don't intend to ever stop battling MND. The fight goes on.
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| Man shoots 2 at hospital before killing self; 1 victim dead Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:08 AM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — One man is dead and another is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire inside an Alabama hospital and then fatally shot himself, police said.
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| Natalee Holloway: Man who claimed he dug up missing teenager's body killed in 'attempted kidnap of young woman' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:01 AM PDT  A man who claimed he dug up and cremated the body of missing teenager Natalee Holloway to help his murder suspect friend has himself been killed while attempting to kidnap a woman, police have revealed. The violent death of John Ludwick is the latest strange development in the hunt for Natalee, who was last seen getting into a car after leaving a nightclub at 1.30am on May 30 2005, the day she was due to fly home from a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Dutchman Joran van der Sloot remains the prime suspect in the case, but has never been charged with Natalee's murder or disappearance.
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| Bridge collapses at Florida International University in Miami Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:31 PM PDT ![Bridge collapses at Florida International University in Miami]( "Bridge collapses at Florida International University in Miami") Rescue workers combed through the rubble of a pedestrian bridge that collapsed onto several lanes of traffic at Florida International University in Miami, but hopes of finding more survivors were fading early on Friday, police said. Six people were confirmed dead after the newly built 950-ton bridge crushed vehicles on one of the busiest roads in South Florida on Thursday. With at least eight vehicles buried and out of reach beneath the rubble, the death toll could rise, Juan Perez, the Miami-Dade Police Department director, said on Friday.
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| Founder of Blood-Testing Company Charged with Massive Fraud Posted: 14 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  She and her top associate claimed they'd created revolutionary technology.
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| Oklahoma to become first U.S. state to use nitrogen gas for executions Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:50 PM PDT ![Oklahoma to become first U.S. state to use nitrogen gas for executions]( "Oklahoma to become first U.S. state to use nitrogen gas for executions") The state is turning to nitrogen after it and other states became unable to acquire drugs required for lethal injections because of opposition from manufacturers to their products being used for capital punishment. Oklahoma has not carried out an execution since 2015 after a series of mishaps, including a botched lethal injection where an inmate was seen writhing in pain and another inmate who was executed using a drug not approved by the state.
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| Israel hits Hamas posts in Gaza in response to bombs Posted: 15 Mar 2018 04:49 AM PDT  Israel's military hit Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after Palestinians set off two bombs near the border fence, the military said, with no casualties reported. Israel's military also said it suspected based on surveillance video there was "an attempt" to fire rocket-propelled grenades toward its forces, but nothing was hit. If confirmed, it would be the first time such weapons were used by Gaza militants against Israeli forces since a 2014 war, army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said.
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| Democrats' Surrender On Torture Is Nearly Complete Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:57 PM PDT  In the same tweet he used to unceremoniously fire Secretary of State Rex
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| Tonnes of gold and silver bars fall from Russian plane Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:15 PM PDT  A Russian plane loaded with precious metals lost its glittering cargo on take-off Thursday, scattering the runway with gold and silver. The Antonov plane was taking off after refuelling in an airport at Yakutsk in Siberia when its cargo door flew open - dropping nearly 200 bars from the Kupol gold mine in the remote Chukotka region, investigators said. The cargo of bars of concentrated ore used to transport the precious metals weighed 9.3 tonnes. "As it gathered height, the cargo door became damaged due to the shifting of cargo" and "part of the cargo was scattered on the runway," Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement on Telegram. The plane was forced to land back at the airport, and police immediately sealed off the area to prevent locals from rushing to the scene of the rare windfall, Yakutmedia local news site reported. It posted a video of what looked like large white-ish bricks lying on the runway. Ok. Gold rain drops looked that way on Yakutsk Airport's runway. Pretty heavy and sonorous... Video by transport police from Whatsapp. pic.twitter.com/YYiO1P6lh7— Bolot Bochkarev (@yakutia) March 15, 2018 "172 bars have been found weighing around 3.4 tonnes," the local interior ministry told TASS state news agency. "Only part of the gold fell out - altogether there were around nine tonnes in there." Kupol mine where the cargo came from is operated by Canada-based mining company Kinross Gold. Precious metal ingots on the runway of the airport of Yakutsk Credit: Transport Police/Twitter And apparently none of the valuable cargo is missing, A Russian spokesman for the company, Stanislav Borodyuk, told Interfax news agency that "all the cargo has been picked up, there are no losses." A hole was ripped in the side of the plane, allowing its precious cargo to escape Credit: Youtube He said the bars were Dore, a semi-pure alloy of silver and gold. Investigators say the problem on take-off was likely due to the cargo not being properly stabilised.
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| Homeless family of 4 found dead in parked van in California Posted: 16 Mar 2018 02:58 PM PDT  GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) — A homeless couple and their two young children, all dressed for bed, were found dead from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a parked van that had its windows covered with blankets and a shade to block out the light outside a Southern California strip mall, police said Friday.
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| Vatican Admits It Altered Photo Of Letter From Pope Francis' Predecessor Posted: 15 Mar 2018 04:47 PM PDT  The Vatican has admitted that it digitally blurred out a portion of a media
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| 'Several fatalities' in pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida university Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:24 PM PDT  A pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University has resulted in 'several fatalities' and left others injured, authorities said.
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| Republican Senator Rand Paul vows to block Donald Trump's choices for Secretary of State and CIA director Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:36 PM PDT  A Republican senator has come out against Donald Trump's nominees for secretary of state and CIA director, throwing into question whether the president's picks will make it past their confirmation hearings. Senator Rand Paul told reporters he would oppose the nomination of Mike Pompeo for secretary of state and Gina Haspel for CIA director, hinting he might go as far as to stage a filibuster during their hearings. Mr Paul took issue with the nominees' support for the Iraq War, as well as their ties to enhanced interrogation techniques – techniques the senator and many others refer to as "torture".
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| Praise for 2017 NYC Truck Attack Leads to Suspected Extremist's Arrest in Italy Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:59 AM PDT  A 24-year old Italian man was found to be in possession of explosives after the FBI flagged him as a possible extremist.
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| Toys 'R' Us Is Closing Stores and the Internet Is Having a Hard Time Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PDT  "Pouring a Capri Sun out for Geoffrey"
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| Ukraine war hero accused of parliament attack plot Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:02 AM PDT  A Ukrainian lawmaker once hailed as a hero and a symbol of resistance against Russia, has been accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Kiev parliament, authorities said Thursday. Ukraine's General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko told lawmakers in parliament an investigation had "indisputable evidence" that Nadiya Savchenko planned a "terror attack" on parliament. Parliament on Thursday voted to expel Savchenko from its national security and defence committee.
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| Vanessa Trump Files For Divorce From Donald Trump Jr. Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:44 PM PDT  Vanessa Trump filed for divorce from her husband, Donald Trump Jr., on
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| The New 'Infinity War' Trailer Is Here, Now Set Your Faces To Stunned Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:53 AM PDT  Marvel hinted at, and then promised us, a new "Avengers: Infinity War" trailer
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| Grand jury indicts 4 in death of university frat pledge Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:05 PM PDT  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A grand jury indicted four people Thursday in the death of a Louisiana State University student whose blood-alcohol content was more than six times the legal limit for driving after fraternity members allegedly subjected him to a hazing ritual.
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| Turkey raps European Parliament over call to halt Afrin offensive in Syria Posted: 15 Mar 2018 07:48 AM PDT  Turkey slammed a motion approved by the European Parliament on Thursday that calls for a halt to Ankara's military offensive in northern Syria's Afrin region, saying it demonstrated "clear support" for militants. The non-binding motion also urges Turkey to remove its troops from Afrin, where Ankara is targeting the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in an offensive launched nearly two months ago. The Parliament's motion stressed "the need to focus on defeating the U.N.-listed terrorist organizations", a reference to Islamic State and other militant Islamist groups operating in Syria.
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| Fallen bridge: 'Stress test' preceded collapse that killed 6 Posted: 16 Mar 2018 09:37 AM PDT  An innovative pedestrian bridge being built at Florida International University was put to a "stress test" before it collapsed over traffic, killing six people and sending 10 to a hospital, authorities said.
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| Correction: Veterans Home-Shooting story Posted: 16 Mar 2018 03:14 PM PDT  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — In a story March 9 about a fatal shooting at a California veterans' home, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Jennifer Golick phoned her husband to tell him a former patient was holding her captive. Her father-in-law, Bob Golick, told the AP the information in a telephone interview soon after Golick was taken hostage. The California Highway Patrol investigated the crime and found that there was no evidence Jennifer Golick called her husband while captive. That prompted AP to contact Bob Golick again. He acknowledged he had misinterpreted an emotional and disjointed phone conversation with his son, who had learned the identity of the man who took Golick hostage from others at the scene, not from his wife.
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| Front Bench: Britain has made its move against Russia, now it awaits the reaction Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:40 AM PDT  Today's Front Bench focuses on the Government's response to Russia. A sample of the email is below. If you like what you see, sign up here. Don't forget to vote in the poll and leave your reasoning in the comments below. The best responses will feature in this afternoon's Brexit Briefing. Theresa May set out Britain's response to the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter yesterday after the deadline for Russia to respond came and went. The reaction to the Prime Minister's announcements was mixed, with a strong statement by America at the United Nations in support of Mrs May but far cooler words from France. Jeremy Corbyn found himself in hot water again after refusing to condemn Russia in the Commons, while his spokesman went further and claimed the UK's intelligence had been "problematic" in the past. Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson will make a major speech in Bristol this morning where he will reveal plans to offer an anthrax vaccination to troops. Planned restraint Some felt the Prime Minister could have gone further yesterday when she announced 23 Russian diplomats will be forced to leave the country but stopped short of widespread financial sanctions. There was, however, solid logic to this. May and her advisers are likely to have had three issues in mind when putting together the response. First, the need for due process. The UK can't be seen to arbitrarily confiscate assets and private property. Second, Downing Street will have wanted to hold some options back in case further measures are needed. Third, there is a desire to build international backing – hence the PM's clear effort in the Commons yesterday to frame the issue around the unprecedented, highly illegal use of a nerve agent on British soil. Building a coalition There was plenty of progress on building mutual support but at least one significant setback. Last night Britain put its case to the UN Security Council (on which Russia sits and has a veto). The US ambassador Nikki Hayley came out strongly in the UK's favour and, in a line perfectly aligned with the UK's diplomatic strategy, warned that without "immediate concrete measures" ... "[nerve agents] could be used here in New York or in cities of any country that sits on this council." There were contrarian voices, however. The Times splashes on the equivocation of French President Emmanuel Macron's spokesman, who accused May of "fantasy politics" and said France would wait until "the elements are proven" before making any decisions. That echoed the line Jeremy Corbyn took in the Commons yesterday which has proved less than popular (see story below). The French stance may shift, with the PM set to speak to Macron directly today. Enter Williamson Meanwhile, Gavin Williamson will deliver a key speech later. It was not originally planned as a response to Russia and the bigger picture is the ongoing review into defence spending, which has seen a steady stream of senior officers and politicians calling for more money for the UK's defence. However, the Defence Secretary will use the Skripal poisoning to make clear the threat Russia poses to Britain. While calling for more funding for defence, he will announce nearly £50m for a new chemical weapons defence centre (planned well before the events in Salisbury), and that thousands of frontline troops will be vaccinated against anthrax. What does Moscow think? So far Russia has, unsurprisingly, cast doubt on Britain's accusations, telling the security council that the Kremlin had done no research or development "under the name Novichok" and suggesting the whole thing is a British conspiracy to "tarnish" the country. A similar sentiment was expressed to The Telegraph by a "trusted representative" of Vladimir Putin. Evgenny Primakov Jr. said that he was "absolutely certain" the attack was performed by the UK or US to discredit Russia's presidential election on Sunday. That attempt at misinformation will likely form just one part of a wider fightback against UK measures. There are already fears of an escalation in tit-for-tat expulsions now that Britain has ordered 23 Russian diplomats, believed to be undeclared agents, to leave the UK. In 2017, when the US increased sanctions on Russia, Putin responded by ordering the expulsion of 755 US diplomats. The Prime Minister may well need those measures she held back on. Like what you read? Want more? Sign up for the Front Bench newsletter direct to your inbox every weekday morning. It has all the best political analysis like that above and much more. Sign up here
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| US, South Korea say North Korea can have 'brighter future' Posted: 16 Mar 2018 10:49 AM PDT  The United States and South Korea expressed "cautious optimism" Friday that North Korea could enjoy a "brighter future" after a planned summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un before the end of May. Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who spoke by telephone, said the North must follow "the correct path" and that they would maintain "maximum pressure" on Kim before the possible talks.
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| Nepal authorities struggle to identify plane crash survivors Posted: 15 Mar 2018 03:25 AM PDT  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal are struggling to identify the survivors of a deadly plane crash earlier this week, with many of the injured badly burned, in critical condition and unable to speak, officials said Thursday.
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| European allies boost defense spending, most still miss NATO's U.S.-backed goal Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:16 AM PDT  By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO's European allies spent more on defense for the third year running in 2017 but their outlays failed to lift more countries above a target sought by the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded allies dedicate 2 percent of national economic output on defense every year and has sought to keep up the pressure by calling that target, agreed at a NATO summit in 2014, a "bare minimum." NATO's 2017 annual report showed Estonia, Greece, Poland and Britain met the 2 percent goal, the same group as in 2016, although alliance officials say Latvia, Lithuania and Romania will join them in 2018. NATO has 29 member states in total.
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| Mercedes-Maybach GLS set for April reveal in Beijing: report Posted: 15 Mar 2018 06:34 AM PDT  Mercedes-Benz is finally about to extend its Maybach super-luxury sub-brand beyond the S-Class. According to media reports, this new addition to the Maybach family will be an incredibly upmarket version of the upcoming third-generation GLS, which was previously the GL. With Land Rover continuing to set the standard in the luxury SUV market, and now Bentley making a huge impression with its Bentayga, Mercedes sees an opportunity to take advantage of the increasing demand for luxury models, especially in the SUV segment, by expanding the Maybach brand.
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