Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  A woman who declined to give her name reacts while placing flowers at a sign where a hostage situation with an active shooter came to a tragic end the night before at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif. on Saturday, March 10, 2018. Four people were killed, including the shooter. (AP…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gives a press conference at the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 5, 2017. President Trump fired Tillerson early Tuesday and plans to nominate CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him.  (Photo: Shutterstock)   By Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON —…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Feb. 26, 2018 photo, Carl Lewis talks in his market in Rankin, Pa. About half of Lewis’ customers pay with benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, so the government’s proposal to replace the debit card-type program with a pre-assembled box of shelf-stable goods delivered to recipients worries him and other…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Bill Cosby, center, accompanied by Andrew Wyatt, departs after a pretrial hearing in Cosby’s sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)   associated press NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A day after Hollywood’s first Oscars of the #MeToo era, Bill Cosby went to court…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  (Wolverton, Battle Ground, WA) associated press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he’s “not backing down” on his plan to impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminum despite anxious warnings from House Speaker Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans of a possible trade war. The president said that North American neighbors…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Dr. Timothy Cunningham (Via Atlanta Police Department)   By Clarissa Hamlin Newsone.com News One and various other news outlets reported on Tuesday that Timothy Cunningham, an epidemiologist with the chronic disease department at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who has been missing since February 12 in northwest Atlanta, was “upset” over…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this image from video, train cars are smashed and derailed Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018 near Cayce. S.C. The crash left multiple people dead and dozens of people injured. (WLTX TV via AP)   By Joan Lowy and Tom Krisher ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — On a clear, dry June evening in 2015, cars…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News, NY   associated press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to bypass a federal appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The decision affecting…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows civil defense workers and civilians inspecting a damaged building after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. Syrian rescue workers and activists say the death…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Courtesy of Philadelphia Fire Dept. associated press City officials say an early morning fire at a building in Philadelphia’s Old City has left the structure “imminently dangerous.’’ David Perri, commissioner of the Department of Licenses and Inspections, said the property appeared to be a “total loss.’’ After evaluating the damage Monday, the agency…

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