| Trump lowered tensions with Iran: why he had to step in Posted: 17 May 2019 02:06 PM PDT ![Trump lowered tensions with Iran: why he had to step in]( "Trump lowered tensions with Iran: why he had to step in") As Venezuela appeared last month to be on the brink of a momentous political shift, President Donald Trump's national security team assured him that indeed the strife-torn South American country was about to take the turn to new leadership the administration had been encouraging for months. Now it's tensions with Iran that have surged to their highest levels yet under the Trump administration.
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| Abortion wars: In Louisiana, softer tone paves way for sharp restrictions Posted: 17 May 2019 01:43 PM PDT ![Abortion wars: In Louisiana, softer tone paves way for sharp restrictions]( "Abortion wars: In Louisiana, softer tone paves way for sharp restrictions") Most Saturdays, college freshman Taylor Gautreaux rolls out of bed just after 6 a.m., puts on something carefully neutral – no slogans or religious symbols – and drives about 45 minutes from her dorm in Hammond, Louisiana, to Baton Rouge. On those mornings, Ms. Gautreaux joins a group that gathers just outside the property lines of Delta Clinic, a squat brick building off Goodwood Boulevard on the city's west side. Other times women have already lined up, waiting for one of the last three abortion clinics in the state to open its doors.
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| Food aid for hungry North Koreans? Posted: 17 May 2019 12:30 PM PDT ![Food aid for hungry North Koreans?]( "Food aid for hungry North Koreans?") For a young leader – with a nuclear arsenal at the ready – North Korea's Kim Jong Un has enjoyed the high prestige of meeting an American president twice in the past year, not to mention summits with the heads of Russia, China, and South Korea. The United Nations estimates 40% of North Koreans will suffer severe food shortages in coming months, a result mainly of bad weather as well as too much spending on armaments. The last time North Korea saw mass famine was in the mid-1990s.
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| Florida voters gave ex-felons right to vote. Then lawmakers stepped in Posted: 17 May 2019 11:32 AM PDT ![Florida voters gave ex-felons right to vote. Then lawmakers stepped in]( "Florida voters gave ex-felons right to vote. Then lawmakers stepped in") Coral Nichols estimates she will have to live to 188 to be able to vote again in her home state of Florida. Having completed her prison sentence for grand theft, Ms. Nichols believed she would have her right to vote restored after 64 percent of Floridians voted in favor of Amendment 4 last November. The amendment ordered automatic vote restoration for some 1.4 million Floridians who can't vote because of past felonies.
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