The geopolitical significance of your crush on Justin Trudeau; an odd financial experiment in Europe; what's wrong with Trump Culture(™)?
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Obama's Canadian boyfriend
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The announcement is the sort of thing that never could have happened under Trudeau's Conservative predecessor, Stephen Harper. It's a sign that now that the two countries' heads of state are politically aligned, the US and Canada are reinvigorating their relationship.
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It does not hurt that Justin Trudeau is super, super charming — a trait that has raised his international visibility, but apparently ticked off some traditionalists in Canada (whom we can only assume are fuddle duddles).
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But Obama is risking the whole relationship, in my (Dara's) view, by serving poutine — which is a regional Canadian food but is also super gross — at the formal state dinner being held for Trudeau tonight.
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Less than less than zero
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The long-term solution, according to Vox's Tim Lee, is to try to speed up inflation in the future to compensate for the inflation targets the bank is missing now — which could restore investor confidence.
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Maybe Donald Trump supporters should stop beating people up
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Michelle Fields, a reporter for Breitbart, was allegedly grabbed and thrown to the ground by Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, after a campaign event on Tuesday.
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That might explain why Breitbart's reaction to the allegations (in a statement issued before the transcript was made public) is, shall we say, less aggressive in championing the rights of its reporter than one might like.
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This isn't just a big deal because it's a journalist. It's a big deal because Trump has a rally violence problem. On Wednesday, a man at a Fayetteville, North Carolina, rally punched a protester in the face — as the protester was being led out by security.
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The puncher, 78-year-old John McGraw, has been charged. But he's unrepentant: "The next time we see him, we might have to kill him."
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A Marine instructor at the Naval Academy, convicted of five counts relating to an alleged threesome with two academy students, went to Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox to clear his name. Big mistake.
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VERBATIM
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"In it, I see Dylan’s bloody bones scattered across a forest floor. I collect them, one by one in my arms, afraid to put them down lest they be stolen or lost, but there is no safe place for them, so I am left helplessly clutching the sticky, blood-soaked bones to my chest."
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Correction: The altercation with a Trump protester took place in North Carolina.