January 19, 2016
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China’s economic growth edged down to 6.8 percent in the final quarter of 2015 as trade and consumer spending weakened, dragging full-year growth to its lowest in 25 years.
Growth has fallen steadily over the past five years as the ruling Communist Party tries to steer away from a worn-out model based on investment and trade toward self-sustaining growth driven by domestic consumption and services. But the unexpectedly sharp decline over the past two years prompted fears of a politically dangerous spike in job losses.
Full-year growth declined to 6.9 percent, government data showed Tuesday. That was the lowest since sanctions imposed on Beijing following its crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement caused growth to plummet to 3.8 percent in 1990.
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China’s economic growth edged down to 6.8 percent in the final quarter of 2015
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January 18, 2016
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For the first time in 17 years, civil rights leaders gathered at the South Carolina Statehouse to pay homage to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. without the Confederate flag casting a long shadow over them.
The flag was taken down over the summer after police said a young white man shot nine black church members to death during a Bible study in Charleston. Following the massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Gov. Nikki Haley reversed course and made it a priority for lawmakers to pass legislation to remove the flag.
Bishop James Walker, who presides over the 7th Episcopal District in Connecticut, praised the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for its fight against the flag.
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January 16, 2016
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Four American citizens, including a Washington Post reporter, who have been imprisoned in Iran are set to board a Swiss aircraft Saturday from Tehran to an as-yet-undetermined location, where they will be freed as part of a prisoner release deal between the U.S. and Iran. The agreement is the result of 14 months of high-stakes secret negotiations between the two traditional adversaries.
“Our citizens have not yet been flown out of Iran, so we don’t want to do anything that could complicate it,” a senior administration official said Saturday. “But we are told the deal is done, that they will be let out.”
As part of the exchange, the U.S. will release seven Iranians who were being held in the country on sanctions violations. All were born in Iran, but six are dual Iranian-American citizens. The seven men all have the option to remain in the U.S.
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January 15, 2016
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A fresh plunge in oil prices after a one-day rally sent U.S. stock markets sharply lower on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average briefly declining more than 500 points before recovering slightly.
At 1 p.m. ET, the Dow was down 456.41 points, or 2.79 percent; the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was off 53.12 points, or 2.76 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite Index was 162 points in the red, or 3.56 percent.
The Dow and S&P 500 have now fallen about 8 percent this year, while the Nasdaq is off more than 10 percent.
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A fresh plunge in oil prices after a one-day rally sent U.S. stock markets sharply lower
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January 14, 2016
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Explosions and gunfire rocked the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday in an attack that raised the specter of an expanding Islamic State presence in Southeast Asia. At least two civilians were killed, the authorities said, along with five assailants.
The assailants targeted a police traffic post on a busy thoroughfare, then set off explosions in an apparent suicide attack outside a Starbucks coffee shop across the street. Security forces stormed the area, and the police later said they had arrested four suspects.
The Islamic State took responsibility for the attack in a statement released on its official Telegram channel, an encrypted phone app.
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January 13, 2016
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President Barack Obama put the American people on notice Tuesday night that a dark future awaited U.S. democracy if they didn’t begin to come together rather than retreat into ethnic or religious corners.
In describing what one Republican senator called an “apocalyptic future,” Obama laid out a possible path the country could take away from democracy and toward what sounded like an American version of fascism.
“I remember thinking it’s kind of a dreadful prediction for our future,” Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) told HuffPost. “He was very optimistic about America, but then he laid out a very almost apocalyptic future.”
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January 12, 2016
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An ISIS suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded 15 more Tuesday when he set off a deadly blast in the heart of Istanbul, Turkish officials said.
The attacker was a Syrian national in his late 20s and all his victims were foreigners, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said.
Local media reported that the majority, if not all, of those killed in the explosion were German.
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January 11, 2016
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British singer David Bowie died Sunday at the age of 69 after an 18-month battle with cancer. The news was posted on the artist’s official social media accounts; Bowie’s rep also confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter. He died two days after his birthday.
Bowie, who was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, south London, scored his first hit in 1969 with the song “Space Oddity” and secured an enduring fanbase with his early albums “The Man Who Sold the World” and “Hunky Dory.”
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January 10, 2016
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A POLITICO review of Barack Obama’s domestic policy legacy—and the changes he made while nobody was paying attention.
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the 906-page health care reform law known as Obamacare. It was, as a live microphone caught Vice President Joe Biden exclaiming to his boss, a big deal, with Biden memorably inserting an extra word for emphasis—and for history—between “big” and “deal.”
Obamacare would cover millions of the uninsured, a giant step toward the Democratic dream of health care for all. It also included dozens of less prominent provisions to rein in the soaring cost and transform the dysfunctional delivery of American medicine. It was the kind of BFD that the most consequential presidencies are made of, even though it had squeaked through Congress without any Republican votes, and few Americans truly understood what was in it.
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Obama Portrait | Herb Williams, Crayola crayons, 2008
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January 9, 2016
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In what may turn out be a painful blow to labor unions, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could make the entire U.S. public sector a right-to-work zone.
In the case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a group of public-school teachers in California want the court to rule that the First Amendment prohibits their union from requiring them to pay what are known as “fair-share fees.” Such fees, which all workers in a bargaining unit are obligated to pay, help cover the costs of maintaining union contracts.
If the court rules against the union and workers are given the option of not paying those fees, public-sector unions stand to lose significant funding. The lawsuit, backed by a host of groups on the right, gives conservative justices — especially Justice Samuel Alito — the chance to overturn a four-decade-old precedent that essentially declared fair-share fees to be legal.
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