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Turkey’s ever-closer ties with Russia leave US lacking key ally on Syria

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Limiting US influence in the Middle East is not the only shared interest of Russia and Turkey’s autocratic leaders

As the prospect grows of military confrontation with Russia in the skies over Syria, the US is counting on support from European partners such as France and the UK. But help from a key regional ally – Turkey – is less certain, despite its position on Syria’s northern border and opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

There are echoes of 2003, when Turkey refused to back the US-led invasion of Iraq. Whose side Turkey is on is a question increasingly exercising Washington policymakers as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president, builds closer ties with Russia.

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‘It’s a turning point’: Oklahoma teachers buoyed by success of 110-mile march

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Marchers mobbed at state capitol after concluding their historic march to call for greater funds and increased wages

“Uh-oh, Trojans coming through! Uh-oh, Trojans coming through!” shouted the three dozen members of the Douglas high school marching band as black and Latino teenagers banged on drums and set the beat.

Oklahoma’s teachers may not have won their call for increased wages and funding for education – yet. But after completing a 110-mile march from Tulsa to Oklahoma City to highlight the parlous state of their school system there was an air of expectation and excitement as they and their supporters reached the state capital.

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TV host who said he would sexually assault Parkland’s David Hogg resigns

folks – this type of talking head is hard to believe even existed but… this can even happen? sad beyond words

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Jamie Allman, who said he would use a ‘hot poker’ to attack David Hogg, is also taken off radio after advertisers exit shows

A conservative commentator who sent a tweet saying he would use “a hot poker” to sexually assault an outspoken 17-year-old survivor of the Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St Louis TV station and been taken off the radio after several advertisers withdrew from his shows.

KDNL-TV accepted Jamie Allman’s resignation and canceled The Allman Report, according to a brief statement from the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates the TV station. Before the show’s launch in January 2015, KDNL-TV touted it as a nontraditional newscast with a conservative spin.

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Trump administration issues rule further watering down Obamacare

As it becomes clearer that this leads to unnecessary deaths, what will the haters have to say and what will the friends and relatives of the dead say? WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration took additional steps to weaken Obamacare on Monday, allowing U.S. states to relax the rules on what insurers must cover and giving states more power to regulate their individual insurance markets.

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US deficit to approach $1tn after Trump tax cuts and spending bill, CBO says

Anyone remember what #45 said he would do about the deficit? This is not it!

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Congressional Budget Office says economic growth from tax cuts will only partially offset deficit cost, despite White House claims

The combined effects of Donald Trump’s tax cuts and last month’s budget-busting spending bill is sending the US budget deficit toward the $1tn mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

The CBO report said the twin tax and spending bills will push the budget deficit to $804bn this year and just under $1tn for the upcoming budget year. Economic growth from the tax cuts will add 0.7% on average to the nation’s economic output over the coming decade, the analysis said, only partially offsetting the deficit cost of the tax cuts.

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On Ohio home-rule rights, here are the lawmakers who fell in line with the lobbyists on oil and gas drilling in 2004: Thomas Suddes

GOP again proves that your freedom is the last thing it really cares about. You don’t want someone fracking in your neighborhood? Don’t waste your breath at City Hall: No Ohio mayor can do much to help, thanks to a 2004 law that pre-empted local control of oil and gas drilling and to those who voted for it, writes Thomas Suddes.