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Nawar al-Awlaki (Nora): 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">An 8-year-old American girl was reportedly killed in Donald Trump’s first approved clandestine operation against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/seal-american-girl-die-first-trump-era-u-s-military-n714346" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according to NBC News.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nawar al-Awlaki, sometimes called Nora, the daughter of an American-born Al-Qaeda leader assassinated by the United States several years ago, was slain in the U.S. operation that also killed a Navy Seal, the network reported.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other news organizations had attributed claims of the girl’s death to her grandfather. NBC News reported that a “senior military official” the network did not name had confirmed the child’s death. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/middleeast/american-commando-killed-in-yemen-in-trumps-first-counterterror-operation.html?_r=1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times reported</a> that U.S. officials denied there were civilian casualties but then said they were “assessing reports that women and children” had died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Also killed in the raid targeting Al-Qaeda militants was American Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens. He was a member of the famed SEAL Team 6. Owens was the first U.S. combat death under President Trump.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heavy asked the Department of Defense, “Is it true that another American citizen died in that incident also? Who? And what age? Is it true that an 8-year-old American citizen, Nawar al-Alwaki, was killed in the incident? Was she killed by the Americans, Al-Qaeda or in another manner? How did she die?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christopher Sherwood, a Department of Defense spokesman, responded, “We take all civilian casualty reports seriously. As is CENTCOM’s policy, they are looking into the civilian casualty claims and will make a determination on if there needs to be a full investigation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The child’s father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was born in New Mexico but became a high-profile leader of Al-Qaeda.</span></div>
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Nawar al-Awlaki (Nora): 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

An 8-year-old American girl was reportedly killed in Donald Trump’s first approved clandestine operation against Al-Qaeda in Yemen, acc...

10:08 AM

Dana Boente: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">President <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/sally-yates-fired-fire-doj-can-donald-trump-acting-attorney-general-ag-muslim-ban-immigration-defend-obama-democrat/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Donald Trump has fired </a>acting U.S. Attorney General <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/sally-yates-attorney-general-justice-department-donald-trump-executive-order-travel-ban-statement-jeff-sessions-fire-republican-democrat-obama/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Sally Yates</a> after she said the Justice Department would not defend Trump’s executive order on immigration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yates was fired just hours after she announced she would not be defending the order. Trump has appointed <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/meet-us-attorney" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Dana Boente</a>, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to the position, the White House said in a press release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“It is time to get serious about protecting our country. Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme,” the White House statement said. “It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Boente, 62, is expected to remain in the position until <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/jeff-sessions-donald-trump-cabinet-who-is-bio-secretary-of-defense-state-senate-alabama-senator-immigration-tpp/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Senator Jeff Sessions</a> is confirmed as the new attorney general. His nomination hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. Democrats are expected to challenge Sessions’ nomination, but are unlikely to succeed, as he should have enough votes from Republicans to gain approval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Boente, like Yates, is an Obama appointee. He is a career Justice Department employee who has worked under both Republican and Democratic presidents during his three decades as a prosecutor.</span></div>
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Dana Boente: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

President Donald Trump has fired acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates after she said the Justice Department would not defend Trum...

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Fred Korematsu: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Civil rights icon <a href="https://www.google.com/doodles/fred-korematsus-98th-birthday" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fred Korematsu </a>, who was among Japanese-Americans held in internment camps during World War II, is being celebrated with a<a href="http://heavy.com/tag/google-doodle" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> Google Doodle</a> on what would have been his 98th birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Korematsu battled against the internment order, standing up for thousands of fellow Japanese-Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Fred Korematsu can be remembered fighting for civil rights and against prejudice throughout his life,” Google says. “The doodle by artist Sophie Diao–herself a child of Asian immigrants–features a patriotic portrait of Korematsu wearing his Presidential Medal of Freedom, a scene of the internment camps to his back, surrounded by cherry blossoms, flowers that have come to be symbols of peace and friendship between the US and Japan.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not long before his death in 2005, Korematsu, <a href="http://reclaimdemocracy.org/fred_korematsu_racial_profiling/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spoke out</a> about how some have used Japanese internment as a justification for profiling against Muslims in the fight against terrorism:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fears and prejudices directed against minority communities are too easy to evoke and exaggerate, often to serve the political agendas of those who promote those fears. I know what it is like to be at the other end of such scapegoating and how difficult it is to clear one’s name after unjustified suspicions are endorsed as fact by the government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If someone is a spy or terrorist they should be prosecuted for their actions. But no one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don’t be afraid to speak up,” <a href="http://www.korematsuinstitute.org/news/2016/1/20/the-korematsu-case-and-what-it-means-to-us-today" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">he famously said.</a></span></div>
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Fred Korematsu: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Civil rights icon Fred Korematsu , who was among Japanese-Americans held in internment camps during World War II, is being celebrated ...

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Alexandre Bissonnette: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/alexandre-bissonnette-quebec-city-mosque-gunman-photos-pictures-facebook/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Alexandre Bissonnette</a> has been accused of killing six people and wounding eight others in a “barbaric” <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/quebec-city-canada-mosque-shooting-victims-shooter-gunman-photos-video-injuries-deaths/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">massacre Sunday night at a Quebec City mosque</a>, <a href="http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/01/30/les-deux-suspects-sont-alexandre-bissonnette-et-mohamed-khadir" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">TVA News reports.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 27-year-old entered the Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec and opened fire with rifles, shooting members of the mosque as they prayed, police and witnesses say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He is in police custody and was being questioned Monday morning. He is expected to face murder charges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A second man, <a href="http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/mohamed-khadir-quebec-mosque-shooter-shooting-morroco-dead-death-bissonnette-canada-terrorism-who-is-family-wife-girlfriend/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Mohamed el Khadir</a>, was previously identified by authorities as a suspect. He was taken into custody near the mosque and questioned, but Quebec Provincial Police <a href="https://twitter.com/sureteduquebec/status/826114424448679936" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">said in a tweet Monday afternoon </a>that he is no longer considered to be a suspect. He is now being called a witness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Police and politicians are calling it a terrorist attack, <a href="http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201701/29/01-5064348-attentat-terroriste-dans-une-mosquee-a-quebec-plusieurs-morts.php" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">La Presse reports.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The victims range in age from 39 to 70, police said. Only one, Azzedine Soufiane, has been identified publicly so far. A friend <a href="http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-mosque-shooting-five-remain-in-critical-condition-following-attack" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told the Montreal Gazette </a>that Soufiane was a father of three young children and was well known in the community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“We’ve just lost someone who was very, very nice, a good person … such a loss, someone who was so welcoming, who helped everybody,” Ali Miladi told the newspaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Why is this happening here? This is barbaric,” the mosque’s president, Mohamed Yangui, told reporters. He was not at the mosque at the time of the shooting, but rushed to the scene after calls from members of the community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The terror case is being led by the Quebec Provincial Police, along with Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Quebec City Police.</span></div>
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Alexandre Bissonnette: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Alexandre Bissonnette has been accused of killing six people and wounding eight others in a “barbaric” massacre Sunday night at a Queb...

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Judge Ann Donnelly: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The federal judge who granted an emergency stay of part of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban is a former prosecutor nominated to the bench by Barack Obama <a href="http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/1/25/ann-donnelly-sworn-federal-judge-eastern-district" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on the recommendation </a>of Chuck Schumer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Schumer, the high-profile Democratic Senator, is a family friend of the judge, Ann Donnelly, <a href="http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/1/25/ann-donnelly-sworn-federal-judge-eastern-district" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.</a> Schumer <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/825505139138113536" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">had called</a> for the executive order’s reversal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The order for a stay came down on January 28 from Donnelly, a judge based in Brooklyn, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html?_r=0" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according to The New York Times.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trump’s executive order had created a 90-day ban on all immigration from a series of Muslim majority countries: Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Syrian immigration was banned indefinitely and the order created a 120-day moratorium on all refugees to the United States. Trump denied the immigration ban was a “Muslim ban,” and said he thought it was working well, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/us/refugees-detained-at-us-airports-prompting-legal-challenges-to-trumps-immigration-order.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times reported</a>. He has said he feels the ban is necessary to review the vetting process and protect the United States from radical Islamic terrorists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, the ban was affecting everyone from an Iraqi man who served the U.S. military as an interpreter to people with green cards as protests erupted at airports around the country, where people from the impacted countries were detained.</span></div>
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Judge Ann Donnelly: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

The federal judge who granted an emergency stay of part of President Donald Trump’s immigration ban is a former prosecutor nominated to ...

9:04 AM

Asghar Farhadi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Asghar Farhadi, the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker whose latest movie was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 2017 <a href="http://heavy.com/tag/oscars/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">Academy Awards</a>, will reportedly not be able to attend the ceremony thanks to <a href="http://heavy.com/tag/donald-trump" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;">President Donald Trump</a>‘s executive order that puts limits on immigration from Iran. Farhadi already won an Oscar for 2011’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Separation</i>, and when he accepted that award, he famously acknowledged how politics had kept Iranian culture hidden from the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 45-year-old Farhadi is married to fellow Iranian filmmaker Parisa Bakhtavar and the two are parents to two children. Their daughter, Sarina Farhadi, starred in her father’s <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Separation</i>. Farhadi was born in Homayoon Shahr, which was renamed Khomeyni Shahr after the Iranian Revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is a look at Farhadi’s career and why he won’t be able to attend the Oscars.</span></div>

Asghar Farhadi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Asghar Farhadi, the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker whose latest movie was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 2017 A...

10:32 AM

Anwen Rees-Myers, John Hurt’s Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sir John Hurt, who died on January 27 at age 77, was married to producer Anwen Rees-Myers, his fourth wife. The two married in 2005.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hurt was also married to Annett Robertson from 1962 to 1964 and Donna Peacock from 1984 to 1990. He was married to Dalton from 1990 to 1996. Dalton and Hurt had two children, Alexander and Nicholas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hurt’s death was <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/john-hurt-dead-elephant-man-9707290" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first reported by The Mirror</a>. In June 2015, he said he was <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-hurt-dead-elephant-man-809521" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">diagnosed with pancreatic cancer</a>. However, in <a href="http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a673648/john-hurt-overjoyed-and-thrilled-at-cancer-remission-news/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_Blank">October 2015</a>, Hurt said his cancer went into remission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hurt’s agent <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38778145?ocid=socialflow_twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=twitter" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">confirmed the actor’s death to the BBC</a>. Hurt was best known for his Oscar-nominated performances in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Elephant Man</i> and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Midnight Express</i>. He also starred in <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alien</i>and the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Harry Potter</i> films.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here’s a look at Rees-Myers’ career and her relationship with Hurt.</span></div>

Anwen Rees-Myers, John Hurt’s Wife: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Sir John Hurt, who died on January 27 at age 77, was married to producer Anwen Rees-Myers, his fourth wife. The two married in 2005. ...

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Samsung Bixby: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Samsung is planning to launch a digital personal assistant that is powered by artificial intelligence. The new AI personal assistant will likely make its debut on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As for when we’ll get an official look at Samsung’s next flagship smartphone and its AI assistant, we’ll just have to wait and see. Samsung this week said it will not unveil the Galaxy S8 at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, according to <a href="http://fortune.com/2017/01/23/samsung-galaxy-s8-2/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fortune</a>. This is a departure from the norm for Samsung, which has in the past unveiled its Galaxy S smartphones at the annual trade show. Now, some have shifted their projections to a <a href="http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/3003422/galaxy-s8-leaks-appear-to-show-full-specs-and-29-march-unveiling" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">March 29</a> unveiling, but that date has not been confirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At any rate, here’s what we know so far about Samsung’s Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant rival.</span></div>

Samsung Bixby: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Samsung is planning to launch a digital personal assistant that is powered by artificial intelligence. The new AI personal assistant wi...

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March for Life 2017: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thousands of people are expected to participate in this year’s March for Life on January 27th in Washington, D.C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The March for Life is an annual anti-abortion rally that takes place on or around the anniversary of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Roe v. Wade, </em>the landmark 1974 Supreme Court decision that said a woman has a right to receive an abortion. This year’s rally has earned more attention than usual because the vice president of the United States, Mike Pence, will attend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here’s what you need to know about the 2017 March for Life.</span></div>

March for Life 2017: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Thousands of people are expected to participate in this year’s March for Life on January 27th in Washington, D.C. The March for Life i...

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Robert Levine: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Robert Levine, the doctor husband of beloved television icon Mary Tyler Moore, was at her side when Moore passed away.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Moore, 80, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/entertainment/mary-tyler-moore-death/index.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">died on January 25</a> at a Connecticut hospital surrounded by family and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Levine was Moore’s third and current husband, but theirs was a long-lasting union, despite a large age gap (Moore was older) and some reports of troubles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine. A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Moore’s death was caused by cardiopulmonary arrest after she had contracted pneumonia,” <a href="http://www.etonline.com/news/208487_mary_tyler_moore_dies_at_80/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1177aa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ET reported.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s what you need to know:</span></div>

Robert Levine: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Robert Levine, the doctor husband of beloved television icon Mary Tyler Moore, was at her side when Moore passed away. Moore, 80, died ...

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