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Znjz Hate SpoilersNetflix Made a Website That s Your NightmareAmerican Chloe Kim soars to her halfpipe snowboard gold on Feb. 13Ramsey Cardy鈥擲portsfile/Getty ImagesBy Sean Gregory/PyeongChang and Alice Park/PyeongChangFebruary 15, 2018 12:26 PM ESTAll Olympic Games become a platform for causes bigger than the events they showcase. But the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics threatened to overshadow anything set to take place on the snow and ice in PyeongChang, South Korea. The location of the global gathering, barely 50 miles from the heavily armed demilitarized zone that marks the border with North Korea, guar stanley cup anteed that the rogue state and the nuclear ambitions of its unpredictable leader would cast a fraught shadow over the action. For a while, it did.The flourish of eleventh-hour diplomacy, during which North Korea sent a delegation of 22 athletes, 229 cheerleaders and leader Kim Jong Unrsquosister Kim Yo Jong to the Games and the two nations marched as one in the opening ceremony, was as controversial as it was conciliatory. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence remained seated as the Korean athletes entered the stadium. Spectators debated whether the hundreds of red-snowsuit-clad North Korean cheerleaders marked a historic openingmdash;or canny propaganda from an oppress stanley cup ive regime.But then, finally, the Games began. And as if by command, the drama of cable news gave way to the joy of the athletes themselves stanley cup . On day one of the competition, Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjorgen, 37, won a silver medal to become the most decorated Vlyd Flight Returns to Airport After Passenger Insists on Staying in Yoga Pose
By Brian BennettDecember 21, 2018 3:57 PM ESTThe bipartisan bill to reform federal prisons hung in the balance on Dec. 10 as Van Jones settled into Jared Kushner cramped West Wing office. The liberal CNN host and criminal justice-reform advocate had been huddling with the senior White House adviser for months, and now they were running out of time. A hoka s Jones munched mini peanut-butter cups from a bowl on Kushner table, the unlikely pair went over the checklist of tasks Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell hadconverse asked them to complete before scheduling a vote on the measure. Secure 60 votes in the SenateThey had more than 80. Fin air max 1 d time to take up the bill during a crowded end-of-year scheduleKey Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave them time set aside for confirming judges. Win support from law-enforcement groupsMore had come on board. President Trump had even encouraged McConnell on Twitter to take up the bill. But the clock was ticking, and still McConnell hadn ;t budged.Sitting with Jones, Kushner agreed to make one more run at the Senate majority leader. There was a look in Jaredrsquoeye, Jones recalls. And so, the President son-in-law and White House aides again appealed to McConnell, arguing that the time had come for a vote and it was his role to show that vocal critics of the effort, like Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, don ;t run the Senate GOP conference. The effort appeared to work. The next da
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