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• Black Filmmakers Make History At The Box Office This Weekend
• Warren rejects DNA test idea to prove Native American ancestry: 'Nobody is going to take that part of me away'
• Trump To Visit Ground Zero Of The Anti-Trump Resistance: California
• Steve Bannon endorses Front National as far-Right party attempts rebrand
• Authorities bust dog fighting operation in Grays Ferry
• As economic problems pile up, Iran cautiously weighs changes
• Hong Kong democrats seek to recapture lost ground in key by-elections
• Syria army cuts off main rebel town in Ghouta as death toll tops 1,000
• Donald Trump Heads to Pennsylvania Steel Country
• Suspect Barricades Himself After Pomona Police Officer Killed in Shootout

Black Filmmakers Make History At The Box Office This Weekend Posted: 11 Mar 2018 02:20 PM PDT This weekend marks the first time when two movies directed by black filmmakers, with budgets over $100 million, hold the number one and two spots at the box office. The Ryan Coogler-helmed "Black Panther" continues its fourth week of domination, bringing in another $41.1 million. "A Wrinkle In Time" opens this weekend in second place with $33.3 million. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Warren rejects DNA test idea to prove Native American ancestry: 'Nobody is going to take that part of me away' Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:06 PM PDT Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., dismissed the idea of taking a commercially available DNA test to settle the controversy over whether or not she has Native American heritage. "I know who I am," she said. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Trump To Visit Ground Zero Of The Anti-Trump Resistance: California Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:56 AM PDT Trump's fraught relationship with California, where he has some of his lowest approval ratings, is sure to cast a shadow on the visit. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said this week he considers the state at war with Trump's government, and has fiercely denounced the president on climate change, marijuana policy, offshore drilling and, lately, immigration. Trump's administration on Tuesday  filed a lawsuit against California over its so-called sanctuary laws meant to protect undocumented immigrants. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Steve Bannon endorses Front National as far-Right party attempts rebrand Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:01 AM PDT Steve Bannon - the man who helped Donald Trump ride a populist wave to power in the US - has backed the struggling French far-Right leader Marine Le Pen at a key conference aimed at giving her Front National party a new name and a new direction. "History is on our side and it will take us from victory to victory," he told thousands of FN supporters gathered in Lille in the hope of reviving a party battered by electoral failures, defections, and vicious infighting. "You are part of a worldwide movement that is bigger than Italy, bigger than Poland, bigger than Hungary," Mr Bannon said, referring to the electoral successes of far-Right and nationalist parties in those countries. The former White House adviser and ex-head of Breitbart News, who has repeatedly expressed support for Europe's far-Right movements, was a surprise guest at the FN conference, with his speech only being announced late on Friday. "The king of fake news and of white supremacists at an FN summit... why am I not surprised? Change of name (for the Front National) but not of the political line," said the head of President Emmanuel Macron's centrist En Marche party, Christophe Castaner. Marine Le Pen is expected to be re-elected leader on Sunday but has seen a dip in her fortunes Credit: AFP But Ms Le Pen will be hoping that Mr Bannon's presence in Lille will give her a badly-needed boost, after a slump in popularity since her disastrous finale in the presidential campaign, where she lost to Mr Macron in the run-off despite taking more than 10 million votes. She is due to make a speech at the conference on Sunday. A poll out this week suggested that almost three quarters of French people think she would make a bad president. More than half said she was incapable of uniting her divided camp and that the anti-immigrant and eurosceptic FN would never win power. Ms Le Pen has been at the helm of the party since 2011, gaining more electoral ground than her father and party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen ever managed by "de-demonising" the FN and winning local and European elections. But her anti-euro stance and threats to take France out of the European Union damaged her appeal to older voters in particular. She now plans to focus even more on immigration in the hope of garnering extra support from voters in France, where polls have consistently shown a majority of  people believe there are too many migrants in the country. Her touted shift to place immigration at the heart of her policy comes in the wake of successes enjoyed by far-right parties in Holland, Austria, Germany and most recently Italy, where anti-immigration policies have been championed. Marine Le Pen is expected to be re-elected leader on Sunday She is the sole candidate for leader of the party and will no doubt be re-elected on Sunday behind the slogan "get established, forge alliances, govern" and with promises to create a joint list of "nationals" against "globalisers" at European elections next year. She told Le Figaro newspaper this week that those elections could see Eurosceptics win a majority in the European parliament. But even staunch Le Pen supporters are starting to doubt whether she can take the party any higher, with many placing their faith in her young niece, Marion Maréchal Le Pen, who returned to the political fore after addressing conservatives in America last month. Marion Marechal-Le Pen speaks at the CPAC conference  Credit: Reuters Ms Maréchal Le Pen will not attend the conference in Lille, nor will Ms Le Pen's firebrand father, who she has thrown out of the party and who is due to be stripped of his title of honorary party president at the congress. He remains a thorn in his daughter's side, slamming the prospect of a party name change as "suicide". On Friday, he questioned the "transparency" of the internal survey on the issue, saying: "Who was sent the questionnaire? What was the participation level? How and by whom was the count conducted, nobody knows."  Mr Le Pen has also returned to the media spotlight after releasing the first tome of his memoirs, Son of the Nation, which became a bestseller with a fresh print run of 50,000 after the first sold out.   Gilbert Collard, an FN MP who is close to Ms Le Pen also said he was against a name change. "That's not what will de-demonise us,"  he said.   Ms Le Pen is facing an assault on her usual stamping ground of immigration and security from the leader of the mainstream Right-wing Republicans, Laurent Wauquiez, but he remains an unpopular figure for now. This week she warned France "don't bury us", pointing out that Eurosceptic far-Right came top in Italy. Political analyst Bruno Cautrès said: "The socio-economic situation of the working class remains unchanged (in France) since the election of Emmanuel Macron. The question of the European Union, its project, the integration or not of other countries remains in limbo. This fertile ground for the FN is still there." This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Authorities bust dog fighting operation in Grays Ferry Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PDT Philadelphia police have arrested a dozen people in connection with a suspected dog fighting operation in Grays Ferry. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

As economic problems pile up, Iran cautiously weighs changes Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:16 AM PDT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Labor strikes. Nationwide protests. Bank failures. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Hong Kong democrats seek to recapture lost ground in key by-elections Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:34 AM PST By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Polling kicked off across Hong Kong in crucial by-elections on Sunday, with opposition democrats urging the city's 2.1 million eligible voters to cast "protest" ballots against perceived meddling from China's Communist Party rulers. The by-elections will fill four legislative council seats once held by pro-democracy lawmakers who were ousted from public office after authorities deemed they'd failed to take valid oaths of office. Sunday's polls also coincided with a vote in Beijing's parliament which is expected to remove the Chinese president's term limits, setting the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Syria army cuts off main rebel town in Ghouta as death toll tops 1,000 Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:50 PM PST Syrian regime forces continued their offensive against Eastern Ghouta Sunday, a day after they cut off the rebel-held enclave's largest town, pressing on with a 20-day assault that has left more than 1,000 civilians dead. Government troops and allied militia launched their military campaign for Eastern Ghouta on February 18 and have since overrun more than half of the area, defying global calls for a halt to the violence. The assault has followed a divide-and-conquer strategy, eating away at rebel-held territory, and government forces on Saturday successfully isolated Ghouta's main town of Douma in a blow for the beleaguered rebels. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Donald Trump Heads to Pennsylvania Steel Country Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:23 PM PST Trump will appear at an evening rally for Rick Saccone, a state representative who faces Democrat Conor Lamb in a special election This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Suspect Barricades Himself After Pomona Police Officer Killed in Shootout Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:47 PM PST The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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