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MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said Wednesday on his show “All In” that many people, including him, were “permanently scarred” by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory. Hayes said, “Even by the standards of our time, of this day and age in the avalanche of news and spectacle, this sort of dizzying clawing for your attention the last 24 hours have really been something else. So I want to begin tonight by just taking a second here to try to collectively just wrap our heads around the meaning and significance of what we have seen in the last 24 hours.” He continued,...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday told a huge gathering of young people that they were inheriting a planet whose resources had been scarred and squandered to fuel insatiable consumption. His latest appeal to save the planet for future generations came in a address to some 150,000 youths in Sydney after he rode through the city's harbor standing on the outdoor deck of a white ferry as dozens of boats blew their horns. "Reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and...

The walk down the aisle yesterday was only a matter of yards. Yet for Martyn Compton it meant everything. Indeed, his determination to make the distance was matched only by that of the beautiful young woman he was about to marry. And when he falteringly held out his hand for her to slip the gold ring on his finger, they both finally fulfilled the dream they had fought desperately against all the odds to make a reality. It was so nearly destroyed when, two years ago, Martyn, a Lance-Corporal in the Household Cavalry, was badly burned in an ambush in...

Mohammed Saleem talks to reporters alongside his Dahuk vineyard. DoD photo. In the north of Iraq, on land where Saddam’s henchmen trampled crops, Mohammed Saleem’s vineyard is now a lush green; his rose-colored grapes, ripe and juicy.Saddam will soon face trial for the atrocities of the 1987 Anfal campaign that killed nearly 100,000 Iraqi Kurds in Dahuk province and demolished the region’s homes and businesses.But, thanks to enterprising Iraqis and U.S. help, Dahuk is finding new life. “There was no need to destroy our farms and vineyards. That was cruel,” Saleem told AFP. “But by God’s grace we are...