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The hacking case comes at a tenuous time for the fragile relationship between the United States and Iran. The Trump administration is threatening to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, the accord reached in 2015 between Iran and six world powers that limited nuclear programs in exchange for sanctions relief. President Trump has said he wants to impose harsh sanctions on Iran, a move that could compel Iran to leave the agreement. Security experts worry that if Mr. Trump…

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The attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month was the latest in what seems like an inescapable pattern to proponents of gun safety: gunfire, thoughts and prayers, funerals and public mourning, until the next time. But the survivors of past shootings say that the students in Parkland have given them hope. Many of those students will be in Washington on Saturday leading the March for Our Lives demonstration. We spoke this week to a…

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“The data and modeling Bolton’s PAC received was derived from the Facebook data,” said Christopher Wylie, a data expert who was part of the team that founded Cambridge Analytica. “We definitely told them about how we were doing it. We talked about it in conference calls, in meetings.” Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump’s 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York…

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A student group in support of striking York University contract workers has staged a sit-in at the school’s senate chamber and is calling for the university to cancel classes. “We are reclaiming the space which our tuition has funded. We are students occupying this space … We demand the Senate cancel all classes by Friday, March 23rd at 11:59 p.m. until the strike is over,” a statement issued Thursday evening by a group called Students for CUPE 3903. “Continuing classes…

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York Regional Police said a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Richmond Hill on Thursday has died in hospital. The incident happened just before 6 p.m. near Yonge Street and Highway 407. Police said the pedestrian was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later succumbed to her injuries. Authorities have not released the age and identity of the victim. Police are urging anyone who witnessed the collision or with dashcam video to come forward. Yonge St at 407…

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