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Kim Jong Un’s sister joins North Korean Olympic delegation:

Kim Jong Un is sending his younger sister to South Korea for the Olympics, the first time any member of the Kim dynasty has visited the country.

South Korea’s Unification Ministry said in a statement that Kim Yo Jong will be joining North Korea’s high-level delegation to the South, headed by Kim Yong Nam, president of North Korea’s parliament.

The 30-year-old, who has seen her profile rise steadily since 2014, was last year promoted to North Korea’s Politburo. She and Kim Jong Un were born to the same mother, Ko Yong Hui.

Trump’s the decider when it comes to immigration. Will he?”

This is one problem only President Donald Trump can fix — if he wants to.

As Washington barrels towards another immigration showdown, the fate of nearly two million people brought to the US illegally as kids, who face the loss of work and study privileges and even deportation again rests on the President.
The repeated tussles over the fate of people protected by the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have shown that only the President has the weight and political capital to ultimately frame a deal on treacherous political ground and to sell it to grassroots GOP voters.
It’s also obvious that opening an eventual pathway to citizenship for such people — even in return for substantial funding for the border wall, an idea that electrified his 2016 campaign — would risk his standing among his most loyal supporters.
Facebook’s top exec in Europe has incurable cancer:

Facebook’s top executive in Europe has revealed that she has a blood cancer called follicular lymphoma.

Nicola Mendelsohn, 46, wrote about her diagnosis in an article for The Sunday Times published on World Cancer Day. She said her cancer is “incurable,” and she has tumors throughout her body.

“It is quite an unknown disease which is why I’ve decided to raise awareness by telling my story in the hope of driving research and a better understanding of it,” she said in an additional post on Facebook (FB).

Mendelsohn, who received her diagnosis in late 2016, said she has found support in a 3,500-member Facebook group for people with the same cancer.

More US teens are rejecting ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ gender identities, a study finds:

More teenagers are identifying themselves with nontraditional gender labels such as transgender or gender-fluid, according to a new study.

The research, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that almost 3% of Minnesota teens did not identify with traditional gender labels such as “boy” or “girl.” That number is higher than researchers expected. A UCLA study from a year ago estimated that 0.7% of teens identified as transgender.
Lead researcher Nic Rider of the University of Minnesota said the main purpose of the new study was to examine health differences between gender-nonconforming teens and teens who are cisgender, a person whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth.

‘Black Panther’ pounces onto Marvel’s top tier:

Black superheroes have reached the screen before, but seeing the collective weight of Marvel/Disney thrown behind a blockbuster like “Black Panther” still feels like a cultural watershed, one that the movie exuberantly embraces. Boasting perhaps the strongest supporting characters yet among Marvel titles, director Ryan Coogler’s visually dynamic film should transform a lesser-known comic-book hero into a household name.

Although they hail from rival companies, there are several parallels to DC’s best movie, “Wonder Woman,” beyond an under-represented group belatedly receiving its super-heroic due. In both instances, the title character is presented in a stand-alone origin story, after having been rather hastily introduced elsewhere — in this case, among the dozen combatants in “Captain America: Civil War.”

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