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  • Carla Zeus for seeing intent.

  • In just two days, the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union.

  • No country's done that since the U was formed in 1990.

  • Britain's exit.

  • The Brexit would leave 27 countries in the economic and political cooperative, but it doesn't look like it's gonna happen by Friday.

  • Britain's parliament has rejected the terms of the agreement between its government and the European Union and a Brexit without an agreement, also called a no deal.

  • Brexit, or a crashing out by Britain has a lot of opponents because it would come with uncertainty about issues like trade, immigration, borders, laws and it could lead to a temporary downturn in the British economy.

  • British Prime Minister Theresa May has requested that the you extend the Brexit deadline again.

  • It did that once earlier this year and the new Brexit deadline would be on June 30th.

  • But will European Union leaders agree to it?

  • European Council President Donald Tusk, who heads up the political wing of the U, has suggested offering Britain a flexible extension of the Brexit deadline that could last a long as a year.

  • President Tusk says he wants to avoid an ongoing series of shorter deadlines and emergency meetings.

  • The EU is holding a summit on Wednesday to discuss these proposals and figure out a way forward.

  • Meantime, Britain's leader continues to battle an ongoing series of challenges.

  • Have a deal which cancels our EU membership fee, which stops you making our laws.

  • Theresa May's days is prime minister A numbered.

  • May has said she will step down once Brexit is delivered.

  • She's in charge of the UK at one of the most turbulent times in recent political history.

  • In 2016 Theresa may want a leadership contest to become Britain's second female prime minister after David Cameron resigned following the shock vote for Brexit Britain unexpectedly voting to leave the U As a long serving MP and home secretary, Theresa May had built a reputation for getting things done in her first speech is Prime minister may pledge to support the families who would just managing to survive financially on to fight social injustice.

  • The government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the privileged few by yours.

  • This platform on her pragmatism proved popular in her first year to capitalize on a double digit poll lead against the left wing opposition party.

  • Theresa May performed a political U turn after having ruled out an election several times.

  • May called a snap general election for June 8th 2017.

  • So we need a general election and we need one now.

  • It backfired.

  • May was criticized for her manifesto and stiffness in the face of media questioning during the campaign and dubbed the May bought her Conservative Party lost their majority and had to enter into a confidence and supply deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to form a government in the Democratic Unionist Party in particular since the election may have cut an isolated figure.

  • She survived a Tory leadership challenge in December 2018.

  • The key members of her cabinet have resigned.

  • Brexit defines her premiership There has been no consensus in the British Parliament over leaving the U Brexiteers advocate a clean break, others for a soft Brexit or second referendum on E membership.

  • In November 2018 Theresa May and negotiators in Brussels settled on a draft deal for the UK to leave.

  • The U.

  • British MPs on both sides quickly attacked it.

  • Some said it went too far.

  • Others said it didn't go far enough.

  • Still, May is committed to passing her Brexit deal through Parliament to avoid the UK crashing out of the U without a deal.

  • Brexit is one of the most challenging projects ever undertaken by Parliament.

  • The fact that may campaign to remain in the U in the referendum on Bleeds a fractured minority government makes the job even harder.

  • 12th trivia under which U.

  • S president was a trade embargo first imposed between America and Cuba.

  • Franklin D.

  • Roosevelt, Dwight D.

  • Eisenhower, Lyndon B.

  • Johnson or Richard M.

  • Nixon.

  • President John F.

  • Kennedy expanded the embargo.

  • It was President Dwight D.

  • Eisenhower who first imposed it.

  • It's still in place today.

  • The embargo includes penalties on Cuba's economy, and it restricts the travel in business that Americans are allowed to do in Cuba.

  • There were exceptions to the rule.

  • One of them, a deal made in December, allowed Cuban citizens to play in baseball's major leagues.

  • Previously, in order for them to do that, they've had to defect to give up their Cuban citizenship, and they might not have been allowed back into Cuba afterward.

  • Under this agreement, US baseball teams would pay about 25% of the Cuban players signing bonus to the Cuban Baseball Federation.

  • The Trump administration had indicated it was reviewing the deal when it was made, and on Monday the U.

  • S government cancelled it.

  • It says the Cuban baseball federation is part of Cuba's communist government, and because trade with Cuba is banned under the embargo, the baseball deal couldn't stand.

  • The administration says it won't allow part of the Cuban government to take part of the athletes wages.

  • The Cuban baseball federation called the deal's cancellation politically motivated and said the deal made for a safer way for Cubans to play in the major leagues.

  • Some have paid to be smuggled to other countries first to get around the U.

  • S embargo.

  • Major League Baseball says it still supports the original goal of the agreement, which was to stop the human trafficking of baseball players from the field to the ice.

  • Today's positive athletes story actually spotlights to people they're brothers in ice hockey, brothers in the fight against cancer and their brothers, their names or Charlie and Will Capalbo.

  • Charlie's been battling two kinds of cancer and, along with his attitude, help he's getting from his family and community is an inspiration.

  • My everything.

  • Being out on the ice is just feel the wind on your face, the freedom just being out there.

  • I don't have anything else that bothers me.

  • I get the thing about Charlie to their incredibly resilient.

  • And it was so hard for him to see his older brother, who he idolized his whole life, suddenly weak and sick.

  • And then there was some hope for him that he might be the person who could be the cure for Charlie with his bone marrow.

  • It's about 25% chance that the sibling could be a match for assembling.

  • The doctor stopped by to tell us that will was the match, and we were so excited.

  • We wanted to call him.

  • But I said to him when I said Let's face time it you are my match.

  • What?

  • No.

  • Yeah, you're nine out of 10 match.

  • It was an unbelievable moment, just like complete shock.

  • And to have a sibling donor just makes everything about it better really helped.

  • Well, because it really it gave him something he can do rather than just being there.

  • Charlie had his transplant with will cells on February 4th.

  • And there's evidence that will cells are working in Charlie's bodies, accepting them and producing his own cells from it to be able to take bone marrow out of myself.

  • Put in him, too.

  • Cure him.

  • It's just kind of really powerful when Charlie first got sick and you know the news hit, you know, Social Media.

  • I was totally overwhelmed and not prepared for how awesome and loving people were going to be totally unbelievable.

  • Unimaginable.

  • A lot of it comes from the hockey community.

  • It's just been not stop literally.

  • Thousands of people have something, and it gets overwhelming at times.

  • Hey, Charlie, it's more new.

  • Cheech, Sean, Charlie from John Sr here, I want to thank everybody.

  • This phrase right here has got me through a lot of tough times.

  • Keep up the fight, man.

  • I think Flying Golden really cracked me for some of the stuff that I was gonna have to do with you mentally and physically, more mentally, just to see him suit up again.

  • That would be that would be pretty powerful, emotional.

  • I don't know if I'd be able to handle it, but it would be nice for today's 10 out of 10 segment firefighter dodgeball sounds like you'd be a pretty intense variation of the sport, but when they're fully suited up, there's more to it than just having to dodge.

  • Duck dip, dive Dodge Firefighters from to New York departments were taking part in a drill to see how long their air cylinders last during a time of high activity.

  • The answer ranged from 25 minutes to 51 minutes.

  • The research wasn't as hotly contested is the game.

  • Even if a burning spirit of competition flared up at some point, both teams would run out of air and meet a breather.

  • Still, the question remains.

  • Did the losing team feel smoke hose or just burned out with firefighters?

  • I guess it's always the ladder.

  • I'm Carla suits for seeing intent.

Carla Zeus for seeing intent.

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