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Lady Gaga set the record straight following her steamy "Shallow" duet with co-star Bradley Cooper, calling him a "true friend" in an Instagram post after some observers wondered if they were closer than that. from https://news.yahoo.com/oscars-twitter-goes-wild-over-033908046.html

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a play in which two men sit around and wait for someone who never shows up, has been claimed by just about everyone: Freudians, Christians, existentialists.Who’s right? I haven’t a clue.But I have lived, all of us have lived, through a similar tragicomedy (a word Beckett added to the subtitle for the English version of his play). We’ve been waiting for Mueller. And waiting.For some, the waiting is the hardest part. But by historic standards, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been working at a blistering pace. Kenneth Starr’s investigation into the Whitewater scandal wasn’t fully closed down until 2001. It started in 1994. The average running time for special investigations is 904 days. Tuesday marked the 650th day since Mueller was appointed.Most independent counsels take a year to file their first criminal charges, if they file any at all. Mueller hit that milestone a little more than five months in, and he has racked up more than 30 other indictme...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the unresolved North Carolina congressional race (all times local): from https://news.yahoo.com/latest-operative-charged-congressional-race-165935677--election.html

Pakistan says its air force shot down two Indian fighter jets over the disputed border region of Kashmir, in a significant escalation of the crisis between the two nuclear-armed powers. from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/india/india-pakistan-strikes-escalation-intl/index.html

In the 32 months since the UK made its decision to leave the European Union, the politics of the country have fundamentally changed. from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/uk/what-happens-after-brexit-intl-gbr/index.html

When local fishermen were walking through a mangrove forest in Brazil, they came across something that shouldn't be there: the carcass of a humpback whale. from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/world/dead-humpback-whale-brazil-trnd/index.html

Twenty people were killed and 40 others injured in a fire at Egypt's busiest railway station Wednesday morning, the country's health ministry said according to state TV. from https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/africa/cairo-train-station-fire-intl/index.html