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Black Panther has been shattering records since its release in February, and the trend is still going even more than five weeks after its release. The Marvel Comics superhero film is now the highest-grossing movie ever from a black director, reaching $1.237 billion worldwide, reports Forbes.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded after a tumultuous run last week, jumping nearly 670 points by the time markets closed Monday afternoon. The index surged nearly 3 percent in part thanks to Microsoft, the top-performing stock of the day.

Twitter announced Monday that it will ban ads for cryptocurrencies. "Under this new policy, the advertisement of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and token sales will be prohibited globally," Twitter said in its email statement, TechCrunch reported.

Almost 12,000 people were gripped Monday by the livestream of Gypsy the cat, who had climbed to the top of a utility pole in Phoenix and gotten very, very stuck. So stuck, in fact, that she remained atop the pole for at least 24 hours; some neighbors told ABC 15 that she'd been up there since Friday.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has allegedly dismissed the topic of diversity in his department to a number of his high-ranking staffers on different occasions, sometimes putting it bluntly and stating, "I don't care about diversity," CNN reports. Zinke apparently stressed to members of his team that "what's important is having the right person for the right job" and said concern about having a diverse team is something he does not believe is "important anymore."

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apparently made an unannounced visit to China on Monday, marking his first international trip since taking power in 2011. Bloomberg confirmed Kim's arrival in Beijing based on information from "three people with knowledge of the visit," though Kim has not yet been sighted in the city. The reason for his potential trip is unknown.

Melania Trump has made like a 19-year-old in search of a red Solo cup and headed to Florida for her "spring break," her deputy press secretary told NBC News on Monday. The first lady did not join her husband, President Trump, when he returned to Washington, D.C., this weekend from Mar-a-Lago. Instead, Melania is reportedly "quite enjoying" her spring break in Palm Beach, far from the 45-degree weather in the nation's capital (not to mention all the other storms swirling there).

New data published Monday found major geographic disparities in community health, across 10 health-related categories like food and nutrition, environment, equity, and public safety. County rankings, compiled by U.S. News & World Report, compared nearly 3,000 counties to determine how community health is affected by factors like housing and the local economy.

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that it has opened an investigation into Facebook's privacy practices. "The FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook," the commission said in a statement.

The father of the Pulse nightclub shooter was a confidential FBI informant for over a decade, new documents reviewed by CBS News affiliate WKMG allege. Seddique Mateen served as a U.S. government intelligence source between 2005 and 2016. His son, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old Islamic State sympathizer, killed 49 people and injured 68 others in Orlando in 2016, before being shot and killed by police.

James Mattis was "dismissed as a warmonger during the Obama administration," notes a Monday New York Times profile of the defense secretary, but in President Trump's Washington he is hailed as a bastion of stability and keeper of the status quo.

Justices Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are the two oldest sitting judges at the Supreme Court, and Ginsburg has made clear she has no intention of stepping down while President Trump is in office. That makes Kennedy the next probable departure, and several Republican senators told The Hill they hope he steps down by summer so the nomination of his replacement can galvanize the GOP base to retain a Senate majority in the 2018 midterms.

Ah, the weekend. You might remember a time when weekends were for relaxing, for tending to your garden or spending cherished time with your loved ones. Your fridge was pinned with grocery lists and reminders. You may recall doing a crossword puzzle over coffee, or spending a few languid hours watching sports on TV. Not so anymore: During the Trump Era, weekends are blocked off on our calendars for sorting through the consequences of whatever time-bending policy outrage is dumped into the news... Читать дальше...

Americans increasingly dislike and distrust Facebook, two new polls from Axios/Survey Monkey and Reuters/Ipsos reveal.

President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has sent adult film star Stormy Daniels a cease and desist letter and demanded an apology after she appeared on 60 Minutes on Sunday to discuss her alleged affair with Trump, Fox News reports. Through his lawyer, Cohen took issue with Daniels' insinuation that he was responsible for her being threatened to stay silent by an anonymous man in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011. Cohen's lawyer also demanded Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, ensure... Читать дальше...

The Malaysian government proposed a bill Monday to outlaw "fake news," suggesting major fines and jail time for those who publish "wholly or partly false" information.

President Trump on Monday ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian officials as well as the closure of the Seattle consulate in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter who were living in Britain, The Washington Post reports. The officials have a week to leave the U.S.

Remington Outdoor Co., the nation's oldest gun manufacturer, said late Sunday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, CNBC reports. The 202-year-old gun maker saw a sharp drop in sales after the 2016 presidential election, as customers interpreted President Trump's victory as a sign that gun sales would not be restricted so there was no need to stockpile firearms.

Anderson Cooper's interview with porn star Stormy Daniels about her alleged affair with President Trump aired on 60 Minutes Sunday night, but on Monday morning, CNN's Chris Cuomo seemed underwhelmed. "I don't think that you're going to get a lot of political fallout from Donald Trump in terms of having affairs," he said. "I think that was baked in in the character analysis of him by people who voted for him." Michael Smerconish agreed. "This is consensual sex among two individuals, he noted. "He was not president of the United States. Читать дальше...

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South Korea and the U.S. made progress toward renegotiating their six-year-old free trade pact, with Seoul agreeing to further open its auto market to U.S. imports and Washington agreeing to exempt South Korea from increased steel tariffs, South Korean Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong said Monday. The minister said the U.S. will move up the scheduled end of tariffs on South Korean-made pickup trucks to 2021, instead of 2041. Despite an exemption from President Trump's new steel tariff, South Korea will be limited by a steel quota. Читать дальше...

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Adult film star Stormy Daniels said in a 60 Minutes interview aired Sunday that she had unprotected sex with Donald Trump once in 2006. Daniels told Anderson Cooper that she went to Trump's hotel suite after meeting him at a celebrity golf tourney in Lake Tahoe. She added that Trump told her he could get her a spot as a contestant on his reality TV show, The Apprentice, although he later told her he couldn't. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, told her story in 2011 to a sister publication of In Touch magazine... Читать дальше...

A majority of Americans voters favor stricter guns laws, from 91 percent who back universal background checks to the 60 percent who want a ban on assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday. By a 53 percent to 40 percent margin, voters said protecting people against gun violence is more important than protecting gun rights, though people in gun-owning households disagreed with that statement by a margin of 57 percent to 37 percent. Voters in gun households were split on banning assault rifles... Читать дальше...

A majority of Americans voters favor stricter guns laws, from 91 percent who back universal background checks to the 60 percent who want a ban on assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday. By a 53 percent to 40 percent margin, voters said protecting people against gun violence is more important than protecting gun rights, though people in gun-owning households disagreed with that statement by a margin of 57 percent to 37 percent. Voters in gun households were split on banning assault rifles... Читать дальше...

A proposal: Before we dive into the story Stormy Daniels told on 60 Minutes last night, let's try, just as a rhetorical exercise, to review the story the president's attorney Michael Cohen has been telling since this story first broke.

President Trump is preparing to fire Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, following reports of spending abuses and a revolt at the VA, at least among a handful of political appointees, three administration officials told The Associated Press on Sunday. One official put the odds that Shulkin would be ousted in the next day or so at "50-50."