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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House official on Wednesday raised doubts about whether an invitation to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to meet U.S. President Donald Trump would make sense given Zelenskiy's comments that a minerals deal is not complete."If the Ukrainian leader says the deal isn’t finalized, I don’t see why an invitation would make sense," the official told Reuters. "There’s an expectation that his coming is to recognize a final position (on the minerals deal) and he is not at a final position in his own words in this new wording."The official said Zelenskiy's latest comments from Kyiv suggest...

Good riddance! Yet... Since the 1990s, students from Mount Holyoke College, an all-women's school in Massachusetts, have staged an annual production of The Vagina Monologues. Not this year. The college is retiring the ritual over concerns that the play—penned by Eve Ensler in 1996 as a way to "celebrate the vagina" and women's sexuality—is not inclusive enough. In a school-wide email from Mount Holyoke's student-theater board, relayed by Campus Reform, student Erin Murphy explained that "at its core, the show offers an extremely narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman ... Gender is a wide and varied...

We pay, they play Keep lottery retailers out of the game "This was a fraud on a mass scale " -- Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin Holy Craps! It kind of brings a whole new meaning to the saying the house always wins. Turns out the store was winning, too -- at least some bluffers who worked in them. It seems in Ontario they won a lot. How does some $86 million in jackpots stolen sound to you? How about 247 insider wins in seven years? Sounds like a stacked deck. But this house of cards is coming down fast since...