{"id":31335,"date":"2017-02-24T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31335"},"modified":"2017-02-24T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:56:40","slug":"10-things-to-know-for-today-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=31335","title":{"rendered":"10 Things to Know for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>1. WHO ASKED FBI TO DISPUTE RUSSIA REPORTS<\/p>\n<p>White House chief of staff Reince Priebus wanted a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election campaign, a White House official says.<\/p>\n<p>2. WHAT MALAYSIA SAYS KILLED NORTH KOREAN<\/p>\n<p>The banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent, considered by some experts to be the nastiest of nerve agents, was used to kill Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean ruler&#8217;s outcast half brother who was attacked by two women who rubbed the substance on his face.<\/p>\n<p>3. SHOOTING OF INDIAN MEN IN KANSAS CALLED RACIALLY MOTIVATED<\/p>\n<p>A man accused of shooting two Indians in a suburban Kansas City bar, killing one, has been charged with murder and attempted murder. It has sent shock waves through their hometowns in India.<\/p>\n<p>4. WHERE IRAQI FORCES HAVE REGAINED GROUND FROM IS<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi forces have taken control of most of Mosul&#8217;s airport and all of military base next to it on city&#8217;s southwestern edge. U.S. troops, meanwhile, are adjusting rules of engagement as they get closer to front-line fighting.<\/p>\n<p>5. WHY THE SUPREME COURT COULD DECIDE TRANSGENDER CASE<\/p>\n<p>Both the transgender teen who sued to use the boys&#8217; bathroom and the Virginia school board that won&#8217;t let him want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ongoing dispute.<\/p>\n<p>6. CAITLYN JENNER CALLS TRUMP TRANSGENDER DECISION &#8216;A DISASTER&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jenner is taking President Donald Trump to task for his administration&#8217;s reversal of a directive on transgender access to public school bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>7. HOW TRUMP RETURNS TRANSFORMED TO CONSERVATIVE CONFAB<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump will find a much more receptive crowd at the nation&#8217;s largest gathering of conservative activists than when he first addressed the group six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>8. 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