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With his own record of oppression against the Kurds and a brutal crackdown following a failed 2016 coup, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan is an unexpected champion for an oppressed minority, even given historically strong Uighur-Turkish links. Perhaps that is why China seems so furious, keen to impose an economic and diplomatic price that will deter other leaders from doing the same.

Warmer days and melting snow will cause bears to come out of their dens looking for food.Vermont bear biologist Forrest Hammond says many bears went into their winter dens last fall in poorer than normal condition due to a shortage of acorns, beechnuts and apples.

Brady MacDonald is a freelance writer based in California. He wrote the Funland theme park blog for the Los Angeles Times for a decade. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Times, Orlando Sentinel and Orange County Register.

Today, The Jaffa Hotel, materializing from that decade-old dig site, is a quiet intermix of ancient walls and sleek modern lines. The facade of the original hospital and convent still stands, accompanied by a clean, geometric new contemporary wing, a sunken garden and pool deck, and a den-of-sin new bar housed in the convent’s former chapel and decorated with posters of famous film stars playing priests. In palette and pulchritude, it is neutral and unadorned.

Whatever style or theme you choose, remember that gardens change and evolve; a garden is never finished. Most important, the best gardens reflect the gardener’s personal taste and own unique style.

Hummingbirds are fascinating and beautiful, and this is the best time of year to set up a hummingbird feeder, said Steve Kramar, owner of Backyard Birds in Bloomfield Hills. He said the first hummingbirds usually arrive in metro Detroit in mid-April.

As spring nears, it’s hard to resist the call of birds and the urge to sit on a porch, or at picnic table, and just watch them enjoy the return of warmth as much as we do. There are plenty of ways to attract birds to fly and flitter around the house, such as having hedges and nice trees, but nothing pulls birds in quite like a bird feeder.

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It’s spring in Michigan, which means hungry bears are coming out of their winter dens and are on the move.

How do you solve a problem like Omar, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez? By making sure their first terms in Congress are also their last.

Mueller’s answer, as Barr has related it, was that the evidence didn’t meet the standard for an indictment. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Comey said much the same thing about Hillary Clinton when the FBI completed its investigation into whether she had committed a crime by using her personal email account and server for classified information while secretary of state. Though Comey was deeply critical of Clinton and her staff for being “extremely careless,” he said her actions didn’t meet the standards set by previous department investigations. Commenting on Comey’s report, Trump tweeted on July 2, 2016: