Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Premiere Epic 'Can't Hold Us' Video

After months of hype, the dynamic duo deliver a clip that definitely lives up to the advance billing.
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Thatcher played polarizing role in pop culture

By Randee Dawn, TODAY contributor

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at age 87, inspired pop culture for decades. Her politics and her presence had a special influence on the British music scene, as she rose to power just as a new generation of musicians were making their mark on the art form. In the U.S., she may be best remembered for the 2011 film "The Iron Lady," which won Meryl Streep an Oscar and was not without controversy itself, inventing memories and thoughts for an elderly Thatcher. ?

Here's a quick look at some of the ways Thatcher was portrayed in the arts world.

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Thatcher may be most recently remembered from her 2011 portrayal in "The Iron Lady," which won Meryl Streep her third Oscar. But the movie received mixed reviews, and was criticized by some for not taking a stand on Thatcher's politics. "Was she a monster? A heroine? The movie has no opinion," late critic Roger Ebert wrote?in the Chicago Sun-Times. "She was a fact. You leave the movie having witnessed it. Whatever your feelings were about Thatcher were before you saw it, you now have some images to accompany it."

Streep issued a statement on Monday, which read in part, "To me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. To have come up, legitimately,? through the ranks of the British political system, class bound and gender phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement. ...?I was honored to try to imagine her late life journey, after power; but I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side. I wish to convey my respectful condolences to her family and many friends."

Thatcher's time in office provided the backdrop for the 2000 film "Billy Elliot," which took place amid a 1984-87 coal miner's strike that gave Thatcher a solid victory and more or less broke the trade unions. The musical version that hit Broadway featured an Elton John song, "Merry Christmas, Maggie Thatcher," in which children sang, "We all celebrate today/'Cause it's one day closer to your death."?

Protest songs
Musicians coalesced around songs that beat down Thatcher and her policies, and that anti-government feeling arguably helped fuel the growth of the country's punk and ska music scenes. Many songs actively looked forward to her death, and singers like Billy Bragg and Morrissey typified some of the angriest lashings out at their leader, with songs like "Margaret on the Guillotine" (Morrissey) and Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down." Sinead O'Connor sang about the shooting of a black British man that allegedly was covered up by police in "Black Boys on Mopeds"?while Genesis used a "Spitting Image" puppet of Thatcher in their "Land of Confusion" video (which also satirized other world leaders, including Ronald Reagan).

A large number of influential British bands got their start?during Thatcher's time in office, including The Clash, Gang of Four and The Jam. Her time in office provided lyrical inspiration as well as the impetus for songwriting. Musician Billy Bragg told?The Guardian, "Whenever I'm asked to name my greatest inspiration, I always answer, 'Margaret Thatcher.' ... Try as I might to resist her, she provided the backdrop for all the songs I wrote in that turbulent period."

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At home in England, the prime minister was the inspiration for any number of TV series -- including the original version of "House of Cards" in 1990, which features a fictional successor to Thatcher. As recently as 2009, two productions, "Margaret" and "The Queen" offered up modern looks at Thatcher, but for sheer American satire it's hard to beat late-night television. "Monty Python" member Michael Palin hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 1979 just a week after Thatcher's election as prime minister, and appeared as Thatcher. Palin's Thatcher even?got to utter the catchphrase of the day, "Jane, you ignorant slut," after a grilling by Jane Curtin on the show's "Weekend Update" segment. And in the early 1980s, "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson played a practical joke on Joan Rivers, hiring a Thatcher lookalike to talk to her about her jokes about the royal family.?

Comic strips and books
Thatcher was ripe for cartooning and caricaturing.?She popped up in hundreds of political comics over the years, and even got space in Bloom County. Any number of books about her rule -- including a few written by Thatcher herself -- gave her a significant non-fictional section on the shelf. But for those savvy readers who grew up during her time in office, few fictional takes encompass what it was like to live in the Thatcher years like Sue Townsend's?"Adrian Mole" young adult book series. Mole even wrote a poem to his prime minister, called "Mrs. Thatcher": "Do you weep, Mrs. Thatcher, do you weep?" he asked.

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U.S. deploys second warship to North Korea

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that a second U.S. guided-missile destroyer had taken position in the western Pacific on a missile defense mission, as tensions rise over North Korea's threats of war against the United States and its ally, South Korea.

The announcement is the latest confirmation of minor adjustments to the posture of the U.S. military, which is seeking to reassure allies in Seoul and Tokyo of American military capabilities to respond to any moves by Pyongyang.

U.S. defense officials announced on Monday that the USS John McCain, an Aegis-class guided-missile destroyer used for ballistic missile defense, was being put into position to operate off the Korean peninsula.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said on Tuesday the McCain had arrived at a "pre-determined location" in the western Pacific. He added that another destroyer, the USS Decatur, had also taken position in the western Pacific "to perform a missile defense mission as assigned by our combatant commander."

"They (the McCain and the Decatur) will be poised to respond to any missile threats to our allies or our territory," Little said.

The Pentagon denied reports that a floating, X-band radar was being deployed to the waters off Japan, saying no decisions had been made about what would be done with the radar once at-sea testing in the region was finished.

The radar is used to track an adversary's missiles as part of a missile defense system.

"It's incorrect to tie the (radar) at this point to what's happening on the Korean peninsula right now," Little said.

News of the latest U.S. move to bolster missile defenses around the Korean peninsula came as North Korea said on Tuesday it would revive a mothballed nuclear reactor able to produce bomb-grade plutonium.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the crisis over North Korea had gone too far and he appealed for discussion and negotiation. "Nuclear threats are not a game. Aggressive rhetoric and military posturing only result in counter-actions, and fuel fear and instability," Ban, a South Korean, told a news conference during a visit to Andorra.

A North Korean nuclear plant is seen before demolishing a cooling tower (R) in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo. North Korea is to restart the mothballed Yongbyon ... more? A North Korean nuclear plant is seen before demolishing a cooling tower (R) in Yongbyon, in this photo taken June 27, 2008 and released by Kyodo. North Korea is to restart the mothballed Yongbyon nuclear reactor that has been closed since 2007 in a move that could produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons as well as for domestic electricity production, its KCNA news agency said on April 2, 2013. As well as restarting the 5MW reactor at Yongbyon, the North's only known source of plutonium for its nuclear weapons programme, KCNA said a uranium enrichment plant would also be put back into operation, a move that could give it a second path to the bomb. Picture taken June 27, 2008. Mandatory Credit. REUTERS/Kyodo (NORTH KOREA - Tags: ENERGY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. YES less? ?

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Facebook's Mobile Platform Ambitions Come As Messaging Apps Gain Traction With Youth

Facebook is making an announcement this Thursday, and our own Josh Constine reports that at this event we'll see the company unveil its own slightly tweaked flavor of Android, to power select HTC smartphones. But why would the company do that, and why now? A new report from Reuter provides very good motivation: Facebook sees a potential threat in the growing success of mobile-first messaging platforms that make the social networking experience more about conversation and less about broadcasts.

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Nothing fishy about it: Fish oil can boost the immune system

Monday, April 1, 2013

Fish oil rich in DHA and EPA is widely believed to help prevent disease by reducing inflammation, but until now, scientists were not entirely sure about its immune enhancing effects. A new report appearing in the April 2013 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, helps provide clarity on this by showing that DHA-rich fish oil enhances B cell activity, a white blood cell, challenging the notion that fish oil is only immunosuppressive. This discovery is important as it shows that fish oil does not necessarily reduce the overall immune response to lower inflammation, possibly opening the doors for the use of fish oil among those with compromised immune systems.

"Fish oil may have immune enhancing properties that could benefit immunocompromised individuals," said Jenifer Fenton, Ph.D., M.P.H., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

To make this discovery, researchers used two groups of mice. One group was fed a control diet, and the other was fed a diet supplemented with DHA-rich fish oil for five weeks. B cells were harvested from several tissues and then stimulated in culture. Researchers then looked for markers of B cell activation on the cell surface, B cell membrane changes, and B cell cytokine production. They found that DHA-enriched fish oil enhanced B cell activation and select antibody production, which may actually aid immune responses associated with pathogen clearance, while possibly dampening the totality of the inflammatory response.

"This work confirms similar findings on fish oil and B cells from our lab, and moves us one step closer to understanding the immune enhancing properties of EPA and DHA," said S. Raza Shaikh, Ph.D., a researcher also involved in the work from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at East Carolina University.

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Alito questions favorable tax provisions and DOMA

>>> will come back. breaking news. we are getting even more audio in from today's supreme court hearing on same-sex marriage and the constitutionality of california's prop 8 -- actually, on doma. i apologize. here is justice roberts for us.

>> i would have thought your answer would be that the executive's obligation to execute the law includes the obligation to execute the law consistent with the constitution. and if he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms, is unconstitutional, i don't see why he doesn't have the courage of his convictions and execute not only the statute but do it consistent with his view of the constitution. rather than saying, oh, we'll wait until the supreme court tells us we have no choice.

>> again, let me bring back with us, kenji, professor of constitution yalg law at nyu law school . thank you for joining us professor. i want it play another excerpt since we are getting them in pretty rapidly. the fear toward homosexuals, lit me play it.

>> so they can create a class they don't like here, homosexuals were or a class they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that clash of side benefits on that basis. when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as marriage, the state's control that.

>> give us a little more detail there, with justice sotomayor.

>> the court said that cannot stand. the quote unquote , bear desire isn't enough. so congress may be particularly vulnerable in a way that the states would not, thereby distinguishing as she did repeatedly in this oral argument between what happened today and yesterday in the prop 8 can case.

>> so why congress got involved 17 years ago in the first place.

>> exactly.

>> so this one from justice prior discussing why discriminate against guy marriage. and also justice i leeto on the taxes. let's play both excerpts.

>> what is special onity own distinguishes and thus makes rational or whatever basis you will have here within treating the gay marriage differently?

>> suppose we look just at the state tax provision at issue in this case, which provides special favorable treatment to a married couple as opposed to any other individual or economic unit . what was the purpose of that? was the purpose of that really to foster traditional marriage or was congress just looking for a convenient category to capture households that function as a unified economic unit .

>> with justice eilito there. interesting comment from justice ilito. we talked to the man who moved from the united states because his significant other could not apply for a visa or green card , as would be the case for an opposite married couple. opposite sex married couple. so there is a different here. and it is not just about a tax provision.

>> yeah. i think what he is trying to get at is it a favorable tax treatment. edie windsor gets hit with $364,000 federal tax she would not have been hit with had she been married to a man. so can we look that in an isolation and say the reason for the favorable tax statement is not about even protection of traditional marriage . just that we have to draw the line somewhere. so he is trying to get away from the marriage issue. i agree it is unpersuasive. we have bundled so many rights of entitlements and attached them to the status of the --

>> i believe the justices pointed out 111 provisions if you will for couples. 1100 , excuse me, for couples who are married, benefit from having a recognized marriage in this country.

>> exactly. if you go through the united states code there are 1,138 provisions that rely on the term marriage and dispensing benefits or burden.

>> that is interesting. we will see what else we can bring to our audience. the audio is coming in and we will play it for our audience as soon as possible. ken ji, thank you for sticking around and helping connect the dots.

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PM Note: The People vs. The Court, Recalling Gay Marriage in '04, Senate Stampede

First Woman to Head Secret Service - And she used to wear a costume at Disney World - http://abcn.ws/10LZOoP (Mary Bruce)

Dowd: Gay Marriage Didn't Swing 2004 Election - "On this day when a momentous series of cases related to gay marriage are being heard before the Supreme Court, I thought it time to reflect on a broader topic of leadership and motivation." http://abcn.ws/ZVcAA2 (Matthew Dowd)

Same Sex Marriage at SCOTUS - Catch up on the day in same sex marriage at our live blog, which isn't technically live any more, but includes some of the better pictures from in front of the court, video of people on both sides, some prognosticating, some tea leaf reading, and a heavy dose of couching - http://abcn.ws/16eVG1Y

Or you can read a more traditional form of news story from our court watchers here - http://abcn.ws/YFZrIB

The headline and lede:

Court Struggles With Federal Right to Gay Marriage

Supreme Court justices seemed to struggle with the notion of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples as they grilled lawyers this morning in a potentially landmark case over California's ban on gay marriages.

As the politics change by the day, the court heard a case - Proposition 8 - that could drastically change how states and the federal government approach one of the touchiest social issues of the past decade.

The justices today challenged lawyers on both sides on common points of contention that arise whenever gay marriage is debated. http://abcn.ws/10M8Kuo (Good, Moran, de Vogue)

Boy are those politics changing. Rick Klein called it a "Senate Stampede." - http://abcn.ws/16VYT7W

5 Democratic Senators (Rob Portman is still the only sitting Republican) have come out for gay marriage in the past 48 hours or so.

Yesterday we told you about the conversions of retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and recently re-elected Sen. Claire McCaskill. Today Alaska Sen. Mark Begich and Sen. Jon Tester joined the club. Tester even made the HRC logo his Facebook profile pic.

But not every Democrat wants to take the leap. The left-leaning Huffington Post has a banner headline "Shame on Dem" with pictures of the ten Democratic Senators who don't support gay marriage.

Their reactions range from continued opposition - Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor - to maintaining it should be a state issue - North Dakotan Heidi Heitkamp.

Other responses were more nuanced.

A spokesman for Sen. Bob Casey, the conservative Pennsylvania Democrat, told Sunlen Miller that Casey is closely following the debate and will review any legislation he sees.

A spokesperson for Sen. Tom Carper, the Delaware Democrat, said he is evolving.

"Sen. Carper was proud to support Delaware's efforts to enact Civil Union legislation and earlier this month he joined 211 of his Congressional colleagues in co-signing the Amicus brief that urges the Supreme Court to invalidate Section 3 of DOMA. He has also said that he would vote to repeal DOMA. He also opposed President Bush's attempt to enact a constitutional amendment to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Like many Americans including Presidents Obama and Clinton, Sen. Carper's views on this issue have evolved, and continue to evolve. He continues to give this issue a great deal of consideration."

Bookmark Ariane's "Standing" Explainer - Who knows what Supreme Court Justices will decide in June on same-sex marriage.

They could go in a lot of different directions - from recognizing a fundamental right to gay marriage to dismissing the Prop case because supporters of California's same sex marriage ban aren't the right people to be arguing the case. That'd be a way around the whole issue and could lead to gay marriages in California.

Ariane de Vogue was all over this potential back door before arguments got under way today - http://abcn.ws/16g0ELO

'DIG' It - Another note from Ariane on a potential way justices could rule - She reports: While most people are taking in the momentous occasion of the gay rights arguments, some lawyers and journalists who cover the court are wondering what Kennedy meant when he said :" I just wonder if this case was properly granted. "

The proper term for that is "dismissed as improvidently granted" or DIG.

He would need 4 other Justices to join him, and the opinion released would never explain exactly WHY the Justices dismissed.

If the Court doesn't reach the merits, we knew there was a possibility that the Court could rule the proponents don't have standing ?.but "dismiss as improvidently granted" wasn't really on the radar before today.

If they DIG, it is as if the court never granted cert and the 9 th circuit opinion (which was narrow) would hold.

Dale Carpenter of the University of Minnesota law school thinks that while Kennedy could have been referring to a DIG, "he might simply have been saying we should dismiss this on standing grounds. It's hard to know, he may not have even been sure how he is going to rule."

SCOTUS Playbill: Meet the cast of characters taking part in the SCOTUS drama. They include a daughter, a widow, a two couples, a GOP operative and traditional marriage activists http://abcn.ws/WU4O9z (Sarah Parnass)

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GOP Senators Threaten Filibuster on Guns-In the latest roadblock to passing gun legislation, three Republican senators have threatened to filibuster next month's proceedings on the gun debate. http://abcn.ws/14lHs0V (Arlette Saenz)

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