Beagle Miss P wins Westminster Dog Show. How did she beat the sheepdog?

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			Subscriber, here is your news for February 18, 2015.

1. How to make your old iPad run faster 2. Hong Kong's 'Occupy' leaders now face quiet but persistent harassment 3. Have Republicans gone MAD (mutual assured destruction) on the filibuster? 4. Michelle Obama slow dances with Big Bird. Will that sell veggies? 5. Should you jump out of your window into the snow?

(Mary Altaffer/AP) Beagle Miss P wins Westminster Dog Show. How did she beat the sheepdog? Miss P stuns the Westminster Dog Show and with a solid, classy performance that edged out play-to-the-crowd favorites. Beagledom rejoices....MORE

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A beaming White House summit on 'extremism' Turkey's protests by women: jihad of a different sort All Commentary & The Monitor's View

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