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US, Russia and Iran put aside differences, join together for wrestling meet in New York
• The governments of the United States and Russia can sometimes be at odds.
• Americans and Iranians rarely see eye to eye on anything.
• But the possibility of wrestling losing its Olympic spot has given these three often-divergent nations a cause to rally around.
• The U.S., Russian and Iranian wrestling teams will meet on Wednesday for an historic exhibition in New York. It's a showcase event for what the sport's international governing body has dubbed "World Wrestling Month."
• The IOC in February recommended that wrestling be dropped from the Olympic program starting in 2020. Wrestling now has to plead its case to the IOC to be included as a provisional sport in St. Petersburg, Russia on May 29.
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Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
• The Oscar-winning actress and partner to Brad Pitt made the announcement in the form of an op-ed she authored for Tuesday's New York Times (http://nyti.ms/17o4A0f ) under the headline, "My Medical Choice." She writes that between early February and late April she completed three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts.
• Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, die too young from cancer.
• "My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," Jolie writes. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."
• She writes that, "They have asked if the same could happen to me."
• Jolie said that after genetic testing she learned she carries the "faulty" BRCA1 gene and had an 87 percent chance of getting the disease herself.
• She said she has kept the process private so far, but wrote about with hopes of helping other women.
• "I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy (Continued on page 30)
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