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• Is America on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis?

  17-03-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  Here is something that, even on its own, is astonishing: The president of the United States demanded the firing of the former FBI deputy director, a career civil servant, after tormenting him both publicly and privately—and it worked.
  
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• Sen. Heitkamp: Democratic party far from dead in red states

  17-03-2018 23:26 via yahoo.com
  GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who is facing a tough re-election fight as the only Democratic statewide officeholder in North Dakota, expressed optimism Saturday for the future of her party in conservative-leaning states such as her own.
  
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• Vatican bows to pressure, releases retired pope's letter

  17-03-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Stung by accusations of spreading "fake news," the Vatican on Saturday released the complete letter by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI about Pope Francis after coming under blistering criticism for selectively citing it in a press release and digitally manipulating a photograph of it.
  
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• Illinois governor race more fierce, costly as primary nears

  17-03-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The candidates for Illinois governor are making their final push ahead of Tuesday's primary, greeting voters and sinking more money into what's become an increasingly fierce — and expensive — contest.
  
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• Lara Croft Can't Beat T'Challa

  17-03-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  Black Panther wins again. #WakandaForever
  
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• Putin on track for commanding win as Russians head to polls

  17-03-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (Reuters) - Russians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday set to give Vladimir Putin a commanding victory that could only be blemished if large numbers do not bother taking part because the result is so predictable.On Russia's eastern edge, in the Pacific coast city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, polling stations opened at 2000 hrs GMT, and voting across the vast country will run until polls close at the westernmost point, the Kaliningrad region, 22 ho
  
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• Iran arrests top Ahmadinejad ally

  17-03-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  A former Iranian vice president and chief-of-staff of hardline ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested on Saturday, the website of the Tehran prosecutor said.Esfandiar "Rahim Mashaie was arrested and is in detention," it said, without specifying the reason why he was held.Mashaie served as first vice president in 2009 at the start of Ahmadinejad's contested second term in office.
  
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• Navy's new attack submarine named Colorado joins the fleet

  17-03-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  GROTON, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Navy's newest attack submarine, the USS Colorado, joined the fleet Saturday in a ceremony at Connecticut's Naval Submarine Base.
  
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• Russia expels 23 UK envoys, blames others for spy poisoning

  17-03-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia announced Saturday it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further retaliatory measures in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain.
  
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• Data of 50M Facebook users obtained by Trump-linked firm - CNET

  17-03-2018 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica got hold of the data without the consent of Facebook's users, say reports by The New York Times and the UK's Observer and Guardian papers.
  
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• US Navy launches submarine maneuvered by Xbox controller - CNET

  17-03-2018 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Commentary: The USS Colorado has a new way of operating its photonics masts, and it's something younger sailors are already familiar with.
  
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• The Latest: Russian presidential vote kicks off in Far East

  17-03-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Russia's presidential election (all times local):
  
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• Mike Huckabee Celebrates Firing Of Former FBI Deputy Director By Making Dead Dog Joke

  17-03-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) loves a good joke. Too bad he has never
  
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• VP Pence urges Pakistan to 'do more' against Taliban

  17-03-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  US Vice President Mike Pence told Pakistan's Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi that his country "must do more" against the Taliban and other militants, the White House said on Saturday."Vice President Pence reiterated President (Donald) Trump's request that the Government of Pakistan must do more to address the continued presence of the Taliban, Haqqani Network, and other terrorist groups operating in their country," the White House said in a statement on the Friday call.
  
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• Snapping Turtle Who Was Fed Puppy in Idaho Classroom Euthanized

  17-03-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  The snapping turtle who was fed a puppy in front of students in an Idaho junior high school has been "euthanized humanely," according to the Department of Agriculture in the state.
  
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• Facebook bans Trump-linked campaign data firm - CNET

  17-03-2018 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  The social network bans a data analytics firm called Cambridge Analytica after reports the firm lied about how it treated data on Facebook users.
  
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• UMBC memes go wild as UVA goes down in NCAA tournament - CNET

  17-03-2018 20:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hail underdogs! A No. 16 seed had never beat a No. 1 in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, until the UMBC Retrievers bounded along.
  
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• Senators want CIA to lift veil on nominee's black site past

  17-03-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Gina Haspel's long spy career is so shrouded in mystery that senators want documents declassified so they can decide if her role at a CIA black site should prevent her from directing the agency.
  
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• Andrew McCabe Gave Memos On Trump Conversations To Robert Mueller

  17-03-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  Former FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote memos detailing his
  
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• Shure's $3,000 KSE1500 headphones make for an ear-opening experience - CNET

  17-03-2018 19:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  For well-heeled audiophiles seeking the outer limits of transparency, the Shure KSE1500 electrostatic in-ear headphone is the one to get.
  
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• Michigan shipwreck hunters find schooner that sank in 1873

  17-03-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Michigan shipwreck hunters have found the remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1873 during a storm.
  
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• Walmart worker tips police to arms cache in New York college town

  17-03-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  Authorities alerted by a Walmartworker arrested a former Cornell University student accused of stockpiling a semi-automatic rifle, more than 300 rounds of ammunition, bomb-making materials and other deadly devices at his apartment near the upstate New York elite school.Maximilien Reynolds, 20, of New Jersey, a one-time student at the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York, now enrolled at a local community college, was federally charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device and a
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Couple at center of Vallejo kidnapping police called hoax speaking out

  17-03-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  The couple at the center of the 2015 kidnapping case the Vallejo Police Department called a hoax is speaking publicly for the first time. Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins will be on "Good Morning America" on Monday. We have an exclusive sneak peek of that interview.
  
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• Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar joins St Patrick's Parade

  17-03-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar joined along as Manhattan's Fifth Avenue came alive with the sound of bagpipes, trumpets and lots of green Saturday during the 257th running of New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade.
  
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• Russia expels 23 British diplomats as crisis over nerve toxin attack deepens

  17-03-2018 19:27 via yahoo.com
  By Andrew Osborn and Polina DevittMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled 23 British diplomats on Saturday in a carefully calibrated retaliatory move against London, which has accused the Kremlin of orchestrating a nerve toxin attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in southern England.Escalating a crisis in relations, Russia said it was also shutting down the activities of the British Council, which fosters cultural links between the two countries, and Britain's consulate-general in
  
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• Facebook Suspends Trump Election Data Firm for Policy Breach

  17-03-2018 19:25 via yahoo.com
  The company helped Trump win the presidential election.
  
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• Trump consultants harvested data from 50 million Facebook users - reports

  17-03-2018 19:19 via yahoo.com
  "Massachusetts residents deserve answers immediately from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica," Maura Healey said on Twitter in a post that linked to a Times report.Facebook on Friday said it was suspending Cambridge Analytica after finding data privacy policies had been violated.The newspapers, which cited former Cambridge Analytica employees, associates and documents, said the data breach was one of the largest in the history of Facebook Inc.
  
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• Teen Stabbed Friend to Death After Fighting Over Religion at Sleepover, Police Say

  17-03-2018 19:17 via yahoo.com
  He had been monitored by federal and other authorities for months
  
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• President Trump weighing in on Stormy Daniels case

  17-03-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  A new Trump legal filing seeks to move proceedings to a federal court. Stormy Daniels is seeking the ability to speak publicly about an alleged affair with the president.
  
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• Russia expels 23 British diplomats in spy poisoning row

  17-03-2018 18:52 via yahoo.com
  Russia said Saturday it would expel 23 British diplomats and close a British consulate following London's "provocative" measures over the poisoning of a double agent that has triggered a fierce diplomatic row.Moscow also said it would halt the activities of the British Council in Russia in a tough series of retaliatory measures announced after it summoned British ambassador Laurie Bristow.Prime Minister Theresa May responded defiantly to the tit-for-tat move, which followed Britain's expulsion o
  
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• NCAA upset kings UMBC share close relationship with Fortnite - CNET

  17-03-2018 18:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Commentary: The perpetrators of the biggest shock in March Madness history compare their triumph to a first victory in the world's new favorite game.
  
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• Overwatch’s newest hero goes live on March 20

  17-03-2018 18:15
  Overwatch players have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the game’s 27th character, and while she’s been available on the Public Test Realm for roughly two weeks already, Blizzard has finally revealed when she’ll be arriving in the full game. Brigitte, a support/tank hybrid, will be playable starting on March 20th on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, which also means … Continue reading
  
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• Trump's Personal Lawyer Is Now Calling For End To Russia Probe

  17-03-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  The personal lawyer for President Donald Trump has called for the FBI probe
  
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• “Trump is not acting like an innocent man right now” after McCabe is fired

  17-03-2018 17:45 via yahoo.com
  Former Deputy FBI Director McCabe fired after Trump demands it
  
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• Americans are drinking a daily cup of coffee at the highest level in six years: survey

  17-03-2018 17:29 via yahoo.com
  The number of Americans drinking a daily cup of coffee is at the highest level since 2012, with demand continuing to get a boost from at-home consumption and gourmet drinks, an industry study showed on Saturday.Sixty-four percent of Americans age 18 or over said they had a cup of coffee the previous day in 2018.Daily coffee consumption declined into the mid-1990s, when Americans drinking coffee on any given day fell below 50 percent, according to results presented at an industry conference in Ne
  
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• Regime seizes two towns from rebels in Syria's Ghouta: monitor

  17-03-2018 17:27 via yahoo.com
  Syria's regime retook two more towns in Eastern Ghouta on Saturday, a war monitor said, pressing an offensive to capture the rebel enclave on the doorstep of Damascus.Government forces seized Kafr Batna and Sabqa in the south of the enclave, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as thousands of civilians fled into regime-held territory.The southern pocket is held by the Faylaq al-Rahman rebel group, which the Observatory says counts some 8,000 fighters in its ranks.
  
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• Sweden, North Korea end 3 days of talks on security issues

  17-03-2018 17:25 via yahoo.com
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden's foreign minister concluded three days of talks Saturday with her North Korean counterpart, saying they discussed the "opportunities and challenges for continued diplomatic efforts to reach a peaceful solution" to the Koreas' security dispute.
  
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• The Latest: Syrian troops capture major eastern Ghouta town

  17-03-2018 17:18 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments related to the war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Fortnite’s 3.3 update is now live on consoles and PC

  17-03-2018 17:16
  As one of the most-played games around the world right now, players are eager to learn of any news or releases for Epic Games’ Fortnite. While most of the excitement this week has been surrounding the new mobile version of the game and the gradual rollout of invites, the developer has also released a new patch for the game on … Continue reading
  
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• Astronaut’s DNA different than his twin’s after year in space

  17-03-2018 17:08 via yahoo.com
  NASA researchers found that astronaut Scott Kelly experienced molecular changes during his groundbreaking space flight, and while most of his genes returned to normal 7% have not yet changed back.
  
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• Russia expels British diplomats amid growing tension after former spy poisoning

  17-03-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  The move is latest in a growing feud between Russia and the United Kingdom after the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter — with Prime Minister Theresa May saying there is “no alternative conclusion” than Russia being responsible.
  
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• New details of possible problems with Miami bridge as more victims identified

  17-03-2018 16:54 via yahoo.com
  Two days before the collapse, the Florida Department of Transportation received a voicemail from one of the bridge’s engineers alerting to “some cracking,” though the engineer said it didn’t appear to be a safety issue.
  
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• Andrew McCabe axed with President Trump praising the dismissal of the FBI’s deputy director

  17-03-2018 16:49 via yahoo.com
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions accepted a recommendation that McCabe be terminated over a decision to let FBI officials talk with a reporter about an investigation of the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 election.
  
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• Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of Facebook users’ data during presidential election

  17-03-2018 16:47 via yahoo.com
  Cambridge Analytica was able to access user data through a paid personality survey app, which company insider Christopher Wylie told ITN Channel 4 News was used to influence and wage a “culture war” by Steve Bannon during the 2016 election.
  
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• 5-Year-Old Cries as He Watches His Mom Walk Down The Aisle

  17-03-2018 16:39 via yahoo.com
  It was a an unforgettable moment.
  
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• Theresa May says UK will 'never tolerate' Russian threat as Putin expels 23 British diplomats

  17-03-2018 16:38 via yahoo.com
  Theresa May has warned the Kremlin that Britain will not be cowed by its decision to expel 23 British diplomats in an escalation of the dispute following the Salisbury attack. Responding to President Putin's decision to escalate diplomatic tensions, Mrs May told a gathering of Conservative Party members that his antics would not distract from the fact that Russia was "in flagrant breach of international law."  Speaking at the Conservative Spring Forum in London, Mrs May said Russia's r
  
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• New York Firefighters Among Seven Service Members Killed in Iraq Helicopter Crash

  17-03-2018 16:17 via yahoo.com
  Two firefighters from New York City were killed when a helicopter crashed in Iraq, killing everyone on board.
  
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• Trump's personal attorney: Russia investigation should end

  17-03-2018 16:15 via yahoo.com
  John Dowd says he is speaking on his own behalf when he calls on Rod Rosenstein to end the Mueller investigation into Russia collusion; Ellison Barber has the latest details.
  
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• Turkish military denies it hit Syrian hospital

  17-03-2018 16:14 via yahoo.com
  The Turkish military denied on Saturday that it had struck a hospital in Syria's Afrin region, where it is waging a nearly two-month-old offensive against Kurdish YPG forces.The YPG and Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said a Turkish air strike hit Afrin town's main hospital on Friday night, killing 16 people."Reports that Turkish armed forces bombed a hospital in Afrin are false," the military said on Twitter, adding that it was carrying out the campaign in a way that would not hurt
  
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• Multiple Deer Found in Colorado with Arrows Lodged in Their Heads

  17-03-2018 16:14 via yahoo.com
  An investigation is underway after officials found three mule deer wounded by arrows.
  
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