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• US Military Pilots Hit by Mysterious Lasers

  22-06-2018 17:16 via The Western Journal
  
  American military personnel piloting aircraft over the Pacific Ocean have been targeted in a series of apparent attacks reminiscent of previous, more serious Chinese military operations. According to The Wall Street Journal, nearly two dozen incidents in recent months share the same troubling details. Lasers originating from the East China Sea and surrounding areas were…
  
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• Supreme Court rules warrants required for cellphone location data

  22-06-2018 17:14 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday imposed limits on the ability of police to obtain cellphone data pinpointing the past location of criminal suspects in a major victory for digital privacy advocates and a setback for law enforcement authorities.In the 5-4 ruling, the court said police generally need a court-approved warrant to get access to the data, setting a higher legal hurdle than previously existed under federal law.The court said obtaining such data without a warrant from wireless carriers,
  
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• FBI may have meddled with Mike Flynn case evidence – US congressman

  22-06-2018 17:08 via RT US News
  
  US congressman Mark Meadows has suggested that the FBI may have meddled with evidence in the case against Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• ABC Announces ‘Roseanne’ Spinoff Without Roseanne

  22-06-2018 16:58 via The Western Journal
  
  “Roseanne” is gone, but “The Conners” are not. After canceling one of TV’s hottest show in response to a racially charged tweet actress Roseanne Barr sent out in May, ABC has decided to move forward with a show that will chronicle the exploits of the rest of the family, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The…
  
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• Police need warrant for cell phone location data, SCOTUS rules

  22-06-2018 16:37 via RT US News
  
  The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a defendant challenging the government’s use of his cellphone location information without a warrant.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• NSA moves top secret data to cloud developed by Amazon

  22-06-2018 16:30 via RT US News
  
  The US National Security Agency is “systematically moving” all its data to a cloud-computing service, the chief information officer has said. In 2017 alone the agency tripled collection of data through US telecom companies.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Trump urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration effort

  22-06-2018 16:14 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Doina ChiacuWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, which he hopes will boost the party's majority in Congress.Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their migrant parents at the U.S. border with Mexico, tried to refocus the immigration debate on Congress in a series of early morning posts on Twitter.Des
  
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• Israel Follows United States’ Lead, Also Backs Away from UN Human Rights Body

  22-06-2018 15:45 via The Western Journal
  
  Diplomats said Friday that Israel has temporarily reduced its participation with the U.N.’s main human rights body, days after the United States pulled out largely over its allegation that the Human Rights Council is biased against Israel. The diplomats in Geneva, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter…
  
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• Trump Explains Meaning of Melania’s Controversial ‘I Really Don’t Care’ Jacket

  22-06-2018 15:41 via The Western Journal
  
  When first lady Melania Trump wanted to send a message on Thursday, she turned to fashion to deliver it. The green, Zara thigh-length Army jacket sported graffiti-like lettering on the back that read, “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?,” The Washington Times reported. Given that the trip the first lady was embarking upon was to…
  
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• Death, disputes and disgrace, but the TV show must go on

  22-06-2018 14:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Charlie Sheen's "Two and a Half Men" character was run over by a bus and got a full-scale funeral."Glee" actor Corey Monteith died in real life and had a tribute episode."House of Cards" will return minus scandal-tainted Kevin Spacey, with his screen wife taking center stage.
  
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• ERCOT expects Texas power demand to break June record in heat wave

  22-06-2018 13:58 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  (Reuters) - Homes and businesses in Texas are expected to set a daily electricity consumption record for June on Friday as consumers crank up their air conditioners to escape a brutal heat wave, according to the operator of most of the state's power grid.The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT,forecast demand will peak at 68,374 MW on Friday, topping the record for the month, 67,887 MW, set on June 1.Summer came early to Texas this year.
  
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• ‘Heavily-edited’ bodycam footage of suspect’s final hrs released by LAPD

  22-06-2018 13:09 via RT US News
  
  Police in Los Angeles have been accused of ‘heavily editing’ bodycam footage showing the arrest of a man who later died in custody.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• ABC to bring back ‘Roseanne’ without Barr after show’s star booted for racist tweet

  22-06-2018 12:44 via RT US News
  
  Bittersweet news for ‘Roseanne’ fans - the show is coming back but without Roseanne Barr. The spinoff series was announced about three weeks after ABC axed the iconic comedienne and television star over a racist tweet.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Where are the beds? Questions surround Trump's plan to hold families in detention

  22-06-2018 12:37 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  One child stopped eating and fell into a depression.A third child started biting other children.The Dilley site is one of only three in the United States designed to hold parents and children together in immigration detention.
  
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• Nikki Haley slams UN report on US poverty under Trump as 'misleading & politically motivated'

  22-06-2018 12:25 via RT US News
  
  Washington's envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has blasted a report on poverty in the US, as “misleading and politically motivated”. The document accuses the Trump administration of deepening poverty and inequality.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Hundreds block Pittsburgh interstate in police shooting protest

  22-06-2018 12:25 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Antwon Rose, 17, was shot and killed on Tuesday by an East Pittsburgh police officer as he ran from a vehicle after it was stopped by police who were searching for suspect in an earlier drive-by shooting, police said earlier this week.The death of Rose was the latest in a string of killings of black men by police that have triggered street protests and fueled a renewed national debate about bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.The incident has sparked largely peaceful protests in the Pittsbu
  
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• Thirty-three children fall ill at Florida summer camp

  22-06-2018 11:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Some of those affected complained of headaches and vomited and one person passed out, CBS News reported, citing Highlands County Public Safety Director Marc Bashoor.The cause of the illness was unknown and the local health department was investigating the incident, the Highlands County Fire and Rescue said on Twitter."None appear to be serious," the fire department tweeted.
  
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• Uber driver was streaming Hulu show just before self-driving car crash: police report

  22-06-2018 08:52 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  A 318-page report from the Tempe Police Department, released late on Thursday in response to a public records request, said the driver, Rafaela Vasquez, repeatedly looked down and not at the road, glancing up just a half second before the car hit 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who was crossing the street at night.According to the report, Vasquez could face charges of vehicle manslaughter.Police said that, based on testing, the crash was "deemed entirely avoidable" if Vasquez had been paying attent
  
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• Reality Winner to change her plea on leaking Russian interference report

  22-06-2018 06:49 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Reality Leigh Winner pleaded not guilty in June, 2017 after she was charged with passing the top secret National Security Agency report to The Intercept last year while working with Pluribus International Corp, which provides analytical services for U.S. defense and intelligence.Attorneys for Winner, a 26-year-old from Augusta, Georgia, filed on Thursday a request in the Southern District of Georgiato change her not guilty plea, a court document showed.A plea agreement, detailing her new plea, w
  
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• Roseanne’s ex calls for harassing children of Trump Jr., Kushner and Murdoch over border separations

  22-06-2018 06:42 via RT US News
  
  Tom Arnold, actor and ex-husband of Roseanne Barr, came under fire after he suggested protesting the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy by stalking and harassing the children of the first family and allies.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• U.S. accuses Chinese man of smuggling anti-submarine warfare devices

  22-06-2018 06:28 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The head of a company that distributes marine-related products was arrested on Thursday on U.S. charges that he conspired with an entity affiliated with China's armed forces to export devices to that country that could be used in anti-submarine warfare.Shuren Qin, a Chinese national living in Wellesley, Massachusetts, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Boston with visa fraud and conspiring to commit violations of U.S. export regulations.A lawyer for Qin did not respond
  
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• Father says little Honduran girl on Time cover was not taken from mother

  22-06-2018 04:43 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The Honduran toddler pictured sobbing in a pink jacket before U.S. President Donald Trump on an upcoming cover of Time magazine was not separated from her mother at the U.S. border, according to a man who says he is the girl's father.The powerful original photograph, taken at the scene of a border detention byphotographer John Moore, became one of the iconic images in the flurry of media coverage about the separation of families by the Trump administration.Dozens of newspapers and magazines arou
  
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• U.S. military may house immigrant children as Trump policy beset by confusion

  22-06-2018 04:03 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Idrees Ali, Richard Cowan and Steve HollandWASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - The U.S. military has been asked to get ready to house up to 20,000 immigrant children, officials said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back a widely condemned policy of separating children from their parents were beset by confusion.While no decision has been made, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has already assessed three military bases in Texas and would review another
  
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• WikiLeaks hosts ICE officer database banned by GitHub, Medium & Twitter

  22-06-2018 03:31 via RT US News
  
  The transparency organization WikiLeaks has published a database with public information about employees of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which was previously taken down by several other sites.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• U.S. House Republicans delay immigration vote until next week

  22-06-2018 03:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday delayed at least until next week votes on an immigration bill that was painstakingly negotiated over the last several weeks but has failed to attract enough support for passage.While Republicans called the measure a compromise, it has been crafted without any Democratic input and was supposed to be a compromise between warring conservatives and moderates in the party.Meanwhile, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300 ch
  
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• U.S. State Department imposes visa ban on several DRCongo officials

  22-06-2018 02:45 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The United States said on Thursday it had imposed visa bans onseveral senior officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo for corruption tied to the country's electoral process to send a "strong signal" about the need for a peaceful transfer of power."Today's actions send a strong signal that the U.S. government is committed to fighting corruption, to supporting credible elections that lead to DRC's first peaceful and democratic transfer of power," the State Department said.
  
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• O'Rourke: 'Racist element' to child detentions

  22-06-2018 02:37 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Rep. Beto O'Rourke says that racism is a factor in the Trump administration's child detention practices at the border.
  
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• Ex-DHS secretary: No formal policy of family separation during Obama administration

  22-06-2018 02:34 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said Thursday evening that there had been no formal policy to separate the detained families of illegal immigrants under President Barack Obama.
  
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• Conservative U.S. commentator Charles Krauthammer dies

  22-06-2018 01:49 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Bill TrottWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer, who gave up a psychiatric career to become one of the leading conservative political commentators in the U.S. media, died on Thursday at the age of 68, the Washington Post and Fox News said.Krauthammer was a fixture on the Fox News Channel as well as on editorial pages of the Washington Post and other U.S. newspapers."My fight is over."Less than a month earlier, Krauthammer had told a Fox colleague that the worst appe
  
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• ‘Do u?’ Melania’s jacket sparks fresh outrage amid immigration row

  22-06-2018 01:48 via RT US News
  
  When is a jacket not just a jacket? When it says “I really don’t care, do u?” and is worn by First Lady Melania Trump on a surprise visit to a Texas shelter for illegal immigrant children, driving the media crazy.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Who’s Responsible for Separating Illegal Immigrant Families? Many People, but Not Trump

  22-06-2018 01:38 via The Western Journal
  
  Who truly is responsible for the 2,000 alien kids who, according to The Associated Press, recently have been separated from their detained illegal alien parents? There is a lot of blame to share. That includes President Bill Clinton and the alien parents themselves, as well as the courts and immigration policies foolishly created by the Obama administration.…
  
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• U.S. House again postpones vote on Republican immigration bill

  22-06-2018 01:16 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Amanda Becker and Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives delayed for a second time - likely to next week - a vote on an immigration bill they had originally planned to take up on Thursday.The vote on the so-called compromise Republican plan had earlier been delayed to Friday to allow members additional time to review it.The Republican-controlled House earlier on Thursday defeated another, more conservative immigration bill designed to signi
  
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• Same court, different outcomes in Texas after Trump order on families

  22-06-2018 01:11 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  What a difference a day seemed to make for immigrants suspected of illegal border crossing.Some 19 people, many of whom had been separated from their children, had charges of illegally entering the United States dismissed on Thursday at a federal court hearing in the Texas border city of El Paso, said Vivek Grover, a lawyer for immigrants.The action came hours after the White House order against separating adults and children went into effect in the immigration crisis.
  
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• Google’s 11th-hour intervention puts ‘revenge porn’ bill in New York back on ice

  22-06-2018 01:11 via RT US News
  
  A New York state bill that would outlaw ‘revenge porn’ has been shelved until next year, after a late lobbying effort by tech giant Google succeeded in blocking a vote in the state Senate.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• 'Are you the mother?' A woman's search for baby taken by U.S. immigration

  22-06-2018 01:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Now nearly 20 months old, Mateo was returned to his family on Feb. 8 after a battle across borders, officialdom and languages.Months later, the boy still screeches even as Caceres rocks him on her chest, sometimes until dawn.The Salvadoran family's story of struggle in U.S. immigration detention presaged what was to come: Trump's "zero tolerance" policy that led to more than 2,300 migrant children being separated from parents in recent weeks.
  
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• El Salvador demands U.S. return child taken from deported father

  22-06-2018 01:01 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  El Salvador on Thursday demanded the United States return a child who had been taken from his father before the man was deported this week without any prior notification to embassy officials.El Salvador's foreign ministry said it registered its first deportation of a father who had been separated from his son for trying to illegally enter the United States.The man, who was not identified, was deported on Wednesday without any word to El Salvadoran embassy officials, as is required under an immig
  
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• Senators call on National Science Foundation to investigate climate change grants

  22-06-2018 00:45 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Four Republican senators have called on National Science Foundation Inspector General Allison Lerner to investigate the foundation's grant-making process, citing a grant charged with enabling television meteorologists to provide viewers with climate change education.
  
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• Charles Krauthammer, Prominent Conservative Voice, Has Died

  22-06-2018 00:45 via The Western Journal
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from “Great Society” Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to denouncer of Donald Trump, died Thursday. He was 68. His death was announced by two organizations that employed him, Fox News…
  
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• Three men indicted for Minnesota mosque bombing

  22-06-2018 00:41 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Michael McWhorter, 29, Joe Morris, 23, and Michael B. Hari, 47, were accused of carrying out a pipe bomb attack on the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Aug. 5, 2017.The bomb damaged the building, but caused no injuries, according to a statement from the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office.
  
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• US, Iranian top diplomats spar online

  22-06-2018 00:37 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his Iranian counterpart squared off in a battle of strongly-worded statements this week, with Pompeo tweeting his apparent support for Iranian anti-government protestors, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lamenting a US foreign policy "in crisis."
  
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• Poll: Majority of US Voters Blame Parents, Not Trump for Child Separation at Border

  22-06-2018 00:33 via The Western Journal
  
  A new poll shows that most voters blame the parents of the separated children at the border and not the federal government. The poll came from Rasmussen Reports and looked into the latest immigration debate about families who are trying to cross the border illegally being separated from their children once they reach the United…
  
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• Trump tries to defuse immigrant crisis, but policy hit by confusion

  22-06-2018 00:23 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  By Richard Cowan and Steve HollandWASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation were beset by confusion.Despite Trump's order, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300 children who have been separated from their parents in the past few weeks would be reunited with them, and where the fam
  
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• Obama Cyber Chief: We Were Told to ‘Stand Down’ When Russia Launched Cyberattacks

  22-06-2018 00:18 via The Western Journal
  
  The White House’s cybersecurity coordinator during President Barack Obama’s second term confirmed some provocative passages from a recent book about the Russian effort to influence American politics. According to Yahoo News, Michael Daniel appeared before members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday to testify on issues regarding the Obama administration’s reaction to evidence of…
  
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• Ready for your close-up: Orlando airport to scan passengers’ faces

  22-06-2018 00:17 via RT US News
  
  Going to Disney World? Your face, please! Orlando International Airport, the busiest airport in Florida, will reportedly start face-scanning passengers on all international flights, including US citizens.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Melania Trump's jacket mixes message during visit to detained immigrant children

  22-06-2018 00:16 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Melania Trump, the wife of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday visited children displaced by the country’s immigration crisis in Texas, only a day after Trump reversed course and ordered families to be kept intact when entering the United States illegally from Mexico.According to her spokesperson, Melania Trump decided to visit detention centers housing children because she deeply cares about the controversial issue.The trip to Texas was the most high-profile public appearance Melania
  
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• ‘Sovereign & independent ’: Congressman proposes US recognition of Taiwan

  21-06-2018 23:49 via RT US News
  
  A California congressman has put forth a resolution proposing that the US recognize the island of Taiwan as a “sovereign and independent country.” The move is sure to anger China, which considers Taiwan to be a rogue province.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Illinois, Iowa, Rhode Island urge rejection of Sinclair-Tribune tie-up

  21-06-2018 23:44 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  In April, Sinclair said it would sell 23 television stations to obtain the necessary regulatory approvals of the Tribune transaction.Sinclair, based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, said that if the deal was approved it would reach nearly 59 percent of the nation’s television households.
  
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• Minnesota firms sue over Trump administration mine leases near wilderness

  21-06-2018 23:27 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  (Reuters) - Minnesota outdoor recreation firms have sued the federal government over its decision to reinstate leases for a mine next to a state wilderness as part of the Trump administration's drive to allow mining in some of the country's wildest areas.The Interior Department's May 2 decision was unlawful and posed an immediate threat to the environment and the areas' outdoor-recreation economy, according to the lawsuit filed infederal court in the District of Columbia on Thursday.Plaintiffs i
  
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• U.S. prosecutors accuse Texas oil man 'Frack Master' of fraud

  21-06-2018 23:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Christopher Faulkner, 41, was arrested on Monday at the Los Angeles International Airport and charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Dallas, Texas, prosecutors said.The criminal charges came two years after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Faulkner, a frequent media commentator on oil-and-gas topics, and his Dallas-based Breitling Energy Corp and accused them of fraud.
  
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• Majority of Americans say Trump should agree to interview with Mueller: poll

  21-06-2018 23:07 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Most Americans think President Donald Trump should agree to an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, if asked, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.A majority of Democrats wants Trump to consent to an interview while Republicans appear divided after months of negotiations between Trump and Mueller's teams and the president's changing position on the matter.The following are some key findings from the poll:   ** Sixty percent of U.S. adults said President Trump should agree to a
  
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