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• In Brexit limbo, UK veers between high anxiety, grim humor

  17-02-2019 08:37 via The Western Journal
  
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• Mother who helped free son from Venezuelan jail praised

  17-02-2019 07:57 via The Western Journal
  
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• The Latest: Smollett says no truth he played role in attack

  17-02-2019 06:17 via The Western Journal
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• Patrick Caddell, pollster to Jimmy Carter, dies at 68

  17-02-2019 05:13 via The Western Journal
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• No. 5 Kentucky upsets No. 1 Tennessee 86-69 in top-5 matchup

  17-02-2019 04:42 via The Western Journal
  
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• Fashion collusion: CNN journalist picks jacket for Dem candidate Harris & sparks ethics debate

  17-02-2019 03:35 via RT USA News
  
  A CNN reporter covering Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential campaign has posted a video of herself helping Harris do shopping – drawing anger from some of her media counterparts and reigniting a debate on impartiality.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Chicago police: Jussie Smollett assault case has ‘shifted’

  17-02-2019 03:23 via The Western Journal
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• Barrett has triple-double, No. 2 Duke beats NC State, 94-78

  17-02-2019 03:04 via The Western Journal
  
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• Game changer: Tebow enters Mets camp ‘all in’ on baseball

  17-02-2019 02:31 via The Western Journal
  
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• Illinois factory gunman obtained firearm permit despite felony conviction

  17-02-2019 02:12 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Gary Martin, 45, who carried his pistol to work on Friday apparently suspecting he faced dismissal from his job, opened fire after being told of his termination in a meeting at the Henry Pratt Company plant in Aurora, Illinois, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago, police said.The dead included the plant manager, a human resources supervisor, a human resources intern and two other workers.A sixth employee and five police officers responding to the scene were wounded, and the gunman himself was
  
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• State Department: Nauert out as pick for UN ambassador

  17-02-2019 02:11 via The Western Journal
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• Illinois shooting rampage highlights scourge of workplace gun violence

  17-02-2019 02:09 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Gary Martin opened fire with a Smith & Wesson on the day he was fired from the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, Illinois, killing five workers and wounding five police officers.
  
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• Aurora shooting victims ranged from intern to plant manager

  17-02-2019 02:08 via The Western Journal
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• Trump's UN envoy pick Heather Nauert withdraws from consideration

  17-02-2019 02:04 via RT USA News
  
  Heather Nauert, the US State Department spokesperson, whom Trump had tapped to be the country's next ambassador to the UN, has announced she has withdrawn from consideration.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• White House says Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to U.N., Heather Nauert, has withdrawn

  17-02-2019 01:31 via The Western Journal
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• Shooter in deadly Illinois rampage was not supposed to own a gun, police say

  17-02-2019 01:14 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  Gary Martin took a gun into work Friday, a pistol he didn't legally own.
  
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• No. 23 Iowa St’s 3-point barrage beats No. 18 K-State, 78-64

  17-02-2019 00:40 via The Western Journal
  
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• U.S. military not decided yet on necessity of border wall

  17-02-2019 00:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Saturday he had not yet determined whether a border wall with Mexico was a military necessity or how much Pentagon money would be used.President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional approval.By declaring a national emergency, Trump can use certain Department of Defense funding to build the wall.
  
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• Two victims of the Illinois shooting attended a school that just marked the anniversary of another mass shooting

  16-02-2019 23:23 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  On Thursday, the sound of bells rang out on the campus of Northern Illinois University to mark 11 years since five students were killed in a mass shooting.
  
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• Tear gas, hate speech marks 14th yellow vest protest

  16-02-2019 23:18 via The Western Journal
  
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• Michael Annett wins Xfinity Series opener at Daytona

  16-02-2019 23:00 via The Western Journal
  
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• Ready, Aim, Tweet; Brown fires at Roethlisberger, Tomlin

  16-02-2019 22:56 via The Western Journal
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• Illinois factory gunman killed five victims after being fired

  16-02-2019 22:27 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The gunman who killed five co-workers and wounded five police officers at an Illinois factory was a violent felon who had just been fired, and the plant manager and a young intern were among his victims, authorities said on Saturday.Gary Martin, 45, armed himself with a handgun, which he owned illegally, before reporting for a meeting on Friday at the Henry Pratt Company where his employment was terminated, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters.Martin had bought the gun he used, a .40
  
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• Gunman in Aurora, Illinois, shooting described as 'loner'

  16-02-2019 21:52 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman said Martin shot six fellow employees, five of them fatally, at the sprawling warehouse where he had worked for 15 years, and wounded five police officers before he was slain by police 90 minutes later.Jeremy Sherman, a neighbor of Martin's at Acorn Woods Condominium Complex in Aurora, about 40 miles west of Chicago, told Newsweek's Daily Beast website that Martin could often be found outside playing with his remote-control toy cars and drones."He kept to himsel
  
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• College intern on first day among Illinois factory shooting victims

  16-02-2019 21:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Trevor Wehner was working his first day as a human resources intern at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, when a worker who had just been fired killed him and four of his colleagues.Friday's shooting rampage at the water distribution products factory and warehouse west of Chicago also killed the plant's manager and its head of human resources.Wehner, 21, from the village of Sheridan, Illinois, was on track to graduate in May from Northern Illinois University (NIU) with a degree in human re
  
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• Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy Onassis' younger sister, dies at 85

  16-02-2019 21:09 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  CBS News, citing family friend Mathilde Favier, the public relations director for Christian Dior, said Radziwill died on Friday.Women's Wear Daily had first reported the death on its website, saying it occurred at Radziwill's New York City home.Radziwill's world was inhabited by doyennes of high society, artistic celebrities, fashion moguls and wealthy, prominent husbands - including one whose royal status made her a real-life princess.
  
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• Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data

  16-02-2019 21:05 via The Western Journal
  
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• Sheriff Joe: Trump Should Get Award from Congress for Border Wall Money Management

  16-02-2019 20:39 via The Western Journal
  
  All this hand-wringing by Democrats and even some Republicans about President Donald Trump shifting money, primarily within the Defense Department, to border wall funding is all political and frankly just silly. I give Trump credit. He single-handedly made illegal immigration and border security an issue in the 2016 election. And he’s done more than any…
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• Joe Biden Hits Trump With ‘Basic Human Decency’ Line In Munich Speech

  16-02-2019 20:31 via The Western Journal
  The Latest on the Democratic presidential candidates (all times local): 2:25 p.m. Joe Biden isn’t in the 2020 presidential race yet, but he’s making clear at an international gathering that he thinks President Donald Trump has undermined America’s ability to claim moral leadership. The former vice president says the U.S. doesn’t want to turn its…
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• The woman in the New Jersey Memorial Day melee pleads guilty to disorderly conduct

  16-02-2019 19:55 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  A woman whose violent arrest by New Jersey officers last Memorial Day weekend was captured in a video that went viral will serve probation under a plea deal and stay off local beaches for a year, her lawyer said.
  
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• Roger Stone ‘Revelation’ That Media Went Wild for Has Been Public for Over a Year

  16-02-2019 19:52 via The Western Journal
  News outlets and media pundits Friday seized on a court filing in the special counsel’s case against Roger Stone that referred to communication the longtime Trump confidant had with WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, the group of alleged Russian operatives suspected of stealing Democrats’ emails during the 2016 campaign. The court filing, which was touted as…
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• Turkmenistan to open vet clinic despite harsh animal views

  16-02-2019 19:40 via The Western Journal
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• California Governor Gavin Newsom Announces His 2020 Endorsement: ‘I’m Very Enthusiastic About Kamala Harris’

  16-02-2019 19:33 via The Western Journal
  
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced during an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that he would support fellow Californian Kamala Harris in her run for the presidency. Newsom made the announcement Friday when asked by Hayes who he would back in the packed Democratic field for president in 2020. “I’m very enthusiastic about Kamala Harris,” Newsom…
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• Thomas, Scott retain share of early lead at Riviera

  16-02-2019 19:23 via The Western Journal
  
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• Satanic Temple Member Loses Lawsuit Attempting To Destroy Pro-Life Law

  16-02-2019 19:20 via The Western Journal
  
  A member of the Satanic Temple who challenged Missouri’s informed consent law requiring a waiting period before obtaining an abortion has lost her bid to have the law thrown out. On Wednesday, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed lower court rulings that claimed the woman, identified in court papers as Mary Doe, did not have her rights…
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• Stacey Abrams Claims ‘Voter Suppression is Legal in the United States Right Now’

  16-02-2019 19:19 via The Western Journal
  
  Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams claimed that voter suppression is legal throughout the country during her speech at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting. “Here’s the thing about voter suppression: Voter suppression is legal in the United States right now,” Abrams said Friday to a crowd of Democrats in Washington, D.C. “We’re used to…
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• Illinois factory gunman killed victims after being fired

  16-02-2019 19:03 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Gary Martin, 45, armed himself with a .40 caliber handgun, which he owned illegally, before reporting for a meeting where he was told he was fired, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told a news conference.Most of the workers killed in the shooting on Friday at the Henry Pratt Company plant, 40 miles (65 km) west of Chicago, were in the room where Martin was terminated, Ziman said.Five police officers were wounded by gunfire before Martin was killed in a shootout with police.
  
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• Bill Gates backs tiny robotic surgeons that operate from inside a patient’s body

  16-02-2019 19:03 via RT USA News
  
  Bill Gates has thrown $10 million behind the development of tiny camera-wielding surgical robots that can be placed inside a person’s body through a small incision and controlled by a surgeon anywhere in the world via VR.
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• The Latest: Police: Aurora attacker shouldn’t have owned gun

  16-02-2019 19:02 via The Western Journal
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• Aurora Police Department Issues Heartfelt Response to Citizens 1 Day After Deadly Shooting

  16-02-2019 18:28 via The Western Journal
  
  As the community of Aurora, Illinois, bled from the wounds it suffered at the hands of a gunman who killed five people on Friday, its police department sought to start the healing. Police have identified the gunman as 45-year-old Gary Martin, who allegedly opened fire at Henry Pratt Co., a manufacturing company where he was…
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• Police: Aurora gunman’s firearm owner’s ID card was revoked in 2014 after fingerprinting found Mississippi conviction

  16-02-2019 18:22 via The Western Journal
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• The Latest: LeBron impressed with Duke’s Zion Williamson

  16-02-2019 18:16 via The Western Journal
  
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• Police: Aurora warehouse gunman had six prior arrests locally, including for domestic battery-related charges

  16-02-2019 17:55 via The Western Journal
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• Comedian Arrested as Part of Group Protesting for Undocumented Students

  16-02-2019 17:50 via The Western Journal
  
  Comedian and political commentator Jordan Klepper was arrested Tuesday while filming a protest in support of undocumented students for an upcoming Comedy Central series, Deadline Hollywood reported. Klepper was protesting and filming at a Board of Regents meeting in the Georgia State Capitol, when the group he was with was ordered to leave. When they…
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• Coulter Turns on Trump: This Is 100% Trump’s Fault

  16-02-2019 17:38 via The Western Journal
  
  Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter came to Paul Ryan’s defense after President Donald Trump seemed to blame the former House speaker for not building the border wall sooner. “I’m very disappointed at certain people, particular one, for not having pushed this faster,” Trump said during his announcement declaring a state of emergency at the border.…
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• Russian officials say several floors of a university building in St. Petersburg have collapsed; casualties unknown

  16-02-2019 17:05 via The Western Journal
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• The black leaders of an iconic Mardi Gras parade want you to know their 'black makeup is NOT blackface'

  16-02-2019 16:57 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - US
  When one of New Orleans' most cherished parades rolls next month, float riders -- African-American and white -- will greet the screaming throngs wearing lofty feather headdresses, crinkly grass skirts and the sort of black face paint that most anywhere else might draw gasps and cries of racism.
  
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• Shiffrin fights illness, wins 4th straight slalom at worlds

  16-02-2019 16:47 via The Western Journal
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• Former U.S. Cardinal McCarrick defrocked for sex crimes

  16-02-2019 16:27 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Pope Francis has decided that the ruling, which followed an appeal by McCarrick, a power-broker as Archbishop of Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2006, was now final.A Vatican statement said his crimes were made more serious by "the aggravating factor of the abuse of power".The 88-year-old, who in July became the first Roman Catholic prelate in nearly 100 years to lose the title of cardinal, has now become the highest profile church figure to be dismissed from the priesthood in modern times.
  
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• No Child Left Behind

  16-02-2019 16:25 via The Western Journal
  
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