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• ‘Homeless n*ggers, go back to Africa’: Tampa man sparks outrage with racist billboards (PHOTO)

  11-07-2018 18:01 via RT US News
  
  A controversial black political activist has sparked outrage in Tampa, Florida by standing on a busy downtown street displaying a sign instructing “homeless n*ggers” to go “back to Africa”.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Kavanaugh nomination vote set for Monday, unless accuser testifies on sex abuse claims

  22-09-2018 01:20 via RT US News
  
  The Judiciary Committee will hold a vote on US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Monday, unless a deal is reached soon with his accuser Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses him of sexual assault, to testify before the panel.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Facebook to stop ‘embedding’ staff in political campaigns

  22-09-2018 00:44 via RT US News
  
  Presidential candidates in 2020 won’t be able to rely on ‘embedded’ Facebook staff, the Menlo Park company declared. Hillary Clinton’s campaign declined this help in 2016, letting her rival Donald Trump leverage it to victory.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Morocco extradites ex-priest to face abuse charges in New Mexico

  22-09-2018 00:34 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The Catholic Church worldwide is reeling from crises involving sexual abuse of minors, deeply damaging confidence in the Church in the United States, Chile, Australia, and Ireland where the scandal has hit hardest, and elsewhere.
  
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• Tinker, traitor, lawyer, lie: NY Times claims DAG Rosenstein suggested secretly recording Trump

  22-09-2018 00:07 via RT US News
  
  The number two official at the Justice Department wanted to secretly record President Donald Trump so as to impeach him, claims the New York Times. Spoiler Alert: Rod Rosenstein denies the claim, but does it matter in the swamp?Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Twitter’s Initial Classification of ‘Illegal Alien’ As Hateful Shows Social Media’s Censorship Potential

  21-09-2018 23:51 via The Western Journal
  
  Twitter made headlines recently when it denied the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan group, the ability to promote four tweets that — according to Twitter — contained “hateful content.” What was that hateful content? The legally correct phrases “illegal alien” and “criminal alien.” To be clear, those who follow the Center for Immigration Studies on Twitter…
  
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• Keystone XL pipeline route would not harm environment: State Department

  21-09-2018 23:46 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The U.S. State Department on Friday issued an environmental assessment of a revised route for the Keystone XL crude pipeline that concluded it would not harm water or wildlife, clearing a hurdle for the project that has been pending for a decade."Prompt cleanup response would likely be capable of remediating the contaminated soils before the hazardous release reaches groundwater depth," the review said.Last month a federal judge in Montana had ordered the State Department to conduct the review o
  
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• FCC chairman ramps up defense of net neutrality repeal

  21-09-2018 23:45 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has this month also criticized California's legislature for approving a state measure to guarantee open internet access and said "bad behavior" on the part of internet service providers (ISPs) could be prevented by the FCC's new transparency requirements.The FCC voted 3-2 in December to reverse the Obama era rules that barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic or offering paid fast lanes, also known as paid prioritization.FCC repeal of the 2015 n
  
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• United Airlines pilots resist contract changes over regional routes

  21-09-2018 23:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  President of the U.S. No. 3 carrier, Scott Kirby, has called for changes to the so-called "scope clause" which sets guidelines on the size of planes that can be operated by regional feeder carriers, among other things.A scope clause restricts planes heavier than 86,000 pounds (39,000 kg) with more than 76 seats from regional routes, where pilots are generally paid less than their mainline counterparts."We are holding the line," said Todd Insler, chairman of the unit of the Air Line Pilots Associ
  
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• Pompeo promises a ‘series of actions’ against Venezuela in the ‘coming days’

  21-09-2018 23:19 via RT US News
  
  Washington has promised to increase pressure on Venezuela in the coming days, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowing to take a "series of actions" against the government of Nicolas Maduro in the “best interest” of Venezuelans.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Trump blames OPEC for high oil prices, but his polices drive them up – analyst to RT

  21-09-2018 23:03 via RT US News
  
  The tax and trade policies ofDonald Trump are, in fact, what have contributed to the surge in oil prices, a US economics professor told RT, adding that the US President’s tough words to OPEC are a political stunt.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars

  21-09-2018 22:36 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The move makes PayPal the latest tech company to take action against Jones, a deeply controversial right-wing radio talk-show host who has suggested that the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, among other sensational claims."We've made a decision to end our relationship with Infowars websites, including PrisonPlanet," a PayPal spokesman said.
  
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• Trump on North Korea: Before I Came in, We Were Headed for War. Now Things Are Getting Better and Better

  21-09-2018 22:34 via The Western Journal
  
  President Donald Trump claimed the victory over the United States’ previously antagonistic relationship with North Korea in a speech on Thursday evening. While speaking at a Republican rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, the president touched on some of the progress that has been made with the formerly threatening dictatorship of North Korea. In addition to…
  
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• Three infants, two adults stabbed at New York City daycare center

  21-09-2018 21:34 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  A female worker stabbed three babies, two of whom are less than a month old, at a home-based daycare center in New York City on Friday before slashing her own wrists and being taken into custody, police said.The unidentified woman, age 52, who also stabbed two adults in the predawn incident in the borough of Queens, was in stable condition, Juanita Holmes, assistant chief of patrol for the New York City Police Department, said at a news conference.The woman also stabbed a 31-year-old man, believ
  
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• Over 54,000 still without power in Carolinas after Florence

  21-09-2018 21:34 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Flooding across the Carolinas was expected to worsen over the next couple of days, forecasters said.Duke Energy Corp , the biggest utility in the Carolinas with over 4 million customers, said it had restored power to more than 1.7 million of its nearly 1.8 million customers affected by the storm.
  
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• More flooding feared for South Carolina, a week after Florence

  21-09-2018 21:34 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Residents of Georgetown County, South Carolina, where five rivers flow into the ocean, were preparing on Friday for a deluge of water in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which has killed at least 40 people.The county of 60,000 people, on the Atlantic coast between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, is one of several areas in the Carolinas waiting anxiously for rivers to crest, a week after Florence dumped some three feet of rain on the region."Please heed the warnings," Sheriff Lane Cribb said.
  
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• Duke shuts natgas plant due to Florence floods, coal ash leak feared

  21-09-2018 21:26 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Duke also said it cannot rule out the possibility that coal ash from another plant is flowing into nearby waters.Water breached the cooling lake dam at Duke's 625-megawatt natural gas L.V. Sutton plant, causing the company to shut the plant.Site personnel are supplementing on-site supplies with large stones and other materials, and engineering experts are on their way to the site, Duke said.
  
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• Trump ‘Very, Very Close’ To Moving on Mexico Deal, With or Without Canada

  21-09-2018 21:19 via The Western Journal
  
  Canadian officials are running out of time to join the U.S. and Mexico in a trade deal to replace current North American Free Trade Agreement terms, according to an administration source this week. In a Fox News interview Friday morning, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett pointed to an Oct. 1 deadline in the ongoing…
  
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• Trump Calls Out Feinstein and Democrats for Obstruction: ‘TAKE THE VOTE!’

  21-09-2018 20:38 via The Western Journal
  
  With Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats appearing to be in lockstep against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump said Friday there is no need for them to delay voting on Kavanaugh any longer. Kavanaugh’s nomination was supposed to have been voted on by the committee on Thursday, but that vote was scrapped in the…
  
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• Texan running 3-D printed guns company ordered to leave Taiwan

  21-09-2018 20:27 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  AUSTIN, Texas/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Texan running a 3-D printed guns company who flew to Taiwan as police investigated an accusation he had sex with an underage girl was detained in Taipei on Friday and ordered to leave the island after his U.S. passport was annulled, officials said.Cody Wilson, 30, was taken to immigration authorities in the capital by officers from Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau, according to officials.Zhang said Wilson was being held by the agency and that its official
  
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• Infowars says PayPal has terminated agreement with it for promoting 'hate'

  21-09-2018 19:44 via RT US News
  
  Payment processing service PayPal has banned Alex Jones’s InfoWars, saying that the site“promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance” and thus violated their use policy.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• FBI Agrees To Declassify Collusion Docs, but Trump Puts Kibosh on It for IG Review

  21-09-2018 19:09 via The Western Journal
  
  President Donald Trump announced Friday that a planned release of some documents related to the FBI’s investigation of alleged Russian collusion with his 2016 presidential campaign is now on hold. “I met with the (Department of Justice) concerning the declassification of various UNREDACTED documents. They agreed to release them but stated that so doing may…
  
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• Trump’s latest war of words sees him likened to Stephen King’s ‘IT’ horror clown

  21-09-2018 19:04 via RT US News
  
  In the same week as having his genitals compared to a video game character, US President Donald Trump has been likened to Pennywise, the scary clown monster from Stephen King’s novel “IT”.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Clown wars: Trump trades Pennywise barbs with California Democrat

  21-09-2018 19:04 via RT US News
  
  In the same week as having his genitals compared to a video game character, US President Donald Trump has been likened to Pennywise, the scary clown monster from Stephen King’s novel “IT”.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Senate Republicans to propose Wednesday hearing for Kavanaugh, accuser: CNN

  21-09-2018 18:49 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans are likely to propose moving a committee hearing on sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to Wednesday, CNN reported, citing two sources familiar with the negotiations. The sources said the woman who accused Kavanaugh of an assault three decades ago, California professor Christine Blasey Ford, would testify first, then Kavanaugh. Republicans are not willing to subpoena any outside witnesses, as Ford requested, CNN repor
  
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• Texan running 3-D printed guns company arrested in Taiwan: officials

  21-09-2018 18:45 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  AUSTIN, Texas/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Texan running a 3-D printed guns company who flew to Taiwan as police investigated an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl was arrested in Taipei on Friday after U.S. authorities annulled his passport, officials said.Cody Wilson, 30, was taken to immigration authorities in the capital by officers from Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau, according to local media reports and an official from the bureau who asked not to be named.The Taipei Times ne
  
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• Breach causes Duke Energy natgas plant shut down in North Carolina

  21-09-2018 18:40 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Duke reported two coal ash leaks from a retired plant in Wilmington, North Carolina, following storm Florence.Ash pits and other embankments have ruptured under heavy rain in the past, and Duke Energy had agreed to secure the sites in North Carolina's lowland areas - but that work is ongoing.
  
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• NYT rolls out mammoth report on ‘Russian interference’ that fails to tell allegations from facts

  21-09-2018 18:38 via RT US News
  
  A new take on the ‘Russia hacked the US election’ story by the Gray Lady herself may make some in the journalistic community cringe. It’s usually not considered correct to report allegations as facts, you see.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• U.S. agency accuses Walmart of pregnancy discrimination in lawsuit

  21-09-2018 18:26 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The EEOC, which enforces federal laws banning discrimination in the workplace, said Walmart's distribution center in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has discriminated against pregnant employees since 2014.Federal law requires employers to accommodate workers' pregnancies in the same way as physical disabilities.Arkansas-based Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  
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• McConnell Drops Prediction: Kavanaugh Will Be on Supreme Court in ‘Very Near Future’

  21-09-2018 18:26 via The Western Journal
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised on Friday that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed very soon. Speaking to the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., McConnell said, “You’ve watched the fight, you’ve watched the tactics, but’s here’s what I want to tell you, in the very near future Judge Kavanaugh will be…
  
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