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• Marijuana Industry Says Seniors Are The Next Budding Market

  19-04-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Legalized pot is an idea Americans are warming up to ― almost two-thirds, 64
  
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• Netflix theater purchase may open door to major film awards

  19-04-2018 23:50
  Netflix has come a long way since its days of mail-order DVDs. The streaming company is driving original content production, pumping out its own shows and movies that, in many cases, have earned it critical acclaim. The industry has, at times, pushed back against Netflix’s evolutionary presence, but it can’t slow the company down. Underscoring that reality, Netflix is reportedly … Continue reading
  
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• 2018 Ford F-150 Diesel: 5 things to know

  19-04-2018 23:50
  Diesel engines may have suffered a setback in passenger cars over the past couple of years, but their torque and economy makes them perfect for pickups like the 2018 Ford F-150 Power Stroke Diesel. Ford’s plans to put a diesel under the hood of America’s best-selling vehicle were announced some time ago, but now we’re finding out just how frugal … Continue reading
  
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• Rudy Giuliani Joins President Trump's Legal Team in the Russia Probe

  19-04-2018 23:36 via yahoo.com
  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining the legal team defending Donald Trump in the special counsel's Russia investigation.
  
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• Justice Department Releases Comey Memos To Congress

  19-04-2018 23:36 via yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice has shared copies of the so-called Comey memos with
  
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• Gym employees accuse black member of not paying, call cops

  19-04-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Employees of an LA Fitness in New Jersey wrongly accused a black member and his guest of not paying to work out and called police, prompting an apology from the company.
  
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• With a $500 lower sticker, the 2018 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid packs in more

  19-04-2018 23:24
  Hyundai has priced up its new 2018 Sonata Hybrid, and if you’re in the market for both fuel efficiency and value at the dealership this might be the sedan for you. The new 2018 Sonata Hybrid borrows the styling of its gas-only sibling, but these a 2.0-liter GDI 4-cylinder gas engine and a 38 kW electric motor under the hood. … Continue reading
  
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• Comey: I don't believe that Loretta Lynch did anything improper

  19-04-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Rachel Maddow about worries he cited in his book, "A Higher Loyalty," about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch with regard to the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation.
  
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• Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Is Joining Trump's Legal Team

  19-04-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's legal team has a new member: Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• Chuck Schumer to Unveil Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

  19-04-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  "Ultimately, it's the right thing to do"
  
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• The Latest: Student: Confederate flag theft sparked protests

  19-04-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  AUBURN, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on Confederate flag demonstrations outside of a Michigan high school (all times local):
  
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• Nest earmarks 1 million Thermostat E units for low-income homes

  19-04-2018 23:06
  Nest is helping address the energy burden in America with Power Project, an initiative that earmarks 1 million Nest Thermostat E units for low-income homes. The devices will be provided to needy homes in partnership with energy companies, non-profits, and housing agencies over the next five years, says Nest. Recipients are promised them “at little or no cost.” Power Project … Continue reading
  
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• Russia, Syria trying to 'sanitize' chemical attack site: U.S. State Department

  19-04-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  By Lesley WroughtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has credible information that Russia and Syria are trying to "sanitize" the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria while denying access to the area by international inspectors, the State Department said on Thursday.Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had not been given access to the site of the alleged attack in the town of D
  
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• Caravan migrants hop freight train in Mexico heading north

  19-04-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The remnants of a caravan of Central American migrants that drew angry tweets from President Donald Trump hopped on the roofs of a freight train Thursday heading for northern Mexico.
  
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• This is the (new) Apple robot that recycles your iPhone

  19-04-2018 22:53
  Apple just revealed their new robot made for taking your iPhone apart, piece by piece. This is a new version of the robot introduced in 2011 that had a very similar task. That 2016 robot was called Liam, and this new robot is called Daisy. This version of the iPhone-take-apart robot isn’t just a recycler, it’s made of recycled parts … Continue reading
  
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• Justice Department watchdog ‘refers Andrew McCabe findings to prosecutors’

  19-04-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog has reportedly sent prosecutors the findings of a probe into former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who was fired after being found to have misled investigators.Referring the information to the US attorney’s office would pave the way to potentially opening a criminal investigation.The Department of Justice declined to comment.
  
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• US police chief apologizes after Starbucks arrests uproar

  19-04-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Philadelphia's police chief publicly apologized Thursday after the arrest of two black men in a Starbucks store triggered uproar in the United States, admitting he "failed miserably" with his initial response.After the coffee chain moved to repair the damage to its image in the wake of a series of protests at Starbucks outlets, the city's police commissioner Richard Ross told reporters his force also needed to do better.
  
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• US Air National Guard member fired over woman who took enlistment oath with dinosaur puppet

  19-04-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Three US Air National Guard members have been disciplined, and one of them fired, for an incident involving a children’s dinosaur puppet.Master Sergeant Robin Brown, a senior non-commissioned officer (NCO) with the Air National Guard, was removed from her position at the Tennessee Joint Public Affairs Office after video circulated of her taking her enlistment oath with a tyrannosaurus rex puppet in hand.Ms Brown repeats each line of the oath back, moving the sock puppet’s mouth along
  
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• How 'Hero' Southwest Pilot Pushed to 'Break into the Club' of Elite Navy Fighter Pilots

  19-04-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Tammie Jo Shults was one of the first female fighter-pilots in the U.S. Navy
  
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• Queen Elizabeth Publicly Supports Prince Charles for the First Time to Succeed Her as Leader of the Commonwealth

  19-04-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Saying Charles would "carry on the important work" of leading the Commonwealth
  
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• Trump Blasts California Over Troops Who Won't Focus On Immigration Enforcement

  19-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump attacked California on Thursday for doing
  
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• Toddler shoots pregnant mother while playing with dad's gun

  19-04-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Raw video: Police say 3-year-old accidentally shot her pregnant mom in parking lot in Indiana.
  
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• Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen drops lawsuits against BuzzFeed and Fusion GPS

  19-04-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, has dropped his libel lawsuits against BuzzFeed and research firm Fusion GPS but still continues to face other legal troubles.Mr Cohen had sued the two separately over the January 2017 release of the now infamous dossier written by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, prepared for the political research firm and published by the news outlet.Mr Cohen’s attorney David Schwartz said in a statement to Politico: "The decision to vol
  
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• Animal Paw Crew Socks

  19-04-2018 21:52 via shutupandtakemymoney.com
  Animal Paw Crew Socks!
  
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• Destiny's Child Singer Michelle Williams Got Secretly Engaged Before Coachella Reunion

  19-04-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  Can you keep up, baby boy? Apparently so. Days after the history-making
  
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• Why Kris Kobach Was Found In Contempt For Not Clarifying To People That They Could Vote

  19-04-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) was found in contempt of court on
  
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• U.S. regulator to order jet engines inspection after Southwest explosion

  19-04-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it will order inspections of at least 220 aircraft engines as investigators are focusing on a broken fan blade in an engine that exploded Tuesday on a Southwest Aiirlines flight, killing a passenger.The order, which it initially proposed in August following an engine failure in 2016 on another Southwest Airlines Coflight, will require ultrasonic inspection within the next six months of fan blades on all CFM56-7B engines that have accrued a certain nu
  
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• Ted Cruz shrugs off past feud and lauds Trump in Time essay

  19-04-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Ted Cruz wrote an essay for Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2018” issue, praising President Trump, who the Texas senator once described as a "bully," "narcissist" and "serial philanderer."
  
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• The Deadly Southwest Engine Explosion Is a Dangerous Warning Sign for Thousands of Planes

  19-04-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  This has happened once before
  
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• Exclusive: EPA chief's aides, security agents made $45,000 trip to Australia

  19-04-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  By Jeff MasonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, under fire from lawmakers for travel and security expenses, spent about $45,000 in government money to fly five people to Australia to prepare for a planned trip that was later canceled.Two of his aides and three security agents flew to Australia last August on business-class tickets costing roughly $9,000 each to set up meetings for the EPA administrator.The purchase of business-class tickets was not a
  
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• Assad steps up efforts to crush last besieged enclaves

  19-04-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  By Angus McDowalland Suleiman Al-KhalidiBEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - The Syrian government stepped up its efforts on Thursday to retake the opposition's last besieged enclaves, as rebels prepared to withdraw from one and a newspaper reported an ultimatum against another.President Bashar al-Assad scored a major victory this month by retaking eastern Ghouta, the biggest rebel stronghold near Damascus, putting his forces in by far their strongest position since the early months of the seven-year-old ci
  
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• Fresno State professor under fire for Barbara Bush 'racist' tweet

  19-04-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  California State University at Fresno says it is taking "seriously" professor Randa Jarrar's tweet calling Barbara Bush an "amazing racist" after the former first lady died on Tuesday, according to the school's Vice President of Academic Affairs Lynnette Zelezny. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Netanyahu says at least six states considering moving embassies to Jerusalem

  19-04-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that "at least half a dozen" countries were considering moving their embassies to Jerusalem following the U.S. decision to do so.U.S. President Donald Trump announced in December that the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, infuriating even Washington’s Arab allies and dismaying Palestinians who want the eastern part of the city as their capital.The U.S. Embassy is due to relocate to Jerusalem from Tel Avi
  
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• US awards $1bn contract for hypersonic missile as it falls behind Russia and China in new arms race

  19-04-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  The US Air Force is awarding almost $1 billion (£700m) to Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic missile as it tries to keep up with recent strides made by Russia and China in building ever faster weapons. Moscow last month claimed the lead in the race to develop missiles that can travel at many times the speed of sound. Its defence ministry revealed video footage of its plane-launched Kinzhal missile, which is reportedly capable of accelerating to ten times the speed of sound. American o
  
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• U.S. says ex-official at PDVSA unit pleads guilty to money laundering

  19-04-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  A former official of a subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] pleaded guilty on Thursday to a U.S. charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department said.Cesar Rincon, a Venezuelan citizen who was extradited to the United States from Spain after his arrest there last year, pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the department said.
  
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• Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA

  19-04-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed Rep. Jim Bridenstine
  
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• The scientists behind the most innovative cancer research

  19-04-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of top scientists and researchers from around the world gathered at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago to discuss innovative cancer science that will hopefully lead to new therapies and maybe even a cure. Meet two of the top investigators aiming to make cancer a manageable disease so patients can live long and live well.
  
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• GW Pharma gets FDA panel nod, first cannabis-based drug nearing approval

  19-04-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of approving the first cannabis-derived medicine in the country, a childhood epilepsy treatment developed by GW Pharma.The drug, Epidiolex, is derived from cannabidiol (CBD), one of the hundreds of molecules found in the marijuana plant, and an FDA decision is expected by June 27.The FDA panel found that the drug's benefits outweighed the risks to treat patients aged 2 years and older with Dravet Sy
  
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• Iraqi warplanes attack Islamic State positions in Syria

  19-04-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  By Ahmed AbouleneinBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi warplanes attacked an Islamic State explosives factory and other positions inside Syria on Thursday, Baghdad's military said, in a rare air assault across the border.Iraqi F-16 jets targeted the militants near the city of Hajin in coordination with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Iraqi military spokesman said."Carrying out air strikes on Daesh gangs in Syrian territories is because of the dangers posed by said gangs to Iraqi ter
  
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• Gaza protest camps moved closer to Israel border fence

  19-04-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza protest organizers moved sit-in tents closer to the Israeli border fence Thursday, a day before a fourth planned mass demonstration, raising fears of more bloodshed.
  
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• Alex Rodriguez’s nephew kidnapped, held for ransom

  19-04-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  Former MLB star Alex Rodriguez’s nephew was kidnapped and held for ransom in a Lamborghini deal gone wrong.
  
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• Victim of Berlin anti-Semitic attack was an Israeli Arab who 'wanted to see what it was like' to be Jewish

  19-04-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  One of the victims of an anti-Semitic attack in central Berlin that shocked Germany this week is not Jewish, it has emerged. Adam Armoush told German television he was wearing a Jewish kippah skullcap in an attempt to prove it was safe to wear one on the streets of Berlin. But the experiment went wrong when he and a companion were set upon in the affluent neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg and whipped with a belt by three men who shouted “Yahudi”, the Arabic word for Jew.  The mai
  
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• Iraq says it carried out air raid against IS in Syria

  19-04-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  The Iraqi air force on Thursday carried out a "deadly raid" against positions of the Islamic State group in neighbouring Syria, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said.Abadi ordered the strike against the jihadists "because of the danger they pose to Iraqi territory," a statement said.The US-led coalition fighting IS said the air strike targeted an area of eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province near Hajin, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border with Iraq.
  
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• Black Men at Center of Starbucks Arrest Controversy Tell Their Story: 'There Was No Reasoning'

  19-04-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  The men claim the Starbucks manager called 911 within two minutes of their arrival in the store.
  
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• Cat Finds New Home After Walking 12 Miles Back To Owners Who Rejected Him

  19-04-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Things are looking up for a North Carolina cat who walked 12 miles to get back
  
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• 'Civility, grace': What Washington could learn from Barbara Bush

  19-04-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  In an era of hyper-partisan feuding and noxious personal attacks, the life and lengthy marriage of former first lady Barbara Bush serve as poignant reminders in power-obsessed Washington that decency and grace can win out.Bush's death Tuesday at age 92 triggered an outpouring of affection for the snowy-haired matriarch of one of America's storied political dynasties.Smart, tough and quick-witted, Bush had a no-frills style, a focus on family, and a willingness to engage across the political aisl
  
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• Philadelphia police commissioner apologizes over Starbucks arrests

  19-04-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross apologized Thursday over the controversial April 12 arrests of two black men in a Starbucks. Ross said the department will be releasing a new policy on how to deal with similar situations in the future.
  
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• After Syria missile strikes, US stuck in holding pattern

  19-04-2018 19:15 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The drama of U.S. and allied missile strikes on Syria has obscured a sobering fact: The U.S.-led campaign to eliminate the Islamic State from Syria has stalled.
  
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• The Best Of Urban Outfitters' Spring Shoe Sale

  19-04-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  Forget the holidays, it's officially the most wonderful time of the year. If
  
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• Toddler shoots pregnant mother after finding father's loaded gun

  19-04-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  A three-year-old girl shot her pregnant mother after finding her father's loaded gun, police said.Shanique Thomas was sitting in the front seat of the car outside shops in Merrillville, Indiana, a small town around 40 miles south of Chicago, when she was shot between the chest and shoulder, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Department."There was blood flowing all from her stomach – just coming out like water, like a faucet," said Hadassah Zirkle, who was working in a shop nearby when
  
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