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• Another Trump-Kim summit? The first one hasn't accomplished much.

  07-01-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump ought to set 'beautiful letters' aside and continue sanctions until Kim Jong Un takes concrete steps toward denuclearization: Our view
  
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• Disneyland Raising Ticket Prices Ahead Of Star Wars Land Opening

  07-01-2019 23:53 via gamespot.com
  
  It just got more expensive to visit Disneyland in California. As it regularly does, Disney recently raised ticket prices, and this time the hike comes not long before the opening of the new Star Wars area, Galaxy's Edge, this summer.According to The Los Angeles Times, the cheapest ticket to get into Disneyland now costs more than $100, while daily parking prices are increasing from $20 to $25. In 2016, Disneyland launched a demand-based pricing scheme that offers lower prices on days that are le
  
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• CES 2019: All The HTC Vive Announcements

  07-01-2019 23:50 via gamespot.com
  
  CES 2019 is underway, giving us a glimpse at some of the new tech products that are on the way in the coming year and beyond. HTC was the latest company to host its CES press conference, and it made a number of big announcements during the event, from revealing a new Viveport subscription model that offers unlimited access to VR games to unveiling its next VR headset, the Vive Cosmos.If you weren't able to follow along with the press conference, we've rounded up all of the major news from HTC's
  
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• Harley-Davidson's LiveWire Electric Bike Is Here—And Very Expensive

  07-01-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  It's expensive, but fast and tech savvy.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Suggested a 70% Tax Rate on the Rich. Here’s How It Would Work

  07-01-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Should the richest Americans pay a 70% marginal tax rate? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 29-year-old New Yorker who recently became the youngest Congresswoman in history, says it's worth considering.
  
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• Fortnite - Search Six Waterside Goose Eggs Location Guide

  07-01-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The 14 days of Christmas event has been extended! You have one more week to get some fun goodies by completing certain challenges. One of them requires you to search for six waterside goose eggs and although there are many locations, here's just enough to get you to complete the quest.
  
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• Senators renew attempt to protect special counsel Mueller

  07-01-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are renewing their attempt to protect special counsel Robert Mueller's job, sending a signal to President Donald Trump as he keeps up his criticism of Mueller's Russia investigation.
  
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• California Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2-Year-Old Son Provided the Perfect Prop for His Inauguration Speech

  07-01-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom's inauguration speech was interrupted by his 2-year-old son, Dutch.
  
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• Skyrim Composer Not Currently Involved With Elder Scrolls 6

  07-01-2019 23:20 via gamespot.com
  
  Veteran Elder Scrolls composer Jeremy Soule is "currently not involved" with The Elder Scrolls VI. Responding to questions from fans, Soule said on Facebook that he "would never turn [his] back on [The Elder Scrolls]," but at this stage he is not lined up to do the music.It sounds like it is still very early days for The Elder Scrolls VI, so it might be the case that Bethesda hasn't yet approached any composers to do the music for the game."While I've not said much about this out of courtesy to
  
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• More Alien Stories Following Ripley's Daughter Could Be On The Way

  07-01-2019 23:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Alien fans might be getting more than just a new mobile game in 2019. A new tweet from the Alien Anthology Twitter account, which represents 21st Century Fox's franchise, suggest the company means to expand on the story started in 2014's Alien: Isolation in more ways than one.The Alien Anthology account tweeted that more news is on its way for the franchise, specifically concerning Amanda Ripley, the daughter of series protagonist Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). That followed the announcement t
  
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• Here Are the White House's Latest Demands to End the Shutdown

  07-01-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House is asking for $5.7 billion for a border wall to end the shutdown, while also demanding billions of dollars more.
  
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• Protester interrupts Gavin Newsom's swearing in ceremony

  07-01-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  INTERRUPTED: A protester disrupted Gavin Newsom's inauguration ceremony, shouting that the death of police Cpl. Ronil Singh was on the new governor's hands.
  
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• National parks, aid for poor hit as US govt shutdown drags on

  07-01-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  National parks that are unstaffed, long lines at airports with workers calling in sick, and assistance to the nation's poorest threatened: the partial shutdown of the US government is hitting everyday Americans and no solution is in sight.Garbage is piling up around trash cans in national parks that lack federal employees who have been deemed non-essential and are not being paid.Unlike during previous shutdowns, some national parks have remained open even without park rangers to ensure safety.
  
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• CES 2019: HTC Announces Viveport Infinity, Offering Unlimited Access To Select VR Games

  07-01-2019 22:56 via gamespot.com
  
  During CES 2019, HTC announced Viveport Infinity. Infinity is the first subscription model for Viveport that allows you to have unlimited access to the service's catalog of games.The current Viveport subscription models are for a three-month, six-month, and 12-month plan which each allow you to play a total of 15, 30, and 60 games respectfully. For each plan, you're allowed to play five new games every month. These plans essentially create a figurative time limit to completing titles, but they a
  
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• US teen sex trafficking victim granted clemency over murder

  07-01-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A US trafficking victim serving a life sentence for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was a teenager was granted clemency Monday following a celebrity-backed viral campaign for her freedom.Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said Cyntoia Brown, now 30, had been given "too harsh" a sentence for the 2004 murder of a real estate agent in the city of Nashville.Johnny Allen had picked up Brown, who was 16 at the time and a runaway under the influence of a dangerous pimp, and taken her to his h
  
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• White House: IRS will issue tax refunds despite government shutdown

  07-01-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Internal Revenue Service will issue 2018 tax refunds even if the
  
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• CES 2019: HTC Vive Reality System Is Basically PlayStation Home For VR

  07-01-2019 22:50 via gamespot.com
  
  HTC Vive users will be able to experience their virtual reality headset in a new way thanks to Vive Reality System, a reinvention of the headset's core software that creates a world around the user, allowing them to engage with the software in a more immersive way. Vive Reality System was announced during CES 2019 and conjures memories of PlayStation Home, a virtual world social world that Sony launched on PS3.Like PlayStation Home, Vive Reality System is very much focused on social interactions
  
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• CES 2019: HTC Vive Cosmos Is Portable, But We Don't Know Much Else

  07-01-2019 22:40 via gamespot.com
  
  During its CES 2019 press conference focused on virtual reality, HTC made a series of announcements revealing what's next for the company. It capped off the event with the reveal of the Vive Cosmos, its next VR headset.You can get a quick look at the headset in the video below; the goal of Cosmos appears to be addressing some of the flaws that most VR headsets have faced to this point. HTC claims it provides "absolute comfort" and "easy set up." Additionally, it offers the Vive experience withou
  
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• Man is 'outraged' to find out the ice-cream he just ate at Pizza Hut was not, in fact, vegan

  07-01-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  23-year-old Kori Paul Swabey of Plymouth, England just wanted some dessert
  
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• Amazon and Netflix push Wall Street higher

  07-01-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The benchmark S&P 500'sadvance added to a 3.4 percent surge on Friday, when strong U.S. jobs data eased worries over the economy and remarks by the Federal Reserve head calmed investors nervous that interest rate hikes would crimp growth.China has the "good faith" to work with the United States to resolve trade frictions, China's Foreign Ministry said, while U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said he saw "a very good chance that we will get a reasonable settlement" as the two countries star
  
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• Mexico defends hands-off stance on Venezuela

  07-01-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador defended his administration's hands-off policy on Venezuela Monday, saying it marked a return to the country's longstanding policy of non-intervention.
  
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• Over 1.3 million North Carolinians on food assistance question benefits amid government shutdown

  07-01-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  As the government shutdown prepares to enter day 18, over 1.3 million North Carolinians who are part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, have questions about what will happen should the program run out of money.
  
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• Fortnite Adding New Suppressed Weapon In Next Update

  07-01-2019 22:20 via gamespot.com
  
  Epic Games has been introducing a new item or weapon to Fortnite on a near-weekly basis since the game's Battle Royale mode became a global hit, and that trend will continue this week. Ahead of the title's latest update, the developer is teasing the arrival of yet another new weapon: the Suppressed Sniper Rifle.The gun is listed as "coming soon" in Fortnite's in-game news feed, confirming it'll arrive as part of this week's content update. "Strike at your opponents quietly with this suppressed b
  
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• Biggest Dreamliner: United Airlines now flying Boeing's 787-10

  07-01-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  United Airlines’ newest aircraft type – the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner – is now flying paying passengers for the carrier. Jet debuted on LAX-Newark route.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Retailers lead stock gains on Wall Street

  07-01-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• CES: HTC Vive Pro Eye Offers Native Eye Tracking

  07-01-2019 22:10 via gamespot.com
  
  HTC has revealed the Vive Pro Eye, a new version of its virtual reality headset that it describes as "an evolution in the enterprise VR space." Revealed during CES 2019, the big new innovation that HTC is touting for the Vive Pro Eye is, as the name indicates, eye tracking.As detailed during the HTC keynote, Vive Pro Eye integrates eye tracking natively and will give users "greater accessibility, gaze-oriented menu navigation." This, in turn, removes the need for controllers to be used for navig
  
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• Correction: Family Killed-Interstate story

  07-01-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — In a story Jan. 7 about a Kentucky traffic crash that killed a Michigan family, The Associated Press reported erroneously who a cousin of the deceased father called about the crash. Habib Abbas, of Dearborn, said he called the dead father's sister, not the dead mother's sister.
  
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• Judge rips attorney as 'unprofessional' in Russia probe case

  07-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday reprimanded an attorney for a Russian company accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election, saying his references to Looney Tunes and "Animal House" in recent court filings are inappropriate.
  
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• Nintendo Switch And 3DS Games Are Now Available At The Humble Store (US Only)

  07-01-2019 21:57 via gamespot.com
  
  If you live in the US and have a Nintendo Switch or 3DS, you now have one more option for buying games. The Humble Store has added a selection of digital Nintendo games to its lineup. The games come in the form of codes that you can redeem on the US Nintendo Eshop. And if you have a Humble account, you should check your email, because Humble sent some account holders a coupon for $5 off any Nintendo game priced at $19.99 or more.The lineup of Nintendo games on the Humble Store includes many of t
  
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• Peru bars entry to Maduro, Venezuela government

  07-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Peru announced Monday it was barring entry to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his cabinet, increasing pressure on the socialist leader days ahead of his second-term inauguration.The move announced by Peru's Foreign Minister Nestor Popolizio followed a decision Friday by 12 Latin American countries and Canada not to grant recognition to Maduro's hardline government following his controversial re-election in May.
  
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• U.S. House committee queries airport staffing during shutdown

  07-01-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security committee has asked the Trump administration how it is ensuring adequate staff at airports as some transportation employees fail to show up for work due to a partial U.S. government shutdown.Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, also asked the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for the exact number of employees who are calling in sick and if the agency has a contingency plan for future mass absences or resignations of its screeners
  
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• CES 2019: There's A New Marvel's Avengers VR Game You Play While Riding In A Car

  07-01-2019 21:42 via gamespot.com
  
  During CES 2019, Disney and Audi unveiled Holoride, a software product used to create VR games that you play from the back seat of a moving car. One of the games tested at the event by CNET was Marvel's Avengers: Rocket's Rescue Run, which has you fly through an asteroid field with Rocket and Iron Man as you shoot down enemy drones and approaching asteroids.According to CNET, Holoride is a VR experience that's "intended to match, visually, what the passengers feel as they ride: If the car turns,
  
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• CES 2019: Disney And Audi Teamed Up To Unveil VR Experiences You Play While Riding In A Car

  07-01-2019 21:42 via gamespot.com
  
  During CES 2019, Disney and Audi unveiled Holoride, a software company that creates VR experiences that you play from the back seat of a moving car. One such experience tested at the event by CNET was Marvel's Avengers: Rocket's Rescue Run, which has you fly through an asteroid field with Rocket and Iron Man as you shoot down enemy drones and approaching asteroids. Disappointingly, it seems like the experience was created solely for CES, and will never be commercially available.According to CNET
  
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• US trafficking victim granted clemency over killing of man who bought her for sex as teenager

  07-01-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  AUS trafficking victim serving a life sentence for killing a man who bought her for sex when she was a teenager was granted clemency on Monday following a celebrity-backed viral campaign for her freedom. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said Cyntoia Brown, now 30, had been given "too harsh" a sentence for the 2004 murder of a real estate agent in the city of Nashville. Johnny Allen had picked up Brown, who was 16 at the time and a runaway under the influence of a dangerous pimp, and taken her to h
  
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• SCOTUS rejects Exxon in climate change document dispute

  07-01-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court cleared the way for officials to obtain records to probe whether Exxon hid its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change.
  
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• Shutdown Threatens $200 Million a Day in Federal Contracts

  07-01-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The companies run the gamut, from businesses that provide upgrades to flight communications and air traffic systems, to producers of anti-malarial and HIV medicines in Africa, to operators of government cafeterias.In the fiscal year that ended Oct. 1, those agencies announced $89.3 billion in obligations to contractors, an average of $245 million each day, according to reports from federal databases.
  
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• Give The Mad Box Game Console A Slogan And You'll Get Free Games For Life

  07-01-2019 20:41 via gamespot.com
  
  In keeping with its trend of asking potential customers to weigh in on the creation of its Mad Box game console, Slightly Mad Studios is apparently looking to crowdsource a marketing slogan for the machine. Studio head Ian Bell asked potential customers for their best take on a catchy phrase to sell the box, offering money and free games for the winning entry.I want to be clear about this. The best slogan for the 'Mad Box' gets 10K and free games for life. This isn't a joke. Hit me.— Ian B
  
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• The Latest: Saudi woman leaves Bangkok airport hotel room

  07-01-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  BANGKOK (AP) — The Latest on a Saudi woman who says she is fleeing abuse by her family (all times local):
  
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• Hamas says Egypt to close Gaza crossing to Palestinians leaving enclave

  07-01-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt will bar Gazans from crossing into its territory from Tuesday, the enclave's Islamist rulers Hamas said, after the Palestinian Authority withdrew staff from the border point over alleged abuses.The partial closure will raise fears over the impact on Gaza's two million residents, for whom a rare opening of the crossing in recent months has provided an opportunity to leave the strip.A statement late Monday from the Hamas-run interior ministry said Egyptian authorities had informed them the c
  
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• Pokemon Go January 2019 Community Day: Start Time, Featured Pokemon, Bonuses, And More

  07-01-2019 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The first Pokemon Go Community Day of the new year is just around the corner. The latest real-world event for Niantic's popular mobile game is set to take place around the globe this Saturday, January 12, and like always, it'll give players an opportunity to capture rare Pokemon and earn some generous in-game bonuses.While each Community Day typically runs for only three hours, the specifics of these events vary by month. To help you get ready, we've rounded up all of the most important details
  
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• U.S. top court declines to take up Trinity Industries guardrail case

  07-01-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The justices left in place a 2017 decision by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturning a 2014 verdict by a federal jury in Texas that found Trinity had defrauded the government.Joshua Harman, a competitor of Dallas-based Trinity, filed the lawsuit in 2012 under the False Claims Act, which allows whistleblowers to sue companies on the government's behalf to recover fraudulently paid-out taxpayer money.Because of Joshua Harman's efforts, there is more federal and state s
  
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• U.S. top court declines to take up Fiat Chrysler hacking case

  07-01-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Fiat Chrysler'sappeal in a class action lawsuit over allegations that its Jeeps and other trucks are vulnerable to hacking, one of the first legal cases involving automotive cyber security risks.The court's action paves the way for an October trial in the litigation centering on the question of whether truck buyers can sue over hypothetical future injuries without having been actual victims of cyber security attacks on their vehicles.Fiat Chrysle
  
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• Popular Comedy Anime Konosuba Is Getting An English Dub, Coming To Crunchyroll This Month

  07-01-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Crunchyroll has announced more dubs for several of the series on its streaming service. Most notable is Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World Season 1, which is getting a new English dub, as well as dubs in Spanish and Portuguese.In the English dub cast, Konosuba's main protagonist Kazuma is voiced by Arnie Pantoja, who's appeared in One-Punch Man and Re:Zero. The ladies Kazuma is accompanied by--Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness--are portrayed by Faye Mata, Erica Mendez, and Cristina Vee r
  
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• Diablo 3 Darkening Of Tristram Event On Nintendo Switch

  07-01-2019 19:44 via gamespot.com
  
  We go back through a dark portal to experience some classic Diablo 2 esque action in the Darkening of Tristram event on the Switch.
  
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• Scenarios: How Trump, U.S. Congress might end border wall shutdown fight

  07-01-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  As the partial U.S. government shutdown entered its 17th day, no clear end was in sight, with Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats in a standoff over his demand for $5 billion for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.It is hard to see how the impasse will be resolved but here are some possible scenarios for how it might play out, as well as potential winners and losers, based on interviews with lawmakers and aides in Congress and the Trump administration.Trump could offer to protec
  
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• Putin fires howitzer on Russian Orthodox Christmas

  07-01-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  For Christmas, Russian President Vladimir Putin got to do something that many children dream of: fire a really big gun. (Jan. 7)
  
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• Kurdish official asks for US clarifications over withdrawal

  07-01-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's Kurds are awaiting clarifications from the U.S. over America's plans to pull out its troops from Syria following comments made by a top White House aide that appeared to counter earlier comments by President Donald Trump, a Syrian Kurdish official said Monday.
  
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• ‘Putin’s Chef’ Lawyer’s Tactics Called ‘Unprofessional’ by Judge

  07-01-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  "It’s unprofessional, inappropriate and ineffective," Judge Dabney Friedrich told defense lawyer Eric Dubelier during a Washington federal court hearing on Monday.Dubelier’s client is Concord Management and Consulting LLC, a company run by Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a man sometimes referred to as "Putin’s chef" because Vladimir Putin had hosted dinners in his restaurants.
  
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• U.S. judge: defense lawyer's conduct in Russia probe 'unprofessional'

  07-01-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Judge Dabney Friedrich told lawyer Eric Dubelier to stop what she called "meritless personal attacks" against Mueller's team.Dubelier is defending Concord Management and Consulting LLC, a Russian firm accused of funding a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump's favor."I'll say it plain and simple: knock it off," Friedrich told Dubelier in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
  
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• "RBG", US top court justice, misses new session

  07-01-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent at the resumption of Supreme Court hearings Monday, recovering at home from cancer surgery at age 85.A linchpin of the court's liberal wing, Ginsburg is said to have never missed a hearing since her appointment to the high court 25 years ago."Justice Ginsburg is unable to be present today, but will participate in the consideration and decision of the cases on the basis of the briefs and the transcripts of oral arguments," chief justice John Roberts said.
  
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