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• U.S. to ban some airline passengers from carrying larger electronics

  20-03-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. authorities are planning to ban passengers traveling on certain U.S.-bound foreign airline flights from carrying into the cabin larger electronic devices in response to an unspecified terrorism threat, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.The new rule is expected to be announced as early as Monday by the Department of Homeland Security, the officials said, adding that it had been under consideration since the U.S. government learned of a threat several weeks ago.The officials did not name
  
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• Iraqi leader says Trump 'more engaged' in terror fight

  20-03-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday after talks with President Donald Trump that the new US administration appears more focused on the fight against terrorism than its predecessor.Abadi met Trump at the White House on the 14th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq and two days before a major Washington ministerial meeting on the way ahead in the war against the Islamic State group.Afterward, Abadi said he expected US assistance to the Iraqi forces fighting to drive Islamic State fi
  
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• Two Ohio coal-fired plants to close, deepening industry decline

  20-03-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Electricity company Dayton Power & Light said on Monday it would shut down two coal-fired power plants in southern Ohio next year for economic reasons, a setback for the ailing coal industry but a victory for environmental activists.Republican President Donald Trump promised in his election campaign to restore U.S. coal jobs that he said had been destroyed by environmental regulations put into effect by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.The plants along the Ohio River in Adams County
  
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• FBI head confirms Russia election probe, says Moscow backed Trump

  20-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren StrobelWASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey on Monday confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 U.S. election.Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, made clear that their investigation of Moscow and November's U.S. elections could last for months.Appearing before a congressional
  
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• Recapping day one of confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch

  20-03-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Amna Nawaz and Terry Moran break down day one of confirmation hearings for SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch.
  
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• FBI confirms probe of Trump team ties to Russia

  20-03-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  
  FBI chief James Comey dealt Donald Trump a double blow Monday by confirming a probe into his election campaign's links to Russia last year while repudiating the president's claim that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama.In a high-stakes public hearing televised live from the US Congress, Comey took the extraordinary step of confirming that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether Trump campaign aides colluded with a Russian effort to influence the 2016 election.Comey's bombshel
  
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• Tomi Lahren Suspended From The Blaze

  20-03-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The Blaze founder Glenn Beck said he was displeased with Lahren’s comments on abortion.
  
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• Macron, Le Pen clash in French TV debate

  20-03-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel RosePARIS (Reuters) - The top candidates in France's presidential election clashed in a televised debate on Monday, with centrist Emmanuel Macron accusing far-right leader Marine Le Pen of lying and seeking to divide the French.Opinion polls show Macron and Le Pen pulling away from the pack in an election that has been full of twists and turns, and which is taking place against a backdrop of high unemployment and sluggish growth.One of the most heated exchanges came
  
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• White House tries to shift discussion amid FBI director’s testimony

  20-03-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer, reacting to news from the first day of House Intelligence Committee hearings into the 2016 election, tried to steer reporters away from questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials — and onto the administration’s preferred topic, news media leaks about intercepted conversations involving fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.Spicer’s customary daily press briefing took place in the afternoon
  
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• Export bans hit Brazil's meat industry after scandal

  20-03-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - The fallout from Brazil's rotten meat scandal accelerated Monday when China, a huge market, suspended imports and the European Union demanded a partial ban.Another ban on Brazilian meat imposed by Chile sparked fears of a trade spat between the two South American partners.A charm offensive by President Michel Temer, who even invited foreign ambassadors to a traditional meat restaurant in the capital Brasilia late Sunday, failed to calm importers.
  
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• Brother of Teen Allegedly Kidnapped By Teacher: 'I Do Believe He Has Some Control Over Her'

  20-03-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  The search has intensified for Elizabeth Thomas and Tad Cummins.
  
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• White House defends President Trump’s golf habit and argues it’s different from Obama’s

  20-03-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  During his daily briefing on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer insisted that President Trump uses his time on the golf course productively.Spicer’s comments came in response to a question from Yahoo News noting that Trump has visited the golf course at least 10 times since taking office eight weeks ago, even though for years he criticized former President Barack Obama for golfing.Spicer said there were “two things” to point out in response to the question.
  
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• French election: Top candidates trade barbs in first debate

  20-03-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The leading candidates for France's presidential election traded barbs in their first televised debate Monday, with National Front leader Marine Le Pen the target of initial attacks.
  
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• High court nominee: I'll be unbiased or 'hang up the robe'

  20-03-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch pledged to be independent or "hang up the robe" as the U.S. Senate began rancorous hearings Monday on President Donald Trump's conservative pick to fill a Supreme Court seat that has been vacant for more than a year.
  
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• Sen. Durbin on Gorsuch’s 'frozen trucker' ruling: Temperatures that day were freezing, but ‘not as cold as your dissent’

  20-03-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  On Judge Neil Gorsuch’s first day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin brought up the case of Alphonse Maddin, a trucker fired after his trailer broke down in subzero temperatures. Gorsuch concluded it wasn’t illegal for the company to fire him for seeking safety when he began to lose feeling in his body after waiting hours for help. Durbin said that the temperatures the day of the incident were freezing, but “not as cold as your dissent.”
  
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• U.S. Suddenly Bans Laptops and Tablets on Some Middle Eastern Flights to America

  20-03-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  
  DHS won’t talk about the rationale for the drastic change to existing policy.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 20, 2017

  20-03-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A bee searches for pollen among cherry blossoms on a sunny spring day in Lausanne, Switzerland; Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington; and, Displaced Iraqi women who fled their homes during a battle between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants, try to get out of a vehicle with their children at a checkpoint, to be transfer to Hammam al-Alil camp, in Mosul, Iraq.
  
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• Kidnapping Victim Reveals How a Facebook Video Helped Her Escape Car Trunk

  20-03-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Surveillance footage captured Brittany Diggs falling from the trunk and running to safety.
  
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• Macron, Le Pen aim to consolidate poll lead in French TV debate

  20-03-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel RosePARIS (Reuters) - The top candidates in France's presidential election went head-to-head in a televised debate on Monday as polls showed centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen pulling away from the pack five weeks before the first round.The debate, the first between the five main candidates,may be crucial in helping viewers make up their minds in a French election that has seen major twists and turns.Opinion polls show almost 40 percent of v
  
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• Apple’s own website hints new products might launch tomorrow morning

  20-03-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  We've been hearing rumors swirling about some kind of Apple product launch this spring, but event invites are still nowhere to be seen. With time running out for a March event to happen, it's increasingly possible that Apple could be planning to quietly release updates to some products with no event and minimal fanfare. And based on hints coming from Apple's own website, it could happen tomorrow morning.
  As MacRumors spotted, Apple's system status page currently shows that the App
  
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• Comey Denies Trump Wiretap Claim, Confirms Russia Election Probe

  20-03-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  The head of the FBI publicly challenged President Donald Trump during a House of Representatives Intelligence Committee hearing.
  
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• Kurds, Russia Sign Syria Military Base Agreement

  20-03-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The YPG militia said Russia will help train its fighters with an eye toward forming a more traditional army; Russia described the base as a "reconciliation center" to separate Kurdish and Turkish forces.
  
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• Gorsuch pushes back against Dem senators’ charge he’s against the ‘little guy’

  20-03-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, gave his opening statement Monday to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying, “My decisions have never reflected a judgment about the people before me.” He noted later that “a judge who likes every outcome he reaches is probably a pretty bad judge, stretching for the policy results he prefers, rather than those the law compels.”
  
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• POTUS tweets put White House spin on Comey’s testimony

  20-03-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House responded to a day of damaging testimony to Congress on Monday by FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers with a series of tweets intended to cast the news in the best possible light.The official @POTUS account sent out a series of clips from the House Intelligence Committee’s hearing into the 2016 election, focusing on three issues: Russian efforts to influence the vote, allegations that the Trump campaign was wiretapped, and the 
  
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• Iraq forces push into Old Mosul as thousands trapped

  20-03-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi forces battled Islamic State group fighters on Monday to push into Mosul's Old City where thousands of civilians remain trapped under jihadist rule.The city's historic centre is home to the Al-Nuri mosque, where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in July 2014 proclaimed an IS "caliphate" in jihadist-controlled territory in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.The forces have recaptured several neighbourhoods from IS since starting the push for west Mosul last month, but the battle for the Old City, wit
  
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• FBI probing possible links between Russia, Trump associates

  20-03-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey confirmed Monday that the bureau is investigating possible links and coordination between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump as part of a broader probe of Russian interference in last year's presidential campaign.
  
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• Europe, N.Africa ministers seek to curb Libya migrant flows

  20-03-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Interior ministers mainly from the central Mediterranean region met in Rome on Monday to ramp up efforts to curb migration from Libya amid a sharp rise in the number of people trying to cross to Europe.One year after a controversial deal with Turkey to stop migrants setting out across the Aegean Sea for Greece, the European Union is seeking to reach a similar accord with conflict-hit Libya, despite fierce opposition from human rights campaigners.Just this past weekend more than 3,300 people were
  
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• Plane crash-lands in S.Sudan, at least 37 injured

  20-03-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  At least 37 people were injured when a passenger jet crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau on Monday, government and airport officials said.There were 40 passengers and five crew members on board the South Supreme Airlines plane that had taken off from the capital Juba, said the airline's manager Gabriel Ngang.State Information Minister Bona Gaudensio said an ambulance had brought the passengers from the airport to the hospital, and most of them were released shortly after.
  
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• FBI Director dismisses Trump’s characterization of his comments during hearing on Russia

  20-03-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  During the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a tweet from the official @POTUS account said, “The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.” When FBI Director James Comey was asked about the tweet he responded and said,“We’ve offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact because it’s never something that we’ve looked at.”
  
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• Survivors recount Ghana tree fall tragedy that killed 20

  20-03-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Frank Adansi-Bonnah sat on his bed Monday in the Kintampo Municipal Hospital in central Ghana, his lips covered in bruises and cuts, and his arm in a sling.Eighteen students died at the picturesque spot in the Brong-Ahafo region, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) by road from the capital, Accra."What I remember was I was struggling with the tree," said the 21-year-old Adansi-Bonnah, who is a student at University of Energy and Natural Resources in the regional capital, Sunyani.
  
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• FBI's Comey: from Clinton bugbear to thorn in Trump's side?

  20-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Eight months ago, James Comey hampered Hillary Clinton's White House bid with a damning assessment of her email practices.On Monday, the powerful FBI chief lobbed another bombshell into the world of US politics -- this time directed at the sitting president, Donald Trump.In a high-stakes congressional hearing followed live by millions in America and around the world, Comey flatly rejected Trump's explosive claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor Barack Obama.
  
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• Murder trial opens for officer in 6-year-old boy's shooting

  20-03-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — A trial for a Louisiana law enforcement officer charged with murder in a 6-year-old autistic boy's shooting opened Monday with jurors hearing vastly different portrayals of the child's father and his role in the deadly confrontation.
  
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• Canadians cool to migrants: Are Canuck attitudes inching closer to Americans'?

  20-03-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has governed on a platform that has garnered international praise by refugee advocates for its welcoming stance.Four out of 10 respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday said they believed those illegally crossing the Canadian-US border would make the country "less safe." Forty-eight percent said they supported "increasing the deportation of people living in Canada illegally," while 50 percent of Americans support "increasing the deporta
  
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• China’s Fear of U.S. Missile Defense Is Disingenuous

  20-03-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Beijing knows that THAAD in South Korea doesn’t pose a military threat to China. Its objects are entirely political.
  
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• Personal electronics banned on flights to the US from 13 countries

  20-03-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  All personal electronics, apart from cellphones, have been banned on flights to the US from 13 countries. Royal Jordanian Airlines, the national airline of Jordan, confirmed the news in an advisory posting on Twitter today. TSA confirmed Royal Jordanian's initial statement, but referred any further comment to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS would not comment, provide details or reasons when asked for comment by BGR.https://twitter.com/RoyalJordanian/status/843860881947725825The onl
  
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• Why The Kremlin Intervened In Syria

  20-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia not only had diplomatic advantages to siding with Syria’s government, but economic advantages, too.
  
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• The Latest: Clintons say Rockefeller used fortune for good

  20-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the death of billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller (all times local):
  
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• Mom Says Her Son, 11, Took His Life After He Was Bullied at School: 'I Can't Cry No More'

  20-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  His mother said students were bullying him to sell drugs.
  
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• Exclusive: Almost half of Canadians want illegal border crossers deported - Reuters poll

  20-03-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  
  By Rod Nickel and David LjunggrenWINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Nearly half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States, and a similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.A significant minority, four out of 10 respondents, said the border crossers could make Canada "less safe," underlining the potential political risk for Trudeau's Li
  
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• Tbh, this dog really is the employee of the year, and we quit

  20-03-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  There are good dogs and then there arereally good dogs. And when you have one of the latter—especially a really good, hardworking, business-minded kind of dog—you'd better appreciate it. Michael Reeg's Meeka is one such canine. After Reeg started working from home in his job as district sales manager with the equipment supplier Accuride, he realized just how committed Meeka was to making sure he was never lonely when on the grind.SEE ALSO: Extremely excited dog adorably fails his Cru
  
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• Trump going outside Washington for support on health bill

  20-03-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is deploying an outside and inside strategy to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare," seeking support beyond Washington before making an in-person pitch on Capitol Hill.
  
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• Strikes pound east Damascus after rebel assault

  20-03-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  In the north of the country, meanwhile, a Kurdish militia said the Russian military is to train Kurdish forces fighting the Islamic State group.Rebels and allied jihadists, led by former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front, early Sunday attacked government positions in east Damascus, initially scoring gains.
  
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• FBI’s Comey knocks the Patriots to make a point about the Kremlin’s grudge against Clinton

  20-03-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey deployed a sports analogy — and revealed something about his sports fandom that won’t make him any friends in New England.
  
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• Husband Stammers and Stumbles in 911 Call About 'Injured' Wife He Allegedly Shot to Death

  20-03-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Dwight Luton told cops one story, but surveillance video showed another, police said.
  
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• Blac Chyna Gets Real About Her Relationship With Rob Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Her Ex Tyga and More News

  20-03-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Everything you need to know about Blac Chyna’s relationship with the Rob Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and her ex Tyga, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ breaking box office records this weekend, Zayn Malik’s relationship with Gigi Hadid, and Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s trip to Morocco with baby Luna. Get all the details at MarieClaire.com!
  
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• U.S.-allied Kurd militia says struck Syria base deal with Russia

  20-03-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Russia was setting up a military base in northwestern Syria under a bilateral agreement and will help train its fighters - a step that would anger Turkey as it tries to block Kurdish gains near its borders.One of the major forces in the Syrian conflict, the YPG is also a military ally of the United States and is playing a major part in U.S.-backed operations against Islamic State in areas of Syria further to the east.
  
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• Syria Kurds say will get training from Russian forces

  20-03-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia's military will train Kurdish forces in Syria, the militia's spokesman said Monday, in Moscow's first agreement of its kind with the group that controls large parts of the country's north.The move by Russia, a longtime ally of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, is likely to anger Turkey, which considers the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) to be a "terrorist" group."An agreement was signed between our units and Russian forces operating in Syria that will train us in modern militar
  
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• FBI director compares his dislike for New England Patriots to Russia’s hatred of Hillary Clinton

  20-03-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s alleged involvement in the 2016 presidential election, FBI Director James Comey compared his dislike of the NFL's New England Patriots to Russia’s hatred for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
  
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• FBI head denies Trump wiretap claim, confirms Russia election probe

  20-03-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren StrobelWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the FBI publicly challenged U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, denying the Republican's claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped his 2016 election campaign and confirming his agency had launched a criminal investigation into any collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.FBI Director James Comey told a congressional hearing he had seen no evidence to support a claim by Trump that Obama had wiretapped his
  
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• Judge Orders Veteran Who Served in Afghanistan to Be Deported

  20-03-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Miguel Perez served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and has lived in the US since he was 8.
  
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