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• Man joining Trump administration said Black Lives Matter and Isis were teaming up to destroy America

  17-05-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke has said he will join the Trump administration as an assistant secretary to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Mr Clarke – a prominent, controversial Trump surrogate during the 2016 campaign – made the announcement to conservative radio host Vicki McKenna.Mr Clarke said he will work in the Office of Partnership and Programs, which coordinates outreach efforts to local authorities.
  
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• Hero dog finds family cat under wreckage 2 months after fire

  17-05-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  People say cats have nine lives, but we'll always be shocked by what some cats manage to live through. Like Ringer, a cat who somehow survived for two months under the floor of a house that had burned down. SEE ALSO: Omar the long cat is really, really, really longChristine Marr, Ringer's owner, posted about the miraculous rescue on Facebook. Two months ago, a fire destroyed Marr's home. While Marr and her dog Chloe were rescued from the flames, Ringer could not be found. That is, until Marr mad
  
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• Even the White House doesn't know what Ivanka Trump does

  17-05-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Another day, another opportunity for the internet to troll the Trump family. President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka has been intensely involved in her father's presidency, while First Lady Melania has been pretty absent while living in New York. It's unclear exactly what Ivanka's role is, and apparently, the White House is as confused as the rest of the nation.  Ivanka shared a photo of herself sitting at a table in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Wednesday. The meeting was about
  
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• 'Wolf of Wall Street' Living the High Life Again Despite Owing $100 Million to Scam Victims

  17-05-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Jordan Belfort's huge debt to victims of his crimes hasn't stopped him from living like a king.
  
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• Man Photographed Comforting Mother Cow After She Lost Her Calf During Labor

  17-05-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  
  "She was crushed. Just devastated, and she was tired fro the labor," the man's wife told InsideEdition.com.
  
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• Be thankful for the return of volatility: James Saft

  17-05-2017 23:15
  
  (Reuters) - Wednesday's bout of equity market volatility may be a blessing in disguise for long-term investors.
  
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• 2017 Nissan Titan V-8 4x4 Single Cab

  17-05-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Nissan's best play against the domestics.
  
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• New Questions On Trump-Russia Special Counsel

  17-05-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Sari Horwitz, Justice Department reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new questions raised by the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to the Trump-Russia investigation.
  
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• Lawmaker behind misogynistic forum quits, cites safety fears

  17-05-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker who was criticized for creating a misogynistic online forum resigned Wednesday, citing concerns for the safety of his loved ones and himself.
  
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• California mother pleads for 5-year-old boy's safe return

  17-05-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of a 5-year-old California boy who has been missing for nearly a month made a heart-wrenching plea Wednesday for her son's safe return, saying she believes he's alive and just wants to hug him again.
  
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• New Orleans: Next Confederate statue falls to cheers, jeers

  17-05-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Workers took down a Confederate monument to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard in New Orleans early Wednesday as onlookers watched from lawn chairs, defiant statue supporters waved Confederate battle flags and opponents celebrated.
  
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• Members of notorious US gang nabbed in sweeping probe

  17-05-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Twenty-one alleged members of a notorious Los Angeles-based gang associated with Mexican organized crime groups have been arrested as part of a sweeping probe, authorities said Wednesday.The suspects arrested overnight are all linked to Mara Salvatrucha, a street gang commonly known as MS-13 and considered one of the most ruthless and dangerous in the country.An additional 23 suspects named in a federal indictment were already in custody.
  
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• Donald Trump to announce $350bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia – one of the largest in history

  17-05-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump will use his upcoming Saudi Arabia trip to announce one of the largest arms sales deals in US history - somewhere in the neighbouhood of $98bn to $128bn worth of arms.The White House said the president will propose it as a template for an alliance that will fight terrorism and keep Iran in check.Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began negotiations on this deal shortly after the 2016 US election when he sent a delegation to Trump Tower to meet with the president’s son-in-l
  
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• What’s the Point of Donald Trump’s Afghan Surge?

  17-05-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  And four other questions the President's team needs to answer before expanding America’s longest war.
  
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• NC senator says 'I'm fine' after race collapse

  17-05-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said Wednesday he's "fine" after collapsing during a Washington, D.C., race and being taken away by ambulance.
  
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• Nat Geo marks Endangered Species Day displaying stunning Photo Ark images

  17-05-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Stunning images from the National Geographic Photo Ark, #SaveTogether campaign, sounding the alarm for the conservation of wildlife and their habitats.
  
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• Rep. Maxine Waters: Paul Ryan has ‘not done his job’

  17-05-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday, saying he “has not provided any real leadership.”
  
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• US stocks fall sharply on Trump woes; Dow -1.8%

  17-05-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street stocks fell sharply Wednesday on deepening worries about President Donald Trump's economic agenda following a series of scandals and stumbles.The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 373 points to 20,606.93 for a drop of 1.8 percent -- its biggest one-day decline since Trump was elected.The broad-based S&P 500 fell 1.8 percent to 2,357.03, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 2.6 percent to 6,011.24, retreating from a record.
  
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• Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke says he is joining Trump administration

  17-05-2017 22:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Clarke met with President Trump back in November and was considered a potential candidate to run the department, but the post went to Gen. John Kelly.
  
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• Donald Trump abandons plan to move Israel embassy to Jerusalem

  17-05-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has decided not to announce a plan to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem during his visit to the country, though that reportedly remains his ultimate goal.During the election campaign, Mr Trump vowed to switch the embassy’s location, something that pleased conservatives and supporters of Israel.The vast majority of countries, including the US, locate their embassies in Tel Aviv, out of respect of the disputed status of Jerusalem.
  
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• Head in the clouds: Dutch king was guest pilot for 21 years

  17-05-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch passengers on KLM flights might have recognized the co-pilot's voice when he introduced himself on the airline's Cityhopper services.
  
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• Spreadsheets and determination lead to Geographic Bee win

  17-05-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pranay Varada was stung by last year's National Geographic Bee, when he flubbed the official language of Sierra Leone — it's English; he answered French — and finished in sixth place. Determined to avoid another setback in his final year of eligibility, he started studying for this year's bee that same day.
  
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• US envoy Haley says 'time for evidence' on Trump scandal

  17-05-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday waded into a growing scandal engulfing President Donald Trump and said it was "time for evidence" to shed light on allegations he asked the FBI chief to drop a probe of a top adviser's links to Moscow.Haley was asked about claims that Trump pressed recently-fired FBI boss James Comey to drop a probe into ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn, who was forced out of his post after making inaccurate statements about his contacts with Russian officials.
  
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• Bashir attendance at summit with Trump opposed by US

  17-05-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Sudan said Wednesday that President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for genocide, will appear at the same summit in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump, but the United States indicated it opposes his attendance."I can confirm President Bashir will go ... to Saudi Arabia," Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters in Geneva.
  
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• The Future Of Robots And Artificial Intelligence Is Being Led By These 8 Companies

  17-05-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  These are some of the big players leading the way in AI research.
  
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• Fiery crash kills South Carolina family of 4, truck driver

  17-05-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A family of four died when they were hit by a tractor-trailer in a fiery crash that also killed the truck driver and closed a major North Carolina interstate for hours, authorities said Wednesday.
  
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• Simone Biles Opens Up About Her ‘DWTS’ Season 24 Elimination

  17-05-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Simone Biles feels like a winner, even after being eliminated from “Dancing With the Stars.”
  
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• Trump, LGBT, Lavrov and more — it happened today: May 17 in pictures

  17-05-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump pumps his fist; LGBT activist attends a rally against Homophobia and more of today’s news from around the world in pictures.
  
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• U.S. ICE enforces immigration laws one person at a time

  17-05-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  By Sue HortonLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An hour before dawn on May 11, a team of 10 officers for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began assembling outside a coffee shop in the Southern California beach community of San Clemente.The officers were about to embark on a targeted enforcement action, aiming to pick up five men believed to be in violation of U.S. immigration laws.The men had all been convicted of crimes, ranging from drunk driving to attempted murder, making them high priori
  
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• Ivanka Trump leads meeting at White House in father's absence

  17-05-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Ivanka Trump led a roundtable about human trafficking with members of Congress at the White House, while her father Donald Trump delivered a commencement address to cadets graduating from the US Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut.The meeting, attended by several Democrats and Republicans – including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy – seems to be another sign of Ms Trump’s quickly growing role in the administration.According to the White House pool report, Mr Trump’s e
  
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• Questions from the 2017 National Geographic Bee

  17-05-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the questions from the championship rounds of Wednesday's National Geographic Bee. The winner, 14-year-old Pranay Varada of Irving, Texas, answered all of them correctly.
  
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• Democracy’s darkest moment: the Watergate scandal

  17-05-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  
  The Watergate scandal was famously described by the White House press secretary as a “third-rate burglary,” but it eventually brought down a presidency.
  
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• 14 students and driver hospitalized after school bus crash in Lancaster County, Pa.

  17-05-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  
  More than a dozen children and a bus driver are hospitalized after a rollover crash involving a school bus in Lancaster County, Pa.
  
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• Secret GOP Audio in 2016: 'I Think Putin Pays' Trump

  17-05-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  The Washington Post obtains secret audio of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying to Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in private, "I think Putin pays" Donald Trump. Lawrence O'Donnell discusses with Evan Osnos and David Corn.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Does US believe Western Wall is in Israel?

  17-05-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nikki Haley, President Donald Trump's U.N. ambassador, waded into a diplomatic minefield on Wednesday by asserting that the Western Wall is part of Israel, a deviation from U.S. policy.
  
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• Top GOPer Speculates About Putin Paying Trump

  17-05-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow shares a late breaking Washington Post story about House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy telling colleagues he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is paying Donald Trump.
  
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• US capital slams "attack" as Erdogan guards clash with protest

  17-05-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The city of Washington on Wednesday condemned a "brutal attack on peaceful protesters" after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bodyguards clashed with pro-Kurdish demonstrators.Two people were arrested and 11 were injured, including a police officer, amid demonstrations Tuesday as Erdogan held meetings in the US capital after visiting President Donald Trump.Witnesses told AFP that members of Erdogan's security detail pushed past Washington police outside the ambassador's residence and attacked a
  
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• MS-13 Gang Targeted in Sweep Across Los Angeles

  17-05-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  A joint police task force in Los Angeles conducted a raid overnight, arresting 21 members of the brutal gang known as MS-13. (May 17)
  
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• Ex-Fed Chairman Bernanke 'puzzled' by market indifference to political risk

  17-05-2017 20:51
  
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday that he is "puzzled" by how little markets have reacted to major political risks, and skeptical about the Trump...
  
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• MS-13 gang targeted in pre-dawn sweep across Los Angeles

  17-05-2017 20:49 via yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement fanned out across Los Angeles in pre-dawn sweeps, serving arrest and search warrants as part of a three-year investigation into the ultra-violent street gang MS-13.
  
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• Honeywell launches $100 million venture fund

  17-05-2017 20:45
  
  (Reuters) - Honeywell International Inc launched a $100 million investment fund on Wednesday that will focus on technology startups.
  
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• Scientists Find Remote Beach Covered With 19 Tons of Trash

  17-05-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  This South Pacific island is an ecological disaster, even though it's thousands of miles from the nearest city.
  
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• Mueller Reputation Helps Trump-Russia Probe

  17-05-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Tim Weiner, author of "Enemies, A History of the FBI," talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller's reputation and legacy as Director of the FBI, and the integrity he brings to the Trump-Russia investigation as special counsel.
  
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• Chelsea Manning: from antisecrecy activist to transgender idol

  17-05-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Chelsea Manning was a meek, geeky army private who stunned the world in 2010 by leaking a massive trove of secret US diplomatic records, hoping to spark debate over the country's role in wars.The former Private Bradley Manning, 29, survived two suicide attempts and the US military's conservative views on gender while serving a 35-year sentence for espionage for handing over hundreds of thousands of pages of US diplomatic communications and other records to WikiLeaks in 2010.Manning's father kick
  
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• ICE arrests of undocumented immigrants without criminal records up more than 150 percent, U.S. officials say

  17-05-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  While the Trump administration initially said that it would focus its deportation efforts on undocumented immigrants with criminal records, figures released Wednesday show that the arrests of those without criminal records have more than doubled this year.
  
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• Everything new coming to Android O

  17-05-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Google I/O 2017 has been absolutely packed with announcements, but the company isn't done yet. More than an hour into the event, Google has revealed some of the exciting new features coming in Android 8.0 (aka Android O). And don't forget -- you can sign up for the Android O beta right now.The Android O segment of Google I/O was broken up into two sections: Fluid Experiences and Vitals.
  Fluid Experiences encapsulate the new features and functionality coming to Android with the upcoming update. T
  
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• Mom, 2 Young Sons Feared Dead After Plane Vanishes in Bermuda Triangle

  17-05-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Jennifer Blumin of New York, her two sons, ages 3 and 4, and 52-year-old Nathan Ulrich were aboard the small aircraft.
  
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• Maxine Waters talks impeachment of Trump

  17-05-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., spoke to Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Yahoo News Deputy Editor Dan Klaidman about the latest revelation that President Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn. Waters said, “I’ve been on the road to impeachment ahead of everybody.”
  
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• Democrats try to force vote on independent Russia probe

  17-05-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday they would try to force a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on forming an independent commission to investigate possible Russian influence on the 2016 election, saying Republicans could not be trusted to thoroughly investigate President Donald Trump.Representatives Elijah Cummings and Eric Swalwell introduced a bill in December 2016 and again in January 2017 seeking to establish a 12-member, bipartisan-appointed, independent commission to investigat
  
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• Tulsa police officer's manslaughter trial goes to jury

  17-05-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  An Oklahoma jury began deliberations on Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of a white Tulsa police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man in an incident caught on video that stoked the debate over racial bias in U.S. policing.Officer Betty Shelby, 43, faces at least four years to life in prison if convicted of manslaughter in the September 2016 killing of Terence Crutcher, then 40, whose car was blocking a road.In the videos, Crutcher can be seen with his hands in the air and walking awa
  
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