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• Michigan Official Says He Won't Apologize for Sharing Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts

  12-07-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  "I don't expect everyone to see things the way I do"
  
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• Pregnant Reporter Rips Viewer Who Body-Shamed Her: 'Do I Really Look Disgusting?'

  12-07-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  She wrote a blog post about an encounter.
  
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• US intelligence 'detected Russian officials discussing meetings with Trump associates in 2015'

  12-07-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Newly revealed intelligence shows Russian officials discussed meeting with associates or advisers to Donald Trump in 2015 just months before he declared his candidacy to become president, the Wall Street Journal reports.At that time, intelligence analysts didn't really know what to make of the intercepted conversations, since Mr Trump was a global celebrity who had done business in Russia before.In light of recent emails posted on Twitter by Donald Trump Jr that detail a conversation to facilita
  
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• One image shows how far the Tesla Model 3’s design has come

  12-07-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  When Tesla unveiled the Model 3 to the world nearly 16 months ago, Elon Musk made a point of noting that we were only glancing at a Model 3 prototype. So while the vehicular design, in a broad sense, was complete, it was never any secret that the car's final design remained a work in progress. As a quick example, the original Model 3 we saw last year featured a curious trunk design that some quickly categorized as a "design fail" for a variety of reasons.Since then, Tesla has made a number of su
  
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• How Bad Will the Russian Scandal Get?

  12-07-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
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• Lawsuit claims US has threatened and misled immigrants seeking asylum

  12-07-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  
  US border officials have systemically blocked asylum seekers from accessing the asylum process, in violation of US and international law, according to a lawsuit filed by immigration advocates on Wednesday.A collection of legal groups brought the suit, which claims that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) have put asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border in grave danger by threatening, misleading or rejecting them.
  
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• Education Dept. Civil Rights Head: 90% of Campus Sexual Assaults Amount to 'We Were Both Drunk'

  12-07-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Betsy DeVos will meet with advocates about campus sexual assault on Thursday
  
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• Long-term, surgery for localized prostate cancer offers little extra benefit

  12-07-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  
  By Gene Emery(Reuters Health) - A large new study that has followed prostate cancer patients for up to two decades concludes that surgery is probably not the best option for most men with localized tumors.For every 100 men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer who underwent surgery, only four fewer died from the disease compared with those who were just kept under observation and treated for symptoms.For every 100 men with low-risk disease who had a radical prostatectomy, no more than one w
  
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• White House misspells word 'inaccurately' in video attacking CBO for being inaccurate

  12-07-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House has deleted and reissued a video that misspelled the word "inaccurately" in an attack on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for being inaccurate.The 45-second spot, which the White House issued via their YouTube channel, was meant to cast doubt on the independent agency’s health care projections.The White House quickly deleted the video and uploaded a version with the correct spelling.
  
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• The Latest: $5M bail set for man in search for missing 4

  12-07-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the search in Pennsylvania for four missing men (all times local):
  
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• Rep. Gowdy troubled by Trump team’s ‘amnesia’ over Russia meetings

  12-07-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy told Fox News that he’s “troubled by the amnesia of people in the Trump orbit” concerning the revelation that Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with a Russian lawyer during his father’s 2016 presidential campaign to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Amelia Earhart Theory Challenged by Japanese History Enthusiast

  12-07-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  There's evidence that a photo crucial to the theory was published two years before Earhart even went missing
  
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• ‘We were both drunk’: How a top civil rights official describes most Title IX campus rape accusations

  12-07-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  A top civil rights official in the U.S. Department of Education characterized “90 percent” of campus sexual assault accusations that rise to the level of a federal Title IX investigation as amounting to “we were both drunk."
  
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• History Channel's Amelia Earhart Photo Possibly Discredited

  12-07-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A predated image of Amelia Earhart in the History Channel's new documentary launches an investigation from the network.
  
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• Lawrence: Kushner Letting Trump Jr. Take the Fall

  12-07-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  O'Donnell explains why Jared Kushner could be in serious legal trouble for not disclosing the Russian lawyer meeting on his security clearance form and why Trump's lawyers are right for trying to build a wall between the President and his son-in-law.
  
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• Trump says he gets along 'very, very well' with Putin

  12-07-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that he has a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after the two met for more than two hours in Hamburg last week.It doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship," Trump said.Trump, who has come under criticism for his reluctance to criticize Putin directly over Russia's meddling in US elections last year, said the two had an "excellent meeting" on the sidelines of the G20 summit last Friday.
  
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• ISPs surprise net neutrality fans on protest day

  12-07-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T has a surprise for tech firms and internet activists supporting net neutrality, the principle that bars internet service providers from playing favorites with websites and apps.
  
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• General: Plane at cruising altitude before problems, crash

  12-07-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday.
  
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• White House launches preemptive strike on CBO, anticipating report on health care bill

  12-07-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, left, and Keith Hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office.Awaiting a new Congressional Budget Office score on the latest rewrite of the Republican health care bill expected next week, the White House has launched an attack on the nonpartisan group.
  
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• Nicky Morgan named interrogator-in-chief of the City

  12-07-2017 21:56
  
  Former City minister elected first female leader of the influential Treasury Select Committee
  
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• Once-loyal prosecutor emerges as hero in Venezuela protests

  12-07-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro who have taken to the streets day after day in Venezuela now find themselves rallying in support of an unexpected hero: the chief prosecutor who helped throw many of them into jail.
  
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• US troops inside Raqa, IS Syria stronghold: official

  12-07-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  United States military advisers are operating inside the city of Raqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a US official said Wednesday.The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an "advise, assist and accompany" role to support local fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces as they battle IS, said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a military spokesman.The troops are not in a direct combat role but are calling in air strikes and are working closer to the fight tha
  
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• GOP in Crisis Over Trump Jr.-Russia Email Revelation

  12-07-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Republicans backed Donald Trump for President and now leaders like Paul Ryan find themselves are struggling to answer simple questions like, "would you have taken the meeting Donald Trump Jr. did?" David Frum and Ned Price join Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• NASA’s Jupiter orbiter captures breathtaking shots of Great Red Spot

  12-07-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  NASA's Juno orbiter has been cruising around Jupiter for some time now, and it's already sent back some jaw-dropping sights, but if there's one feature of the gas giant that captures our imaginations more than any other, it's the Great Red Spot. A couple of days ago, NASA followed through with its plan to send the spacecraft closer to Jupiter's massive storm than ever before, and the agency has just released the very first images from that encounter.The Juno craft made its trip over the spot as
  
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• Photographer uncovers Italy’s most extraordinary abandoned buildings

  12-07-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  A young photographer from the Netherlands has been exploring deserted structures in Italy and has found provocative sights.
  
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• Greece: Suspects in tourist's fatal beating held for trial

  12-07-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five of nine men suspected in the beating death of a 22-year-old American tourist outside a bar in Greece have been jailed pending trial on murder charges.
  
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• First attempt to impeach President Donald Trump launched by California congressman

  12-07-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  The first bid to impeach President Donald Trump was launched on Wednesday, with a California Democrat filing a long-shot attempt to force Mr Trump from office. Brad Sherman, a Los Angeles area congressman, accused Mr Trump of obstructing investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, in part by firing former FBI Director James Comey. About | Impeachment The move is unlikely to gain momentum, however. Republicans dominate Congress and have so far show no willing
  
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• Before Trump Meeting, Russia Quietly Gobbled Up a Tiny Chunk of Georgia

  12-07-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Moscow’s meddling isn’t limited to eastern Ukraine or U.S. elections — it’s still encroaching on another former Soviet republic.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says health bill 'has to get passed'

  12-07-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican effort to replace the Obama health care law (all times local):
  
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• Amazon wants to give you $10 for free. You should take it.

  12-07-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Remember Kozmo.com? Talk about an idea ahead of its time. The service launched in the late 1990s and used huge warehouses to store tons of goods that it could then deliver to customers within a few hours of ordering. It was a great idea, but it was the wrong approach. Partnering with local establishments is definitely the way to go to create a service like this, and that's exactly what Amazon has done with Prime Now.
  This awesome service lets users in 32 different cities across the country order
  
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• Body of judge in unsolved boy's death found with bag on head

  12-07-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The body of a 65-year-old retired judge — the first to investigate the still-unsolved 1984 death of a four-year-old boy that transfixed France — has been found with a plastic bag over his head.
  
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• This Is a Nearly Production-Ready Aston Valkyrie

  12-07-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  This is our first official look at a near-production ready Aston Martin Valkyrie. Wow.
  
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• 2020 Ford Bronco Four-Door Rendering Is Perfect

  12-07-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Let's hope the production model looks this good.
  
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• Problem occurred at altitude in deadly US Marine crash

  12-07-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Marine Corps transport plane that crashed, killing all 16 troops aboard, plummeted to the ground after "something went wrong" while at cruising altitude, a general said Wednesday.The Marine Reserves KC-130T plane was heading from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina on Monday on a mission to transport personnel and equipment to Naval Air Field El Centro, California.It crashed in rural Mississippi after losing contact with air traffic control at about 2100 GMT, Brigadier G
  
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• Donald Trump Jr.'s emails just sparked the most frustrating grammar debate

  12-07-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  When it comes to inspiring controversies this week, Donald Trump Jr. is the gift that keeps on giving. First there were the emails stating that junior would "love" to meet with a Russian government lawyer about incriminating Hillary Clinton info. Then there was the hidden nugget that, wow, those emails contain truly the worst email signature ever. Now there is a new Donald Trump Jr. scandal that's got the internet shooketh:How exactly the hell are we supposed to punctuate this man's name?! SEE A
  
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• Starbucks Is Giving Away Free Drinks This Friday

  12-07-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  It's rolling out MAJOR changes to its summer menu, too.
  
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• How To Get A Lifetime Of Free Ice Cream At McDonald's

  12-07-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  McD's is making dreams come true.
  
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• Maltese parliament legalizes same-sex marriage

  12-07-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Maltese lawmakers voted on Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage on the Roman Catholic Mediterranean island, fulfilling Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's campaign promise to make this the first law brought before parliament in his new term.Muscat said such wording was needed to avoid categorizing any member of society.Muscat won a second term in office on June 3 and had vowed to reinforce his call for equality in society.
  
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• Saudi crown prince discusses defense ties with Turkish minister

  12-07-2017 20:37 via yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia's defense minister, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, discussed military ties in a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart, Saudi state news agency SPA reported, after a new contingent of Turkish troops arrived in Qatar.Ankara has backed Qatar in its dispute with four Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, which have imposed sanctions on Doha, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
  
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• Antarctica's fragile ice

  12-07-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  A large portion of an ice shelf has broken off from the Antarctic mainland, creating one of the world’s largest iceberg. Here’s a look at the threatened ice shelves and glaciers of the South Pole.
  
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• Nasa takes first high-res pictures of Jupiter's most extraordinary feature

  12-07-2017 20:30 via yahoo.com
  
  An American spacecraft has taken the first high resolution photographs of Jupiter's most extraordinary feature, after soaring close to the crimson cloud tops of the Great Red Spot. Nasa's Juno probe passed just 5,600 miles (9,000) kilometres above the massive storm system which is wider than the Earth and may have been raging for more than 350 years. The close fly-by was completed during Juno's sixth scientific orbit of the solar system's biggest planet. The craft, which is s
  
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• Great White Shark Seen Eating Whale Carcass In Australia

  12-07-2017 20:28 via yahoo.com
  
  A Great white shark was filmed feasting on a whale in Australia.
  
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• New way to see artery damage before heart disease sets in

  12-07-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Researchers have developed a new way to non-invasively peer into a person's arteries, detect inflammation, and possibly ward off heart disease before it becomes too severe to treat, a study said Wednesday.Heart disease is the top killer of men and women in the United States, accounting for one in four deaths nationwide.Each year, about 750,000 Americans have a heart attack.
  
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• Couple Charged in Death of Daughter, 3, Allegedly Tried to Conceal Her Injuries With Makeup

  12-07-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  She was dead when police arrived, according to reports.
  
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• Democrat files first articles of impeachment against Donald Trump

  12-07-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A Democratic representative has introduced the first formal article of impeachment against President Donald Trump.Representative Brad Sherman alleges Mr Trump committed obstruction of justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey amid agency investigations into Russian meddling in the US election.The Constitution allows impeachment in the case of “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours".
  
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• Policeman pulls over black woman and quickly discovers she is the state attorney

  12-07-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A pair of police officers caught themselves on camera, struggling to explain why they had pulled over Florida’s first and only black state attorney.Aramis Ayala, who serves as state attorney in the Sunshine State's 9th Judicial Circuit, was pulled over on 19 June.When he asks what agency she works for, she responds: “I’m the state attorney”.
  
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• MS-13 Member Narrated And Filmed Stabbing Of Teen: Report

  12-07-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The victim was forced to strip before she was tortured and murdered.
  
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• Man Takes His Children on Road Trip With Their Mother's Body Stuffed in Box: Cops

  12-07-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Jose Anthony Rodriguez drove around for days with his girlfriend's battered body stuffed inside a cardboard box, police said.
  
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• Trump Jr.'s Russia emails could trigger probe under election law

  12-07-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  
  By JanWolfeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who had incriminating information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton that could help his father's presidential campaign could lead investigators to probe whether he violated U.S. election law, experts said.Trump Jr. met the woman, lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, on June 9, 2016, after an email exchange with an intermediary.The emails, tweeted by Trump Jr. on Tuesday, could pr
  
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• Donald Trump spends morning tweeting about TV before tweeting 'I have very little time to watch TV'

  12-07-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump says that he doesn’t have time for watching television, even while tweeting clips of shows with coverage he approves of.Mr Trump took to the social media platform in the morning to defend his son, Donald Trump Jr, amid a scandal that has rocked Washington.After retweeting a video of “Fox and Friends” where the hosts discussed the Senate’s decision to delay the August recess to work on a healthcare overhaul, and after applauding his son’s TV appearance t
  
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