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• Trump credits his firmness for potential Korea talks, signals Olympic concession

  04-01-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  By David Brunnstrom and Christine KimWASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called potential talks between North and South Korea "a good thing" and agreed with South Korea there would be no joint military drills, which North Korea bitterly opposes, during next month's Winter Olympics.South Korea's Presidential Blue House said Trump told South Korea's President Moon Jae-in in a telephone call he hoped inter-Korean talks would lead to good results and that he would se
  
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• Doug Jones' gay son stares down Mike Pence as his father is sworn into Senate

  04-01-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  As his dad was being sworn-in as the first Democrat to serve in the United States Senate in over 20 years, Carson Jones was about become something of an internet celebrity.Standing behind his dad, Doug Jones, and to his left, the younger Mr Jones — an openly gay man — cast a side-eye at Vice President Mike Pence, who worked to limit civil rights for gay people while serving as governor of Indiana.“#NoCaptionNeeded,” Mr Jones later captioned an Instagram post with a photo
  
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• 'I Screwed Up': Sean Spicer Says He Regrets Comments on Inauguration Crowd Size and Hitler

  04-01-2018 23:35 via yahoo.com
  The former White House press secretary says it felt "really bad" when he messed up
  
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• Almost 200,000 US children 'poised to be separated from Salvadoran parents'

  04-01-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Almost 200,000 American children born in the United States risk being separated from their Salvadoran parents if the US government cancels a temporary immigration program, the Salvadoran government said Thursday.The US Department of Homeland Security is expected to announce next Monday whether it will renew TPS for Salvadorans.The US government has already announced it is ending TPS for 59,000 Haitians and 5,300 Nicaraguans, and is weighing doing the same for Hondurans and Salvadorans.
  
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• Woman says mom made her use a wheelchair and invented illnesses leading to years of treatment

  04-01-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  Gypsy Blanchard said she always knew she could walk but her mother Dee Dee Blanchard made her stay in a wheelchair.
  
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• Ohio Family 'Not at all Satisfied' With 11-Year Sentence for Sitter Who Killed Toddler

  04-01-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  A 20-year-old Ohio woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for killing a 2-year-old she was babysitting with a blow to the head, PEOPLE confirms
  
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• Boats Rescue Stranded Office Workers and Residents as 'Bomb Cyclone' Slams Boston with Record Flooding

  04-01-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  The snow was bad enough, but record-setting tides plunged Massachusetts coast with record flooding.
  
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• The Latest: Lawyers upset hearing canceled in 4 deaths case

  04-01-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  TROY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on two men accused of killing two women and two children in a basement apartment (all times local):
  
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• Trump targets book, threatens ex-ally Bannon with legal action

  04-01-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  By Steve Holland and Doina ChiacuWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's lawyer said on Thursday he would try to stop publication of a book that portrays an inept president in a fumbling White House and threatened legal action against former top aide Steve Bannon over "defamatory" comments in the book."Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by author Michael Wolff set off a political firestorm with its portrayal of Trump as not particularly wanting to win the U.S. presidency in 201
  
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• Lead Negotiator In Iran Deal: Trump Is 'Misreading Situation'

  04-01-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  Killing the deal will foment a nationalist mentality in Iran, says Wendy Sherman, the lead negotiator on the deal
  
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• Republicans keep control of Virginia state House after tie-breaker

  04-01-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  By Gary RobertsonRICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Republicans kept control of Virginia's House of Delegates on Thursday after their candidate won a lottery-style drawing to resolve a tied race, but the losing Democrat said she might challenge the results.As cameras clicked in a packed room in Richmond, the state elections board chairman pulled a film canister containing Republican incumbent David Yancey's name from a blue-and-white ceramic bowl loaned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.The win over De
  
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• White House calls it 'laughable' to question Trump's mental fitness

  04-01-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that it's “disgraceful and laughable” to question President Trump’s mental fitness.
  
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• 'Game Of Thrones' Officially Won't Return This Year

  04-01-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  It’s official: “Game of Thrones” fans have to wait at least a year for its eighth and final season to find out who will win the Iron Throne.
  
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• Colorado Lawmakers Are Not Happy About Jeff Sessions' New Marijuana Restrictions

  04-01-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  "The Justice Department has trampled on the will of the voters"
  
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• Freedom Caucus Leaders Suggest Jeff Sessions Should Go

  04-01-2018 22:14 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― One of President Donald Trump’s greatest frustrations during his first year in office has been his hand-picked attorney general recusing himself from a Justice Department investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the Russian government.
  
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• Explosive book on Trump's White House to be released early after Trump's lawyers try to stop its publication

  04-01-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  An explosive new book claiming to have the inside scoop on Donald Trump's White House is going on sale early due to "unprecedented demand," the publisher has said.Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House sparked outcry and threats of legal action from the administration after scandalous, advance excerpts were published in several different outlets.Attorneys for Mr Trump sent cease and desist letters to Mr Wolff and his publisher, demanding that the book's release be halted.
  
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• U.S. Sanctions 5 Iranian Entities for Work on Ballistic Missile Program

  04-01-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  More measures could lay ahead in response to the protests
  
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• Mike Pence swears in Doug Jones as gay son appears to stare him down

  04-01-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, Alabama's newest Senator Doug Jones was formally sworn after his surprise victory over controversial candidate Roy Moore last month.
  
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• President Trump addressed the press corps with video message

  04-01-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, January 4, President Donald Trump delivered a pre-taped video message to the press corps during the White House press briefing.
  
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• President Trump Withholding $255 Million in Aid From Pakistan

  04-01-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Trump earlier said the U.S. has "foolishly" given more than $33 billion in aid
  
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• Why North Korea, China and Russia Fear the Navy's Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers

  04-01-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  The Nimitz-class carriers have participated in nearly every crisis and conflict the United States has been involved in over the past forty-two years. Nimitz was involved in the failed attempt to rescue U.S. embassy personnel from Tehran in 1980, and a year later, two F-14s from Nimitz shot down two Su-22 Fitters of the Libyan Air Force during the Gulf of Sidra incident in 1981.During the Cold War, Nimitz-class carriers conducted numerous exercises with regional alli
  
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• Devastating Trump book offers reporting leads

  04-01-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow looks at some of the reportable, find-out-able claims in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury, beyond the salacious stories that have left the Trump team sputtering with rage and humiliation.
  
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• Legal pot states prepare to resist Sessions

  04-01-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Mayor Jenny Durkan, who helped draft President Obama's marijuana policy, talks with Rachel Maddow about her city and state's preparedness to resist Jeff Sessions' plan to enforce federal drug laws in states that have legalized marijuana.
  
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• Dogs Left Outside In The Cold Have Died And Been Found ‘Frozen Solid’

  04-01-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  The brutal cold that’s believed to be responsible for at least 11 human deaths this week is also taking a toll on animals — particularly pets left outside in the frigid weather.
  
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• Want to make good on your weight loss resolutions? Here are the best diets for 2018, ranked

  04-01-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Determined to make 2018 the year you lose those last stubborn pounds? A new report that analyzed dozens of the most popular diets and weight-loss programs has identified the Mediterranean diet, DASH and Weight Watchers your best chances for success. 
  
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• The Latest: US suspends security assistance to Pakistan

  04-01-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on restrictions on U.S. security assistance to Pakistan (all times local):
  
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• California recreational marijuana sales begin as Trump administration toughens laws

  04-01-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday reversed official policy that had tolerated the growing state-based movement to legalize marijuana sales, just three days after California formally permitted recreational use of the drug.
  
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• Luck of the draw helps Republicans hold Virginia House

  04-01-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans cheered Thursday when their candidate won a state House of Delegates race by luck of the draw, having his name chosen first out of ceramic bowl.
  
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• The Navy's Greatest Mistake: They Stopped Building the 'F-22' of Submarines

  04-01-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The Seawolf-class submarines were envisioned as the best submarines ever built.The submarines were designed to be true hunters, and as a result have eight torpedo tubes, double the number of earlier submarines.It has stores for up a combination of up to fifty Mark 48 heavyweight torpedoes, Sub-Harpoon antiship missiles, and Tomahawk missiles.
  
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• Eagle Snatches Little White Dog From the Ground Before Taking It on Wild Ride

  04-01-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  'We thought she was dead,' the dog's owner said.
  
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• Sen. Cory Gardner Rips Jeff Sessions' Weed Reversal, Threatens To Hold Up DOJ Nominees

  04-01-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Three days after California legalized the use of recreational marijuana, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday indicated he intends to reverse an Obama-era federal policy that discouraged federal prosecution of the drug in states where it was legal.
  
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• Trump administration aims to open nearly all U.S. offshore to oil drilling

  04-01-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday proposed opening nearly all U.S. offshore waters to oil and gas drilling, a move aimed at boosting domestic energy production that sparked protests from coastal states, environmentalists and the tourism industry.The effort to open previously off-limits acreage in the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific oceans comes less than eight years after BP Plc'sDeepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico - the largest in America
  
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• Missing Indiana Student's Mom Pens Heartbreaking Post: 'Too Many New Years Have Come and Gone'

  04-01-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Lauren Spierer‘s mother has again taken to social media to mourn the ongoing mystery surrounding the intelligent, vivacious 20-year-old Indiana University student who went missing in 2011, with a message that says “hoping 2018 is the year for truth”
  
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• A New Book Claims the White House Is Dysfunctional. Trump's Response Proves It

  04-01-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  The Trump White House's response to Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" has helped prove the point about dysfunction and incompetence.
  
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• Some hedge funds deliver double-digit gains for 2017

  04-01-2018 20:43
  BOSTON (Reuters) - A handful of hedge funds ended 2017 with double digit returns, their investors said, at a time the $3 trillion industry took in fresh money and posted its best returns in years,...
  
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• Illinois man told to stop having ‘slumber parties’ in his house for homeless people

  04-01-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  A Chicago man is being warned by city officials to stop offering "slumber parties" at his home to homeless people or else his house will be condemned.Greg Schiller told NBC 5 he began opening his basement up to the homeless last month during brutally cold weather."While we appreciate those who volunteer to provide additional resources in the community, Mr. Schiller's house does not comply with codes and regulations that guard against potential dangers such as carbon monoxide
  
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• How to Avoid Serious Injury When Slipping on Ice

  04-01-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Falling on a slippery surface can cause serious injury. Here's how to fall the right way.
  
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• Here Comes Another Effort To Undermine Obamacare's Rules For Health Insurance

  04-01-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump’s campaign to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance reforms just took a step forward.
  
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• C'mon, Sexism Is At Least Part Of The Reason Hoda Kotb Is Making Less Than Matt Lauer

  04-01-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  Even when women make it to what seems like the top, they’re still slightly behind.
  
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• This Republican Won a Tied Election After His Name Was Drawn From a Bowl

  04-01-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  A Republican won a Virginia state House of Delegates race so close that its outcome was determined by pulling the candidate’s name out of a ceramic bowl Thursday
  
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• Failed asylum seekers blamed for rise in violent crime in Germany

  04-01-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  The large migrant influx to Germany in recent years has fuelled a rise in violent crime, according to the findings of a new government report. Rejected asylum-seekers from countries considered safe were behind much of the rise, while genuine refugees from countries such as Syria and Iraq were more rarely involved, the study found. The report’s authors have called on Angela Merkel’s government to do more to return economic migrants posing as asylum-seekers to their own countries. Viol
  
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• NSA contractor pleads guilty in embarrassing leak case

  04-01-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  A former contractor for the US National Security Agency's elite hacking group has agreed to plead guilty to removing classified documents in a case that highlighted a series of disastrous leaks of top-secret NSA materials.Harold Martin, who reportedly worked for an NSA unit focused on hacking into target computer systems around the world, will plead guilty to one of 20 counts against him with the aim of concluding a 15-month-old case couched in deep secrecy, according to court documents filed la
  
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• Why is this storm a 'bomb cyclone?'

  04-01-2018 18:49 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' chief meteorologist Ginger Zee explains the rapid intensification of the winter storm hitting the eastern U.S.
  
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• Ivanka Trump Reportedly Imagined Herself As The First Female President

  04-01-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  Ivanka Trump reportedly had some pretty high aspirations for herself when her father became president.
  
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• The Internet Is Living For This Photo Of Doug Jones' Gay Son 'Side-Eyeing' Mike Pence

  04-01-2018 18:42 via yahoo.com
  Following one of the most bitterly fought special elections in recent memory, Democrat Doug Jones was formally sworn in as Alabama’s newest U.S. senator Wednesday.
  
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• Sessions crackdown on pot could make life harder for Republicans in November

  04-01-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  A crackdown is unlikely to be popular with the solid majority — 64 percent — of Americans who support pot legalization. 
  
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• Republican wins lottery-style drawing in tied Virginia state House

  04-01-2018 18:32 via yahoo.com
  By Gary RobertsonRICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Republican incumbent David Yancey won a lottery-style drawing aimed at resolving a tied Virginia House of Delegates race on Thursday but the losing Democrat said she could challenge the results.State elections board Chairman James Alcorn's drawing of Yancey's name from a ceramic bowl could give Republicans a 51-49 advantage in the 100-seat House.The electoral equivalent of a coin toss was the latest twist after a recount showed Simonds beating Yancey by
  
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• How Washington Can Influence the Outcome of Protests in Iran

  04-01-2018 18:11 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration would do well to focus on three concrete ways by which it can help Iran’s protests flourish.For more than a week now, thousands of Iranians have rallied publicly against their government, demanding accountability, transparency and an end to the repressive clerical status quo.In the process, they have presented Iran’s radical theocratic regime with one of the most profound challenges to its authority since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
  
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• Windsor official backs homeless crackdown for royal wedding

  04-01-2018 18:05 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — A political storm is brewing ahead of Prince Harry's and Meghan Markle's May 19 wedding over whether to crack down on homeless people and beggars in the well-to-do English town of Windsor.
  
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• Trump lawyer sends cease and desist letters — but the 'Fire and Fury' keeps comin'

  04-01-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is reportedly "furious" about Michael Wolff's forthcoming behind-the-scenes book on the Trump presidency, and now the president is making his tantrum official. On Thursday,Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House author Michael Wolff and book publisher Henry Holt & Co. received a cease and desist letter from a lawyer representing President Trump, according to theWashington Post. The letter ordered the publisher to stop publication of the book, including excerpts and summaries
  
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