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• 5 Pointz Developer Who Whitewashed Artists' Murals Forced to Pay Them $6.7 Million

  13-02-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  “This is a win for artists’ rights all across the country. This is a win for the visual artists and their protection."
  
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• US Senate stumbles in seeking elusive immigration fix

  13-02-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  The US Senate's much-touted freewheeling immigration debate failed to materialize Tuesday, raising prospects of Congress and President Donald Trump falling short in striking a deal on border security and the legalization of young immigrants.Lawmakers have spoken for months about the need to craft a bipartisan compromise after Trump scrapped a program that allowed so-called Dreamers brought to the United States illegally as children to stay, and gave Congress until March 5 to find a solution.Some
  
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• Colorado shuts down funeral home operated by body parts broker

  13-02-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  In its order, issued Monday, the state’s Office of Funeral Home and Crematory Registration suspended operations at Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors after saying that cremated remains returned to one donor were analyzed by the family and found to be concrete, not human ashes.The action against Sunset Mesa and its owner, Megan Hess, comes after an FBI raid last week.During the FBI raid, officials searching the funeral home also found bags of “dry concrete/cement,” the order said.
  
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• One Week Into The Rob Porter Saga, The White House Is A Train Wreck

  13-02-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stalled her press briefing on Tuesday by bringing out Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to tout President Donald Trump’s infrastructure proposal.
  
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• Bill and Melinda Gates urge Trump to respect people and to not cut foreign aid

  13-02-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Bill and Melinda Gates discussed the importance of foreign aid and the state of US politics.Donald Trump should treat people – especially women – with more respect, and continue investments in poorer countries for the sake of global security, the world’s leading philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates said on Tuesday.
  
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• White House claims chief of staff John Kelly knew nothing about FBI background check of Rob Porter until media reports

  13-02-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  During Tuesday's briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that chief of staff John Kelly had not seen the FBI report on Rob Porter because the White House personnel security office had not made its final recommendation for adjudication to the White House.
  
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• People Raise Thousands Of Dollars For Man Who Said No To ICE

  13-02-2018 23:18 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts made headlines last Wednesday when he tweeted that he’d quit his government job rather than process paperwork that could lead to the arrest and deportation of undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Trump budget chief says he would oppose budget if he were in Congress

  13-02-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  By Katanga Johnson and Susan CornwellWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House budget chief said on Tuesday that, if he were still a member of Congress, he "probably" would vote against a deficit-financed budget plan he and Trump are proposing.At a U.S. Senate panel hearing where he defended the administration's new $4.4-trillion, fiscal 2019 spending plan, Mick Mulvaney was asked if he would vote for it, if he were still a lawmaker, which he was before Trump hired him."I probably would have found
  
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• Second U.S. judge blocks Trump administration from ending DACA program

  13-02-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  A second U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's decision to end a program that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children from deportation.U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, cannot end in March as the Republican administration had planned, a victory for Democratic state attorneys general and immigrants who sued the federal government.The decision is similar to a Jan.
  
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• Bomber gets life in prison for New York, New Jersey attacks

  13-02-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey man who set off small bombs in two states, including a pressure cooker device that blasted shrapnel across a New York City block, was sentenced Tuesday to multiple terms of life in prison by a judge who repeatedly called it a miracle nobody was killed.
  
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• Mom of 2 dies from flu complication after refusing medicine due to cost

  13-02-2018 23:01 via yahoo.com
  A second-grade teacher from a Texas elementary school has died from flu complications.
  
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• Trump's Top Spies Just Contradicted the White House on 3 Big Issues

  13-02-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  Disagreements between the White House and the intelligence community persist
  
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• Woman surprises husband with pregnancy announcement on airplane

  13-02-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Couples try to find creative ways to share big baby news, but one woman decided to recruit a flight crew for her announcement.
  
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• The Senate's Immigration Debate Is Already Going Awry

  13-02-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  It was supposed to be the start of something good: a rare open debate on the Senate floor.
  
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• U.S. funding of Syrian YPG militia will impact Turkey's decisions: Erdogan

  13-02-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  By Ercan Gurses and Daren ButlerANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A U.S. decision to continue funding the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia will affect Turkey's future moves, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday ahead of a visit this week by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.U.S. officials have said that Tillerson expects to have difficult conversations when he visits Turkey on Thursday and Friday, given that the NATO allies have starkly diverging interests in Syria.
  
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• Victim, suspects identified after woman found stabbed in Livermore dies

  13-02-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old woman who died after she was found stabbed Monday morning along Tesla Road in Livermore has been identified by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office along with the two people suspected of killing her.
  
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• US strike in Syria kills Russian fighters in first such clash

  13-02-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  A US air and artillery strike has killed Russian combatants in the first lethal violence in Syria between the two nuclear powers, according to sources on both sides.  The battle, which was briefly alluded to in a US-led coalition statement last week, took place in the oil-rich Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria. On 7 February, a large force loyal to Bashar al-Assad and supported by tanks and artillery advanced and fired at a Syrian Democratic Forces base manned by Kurdish troops and Ameri
  
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• Immigrant cleared in killing pleads not guilty to gun counts

  13-02-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Mexican man acquitted of murder in a San Francisco shooting that ignited a national immigration debate pleaded not guilty Tuesday to U.S. gun charges.
  
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• 14 Blueberry Cakes To Eat All Day Long

  13-02-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  From breakfast to dessert. From Delish
  
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• Dutch foreign minister quits after lying about Putin meeting

  13-02-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  By Anthony DeutschAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Foreign Minister Halbe Zijlstra resigned on Tuesday after admitting that he had lied about attending a meeting in 2006 at which he said Russian President Vladimir Putin had outlined a strategy for building a greater Russia.The incident has embarrassed Prime Minister Mark Rutte's four-party coalition government, which has a precarious parliamentary majority of just one seat.It risks undermining Dutch foreign policy at a time when diplomatic ties betwe
  
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• The Latest: California woman fatally stabbed by friends

  13-02-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a woman fatally stabbed and dumped on the side of a California road (all times local):
  
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• Police investigate complaint after father accused of chopping off daughter's hair for getting highlights

  13-02-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Ohio authorities are investigating after a mother’s Facebook complaint that her ex-husband cut their daughter’s hair as punishment for getting highlights went viral.Tens of thousands of people have seen and shared Christin Johnson’s Facebook post, which features three photos: one of a smiling young woman with long hair, and then two of a short-haired person hiding her face.The Haskins Police Department has confirmed it investigated Ms Johnson’s complaint alleging that the
  
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• 'France will strike' if proven chemical bombs used in Syria: Macron

  13-02-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  By Marine Pennetier and Michel RosePARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that "France will strike" if chemical weapons are used against civilians in the Syrian conflict in violation of international treaties, but that he had not yet seen proof this was the case.Macron said last May that the use of chemical weapons would represent a "red line".In a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday expressed concern over signs that chlorine bombs had been used ag
  
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• Spurs Coach Says U.S. Needs Black History Month Because 'We Live In A Racist Country'

  13-02-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich gave a blistering criticism of racism in the United States on Monday.
  
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• A 3-Year-Old Indiana Girl Who Was Not Vaccinated Died From the Flu This Week

  13-02-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  She had a 106 degree fever when she was admitted to the hospital
  
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• Coalition destroys Russian-made tank in Syria

  13-02-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  A US-led coalition drone has destroyed a Russian-designed tank in eastern Syria close to the scene of last week's attack on pro-regime forces that left more than 100 Damascus loyalists dead, officials said Tuesday.The strike on the T-72 tank occurred Saturday near Al Tabiyeh, in Deir Ezzor province, the Pentagon said in a statement."We detected and saw a tank that took a shot at us," Lieutenant General Jeffrey Harrigian, who heads up Air Force operations for the region, told Pentagon reporters.
  
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• Principal recalls horror that ex-student was school shooter

  13-02-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — When a teen began firing at students on a South Carolina elementary school's playground, the principal said her horror became even worse when she recognized him as a former student.
  
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• Artists behind the Obamas' portraits also have some pretty incredible Instagrams

  13-02-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  History was made and rules were broken when former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama commissioned Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald respectively to paint their likeness for their Smithsonian presidential portraits.  For the first time, two black artists had the task of immortalizing the first black couple in the White House and the unveiling ceremony on Monday revealed stunning pieces of work from the seasoned artists. But regardless of how familiar you are with Wiley and She
  
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• Trump Lawyer Says He Paid Stormy Daniels From Own Money: NYT

  13-02-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports breaking news that Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, responding to an FEC complaint, insists he paid $130,000 to adult performer Stormy Daniels from his own money, not Trump Org or Trump campaign money.
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld Says 'It's Possible' He Could Bring Back 'Seinfeld'

  13-02-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Now that Jerry Seinfeld is in his 60s, he finds it easier than ever to just say no to people, he told Ellen DeGeneres on her show Tuesday.
  
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• Kim Cattrall Shows Cynthia Nixon Some Love After Slamming Sarah Jessica Parker

  13-02-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Since plans for a third “Sex and the City” movie were scrapped, things have been about as messy as that time the women all went to Abu Dhabi.
  
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• White powder mailed to Barack Obama’s office building in Washington DC

  13-02-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating a suspicious package filled with white powder shipped to the building in Washington, DC where former President Barack Obama leases an office.DC Fire and EMS were dispatched at 11:05 on Tuesday morning to assist law enforcement in investigating an unknown substance, Public Information Officer Vito Maggiolo told The Independent.Mr Obama has leased offices in the building since he left the White House in 2017.
  
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• Adam Rippon Talks Eating Disorders, Life As A Starving Figure Skater

  13-02-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon opened up to The New York Times about his fraught relationship with food, his lifelong journey to be “thin,” and the repercussions of starvation.
  
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• Mueller probe leaves many witnesses in limbo

  13-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the last nine months, scores of men and women — some powerful and moneyed, others obscure and struggling — have crossed paths with special counsel Robert Mueller. So far though, just four have been charged.
  
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• ANC orders Zuma to step down as South African president

  13-02-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  By James Macharia and Alexander WinningJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party ordered Jacob Zuma on Tuesday to step down as head of state but gave him no firm deadline to go, setting the stage for a potential fight to wrest him from power.Leading members of the African National Congress now want new party leader Cyril Ramaphosa to replace Zuma, ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule told a news conference.Magashule said the party's national executive was split on precisely when Zuma s
  
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• Report: More than 100 Russians killed US airstrikes in Syria

  13-02-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. struck back with a massive round of airstrikes last week after coming under attack by a battalion-sized pro-Assad unit that many believed contained Russian mercenary contractors; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon.
  
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• 3-Year-Old Girl Dies After Being Treated for the Flu

  13-02-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  A 3-year-old Indiana girl died just three days after being released from a hospital where she tested positive for the flu, her family says.
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Politely Explains Why Tweet About Mirai Nagasu Was Insensitive

  13-02-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  After New York Times writer Bari Weiss stirred up controversy on social media with a tweet about figure skater Mirai Nagasu’s historic performance at the Olympics, supermodel Chrissy Teigen weighed in and set the record straight.
  
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• The Only Way to Solve the North Korea Crisis: Kill Kim Jong Un?

  13-02-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  It is possible that the costs of reunifying Korea would not be as burdensome as some people fear.To begin with, Korea doesn’t offer its citizens the same extensive safety nets that Germany does, which should lower the costs.Furthermore, South Korea could finance the costs of reunifying through foreign direct investment, especially given North Korea’s rumored vast mineral wealth.
  
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• Recession fear among fund managers hits post-crisis high

  13-02-2018 20:25
  Equity allocations have been reduced while bond holdings are at a record low, finds BAML's monthly survey
  
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• Obama Portraits Revealed to Have Cost $500,000 as Criticism of Paintings Grows

  13-02-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Art critics appear to remain split over former first lady Michelle Obama's portrait.
  
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• New Hampshire's Attorney General to Powerball Winner: You Can't Remain Anonymous

  13-02-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  The winner is arguing that revealing her name would be an invasion of privacy
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. pushes motion to put Pakistan on global terrorist - financing watchlist

  13-02-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  By Drazen Jorgic and Asif ShahzadISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The United States has put forward a motion to place Pakistan on a global terrorist-financing watchlist with an anti-money-laundering monitoring group, according to a senior Pakistani official.Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to avert being added to a list of countries deemed non-compliant with terrorist financing regulations by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a measure that officials fear could hurt its economy.The Unite
  
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• 'Fox & Friends' Host Grills Raj Shah, Says 'You Got Burned' For Hiring Porter

  13-02-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade pulled no punches on Tuesday when telling White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah the administration “got burned” for hiring a “two-time accused domestic abuser” in reference to former senior aide Rob Porter.
  
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• Let us remember how very bad presidential portraits were until the Obamas

  13-02-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  The Obamas presidential portraits just came out, and they are amazing. SEE ALSO: The internet is enthralled by the Obamas' official portraits I want a print of each one for my home. Everyone wants a print of each one for their home. Barack Obama's portrait should be every album cover from now on. The Obamas portraits are made even better by the fact that until them, presidential portraits were either the most boring or the strangest creations of all time, and nothing in between. If I weren't fro
  
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• Iran Is Playing With Fire in Syria

  13-02-2018 19:45 via yahoo.com
  The downing of an Israeli jet won’t fundamentally alter the Middle East’s strategic balance. 
  
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• How Trump's budget would cut the safety net for the poorest Americans

  13-02-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  The president is also proposing work requirements for several federal programs including housing subsidies and Medicaid.Donald Trump’s budget proposal, unveiled on Monday, revived his calls for big cuts to domestic programs that benefit the poor and middle class, such as food stamps, as well as plans to entirely eliminate several arts and earth sciences funding.The president, who is looking for large increases in military spending, is also proposing work requirements for several federal pr
  
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• Report: Court to release documents from Bill Clinton probe

  13-02-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Federal court is reportedly set to unseal long-secret documents stemming from former Independent Counsel Ken Starr's investigation into then-President Bill Clinton; reaction and analysis from former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
  
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• Bill Gates Warns Tech Giants: Tone It Down -- Or Get Regulated

  13-02-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  From: Bill Gates Memo: Dial back the Silicon Valley hubris, or the government will do it for you.
  
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• Gas Station Clerk Saves Kidnapped Woman by Reading Her Lips

  13-02-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  A Jacksonville gas station clerk helped save a kidnapped woman after reading her lips while she was trapped in a car.
  
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