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• Former Trump campaign aide Nunberg appears before grand jury

  09-03-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Trump campaign aide appeared for hours before a federal grand jury Friday, after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews just days earlier that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
  
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• It Only Takes One Trump Tweet To Fall Into North Korea's Trap

  09-03-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, President Donald Trump shocked the world by agreeing to meet Kim Jong-Un in person in Pyongyang, in what would be the first ever face-to-face meeting between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader.It is certainly possible the White House is correct.
  
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• This Tiny Diamond Contains a Mineral That's Never Been Seen Before

  09-03-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  The discovered mineral — called calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3)— was found trapped inside a diamond excavated from South Africa's Cullinan mine (most famous for yielding the world's largest diamond in 1905, part of which now adorns the crown jewels of the United Kingdom).The finding, published online today (March 7) in the journal Nature, provides an important clue to the puzzle of how Earth's inner structure behaves.While rare to human eyes, calcium silicate perovskite may be s
  
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• US, China agree to keep pressure on North Korea

  09-03-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump enlisted the help of China's Xi Jinping to keep sanctions pressure on North Korea Friday, amid fears that an audacious diplomatic gambit by the US president could lead to backsliding.Trump and the ever-more-powerful Chinese president spoke by phone, the White House said, after the US leader stunned the world by accepting an invitation to meet Kim Jong Un before the end of May.Trump and Xi committed to "maintain pressure and sanctions until North Korea takes tangible steps toward com
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. has ordered Broadcom to give notice of steps to redomicile - sources

  09-03-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  The previously undisclosed requirement shows that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies for potential national security risks, is aware that its jurisdiction could be contested if Broadcom redomiciles to the United States.The panel on Sunday ordered San Diego-based Qualcomm Incto postpone its shareholder meeting by 30 days so it could investigate Broadcom's $117 billion hostile bid for Qualcomm.
  
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• ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli sentenced to 7 years

  09-03-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Former drug company executive Martin Shkreli , better known as Pharma Bro, was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison for defrauding investors of two hedge funds he ran. Jane Lanhee Lee reports.
  
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• Shooting, Hostages Reported at Veterans Home in Northern California

  09-03-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Shots have been fired and hostages have been taken at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, north of Napa, California.
  
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• Trump Pennsylvania special election: When is the rally and what will the president say at it?

  09-03-2018 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally this weekend in Pennsylvania, just days before a special congressional election in the Pittsburgh area.The race is being widely watched to see if it’s another sign that Democrats may sweep the midterm elections in November.The rally will take place at 7pm in Moon Township, about 12 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
  
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• Trump pardons Navy man who took illegal submarine photos

  09-03-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who took photos of classified areas inside a submarine and served a year in federal prison.
  
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• Trump to make first trip to Latin America

  09-03-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump will make his Latin America debut next month, visiting Peru and Colombia after harsh rhetoric towards Hispanic migrants and neighbors to the south.Trump will travel to Peru to attend the Summit of the Americas in Lima on April 13-14, a gathering of leaders from across the Western Hemisphere.From there he will visit Colombia, White House officials told AFP.
  
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• Democrats seek subpoenas for White House security clearance data

  09-03-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats on a congressional committee investigating the White House's security clearance procedures on Friday urged the panel's Republican chairman to compel the Trump administration to turn over records they said were being withheld.In a letter to U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, Representative Elijah Cummings, the panel's top Democrat, asked that a subpoena be issued to force the White House to
  
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• ‘Nobel Prize for Trump!’: Newsroom readers cheer Kim Jong Un news

  09-03-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  “IF Trump can denuclearize North Korea then that would definitely be winning!” “Not a Trump supporter at all but I give credit when due and this is great news.” Trump’s announcement that he plans to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is drawing an overwhelmingly positive reaction on Newsroom — across party lines.President Trump has accepted Kim Jong Un’s invitation to meet sometime between now and May. Thursday evening, Trump tweeted: "Kim Jong
  
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• Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte bans uniformed police offers for 'emotional health' of customers

  09-03-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  A coffee shop has banned police officers dressed in uniform in an effort to prevent their customers from becoming upset by their presence.The ban began when Hasta Muerte in Oakland, California, denied a police officer’s request to buy a drink last month over fears for the “emotional safety” of other customers.
  
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• Lisa Bonet Says Bill Cosby Always Had A ‘Sinister, Shadow Energy’

  09-03-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  In a story for Net-a-Porter, Bonet said she had no prior knowledge of Cosby’s alleged behavior, but added that the comedian emitted some seriously negative vibes when she worked with him.Cosby, 80, and Bonet, 50, were rumored to have a bad professional relationship, and a 1986 interview Bonet did with David Letterman didn’t alleviate suspicions.
  
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• 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli gets 7 years for fraud, cries in court

  09-03-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Before being sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud, "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli cried as he told the judge that he made many mistakes and he apologized to investors.
  
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• Interior Officials Are Citing Coal Execs And Crank Bloggers To Defend Climate Stances

  09-03-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Top officials at the Department of the Interior cited former coal executives and crank bloggers to challenge the overwhelming evidence of the threat posed by man-made climate change, according to department emails released through a Freedom of Information Act request by former Interior scientist Joel Clement.On Sept. 26, Indur Goklany, a science and technology policy analyst at the Interior Department, cited a study briefing from a group called CO2Science, highlighting a
  
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• West Virginia teachers end strike victorious, may serve as model

  09-03-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on the teachers of West Virginia ending their record-setting strike after winning the raise they were demanding, and points out that West Virginia isn't the only state with teachers who are overdue raises.
  
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• After day-long TV meltdown, ex Trump aide reconsiders subpoena

  09-03-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on former Donald Trump aide Sam Nunberg's bizarre performance via successive cable news appearances in which he vowed to defy a Robert Mueller subpoena, only to be reported having second thoughts by day's end.
  
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• 1 of 2 Conjoined Twins Released from NICU, More Than a Year After Birth

  09-03-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  While the other twin, Hope, is still under supervision of doctors, she is expected to also be discharged soon.
  
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• Trump's Latest Pardon Shows The Best Way To Get One: Go On Fox News

  09-03-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― A former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information for snapping photos on a nuclear attack submarine has received a pardon from President Donald Trump — and his attorney says Fox News deserves the credit.The legal team for Kristian Saucier, who served a year in federal prison, had compared his case to the handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use
  
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• Pennsylvania Republicans make case for scrapping new Congress map

  09-03-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  By David DeKokHARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - A panel of three federal judges heard arguments on Friday in the latest attempt by Pennsylvania Republicans to block a court-imposed map of voting districts that could boost Democrats' chances of winning control of the U.S. Congress this year.Lawyers for the Republicans requested an injunction to stop the implementation of the new map and instead grant the Republican-controlled state legislature two months to come up with congressional districts that the
  
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• Markets Right Now: Strong hiring sends stocks, yields up

  09-03-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Stocks and bond yields rose sharply on Wall Street after the government reported a big increase in hiring last month. Investors ...
  
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• The Sam Nunberg exit interview: 'Now the game's over'

  09-03-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  We in the media might not have Sam Nunberg to kick around anymore. Then again, who knows for sure?
  
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• New Florida gun law gets mixed reviews from Parkland survivors

  09-03-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  Melissa Falkowski, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the students and faculty are recovering and her assessment of Florida's new gun control measures.
  
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• First fighters evacuated from Syria's Ghouta as food goes in

  09-03-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  A first group of fighters were evacuated from Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on Friday, as an aid convoy delivered food to the hunger-stricken residents of the enclave despite renewed bombardment.Nearly 950 civilians have been killed since Russia-backed government forces launched a blistering assault on the last opposition bastion near Damascus on February 18.Eastern Ghouta's 400,000 inhabitants have lived under government siege since 2013 and the enclave -- more than half of which has over t
  
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• 'Black Panther' Sequel Officially Confirmed By Marvel Studios Head

  09-03-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed to Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Friday that ― SHOCK! ― a “Black Panther” sequel is certain.
  
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• 2019 Bentley Bentayga V-8

  09-03-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Making reductions to produce more.
  
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• Florida school shooting: Governor signs bill allowing some school teachers to carry guns

  09-03-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a school safety bill in the wake of the Parkland school shooting in which 17 people were killed that would allow some school teachers to carry guns.
  
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• Majority of poll respondents say Florida students 'effective advocates for gun control'

  09-03-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Monmouth University poll also shows some respondents believe students pushing for reform are ‘being manipulated by outside groups’ Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school student Emma Gonzalez and classmates at a CNN town hall in Sunrise, Florida, on 21 February 2018. Photograph: Michael Laughlin/Sun-Sentinel via ZUMA Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
  
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• Former Trump campaign aide spends hours before grand jury

  09-03-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  By Warren Strobel and John WalcottWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Donald Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg, who had balked at testifying in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, appeared at the federal courthouse in Washington on Friday as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.Nunberg made no comment to reporters as he entered the federal courthouse in the morning.Nunberg had been subpoenaed by the federal grand jury but in a daylong televised circus on Mo
  
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• Florida Gov. Rick Scott Signs Gun Bill That Arms Some School Staff Into Law

  09-03-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill into law on Friday that allows certain school staff members who undergo training to carry guns on campuses and enacts several restrictions on gun purchases.Florida legislators passed the bill, SB 7026, earlier this week, three weeks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida. Scott had expressed hesitancy over whether he would sign the bill.
  
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• Mueller obtains personal letter from Trump to Putin: WaPo

  09-03-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  Rosalind Helderman, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about Robert Mueller investigators obtaining a letter, including a handwritten note, from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, inviting Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant.
  
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• Aston Martin Might Bring Back Straight-Sixes

  09-03-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  The 430-hp six in the Mercedes-AMG 53-Series might find its way under the hood of the Vantage.
  
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• Detained immigrants separated from children in U.S. sue Trump administration

  09-03-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Migrants separated from their children after they were detained for illegally entering the United States filed a class action lawsuit on Friday, claiming there are "hundreds" of parents in the same situation, and that the Trump administration is violating their due process rights.The lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and filed in U.S. District Court in southern California, expands on the claim of a single Congolese asylum seeker filed last week.Ms. L, as she is referred to i
  
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• Turkish court orders conditional release of two more journalists: AFP

  09-03-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  An Istanbul court on Friday ordered the conditional release of two more journalists in the trial on terror-related charges of staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper.Cumhuriyet's editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu and investigative reporter Ahmet Sik were ordered to be freed from jail by the judge after a day-long hearing, an AFP reporter said.One more detained suspect, the paper's chairman Akin Atalay, was ordered to stay in jail.
  
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• Gunman takes hostages at California veterans home

  09-03-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Officials say an armed man has taken at least two people hostage at a veterans home in Northern California. Authorities are responding to the scene in Yountville, north of San Francisco. Reena Ninan reports.
  
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• Active shooter takes three hostages at California veterans home

  09-03-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Law enforcement authorities from multiple agencies responded to a report in the morning of shots being fired at the Yountville Veterans Home in Napa County, working to clear buildings and establish a perimeter.A sheriff’s deputy exchanged gunfire with the assailant, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.In the early evening, California Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt Robert Nacke said he knows of no contact on Friday with the gunman or the people who were holed up with him at the veteran
  
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• Kentucky man pleads guilty to attacking US Sen. Rand Paul

  09-03-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's neighbor pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge for tackling the lawmaker in an attack his attorney says was triggered by a dispute over lawn maintenance.
  
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• Donald Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un contingent on 'concrete steps' by North Korea, says White House

  09-03-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence has said the US made “zero concessions” in order to get an invitation to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and talk about a possible end to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme.Mr Pence said that President Donald Trump has “consistently increased the pressure” on North Korea, which has continued the development of its weapons - including an increasing number of missile tests in the last 12 months - despite numerous resolutions by the Un
  
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• Macron warns Trump all sides would lose in 'trade war'

  09-03-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday warned his US counterpart Donald Trump against forging ahead with planned tariffs on European steel and aluminium, saying it risked starting a mutually destructive "trade war".In a telephone call with Trump, the French leader expressed his "deep concerns", saying the tariffs due to come into effect in two weeks "risk triggering a trade war, in which all affected countries would be losers", Macron's office said.
  
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• Equifax Wins In Latest Version Of Senate Bank Bill

  09-03-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Companies that are notorious for mistreating U.S. consumers could benefit from a bipartisan Senate bill that is supposed to protect those consumers.Legislation by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and supported by more than a dozen Democrats would give credit monitoring companies like Equifax a chance to expand their role in the mortgage industry.The bill would require government-backed mortgage companies to solicit applications for credit scoring models for evaluating the creditworth
  
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• Armed Man Takes Hostages at California Veterans Home: Report

  09-03-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  A shelter-in-place order is in effect and the veterans’ home, one of the largest in the country, is on lockdown as law enforcement works to contain the situation.
  
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• Suspected Shooter Who Killed 3 Hostages at California Veterans Home Was Ex-Patient

  09-03-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Three hostages and the suspected gunman were found dead at a California veterans home on Friday.
  
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• 3 Hostages and Gunman Dead at California Veterans Home, Police Say

  09-03-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Reports of a man dressed in black in body armor and armed with what appeared to be an automatic weapon
  
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• The Latest: Attorney says 'Pharma Bro' OK after sentence

  09-03-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli (all times local):
  
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• Martin Shkreli jailed: 'Pharma Bro' sentenced to seven years for fraud

  09-03-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  In a packed Brooklyn courthouse on Friday, Martin Shkreli, the “Pharma Bro” who rose to international notoriety after increasing the price of a lifesaving drug 50-fold, was sentenced to seven years in prison.Shkreli, 34, was convicted of two counts of securities fraud and a single count of conspiracy last August.In court a tearful Shkreli apologized: “I did not act appropriately.” He said that the government had not brought him down.
  
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• Michael Cohen May Have Used Trump Org Email For Stormy Daniels Arrangement: Report

  09-03-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen, personal attorney for President Donald Trump, used his Trump Organization email to arrange to have money transferred to former adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, NBC News reported on Friday.A source familiar with the negotiations said Cohen used the Trump-affiliated email address to arrange the 2016 transfer of $130,000 to Clifford, who goes by the stage name Stormy Daniels.The lawyer used the same email in other negotiations with Clifford, who signed a nondisclosure
  
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• Dramatic Video Captures Rescue of Woman Who Went Overboard While Taking Cruise Ship Selfie

  09-03-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  The 53-year-old woman had been in the water off the Bahamas for more than an hour.
  
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• UK deploys military in Russia spy attack probe

  09-03-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  British soldiers were deployed on Friday to help a counter-terrorism investigation into a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy as speculation mounted over how London could retaliate if the Russian state is found to be responsible.The defence ministry said 180 soldiers were being dispatched to the normally quiet city of Salisbury in southwestern England, initially to remove "a number of vehicles and objects from the scene"."Military assistance will continue as necessary during this investig
  
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• Guns, Trump and steel: Next week's Pennsylvania special election a referendum on 2018's hot-button issues

  09-03-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  The March 13 election has the potential to upend expectations about how safe even the reddest of Republican congressional districts will be in the 2018 midterms.
  
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