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• White House Stands By Trump's Voter Fraud Claim, But Offers No Evidence

  09-04-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  The White House on Monday stood by its claim that millions of votes were cast
  
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• Bolton Arrives At White House, And National Security Staff Start Leaving

  09-04-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― John Bolton began his first day as President Donald Trump's third
  
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• Oklahoma schools delay testing linked to federal funding

  09-04-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma school districts tried to figure out Monday how to meet a requirement to conduct standardized tests for students to receive federal funds while many teachers and students are not in the classroom during a strike of educators.
  
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• The Latest: Russian envoy accuses US of stoking tensions

  09-04-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
  
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• Report Suggests Scott Pruitt May Have Signed Off On EPA Staff Raises

  09-04-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  An internal email suggests that Environmental Protection Agency administrator
  
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• FBI raids Donald Trump’s personal lawyer’s office 'for Stormy Daniels payment documents'

  09-04-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  The FBI has raided the offices of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump‘s personally attorney, and have seized records related to his 2016 payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, according to reports.Federal prosecutors obtained the search warrant after special counsel Robert Mueller sent a referral, according to Mr Cohen’s lawyer, who said the search was “completely inappropriate and unnecessary”.It does not appear as though the search, which was first reported by
  
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• Kentucky governor to veto new taxes, 2-year operating budget

  09-04-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Comparing lawmakers from his own party to children coveting sugary cereal, Republican Gov. Matt Bevin on Monday vetoed a $480 million tax increase the legislature used to fuel record increases in public education spending.
  
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• Syrian government celebrated after targeting and killing Marie Colvin, defector claims

  09-04-2018 23:06 via yahoo.com
  The Syrian government celebrated after they targeted and killed veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin, a former Syrian intelligence officer has claimed. Ms Colvin, an American journalist working for the Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed by rockets fired at a house they were staying at in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs, western Syria, in 2012. British photographer Paul Conroy, French reporter Edith Bouvier, and Syrian interpreter Wael al-Omar were all wounded in t
  
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• Bill Cosby paid $3.4m to silence woman he had sexually assaulted, prosecutor says

  09-04-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  Bill Cosby began his retrial on Monday at Montgomery county court of common pleas in Norristown, Pennsylvania.Bill Cosby paid $3.4m to buy the silence of a young woman he had previously drugged and then sexually assaulted, a prosecutor alleged on Monday as the comedian’s retrial got under way in Pennsylvania in the first major courtroom drama of the #MeToo era.Kevin Steele, the district attorney for Cosby’s home county of Montgomery, revealed a secret that has remained hidden for the
  
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• 'World must see justice done' in Syria: Haley

  09-04-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday urged the United Nations Security Council to act following the latest alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, warning the United States was ready to respond.Russia said a US military strike against Syria would have "grave repercussions" and stressed that the use of chlorine or sarin had not been confirmed in the attack Saturday in Douma.
  
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• 2018 Ford F-150 5.0L V-8 4x2 SuperCrew

  09-04-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  It's a closet hot rod.
  
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• New swearing-in gives US Senate record number of women

  09-04-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith was sworn in Monday as the newest member of the US Senate, raising the number of women in Congress's upper chamber to 23, a new record.Vice President Mike Pence, who presides over the 100-member Senate, swore Hyde-Smith into office."Congratulations, senator, and welcome," he said.
  
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• U.S. Border agent charged with murdering Mexican claims self-defense

  09-04-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  A U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with murdering a Mexican teenager when he fired across the border in 2012 testified on Monday that he acted in self defense after rocks were thrown at him.Agent Lonnie Swartz, 43, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez on Oct. 10, 2012.Swartz, who has been on trial in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Arizona, since March 20, sobbed on Monday while recounting the shooting.
  
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• Use of search warrant sends message on Michael Cohen probe

  09-04-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about the legal particulars of the FBI raid on Donald Trump's attorney Michael Cohen and what it means that a warrant was used instead of a less obtrusive means of gathering evidence.
  
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• Seized material from Trump attorney suggests broad investigation

  09-04-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  Tom Hamburger, investigative reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about what the range of material taken from Trump attorney Michael Cohen's home, hotel, and office suggest about the scope of the investigation.
  
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• Child Abuse Claims Could Be Key to Answering Mystery Question in California Cliff Crash: Why?

  09-04-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  The family moved from Minnesota to Oregon to Washington as child welfare agencies and schools launched investigations
  
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• US attacks Moscow over suspected Syria chemical attack: 'Pictures of dead children mean nothing to countries like Russia'

  09-04-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  The US has launched a scathing attack on Russia’s role in propping up the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad with the country’s ambassador to the United Nations saying Washington “will respond” to a suspected chemical attack in Syria, regardless of whether the UN acts or not.As Russia claimed first there was no evidence of a chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma and then said the US had helped anti-Syria militants “stage” the incident which killed
  
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• The Latest: Kentucky governor vetoes budget, tax increases

  09-04-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Latest on Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's decision to veto the budget and a tax increase (all times local):
  
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• Oklahoma teachers press lawmakers for tax plan to end strike

  09-04-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of Oklahoma teachers packed the state Capitol on Monday to press the Republican-dominated legislature to enact a capital gains tax overhaul that educators said could help end a statewide walkout now in its second week.During a rally filled with live music and speeches, the teachers called for increased spending for an education system where inflation-adjusted funding per student dropped by 28.2 percent between 2008 and 2018, the biggest reduction of any state, according to the nonparti
  
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• No big deal: Melania Trump comforts student at event

  09-04-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump says spilled water — even on-camera in a famous house — is no big deal.
  
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• Trump’s Syria Policy Isn’t Retrenchment. It’s Pandering.

  09-04-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Everything Trump does in Syria revolves around what’s good for Trump. And that’s bad for America.
  
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• FBI Raids Office Of Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen

  09-04-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  The FBI raided the office of President Donald Trump's personal attorney
  
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• Apple says all its facilities now powered by clean energy

  09-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  The iPhone maker also said nine suppliers had recently committed to running their operations entirely on renewable energy sources like wind and solar, bringing to 23 the total number to make such a pledge.Major U.S. corporations such as Apple, Wal-Mart Incand Alphabet Inchave become some of the country's biggest buyers of renewable forms of energy, driving substantial growth in the wind and solar industries.Alphabet's Google last year purchased enough renewable energy to cover all of its electri
  
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• Fund industry defends bond ETFs to U.S. regulators

  09-04-2018 22:06
  (Reuters) - A fund industry trade group representative on Monday disputed the idea that bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) might fail to hold up under stress, telling U.S. securities regulators he...
  
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• Foreigners pull back in week of record Treasuries supply

  09-04-2018 22:05
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreign investors and central banks purchased fewer U.S. Treasuries in late March when the government sold a record high $294 billion of debt securities, Treasury Department data...
  
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• Cindy Hyde-Smith sworn in as 1st female Mississippi senator

  09-04-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith made history Monday when she was sworn in as the first woman to represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate, a milestone that strategists hope will propel the former agricultural commissioner and early President Donald Trump supporter when she faces a tough election in fall.
  
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• Amid trade fight, Trump says he'll 'make it up' to farmers

  09-04-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump acknowledged Monday that farmers could be adversely affected by the escalating tariff dispute with China, but promised to make it up to them, saying they "will be better off than they ever were."
  
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• Boy, 4, beaten to death by mom and her boyfriend for spilling cereal

  09-04-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  A Pennsylvania couple is charged with first-degree murder after they allegedly
  
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• Texas Senate Candidate Beto O'Rourke Says He's Seen Enough Evidence To Impeach Trump

  09-04-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), who is mounting a longshot bid against Sen. Ted
  
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• Fugitive who announced 2 killings on social media found dead

  09-04-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — A fugitive who announced on social media that he had fatally shot his mother and a friend in Tennessee has apparently killed himself, authorities said after the man's body was found Monday in neighboring Mississippi.
  
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• This week's earthquake cluster is the new normal in Oklahoma. Here's why.

  09-04-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  A cluster of earthquakes hit Oklahoma over the past few days, unsettling thousands of the state's residents. As of 11 a.m. ET Monday the U.S. Geological Survey says that 2,274 people reported feeling a 4.3 magnitude quake Sunday night. There have been at least 16 noticeable earthquakes (above 2.5 in magnitude) observed by the Geologic Survey since Friday, April 6. While nerve-rattling, the quakes are normal for the area — at least since 2009. That's when the problematic quakes began, Jerem
  
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• Letter to Panama's president from Trump Organization lawyers

  09-04-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  PANAMA CITY (AP) — The text of the letter from the Britton & Iglesias law firm to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, as translated by The Associated Press.
  
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• Fox News Guest Personally Asks Donald Trump To Bomb Syrian Air Force During Segment

  09-04-2018 21:39 via yahoo.com
  A guest on Fox News demonstrated Monday that he wanted to reach a particular
  
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• Illinois Republicans warn against repeat of partial state budgets

  09-04-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner on Monday called on state lawmakers to pass a full-year fiscal 2019 budget that adheres to a revenue estimate and not a partial spending plan meant onlyto get the state past the November election.The Republican governor, who is running for a second term against Democrat J.B. Pritzker, also urged lawmakers to send him a bill aimed at saving Illinois as much as $1 billion in pension costs annually before the spring legislative session ends on May 31.Rauner's request
  
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• Kremlin aide: Russia's centuries-long romance with West over

  09-04-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of "geopolitical loneliness," a top adviser to President Vladimir Putin warned in a magazine article released Monday.
  
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• Monsanto shares jump on report of US approval of Bayer deal

  09-04-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Shares of agricultural giant Monsanto surged Monday following a report that the US Justice Department would approve its acquisition by Bayer, the last major hurdle facing the deal.Near 1900 GM, Monsanto was up 6.5 percent at $125.47 after The Wall Street Journal reported US antitrust regulators would greenlight the mega-deal after the companies agreed to sell additional assets.US officials are requiring Germany's Bayer to divest additional seed and seed-treatment assets and adjust its digital ag
  
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• Federal Ethics Chief Asks EPA To Address 'Concerns' Over Scott Pruitt

  09-04-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  The federal government's top ethics official says it's time for the
  
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• Woman dies after being given formaldehyde instead of saline drip during routine surgery

  09-04-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  A Russian woman tragically died after she was administered embalming fluids
  
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• Pope Francis: Helping Poor And Migrants Is 'Equally Sacred' As Fighting Abortion

  09-04-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis issued a scathing rebuke of Catholics who prioritize some church
  
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• The Latest: Russia says no sign of gas attack in Syria town

  09-04-2018 20:29 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
  
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• Asset managers back U.S. plan to limit stock exchange rebates

  09-04-2018 20:26
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financial firms representing more than $1 trillion in assets under management have endorsed a U.S. regulator's plan to test limiting the rebates and other incentives that stock...
  
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• 9 Signs Your Relationship Isn't Worth Fighting For

  09-04-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  No one said relationships were easy ― even the strongest couples will
  
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• Deutsche chairman under pressure after ‘botched’ CEO search

  09-04-2018 20:24
  Paul Achleitner has come under fire from investors to explain why his strategy to turn around the fortunes of the ailing German bank have failed
  
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• Georgia reignites border war with northern neighbors

  09-04-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  Georgia looks to lap up a portion of the Tennessee River in its latest push to shift borders.
  
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• Republicans Giving Up House Seats At A Rate Not Seen In Decades

  09-04-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Republican House members are leaving Congress at the fastest pace
  
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• Air Showdown: America's F-22 & F-35 Stealth Fighters vs. Russia's S-400 (Who Wins?)

  09-04-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  For the Russians, solving the problem of targeting a low observable aircraft is something that they continue to work on—but it is doubtful the Moscow has resolved the issue.Russia's strong investment in layers of air defenses tells us that the Kremlin believes the primary threat to its ground forces comes from U.S. airpower.As such, defeating stealth technology is one of Moscow’s top priorities, Kofman notes, and the Kremlin has dedicated a lot of resources to that end.
  
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• Netanyahu pledges to 'hurt' Palestinians if try to attack

  09-04-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip that Israel will "hurt" them if they try to attack the Jewish state."We have one clear and simple rule and we seek to express it constantly: If someone tries to attack you, rise up and attack him," said Netanyahu in the wake of clashes on the Israel-Gaza border in which more than 30 Palestinians have been killed."We will not allow, here on the Gaza border, them to hurt us.
  
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• Police find body of Tennessee man who confessed to killings on Facebook

  09-04-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  The corpse was located in the unincorporated community of Vossburg, about 100 miles southeast of Jackson, said Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson in a statement on Facebook.The dead man was believed to be Casey Lawhorn who on Sunday said in a Facebook post that he had killed his mother and his friend in his home in East Ridge, Tennessee, outside Chattanooga, according to East Ridge Assistant Police Chief Stan Allen on Monday.Allen would not confirm details of the Facebook post but said police f
  
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• Trump Tower Residents Say They Are Upset Over How They Learned That Building Was on Fire

  09-04-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Resident Lalitha Masson says she only learned of the fire in her building while watching local news.
  
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• Hamas leader, Israel PM dig in on Gaza border flare-up

  09-04-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The leader of Gaza's ruling Hamas group and Israel's prime minister staked out tough positions Monday, making de-escalation on the Israel-Gaza border in the near future unlikely.
  
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