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• House rejects balanced budget amendment

  12-04-2018 23:59 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday rejected a GOP-led effort to try to amend the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget. The vote was staged to try to demonstrate that Republicans controlling Washington care about budget deficits that have spiraled on their watch.
  
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• Man Captured 37 Years After Escape from Oklahoma Prison

  12-04-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  A man who escaped from an Oklahoma prison 37 years ago was arrested Thursday morning in Houston.
  
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• Confessed Parkland Shooter Wants To Donate Inheritance To Victims' Families

  12-04-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  The man behind the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida would like
  
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• Busch Gardens Gorilla Bolingo Apes Trainer as They Do Handstands Together

  12-04-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  Bolingo the gorilla does a handstand after watching his trainer do one.
  
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• Items found belonged to missing Southern California family, officials say

  12-04-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  Sheriff's officials say recovered debris and personal items confirm that a vehicle seen plunging into a NorCalriver last week belonged to a family from Southern California that went missing while on a road trip from Portland to the Bay Area.
  
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• Republicans, eyeing midterms, hold 'messaging' vote on deficits

  12-04-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday failed to pass a balanced budget amendment that would have prohibited federal spending from exceeding revenues.Republicans held the symbolic vote to show voters that their party still cares about fiscal responsibility just days after congressional budget analysts said annual U.S. deficits will soon approach $1 trillion due to recent legislation.The balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution had little chance of becoming law s
  
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• Mexican drug kingpin behind DEA murder added to FBI most-wanted list

  12-04-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  A veteran drug kingpin convicted over the murder of a DEA agent and then released on a technicality from a Mexican prison has been added to the FBI’s list of its 10 most-wanted fugitives.Rafael Caro Quintero now faces additional criminal charges unsealed in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, and the US government increased the reward for his capture to $20m.
  
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• This Image Of Mark Zuckerberg As Data From 'Star Trek' Works On So Many Levels

  12-04-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg inspired a ton of memes and funny images this
  
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• Black Students Marched Against Gun Violence In Florida, But You Likely Didn’t Hear About It

  12-04-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of students from a predominantly black school in Miami's Liberty City
  
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• AD Test-Drives the Tesla Model 3

  12-04-2018 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Some have argued that Tesla's newest all-electric car, which starts at $35,000, could be as revolutionary as Ford's Model T
  
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• Witness saw SUV possibly belonging to Southern California family disappear into Humboldt County river

  12-04-2018 23:06 via yahoo.com
  Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a Southern California family of four who were on a road trip and never arrived in the Bay Area.
  
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• Former doorman says he got hush money over Trump love-child story

  12-04-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  The doorman, Dino Sajudin, reportedly signed a contract with American Media that carried a $1 million penalty for disclosing details of the explosive story.
  
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• Mercedes Confirms an Electric S-Class Is Coming

  12-04-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  In order to compete with the Model S, Mercedes is electrifying its flagship luxury sedan.
  
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• Many Americans Still Don't Know Basic Facts About The Holocaust, Survey Finds

  12-04-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Findings of a survey released to coincide Holocaust Remembrance Day on
  
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• The Cambridge Analytica Story Is About Black Voter Suppression

  12-04-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  Last week, while in West Virginia for a roundtable discussion, President
  
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• Cambridge Analytica’s Abuse Shows Why Diversity In Tech Matters

  12-04-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  Last week, while in West Virginia for a roundtable discussion, President
  
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• Senator slams bank gun policies, threatens consumer complaint

  12-04-2018 22:49 via yahoo.com
  By Katanga JohnsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator on Thursday criticized Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp's restrictions on lending to firearm makers and sellers, saying the new policies were wrongly politicizing banking services.Speaking during a hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Republican Senator John Kennedy said he planned to personally file complaints with the U.S. consumer watchdog regarding the firearm policies.
  
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• GOP Leaders Fine With Trump Bombing Syria Without Congress' Sign-Off

  12-04-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― At a time when President Donald Trump tweets about potentially
  
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• Boeing CEO Says He's Considering Launching a Rocket to Bring Back Rival Elon Musk's Tesla

  12-04-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  The budding rivalry between the companies is anything but playful, however
  
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• Striking Photos Show Israelis Standing Still For Holocaust Remembrance Day

  12-04-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday with people around the
  
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• Senate Confirms Controversial Former Coal Lobbyist As Next-In-Line To Lead EPA

  12-04-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  The Senate on Thursday confirmed Andrew Wheeler, President Donald Trump's
  
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• NTSB removes Tesla as a party in its probe of 'Autopilot' crash

  12-04-2018 22:29 via yahoo.com
  The National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday it had revoked Tesla Inc's status as a party to its investigation of a fatal crash in March in which the semi-autonomous "Autopilot" driving system was in use, after Tesla flouted terms of an agreement with the agency.The rare move means Tesla Incmay not be privy to some information obtained by investigators before it is made public, but frees the company to vigorously defend the technology.Tesla blasted the NTSB in a new statement on Thu
  
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• Wallace: Trump conditioning public with pardon of Scooter Libby

  12-04-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Nicolle Wallace talks with Rachel Maddow about breaking news that Donald Trump intends to pardon former Dick Cheney chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and her belief that Trump and his media cohorts are conditioning the public for more pardons to come.
  
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• Moscow says priority in Syria to avert US-Russia conflict 

  12-04-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Russia's UN ambassador said Thursday that the priority in Syria was to avert US-led military strikes that could lead to a dangerous war between Russia and the United States."The immediate priority is to avert the danger of war," Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council.
  
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• Analysis: Putin unlikely to leave strike on Syria unanswered

  12-04-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Faced with the threat of a U.S. strike on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin has a dilemma: allow U.S. missiles to hit Moscow's ally without a response or risk a military clash with the United States.
  
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• The 'King of Kong' Gamer Just Had His Reigning King Kong Records Taken Away

  12-04-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Video gamer and 'King of Kong' star Billy Mitchell has been stripped of his record-breaking 'Donkey Kong' scores after a dispute.
  
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• France mulls military action against Syria for gas attacks

  12-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — France has proof that the Syrian government launched chlorine gas attacks and has crossed a line that could prompt French airstrikes, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday.
  
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• James Comey book leaks early, Rachel Maddow shares highlights

  12-04-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reads passages from "A Higher Loyalty," the not-yet-released book by James Comey, including Comey's likening of the nascent Trump administration to a mafia family, and Donald Trump's reaction to being informed of the Steele dossier.
  
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• Mueller report on Trump obstruction takes shape ahead of schedule

  12-04-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow shares new NBC News reporting that because Donald Trump has backed out of the idea submitting to an interview with Robert Mueller, the investigation can procede to the next phase, closing the obstruction part of their inquiry.
  
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• This Mashup Trailer Of 'The Office' And 'A Quiet Place' Needs To Be A Real Movie

  12-04-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  This "A Quiet Place" parody beets them all.
  
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• West 'must avert danger of war' over Syria crisis, says Russia's UN envoy - as Trump weighs military options

  12-04-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  The Russian ambassador to the United Nations has urged the US and its allies not to take military action over the apparent chemical attack in Syria, saying the immediate priority was to “avert the danger of war”.International tensions have spiked over the attack, with Washington holding Russia partially culpable for what they believe is the use of chemical weapons on the town of Douma by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.Moscow has backed Syria in denying allegations of
  
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• Mike Pompeo confirms "a couple hundred" Russian soldiers were killed in Syrian shootout

  12-04-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Secy. of State nominee Mike Pompeo confirms "a couple hundred" Russian soldiers were killed in Syrian shootout involving US forces.
  
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• UK's Cabinet says Syria chemical attack calls for 'action'

  12-04-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's Cabinet gave Prime Minister Theresa May the green light Thursday to join the United States and France in planning possible military strikes in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria.
  
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• Trump's Pick For Secretary of State Reversed Or Forgot All His Controversial Positions

  12-04-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- Secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo is well-known for his
  
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• Peanut butter or not? Mom shamed for letting child eat PB&J at Target store

  12-04-2018 21:39 via yahoo.com
  Should you let your child eat peanut butter in public? That is a question that many moms have weighed in on a public forum dedicated to parenting tips.
  
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• Wrongfully Convicted Man Who Spent 24 Years in Prison Sues Chicago Police

  12-04-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  A man who spent 24 years in prison for two murders he did not commit has filed a lawsuit accusing eight former police officers, a former fire marshal, and former prosecutor of falsifying physical evidence, provoking false statements from witnesses, and coercing his false confession.
  
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• "Tell my mom I love her if I die": Ohio teen suffocates in minivan

  12-04-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  An Ohio county prosecutor has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a teenage boy who became trapped by a minivan bench seat. 16-year-old Kyle Plush was found dead in the parking lot of Seven Hills School in Cincinnati.WKRC-TV's Larry Davis reports.
  
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• Evangelical Leaders Could Use Stormy Daniels To Get Even More From Trump

  12-04-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Just when you think President Donald Trump couldn't enact more hostile
  
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• Tech billionaire says his plan to break up California ready for voters

  12-04-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  A California technology billionaire said on Thursday that his longtime and perhaps quixotic effort to partition the Golden State into multiple new states could soon be put before voters.Venture capitalist Tim Draper said he had gathered about 600,000 signatures on a petition to put his proposal to divide California on the November ballot, just over the 585,000 needed to qualify.Draper, who in 2014 and 2016 failed in his efforts to win approval for a ballot initiative to divide the state into six
  
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• U.S. states eye protections for investors if federal regulation falters

  12-04-2018 21:14
  The question could become important if the financial services industry wins its high-stakes legal and political battles to dismantle the federal fiduciary rule governing advice to retirement...
  
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• Teacher Resigns After Firing Gun During Safety Lesson in Classroom

  12-04-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  He made an emotional apology during a city council meeting
  
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• Mike Pompeo says he could imagine US ground invasion of North Korea during nomination grilling

  12-04-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s nomination for America’s top diplomat has said he could imagine the US launching a ground invasion of North Korea.  Mike Pompeo, proposed as the new secretary of state, said the US may at some point have to “move past diplomacy” to stop the regime’s nuclear programme.  However Mr Pompeo stressed he did not favour “regime change” and wanted to solve the world’s crises with diplomatic rather than military means.  During
  
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• Russia says 'immediate priority is to avert the danger of war'

  12-04-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia urged the United States and its allies on Thursday to refrain from military action against Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack and said the "immediate priority is to avert the danger of war."Asked if he was referring to a war between the United States and Russia, he told reporters: "We cannot exclude any possibilities unfortunately because we saw messages that are coming from Washington.
  
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• Hungary: Pro-govt weekly prints list of 'Soros mercenaries'

  12-04-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian magazine published Thursday the names of more than 200 people it claimed Prime Minister Viktor Orban had in mind when he alleged U.S.-Hungarian billionaire George Soros paid "mercenaries" to topple the government and open the country to immigrants.
  
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• Teacher who accidentally fired gun in class resigns

  12-04-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) — A teacher who accidentally fired a gun inside a Northern California classroom while teaching firearm safety resigned his administration of justice teaching job, school officials said.
  
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• Missouri Congresswoman: Eric Greitens 'Is Unfit To Lead Our State'

  12-04-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) tweeted on Thursday that Gov. Eric Greitens (R) is
  
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• NBA championship odds: Vegas predicts which playoff team will raise a banner

  12-04-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  It's safe to bet that this season's NBA champion will hail from the West.
  
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• Mexican states should start legalizing marijuana: tourism minister

  12-04-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  By Dave GrahamMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Taking a lead from the United States, Mexico should allow states to begin legalizing marijuana while broader efforts are in limbo, a senior government official said, as the country seeks ways to tackle record gang violence.Tourism minister Enrique de la Madrid, confronting rising lawlessness in and around the resort cities of Cancun and Los Cabos, said it made no sense for Mexico to maintain prohibition given permissive U.S. policies in states such as Califo
  
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• Secretary Of State Nominee Mike Pompeo Says He Continues To Oppose Gay Marriage

  12-04-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo, who is
  
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• U.S. judge says Uber drivers are not company's employees

  12-04-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson on Wednesday said San Francisco-based Uber does not exert enough control over drivers for its limo service, UberBLACK, to be considered their employer under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.The drivers work when they want to and are free to nap, run personal errands, or smoke cigarettes in between rides, Baylson said.
  
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