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• Marijuana Industry Says Seniors Are The Next Budding Market

  19-04-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Legalized pot is an idea Americans are warming up to ― almost two-thirds, 64
  
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• Cuban Exiles React To New Cuba President

  19-04-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  At the epicenter of Cuba politics on the streets of Miami in little Havana outside Café Versailles, Cuban exiles shout from loudspeakers and rip up signs in protest of the communist country from which they hail. (April 19)
  
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• Appeals court rules against U.S. on funds for sanctuary cities

  19-04-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court on Thursday said the U.S. Justice Department cannot deny public safety grants to so-called sanctuary cities that limit cooperation with the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court injunction in a case brought by the city of Chicago.The appeals court agreed the injunction should apply nationally while the lawsuit proceeds in federal court.
  
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• Iran warns of 'unpleasant' response if U.S. drops nuclear deal: TV

  19-04-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  Iran warned the United States on Thursday of "unpleasant" consequences if Washington pulls out of a multinational nuclear deal, Iranian state TV reported."Iran has several options if the United States leaves the nuclear deal.Tehran's reaction to America's withdrawal of the deal will be unpleasant," TV quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying on his arrival in New York.
  
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• Justice Department Releases Comey Memos To Congress

  19-04-2018 23:36 via yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice has shared copies of the so-called Comey memos with
  
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• Firearms companies widely held in ETFs and funds: research firm

  19-04-2018 23:33
  BOSTON (Reuters) - An estimated 24 percent of the world's exchange-traded funds and 15 percent of mutual funds have holdings in firearms companies, researcher Sustainalytics said in a report on...
  
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• Gym employees accuse black member of not paying, call cops

  19-04-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Employees of an LA Fitness in New Jersey wrongly accused a black member and his guest of not paying to work out and called police, prompting an apology from the company.
  
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• Comey: I don't believe that Loretta Lynch did anything improper

  19-04-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Rachel Maddow about worries he cited in his book, "A Higher Loyalty," about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch with regard to the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation.
  
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• Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Is Joining Trump's Legal Team

  19-04-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's legal team has a new member: Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• Chuck Schumer to Unveil Bill Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

  19-04-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  "Ultimately, it's the right thing to do"
  
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• The Latest: Student: Confederate flag theft sparked protests

  19-04-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  AUBURN, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on Confederate flag demonstrations outside of a Michigan high school (all times local):
  
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• Russia, Syria trying to 'sanitize' chemical attack site: U.S. State Department

  19-04-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  By Lesley WroughtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has credible information that Russia and Syria are trying to "sanitize" the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria while denying access to the area by international inspectors, the State Department said on Thursday.Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had not been given access to the site of the alleged attack in the town of D
  
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• Caravan migrants hop freight train in Mexico heading north

  19-04-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The remnants of a caravan of Central American migrants that drew angry tweets from President Donald Trump hopped on the roofs of a freight train Thursday heading for northern Mexico.
  
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• Syrian rebels give up Damascus area town to government

  19-04-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government took control of a town northeast of Damascus on Thursday after rebels evacuated to north Syria — the latest in a string of handovers by rebels to the government.
  
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• Justice Department watchdog ‘refers Andrew McCabe findings to prosecutors’

  19-04-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog has reportedly sent prosecutors the findings of a probe into former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who was fired after being found to have misled investigators.Referring the information to the US attorney’s office would pave the way to potentially opening a criminal investigation.The Department of Justice declined to comment.
  
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• Awww: 10 days old, she makes Senate history in her pink cap

  19-04-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tiny Maile Pearl made Senate history Thursday without making a sound.
  
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• US police chief apologizes after Starbucks arrests uproar

  19-04-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Philadelphia's police chief publicly apologized Thursday after the arrest of two black men in a Starbucks store triggered uproar in the United States, admitting he "failed miserably" with his initial response.After the coffee chain moved to repair the damage to its image in the wake of a series of protests at Starbucks outlets, the city's police commissioner Richard Ross told reporters his force also needed to do better.
  
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• US Air National Guard member fired over woman who took enlistment oath with dinosaur puppet

  19-04-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Three US Air National Guard members have been disciplined, and one of them fired, for an incident involving a children’s dinosaur puppet.Master Sergeant Robin Brown, a senior non-commissioned officer (NCO) with the Air National Guard, was removed from her position at the Tennessee Joint Public Affairs Office after video circulated of her taking her enlistment oath with a tyrannosaurus rex puppet in hand.Ms Brown repeats each line of the oath back, moving the sock puppet’s mouth along
  
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• How 'Hero' Southwest Pilot Pushed to 'Break into the Club' of Elite Navy Fighter Pilots

  19-04-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Tammie Jo Shults was one of the first female fighter-pilots in the U.S. Navy
  
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• Queen Elizabeth Publicly Supports Prince Charles for the First Time to Succeed Her as Leader of the Commonwealth

  19-04-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Saying Charles would "carry on the important work" of leading the Commonwealth
  
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• Trump Blasts California Over Troops Who Won't Focus On Immigration Enforcement

  19-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump attacked California on Thursday for doing
  
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• Toddler shoots pregnant mother while playing with dad's gun

  19-04-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Raw video: Police say 3-year-old accidentally shot her pregnant mom in parking lot in Indiana.
  
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• Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen drops lawsuits against BuzzFeed and Fusion GPS

  19-04-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, has dropped his libel lawsuits against BuzzFeed and research firm Fusion GPS but still continues to face other legal troubles.Mr Cohen had sued the two separately over the January 2017 release of the now infamous dossier written by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, prepared for the political research firm and published by the news outlet.Mr Cohen’s attorney David Schwartz said in a statement to Politico: "The decision to vol
  
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• First Democrat backs Pompeo, making confirmation as secretary of state likely

  19-04-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Democratic U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp said on Thursday she would vote in favor of Republican President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, making it likely that the CIA director will be confirmed to take the post.A moderate up for re-election this year in North Dakota, a state Trump won easily in 2016, Heitkamp is the first Senate Democrat to back the nominee.Because Republican Senator Rand Paul announced his opposition, and Senator John McCain has been absent from Was
  
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• Destiny's Child Singer Michelle Williams Got Secretly Engaged Before Coachella Reunion

  19-04-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  Can you keep up, baby boy? Apparently so. Days after the history-making
  
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• Why Kris Kobach Was Found In Contempt For Not Clarifying To People That They Could Vote

  19-04-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) was found in contempt of court on
  
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• Judge Kimba Wood a veteran of big cases long before Cohen

  19-04-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sometimes it takes a colorful judge like no other to handle a colorful case like no other.
  
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• U.S. regulator to order jet engines inspection after Southwest explosion

  19-04-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it will order inspections of at least 220 aircraft engines as investigators are focusing on a broken fan blade in an engine that exploded Tuesday on a Southwest Aiirlines flight, killing a passenger.The order, which it initially proposed in August following an engine failure in 2016 on another Southwest Airlines Coflight, will require ultrasonic inspection within the next six months of fan blades on all CFM56-7B engines that have accrued a certain nu
  
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• Ted Cruz shrugs off past feud and lauds Trump in Time essay

  19-04-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Ted Cruz wrote an essay for Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2018” issue, praising President Trump, who the Texas senator once described as a "bully," "narcissist" and "serial philanderer."
  
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• The Deadly Southwest Engine Explosion Is a Dangerous Warning Sign for Thousands of Planes

  19-04-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  This has happened once before
  
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• Exclusive: EPA chief's aides, security agents made $45,000 trip to Australia

  19-04-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  By Jeff MasonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, under fire from lawmakers for travel and security expenses, spent about $45,000 in government money to fly five people to Australia to prepare for a planned trip that was later canceled.Two of his aides and three security agents flew to Australia last August on business-class tickets costing roughly $9,000 each to set up meetings for the EPA administrator.The purchase of business-class tickets was not a
  
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• Southwest Pilot Tammie Jo Shults Recounts Harrowing Landing: 'We Were Simply Doing Our Jobs'

  19-04-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Shults also expressed sympathy for Jennifer Riordan, the mom of two who lost her life as she was nearly sucked out of the plane.
  
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• Fresno State professor under fire for Barbara Bush 'racist' tweet

  19-04-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  California State University at Fresno says it is taking "seriously" professor Randa Jarrar's tweet calling Barbara Bush an "amazing racist" after the former first lady died on Tuesday, according to the school's Vice President of Academic Affairs Lynnette Zelezny. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Netanyahu says at least six states considering moving embassies to Jerusalem

  19-04-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that "at least half a dozen" countries were considering moving their embassies to Jerusalem following the U.S. decision to do so.U.S. President Donald Trump announced in December that the United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, infuriating even Washington’s Arab allies and dismaying Palestinians who want the eastern part of the city as their capital.The U.S. Embassy is due to relocate to Jerusalem from Tel Avi
  
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• 911 operator sentenced for hanging up on emergency calls

  19-04-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  A former 911 operator has been sentenced to community service and 18 months probation for hanging up on emergency calls.
  
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• 2019 Ford F-150 Limited Spied With New Rear Bumper, Dual Exhaust

  19-04-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  It cleans up the truck’s look.
  
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• US awards $1bn contract for hypersonic missile as it falls behind Russia and China in new arms race

  19-04-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  The US Air Force is awarding almost $1 billion (£700m) to Lockheed Martin to develop a hypersonic missile as it tries to keep up with recent strides made by Russia and China in building ever faster weapons. Moscow last month claimed the lead in the race to develop missiles that can travel at many times the speed of sound. Its defence ministry revealed video footage of its plane-launched Kinzhal missile, which is reportedly capable of accelerating to ten times the speed of sound. American o
  
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• Despite California's liberal image, half favor travel ban and more deportations

  19-04-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Half of Californians support the travel ban on Muslim-majority countries and 59% are in favor of increased deportations, according to a new survey that suggests there are widespread conservative and xenophobic views in one of the most progressive US states.The poll, conducted by the University of California, Berkeley, found that while a majority of Californians say they broadly support immigrants’ rights and refugees, many also back signature features of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant
  
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• U.S. says ex-official at PDVSA unit pleads guilty to money laundering

  19-04-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  A former official of a subsidiary of Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] pleaded guilty on Thursday to a U.S. charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department said.Cesar Rincon, a Venezuelan citizen who was extradited to the United States from Spain after his arrest there last year, pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the department said.
  
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• Justice Department watchdog to report on Clinton-related FBI leaks

  19-04-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long-awaited U.S. Justice Department internal watchdog report on former FBI chief James Comey's public disclosures on Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state and whether FBI employees leaked information to try to hurt her 2016 presidential bid is expected to be issued next month.The report from Michael Horowitz, the department's inspector general, arises from an investigation he launched about a week before Republican Pre
  
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• Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA

  19-04-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed Rep. Jim Bridenstine
  
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• The scientists behind the most innovative cancer research

  19-04-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of top scientists and researchers from around the world gathered at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago to discuss innovative cancer science that will hopefully lead to new therapies and maybe even a cure. Meet two of the top investigators aiming to make cancer a manageable disease so patients can live long and live well.
  
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• Comey memos immediately leaked after FBI delivers to Congress

  19-04-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Former FBI Director James Comey talks with Rachel Maddow about the notes he took after meeting with Donald Trump, which have now leaked to the public after they were delivered by the FBI to Congress.
  
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• GW Pharma gets FDA panel nod, first cannabis-based drug nearing approval

  19-04-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of approving the first cannabis-derived medicine in the country, a childhood epilepsy treatment developed by GW Pharma.The drug, Epidiolex, is derived from cannabidiol (CBD), one of the hundreds of molecules found in the marijuana plant, and an FDA decision is expected by June 27.The FDA panel found that the drug's benefits outweighed the risks to treat patients aged 2 years and older with Dravet Sy
  
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• Iraqi warplanes attack Islamic State positions in Syria

  19-04-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  By Ahmed AbouleneinBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi warplanes attacked an Islamic State explosives factory and other positions inside Syria on Thursday, Baghdad's military said, in a rare air assault across the border.Iraqi F-16 jets targeted the militants near the city of Hajin in coordination with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Iraqi military spokesman said."Carrying out air strikes on Daesh gangs in Syrian territories is because of the dangers posed by said gangs to Iraqi ter
  
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• Gaza protest camps moved closer to Israel border fence

  19-04-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza protest organizers moved sit-in tents closer to the Israeli border fence Thursday, a day before a fourth planned mass demonstration, raising fears of more bloodshed.
  
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• Alex Rodriguez’s nephew kidnapped, held for ransom

  19-04-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  Former MLB star Alex Rodriguez’s nephew was kidnapped and held for ransom in a Lamborghini deal gone wrong.
  
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• Victim of Berlin anti-Semitic attack was an Israeli Arab who 'wanted to see what it was like' to be Jewish

  19-04-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  One of the victims of an anti-Semitic attack in central Berlin that shocked Germany this week is not Jewish, it has emerged. Adam Armoush told German television he was wearing a Jewish kippah skullcap in an attempt to prove it was safe to wear one on the streets of Berlin. But the experiment went wrong when he and a companion were set upon in the affluent neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg and whipped with a belt by three men who shouted “Yahudi”, the Arabic word for Jew.  The mai
  
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• North Korea seeks 'complete denuclearization,' Moon says; U.S. vows pressure

  19-04-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  By Joyce Lee and John WalcottSEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has expressed its commitment to "complete denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula and has not attached conditions, South Korea's president said on Thursday, but Washington remains wary and has vowed to maintain "maximum pressure" on Pyongyang.South Korean President Moon Jae-in said agreements about denuclearization, establishing a peace regime and normalization of relations between the Koreas and the United States should not
  
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• Iraq says it carried out air raid against IS in Syria

  19-04-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  The Iraqi air force on Thursday carried out a "deadly raid" against positions of the Islamic State group in neighbouring Syria, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said.Abadi ordered the strike against the jihadists "because of the danger they pose to Iraqi territory," a statement said.The US-led coalition fighting IS said the air strike targeted an area of eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province near Hajin, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border with Iraq.
  
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