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• Goldman Sachs joins growing band of businesses snubbing Saudi conference

  18-10-2018 23:37
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Thursday joined the growing list of high-profile businesses snubbing a Saudi investment conference next week amid mounting pressure on Riyad over the disappearance of...
  
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• Turkish police search forest, coastal city for journalist's remains: sources

  18-10-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  Investigators have also recovered "many samples" from their searches of the consulate and the consul's residence, the senior officials told Reuters, and will attempt to analyse those for traces of the DNA of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.Saudi Arabia has denied allegations by Turkish officials who have said Khashoggi was killed inside the building and his body removed.Authorities widened the geographic focus of the search after tracking the routes and stops of cars that left the Saudi consulate and
  
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• Dear Abby, Here's What It’s Really Like To Have A 'Foreign' Name In America

  18-10-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  It's tradition for Sikh parents to turn to the Guru Granth Sahib, our holy
  
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• Ex-FBI agent gets 4 years in prison for leaking documents

  18-10-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former FBI agent in Minnesota who admitted leaking classified internal documents to a reporter was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.
  
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• Cory Booker says the U.S. needs to ‘reexamine’ its ‘entire relationship’ with Saudi Arabia

  18-10-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  The Democratic New Jersey senator said the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi is just one of many concerns he has about Saudi Arabia and America's close ties to the Gulf country.
  
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• Morgan Stanley's brokerage sweetens retirement bonuses for top brokers

  18-10-2018 22:58
  The largest U.S. brokerage by sales force Morgan Stanley told its top brokers on Thursday that if they commit to handing off their clients to another broker at the firm when they retire, they can...
  
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• Falling Ford Pickup Tailgates Draw Federal Safety Probe

  18-10-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Government regulators opened an investigation this week into why some Ford heavy-duty pickup truck power tailgates are falling open. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is ...
  
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• Elle Magazine shares fake Kanye West and Kim Kardashian news to push for voter registration

  18-10-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  If there is one thing Elle Magazine should learn from their latest Twitter gimmick, it’s this: Voting is cool. Fake news is bad. Tricking people with fake stories will get everyone mad.
  
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• U.S. fund investors pull most cash since June from stocks: Lipper

  18-10-2018 22:42
  Investors slammed U.S.-based stock funds during the latest week, pulling $17.5 billion, the most cash from such investments since June, according to Lipper data on Thursday.
  
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• President Donald Trump Wants to Stop the Caravan. Here's What Experts Think Would Help

  18-10-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  For the second year in a row, President Donald Trump is upset about a caravan of Central American migrants headed to the United States.
  
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• Senator Warren urges Fed to require removal of Wells Fargo CEO

  18-10-2018 22:30
  U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Thursday the Federal Reserve should not allow Wells Fargo & Coto grow in size until the bank replaces Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan.
  
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• Returning home — Panhandle residents rebuild lives after Hurricane Michael

  18-10-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Daily life is a series of fears and frustrations for thousands of people living in the hurricane zone of the Florida Panhandle.
  
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• Facebook `Delighted’ by War Room Response to Brazil Election

  18-10-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  As they monitored trends on the company’s sites -- like articles that were going viral and spikes in political-ad spending -- they noticed a suspicious surge in user reports of hate speech.The data scientists in the room told the policy experts that the malicious posts were targeting people in a certain area of Brazil, the poorer Northeast -- the only region carried by the leftist presidential candidate.The policy folks determined that what the posts were saying was against Facebook’
  
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• Jason Chaffetz Mocks Elizabeth Warren With Native American Statue Photo, Twitter Flips

  18-10-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) might have set himself up for selfie-
  
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• Goldman Sachs sees five more Fed rate hikes through end of 2019

  18-10-2018 22:10
  Goldman Sachs economists on Thursday said the firm remained "comfortable" with its call for five more interest rate hikes — two more than priced in financial markets — through the end of 2019.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Dow falls again as industrial stocks sink

  18-10-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Goldman Sachs says executives will not attend Saudi conference

  18-10-2018 22:04
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc will not send any of its executives to a Saudi investment conference next week, Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
  
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• Activists Target Peter Thiel And Other Powerful Americans Still Connected To Saudi Conference

  18-10-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― After Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced that he was
  
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• Who is set to replace White House counsel Don McGahn?

  18-10-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  White House counsel Don McGahn has officially left his position in Donald Trump's administration.Attorney Emmett Flood will take over as Assistant to the President and Counsel to the President, effective immediately.Trump had originally appointed Mr McGahn in 2016 after Mr McGahn served in the Trump campaign as general counsel.
  
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• Jimmy Carter Says Brett Kavanaugh 'Unfit' To Serve As Supreme Court Justice

  18-10-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Former President Jimmy Carter didn't mince words while discussing Supreme
  
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• Hip-hop, health care share spotlight in pivotal House race

  18-10-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  SCHODACK, N.Y. (AP) — Hip-hop, health care and Brett Kavanaugh have emerged as issues in a tight congressional race in New York's Hudson Valley that pits a freshman Republican congressman against a rapper-turned-corporate lawyer seeking his first political office.
  
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• Afghan 'torturer in chief' killed in Taliban attack

  18-10-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  General Abdul Raziq once boasted he had survived "countless" Taliban attempts to kill him.The controversial Kandahar police chief, described by Human Rights Watch last year as the southern province's "torturer in chief", had risen through the ranks to become one of the most powerful security heads in Afghanistan.Widely seen as a bulwark against the Taliban insurgency, Raziq's death has left a dangerous security vacuum that one observer said could lead to a "meltdown" in the south, the Taliban mo
  
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• The Republican who shocked the world 4 years ago could lose because of redistricting

  18-10-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Virginia Rep. Dave Brat, a member of the conservative Republican House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill, which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018.When Dave Brat shocked the political world in 2014, beating the man who was set to become the next speaker of the House in a Republican primary, his congressional district was more favorable to Republicans than it is now.The outcome of Brat’s contest against Democrat Abigail Spanberger
  
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• 2020 Porsche Taycan Sport Turismo Spied: The Electric Wagon Is Real

  18-10-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Just like its Panamera big sibling, Porsche's new EV is getting a wagon variant.
  
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• Putin says Islamic State has seized 700 hostages in Syria

  18-10-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Islamic State militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by U.S.-backed forces and had executed some of them and promised to kill more.Speaking in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Putin said the hostages included several U.S. and European nationals, adding that Islamic State was expanding its control in territory on the left bank of the River Euphrates controlled by U.S. and U.S.-backed forces.Putin did not specify what
  
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• Russia wrestles with a US-style school massacre in Crimea

  18-10-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Despite Russia’s already rather tough gun regulations, there are also calls to crack down harder.At the end of the day, and as is often the case in the US, there seems to be no clear explanation for why Vladislav Roslyakov, an 18-year-old student at Kerch Polytechnic College, came to school on Wednesday with two backpacks stuffed with explosives and a legally acquired shotgun-like hunting rifle, and proceeded to slaughter his fellow students and teachers.
  
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• Mnuchin Withdraws From Saudi Forum With Khashoggi Furor Escalating

  18-10-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Mnuchin announced his change of plans after meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, who was hastily dispatched to Saudi Arabia and Turkey on Monday.Following a day of meetings with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Pompeo said the Saudi leaders understood the importance of producing a quick but thorough report on Khashoggi’s fate after entering the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2.
  
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• Dear Elle Magazine, Media Companies: Don't Create Fake News To Get People To Vote

  18-10-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  A viral headline about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West breaking up is the latest
  
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• Column: U.S. probe shines light on Medicare Advantage claims denials

  18-10-2018 20:51
  A growing number of U.S. seniors are choosing Medicare Advantage, the popular private insurance alternative to traditional coverage. But a new report by federal investigators finds that Advantage...
  
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• Donald Trump threatens to shut US-Mexico border unless migrant caravan stopped

  18-10-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump, the US president, has threatened to close the US-Mexico border and deploy the military unless a large convoy of migrants was stopped. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, is travelling to Mexico City and expected on Friday to meet Mexico’s president, Enrique Pena Nieto, to discuss the situation, as Mexico scrambles to dissuade the migrants from entering its territory. By Thursday the convoy, which set out from the violent Honduras city of San Pedro Sula on Saturday and is now
  
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• Mexico deploys hundreds of riot police as migrants near

  18-10-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Mexico deployed hundreds of riot police Thursday to its border with Guatemala as a caravan of Central American migrants prepared to cross on their way to the United States, defying President Donald Trump's threats.Hundreds of federal police in riot gear fanned out on the international bridge in Suchiate, on the Mexican-Guatemalan border, as the caravan of several thousand Honduran migrants trekked toward the crossing.
  
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• Putin says former Soviet Republics regret end of USSR

  18-10-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the citizens of many former Soviet Republics regretted the collapse of the USSR, which he described as a "great state".People in the former republics "interpret it in their own way, but all the same they believe that life in the Soviet Union was more secure, calmer, they felt surer of themselves," he told a forum in the Russian city of Sochi.A conflict in eastern Ukraine in which more than 10,000 people have lost their lives has been ongoing for
  
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• Prince Harry Delivers Powerful Speech On Seeking Mental Health Help

  18-10-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  All hail this perfect attitude around mental health: Prince Harry discussed
  
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• Top Afghan police chief killed in shooting, U.S. general unhurt

  18-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  General Scott Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who had been at a meeting with Razeq and the governor of the southern province of Kandahar only moments earlier, was not injured in the attack.Kandahar Governor Zalmay Wesa was severely wounded and contradictory reports about whether he had survived could not immediately be resolved.Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the assault, which decapitated the security command in one of the country's most strategically important and co
  
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• 'Active shooter' in Virginia puts major defence company building on lockdown

  18-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Police are investigating reports of reports of an "active shooter" at a defence company General Dynamics in Portsmouth, Virginia.The call was received earlier in the day fro a security guard on site and Portsmouth police have called for people to stay clear of the area.Police are investigating a report of an active shooter at 2 Harper Ave. Dispatch received the 911 call at 1146am.
  
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• Ford Is Increasing GT Production by 350 Units and Reopening Applications

  18-10-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Total production will now be 1350 cars through 2022.
  
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• Coffee makers on sale: Shop Ninja, Black+Decker, and Hamilton Beach at Walmart

  18-10-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  It's a great time to be a coffee fiend, y'all. When it comes to getting your daily caffeine dose, heading over to your local coffee shop can feel convenient — until it doesn't. (AKA when you suddenly realize you're spending $40 a week on coffee. Oops.)  That, my friends, is why having a coffee maker at home is a worthwhile luxury. The great news? Walmart has a bunch of these coffee makers on sale, all for less than $150.Ninja Coffee Bar with Auto IQ and Thermal Carafe — $55 off
  
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• Top Gifts Under $100

  18-10-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  Do you have a price in mind but aren't quite sure what to buy that special someone this holiday season? Consumer Reports put together a series of gift guides that are grouped by price. Here, we f...
  
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• Putin blames fatal college attack in Crimea on localization

  18-10-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  An armed 18-year-old student in the Black Sea port city of Kerch killed 20 people, most of them fellow pupils, and wounded dozens at his college on Wednesday, law enforcement officials said.The suspected attacker was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after an attack that also saw a bomb set off in the college canteen.A second explosive device was found among the suspect's personal possessions.
  
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• Prince Harry Wore A Black Ring, Confusing Royal Fans Everywhere

  18-10-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Prince Harry is sporting a new piece of jewelry, and royal fans have been
  
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• Donald Trump threatens to cut $66 million in aid to Honduras unless migrant 'caravan' is stopped

  18-10-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump, the US president, threatened on Tuesday to cut off aid to Honduras unless the country took steps to halt a migrant caravan, which has doubled in size since it set off from a gang-plagued city on Saturday. The group, now believed to be 3,000 people strong, was confronted by riot police on the Honduras-Guatemalan border, but by Monday evening had managed to cross. The organiser of the northern-bound group, Bartolo Fuentes, a Honduran former politician, was then detained by Guatemalan
  
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• Texas Mom Chases Son, Beats Him With Belt After He Takes Family's BMW and Goes on Joyride

  18-10-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Aaron Martinez, 14, was able to sneak out after disabling the home Wi-Fi.
  
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• President Trump Threatens Mexico If Caravan of 4,000 Honduran Migrants Reaches U.S. Border

  18-10-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  As about 4,000 Hondurans made their way through Guatemala, attention — and pressure — turned to Mexico Thursday, after U.S.
  
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• The Latest: Ex-FBI agent gets 4 years in document-leak case

  18-10-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a former FBI agent in Minnesota who pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents to a reporter (all times local):
  
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• Bizarre Details Revealed in Case of Boy Abandoned on Texas Doorstep

  18-10-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  The mystery that initially baffled authorities has been solved.
  
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• Taliban attack on top US commander, Afghan security officials kills three

  18-10-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  A Taliban-claimed attack on the top US commander in Afghanistan and senior Afghan security officials Thursday killed at least three people and sent the government scrambling to secure the country's restive south.There are fears the attack in the southern province of Kandahar could derail US efforts to engage the group in peace talks and parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20.US and NATO commander General Scott Miller was not hurt in the attack inside a heavily fortified government comp
  
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• What Defines Normal? Millions Search Google Every Day For Answers

  18-10-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  Days before India's Supreme Court overturned a colonial-era law that made gay
  
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• Melania Trump Look-Alike in Provocative T.I. Video Doesn't Think She Was 'Degrading' First Lady

  18-10-2018 19:34 via yahoo.com
  Melanie Marden told Inside Edition in an exclusive interview that she didn't intend to offend first lady Melania Trump.
  
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