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• White House gives Mattis expanded powers for U.S. troops on border

  21-11-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Reuters reported on Monday that the White House was likely to give troops authority to protect Customs and Border Protection agents stationed along the U.S. border with Mexico if they come under threat from migrants seeking to cross into the United States.Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Mattis confirmed that he had been given the additional authority, but would await a request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before deciding how to use it.Mattis said, depending on the DHS req
  
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• Trumpism Is A Dangerous Death Rattle, But The Midterms Showed Us How To Beat It

  21-11-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  Three weeks after the 2018 midterm elections, and with most of the races now
  
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• Trump finds a new Twitter target: Chief Justice Roberts

  21-11-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  The president tells the chief justice to "study the numbers" he says proves his point that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is overly partisan.
  
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• US to install observation posts on Syria-Turkey border: Mattis

  21-11-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  The US military will install observation posts along Syria's northern border with Turkey to help minimize tensions between the Turks and Washington's Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State group (IS), defense secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday."We are putting in observation posts in several locations up along the... northern Syrian border," Mattis told reporters.
  
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• 5 Reasons Why Matthew Whitaker Isn't Qualified To Be Acting Attorney General

  21-11-2018 23:07 via yahoo.com
  Matthew Whitaker, President Donald Trump's pick to replace ousted former
  
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• Colts Neck Fire: Brother Charged With Arson, More Details Emerge About Quadruple Homicide

  21-11-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  The brother of the man who was found dead outside his Colts Neck home yesterday has been charged with aggravated arson.Paul J. Caneiro, 51, was arrested and placed into custody at Monmouth County jail for attempting to burn down his own house in Ocean Township, New Jersey.According to USA Today, Paul Caneiro allegedly tried to burn down his Tilton Drive home “using gasoline and igniting the gasoline causing the residence to catch fire while his wife and two daughters were inside.” No
  
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• ‘Email Is The Key To Prosecuting Just About Everyone,’ Ivanka Trump Wrote In Her Book

  21-11-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  “My friend Andrew Cuomo, New York’s great attorney general, tells me that email is the key to prosecuting just about everyone these days,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her 2009 self-help book The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, according to Raw Story. “People can be so incredibly slapdash with their electronic messages, as if they were some modern version of smoke signals that can disappear without a trace.”
  
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• Pelosi detractor now says he'll back her for House speaker

  21-11-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Nancy Pelosi appears to be having some success shrinking the ranks of Democratic lawmakers opposing her bid to serve a second stint as speaker of the House.
  
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• Trump clashes with conservative U.S. chief justice over judiciary

  21-11-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  The remarks by Roberts represented his first public response to Trump over the Republican president's persistent criticism of the federal courts."We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," Roberts, a conservative who was appointed by Republican former President George W. Bush, said in a statement released by the Supreme Court in response to a news media inquiry.In a Twitter post, Trump wrote in response: "Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have
  
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• Mattis says he has extra authority to use military on border

  21-11-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday the White House has given him explicit authority to use military troops to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel, with lethal force if necessary, at the southwest border.
  
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• Here’s Where To Score All The Best Black Friday Freebies

  21-11-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  While many households throughout the United States will finally be getting ready to sit down and indulge in the delicious Thanksgiving meal they’ve been slaving over in the kitchen all day, thousands across the country will be burning the calories from their own home-cooked meals off as they feverishly storm malls and department stores looking for the best deals to aid with their holiday shopping. Retailers and restaurants alike, USA Today reports, are offering free goodies and extra coupo
  
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• Donald Trump Lashes Out At Chief Justice John Roberts Over Immigration Rulings

  21-11-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump lashed out at Chief Justice John Roberts Wednesday
  
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• Number of U.S. Abortions Hits Lowest Rate Since Roe v. Wade, CDC Reports

  21-11-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  The decline in abortions was seen in women across all age groups
  
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• Trump Fires Back After Roberts Rejects ‘Obama Judges’ Label

  21-11-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  In a pair of tweets that began "Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts," Trump escalated a spat with the man likely to cast pivotal votes on the president’s priorities over the next two years."You do indeed have ‘Obama judges,’ and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country," Trump tweeted.The tweets came hours after Roberts pushed back against Trump’s criticisms of a judge who blocked an White House effort to curb as
  
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• Macron Magic Endures for Foreign Businesses Despite Domestic Woes

  21-11-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  For 74 percent of heads of foreign companies in France, the country is an attractive place for business, according to an annual poll of 200 executives by Ipsos.“A year and a half after the election of Emmanuel Macron, the image of France and its attractiveness remains very high and is even increasing,” Ipsos said.
  
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• Black Friday Deals Revealed – Thanksgiving & Cyber Monday May Have Better Prices On These Goods

  21-11-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  In fact, Dealnews dug into their data and found conclusive proof that Thanksgiving deals are better than those of Black Friday.Dealnews’ director of content marketing Lindsay Sakraida told CNBC in 2017 that “Black Friday is still very strong, but a lot of the big deals are going to go live on Thanksgiving Day.” She echoed this exact sentiment in 2018 proving that Black Friday’s deals come second to those of Turkey Day.
  
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• 'There Was Fire on All Sides': New Mom Thanks Driver Who Helped Her Escape Wildfire with Newborn Son

  21-11-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  “I’ve never felt more blessed,” Rachelle Sanders tells TIME
  
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• Radical experimental plane with no moving parts wows scientists

  21-11-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers on Wednesday described successful flight tests at an indoor campus gymnasium of the unmanned airplane powered not by engines that burn fossils fuels but by ion wind propulsion, also called electro-aerodynamic thrust."This is the first time that an airplane without moving parts has flown," said MIT aerospace engineer Steven Barrett, who drew inspiration from fictional shuttlecraft from "Star Trek."Electrical field strength near an array of thi
  
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• Chief justice responds to Trump's judiciary criticism

  21-11-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  John Roberts defends an independent judiciary, The New York Times reports that Trump wanted to prosecute Clinton and Comey, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi cuts a deal in an attempt to become House speaker.
  
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• Barack Obama Helps Out For Thanksgiving

  21-11-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama is taking time during the holiday season to volunteer at a local Chicago food bank.
  
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• U.S. setting up 'observation posts' along Turkey-Syria border

  21-11-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  The United States is setting up "observation posts" along parts of the border between Turkey and Syria to help keep the focus on defeating Islamic State militants in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday.The observation posts would not require additional U.S. troops being sent to Syria, Mattis told reporters.The Pentagon says it has about 2,000 troops in Syria.
  
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• Trump's whitewashing of brutal Saudi killing denounced by both parties

  21-11-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The president puts a price on moral values, and members of Congress aren't happy about it.
  
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• Thanksgiving: Barack Obama pays surprise visit to Chicago food bank to help prepare meals

  21-11-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Barack Obama has surprised volunteers at a Chicago food bank with an unannounced visit to help prepare Thanksgiving meals.The former president arrived with bags of donated food and donned latex gloves to work side by side with volunteers at the non-profit organisation, which helps provide meals to more than 700 food pantries and shelters across Cook County, Illinois.Mr Obama – who helped bag potatoes – brought staff from his Obama foundation with him.
  
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• Mercy Hospital Shooting: 4 dead, including Chicago Officer Samuel Jimenez and gunman

  21-11-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  Four people were killed - including a Chicago police officer, an ER doctor, and a pharmacy resident -- Monday afternoon in a shooting at Mercy Hospital on the city's Near South Side.
  
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• Black Friday 2018 And Special Dining Discounts Arrive At Disney Springs

  21-11-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  Of course, many will travel to Walt Disney World during the holiday week to celebrate with their family, but that doesn’t mean they have to miss out on some great bargains and dining discounts.Over the course of the last two years, Downtown Disney has transformed into Disney Springs and more than double the amount of locations to visit.
  
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• CDC says U.S. abortion rate plunged in decade ending 2015

  21-11-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that statistics for 2015, the most recent year for which data is available, show the abortion rate was 11.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44.Teens aged 15 to 19 experienced a greater decrease than older women, with the rate falling 54 percent from 2006 to 2015, the CDC said."This decrease in abortion rate was greater than the decreases for women in any older age group," the CDC said in a statement.
  
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• Interpol's flaws exposed in US-Russia fight over presidency

  21-11-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. won, Russia lost and Interpol narrowly escaped disaster — that's the upshot of an unusually high-drama vote for the international police agency's president, dominated by fears that Russia wants to turn Interpol into a tool to hunt down its enemies.
  
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• Abu Dhabi prince targeted by French lawsuits over Yemen war

  21-11-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Rights activists filed two complaints in France against a visiting Abu Dhabi prince on Wednesday, accusing him of being complicit in torture as well as in war crimes in Yemen.Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who is a close ally of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was in Paris for a meeting with President Emmanuel Macron.The October 2 killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi loomed large over the meeting, with US President Donald Trump admitting Tuesday that t
  
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• Humble resident wins $1 million on scratch-off lottery ticket

  21-11-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  An Humble resident is $1 million richer after buying a winning scratch-off ticket.
  
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• SpaceX's crew rocket set for January test flight

  21-11-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  The first flight of a SpaceX rocket tailored to fly astronauts to the International Space Station is set for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 7, NASA said on Wednesday.The launch test is a crucial milestone in the space agency's Commercial Crew Program, which aims to launch humans to space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft - which will shuttle three astronauts to spa
  
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• In bid for top U.S. House job, Pelosi wins converts

  21-11-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi, working to reclaim the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives, won over another supporter on Wednesday as a fellow Democrat reversed course and said he would back her as House speaker next year.Pelosi, a 78-year-old San Francisco liberal and current House Democratic leader, is fighting hard to regain the job of speaker after the Nov. 6 elections in which Democrats gained a majority in the 435-member chamber.Representative Brian Higgins, who had initially signed on to that gro
  
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• In bid for top House job, Pelosi wins converts

  21-11-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Pelosi, a 78-year-old San Francisco liberal and current House Democratic leader, is fighting hard to regain the job of speaker after the Nov. 6 elections in which Democrats gained a majority in the 435-member chamber.Pelosi previously held the post in 2007-2011, when she made history as the first woman speaker.Representative Brian Higgins, who had initially signed on to that group, said in an interview with The Buffalo News that he dropped his opposition after Pelosi agreed to make infrastructur
  
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• FDA approves new blood cancer treatment from Pfizer

  21-11-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Pfizer Inc's drug to treat a form of blood cancer in newly diagnosed patients as a combination therapy.Pfizer plans to launch the drug, Daurismo, in the United States by early December with a monthly list price of $16,925, a Pfizer spokeswoman told Reuters.Daurismo was approved for use in adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) aged 75 or older or those who have certain health conditions prior to receiving their diagnosis, for whom int
  
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• Honda Odyssey Minivan Recalled Over Problem With Sliding Doors

  21-11-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  Honda is recalling 107,000 of its 2018 and 2019 Odyssey minivans because its power sliding doors may not latch properly, raising the possibility that they could open while the vehicle is in motio...
  
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• Theresa May takes her deal to Brussels

  21-11-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Theresa May heads to Brussels to try to finalize a blueprint for Britain's future ties with the EU. Francesca Lynagh reports.
  
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• Meet the 5 Best Smith & Wesson Handguns Ever Made

  21-11-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  What would you choose? 
  
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• 5 Times Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker Critiqued The Mueller Investigation On CNN

  21-11-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Before Matt Whitaker was tapped to replace his boss, former Attorney General
  
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• AP Explains: The hunt for missing, dead in California fire

  21-11-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Given the size and scope of the devastation after a deadly wildfire swept Northern California, experts say the search to find the missing and identify victims could take months.
  
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• ​Khloe Kardashian Reveals Her Biggest Struggle With Breastfeeding​

  21-11-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Khloe Kardashian recently opened up about a problem so many mothers can relate
  
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• Saudi Arabia Allegedly Tortured Women's Rights Activists Before Khashoggi Murder

  21-11-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of the brutal torture and murder of Saudi journalist Jamal
  
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• This rally-honed Renault R8 Gordini is a long way from home

  21-11-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  We don't think the Renault 8 Gordini was designed with Californian coastal highways in mind – but that's exactly where this rally-inspired classic has ended up
  
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• Trump Is Right About Saudi Arabia

  21-11-2018 19:02 via yahoo.com
  Trump made a decision to put U.S. interests ahead of the passions of a moralistic chattering class that has no idea about how to defend America.
  
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• Star Trek-style 'ionic wind' plane hailed as most significant advance in flight since the Wright brothers 

  21-11-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  A revolutionary Star Trek-style electric plane that flies silently and has no moving parts has completed its first test flight, in what is being hailed as one of the most significant advances in flight since the early experiments of the Wright brother more than 100 years ago. The battery-powered plane, which was developed and tested by engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, is not kept in flight by propellers or a turbine but by an ionic wind system. The 16ft aircraft is c
  
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• Robert Mueller Reveals How He May Use Trump’s Tweets Against Him In Wednesday George Papadopoulos Court Brief

  21-11-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  In a seven-page court document filed Wednesday morning, Russia investigation special counsel Robert Mueller sent a clear message that if the targets of his investigation post messages on Twitter, those tweets will come back to haunt them because Mueller’s team is monitoring their Twitter feeds.Mueller’s filing Wednesday was a response to an earlier motion by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, as Buzzfeed News reporter Zoe Tillman reported via Twitter.Pa
  
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• Why the Bugatti Veyron was the Concorde of cars

  21-11-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  The Bugatti Veyron created a metaphoric 'sonic boom' when it first launched and became the world's first car to crack 250mph. Today it remains one of the greatest automotive achievements of all time
  
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• Brother of Man Killed in Suspicious N.J. Fire Charged With Arson for Setting His Own Home Ablaze

  21-11-2018 18:48 via yahoo.com
  Paul Caneiro has been charged with aggravated arson
  
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• The EU’s Italian ballet will last a few more months yet

  21-11-2018 18:46
  The EU's budget hawks seem to have won the day for now, but the dance is not over yet
  
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• Camp Fire: Containment increases to 80 percent; rain complicates searches

  21-11-2018 18:44 via yahoo.com
  Rain in the Camp Fire burn area is helping firefighters battle the flames, but is also complicating searches for the missing in the rubble.
  
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• Aaron Rodgers Donates $1 Million To Help With Camp Fire Relief Efforts

  21-11-2018 18:42 via yahoo.com
  Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is helping people in his native Butte Country to recover, after the devastating Camp Fire ripped through the area.Rodgers set up a fund — which he seeded with $1 million of his own money — to help the victims of the fire, according to local station KRCR Channel 7 News.Called the Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund, the relief effort will work to obtain funds that will go towards helping with the basic needs of those impacted by the fire
  
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• Potential Speaker Challenger Endorses Pelosi

  21-11-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  A congresswoman who had flirted with challenging Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the House endorsed Pelosi’s candidacy for the post on Tuesday after the two met in private.Representative Marcia Fudge, a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), met with Pelosi on Friday and said the former speaker promised to restore the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections and name her to chair it.“Leader Pelosi has granted me the opportunity to create the record necessary to satis
  
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