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• Facebook data harvesting scandal widens to 87 million people

  04-04-2018 23:52 via nbcnews.com
  The number of people affected was previously estimated to be 50 million.
  
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• Oklahoma teachers got raises. They're still marching on the capital.

  04-04-2018 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  "We are willing to walk 100 miles for our students," said the Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association president. "What is the Oklahoma Legislature willing to do?"
  
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• Inside the bizarre online world of Youtube shooter Nasim Aghdam (VIDEO)

  04-04-2018 23:42 via rt.com
  
  Three people were shot when Nasim Najafi Aghdam opened fire at Youtube’s HQ in California. Her videos offer a startling insight into the vegan bodybuilder’s inner world.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Nasim Najafi Aghdam was upset with YouTube's practices

  04-04-2018 23:40 via rss.cnn.com
  The woman who opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday practiced shooting at a gun range hours before the attack, police said.
  
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• L3 Technologies unit, five other firms share $25.5 bln U.S. defense contract

  04-04-2018 23:39
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, a unit of L3 Technologies, and five other companies will share a 10-year, $25.5 billion Army aircraft and equipment support contract, the Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday.
  
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• Leftist Group Attacks Bad Journalism… Using Dan Rather

  04-04-2018 23:37 via westernjournal.com
  
  Perhaps it was an April Fool’s Day joke that was a day late. That’s how some people might react after seeing a new video hosted by Dan Rather. The subject of the video? How to protect yourself against fake news. .@DanRather’s guide to protecting yourself against fake news. pic.twitter.com/yvypbLBaKE — The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) April…
  
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• Tennessee ex-teacher in abduction case to plead guilty: officials

  04-04-2018 23:31
  A former Tennessee high school teacher accused of abducting a 15-year-old female student in a cross-country journey that ended with his arrest in California will plead guilty to two related felony charges, officials said on Wednesday.Tad Cummins, 51, will plead guilty to obstruction of justice and transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of engaging in criminal sexual conduct in a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville, according to his attorney, assistant federal public
  
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• Myth: Racial Disparities Don’t Simply Boil Down to Discrimination

  04-04-2018 23:29 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Sowell lays waste to myth after myth not only in the United States but around the globe.'
  
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• Sen. Ted Cruz: Border Patrol Agents Are American Heroes

  04-04-2018 23:28 via westernjournal.com
  
  'The sense of duty to our fellow Americans, respect for the laws of the land, and boundless spirit of self-sacrifice shown by the heroic men and women of the Border Patrol is who we are.'
  
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• Trump agrees to keep U.S. troops in Syria for now

  04-04-2018 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  "He wasn't thrilled about it, to say the least," a senior administration official said.
  
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• U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashes in Nevada, pilot's condition unknown

  04-04-2018 22:56
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada on Wednesday, the third crash involving a military aircraft in the past two days.
  
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• Dick Morris: Warning to Trump – Do Not Meet With Mueller

  04-04-2018 22:51 via westernjournal.com
  
  Special counsel Robert Mueller’s announcement — leaked through an aide — that he does not consider President Donald Trump to be a “target” of his investigation but merely sees him as a “person of interest,” is likely a strategy to try and inveigle the president into meeting with the prosecutor and facing hours of questioning.…
  
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• Oklahoma teachers pressure state lawmakers for higher funding

  04-04-2018 22:50
  Teachers from across Oklahoma walked off the job for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, repeating their demands for higher pay and more spending on education.Hundreds of teachers from dozens of districts, as well as parents and students, packed the state Capitol in Oklahoma City by mid-morning, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety officials said."My books were old when I was in high school more than 15 years ago and chances are a lot of them are still being used today," Oklahoma City resident
  
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• The question that haunts his final day

  04-04-2018 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  It's April 4, 1968, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. steps outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and leans over the balcony.
  
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• Police talked with YouTube shooter hours before attack

  04-04-2018 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  Eleven hours before she shot up YouTube headquarters and then killed herself, Nasim Najafi Aghdam chatted with police.
  
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• China Announces Military Alliance with Russia to ‘Show Americans’

  04-04-2018 22:39 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Remember this, getting along with Russia is a good thing. Getting along with China is a good thing.'
  
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• F-16 jet crashes at base outside Las Vegas

  04-04-2018 22:22 via rt.com
  
  An Air Force F-16 jet has crashed outside of Las Vegas at Nellis Air Force Base during routine training on the Nevada Test and Training Range, officials said Wednesday. The pilot's condition is unknown.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• F-16 jet crashes at Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, officials say

  04-04-2018 22:15 via foxnews.com
  An Air Force F-16 jet crashed Wednesday at Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas, defense officials told Fox News.
  
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• Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith divorcing: media

  04-04-2018 22:12
  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who rose to national fame in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and his third wife, Judith, are divorcing, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.After a 15-year marriage, Judith Giuliani, 63, filed a contested divorce proceeding in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, indicating an expected fight over their assets, including properties in New York and Palm Beach, Florida."It is with great sadness I can confirm that Judith and I are divorcing," Rudy Gi
  
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• Facebook believes ‘most’ of its 2bn users had their data improperly mined & misused

  04-04-2018 22:10 via rt.com
  
  The personal information of 87mn users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant has said, while also admitting that they “believe most people on Facebook” have had their data misused at some point.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Facebook admits more users’ information was shared with Cambridge Analytica

  04-04-2018 22:10 via rt.com
  
  The personal information of 87 million Facebook users may have been improperly shared with data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant has said, as it rolled out a set of new security measures.
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• Neb. Lawmakers Finalize Bill to Completely Defund Planned Parenthood

  04-04-2018 22:02 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Clinics would need to show physical, financial and legal separation from abortion services.'
  
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• U.S. seeks about 20 years prison for Turkish banker in Iran sanctions case

  04-04-2018 21:58
  U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to sentence a Turkish banker convicted of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions to about 20 years in prison, in a case that has strained diplomatic ties between the United States and Turkey.Mehmet Hakan Atilla, 47, a former deputy general manager at Turkey's state-controlled Halkbank, had been found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan in January.Lawyers for Atilla did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the sentencing request.
  
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• MSM Erupts After Sinclair Has Local Journalists Unite Against Fake News

  04-04-2018 21:57 via westernjournal.com
  
  An influential television broadcast company has come under fire in recent days after a video showed news anchors at dozens of local networks reciting identical scripts warning of the rise of “fake news.” Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns nearly 200 local stations in markets across the U.S., is defined by its critics as an ideologically…
  
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• KFC's most outrageous marketing stunts

  04-04-2018 21:47 via foxnews.com
  There's no mistake clever marketing can't fix.
  
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• California search fails to find children missing after SUV crash

  04-04-2018 21:47
  Dozens of police and rescue workers in boats, planes and on land combed beaches and the ocean for the children after their wrecked GMC Yukon was found north of San Francisco under a coastal cliff a week ago, along with the bodies of their two adoptive mothers and three elder siblings.Police suspect the missing children may have been in the vehicle and their bodies washed into the ocean, but are not ruling out the chance they were elsewhere and are going over video footage to retrace the family's
  
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• Texas university pro-life students say banners promoting programs stolen five times in last year

  04-04-2018 21:45 via foxnews.com
  Pro-life students at University of Texas at San Antonio noticed their banner promoting an upcoming speaker had been stolen Friday – for the fifth time in the last year.
  
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• Facebook apologizes for blocking Catholic university’s ad of Jesus on the cross

  04-04-2018 21:45 via foxnews.com
  Facebook apologized after it rejected an ad by a Catholic university in Ohio on Good Friday that showed Jesus hanging on the cross.
  
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• EPA's Scott Pruitt pushes back on pay raise, condo controversy in Fox exclusive

  04-04-2018 21:45 via foxnews.com
  Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt fired back at critics Wednesday, defending his decision to take a $50 a day condo rental from the wife of a lobbyist and claiming he just found out about a controversial pay raise for two of his staff members.
  
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• North Carolina woman held captive, tortured in home of man she dated, police say

  04-04-2018 21:44 via foxnews.com
  After calling out her name, police were able to find and rescue a woman who was being held captive and tortured by a man who she had been in a relationship with.
  
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• Shooting motivated by video blogger's anger with YouTube, police say

  04-04-2018 21:39
  By Paresh Dave and Heather SomervilleSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with "injustice and diseases" opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday.In a series of Persian and English-language online postings, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, had railed against the video-sharing site owned by Alphabet Inc's Google before wounding three people and
  
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• Trump to sign proclamation sending National Guard to the border immediately

  04-04-2018 21:34 via foxnews.com
  The Trump administration announced Wednesday that President Trump will sign a proclamation to send the National Guard to the border immediately.
  
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• BMW lets Nashville residents drive a different new car every day

  04-04-2018 21:31 via foxnews.com
  How many brand-new BMWs could you drive in 32 days? That’s a legitimate question many Nashville residents can answer, if they’re flush on extra cash, this May.
  
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• Jury finds pharma millionaire's brother responsible for Rebecca Zahau's hanging death

  04-04-2018 21:30 via foxnews.com
  A Southern California civil jury awarded $5 million in damages Wednesday to the family of a woman who was found hanged at a mansion outside San Diego in 2011, determining that the brother of the woman's boyfriend was liable for her death.
  
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• Is a caravan of immigrants heading to the US border? What to know about the annual event

  04-04-2018 21:30 via foxnews.com
  As more than 1,000 migrants travel through Mexico, President Trump has continued to warn that the caravan of people should be stopped before entering the U.S. The caravan, an annual event, is made up mostly of migrants from Honduras and Central America.
  
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• Meet Sam Hyde: The man behind the ‘lone mass shooter’ meme

  04-04-2018 21:24 via rt.com
  
  In the wake of recent mass shootings in the US, one man’s image begins to circulate on social media time and time again as the alleged source of the latest violence.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Will they or won’t they? US vague on withdrawal from Syria

  04-04-2018 20:59 via rt.com
  
  The White House has said that its mission to eradicate Islamic State in Syria is rapidly coming to an end, but has offered no timetable for withdrawal. The announcement is the latest in a long line of contradictory positions.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Chinese-born executive pleads guilty in U.N. bribery case

  04-04-2018 20:54
  A Chinese-born executive pleaded guilty on Wednesday in New York to three criminal counts in connection with a U.S. bribery probe involving a former United Nations General Assembly president.Julia Vivi Wang admitted to bribery and conspiracy charges, both in violation of the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and to submitting fraudulent income tax returns.Wang, 57, also entered a plea agreement under which she is expected to cooperate with prosecutors.
  
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• The people who witnessed MLK's assassination

  04-04-2018 20:53
  
          
  
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• Harvard physicists say they know how and, roughly, when the world will end

  04-04-2018 20:49 via rt.com
  
  A new study from Harvard University suggests the world is destined to end in much the same way it began… with a really, really, big bang.
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• CNN Hammered for Sexist Comments on YouTube Shooter

  04-04-2018 20:33 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Yes, and she was probably having her period too.'
  
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• CNN Caught in Own Trap, Hammered for Sexist Comments on YouTube Shooter

  04-04-2018 20:33 via westernjournal.com
  
  CNN received multiple rebukes online for speculating that the YouTube shooter’s motivation was based on a “love triangle.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, after authorities in San Bruno, California confirmed on Tuesday the shooter at YouTube’s headquarters was a woman, CNN crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz conjectured on “The Situation Room” that the motive…
  
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• What, and who, is moving the migrant caravans through Mexico

  04-04-2018 20:23 via nbcnews.com
  For over 15 years, the organization has led migrants from Central America to seek asylum elsewhere.
  
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• Why a trade war with China couldn't come at a worse time for carmakers

  04-04-2018 20:08 via nbcnews.com
  U.S.-China trade tussle puts automakers in cross hairs
  
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• Migrants at U.S.-Mexico border say Trump's tough talk will not deter them

  04-04-2018 20:05
  On Tuesday, the same day that U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy military to help patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, Edwin Valdez and four other Central American migrants were walking through dense brush at a south Texas wildlife reserve, hoping to escape notice.The men had illegally crossed into the United States that morning, guided by a smuggler who had since abandoned them.In vehicles nearby, U.S. Border Patrol agents had been alerted to migrants moving through the are
  
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• Sweden's progressive policies lure American parents

  04-04-2018 20:01 via nbcnews.com
  "Here, it's not about work," said Tyler Reid, who moved his young family from New York. "It's about enjoying life."
  
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• Bombshell: Memo Okaying Mueller’s Raid on Manafort Written 7 Days After Raid Happened

  04-04-2018 19:43 via westernjournal.com
  
  Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller’s justification for indicting Robert Manafort hit an apparent snag this week with news that a secret memo authorizing the investigation was written days after the former Trump campaign chairman’s home was raided. As Law & Crime reported, Manafort’s attorneys are arguing the special counsel was not granted the…
  
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• Shooter attacked YouTube for filtering her videos, police say

  04-04-2018 19:31
  An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with "injustice and diseases" opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday.In a series of Persian and English-language online postings, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, had railed against the video-sharing site owned by Alphabet Inc's Google before wounding three people and killing herself on Tuesday at its offices in San Bruno, just so
  
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• Death feed: Two men killed live on Instagram & Facebook

  04-04-2018 19:25 via rt.com
  
  A Detroit teenager is dead and a Houston man is gravely injured after they were shot in disturbing incidents of gun violence while filming live video on Instagram and Facebook.
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• Oklahoma City man charged with threatening to blow up mosque

  04-04-2018 19:16 via foxnews.com
  An Oklahoma City man has been arrested and charged with threatening to blow up a mosque.
  
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