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• Cosby lawyer to sex assault accuser: 'Did you fabricate a scheme?'

  16-04-2018 23:41
  Bill Cosby's defense team on Monday sought to undercut the credibility of a woman accusing the comedian of sexual assault by pressing her about accusations she schemed to plant a false story of abuse to reap hush money.Cosby, 80, is undergoing his second trial on charges that he drugged and raped Andrea Constand, 45, at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2014.Constand has accused Cosby of attacking her when she visited him to discuss leaving her job.
  
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• Interior watchdog report: Zinke travel 'generally followed' policy

  16-04-2018 23:37 via rss.cnn.com
  A new inspector general report has concluded Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's travel customs "generally followed" policy.
  
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• Opinion: A Second Chance at Choice on Abortion

  16-04-2018 23:19 via westernjournal.com
  
  A new and groundbreaking study has thrown the U.S. abortion establishment into a tizzy, and it’s easy to understand why. For years, proponents of medication abortion (or chemical abortion, as some call it) have criticized a protocol aimed at reversing drug-induced abortions on the primary ground that the number of cases where such reversals have…
  
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• Avenatti: Michael Cohen is 'radioactive'

  16-04-2018 23:15 via rss.cnn.com
  Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti says clients of attorney Michael Cohen should be concerned about their secrets being disclosed in documents seized by the FBI.
  
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• Jawsome! School of 1,400 basking sharks spotted off US North Atlantic coast

  16-04-2018 23:13 via rt.com
  
  Marine biologists have been left baffled by the appearance of large schools, comprised of up to 1,400 basking sharks, in the waters off the northeastern US.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• 7 days of heroin: This is what an epidemic looks like

  16-04-2018 23:07
  
  The Cincinnati Enquirer, Chillicothe (Ohio) Gazette, Coshocton (Ohio) TribuneThe (Fremont, Ohio) News-Messenger, Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette, (Mansfield, Ohio) News Journal, The Marion (Ohio) Star, The (Newark, Ohio) Advocate, (Zanesville, Ohio) T        
  
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• Obama’s DOJ Tried To Shut Down Clinton Investigation

  16-04-2018 22:40 via westernjournal.com
  
  The Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the “lack of candor” by FBI deputy Director Andrew McCabe also documents for the first time the Obama administration’s effort to shut down the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a review of the report by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. The inspector…
  
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• California not taking part in enhanced U.S. border security operation

  16-04-2018 22:18
  The state of California has opted not to take part in the Trump administration's effort to send National Guard troops to the country's southern border with Mexico, a Defense Department official confirmed at a briefing Monday.Robert Salesses, a deputy assistant secretary at the Defense Department, said California has declined a request to commit more than 200 troops to the effort.Salesses said talks with California are ongoing.
  
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• Cult leader? ‘Sinful Messiah’? 25 years after Waco, interest in David Koresh still strong

  16-04-2018 22:13
  
  Twenty-five years after David Koresh and 75 followers perished in a firestorm on April 19, 1993, interest in what happened outside Waco — and who’s to blame — remains immense.        
  
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• Trump lawyer Michael Cohen also represented Fox News host Sean Hannity, court reveals

  16-04-2018 22:11 via rt.com
  
  Michael Cohen, the personal attorney for US President Donald Trump, has previously represented Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen’s lawyers were forced to reveal in federal court on Monday.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Democrats have 19-point advantage in midterms in New Jersey, new poll finds

  16-04-2018 22:06 via rss.cnn.com
  Democrats enjoy a 19-point advantage in New Jersey for the 2018 midterm elections among registered voters, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday.
  
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• Inmate: 7 dead, bodies 'stacked on top of each other' in South Carolina prison riot

  16-04-2018 22:04
  
  Seven inmates are dead and 17 injured after fighting at the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Bishopville, S.C., authorities said.        
  
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• U.S. Interior chief's $12,000 charter flight 'could have been avoided': watchdog

  16-04-2018 21:56
  The report from the department's Office of Inspector General came amid mounting pressure on Trump Cabinet officials over their ethics and spending habits while in office."We determined that Zinke’s use of chartered flights in fiscal year (FY) 2017 generally followed relevant law, policy, rules, and regulations," the report said."We found, however, that a $12,375 chartered flight he took in June 2017 after speaking at the developmental camp for the Golden Knights, a professional hockey team
  
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• Defense: New York nanny heard devil's command to murder children

  16-04-2018 21:49
  A New York nanny who stabbed to death two of her charges after hallucinating that a devil told her "to kill the children and herself" should be found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, her lawyer told a jury on Monday.Yoselyn Ortega, 55, was suffering from "command hallucinations" in 2012 when she repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into Lucia Krim, 6, nicknamed Lulu, and her brother Leo, 2, at their New York luxury apartment, her attorney Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg said in her closing a
  
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• Starbucks CEO says arrests of two black men 'reprehensible'

  16-04-2018 21:30
  Starbucks CorpChief Executive Kevin Johnson hopes to meet with the two black men arrested at one of its Philadelphia cafes last week to apologize for the incident, which has sparked accusations of racial profiling at the coffee chain.
  
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• White House walks back Nikki Haley statements on new Russia sanctions

  16-04-2018 21:25 via rt.com
  
  The White House has walked back comments made by US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who said that the US would impose fresh economic sanctions on Russia.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Dick’s Literally Destroying AR-15 Inventory Instead of Selling Back to Manufacturers

  16-04-2018 21:24 via westernjournal.com
  
  Dick’s Sporting Goods no longer sells AR-15-style rifles at any of its stores, and soon its unsold inventory of the much-vilified firearms won’t be available anywhere else. Instead of returning them to their manufacturers, Dick’s will destroy its entire stock of unsold AR-15s, the company said Monday. “We are in the process of destroying all…
  
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• Nikki Haley: Russia Will ‘Absolutely’ Face Consequences for Supporting Assad

  16-04-2018 21:03 via westernjournal.com
  
  On Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said that the Trump administration will be imposing new sanctions on Russia for supporting the Syrian regime. Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Haley described President Donald Trump’s commitment to resolving the Syrian crisis as well as new sanctions that will be imposed as soon…
  
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• Gang dispute sparks deadliest U.S. prison riot in 25 years: official

  16-04-2018 20:30
  (Reuters) - A gang-related dispute sparked an overnight riot in a South Carolina prison that killed seven inmates, the deadliest U.S. prison riot since 1993, state officials and prison safety experts said on Monday.Another 17 people were wounded in an eight-hour long series of fights at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, said Bryan Stirling, director of the state Department of Corrections.This was about contraband, this was about cell phones," Stirling told a news c
  
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• Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' faces hearing on murder charges

  16-04-2018 20:28
  A frail-looking Robert Durst appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday as a hearing began to determine whether the real estate scion should stand trial for the murder 18 years ago of a friend who prosecutors say could have tied him to the presumed killing of his wife.Durst, 75, entered Los Angeles Superior Court slowly, dressed in a gray and tan suit, a large scar on the right side of his head.The enigmatic subject of the popular HBO documentary "The Jinx," was charged with the murder of Sus
  
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• Redacted Tonight’s Lee Camp challenges Western narrative on Syria (VIDEO)

  16-04-2018 20:28 via rt.com
  
  RT’s Lee Camp has explained why the Western narrative on Syrian chemical attacks doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Cover up? Lee Camp destroys Western narrative on Syria (VIDEO)

  16-04-2018 20:28 via rt.com
  
  RT’s Lee Camp has explained why the Western narrative on Syrian chemical attacks doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Dick Morris: Make Comey Spill the Beans on Lynch over Hillary Emails

  16-04-2018 20:27 via westernjournal.com
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey, in his infinite — and self-described — integrity and wisdom, has decided that his boss for much of his tenure, Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch,  was not sufficiently independent to be allowed to conduct the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of emails on her private server. He said that…
  
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• Kawauchi and Linden record shock wins in Boston Marathon

  16-04-2018 19:58
  (Reuters) - Japan's Yuki Kawauchi and America's Desiree Linden earned stunning victories in a wet and windy Boston Marathon on Monday. Kawauchi ran down defending champion Geoffrey Kirui of Kenya to win in two hours, 15 minutes and 58 seconds. He is the first Japanese man to win the event since 1987. Linden, winning her first marathon, ended a 33-year drought for American women to prevail in 2:39.54 as runners, many clad in rain tops, endured heavy rain and temperatures in the 40s (4C). An Ameri
  
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• Dick Morris: Two Questions Define Mueller Probe

  16-04-2018 19:58 via westernjournal.com
  
  Having chased the phantom of Russian interference in the election and found nothing, special counsel Robert Mueller has morphed his inquiry into one probing obstruction of justice. And now, he has sought to mutate it again into an examination of the president’s sexual encounters. Mueller is following the script of former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who,…
  
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• Clinton Campaign, DNC Laundered $84 Million to State Parties To Avoid Campaign Finance Laws – Report

  16-04-2018 19:35 via westernjournal.com
  
  A pro-Donald Trump political action committee filed suit in federal court against the Federal Elections Commission on Monday, alleging the agency failed to take action on a money-laundering scheme involving the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. “The Committee to Defend the President (CDP), a political action committee formally known as Stop Hillary…
  
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• Trump approval rating hits 51% after Syria strikes

  16-04-2018 19:12 via rt.com
  
  US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has climbed to 51 percent, according to the conservative-leaning Rasmussen polling group.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Colorado teachers follow other state educators in pressing for more funding

  16-04-2018 19:02
  Teachers in Colorado on Monday became the latest in the United States to converge on their state capital to lobby lawmakers for more funding, leading one suburban school district to close for the day.The move followed strikes in states including West Virginia and Oklahoma that saw thousands of teachers crowd into capitol buildings in successful campaigns for higher spending.Unlike in those states, Colorado's teachers work under collective bargaining agreements that prohibit strikes.
  
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• Putin Promises ‘Chaos’ Next Time He’s Tested by US

  16-04-2018 18:37 via westernjournal.com
  
  A Sunday warning from Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated that if Western countries carry out further attacks against Syria, the result will be nothing short of international “chaos.” The warning came as the United States prepares to implement stricter economic sanctions on Russia for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has allegedly used…
  
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• Comey Attacks Obama: ‘Jeopardized DOJ’ During Clinton Investigation

  16-04-2018 18:02 via westernjournal.com
  
  Former FBI Director James Comey was the star of primetime Sunday with his appearance on ABC’s “20/20.” Comey was interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about his upcoming book, “A Higher Loyalty.” The juiciest parts of the interview — in the eyes of the mainstream media — were Comey’s remarks about President Donald Trump, calling him…
  
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• Pelosi Claims Mueller Was Fired

  16-04-2018 18:01 via westernjournal.com
  
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi falsely claimed in an email to supporters last week that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, had been fired. After much speculation that President Donald Trump was going to fire Mueller following the FBI raid on the president’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, Pelosi…
  
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• Comey blames Obama & Lynch for ‘jeopardizing’ Clinton investigation

  16-04-2018 17:59 via rt.com
  
  In his new book, former FBI director James Comey blames President Barack Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch for “setting up” his bureau amid the investigation into the Hillary Clinton email affair.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Seven killed in deadliest U.S. prison riot in 25 years

  16-04-2018 17:54
  The Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, about 40 miles (64 km) northeast of the state capital of Columbia, was secured at 2:55 a.m. EDT (0655 GMT), the state Corrections Department said on Twitter.It was the deadliest U.S. prison riot since 1993, when nine inmates and one corrections officer died at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, said Steve Martin, a longtime prisons expert and now the federal monitor for the consent decree involving New York City
  
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• ‘Do not publish’: CBS News mistakenly reports death of Former First Lady Barbara Bush (PHOTO)

  16-04-2018 17:48 via rt.com
  
  US television channel CBS appear to have wrongly reported the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush, who is in fact still alive but gravely ill.
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• ISIS threatens to bomb New York subway in new propaganda poster

  16-04-2018 17:14 via rt.com
  
  A new propaganda poster uploaded to the messaging platform of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has threatened to bomb the New York City subway.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Supreme Court rejects ex-Illinois governor's latest appeal

  16-04-2018 16:33
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's latest bid to shorten his 14-year prison sentence for corruption offenses including soliciting bribes for appointment to the Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated after being elected president in 2008.The justices left in place a lower court ruling that rejected Blagojevich's arguments that he deserved leniency because he has been a "model prisoner" in the years he has already spent in federal prison and beca
  
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• New High School Textbook Teaches Students Trump Deals with ‘Mental Instability’

  16-04-2018 16:09 via westernjournal.com
  
  A new high school textbook slams President Donald Trump as dealing with “mental instability,” according to several published reports. The textbook, “By the People,” written by James W. Fraser, is published by Pearson and aimed at Advanced Placement high school students. The book’s Trump-related comments were shared by Alex Clark, co-host of an Indiana radio…
  
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• Trump, Republicans intensify attack on ex-FBI director Comey

  16-04-2018 16:00
  U.S. President Donald Trump, his White House staff and the Republican National Committee escalated their attacks on Monday against the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who called Trump a "morally unfit" leader in an interview.James Comey, who was fired by Trump last year amid an FBI investigation of possible ties between Russia's meddling in the U.S. election and Trump's 2016 campaign, made his comments in an interview with ABC News on Sunday, saying Trump may be vulnerable
  
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• Talk of Comey Obstruction of Justice Begins Within Hours of First TV Interviews

  16-04-2018 15:53 via westernjournal.com
  
  James Comey’s effort to promote his book has reopened calls for the fired FBI director to be investigated for obstruction of justice in his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. In July 2016, Comey announced that after a months-long investigation, the bureau would not charge Clinton for using a private email server during…
  
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• Trump wanted to bomb Russian & Iranian targets amid Syria strikes – report

  16-04-2018 14:41 via rt.com
  
  President Donald Trump reportedly favored bombing Russian and Iranian targets in Syria, before Pentagon chief James Mattis talked the US leader out of it.
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• Seven inmates dead, 17 hurt in South Carolina prison incident

  16-04-2018 13:35
  (Reuters) - Seven prison inmates were killed and 17 injured in an hours-long series of events involving multiple fights between inmates at a prison in South Carolina, the state Corrections Department said on Twitter.
  
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• Cosby's sexual assault trial enters second week

  16-04-2018 13:15
  Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial is set to resume Monday, with the defense team expected to resume its scathing cross-examination of his accuser, casting her as a gold-digging con artist.Andrea Constand, 45, claims the 80-year-old comedian drugged and raped her more than a decade ago.Cosby, who played the kindly patriarch on "The Cosby Show" has denied the accusations and has said any sexual contact was consensual.
  
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• New York nanny's murder trial to wrap up with closing arguments

  16-04-2018 12:04
  Mental health experts testifying on either side of the case have drawn two starkly different portrayals of Yoselyn Ortega, 55, who is on trial for the 2012 killing of Lucia Krim, 6, nicknamed Lulu, and her brother Leo, 2, at their New York luxury apartment.Witnesses called by defense lawyer Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg told the jury at state Supreme Court in Manhattan that Ortega was mentally incapable of having an intent to kill and was too psychotic to understand her actions.
  
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• Robert Durst of 'The Jinx' faces hearing into murder charges

  16-04-2018 12:02
  Real estate scion Robert Durst was due in court in Los Angeles on Monday as a judge seeks to determine if he should stand trial for the 18-year-old murder of a friend who prosecutors say could tie him to the presumed killing of his wife.Durst, 75, the enigmatic subject of the popular HBO documentary "The Jinx," was charged with the murder of Susan Berman in 2015, a day after that broadcast aired its final episode.The six-part miniseries investigated Durst's ties to Berman's slaying, his wife's u
  
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• 5 key takeaways from Comey's interview ahead of tell-all book release

  16-04-2018 08:07 via rt.com
  
  Ahead of the release of his much-anticipated memoir, former FBI director James Comey has spoken to ABC about his views on Donald Trump, Trump's nemesis Hillary Clinton, as well as Russia. RT has picked 5 most interesting scoops.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Fired FBI director Comey says Trump 'morally unfit': ABC News interview

  16-04-2018 05:58
  Former FBI director James Comey said in an ABC News interview on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump is a dangerous, "morally unfit" leader doing "tremendous damage" to institutional and cultural norms.Comey, fired by Trump in May last year, was worried the president may be open to blackmail by Russia given claims he was present when prostitutes urinated on each other during a 2013 Moscow visit.Comey's firing came as the Federal Bureau of Investigation was probing possible connections betwee
  
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• Fired FBI director Comey says Trump 'morally unfit': ABC News interview

  16-04-2018 05:33
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI director James Comey said in an ABC News interview on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump is a dangerous, "morally unfit" leader doing "tremendous damage" to institutional and cultural norms.
  
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• This is not the first time transgender athletes have run in the Boston Marathon. Here's why it still matters.

  16-04-2018 05:32 via rss.cnn.com
  The Boston Marathon has made headlines in recent days for its inclusion of transgender runners. But organizers say they've actually been participating for several years.
  
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• Storms unleash tornadoes in U.S. east, record snow in Midwest

  16-04-2018 05:14
  ATLANTA (Reuters) - Deadly slow-moving storms generated record or near-record snowfall and low temperatures in the U.S. Midwest and tornadoes further east on Sunday, leaving airline travelers stranded and thousands without power.
  
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• Trump wants to pull troops from Syria 'as quickly as possible,' but it won't be very quick

  16-04-2018 03:28 via rt.com
  
  US President Donald Trump wants to bring troops back from Syria as soon as possible, the White House said, but not before their goals are fulfilled. Earlier, the French president said he had convinced Trump the troops had to stay.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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