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• CNN Compares Trump Phone Usage to 15-Year-Old Child

  25-04-2018 23:44 via westernjournal.com
  
  CNN dedicated an entire segment to analyzing President Donald Trump’s personal cellphone use Tuesday on “New Day” and tried to paint it as a loss of control by the commander-in-chief. “You have reporting which is that President Trump is using his personal cellphone more than he had been in the past year,” host Alisyn Camerota…
  
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• Sarah Sanders Rips Reporter’s ‘Tone’ in Press Briefing, Calls it ‘Completely Unnecessary”

  25-04-2018 23:42 via westernjournal.com
  
  A White House press briefing Wednesday included a heated exchange between White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and CNN’s Jim Acosta. As the Washington Examiner reported, a series of questions led Acosta to take issue with President Donald Trump’s relationship with the news media. The terse exchange ended with a rebuke by Sanders, who called…
  
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• California voters to decide on $8.9 billion water bonds in November

  25-04-2018 23:25
  California voters will get to decide in a statewide November ballot whether their state should borrow $8.9 billion for water projects, Secretary of State Alex Padilla said on Wednesday.If approved, the state would issue bonds to pay for $3 billion of drinking water projects, $2.9 billion of watershed and fisheries improvements and $940 million of habitat protection, with the rest going for groundwater storage, dam repairs and other water infrastructure.Interests payments of $8.4 billion over 40
  
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• Democrats Won’t Be Pleased with Ben Carson’s Plan for Public Housing

  25-04-2018 23:21 via westernjournal.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s administration will propose increasing the minimum percent of income that poor families living in subsidized housing will pay in rent, according to suggested legislation The Washington Post first reported. Currently, the lowest-income residents in housing provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development pay 30 percent of adjusted salary toward rent.…
  
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• Ted Cruz Speaks Out for Alfie, Calls for Prayers for Baby and Family

  25-04-2018 23:20 via westernjournal.com
  
  'It is a grim reminder...'
  
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• Judge Won’t Jail Man on Gun Charges, Cop Ends up Dead

  25-04-2018 23:15 via westernjournal.com
  
  A Massachusetts judge released a man who was arrested on gun charges in late March, only to end up with the man on the run for allegedly killing a sheriff ‘s deputy in Maine one month later. The alleged killer, John D. Williams, 29, is on the run after he allegedly killed Somerset County Deputy…
  
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• Supreme Court Signals That It Will Uphold Trump’s Travel Ban

  25-04-2018 22:55 via westernjournal.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Wednesday over the lawfulness of President Donald Trump’s travel sanctions. Though a tenuous majority appeared to favor the administration, the liberal bloc peppered Solicitor General Noel Francisco with brutal hypotheticals and heart-wrenching examples of migrants denied entry to the United States since Trump took office. Justice Elena Kagan…
  
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• FLIR Systems to pay $30 million to settle U.S. allegations: State Department

  25-04-2018 22:54
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FLIR Systems Inc will pay $30 million to settle U.S. government allegations it exported defense-related items in violation of the Arms Export Control Act, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.
  
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• Former South Carolina prison workers charged with smuggling contraband

  25-04-2018 22:51
  The charges were unsealed little more than a week after seven inmates were killed in a riot sparked by a fight among prison gangs over turf and contraband at South Carolina's Lee Correctional Institution."These investigations have been going on a while and they continue," U.S. Attorney Beth Drake said at a news conference in Columbia, the state capital.
  
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• Seriously, Homeland? Latest episode of US spy drama goes to ‘Moscow’

  25-04-2018 22:42 via rt.com
  
  Hollywood has always drawn viewers in with Russian villains and scary plots of Kremlin deception. House of Cards, Scandal, Blacklist, Allegiance — you name it, they’ve all delighted their audiences with scary Russian villains.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• ‘Golden State Killer’ reportedly arrested after 40+ years, identified as ex-cop

  25-04-2018 22:27 via rt.com
  
  Police in California have arrested a man believed to be the notorious “Golden State Killer,” who was allegedly responsible for 12 homicides, 45 rapes and 120 home invasions in the 1970s and 1980s.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• French President Macron and Rep. John Lewis visit MLK memorial

  25-04-2018 22:24 via rss.cnn.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington, DC, Wednesday, accompanied by a guide intimately familiar with the history of civil rights in the US, Rep. John Lewis.
  
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• Suspect charged with capital murder for shooting Dallas officer

  25-04-2018 22:23
  Armando Juarez, 29, was caught after a high-speed chase following Tuesday's shooting at a Home Depot store, Dallas police said.The officer who died was identified as Rogelio Santander, 27.Officer Crystal Almeida, 26, remained in critical condition, police said.
  
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• Actor Hank Azaria willing to 'step aside' from voicing Apu on 'The Simpsons'

  25-04-2018 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  Appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Azaria spoke about the controversy surrounding Apu.
  
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• Report: McCabe Told FBI Agents to Stand Down on Clinton Email Investigation

  25-04-2018 22:16 via westernjournal.com
  
  'McCabe tried to steer people off the private email investigation...'
  
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• Former cop arrested in 'Golden State Killer' case, suspected in 12 California slayings

  25-04-2018 22:15
  An elderly former police officer was arrested and charged in four murders authorities attributed to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal suspected of dozens of rapes and slayings that terrorized parts of California during the 1970s and 1980s.The suspect was identified by authorities at a news conference in Sacramento, the state capital, as Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, in a case that officials said was finally solved by DNA evidence.The Federal Bureau of Investigation has previously said that
  
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• Opinion: I’m No Longer a ‘Never Trump’ Conservative. Here’s Why

  25-04-2018 22:02 via westernjournal.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s first year-plus in the White House has given me several reasons to stop being a “Never Trump” conservative. During the 2016 presidential election, I was very unsatisfied with Trump as the GOP nominee and eventually voted for a third-party candidate. The fact that he was a Democrat for most of his life…
  
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• Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush out of intensive care

  25-04-2018 21:42
  The 93-year-old former president "is alert and talking with hospital staff, family and friends, and his doctors are very pleased with his progress," spokesman Jim McGrath said in a statement.Bush, a Republican who served a single term from 1989 to 1993, is expected to continue his recovery in the hospital forseveral more days, McGrath said.Bush was admitted to the Houston hospital on Sunday, a day after he attended the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a former first lady who died on April 17.
  
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• Scott Adams: Kanye West ‘Ripped a Hole in Reality’ with Candace Owens Tweet

  25-04-2018 21:31 via westernjournal.com
  
  Controversial rapper and music producer Kanye West once again sparked controversy when he weighed in with his thoughts about conservative commentator Candace Owens. In a post last week, the prolific tweeter offered a plug for the conservative pundit. “I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” he wrote. In a shift of allegiances lending credence to…
  
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• MSNBC pulls a Sinclair, compares corporate owner Comcast to Nelson Mandela

  25-04-2018 21:07 via rt.com
  
  After bashing Sinclair Broadcasting for having its news anchors read a corporate script praising the group’s journalistic standards, MSNBC did the same on Friday,as its journalists extolled the virtues of MSNBC’s owner, Comcast.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Liberals Are Masters of Projection

  25-04-2018 21:00 via westernjournal.com
  
  'There is however, extensive and provable collusion between the Democrat National Committee, Hillary Clinton and her campaign, Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, the law firm of Perkins Coie, the FBI, and the Obama Department of Justice to deny Donald Trump his duly-elected presidency by using a phony, Russian-produced dossier in order to get a FISA warrant to spy on his transition team.'
  
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• In #MeToo's shadow, Cosby awaits verdict in sexual assault trial

  25-04-2018 20:57
  The case against Bill Cosby, the man once known as "America's Dad," is now in the hands of a jury charged with deciding whether the comedian is guilty of drugging and molesting a onetime friend at his Pennsylvania home more than a decade ago.It is the second time that Cosby, now 80, has faced the charges that he sexually assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004.With the rise to the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, the outcome of Cosby's second trial may hint at whether jurors are now more willing to beli
  
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• Flowers and grits as Waffle House reopens after Nashville killings

  25-04-2018 20:53
  The Waffle House restaurant in Nashville where a gunman killed four people reopened on Wednesday for the first time since the weekend attack, filling up with customers ordering breakfasts as a makeshift memorial of flowers piled up outside.Eric Puschmann, a pastor at the nearby Free Will Baptist church, joined staff for prayers before the restaurant opened, he said.The suspect in the shooting, Travis Reinking, used an AR-15 rifle to kill two people inside and two people outside the restaurant be
  
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• Americans Rally to NRA, Shatter 15 Year Fundraising Record

  25-04-2018 20:17 via westernjournal.com
  
  'The enemies of freedom are well-organized and well-funded, and it’s our responsibility to fight back.'
  
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• Syrian Refugees’ Violent Anti-Semitism Forces Germany To Issue Warning to All Jews

  25-04-2018 20:13 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Nevertheless, I would advise individual people against openly wearing a kippah ...'
  
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• Suspected Waffle House gunman erased hard drive before shooting

  25-04-2018 20:06 via rss.cnn.com
  The man accused of killing four people at a Nashville-area Waffle House erased his laptop's hard drive weeks before the shooting, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.
  
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• U.S. regulator sues LendingClub over hidden fees

  25-04-2018 20:05
  A U.S. regulator sued online lender Lending Club Corp on Wednesday for allegedly overcharging consumers and misleading them on hidden fees.LendingClub also allegedly deducted payments automatically from consumers' bank accounts even when they had paid off their loans, or had canceled automatic payments, according to the complaint.Some consumers were allegedly charged double payments, the complaint said.
  
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• Puerto Rico's governor says power should return within a month

  25-04-2018 19:54
  Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello on Wednesday said he expects electricity to be restored across the U.S. territory within a month, but warned that the island's infrastructure needed to be strengthened ahead of the upcoming hurricane season."The expectation is that ... within the next month we'll be able to reach that normalcy," he told CBS News.Puerto Rico has struggled to recover after Hurricane Maria wiped out power across the territory about seven months ago.
  
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• US violating intl law by breaking into Russian consulate in Seattle – embassy (WATCH LIVE)

  25-04-2018 19:50 via rt.com
  
  The US government is violating international law with its decision to break into Russia’s locked consulate in Seattle, the Russian embassy in Washington said in a statement.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• US violating intl law by breaking into Russian consulate in Seattle – embassy

  25-04-2018 19:50 via rt.com
  
  The US government is violating international law with its decision to break into Russia’s locked consulate in Seattle, the Russian embassy in Washington said in a statement.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Finland Forced to Shut Down Universal Income Program after Social Experiment Fails

  25-04-2018 19:32 via westernjournal.com
  
  It took two years, but the government of Finland has realized that giving away money can get to be very expensive. The country’s two-year experiment with a universal basic income program was lauded by progressives when it launched at the beginning of last year. The Finnish government paid out monthly checks of $685 to 2,000…
  
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• CIA agrees to partially declassify Haspel documents

  25-04-2018 19:29 via rt.com
  
  The CIA announced Tuesday that it will allow senators mulling the nomination of Gina Haspel as director to review classified information from her long and controversial career with the agency.
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• Dallas police officer dies, two others critical after attack at store

  25-04-2018 19:24
  After the officers were shot on Tuesday, a suspect, Armando Juarez, 29, was caught after a five-hour search as he tried to elude police in a pickup truck, police said.The officer who died was identified as Rogelio Santander, 27, while officer Crystal Almeida, 26, remained in critical condition, said the Patricia Blasquez, spokeswoman for Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings.A Home Depot security officer, Scott Painter, who also was shot, remained in critical condition, Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall to
  
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• US authorities break into closed Russian consulate residence in Seattle (PHOTOS)

  25-04-2018 19:01 via rt.com
  
  US authorities broke into into the locked residence of the Russian consul-general in Seattle, Washington. The building was evacuated on US orders as part of the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• South Carolina prison workers indicted for contraband smuggling

  25-04-2018 18:41
  The indictments were unsealed on Wednesday, the paper said, little more than a week after seven inmates died in a riot sparked by a fight among prison gangs over turf and contraband at South Carolina's Lee Correctional Institution.Citing court records, the State said the indictments charge the former employees with taking bribes to smuggle contraband, including drugs and cellphones, into state prisons.
  
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• U.S. cannot cut teen pregnancy prevention grants : federal judge

  25-04-2018 18:27
  A federal judge has blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from terminating grant funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs run by affiliates of Planned Parenthood, saying the decision was arbitrary.U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice in Spokane, Washington,ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had failed to satisfactorily explain why it decided in July to terminate the five-year grants two years early.HHS failed to follow proper administrative pro
  
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• Accused Waffle House killer in Nashville had laptop drive wiped - report

  25-04-2018 18:08
  A man who identified himself as Travis Reinking - jailed this week after a day-long manhunt - then called Nashville's Dang It Repair store back two weeks later for an angry, paranoia-tinged conversation with a confused customer-service representative, NBC-affilate WSMV reported."If you'd like to bring the device by, we'd be happy to take a look at it for you," the representative can be heard saying.
  
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• ‘Blue Wave’ Falls Short as GOP Locks Down Special Election

  25-04-2018 18:00 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Press is so silent.'
  
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• Joy Reid Dealt Serious Blow as LGBT Group Rescinds Award

  25-04-2018 17:54 via westernjournal.com
  
  Despite her claims of being the victim of hackers who want to taint her character, MSNBC host Joy Reid is beginning to receive some backlash after a series of homophobic posts were discovered on a blog she previously managed. The gay rights group PFLAG National rescinded an invitation Tuesday for Reid to receive the group’s…
  
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• Restaurant reopens and is donating 100% of sales to families of shooting victims

  25-04-2018 17:43 via rss.cnn.com
  The Nashville-area Waffle House where a gunman killed four people over the weekend reopened its doors Wednesday morning for the first time since the shooting. And it has a plan to commemorate Sunday's victims.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court leans toward upholding Trump's travel ban

  25-04-2018 17:38
  By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew ChungWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled they are likely to uphold President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries, one of the most contentious policies of his presidency.Both Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, a frequent swing vote on the nine-justice court, indicated they were unwilling to second-guess the president on the national security justifications fo
  
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• Washington wants to keep Iran nuclear deal, just make it more ‘enduring,’ US official insists

  25-04-2018 17:33 via rt.com
  
  Washington is not planning to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal, but simply wants to expand its scope, a top US official has said. Tehran has blasted US efforts to alter the accord, warning that it’s “either all or nothing.”Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• New York Times issues fake-news correction in article about fake news

  25-04-2018 17:26 via rt.com
  
  The New York Times was forced to issue a lengthy correction after it published a false statement in an article about “fake news” on Facebook.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• U.S. to seek court approval to terminate 'outdated' antitrust judgments

  25-04-2018 16:55
  The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it plans to seek court approval to terminate "outdated" antitrust judgments that remain on the books throughout the United States.The government said there are nearly 1,300 “legacy” judgments remaining on the books of its Antitrust Division, and nearly all likely remain open in U.S. courts.
  
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• Here's where dissatisfied teachers are taking action next

  25-04-2018 16:54 via rss.cnn.com
  The next wave of teacher walkouts and demonstrations is about to begin.
  
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• What is GDPR? A look at the European data privacy rules that could change tech

  25-04-2018 16:36 via nbcnews.com
  A new European data regulation that just a month ago seemed like an obscure piece of legislation is suddenly on the lips of everyone in the tech industry.
  
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• America and Germany: An Opportunity to Advance Free and Fair Trade and Strengthen the Transatlantic Relationship

  25-04-2018 16:20 via westernjournal.com
  
  'Free and fair trade brings growth and opportunity and creates jobs.'-- President Ronald Reagan
  
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• Harry Reid: Trump is damaging the U.S. but 'stop' impeachment talk

  25-04-2018 16:18 via nbcnews.com
  The former Democratic Senate leader breaks his silence on Trump, Russia and Republicans.
  
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• Detainee sat in human waste for 18 days in private prison transport van – report

  25-04-2018 15:56 via rt.com
  
  A detainee was forced to endure an almost three-week journey between Virginia and Texas in a privately-owned prisoner transport van. A lawsuit alleges he was denied medication, inadequately fed, and forced to sit in human waste.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Racist stereotype or PC gone mad? ‘Apu’ actor’s offer reignites Simpsons debate (POLL)

  25-04-2018 14:09 via rt.com
  
  Critics may think it’s just another case of political correctness gone mad, but now even actor Hank Azaria has lent his support to those unhappy about his voicing of ‘The Simpsons’ character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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