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• Stormy Daniels sues Donald Trump for defamation over 'con job' tweet

  30-04-2018 23:40
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Monday sued U.S. President Donald Trump for defamation, saying he lied by tweeting that her claim of being threatened if she discussed an alleged sexual encounter with him was a "total con job."
  
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• Stormy Daniels sues Donald Trump for defamation over 'con job' tweet

  30-04-2018 23:40
  The lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan escalates Daniels' litigation with Trump and his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who paid her $130,000 before the 2016 U.S. presidential election not to talk about the alleged sexual encounter a decade earlier.Neither Trump's lawyers nor the White House immediately responded to requests for comment.
  
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• Trump the peacemaker? South Korean president says Donald ‘can take the Nobel prize’

  30-04-2018 23:38 via rt.com
  
  US President Donald Trump "can take the Nobel prize" as long as the Koreas receive peace in return, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Monday, just months after Trump threatened North Korea with total destruction.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Canada wants U.S. cooperation in turning back asylum seekers

  30-04-2018 23:33
  TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada wants to change a bilateral agreement to allow it to turn back thousands of asylum seekers walking across the border but the United States is not cooperating, according to a Canadian official with knowledge of the discussions.
  
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• Poll: Democrats Lose Major Ground with Millennials as Midterms Approach

  30-04-2018 23:32 via westernjournal.com
  
  'It sounds strange to me to say this about the Republicans, but they’re helping ...'
  
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• Playing football young may mean earlier cognitive, emotional problems

  30-04-2018 23:29 via rss.cnn.com
  Sports may be a great way to keep kids active, but a new study of players finds that the earlier players with CTE started tackle football, the more vulnerable they were to emotional and cognitive problems.
  
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• US military sees spike in sexual assault reports

  30-04-2018 23:26 via rss.cnn.com
  Reports of sexual assault in the US military increased by nearly 10% in 2017, according to the Pentagon's annual study released on Monday, as the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps all documented a rise in reported incidents.
  
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• Have You Ever Wondered If You Pray ‘In the Holy Spirit?’ It’s Easy To Find Out

  30-04-2018 23:18 via westernjournal.com
  
  'The living reality the Spirit creates is the awareness of God’s presence.'
  
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• Doctor convicted in U.S. of obstructing Warner Chilcott kickback probe

  30-04-2018 22:58
  A Massachusetts doctor was convicted on Monday of obstructing an investigation into kickbacks paid by the drugmaker Warner Chilcott and of wrongly giving one of its sales representatives access to her patients' information.A federal jury in Springfield, Massachusetts found Dr. Rita Luthra guilty on two of the three counts she faced following a U.S. Justice Department probe that led the Allergan Plc unit to pay $125 million as part of 2015 settlement.Jurors found Luthra, 67, not guilty of witness
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to undergo shoulder surgery

  30-04-2018 22:46
  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will undergoshoulder replacement surgery on Tuesday, two weeks after she broke her left shoulder in a fall at her home in Washington, a court spokeswoman said on Monday.Tests showed that the April 16 fracture to the ball of Sotomayor's shoulder joint was more severe than initially believed, and doctors said surgery was warranted, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement.Sotomayor, 63, will undergo a procedure called a "reverse total shoulder replace
  
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• There’s a Reason We Don’t See as Many Christian Miracles Today as They Did in Bible Times

  30-04-2018 22:44 via westernjournal.com
  
  It seems we see signs, wonders, and miracles all over our Bibles. But for many of us, we see an absence of signs, wonders, and miracles in our lives and in the world around us. So where did the wonders go?
  
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• Conservative Activists Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk Meet with Kanye West

  30-04-2018 22:42 via westernjournal.com
  
  First they were pals on Twitter. Now, rapper Kanye West has met face-to-face with conservative commentator Candace Owens, according to the Daily Mail. West and Owens were pictured Sunday after their meeting at a Southern California Institute of Architecture show in Los Angeles, Hollywood Life reported. They were joined by Charlie Kirk, the founder of the…
  
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• Arizona teachers mob lawmakers in third day of walkout

  30-04-2018 22:32
  Arizona teachers carried their walkout over school funding and pay into a third day on Monday as a national union leader backed the latest in a string of national educator protests and allies proposed a $690 million tax hike to pay for their demands.Thousands of red-clad Arizona teachers descended on the state Capitol in Phoenix and mobbed lawmakers as they arrived for work.The teachers waved placards reading "We can't Live on Apples Alone" and singing "We're Not Gonna Take It," the anthem of th
  
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• Loesch Shuts Down False Reports, Reveals Truth Behind ‘Weapons Ban’ for Pence Speech

  30-04-2018 22:10 via westernjournal.com
  
  A tempest erupted in the Twittersphere Monday after mainstream media reports claimed the National Rifle Association was banning guns during at least one major speech at its upcoming convention. NRA-TV’s Dana Loesch set the record straight. NRA banned nothing. The media does this every year. It’s Secret Service SOP and they supersede all start and…
  
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• Cali Candidate Wants Cop Killers Off Death Row: Murder ‘Part of Risk’ of Cop Job

  30-04-2018 22:05 via westernjournal.com
  
  An attorney who wants to be the district attorney for California’s Contra Costa County does not believe all cop killers deserve the death penalty, according to Fox News. During a candidates forum Tuesday, attorney Lawrence Strauss said an individual who kills a single police officer should not have to face the death penalty, according to…
  
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• U.S. appellate judges seem divided on gene editing patents decision

  30-04-2018 21:54
  U.S. appeals court judges appear divided over whether to allow a research center affiliated with MIT and Harvard to keep patents potentially worth billions of dollars on a groundbreaking gene editing technology known as CRISPR.Patents on the technology that could revolutionize treatment of genetic diseases and crop engineering are held by the Broad Institute, which was challenged in court by a rival team associated with the University of California at Berkeley and University of Vienna in Austria
  
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• Trump Vows To Protect Persecuted Christians in Nigeria, ‘We Can’t Allow That To Happen’

  30-04-2018 21:44 via westernjournal.com
  
  During a Monday press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, President Donald Trump affirmed his commitment to fighting terrorism in Africa and stopping the persecution of Christians in Nigeria, according to CBS. “We’ve had very serious problems with Christians who are murdered, killed in Nigeria,” Trump said. He said the United States “can’t allow that…
  
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• Panasonic unit settles U.S. criminal, civil charges of bribery

  30-04-2018 21:17
  By Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A unit of Panasonic Corp agreed to pay about $280 million on Monday in a deal with the U.S. government to resolve criminal and civil charges that the company falsified its financial records to conceal payments to sales agents in China and other parts of Asia.The criminal charges were filed against Panasonic Avionics Corp, a subsidiary that designs in-flight entertainment systems, by the U.S. Justice Department in the U.S. District Court for the District of
  
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• Central American migrants from Mexico 'caravan' camp out on U.S. border

  30-04-2018 21:10
  TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - About 150 Central Americans from a "caravan" of migrants in Mexico were camped out early on Monday at the U.S. border, some trapped inside a port of entry between the two countries, as officials barred them from stepping foot on U.S. soil.
  
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• Trump says 'there's no reason to apologize' for his Muslim ban call

  30-04-2018 21:03 via rss.cnn.com
  President Donald Trump, speaking Monday alongside the President of Nigeria, derided US immigration laws as "weak," "pathetic" and "obsolete."
  
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• Netanyahu Exposes Iran’s Secret Nuclear Files, ‘Iran lied’

  30-04-2018 20:53 via westernjournal.com
  
  'We've shared this material with the United States ...'
  
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• Donald Trump sued for defamation by adult film star Stormy Daniels

  30-04-2018 20:52
  The adult film actress Stormy Daniels on Monday filed a lawsuit accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of defamation for a tweet suggesting she made up an incident where she said she was warned not to discuss an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, sued over an April 18 tweet in which Trump suggested she lied about the existence of a man portrayed in a sketch she released a day earlier.The sketch depicted a man Daniels described as having threatened h
  
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• ‘Need for free press’ out, but warning for whistleblowers added in DOJ’s internal manual update

  30-04-2018 20:50 via rt.com
  
  The Department of Justice has removed language relating to the “need for a free press” as part of an update to its internal manual for federal prosecutors, in what appears to be an effort to discourage whistleblowing and leaking.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• US doesn’t want to be ‘world policeman’ - Trump

  30-04-2018 20:45 via rt.com
  
  Washington is increasingly not interested in being the world policeman, US President Donald Trump has said, noting the country spent "tremendous amount of money" on policing the world.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Central American migrants from Mexico 'caravan' camp out on U.S. border

  30-04-2018 20:10
  By Delphine SchrankTIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - About 150 Central Americans from a "caravan" of migrants in Mexico were camped out early on Monday at the U.S. border, some trapped inside a port of entry between the two countries, as officials barred them from stepping foot on U.S. soil.Denied passage on Sunday into a pedestrian crossing between Tijuana and San Diego at the San Ysidro port of entry, many of those who had fled El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras hoping for U.S. asylum slept in a sq
  
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• South Korean President Pushes for Trump to Win Nobel Peace Prize

  30-04-2018 19:53 via westernjournal.com
  
  South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that President Donald Trump deserves to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in bringing about the denuclearization talks on the Korean peninsula and the possibility of an official end to decades-long war between North and South. Moon reportedly refused to take credit for these hopeful signs…
  
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• Dick Morris: The Fix Was In on Hillary Emails

  30-04-2018 19:47 via westernjournal.com
  
  Andrew McCarthy of National Review aptly summarizes the FBI “investigation” of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server emails with the headline: “The fix was in.” He makes the point that the criterion on which FBI Director James Comey based his decision not to prosecute her was a high bar, but a false one.…
  
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• U.S. service member killed in Afghanistan: U.S. military

  30-04-2018 19:30
  One U.S. military service member was killed and another injured in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said.In a statement, the U.S. military said the wounded service member was in stable condition and taken to Bagram airfield's hospital.Several Afghan security force members were killed or wounded in the "combat operation," it added.
  
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• Republican Congress’ Performance Ratings

  30-04-2018 19:25 via westernjournal.com
  The Western Journal recently conducted a survey gathering information on the performance of the Republican Congress. We served this survey to the over 41 million people currently registered as Republicans on Facebook. This poll consisted of 2 different audiences: People who were affiliated with the Republican party. People who were affiliated with the Republican party…
  
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• Oklahoma wildfires kill hundreds of cattle, blacken pastures

  30-04-2018 19:19
  Wind-driven wildfires that began in mid-April, fueled by severe drought, have killed hundreds of cattle and destroyed more than 300,000 acres in Oklahoma, authorities said on Monday.Oklahoma has been grappling with several wildfires this month, including the Rhea Fire in the western part of the state.Oklahoma's governor, Mary Fallin, recently issued a state of emergency for 52 counties due to the wildfires that blackened close to 350,000 total acres - an area roughly equal to half the size of Rh
  
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• Man sues lifeguard & cops who saved him from drowning in pool - reports (VIDEO)

  30-04-2018 18:39 via rt.com
  
  A man who tried to drown himself in a swimming pool is reportedly suing the lifeguard and police officers who rescued him.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• U.S. Justice Dept charges Panasonic unit with anti-bribery law violations

  30-04-2018 18:28
  The U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against a unit of Panasonic Corp on Monday, alleging the company falsified its financial books and records in order to conceal payments to sales agents in China and other parts of Asia.The charges were filed against Panasonic Avionics Corp, a subsidiary that designs in-fight entertainment systems, as part of a criminal information in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.In general, criminal information filings are used in cases w
  
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• Watch the unusual eruptions of this massive geyser

  30-04-2018 17:35 via rss.cnn.com
  Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is erupting at an unusual rate.
  
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• Schools in Arizona and Colorado set to stay closed due to teacher strike

  30-04-2018 17:14
  Schools in Arizona and Colorado were set to stay closed for a third day on Monday as thousands of teachers strike to press for higher pay and more educational resources.Schools in the Arizona cities of Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff will remain closed Monday, officials announced.Arizona's Governor Doug Ducey announced a proposed deal with state lawmakers on Friday that would boost teachers' pay 20 percent by 2020, vowing to work to introduce a budget early this week.
  
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• As McCain’s Battle with Cancer Rages, He Told Son-in-Law 1 Thing That Has Twitter Erupting

  30-04-2018 17:11 via westernjournal.com
  
  Ailing Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona asked his son-in-law to take care of his daughter, Meghan, according to a tweet that briefly appeared Saturday night. Conservative commentator Ben Domenech sent out the tweet at 8:16 p.m. Arizona time, but it was gone by 10 p.m., the Arizona Republic reported. “John hugged me tonight. He asked…
  
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• Cosby's past words on drugs and sex led to conviction: juror

  30-04-2018 17:00
  (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's 2005 admission that he drugged women to have sex with them was the most compelling piece of evidence leading a Pennsylvania jury to finding him guilty of sexual assault, one of the jurors told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday.
  
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• ‘Caravan’ Slams Into Border Fence, Cheers ‘Gracias, Mexico’ As They Climb Over

  30-04-2018 16:47 via westernjournal.com
  
  A five-bus caravan of migrants determined to enter the United States reached America’s Southern Border Sunday as some of the illegal immigrants climbed the border fence at Tijuana, Mexico, the Washington Examiner reported. About 400 people who left Central American nations have been traveling through Mexico since March 25 with the expressed intent of seeking asylum…
  
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• U.S. top court to hear Missouri murderer's lethal injection case

  30-04-2018 16:46
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood-filled tumors on his body due to a rare ailment, and he has suggested being put to death by gas.
  
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• U.S. top court to hear Missouri murderer's lethal injection case

  30-04-2018 16:36
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood-filled tumors on his body due to a rare ailment, and he has suggested being put to death by gas.Lawyers for Russell Bucklew, 49, have argued that because of a congenital condition called cavernous hemangioma the lethal injection could cause undue agony in violation of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.The high court on M
  
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• Waffle House shooting shows pitfalls in patchwork of U.S. gun laws

  30-04-2018 16:23
  How and when Reinking's father returned the AR-15-style weapon and other firearms to his 29-year-old son, accused of shooting dead four people and wounding four at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee remain unclear.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court to hear Google privacy settlement dispute

  30-04-2018 16:21
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an internet privacy case involving Google that could put the brakes on an increasingly common form of settlement in class action suits that funnels money to unrelated third parties and charities instead of to people affected by the alleged wrongdoing.The justices will take up an appeal by opponents, led by a conservative group, challenging the $8.5 million that Google agreed to pay in 2013 to settle claims that the search engine operator allowed ot
  
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• U.S. top court rejects Constitution Pipeline over New York permit

  30-04-2018 16:20
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt another setback to a proposed natural gas pipeline running from Pennsylvania to New York, rejecting Constitution Pipeline Co's bid to challenge New York state's refusal to issue a needed water permit for the project.The high court left in place an August 2017 ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of the state.Partners in the 125-mile (201-km) pipeline project include Williams Cos Inc
  
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• Trump considers Peace House on North-South Korea border for Kim Jong-un meeting

  30-04-2018 14:31 via rt.com
  
  US President Donald Trump says a Peace or Freedom House at the border between the two Koreas would be a more "representative" place to meet than any third country. He threw out the idea on Twitter, noting he's "Just asking!"Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Exclusive: Democrats lose ground with millennials - Reuters/Ipsos poll

  30-04-2018 13:41
  By Chris KahnMANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters, so-called millennials, as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll.The online survey of more than 16,000 registered voters ages 18 to 34 shows their support for Democrats over Republicans for Congress slipped by about 9 percentage points over the past two years, to 46 percent overall.
  
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• Ex-New York Assembly Speaker Silver faces second corruption trial

  30-04-2018 12:03
  By Brendan PiersonNEW YORK (Reuters) - Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is expected to go to trial on federal corruption charges for the second time on Monday, seven months after an appeals court threw out his earlier conviction and 12-year prison sentence.Prosecutors and Silver's lawyers are scheduled to make their opening statements to jurors before U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan.Silver has pleaded not guilty to charges of honest services fraud, extortion
  
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• Trump threatens shutdown over 'border security'

  30-04-2018 10:36 via rss.cnn.com
  President Donald Trump told supporters at a speech on Saturday that if Congress did not meet his funding demands for border security, he may support a government shutdown this fall.
  
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• US says it lacks capacity to process migrants

  30-04-2018 10:26 via rss.cnn.com
  After a difficult, monthlong journey from Central America to the US-Mexico border, dozens of asylum-seeking migrants are vowing to remain outside an immigration processing center until "every last one" is admitted into the country, an organizer with the caravan said. CNN's Leyla Santiago reports.
  
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• 'Not our way:’ Moscow won't break into US diplomatic compounds in case of closure

  30-04-2018 06:20 via rt.com
  
  Russia does not plan to answer in kind to Washington forcing its way into Russia’s locked consulate in Seattle, which Moscow sees as a violation of international law, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Iran drops the dollar. Others tried and were bombed. 'It's all about the banking,' says Lee Camp

  30-04-2018 06:08 via rt.com
  
  Iran recently announced it is dropping the US dollar in foreign trade. Just as Iraq did shortly before it was invaded by the US, or Libya planned to before it was bombed by NATO-led allies. Lee Camp is starting to see a pattern.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Report: Ronny Jackson won't return as Trump's doctor

  30-04-2018 05:40 via rss.cnn.com
  White House physician Ronny Jackson will not return to his role as President Donald Trump's personal physician, Politico reports, citing two senior administration officials.
  
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