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• Rubio: ‘No Evidence’ Corporate Tax Cuts Benefiting Workers

  01-05-2018 23:56 via westernjournal.com
  
  One prominent Republican is putting some distance between himself and the tax reform bill passed by his party and signed into law by President Donald Trump last year. Sen. Marco Rubio expressed skepticism that tax cuts aimed at corporations would ultimately be passed on to workers in the form of increased wages and benefits. Though…
  
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• Coming soon to a battlefield near you: Pentagon’s robot vehicles

  01-05-2018 23:52 via rt.com
  
  Self-driving cars may become a reality on our roads at some point in the near future, but war robots will roam the world’s battlefields before that, according to the US Department of Defense.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• There’s a Problem with American Christianity, But It’s Not What You Think

  01-05-2018 23:50 via westernjournal.com
  
  In the last 200 years, Christianity in America has been distorted.
  
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• A few migrants start asylum requests, but most of the caravan is still in tents

  01-05-2018 23:49 via rss.cnn.com
  Slowly but steadily, caravan migrants who trekked across Mexico are pleading their cases to US authorities on why they should be granted asylum.
  
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• Media attacks US Green candidate Stein over her non-existent collusion with Russia

  01-05-2018 23:36 via rt.com
  
  It’s a rare occasion that mainstream media turns its attention to a third party presidential candidate and gets them on-air.Attacking them over ‘collusion’ with Russia? In this case, an exception may be made.
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• Watch: South Korea Begins Disassembling Equipment at DMZ

  01-05-2018 23:28 via westernjournal.com
  
  South Korea is apparently dismantling the loudspeakers at the border it uses to broadcast into North Korea. South Korea has been blasting everything from Korean pop music to news reports into North Korea since the loudspeakers were set up in 1960s, according to the BBC. North Korea has, in turn, blared propaganda over the border. The…
  
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• Dominion Energy unit wins $770 million U.S. contract: Pentagon

  01-05-2018 23:26
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia Electric and Power Co, a subsidiary of Dominion Energy Inc is being awarded an estimated $770 million firm-fixed-price order for electric and regulated energy management services in Hampton Roads and surrounding areas in Virginia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
  
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• A clean start? Facebook now offers browsing history wipeout option and a dating tool

  01-05-2018 23:26 via rt.com
  
  Beset by its recent privacy scandal, Facebook now says it wants to bring “good” to social media, in the form of an option to clear one’s browsing history or a way of starting a new relationship.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• United Airlines resumes pet transport program after missteps

  01-05-2018 23:24
  United Airlines is resuming the shipment of pets in its airplane cargo holds, the carrier said on Tuesday, after having paused the program for improvements following the high-profile death of a puppy on one of its flights earlier this year."As we continue our review process to ensure that we are always doing what's right, we are committed to making significant improvements in our program," United Vice President of Cargo Jan Krems said in a statement.United suspended cargo pet transport in March
  
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• Star Wars coming? Trump ‘seriously’ considers creating US Space Force

  01-05-2018 23:23 via rt.com
  
  Despite the mockery on social media, US President Donald Trump apparently has not rejected an idea of creating a Space Force. He said he is “seriously thinking” about making it a new military branch.Read Full Article at RT.com
  
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• Texas sues Trump administration to end Obama-era immigrant program

  01-05-2018 23:22
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas and six other Republican-governed states on Tuesday sued the Trump administration to try to end a program launched by Democratic former President Barack Obama that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.The states filed suit in federal court in Texas in the latest twist in an ongoing policy and legal fight over the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that Republican President Donald Trump alread
  
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• John Kerry tweets defense of Iran nuclear deal

  01-05-2018 23:20 via rss.cnn.com
  The top US diplomat when the Iran nuclear deal was negotiated took to Twitter Tuesday to defend the agreement, as President Donald Trump suggests the United States might withdraw from the pact.
  
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• Border Officials Let Handful of ‘Caravan’ Members Into US

  01-05-2018 23:20 via westernjournal.com
  
  Border officials on Monday let a handful of people traveling in a “caravan” of migrants into the U.S. to petition for asylum, according to multiple reports. U.S. officials processed at least eight asylum seekers after they passed through the San Ysidro port of entry across from Tijuana, Mexico, activists told The Associated Press. Another 140…
  
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• FAA mandates more engine inspections following previous Southwest incident

  01-05-2018 23:03 via rss.cnn.com
  The Federal Aviation Administration is mandating additional engine inspections in the wake of the deadly Southwest Airlines engine incident last month.
  
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• Facebook Claims Hate Speech Button Appearing on Harmless Posts Was Accident

  01-05-2018 22:54 via westernjournal.com
  
  'That new informing feature, however, was not supposed to be made available.'
  
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• Supreme Court: Sotomayor recovering after shoulder surgery

  01-05-2018 22:43 via foxnews.com
  The Supreme Court says Justice Sonia Sotomayor is “resting comfortably” after shoulder replacement surgery.
  
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• Central American migrants from caravan wait and worry at U.S. border

  01-05-2018 22:43
  By Delphine SchrankTIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Some 140 Central American migrants waited anxiously on the Mexican side of the U.S. border on Tuesday following a second night in a makeshift camp, determined to remain until their asylum requests are processed after the first eight members of their caravan were let into the United States overnight.Gathering people along the way, the caravan set off more than a month ago from southern Mexico on a 2,000-mile trek to the California border, drawing att
  
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• US plan of last push against ISIS raises specter of Syria partition

  01-05-2018 22:42 via rt.com
  
  Announcing the start of military operations against the remaining strongholds of Islamic State, the US State Department included some pointed language, hinting at de facto partition of Syria, analysts tell RT.
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• Lost City Unearthed Near Jerusalem, Shakes Secularists Who Deny Bible

  01-05-2018 22:42 via westernjournal.com
  
  Archaeologists discovered part of a lost settlement they say may provide further proof of the existence of biblical kings David and Solomon. Historians uncovered a building belonging to an ancient settlement in an area about 30 kilometers from Jerusalem they believe to be associated with King David, according to The Sun. Archaeologists disagree on whether King…
  
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• Texas girl, 10, hailed a hero for aiding father whose heart almost stopped

  01-05-2018 22:40 via foxnews.com
  A 10-year-old Texas girl has been hailed a hero after quickly calling authorities when her father had a medical emergency last week.
  
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• Kanye West says he was on opioids after getting liposuction ahead of 2016 breakdown triggered by Taylor Swift

  01-05-2018 22:39 via foxnews.com
  In two separate interviews that dropped Tuesday, rapper Kanye West revealed he had an opioid addiction that he says contributed to his 2016 mental breakdown, along with the controversy surrounding him and Taylor Swift at that time.
  
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• Manafort Lawyers Issue Game-Changing Statement on Alleged Russia Collusion

  01-05-2018 22:36 via westernjournal.com
  
  The special counsel’s office has said it does not have evidence of any contacts between Paul Manafort and Russian government and intelligence officials Manafort is a longtime political consultant who has been indicted on money laundering and bank fraud charges The former Trump campaign chairman laundered millions of dollars and failed to properly register as a foreign…
  
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• Workers, activists mark May Day with defiant rallies

  01-05-2018 22:30 via foxnews.com
  Workers and activists around the world marked May Day on Tuesday with rallies and other events to press their governments to address labor issues.
  
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• Rosenstein fights House GOP impeachment push, says DOJ 'is not going to be extorted'

  01-05-2018 22:30 via foxnews.com
  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein vowed Tuesday that the Justice Department is "not going to be extorted" after members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus drafted articles of impeachment against him.
  
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• May Day protests focus on Trump's immigration record, midterms

  01-05-2018 22:30 via foxnews.com
  Immigrants say President Donald Trump’s administration has become almost everything they feared, but while they rally across the United States on May Day, their focus is less on huge turnout Tuesday than on the first Tuesday in November.
  
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• At least 14 members of immigrant caravan allowed to apply for asylum, organizers say

  01-05-2018 22:30 via foxnews.com
  At least fourteen members of the controversial immigrant "caravan" who traveled to the U.S. from Central America have been allowed to apply for asylum, according to organizers.
  
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• Officers deemed not responsible for prisoner death in creek

  01-05-2018 22:26 via foxnews.com
  A prosecutor says law enforcement officers weren't responsible for the death of a handcuffed prisoner who broke away from them and later was found dead in a Pennsylvania creek.
  
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• Police: 3 young children drink vodka while mother away

  01-05-2018 22:17 via foxnews.com
  Police in North Carolina say officers found three children age 7 and younger drinking vodka while their mother was away from the home for at least seven hours.
  
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• EU Neighbor: Make Criticism of Islam a Crime

  01-05-2018 21:51 via westernjournal.com
  
  Critics say one NATO member nation continues to shed its former image as a moderating force within the Islamic world. According to WND, Turkish officials are pushing to make criticism of Islam illegal across Europe. WND’s report was based on a Gatestone Institute paper by D.C.-based Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut. She reported that at an unveiling…
  
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• Applying for asylum in the US takes at least 3 months, 2 interviews and one big decision

  01-05-2018 21:37 via rss.cnn.com
  When we think of people coming to the United States to escape danger and persecution, we tend to think of refugees. But the caravan of Central American men, women and children currently languishing at the US-Mexico border has turned national attention to another type of endangered group: asylum seekers.
  
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• 5 Takeaways from Israel’s Massive Intelligence Operation on Iran

  01-05-2018 21:35 via westernjournal.com
  
  The Israeli government on Monday unloaded a massive intelligence data dump that demonstrated Iran’s efforts to hide its nuclear weapons program. The revelations come weeks before an anticipated decision by the U.S. to “fix or nix” the Iran nuclear deal. Reactions to the Israeli intelligence revelations ranged from “ding-dong the deal is dead” to “nothing to see…
  
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• Opinion: Trump administration turns its back on the most vulnerable

  01-05-2018 21:32 via rss.cnn.com
  At a time when a group of migrants remain in limbo seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border, the Trump administration is waging war on some of the most vulnerable people in the world: women who are victims of severe violence at the hands of their intimate partners.
  
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• 17 U.S. states sue Trump administration over vehicle emissions

  01-05-2018 21:27
  By David Shepardson and Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - California and a group of 16 other states on Tuesday challenged the Trump administration's decision to revise strict U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules put in place under former President Barack Obama.The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions an
  
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• Trump Approval Rating Hits 11-Month High with Denuclearization Talks on the Table

  01-05-2018 21:25 via westernjournal.com
  
  'I just want to get the job done.'
  
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• Louisiana election chief resigns amid sexual harassment scandal

  01-05-2018 21:22
  (Reuters) - Louisiana's chief election official, Secretary of State Tom Schedler, resigned on Tuesday in the face of what he called "an incredibly serious allegation" that he had sexually harassed a female employee.Schedler became the latest in a wave of dozens of businessmen, politicians and entertainers to lose their posts amid accusations of sexual harassment in what has become known over the last year as the social media #MeToo movement.The accuser, Dawn Ross, said in her lawsuit filed in a
  
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• High-Priced College Textbooks Are Not Uncle Sam’s Problem To Fix

  01-05-2018 21:07 via westernjournal.com
  
  If you are a college student, professor or bookstore employee, you know how jarringly expensive college textbooks are. It isn’t unusual for college students to have to spend over $1,000 per year on books. In an attempt to reduce those costs, President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion appropriations bill on March 23 that included $5…
  
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• Report: NBC ‘Pressured’ Women to Support Tom Brokaw After Sexual Misconduct Allegations

  01-05-2018 20:59 via westernjournal.com
  
  A week after bombshell allegations of sexual harassment against Tom Brokaw, a new bombshell allegation has been levied against his employer. Former NBC anchor and reporter Linda Vester accused Brokaw last week of groping her and trying to forcibly kiss her during the 1990s. Another unidentified woman has also accused Brokaw of inappropriate behavior when…
  
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• Migrants picked this pregnant mother of 2 to go to the front of the asylum line

  01-05-2018 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  They'd all traveled hundreds of miles -- by bus, by train, on foot. All had left their homes and scrounged for food and braved the rain and the chill to make it to the US border crossing at Tijuana, Mexico. And they all planned to seek asylum in the United States.
  
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• Arizona governor hopeful of teachers deal on walkout's fourth day

  01-05-2018 20:52
  Arizona's governor said on Tuesday that he hoped to sign a budget deal raising teachers' pay as early as Wednesday, as the latest statewide teacher walkout in the country kept most of Arizona's 1.1 million students out of class for a fourth day.The walkout follows similar actions by teachers in West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma, which were the first statewide U.S. teacher work stoppages since the 1990s."We are very close to passing a significant budget investment into K-12 education," Arizona
  
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• FAA orders more engine inspections after Southwest accident

  01-05-2018 20:49
  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Tuesday it has ordered additional inspections of fan blades in hundreds of additional engines similar to the one that failed in a deadly Southwest Airlines Co accident last month.New FAA rules come after an emergency directive issued last month by the agency and European regulators requiring 680 engines CFM56-7B worldwide be inspected within 20 days on Boeing 737 NG airplanes.Another group of CFM56-7B engines will need to be inspected by Aug
  
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• Pope Francis: If the World Wants Peace, We Should ‘Ban All Weapons’

  01-05-2018 20:10 via westernjournal.com
  
  'There is no such thing as a good war and a bad war.'
  
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• U.S. judge dismisses state regulators' lawsuit over national 'fintech' charter

  01-05-2018 19:59
  A District of Columbia federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by state bank regulators against the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency over its proposal to offer charters that would let so-called fintech companies do business nationwide.Since the OCC has not reached a final decision on the fintech charters, the claim of harm by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) was speculative, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich wrote in her decision tossing out the case, issued late on Monday.Fi
  
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• New Jersey man sentenced to eight years in prison for support of Islamic State

  01-05-2018 19:53
  A New Jersey man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to support Islamic State, federal prosecutors announced.Samuel Rahamin Topaz, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton in Newark, who also imposed a lifetime term of supervised release.Topaz was arrested in June 2015 and pleaded guilty to conspiring to support Islamic State.
  
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• Two top EPA staffers resign amid ethics probes

  01-05-2018 19:52
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two high-level Environmental Protection Agency employees whose names have come up in investigations of Administrator Scott Pruitt's ethics and travel have resigned from the agency, the EPA confirmed on Tuesday.Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent who served as the head of Pruitt's security team, resigned on Monday but said he will continue to cooperate in a U.S. House of Representatives investigation of his role in costly decisions ar
  
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• Kim Jong Un Agrees to Location for Meeting with President Trump

  01-05-2018 19:51 via westernjournal.com
  
  The details of when and where President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet have yet to be finalized, but one location both leaders appear to be agreeable to is Panmunjon in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone. A Tuesday report from CNN cites an unidentified source as saying Kim has agreed upon the…
  
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• EPA designates areas non-compliant with 2015 ozone standards

  01-05-2018 19:51
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday identified 51 areas in 22 states that do not currently meet federal ozone requirements, a step toward carrying out national air quality standards for ozone that were issued in 2015.The announcement comes after a federal court in March ordered the EPA to implement the agency's 2015 ozone standards and designate areas in the country that do not meet them."Following the data and the law, today’s designations reflect continued progress in add
  
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• Is Border Patrol work dangerous? Not compared to being a cop

  01-05-2018 19:49 via rss.cnn.com
  In the weeks before he asked governors to send National Guard troops to help secure the United States-Mexico border, President Donald Trump tweeted that the border is "very dangerous," "VERY DANGEROUS" and "getting more dangerous."
  
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• Another leak, another ‘witch hunt!’: Trump brands Mueller questions stunt ‘disgraceful’

  01-05-2018 19:41 via rt.com
  
  After a list of questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller apparently has for Donald Trump was leaked, the president hit back on Twitter, calling the act “disgraceful”. The bizarre publication has sparked interesting theories.
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• 17 U.S. states to challenge Trump administration over vehicle emissions

  01-05-2018 19:41
  By David Shepardson and Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - California and a group of 16 other states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in federal appeals court challenging the Trump administration's decision to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 "not appropriate," the states said.In April, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt said standards on model year 2022 to 2025 vehicles should be revised, reversing a decision on tighter standards put in p
  
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• California Rapper Orders Attack on Kanye After Pro-Trump Comments

  01-05-2018 19:17 via westernjournal.com
  
  The backlash continues this week against rapper and producer Kanye West following his recent statements of support for President Donald Trump and conservative political views. Much of the most pointed criticism has come from other rappers who feel he is misusing his platform by supporting an administration they believe has treated minorities unfairly. One of…
  
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