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• Pence: 'Too much talk' of institutional, racial bias in law enforcement

  22-09-2016 23:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indiana Gov. Mike Pence told a church group here Thursday that there is "far too much of this talk of institutional bias or racism within law enforcement" during a conversation about faith.
  
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• Common Sense: Wells Fargo Tests Justice Department’s Get-Tough Approach

  22-09-2016 23:52 via nytimes.com
  Guidelines issued last year by the Justice Department stressed the need to hold individuals accountable for corporate misdeeds.
  
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• A Peek at House Members Before Recess, in Three Snippets

  22-09-2016 23:07 via nytimes.com
  Members are trying to keep busy while the Senate brokers a spending deal to keep the lights on in the federal government and shut them off in the Capitol.
  
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• First on CNN: Manchin defends daughter over EpiPen controversy

  22-09-2016 23:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin strongly defended his daughter, Heather Bresch, over growing criticism that her company dramatically raised prices for its life-saving medicine in order to enrich her company -- and herself.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers accuse Russia of seeking to influence U.S. election

  22-09-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The top Democrats on the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees accused Russia on Thursday of trying to influence the Nov. 8 U.S. election via computer hacking, and called on President Vladimir Putin to order a halt. "Based on briefings we have received, we have concluded that the Russian intelligence agencies are making a serious and concerted effort to influence the U.S. election," Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Adam Schiff said in an unusually strongly w
  
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• Trump Jr. defends Skittles tweet: 'I don't deal in microaggression'

  22-09-2016 22:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr. said Thursday he was surprised by the reaction to his tweet comparing Syrian refugees to Skittles because he was "trying to point out things that have to be said."
  
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• First on CNN: US attorney investigating Weiner sexting allegations

  22-09-2016 22:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Prosecutors in the office of US Attorney Preet Bharara have issued a subpoena for Anthony Weiner's cell phone and other records, according to law enforcement officials.
  
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• Senate splits over bill to avoid government shutdown

  22-09-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A behind-the-scenes congressional battle to avoid a U.S. government shutdown broke into public view on Thursday when Republicans produced a stop-gap funding bill that Democrats immediately rejected. The federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30 and Congress must pass a spending measure by then to keep the government open. Senate Majority Mitch McConnell capped weeks of labored negotiations by proposing a continuing resolution that would fund government agencies
  
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• Iran's President Rouhani slams US 'lack of compliance' with nuclear deal

  22-09-2016 22:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused the United States Thursday of "a lack of compliance" with the nuclear deal agreed between Tehran and world powers last July.
  
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• US military chief: 'Concerning' mustard attack on US base

  22-09-2016 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The military assesses that the shell fired on a joint US-Iraqi base Tuesday was indeed a chemical weapon, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford.
  
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• State Dept. official: 'Potential' for ISIS to infiltrate refugee flows

  22-09-2016 22:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A spokesman for the State Department acknowledged in a recent interview there's "potential" for ISIS terrorists to infiltrate refugee camps in the Middle East, but stood by the rigor of US vetting standards for refugees.
  
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• Tim Scott on stop-and-frisk: 'You don't need to violate the Constitution to keep communities safe'

  22-09-2016 22:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Tim Scott said Thursday that instituting stop-and-frisk policing -- like the kind Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has called for -- could be a potential impingement on Constitutional rights, adding that the policy would be ineffective at easing police-community relations.
  
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• Investigators: Ahmad Rahami went to family home after Chelsea bombing

  22-09-2016 22:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Investigators have now pieced together a detailed timeline of Ahmad Rahami's movements from the time when they say he left bombs in Seaside Park, New Jersey to his capture in Linden two days later, law enforcement sources tell CNN.
  
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• Gabon constitutional court starts hearing on disputed election

  22-09-2016 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gabon's Constitutional Court began hearing arguments on Thursday in advance of its ruling on an election that opposition leader Jean Ping said was rigged to give President Ali Bongo victory. The election has drawn unwelcome scrutiny on Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-producing country for almost half a century. France has called for a recount and the European Union questioned the integrity of the results.
  
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• Massachusetts court: black man fleeing police does not signify guilt

  22-09-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As Charlotte becomes the latest city to erupt in racial tension, Massachusetts' highest court ruled this week that just because a black suspect flees police, it does not necessarily signify guilt.
  
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• Mexican president says Trump visit sparked minister's exit

  22-09-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said the resignation of his finance minister and trusted aide Luis Videgaray was prompted by Donald Trump's visit to Mexico last month, which led to widespread condemnation of the government. The sudden meeting of the U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Pena Nieto on Aug. 31 sparked outrage in Mexico because of Trump's verbal attacks on Mexicans and his threats to build a border wall and tear up trade deals with Mexico. Videgaray, widely viewed as the
  
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• Donald Trump Says Drugs Are ‘Big Factor’ in Urban Violence

  22-09-2016 21:41 via nytimes.com
  His campaign manager said the nominee was not referring to the unrest in Charlotte when he said that drugs were to blame for the violence roiling cities.
  
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• Reality check: Trump's view of state of black America really, really, really wrong

  22-09-2016 21:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  At a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, Donald Trump, the Republican nominee states: "Our African American communities are absolutely in the worse shape they've ever been in before. Ever, ever, ever."　
  
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• Clinton proposes 65 percent tax on U.S. billionaire estates

  22-09-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed raising taxes on inherited property to 65 percent for the largest estates as she bolstered plans for tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans. Known by conservative opponents as the "death tax," the estate tax, levied on property transferred to heirs after its owner dies, currently is imposed only on inherited assets worth $5.4 million or more for an individual. Clinton's plan, posted on her campaign's website, would raise th
  
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• U.S. appeals court hears arguments on Virginia's voter ID law

  22-09-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The appeals court struck down the North Carolina law in July, ruling that it intentionally discriminated against minority voters. The Virginia Democratic Party wants the law overturned, contending the measure was intended to counter its growing political clout in the state.
  
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• Congressional Black Caucus asks DOJ to take action after police shootings

  22-09-2016 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Congressional Black Caucus members demanded that the Justice Department "aggressively pursue investigations, indictments and prosecutions" regarding the recent deaths of two black men, which stemmed from fatal police shootings.
  
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• ISIS suspected of mustard attack against US and Iraqi troops

  22-09-2016 20:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayyara air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.
  
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• Reality Check: Was 'stop-and-frisk' effective?

  22-09-2016 20:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump was asked by a member of a Fox News town hall audience this week what he would do to reduce violent crime in the country's inner cities.
  
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• Univision anchor locates controversial Trump portrait

  22-09-2016 20:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A trail of clues provided by a Washington Post reporter and his readers led Univision anchor Enrique Acevedo to Donald Trump's shimmering golf resort outside Miami earlier this week.
  
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• Presidential debate could score Super Bowl-sized audience

  22-09-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) - Live, unscripted and unpredictable, the first 2016 U.S. presidential debate on Monday is expected to set new television audience records, with some commentators forecasting Super Bowl-sized viewership of around 100 million Americans. The face-off between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in the New York City suburb of Hempstead will be carried across multiple U.S. broadcast and cable networks without commercial breaks
  
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• Trump calls for 'national anti-crime agenda' after Charlotte unrest

  22-09-2016 20:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump called Thursday for a "national anti-crime agenda" to combat violent crime in US cities as he condemned the unrest that unfolded overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina, where protests turned violent.
  
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• Trump doubles down on 'law-and-order' appeal in White House bid

  22-09-2016 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Donald Trump on Thursday praised aggressive police tactics and condemned attacks on officers amid criticism of his plan to use "stop-and-frisk" tactics to reduce crime, in a speech following a second night of unrest that shook Charlotte, North Carolina. "Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration," the Republican presidential candidate told an energy conference in Pittsburgh, as a room full of natural g
  
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• House oversight panel votes Clinton IT chief in contempt

  22-09-2016 20:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted along party lines Thursday to hold the architect of Hillary Clinton's private email server in contempt for failing to appear before them.
  
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• Quiz: How would you answer the 3 a.m. call?

  22-09-2016 20:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Get briefed, decide what to do, and find out whether Clinton or Trump is more likely to call you at 3 a.m.
  
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• A Deadpan Hillary Clinton Visits ‘Between Two Ferns’

  22-09-2016 20:06 via nytimes.com
  The comic Zach Galifianakis asked if she would be excited to be “the first girl president” and whether she would move to Canada if she lost to Donald J. Trump.
  
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• Ryan ducks on stop-and-frisk

  22-09-2016 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan ducked Thursday on whether he supports the "stop and frisk" policy pushed by Donald Trump.
  
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• Sacramento mayor punches pie thrower

  22-09-2016 19:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kevin Johnson -- the NBA star-turned-Sacramento mayor -- was pied in the face by a man at a charity dinner Wednesday night at the high school he once attended.
  
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• Trump Ohio county chair resigns after comments on race, Obama

  22-09-2016 19:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An Ohio county chair for the Trump campaign resigned following an interview published Thursday, in which she suggested there was "no racism" until President Barack Obama was elected, and called the Black Lives Matter movement "a stupid waste of time."
  
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• ‘In-Betweeners’ Are Part of a Rich Recruiting Pool for Jihadists

  22-09-2016 19:16 via nytimes.com
  Terrorism experts say Islamist groups target the particular anxieties of Western Muslims from immigrant backgrounds — young adults whose identities have not yet solidified.
  
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• All the Momentum is with Trump

  22-09-2016 19:07
  
  The polls have been swinging wildly this year. That’s why Nate Silver, at FiveThirtyEight, developed an average of polls, and a “polls-plus” number, which adds certain other details, such as historical norms. The Washington Examiner notes that just one month ago, Trump had as little as 3% chance of becoming president, based on the numbers. […]
  
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• Obama awards arts medals to Mel Brooks, Audra McDonald, Berry Gordy

  22-09-2016 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama awarded 24 American giants of the arts and humanities with medals on Thursday, lauding their accomplishments - and sharing some laughs. Comedian Mel Brooks, who Obama has said he admires for his over-the-top Western satire "Blazing Saddles," dropped to one knee as if receiving a knighthood after he was given his official citation for "a lifetime of making the world laugh." Obama warned Brooks that he would catch him if he tried to
  
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• Trump Ohio county chair resigns after comments on race, Obama - CNN

  22-09-2016 18:57 via cnn.com
  
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  Trump Ohio county chair resigns after comments on race, Obama
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  (CNN) An Ohio county chair for the Trump campaign resigned following an interview published Thursday, in which she suggested there was "no racism" until President Barack Obama was elected, and called the Black Lives Matter movement "a stupid waste of ...
  Ohio Trump campaign chair Kathy Miller says there was 'no racism' before ObamaThe Guardian
  Trump campaign county chair who said 'no racism until Obama got elected' apolo
  
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• Hill backers: Trump knows debate stakes

  22-09-2016 18:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's supporters on Capitol Hill said Thursday they know the stakes are high for Monday night's debate and could set the tone for the sprint to Election Day.
  
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• CNN electoral map: Trump gains, Clinton holds advantage

  22-09-2016 18:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Since we last updated the CNN battleground map, Donald Trump has clearly improved his poll numbers both in some national polls and in some critical battleground states. The Republican nominee has also upped his game (as have his allied outside group friends) with television ad spending.
  
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• 'He Will Be Our Brother': Boy, 6, Asks Obama To Bring Syrian Boy To Live With Him - NPR

  22-09-2016 18:23 via npr.org
  
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  'He Will Be Our Brother': Boy, 6, Asks Obama To Bring Syrian Boy To Live With Him
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  The breathtaking sadness of seeing a boy suffering amid Syria's civil war has prompted a breathtaking offer of hospitality and kindness. The sight of shell-shocked 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who was wounded in an airstrike in Aleppo, left many people ...
  'He will be our brother': US boy asks Obama if he can adopt Syrian refugeeCNN International
  In handwritten letter, 6-year-old tells Obama Syrian boy
  
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• Trump’s “Birther” Issue Now an Integrity Issue

  22-09-2016 18:01
  
  Donald Trump says the “Birther” issue is dead. But, of course, it’s not dead. His recent announcement put it back into the headlines, and political discussions. You just can’t put that much energy into something for so many years, and just announce one day that it’s done. Especially if one of your own allies is […]
  
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• Putin offers to make parliament speaker head of foreign spy service

  22-09-2016 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to appoint Sergei Naryshkin, outgoing speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, as head of the foreign intelligence service, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. (Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Christian Lowe)
  
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• Gabon braces for violence on eve of election ruling

  22-09-2016 17:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A final court ruling that is expected on Friday represents Gabon's last chance of solving the dispute by constitutional means. When Elvis Abagha didn't come home after attending an anti-government protest in Libreville, his elder brother Bekale became worried and he called several friends.
  
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• On Washington: Obama Is on the Cusp of a Rebuke He Has Long Avoided: A Veto Override

  22-09-2016 17:10 via nytimes.com
  Congress is busily preparing to reverse Mr. Obama’s anticipated veto of a bill that would allow families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for damages.
  
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• Russian election chiefs to investigate Reuters findings of irregularities - Reuters

  22-09-2016 17:04 via reuters.com
  
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  Russian election chiefs to investigate Reuters findings of irregularities
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  MOSCOW Russia's national election authority said it would look into evidence found by Reuters of inflated turnout figures and people voting more than once at three polling stations in two regions during a parliamentary election at the weekend. The ...and more »
  
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• Donald Trump doesn't actually seem to think President Obama was born in the US - Washington Post

  22-09-2016 16:37 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Donald Trump doesn't actually seem to think President Obama was born in the US
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  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tried to squash the growing controversy about whether he believed President Obama was a U.S. citizen with just five sentences uttered at the end of a veterans event last week. Here are those six sentences: ...
  Obama speaks, but listeners hear nothing but "Donald Trump"CBS News
  The 'Success' of Obama's Trolling May Have Trump as Its LegacyNatio
  
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• Clinton goes 'Between Two Ferns': 'I really regret doing this'

  22-09-2016 16:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with the irreverent Zach Galifianakis and almost immediately -- albeit jokingly -- regretted it.
  
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• Road to 270: Trump gains, Clinton holds advantage

  22-09-2016 16:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Since we last updated the CNN battleground map, Donald Trump has clearly improved his poll numbers both in some national polls and in some critical battleground states. The Republican nominee has also upped his game (as have his allied outside group friends) with television ad spending.
  
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• Voter Registration Flap Still Haunting Election Agency - NBCNews.com

  22-09-2016 16:17 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Voter Registration Flap Still Haunting Election Agency
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  Voting rights advocates are accusing a Washington bureaucrat of helping Republican-led states enforce tight restrictions on voter registration, a move they say turned a federal voting agency into a de facto ally of state officials looking to make ...and more »
  
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• Venezuela opposition fumes as door slams on 2016 Maduro vote

  22-09-2016 16:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Cawthorne and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Foes of President Nicolas Maduro vowed to protest and accused Venezuela's election authority on Thursday of ignoring popular will by quashing their push for a referendum this year on recalling the unpopular socialist leader. The election board gave a timetable on Wednesday for a potential plebiscite to happen in early 2017, meaning that should Maduro lose, the vice-president would take over under constitutional rules on succession. Blami
  
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