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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says It's Not 'Appropriate To Lie,' But ...

  02-08-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at Wednesday’s briefing that she didn’t think it was “appropriate to lie from the podium or any other place.”
  
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• White House argues with CNN reporter about meaning of Statue of Liberty

  02-08-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Capping off weeks of tumult in Washington, the White House Press briefing recently descended into a heated argument between reporters and the administration about the Statue of Liberty.Senior presidential advisor Stephen Miller stopped by the press briefing to promote an immigration bill that Donald Trump has recently thrown his weight behind.Mr Miller – a central author of Mr Trump’s travel ban on six Muslim majority countries – described this latest policy as “compassio
  
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• US deportation raids under Trump lead to huge rise in arrests of immigrants without criminal records

  02-08-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  US immigration officers have arrested 650 people in communities across the US in the latest deportation sweep, but the vast majority of those picked up by law enforcement don’t have a criminal record — an apparent break from the organization’s stated priority to focus on “criminal aliens”.In a crackdown that came close in size to a large-scale sweep earlier this year, Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 650 people over a four-day span last mont
  
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• U.S. governors urge Trump to make insurance payments

  02-08-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  By Susan CornwellWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic and Republican U.S. governors on Wednesday urged the Trump administration, as well as Congress, to continue funding payments to health insurance companies that make Obamacare plans affordable, calling it critical to stabilizing the insurance marketplace.Republican President Donald Trump, frustrated that Obamacare survived attempts to repeal it, has threatened to cut off about $8 billion in subsidies that help control costs for low-income America
  
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• Massive rattlesnake blocked unsuspecting hikers out on a stroll

  02-08-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  A couple hiking in Brown county, Indiana, were briefly blocked on a trail by a massive rattlesnake. Abigail Kerns and her boyfriend Clayton Fleener were enjoying the day outdoors near near Lake Ogle on Saturday when the incident occurred, but fortunately, they were prepared. SEE ALSO: Fearless coworker picks up snake hiding in office desk There were other reports of timber rattlesnakes in the area, so the couple says they were on the look out, but not for a snakethat big, Fox 59 reports.  "
  
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• Dad Illustrates The Ups And Downs Of Parenting In Hilarious Cartoons

  02-08-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  Many parents document the first years of their kids’ lives through photo albums, home videos and baby books. But Jonathan Jui has his own way of remembering the ups the downs: drawing cartoons.
  
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• White House: Statue of Liberty Doesn't Represent U.S. Immigration Policy

  02-08-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  "The poem that you're referring to was added later"
  
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• Arkansas Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Neighbors' Donkeys

  02-08-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  An Arkansas man is behind bars after allegedly trespassing onto his neighbors’ property in order to sexually assault the couple’s donkeys.
  
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• Stephen Miller calls CNN's Jim Acosta immigration questioning 'ignorant and foolish'

  02-08-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, CNN's Jim Acosta asked White House senior adviser Stephen Miller about how the administration's new immigration policy represents the ideals written on the Statue of Liberty. Miller dismissed the question and later called one of Acosta's comments "one of the most outrageous, ignorant and foolish things you've ever said."
  
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• Court complicates Trump's threat to cut 'Obamacare' funds

  02-08-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's bold threat to push "Obamacare" into collapse may get harder to carry out after a new court ruling.
  
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• Welcome to ‘Little Pompeii’, the Roman neighbourhood discovered in France

  02-08-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  French archaeologists have discovered a “little Pompeii” — the remarkably well preserved remains of an entire district of an ancient Roman town — in the east of the country. Villas and public buildings have been unearthed in what Benjamin Clément, the archaeologist leading the dig, described as “undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years.” The site was classified as an "exceptional discovery" by the French Culture
  
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• Trump's Approval Ratings Look Like They're Taking Another Dip

  02-08-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  After months of relatively stability, President Donald Trump’s numbers are again showing signs of a downward shift in the latest polls.
  
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• Major U.S. transgender case remanded after student graduates

  02-08-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  The case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy who was denied use of the boys' room at his school in Gloucester County, Virginia, had once been set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and could have been a landmark case on transgender rights.Grimm argued that the county school board's policy of assigning restrooms based on students' sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity was a violation of the right against sex discrimination under Title IX of the education code and the constitutional r
  
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• Victoria's Secret Model Vita Sidorkina Wore The Same Gorgeous Wedding Dress Two Ways

  02-08-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Victoria’s Secret model Vita Sidorkina married millionaire property developer Valerio Morabito on Italy’s Amalfi Coast on Saturday, and by all accounts it was a fairytale celebration:  A post shared by Matilde Carli (@supermatinyc) on Jul 30, 2017 at 12:15am PDT A post shared by NADEJDA (@nadejdasavcova) on Jul 29, 2017 at 6:30am PDT A post shared by Anastasia Eremenko (@anastasia_eremenko) on Jul 29, 2017 at 2:07pm PDT
  
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• Video Captures Dallas Man Attacked On Train By Teenagers

  02-08-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  A video showed teens allegedly attacking a man after he asked them to stop smoking on the train.
  
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• Despite Galaxy Note 8 Release, Galaxy Note 7 Loyalists Maintain Underground Market

  02-08-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Who’s afraid of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7? Not these loyalists who have kept their devices for nearly one year after handsets began malfunctioning.
  
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• Wells Fargo hit with subpoenas over auto insurance scandal

  02-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  A New York regulator slapped two Wells Fargo divisions with subpoenas on Tuesday, demanding the big bank turn over loan agreements and other documents related to the auto insurance scandal, a person familiar with the matter told CNNMoney.
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• U.S. audit watchdog fines PwC for flawed audit of Merrill Lynch brokerage

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Accounting companyPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will pay $1 million to settle a civilcomplaint alleging it conducted a flawed audit into MerrillLynch’s compliance with federal brokerage customer protectionrules, U.S. audit watchdogs said on Wednesday.
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. orders JPMorgan Chase to pay $4.6 mln over checking account reports

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau said on Wednesday it had ordered JPMorganChase & Co to pay $4.6 million for allegedly failing tomake sure it reported accurate information for checking accountscreening reports.
  The post UPDATE 1-U.S. orders JPMorgan Chase to pay $4.6 mln over checking account reports appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Philadelphia refiner, grappling with debt, says operations uninterrupted -letter

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  NEW YORK, Aug 2 (Reuters) – Philadelphia Energy Solutionswill continue to operate its refinery without interruption as itseeks ways to tackle its debt burden, the company’s chiefexecutive officer told employees in a letter reviewed byReuters.
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• Canada names diplomats, forms council ahead of NAFTA trade talks

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  OTTAWA, Aug 2 (Reuters) – The Canadian government announcedfour new senior diplomatic appointments to the United States onWednesday, building on its push to increase its politicaloutreach with its neighbor to the south ahead of NAFTAnegotiations later this month.
  The post Canada names diplomats, forms council ahead of NAFTA trade talks appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• BRIEF-General Dynamics sets regular quarterly dividend of $0.84/share

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Sets regular quarterly dividend of $0.84 per shareSource text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Boeing files for potential mixed shelf offering; size not disclosed

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Files for potential mixed shelf offering; size notdisclosed – sec filing‍​Source text : http://bit.ly/2u4JIO5Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Boeing announces ‍investment in C360 Technologies

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Boeing announces ‍investment in C360 Technologies, aPittsburgh-based company focusing on 360° video andaugmented/virtual reality ​Source text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Allete Clean Energy announces $80 mln turbine refurbishment initiative

  02-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Allete Clean Energy announces $80 million turbinerefurbishment initiative
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• Pentagon: 2 US service members killed in Afghanistan blast

  02-08-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday left two American service members dead, a Pentagon spokesman said, despite repeated refusals by the U.S. military in Afghanistan to say whether there were any deaths in the assault claimed by the Taliban.
  
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• Is the U.S. Ready for Russia’s Largest Military Exercises Since the Cold War?

  02-08-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are bracing for the appearance of up to 100,000 Russian troops in Belarus and western Russia.
  
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• Donald Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit a New Low

  02-08-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  More than half of American voters are "embarrassed" to have him as president
  
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• Booker Seeks Nation-wide Pot Legalization

  02-08-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Senator Cory Booker talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the injustice of unequal marijuana law enforcement and the facts learned so far about the benefits of legalization in states that have done so, leading him to propose national legalization.
  
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• iPhone 8 leaks continue: Smartcam could be a killer app on iOS 11

  02-08-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Last Friday, pre-release software for Apple's HomePod was made available to the public. Within the code of this software, a group of coders discovered countless clues about the nature of the iPhone 8, which has now been as thoroughly spoiled as any iPhone in the device's 10-year history.
  But the tap is still running, and leaks are still pouring on to the internet at a furious rate. On Wednesday afternoon, iOS developer Guilherme Rambo‏ uncovered a section a code in the HomePod build of
  
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• Small plane crash-lands on packed Portuguese beach, kills 2

  02-08-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A light plane made an emergency landing on a packed beach near Lisbon on Wednesday afternoon, killing a 56-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl who were sunbathing, authorities said.
  
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• The US Russia sanctions bill: What is in it?

  02-08-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  The sanctions bill that President Donald Trump signed Wednesday caused a stir in Washington by underlining tensions between Congress and the White House over how to handle Russia.Perhaps the most important provisions, and certainly the most contested, relate to limits on President Donald Trump's authority to cancel existing sanctions.Former president Barack Obama imposed sanctions targeting individuals and firms connected to Russian cyberespionage and its intervention in Ukraine.
  
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• Kenya opposition leader says ruling party can win only by rigging vote

  02-08-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  By Duncan MiririSUSWA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's ruling party cannot win next week's national elections without rigging the result, opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Wednesday, adopting a hard-line stance likely to stoke public fears of violence."There is no other way that Jubilee can win elections other than through rigging and they know it - that is why they are making all the efforts," he told Reuters as he left an election rally in the town of Suswa near the capital.A veteran opposition
  
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• Two killed as plane lands on Portuguese beach

  02-08-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  LISBON (Reuters) - A small airplane made an emergency landing on a popular, crowded beach near Lisbon on Wednesday, killing two people. Local television showed dozens of beachgoers crowding around the airplane, which had come to a stop near the water without any major damage. Two pilots onboard were unharmed and were being questioned by authorities. Pedro Coelho Dias, a spokesman for the national maritime authority, said a man and a child were killed after the plan hit them, according to news ag
  
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• Trump told a big, fat lie: Boy Scouts leaders never said he gave the 'greatest speech'

  02-08-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Not only did President Donald Trump earn zero achievement badges for his much-criticized Boy Scouts speech, but now he's also lying about the praise he's gotten from Scout leaders.  After his politically-charged rant at the Boy Scouts of America National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia last week was lambasted, the president said "the head of the Boy Scouts" told him it was "the greatest speech that was ever made to them." Um, but the Scouts say that never happened, according to the Associat
  
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• Inspiring breastfeeding photoshoot uses turns the tables on rude comments

  02-08-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Controversy surrounding breastfeeding is nothing new, but one awesome photographer continues to try and end the stigma.  Tennessee photographer, Nicki Kaylor, came up with a creative way to help normalize breastfeeding. In a series entitled Latched with Love, Kaylor asked nine moms to write down rude comments they have received while nursing. Kaylor then photographed the women feeding their children and holding up the signs.  SEE ALSO: 'Walking Dead' actress had the perfect response fo
  
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• Inspiring breastfeeding photoshoot turns the tables on rude comments

  02-08-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Controversy surrounding breastfeeding is nothing new, but one awesome photographer continues to try and end the stigma.  Tennessee photographer, Nicki Kaylor, came up with a creative way to help normalize breastfeeding. In a series entitled Latched with Love, Kaylor asked nine moms to write down rude comments they have received while nursing. Kaylor then photographed the women feeding their children and holding up the signs.  SEE ALSO: 'Walking Dead' actress had the perfect response fo
  
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• Michelle Carter Set To Be Sentenced For Encouraging Conrad Roy’s Suicide

  02-08-2017 20:11 via yahoo.com
  Carter's father is pleading for leniency, while Roy's aunt said she should be sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
  
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• Facebook Sees Minimal Growth In Diversity, Says They 'Desperately' Want A Change

  02-08-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Facebook reported Wednesday a change in its diversity numbers for Hispanic and black employees, a first since the company began publicly releasing the data in 2014.
  
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• Facebook Sees Minimal Growth In Diversity, Says It 'Desperately' Wants A Change

  02-08-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Facebook reported Wednesday a change in its diversity numbers for Hispanic and black employees, a first since the company began publicly releasing the data in 2014.
  
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• Trump: US switching to 'merit based' immigration system

  02-08-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  The president aims to cut legal immigration with new legislation.
  
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• This Expert Says Some Of The Best Olive Oil Comes From Costco

  02-08-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  There are too many labels, too many choices, and too many stories about fraud (not to mention, even the cheapest bottles are pretty expensive).
  
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• Vote manipulation charge hangs over Venezuela's new assembly

  02-08-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  President Nicolas Maduro was to inaugurate the Constituent Assembly -- whose loyalist 545 members include his wife and son -- in a ceremony in a Caracas concert arena, his press office said.The body, which was elected despite months of street demonstrations and international condemnation, is tasked with rewriting the constitution of the crisis-hit South American country.It has wide powers superseding those of the opposition-controlled legislature, the National Assembly, whose palace it was to ta
  
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• President’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump launches ‘real news’ video to list his ‘accomplishments’

  02-08-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law has launched a “real news” video on the President’s official Facebook page, listing his achievements from the past week and positive stories, while omitting news that has gained negative coverage.Ms Trump promises to give “a glimpse” of the president’s activities for the past week, including his decision to donate the second-quarter of his salary to the Department of Education, the news that the US unemployment rate has dro
  
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• There Are 12 Unsold Lexus LFAs in America

  02-08-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  Guess all those new Lexus commercials featured the LFA for a reason.
  
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• Pro-Trump mayor of sinking island questions Al Gore on CNN

  02-08-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Pro-Trump mayor of sinking island questions Al Gore on CNN.
  
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• Qatar announces 5 bn euro order for warships from Italy

  02-08-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  Qatar announced on Wednesday a five-billion-euro order for seven warships from Italy in the midst of a nearly two-month diplomatic crisis with neighbouring Saudi Arabia and its allies."We have signed a contract on behalf of the Qatari navy to acquire seven warships from Italy for five billion euros ($5.9 billion)," Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said at a Doha press conference with his visiting Italian counterpart Angelino Alfano.It follows the signing of a preliminary
  
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• Trump endorses bill that would slash legal immigration

  02-08-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  He said that the bill shows “compassion” to struggling American families and that it would “give American workers a pay raise by reducing unskilled immigration.”
  
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• NASA Launched Voyager Crafts Nearly 40 Years Ago, They're Still Transmitting Data

  02-08-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  The Voyager spacecraft has provided nearly 40 years of information to NASA as they travel space.
  
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• Minneapolis school building collapses after explosion

  02-08-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say two people are unaccounted for after an explosion and partial building collapse at a grade school in Minneapolis.The Minneapolis Fire Department initially tweeted that one fatality was reported in the collapse at Minnehaha Academy.Tyner says three people were rescued from the roof, and another person initially believed missing was found unhurt.
  
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