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• PayPal Shuts Down Access For Richard Spencer, Other Right-Wing Extremists

  16-08-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  PayPal says it will cut off its services to hate groups and other users collecting donations to promote violence and racial intolerance in the wake of Saturday’s deadly clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Okay forget the White Walker kidnapping plan, I've got plenty of other ideas. By Jon Snow

  16-08-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  Hey all, sorry for the short notice but thanks for meeting back up. I wanted to let everyone know that after some feedback we are scrapping the Wight kidnapping plan we discussed the other day. That plan, in which we decided to send an elite team of our most important leaders on a suicidal mission to capture one dead guy and bring him to King's Landing to show Cersei, is officially over.  It was stupid, almost unbelievably so, and I think we can all see that now. I am deeply, deeply humbled
  
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• Iran general slams Iraq referendum plan during Erdogan talks

  16-08-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  Iran's Armed Forces chief of staff said Wednesday after talks with Turkey's president that a referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdish region would trigger conflict and negative consequences for the entire region.General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri's remarks, carried by Iran's official IRNA news agency, underlined the firm opposition shared in Tehran and Ankara to the poll next month."Both sides stressed that if the referendum would be held, it will be the basis for the start of a series of tens
  
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• Fox's Shep Smith Can't Find A Republican Willing To Defend Trump

  16-08-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Need proof that GOP officials are trying to avoid talking about President Donald Trump?
  
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• Teacher Accused Of Punching Neo-Nazi Says Standing Up To Fascism Isn't A Crime

  16-08-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  A middle school teacher in Berkeley, California, accused of punching a neo-Nazi during a 2016 protest is arguing that standing up to fascism is not a crime.
  
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• Trump's business council had 'decided to disband before Trump claimed he had disbanded it'

  16-08-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has taken credit for disbanding his Strategic and Policy Forum, but a new report claims the business council members made the decision for themselves, before the President ever announced his intentions.Members of council decided on Wednesday morning that they would disband the group, a person familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.Hours later, Mr Trump tweeted that he had decided to disband the group himself.
  
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• These Are the Warning Signs That Would Indicate War in Korea Is About to Start

  16-08-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  Hint: none of them have happened yet.
  
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• Trump Says Kids Shouldn't Come To U.S. Illegally. He's Also Limiting Their Legal Options.

  16-08-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Central American immigrants in the U.S. already had few ways to legally bring their children over to join them.
  
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• Natalee Holloway's Dad Having Human Remains Tested For DNA

  16-08-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  The father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway says he is awaiting the results of DNA testing on bones found in Aruba.
  
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• Has Natalee Holloway's Body Been Found? Remains Reportedly Discovered in Search for Missing Teen

  16-08-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  The Alabama teen vanished during a school trip in 2005.
  
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• Stunning rebuke for the CEO president

  16-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  The collapse of President Trump’s business councils this week signifies a stunning and unprecedented rebuke to a president who prides himself on being business friendly.
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• Fed leader: We’re halfway there on interest rate hikes

  16-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams spoke to CNNMoney Tuesday about the U.S. economy.
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• BRIEF-Symantec CEO Gregory Clark’s total compensation for 2017 was $6.1 mln

  16-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Symantec Corp – CEO Gregory Clark’s total compensation for2017 was $6.1 million – SEC filing‍​
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• BRIEF-Daniel A. Ninivaggi appointed to Navistar board of directors

  16-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Daniel A. Ninivaggi appointed to Navistar board ofdirectors
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• BRIEF-Alvopetro Energy reports qtrly FFO loss of $0.01 per share

  16-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Alvopetro announces operational update and second quarterfinancial and operating results
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• Brazil’s new BNDES benchmark rate set for committee vote next week

  16-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  BRASILIA, Aug 16 (Reuters) – A government proposal to setmarket-based interest rates for state lender BNDEScleared a congressional hurdle on Wednesday, coming closer to apotential committee vote next week.
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• BRIEF-Walgreens voluntarily withdraws notification, report forms

  16-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Walgreens Boots Alliance- in consultation with Rite Aid,co voluntarily withdrew notification & report forms requiredunder Hart-Scott-Rodino act with U.S. DojJ
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• BRIEF-Green Brick Partners raises $14.8 mln in equity financing

  16-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Green Brick Partners Inc says it has raised $14.8 millionin equity financing from total offering of $14.8 million– SECfilingSource text: (http://bit.ly/2wR4gr8)Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Davidstea appoints Howard Tafler as interim CFO

  16-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Davidstea Inc says on August 14, 2017, co appointed HowardTafler to serve as interim chief financial officer‍​ – SECfiling ‍​Source text: (http://bit.ly/2wbwVKL)Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-CPPIB, Cyrela Commercial Properties S.A. announce closing of portfolio exchange transaction

  16-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  Aug 16 (Reuters) – Cyrela Commercial Properties SAEmpreendimentos E Participacoes
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• Maryland judge denies DC sniper Malvo's bid for new sentence

  16-08-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager participated in the sniper attacks that killed 10 people and terrorized the Washington region, will not get a new sentence in Maryland, a judge said in a ruling released Wednesday.
  
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• Mel B's Bodysuit From 'America's Got Talent' Leaves Little To The Imagination

  16-08-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Mel B had nothing to hide on Tuesday night’s live show of “America’s Got Talent.”
  
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• None Of The 10 Best Cities To Live In The World Are In The U.S.

  16-08-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s policies are partly the reason that none of the 10 most liveable cities in the world are in the U.S., according to a new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit.
  
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• Man Whose Heart Was Pierced by 3-Inch Nail Drives Himself 12 Miles to Hospital

  16-08-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Doug Bergeson says common sense told him not to pull the nail out.
  
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• Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says

  16-08-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  By Ed CropleyJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace whipped two South African women in a Johannesburg hotel room with an electric cable, the mother of one victim said, adding that the attack must be punished.Debbie Engels told Reuters her daughter Gabriella, a 20-year-old model, suffered a gash on her forehead that required eight stitches and another on the back of her head that needed six.Engels did not witness the attack and Reuters has not been able to verify
  
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• Twitter Points Out Other Times When 'Both Sides' Were Clearly Incomparable

  16-08-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, many Americans were left reeling after recent remarks made by President Donald Trump in the aftermath of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Couple's arranged marriage turned into 19-year 'love story'

  16-08-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — David and Elizabeth Weinlick's life together began like a reality TV show, blossomed into two decades out of a romance novel, and now seems destined to end in tragedy.
  
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• Scientists solve mystery of ‘Frankenstein dinosaur’

  16-08-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  A dinosaur that puzzled researchers thanks to the incredibly puzzling design of its body finally has its place in history thanks to a team of scientists from Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London. The Chilesaurus, which has been nicknamed the "Frankenstein dinosaur" due to it appearing as though it were patched together from other, unrelated dinosaur species, has now been labeled a transitional species that helps to bridge the gap between herbivorous dinosaurs and the more iconic me
  
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• Woman Arrested for Running Raffle Ticket Scam Using Image, Name of Boy Who Died of Cancer

  16-08-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Tracey Jacqueline Weir is accused of selling phony raffle tickets to support children's cancer research in the name of 4-year-old Nolan Scully.
  
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• Takiyah Thompson, Hailed As 'Hero,' Showered With Support For Toppling Confederate Statue

  16-08-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Takiyah Thompson, a 22-year-old student activist who participated in tearing down a Confederate statue during a protest in Durham, North Carolina has been released from jail.
  
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• US will 'know how to face' anti-Semitism: Israel president

  16-08-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expressed shock Wednesday over anti-Semitism at a recent US white supremacist rally, but said American leaders would succeed in dealing with "this difficult challenge".Rivlin wrote to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to convey his "support and solidarity for the American Jewish community" after the unrest in Charlottesville."The very idea that in our time we would see a Nazi flag -- perhaps the most vicious symbol of anti-Semitis
  
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• Family: FBI knew Oklahoma bomb plot suspect is schizophrenic

  16-08-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The family of a man accused of attempting to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank says he is a paranoid schizophrenic and that the FBI knew it.
  
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• Grace Mugabe claims diplomatic immunity in S.Africa assault case

  16-08-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has claimed diplomatic immunity after being accused of assaulting a 20-year-old model, South African police said Wednesday, in an incident that could test cross-border relations.The 52-year-old wife of President Robert Mugabe is accused of attacking Gabriella Engels on Sunday evening at a Johannesburg hotel where the first lady's two sons were staying.Engels has registered a police case alleging assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, saying she suffere
  
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• Officials In Legal-Weed States Push Back Against Jeff Sessions' Marijuana Criticisms

  16-08-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  Government officials from Alaska and Washington have pushed back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who sent threatening letters to the states and questioned the efficacy of their marijuana legalization and regulatory programs.
  
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• Christian School Reportedly Told 12-Year-Old His Alleged Rape Was ‘Boys Being Boys’

  16-08-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  A prestigious Christian school in Tennessee is under fire for allegedly doing nothing after a male student reported that he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by four older classmates.
  
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• George Bush issues joint statement with father condemning 'racial bigotry and hatred' in Charlottesville

  16-08-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Two former US presidents have issued a strong statement condemning the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – one day after President Donald Trump failed to do so.“As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city’s most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights,” the prominent Republicans wrote.The statement comes on the he
  
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• Meet the Nokia 8: Specs, price and release date revealed

  16-08-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  On Wednesday evening, HMD Global, the Finnish company that acquired Nokia's feature phone business last year, unveiled the first flagship Android phone under the Nokia brand. The Nokia 8 will go on sale in Europe in September for 599 euros (~$700), but there is no word yet on a US release.Having been the subject of dozens of leaks in the weeks and months leading up to its official unveiling, we already know most of what there is to know about the Nokia 8. HMD's Android phone features a 5.3-inch
  
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• GM’s Maven may compete with Lyft and Uber in ride services

  16-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  Aug 16 (Reuters) – General Motors Co’s Maven carsharing and rental unit could wind up competing with two of itsbiggest customers, Uber Technologies and Lyft Inc, with anambitious expansion plan that could take it eventually into rideand delivery services.
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• Filming of next ‘Mission: Impossible’ on hiatus after Cruise breaks ankle

  16-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  LOS ANGELES, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Actor Tom Cruise broke hisankle while performing a stunt on the set of the upcoming“Mission: Impossible 6,” causing production on the action filmto go on hiatus while he recovers, Paramount Pictures said in astatement on Wednesday.
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• BRIEF-SiriusXM launches two new music channels

  16-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Sirius XM Holdings Inc- ‍Announced launch of two full-timemusic channels, Turbo and Poprocks​Source text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-New Pacific Metals Corp appoints Gordon Neal as President

  16-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Says Gordon Neal appointed PresidentSource text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Georgia Power says first steam generator has been placed at Vogtle nuclear expansion

  16-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  * First steam generator has been placed at Vogtle nuclearexpansion near Waynesboro, Georgia​Source text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• UPDATE 2-Carmakers win brief reprieve from lawsuits over faulty Takata air bags

  16-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  Aug 16 (Reuters) – Automakers on Wednesday won a temporaryreprieve from lawsuits filed by victims of defective air bagsmade by bankrupt Takata Corp that led to thelargest-ever auto safety recall and at least 18 deaths.
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• UPDATE 1-Tom Cruise breaks ankle in stunt, halts production on ‘Mission’ film

  16-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  LOS ANGELES, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Tom Cruise broke his anklewhile performing a stunt on the set of the upcoming “Mission:Impossible 6,” causing production on the film to go on hiatuswhile the actor recovers, Paramount Pictures said in a statementon Wednesday.
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• GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks flat, dollar falls on Trump chaos, Fed minutes

  16-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Stocks flat after Trump disbands business advisorycouncils
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• BRIEF-‍Berkshire Hathaway’s MedPro Group expands international facility coverage capabilities for U.S. Domiciled risks

  16-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * ‍Berkshire Hathaway’s Medpro Group expands internationalfacility coverage capabilities for U.S. Domiciled risks throughreinsurance program participation with MPLC & Pembroke​
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• BRIEF-Aequus receives approval for short form base shelf prospectus to raise up to C$20 mln

  16-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Aequus receives approval for short form base shelfprospectus to raise up to C$20,000,000
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• German Car Companies Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff

  16-08-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  "Made in Germany" used to mean reliability. Now it means collusion.
  
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• SeaWorld Orca Dies After Long Battle With Lung Infection

  16-08-2017 20:55 via yahoo.com
  An orca at SeaWorld San Diego was euthanized Tuesday evening after a long battle with a bacterial respiratory infection.
  
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• Yara Shahidi answers 'Grown-ish' questions from a fan

  16-08-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Actress Yara Shahidi shares how she plans to handle college life
  
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