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• Michael D'Antonio: Working for Trump is an embarrassment

  09-03-2017 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  On Wednesday, former Governor Jon Huntsman accepted President Donald Trump's offer to serve as US ambassador to Russia. Having previously served as an ambassador to China, Huntsman may feel prepared for the task at hand. But chances are he will become the latest Trump employee to face professional embarrassment in the days and weeks to come.
  
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• States try to block Trump's new travel ban

  09-03-2017 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Washington state will ask a federal judge Thursday to block President Donald Trump's new travel ban, joining Hawaii as the second state to challenge the executive order.
  
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• Several injured in ax attack at German train station

  09-03-2017 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  Several people were injured Thursday in an ax attack at Dusseldorf's main train station, police said.
  
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• Dutch left-wing election rally draws thousands

  09-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Dutch left-wing political hopeful Jesse Klaver on Thursday staged one of the largest campaign rallies seen in The Netherlands in recent times, as political parties scramble for last-minute votes ahead of next week's crunch elections."We have a unique opportunity as left-wing parties to win this election and to be the biggest," Klaver said to thunderous applause.Dutch political observers say the youthful Klaver, who is of Moroccan descent, is the antithesis of far-right politician Geert Wilders,
  
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• 2 deaths linked to cheese

  09-03-2017 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to soft raw milk cheese made by Vulto Creamery. Two deaths and six hospitalizations have been reported since September 1 in Connecticut, Florida, New York and Vermont.
  
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• German police arrest suspect in boy's killing, find 2nd body

  09-03-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of killing a 9-year-old boy in the German city of Herne and posting pictures of the victim's body on the internet was arrested Thursday, police said.
  
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• Sources: FBI investigation continues into 'odd' computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization

  09-03-2017 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.
  
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• Searching for Trump condemnation in Pope Francis’ words

  09-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis warned against the rising tide of populism in an interview with German paper Die Zeit this week, reigniting an ongoing search for subliminal criticism of President Trump in the pope’s words.
  
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• 911 audio: Decapitation suspect says his mother made him mad

  09-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  LOUISBURG, N.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old man accused of decapitating his mother promised an emergency dispatcher that he wouldn't kill two young siblings heard wailing in the background of his 911 call, according to a recording released Thursday.
  
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• Couple Shaken Up After Cruise Ship Nearly Hit Their Home: 'I've Never Seen Anything That Close'

  09-03-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Yasmine and Bill Todhunter said the massive vessel was moments from crashing into their property.
  
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• Tom Hanks to produce HBO dramatic miniseries on 2016 election

  09-03-2017 23:13 via theguardian.com
  
  The battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will hit the small screen via the team behind Game Change, which saw Julianne Moore as Sarah PalinTom Hanks is set to produce a HBO miniseries dramatizing the 2016 US election. Related: Zero Dark Thirty team to tackle 2016 election in new miniseriesContinue reading...
  
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• Amazon bestseller has 266 blank pages

  09-03-2017 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  Looking for a quick vacation read? It doesn't get any quicker than Michael J. Knowles' "Reasons To Vote For Democrats" -- all of the pages are blank.
  
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• Tusk to Polish government: 'Be careful of the bridges you burn' – video

  09-03-2017 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Donald Tusk speaks at a press conference in Brussels after being reappointed as the head of the European council, against the wishes of the government of his native Poland. Telling the country to “be careful of the bridges you burn”, Tusk nonetheless says he will do everything he can to “protect the Polish government against political isolation” in EuropePoland reacts with fury to re-election of Donald TuskContinue reading...
  
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• Toyota Will Eventually Have Three Sports Cars in its Lineup

  09-03-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Reverting to the "Three Brothers" philosophy, Toyota wants to become a serious contender in the sports car market again.
  
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• Dead Sharks Parked In Florida Lots and Driveways

  09-03-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Florida has had a long history with abandoned exotic animals.
  
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• Penalty rates cut could worsen gender pay gap, says Australia Institute

  09-03-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis conducted with Centre for Future Work says changes to Sunday rates increase risk, as women make up a greater proportion of part-time workforce A cut to penalty rates could exacerbate the gender pay gap with a new analysis showing women earn 33% less than men when their rates of part-time work are taken into account.The left-leaning Australia Institute and Centre for Future Work has released data showing the traditional measure of the gender pay gap (which has women earning 17% less than
  
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• Danny Cevallos: Separating families at the border is a bad but probably legal

  09-03-2017 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security is considering a proposal to separate parents and children at the border.
  
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• U.S. FCC probes why AT&T customers could not call 911

  09-03-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it will investigate why AT&T wireless subscribers in several states could not make emergency 911 calls late Wednesday.The FCC has previously fined carriers that had 911 outages that it deemed preventable and required steps to prevent further outages.“Every call to 911 must go through,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement.
  
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• RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy Again, 187 Locations Will Be Closed

  09-03-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  After its revival in 2015, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy a second time and will close a portion of its stores.
  
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• Revived debate: British black actors in American roles

  09-03-2017 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  A wave of critical and word-of-mouth praise has helped Jordan Peele's "Get Out" become the first stealth hit of 2017. But Samuel L. Jackson has turned up the heat on a long-simmering debate by pointing out what he thinks is a key oversight: that a film about the American black experience stars an actor that doesn't have any first-hand knowledge of the American black experience. The star of "Get Out" is British.
  
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• Resistance Report: D.C. bar sues Trump for unfair competition from his hotel

  09-03-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  D.C. UNCORKED. President Trump’s business interests are ruffling feathers in the District of Columbia business community.“Cork Wine Bar owners Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross filed an unfair competition lawsuit against Donald Trump and the Trump International Hotel in DC Wednesday night, alleging that the president’s continued affiliation with the government-owned property puts competing businesses at a disadvantage,” reports Washingtonian.
  
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• 'GoT'Season 7 has a premiere date...

  09-03-2017 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  HBO has finally announced the premiere date for "Game of Thrones" Season 7, much to the relief of the show's followers who lit Twitter on fire after tuning into a glitch-filled Facebook Live.
  
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• 'GoT' Season 7 has a premiere date...

  09-03-2017 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  HBO has finally announced the premiere date for "Game of Thrones" Season 7, much to the relief of the show's followers who lit Twitter on fire after tuning into a glitch-filled Facebook Live.
  
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• General takes responsibility for Yemen raid

  09-03-2017 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  The top US commander for the Middle East accepted full responsibility Thursday for a controversial January raid in Yemen that resulted in the death of a Navy SEAL and several civilians.
  
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• Washington state seeks to block new travel ban

  09-03-2017 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Washington state will ask a federal judge Thursday to block President Donald Trump's new travel ban, joining Hawaii as the second state to challenge the executive order.
  
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• The woman who exposed the horrors of Aleppo

  09-03-2017 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  Waad al-Kateab has spent the past year bearing witness: to the destruction of her city, the death of her neighbors, and the constant dangers of life under siege.
  
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• What exactly does the iPhone 8 mean for Apple?

  09-03-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  
  To date, the iPhone 6 is still responsible for the biggest iPhone upgrade cycle in history. And with good reason, the iPhone 6 marked the first time Apple delved into the world of larger-screened iPhones, at long last giving users with a preference for larger screens a compelling reason to upgrade. What's more, Apple in 2014 didn't just release one new device; rather, it released two distinct iPhone models, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the gargantuan 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus.
  
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• Trump Ally Nigel Farage Visits Ecuadorian Embassy To Meet With Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

  09-03-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump ally Nigel Farage met with Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange at Ecuadorian embassy, report says.
  
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• Pope open to studying ordination of married men as priests

  09-03-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis says the church must study whether it's possible to ordain married men to minister in remote communities facing priest shortages.
  
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• How Michelle Obama surprised students at a DC high school

  09-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Former first lady Michelle Obama surprised students at Ballou STAY High School in Washington, D.C., last week, leaving what seemed to be a deep impression on a group of students going to the alternative high school.Principal Cara Fuller personally selected the 14 students who met Ms. Obama.Recommended:Michelle Obama: How well do you know the first lady?
  
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• Demonstrators march in Washington, D.C., to protest the global gag rule

  09-03-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, March 9, demonstrators took the the streets of Washington, D.C., to march and protest President Trump’s Global Gag Rule. They marched from Freedom Plaza to the White House chanting and holding signs.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 9, 2017

  09-03-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Buddhist monks push Thai soldiers at a gate of Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand; dogs and owners arrive for the first day of Crufts dog show at NEC Arena in Birmingham, England; an Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard near the site of a gun fight at Padgampora, Indian Kashmir. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• Poland reacts with fury to re-election of Donald Tusk

  09-03-2017 21:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Almost all EU nations back his second term as European council president but Poland’s opposition leaves it isolated in EuropeDonald Tusk has won a second term as European council president, overcoming bitter opposition from Poland that has left the country isolated in Europe. Tusk, a former Polish prime minister, was re-elected on Thursday with overwhelming support to lead the council, the body that organises EU leaders’ meetings, for a second term lasting two and a half years. His r
  
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• Kansas man in 'get out of my country' shooting of Indian man appears in court

  09-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  A Kansas man accused of killing an Indian software engineer and shooting two other people while shouting "get out of my country" appeared in Johnson County Circuit Court on Thursday as lawyers worked out a schedule for his upcoming trial.At the short hearing, alleged shooter Adam Purinton, 51, sat quietly, wearing an orange jumpsuit and looking haggard, his hair scraggly, sometimes whispering to his attorney.Purinton is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Srinivas Kuchibhot
  
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• Russian envoy denied meeting with Trump

  09-03-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  In an October speech to the Detroit Economic Club, Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, denied meeting with Donald Trump or campaign officials during the course of 2016 presidential election, but acknowledged that he met with members of Congress and others who approached him at events.
  
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• Women bearing 86% of austerity burden, Commons figures reveal

  09-03-2017 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour urges Conservatives to look at disproportionate impact of tax and spending policies on women Labour has urged the Conservatives to carry out a gender audit of its tax and spending policies, as the shadow equalities minister, Sarah Champion, published analysis showing that 86% of the burden of austerity since 2010 has fallen on women.Champion said research carried out by the House of Commons library revealed that women were paying a “disproportionate” price for balancing the go
  
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• Motorway bridge collapse in Italy kills couple

  09-03-2017 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Country’s second such incident in recent months prompts questions over state of infrastructureAn Italian couple have been killed after a motorway bridge collapsed on top of their car, in Italy’s second such tragedy in just over four months.Police said Antonella Viviani, 54, and her husband, 60-year-old Emidio Diomede, died at the scene on Thursday after the bridge, which was undergoing maintenance work, gave way on to the A14 highway near Ancona in the east of the country. Continue r
  
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• Aaron David Miller: Trump's hard-line Israel ambassador pick will have to bend

  09-03-2017 20:32 via cnn.com
  
  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Thursday to approve David Friedman as President Donald Trump's choice as ambassador to Israel. In the history of the US-Israel relationship, his nomination is by far the most controversial choice yet to be made by an American president. According to many, it's the most provocative as well.
  
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• The Latest: Indiana, Iowa killings not believed linked

  09-03-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into the slaying of two northern Indiana teenage girls (all times local):
  
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• Ex-Trump adviser says phone may have been tapped, without offering evidence

  09-03-2017 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Carter Page writes to congressional investigators to describe concern, which he suggests would support Donald Trump’s claim Trump Tower was wiretappedA former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump has written to congressional investigators claiming, without evidence, that his mobile phone may have been tapped last year.Carter Page, a businessman, suggests this would support the view that the Trump campaign headquarters at Trump Tower in New York was under surveillance, since he works near
  
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• Nissan Leaf leases can extend until all-new 2018 electric car late this year: updated

  09-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  More Nissan Leaf electric cars were sold in 2014 than in any model year before or since, fully 30,000 of them.Now Nissan is offering to extend those leases—and in the process, it's given us a little more information on the upcoming 2018 Nissan Leaf.
  
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• Two killed after motorway bridge collapses in north-eastern Italy – video

  09-03-2017 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Aerial footage shows the aftermath of a motorway bridge collapse in Italy on Thursday which killed two people. The victims, who were a married couple, were killed when their car was trapped underneath the bridge as it fell close to the town of Ancona in the north-east of the country Continue reading...
  
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• EPA head Scott Pruitt denies that carbon dioxide causes global warming

  09-03-2017 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump adviser shocks scientists and environmental advocates with statement that negates EPA policy and ‘overwhelmingly clear’ evidence on climate changeScott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has dismissed a basic scientific understanding of climate change by denying that carbon dioxide emissions are a primary cause of global warming.Pruitt said on Thursday that he did not believe that the release of CO2, a heat-trapping gas, was pushing glo
  
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• Does India’s Hindu Heartland Still Love Modi?

  09-03-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  A deeply divided country is about to stage the world's biggest local elections.
  
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• Obamacare 2.0 a test for dealmaker-in-chief

  09-03-2017 20:05 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is wading into the fray Thursday and flexing his deal making skills to build momentum behind the Republican Party's Obamacare repeal bill, amid growing concern among prominent GOP figures that fast-tracking the measure could lead to flawed legislation.
  
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• Synthetic genome nearly complete, paving way for bespoke organisms

  09-03-2017 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Human-designed organisms could produce drugs and vaccines, convert waste into energy or grow organs for human transplant operations Scientists are close to completing an entire synthetic genome for a microbe that has been used in bread, beer and wine making for more than five thousand years, paving the way for a realm of new organisms designed by the human hand.The work on baker’s yeast marks a substantial advance in researchers’ ability to manufacture the code of life. While genetic
  
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• Border Patrol 'tunnel rats' plug underground passages

  09-03-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — They are known in the U.S. Border Patrol as "tunnel rats" — agents who go in clandestine passages that have proliferated on the U.S.-Mexico border over the past 20 years to smuggle drugs.
  
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• Look on my works, ye mighty … Ozymandias statue found in mud

  09-03-2017 19:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Archaeologists believe eight-metre statue found in Cairo slum is of Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt in 13th century BCArchaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found an eight-metre (26ft) statue submerged in groundwater in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.The discovery – hailed by Egypt’s antiquities ministry on Thursday as one of the most important ever – was made near the ruins of Ramses II&rs
  
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• Bishop turns down promotion after protests over stance on women

  09-03-2017 19:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Philip North, who is opposed to female clergy, was due to become the bishop of Sheffield A bishop recently promoted to the diocese of Sheffield has announced he will not take up the post following mounting protests over his opposition to female priests and bishops.Philip North, the bishop of Burnley, said in a statement on Thursday that it was clear “my leadership would not be acceptable to many”.Continue reading...
  
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• WikiLeaks says it will help Silicon Valley defend against CIA hacking

  09-03-2017 19:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Julian Assange makes an offering to the tech community as the CIA and the press question his motivationsWikiLeaks publishes ‘biggest ever leak of secret CIA documents’
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he would contact technology companies and privately supply technical details of the CIA’s collection of bugs in some of the world’s most commonly used smartphone software. Assange made the announcement in a live-streamed press conference on Thursday, two days after Wiki
  
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