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• Who Wins, Who Loses With New Tax Proposal

  02-11-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  House Republicans released their long-awaited redo of the tax code, which they promised would dramatically reduce the federal tax bill for most American households and give a big break to busines...
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Says 2016 Democratic Nomination Rigged For Hillary Clinton

  02-11-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Do you agree with the notion that the DNC was rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor?
  
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• Mysterious 'void' discovered in Great Pyramid

  02-11-2017 23:40 via cnn.com
  Mystery is no stranger to the Great Pyramid of Giza. For centuries, scientists and archaeologists have probed inside the largest and oldest of Egypt's famed pyramids.
  
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• Rick Perry under fire for suggestion fossil fuels can reduce sexual assault

  02-11-2017 23:20 via theguardian.com
  US energy secretary faces criticism from Sierra Club after describing girl who told him about the importance of electricity in African villageThe US energy secretary, Rick Perry, has said he thinks using fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault, sparking criticism from the Sierra Club, which accused Perry of exploiting the struggle of those most affected by climate change. Perry, who was at an energy conference in Africa last week, said on Thursday that fossil fuels used to power electricity
  
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• How Good Are the Deals at the Sears Holiday Blowout?

  02-11-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  Sears’ latest approach to staving off financial problems appears to be marking everything down. Way down, so the retailer claims. On Nov. 1 Sears rolled out what it’s calling a Holiday Blowout, a...
  
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• Democrats rigged the 2016 primary for Hillary Clinton, claims former DNC chair

  02-11-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  Donna Brazile, a former Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chair, has claimed that the party organisation helped Hillary Clinton’s campaign “rig” the 2016 Democratic primary against Bernie Sanders.In a Politico op-ed, Ms Brazile alleged that Ms Clinton was controlling the finances of the party before officially winning the 2016 Democratic nomination for president.The piece, titled Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC, is an excerpt from Ms Brazile&
  
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• Director Brett Ratner files suit against accuser

  02-11-2017 22:38 via cnn.com
  Director and producer Brett Ratner has filed suit against a woman he says defamed him by alleging he raped her.
  
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• Leave Your Troubles Behind: Trump Departs on 11-Day Asia Trip

  02-11-2017 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  Trump has embarked on the longest trip of his presidency Friday, taking off for an Asia trip amid the threat of an increasingly erratic North Korea.
  
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• Amanda Knox says she was never allowed to mourn Meredith Kercher

  02-11-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  Amanda Knox has written an essay on the 10th anniversary of Meredith Kercher's death describing how much she misses her "closest friend" but adding that she was never able to mourn properly because of suspicions she was involved in her roommate's death. Kercher was found stabbed to death on 1 November 2007 in the apartment she shared with Miss Knox in Perugia, Italy. Knox and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of her murder before their convictions were overturned. In a
  
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• Page Says He Told Sessions About Russia Trip

  02-11-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports late breaking news that Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page says he told Jeff Sessions about his trip to Russia, exposing Sessions for having told the Senate he wasn't aware of any such contacts.
  
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• Victims of the Manhattan bike path attack

  02-11-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Those killed in the New York bike path attack reflect a city that is a melting pot: a mother of young sons from Belgium, five Argentine classmates, two Americans - a young software engineer and a project manager for Moody's Investors Service.
  
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• Make Money From Home This Holiday Season With These Part-Time Remote Jobs

  02-11-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Get your resume ready.
  
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• Syrian army takes full control of Deir al-Zor from Islamic State: observatory

  02-11-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  The Syrian army and its allies have taken full control of Deir al-Zor city from Islamic State, the largest and most important city in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.The Syrian army launched its attack against Islamic State there in September, backed by Russian air strikes and fighting alongside Iran-backed militias and the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah.The Islamist group had held most of the city since 2014, except for one large pocket where Syrian arm
  
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• Pope Francis raises hopes for married men becoming priests in Brazil

  02-11-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  The issue will now be discussed and a vote by bishops in the South American country could now vote on the issue.The President of the Episcopal Commission for the Amazon, Cardinal Cludio Hummes, reportedly asked the pontiff to consider the move because there is a shortage of ordained ministers in the Amazon's remote communities.
  
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• Trump at odds with hosts all along wide-ranging Asia tour

  02-11-2017 22:17 via cnn.com
  US President Donald Trump may well be looking forward to his upcoming Asia trip as a moment of respite from domestic strife, but he will face a new set of unique challenges across the Pacific, analysts say.
  
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• Judge considering punishment for U.S. Army deserter Bergdahl

  02-11-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  A military judge began deliberating U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl's sentence on Thursday, after prosecutors said the soldier should spend 14 years behind bars for endangering troops in Afghanistan in 2009 and the defense urged no prison time.Army Colonel Jeffery Nance could recommend up to life in confinement for the 31-year-old sergeant, who pleaded guilty last month to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.The judge indicated he would issue his sentence on Friday.
  
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• The GOP's Grotesque Tax Bill Is a Plan Almost Nobody Can Love

  02-11-2017 22:16 via nbcnews.com
  The populist president's bill is a cherished giveaway package for corporations and the mega-wealthy
  
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• Clinton robbed Sanders of nomination, ex-DNC chair says

  02-11-2017 22:15 via cnn.com
  Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile, in newly released excerpts of her forthcoming book, alleges that an unethical agreement was signed between Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the DNC to keep the party financially afloat.
  
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• What's The Difference Between Amazon And Jet.com?

  02-11-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  In another competition-heating move against Amazon and Whole Foods, Walmart-owned Jet.com recently launched an in-house collection of household essentials.
  
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• U.S. and AT&T discuss conditions for approval of Time Warner deal

  02-11-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  AT&T Incand the U.S. Department of Justice are discussing conditions the No. 2 wireless carrier needs to meet in order to win government antitrust approval for its acquisition of Time Warner Inc , sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Thursday.Wall Street largely believes the transaction will go through, but its success is not assured, and the issue has become a political battleground.Donald Trump, who has accused Time Warner's CNN and other media of being unfair to him, critic
  
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• Russia Documents Mean Trouble for Sessions

  02-11-2017 22:01 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow outlines the many ways that Sam Clovis is intertwined in the Trump Russia scandal and why the latest unsealed court documents mean Jeff Sessions is in big trouble with the Senate.
  
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• Series of attacks in Egypt targeting Coptic Christians forces churches to close

  02-11-2017 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Egypt has been one of the worst places for Christian persecution in recent months.
  
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• The all-female police squad protecting Melania Trump

  02-11-2017 21:52 via cnn.com
  The Japanese police department in Tokyo has put together an all-female squad of officers for specific assignment to first lady Melania Trump and other visiting female dignitaries, including presidential adviser Ivanka Trump, according to a report. The fist lady arrives in Japan on Sunday for a two-day visit with President Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump landed in Toyko on Thursday.
  
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• GOP senators already want changes to House tax reform bill

  02-11-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  A handful of Republican senators are already asking for significant changes to the House’s sweeping $1.51 trillion tax reform bill released Thursday that lowers income and corporate tax rates while eliminating some popular deductions.
  
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• The silliest items on Oprah's iconic Favorite Things 2017 list

  02-11-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  The true marker of the impending holiday season is not the removal of Halloween decorations or the scent of $6 holiday candles wafting in the air.  It is, in fact, the annual drop of Oprah's iconic Favorite Things list, a compendium of stuff you should buy yourself and your loved ones in pursuit of a better, chicer lifestyle. This year, Oprah has us considering expensive jars and small mansions for the neighborhood birds.  Here are a few other things we suddenly can't imagine our futur
  
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• Pope, at U.S. military cemetery, makes emotional anti-war address

  02-11-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  By Philip PullellaROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis made one of his most emotional anti-war addresses on Thursday, saying during a visit to a U.S. military cemetery that the world seemed to be headed into war perhaps bigger than any before.Francis said a Mass for several thousand people at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in the town of Nettuno, south of the Italian capital, on the day Roman Catholics commemorate their dead.The burial ground is the final resting place for 7,860 American soldiers wh
  
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• Man Arrested After Librarian Recognizes Him as Suspect in College Student's Murder

  02-11-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Austin Boutain, 24, is accused of shooting ChenWei Guo in an attempt to take the University of Utah computer science student’s car in Red Butte Canyon on Monday night.
  
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• Protocol in Asia? Trump to use 'whatever language he wants'

  02-11-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When in Asia, make sure handshakes aren't too long — or short. Don't bobble names or titles. Stifle the critical tweets. Don't question the food.
  
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• Bin Laden's thoughts unearthed in a hand-written journal

  02-11-2017 21:38 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A journal made public by the CIA and apparently handwritten by one of Osama bin Laden's daughters offers a glimpse into how the late al-Qaida leader viewed the world around him and reveals his deep interest in the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions that were unfolding in the months before a U.S. raid killed him.
  
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• Jared Kushner's team turned over documents to special counsel

  02-11-2017 21:27 via cnn.com
  Jared Kushner has turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel Robert Mueller as investigators have begun asking in witness interviews about Kushner's role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, CNN has learned.
  
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• Robert Mueller jack-o-lantern stands watch over Manafort house

  02-11-2017 21:25 via cnn.com
  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being watched by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller in more ways than one.
  
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• Mueller jack-o-lantern stands watch over Manafort house

  02-11-2017 21:25 via cnn.com
  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being watched by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller in more ways than one.
  
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• Former Democrat chairwoman Donna Brazile accuses Clinton campaign of 'unethically' hijacking party

  02-11-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  The former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee has claimed that an unethical agreement was signed by the party and  Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, helping her to win the nomination over Bernie Sanders. Donna Brazile disclosed the agreement in a new book called "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House". Brazile said she investigated after hacked committee emails were published indicating the nomination proces
  
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• Syria army captures Deir Ezzor city from IS: monitor

  02-11-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Syria's army and allied fighters have captured the city of Deir Ezzor from the Islamic State group in a Russian-backed operation, a monitor said on Thursday.There was no immediate confirmation from official sources, though state media earlier reported army advances in the city in the country's east."Regime forces and allied fighters... with Russian air support have full control of Deir Ezzor city," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
  
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• Ivanka Trump to tout 'womenomics' in Japan

  02-11-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  Ivanka Trump has arrived in Tokyo for a very brief trip to speak about women's participation in the economy at the World Assembly of Women, an annual conference sponsored by the Japanese government.
  
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• Bourdain: My industry is hostile to women

  02-11-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  Anthony Bourdain, who has been outspoken on sexual harassment in light of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, says he unintentionally validated a restaurant culture that was hostile to women.
  
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• New York attack: 'I gave the suspect five stars on Uber'

  02-11-2017 20:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The British tourist who rode with Sayfullo Saipov a week before eight people were killed in New York.
  
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• Texas GOP Rep. Lamar Smith Announces Retirement

  02-11-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), a prominent climate change denier who chairs the House Science Committee, announced on Thursday that he is retiring from the House after his term ends next year.
  
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• 3-Year-Old Left Home Alone Starts Fire Trying to Cook Food, Police Say

  02-11-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Police found the mother about 3 miles away from the apartment
  
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• Thae Yong Ho gives insight into Kim's 'mercilessness'

  02-11-2017 20:49 via cnn.com
  "Kim Jong-un decided to show he is a man with mercilessness," says former senior North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho, who defected in August 2016.
  
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• North Korean defector gives insight into Kim's 'mercilessness'

  02-11-2017 20:49 via cnn.com
  "Kim Jong-un decided to show he is a man with mercilessness," says former senior North Korean diplomat Thae Yong Ho, who defected in August 2016.
  
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• What People Are Buying On Amazon This Week, Besides Mushroom Coffee

  02-11-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  This week in weird, practical and just-plain-interesting items trending on Amazon, folks seem keen to stock up on ~trendy~ health foods like ghee and mushroom coffee, as well as holiday gifts like bath bombs and card games, but that’s not all.
  
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• Senate Republicans Say Trump Ruled Out 'Dreamer' Protections In Spending Bill

  02-11-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans said Thursday that President Donald Trump has ruled out what some consider the best hope for undocumented young people who could face deportation because of him: attaching protections for the the so-called Dreamers to an omnibus government spending bill.
  
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• Bourdain: I celebrated culture that was hostile to women

  02-11-2017 20:44 via cnn.com
  After a slew of women came forward to accuse producer Harvey Weinstein and other notable figures in media of sexual harassment, CNN's Anthony Bourdain expressed regret for his participation in and validation of a culture he sees as similarly sexist: the restaurant industry.
  
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• Refugee chief criticizes UN for failing to solve conflicts

  02-11-2017 20:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is sharply criticizing the Security Council and world leaders for their failure to prevent and resolve conflicts which have displaced nearly 66 million people around the world.
  
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• Trump won't soften N. Korea tone on Asia trip: White House

  02-11-2017 20:40 via cnn.com
  Ahead of President Donald Trump's five-country, 12-day trip to Asia, his top national security adviser is making one thing clear: The President won't be moderating his language in the region.
  
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• McMaster says Trump will be Trump in Asia

  02-11-2017 20:40 via cnn.com
  Ahead of President Donald Trump's five-country, 12-day trip to Asia, his top national security adviser is making one thing clear: The President won't be moderating his language in the region.
  
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• Exclusive: Lawyer Of Woman Who Says Brett Ratner Raped Her Slams Defamation Suit

  02-11-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Hours after the Los Angeles Times published a story on Wednesday detailing sexual misconduct allegations by six women, some of them well-known actresses, against film director and producer Brett Ratner, he chose to sue.
  
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• Judge Worries Paul Manafort Is A Flight Risk, Admonishes His Lawyer

  02-11-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The federal judge who will oversee the prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager said Thursday that she has “concerns” that Paul Manafort poses a flight risk, questioning whether an unsecured bond was enough to make sure he’d show up in court.
  
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• Premier League predictions: Lawro v WWE wrestlers Cesaro & Sheamus

  02-11-2017 20:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Lawrenson takes on WWE wrestlers Cesaro & Sheamus in the next round of Premier League matches.
  
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