The Senate is scheduled to vote on reauthorizing the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund next Tuesday, after Sen. Rand Paul blocked the bill from being passed by unanimous consent earlier this week. The bill has 73 cosponsors and is expected to pass by a wide bipartisan margin. Congress passed the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation […]
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A supporter wears a Trump hat ahead of a rally for President Trump in Greenville, N.C., on Wednesday. (Madeline Gray/Bloomberg) Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics July 19 at 10:19 AM One of the central lessons from 2016 for political observers was a humbling one: You never know what’s going […]
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Former Maryland Congressman John Delaney is disputing reports that he is being pressured by aides to drop out of the 2020 presidential race by next month amid concerns that he won’t meet the higher thresholds to participate in the upcoming September debates. “No one on my team asked me to drop out of the race and […]
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Democratic staffers for the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees say that lawmakers intend to press former special counsel Robert Mueller to tell a “much clearer narrative” to the American people about the president’s conduct, laid out in the findings of Mueller’s final report about Russian meddling in the 2016 election and any ties between the […]
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By Prabir Purkayastha, the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital media platform. He is an activist for science and the Free Software movement. Produced in partnership by Newsclick and Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute The standoff between the U.S.and Iran is now developing into a reenactment of the tanker wars in the […]
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For the second consecutive year, the Trump administration has held what’s now called the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. Vice President Mike Pence delivered the concluding keynote address yesterday, outlining the Trump administration’s accomplishments as well as new sanctions against leaders of several nations deemed to be detrimental to the freedom of worship. While the […]
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MLB Trade Deadline: Five possible non-rental players on the move | SI.com MLB Trade Deadline: Five Best Non-Rental Players Who Could Be Moved Modal message
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Getty Mitch Petrus is dead at age 32. Former Razorback Mitch Petrus, who drafted by the New York Giants in the 2010 NFL Draft, has died. He was only 32-years-old, and, his death was confirmed by KATV. The cause of death is listed as heat stroke. Here’s what you need to know: 1. Petrus Was […]
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President Donald Trump is understandably fond of touting his administration’s remarkable economic success, but he’s less likely to tout a certain other record-shattering performance. As Siraj Hashmi writes at the Washington Examiner, “President Trump now owns the record for the highest turnover in his first two and a half years than his five immediate predecessors […]
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Getty (L-R) Erica Holmes, J.B. Holmes and Tucker Holmes pose with the trophy after J.B. Holmes wins the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club on February 17, 2019 in Pacific Palisades, California. J.B Holmes is a golfer from Campbellsville (Ky.) that currently sits atop the leaderboard after two rounds at the 2019 British Open. He […]
Read MoreTraders walk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., July 16, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday as solid results from Microsoft lifted technology shares and added to market optimism after New York Fed President John Williams boosted hopes that the central bank […]
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President Trump was in his element Wednesday night, Seth Meyers said on Thursday’s Late Night, as he whipped the crowd at his North Carolina rally into a “racist frenzy” by going after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Meyers said Trump has spent the last few days slandering Omar, who came to the U.S. as a Somali […]
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Barclays analysts believe that for the 2019 iPhones, Apple will be sourcing OLED panels not just from Samsung but also from LG. If this indeed happens, it would be a major win for LG Display which has been struggling to produce quality OLED panels at scale. Apple was rumored to source a limited number of […]
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CATS – Official Trailer / Universal Pictures (YouTube) Writer’s Note: Shout-out to Editor-In-Chief Danielle Belton for the headline assist. I vividly remember the time I first saw Disney’s Lady and the Tramp (1955). Now, let me preface my following sentence by saying the film ended up being one of my favorite Disney films of all […]
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Facebook logo. (Justin Sullivan/AFP/Getty Images) Ctrl + N Should Facebook take down a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi? Ban a conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones? These are the kind of content moderation quandaries that have been vexing the world’s largest social network, and after years of controversies and missteps, the company says it can’t make […]
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Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) A little while ago, we asked you about your best California road trips. We got tons of great recommendations for routes that crisscross the state. But, of course, heading along the coast north of the Bay Area and Wine Country were […]
Read MoreNEW YORK (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc (BLK.N), the world’s largest asset manager, took in less cash last quarter as investors moved into lower-cost bond funds, and it made less money lending out stocks. The BlackRock logo is seen at the BlackRock Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, October 20, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai The company, manager of […]
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John Wagner National reporter leading The Post’s breaking political news team July 19 at 9:06 AM A day after he sought to distance himself from a chant of “Send her back!” by his supporters, President Trump lashed out at the media for its coverage of the episode at his rally that followed his repeated attacks […]
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Overall demand for semiconductors may be dropping somewhat in 2019, but key chip manufacturer TSMC is seeing increased demand for cutting-edge processors thanks to sales of early 5G devices, and is preparing to roll out more advanced technology “a little” earlier than expected. That’s the news from the company’s latest quarterly earnings conference (via DigiTimes), where […]
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Des Moines, Iowa — A Guatemalan man who apparently entered the U.S. illegally after being deported twice has been charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children. Marvin Oswaldo Escobar-Orellana, 31, made an initial court appearance Thursday in Des Moines, where the judge set his bond at $3 million cash and scheduled his […]
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