| GOP senators already want changes to House tax reform bill Posted: 02 Nov 2017 01:51 PM PDT  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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| Russia Documents Mean Trouble for Sessions Posted: 02 Nov 2017 02:01 PM PDT  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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| Walmart Shooting Suspect Arrested After High-Speed Chase Posted: 02 Nov 2017 09:09 AM PDT  The manhunt for a shooter who killed three shoppers at a Walmart outside of Denver Wednesday, escalated in a high-speed chase and the arrest of a man Thursday morning with no known motive.
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| Senate Republicans Say Trump Ruled Out 'Dreamer' Protections In Spending Bill Posted: 02 Nov 2017 12:48 PM PDT  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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| In Virginia, Democrats fret while the GOP's Gillespie fires up the base Posted: 02 Nov 2017 05:06 PM PDT  Democrats are concerned about a lack of enthusiasm for Ralph Northam, the Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, who has been put on the defensive in recent days and weeks by Republican Ed Gillespie's aggressive and unabashed appeal to cultural hot-button issues that connect with conservative voters loyal to President Trump.
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| 3 People Shot and Killed at a Colorado Walmart Posted: 01 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Scott Ostrem, 47, was arrested after a massive manhunt.
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| U.S. and AT&T discuss conditions for approval of Time Warner deal Posted: 02 Nov 2017 02:12 PM PDT  AT&T Inc and 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, criticized the deal on the campaign trail last year and vowed that as president his Justice Department would block it.
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| Jake Tapper Unloads On 'Sick' And 'Disgusting' Fox News In Blistering Takedown Posted: 01 Nov 2017 07:24 PM PDT  The CNN host went after Fox News on Tuesday over a very misleading tweet: But that's not the full story.
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| 'I See a City: Todd Webb's New York' Posted: 03 Nov 2017 02:13 PM PDT !['I See a City: Todd Webb's New York']( "'I See a City: Todd Webb's New York'") Here's a look at images from "I See a City: Todd Webb's New York," an evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd Webb.
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| California family missing in Brazilian jungle found safe Posted: 02 Nov 2017 04:07 PM PDT  SAO PAULO (AP) — A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing for days after pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area have been found alive.
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| NYPD: Harvey Weinstein Could Be Arrested Posted: 03 Nov 2017 01:23 PM PDT  The New York City Police Department disclosed Friday that it is gathering evidence behind a rape allegation against Harvey Weinstein, who could be facing arrest as a result.
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| Collusion or conspiracy? Understanding the charges against Manafort and Gates Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:31 AM PDT  Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were accused of "conspiring" against the United States, but what everyone wants to know is whether they "colluded" with Russia to affect the election. What's the difference? And is that something special counsel Robert Mueller can hope to prove?
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| Are You the Former Twitter Employee Who Deleted Donald Trump's Account? Posted: 03 Nov 2017 10:00 AM PDT  An anonymous customer support employee at Twitter made the most of their last day Thursday and did what every Twitter employee should do as often as humanly possible: They deactivated Donald Trump's account.
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| Hillary Clinton 'rigged' presidential nomination process, prominent Democratic senator confirms Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:22 PM PDT  Senator Elizabeth Warren has said she agrees with a report that Hillary Clinton controlled key aspects of the Democratic Party's infrastructure to her own advantage during the presidential primaries in the run-up to last year's election. Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Donna Brazile wrote in a report for the Politico that Ms Clinton's campaign had assumed control of crucial fundraising mechanisms before going on to defeat Bernie Sanders. The DNC seeks to elect Democrats nationwide, not just to the White House.
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| Beloved Grandparents and Father of 2 Identified as Victims in Random Walmart Shooting Posted: 03 Nov 2017 05:38 AM PDT  Shots rang out at the suburban Denver department store Wednesday.
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| A Tax Cut That Republicans Could Pass, Flaws And All Posted: 02 Nov 2017 04:18 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― House Republicans released their long-awaited tax cut bill on Thursday, with some interest groups coming out immediately against the legislation and most Republicans enthusiastically supporting the bill anyway.
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| CIA releases 470,000 more files from bin Laden raid Posted: 01 Nov 2017 06:46 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Never-before-seen video of Osama bin Laden's son and potential successor was released Wednesday by the CIA in a trove of material recovered during the May 2011 raid that killed the al-Qaida leader at his compound in Pakistan.
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| This Mom Is ‘Disgusted’ After School Robocall Mispronounces Her Daughter’s Name as Racial Slur Posted: 03 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PDT  A mother says she received multiple robocalls from her city's school district that mispronounced her daughter's name as a racial slur
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| Nordstrom Just Low-Key Dropped A Huge Fall Sale You Can't Miss Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:31 AM PDT  Nordstrom just quietly dropped a sale so good, we can't keep it a secret.
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| Donald Trump Tweets Cryptic Response To Twitter Account Deletion Posted: 03 Nov 2017 04:24 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted a mystifying response to the temporary deletion of his Twitter account by a rogue employee.
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| Amanda Knox says she was never allowed to mourn Meredith Kercher Posted: 02 Nov 2017 02:34 PM PDT  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 an essay for the Westside Seattle newspaper, she recalls the time she spent with Kercher, sunbathing on the terrace or sipping espresso. "I remember that I loved her accent. I remember the time I wanted to get dressed up and she happily loaned me a pair of her tights, like a big sister. Amanda Knox was finally cleared in 2015 Credit: Reuters "And I remember the last time I saw her, ten years ago today, slinging her purse over her shoulder and waving goodbye to me on her way out to meet up with her British friends." But she says the fond memories are buried beneath recollections of post-mortem photographs, media slurs, wrongful imprisonment and death threats. And she feels she was never allowed to mourn her friend. "There are some people who believe I have no right to mourn Meredith," she writes. "They believe that I had something to do with her murder—I didn't—or that Meredith has been forgotten in the wake of my own struggle for justice—she hasn't." Court clears Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito of murder 01:35 Miss Knox was finally cleared by the Supreme Court in Rome in 2015.She has lived in Seattle ever since, writing for her local paper. Another man, Rudy Guede, was tried in a separate, fast-track trial and found guilty of Kercher's murder in 2008. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
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| Who Wins, Who Loses With New Tax Proposal Posted: 02 Nov 2017 03:58 PM PDT  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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| Pope, at U.S. military cemetery, makes emotional anti-war address Posted: 02 Nov 2017 01:48 PM PDT  By Philip Pullella ROME (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 who died in the liberation of southern Italy and Rome in 1943 and 1944.
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| Terrified Rohingya Muslims await chance to enter Bangladesh Posted: 01 Nov 2017 06:26 PM PDT  PALONG KHALI, Bangladesh (AP) — The scene has played out with heartbreaking regularity as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution in Myanmar and escaped to neighboring Bangladesh: terrified knots of men, women and children crossing the swollen Naf river and waiting along the border for permission to cross.
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| 9 Easy Thanksgiving Side Dishes Posted: 03 Nov 2017 09:09 AM PDT  It's getting down to the wire and you still haven't planned your menu for Thanksgiving.
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| Missing US travel-blogger family found alive in Brazil Posted: 01 Nov 2017 08:21 PM PDT  An American family missing for three days in northern Brazil was found alive Wednesday, after a drama in which they were robbed while on a boat trip. The public safety ministry in Para state released a photo showing Adam Harris Hateau, 39, his wife Emily, 37, and their two young daughters alongside a member of the police and others in the Furo Grande area where they went missing on Sunday. The family recently lived in the southern resort and university city of Florianapolis.
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| Papa John's Gets Badly Burned In Twitter War With DiGiorno Posted: 02 Nov 2017 08:40 PM PDT  If you smelled charred pizza, that may have been Papa John's ― because the company got badly burned in a Twitter war.
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| World's priciest whisky bought by Chinese millionaire revealed to be fake Posted: 02 Nov 2017 05:48 AM PDT  When Chinese millionaire, Zhang Wei, splashed out £7,600 on the world's most expensive whisky shot in a Swiss bar, he boasted to his fans that it was the same age as his great, great grandmother would have been – 139 years old. Unfortunately for the martial arts fantasy writer, the headlines generated not only admiration, but suspicion by experts who doubted the authenticity of the spirit's true provenance when they spotted discrepancies in the bottle's cork and label. An analysis from Scottish experts has now confirmed that Mr Zhang was unwittingly duped into buying a fake dram, and the Waldhaus am See hotel in St Moritz has recently flown its manager, Sandro Bernasconi, to China to reimburse him, reported the BBC. Analysis has shown the whisky was not as advertised Credit: David Cheskin/PA Wire The whisky had been poured from an unopened bottle labelled as an 1878 Macallan single malt, and Mr Zhang's shot is believed to have been the largest sum ever paid for a poured dram of Scotch. Had the bottle been genuine, it would have been worth £227,000. When doubts emerged about its provenance, the hotel sent the whisky to specialists in Dunfermline who carried out carbon dating tests that showed it was probably made between 1970 and 1972. Further lab tests revealed it was probably a blended a Scotch and not a single malt. Mr Bernasconi flew to China to break the bad news to Mr Zhang and to pay him back but he said the author was not angry. "He thanked me very much for the hotel's honesty," he told the BBC.
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| 3 Killed in a Thornton, Colo., Walmart Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:17 AM PDT ![3 Killed in a Thornton, Colo., Walmart]( "3 Killed in a Thornton, Colo., Walmart") Colorado police are searching for a gunman who calmly walked into a Walmart in suburban Denver and opened fire with a handgun, randomly killing three people, before he fled.
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| Trump may have just destroyed the legal case against the New York terror suspect Posted: 02 Nov 2017 12:34 AM PDT  Donald Trump's tweet calling for the New York terror attack suspect to be executed could prejudice the trial, legal experts have warned. Presidents are typically advised to avoid commenting on active legal proceedings, as such comments can be used by defence lawyers to argue their clients cannot get a fair trial, The New York Times reports.
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| Texas Democrats Celebrate Lamar Smith's Retirement: 'It's Great News For The Climate' Posted: 02 Nov 2017 05:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — A crowded field of Texas Democrats vying to unseat one of Washington's most steadfast deniers of climate science got a welcome shock Thursday when Rep. Lamar Smith announced he would not seek re-election.
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| Father Storms School and Holds First Grade Teacher Hostage for Hours Before He’s Fatally Shot by Police Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:55 AM PDT  A tense hostage standoff ended Tuesday night when a SWAT team stormed a San Diego elementary school, fatally shooting a parent who had barricaded himself in a classroom with a 70-year-old teacher for nearly seven hours, PEOPLE confirms
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| Friday's Morning Email: Top Democrats Say 2016 Nomination Rigged For Clinton Posted: 03 Nov 2017 04:22 AM PDT  TOP STORIES (And want to get The Morning Email each weekday?
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| How to Keep Track of Your Student Loans Posted: 03 Nov 2017 08:51 AM PDT ![How to Keep Track of Your Student Loans]( "How to Keep Track of Your Student Loans") If you aren't a student loan borrower, it may sound ridiculous that anyone would need advice keeping track of student loans. You owe money. You pay it off every month. Where's the confusion?
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| The Latest: Russia extends long-range strikes on IS in Syria Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:08 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
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| Struggling Venezuela looks to restructure debt Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:46 PM PDT  Crisis-hit Venezuela, seen by many investors on the threshold of default, will try to restructure its debt after its oil company makes a scheduled $1.2 billion payment, according to President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday. "After this payment, I decree a refinancing and a restructuring of all external debt and all of Venezuela's payments," Maduro said in a statement broadcast on state television. US sanctions imposed on Venezuela in August, however, threaten to complicate Maduro's ambition.
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| Alec And Hilaria Baldwin Are Expecting Baby No. 4 Posted: 03 Nov 2017 02:29 PM PDT  There's another baby on the way for Alec and Hilaria Baldwin!
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| Acquaintances say bike path suspect was argumentative, angry Posted: 02 Nov 2017 04:28 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Some saw him as disagreeable and argumentative, others as quiet and prayerful. He was said to be hardworking but also seemed to simmer with disillusionment over financial and career setbacks.
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| Patty Jenkins 'Extremely Distressed' Over Brett Ratner Allegations Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:45 AM PDT  Patty Jenkins responded on Wednesday to allegations of sexual assault against producer Brett Ratner.
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