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 The red-hot rhetoric from President Trump and his advisers at this week's U.N. meetings may widen the rift with Iran instead of rallying US. allies.
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 Brett Kavanaugh's calendar from 1982 is filled with nostalgia from '80's and memories from his youth. But now, it's being used to fend off sexual assault allegations.
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 Minutes before a handcuffed Bill Cosby walked out of the courtroom as an 81-year-old convicted sex offender, he removed his dark pinstripe jacket and tie, and rolled up the sleeves on his crisp white shirt.
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Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States can compete but should not view each other with a Cold War mentality and should avoid thinking it is a zero-sum game, the Chinese government's top diplomat said, amid deteriorating ties between the ...
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 Cosby built his reputation playing "America's dad." Now he'll be forever linked with sexual assault, even if his conviction is eventually overturned.
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Christine Blasey Ford's attorneys have sent documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee with declarations from four people who they say corroborate her story of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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 An Indiana U.S. Senator seen as one of the chamber's most vulnerable Democrats has a slight edge while four of his Rust Belt Democratic colleagues have solid leads in states President Donald Trump won in 2016, a Reuters poll found.
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U.S. President Donald Trump should stop interfering in the Middle East if he wants the price of oil to stop rising, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Washington Post
The man suspected of "savagely attacking" and robbing homeless men while they slept in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, Calif., is a felon who has been deported six times, local and federal officials said Tuesday. Ramon Escobar, 47, originally from El ...
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Mexican state and federal authorities took control of Acapulco's entire police force Tuesday after suspicions arose that criminal groups had infiltrated the force, the entities involved said in a joint press release.
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A man who was deported from the United States six times was expected in court Wednesday to face charges after police say he killed three people and injured four in attacks targeting sleeping homeless men in California.
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MEXICO CITY — Authorities in southern Mexico disarmed and placed under investigation the entire police force in the once-glittering resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, claiming the local cops were infiltrated by drug gangs. Officials in Guerrero state issued arrest warrants for two top Acapulco police commanders, accusing them of homicide. It was the latest fall...
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Washington Post
When Rod J. Rosenstein reports to the Oval Office on Thursday to be fired, resign or continue tenuously in his post, the deputy attorney general will also be cementing his status as a player in one of President Trump's favorite parlor games: White
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A 27-year-old Chinese national was arrested in Chicago Tuesday for allegedly spying on behalf of Beijing, in the same week CIA director Gina Haspel warned against growing Chinese influence abroad.
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Washington Post
A skilled public speaker often knows how to craft his or her words for the audience. But President Trump started off his speech to the United Nations General Assembly with a number of bragging claims lifted straight from his campaign rallies. Not only
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 Slugger Kris Bryant exited with a bruised left wrist, Mike Montgomery got hit hard over four-plus innings and the Chicago Cubs stumbled again in their playoff run with a 6-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates
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 A Chinese national who came to the US on a student visa and later enlisted in the army reserves was arrested Tuesday in Chicago and accused of helping Beijing attempt to recruit American scientists and engineers. Ji Chaoqun was allegedly tasked with providing Chinese intelligence with biographical information about eight American citizens -- some of whom were US defense contractors. The 27-year-old, who first arrived in Chicago in 2013 to study electrical engineering on a student visa, was charged with one count of knowingly acting as an agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the US Attorney General.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks with John Clune, a lawyer representing Deborah Ramirez, who accused Brett Kavanaugh of exposing himself during a party at Yale in the 1980s.
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NBCNews.com
GEORGETOWN, S.C. —They survived Hurricane Florence's powerful wind and driving rain, but now residents in coastal South Carolina are wondering how they will make it through the historic floods that are forecast as a result of the swollen rivers that
A South Carolina t
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Late-night hosts poke fun at the laughter President Trump received during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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 Medicaid expansion polls better than Trump, even in some red states. Democrats should make it key in midterms and a starting point for insuring everyone.
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 Thousands of people in the Georgetown, South Carolina area were urged to leave as rivers inundated by Hurricane Florence rainwater threatened on Wednesday to submerge neighborhoods under 10 feet of water.
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The suspect who police say was behind a string of brutal baseball bat attacks on sleeping homeless men in Southern California that left three dead and several more in critical condition had been deported six times, federal immigration officials said Tuesday night.
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 World leaders openly laughed at President Donald Trump as he boasted of his
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CNN
(CNN) The Chinese government has blocked a US Navy ship from docking in Hong Kong amid a growing diplomatic feud between the two countries over strict military sanctions imposed by Washington. The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship with a crew ...
China Blocks US Warship From Port Call in Hong Kong
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German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Kukies on Wednesday urged insurers to prepare for a no-deal Brexit and added that the German government was very interested in attracting financial service providers looking to leave Britain due to Brexit.
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Oil prices eased on Wednesday but were still set for a fifth consecutive monthly quarter of gains, driven by an impending drop in Iranian exports in the last three months of the year when global demand heats up.
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Millions of Venezuelans are hungry, ill and fleeing the country. What would justify a takeover of the Chavista regime?
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 From 2008 to 2016, the U.S. divorce rate dropped 18 percent, a study from University of Maryland reports. Millennials and Gen X are driving the trend.
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 At the Royal Academy of Art Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex shut her own car door and welcomed Maori artists with the traditional hongi greeting. (Sept. 26)
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With just six months to go until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union, negotiations are at what Prime Minister Theresa May has called an impasse.
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A Pennsylvania judge ruled that Bill Cosby will be classified as a "sexually violent predator" on Tuesday ahead of his sentencing in what could be his last day out of prison.
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 Brett Kavanaugh's calendar from 1982 is filled with nostalgia from '80's and memories from his youth. But now, it's being used to fend off sexual assault allegations.
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A San Francisco transit terminal which took nearly 10 years to build and cost more than $2 billion was shut down Tuesday after officials discovered a crack in a support beam.
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The Guardian
Georgetown avoided the the worst of the storm, but flooding is now unavoidable as water flowing from inland hits the coast. Khushbu Shah in Atlanta. Wed 26 Sep 2018 01.00 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email ...
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It was a day many of the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault thought they would never see.
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 It was 2005 when Andrea Constand reported that a year earlier, when she was manager of the women's basketball team at Temple University, she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by her mentor at the school — Bill Cosby.
Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against the comedian and television...
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Bill Cosby was taken Tuesday evening to the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Phoenix to begin serving his prison sentence of three to 10 years for sexual assault.
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 Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday criticized Washington for its hostile policy towards his country and said the U.S. approach was doomed to failure. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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 MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in southern Mexico disarmed and placed under investigation the entire police force in the once-glittering resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, claiming the local cops were infiltrated by drug gangs.
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A 27-year-old Chinese national who served in the U.S. Army Reserve was arrested Tuesday on a federal charge of helping China-based intelligence operatives recruit spies living in this country, according to federal prosecutors.
Ji Chaoqun, who has lived in Chicago since 2013, was ordered held without...
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Washington Post
UNITED NATIONS — Declaring that the United States will "never apologize for protecting its citizens," President Trump delivered a defiant defense Tuesday of a transactional world view that is increasingly at odds with consensus-driven international
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Fox News
"Southern Charm" star Thomas Ravenel was arrested in South Carolina Tuesday and charged with second-degree assault and battery following an investigation into an alleged sexual assault that occurred in 2015. Ravenel, 56, was booked into Charleston ...
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 The 5-year-old kangaroo named Storm escaped a Jupiter Farms-based animal sanctuary.
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 A Cook County judge was reassigned on Tuesday after he allegedly called a prosecutor a "bitch" and insinuated he might have had sex with her.
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A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court order to depose Justice Department official John Gore about the 2020 census citizenship question DOJ requested.
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Washington Post
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The Latest on Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing (all times local):. 6:35 p.m.. Bill Cosby's accusers say the comedian got what he deserved when a judge sentenced him to prison for sexual assault. Some of the women who allege Cosby ...
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 A coalition of women from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on
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Republicans have scheduled a Friday vote on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court bid, less than 24 hours after the committee is scheduled to hear testimony.
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New York Times
Last week, more than 30 years after they graduated from Yale, Deborah Ramirez contacted her old friend James Roche. Something bad had happened to her during a night of drinking in the residence hall their freshmen year, she said, and she wondered if he ...
Republicans Rally
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 Los Angeles police believe a homeless man identified as Ramon Escobar, 47 used a baseball bat to bash the heads of three other homeless men while they were sleeping. Two died. Escobar is also suspected in the disappearance of 2 Texas relatives. (Sept 25)
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San Francisco officials shut down the city's $2.2 billion transit terminal Tuesday.
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Activists and clergy members criticized an animated video shown Tuesday by the defense in the Jason Van Dyke trial, calling it "almost cartoonish" during a gathering outside the Leighton Criminal Court Building to mark what would have been Laquan McDonald's 21st birthday.
About two dozen people...
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Suburban Cook County is seeing a surge in voter registration as the mid-term elections approach, something that one Chicago politician — a Democrat — says could signal a rebuke of President Donald Trump at the polls.
Cook County Clerk David Orr announced at a news conference Tuesday that a record...
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At the murder trial's start, Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke's attorney promised an animated video of the Laquan McDonald shooting from the patrolman's perspective while confidently predicting that the computer-generated model would help justify the events of that deadly night.
The four-minute...
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New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — In a companywide meeting earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg was asked if Instagram could have hit one billion users if it had not been bought by Facebook. Probably not, he said. At least, not as quickly. But at a later meeting a mile
The end of Instagram as we know it is here
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President Donald Trump has long argued that the United States has been taken advantage of by other nations - a "laughing stock to the entire World" he said on Twitter in 2014 - and his political rise was countenanced on the premise that he had the strength and resolve to change that.
But at the...
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Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Tuesday rejected the requests from Democrats to delay a key hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
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 Federal safety officials blame two Air Canada pilots for coming within 10 to 20 feet of crashing their jetliner into a plane on the ground last year in San Francisco. The near collision was captured on video. (Sept. 25)
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 Bill Cosby was taken Tuesday evening to the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Phoenix to begin serving his prison sentence of three to 10 years for sexual assault.
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The animation shows Laquan McDonald decreasing the distance between him and Jason Van Dyke in the second before the shooting, but will it be enough?
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 A judge in Pennsylvania has sentenced Bill Cosby to three to 10 years in state prison for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004 at his home. More than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual assault stretching back decades, but Ms Constand's case was the only one to result in a criminal trial, with many of the cases passing the statue of limitations. Cosby has denied all accusations against him.
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The judge in Bill Cosby's case had stern words at the comedian's sentencing on Tuesday for sexual assault.
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Washington Post
As Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein was being ferried to the White House Monday, where frenetic (and, apparently, premature) news reports said he would be fired or forced to resign, President Trump was in New York, ensconced in Trump Tower, ...
Botched reports over Rosenstein fuel fake news
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