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;Resize=(620)) U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday derailed the confirmation process of his own nominee to head the nation's intelligence agencies, an extraordinary move that upended Senate efforts to renew a crucial surveillance program that expired last week and fuelled fresh tensions with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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Bill Pulte, who has shown that he has a keen sense of what the president wants and a desire to please him, is poised to take over the job from Tulsi Gabbard on an acting basis.
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;Resize=(620)) A Quebec-based RCMP police officer has been arrested for allegedly threatening U.S. President Donald Trump online.
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The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.
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;Resize=(620)) A Russian warship fired warning shots near a U.K.-registered pleasure yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday, authorities said, an incident that caused no damage but illustrated heightened tensions between the two countries.
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As investors look to the formal signing of the Iran deal on Friday, equities are hitting fresh highs, oil is down and yields are pulling back.
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