| Whitehouse.gov petition to label antifa as a 'terror group' generates more than 290,000 signatures Posted: 24 Aug 2017 02:26 PM PDT  The Trump administration has yet to respond to any petitions that have crossed the 100,000-signature threshold meant to trigger an official response.
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| Here's How Long $1 Million In Retirement Savings Will Last In Your State Posted: 25 Aug 2017 12:55 PM PDT  It's the question that keeps older people up at night: Will the recommended $1 million in retirement savings actually be enough?
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| Keep Confederate statues, but tell the other side of the story? Richmond tries — with mixed results. Posted: 24 Aug 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Cities and towns across the South seek solutions to the thorny questions of history and public memory raised by the removal of Confederate memorials.
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| Indian cities on lockdown before guru's rape trial verdict Posted: 24 Aug 2017 07:37 AM PDT  PANCHKULA, India (AP) — Several north Indian cities were under a security lockdown Thursday, a day before a court was expected to issue a verdict in a rape case involving the flamboyant leader of a quasi-religious sect.
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| U.S. Navy suspends sea search efforts for missing USS McCain sailors Posted: 24 Aug 2017 12:57 PM PDT  By Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Thursday suspended wider search and rescue operations for sailors missing after the warship USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant vessel in waters near Singapore and Malaysia earlier this week. A statement on the U.S. Seventh Fleet's website confirmed the identities of one sailor killed and of nine sailors still missing following the collision. U.S. Navy and Marine Corps divers will continue search-and-recovery efforts inside flooded sections of the warship, the statement said.
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| Man jailed for life for stabbing five-year-old stepdaughter to death after she asked for food Posted: 24 Aug 2017 12:23 AM PDT  A man has been jailed for life after he murdered his five-year-old stepdaughter when she asked for food. Thomas McClellan stabbed Luna Younger multiple times in the chest after she woke him from a nap and said she was hungry, US media reported. McClellan had married Luna's mother, Victoria King, a few months earlier, and the pair had argued on the day of the killing in November last year.
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| After anti-Muslim attack, Brazilians shower victim with love Posted: 25 Aug 2017 11:07 AM PDT  When video went viral of a racist attack on a Muslim street food vendor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilians wondered gloomily: had their country also been swept up in a global wave of xenophobia? The answer -- a flood of love transforming the humble vendor into a folk hero and, on Thursday, the recipient of a Rio state award -- was a heartwarming no. It all began August 3 when Mohamed Ali Abdelmoatty Kenawy, 33, was manning the cart from which he sells Arab-style meat pies and hummus in the thronging center of Copacabana.
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| Just 14 Percent of Britons Want Camilla to Be Queen: Prince Charles' Image Suffers as World Remembers Princess Diana Posted: 25 Aug 2017 07:17 AM PDT  As 20th Anniversary Of Princess Diana Approaches, Charles Reminded Of That Difficult Period's Negative Legacy
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| Pilot Freaks Out Passengers With Storm Warnings, Report Says Posted: 25 Aug 2017 01:05 AM PDT  Several United Airlines passengers reportedly had a harrowing time Tuesday when they got a tornado warning from their pilot instead of a welcome message.
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| Trump unloads on GOP leaders, Clapper and media in typo-riddled Twitter rant Posted: 24 Aug 2017 06:53 AM PDT  The president attacked Republican leaders in Congress, defended the wildly shifting tones in his recent speeches and retweeting a crude photo collage of him "eclipsing" former President Obama — all before 9 a.m.
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| White House downplays Trump’s campaign promise on border wall funding Posted: 24 Aug 2017 01:35 PM PDT  The White House sought to downplay President Trump's campaign promise that Mexico would pay for it.
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| The Latest: Florida executes convicted killer using new drug Posted: 24 Aug 2017 03:30 PM PDT  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Execution-Florida (all times local):
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| Winner of $758 million US lottery Powerball says she plans to celebrate by hiding in bed Posted: 24 Aug 2017 11:01 AM PDT  The single biggest lottery jackpot winner in history has received her cheque for $758 million (£591m), and told of her shock at her new-found fortune. Mavis Wanczyck, 53, was asked how she would celebrate, and replied, laughing: "I'm going to go and hide in my bed." Ms Wanczyck, who has worked in the same medical centre in Massachusetts for 32 years, said that she had already resigned from her job on fulfilling her "pipe dream". "Actually I just happened to find out," she said, beaming and bashful beside her mother and sister. "I was leaving work at night. And my colleague Rob said I bet someone won with these numbers, as they could be birthdays. "And I was reading them out, and I said 'I've won!' The ticket which won her the largest single-winner jackpot in North American history was bought in her hometown of Chicopee, 90 miles west of Boston. Ms Wanczyk was joined by state treasurer Deb Goldberg and her mother and two sisters Credit: AP She said the numbers were "kind of random, maybe birthdays." "There's a thing between me and my mum and stepfather, and we all go out for dinner once a week and play Keno. And our number is four. So that was one of them." The mother of a 31-year-old daughter and a 26-year-old son, Ms Wanczyck said she was driving to the cheque presentation ceremony on Thursday and telling herself: "This isn't true. It can't be.'" "Then I'm like: it is me. And I'm scared. But it'll be ok." Asked what she would do now, she replied: "I want to sit back and relax. I want some time. "I just wanted to do this, get it over, and then I'd be ok." She told the local media gathered for the press conference that her financial situation before the win was "ok." "I'm not the richest person in the world, or the poorest person in the world," she said. Winners can choose to receive the money in either 30 annual allotments over 29 years or to get it all at once in a single payment for a smaller amount. The lump sum value of Ms Wanczyck's win is $480 million (£374m), but she has not said how she wishes to take the money. The Pride Station & Store in Chicopee Credit: AP She had no plans for a holiday yet, she said, but bought a car in September and now plans to pay the loan off in full. The Massachusetts state lottery initially said, on Wednesday night, that the jackpot had been won with a ticket bought in Watertown. Seven hours later, at 7:50am on Thursday, they issued a correction, saying the ticket was sold in Chicopee. One Watertown winner did, however, win $1 million. "When manually recording the names of the retailers that sold the jackpot winning ticket and the $1 million winning tickets, the information was transcribed incorrectly," said Michael Sweeney, executive director of the Massachusetts state lottery. "We apologise for the confusion this created and remain thrilled that a jackpot winning ticket and two $1 million winning tickets were sold here in Massachusetts." Bob Bolduc, founder of the chain, said the winning ticket was sold to a woman around 2.30pm on Tuesday. The Chicopee store will receive $50,000 for selling the winning ticket, and Mr Bolduc said they plan to donate all of that money to local charities. The largest lottery win in history, the $1.6 billion Powerball, was won in January 2016 and split between three winners. Their lump sum, $327.8m, was smaller than yesterday's win. Chris and Colin Weir, from Largs in Ayrshire, became Britain's biggest ever lottery winners when they took home £161.7m in July 2011.
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| Gunman shot at Charleston, S.C., restaurant; hostage rescued Posted: 24 Aug 2017 03:13 PM PDT  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A disgruntled employee who fatally shot one person and held another hostage on Thursday at a restaurant in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, was shot by police, the city's mayor said. Witnesses said the gunman brandished a pistol and said "There's a new boss in town" as he entered Virginia's On King in the heart of the city's commercial district, while about 15 to 20 people were having lunch. The gunman was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and the hostage was rescued, said Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg.
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| Cuba's Elian Gonzalez hopes for family reconciliation Posted: 25 Aug 2017 04:37 AM PDT  Elian Gonzalez, who was once at the center of an international custody battle between his Cuban father and relatives in Miami, has held out an olive branch to his family living in the United States. The 23-year-old was just six when the vessel carrying his mother and others capsized off the coast of Florida in November 1999, leaving Elian -- who was able to grab onto a car inner tube -- the sole survivor. Speaking in an interview with CNN that was broadcast Thursday ahead of a documentary by CNN Films that re-examines his story, he said he'd like to put the bitter past behind him.
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| Taiwan’s Economic Charm Offensive Hits Chinese Walls Posted: 24 Aug 2017 06:33 AM PDT  The island is searching for new economic partners, but Beijing's hemming it in on every side it can.
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| Shark Attacks Surfer's Paddle Board In Cape Cod Posted: 24 Aug 2017 12:39 AM PDT  The incident was reported just days after a shocking video captured bloodbath when a great white shark killed a seal, just inches away from swimmers at Cape Cod's Nauset Beach.
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| Trudeau forced to backtrack on open invitation to refugees Posted: 24 Aug 2017 11:19 PM PDT  Justin Trudeau has been criticised for his broad welcoming message to migrants. Justin Trudeau has sought to temper the notion that Canada is a guaranteed safe haven for those fleeing the threat of deportation in the United States, as his government faces criticism that its refugee-friendly messaging has given "false hope" to the thousands of asylum seekers streaming into Canada from the US. Since the start of the year, more than 11,300 people have crossed into Canada by foot from the US.
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| Civil Rights Groups Sue To Block Indiana From Using Unreliable Process To Purge Voter Rolls Posted: 25 Aug 2017 11:55 AM PDT  Civil rights groups are suing Indiana officials to block the state from purging voters from its rolls using a process shown to inaccurately identify voters registered in multiple states. In April, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed legislation authorizing election officials to remove voters from the rolls if they were found to be registered in more than one place. According to the legislation, one of the ways officials can identify people who are registered in more than one place is by using Interstate Crosscheck, a system developed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) that 27 states use to compare voter information.
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| Navy IDs 2 dead, 8 missing sailors from the USS John McCain Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:07 AM PDT  The U.S. Navy has found the remains of two of the 10 sailors missing after the USS John McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore.
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| Neighbors Arrested, Newborn Baby Found Days After Woman, 22, Vanished While 8 Months Pregnant Posted: 25 Aug 2017 06:03 AM PDT  North Dakota police investigating Savanna Lafontaine-Greywind's disappearance made the startling discovery Thursday.
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| Man arrested after knife attack outside Buckingham Palace Posted: 25 Aug 2017 03:41 PM PDT  A man was arrested on Friday after attacking police with a knife outside Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace residence in London, police said. The attacker, believed to be aged in his early twenties, stopped his car near a police vehicle outside the world famous palace at around 8.35pm (1935 GMT), according to a Metropolitan Police statement. The officers required hospital treatment, according to police, who said it was too early to say whether the attack was an act of terrorism.
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| Japan's Tepco gets slapped with new U.S. lawsuit over Fukushima Posted: 24 Aug 2017 04:35 PM PDT  Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings said on Thursday it has been hit with another lawsuit filed in a U.S. court seeking $5 billion for compensation over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the second filed against the utility in a U.S. court. The suit filed by 157 individuals is seeking that amount to set up a compensation fund for the costs of medical tests and treatment they say they need after efforts to support the recovery from the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. The utility, known as Tepco, is being sued regarding improper design, construction and maintenance, claiming compensation for physical, mental and economic damages, the company said in a statement.
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| U.S. retailers hit as immigration worries weigh on Hispanic spending Posted: 24 Aug 2017 04:16 AM PDT  By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many U.S. Hispanics are venturing out only to buy essential goods and are cutting back on discretionary spending, worried about possible harassment by immigration or law enforcement officials since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, according to community groups, research firms and retailers. O'Reilly Automotive Chief Executive Gregory Henslee told analysts earlier this month that many of the company's stores with weak second-quarter sales were in Hispanic-dominant areas of the United States. In late July, Target Corp Chief Executive Brian Cornell at a conference referenced a report by retail consultants NPD Group that cited a decline in discretionary spending by Hispanics.
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| Montana Lawmakers Say 'Environmental Extremists' To Blame For Wildfires Posted: 24 Aug 2017 06:39 PM PDT  At a briefing at the Lolo Peak Incident Command in Missoula, Zinke and the others spoke of the importance of getting ahead of wildfires by better managing forests, as well as the threat they say certain environmentalists pose to that effort. "Montanans are saying, 'We are tired of breathing the smoke.
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| Washington Just Punished Russia — and Helped Putin Posted: 24 Aug 2017 11:13 AM PDT  The Trump administration just made it harder for Russians to enter the United States ... and gave the Kremlin an easy win.
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| Giant marijuana bundle launched over US-Mexico border fence Posted: 25 Aug 2017 03:39 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona have seized a nearly 100-pound (45 kilogram) bundle of marijuana after spotting it flying over the border fence.
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| Florida Executes Convicted Double-Murderer Mark Asay Using a New Drug Posted: 24 Aug 2017 06:36 PM PDT  Asay received a three-drug injection that began with the anesthetic, etomidate
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| Dad Warns Parents After He Says Daughter, 7, Is Asked to Send Photos 'Without T-Shirt' on Music Video App Posted: 24 Aug 2017 02:03 PM PDT  "We thought we did all we could to protect her from those types of things and unfortunately, they got through to us," said her dad, Brad Summer.
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| Father Of Florida Boy Lost At Sea Battling Lawsuit Posted: 24 Aug 2017 11:45 AM PDT  Perry Cohen's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the parents of Austin Stephanos after the boys were lost at sea.
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| IS counterattack kills 34 Syria regime forces in Raqa province: monitor Posted: 25 Aug 2017 12:51 AM PDT  At least 34 Syrian soldiers and allied fighters have been killed in an Islamic State counterattack in the east of Raqa province, rolling back regime gains, a monitor said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the jihadist group had recaptured large swathes of territory from government forces in the fighting on Thursday.
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| Scientists have managed to film the adorable super deep-sea snailfish in 4K Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:52 AM PDT  One Japanese organisation has gone where no one else has before. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has filmed a snailfish at a depth of 8,178 meters (26,830 ft) in the Mariana Trench — a record depth for capturing a fish in video footage. SEE ALSO: This newly discovered jellyfish looks like something out of 'Avatar' "We've set a world record for filming a fish at an accurately measured depth," JAMSTEC senior research scientist, Kazumasa Oguri, told the Japan Times. The video was taken with 4K cameras mounted on JAMSTEC's deep-sea research vessel. The purplish-looking Mariana snailfish, who is believed to have visited the trench to feed, was caught on camera, likely attracted by the bait that the scientists placed. These deep sea creatures are known to swim in waters deeper than 7,000 metres. The Japanese institution narrowly beat out efforts by a Chinese academy earlier this year. The Chinese Academy of Sciences had in April filmed a fish at a depth of 8,152 meters in the same trench. According to scientists, it is unlikely that any fish can survive in the oceans at a depth beyond 8,200 metres. No fish has ever been discovered beyond this point. WATCH: These smart rings let you make color-specific music on any surface
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| Trump likely to rescind Obama 'Dreamer' program: media reports Posted: 25 Aug 2017 04:00 PM PDT  By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to rescind an Obama-era policy that protects nearly 600,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally as children and are known as "Dreamers," according to media reports on Friday. Trump's decision on whether to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy could be announced as early as next week, reported ABC News, citing multiple sources. Attorney General Jeff Sessions discussed the program with senior White House officials on Thursday, according to an administration official.
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| German Supermarket Strips All Its Shelves Of Foreign Foods Posted: 24 Aug 2017 03:34 AM PDT  A German supermarket chain removed every single foreign item from one of its stores over the weekend to make a serious point about diversity.
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| The Latest: Second right-wing rally canceled in California Posted: 25 Aug 2017 05:09 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on conservative free speech rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley (all times local):
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| 13-Year-Old Driver Arrested In Car With 25 Pounds of Meth: Cops Posted: 24 Aug 2017 05:31 AM PDT  The boy was pulled over in Colorado with his two older cousins, cops say.
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| Stunning Photo Shows Total Solar Eclipse's March Across Oregon Sky Posted: 25 Aug 2017 09:55 AM PDT  On Monday (Aug. 21), the moon passed between Earth and the sun, creating a total solar eclipse that was visible along a narrow path that stretched across the contiguous United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. This eye-catching composite shows the eclipse's progression leading up to and following totality (when the moon completely blocks the sun), as viewed from Madras, Oregon. It had been 99 years since a total solar eclipse last swept across the contiguous United States.
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| Mystery Havana embassy attacks hurt 16 US staff Posted: 24 Aug 2017 02:41 PM PDT  No fewer than 16 Americans were hurt in what has previously been dubbed an acoustic attack on the US mission in Cuba, the State Department said Thursday. The "unprecedented" attacks came to light last month when Washington warned Cuba it would be held responsible for the safety of US personnel in Havana. US officials have said those hurt appeared to have been targeted by some form of previously unknown acoustic assault, but have not blamed Cuba directly.
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| Philippine police say teen was killed before drugs links known Posted: 24 Aug 2017 03:19 AM PDT  By Neil Jerome Morales and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police on Thursday told a Senate inquiry that a high school student killed last week by anti-drugs officers had been involved in narcotics, but officers only learned of that the day after they shot him dead. The death of 17-year-old Kian Loyd delos Santos, one of thousands of Filipinos killed during the country's fierce war on drugs, has stirred unprecedented public attention on to what activists say are executions and systematic abuses by police backed steadfastly by President Rodrigo Duterte. Roberto Fajardo, the Northern Police District chief who was relieved of his duty, told the hearing there was no specific target of the Aug. 16 operation in Manila's Caloocan City, but police could confirm Delos Santos was involved in drugs.
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| Wait. Is the Harley-Davidson V-Rod Dead? Posted: 25 Aug 2017 06:28 AM PDT  Wait. Is the Harley-Davidson V-Rod Dead? (In)famous model absent from 2018 line up In all the excitement of Harley-Davidson unveiling 17 new models this week (that's their official count) it appears many of us didn't think much about models in the Milwaukee
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| Justin Trudeau tones down warm welcome for migrants as Canada struggles to cope with influx Posted: 25 Aug 2017 05:23 AM PDT  Justin Trudeau has sought to tone down the warm welcome he promised to migrants, after arrivals at the Canadian border hit 250 a day, leaving immigration officials struggling to cope with the influx. The Canadian prime minister tweeted shortly after President Donald Trump announced the halt of the US refugee programme that Canada would still be a haven. "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada," he said. To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 28, 2017 But since the start of the year more than 11,300 people have crossed into Canada by foot from the US, with the surge due in large part to fears about Mr Trump's immigration policy. Canada is on track to record the most refugee claims in a decade. The majority – around 85 per cent, according to Canadian officials – are from Haiti. In May Mr Trump floated the idea of rescinding a long-standing agreement to allow Haitians to remain in the country, meaning that a possible 58,000 Haitians could be deported in 2018. "For someone to successfully seek asylum it's not about economic migration," said Mr Trudeau, in an attempt to make economic migrants reconsider. Asylum seekers unload their belongings from a truck at a processing centre near the Canada-United States border in Lacolle, Quebec Credit: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP "It's about vulnerability, exposure to torture or death, or being stateless people. If they are seeking asylum we'll evaluate them on the basis of what it is to be a refugee or asylum seeker." More than 6,000 people have skirted border checkpoints to enter Canada since the start of July. Overwhelmed by these numbers, the government has increased patrols along the border and added immigration staff to process claims. Montreal's Olympic stadium has been turned into a temporary welcome center, and the military has been deployed to set up a 500-person camp on the border. Asylum seekers are shown next to tents at the Canada-United States border in Lacolle, Quebec Credit: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP "You will not be at an advantage if you choose to enter Canada irregularly," said Mr Trudeau. "You must follow the rules, and there are many." Critics have accused Mr Trudeau of encouraging would-be refugees to come to Canada without thinking through the consequences. Michelle Rempel, a politician from the opposition Conservative Party, said it was "completely ridiculous that the Prime Minister of Canada would tout a tent city" to deal with the influx as winter approached.
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| The ‘Taxpaying American’ Mocked By Mnuchin’s Wife Wrote A Powerful Response Posted: 24 Aug 2017 07:35 AM PDT  The woman who was recently mocked on Instagram by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's wife, Louise Linton, is speaking up.
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| Gov. Cuomo formally introduces bridge named for late father Posted: 24 Aug 2017 01:03 PM PDT  TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday formally introduced a new $4 billion bridge named for his late father that will carry 50 million cars a year across the Hudson River in the New York City suburbs.
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