Wednesday, 28 June 2017

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Ten years ago this week, Apple's first iPhone went on sale. Fifteen months after that, Google crashed the party.

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Trump: 'A little more time' on health care

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President Donald Trump struck a cautiously optimistic tone Wednesday, the day after Senate Republican leaders scuttled plans for a vote on health care reform this week in the face of stiff resistance from within the party's own ranks.

Tags: Republicans, Donald Trump, President

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Cilizza: Faking a Time cover is the most Trump thing ever

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There's a Time magazine cover photo featuring Donald Trump hanging in at least five of his golf clubs. The only problem, according to the Washington Post's David Fahrenthold, is that no such cover exists. As in, Trump (or someone close to him) created the cover out of whole cloth.

Tags: Donald Trump, Washington, Washington Post

Source: rss.cnn.com

Ten Commandments monument unveiled -- destroyed hours later

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The newly unveiled Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Arkansas state Capitol was knocked over early Wednesday, less than 24 hours after it was erected, a state government official told CNN.

Tags: Government

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McConnell is trying to revise the Senate health care bill by Friday

Added: 28.06.2017 19:21 | 2 views | 0 comments

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is aiming to send a revised version of his health care bill to the Congressional Budget Office by as soon as Friday, according to Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists.
The effort reflects the tight timeline McConnell faces in his attempt to hold a vote before...

Tags: Congress

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

U.S. to seek more security on international flights

Added: 28.06.2017 18:37 | 8 views | 0 comments

The Homeland Security Department is set to announce new security measures Wednesday for international flights bound to the United States, which could lead to a lifting of a ban on laptops and other electronics from passenger cabins from certain airports.
Industry and U.S. officials briefed on the...

Tags: FED, United States, Airports

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Man destroys new Ten Commandments statue at Arkansas Capitol

Added: 28.06.2017 18:07 | 5 views | 0 comments

A man yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma's monument at its state Capitol, authorities said.
The privately funded Arkansas monument had been in place outside...

Tags: Arrests, Oklahoma

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Mom's ex-boyfriend sentenced to life in prison in killing of 'Baby Doe'

Added: 28.06.2017 17:57 | 5 views | 0 comments

A Massachusetts man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison in the killing of a 2-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shore of a Boston Harbor island.
Michael McCarthy, 37, will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years under the sentence imposed...

Tags: Prison

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Michigan sues Flint after council refuses to OK water deal

Added: 28.06.2017 17:37 | 9 views | 0 comments

The state of Michigan sued Flint Wednesday, alleging that the city council's refusal to approve a broadly backed deal to buy water long term from a Detroit-area system is endangering public health in the wake of a man-made crisis that left the supply contaminated with lead.
The Department of Environmental...

Tags: ISIS, Detroit, USA

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Paddington bear creator Michael Bond dies at 91

Added: 28.06.2017 17:07 | 6 views | 0 comments

It was a last-minute Christmas gift for his wife that inspired Michael Bond to create Paddington bear, the marmalade-loving teddy in a duffel coat and floppy hat.
Bond would go on to see his creation enchant children for more than half a century and become an icon immortalized in print, on screens...

Tags: Children

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Cyberattack under control in Ukraine, where it likely originated, officials say

Added: 28.06.2017 16:57 | 8 views | 0 comments

The data-scrambling software epidemic that paralyzed computers globally is under control in Ukraine, where it likely originated, officials said Wednesday, as companies and governments around the world counted the cost of a crisis that is disrupting ports, hospitals and factories.
In a statement...

Tags: UK, Government, Hospitals, ISIS, Ukraine

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

'Pharma Bro' Shkreli loses mistrial bid and retaliates against reporters

Added: 28.06.2017 16:37 | 5 views | 0 comments

Martin Shkreli's criminal fraud trial jury hasn't been selected yet and already the brash pharmaceutical executive is trying to get the case thrown out of court and lashing out at reporters.
Before court started Tuesday, Shkreli announced on his Facebook page that he bought the Internet domain...

Tags: EU, Facebook, Mac

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Kellogg Foundation to award about $24 million to fight racism in U.S.

Added: 28.06.2017 16:07 | 6 views | 0 comments

One of America's largest philanthropic foundations announced Wednesday that it will award about $24 million in grants to organizations in 13 cities and one state to help fight racism.
The grants are part of a foundation program intended "to improve our ability as communities and as a country to...

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Maine tried to raise its minimum wage. Restaurant workers didn't want it.

Added: 28.06.2017 15:37 | 6 views | 0 comments

As the Maine House voted on a bill to reduce the minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers, Jason Buckwalter and a dozen fellow servers listening to the vote call from the backroom of a Bangor steakhouse all hoped to hear one thing: that state legislators had voted to lower their wages. Some cried...

Tags: Workers

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Sarah Palin sues New York Times for defamation over editorial on mass shooting

Added: 28.06.2017 15:16 | 9 views | 0 comments

Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin filed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely linked her to the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that wounded then-congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court...

Tags: FED, President, Congress, New York, SPA, Alaska, Sarah Palin

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Venezuela: Helicopter fired grenades at Supreme Court in 'terrorist attack'

Added: 28.06.2017 14:37 | 8 views | 0 comments

A police helicopter fired on Venezuela's Supreme Court and Interior Ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro said was a thwarted terrorist attack aimed at ousting him from power.
The confusing incident, which may ratchet up tensions in a country already paralyzed by months of deadly anti-government...

Tags: Government, Fire, Supreme Court, President, Police

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Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument at Capitol destroyed

Added: 28.06.2017 14:08 | 7 views | 0 comments

Officials say Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument was destroyed by someone driving a vehicle into it less than 24 hours after the monument was placed on state Capitol grounds.
Secretary of State's Office spokesman Chris Powell says Capitol Police arrested the male suspect early Wednesday. The...

Tags: Arrests, Malta, Police

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

China frees 3 activists who probed Ivanka Trump supplier

Added: 28.06.2017 13:09 | 8 views | 0 comments

Chinese authorities have released on bail three activists who had been detained after investigating labor conditions at a factory that produced shoes for Ivanka Trump and other brands.
The three activists walked out of a police station in Ganzhou, a city in southeastern Jiangxi province, on Wednesday,...

Tags: Baidu, Brandy, Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump, Police

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Utah officials blame lack of logging for major wildfire

Added: 28.06.2017 12:56 | 11 views | 0 comments

Insisting that logging could have cleaned up dead, bug-infested trees that are fueling a Utah wildfire, a Republican state lawmaker blamed federal mismanagement and lawsuits by "tree hugger" environmentalists for the blaze that has burned 13 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500 people.
A conservation...

Tags: FED, Fire, Fuel

Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Prosecutor takes Florida governor to court

Added: 28.06.2017 10:47 | 9 views | 0 comments

Just three months into her new position, prosecutor Aramis Ayala made a sweeping announcement.

Tags: Florida

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Two supervisors suspended after New York subway crash

Added: 28.06.2017 19:15 | 3 views | 0 comments

Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay on Wednesday, a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spokeswoman Beth DeFalco said in a statement.

Tags: New York City, New York, Subway

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