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Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ — In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider's perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States.
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Trevor Noah To Replace Jon Stewart As The New ‘Daily Show’ Host
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1 dead after shooting at NSA gate at Fort Meade — Authorities say one person is dead and two people have been hospitalized following a shooting at the gates of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade. — FOX 5 has learned that around 9 a.m. Monday, a vehicle tried to bypass a secured entrance to the NSA complex.
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Men Dressed as Women Shot Outside NSA Gate, Tried to Ram Past Checkpoint, Officials Say … One man is dead and another severely injured after a shootout at one of the main gates of the National Security Agency located at Fort Meade, Maryland. — Two men dressed as women attempted to …
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One killed in incident at NSA on Fort Meade campus — Shots were fired Monday morning after two people in a vehicle tried to ram a gate at Fort Meade, a military installation in Anne Arundel County, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation.
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Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous — Tim Cook is chief executive of Apple. — There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country. — A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
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What Makes Indiana's Religious-Freedom Law Different? — In Indianapolis, a crowd protests the new law. (Nathan Chute/Reuters ) — No one, I think, would ever have denied that Maurice Bessinger was a man of faith. — And he wasn't particularly a “still, small voice” man either …


Iran Backs Away From Key Detail in Nuclear Deal — LAUSANNE, Switzerland — With a negotiating deadline just two days away, Iranian officials on Sunday backed away from a critical element of a proposed nuclear agreement, saying they are no longer willing to ship their atomic fuel out of the country.
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Binyamin Netanyahu denounces Iran nuclear negotiations
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Elizabeth Warren plays Ted Cruz card with House Democrats — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is meeting with House Democrats in an effort to push back against President Obama's trade agenda. — The liberal senator met Tuesday with a group of House Democrats before administration officials …
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Clinton Wants to Improve Ties With Israel
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White House to Netanyahu: Your move
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Spence Jackson, spokesman for the late Tom Schweich, found dead — UPDATED at 7:30 a.m. with comment from former Gov. Matt Blunt — JEFFERSON CITY • Veteran Missouri state official Spence Jackson, who was media director for the late state auditor Tom Schweich, was found dead Sunday, sources said.
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Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The man who thinks he can beat Hillary — Hillary Clinton will be opposed by a real, actual, credible Democrat for her party's presidential nomination. — That's the takeaway from Martin O'Malley's Sunday appearance on ABC's “This Week,” during which the former Maryland governor previewed …
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Why Hillary Clinton Will Launch 2016 Campaign Soon
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Why are interest rates so low? — Interest rates around the world, both short-term and long-term, are exceptionally low these days. The U.S. government can borrow for ten years at a rate of about 1.9 percent, and for thirty years at about 2.5 percent. Rates in other industrial countries …
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Personal details of world leaders accidentally revealed by G20 organisers — Exclusive: Obama, Putin, Merkel, Cameron, Modi and others kept in the dark after passport numbers and other details were disclosed in Australia's accidental privacy breach — Read the immigration department's letter outlining …
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You are probably breaking the law right now — When lawmakers don't even know how many laws exist, how can citizens be expected to follow them? — Ignorance of the law, we are often told, is no excuse. “Every man is presumed to know the law,” says a long-established legal aphorism.
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State Attorneys Tell Supreme Court That Gay People Are Too Powerful To Have Equal Rights — Ohio does not want to recognize plaintiff Jim Obergefell's marriage to his late husband. — CREDIT: AP — Gay Americans simply have too much political power to be afforded equal rights under the Constitution …
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2 Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges — Two former federal agents are expected to be arrested on Monday on charges of stealing money while working undercover on an investigation into Silk Road, the once-thriving black market website for drug dealing, a document shows.