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Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges — 32-year-old suspected of plundering Retrophin to pay debts
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Martin Shkreli Plans To Bail-Out Bobby Shmurda
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Paul Ryan Betrays America: $1.1 Trillion, 2,000-Plus Page Omnibus Bill Funds ‘Fundamental Transformation of America’ — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)'s first major legislative achievement is a total and complete sell-out of the American people masquerading as an appropriations bill. — Too harsh, you say?
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Funding deal hits backlash over increase in foreign worker visas
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The Omnibus Spending Bill Sells Out American Workers
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Conservatives give Ryan a pass on budget deal they despise
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Putin praises Trump: He's a really brilliant and talented person
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Putin Endorses Donald Trump For President
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Putin says Trump is ‘absolute leader’ in U.S. presidential race
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Criminal Charges to Be Brought Against Enrique Marquez, Ex-Neighbor of San Bernardino Shooters — Federal prosecutors have decided to bring criminal charges against the friend and former neighbor of one of the San Bernardino shooters. — Several federal law enforcement officials tell NBC News …
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Exclusive: Homeland Security rejected plan to vet visa applicants' social media — Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security considered a specific policy to strengthen security screenings for foreign visa applicants' social media accounts, but the proposal was ultimately rejected …
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Strike Two for Pair of New York Times Reporters
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Watch Ted Cruz Flub A Fox News Interview On Immigration — He struggled to defend confusing claims he made during Tuesday's GOP debate. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) got a little flustered trying to defend his opposition to immigration reform on Wednesday. — Fox News' Bret Baier grilled …
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Cruz-Rubio battle makes GOP immigration muddle worse, not better
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Smearing Ted Cruz as an isolationist is absurd
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Liberal group Democracy For America endorses Bernie Sanders — Bernie Sanders picked up his second significant progressive endorsement of the day on Thursday afternoon, and this one might sting for Hillary Clinton. — Democracy For America, the 1 million-member liberal group that helped stoke …
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The Note: The Debate Before The Debate
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Adelson son-in-law orchestrated family's purchase of Las Vegas Review-Journal — The son-in-law of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson arranged the $140 million purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Adelson's behalf, sources confirmed Wednesday. — Patrick Dumont …
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The Oligarchs' World — When I first saw the news the some anonymous buyer had purchased the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the largest paper in the state, it occurred to me that we might be seeing the next big step in the oligarchification of public life in America.


Millionaire Cleared of Rape Charge After Claiming He Tripped and His Penis Fell Into Teen — That's not how these things work. — 37.8k — 32.7k — 5k — Pin It — Ehsan Abdulaziz, a Saudi millionaire property developer, was cleared of rape charges in London this week …
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The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge — My favorite part of highways in the American midwest are the wind turbines. Not so much the massive wind turbines on the horizon, begging for a contemporary Don Quixote to come at them, but the bits and pieces of wind turbines …


Lessons From the Mistrial in the Freddie Gray Case … The trial of officers charged with killing Freddie Gray has moved quickly all along: The prosecutor brought charges with nearly unprecedented speed, within two weeks of Gray's death. And now the first trial has ended just as quickly …
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Defense Secretary Conducted Some Official Business on a Personal Email Account — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter relied on a personal email account to conduct a portion of his government business during his first months at the Pentagon, according to White House …


Riot police fire warning shots as THOUSANDS of protesters storm the site of a planned asylum centre for 1,500 migrants in Holland — Police had to fire warning shots into the air when thousands of Dutch protestors stormed the site of a planned asylum centre, shortly to open for 1,500 refugees.
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Tonight, a Brazilian judge blocked WhatsApp for more than 100 million people who rely on it in her country. — We are working hard to get this block reversed. Until then, Facebook Messenger is still active and you can use it to communicate instead. — This is a sad day for Brazil.
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Team led by Middle Eastern Woman Caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border — A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system, federal law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch.
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Obama meets Bloomberg as he prepares order on guns — Washington (CNN)As his administration prepares an executive order tightening access to guns, President Barack Obama met Wednesday with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a proponent of new gun laws who has become the chief enemy of the National Rifle Association.
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Obama meets with Bloomberg to talk guns
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Navy SEALs, a Beating Death and Claims of a Cover-Up — The three Navy SEALs stomped on the bound Afghan detainees and dropped heavy stones on their chests, the witnesses recalled. They stood on the prisoners' heads and poured bottles of water on some of their faces in what …
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