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Memorial for John McCain moves from Arizona to Washington



After an emotional memorial service for at a church in Phoenix, John McCain's body returned to the Washington, D.C. area for the final time, when Air Force Two landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

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Yale Law professor presents a liberal's case for Kavanaugh



Akhil Reed Amar explains why he will be testifying for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

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Kevin McCarthy leads charge against social media censorship



Human bias affects social networks' supposedly neutral algorithms, says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

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Trump ramps up attacks on NBC News and CNN



Jeff Mason, White House correspondent for Reuters, and Saagar Enjeti, White House correspondent for The Daily Caller, on the daily battles between President Trump and the media.

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Will 'Trump bump' carry over to the midterms?



Trump-backed candidates have scored important wins in primaries; insight from Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt.

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Trump threatens DOJ, FBI to 'start doing their job' or he'll 'get involved' during Indiana rally



President Trump on Thursday night seemingly issued an ultimatum to the Department of Justice and the FBI – they either “start doing their job” or he will “get involved.”

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Sources: Ohr kept Mueller deputy 'in the loop' on dossier



Justice Department official Bruce Ohr had contact in 2016 with Andrew Weissmann, now a top Robert Mueller deputy, as well as other senior FBI officials about the anti-Trump dossier, two sources tell Fox News; reaction and analysis from Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett and Fox News contributor Sara Carter.

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Trump: Let's see if Hillary Clinton gets away with it



President Trump tells supporters in Evansville, Indiana that the Justice Department and the FBI have to 'start doing their job,' and warns if it doesn't 'straighten out properly' he will have to get involved.

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Steyn: Trump wins when the media talk about themselves



The ongoing feud between President Trump and the news media reaches a new peak with a West Wing tweet storm; reaction from bestselling author Mark Steyn.

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History at the Capitol Rotunda, where McCain's casket will lie in state



Plenty of lawmakers, government officials and other dignitaries will circulate through the U.S. Capitol to pay their respects to the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain as he lies in state in the Rotunda.

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Of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state, BJP will contest 20, while the JD-U, LJP and RLSP will contest 12, five and two seats respectively.

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MSNBC's Chuck Todd thinks all signs point to special counsel Robert Mueller

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A former vice president, a Hollywood actor and politicians from both parties

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Fox News contributor reacts to wins by DeSantis in Florida and McSally in Arizona on 'Fox & Friends.'

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GENEVA (AP) — Fearing a military offensive, the U.N. envoy for Syria proposed Thursday that civilians holed up in the rebel-held region of Idlib could evacuate to government areas — a move that would send many back into parts of Syria they once fled in its 7-1/2-year-old civil war.

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How does Google rank its news search results?



How the Google search retrieves results is a closely guarded trade secret, but a few things are known about the mysterious algorithm.

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Facebook deletes post of naked Holocaust victims



Facebook sparked controversy after they deleted a post by the Anne Frank Center of Mutual Respect. The post showed an image of naked, emaciated children who were starved at the hands of the Nazi regime.

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Snapchat slammed as 'racist' for showing 'Jewtropolis' as a location



Snapchat has apologized for a major gaffe that labeled New York City "Jewtropolis" on Snap Maps, leading users to blast it as "racist".

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Facebook 'sorry' after removing Holocaust picture of naked starving children posted by Anne Frank Center



Facebook apologized after it removed a post from the Anne Frank Center that was seeking to raise awareness of the Holocaust and depicted children who had been stripped naked and starved by the Nazis.

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Cosmic zombies: Black holes can reanimate dead stars



Close encounters with medium-size black holes can reanimate dead stars, if only momentarily, a new study suggests.

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Google Pixel 3 rumor roundup: Everything we know so far



Apple iPhone rumor season is in full swing, but the Android faithful also have a flagship handset to look forward to: there's suddenly a bumper crop of reports about Google's Pixel 3 and 3 XL.

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Lots of email scams are surprisingly simple but effective, report says



Many email scams are effective because they’re so straightforward, a new report says.

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Trump quietly unblocks more critics on Twitter



President Donald Trump has been quietly unblocking more of his critics on Twitter following a court ruling that declared the act unconstitutional.

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Hero cave diver attacked by Elon Musk as 'pedo guy' is prepping libel suit



A British diver who was crucial to the rescue operation that saved 12 children trapped in a Thailand cave is preparing a libel claim against Elon Musk after the tech executive labeled him a ‘pedo’ in July.

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Google refutes Trump's accusation that it snubbed State of the Union



Google has refuted President Donald Trump’s accusation that the tech giant snubbed his State of the Union address after years of promoting President Obama’s addresses.

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Trent Bolte says he had a 10-month relationship with Watts, who revealed to him that he was trapped in a loveless marriage.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Thousands endured triple-digit heat Wednesday and waited in long lines outside the Arizona Capitol to attend a public viewing honoring the late Sen. John McCain.

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Washington must not use a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Florida Republicans and Democrats both got the opponents they most wanted to

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'With folded hands, on humanitarian grounds, if she can get temporary bail on medical grounds so she can get treatment.''If she dies, the whole trial gets derailed.'

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Talk about Lady Luck smiling down on you!A series of dramatic pictures show the moment a woman's life was saved after she was battered by a huge swell in Sydney's eastern suburbs.The powerful images show the ordeal from beginning to end as the female swimmer begins to struggle in the huge waves at Bronte Beach on Thursday morning.Surf lifesaver Andrew Reid, who helped save the swimmer, said she was extremely lucky.Take a look at the entire episode.

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'They have realised that class war is not possible in India, so they are trying to bring about a caste war.'

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Why Dalit leaders cross over to the BJP

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'India does not wish to remain silent in improving its strategic space so that its leverage to counter China's expansionist designs is maintained, besides enabling it to play a responsible role from a position of strength for peace and stability in Asia,' points out Dr Rajaram Panda.

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'As events at Kargil and Pakistan's continued support to terror activities in India prove, Pakistan has always felt that the break-up/destruction of India was within its capability,' notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).

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Among those abducted included brother of a deputy superintendent of police.

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'Bhagwat, aware of the advantages of keeping the BJP in power, is wary about the RSS taking steps that would undermine the popular standing of either the PM or the party.'

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A giant blimp of London Mayor Sadiq Khan will be seen in the United Kingdom capital's skies this weekend after protesters were given permission to fly the crowdfunded balloon in Westminster.

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At least 3,000 soldiers from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and Pakistan participated in the drill.

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Sabha Husain, female partner of activist Gautam Navlakha, said she felt "worst" to be surrounded by policemen all the time and be "constantly watched".

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A senior official of the Union water resources ministry said it was an unprecedented situation on the Chinese side where Tsangpo broke a 150-year record with swollen waters and hence China has shared the information with India.

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'Who is the right Mekhail? Mekhail I or Mekhail II?'

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The Congress president said the PM should apologise for the note ban decision.

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Varavara Rao reached home in Hyderabad on Thursday morning, while activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira, were sent to Mumbai by road.

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Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the arrests and Professor Guha's assertion of what the greatest Indian of our times would unquestionably have done had he been alive.

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Attorney General K K Venugopal, appearing for the Centre, strongly argued in favour of granting quota to SC/ST employees.

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The judge said that Lalu Prasad could also undergo treatment at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Science in Ranchi.

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Wu said both the countries are also in consultations to work on a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the defence ministries.

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The government is in no mood to buy the privacy and security argument pitched by WhatsApp, whereas the American firm says traceability will undermine end-to-end encryption and the private nature of the app, creating potential for serious abuse.

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His statement assumes significance in the wake of a row over the Centre's refusal to accept the United Arab Emirates' reported offer of Rs 700 crore to the flood-hit state.

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The estranged elder brother of Stalin said neither he nor his son Durai Dayanidhi yearned for any position in the party.

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The bench with a majority of 4:1 held that so far as Delhi is concerned, the central reservation policy regarding SC/ST would be applicable here.

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The chief minister also said that the Janata Dal-Secular-Congress coalition government is secure under the leadership of senior Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah.

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The victim worked in Dubai as tailor and had recently come home in UP's Bareilly.

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'Washington must retain control over any peace process until the Taliban gets worn out,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.

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After Grant and Amanda Hayes killed Laura Ackerson, cut her body into pieces

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California Republican Duncan Hunter takes a page from the Trump playbook to try to distract voters from the federal charges against him.

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After the governor of Puerto Rico raised the island's official Hurricane Maria

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THOREAU, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on a commercial bus crash in New Mexico (all times local):

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Investigators say a woman was beaten to death and chopped up by her best friend's boyfriend, while the best friend allegedly helped.

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Amy Moffat, 28, and Stephen Graham, 30, were driving to Whistler, British Columbia, for their honeymoon when their car veered off the road near Yakima in Washington state about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

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Key brokers held last-ditch talks on Thursday on the fate of Syria's only remaining rebel-held province, hoping to stave off a government offensive the UN has warned could spark catastrophe. Government forces have been massing around Idlib for days and looked poised to launch what could be the last major battle of the civil war that has torn Syria apart since 2011. After retaking a succession of rebel bastions around the country this year, the government of President Bashar al-Assad has set its sights on Idlib.

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Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has gone into hiding since conservative media published an 11-page statement in which he alleged the pope knew for years about sexual misconduct by an American cardinal and did nothing about it. Vigano has been communicating through Aldo Maria Valli, an Italian television journalist who Vigano consulted several times before releasing his statement last Sunday when the pope was in Ireland. Italian media has reported he was upset because he was never made a cardinal by former Pope Benedict or because Francis blocked his further advancement in the Church.

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Roy Oliver, a former Texas police officer, was convicted on Tuesday of murder

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Well, this brings a whole new meaning to the term snaccident.

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VIENNA (AP) — Iran continues to comply with the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with major powers even after the withdrawal of the United States, the United Nations' atomic watchdog said Thursday in a confidential report.

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South Korean police raided German carmaker BMW's Seoul headquarters Thursday in connection with dozens of engine fires. An official at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's white collar crime unit said officers were investigating whether the company covered up vehicle defects and had confiscated documents and other materials. There was no immediate comment from BMW Korea.

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A senior Republican senator on Thursday urged US regulators to reopen an antitrust investigation into Google, citing "important developments" since the review was closed in 2013. Lawmakers have no official role in determining how the independent agency manages its investigations, but Hatch's call comes amid growing complaints from some activist organizations and following a series of antitrust investigations targeting Google in the European Union. Hatch stated that "Google does have a long track record of providing valuable services and making important, innovative contributions.

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The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday backed a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, throwing its support behind a case that could impact the use of race-based college admissions. The department, which has been investigating Harvard for potential civil rights violations over its affirmative action policy, made its argument in documents filed in federal court in Boston, where the case is scheduled to go to trial in October. The Justice Department argued that Harvard had failed to prove that its use of race as a factor in deciding which students to admit had not resulted in it illegally discriminating against Asian-Americans.

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Judge Emilio Chavez ordered charges to be dropped against Lucas Morton, his wife Subhannah Wahhaj and her sister Hujrah Wahhaj because prosecutors had failed to follow a procedural rule after they were charged and jailed. "They're out now," said Megan Mitsunaga, a defense attorney for Subhannah Wahhaj. The three still face a criminal trespassing case in magistrates court in Taos County for building their makeshift settlement on a plot of land near Amalia, New Mexico, that did not belong to them, Mitsunaga said.

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An official involved in Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s preparations described the robust operation that's designed to get him ready for the confirmation hearings.

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MSNBC's Chuck Todd thinks all signs point to special counsel Robert Mueller

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