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GOP pollster: Republicans may hold on to the House in midterms

14 October, 2018

The Hill - GOP pollster John McLaughlin said Sunday that Republicans may be able to fend off Democrats' efforts to take back control of the House in November's midterm elections.

Flex Fuels for Every Car Will Give Us Energy Independence

14 October, 2018

Newsmax - The Problem: Current regulations are preventing Americans from having increased fuel choices in cars that would reduce our dependence on OPEC and fluctuating global prices.

Taliban Say 'general' Discussion Held with US Special Envoy

14 October, 2018

Newsmax - KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban officials say they held "general discussions" with Washington's special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is tasked with finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's protracted and increasingly bloody war. Read more: Taliban Say 'general' Discussion Held with US S...

Hurricane Michael survivors scramble for food, water as death toll rises

14 October, 2018

USA TODAY - By some estimates, nearly 300 people stayed behind, ignoring evacuation pleas, as the storm rolled ashore as a monster Category 4. Officials have gotten thousands of missing people reports but with network outages, it's been a tough job determining whether some of the missing are simply ...

Trump 'very confusing' to officials, is ramping up tensions ahead of crucial Xi …

14 October, 2018

FOX News - President Trump's inner circle is "very confusing" for diplomatic officials in Washington to navigate, China's U.S. ambassador Cui Tiankai exclusively told "Fox News Sunday" in a wide-ranging interview.

Saudis reject threats as stocks plunge after Trump comments

14 October, 2018

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia warned Sunday it will respond to any “threats” against it as its stock market plunged following President Donald Trump’s warning of “severe punishment” over the disappearance of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.

Trump Mulls Nancy Brinker for UN Post

13 October, 2018

Newsmax - President Donald Trump's expanded list of possible candidates to succeed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley includes breast cancer fundraiser Nancy Brinker, Politico reported.

Heeding China's call, Hong Kong tightens grip on dissent

13 October, 2018

HONG KONG (Reuters) - As Hong Kong’s government hews closer to Beijing, officials are taking a tough line on perceived national security threats, even deploying an elite police unit for political monitoring and surveillance - a sharp escalation in rhetoric and action.

Trump administration kills contract for plutonium-to-fuel plant

13 October, 2018

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration this week killed a contract for a project to convert plutonium from Cold War-era bombs into power, which it has said would cost tens of billions of dollars, after its supporters lost a legal battle.

Intimidation, detention, even murder: World is full of many potential Jamal Khas…

13 October, 2018

USA TODAY - (Oct. 10) AP - Friends and associates of Jamal Khashoggi held a news conference at the offices of the Washington Post Wednesday to seek answers to the disappearance of the journalist who vanished a week ago.

Facebook hackers accessed more private information than previously revealed

13 October, 2018

NBC News - Hackers accessed much more private information in a recent Facebook breach than the social media giant previously revealed. Two weeks ago, Facebook announced that 50 million users were affected, with the possibility of an additional 40 million, so the company reset the "access tokens" or ...

Trump vows “severe punishment” if Saudi Arabia is behind missing journalist

13 October, 2018

CBS News - President Donald Trump said in an interview with 60 Minutes that the Saudis could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, and if so, the U.S. would inflict "severe punishment."

US pastor Andrew Brunson freed by Turkish court

12 October, 2018

Aliaga, Turkey (CNN)A Turkish court has freed US pastor Andrew Brunson two years after he was detained, charged with helping to plot a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Report: Trump Legal Team Readying Answers to Mueller Questions

12 October, 2018

Newsmax - President Donald Trump’s legal team is preparing answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller — capping months of negotiations and signaling the Russia investigation may be in its final phase, CNN reported Thursday.

Larry Kudlow: ‘We are the hottest economy in the world. We are crushing it’

12 October, 2018

CNBC - National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow cheered the Trump administration’s economic measures on Thursday, noting the U.S. economy is outperforming the rest of the world.

Empty shelves, poor customer service

12 October, 2018

Reuters - Sears’ problems range from its limited merchandise to poor customer service. In addition, the retailer abandoned basic shop-keeping standards such as clean stores.

Michael moves off East Coast but leaves destruction and power outages across 5 s…

12 October, 2018

USA TODAY - Michael is gone. All that’s left is to rebuild. Less than two days after arriving on the Florida Panhandle as one of the most powerful hurricanes in U.S. history, a Category 4 monster with 155 mph winds that sheared roofs from houses and buildings and snapped trees and power poles, Micha...

GOP now on the offensive in several Senate races, could expand majority even if …

12 October, 2018

FOX News - With less than a month until the midterm elections, Republicans are going on the offensive in several Senate races as part of a reinvigorated effort not only to hold onto their slim majority in the upper chamber but potentially expand it.

Pope accepts DC cardinal's resignation

12 October, 2018

CNN - Donald Wuerl's departure is a stunning fall from grace for one of the world's most powerful Catholic leaders.

Rocket failure forces emergency landing for U.S. and Russian astronauts

11 October, 2018

CBS News - A normally reliable Soyuz FG rocket malfunctioned two minutes after liftoff from Kazakhstan Thursday. The malfunction forced a Russian cosmonaut and his NASA crewmate to execute an emergency abort and a steep-but-safe return to Earth a few hundred miles from the launch site. Russian recov...

Trump ‘surprised’ Rosenstein won’t testify, after hearing his side of the ‘wire’…

11 October, 2018

FOX News - President Trump told Fox News he is “surprised” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein won’t testify Thursday on Capitol Hill about reports the Justice Department official suggested secretly wearing a wire to record the president, considering their conversation on Air Force One earlier th...

Hurricane Michael U.S. Supreme Court Georgia The Latest: Michael was a hurricane…

11 October, 2018

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Michael (all times Eastern): 10:55 a.m. Most hurricanes quickly fall apart as they move over land. Not Michael. The third-most powerful hurricane on record to hit the U.S. mainland carved a path of destruction for roughly 200 miles.

Rattled stock investors fret about a correction

11 October, 2018

Reuters - The deepest one-day selloff in Wall Street stocks in eight months has investors using the market equivalent of a dirty word: "correction."

'Monstrous' Hurricane Michael plows into Florida

11 October, 2018

CNN - A Tallahassee couple gave viewers an inside look at the crawl beneath their house where they sought refuge from the brunt of Hurricane Michael's wrath.

Sears shares dive 30 percent after report says co preparing for bankruptcy

10 October, 2018

(Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD.O) shares lost nearly a third of their value in early trading on Wednesday, after a report said that the beleaguered retailer had hired advisers to prepare for a bankruptcy filing ahead of a debt payment deadline.

Google appeals $5 billion EU fine in Android antitrust case

10 October, 2018

ABC News - Google is appealing a record $5 billion antitrust fine by European Union authorities, who say the tech giant abused the dominance of its Android operating system to stifle competitors.

Trump narrows shortlist to replace UN ambassador Nikki Haley to five, after Ivan…

10 October, 2018

FOX News - President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that he has narrowed down his list of potential replacements for outgoing United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley to five people, after his daugher Ivanka removed herself from consideration for the post earlier in the day.

Heidi Heitkamp is fighting for her political life in North Dakota

10 October, 2018

Bismarck, North Dakota (CNN)Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is well-liked in North Dakota.Her Republican opponent in the state's US Senate race, Rep. Kevin Cramer, has even run a television ad saying as much.

Category 4 Hurricane Michael roars nearer to Florida coast

10 October, 2018

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Michael’s leading edge careened onto northwest Florida’s white-sand beaches as a still-growing Category 4 hurricane Wednesday, lashing the coast with tropical storm-force winds and rain and pushing a storm surge that could cause catastrophic damage well inland once it makes ...

Trump to lift ban on higher-ethanol gasoline ahead of November elections

09 October, 2018

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will seek to lift a federal ban on summer sales of higher-ethanol blends of gasoline on Tuesday, a senior White House official said, delivering on a move long-sought by anxious Midwest farmers ahead of November’s elections.

Drew Brees breaks record for career passing yards

09 October, 2018

NBC News - Drew Brees didn’t begin his career with the Saints, but he’s made his mark in New Orleans. So it was only appropriate that he should break the NFL’s record for career passing yards in the building he made his second home.

Hurricane Michael gains strength on course for north Florida

09 October, 2018

MIAMI (AP) — Michael gained new strength over warm tropical waters amid fears it would swiftly intensify into a major hurricane before striking Florida’s northeast Gulf Coast, where frantic coastal dwellers are boarding up homes and seeking evacuation routes away from the dangerous storm heading the...

Kavanaugh to hear first arguments as Supreme Court justice

09 October, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court with a new conservative majority takes the bench as Brett Kavanaugh, narrowly confirmed after a bitter Senate battle, joins his new colleagues to hear his first arguments as a justice.

Local gun groups flex muscle, bypassing the NRA

08 October, 2018

Reuters - With major gun-rights legislation stalled in Washington, much of the action has shifted to the states, where self-described “no compromise” groups have mobilized activists in favor of pro-gun laws.

Florida declares emergency in 26 counties as Tropical Storm Michael approaches

08 October, 2018

(CNN)Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for 26 counties as Tropical Storm Michael gathers strength in the Caribbean and barrels toward the Florida Panhandle.

2 American researchers win Nobel economics prize

08 October, 2018

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two American researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for studying the interplay of climate change and technological innovation with economics.

McConnell now open to high court nomination in election year

08 October, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s majority leader, insisting his chamber won’t be irreparably damaged by the bitter fight over new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is signaling he’s willing to take up another high court nomination in the 2020 presidential election season should another vacancy ar...

Tropical Storm Michael forms, forecast to hit Gulf Coast as a hurricane this wee…

08 October, 2018

USA TODAY - The 2018 hurricane season isn't over yet. Tropical Storm Michael formed Sunday morning in the Caribbean Sea and is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane over the next couple of days, the National Hurricane Center said.

Wife says Interpol officer sent knife image as danger signal

08 October, 2018

LYON, France (AP) — The wife of Interpol’s president made an impassioned plea Sunday for help in bringing her missing husband to safety, saying she thinks he sent an image of a knife before he disappeared in China as a way to warn her he was in danger.

20 dead in crash of limo bound for birthday celebration

08 October, 2018

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) — A limousine loaded with revelers bound for a 30th birthday celebration blew through a stop sign at the end of a highway and slammed into a parked SUV outside a store, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians in the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in nearly ...

Trump's pick Kavanaugh confirmed to Supreme Court after bitter fight, securing r…

06 October, 2018

FOX News - The Senate voted Saturday to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, marking the end to one of the most rancorous confirmation fights in modern times and securing a rightward shift on the nation’s highest court.

President Donald Trump's winning streak

06 October, 2018

(CNN)Donald Trump may have never had a better time being President.Only a re-election party on the night of November 3, 2020, could possibly offer the same vindication for America's most unconventional commander in chief as the 36 hours in which two foundational strands of his political career ar...

Banksy artwork self-destructs moment after $1.4 million sale

06 October, 2018

LONDON (AP) — Art prankster Banksy has struck again. A work by the elusive street artist apparently self-destructed in front of startled auction-goers on Friday, moments after being sold for 1.04 million pounds ($1.4 million).

FDA expands use of cervical cancer vaccine up to age 45

06 October, 2018

AP - U.S. regulators Friday expanded the use of Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine to adults up to age 45. The vaccine was previously only for preteens and young adults through 26. The Food and Drug Administration approved Gardasil 9 for women and men through 45.

Interpol asks China for information on its missing president

06 October, 2018

PARIS (AP) — Interpol has made a formal request to China for information about its missing Chinese president who seemingly vanished on a trip home, citing concerns for his well-being.

Pompeo seeks allied unity on North Korea denuke effort

06 October, 2018

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged Saturday that the Trump administration’s effort to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons would be fully coordinated with allies Japan and South Korea, as he prepared to travel to Pyongyang under pressure to produce tangible progress t...

GOP poised to elevate Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

06 October, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh seems assured of surviving a Supreme Court nomination fight for the ages after two wavering senators said they’d back him despite weeks of shocking accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests.

Therapy dogs can spread superbugs to kids, hospital finds

05 October, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — Therapy dogs can bring more than joy and comfort to hospitalized kids. They can also bring stubborn germs.

Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh clears crucial Senate hurdle

05 October, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle Friday, setting up a likely final showdown on Saturday in a spellbinding battle that’s seen claims of long-ago sexual assault by the nominee threaten President Donald Trump’s effo...

Mattress Firm files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, will close up to 700 s…

05 October, 2018

USA TODAY - The mattress manufacturing and retail industry is having its share of nightmares over upheaval from online-based retail disruptors, and scandal within an industry giant.

Neil deGrasse Tyson says Trump's "Space Force" is "not a crazy id…

05 October, 2018

CBS News - "We are all stardust," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garret on this week's episode of "The Takeout." "And you have a connectivity to the universe that for me is uplifting rather than ego-busting."

US moves ahead with plan to give Mexico $20M to deport migrants

05 October, 2018

ABC News - The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to pay Mexico $20 million to deport migrants from that country and prevent them from reaching the U.S. – even after the plan had been halted by top Democrats in Congress and so far dismissed by the Mexican government.

Unemployment rate falls to 49-year low

05 October, 2018

Washington (CNN Business)The last time the roaring American jobs market was this strong, astronauts were still going to the moon.

Kavanaugh bump? GOP fights for new energy as vote nears

05 October, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — On the brink of a political gender war, President Donald Trump’s Republican Party is threatening to erode Democrats’ enthusiasm advantage as the fiery debate over his Supreme Court nominee enters its final phase.

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