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2017-02-13 04:08:46
Democratic Sen. Al Franken on Sunday doubled down on a suggestion that some of his Republican colleagues in the Senate are concerned about President Donald Trump's mental health.
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2017-02-13 04:01:22
US President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to attack billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. "I know Mark Cuban well. He backed me big-time but I wasn't interested in taking all of his calls," Trump tweeted, adding that Cuban is "not smart enou...
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2017-02-13 03:56:23
Russian President Vladimir Putin has quickly become one of the most powerful and feared politicians in the world. But he's had a long climb to the top -- he spent years working in Russian intelligence and local politics before becoming the leader of the country.
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2017-02-13 03:26:21
President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday morning that Mark Cuban is "not smart enough to run for president." "I know Mark Cuban well. He backed me big-time but I wasn't interested in taking all of his calls," Trump tweeted.
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2017-02-13 03:23:30
Who says there's nothing to see at the movies? This weekend proved that multiple titles can perform well at the multiplex on the same weekend as "The Lego Batman Movie," "Fifty Shades Darker," and "John Wick. Chapter 2" all had impressive first weekends.
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2017-02-13 03:00:00
• UPenn professor Lisa Servon went to work as a teller at a check cashing store to find out why customers use the service. • Prevailing wisdom holds that customers would be better served by using a bank. But Servon found that check cashers were frequently cheaper ...
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2017-02-13 03:00:00
One of the longstanding criticisms of Snapchat is that the app is confusing and not very intuitive to use. Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., even went so far as to include a guide on how to use the app in its public offering paperwork with the SEC.
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2017-02-13 02:55:56
ABC anchor George Stephanopolous grilled President Donald Trump's top policy adviser in a testy Sunday exchange over the president's unfounded voter fraud claims.
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2017-02-13 02:44:00
OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","d2OWQ4OTE6W1edNLw-y9FrY2DHzB4qn3", { autoplay. false }); }); Dr. Michael Breus is a sleep doctor who has dealt with a variety of issues related to sleep. He discusses how your sleep position could...
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2017-02-13 02:30:00
Amazon has tried for years to grow Amazon Payments, but the results have been mixed so far. The service, which allows customers to make online purchases using the information stored in their Amazon accounts, saw 33 million users last year, up 43% year-over-year, while...
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2017-02-13 16:28:38
Australian shares closed higher. Today’s scoreboard. S&P ASX 200. 5,760.70 +40.09 +0.70% All Ordinaries. 5,812.90 +41.31 +0.72% AUD/USD. 0.7669 +0.0003 +0.04%
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2017-02-13 15:30:12
Though Twitter is clearly Donald Trump's preferred social media platform, Instagram comes in a close second. The president -- who goes by @realdonaldtrump on Instagram -- has been on the photo-sharing site since April 2013, posting photos of his family, himself posing...
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2017-02-13 15:23:16
Chinese commodity futures are continuing to soar on Monday, following the near-unbelievable gains recorded on Friday. It's incredible, as shown the half time scoreboard from Monday's trading session.
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2017-02-13 15:11:44
It's summer in Australia, a period when property market activity tends to slow. But not in 2017, and certainly not in Sydney. It's not just the weather that's been hot lately in Australia's biggest city -- the housing market is scorching, with auction clearance rates...
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2017-02-13 15:04:25
1. Facebook's Australia and New Zealand region boss has stepped down. Managing director Stephen Scheeler left the company last week for reasons that have not been publicly revealed. The departure follows global criticism of the social media giant for inflating its vid...
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2017-02-13 14:48:14
Cards in pink and red, candy hearts, and boxes of chocolate line the shelves of stores, waiting to be purchased by lovebirds for their Valentine. But if that doesn't describe your current state this year -- and you want that to change -- we've got you covered.
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2017-02-13 14:31:17
The Perth-based Lucapa Diamond Company has found another massive diamond, this time a 227 carat gem, the second largest ever found in Angola and worth millions of dollars.
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2017-02-13 14:30:32
Sporting a white pantsuit and a "resist" armband, Katy Perry gave the first major political performance of the 2017 Grammys Sunday night while doing her song "Chained to the Rhythm."
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2017-02-13 14:17:54
Adele gave an incredibly moving performance in honour of the late George Michael at the 2017 Grammys Sunday night, but she had a vocal slip-up that led her to stop and restart the performance mid-song, leaving viewers puzzled.
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2017-02-13 14:08:56
Thousands of people are being evacuated from towns downstream of the Oroville Dam in California as a section shows signs of giving way. "It's uncontrolled. It's uncontrolled," Department of Water Resources spokesman Chris Orrock said, when asked how much water could b...
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2017-02-14 04:53:00
In an interview with CNBC in November 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined a growing list of tech executives who support universal basic income as a possible solution to the widespread unemployment automation will likely cause.
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2017-02-14 04:49:00
Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs COO and President Donald Trump's National Economic Council head, is working on a variety of economic matters for the President according to a new profile of his role, but also a big health-related issue. the repeal of Obamacare.
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2017-02-14 04:30:30
OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","ZwOWdsOTE6VUVWxaQG5rZK7Zdtahf256", { autoplay. false }); }); Google Maps is one of the best mapping services available. It offers directions, traffic, and even public transit schedules. But it als...
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2017-02-14 04:28:51
OO.ready(function() { window.player = OO.Player.create("ooyala-player","w4MXdvOTE60ov9l5wlyO5IEiH_pQjxHo", { autoplay. false }); }); Maracanã Stadium, which held the opening and closing ceremonies and several of the Rio Olympics' biggest events, is abandoned and plagu...
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2017-02-14 04:25:03
Raviv Turner likes to tell the story of his startup CaliberMind thusly. "Two former Israeli intelligence operatives walk into a bar..." The real story is a little more boring; Turner met cofounder Oren Zamir during their time in the Israeli intelligence services, it's...









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