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George P. Bush Wins In Texas After Breaking With Family On Trump

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George P. Bush won the primary for Texas land commissioner on Tuesday after touting his continued support of President Donald Trump, a position that runs in contrast to the rest of his family dynasty. Bush referenced his endorsement of Trump in 2016 in a recent campaign ad, and his spokesman Lee Spieckerman has said that Bush has “epitomized” Trump’s Republican party. The Republican Party is rigorous. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FpGlDa via Latest News

U.S. Government barring employees from traveling to Playa Del Carmen

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American are still free to travel to the popular Mexican resort city, but after last month’s ferry explosion that injured at least 25 people, the U.S. Government is urging caution. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oUUZMl via Latest News

7 Bold Buildings Designed by Women

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U.S. destroyer McCain collision which killed 10 sailors caused by 'sudden turn': Singapore

A U.S. guided missile destroyer's deadly collision with an oil tanker near Singapore in 2017 was caused by "a sudden turn" made by the warship that put it in the path of the commercial vessel, said a report by the Singapore government on Thursday. The collision on Aug. 21, which killed 10 sailors and was one of a handful of incidents in the Asia Pacific region involving U.S. Navy warships, raised questions about Navy training and led to the removal of a number of officers. "The collision between the USS John S McCain (JSM) and Alnic MC (AM) as they were transiting through the Singapore Strait happened because of a sudden turn to Port by JSM, which caused it to head into the path of AM," the report said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2G4jvC8 via Latest News

Pritzker prize goes to Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi

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Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, a pioneer of low-cost housing design, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize on Wednesday, considered architecture's Nobel equivalent. The 90-year-old Doshi -- one of the last living architects to have apprenticed with the Franco-Swiss trailblazer Le Corbusier -- distinguished his work by committing to sustainable architecture and inexpensive housing, bringing modernist design to an India rooted in traditionalism. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2G4FaKp via Latest News

Sri Lanka blocks social media as anti-Muslim rioting flares

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MULLEGAMA, Sri Lanka (AP) — Religious violence flared anew in the hills of central Sri Lanka on Wednesday despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning Muslim homes and businesses and leaving victims barricaded inside mosques. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FhaQPA via Latest News

Former Trump Attorney Stuns 'Fox & Friends,' Says Stormy Daniels NDA Is Likely Invalid

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A former attorney and adviser of Donald Trump stunned “Fox & Friends” anchors on Wednesday with a revelation about a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels). Jay Goldberg, who represented the president in both of his divorces, told show hosts that Clifford may have a point that her nondisclosure agreement with Trump is invalid if he didn’t sign it. After Goldberg’s input, the “Fox & Friends” hosts quickly end the segment, but as you can see on the video below, it appears as if some life was sucked out of the room. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FoTIDE via Latest News

Surge of women candidates running for office in 2018

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In 2018, 420 women in 47 states are planning to run for the House. Only 48 women currently serve. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fmq7yx via Latest News

U.S. sailors visit Vietnamese shelter for victims of Agent Orange

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By Minh Nguyen DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - Sailors from a U.S. aircraft carrier on Wednesday visited a Vietnamese shelter for people suffering from the effects of Agent Orange, a chemical used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to destroy foliage. Of the 4.8 million people who were exposed to Agent Orange, some three million are still suffering from its effects, including children born with severe disabilities or other health issues years after their parents were exposed, according to the Hanoi-based Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange. "I think it's very powerful to see the circumstances in which we're here today compared to, say, 40 years ago," said Gordon Watkins, a sailor from the visiting USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier who was at the shelter in Danang. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FiDvUw via Latest News

Los Angeles DA Won't Prosecute Agent Who Allegedly Groped Terry Crews

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The Hollywood agent accused of groping “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” cast member Terry Crews won’t be prosecuted for the alleged crime. Both the Los Angeles city attorney and the Los Angeles County district attorney reportedly will not prosecute Adam Venit, who Crews accused of groping him at a Hollywood party in February 2016. TMZ is reporting that the district attorney rejected a felony filing and sent the case to the city attorney, who determined that the alleged misdemeanor couldn’t be prosecuted after a one-year statute of limitations expired. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Hj0n2S via Latest News

Jersey City middle school teacher charged with sexually assaulting students

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A middle school teacher is accused of sexually assaulting students in the classroom at Franklin L. Williams Middle School in Jersey City, officials said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2HjNCoE via Latest News

IBM's Michelle Peluso Thinks Men Play a Key Role in the Fight for Gender Equality

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San Francisco police kill robbery suspect in trunk of car

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police investigating an armed robbery shot and killed a man who was hiding in the trunk of a car where a gun was later found, authorities said Wednesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fp8pqo via Latest News

Jared Kushner meets Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, but departing US ambassador is left out

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Jared Kushner met with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City, but did not include the US Ambassador in the meetings. As the point person at the White House for bilateral relations, adviser, and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Mr Kushner was there to do damage control after a phone call between Mr Trump and Mr Pena Nieto two weeks went badly. Tensions rose as the proposed border wall and the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) were discussed on the call, which took place just days after the US Ambassador Roberta Jacobson announced her departure. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fnuqdf via Latest News

Broadway Star Ruthie Ann Miles Out Of ICU After Crash That Killed Her 4-Year-Old Daughter

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Tony Award winner Ruthie Ann Blumenstein, who goes by the stage name Ruthie Ann Miles, is out of intensive care and healing after being injured in a car crash that killed her 4-year-old daughter. The pregnant Broadway star and her daughter, Abigail Blumenstein, were two of five pedestrians hit on a corner in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, on Monday when a car ran a red light and plowed into a crowd of people. A 46-year-old man and another woman, Lauren Lew, a friend of Miles, were also injured in the crash. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2G81ZwV via Latest News

Kris Kobach Begins To Show Why He Thinks There's Widespread Voter Fraud In Kansas

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. ― Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Thursday offered his first evidence of noncitizens trying to register to vote in a trial challenging a Kansas requirement that people prove their U.S. citizenship to get on the voter rolls. The evidence was a spreadsheet of 38 instances of alleged illegal voter activity in Sedgwick County that Kobach’s office had compiled over 18 years, from 1999 to 2017. As of 2016, there were more than 293,000 registered voters in Sedgwick County and over 1.8 million in Kansas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2txMKdQ via Latest News

Spy poisoning: Police Sergeant Nick Bailey named as officer injured with nerve agent

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Police Sergeant Nick Bailey has been named as the officer who was injured with a nerve agent  as he attended the scene where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned. He was hospitalised after attending to the pair and is now thought to be awake and engaging with medical staff, although he remains in a serious condition. Sgt Bailey was highly commended in 2016 for his work in putting a serial rapist behind bars. He worked tirelessly for two years in order to build a case against Arthur Bonner, who sexually assaulted multiple victims over four decades between the early 1970s and 2014.  Sgt Bailey received the Chief Constable’s Certificate of Excellence for his work at the time. Kier Pritchard, temporary chief constable of Wiltshire Police,  said: "I did go and see Nick today and I met Nick and his wife at the hospital in the intensive care unit. "I've known Nick for many years, he's a great character, he's a huge presence in Wiltshire Police - well liked

Israel's El Al seeks U.N. help in bid to fly through Saudi airspace

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By Steven Scheer TEL AVIV (Reuters) - El Al Israel Airlines has appealed to the United Nations over a bid to reroute its services between Tel Aviv and India through Saudi Arabian airspace. Air India said on Wednesday it planned to begin thrice-weekly non-stop flights from Delhi to Tel Aviv this month via Saudi airspace. The Israeli flag carrier's CEO Gonen Usishkin said in a letter to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a U.N. body, it would be discriminatory for the Saudis to allow Air India to enter its airspace and not El Al. Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel and lifting the airspace ban for El Al would offer further evidence of what appears to be thawing of ties. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Dc7304 via Latest News

Exploring Covered Calls for Income

This year's stock market is behaving differently from 2017, and investors may want to change some of their strategies. One idea to consider is to use covered calls in the options market against individual stocks, or investors can try mutual or exchange-traded funds that make covered calls part of the portfolio strategy. In the stock options market, a call is the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a stock at a specific price (known as the strike price) during a specified time frame. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FntLsh via Latest News

Women strike, protest as the world marks Int'l Women's Day

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MADRID (AP) — Women across Europe and Asia shouted their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Thursday to mark International Women's Day, with protesters in Spain launching a 24-hour strike and crowds of demonstrators filling the streets of Manila, Seoul and New Delhi. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oS1Qq8 via Latest News