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Report: Mueller has unreleased Trump letter on Comey firing
The Justice Department has provided special counsel Robert Mueller with an early draft of a letter detailing President Trump's rationale for firing former FBI Director James Comey, The New York Times reported Friday.
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Lesbians win $10,000 judgment against county clerk for calling them an ‘abomination’
Last year, Amanda Abramovich and Samantha Brookover headed to their county clerk’s office in West Virginia to receive a marriage license. What should have been one of the happiest days of their lives quickly took a sour turn. A deputy clerk in Gilmer County allegedly chastised the women as she processed their marriage license, calling them an “abomination” and telling them God would “deal” with them, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
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Bots flood government agency seeking comment from human beings
Some 19.4 million public comments to FCC on regulation of internet turn out to be spam, and battle mounts over proposal to roll back net neutrality provisions.
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Wells Fargo Has Found 1.4 Million More Phony Accounts, Somehow Still Has Customers
The Wells Fargo bogus account problem is about 70 percent worse than the bank originally declared in 2016. Last September, federal regulators revealed that Wells Fargo had created about 2 million unauthorized bank and credit card accounts that customers weren’t even aware of.
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Owners must surgically 'debark' loud dogs, court rules
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched. The Appeals Court ruled “debarking” surgery is an appropriate solution to a noisy and relentless problem that neighbors living next to the dogs have had to endure for more than a decade on their rural property outside Grants Pass.
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Best Buy Apologizes For Selling $42 Packs of Water While CNBC Asks If Disaster Capitalism Is So Bad
Did you see those packs of water being sold at a Best Buy store in Houston for as much as $42 per pack? The photos went viral as an example of predatory price-gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But the company is now apologizing and saying it was all a big misunderstanding. Meanwhile, CNBC doesn’t think that disaster capitalism is such a big deal.
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Judge dismisses Sarah Palin's lawsuit against New York Times
A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. "Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States," Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in an opinion dismissing the case. "In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others."
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Cost of cleaning up Harvey will bring new test of governance for Trump and GOP
Policymakers will take up an aid package likely to reach into the billions in a year when they have agreed on little else, let alone spending priorities.
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First-ever water tax proposed to tackle unsafe drinking water in California
SACRAMENTO: For the first time Californians would pay a tax on drinking water, 95 cents per month, under legislation to fix hundreds of public water systems with unsafe tap water — a problem that’s most pervasive in rural areas.
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US appeals court curbs police power to seize cellphones
A ruling from an appeals court judge has raised questions about privacy, device security, and how law enforcement conducts investigations
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Democrats’ 2018 gerrymandering problem is really bad
A leading forecast says they’ll get 54% of the votes — and only 47% of the seats.
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Megaupload execs’ extradition may be at risk after new spying revelations
GCSB couldn't say more without jeopardizing the national security of New Zealand.
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For the First Time Ever, Quantum Communication is Demonstrated in Real-World City Conditions
Quantum internet, here we come.
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Thailand's ousted PM Yingluck has fled abroad.
Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family said on Friday.
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Despite Advance Directive, Dementia Patient Denied Last Wish, Says Spouse
Oregon court says Alzheimer’s patient Nora Harris must be spoon-fed. But her husband says she never wanted to live like this.
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A Judge Wants a Bigger Role for Female Lawyers. So He Made a Rule.
After a report showed a low percentage of women as lead lawyers, Judge Jack Weinstein has urged for more substantive roles for junior female lawyers in his courtroom.
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Patrick McHardy and copyright profiteering
Many in the open source community have expressed concern about the activities of Patrick McHardy in enforcing the GNU General Public License (GPL) against Linux distributors. Below are answers to common questions, based on public information related to his activities, and some of the legal principles that underlie open source compliance enforcement.
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BARCELONA: New Revelations, More Challenging Questions Remain
We ask why do intel agencies continue to fail, including Professor Michel Chossudovsky whom helps us unpack and bridge connections between Western intelligence and terrorists.…
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The Dying Art of Courtroom Illustration
Why there are no new artists in the gallery.
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Here's How Blockchain Will Eliminate Middlemen And Usher in a New Paradigm
The future of trading is in the blockchain.
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