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Trump says he talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook about tariffs and Samsung
President Donald Trump said he talked to Tim Cook about tariffs and Apple’s South Korean competitor Samsung. Trump said Cook made a “good case” that it would be difficult for Apple to pay tariffs, when Samsung does not face the same hurdle because much of its manufacturing is in South Korea.
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Trump says the Fed is the 'only problem' with the economy, calls Powell 'a golfer who can't putt'
President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that the economy is healthy and said the only thing holding U.S. growth back is the Federal Reserve. In his latest slap at the central bank, the president called Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to a “golfer who can’t putt.” In tweets, he also claimed the country is “doing great with China and other Trade Deals” with “the only problem” being “Jay Powell,” whom Trump appointed to the top position in February 2018.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Will Join Fox News as Contributor
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, one of the more controversial holders of the office of White House Press Secretary in recent memory, will join Fox News Channel as a contributor.
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Overstock CEO resigns after ‘deep state’ comments
Overstock .com announced today that CEO Patrick Byrne has resigned from his role as chief executive and board member. Another board member, Jonathan Johnson, will be taking over as Overstock’s interim CEO.
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Trump Gets Stumped By Easy Bible Questions In Newly Resurfaced Video
An old video in which President Donald Trump dodges questions about the Bible is going viral again in light of the president’s new claim that he is the “chosen one.” In the 2015 interview on Bloomberg Politics that Twitter user @Caring_Atheist shared online Wednesday, Trump (who’d earlier called the Bible his favorite book) appears reluctant to reveal his favorite verses.
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David Koch, billionaire and conservative activist, dies at 79
He and his brother, Charles Koch, helped to build a massive conservative network of donors to support libertarian-leaning economic policies.
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Joe Biden plunges 13 points in new national poll. He's now just behind Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
The latest 2020 national poll from Monmouth University doesn't look good for former Vice President Joe Biden. Monmouth's poll released on Monday shows Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tied at 20 percent, with Biden behind them at 19 percent. Given the poll's margin of error, that means the three candidates are effectively tied thanks to Biden taking a serious dive since a previous poll released by Monmouth in June.
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What Netflix’s ‘Great Hack’ Gets Wrong About Cambridge Analytica
The British consulting firm didn’t steal the 2016 election, and it couldn’t have if it tried.
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Trump Is Prioritizing the Climate’s Destruction Over His Own Reelection
A debt-financed green stimulus would be good for the economy and Trump’s 2020 prospects. But it would also benefit the climate, so he won’t do it.
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Senate Democrats raise 'serious concerns' about Ticketmaster, Live Nation fees
Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday called for a federal investigation of the online ticketing industry, citing a report that Ticketmaster-Live Nation has defied a 2010 consent decree.
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Marriott, the world's largest hotel chain, is eliminating travel-sized toiletries
Another leading hotel company is eliminating tiny toiletries from its rooms. Marriott (MAR) announced it's replacing travel-sized tubes of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel with larger bottles in an attempt to reduce plastic waste. The world's largest hotel chain said the switch is part of a larger test that it implemented in some of its North American hotels last year.
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North Korea Says Hope of More U.S. Talks Is ‘Disappearing’
North Korea said on Saturday that its expectations for more dialogue with the Trump administration were “gradually disappearing,” and threatened to reconsider its conciliatory gestures toward the United States, potentially including its moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests.
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Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image Of Iran
President Trump has tweeted what experts say is almost certainly an image from a classified satellite or drone, showing the aftermath of an accident at an Iranian space facility. "The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir [Space Launch Vehicle] Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran," the president said in a tweet that accompanied the image on Friday. "I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One."
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US lifts ban on old-style light bulbs
The US is scrapping a ban on energy-inefficient light bulbs which was due to come in at the beginning of 2020. The rule would have prohibited the sale of bulbs that do not reach a standard of efficiency, and could have seen an end to incandescent bulbs.
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Study shows the social benefits of political incorrectness
New Berkeley Haas research sheds light on the psychology of politically incorrect speech—and why it’s so effective
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How social networks can be used to bias votes
Evidence is stacking up that a small number of strategically placed bots can influence the choices of undecided voters.
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Yang Gang: meet the fans of the 2020 hopeful who wants to give Americans $1,000 a month
Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang is in many ways the dark horse of the Democratic race
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JPMorgan creates ‘Volfefe Index’ to gauge impact of Trump’s tweets on US interest rates
The ‘Volfefe Index’, named after Trump’s mysterious ‘covfefe’ tweet, suggests that the president’s tweets have a statistically significant impact on Treasury yields.
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Google faces a new antitrust probe by 50 attorneys general
The news follows the announcement of a joint state Facebook probe led by the attorney general of New York.
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Trump’s trade war has killed 300,000 jobs
President Trump says he is “winning big time, against China.” But his trade war is causing measurable damage to the U.S. economy, with the pain likely to worsen. Forecasting firm Moody’s Analytics estimates that Trump’s trade war with China has already reduced U.S. employment by 300,000 jobs, compared with likely employment levels absent the trade war. That’s a combination of jobs eliminated by firms struggling with tariffs and other elements of the trade war, and jobs that would have been created but haven’t because of reduced economic activity.
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