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January 10, 2020 at 3:18 pm

Texas becomes first state to publicly reject new refugees

Texas will reject the resettlement of new refugees, its governor said Friday, becoming the first state to publicly do so since a Trump administration executive...

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December 31, 2019 at 3:34 pm

Zoo director takes monkeys and pandas home to save them from deadly wildfires

As the sky turned dark and a thick haze choked the air below, brushfires closed in on a small coastal town in southeast Australia. Chad...

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December 23, 2019 at 4:02 pm

Instagram influencers partied at a music festival in Saudi Arabia – but no one mentioned human rights

On social media accounts of the followed and famous, the MDL Beast music festival was a rave true to form: fluorescent face paint, flashing lights...

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December 20, 2019 at 5:04 pm

3 French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of their workers

The company, France Télécom — which used to be state-owned and is now known as Orange, one of France's largest corporations — was fined $83,000,...

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December 18, 2019 at 5:50 pm

No, Wakanda is not Trump’s next tariff target — despite being removed from a U.S. free-trade list

The implications of the United States' sudden tariff decision weren't clear at first. Was the move an opening salvo in yet another trade war? Was...

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FILE – Journalist Kurt Eichenwald at his Dallas home on March 17, 2017. John Rayne Rivello was accused of sending a Twitter message featuring a blinding strobe light to Eichenwald, an epileptic who immediately suffered a seizure upon viewing it in December 2016, and on Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, court records indicated Rivello scheduled a guilty plea. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times) XNYT69

December 17, 2019 at 11:30 am

A tweet gave a journalist a seizure. His case brings new meaning to the idea of ‘online assault.’

Journalist Kurt Eichenwald suffered a severe seizure in 2016 when he opened a tweet with a strobe GIF from someone who apparently knew he had...

December 12, 2019 at 4:28 pm

Gaetz criticized Hunter Biden for his addiction. Then he got called out for his own DUI.

For nearly five minutes, Rep. Matt Gaetz described Hunter Biden's alleged improprieties on live television Thursday from a hearing room on Capitol Hill. The former...

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December 7, 2019 at 10:34 am

Four died in a shootout with police after a UPS truck was hijacked. Could it have been avoided?

The violent scene unfolded on live television. Dozens of police officers, guns drawn, swarmed a hijacked UPS truck hemmed in by rush-hour traffic at a...

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December 4, 2019 at 6:38 pm

Trump nominee deemed unqualified for lifetime federal judge post wins confirmation

Sarah Pitlyk's Senate confirmation is a victory for the president and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who have sought a profound reshaping of the federal judiciary,...

President-elect Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway speaks with members of the media as she arrives for a dinner at Union Station ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration, in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

December 3, 2019 at 10:20 am

Kellyanne Conway tweeted about Joe Biden and Ukraine. Then her husband replied.

The Monday afternoon barb appears to be the first time George Conway had aimed his Twitter account, and its near-million-person following, squarely at his spouse,...