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He used to call out Trump’s racist comments. Now he doesn’t.

On June 2, 2016, Donald Trump, then the presumptive Republican nominee for president, told the Wall Street Journal that he didn’t think Judge Gonzalo Curiel could oversee two lawsuits targeting Trump University. Curiel is “of Mexican heritage,” Trump noted. “I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest,” he said.

House Speaker Paul Ryan was outraged. “I regret those comments that he made,” Ryan told reporters. Читать дальше...

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• Nike's comeback plan could catapult the brand to the top of the hot athletic apparel market.
• The company is working on lowering costs while raising prices, which could be a winning strategy. 
• Watch the company's stock trade in real time here.

The athletic apparel space is more popular and competitive than ever before, and Nike is going on the offensive to expand its share of the sector.

Laurent Vasilescu, an analyst at Macquarie... Читать дальше...

According to local media reports, a doctor in northeastern China has been accused of giving a false diagnosis and pressuring a patient to pay for an unnecessary procedure in the operating room while she was already undergoing a different procedure.

The post Durbin Claims ‘Chain Migration’ Term Is Offensive to Descendants of Slaves appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

Media was set ablaze Thursday after President Trump reportedly responded to the ‘gang of 6’ immigration proposal with some fiery language. President Trump went on a tweet storm Friday morning and said the reports of the language he used is fake news. It didn’t go down the way it’s being reported. Shocker! POTUS denied having […]

Officials warn without changes to a historic school funding bill "there will be further disruption and confusion for all 852 school districts."

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A sexual harassment claim against an influential state Senator who leads a breakaway Democratic faction has come as a potential power struggle looms in the legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo gird for battles on numerous topics, including sexual harassment. Sen. Jeff Klein was accused earlier this week by Erica Vladimer of forcibly kissing her outside an Albany bar in the early spring of 2015. At the time she was working for the Independent Democratic Conference, which is led by the 57-year-old Klein. Читать дальше...

After a stop at Mount Rushmore in the state of South Dakota, and hitting the halfway mark on his quest to visit all 417 National Park sites, National Parks traveler Mikah Meyer headed east... to the South Dakota Badlands, and shared his impressions with Faith Lapidus.

PARIS (CBS News) — The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday. The revelation suggests the group often nicknamed Fancy Bear, whose hacking campaign dogged the 2016 U.S. electoral contest, is still busy trying to infiltrate the email accounts of America’s political elite. “They’re still very active — in making preparations at least ... Читать дальше...

I was once invited to attend an event in Dubai, but after I read stories of people going to prison there for stupid reasons (like a man from Britain who received a four year prison sentence when customs officers found a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of his shoe, and a another man who went to prison for "possession of three poppy seeds left over from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow Airport") I bowed out. (You can also be imprisoned for having sex if you aren't married.)

Washington (dpa) - The United States will continue to waive nuclear-related sanctions against Iran in accordance with the 2015 nuclear deal, President Donald Trump said Friday, even as he threatened to withdraw from the deal if it isn‘t changed.The sanctions waiver decision, the third by Trump, means the pact reached between Iran, the US, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany is spared from being scrapped - for now. Trump said it would be the last such waiver he will issue unless significant... Читать дальше...

JACKSON, Miss. — Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 “Mississippi Burning” slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92, the state’s corrections department said Friday. Killen was serving a 60-year prison sentence for manslaughter when he died Thursday night inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary. An autopsy was pending, but no foul play was suspected, the corrections statement said. His conviction... Читать дальше...

If Cleveland trades Brooklyn’s 2018 first-round pick, they might have some takers at the right price.

Facebook wants to be for the people, even if that means people using Facebook less. 

Now that the trade deadline has come and gone in the Ontario Hockey League, here is a look at how the teams stack up.

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• President Donald Trump has reportedly made comments about race and ethnicity on several occasions.
• Allegations of racially charged remarks surfaced after it was reported he asked why the US was letting in immigrants from "shithole countries" in Africa and Central America.
• His purported remarks have been roundly condemned by US and foreign officials.

Amid the backlash to President Donald Trump reportedly referring to... Читать дальше...

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• President Donald Trump has reportedly made comments about race and ethnicity on several occasions.
• Allegations of racially charged remarks surfaced after it was reported he asked why the US was letting in immigrants from "shithole countries" in Africa and Central America.
• His purported remarks have been roundly condemned by US and foreign officials.

Amid the backlash to President Donald Trump reportedly referring to... Читать дальше...

TX San Angelo TX Zone Forecast for Friday, January 12, 2018 _____ 811 FPUS54 KSJT 122041 ZFPSJT Zone Forecast Product for Texas National Weather Service San Angelo TX 241 PM CST Fri Jan 12 2018 TXZ127-131015- Taylor- Including the city of ABILENE 241 PM CST Fri Jan 12 2018 .TONIGHT...Clear. Lows around 19. Light and variable winds becoming northeast around 10 mph after midnight. .SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around 10 mph. .SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 20s. Читать дальше...

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• Exchanges are rapidly increasing the cost of their proprietary data feeds that traders need to compete in US markets, writes Kirsten Wegner, CEO of the Modern Markets Initiative.
• Those costs are eating away at American retirement savings. 
• Regulators should require exchanges to be more transparent about why these costs are escalating and how much they are making from the data

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, stocks were traded using feather and quill. Читать дальше...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CBS News) — For the first time on Friday, Saudi women were allowed to enter a sports stadium to watch a soccer match between two local teams — though rules dictate that they must be segregated from the male-only crowd with designated seating in the so-called “family section.” The move is Saudi Arabia’s first social reform planned for this year granting women greater rights. The kingdom has also announced that starting in June, women will be allowed to […]

"He plays like a bull in a china shop anyway. That's the good part about him and the thing we love about Kief.

"I have to admit that sometimes when he gets a yellow card early, I think about whether I need to take him off."

A bull in a china shop!

Definition of bull in a china shop. : a person who breaks things or who often makes mistakes or causes damage in situations that require careful thinking or behavior.

Well I'm glad SC thinks that's a positive attribute to bring to the team.

Stephanie Lee Outram will face trial on a charge of causing an indignity to a human body starting May 28, 2018.

David Moyes sings the praises of Andy Carroll after West Ham's win over West Brom and discusses the Hammers' transfer plans. David Moyes insists he is in no hurry to sell any of his misfiring strikers amid reports West Ham are open to offers for Javier Hernandez, Andy Carroll, Diafra Sakho and Andre Ayew. The quartet have notched a paltry 11 Premier League goals between them so far this season. Mexico front man Hernandez has cut a frustrated figure during his increasingly rare appearances in the... Читать дальше...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A 20-year-old Florida man claimed the $451 million Mega Millions jackpot on Friday, choosing to get $282 million at once instead of more in annual installments. A Florida Lottery news release said Friday that 20-year-old Shane Missler, of Port Richey, had claimed the jackpot from the multistate game's Jan. 5 drawing. They say he chose to receive his winnings in a one-time, lump-sum payment of $281,874,999. "I'm only 20, but I hope to use it to pursue a variety of passions... Читать дальше...