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Donald Trump Just Picked A Laughingstock For A Huge Job

For 2 Days, Immigration Detains A 9-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Heading To School

DOJ Disclosure In Hillary Clinton Probe Will Make It Hard To Hide Mueller Report

Beto O’Rourke Fine-Tunes Pitch To Black Voters In South Carolina

Turn In Your Smartphones! How Mueller Kept A Lid On Trump-Russia Probe

U.S. Posts The Biggest Monthly Budget Deficit In American History

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PELOSI PUTS HER FOOT DOWN

Nancy Pelosi Vows To Reject Classified Briefing On Mueller Report

By Amanda Terkel

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MASSACRE IN MALI

Gunmen Kill At Least 130 People In Mali Village

By Tiemoko Diallo, Reuters

WHAT'S HOT

Late Night TV Delivers Own Verdict On The Mueller Report

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BABS BACKTRACKS ON MJ

Barbra Streisand Feels ‘Nothing But Sympathy’ For Michael Jackson Accusers

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Oh No, Diana Ross Is Defending Michael Jackson Now

By Sara Boboltz

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Twitter Critics Mercilessly Mock Kid Rock And His Flag Pants Posing With Trump

By Mary Papenfuss

‘Dora The Explorer’ Movie Drops First Trailer And Fans Have A Lot To Say

By Hayley Miller

IN THE NEWS

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U Of Michigan Accused Of ‘Negligence’ Over Lab Animal Deaths, Missing Rabbit

By Hilary Hanson

Docs obtained by an anti-animal-testing group found that dozens of mice and thousands of fish died due to accidents.

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Oil Execs Chortle Over ‘Unprecedented’ White House Access In Secret Recording

By Mary Papenfuss

"We know" acting Interior chief David Bernhardt "very well, and have direct access to him," one speaker boasts on tape.

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‘Hair Love’ Short Film Picked Up By Sony Animation And People Are Celebrating

By Kimberley Richards

The animated short promotes self-love by centering on a black dad trying to do his daughter's hair for the first time.

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Drugged Orangutan Discovered In Russian Tourist’s Suitcase At Bali Airport

By Dominique Mosbergen

Andrei Zhestkov, 27, told authorities he'd intended on keeping the two-year-old animal as a pet.

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Trump May Not Be Able To Tilt The Courts As Much As He Wants

By Jennifer Bendery

For all the lifetime circuit judges he’s confirming ― and it’s a lot ― he isn’t replacing that many Dem appointees.

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Watchdog Demands Records For Pompeo Briefing For ‘Faith-Based’ Media Only

By Mary Papenfuss

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington seeks to determine if media access was blocked based on religion.

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Nearly 500 Passengers Airlifted Off Troubled Cruise Ship Near Norway

By Terje Solsvik, Reuters

Rescue services are attaching lines to the ship from tugboats to begin towing it toward port.

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Anti-Brexiteers Flood London Streets To Demand New Referendum

By Gregory Katz, AP

Tens of thousands turned out as the nation's government mulls ways to leave the European Union.

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Support Group Calls Chelsea Manning’s Solitary Confinement ‘Torture’

By Sanjana Karanth

Manning has been jailed for more than two weeks after refusing to answer questions about the 2010 WikiLeaks case.

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Beto O’Rourke Accuses Trump Of Attempted Russian Collusion

O'Rourke said he believed Trump, "beyond the shadow of a doubt," attempted to undermine the 2016 elections.

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N.C. GOP Bragged About Gerrymandering. It May Not Be Enough To Convince SCOTUS.

SCOTUS is set to take another look at partisan gerrymandering after avoiding doing anything about the issue for decades.

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Robert Kraft Speaks Up About Massage Parlor Scandal: ‘I’m Truly Sorry’

By Sanjana Karanth

Kraft has pleaded not guilty of soliciting sex at a day spa that's involved in a trafficking investigation.