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    • GOP's big problem in key Senate races

      GOP's big problem in key Senate races

      The party's most vulnerable Senate candidates are trying to walk a tightrope strategy when it comes to Donald Trump.How it's working out »

      • Reagan daughter's choice words for Trump

        Reagan’s daughter blasts Trump’s remarks

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        How exiled Snowden rakes in speaking fees

      • RNC chairman gives warning to Trump

        RNC chairman warns Trump

    • Got a letter for Obama? Message him on Facebook.
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      Dylan Stableford

      Got a letter for Obama? Message him on Facebook.

      President Barack Obama is a bit of a night owl, known to spend the wee hours in the White House Treaty Room reading briefings, working on speeches, watching ESPN and eating almonds. “It has been a part of his daily routine since taking office in 2009,” White House chief digital officer Jason Goldman writes in a post for Medium.com. Until now, Goldman says, most of the letters chosen by the staff have been handwritten letters or emails sent through WhiteHouse.gov.

      • The White House’s new Messenger bot lets citizens send notes to President Obama
        The White House’s new Messenger bot lets citizens send notes to President Obama
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      • Chat with President Obama via Facebook messenger
        Chat with President Obama via Facebook messenger
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    • 45 Things YOU DIDN'T KNOW About Forrest Gump.
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    • Source: Boy was decapitated on waterslide at Kansas park
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      Associated Press

      Source: Boy was decapitated on waterslide at Kansas park

      The 10-year-old boy killed during a ride on the world's tallest waterslide was decapitated in the accident, a person familiar with the investigation said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about Caleb Schwab's death and spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity. Caleb died Sunday on the Verruckt raft ride at the Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas City, Kansas.

      • Water slide accident witness: "I saw the blood"
        Water slide accident witness: "I saw the blood"
        CNN
      • Schlitterbahn reopens at noon, Verrückt remains closed while investigation continues
        Schlitterbahn reopens at noon, Verrückt remains closed while investigation continues
        fox4kc.com
    • Ex-aide: Christie 'lied' about New Jersey 'Bridgegate' - filing
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      Reuters

      Ex-aide: Christie 'lied' about New Jersey 'Bridgegate' - filing

      A former aide to Chris Christie said in a text message that the New Jersey governor "flat out lied" when he said senior staff members were not involved in the "Bridgegate" scandal in 2013, according to a court filing on Wednesday. The details were revealed in a document filed in New Jersey federal court by Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who is one of two former Christie allies facing trial next month on Bridgegate-related criminal charges.

      • Christie ‘flat out lied’ in bridge case, aide said
        Christie ‘flat out lied’ in bridge case, aide said
        San Francisco Chronicle
      • Former Aide: Christie 'Lied' During 'Bridge-gate' Press Briefing
        Former Aide: Christie 'Lied' During 'Bridge-gate' Press Briefing
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    • Wildfires ravage Portugal
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      Wildfires ravage Portugal

      Thousands of Portuguese firefighters struggled on Thursday to control nearly 200 forest fires after flames killed at least four people on the mainland and the island of Madeira the previous day. Prime Minister Antonio Costa cut short his holidays and flew to Madeira, where more than 200 buildings in the regional capital and popular resort Funchal had been destroyed or damaged and some 1,000 people including tourists evacuated. “We understand the dimension of this horrible tragedy that devastated various municipalities here in Madeira, and we also know about the calamities affecting other zones of the country that now have to be addressed,” he told reporters.

      • Portugal wildfires: Three are killed in blaze as a thousand are evacuated amid inferno of Madeira
        Portugal wildfires: Three are killed in blaze as a thousand are evacuated amid inferno of Madeira
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      • Madeira wildfires: 'Ash is still falling into the city'
        Madeira wildfires: 'Ash is still falling into the city'
        BBC News
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    • Putin and Erdogan pledge reset after diplomatic rift
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      AFP

      Putin and Erdogan pledge reset after diplomatic rift

      Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian warplane last November. Erdogan's visit to Putin's hometown of Saint Petersburg is also his first foreign trip since the failed coup against him last month that sparked a purge of opponents and cast a shadow over Turkey's relations with the West. "We lived through a very complicated moment in the relations between our states and we very much want, and I feel our Turkish friends want, to overcome the difficulties," Putin told journalists at a joint press conference.

      • NATO Says Turkey Is ‘Valued Ally’ After Erdogan Visit to Russia
        Bloomberg
      • What the West struggles to understand about Turkey and Erdogan
        What the West struggles to understand about Turkey and Erdogan
        Washington Post
    • U.S. DEA denies petition to reclassify marijuana
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      Reuters

      U.S. DEA denies petition to reclassify marijuana

      The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday denied requests to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use. The decision is the DEA's response to a 2011 petition by two former state governors who had urged federal agencies to re-classify marijuana as a drug with accepted medical uses. In a letter to the petitioners, the DEA said it had asked the Department of Health and Human Services for a scientific and medical evaluation of the issue.

      • DEA won't loosen rules on medical marijuana
        DEA won't loosen rules on medical marijuana
        CNN
      • Report: U.S. government to allow more research on marijuana
        Report: U.S. government to allow more research on marijuana
        The Week
    • UC Davis Chancellor Resigns After Ethics Probe
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      Time

      UC Davis Chancellor Resigns After Ethics Probe

      UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi has resigned following an ethics probe investigating whether she potentially violated nepotism rules, misused student funds and misled administrators about her role in a social media scrub. Katehi drew criticism in 2011 when campus police used pepper spray on student protestors. This year, the controversy was stoked again by a Sacramento Bee report saying the school had spent $175,000 to hire a PR firm to scrub images of the pepper spray incident from social media.

      • UC Davis’ Katehi gets $424,360 ‘parachute’ common for university presidents
        UC Davis’ Katehi gets $424,360 ‘parachute’ common for university presidents
        The Sacramento Bee
      • ‘Get me off the Google,’ UC Davis Chancellor Katehi urged communications staff
        ‘Get me off the Google,’ UC Davis Chancellor Katehi urged communications staff
        The Sacramento Bee
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      LiveScience.com

      Shifting Sands Reveal 400-Year-Old Petroglyphs in Hawaii

      Shifting sands on a Hawaiian beach have revealed — and then concealed again — carvings that Hawaii's indigenous people made on the shoreline at least 400 years ago. Two tourists from Texas stumbled across the petroglyphs last month on Oahu's Waianae Coast on the western side of the island. "It was just a stroke of luck," Lonnie Watson, one of the visitors, said in a statement issued by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources.

    • Simon Helberg Nails Nicolas Cage Impression
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      Simon Helberg Nails Nicolas Cage Impression

      While on "Popcorn With Peter Travers," actor Simon Helberg performed a hilarious impression of Nicolas Cage.

      • Simon Helberg ‘bluffed’ his way into ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ just to meet Meryl Streep
        Simon Helberg ‘bluffed’ his way into ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ just to meet Meryl Streep
        Washington Post
      • Simon Helberg dishes on his 'Big Bang Theory' hopes and new film role
        Simon Helberg dishes on his 'Big Bang Theory' hopes and new film role
        Fox News
    • The Latest: Girl dumped by Ferris wheel still on ventilator
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      Associated Press

      The Latest: Girl dumped by Ferris wheel still on ventilator

      The mother of two of the three girls injured when a Ferris wheel gondola flipped over at a Tennessee county fair said her daughters remain hospitalized two days after the accident. Kimmee Reynolds posted a statement on Facebook that said her youngest girl, 6-year-old Briley Jae, has a concussion, bleeding on her brain and remains on a ventilator. Police are citing a mechanical failure in the accident that dumped three children from a Ferris wheel at Tennessee's Greene County Fair.

      • Ride operator had other incident before Ferris wheel spill
        Ride operator had other incident before Ferris wheel spill
        The Seattle Times
      • Ferris wheel accident was caused by mechanical failure, police say
        Ferris wheel accident was caused by mechanical failure, police say
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