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1. California sues Trump over climate-warming tailpipe emissions rollback
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... today. States joining the California lawsuit include: • Colorado • Illinois • Maryland • Massachusetts • Nevada • North Carolina • New Mexico • New York • Oregon • Washington • Wisconsin • Pennsylvania • ...

2. Scholar finds John Milton's copy of Shakespeare, marked up with corrections and improvements
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... and improvements to Shakespeare. As the Washington Post writes (my apologies if this is paywalled): Milton’s marginalia range from line-editing — crossing out an adjective and offering an alternative — ...

3. Mark Zuckerberg meets Donald Trump at White House
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's “please don't regulate us too much” charm offensive stopped off in Washington, DC today, where Zuck met with Donald Trump and various members of Congress. The meeting Zuckerberg ...

4. HUD Sec. Ben Carson concerned 'big, hairy men' infiltrating women's homeless shelters
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... on transgender persons later spoke to reporters at the Washington Post. While visiting HUD’s San Francisco office this week, Carson also lamented that society no longer seemed to know the difference between ...

5. Trump's 'promise' to foreign leader sparked whistleblower complaint
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Wouldn't it be great if Trump were busy keeping his promises to America instead of making secret ones to foreign leaders? The Washington Post reports tonight the whistleblower complaint that triggered ...

6. Congress plans to investigate how social media giants are fighting hate
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House lawmakers plan to unveil legislation to study the ways social media can be weaponized, The Washington Post reports. They want to better understand social media-fueled violence and to determine if ...

7. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe appeal to avoid criminal charges rejected by Trump administration: Report
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... (@matthewamiller) September 12, 2019 PHOTO: Andrew McCabe arrives to testify before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington. [REUTERS] Read the rest Read all  ...

8. Bizarre story of a millionaire hacker's secret tunnel system and a tragic death
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... the bunker a structural deathtrap—and when something terrible happened, it was Askia who could not get out. In The Washington, William Brennan tries to unravel what on Earth happened down there. As ...

9. Google hit with demands for detailed ad business info from Texas and other states
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... issued as 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico announced an antitrust investigation of Google from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The attorneys general said they were ...

10. California to force NCAA to pay athletes
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... in Washington and Colorado, and United States Representative Mark Walker, Republican of North Carolina, introduced a federal bill this year that would allow college athletes to be compensated for the use ...

11. Mini documentary about how Jamal Khashoggi was murdered
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Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi royal family at the country's embassy in Turkey. This video reconstruction by ...

12. Google faces antitrust investigation from 50 state attorneys general
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A collation of 50 state attorneys general have launched a new antitrust investigation into Google, reports The Washington Post. According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the leader of the initiative, ...

13. Purdue's court filings understate its role in the opioid epidemic by 80%
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... only accounted for 3.3% of all opioid sales during the period. However, a new analysis of the same data set, performed by Propublica and Stat (building on more limited work from the Washington Post), ...

14. Arizona GOP: “We'll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks” (He's married to Gabrielle Giffords, gun massacre survivor)
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... six people. “Support the Republican Party of Arizona today and, together, we’ll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks,” Kelli Ward wrote in an email obtained by The Washington Post. Bloomberg ...

15. Vaping deaths and illnesses linked to contaminant
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State and federal labs reported that an oil called vitamin E acetate was discovered in samples of cannabis products that have made people sick around the United States, reports the Washington Post. From ...

16. In Ireland, Mike Pence stays at Trump’s Doonbeg resort 150 miles away from VP's meetings in Dublin
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... 3, 2019 Trump encouraged Pence to stay at his golf resort in Ireland, the Washington Post reports. Read the rest Read all  ...

17. Google could soon face another antitrust investigation
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Next week, more than half of the nation's attorneys general are expected to announce an antitrust investigation into Google, The Washington Post reports. Details on the investigation are limited, ...

18. Two people got lifetime bans for bringing CBD oil into the US
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Two Canadians who tried to bring bottles of cannabidiol (CBD) oil into the Washington state have been banned from entering the US again, even though cannabis and CBD are legal in Washington and the US. From ...

19. YouTube removed battlebot videos because its system thought they contained "animal suffering"
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... episode reminded me of a terrific 2007 story in the Washington Post describing the emotional attachment that soldiers develop for their combat robots. It opens up with a story of a colonel who's observing ...

20. Old folks born in the 19th century say hello from 1934
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... restored restored by Guy Jones. It's an amazing window, not only into 1934 when it was filmed, but into the 1880s. That said, man, Washington County, Iowa was whiter than a pale of milk in a snowstorm. ...

21. As Amazon burns, Trump wants to log world’s largest intact temperate rainforest in Alaska
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... acres of forest would be impacted. Did we mention that in Brazil today, the Amazon rainforest is burning? The the Washington Post reports that “President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny ...

22. Video shows Carpentersville cops raid home without warrant and choke teen
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... Washington Post reports that the cops arrested the boy only after he told them they were being recorded on video. Read the rest Read all  ...

23. StoryAI, a bot that autocompletes a story for you
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... of California is traded in return. The deal was well received by Republicans. ... and it generated this following story: The Washington Post reports: "Trump said the country's unique geography and natural ...

24. Man spends 82 days in jail because cops said his honey was meth
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Leon Haughton was arrested at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on December 29 when cops told him that 3 jars of honey in his baggage had tested positive for methamphetamine. He was charged with ...

25. Sprint's 5G network goes live in NYC, LA, DC and Phoenix
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As promised earlier this year, Sprint's 5G footprint is getting a little bigger. This morning, the carrier officially lit up four new 5G markets — New York City, Washington D.C., Phoenix ...