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Trump administration approves 1st oil and gas production facility in federal Arctic waters
The Week - 25 Oct 2018 04:59
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued a conditional permit for the first oil and gas production facility in federal Arctic waters. "Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to ...
Trump tries nicer tone after bomb threats
USA Today - 25 Oct 2018 04:43
President Donald Trump says he's trying to be nice as he criticizes Sen. Tammy Baldwin and the Democrats at a Wisconsin rally following a series of attempted bombings on high-profile Democratic officials and CNN (Oct. 24...
Migrant caravan shrinks as some accept bus rides home
New York Post - 25 Oct 2018 04:05
The caravan of Central Americans trekking to the United States shrank when 500 accepted bus trips back to their home countries and hundreds of others dropped out or were granted asylum in Mexico, authorities said. While ...
Explosive Devices Sent to CNN and Democrats Were Packed With Shards of Glass, Official Says
Time - 25 Oct 2018 03:48
Explosives were sent to CNN and several prominent Democrats
65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids
The New York Times - 25 Oct 2018 22:06
I'm a baby boomer. Our parents spoiled us by building a better world than they had. Somewhere down the road, we stopped promising our own children the same.
Eight knife-wielding thugs tried to rob the wrong MMA fighter
New York Post - 25 Oct 2018 16:55
A group of eight knife-wielding thugs was forced to flee when they unknowingly attempted to rob a martial arts instructor. Louis Nicholson, 22, was alone walking down a street in Grays, England, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 16 when...
Spain's Supreme Court orders trial of former Catalan leaders
Al Jazeera English - 25 Oct 2018 16:15
Court says 18 ex-Catalan leaders, including nine who are jailed, should be tried over independence declaration last year
Officials search for package addressed to Biden after devices sent to CNN, Clintons, Obamas
USA Today - 25 Oct 2018 04:37
Suspicious packages were sent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and CNN's New York offices, as law enforcement officials monitored other locations.
Final justice handed down in Lance Armstrong doping scandal
USA Today - 25 Oct 2018 04:22For just $1, students get movie rights to one of Stephen King's short stories
USA Today - 25 Oct 2018 00:52
For student filmmakers at the Blaenau Gwent Film Academy in Wales, $1 was enough to buy the film rights Stephen King's "Stationary Bike."
This Week's Mail Bombs Are No Surprise
The New York Times - 25 Oct 2018 17:03
They are examples of stochastic terrorism -- individually random, but these days, statistically predictable.
More bomb-like devices found, 1 near Robert De Niro's offices in NYC and 2 addressed to Joe Biden in Delaware
USA Today - 25 Oct 2018 16:57
Three more suspicious packages were discovered early Thursday, one near the offices of Robert De Niro and two addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Court filing: Ex-Cincinnati assistant 'inappropriately touched' female passenger on plane
USA Today - 25 Oct 2018 16:56
Court filing: Ex-Cincinnati assistant basketball coach Larry A. Davis 'inappropriately touched' a college student seated next to him on an airplane.
Trump Criticizes the Media as Pipe Bombs Target Democrats and CNN
The New York Times - 25 Oct 2018 16:52
President Trump called for national unity, briefly, then returned to an attack on the "Fake News."
Police looking to identify women found dead, bound together in Hudson River
ABC News - 25 Oct 2018 16:46
The women had no obvious signs of trauma, police said.
This is the package sent to Robert De Niro
New York Post - 25 Oct 2018 16:40
This is the suspicious package sent to Robert De Niro - bearing the same return address to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz that was included on the series of bomb-containing parcels. The package is addressed to his Tribeca...
French media: Elysee press room move trampling transparency
Miami Herald - 25 Oct 2018 16:36
A group representing France's presidential reporters has criticized the president's office "for trampling a tradition of transparency" in its refusal to reconsider its plans to move the press room outside …
University Backed by George Soros Is Forced to Close Budapest Campus
The New York Times - 25 Oct 2018 16:32
Central European University, founded to ease the transition to democracy after the Soviet Union's fall, has been a target of Viktor Orban, Hungary's far-right leader.
Stabbed toddler was still breathing when put in oven
New York Post - 25 Oct 2018 16:32
A 20-month-old girl found stabbed inside an oven in a Mississippi home was alive when she was allegedly placed inside by her grandmother, according to a coroner's report. The autopsy report, obtained by The Bolivar Comme...
10 things you need to know today: October 25, 2018
The Week - 25 Oct 2018 14:13
1. Authorities intercepted several pipe-bomb packages mailed to prominent Democrats including former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the party's 2016 presidential nominee, the FBI said Wednesday. The Secret S...
Questions arise over politics, motivation of caravan organizers
Fox News - 25 Oct 2018 20:12
As more than seven thousand continue to surge forward from Central America through Mexico and bound for the United States border in what has become known as the "migrant caravan," scores of questions continue to be raise...
Asian shares slump as Wall St. erases all of 2018 gains
Reuters - 25 Oct 2018 02:48
Asian shares dived on Thursday as hundreds of billions of dollars hemorrhaged from global markets after a rout in tech stocks inflicted the largest daily decline on Wall Street since 2011, wiping out all its gains for th...