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Russian spy ship spotted 30 miles south of Connecticut - 0 views

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    The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov on Wednesday morning was spotted 30 miles south of Groton, Conn. -- home to a U.S. Navy submarine base, a U.S. official told Fox News. The ship's position also places it just south of Montauk, N.Y., located on the tip of Long Island.
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Iran Warns U.S. Not to Escalate Missile Dispute - 0 views

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    Already furious over the Trump administration's visa ban, Iran warned the United States on Tuesday not to escalate tensions over tests of Iranian missiles. The warning, made by Iran's foreign minister, Mohamed Javad Zarif, came a day after American and Israeli officials accused Iran of having conducted a missile test that they said had violated a United Nations Security Council resolution.
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For Leaders of U.S. Allies, Getting Close to Trump Can Sting - 0 views

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    While Mrs. May is the latest prominent figure to suffer repercussions for her handling of Mr. Trump, the leaders of those other three close allies have also felt the sting of public anger soon after what seemed to be friendly telephone calls or encounters.
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Democrats Portray Sessions as Yes Man for Trump - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON - As President Trump's dramatic firing of his acting attorney general threw the capital into tumult, Democrats on Tuesday seized on the controversy to try to block Senator Jeff Sessions's nomination as attorney general because they said he was too close to Mr. Trump.
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Secret Service agent may face disciplinary action over anti-Trump Facebook posts - 0 views

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    A senior official with the U.S. Secret Service may face disciplinary action after posting comments to Facebook suggesting that she would not "take a bullet" for President Trump. Kelly O'Grady, the special agent in charge for the Denver district, also added "I am with her," a nod to the slogan for Hillary Clinton's campaign, to the posting.
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Ex-diplomat: 'I've known that there was no future for North Korea for a long time' - 0 views

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    The diplomat's decision to defect from a regime he had spent his whole life defending didn't happen overnight. Instead, his misgivings had been simmering for two decades, even as he went around Europe espousing the superiority of the North Korean system.
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'I feel like this is the last shot': A Kentucky family greets the Trump era - 0 views

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    This is the first in an occasional series of stories dropping in on families in the first year of a new presidency, and at a time of societal change. They were an American family, at the beginning of a presidential term in which the biggest clarifying lesson was that there were many different kinds of American families trying to share the elbow-space of one country.
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Trump's Health Plan Would Convert Medicaid to Block Grants, Aide Says - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON - President Trump's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will propose giving each state a fixed amount of federal money in the form of a block grant to provide health care to low-income people on Medicaid, a top adviser to Mr. Trump said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
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Trump Orders Broad Hiring Freeze for Federal Government - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON - President Trump on Monday ordered an across-the-board employment freeze for the federal government, halting hiring for all new and existing positions except those in national security, public safety and the military.
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Ex-spy behind Trump dossier reportedly helped FBI in FIFA probe - 0 views

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    The former British spy who allegedly created an incriminating but now-discredited dossier on President-elect Donald Trump reportedly helped the FBI build its case against FIFA officials back in 2010, The Washington Post reported.
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Justice Dept. report finds 'pattern or practice' of excessive force by Chicago police - 0 views

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    Chicago police violated the Fourth Amendment through a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday, revealing the results of a wide-ranging investigation that the city's former top cop called biased from the start.
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Trump: 'Are we living in Nazi Germany?' - 0 views

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    President-elect Donald Trump unloaded on the U.S. intelligence community in a blistering series of tweets on Wednesday morning over a salacious report that claims Russian officials have compromising information on him. "Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to 'leak' into the
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U.S. troops reach Poland in anti-Russian aggression NATO exercises - 0 views

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    WARSAW, Poland, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. troops have arrived in the small town of Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, as part of the largest armed military brigade deployed in Europe since the end of the Cold War. The U.S. troops, along with 53 track vehicles, including the M109 Paladin self-propelled howitzer, reached Poland after a three-day journey through Germany.
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President Obama's farewell speech transcript, annotated - 0 views

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    What Obama said, and what it meant.
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Trump to meet with proponent of debunked tie between vaccines and autism - 0 views

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    Donald Trump will meet on Tuesday with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a prominent skeptic of vaccines for children, suggesting that he continues to believe a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. The meeting was announced by a spokesman for the Trump transition, Sean Spicer, who said that the two would discuss vaccines Tuesday at Trump Tower, in New York.
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Teaching Seventh Graders in a 'Total Mess' of an Election Season - 0 views

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    His students, most of whom are 12 years old, have been buzzing with talk of the campaign all year. The first group of students poured into the classroom just before 7:30 a.m., clutching notebooks and binders, and sat in desks arranged in circles.
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The Problem for Women Is Not Winning. It's Deciding to Run. - 0 views

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    In the last mayoral elections in the top 100 cities, only 19.3 percent of candidates were women, according to a new report by the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance. Among college students, men are twice as likely as women to have considered running for office someday, according to a study by Jennifer L.
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Could Hillary Clinton Win Texas? Some Democrats Say Maybe - 0 views

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    SILSBEE, Tex. - The last time a Democrat won Texas in a presidential election was 1976, when voters chose Jimmy Carter over Gerald R. Ford. Carey Georgas was 22 back then, a disillusioned Democrat who voted for Eugene McCarthy, the independent candidate, and who was working at Cravens Insurance in this East Texas town.
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