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(VIDEO) An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign - and may have broken election law. Executives were secretly filmed saying they leave ‘no paper trail’.
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<br />(Alternet) Recent increasing <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/health/roundup-herbicide-cancer-allegations/index.html">news</a> is revealing to the mainstream public that Monsanto was covering up the carcinogenic effects of its best selling glyphosate based herbicides such as Roundup.<br /><br />Congressman Ted Lieu has <a href="http://sustainablepulse.com/2017/03/17/us-congressman-calls-for-doj-investigation-into-epa-monsanto-glyphosate-collusion/#.WR390BPyvMK">called</a> for a congressional hearing on glyphosate and the possible collusion. <br /><br />Growing <a href="http://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/">evidence</a> is exposing the cozy and corrupt relationship between the chemical company and the EPA which is supposed to be regulating their products.<br />
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(Reuters) EU antitrust regulators aim to slap a hefty fine on Alphabet (<a href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=GOOGL.O">GOOGL.O</a>) unit Google over its shopping service before the summer break in August, two people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for two other cases involving the U.S. company.<br />
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The European Commission's decision will come after a seven-year investigation into the world's most popular internet search engine triggered by scores of complaints from both U.S. and European rivals.<br />
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<br />(The Wrap) The Justice Department was sued Wednesday by a privacy group seeking information on the FBI recruitment of Best Buy employees to search consumer computers for child pornography during repairs — a practice that came to light in court documents in a recent case in Santa Ana, California. <br /><br />The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act <a href="https://www.eff.org/document/eff-v-doj-best-buy-foia">lawsuit</a> against the Trump administration’s Justice Department, demanding access to records about any FBI training and payment to Geek Squad workers to search customer computers without a court warrant.<br />
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<br />(AP) Nest Labs is adding Google's facial recognition technology to a high-resolution home-security camera, offering a glimpse of a future in which increasingly intelligent, internet-connected computers can see and understand what's going on in people's homes. <br /><br />The Nest Cam IQ, unveiled Wednesday, will be Nest's first device to draw upon the same human-like skills that Google has been programming into its computers - for instance, to identify people in images via its widely used photo app. Facebook deploys similar technology to automatically recognize and recommend tags of people in photos posted on its social network.<br />
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<br />(AP) President Donald Trump may abandon U.S. pledges to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, but that step seems unlikely to stall the push to adopt cleaner forms of energy. <br /><br />Around the world, coal-fired power plants are being shuttered as governments and private companies invest billions in wind turbines and solar farms. <br /><br />Even in regions of the U.S. where coal is plentiful, electric utilities are increasingly shifting to cheaper, cleaner-burning natural gas. In the absence of federal action to address climate change, some left-leaning states such as California and New York are moving ahead with ambitious clean-energy policies of their own.<br />
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(Reuters) Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage is a "person of interest" in the U.S. investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing unidentified sources.<br />
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The London-based newspaper said Farage had not been accused of wrongdoing and was not a suspect or target of the U.S. investigation. But it said he was "right in the middle" of the relationships being looked at. <br />
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The newspaper said the former leader of the UK Independence Party had "raised the interest" of FBI investigators due to his connections with Trump and Julian Assange's Wikileaks, which published leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee during the campaign.<br />
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(RT) An investigation has found that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration repeatedly lied to Congress about a series of fatal incidents in Honduras in 2012, including the shooting of four civilians in the central American country.<br />
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(AP) President Donald Trump has spoken with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani about the massive truck bomb that killed nearly 100 people in Kabul. Spokesman Sean Spicer says the call occurred Wednesday afternoon. (May 31)<br />
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(RT) Jasmine Abuslin will receive close to $1 million from the city of Oakland after claiming multiple cops sexually assaulted her, including when she was underage. The 19-year-old may file similar claims against several other Bay Area police departments. <br />
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Abuslin’s $989,000 settlement from the city of Oakland, California, came after a Tuesday night meeting of the city council stretched into the wee hours of Wednesday, as council members voted in favor of the amount 7-to-1 at 2am, the Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oakland-sex-scandal-settlement-20170531-story.html">reported</a>.<br />
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“The settlement occurred with no admission of liability, but obviously, if you pay $1 million, you figure you got some responsibility,” Abuslin’s attorney, John Burris, said in a statement.<br />
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(RT) Many of the world's most powerful people are gathering for the annual meeting of the mysterious Bilderberg Group this week. Russia, the Trump administration and ‘The war on information’ are among key topics up for discussion. <br /><br />This year’s gathering takes place in Chantilly, Virginia, less than 30 miles from the White House, and goings on in the Oval Office are top of the <a href="http://bilderbergmeetings.org/press-release.html">agenda</a> for the 131 people who’ve confirmed they’re attending.<br /><br />Many top White House figures will be at the four-day event, including the Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, National Security Advisor HR McMaster and Assistant to the President Christopher Liddell.<br />
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<br />(WSJ) The once-humble hamburger has gotten too fancy for its own good. <br /><br />As the number of outlets serving “better” burgers—featuring nontraditional toppings and artisan buns—skyrocketed over the past decade, so has the average burger tab, turning some customers off. <br /><br /> Brian Cockerline, a 20-year-old Rutgers University student, used to go to Five Guys for a burger once a week in South Plainfield, N.J. With fries and a drink, his tab was around $13. Now, he is cooking burgers at home instead.<br />
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<br />(CNBC) Americans abroad have just about had it with Uncle Sam's tax filing requirements. <br /><br />Those were the findings from a recent survey of more than 2,100 U.S. expatriates, according to Greenback Expat Tax Services, which specializes in working with American taxpayers residing overseas.<br /><br />Just over 4 in 10 respondents said that while they aren't planning to renounce their U.S. citizenship, they wouldn't rule it out, and 19 percent said they're seriously considering it.<br />
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<br />(CNSNews) Real federal taxes per capita have more than doubled since John F. Kennedy served as president — and argued for lower taxes.<br /><br />In 1961, the fiscal year Kennedy was elected, the federal government collected about $94.388 billion in taxes, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The population that year was about 183,691,481, according to the Census Bureau. That meant federal tax revenues equaled about $514 per capita — or $4,121 in 2016 dollars.<br />
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<br />(AP) Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump “more knowledgeable” and with “evolving” views about the global climate accord he’s threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. Trump also was impressed by their arguments about how crucial U.S. leadership is in supporting international efforts. <br /><br />The president’s new apparent openness to staying in the landmark Paris climate pact came amid a determined pressure campaign by European leaders. During Friday’s gathering of the Group of 7 wealthy democracies — as well as at earlier stops on Trump’s first international trip — leaders have implored him to stick with the 2015 accord aimed at reducing carbon emissions and slowing potentially disastrous global warming.<br />
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(RT) Responding to comments from newly elected Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno warning Julian Assange not to ‘interfere’ in South American politics, WikiLeaks’ founder said Ecuador can be “confident” that any evidence of corruption will still be published. <br />
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<br />(Reuters) Facebook, Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency.<br /><br />The request marks the first significant public effort by Silicon Valley to wade into what is expected to be a contentious debate later the year over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, parts of which will expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress reauthorizes them. <br /><br />Of particular concern to the technology industry and privacy advocates is Section 702, which allows U.S. intelligence agencies to vacuum up vast amounts of communications from foreigners but also incidentally collects some data belonging to Americans that can be searched by analysts without a warrant. <br />
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<br />(AFP) Germany, which has taken in over one million asylum seekers since 2015, on Thursday readied plans to speed up expulsions of those denied refugee status -- but controversy flared over sending people back to war-torn Afghanistan.<br /><br />Chancellor Angela Merkel -- who faces a re-election bid in September amid a voter backlash against the mass influx -- was to discuss a series of measures with leaders of Germany's 16 state governments.<br /><br />Among the proposals are setting up national "deportation centres" to streamline expulsions, financial incentives for those who return voluntarily, and heightened pressure on countries that refuse to take back their nationals.<div>
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<br />(Post-Gazette) At least 90 people are reported dead in a wave of violence in the Brazilian city of Vitoria after the police force there went on strike.<br /><br />The number of registered murders had risen to 90 since military police stopped patrols on Saturday, Globo reported, citing figures received from a police union.<br /><br />The mood in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo remained tense Wednesday as armed forces continued patrolling the streets for the fifth straight day.<div>
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(RT) EU member states have only relocated slightly more than 15,000 asylum seekers from Italy, Greece and Turkey out of 160,000 the EU initially pledged to resettle from these overburdened countries under the controversial mandatory refugee quota system.<br />
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<br />(WSJ) When Anna Riley, a Seattle-area real-estate agent, held an open house for a new $2.3 million listing in the tony city of Bellevue late last month, the pool of prospective buyers was different from the usual assortment of tech magnates, sports stars and chief executives.<br /><br />Twenty groups of buyers visited the property in the Seattle metro area—and all of them were Chinese.<br /><br />“Every single one,” said Ms. Riley, an agent at Windermere Real Estate, noting that Asian investors had typically, before last year, accounted for about a quarter of the firm’s prospective buyers.<br /><div>
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(Reuters) Rights groups petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday to annul a heavily criticized law that retroactively legalized some 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.<br />
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(Forbes) Powerful tech platforms have platform privilege -- the incentive and ability to prioritize their own products and services over those of competitors. In my last <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/01/10/why-fake-news-is-an-antitrust-problem/#ee4dfbe58489">Washington Bytes post</a>, I wrote about Facebook competing against news publishers that depend on its platform to reach customers. In the same way, Amazon competes against merchants and Google competes against websites that depend on them.<br />
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Because platform privilege involves leveraging market power to alter the competitive playing field, it can lead to antitrust problems. Google has born the brunt of antitrust enforcers’ ire to date, but is Amazon next?<br />
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(AFP) High-spending World Cup 2022 hosts Qatar are splurging almost $500 million every week on major infrastructure projects for football's biggest tournament, the country's finance minister said.<br />
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(McClatchy) Donald Trump’s travel ban isn’t new.<br />
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Six of the last seven presidents, both Republicans and Democrats, have relied on the same federal law to keep certain groups of foreigners out of the United States.<br />
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Jimmy Carter <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=33233">denied entry</a> to Iranians in April 1980 after a failed rescue mission for American hostages in Iran. Ronald Reagan <a href="https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/proclamations/04865.html">barred migrants</a> arriving at the borders from “the high seas” in September 1981, targeting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/28/us/report-on-refugees-urges-a-crackdown.html">Haitians and Cubans</a>. Bill Clinton in November 1999 <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-1999-11-15/pdf/WCPD-1999-11-15-Pg2366-2.pdf">barred those</a> responsible for repressing civilians in Kosovo. And George W. Bush in June 2001 <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/WCPD-2001-07-02/pdf/WCPD-2001-07-02-Pg975.pdf">banned</a> those who planned or carried out wartime atrocities in the Western Balkans.<br />
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