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Army OKs Dakota Access pipeline completion

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 04:00 PM PST

A section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline under construction in North Dakota. (AP)The military says it will allow the controversial $3.8 billion oil project to cross under a Missouri River reservoir, eliminating a big hurdle.


FCC poised for changes under Trump pick

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 12:54 PM PST

FCC poised for changes under Trump pick. (Getty Images)Incoming Chairman Ajit Pai plans to lead the agency in a drastically different direction than his predecessors.


DeVos confirmed as Education secretary

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 03:11 PM PST

Vice President Mike Pence swears in Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)The controversial school choice activist is approved by the Senate after VP Mike Pence breaks a 50-50 tie.


Ginsburg favors change to Electoral College

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 08:15 AM PST

FILE - This Nov. 14, 2016 file photo Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at The Jewish Federations of American conference in Washington. Bader Ginsburg is set to speak at Stanford University about a topic that has many liberals anxious these days: Her life. University officials say the 83-year-old justice will offer personal reflections on her life at a discussion on Monday, Feb. 6. Bader Ginsburg has had colon and pancreatic cancer. She is the leader of the court's liberal wing. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana,File)The Supreme Court justice's remark during a speech at Stanford, in which she lamented Washington's partisanship, drew applause.


White House and CNN clash over 'credibility'

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 12:52 PM PST

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway prepares for a TV interview outside the White House. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway appears on the network following reports it specifically declined to have her on this past weekend.


Putin critic suffered 'acute poisoning'

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 08:58 AM PST

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza (left) joined Boris Nemtsov in 2014 to condemn corruption at the Sochi OlympicsVladimir Kara-Murza has been on a ventilator and undergoing dialysis since he collapsed last week.


GOP votes to kill election commission

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 01:35 PM PST

Donald Trump looks at his wife, Melania, as they cast their vote. (AP)Despite President Trump's claims of widespread voter fraud that he says cost him the popular vote, Congress moves to forgo investigation.


2 Republicans seek to slash legal immigration

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 12:16 PM PST

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) arrives at Capitol Hill in Washington U.S.The senators' bill woukd cut the number of legal immigrants admitted into the U.S. in half, but the it faces an uphill climb.


Iran scorns Trump, rebuffs U.S. warning

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 12:27 PM PST

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran. (Reuters)Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismisses being put "on notice" over his country's missile tests and calls Trump the "real face" of the corrupt U.S. system.


Twitter broadens campaign against abuse

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 01:53 PM PST

Twitter broadens campaign against abuse. (AP)The company says it has begun identifying people banned for hateful behavior and it will stop them from creating new accounts.


Trump's rich-first economic policy

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 10:29 AM PST

Trump's rich-first economic policy. (AP)Though he campaigned on the "forgotten men and women of America," Trump has aided elites since winning the election.


Melania could rake in millions as first lady

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 01:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump watch the Super Bowl at a party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. First lady Melania Trump isn't living in the White House and has said little about what she intends to do with her prominent position. But in new court documents, her lawyers argue that the As "one of the most photographed women in the world," Melania Trump could see the value of her personal brand explode, her lawyers say.


State of Washington v. Trump: Judges to rule

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:44 AM PST

Washington v. Trump: Judges who'll rule on ban. (AP)Trump's contentious immigration ban faces another legal hurdle Tuesday in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


Trump's puzzling underreported terror list

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 08:40 AM PST

Government lawyer urges 9th Circuit not to consider Trump's Muslim ban commentsThe White House claims terror attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., Paris, and Orlando, Fla., were virtually ignored.


Worrisome trend for freedom around the world

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 05:40 AM PST

MAP: Freedom is decliniWorrisome trend for freedom around the world. (Getty Images)ng as populism and nationalism surgeOnly three countries received a perfect score in the human rights group Freedom House's annual report.


Obama's new post-presidency sport

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 05:42 AM PST

Obama's new post-presidency sport. (Yahoo News)Billionaire Richard Branson gives the president a friendly challenge during a vacation in the Caribbean.


Trump Cabinet pick caught in labor flap

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 02:10 PM PST

'A mistake': GOP downplays Puzder's housekeeper issueThe housekeeper worked for Andrew Puzder and his wife "for a few years" until they learned of her status, he says.


Clinton: 'The future is female'

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 05:57 AM PST

Hillary Clinton: "The future is female." (AP)In her first video statement since Trump's inauguration, Clinton cited the Women's March as evidence of promise that will be fulfilled.


Trump's puzzling underreported terror list

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 08:02 PM PST

The White House included some curious incidents on its list of underreported terrorist attacks. (Yahoo News)The White House claims terror attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., Paris, and Orlando, Fla., were virtually ignored.


Amnesty: Up to 13,000 hanged in Syria

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 10:56 AM PST

Two photos of Omar Alshogre, a 21-year Syrian former detainee, now living in Stockholm. (AP)A chilling report alleges mass killings from 2011 to 2015 at a prison referred to as the "slaughterhouse."


Senate confirms Trump’s education chief pick

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 04:05 PM PST

Betsy DeVos (Getty Images)Betsy DeVos was confirmed after Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie.


Federal judges skeptical of Trump travel ban

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 05:23 PM PST

People protest outside the Federal building in Minneapolis. (Adam Bettche/Reuters)A panel of circuit court judges at an appeals hearing questions the executive order, which has upended travel to the U.S.


War of words between Trump, California escalates

Posted: 06 Feb 2017 04:49 PM PST

File - In this Jan. 24, 2017, file photo, Xavier Becerra, California's attorney general, talks to reporters at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Democratic attorneys general from 15 states have vowed to California Democratic leaders dispute the president's contention that the state is "out of control."


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