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Drug Stock Soars 500% After Martin Shkreli Buys It
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Remember Martin Shkreli? The hedge fund manager turned pharmaceutical executive who became the center of a debate on drug prices after his firm Turing raised the cost of a dru...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

Rand Paul: It’s ‘bulls–t’ To Collect Phone Records After Paris Attacks
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Rand Paul says it’s “bulls–t” to argue that U.S. government surveillance needs to be ramped up as a result of the Paris attacks. At a campaign event at...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

House Approves Bill To Halt Syrian Refugees
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The House easily passed a bill Thursday that would suspend the program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. until key national security agencies certify they don...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

Jared Fogle Sentenced To More Than 15 Years
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Disgraced former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of child pornography and crossing ...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

UnitedHealth May Exit Obamacare
(CNN) — UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest insurer, is scaling back its marketing of Obamacare exchange plans and may exit the program completely.Facing major losses in its Obamacare busin...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

Hillary Clinton Calls for U.S. to ‘Intensify and Broaden’ Efforts to Fight ISIS
(CNN) — Hillary Clinton is calling for more allied planes, more airstrikes and a “broader target set” in a military coalition to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.And those ...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

Boko Haram Overtakes ISIS as World’s Deadliest Terror Group, Report Says
(CNN) — With its reign of terror in the Middle East, its claim to have brought down a Russian passenger jet and now, the atrocities in Paris, ISIS has commanded global headlines as the worldR...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

PARIS ATTACKS: Suspected Terror Mastermind Killed in Raid, Police Say
(CNN) — French investigators have determined that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Paris terrorist attacks, was killed in a major police operation in a suburb of the city.Anot...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

Georgetown University To ‘Feel The Bern’ Today – Topic One? Socialism.
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Bernie Sanders has always had a take-me-or-leave-me approach to his status as a self-described democratic socialist. But he will head to Georgetown University Thursday to expl...
Syndicated Author Nov 19, 2015

White House Issues Veto Threat Over Refugee Bill
WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to veto a GOP-drafted bill that would suspend the program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. until key national securit...
Syndicated Author Nov 18, 2015
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