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Smarter Robots Put 50% of Jobs at Risk
LONDON — (CNN) Love your job? Enjoy it while it lasts. There’s a 50% chance you’re going to be sacked and replaced by a robot. The Bank of England has warned that machines could take...
Syndicated Author Nov 13, 2015

Secret Service Officer Arrested in Child Sex Sting
WASHINGTON — (CNN) A Secret Service officer assigned to the White House was arrested after he was caught in a sting sending naked pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

How Koreans Energized this Maryland City
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Less than a decade ago, the 10 mile stretch of Route 40 that runs through Ellicott City, Maryland was a succession of sleepy shopping plazas, car dealerships and ranch-style h...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Ted Cruz-Marco Rubio Immigration Feud Springs to Life
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The marquee fight of the Republican race has finally arrived.After months of avoiding conflict, Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are taking the gloves off over one of the most e...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Can you Spend $1 Trillion on Defense and Still be a Conservative?
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Pledging to spend more money on the military was once an easy way for Republican presidential candidates to showcase their conservative bona fides.Not anymore.The feud among R...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Former Citigroup CEO: Big Banks don’t Work
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The former CEO of Citigroup just admitted to a huge mistake.In an op-ed published in the Financial Times, John Reed says large banks like the one he used to run are now “...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Police: Late Baseball Pitcher Tommy Hanson Died of Apparent Overdose
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Former baseball pitcher Tommy Hanson, one of the sport’s top prospects in 2006, died following an apparent overdose, Georgia authorities told CNN on Thursday. An inciden...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Obama Awards Medal of Honor to Army Captain
WASHINGTON — (CNN) An Army captain who survived attacks by two suicide bombers moments apart but was badly wounded as he saved his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan received the Medal of Honor on T...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Sanders Scores Biggest Union Endorsement of His Campaign
(CNN) — The American Postal Workers Union, with more than 200,000 members, endorsed Bernie Sanders on Thursday, giving the Democratic presidential candidate his biggest union endorsement of the ...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015

Trump Blasts ‘Weak, Ineffective’ Mizzou Heads, Sanders Wants Racism Addressed
(CNN) — Some Republicans seeking the White House blasted University of Missouri administrators for resigning in the wake of continued protests, while Democrats said they were standing with stude...
Syndicated Author Nov 12, 2015
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