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Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Robert Dear has Outbursts at Hearing
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The man accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs will be formally charged Wednesday for the attack.Prosecutors intend to charge Rober...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Half of all Renters Can’t Afford the Rent
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Nearly half of renters in the U.S. are struggling to afford their monthly payments.Experts generally recommend keeping your housing costs around 30% of your monthly income. Bu...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Scalia Questions Place of Some Black Students in Elite Colleges
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia raised eyebrows on Wednesday with a comment he made during the court’s hearing of an affirmative action case, in which he seemed to ...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Ashton Carter Opens Door to U.S. Ground Support for Iraqi forces in Ramadi
WASHINGTON — (CNN) U.S. Gen. Paul Selva withstood one of the most biting rebuttals of the country’s ISIS strategy Wednesday when he told lawmakers the Pentagon would not impose a no-fly zo...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Obama Denounces ‘bigotry’ in Veiled Shot at Donald Trump
.WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama took veiled shots at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump while marking 150 years since the abolition of slavery.Obama said Wednesday that...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Obama to Sign ‘No Child Left Behind’ Overhaul
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Senate cleared an overhaul of the controversial No Child Left Behind program in a bipartisan vote on Wednesday, sending the measure to President Barack Obama, who will sig...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Israel: Trump to Meet with Netanyahu December 28
JERUSALEM — (CNN) Donald Trump will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 28, according to an Israeli government official, who said that the meeting was scheduled two weeks ...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Walmart’s Imports from China Cost 400,000 Jobs, Says Study
BEIJING — (CNN) The flood of Chinese imports purchased by Walmart shoppers has cost the U.S. economy about 400,000 jobs since 2001, according to a liberal think tank. The Economic Policy Institu...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

Chicago Mayor: ‘Painful and honest reckoning’ Needed After Police Shootings
CHICAGO — (CNN) Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday that officials, police and citizens of his city “need a painful and honest reckoning in what went wrong” surrounding the dea...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015

‘Trumbo’ Tops SAG Awards Nods
LOS ANGELES — (CNN) “Trumbo” led in numbers, and “Spotlight” held the spotlight, but some surprising picks — including “Straight Outta Compton,” Sarah S...
Syndicated Author Dec 09, 2015
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