Sunday, December 31, 2017

By Daily Mail, Dec. 31, 2017 

The revelation that more than 660,000 power customers across Puerto Rico still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria has sparked outrage, surprise and resignation among some islanders who accuse officials of mismanaging their response to the Category 4 storm.

It's the first time the government of the U.S. territory has provided that statistic, which was released as authorities warned that a lot of work remains and that crews were still finding unexpected damage after Maria hit on September 20 with winds of up to 154 mph, knocking power out to the entire island. Officials said 55 per cent of Puerto Rico's nearly 1.5 million customers have power.


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By The Times, Dec. 31, 2017 

Internet giants face a multimillion-pound tax raid unless they agree to help combat the terrorist threat to ­Britain, which is at its worst “for 100 years”, the security minister revealed last night.

Ben Wallace accused internet firms of being “ruthless profiteers” that cost government a fortune by failing to assist the security ­ser­vices in identifying terrorists and stamping out extremism online.


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By ABC News, Dec. 30, 2017 

As 2017 — the year of the Donald Trump presidency, further Russian interference in American politics, and the special counsel investigation into it all — comes to a close, there is continued speculation about where Robert Mueller's sprawling probe now stands.

In an interview with The New York Times published Thursday, Trump insisted it has already "been proven that there [was] no collusion" between his associates and Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign.


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By CBS News, Dec. 28, 2017 

A shooting in Long Beach, California Friday afternoon left one victim and the gunman dead, the mayor said. Another person was injured.

Mayor Robert Garcia tweeted that the third person who was shot in a law office Friday is hospitalized in stable condition. He says the shooter and a victim are dead in what appears to be a workplace killing. 

All three people involved are male adults and employees of a law firm at the location, police said in a press conference.


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By The Sun, Dec. 29, 2017 

As anyone following Donald Trump's Twitter feed has been made aware, the stock market roared in 2017, though the president has ignored a glaring exception: movies, television and radio, collectively known as traditional media.

Out of the seven media-entertainment powerhouses, the stocks of Viacom, CBS Corp. and Time Warner ended the year lower, while shares of Walt Disney and Comcast managed gains but still underperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Sony Corp. and 21st Century Fox were the only two sector biggies that matched or outperformed the broader markets, but Sony was so beaten down from pervious years that it still sells for less than it did at the turn of the century. As for Fox, its gain in 2017 is entirely based on Disney's recent decision to purchase most of the company for a hefty premium.


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By Independent, Dec. 29, 2017 

Police in Iran’s capital said that they will no longer arrest women for failing to observe the Islamic dress code in place since the 1979 revolution.

The announcement signalled an easing of punishments for violating the country’s conservative dress code, as called for by the young and reform-minded Iranians who helped re-elect President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate, earlier this year.


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By Daily Mail, Dec. 30, 2017 

A videos posted on social media appeared to show two young Iranian men lying motionless on the ground and covered with blood and a voiceover said they had been shot dead by police.

It claimed security forces fired on protesters in the western town of Dorud and killed at least two as other protesters in the same video were chanting, 'I will kill whoever killed my brother!'.


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By AP News, Dec. 31, 2017 

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.

The demonstrations appear to be the largest to strike the Islamic Republic since the protests that followed the country’s disputed 2009 presidential election.


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By VOA News, Dec. 30, 2017 

Washington - Every attorney general leaves his imprint on the U.S. Justice Department. Jeff Sessions is no exception.

Since being sworn in as the nation’s 84th attorney general in February, the former Republican senator and federal prosecutor has moved to radically overhaul the Justice Department and its approach to law enforcement.


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By National Review, Dec. 30, 2017 

New Year’s Eve gets people thinking about resolutions. Alas, when a year passes, a mothballed prosecutor finds himself thinking about the statute of limitations. As 2018 beckons, it has me thinking about Paul Combetta — the Platte River Networks technician who used the “BleachBit” program to destroy thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails when they were under congressional subpoena and preservation orders.

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Saturday, December 30, 2017

By CNN, Dec. 29, 2017 

(CNN)President Donald Trump's latest interview with The New York Times is a many layered exercise of political positioning, calculated ambiguity and veiled menace.

On the face of it, the President appears to undercut a holiday season campaign by Hill Republicans and the pro-Trump media to discredit Robert Mueller's probe by saying he believes the special counsel will be "fair" to him.


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By AOL, Dec. 29, 2017 

Walt Disney World resorts are beginning to do away with one traditional hotel feature -- and the possible reason why is haunting.

Four of the Florida theme park's main hotels, The Polynesian, The Grand Floridian, The Contemporary and The Bay Lake Resorts, will now have "room occupied" signs in place of the usual "do not disturb" signs.


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By Fox Business, Dec. 29, 2017 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average settled in negative territory mid-day Friday, making it highly unlikely that the major U.S. stock index will close the year breaching another 1,000 point milestone.

The U.S. markets are having a lackluster final week of trading before the year ends, but the Dow still had another record-high close on Thursday. Mid-day Friday, the Dow was fractionally lower and about 200 points away from the 25,000 point milestone.


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By Reuters, Dec. 29, 2017 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks are poised to close out 2017 with a stellar performance, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI, S&P 500 .SPX and Nasdaq Composite .IXIC all poised for gains of roughly 20 percent or more.

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By Hollywood Reporter, Dec. 29, 2017 

As anyone following Donald Trump's Twitter feed has been made aware, the stock market roared in 2017, though the president has ignored a glaring exception: movies, television and radio, collectively known as traditional media.

Out of the seven media-entertainment powerhouses, the stocks of Viacom, CBS Corp. and Time Warner ended the year lower, while shares of Walt Disney and Comcast managed gains but still underperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average.


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By Zero Hedge, Dec. 29, 2017 

Americans who are lucky enough to own their own little slice of the 'American Dream' are about $2 trillion wealthier this year courtesy of Janet Yellen's efforts to recreate all the same asset bubbles that Alan Greenspan first blew in the early 2000's.  After surging 6.5% in 2017, the highest pace in 4 years according to Zillow data, the total market value of homes in the United States reached a staggering all-time high of $31.8 trillion at the end of 2017...or roughly 1.5x the total GDP of the United States.

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