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  • Winners and losers from the fourth Republican debate

    Winners and losers from the fourth Republican debate
    GOP presidential candidates clashed over immigration, government spending and how to handle Russia's Vladimir Putin during Tuesday night's debate. As the night got heated, the audience got involved: here are the must-watch moments. (Ashleigh Joplin and Rebecca Schatz/Fox Business Network)The eight top Republican presidential candidates gathered for thefourth debate of the 2016 campaign Tuesday night in Milwaukee. It was a more understated affair than the last GOP debate sponsored by CNBC but sti..
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  • Why Jeb Bush just isn't a good debater

    Why Jeb Bush just isn't a good debater
    Governor John Kasich (R-Ohio) interrupts former governor Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) and competed for air time during the Republican presidential debate. (Fox Business Network)Let's zero in on a telling moment in Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate.A little more than halfway in, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) got into a heated back-and-forth about how much to spend on America's military, with Rubio accusing Paul of being an isolationist and Paul accusing Rubio of wanting t..
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  • Surge in robberies on Capitol Hill alters residents' routines, lifestyles

    Surge in robberies on Capitol Hill alters residents' routines, lifestyles
    Sarah Pitluck used to walk her dogs before dawn, among the early risers exercising on Capitol Hill. She now waits until first light, and for the streets to be busier.It is just one way the young man who robbed her, ripping the smartphone from her hand and scratching her neck, has changed her daily routine — and her life.Ever since the Oct. 13 robbery just two blocks from her home, the pharmaceutical executive goes to work later and comes home before it gets dark. Lost time at her office is made ..
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  • Burma's election leaves former patron China with uncomfortable...

    Burma's election leaves former patron China with uncomfortable...
    BEIJING —Burma’s historic general elections andsigns of a landslide victoryfor backers of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi have raised some uncomfortable questions in giant northern neighbor China.The first is how China’s Communist Party rulers will manage to get along with a civilian-led government in Burma after decades of wholeheartedly backing military rule in Burma.But a second question, perhaps less expected, has bubbled up from Chinese people themselves in the past few days. If the Burm..
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  • Mizzou police arrest suspect for death threats that spread fear on...

    Mizzou police arrest suspect for death threats that spread fear on...
    Supporters embrace each other following the Monday announcement that University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe would resign. (Halee Rock/Missourian via AP)Barely a day after protesters buoyantly celebratedthe resignation of top administrators, the University of Missouri’s Mel Carnahan Quadrangle was eerily quiet Tuesday night. The tents gone. Campus empty.A storm is headed toward Columbia; students are praying it delivers only bad weather.As thunderstorms approached from the west, Mizzou..
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  • Who said what and what it meant: The 4th GOP debate, annotated

    Who said what and what it meant: The 4th GOP debate, annotated
    GOP presidential candidates clashed over immigration, government spending and how to handle Russia's Vladimir Putin during Tuesday night's debate. As the night got heated, the audience got involved: here are the must-watch moments. (Ashleigh Joplin and Rebecca Schatz/Fox Business Network)Eight Republican candidates faced off in Milwaukee, in the fourth round of Republican debates of the 2016 presidential election: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), former Florida governor Jeb Bus..
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  • Washington’s relationship with Kevin Durant is about to get complicated - The Washington Post

    Washington’s relationship with Kevin Durant is about to get complicated - The Washington Post
    (Rob Carr/Getty Images)Forty minutes before Kevin Durant made his final pre-free agency appearance in Washington, Wizards game-day host Rodney Rikai appeared on Verizon Center’s scoreboard.“Let’s make sure we keep this thing real D.C.-centric, real Wizards-centric,” he urged the arriving crowd.The goal, of course, was to keep the focus on the home team, and not on Durant’s Thunder. As it turned out, this would have been a better night to look away entirely. The Wizardswere injured and outclassed..
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  • George Washington University Declines to Rescind Bill Cosby's Honorary Degree | NBC4 Washington

    George Washington University Declines to Rescind Bill Cosby's Honorary Degree | NBC4 Washington
    Students leaders want George Washington University to take back the honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby in 1997, but the administration says they will not. News4's Tom Sherwood reports. (Published Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015) George Washington University administrators said they will not take back the honorary degree the school awarded to Bill Cosby in 1997, despite the student government's unanimous vote Tuesday in favor of revoking the diploma. "While we are shocked and disturbed by ..
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  • Morning Plum: Marco Rubio's clever immigration straddle

    Morning Plum: Marco Rubio's clever immigration straddle
    Last night’s GOP debate laid bare with unusual clarity the deep and nasty divide within the party over immigration. That divide has a policy and political component: The first is over what to do about the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country — should they go, or should they stay, and if so, on what terms? The second is over a related dispute over whether Republicans have to make genuine efforts to appear more welcoming and inclusive and broaden the party’s demographic appeal to win..
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  • Mizzou professor apologizes for confronting journalists, resigns J...

    Mizzou professor apologizes for confronting journalists, resigns J...
    Melissa Click, a mass media professor at the University of Missouri, is seen pushing a student journalist's camera and asking "for some muscle" during demonstrations on campus on Nov. 9. (Youtube/Mark Schierbecker)Melissa Click, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri who was captured on video Monday aggressively confronting a journalism student covering a campus protest, has apologized for her actions and resigned her courtesy appointment with the Missouri School of Journalism.“Yes..
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