Saturday, November 5, 2016

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  • Orbital ATK resumes flight from Wallops Island, Va., in a stunning ...

    Orbital ATK resumes flight from Wallops Island, Va., in a stunning ...
    Orbital ATK launched an Antares rocket to the International Space Station Monday evening, two years after an explosion caused millions of dollars in damage. (NASA) Orbital ATK returned to flight Monday evening by christening a refurbished Virginia launchpad with a smooth rocket liftoff two years after an explosion caused $15 million in damage. Flying an updated Antares rocket with new engines, the company sent its unmanned Cygnus spacecraft into orbit at 7:45 p.m., chasing down the Inter..
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  • Documents show State Dept. official wanted FBI to change ...

    Documents show State Dept. official wanted FBI to change ...
    A top State Department official tried to pressure the FBI to change its determination that at least one of the emails on Hillary Clinton’s private server contained classified content, prompting discussion of a possible trade to resolve the issue, two FBI employees told colleagues investigating Clinton’s use of a private server last year. One FBI official conceded that he told the State Department employee he would “look into” changing the classification of a Clinton email if the official would ..
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  • US police chiefs group apologizes for 'historical mistreatment' of ...

    US police chiefs group apologizes for 'historical mistreatment' of ...
    Terrence M. Cunningham, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and chief of the Wellesley, Mass., police. On Monday he offered an apology for historic mistreatment of minorities by police. (IACP) The president of America’s largest police organization on Monday issued a formal apology to the nation’s minority population “for the actions of the past and the role that our profession has played in society’s historical mistreatment of communities of color.” Terrence M. Cun..
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  • Russian air defense raises stakes of US confrontation in Syria

    Russian air defense raises stakes of US confrontation in Syria
    Russia’s completion this month of an integrated air defense system in Syria has made an Obama administration decision to strike Syrian government installations from the air even less likely than it has been for years, and has created a substantial obstacle to the Syrian safe zones both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have advocated. Deployment of mobile and interchangeable S-400 and S-300 missile batteries, along with other short-range systems, now gives Russia the ability to shoot down planes..
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  • Refrigeration really does ruin tomatoes, according to science

    Refrigeration really does ruin tomatoes, according to science
    Tomatoes for sale in a supermarket in Princeton, Ill., in 2014. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg) This week in science news you can use, an international group of horticulturalists has published an extensive study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looking at the effects of refrigeration on flavor compounds in tomatoes. Now, we at Speaking of Science take tomato storage very seriously (we've written about it before). But what we truly love about this study is a single sentence fro..
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  • Clinton expands into 'red' states; Trump again claims fraud

    Clinton expands into 'red' states; Trump again claims fraud
    WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) - With Donald Trump’s path to electoral victory appearing increasingly narrow, Hillary Clinton is confidently advancing into states the Democrats haven’t won in decades, as Trump attempts to focus attention on new allegations about the investigation into her email.Clinton’s campaign has launched new efforts aimed at expanding her lead and helping her party win back control of Congress.There’s a new $2 million push in Arizona, aides said Monday, including a campaign st..
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  • Trump TV could be Fox News on steroids

    Trump TV could be Fox News on steroids
    Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Bangor, Maine, on Oct. 15. (Sarah Rice/Getty Images) Let's play a game of “connect the dots.” Dot No. 1: The Financial Times reported Monday on the latest indication that Donald Trump might launch a cable TV station if he loses the presidential election. Dot No. 2: Also Monday, the Huffington Post published an article under the headline, “Is Shep Smith the future of Fox News?” Here is the connection: Trump TV would be much more viable in a future in which t..
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  • Target halts clown-mask sales amid creepy-clown hysteria

    Target halts clown-mask sales amid creepy-clown hysteria
    Ahead of Halloween, officials are warning parents to rethink costume choices as menacing clowns increasingly terrorize people around the country. (Ashleigh Joplin/The Washington Post) Send out the clowns. Target will stop selling clown masks amid a rash of reported clown attacks — real and fake — that have terrorized the United States in recent months, a company spokesman said. “Given the current environment, we have made the decision to remove a variety of clown masks from our assortment..
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  • Forward Brett Connolly could crack the lineup against Colorado

    Forward Brett Connolly could crack the lineup against Colorado
    (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) It’s just two games and less than a week into the regular season, but Capitals Coach Barry Trotz doesn’t want to wait much longer to get forward Brett Connolly into the lineup for the first time. “I think about that every day actually,” Trotz said. “Yeah, I do. I’m thinking Brett is possibly in tomorrow.” Washington signed Connolly on the first day of unrestricted free agency, hopeful that for the inexpensive price of $850,000 on a one-year deal, Connoll..
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  • Overzealous Washington State Gambling Regulators Target Popular ...

    Overzealous Washington State Gambling Regulators Target Popular ...
    Valve is best known as the developer of popular games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and its Steam gaming platform. But to Washington state regulators, the company is a rogue outfit, enabling illegal games of chance through the nefarious means of… well… making its software user-friendly. RELATED ARTICLES 10.11.16 12:01 am 10.04.16 12:01 am 9.20.16 12:01 am As in many American states, gambling is legal in Washington if overseen by politicians' friends and if the house—..
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