Saturday, January 7, 2017

Saturday's Headlines: Putin ordered effort to undermine faith in election and help Trump win, U.S. says

Suspect in Fort Lauderdale airport shooting had visited FBI office in Alaska last year; The crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A dramatic break could be imminent.; Despite the cost, Hill Republicans embrace building border wall; Mexicans make it clear once again how they feel about paying for Trump’s ‘Great Wall’; Obamacare's fate rests on a GOP that is growing skittish about repealing it;
 
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Putin ordered effort to undermine faith in election and help Trump win, U.S. says
Russia carried out a comprehensive cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential election, an operation ordered by Russian President Vladi­mir Putin that "aspired to help" elect Donald Trump by discrediting his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a declassified report released today. The report depicts Russian interference as unprecedented in scale.
Suspect in Fort Lauderdale airport shooting had visited FBI office in Alaska last year
Police did not immediately identify a motive after authorities arrested Iraq war veteran Esteban Santiago in the wake of a shooting that killed five and closed one of the nation's busiest airports for hours. In November, Santiago visited an FBI office in Anchorage and said his mind was being controlled by a U.S. intelligence agency, a law enforcement official said.
 
The crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A dramatic break could be imminent.
A growing rift is setting the ice shelf up for a loss of nearly 2,000 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island and almost as big as Delaware.
 
Despite the cost, Hill Republicans embrace building border wall
The GOP's willingness to fund Trump's wall with taxpayer money could pit the party's desire to rein in spending against its goal of curbing illegal immigration and toughening border security. But many Republicans don't see a conflict.
 
Mexicans make it clear once again how they feel about paying for Trump’s ‘Great Wall’
Former president Vicente Fox dubbed Trump's wall a "racist monument."
 
Obamacare's fate rests on a GOP that is growing skittish about repealing it
Four Republican senators now say the party should wait for a replacement before repealing the Affordable Care Act. Will the party's base accept that?
 
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WikiLeaks proposes tracking verified Twitter users' homes, families, finances
The disclosure organization said such a database would be used as a "metric to understand influence networks based on proximity graphs." The proposal faced a sharp and swift backlash slamming the idea as a "sinister" abuse of power.
The Limited is closing all of its 250 stores
The move makes the women's apparel chain the latest big-name retailer to be hurt by shoppers' growing preference for online shopping and fast fashion.
'Allahu akbar'-chanting mob sets fire to Germany's oldest church? Shocking story — if it were true.
Fake reports are popping up across Europe, and a Breitbart report on Germany, critics say, shows how the disseminators of such stories trade not only in pure fiction but also in skillfully sown innuendo steeped in exaggeration.
Norway will become the first country in the world to switch off FM radio
All Norwegian broadcasts on FM are slated to halt by year's end, to be replaced by digital transmissions that generally offer better sound quality. Other countries have suggested they might follow suit.
'What real cold feels like': Revisiting the Packers-Giants 2008 NFC classic
Green Bay and New York will meet Sunday in a playoff game at Lambeau Field for the third time in 10 years. The first of them stands as one of the NFL's most memorable playoff games and one of the most painful for its participants. 
Five days into 2017, London tops its pollution limit for the full year
European Union and British law states that no area should exceed hourly limits for nitrogen dioxide more than 18 times in one year. But a monitoring station in south London recorded 19 breaches of the cap in a single day.
The ‘Hillary for mayor’ story proves that we learn nothing
The return of Clinton fan fiction ignores recent history and, by arriving so soon, seems impossibly cruel to her supporters.
 
     
 
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