Oil prices jump $1 after U.S air strike kills Iran, Iraq military personnel https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-prices-jump-1-after-u-s-air-strike-kills-iran-iraq-military-personnel-idUSKBN1Z2030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
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Imagine! A third war about to begin as a distraction from impeachment, polls, North Korea, and everything else that’s going wrong. Meanwhile, did anyone think to check on whether there were big, mysterious purchase of futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exxhange in the last few days? Just sayin’. U.S. strike killed Iran Quds Force chief Soleimani: U.S. official https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-usa/u-s-strike-killed-iran-quds-force-chief-soleimani-u-s-official-idUSKBN1Z203V?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
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…and other sordid tales. This Beach Week ’83 letter is probably the source of his alias in Judge’s book. nyti.ms/2NWkUlo
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On the day the New York Times story on Fred Trump’s decades-long tax fraud comes out, PBS Frontline drops a major investigative report on the Trump-Russia connection "Trump's Showdown" methodically reveals how an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election has grown to threaten Donald Trump’s presidency. #frontlinepbs Watch NOW: https://t.co/GhSe2RrvTt pic.twitter.com/pKstbCwMPA — FRONTLINE (@frontlinepbs) October 3, 2018
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In the end, the transfer of the Trump empire cost Fred and Mary Trump $20.5 million in gift taxes and their children $21 million in annuity payments. That is hundreds of millions of dollars less than they would have paid based on the empire’s market value, The Times found. — Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html
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Richards was sent to prison last year only after he tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana, failed to complete an anger-management course he started four times and didn’t pay court-ordered fees to a halfway house, court records show. Even then, the two-year sentence was reduced to about seven months after credit for good behavior and some jail time already served. After his release, Richards was arrested weeks later for public intoxication. Soon, he was living in a tent in a homeless encampment in the woods near the Coldwater Golf Links in Ames. He told an acquaintance that he had an…
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Donald Trump doesn’t care what anyone thinks about his puzzling relationship with Vladimir Putin — that includes his own foreign policy team, Republican senators and US allies. — Read on www.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/trump-russia-inconsistencies-putin-call/index.html
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A horrible thing happened Friday night. My iPhone went for an unexpected swim. There was a scream of horror, right after the most awful kerplunk sound ever. I fished it out and turned it off as quickly as I could, but I wasn’t quick enough. David had pounded upstairs to see what was the matter, and quickly found a container of rice we still had – we stopped cooking rice for dinner quite a while ago. Into the rice it went and I waited, phoneless, for 2 days. I blame a phone commercial that shows someone dropping their phone in…
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And I hate him for it, so much. Trump is spoiling our national parks
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