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Dec 14, 2017

Trump has now appointed most ever federal appeals judges in 1st year

Dec 14, 2017 - World

Trump spoke with Putin today

Trump and Putin

Costco continues to hold its own against Amazon

Costco shopping carts

Two new planets discovered with Google AI

Trump's "really diverse team" is mostly white

Trump cabinet
Dec 14, 2017

Shervin Pishevar leaves his venture capital firm

Shervin Pishevar

Trump steps into Disney-Fox fray

President Trump embraces Rupert Murdoch

The most (and least) fuel-efficient U.S. airlines

Fueling manager Jarid Svraka looks on as he fuels an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 jet with a new, blended alternative jet fuel.

Trump: "I think Senator Rubio will be there" on tax bill

Trump

AI advances at detecting cancer — but it can't see you now

A cancer cell.
Dec 14, 2017

Report: Marco Rubio threatens to vote against tax cuts

Dec 14, 2017

Koch Industries launches a venture capital group

The 'Paul Ryan considers retirement' stories have started

Paul Ryan

GOP considers ending individual tax cuts sooner

The GOP may shorten the duration of individual tax cuts. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Dec 14, 2017

FCC votes to remove net neutrality rules

Net neutrality protesters
Dec 14, 2017 - Economy

Women twice as likely to say they face gender discrimination at work

Office
Dec 14, 2017 - Economy

The New York Times gets a new publisher

Farenthold won't seek reelection after sexual harassment charges

Rep. Blake Farenthold in front of a chalkboard with a yellow sun drawn on it with chalk.

Trump still refuses to believe Russia interfered in the election

Donald Trump purses his lips with his chin up.
Dec 14, 2017

U.S. retail sales beat November expectations

Retail
Dec 14, 2017 - Economy

Tavis Smiley: PBS investigation "went too far"

Tavis Smiley
Dec 14, 2017

Doug Jones' message to Roy Moore: "It's time to move on"

Jones and Moore
Dec 14, 2017

Omarosa denies being fired and escorted off White House grounds

Omarosa
Dec 14, 2017 - Energy & Climate

One-third of Puerto Rico still doesn't have power

A woman left homeless by Hurricane Maria uses her cell phone at a school-turned-shelter that does not have electricity in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.
Dec 14, 2017

Five years after Sandy Hook

A memorial to the Sandy Hook shooting victims
Dec 14, 2017

Pence delaying Israel visit

Dec 14, 2017

Slow rebuild after the Great Recession killed economic equality

The new Apple campus

Disney to acquire most Fox assets for $52.4 billion in historic deal

Dec 14, 2017 - World

Putin claims to care about the “lack of respect” toward Trump voters

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia.

Trump's Democratic surge: the numbers that rattle Republicans

Donald Trump

U.S. shale might blunt OPEC efforts in 2018

A shale oil pump at sunset
Dec 14, 2017

The twilight of net neutrality rules

The states that are running out of CHIP funds

Dec 14, 2017

Pass-through filers do better than wage earners in Senate tax bill

Farenthold faces new allegations from male staffer

Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold.
Dec 13, 2017

PBS suspends "Tavis Smiley" for sexual misconduct

Travis Smiley of PBS, talks with Lower 9th Ward resident Carolyn Parker for Smiley's late-night PBS program.
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