Colin Dwyer

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U.S. And China Impose Fresh Tariffs As Trade War Escalates

Thursday, August 23, 2018

The U.S. imposed 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion of Chinese goods overnight, and China matched them. The two have slapped tariffs on a total of $100 billion of each other's goods in two months.

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Verizon Throttled Firefighters' Data As Mendocino Wildfire Raged, Fire Chief Says

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden said data speeds plummeted — and blames the repeal of net neutrality. Now, he's backing state and local agencies that are pushing to undo the FCC decision.

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Michael Cohen's Lawyer Says His Client Would Never Accept Pardon From 'Corrupt' Trump

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Trump's longtime attorney and fixer pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts. Lawyer Lanny Davis tells NPR that Cohen considers Trump "to be both corrupt and a dangerous person in the Oval Office."

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Microsoft Says Russian Operation Targeted U.S. Conservative Groups As Midterms Loom

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Six phony websites were created by hackers linked with Russian intelligence and blamed for 2016 election interference, the company says. They allegedly targeted the Senate and two think tanks.

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Venezuela, Racked With Hyperinflation, Rolls Out New Banknotes

Monday, August 20, 2018

The country is responding to its currency's alarmingly rapid devaluation with an unlikely solution — by devaluing it further. But many economists are not impressed.

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Taliban Answers Afghanistan's Cease-Fire Offer With Ambush, Abductions

Monday, August 20, 2018

Since a brief truce in June, attacks by the militant group have left hundreds of people dead. President Ashraf Ghani is angling for a new peace deal, but the Taliban hasn't taken him up on it.

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Pope Francis On Clergy Sex Abuse: 'We Showed No Care For The Little Ones'

Monday, August 20, 2018

The pontiff's comments were in a letter penned nearly a week after a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailed decades of alleged child abuse and cover-ups. "We abandoned them," Francis wrote.

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Once 'Ball Lightning' Gets Rolling, This Sci-Fi Mind-Bender Shines

Sunday, August 19, 2018

The novel is Chinese writer Cixin Liu's first in English since his "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy. And that series' radical creativity returns in this tale of scientific striving — eventually.

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WATCH: Massive 'Fire Tornado' Revealed In Footage Released By Officials

Friday, August 17, 2018

California authorities say the behemoth killed a firefighter battling the Carr Fire last month. Larger than three football fields, the tornado was unlike anything they'd seen. Now, they have video.

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'There Must Be Justice': U.S. Sanctions Myanmar Soldiers For Rohingya Killings

Friday, August 17, 2018

The sanctions target four mid-level commanders and two units — but they failed to satisfy senators and activists alike, who say the U.S. has a ways to go to hold Myanmar accountable for its crimes.

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Monsoon Hammers India With 'Unprecedented Flood Havoc,' Killing Scores Of People

Thursday, August 16, 2018

The heavy rains hitting the popular tourist destination of Kerala have loosed deadly floods and landslides. "Never before had the State witnessed a calamity of this scale," says a local leader.

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A Grand Noodle Riddle, Cracked: Here's How To Snap Spaghetti Into Just 2 Pieces

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Humankind has long been taunted by the puzzle. Well, we've got some breaking news, folks — or at any rate some big news about breaking: The answer involves one very big twist.

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New Zealand Bans Home Sales To Most Foreigners: 'It's Not A Right, It's A Privilege'

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Squeezed by high prices and low homeownership, the country's housing market has become a big concern for New Zealanders. As part of their solution, lawmakers took aim at buyers beyond their borders.

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Turkey Counterpunches By Raising Tariffs On U.S. Goods

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Ankara has increased tariffs on U.S. products ranging from liquor to automobiles to beauty products, in some cases more than tripling them.

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Tinder Co-Founders Sue App's Owners For At Least $2B, Saying They Were 'Cheated'

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The lawsuit also says the parent companies "whitewashed" sexual harassment claims against an executive carrying out a plan to hide Tinder's full value. The companies blast the suit as "sour grapes."

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Lunch Lady Larceny? Cafeteria Workers Allegedly Stole Half A Million Dollars

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

After Connecticut officials found "irregularities" at two school cafeterias, authorities traced the stolen lunch money back to two unusual suspects: sisters behind the counter.

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What's The Deal With The Deepening Dispute Between U.S. And Turkey?

Monday, August 13, 2018

With the tariffs, sanctions and insults, these longtime allies are looking like anything but. As the Turkish lira falls, you may wonder what's going on here — and why it matters. We have answers.

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Zimbabwe's Opposition Files Legal Challenge To 'Fake' Election Results

Friday, August 10, 2018

On Friday the Movement for Democratic Change, opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa's party, filed an objection to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory. "We have a good case and cause!!" Chamisa said.

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It's 'All Gonna Burn': As Holy Fire Rages, Authorities Find A Human Suspect

Friday, August 10, 2018

Forrest Gordon Clark, 51, faces a life sentence if convicted of igniting the Southern California blaze. The wildfire has forced more than 21,000 people to evacuate.

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Saudi-Led Coalition Strikes School Bus In Yemen, Killing At Least 29 Children

Thursday, August 09, 2018

The children were on a field trip when the airstrike hit their bus in Saada province, aid groups say. The coalition, which is backed by the U.S., says the strike was a "legitimate military action."

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