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Army Vet Who Fatally Stabbed Man Traveled To New York To Kill Black People

James Harris Jackson took a bus to New York to target black men when he encountered Timothy Caughman, who was collecting bottles from trash cans, and stabbed him in his chest and back with a 26-inch sword.

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James Harris Jackson is escorted out of a police precinct in New York, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Police said Jackson, accused of fatally stabbing a black man in New York City, told investigators he traveled from Baltimore specifically to attack black people. (AP/Seth Wenig)

New York City officials are calling the death of a black man who they say was repeatedly stabbed with a sword by a white U.S. Army veteran from Baltimore, "an assault" on the city's inclusiveness and diversity. James Harris Jackson took a bus to New York to target black men when he encountered Timothy Caughman, who was collecting bottles from

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Republican Lawmaker Wants Legal Protection For Climate Change Deniers

Maine laws protect people from discrimination based on factors such as race, disabilities and sexual orientation, and a Republican lawmaker wants to add a person’s beliefs about climate change to that list.

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Republican state representative from Maine, Lawrence Lockman. (Photo: Maine House Republicans)

Rep. Larry Lockman has introduced a bill that would limit the attorney general's ability to investigate or prosecute people based on their political speech, including their views on climate change. It would also prohibit the state from discriminating in buying goods or services or awarding grants or contracts based on a person's "climate change

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Ivanka Trump Gets West Wing Office, Security Clearance, & Access To Classified Information

Ivanka Trump is getting a West Wing office, government-issued communications devices and security clearance to access classified information.

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Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, arrives before a joint news conference with President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

WASHINGTON — Cementing her role as a powerful White House influence, Ivanka Trump is working out of a West Wing office and will get access to classified information, though she is not technically serving as a government employee, according to an attorney for the first daughter. Since President Donald Trump took office, his eldest daughter has

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AP Investigation: Paul Manafort Worked To Undermine Anti-Russian Opposition

Manafort’s plans were laid out in documents obtained by the AP that included strategy memoranda and records showing international wire transfers for millions of dollars. How much work Manafort performed under the contract was unclear.

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Paul Manafort, right, and Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appear on stage ahead of Trump's speech, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in New York.

WASHINGTON  — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The

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Tillerson Talks Of Pre-emptive Stikes On NKorea Citing Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Secretary of State and former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, closed the door on talks with Pyongyang unless it denuclearizes and gives up its weapons of mass destruction.

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, center, visits with U.S. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea, right, at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP/Lee Jin-man)

SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday it may be necessary to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if the threat from their weapons program reaches a level "that we believe requires action." Tillerson outlined a tougher strategy to confront North Korea's nuclear threat after visiting the world's most

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Airstrike Hits Refugee Boat In Saudi-Controlled Waters Near Yemen, Killing 31

The boat was carrying registered refugees from Somali who were travelling from Yemen to Sudan. At least 80 survivors were taken to hospital.

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HODEIDA, Yemen  — A helicopter gunship attacked a boat packed with Somali migrants off the coast of Yemen overnight Thursday, killing at least 31 people, according to a U.N. agency, Yemeni officials and a survivor who witnessed the attack. Yemen's Shiite rebels accused the Saudi-led air coalition of carrying out the attack. The coalition has

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White House Tries To Distance Itself Rep. Steve King Comments On Immigration

King said this weekend that America can’t restore “our civilization with somebody else’s babies” and warned of a liberal effort to destroy Western civilization through immigration.

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Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.

WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday distanced itself from Republican Rep. Steve King's inflammatory comments about immigrants, as Democrats pressed House GOP leaders to punish the Iowa lawmaker by stripping him of a chairmanship. King said this weekend that America can't restore "our civilization with somebody else's babies" and warned of a

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