ALL NEWS AT NOON: Last Generation Network News - TUESDAY MAY 2 2017
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President Trump on Tuesday called for a government shutdown later this year and suggested the Senate might need to prohibit future filibusters, dramatic declarations from a new commander in chief whose frustration is snowballing as Congress continues ...
| The Hill | - |
Lawmakers are threatening to take legislative action against airlines if they don't improve their customer service policies in the wake of a passenger being violently dragged off a United Airlines flight last month.
| Chicago Tribune | - |
University Police Chief David Carter said White was confronted and arrested within two minutes of the first call to police and the situation was immediately under control.
| New York Times | - |
Michael T. Slager, right, arriving at court in Charleston, S.C., in December. Credit Chuck Burton/Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C.
| PCWorld | - |
Windows is taking aim at Chromebooks yet again, but with Windows 10 S, Microsoft's leading the charge with a Google Chromebook Pixel-like 'halo' PC of its own: the 13.5-inch Surface Laptop.
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SEONGNAM, South Korea - South Korea is on the brink of electing a liberal president with distinctly different ideas than the Trump administration on how to deal with North Korea - potentially complicating efforts to punish Kim Jong Un's regime.
World
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SEONGNAM, South Korea - South Korea is on the brink of electing a liberal president with distinctly different ideas than the Trump administration on how to deal with North Korea - potentially complicating efforts to punish Kim Jong Un's regime.
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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on Tuesday. Credit Pool photo by Alexey Nikolsky.
| New York Times | - |
Ivanka Trump said in an interview that her goal was to be a moderating influence on the administration of her father, President Trump.
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Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 presidential election, poses for a selfie as he leaves his home in Paris, France, May 2, 2017.
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CBS “Late Night” host Stephen Colbert gave a vulgar monologue involving gay sex on May 1, 2017, to criticize President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
| New York Daily News | - |
The teen's family has demanded answers as to why police shot at the moving vehicle. (Guy Reynolds/AP). BY Terence Cullen. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.
| BBC News | - |
The FBI has confirmed one of its translators travelled to Syria and secretly wed an Islamic State recruiter whom she had been investigating.
| CNN | - |
London (CNN) It was the dinner date from hell, and the fallout has lasted for days. Devastating accounts of a meeting last week between British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker sent Downing Street into ...
| The Hill | - |
CNN said Tuesday that is refusing to air a campaign ad from President Trump because the spot refers to the media as "fake news.
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Michelle Obama joined students for lunch at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., in 2012. Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images.
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JERUSALEM - As Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prepares for his first meeting with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, the Arab leader and his advisers are expressing a kind of optimism not heard in years.
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BEIRUT - Islamic State militants staged a surprise attack early Tuesday at a crossing frequently used by Iraqi and Syrian civilians seeking safety in northeastern Syria, killing at least 37 people, mostly civilians, Kurdish officials and activists ...
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President Trump just seems to have a thing for strongmen. He invited the brutal Philippine leader, Rodrigo Duterte, to the White House during a "very friendly" phone call Sunday.
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The National Urban League's State of Black America 2017 report, issued Tuesday, notes that the average African American household brings in about half as much income as a white household.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan arrived for a Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday. Credit Cliff Owen/Associated Press.. WASHINGTON - The former chairman of one of the House committees that drafted legislation to repeal and replace large parts of ...
| Washington Post | - |
President Trump on Tuesday called for a government shutdown later this year and suggested the Senate might need to prohibit future filibusters, dramatic declarations from a new commander in chief whose frustration is snowballing as Congress continues ...
| New York Times | - |
Michael T. Slager, right, arriving at court in Charleston, S.C., in December. Credit Chuck Burton/Associated Press. CHARLESTON, S.C.
| Chicago Tribune | - |
University Police Chief David Carter said White was confronted and arrested within two minutes of the first call to police and the situation was immediately under control.
| CNN | - |
Washington (CNN) In an interview with SiriusXM's Salena Zito that aired Monday, President Donald Trump repeatedly made reference to Andrew Jackson as a sort of North Star for his own presidency.
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Twenty five people were arrested during a May Day march in downtown Portland, Oregon, after protesters threw bottles and other items at police officers monitoring the event, authorities said.
| Newsweek | - |
Their post-inauguration vacation may have been fun, but Barack and Michelle Obama are back—and they're getting down to business.
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After only six days on the job, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue moved to stall one of former first lady Michelle Obama's signature accomplishments: stricter nutritional standards for school breakfasts and lunches, which feed more than 31 million ...
| New York Daily News | - |
Maine Gov. Paul LePage can't get his state's attorney general to defend him or President Trump - so he's suing her. The loudmouthed governor filed a lawsuit Monday against Attorney General Janet Mills accusing her of abusing power by going against his ...
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(CNN) The gunman who shot and injured a paramedic treating a civilian in Dallas claimed on his Facebook page to be the New Black Panther Party's longtime national minister of defense.
Business
| The Hill | - |
Lawmakers are threatening to take legislative action against airlines if they don't improve their customer service policies in the wake of a passenger being violently dragged off a United Airlines flight last month.
| Forbes | - |
We know, because we're continually told so, that inequality in the US is soaring to levels not seen since the days of the Robber Barons.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s stock is on course for its worst one-day decline in more than a decade after its second-quarter forecast deflated hopes that a new range of chips will take sales from Intel Corp.
| Washington Post | - |
Infosys, a global tech outsourcing giant under fire from President Trump for stealing American jobs, announced Tuesday it plans to hire 10,000 new U.S.
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The Unicorn Frappuccino - the pink-and-blue social media sensation that “tastes like sour birthday cake and shame” - is so last week, according to Starbucks executives.
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Good things come to those who wait -- if your name is Barry Diller, that is. The media mogul's IAC/InterActiveCorp is buying Angie's List Inc. and combining the consumer-review website with its HomeAdvisor business to form a separate publicly traded ...
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The Federal Reserve is expected to leave policy untouched this week, a moment of calm in what could shape up to be the central bank's most active year of tightening in a decade.
| CNBC | - |
Ford shares dropped nearly 4 percent to a 21-month low after its April sales fell 7.1 percent. GM's April sales declined 5.8 percent, much worse than expected.
| New York Times | - |
An Alitalia plane at Rome's Fiumicino airport. The airline has a work force of 12,400 and operates about 120 planes. Credit Tiziana Fabi/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images.
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McDonald's released a mock infomercial to promote its Signature Crafted Recipe burgers and chicken sandwiches. The infomercial featured the " Frork ," a fry-fork hybrid designed to scoop up all the toppings that fall out of the new sandwiches.
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Home-sharing company Airbnb cleared a major legal hurdle in its hometown of San Francisco on Monday, settling a case that was viewed by many in Silicon Valley as a bellwether for how far start-ups can go to test government.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin discusses the interim budget agreement, creating economic growth and bank regulation with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
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FILE PHOTO: A street performer plays with a ball at the Constitution (Syntagma) square near the Parliament building in Athens, Greece July 18, 2015.
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.): “Well, but he also takes away things like the mortgage interest deduction, the local - state and local property …” Chris Wallace: “No, no, no, that's not true.
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FILE PHOTO: A worker walks past a pump jack on an oil field owned by the Bashneft company near Nikolo-Berezovka, Bashkortostan, Russia , January 28, 2015.
| New York Times | - |
President Trump and Gary D. Cohn, his economic adviser, at a speech to bankers on Monday. Credit Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. For a brief moment, Wall Street stopped on Monday, as if time was suspended in an alternative reality.
| Business Insider | - |
A year and a half ago, the idea of buying the virtual currency bitcoin was laughable. After a rapid rise in value in 2013, the cryptocurrency's value more than halved by mid-2015.
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Israel
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In spring 2009, I was on a small hilltop in the West Bank that overlooks the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. I was part of a group of Israelis and Palestinians paying a visit to a few Jewish teenagers who had set up a squat - the de facto precursor ...
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas that rules the Gaza Strip has unveiled a new policy document that claims to ease its stance on Israel. However, Israel and the more moderate Palestinian Authority that rules parts of the West Bank are skeptical ...
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Last Monday was Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel. It is a quiet, painful, introspective day, on which even highway traffic comes to a complete halt for two minutes.
| mySanAntonio.com | - |
AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott made a strong statement in support of Israel with his first public bill-signing ceremony Tuesday, putting his name to a measure to prevent state contracts with companies that boycott it.
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But it is determined to stop Lebanon's Hezbollah, with which it fought a 2006 war, and which it sees as the top strategic threat on its borders, from using its role in the Syrian war to gain weapons and experience that could ultimately endanger Israel.
| New York Post | - |
On Tuesday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization marks Israel's 69th Independence Day with a resolution challenging Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem. The measure, pushed by Arab nations, declares “null” anything Israel ...
| New York Times | - |
Hamas, the militant group that has long engaged in violent resistance against Israel, is toning down its anti-Semitic language days before the rival Palestinian Authority's leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is scheduled to meet President Trump.
| Jerusalem Post Israel News | - |
Israel's Air Force celebrated the country's 69th Independence in its much-expected annual flyover. The extravagant air display that started at noon drew excited spectators from across the country to Israel's main beaches. The flyover took place over ...
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Staff Sgt. Joana Chris Arpon on Israeli soldiers saving her grandmother in the Philippines: “I was like, “Whoa, that's what I want to do.
| Cleveland Jewish News | - |
Fuchs Mizrachi School n Beachwood observed Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut on May 1, honoring Jews who have given their lives in service to the Israel Defense Force in a solemn ceremony before joyously ringing in Israel's Independence Day in a ...
| Fox News | - |
The Israel Security Agency (otherwise known by the Hebrew abbreviation - Shin Bet) has launched a new interactive website with a highly complex riddle designed to recruit potential new employees.
| Forward | - |
(JTA) - The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, told President Donald Trump that he may not be able to visit the White House because he is “supposed to go to” Israel and Russia. Responding to Trump's invitation on Saturday to visit the ...
| Newsweek | - |
Add Israel to the list of countries North Korea and Kim Jong Un appears to have a major problem with. The authoritarian's regime responded Sunday to Israel's defense minister's recent comments by threatening and warning the state while calling Israel's ...
| Huffington Post | - |
And when one adds the key element, namely, that all this took place not in the Middle West but in the Middle East, where Israel's neighbors determined from day one to destroy it through any means available to them - from full-scale wars to wars of ...
| Algemeiner | - |
Family and friends mourn at the funeral of 20-year old IDF soldier Shlomo Rindenow, July 18, 2016. Rindenow was killed along with another Israeli soldier when a grenade accidentally exploded near an army post on the Golan Heights. Photo: Ben Drori ...
| Stuff.co.nz | - |
Waratahs star Israel Folau says he couldn't care less that Alan Jones thinks he's overrated but acknowledges he isn't guaranteed a Wallabies jersey following the auspicious performances of Karmichael Hunt.
| Christian Science Monitor | - |
May 1, 2017 Doha—The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will remove a call for Israel's destruction and drop its association with the Muslim Brotherhood in a new policy document to be issued on Monday, Gulf Arab sources said.
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