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Chicago's Top Cop Won't Attend Trump's Speech at Police Chief Conference
Chicago’s top cop won’t be in attendance when President Donald Trump addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police at their annual conference in the city next week.
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Marvel Studios Chief Kevin Feige Developing ‘Star Wars' Film
Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige is teaming up with Lucasfilm to develop a new “Star Wars” film. Walt Disney Studios co-chairman Alan Horn told the entertainment trade The Hollywood Reporter that it made sense for Feige to team up with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy to help usher in a new era in Star Wars storytelling.
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TV Producer Dick Wolf Making History With ‘Law & Order: SVU'
That familiar “cha-CHUNG” sound effect from the opening credits of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” this Thursday will signal the debut of a new season and something else — TV history. The show’s 21st season launch makes it the longest running prime-time live-action series in U.S. TV history and will finally fulfill a goal that eluded show creator Dick...
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YouTube Star Lilly Singh Makes Leap to Late-Night TV
The stubborn curfew barring female hosts from late-night network TV is about to be challenged. Viewer warning: expect more rule-breaking when NBC’s “A Little Late With Lilly Singh” debuts Monday. Singh is attempting the leap from YouTube sensation to broadcast headliner in a single bound, doesn’t plan to dwell on the late-night staple of politics and is only the second...
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2nd Democratic Primary Debate in Quotes: Night 1
See some notable quotes from the Democratic primary debates on July 30, 2019
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Fact Check: Off Notes From Dems on Climate, Economy
Democratic presidential contenders struck off notes on the science of global warming and the state of the economy in their Detroit debate Tuesday night. As much as scientists see the need for action on climate change, they don’t lay out a looming point of no return, as Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke asserted. Bernie Sanders almost certainly overstated how much...
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Watch Eric Trump Leaving Chicago Bar After Being Spit on
Watch President Donald Trump’s son leave Chicago cocktail lounge Aviary after an employee spit on him Tuesday night.
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Key Moments From Democratic Debates: Night 1
From bilingual candidates to heated debates on healthcare, here are the key moments from night one of the Democratic debates.
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Fact Check: Dems' Missteps on Climate, Wages in Debate
This was no Trump rally. Ten Democrats kicked off the presidential debate season with a sober rendering of policy that featured a smattering of missteps on climate change, the economy and more but no whoppers. The Democrats spoke largely in generalities Wednesday night and when they got into the nuts and bolts, their claims largely checked out. But not always.
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Democrats Favor More Access to Capital for Black Businesses
Four Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination honed in on the economic concerns of the black community during a forum Saturday in South Carolina, a state where nonwhite voters will play a major role in next year’s primary election. Appearing on stage one at a time, Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mayor Pete...
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Democrats Favor More Access to Capital for Black Businesses
Four Democrats vying for their party’s presidential nomination honed in on the economic concerns of the black community during a forum Saturday in South Carolina, a state where nonwhite voters will play a major role in next year’s primary election. Appearing on stage one at a time, Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mayor Pete...
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Border Wall a Complex Issue for 2020 Prospect Beto O'Rourke
When President Donald Trump visited Beto O’Rourke’s hometown to argue that walling off the southern border would make the U.S. safer, the former Democratic congressman and possible 2020 presidential hopeful was ready. As the president filled an El Paso arena with supporters, O’Rourke helped lead thousands of his own on a protest march past the barrier of barbed-wire topped fencing...
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Democratic National Committee Chair Perez Prepares for Tough Primary
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is at the center of the biggest test his party has faced in recent history. The party has rebounded from its disastrous 2016 performance with key midterm victories, but now stares at a long and potentially divisive presidential primary fight that could include dozens of candidates. The DNC is rehabilitating from years of neglect...
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Cory Booker Gets Advice From Barack Obama's New Hampshire Campaign Chair as He Mulls a Run for President in 2020
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is getting advice from one of former President Barack Obama’s campaign leaders in New Hampshire as he considers a run for the White House in 2020, CNBC has learned. Jim Demers, a co-chairman of Obama’s New Hampshire campaign organization in 2008, is becoming known as Booker’s “tour guide” within the state.
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Happening Today: Julian Assange, Wildfires, E-Cigs, Kim Porter, David Hockney
Here’s what to know for Friday, Nov. 16.
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Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4
The latest forecast from Storm Team 4.
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Michelle Obama in New Memoir: I'll Never Forgive Trump for Endangering My Family
Former first lady Michelle Obama blasts President Donald Trump in her new book, writing how she reacted in shock the night she learned he would replace her husband in the Oval Office and tried to “block it all out.” She also denounces Trump’s “birther” campaign questioning her husband’s citizenship, calling it bigoted and dangerous, “deliberately meant to stir up the...
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Warren Plans to Take a “Hard Look” at Running for President
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’ll take a “hard look at running for president” after the November elections. The Boston Globe reports the Massachusetts Democrat spoke about her future during a town hall in western Massachusetts Saturday. Warren, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, is running for re-election in November against GOP state Rep. Geoff Diehl, who was co-chairman...
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New York City Not Likely to Tax World's Priciest Painting, a da Vinci, After Record-Setting Sale
New York City collects sales tax on even the smallest items, but it probably won’t collect a cent in taxes on a nearly half billion dollar painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
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World's Priciest Painting to Be Displayed in Louvre Abu Dhabi After Record-Setting NYC Auction
The world’s most expensive painting, Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi,” is going to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the museum announced Wednesday, a few weeks after it was sold for a record amount at auction in New York.