PHOENIX (AP) - Police have arrested five immigrant rights activists for locking themselves to the front entrance of the executive tower at the Capitol to demand Arizona gov. Doug Ducey veto what protesters call anti-immigrant legislation.
Four demonstrators chained themselves to doors blocking the front entrance Tuesday morning. Others carried ...
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"Assaulting a reporter is wrong, assaulting women is wrong, and the accusations that have been raised about Mr. Lewandowski's conduct go directly to those core values."
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"Wendy's recent comments on a WTAE Facebook page were inconsistent with the company's ethics and journalistic standards."
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New York City officials are pushing to regulate the costumed characters and naked painted ladies that have become emblematic in Times Square, citing harassment and "nuisance quality of life issues."
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NEW YORK (AP) - Busy entertainment mogul Tyler Perry is producing a drama about a woman involved in a political sex scandal, the first scripted series that will air on the TLC network.
TLC said Wednesday that the eight-episode series, tentatively titled "Too Close to Home," will air this summer. ...
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A Frenchman who was arrested last week and linked to the ringleader of last year's Paris attacks has been charged with a series of terrorism offenses, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said Wednesday.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Pulaski County circuit judge has ruled that the family of a Harding College professor who was abducted and killed should be allowed to see the Arkansas State Police investigative file under the state Freedom of Information Act.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/1ROYwpW ) reports that ...
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In an article in The Information, Fadell said that he didn't think Dropcom cofounder and CEO Greg Duffy had "earned" the right to report to him directly. Fadell also explained away an exodus of Dropcam staffers by suggesting they were subpar. "A lot of the employees were not as good as we hoped," he told The Information. It was "a very small team… Read More 
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"I've been eating pizza since long before you were born."
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Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio who has railed against dark money and outside group spending in elections, is now benefiting from hundreds of thousands of Super PAC dollars spent on ads to attack his opponent.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday defended offering Dallas help from state police as the nation's ninth-largest city grapples with a dramatic spike in homicides and local officers balk at reassigned shifts to get violent crimes under control.
Dallas police this week reported a 75 percent ...
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Microsoft's recently launched, A.I.-powered bot Tay may have embarrassed the company when Twitter users taught the machine how to be racist, but Microsoft hasn't given up on the future of bot development. It's just getting started. At Microsoft's annual Build conference in San Francisco today, CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the company's plans to bring the world of… Read More 
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The union represents about 16,500 agents.
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President Obama treated seven former inmates to an afternoon out Wednesday that included meeting in the Roosevelt Room and continued on to Busboys and Poets in downtown Washington, D.C.
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Recent editorials from Florida newspapers:
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Naples Daily News on greyhound racing:
Florida finally got out of the starting gate this year in beginning to reform the greyhound racing industry, but only stumbled to the first turn and is nowhere near the desired finish line.
At least it's ...
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On a recent episode of our podcast we spoke about the VR industry with Matt Hartman, director of seed investments at Betaworks. When evaluating VR companies, Hartman looks for whether the company is delivering a "10X experience." Ultimately, can you deliver 10 times the value of comparable offerings with your solution? For VR companies, the vision of their given solution may not… Read More 
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"I want to drive fast, and I want to drive fast myself and not let a computer do it for me."
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"Hopefully Wes gets the help that he requires for the sake of his own health and the career of an awesome band."
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The Border Patrol agents who would patrol Donald Trump's promised border wall endorsed the GOP presidential frontrunner Wednesday, saying he's shown he's not beholden to special interests and is willing to buck stiff media criticism to do what he thinks is right.
The National Border Patrol Council, the labor union ...
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Apple today announced its expanding its efforts in the area of web development, with the launch of a new version of its Safari web browser, designed specifically for developers. Called Safari Technology Preview, the company says this browser will allow developers to get an early look at upcoming web technologies in OS X and iOS, including things like the latest layout technologies, visual… Read More 
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When he opened the bag, he discovered "a leafy substance that smelled like marijuana."
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"The fact is this was not something like what she described."
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Sunday, April 3
On this date in 1904, a leaking gas main exploded in a Prescott saloon and gambling house, injuring four people.
On this date in 1919, Maricopa County, not including the city of Phoenix, stood alone in the rejection of Daylight Savings Time. Other cities and counties gave ...
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Virtual reality is great for gaming and movies, but when it comes to real-world use cases there's still quite a bit of room for VR to prove itself. Google is hoping to kickstart this process by making 360 VR content a bit more simple to implement and, in the process, way more spontaneous for users to discover and view. Today, the company announced a new initiative, VR View, a tool… Read More 
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"If there's something going on, wouldn't you want your local police or your law enforcement to take care of it?"
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"The Washington Post broke that story today and I want to say yes, it did happen."
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The government cannot freeze the financial assets of people accused of crimes if the money has no connection to criminal activity and is needed to pay legal defense costs, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Five justices agreed that federal prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a Miami ...
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Asana, an enterprise app that lets people set and track projects and other goals, has hit a goal of its own: today, the company is announcing that it has raised $50 million. The Series C round — led by Y-Combinator's Sam Altman — values the company at $600 million, the company tells me. As a bit of context, Asana last raised $28 million in 2012; that Series B was at a… Read More 
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