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Clinton leads in Pa., Trump up in Ohio, while Florida, N.C. close: Quinnipiac

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania, while Mr. Trump leads in Ohio and the two candidates are locked in close contests in Florida and North Carolina, according to Quinnipiac University polling released Thursday.

Mrs. Clinton led Mr. Trump by 5 points in Pennsylvania, while ...

Elizabeth Hurley Just Shared A New Amazing Bikini Photo [PHOTOS]

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Ticketing's distributed future is not only good for fans, it's already happening

Mobile Boarding pass on a smart phone and ticket scanner at the airport. Photo: Thomas Winz/Lonely Planet Images

Since the dawn of consumer history, tickets have been a product defined by scarcity and lack of accessibility. The result is an abysmal category user experience that's most often talked about with undertones of anger, skepticism and distrust. For evidence of scarcity in action, look no further than the World Series between the Cubs and Indians, which is the most expensive we've… Read More

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Hillary Clinton Lashes Out at Protester at Florida Speech

At a rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday evening, Hillary Clinton voiced frustration at a protester who chanted, "Bill Clinton is a rapist!" She told the crowd she was "tired of the negative, dark, divisive, dangerous vision and behavior" of Donald Trump supporters.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Feds Spend $199,942 to Get Latina Transgender Women Who Have Sex With Men to Use Condoms

The National Institutes of Health is spending roughly $200,000 in an effort to get Latina transgender women who have sex with men to use condoms.

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Documents show Michigan inmate asked for help before death

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan Department of Corrections says it mishandled the death of a 25-year-old female inmate.

A department spokesman tells MLive it should've quickly notified Michigan State Police of the November 2015 death of Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility inmate Janika Edmond, who killed herself.

Police reports ...

Secret Service Knew About And Helped Manage Clinton's Private Server In 2011

Clintons repurposed Secret Service guard to work on hacking situation

Here's Apple's new iPhone ad for Game 7 of the World Series

Apple just released a new video ad just in time for Game 7 of the World Series (that's baseball and it's not really a "world" cup). And this is a good one. Like previous ads, Apple is focusing on just one new feature in the iPhone 7. All of my friends have been asking me what's new in the iPhone 7. After so many iterations, it's hard to keep up with new… Read More

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Identity and the Election: How Groups of Voters Have Changed Their Minds

Bloomberg has been tracking and aggregating all available internal data from 18 national polls, looking at partisanship, the independent voter, race, gender, age, and education

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Federal Reserve Leaves Rates at a Quarter of a Percentage Point

The policy making arm of the Federal Reserve is leaving the federal funds rate at a quarter of a percentage point, unchanged from the rate decided upon at the last meeting in September, according to the Federal Open Market Committee's statement.

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Defending Clinton, Obama draws contrast with FBI's Comey

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama staunchly defended Hillary Clinton's use of private email as an "honest mistake," suggesting Wednesday that voters should discount innuendo-filled revelations that the FBI is looking into more emails just ahead of Election Day.

Obama walked a careful line in his first public comments about ...

Ben Simmons Trashes The NCAA In 'One And Done' Documentary

'I'm going off on the NCAA. Just wait'

Silvair raises $12 million Series A to light up your (retail) life

When we last left Polish smart lighting company Silvair they were working on a way to create a Bluetooth mesh network between you, your kettle, your lightbulbs, and countless other devices in the home. After two years of work the company has perfected their systems and are now offering occupancy sensing, beacons, customer tracking and lighting to enterprise customers using a unique set of… Read More

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Clinton Win Would Support Yellen's 'High-Pressure Economy': JPM

Democratic control of the White House and Senate would fill 2 current Fed board vacancies with governors more like-minded to Yellen to support her "high-pressure economy" thesis, JPM economist Michael Feroli writes in note before Fed decision. More likely Clinton will choose her own nominees rather than re-nominate Obama's choices of Kathryn Dominguez and Allan London Brainard on Clinton administration coupled with Democratic Senate would have little net effect on board's composition as she'd li

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Top Dem donor compares black Republicans to Nazi collaborators

(Paul Mirengoff) The Democrats are worried, and justifiably so, that African-American voters aren't supporting Hillary Clinton and other Dems to same extent that they backed Barack Obama. Actually, the Democrats are frantic about this. Thus, Benjamin Barber, a top Democratic donor has been caught on camera attacking non-compliant African-Americans during a fundraiser. The video comes via Project Veritas Action. Barber had this to say: Have you heard of the Sonderkommandos? Jewish guards

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Obama Criticizes Comey for Reopening Clinton Email Investigation

President Obama denounced FBI Director James Comey's decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server days before the presidential election.

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Editorials from around New York

Recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New York's newspapers:

The Albany Times Union on state officials potentially opening the Boreas Ponds tract in the Adirondack Mountains to motorists.

Oct. 31

Imagine the most pristine of spots in the heart of the Adirondacks, with a panorama of peaks so ...

Why I Don't Support The North Dakota Pipeline Protests

The pipeline is, economically speaking, a slam dunk.

How banks can tackle millennial skepticism

In light of recent news that Wells Fargo fraudulently opened thousands of customer accounts, it's not hard to sympathize with peoples' mistrust of Wall Street, especially for groups that have already been tough for banks to win over. Read More

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Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton a 'Very Unstable Person'

At a rally in Miami, Florida, on Wednesday, Republican nominee Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for her policy on Syrian refugees.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Military Leader: Iran Sending Elite Fighters Into U.S., Europe

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country's elite military force, is sending assets to infiltrate the United States and Europe at the direction of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to recent Farsi-language comments from an Iranian military leader.

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To Discover Your Purpose, Revisit Your Childhood

With less than a week to go before this election season is mercifully over, I thought I would provide some counter programming and talk about something more hopeful. As regular readers know, I'm a fan of podcasts, and I recently stumbled across a simple (yet profound) way to help discover your life's calling. Many of […]

Hands-on with Microsoft Teams

Teams throws a lot of you, right out of the gate. That's due no doubt in part to the fact that competitors like Slack already have a sizable head start on Microsoft's workplace collaboration tool. More to the point, though, is that, while the company is late to the party, it's got about as good a business suite infrastructure as anyone can ask for, from Office 365 to Skype. In… Read More

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Obama Says FBI Probe Into E-Mails a 'Political Controversy'

President Barack Obama said FBI Director James Comey's decision to renew a probe of Hillary Clinton's e-mails 11 days before the election had stirred a political controversy, but that the White House wouldn't be seen meddling in the investigation.

Source: Bloomberg Politics

Hacked Emails Reveal Hundreds of Donors to CAP, Media Matters

Hacked emails contain documents revealing hundreds of donors to the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for America, liberal nonprofits that have resisted efforts to disclose their funders.

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Donald Trump campaign rejects support of 'repulsive' KKK newspaper

Donald Trump's presidential campaign on Tuesday rejected the support of a Ku Klux Klan newspaper that all but endorsed the Republican nominee in its latest issue.

The Crusader, a KKK-affiliated quarterly that calls itself "the premier voice of the white resistance," devoted its most recent front page to an article ...

N. Korean Dictator Calls His People 'Close-Minded' Children In Secret Recordings

Secret recordings of the late Kim Jong-il released in a new documentary unmask the North Korean dictator's disappointment with his kingdom. The documentary "The Lovers and the Despot" tells the tale of South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee and director Shin Sang-ok, who were kidnapped by North Korean operatives in 1978 and forced to make movies for Kim […]