Silicon Valley is like no other place in the world right now. The Bay Area has been booming with ideas and innovation for the past decade. But in 2016, the IPO market wilted and unicorns suddenly had to prove their worth. Startups that had raised hundreds of millions of dollars began shuttering and investors are nervous. In "The Down Round" series, we talked to entrepreneurs and… Read More
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Hillary Clinton's campaign tested whether a Washington Free Beacon report showing that Clinton paid women much less than she paid men working in her Senate office would damage her standing with Iowa voters, according to emails released by Wikileaks.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An impeachment investigation against Gov. Robert Bentley is being suspended at the request of the state attorney general who is conducting a separate investigation.
Attorney General Luther Strange sent a letter to the committee chairman saying that would be "prudent and beneficial" if the Judiciary Committee ...
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The aspiring asteroid miners at Planetary Resources have struck pay dirt in Luxembourg, the tiny (but wealthy) European country positioning itself as an ally to commercial space. The country is directly investing €12 million, with another €13 million coming from public investment bank SNCI. Read More 
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Years after relegating her childhood team to No. 2 status behind the New York Yankees, Hillary Clinton is back on the Chicago Cubs' bandwagon after the team captured its first World Series championship in 108 years.
Mrs. Clinton transformed into a Yankees fan after moving to New York in 2000 ...
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The 2016 Mercedes-Benz C350e plug-in hybrid sedan is not a Tesla fighter. It's not even much of a Chevy Volt fighter. It is a very comfortable, very refined plug-in-hybrid mid-range Mercedes. So if that's your jam, this is your car. The C350e has a 2-liter gasoline engine and a 60-kW electric motor, for a combined 275 hp and 443 lb-ft of torque, which means quick merging on the… Read More 
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NATO's former top commander recommended the U.S. government respond to Russia's attempts to influence the presidential election through non-cyber means, emphasizing that a "null" answer would merely reward Moscow's bad behavior.
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana lawmaker has revealed to other legislators that he filed an ethics complaint against Gov. Steve Bullock, despite a state law saying such complaints are confidential until they are resolved.
The Great Falls Tribune reports (http://gftrib.com/2eEoLy2 ) Republican Rep. Brad Tschida of Missoula wrote a ...
More than 90 percent of all phishing emails are now ransomware. The average amount paid via ransomware has grown from $40 in 2009 to $1,000 in 2016. This amount will grow even faster as ransomware moves to enterprise. Read More 
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will join Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in an election-eve campaign rally Monday night in Philadelphia.
In their final event of the campaign, the Obamas and Clintons will focus on get-out-the-vote efforts in the heavily Democratic city, where Mrs. Clinton needs ...
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In many ways, virtual reality is still a moonshot. The $2 billion acquisition of Oculus by Facebook in 2014 lent the neo-futurist hobby a decidedly shortened timeline for consumer adoption. To the tech titans operating alongside it, the purchase was a signal. Mobile's most prominent success story was setting its eyes on what could possibly be the next platform shift. To the… Read More 
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Iranians burned American flags while chanting "Death to America" on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of its militant takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran nearly four decades ago.
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American News, Aberdeen, Nov. 3, 2016
Nothing should stop you from voting
If you're beyond tired of the election season, we certainly understand.
Few, if any, campaigns have been as trying as this year's presidential election battle, with unpopular, scandal-ridden candidates and their supporters who can't possibly fathom what their ...
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Amazon's investment in its own private label products has been paying off, according to a new report out today. The retailer now competes with vendors via its own products in over a dozen categories, including computer accessories, home goods, pet supplies, grocery items, and more. In some categories, Amazon has even established itself as the online category leader, the report indicates.… Read More 
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Thursday that President Obama should stop campaigning for Hillary Clinton and get back to work, after Mr. Trump apparently caught a glimpse of Air Force One while in Florida.
"I just left, by the way, Miami, and in leaving, I see Air Force One," ...
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CoreOS introduced a new container management concept today known as Operators, which they say will advance the Kubernetes project by offering more automated container management. What's more, they are open sourcing the technology. "We are introducing the concept of an 'Operator.' It's a concept for taking a lot of the knowledge an engineer [or developer] has inside… Read More 
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A 93-year-old Texas veteran voted for the first time in his life this year and wants others to do the same, according to a Texas ABC affiliate.
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Judicial Watch asked a federal court Thursday to order former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to answer questions about why she created her secret email system and whether she was aware of the dangers that her account could be hacked, challenging the objections she raised in a written deposition last ...
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