Touting A New Strategy, Frazier Healthcare Partners Closes A $262 Million New Fund

 Frazier Healthcare Partners, a 24-year-old venture firm that invests only in healthcare and has offices in both Seattle and Menlo Park, Ca., has just closed its eighth fund with $262 million from mostly earlier backers. While a coup, the pool is much smaller than Frazier's predecessor fund, a $375 million vehicle raised in 2013. Yesterday, to find out why, we talked with general… Read More

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Kansas Tax Patches Fail as Tea-Party Experiment Riles Residents

"Kansas lawmakers in June approved the largest revenue increase in state history thinking they'd closed a $400 million hole created by income-tax cuts Republican Governor Sam Brownback pushed through three years earlier. They hadn't," our colleague Tim Jones reports for Bloomberg Business. "The state took in $66 million less than expected in the three months ending Sept. 30, and the turmoil is expected to worsen next week when a panel of economists issues its annual projections. They are likely

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Marco Rubio: Many in mainstream media think they're smarter than candidates, want to show off

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Thursday that many people in the mainstream media privately think they're smarter than political candidates and can't wait for their chance to show it off.

"I don't think it's atypical from what you see among most people in the mainstream media, which is, you ...

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Ted Cruz Rejects The Media's Premise

Presidential debates just got a little less futile, thanks to the senator from Texas. Steve Guest reports: Ted Cruz blasted CNBC's moderators for their questions during the GOP debate Wednesday night. Cruz criticized the crew for asking the very questions that "illustrate why the American people don't trust the media." "How about talking about the […]

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China Ends Controversial One-Child Policy to 'Improve the Balanced Development of Population' — Parents Can Now Have Two Kids

"It's better late than never."

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Watch Live: House Speaker Election

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Blippar AR Platform Acquires Binocular To Dive Into The Virtual Try-On

 Blippar, the ad platform that delivers AR content through real-world tags, has today announced the acquisition of Binocular. Binocular is an Austin, TX-based company that creates augmented reality applications for brands, with a specialty in the virtual try-on. The company created the Glasses.com app for Luxotica, which manufactures 75 percent of the world's sunglasses, letting users try… Read More

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Rubio Camp Said to Be Pursuing Bush Bundlers After Debate

GOP presidental candidate Marco Rubio's campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, and bundlers Wayne Berman and George Seay have been calling and e-mailing rival Jeb Bush's bundlers since Wednesday's debate trying to convert them, according to two people familiar with the talks. According to one of the people, the Rubio camp is finding open minds, some anger over Bush going negative; some Bush bundlers are saying they need a "decent interval"; Rubio camp is casting the discussions as base-touching rathe

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After last night

(Scott Johnson) After sleeping on last night's Republican presidential candidates' debate event, I offer a few notes and queries. Jeb Bush's decision to go after Marco Rubio in last was stupid in so many ways I wonder what he was thinking. This is what I was thinking: your campaign is so over. And I doubt I was alone. For the record, let it be noted that Bush took up the fantasy football

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Hillary Clinton: I feel 'a little bit sorry' for Republicans

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said it must be difficult for Republicans to prepare for presidential debates since things are so much better under Democratic presidents, and that the 2016 GOP field is competing to "insult each other."

"I think we have a pretty good idea what to ...

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Gobble Raises $10.75M For Its 10-Minute Dinner Kits

 Food delivery startup Gobble is announcing that it has raised $10.75 million in Series A funding. Gobble does the measuring, chopping, mixing and (to a certain extent) cooking for its customers. So when you get a dinner kit, you should be able to turn it into a fully-cooked meal in 10 minutes, using a single pan. The company says it currently serves 1 million customers in California, so the… Read More

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Bush Campaign Downplays Impact of Debate Performance

Tim Miller, communications director for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, says on CNN the race is a "decathalon" that "isn't going to be won and lost by debates in October." "I think that he did the most important thing that he could do, which is talk about his record and talk about what he's going to do to help people rise up," Miller says In response to questions about why Bush didn't appear on network himself, as other candidates are scheduled to do, Miller says Bush is "flying to N

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Two Men Firing Rounds From Inside a WWII-Era Tank Are Killed in Explosion

"Testing some armor plate."

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'For the Record' Special Report: Journey to the Front Line

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Grab Your Tickets To The Disrupt London 2015 Hackathon

 Want to participate in the Disrupt London Hackathon but missed out on the first ticket release? Great news. Today we're releasing the second wave of Hackathon tickets to the general public, and you can grab your tickets to the event right now. Read More

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The Media-Bashing Republican Debate by the Numbers

Candidates attack the CNBC moderators and "mainstream media" at least 14 times

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New Mexico driver's license status unclear after fed move

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The federal government's move to deny New Mexico an extension from tougher federal requirements on state driver's licenses is posing uncertainties.

The decision means New Mexico driver's licenses won't be accepted at federal facilities like military bases starting Jan. 10.

How will contractors in New Mexico ...

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Chat App Firm Line Focuses On Services After Adding Just 1M MAUs In 3 Months

 Line, one of Asia's top messaging app companies, got back to positive financial growth after recovering its first quarterly revenue drop. The Japanese company said its messaging app service grossed 32.2 billion JPY ($267 million) in Q3 2015, up 35 percent on one year ago and up 15 percent on the previous quarter. Read More

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Ted Strickland Nets $170K from Washington Area Donors

Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio, has raised more than $174,000 in campaign contributions from individuals in the Washington, D.C., metro area in the first three quarters of 2015.

Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio, has raised more than $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals in the Washington, D.C., metro area in the first three quarters of 2015.

Strickland, who served as governor of Ohio for one term between 2007 and 2011, has accepted thousands from D.C.-area attorneys, consultants, lobbyists, and government workers, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of campaign finance reports.

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Space Is Running Out In Startup And Hardware Alley At Disrupt London 2015

 In a little over a month, dozens of startups from around the world will make their way to London's Copper Box Arena for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. Will your company be among them? We still have a handful of tickets available for hardware and software companies looking to display their wares in the Startup or Hardware Alley at the show, and you can secure your company's spot… Read More

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