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Republican Wins Virginia State House Seat on Drawing of Lots
In a gaggle with reporters following the drawing, Simonds said that it was a "sad conclusion for me and the people of Virginia who needed Medicaid expansion , which was really on the line here". Our historic gains in the House of Delegates were a resounding rejection of the toxic, Trumpian rhetoric and policies that defined the Republican strategy both up and down the ballot this year.
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Success! Trump's Bogus Election Integrity Commission Is Over
Trump convened the commission in May to investigate the 2016 presidential election after repeatedly making unsubstantiated claims that between 3 million and 5 million illegally cast ballots had cost him the popular vote. His allegation that certain states refused to provide confidential voter data requested by the Commission because states "know many people are voting illegally" is false.
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DHS cellphone border searches jumped 50 percent in 2017
Border officials searching travelers' electronic devices can not use them to get at information stored in the cloud, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a new policy Friday that puts some firm limits on the extent of border searches.
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Malaysia Confirms New Phase of MH370 Flight Search
The Houston, Texas-based company Ocean Infinity dispatched a search vessel this past week to look in the southern Indian Ocean for debris from the plane, which disappeared March 8, 2014, on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew members.
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TN Bus Strike Enters Day 4; Temporary Drivers And Conductors Deployed
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) leader A. Soundarrajan said they were ready for talks and regretted that people will suffer. Earlier in the morning, Transport Minister M R Vijayabaskar said that no further talks will be held and requested the striking unions to get back to work.
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USA astronaut John Young passes away
In total, he logged more than 25,00 hours flying time. He flew the first Space Shuttle mission and had been to space multiple times in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, the agency said in its tweet. Young showed a reporter the Space Shuttle trainer where astronauts learn how to fly the orbiter. Young became chief of Nasa's Astronaut Office, supervising training of new recruits and helping to develop the shuttle, the first fixed-wing space vehicle designed for reuse.