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Bill Gates Tops Jeff Bezos as World’s Richest Person With Amazon Slide
(Bloomberg) -- This time it’s official.Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates overtook Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person on Friday, reclaiming the...
Devin Nunes and The Benghazi Boys Are Back—But Now They See No Evil
House Republicans have a history of twisting facts to create a circus during congressional hearings; it’s a feature, not a bug for them.But in...
Impeachment Woes and DACA Throes
This excerpt is from episode 176 of The Editors.Charlie: Yesterday was the day on which the rain stopped and the sun hid behind the...
Border wall fundraiser claims new construction in Texas
Claims that a private group has started building its own border wall in South Texas were questioned this week by some longtime residents worried...
A federal judge ruled that New Jersey-born, ISIS-bride Hoda Muthana is not a US...
Hoda Muthana's father was a Yemeni diplomat at the time of her birth, which raised the question of whether or not she gained US...
Marie Yovanovitch receives standing ovation after Trump attacks her during impeachment testimony
Marie Yovanovitch received a standing ovation following her public testimony in Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, in which the ousted ambassador to Ukraine was attacked...
The U.S. Air Force’s Next Big Thing: Arsenal Planes With Hypersonic Missiles
The “arsenal plane” that U.S. Air Force is developing in order to carry large numbers of munitions into battle might also carry new hypersonic...
China targets one of Asia’s biggest meth cartel: deputy drug tsar
Chinese drug police are working with Mekong countries to strike at the heart of a mega-rich meth syndicate, a senior Beijing drugs tsar said,...
Southwest, American, United: No Boeing 737 Max flights until March even if plane returns...
The Boeing 737 Max has been grounded since March following two fatal crashes. Boeing has said it hopes to have the plane recertified by...
Hong Kong protesters defy Xi with pro-democracy rallies
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters defied a warning by China's President Xi Jinping and took to the streets again Friday, as the political turmoil seeped...
