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FTC Alleges T-Mobile Charged Customers Millions In Bogus Charges

Tuesday, July 01, 2014

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint on Tuesday, alleging that wireless provider T-Mobile made hundreds of millions of dollars on bogus charges against its customers.

Essentially, the FTC claims that T-Mobile knew that its customers never ordered text message subscriptions for things like "flirting tips, horoscope information or ...

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Ukraine's President Ends Ceasefire, Vows To 'Free Our Lands'

Monday, June 30, 2014

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko decided to end a 10-day-old ceasefire on Monday, vowing to launch an attack against pro-Russian separatists.

The Kyiv Post reports Poroshenko made the announcement during a televised address.

"We will attack and we will liberate our land," Poroshenko said according to the Post. "The end ...

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Obama Orders 200 More Troops To Iraq

Monday, June 30, 2014

In a letter to Congress, President Obama said he is sending up to 200 additional troops to Iraq to provide security for U.S. personnel already on the ground in the country.

Obama said the force is equipped for combat, but it is being sent to "reinforce security at the U.S. ...

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BNP Paribas Agrees To Pay $8.83 Billion In Sanctions Probe

Monday, June 30, 2014

Representatives for the French bank BNP Paribas pleaded guilty on Monday and agreed to pay $8.83 billion over allegations that it violated U.S. sanctions laws by facilitating transactions involving Sudan, Cuba and Iran.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

"A lawyer for the bank entered the guilty pleas in ...

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Nominating New VA Chief, Obama Says 'We Have To Do Better' For Vets

Monday, June 30, 2014

Announcing his nominee for a new chief of the Department of Veterans Affairs, President Obama said the country needed "to do better for all wounded warriors."

"Providing the highest quality care when our veterans need it — that's your incentive," Obama said.

As expected, the president then introduced former ...

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Obama Says He Will Use Executive Action To Address Immigration System

Monday, June 30, 2014

President Obama says he is going to use executive action to deal with what he says is a broken immigration system.

"While I will continue to push Republicans to drop excuses and act," Obama said, "Americans cannot wait forever for them to act."

Obama made the announcement at the White ...

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Israel Says Bodies Of 3 Students Have Been Recovered

Monday, June 30, 2014

Israeli officials say they have found the bodies of three teens captured earlier this month.

Yeshiva students Gil-Ad Shaer,16, Eyal Yifrah, 19, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, were kidnapped late at night on June 12 from a hitchhiking point in Gush Etzion. Fraenkel is a dual Israeli-American citizen.

"All of ...

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Obama To Nominate Former Procter & Gamble Chief To Head VA

Sunday, June 29, 2014

President Obama on Monday will nominate Robert McDonald, the former chief executive of Procter & Gamble, to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a White House official.

The agency's previous chief, Eric Shinseki, resigned with the agency engulfed in controversy over allegations that the agency falsified ...

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Sunni Extremist Group ISIS Declares New Islamic Caliphate

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Sunni militant group that's been leading an insurgency in Iraq, made a bold statement today: The organization's Shura Council has declared a new caliphate, and the organization's extremist leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is the new caliph.

As Al-Jazeera explains, the caliphate ...

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Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Poll Garners More Than 780,000 Votes

Sunday, June 29, 2014

An unofficial referendum demanding democratic reforms in Hong Kong has garnered more than 780,000 votes over the course of 10 days.

As Reuters reports, the referendum was "branded illegal by local and mainland Chinese authorities." The wire service explains:

"Hong Kong, a free-wheeling, capitalist hub of more than ...

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Obama Administration Seeks Change In Law To Speed Deportations

Sunday, June 29, 2014

President Obama will ask Congress for about $2 billion in emergency funds and for a change in the law in an effort to stem the tide of Central American immigrants flooding the Southern border, according to a White House official.

The New York Times, which first reported the story, ...

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Iraqi Military Launches Offensive Against Insurgents In Tikrit

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Iraqi government launched a heavy offensive on Tikrit, the hometown of the late dictator Saddam Hussein and one of the early wins by the Sunni insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

The Associated Press reports the Iraqi government moved in on Saturday with ground troops, tanks ...

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Facebook Scientists Alter News Feeds, Find Emotions Are Affected By It

Saturday, June 28, 2014

For one week back in 2012, Facebook scientists altered what appeared on the News Feed of more than 600,000 users. One group got mostly positive items; the other got mostly negative items.

Scientists then monitored the posts of those people and found that they were more negative if they received ...

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On Penalties, Brazil Pulls Off A Hard-Fought Win Against Chile

Saturday, June 28, 2014

After more than 120 minutes of play, Brazil's World Cup run came down to penalty kicks on Saturday.

Remember, we've moved on to the knock-out round, so a win means a team moves on; a loss means they go home.

Like the game that preceded, the penalty shootout was heart-stopping ...

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Dallas County Agrees To Take In About 1,000 Immigrant Children

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Calling the situation a "humanitarian crisis," County Judge Clay Jenkins said Dallas County is prepared to house more than 1,000 immigrant children.

"I believe that every child is precious, and that regardless of your stance on immigration or the causes for this human tragedy, we cannot turn our back on ...

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Following High Court Decision, Aereo Suspends Operations

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Aereo, the company that lets subscribers watch TV stations' video that it routes onto the Internet, has decided to suspend its operation.

The decision comes a few days after the Supreme Court handed the company a major loss by ruling that, like cable companies, it was performing the work of ...

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Suspect In Benghazi Attacks Now On U.S. Soil, Pleads Not Guilty

Saturday, June 28, 2014

(This post was last updated at 3:55 p.m. ET.)

Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Libyan man the United States says played a key role on the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, is now on American soil.

In a short appearance at the federal court house in Washington, ...

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Report Blames 'Corrosive Culture' For Problems In VA System

Saturday, June 28, 2014

A White House investigation into the problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country found that "there are significant and chronic systematic failures" that need to be addressed.

NPR's Scott Horsley tells our Newscast unit that the report was delivered to President Obama on Friday. Scott filed ...

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Golden Gate Bridge Board Approves Funding For Suicide Barrier

Saturday, June 28, 2014

The Golden Gate Bridge's board of directors approved $76 million in funding to install a net system that would prevent people from committing suicide by jumping off the bridge.

The Associated Press reports the money will come from a combination of bridge tolls and federal and state coffers. The ...

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Living Up To His Past, Suarez Apparently Bites Italian Opponent

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

In some ways, we should have seen it coming. By the time Uruguay's Luis Suarez apparently took a bite out of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini in Tuesday's match, the ref had already handed out a red card and three yellows.

Chiellini dropped to the ground, writhing, pulling his shirt off ...

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