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Month: October 2019

Missouri health director reportedly maintained spreadsheet of Planned Parenthood patients’ periods

Missouri’s state health director, Dr. Randall Williams, told officials at a state hearing that he tracked the menstrual periods of women who visited Planned Parenthood with a spreadsheet, the Kansas City Star reported Tuesday. The spreadsheet, compiled at Williams’ request by the state’s main inspector, was used to identify patients who had undergone failed abortions,

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WhatsApp sues Israeli company over cyberattack that it says targeted journalists, dissidents and diplomats

WhatsApp is suing an Israeli company that it claims was behind a cyberattack that installed spyware on users’ phones and targeted human rights defenders, journalists, political dissidents, diplomats and government officials. The Facebook-owned messaging service filed the complaint against NSO Group in US federal court on Tuesday. “This should serve as a wake-up call for

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House sends Turkey message by imposing sanctions and calling WWI Armenian killings genocide

The House passed two measures Tuesday aimed at sending a strong message to the Turkish government amid deteriorating relations between American lawmakers and the country. The House of Representatives first voted on a bipartisan basis Tuesday evening to approve a resolution that would “commemorate the Armenian Genocide through official recognition and remembrance” of “the killing

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Facebook agrees to pay fine over Cambridge Analytica

The fight between Facebook and the UK government’s data regulator over Cambridge Analytica has come to an end. Facebook has agreed to pay the £500,000 ($645,000) penalty imposed by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which found the company failed to safeguard user data gathered by political data firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook will not admit to

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Kanye wrestles with God, not Trump

Beginning with “Jesus Walks” on “The College Dropout,” Kanye’s catalog of work has illustrated a consistent and intentional wrestling with God, potential meanings of the divine and the very human character of Jesus Christ. Despite this fact, some commentators have recently suggested that West parallels other artists in his late-in-life “born-again” experience. The maelstrom of

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The Fed’s long game is anyone’s guess

Happy Wednesday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. Markets think it’s a foregone conclusion that the Federal Reserve will announce a quarter point interest rate cut on Wednesday. The big question for traders, then, is what comes after.

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British female MPs sign open letter to Meghan condemning ‘outdated, colonial undertones’ of press coverage

Seventy-two female MPs have written to the Duchess of Sussex to express their solidarity with her in the face of the “outdated, colonial undertones” which appear against her and her family in the press. The parliamentarians, from across the political spectrum, said they supported her in “taking a stand against the often distasteful and misleading

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Missing words and a screaming match: Inside a wild day of impeachment testimony

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council official in charge of Ukraine policy, told impeachment investigators he tried to make changes to the transcript of a call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a source told CNN of his closed-door testimony before impeachment investigators Tuesday. And while the White House initially

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Fiat Chrysler is in merger talks with Peugeot owner

Fiat Chrysler is once again looking to get hitched. The Italian-American automaker is in talks with French automaker PSA Group, the owner of Peugeot and Citroen cars, over a potential combination. The carmakers confirmed in statements Wednesday that they are taking part in “ongoing discussions” over a potential deal. The talks were first reported by

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