| Clinton, Carson lead, Rubio and Cruz on the rise: polls Posted:  With a little more than a year until Election Day 2016, Hillary Clinton has established herself as the clear frontrunner...
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| Being married to Bernie Posted:  Jane Sanders is her husband's closest adviser and the people person to his curmudgeon.
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| Canada ranks first for personal freedom, social tolerance Posted: 03 Nov 2015 01:17 PM PST  The Legatum Institute ranked Canada the number one country worldwide in terms of personal freedom in its 2015 Prosperity Index.
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| Chipotle now linked to 35 confirmed E. coli cases Posted: 03 Nov 2015 04:15 PM PST  By Lisa Baertlein and Suzannah Gonzales LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The number of confirmed E. Coli food poisoning cases linked to Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc in Oregon and Washington state rose to 35 on Tuesday, as the company announced steps to improve food safety. Chipotle, which is grappling with its third food safety incident this year, has closed all its 43 restaurants located in and around Seattle and Portland because of the E. coli O26 outbreak. Eight Chipotle restaurants have been tied to the outbreak.
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| Top New York lawmaker 'betrayed' people for own profit -prosecutors Posted: 03 Nov 2015 11:48 AM PST  Sheldon Silver, one of New York State's most influential lawmakers for two decades, abused his position to earn millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks, federal prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday. "This is a case about a powerful politician who betrayed those he was supposed to serve in order to line his own pockets," Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen said as Silver's criminal trial began in a Manhattan courthouse, just steps from the Lower East Side district that Silver has represented in the state Assembly since 1976.
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| Three-quarters of U.S. OPM hack victims still in dark Posted: 03 Nov 2015 12:20 PM PST  Fewer than a quarter of 21 million federal workers hit by a major computer hack have been officially told that their personal information was compromised, six months after the breach was detected, a U.S. government official said on Tuesday. About 5 million notifications about the hack have been sent out so far, a spokesperson for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) told Reuters in an email. After it fell victim to two successive cyber attacks, both begun in 2014 and revealed earlier this year, OPM was roundly criticized by lawmakers for its response.
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| Activision buys Candy Crush maker King for $5.9 billion Posted: 02 Nov 2015 08:23 PM PST  Activision Blizzard announced today it will acquire King Digital Entertainment, the company behind mobile hits Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga, in a $5.9 billion deal. The acquisition of King will make Activision Blizzard "one of the largest global entertainment networks with over half a billion combined monthly active users in 196 countries," according to a release. The acquisition is subject to approval by King's shareholders and the Irish government, but is expected to be complete by spring 2016, Activision Blizzard said.
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| On Broadway, Obama takes a bow mocking Republicans Posted: 02 Nov 2015 06:32 PM PST  The president jokes that Republicans who claim they can handle Putin can't handle CNBC.
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| TransCanada denies politics behind Keystone delay request Posted: 03 Nov 2015 11:44 AM PST  TORONTO (AP) — The head of the Canadian company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline denied Tuesday that political motivation drove its decision to ask the U.S. government to delay consideration of the project.
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