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Muhammad Ali's former Los Angeles mansion is for sale for $17 million, and the opulent home has hosted guests from Sylvester Stallone to Barack Obama

Muhammad Ali's former Los Angeles home is on the market for nearly $17 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. The boxer and his wife bought the house in 1979 and lived...
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Obama shared an adorable throwback picture to celebrate Michelle's 55th birthday

2 hours ago | Business Insider

Michelle Obama celebrated her 55th birthday on Thursday. In a touching post on Twitter, her husband, former President Barack Obama, shared a throwback of the two of them early...
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Here are 25 things we learned from Michelle Obama's memoir 'Becoming'

6 hours ago | Business Insider

Michelle Obama's new memoir, " Becoming ," is chock-full of never-before-heard stories from the former first lady's childhood and eight years in the White House. Obama is...
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Shutdown raises the risk of recession

1 day ago | Politico

The partial federal government shutdown could be the kind of shock to consumer and business confidence that helps nudge the economy toward the next recession, according to a...
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5 Things to Know About Kirsten Gillibrand, the Democrat Who Launched Her 2020 Presidential Run on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

1 day ago | Fortune | 3 articles

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she is forming an exploratory committee to run for president in the 2020 election on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on...
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The Government Shutdown Is Bad. But It Could Get Much Worse

1 day ago | Fortune

Airport security screeners could quit en masse, grounding flights. The federal courts could stop hearing civil cases. City buses could stop running. And 38 million Americans...
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Most Americans Say U.S. Health Care Is in a ‘State of Crisis'

2 days ago | Fortune

Ask Americans about the U.S. health care system and you'll find a lot of agreement, as 70% say it has “ major problems ” or is “in a state of crisis,” according to a new Gallup...
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The Trouble With the ‘Green New Deal'

2 days ago | Politico

It's hard to recall a Washington idea that has rocketed to prominence as quickly as the Green New Deal, rookie Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's radical...
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How Trump's inaugural committee spent the record $107 million worth of donations to celebrate his election

2 days ago | Business Insider

President Donald Trump's inaugural committee raised the most of any previous administration: a whopping $107 million. For comparison, President Barack Obama's inaugural...
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GOP rejected Obama's executive reach, warily accepts Trump's

5 days ago | Star Tribune | 2 articles

President Barack Obama stunned Republicans when he bypassed Congress and used executive powers to enact parts of his agenda. Now, with President Donald Trump proposing an...
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Trump responds to Pelosi by canceling her foreign travel after she asks him...

President Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cancelling her government trip to Belgium, Egypt, and Afghanistan, citing the ongoing partial government... Read more ...

Trump Fixer Michael Cohen Tried to Rig Presidential Election Polls, Says...

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, reportedly hired someone to try rigging online polls in Trump's favor during the 2016 presidential election. According to... Read more ...

Ousted CBS CEO Les Moonves will fight the company over the $120 million...

Former CBS CEO Les Moonves will fight CBS over its decision to deny him $120 million severance, CBS said in an SEC filing on Thursday. The CBS board of directors denied Moonves... Read more ...

Michael Cohen reportedly gave a tech firm $12,000 and a boxing glove in a...

Michael Cohen in early 2015 paid a small tech firm to try and rig two online polls to help then-candidate Donald Trump. The president's former lawyer and fixer reportedly paid... Read more ...

The Trump administration is reportedly considering lifting some tariffs on...

The US is considering eliminating some or all tariffs on China, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is pushing for tariffs on $250... Read more ...

LeBron James was eating dinner with Kevin Love when Kyrie Irving called to...

Kyrie Irving called LeBron James to apologize for bristling as James' leadership tactics when they were with the Cleveland Cavaliers. When James received the call, he was... Read more ...

Anti-vaxxing, diabetes, and air pollution are among the biggest global...

The World Health Organization has released a list of the top threats to global health in 2019 . While past lists have included outbreaks of various diseases, this year's list... Read more ...

Pelosi backtracks on her letter asking Trump to delay State of the Union

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested moving the date of the president's annual State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown is over, citing security... Read more ...

Tesla is ending its popular referral program that rewarded owners with a...

Tesla's customer referral program will end February 1, Elon Musk said on Twitter . The program was adding too much cost to vehicle production, especially the Model 3 , he... Read more ...

Can't afford a house? The Fed says exorbitant student loan debt could be at...

A new paper from the Federal Reserve suggests that exorbitant student loan debt is keeping young people from buying houses. "We estimate that roughly 20 percent of the decline... Read more ...