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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking on a new clash between gay rights and religion in a case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado.
The justices said Monday they will consider whether a baker who objects to same-sex marriage on religious grounds can refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The case asks the high court to balance the religious rights of the baker against the couple's right to equal treatment under the law. Similar disputes have popped up across the United States.
The decision to take on the case reflects renewed energy among the court's conservative justices, whose ranks have recently been bolstered by the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the high court.

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Tech giants eating the advertising world - Axios

In the new media world, five companies are crushing everyone else. This year, two-thirds of all global ad dollars will go to the Big Five: Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, according to the latest PriceWaterhouseCoopers Entertainment and Media Global Outlook.

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Republicans eye billions in side deals to win Obamacare repeal votes - POLITICO

White House and Capitol Hill officials are exploring potential deals to divvy up billions of dollars to individual senators’ priorities in a wide-ranging bid to secure votes for the imperiled GOP health care bill.

A Congressional Budget office score that projected 22 million fewer Americans would have insurance under the plan sent some members fleeing Monday and left the bill in jeopardy of failing to have enough votes to even be called to the Senate floor this week.

But Republicans in the White House and in Congress were pleasantly surprised that the bill included more savings than they expected — and are trying to figure out if they can dole it out for votes.

The Senate has about $188 billion to play with.

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Study: Women Store DNA From Every Male They Have Sex With | Neon Nettle

The study also had two implications: The first was that women could absorb DNA through her lifetime that changes her phenotype (her overall appearance and Health. Some women who are known to be promiscuous with multiple sexual partners have been known to change appearance.The second implication comes from the fact that single mothers have DNA from their children residing permanently within their bodies.Thus a man who reproduces with a single mother will have a child that retains the DNA from the previous child.

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Study: Women Store DNA From Every Male They Have Sex With | Neon Nettle

The study also had two implications: The first was that women could absorb DNA through her lifetime that changes her phenotype (her overall appearance and Health. Some women who are known to be promiscuous with multiple sexual partners have been known to change appearance.The second implication comes from the fact that single mothers have DNA from their children residing permanently within their bodies.Thus a man who reproduces with a single mother will have a child that retains the DNA from the previous child.

This study really reenforces the Law of Chastity! More and more, science is starting to prove that the tennates of the gospel are for our health and benefit. Look at what the Word of Wisdom has prevented us from over the years.

I think this was the most interesting thing I learned in that news article.

Epigenetics has raised questions against evolutionary theory because it shows genetic adaption can occur within individual organisms without the need for natural selection. New research is revealing how little we actually know about how the human genome works, suggesting a more complex picture than we’ve imagined.

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Conspiracies Abound After Bizarre Venezuela Helicopter Incident - Bloomberg

A police officer commands a heavily-armed helicopter, buzzes downtown Caracas, disappears; President Nicolas Maduro takes to the airwaves to denounce a “terrorist attack”; the opposition calls it a staged event by the president to justify a power grab. Now, the morning after, crisis-weary Venezuelans are left to try to make sense of it all.

On Tuesday evening, a police helicopter circled low over downtown Caracas, where the supreme court, ministries and presidential palace lie. Gunfire and explosions were heard in the area, while there were no injuries, according to a news release from the court.

Venezuelan authorities inspect the area around the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas on June 27.Photographer: Miguel Gutierrez/EPA
In a late-night address, Venezuela’s information minister identified the attacker as Oscar Perez, a member of the country’s elite police force and investigation unit. Little is known about Perez, who the government said is still at large. In a video posted on his Instagram account, the pilot, flanked by masked men holding rifles, declares insurrectionists “warriors of god” seeking to end a corrupt government that has trampled citizens’ rights.

Like many things in Venezuela, it’s hard to nail down facts and many wondered whether the whole incident had been staged, as local media highlighted the acting experience of the pilot. Other posts of Perez’s Instagram account feature him working crimes, scuba diving and riding horses, and indicate that he acted in a 2015 Venezuelan film, “Suspended Death.”

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Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered

A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, apparently while streaming the act live on Facebook, officials said.

Chris Powell, a spokesman with the Secretary of State's Office, said he was called early Tuesday and told a man drove a vehicle through the monument. That driver — identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren — was arrested by Capitol police shortly after, Powell said. News reports indicate Reed was previously accused of destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.

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Dubai Police to deploy robotic patrols | GulfNews.com

Dubai: Months after Dubai unveiled the first flying taxis in the world, Dubai Police on Tuesday unveiled another believed world’s first — autonomous, self-driving miniature police cars that are expected to hit the streets by year-end.

The robotic vehicles will be equipped with biometric software to scan for wanted criminals and undesirables who are suspected or are breaking laws, police said.

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Elizabeth Warren: ‘The next step is single-payer’ health care | The Seattle Times

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday that opposing the Republican health-care bill wasn’t enough and the Democratic Party should start running on a new national single-payer plan.

“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts,” she told The Wall Street Journal. ”Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.”

Polling has shown government-provided health care to be a very popular notion among Americans. Depending on whether it’s described as a public option, Medicare for all, or federally funded universal health care, proposals are supported by 57 to 61 percent of Americans, compared with only 19 to 24 percent opposed.

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Yellen: Banks 'very much stronger'; another financial crisis not likely 'in our lifetime'

Fed Chair Janet Yellen said the banking system is "very much stronger" due to Fed supervision and higher capital levels.
Yellen also predicted that because of the measures the Fed has taken, another financial crisis is unlikely "in our lifetime."

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Google, Facebook are super monopolies: Roger McNamee

The EU's $2.7 billion antitrust fine isn't large enough to change Google's behavior, McNamee says.
"The share of the markets they operate in is literally on the same scale that Standard Oil had ... more than 100 years ago — with the big differences that their reach is now global, not just within a single country," he says.

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Man Jailed After Drywall Powder Mistaken For Cocaine « CBS Detroit

OVIEDO, Fla. (AP) – A Florida man spent 90 days in jail after police officers who stopped him for driving without headlights said white powder found in his car was cocaine.

But Karlos Cashe walked out of jail last week after lab results determined the powder in the handyman’s car was actually drywall.

Cashe tells WFTV he repeatedly told officers in Oviedo the substance was drywall. But after running a check they found he was on probation for marijuana and cocaine charges in 2015. Cashe says a K-9 alerted on his vehicle and an officer’s field test was positive for cocaine.

Court records show he was denied bond because he was accused of violating probation.

It took nearly three months for lab test results, which were negative for cocaine.

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Half of Americans are spending their entire paycheck (or more) - Jun. 27, 2017

Nearly half of Americans say their expenses are equal to or greater than their income, according to a new study from the Center for Financial Services Innovation. And for those 18 to 25 the percentage is over half, up to 54%.
"Half of America has no financial cushion," says Jennifer Tescher, president and CEO of CFSI, which released the study. "They are living really close to the edge."
Of the 25% who say they have too much debt, 96% report being stressed. This kind of financial stress has lasting health effects for those constantly working to cover the nut, says Tescher. "We can't deal with their health problems if we can't deal with their financial health."
With one out of every two people maxed-out with expenses, it is likely you or someone you know. "It's your co-workers, the receptionist, the guy mowing your lawn, the woman who takes care of your kids."
Maybe it's you.

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Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered

A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, apparently while streaming the act live on Facebook, officials said.

Chris Powell, a spokesman with the Secretary of State's Office, said he was called early Tuesday and told a man drove a vehicle through the monument. That driver — identified in an arrest report as Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren — was arrested by Capitol police shortly after, Powell said. News reports indicate Reed was previously accused of destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.

Facebook video posted early Wednesday is of a man calling himself Michael Reed who describes his beliefs in Christ as well as the separation of church and state.

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Bad--- Sheriff Just Began PERFECT Plan To Rid U.S. Of Muslims After Bloodiest Ramadan In History

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This Unexpected US City Is Being WIPED OUT By Muslim Migrants

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Obama Will NOT Like What This Brave Marine Said About His “Legacy”

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Obama Nailed With Huge Corruption Lawsuit – $17 Billion Of Taxpayer Money Is Gone

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BREAKING Arkansas Bar Gives Hillary Clinton The Worst News Of Her Life

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Taxpayers Are Funding Animal Tests for Homemade Abortions | The Weekly Standard

According to government data analyzed by the taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project, the National Toxicology Program (NTP)—a joint program of the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration—is engaged in hundreds of planned and ongoing animal tests for pesticides, industrial chemicals, foods, natural supplements and even cosmetics. But that’s only the start of the gruesome news.

Two of the substances on the NTP animal testing list are Black cohosh and Dong Quai. These herbs are marketed in part as treatments for menstrual cramps and erectile dysfunction. But they are best known as a way to induce “herbal abortions.”

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Sharyl Attkisson: 'Well-Funded Actors' Manipulate News and the Way We Think | Fox News Insider

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson slammed what she called "transactional journalism," calling it "wholly inappropriate."

"Transactional journalism" refers to inappropriate dealings behind the scenes some journalists have with political actors, the television host and author of the new book The Smear said.

"Virtually every image you run across, whether it is in the news or on social media or elsewhere, even on comedy shows is being put there, [the players I interviewed in the 'smear universe'] say, for a purpose by somebody who wants you to think something that may not necessarily be a consensus at all, or may not even be true," Attkisson told host Shannon Bream.

"Well-funded actors" with "fake accounts" on social media and "a ton of money" use them to manipulate how we think, Attkisson said.

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Homeless camps becoming entrenched in Oakland - San Francisco Chronicle

Lee Smith was one of the first homeless people to pitch a tent near 26th and Wood streets in West Oakland. Now, four years later, he has 100 neighbors, including two pregnant women.

The place looks like a Third World shantytown, a village for the city’s poorest on the fringes of its bustling center. It’s one of about 100 such sprawling encampments in Oakland, and they’re not going away anytime soon.

They’re likely to get even bigger.

Just as the Bay Area’s tech boom has reshaped Oakland in different ways than it has San Francisco, so has its homeless crisis. But unlike San Francisco, Oakland is just beginning to tackle the problem.

San Francisco has a mature infrastructure to help the homeless — from cutting-edge Navigation Centers that help people find shelter to a recent $100 million charitable donation to support the chronically destitute.

Oakland is still experimenting with how to respond to the crisis. The city has a sliver of the money San Francisco has — its budget is about one-tenth the size — and little of the coordinated philanthropic and corporate support that San Francisco enjoys.

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CBO: Income Taxes Up 9.5% Next Year; But Debt Climbs More Than $1 Trillion

(CNSNews.com) - Unless current laws are changed, federal individual income tax collections will increase by 9.5 percent in fiscal 2018, which begins on Oct. 1, according to data released today by the Congressional Budget Office.

At the same time, however, the federal debt will increase by more than $1 trillion.

In fiscal 2017, which ends on Sept. 30, the federal government will collect $3.315 trillion in total taxes, according to the projections the CBO released with its "Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027."

That $3.315 trillion in total taxes will include $1.574 trillion in individual income taxes; $1,164 trillion in payroll taxes; $310 billion in corporate income taxes; and $267 billion in other taxes.

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Germany to pass same-sex marriage law

Berlin (AFP) - Germany is expected to legalise same-sex marriage on Friday, joining many other western democracies in granting gay and lesbian couples full rights, including adoption.

The election-year bill is being pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's leftist rivals who pounced on a U-turn she made Monday -- a manoeuvre that left many of her conservative lawmakers fuming.

Barring an 11th-hour hiccup, the lower house is set to approve the law hours before the Bundestag heads into summer recess. Lawmakers have added the matter to Friday's agenda, clearing up any doubt a vote would take place.