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Madonna gave an explosive address at the Women's March on Washington on Saturday that likely has many news networks wishing they had played her remarks on delay.

"Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House ... but I choose love," Madonna said from the main stage area near the National Mall.

Her remarks are now going viral.

Boeing has an updated F-18 in the works — here's how it's 'comparable' to the F-35

Endless varieties and brands of whiskey can be seen on shelves with the rising popularity of the spirit. But do you really understand the difference between rye, bourbon, and scotch? Whiskey expert Tommy Tardie, owner and operator of Fine & Rare and The Flatiron Room, breaks down the differences. 

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Wall Street's sell-side analysts publish piles of recommendations on which stocks to buy, sell, or hold every day.

In retrospect, and for the trader with a shorter time horizon, only a few of those calls were worth listening to in 2016.

TipRanks, a website that tracks and ranks analyst recommendations, compiled a list of stock pickers who had the most success last year.

After scanning hundreds of thousands of recommendations, TipRanks graded them by average return and success rate... Читать дальше...

The race is on.

Across the fund management and retirement industry, legacy fund management companies are partnering with and buying up roboadvisers. 

These automated investment services utilize algorithms to manage and allocate people's assets. Since they don't require human beings to operate, they offer much lower fees than traditional advisers while delivering similar returns.

And their rapid growth has disrupted the investment space, forcing well-established financial firms to act. Читать дальше...

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President-elect Donald Trump will have, if his campaign promises are to be believed, a very busy first day in office. He has pledged a slew of ambitious actions right out of the gate, including overturning a bevy of President Barack Obama’s executive orders, tearing up trade deals, overturning domestic regulations on energy and the environment, deporting undocumented immigrants, and, of course, repealing the Affordable Care Act.

That doesn’t mean all those actions will be taken on Friday, Jan. Читать дальше...

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Even with Tom Brady suspended for the first four games of the regular season, the New England Patriots cruised to their 13th division title in 14 seasons, going 14-2 and winning the AFC East by a cozy four games.

The Patriots also sashayed their way past the Houston Texans in the divisional round of the playoffs, winning 34-16 in a game in which the Pats were favored by more than two touchdowns. 

This all means that when the AFC Championship game kicks off late Sunday afternoon... Читать дальше...

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David Einhorn is buying more General Motors stock.

The Greenlight Capital founder said his hedge fund had "dramatically increased" its GM position, according to the firm's latest quarterly investor letter, which was viewed by Business Insider.

Here's Einhorn's logic:

"While the bears have been screaming 'peak auto' for the last couple of years, we think a strengthening job market will sustain the current upcycle and lead to better than expected credit performance at GM's finance subsidiary. Читать дальше...

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Barack Obama is a major bookworm.

In his book "Dreams from My Father," he reflected on his lifelong love of literature: "When I wasn't working, the weekends would usually find me alone in an empty apartment, making do with the company of books."

Recently, the outgoing US president sat down with New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani to discuss literature.

In the interview, Obama referenced a wide range of works, from books he's read in recent... Читать дальше...

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In anticipation of wide-spread disturbances, several legal assistance organizations have announced they will provide free legal services to demonstrators arrested at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Friday’s inauguration is expected to generate significant protest activity, culminating in the Women’s March on the national mall Saturday, which could draw upwards of 200,000 participants. Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson says they are aware of 63 actions planned for Friday... Читать дальше...

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Hours after video emerged of Donald Trump boasting about committing sexual assault, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized Trump’s comments as “repugnant” and “unacceptable.”

But were they disqualifying? McConnell wouldn’t say—until nearly a month later, when, days before the election, he declared that “we need a new president, Donald Trump, to be the most powerful Republican in America.”

The first part of McConnell’s wish came true: America got a new president in Donald Trump. Читать дальше...

A sea of pink poured through the nation's capital on Saturday as an expected 500,000 men and women gathered for the Women's March on Washington in protest of Donald Trump.

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I recently got back from a vacation that included a family wedding on the Central California coast and a sightseeing trip around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Of course, one of the most popular attractions in San Francisco is the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. It's absolutely breathtaking to behold in all its majesty.

Ironically, the gorgeous span is also an extremely popular suicide location; more than 1,300 people have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge since it was completed in 1937. Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has decided that President Donald Trump can hire his son-in-law Jared Kushner as a senior White House adviser without breaking federal anti-nepotism laws, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

The department has found that the president has special hiring authority that exempts White House positions from federal laws barring the president from appointing relatives to lead a federal agency, the newspaper reported... Читать дальше...

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Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin touted the revitalization, with tweaks, of a decades-old regulation on banks repealed nearly twenty years ago during his confirmation hearing on Thursday. 

Last July, Republican National Convention delegates approved a platform that supported reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act. It was passed in 1933 and required banks to separate commercial deposit banking from investment banking.

Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell asked Mnuchin whether he supported a return to the act. Читать дальше...

Watch Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Service fight their way through the streets of ISIS' last Iraqi stronghold

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David Einhorn's latest investment letter just dropped.

The hedge fund legend and founder of Greenlight Capital returned 4.5% in the fourth quarter, taking the year-to-date return to 8.4%, according to the letter. The fund has now returned 2,090% since its inception in 1996, or 16.1% annualized.

"Since Election Day, the market appears to have changed its macroeconomic outlook and is re-evaluating the prospects for many companies accordingly," the letter said. Читать дальше...

Mass lightning bolts light up night skies by Daggett airport

Roughly 4.4 percent of the global adult population experiences a rare condition called synaesthesia, which causes the brain to confuse sensory information and turn smells into sounds, or numbers and words into tastes and colours.

But scientists might have just identified a specific form of synaesthesia that appears to be far more common - in a small experiment, one in five participants discovered that they could 'hear' motion... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job.

Kushner, 35, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, is taking the post after receiving legal counsel that doing so would not violate U.S. anti-nepotism law, transition officials said. The position... Читать дальше...

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Actress and political activist Ashley Judd brought the house down at the Women's March on Washington, a rally that drew over 200,000 demonstrators in protest of President Donald Trump.

Crowds went berserk for the big-screen actress as she waxed poetic in R-rated language on women's rights and the perceived threat the new administration poses to those liberties.

Judd read a poem from 19-year-old spoken word poet, Nina Donovan, from her home state of Tennessee. Читать дальше...

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Across the country, Americans disturbed by Trump's rhetoric are boycotting companies that have business ties to him and his family.

A number of boycott campaigns, most notably #GrabYourWallet and The Donald J. Trump Resistance (DJTR), have popped up in the last month. As of Trump's inaugural weekend, the #GrabYourWallet campaign has 3.5 million impressions on Twitter (including retweets and likes) and The DJTR has over 44,000 likes on Facebook.

The majority of the targeted retailers... Читать дальше...

The phrase "First, do no harm" doesn't actually appear in the text of the Hippocratic Oath, yet it's frequently considered a fundamental principle of medicine.