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Trump touts repeal of Obamacare individual mandate

Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2018. President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday night about killing Obamacare’s requirement that most Americans have health insurance or pay a fine. Trump did …

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Asia’s democracy ranking falls in 2017

Burhaan Kinu / Hindustan Times / Getty Images July 2017: Protesters in New Delhi take part in a sit-in over a spate of assaults against Muslims and low-caste Dalits by Hindu vigilantes. Asia ended 2017 less free than it began it. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual assessment of freedoms across …

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Light on Trump hotel say president harassed or assaulted twenty women

Source: UltraViolet | Twitter A group is projecting messages outside the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. ahead of the State of the Union tonight. Karin Roland, a campaign director for UltraViolet, told the New York Daily News that: “Trump remains accused of sexual harassment or assault from more than …

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Al Gore’s investment firm backs start-up created by Facebook co-founder

Dominick Reuter | AFP | Getty Images Former US Vice President Al Gore arrives at Trump Tower in New York on December 5, 2016. Former Vice President Al Gore’s investment firm is making a big bet on one of the creators of Facebook. Asana, a software company headed by Facebook …

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Sonny Perdue is designated survivor for Trump’s State of the Union

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sonny Perdue, U.S. secretary of agriculture It’s a morbid thought, but it must be considered. Nearly every Trump administration Cabinet member — not to mention both houses of Congress — will be packed into the same room for President Donald Trump’s State of …

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Read excerpts from Trump’s first State of the Union address

Jim Lo Scalzo | Pool Image via Getty Images President Donald J. Trump delivers his first address to a joint session of Congress from the floor of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump was slated to deliver his first State of the Union address before a …

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big win for telemedicine, health start-ups

Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the new Amazon Spheres opening event at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, U.S., January 29, 2018. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan Chase are teaming up to reduce health care costs for their own employees. Among the …

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Andrew McCabe’s conduct under question in Clinton probe

Getty Images Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee with the other heads of the U.S. intelligence agencies in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill May 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. For months, the Justice Department’s inspector general has been questioning FBI Deputy Director …

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S&P 500 snaps its longest streak ever without back-to-back 0.5% declines

The S&P 500 concluded Tuesday its longest stretch ever without back-to-back declines of at least half a percent. The broad index went 310 trading days without consecutive pullbacks of that magnitude, before falling 0.7 percent on Monday and 1 percent on Tuesday, according to data from Bespoke Investment Group. “Translation- …

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If the market’s drop turns into a correction, history says hide out in gold, bonds

When the market falls and volatility rises, investors should hide in bonds and gold, according to CNBC analysis using hedge fund analytics tool Kensho. CNBC found the exchange-traded funds that outperformed during periods when the Cboe Volatility index (VIX) – the market’s fear gauge – jumped five points in five …

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