Reuters reports the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has leveled sanctions against a dozen Turkish shipping and energy companies for doing business with Syria, along with four individuals connected with one of the sanctioned corporati…
Iran Deal: Ami Bera May Decide by Friday. Maybe.
Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) is still undecided as to whether he will vote for or against the Iran deal in Congress.
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Federal Appeals Court Says Texas Voter ID Law Violates Voting Rights Act
One of the most conservative appellate courts in the county, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an opinion on Thursday that throws out parts of Texas Voter ID law and sends parts of it back to lower court for review.
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Reckoning: Reality of Cord Cutting Drops Media Stocks
The news that cord-cutting is a much bigger problem than had previously been known or reported (except here at Breitbart News, where we have been covering this for years and not falling for the spin), roiled media stocks on Wednesday: And Big Media companies are among the hardest hit: Discovery’s -9.5%, Time Warner’s -8.7%, Disney’s -8.6%, Viacom is -7.8% (and touched a 52-week low), Fox is -7.1%, Comcast is -4.7%, and CBS is -4.5%. More broadly, DreamWorks Animation is down 11.9% after its disappointing earnings last night. Others hard hit include Madison Square Garden (-6.7%), AMC Networks (-6.7%), and Scripps Networks (-5.1%). Reports are that as many as 3.2 million subscribers have abandoned cable television in favor of much cheaper streaming options, like Netflix.. Previously, media companies have been happy talking around this issue; downplaying the numbers and the cataclysmic affect these subscriber losses will have on their bottom line.
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Ted Lieu, in Waxman’s Seat, Uncertain on Iran Deal
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) remains on the fence about the Iran deal. Lieu replaced veteran Democrat Henry Waxman, one of the most pro-Israel members of Congress for four decades, earlier this year.
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Japan Upset by Wikileaks Revelations of U.S. Spying
Japanese officials are concerned over the recent WikiLeaks exposure of American spying.
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Delta Smelt, Farmers’ Nemesis, May Disappear Due to Drought
The delta smelt may disappear from California because of the extreme drought. Farmers in the Central Valley may soon receive the water denied them for years because of environmentalists’ desire to flush fresh water out to sea for the smelts’ sake.
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Venezuelan Government Caught Praising Itself on Fake Twitter Accounts
The unpopular socialist government of Venezuela has been using an army of thousands of Twitter “bots” to inflate its support network on the social media outlet, the Associated Press reports in an extensive exposé.
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Report: Pope Francis Invites Oprah, Matt Damon to Vatican
Pope Francis may be expecting a visit from a group of Hollywood power players, including Oprah and businessman David Geffen this fall, a source told The Hollywood Reporter this week.
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Illegal Alien on Probation Allegedly Rapes, Beats Woman with Hammer During Home Invasion
Victor Aureliano Martinez Ramirez, an illegal alien who allegedly broke into 64-year-old Marilyn Pharis’s home, raped her and savagely beat her with a hammer, had been arrested four times by Santa Maria police in California — and was on probation at…