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5 Things for Thursday, May 11: Comey, North Korea, Betsy DeVos

"Peanuts" is going Canadian. Maybe our neighbors to the north can help Charlie Brown finally grab that football. Here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

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Harvard To Host Commencement Ceremony Honoring Black Students

Optional ceremony aims to honor the achievements of black students and share their experiences with the community

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Patti LuPone Shades Madonna, Calls Her A 'Movie Killer'

The venerable actress had some harsh words for the material girl during her Tuesday night appearance on "Watch What Happens Live."

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What PR Nightmare? United Stock At All-Time High

And the airline is dealing with another PR nightmare -- a giant rabbit died mysteriously in the cargo hold of a United flight a few weeks ago.

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Facebook Is Now Cracking Down On Spammy Sites

Facebook will start cracking down on links to these types of "low-quality" web pages, it announced Wednesday. It's part of the company's plan to show people "fewer misleading posts, and more informative posts."

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Trump Adviser Icahn May Have Broken Trading Laws: Senators

The lawmakers sent a letter on Tuesday to the SEC and two other regulators pointing to "troubling" evidence, including "massive" profits Icahn reportedly reaped in the market for renewable fuel credits.

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Prepared Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to Bethune-Cookman University’s 2017 Spring Commencement

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivered her first commencement address as Secretary to Bethune-Cookman University’s class of 2017 in Daytona Beach, Florida. The Secretary was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa by B-CU president Dr. Edison O. Jackson.

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Texas Is Proposing a Bill That Could Keep Transgender Students Out of High School Sports

Texas is proposing a bill that could keep transgender students out of high school sports.

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Yelp Stock Crashes 30% After Earnings

That, in a nutshell, sums up investors' sentiments on Yelp right now. The company's stock fell as much as 30% in after hours trading Tuesday after the company posted disappointing sales results.

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Wall Street Journal Adds 300,000 Subscribers In Last Year

It has not stressed the necessity of its journalism, à la the New York Times and its "Truth is Hard" ad campaign or The Washington Post with its new slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness," nor has it made a big deal about subscriber growth in the wake of Trump's election.

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Sprint Owner Says 'Door Is Open' To Mergers Under Trump

SoftBank, which controls Sprint, is expressing optimism about the prospect for mergers in the U.S. wireless carrier industry under President Trump.

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Late Night Hosts Respond To Trump's Firing Of FBI Chief James Comey

Late night comedy hosts found themselves surprised by the news that President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday.

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The Big Economic Headaches Facing South Korea's New Leader

Sworn in Wednesday, Moon Jae-in has stepped into the leadership vacuum left by former President Park Geun-hye, who was impeached over a massive political corruption scandal.

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Trump’s Termination of FBI Director James Comey Raises Great Constitutional Concerns

Jackson Lee: “The President’s impetuous act is further evidence that the President has abandoned constitutional norms and abused his power in a desperate attempt to derail the investigation into Russian collusion with Trump Campaign officials.”

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Rep. Thierry Selected to Serve on Steering Committee for Texas Maternal Mortality as Her Bill Passes Unanimously Out of Public Health Committee

House Bill 2403 will direct the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force to investigate the causes of why African American women die at three times the rate as other women during or shortly after childbirth. Authored by Representative Thierry (D-Houston), the bill was passed unanimously out of the House Committee on Public Health and has the endorsement of health organizations including the American Heart Association, March of Dimes, Texas Pediatric Society, the Afiya Center, and the Texas Medical Association.

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How Much Can I Expect To Earn On My Retirement Savings?

You ask an important question. Clearly, the returns you earn will affect such issues as how much you need to save each year to build a nest egg large enough to support you in retirement and how much you can reasonably expect to draw from savings year to year during retirement without depleting your stash prematurely. So you want your planning to be based on return assumptions that are realistic.

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Facebook Is Now Cracking Down On Spammy Sites

The headline in your Facebook news feed promised something heartwarming: a spirited octogenarian and a college student finding true friendship, perhaps. But click and you're greeted with a barrage of spammy ads and very little text.

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Trump Weighs Rhetoric And Reality In Afghanistan Troop Decision

Trump's official national security team is lining up behind sending more troops to Afghanistan

The primary opposition to the proposal has come from Steve Bannon

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Upon the Wing of a Dove

Sometime in the womb, as we evolve over months from a single-celled organism into the complex mass of neurons and flesh that we recognize as ourselves, an awareness of our place in the world emerges. The world as we begin to know it is a warm, liquid soup, filled with nutrients and enveloped in a thin translucent film. The steady drum of a heartbeat just outside the womb begins to set the pace of your own fledgling heart. An umbilical cord connected directly to our tiny bellies pipes in nourishment to fuel our rapid growth.

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Al Gore, Trump Discuss Paris Climate Deal By Phone

The discussion was described as a cordial talk

Gore previously met with Trump in New York in December