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Lawrence O’Donnell told audiences Wednesday that he will be staying at MSNBC for “the next couple of years,” ending weeks of speculation about the longtime host’s future at the network.
Last month, sources told Yashar Ali in an article for HuffPost that network executives had not been in touch with the “Last Word” host as his contract neared its expiration. The lack of negotiation with a highly rated anchor like O’Donnell was considered unusual, as competing networks could lure talent away with counter-offers.
O’Donnell put those rumors to rest, addressing his future at the network both on the air and on Twitter. 
“I will be sitting right here talking about the James Comey hearing and everything else that happens next week and everything that happens for the next couple of years,” O’Donnell said. 

BREAKING: It looks like @Lawrence has renewed his contract and will be staying on @MSNBC for the next couple of years! Congrats! pic.twitter.com/42YVcsVkuP — Neil Jacobs (@NeilJacobs) June 1, 20…

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A Teen Girl Allegedly Used A Machete To Hack An Uber Driver To Death
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A 16-year-old girl in suburban Chicago shoplifted a knife and machete, hailed an Uber, and then began hacking the driver from behind, prosecutors said. Posted on May 31, 2017, at 6:27 p.m.. Grace Wyler. BuzzFeed News Reporter. Share On facebook Share.

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Hillary Clinton is pouring some cold covfefe on President Donald Trump. 
Trump’s mysterious early-morning “covfefe” tweet was widely considered a typo, but White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer insisted later in the day that the word had a specific meaning. 
“The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,” he said. 
So what did Trump mean? 
“I thought it was a hidden message to the Russians,” Clinton said during an appearance at the Code Conference. 
Later in the day, Trump took to Twitter to blast Clinton as a “terrible candidate.”
She fired back:  

People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017

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Dubke resigns as White House communications director
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Mike Dubke has resigned as White House communications director in the first of what could be a series of changes to President Trump's senior staff amid the growing Russia scandal. Dubke, who served in the post for three months, tendered his resignation ...

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Police in Jupiter, Florida, have released dashcam footage showing the DUI arrest of golf great Tiger Woods.
The 41-year-old was found early Monday asleep in his Mercedes, which was stopped in the right lane of a road. The engine was running, the blinker was on and the car had two flat tires along with some other damage, CBS 12 in West Palm Beach reported. 
The newly released police video shows Woods being cooperative but having difficulty following instructions and showing signs of confusion: 



In the video, Woods tells police he had not been drinking, which was confirmed by a Breathalyzer test. However, the golfer released a statement saying he was on prescribed medication and having an “unexpected reaction.”
Woods apologized to his family, friends and fans, thanked police and vowed to “do everything in my power to ensure this never happens again.” 
The golfer is widely considered one of the greatest to ever swing a club, but his career has been derailed in recent years by a series of inju…

One person is dead following a horrific crash on Long Island, law enforcement sources say.

Adam Jones homered and drove in five runs, Chris Davis added a two-run shot and the Baltimore Orioles beat Masahiro Tanaka and the New York Yankees 10-4 on Wednesday night.

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A storeowner in Brooklyn alerted police to a suspicious job applicant who ended up being a fugitive who had escaped from a jail in the Midwest months ago.

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Do Republicans who criticize Trump face peril? Jeff Flake is about to find out.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Sen. Jeff Flake delivered a stark warning to business leaders eager to learn more about GOP plans to remake the health-care system: It's really hard, and Republicans might not succeed. “There are some still saying that we'll vote ...
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Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "The U.S. Senate should switch to 51 votes, immediately, and get Healthcare and TAX ...Twitter

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If you suffer from stress and anxiety, odds are someone in your life has mentioned meditation as a way to cope with it. Psychiatrists often recommend this therapy, and for good reason — research based on 19,000 meditation studies found mindful meditation can in fact ease psychological stress.
Despite that data, however, meditation isn’t for everyone. And it may not serve some people who experience the most severe bouts of stress.
I have chronic generalized anxiety, which means I’m always experiencing a level of tension or stress. For the most part I can manage it, but every now and then, it’ll hit hard without warning, and uproot my day completely.
In college, my therapist recommended I try meditation to curb my anxiety. At first, I was happy to oblige. I tried a variety of styles, from Zen meditation, which has you focus on breathing, to primordial sound mediation, which involves, well, making primordial sounds.
It didn’t work. I’d often find myself more anxious at the end of a 15-minute…

President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, a move that is unlikely to ruffle his evangelical base.

Under the terms of the deal, the U.S. cannot officially withdraw until November 2019. But in signaling an exit from the deal, Trump would make good on one of his major campaign promises and win the favor of the 22 Republican senators who last week wrote him a letter urging him to do so.


I will be announcing my decision on Paris Accord, Thursday at 3:00 P.M. The White House Rose Garden. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2017



Trump has saidhe believes climate change is a hoaxinvented by the Chinese to compromise U.S. manufacturing.
The claim seems outlandish, but more than a third of white evangelicals agree that climate change probably isn’t occurring.
Among white evangelical Christians ― more than 80 percent of whom threw their support behind Trump in the election ― climate change is an issue of li…

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WASHINGTON ― Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that a commitment to “do no harm” would guide efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and that elements of the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership would serve as a “starting point” in talks with Canada and Mexico.
The remarks on Wednesday at the Bipartisan Policy Center, which supports international trade agreements, struck a marked contrast with President Donald Trump’s nationalist bromides on trade. The comments will undoubtedly allay the fears of big-business interests that support NAFTA, some of which were well-represented in the room.
But Ross’ pronouncements are also liable to vindicate the fears of liberal trade skeptics already worried that the Trump administration’s version of revising NAFTA will amount to simply expanding NAFTA’s reach to new sectors of the economy. That runs counter to their wishes for measures more likely to save the jobs of less-educated workers, whether in manufacturing plants or cal…

A wrong-way crash on I-78 in New Jersey that killed an off-duty police officer happened in one of the few spots on the highway without a guardrail or physical barrier, the I-Team has discovered, raising...

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Teen charged with murder in Uber driver's stabbing death in Lincolnwood
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A 16-year-old girl was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of an Uber driver in north suburban Lincolnwood. (WLS). WLS. By Karen Jordan. Wednesday, May 31, 2017 05:18PM. LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. (WLS) --. A 16-year-old girl was charged ...
Girl, 16, accused of killing Uber driver with stolen knife, macheteChicago Tribune
16-Year-Old Girl Accused of Killing Her Uber Driver With Knife, Machete in IllinoisKTLA
16-year-old girl accused of hacking Uber driver to deathWashington Post
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Clinton went in on Twitter, Facebook, and the sharing of fake news at a tech conference. But she cited two examples that aren't entirely true.View Entire Post ›

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Noose found at exhibit in African American Smithsonian museum
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A noose was found Wednesday in a public gallery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture museum, the second such incident on Smithsonian grounds in less than a week, officials said. David J. Skorton, secretary of the Smithsonian ...
Police investigating noose found in African American History MuseumThe Hill (blog)
Noose Found Inside African American Museum in WashingtonNew York Times
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WASHINGTON — If you listen to Environmental Protection Agency AdministratorScott Pruitt, the biggest environmental problem facing the United States isn’t climate change (he doesn’t think that’s real, anyway), or lead-tainted drinking water orbrain-damaging pesticides. It’s that Barack Obama didn’t clean up themore than 1,300most contaminated and hazardous sites across the country.
AFox News headline earlier this monthdeclared that Pruitt was here to clean up the Obama administration’s “toxic mess.” The former Oklahoma attorney general would have the American people believe that what the Superfund program really needs isn’t funding, it’s the right attitude.
“It’s not a matter of money,”Pruitt told Fox News. “It’s a matter of leadership and attitude and management.”
Pruitt has been fixated on the EPA’s Superfund, which is responsible for cleaning up highlycontaminated sites, since taking over as agency chief in February. He’s called it “absolutely essential” and has repeatedly stressed tha…

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Bounty hunters, fugitive shoot each other dead at car dealership in Texas
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, police gather at the scene of a deadly shooting in Greenville, Texas. (David Claybourn/The Herald-Banner via AP). Two bounty hunters and the fugitive from Minnesota they were tracking shot each other dead in a hail ...
Cell phone video captures shooting inside Nissan dealershipKARE
Deadly Shooting at Texas Car Dealership Began When Fugitive Confronted: InvestigatorNBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth (blog)
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NJ Transit and Amtrak officials faced legislators on track work in time for the major Penn Station overhaul.

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For those of us lucky to be awake Tuesday night, for the semi-frequent late-night Twitter outburst from President Donald Trump, we received the gift of “covfefe.” Yes, Trump’s attempt to type the word “coverage” went somewhat awry, giving the Twitter wags a good chuckle before winking out for a good night’s sleep. You had the funny feeling that there would be a high-level meeting the next morning to “spin” this misspelling as a masterstroke of political letters (and that is apparently what happened), but that would surely be that. Right?
Wrong! Sometime between Trump’s tweet and the next morning, a think piece was penned, positioning “covfefe” as the unified field theorem of Donald Trump. Who wrote it? You know who wrote it. The man who writes the takes that make the whole world groan: New CNN hire Chris Cillizza.

This story is really super important to him!

The White House had from 12:07 this morning until right now to come up with a good answer on "covfefe."

And they couldn&#…

Con Edison is trying to figure out what caused several manholes to explode on Manhattan's Upper East Side Tuesday evening. While figuring out a cause of a manhole fire can take time, the utility company has...

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Seniors flood stairwell with papers in graduation tradition
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High school seniors in Chandler, Arizona, celebrated graduation by flooding their school with papers in a deluge so unrelenting it went viral. Footage first uploaded to Twitter over the holiday weekend shows the students dumping papers down a stairwell ...
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