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Pentagon awards Microsoft $10B 'war cloud' contract, snubbing Amazon The Pentagon announced Friday that it awarded the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to build a cloud computing system for the military to Microsoft, in a noteworthy snub to Amazon.

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Kamala Harris to boycott South Carolina forum in protest of Trump award: He's 'a lawless president' Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris plans to boycott an upcoming South Carolina criminal justice forum that she was slated to attend after the organizers honored President Trump Friday with an award for his work on criminal justice reform.

Rep. Waltz: No reason for impeachment hearings to be held in secret Republican lawmakers slam impeachment inquiry transparency; Florida Rep. Michael Waltz weighs in.

Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina was released from a Florida prison on Friday after serving most of her 18-month sentence for conspiring to influence U.S. conservative activists and infiltrate a powerful gun rights group, and taken into custody by immigration officials to be deported to her native country. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2qJqQ6x

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US to keep some troops in Syria to protect oil fields Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane on the path forward in Syria.

American held almost a year in Russia on spy charges says he's 'Mr. Bean, not James Bond' Paul Whelan likened himself moreso to the dopey buffoon that is the character Mr. Bean than the cunning spy character that is James Bond. 

Northeast Syria houses 14K ISIS fighters in prisons Benjamin Hall goes behind the scenes at an ISIS prison in Syria.

Pope Francis asks for forgiveness after Amazon statues stolen, thrown into river in Rome Pope Francis asked Amazonian bishops and tribal leaders for forgiveness Friday after indigenous statues were stolen from a Vatican-area church and thrown into a nearby river. 

At a migrant camp in France, a group of Vietnamese await the final leg of their dangerous journey. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2BFQSKl

The United States has imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe's state security minister, Owen Ncube, over what it says is credible information of his involvement in "gross violations of human rights," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2WglI5E

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Two convicted teen rapists in Tennessee get only 6 months probation Two 13-year-old boys pinned down a 15-year-old girl in Tennessee and recorded themselves raping her. They plead guilty in court and were convicted, but the judge sentenced them to just six months of probation.

Alabama girl Kamille 'Cupcake’ McKinney's cause of death revealed in court warrant Police have determined that Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney -- a 3-year-old girl kidnapped from a birthday party in Birmingham, Ala., whose remains were later found in a dumpster -- died by suffocation, according to court warrants read by a judge Friday.