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• UPDATE 1-UK Labour Party officials attempt to oust deputy leader over Brexit

  20-09-2019 23:58
  Britain's opposition Labour Party was plunged into fresh turmoil over Brexit on Friday as a key ally of leader Jeremy Corbyn attempted to have his deputy leader sacked on the eve of the party's annual conference.At a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee, Jon Lansman, the founder of Momentum, a Corbyn-supporting grassroots movement, proposed a motion to abolish the post of deputy leader, currently held by Tom Watson, citing his disloyalty over Brexit, according to two party officials.
  
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• In tech 'awakening,' U.S. workers at Google, Amazon join climate protests

  20-09-2019 23:58
  Hundreds of workers from Google, Amazon and other technology companies on Friday joined climate-change marches in San Francisco and Seattle, saying their employers had been too slow to tackle global warming and needed to take more drastic action.While students set the global agenda and led local marches, U.S. West Coast tech workers said they turned out in support and called on makers of software and hardware as well as providers of services such as cloud data storage to do more.The marches cap
  
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• History buff finds ships that sank in 1878 in Lake Michigan

  20-09-2019 23:54
  A diver and maritime history buff has found two schooners that collided and sank into the cold depths of northern Lake Michigan more than 140 years ago.Bernie Hellstrom, of Boyne City, Michigan, says he was looking for shipwrecks about 10 years ago when a depth sounder on his boat noted a large obstruction about 200 feet (61 meters) down on the lake bottom near Beaver Island.Madison, Wisconsin-based marine historian Brendon Baillod says he examined old news accounts and other records that placed
  
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• Trump on Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint: Somebody Ought To Look into Joe Biden

  20-09-2019 23:53 via westernjournal.com
  
  President Donald Trump encouraged White House reporters Friday to look into Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden’s threat to Ukrainian officials to withhold U.S. aid if a prosecutor overseeing a criminal investigation involving Biden’s son Hunter was not fired. The Hill reported that Trump dismissed a “partisan” whistleblower’s complaint against him that…
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• UPDATE 2-U.S. says it will help El Salvador handle more asylum seekers

  20-09-2019 23:50
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The United States and El Salvador on Friday agreed to attempt to reduce the flow of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border by strengthening El Salvador's capacity to provide for asylum seekers, but did not detail any concrete actions."The core of this is recognizing El Salvador's development of their own asylum system and committing to help them build that capacity," Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told reporters in W
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. to help El Salvador handle more asylum seekers

  20-09-2019 23:50
  WASHINGTON, D.C./NEW YORK Sept 20 (Reuters) - The United States and El Salvador on Friday agreed to attempt to reduce the flow of Central American migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border by strengthening El Salvador's capacity to receive asylum seekers but did not detail any concrete actions."The core of this is recognizing El Salvador's development of their own asylum system and committing to help them build that capacity," Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to
  
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• SUV drives through Chicago-area mall and crashes into store

  20-09-2019 23:48
  A man drove an SUV into a suburban Chicago mall on Friday, sending frightened shoppers scurrying and plowing over a kiosk before he crashed into a clothing store and was arrested.Video posted on social media shows the black Chevy Trailblazer driving through the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg at around 2:30 p.m. while shoppers and store employees run for safety.
  
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• Prosecutors Allege Major Democrat Donor Ed Buck Had at Least 10 Victims

  20-09-2019 23:48 via westernjournal.com
  
  Court documents filed this week revealed that at least ten men were victimized by prevalent Democratic donor Ed Buck’s alleged predatory behavior. Uncharged with the overdose deaths of two men in his West Hollywood home this past year and a half, USA Today reported, Buck was arrested Tuesday after a third man experienced a near-fatal…
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• Small but rare protest in Cairo after online call for dissent

  20-09-2019 23:42
  Small groups of protesters gathered in central Cairo late on Friday shouting anti-government slogans, responding to an online call for a demonstration against government corruption, Reuters witnesses and residents said.Protests have become very rare in Egypt following a broad crackdown on dissent under President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who took power after the overthrow of the former Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.There was a heavy security presen
  
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• Prince Andrew 'had sex with me when I was 17', says alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim

  20-09-2019 23:37
  A woman who alleges she was a victim of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has said she was forced into sexual encounters with Prince Andrew, branding him an "abuser".Virginia Giuffre, one of 16 women who have accused Epstein of wrongdoing, said in an interview that the disgraced financier had directed her to have sex with other men, including Prince Andrew.
  
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• Brazilian climate strikers take aim at Bolsonaro for Amazon fires

  20-09-2019 23:33
  BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Thousands of Brazilians demanded action on climate change on Friday, taking aim in nationwide protests at President Jair Bolsonaro who they say is allowing fires to destroy the Amazon rainforest, worsening the environmental crisis.Global anxiety that not enough is being done on climate change has focused on Brazil since August when it was revealed that fires in the Amazon have surged to their highest level since 2010.
  
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• 'We will continue to roar': Teens take to the streets in global climate protest

  20-09-2019 23:33
  Hundreds of thousands of young people around the world took to the streets Friday for a day of global protest against inaction on climate change.
  
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• Walmart to stop sales of e-cigarettes in U.S. stores: company memo

  20-09-2019 23:31
  Walmart Inctold staff on Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery products at its U.S. stores, amid a growing crackdown on surging teenage use of such products, reports of vaping-related lung disease and some deaths.
  
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• Tennessee's abortion wait period law faces court arguments

  20-09-2019 23:31
  Four years after Tennessee passed a law requiring a 48-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions, abortion clinics are getting a chance to argue against it in court.Beginning Monday in federal court in Nashville, attorneys for five of the state's seven abortion clinics will try to prove that the law harms the women it is supposed to help.It's a subjective standard that has caused some waiting period laws to be struck down and others upheld, depending on the specific circumstances of the st
  
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• UK PM Johnson to meet European leaders in New York in push for Brexit deal

  20-09-2019 23:30
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold talks with European leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York next week as part of his push to secure a Brexit deal by the end of October.Johnson is due to meet Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, European Council President Donald Tusk, French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel on Monday and Tuesday, a senior UK official said.
  
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• Trudeau's support holds after apology for wearing brownface

  20-09-2019 23:29
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Friday that he let down his supporters — and all Canadians of color — by appearing years ago in brownface and blackface."I hurt people who in many cases consider me an ally," Trudeau told a news conference.Trudeau, 47, is seeking a second term as prime minister in an Oct. 21 election.
  
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• Anemia in early pregnancy linked with risk for neurodevelopmental disorders

  20-09-2019 23:25
  Children born to mothers with iron-deficiency anemia early in pregnancy may be at higher risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, a new study suggests.In an analysis of data on more than half a million babies born in Sweden, researchers found that anemia in the mother before the 30th week of pregnancy was linked with a heightened risk of disorders including autism, ADHD and intellectual disability.
  
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• Watch Candace Owens Shred ‘White Supremacy’ Expert Who Attacked Her at House Hearing

  20-09-2019 23:16 via westernjournal.com
  
  Televised congressional hearings are often little more than opportunities for self-centered politicians to grandstand. Just take California Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris during the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco or Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren blowing up at Mark Esper’s confirmation hearing. But every now and then we mine a gem out of these pits of despair, and…
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• UK Labour Party officials attempt to oust deputy leader over Brexit

  20-09-2019 23:14
  An ally of British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn attempted to have his deputy sacked on Friday as the Labour Party's divisions over Brexit went back on display on the eve of its annual conference.At a meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee, Jon Lansman proposed a motion to abolish the post of deputy leader, currently held by Tom Watson, citing his disloyalty over Brexit, according to two party officials.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Canada's Freeland says she has full confidence in PM Trudeau as leader

  20-09-2019 23:05
  Canada's Foreign Minister Chyrstia Freeland said on Friday that though she was "troubled and disappointed" by images of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in blackface, she had full confidence in his leadership of the party."We do happen to have an election and I have tremendous confidence in Justin Trudeau as the leader," said Freeland, the most visible minister of Trudeau's government and a key ally.Freeland's comments are proof that Trudeau's team is squarely behind him as he forges ahead with his
  
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• Too few pregnant women get exercise advice from doctors, study finds

  20-09-2019 23:05
  Healthcare practitioners "are uniquely positioned" to advise women about exercise during pregnancy, the study team writes in the journal Women and Birth, but it's possible that many doctors don't bring it up because they are unsure about what to recommend.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Why Warren's honeymoon may be coming to an end

  20-09-2019 23:03
  It’s an ironclad law of presidential primary politics: With increased success comes increased scrutiny. And it looks like Elizabeth Warren is about to get her turn in the hot seat.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Turkish court orders rearrest of jailed Kurdish politician

  20-09-2019 22:58
  The release from a Turkish jail of the former leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is set to be blocked after a court on Friday ordered his arrest on new terrorism-related charges, the HDP said.One of Turkey's best known politicians, Selahattin Demirtas has been in jail for almost three years and faces several other legal cases, mainly on terrorism charges, which he denies.A Turkish court ruled earlier this month that he should be released while the main trial continues and
  
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• Storm US border, they can’t stop all of us! With all the news focused on Area 51, ACTUAL break-in just happened in Arizona (VIDEO)

  20-09-2019 22:57 via rt.com
  
  Scores of migrants were detained this week in Arizona as they poured over the Mexico-US border, according to US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which released footage of an 81-person caravan before it was stopped.CBP Arizona posted the clip on Thursday, showing a crowd of migrants as they traverse the desert near the small hamlet of Sasabe. A group of 81 people illegally crossed the border near Sasabe Tuesday. It took 33 man-hours to transport and process the group, comprised of family units an
  
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• Warren, Sanders to visit striking GM workers as dispute continues

  20-09-2019 22:56
  Two major Democratic presidential candidates plan to visit striking General Motorsworkers in Detroit in the coming days as a five-day-old labor dispute threatens to enter its second week.Senator Elizabeth Warren will join workers on the picket line outside GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant on Sunday, while Senator Bernie Sanders will do the same on Wednesday.GM has received harsh criticism from Democrats for shifting health insurance costs for its striking workers union as its members walked the pick
  
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• Argentine judge orders case involving ex-President Fernandez to trial

  20-09-2019 22:55
  A federal judge in Argentina on Friday ordered a case involving ex-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to go to trial over allegations that public construction projects were awarded to firms that paid bribes to government officials.Fernandez, now running for vice president in the Oct. 27 general election, was Argentina's leader from 2007 through 2015.Julio De Vido, who served for 12 years as planning minister under Fernandez and her late husband and predecessor Nestor Kirchner, was sentence
  
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• U.S. wage law applies to marijuana industry workers: appeals court

  20-09-2019 22:54
  The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado said the protections in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) apply to "all workers," regardless of whether the business they are engaged in is illegal under federal law.The court rejected arguments by Colorado-based Helix TCS Inc, which provides security services for marijuana businesses, that its guards were not entitled to overtime because their work is illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act.
  
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• 5 looks we love this week: Kate Middleton, Kendall Jenner, Halima Aden and more

  20-09-2019 22:52
  5 looks we love this week: Kate Middleton, Kendall Jenner, Halima Aden and more originally appeared on goodmorningamerica.comThis week some of our favorite celebrities, models and fashion influencers wore amazing looks that absolutely stunned.Kate Middleton stepped out in a chic pair of cropped trousers while Kendall Jenner shocked us all during London Fashion Week with blonde hair.It was truly a week to remember.Scroll ahead to see just what we mean.Kate MiddletonMiddleton was spotted in London
  
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• Drexel, Tower to buy St. Christopher's Hospital for $50M

  20-09-2019 22:51
  Drexel University and Tower Health have agreed to pay $50 million to buy St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, edging out a for-profit California hospital company in negotiations that lasted until early Friday."This will ensure that the hospital remains a vital resource to families in North Philadelphia and throughout the city and region and that Drexel's medical education training program at the institution will continue," Drexel president John Fry said in an email to the faculty, according
  
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• The Gen Z Factor in 2020 Will Be Even Bigger Than in 2016 as We Make Campus Great Again

  20-09-2019 22:49 via westernjournal.com
  
  Leftists are perpetually convinced that the American right is just one generation away from extinction. Their rhetoric implies that they assume they are contending with the last gasps of a dying conservative ideology rooted solely in residual loyalty to the quaint notions of a barely remembered, long-ago past. Donald Trump’s MAGA revolution is, in this…
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• 21 Years After Phil Hartman’s Murder at Hands of Wife, Comedian’s Brother-in-Law Breaks Silence

  20-09-2019 22:49 via westernjournal.com
  
  Over two decades after Phil Hartman was tragically shot and killed by his wife, the beloved comedian’s brother-in-law has opened up about the aftermath of the infamous murder-suicide. On the morning of May 28, 1998, the comedian, best known for his routines on “Saturday Night Live” and voice-acting for “The Simpsons,” was killed in his…
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• Uber sues New York City over cruising and licensing caps

  20-09-2019 22:48
  Uber Technologies Inc sued New York City on Friday, seeking to void a new rule limiting how much time its drivers can spend cruising streets in busy areas of Manhattan without passengers, saying it threatens to undermine the company's ride-sharing model.
  
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• GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks fall as China cancels U.S. farm visits, yields dip

  20-09-2019 22:45
  An index of global stock markets surrendered early gains on Friday after Chinese agriculture officials who were to visit U.S. farm states next week canceled their trip, dampening optimism on U.S.-China trade talks.Renewed worries about the state of the ongoing trade tensions between Washington and Beijing drove Treasury yields lower and pushed the U.S. dollar down against the safe-haven Japanese yen.
  
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• Judge refuses to toss Coast Guard officer's gun charges

  20-09-2019 22:44
  A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss gun charges against a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of being a domestic terrorist who stockpiled weapons and drafted a hit list of prominent Democrats and TV journalists.U.S. District Judge George Hazel rejected defense attorneys' argument that charging Christopher Hasson with unlawful possession of firearm silencers violates his Second Amendment right to bear arms.Hazel's ruling paves the way for Hasson, 50, to be tried on all four counts in his ind
  
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• Australian girl reunited with toy monkey after losing it at Buckingham Palace

  20-09-2019 22:40
  A 5-year-old was reunited with her stuffed toy after it went missing during a visit to Buckingham Palace.Savannah Hart took her stuffed monkey Harriet on her family trip around Europe.“She was taken out of daddy’s bag to get some photos,” Katie Hart, Savannah's mother, told The Associated Press.
  
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• Breaking: Patriots Drop Antonio Brown

  20-09-2019 22:36 via westernjournal.com
  
  The New England Patriots have released wide receiver Antonio Brown, the team announced Friday. Patriots released Antonio Brown. His stay in New England lasted one game. — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 20, 2019 “The New England Patriots are releasing Antonio Brown,” the team said in a statement posted to Twitter. “We appreciate the hard work…
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• Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Phoenix home up for auction

  20-09-2019 22:30
  An Arizona home that architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed during the last year of his life is going on the auction block next month.The Norman Lykes House in Phoenix, the last residential property Wright worked on, will be up for bid on Oct. 16, according to Heritage Auctions.There will be no minimum starting bid required, the auction house said in a news release.
  
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• Feds: Virginia man facing weapons charges is a neo-Nazi

  20-09-2019 22:29
  Authorities say a northern Virginia man arrested this week on gun charges is a neo-Nazi who has bragged about committing racially motivated violence.At a detention hearing Friday in federal court in Alexandria, an FBI agent testified that 21-year-old Andrew Thomasberg joined Atomwaffen, a group that advocates racial holy war, after attending the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.The agent said Thomasberg bragged in text messages about committing a racially motivated shooting in the
  
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• Women leave Montana town over border agency lawsuit backlash

  20-09-2019 22:26
  A woman who is suing the U.S. Customs and Border Protection after an agent questioned her and a friend for speaking Spanish in a convenience store said Friday the backlash to their lawsuit has forced them to move away from their small Montana city.Ana Suda and her family have been harassed by neighbors, strangers and even schoolchildren in the city of Havre ever since a video of a border agent questioning her and Martha "Mimi" Hernandez was uploaded to YouTube, Suda said in a phone intervie
  
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• Greek island refugee camp too crowded to house newcomers

  20-09-2019 22:26
  A perpetually overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos can't accommodate any more newly arrived asylum-seekers after the number of people already housed exceeded the camp's intended capacity by 400%, authorities said Friday.Migrants who made it to Lesbos were sleeping in the open or in tents outside the Moria refugee camp, and the population inside has reached 12,000, two regional officials told The Associated Press.Some newcomers were being taken to a small transit camp run by the
  
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• US STOCKS-Wall Street drops after China cancels trip to Montana farmland

  20-09-2019 22:22
  Wall Street dropped on Friday, and also finished the week lower, after a Chinese agriculture delegation canceled a planned visit to Montana, dampening optimism about U.S.-China trade talks.The delegates, who had been set to visit U.S. farm states next week,will return to China sooner than originally scheduled, the Montana Farm Bureau said.Major stock indexes fell into negative territory after the cancellation, which came as trade talks were held in Washington and U.S. President Donald Trump said
  
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• Revelers reach gates of Area 51 then peacefully rejoin party

  20-09-2019 22:22
  A Canadian was cited for indecent exposure, but nobody broke down the gates in search of three-eyed aliens and no UFOs appeared in the sky.It wasn't long before the revelers peacefully rejoined 2,000 other people at alien-themed festivals in the tiny towns of Rachel and Hiko.As he walked away from one of the gates, 25-year-old Cyril Soudant of Lille, France, said he was disappointed at how few people were at the event.
  
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• Jennifer Lopez closes Versace Spring 2020 in dress that launched 'Google Images'

  20-09-2019 22:21
  Jennifer Lopez closed the Versace Spring 2020 show in a reimagined version of the iconic deep-v plunging dress that we will never stop talking about.At the closing of the show, J.Lo walked the runway in a green chiffon dress and instantly brought back the same spark she did once upon a time.When she wore this look to the 2000 Grammy Awards, it became one of the most searched images because so many people were looking to get a glimpse of it.
  
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• Aramco reps describe missiles and fires as facilities were attacked

  20-09-2019 22:20
  When 18 drones slammed into the world's biggest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia last Saturday, the roughly hundred workers on weekend night shift leapt into action to confront the blazes that had erupted.Six days after the assault, which hit at the heart of the Saudi energy industry and intensified a decades-long struggle with arch-rival Iran, state oil giant Aramco opened the sites to the world’s media on Friday to observe the damage as well as repair efforts.Riyadh and Washington
  
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• The market has spoken: Coal is dying

  20-09-2019 22:17 via rss.cnn.com
  President Donald Trump has gutted regulations on the coal industry, falsely claimed that windmills cause cancer and installed a former coal lobbyist to lead the EPA.
  
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• Tom Brady Gets Ripped for Hypocritical Complaint About Soft Roughing-the-Passer Calls

  20-09-2019 22:15 via westernjournal.com
  
  New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady decided he’d seen enough of Thursday night’s game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans, and believe it or not, it wasn’t even the nine punts that did it. During the first half of the game, Brady made waves by complaining about “ridiculous” penalties. Too many penalties. Just…
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• SUV crashes into mall in Chicago suburb, filmed driving around INSIDE (VIDEOS)

  20-09-2019 22:14 via rt.com
  
  A sport utility vehicle drove into the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois and drove around inside, scattering the shoppers. There are unconfirmed reports of injuries and the driver is in police custody.It is unclear how many people may have been injured when the black SUV plowed through the glass doors of the Sears store and proceeded to drive around the inside of the shopping center on Friday afternoon. So this just happened at Woodfield. I’m safe. Jesus Christ pic.twitter.com/fOfhtPk
  
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• Canada's Freeland says "looking very unlikely" she will go to U.N. General assembly

  20-09-2019 22:14
  Canada's foreign minister said on Friday the country's ongoing national election campaign means she is unlikely to attend next week's gathering of world leaders at the United Nation's General Assembly in New York."At the moment, it is looking very unlikely that I will be at UNGA next week," Freeland said in an interview with Reuters because traditionally ministers do not travel outside the country during the official election campaign period.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his governing Libera
  
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• Cameron Mathison proudly shows off 'scars that made me cancer-free'

  20-09-2019 22:13
  Days after having surgery for a 4.2 centimeter mass on his right kidney "consistent with renal cell carcinoma," former "GMA" contributor Cameron Mathison is "proudly" showing off his scars.In the process, he also shared that he's cancer-free.
  
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• The Latest: Up to 15 critically injured in deadly bus crash

  20-09-2019 22:12
  Authorities say a tour bus crash near a national park in southern Utah has killed four people and critically injured up to 15 others.The Utah Highway Patrol said Friday that the bus was carrying 30 people, primarily Chinese-speaking tourists.The agency says 12 to 15 people suffered "very critical injuries" in the morning crash near a highway rest stop about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from the entrance to Bryce Canyon National Park.
  
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