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• Monstrous cyclones churning over Jupiter's poles

  26-05-2017 02:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Monstrous cyclones are churning over Jupiter's poles, until now a largely unexplored region that is more turbulent than scientists expected.
  
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• Verizon may have just made the world’s most pointless thing

  26-05-2017 02:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Someone, somewhere, deep in the bowels of Verizon's marketing department, has apparently read a study saying that the Internet of Things is going to be the next iPhone. This noble Brand Crusader decided that Verizon should be a Thought Leader in this category, and directed the captive team of engineers to make a Product that demonstrates Verizon's commitment to the IoT.
  But unfortunately, no one stopped along the way to think about whether this is a thing that anyone will want to buy.It's called
  
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• Trump son-in-law Kushner under FBI scrutiny in Russia probe: media reports

  26-05-2017 01:45 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser, is under scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Russia probe, the Washington Post and NBC News reported on Thursday.Kushner is being investigated because of his meetings in December and other possible interactions with the Russian ambassador and a banker from Moscow, the Post reported, citing people familiar with the investigation.Kushner is the only current White House official known to be consider
  
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• El Salvador captures escaped female killer "Boss"

  26-05-2017 00:30 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Security forces in El Salvador on Thursday captured the female leader of a hit-squad-for-hire two weeks after she escaped from a Guatemalan prison where she was serving a 94-year sentence, officials said.Marixa Lemus, a 45-year-old Guatemalan who went by the nickname "The Boss," was arrested in the west of El Salvador near the Guatemalan border.Lemus had escaped her military-run prison north of Guatemala City on May 11.
  
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• Woman jumps onto the hood of moving car to prevent carjacking at petrol station

  26-05-2017 00:02 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A Wisconsin woman has become a viral sensation after she jumped on the hood of her own moving car to prevent a carjacking.Melissa Smith, 27, was printing her receipt at a petrol station in Milwaukee when a stranger jumped into her car and began driving away.“I had my, ‘Oh no this isn’t happening to me today moment,’” Ms Smith told local news station WISN 12.
  
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• Melania Trump Celebrates News of Young Boy Getting Heart Transplant After Meeting Her

  25-05-2017 23:09 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Melania has been visiting sick kids at children's hospitals while in Europe.
  
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• Day care worker charged with killing baby in recorded attack

  25-05-2017 23:04 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A day care worker in Maryland was captured on video "torturing" an 8-month-old girl who later died, authorities said Thursday. She has been charged with murder.
  
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• Christian school bans 'immoral' pregnant teenager from attending her own graduation

  25-05-2017 23:03 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A pregnant teenager - an honour student with straights As - has been branded “immoral” by her school and told she cannot attend its graduation ceremony.Officials at Heritage Academy, a private Christian school in Maryland, said Maddi Runkles, 18, was not welcome at the event because she had to be held “accountable for her immorality”.“Maddi is being disciplined, not because she’s pregnant, but because she was immoral,” David Hobbs, the school administrat
  
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• UK hunts for bomber's network amid row over US leaks

  25-05-2017 23:01 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Britain hunted Thursday for a Libya-linked jihadist network thought to be behind the deadly Manchester bombing as US President Donald Trump threatened to prosecute anyone leaking details from the investigation to US media.London reacted furiously after sensitive details about the probe into Monday's suicide attack, which targeted young concert goers and killed 22 people, appeared in the US press.With the row over intelligence-sharing escalating, a shellshocked Britain held a minute's silence to
  
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• Turkish Foreign Ministry rejects U.S. resolution condemning street brawl in Washington

  25-05-2017 22:52 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected a resolution by senior U.S. lawmakers condemning a street brawl between protesters and Turkish security personnel outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington.Spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said the resolution was voted and passed with "a one-sided resolution which distorts the facts" and added the incident, which took place during President Tayyip Erdogan's visit to meet President Donald Trump, was a result of negligence by U.S.
  
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• Woman Talks 'Adrenaline Reaction' That Led Her to Jump on Hood of Car to Foil Carjacking

  25-05-2017 22:39 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Melissa Smith, 28, was not about to become a victim.
  
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• Congress ends effort to kill limits on debit card fees

  25-05-2017 21:33 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  By Pete SchroederWashington (Reuters) - Banks were regrouping on Thursday, a day after being handed a large defeat in the U.S. House, where Republicans sided with retailers in agreeing to preserve limits on debit card fees.The financial industry insisted it was not done fighting to remove limits on the fees."We are glad this fight is over, and are happy with our victory," said Austen Jensen with the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
  
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• Venezuela military defends protests role, backs Maduro congress

  25-05-2017 21:21 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  By Andrew CawthorneCARACAS (Reuters) - Decried by protesters as "murderers" defending a dictator, Venezuela's military insisted on Thursday it was not taking sides in the national political turmoil, though it did back socialist President Nicolas Maduro's controversial plan for a new congress.The armed forces' National Guard unit has played a pivotal role in two months of unrest rocking Venezuela, often blocking marches and using teargas and water cannons to fight youths hurling stones and Moloto
  
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• Pit Bull Formerly on Euthanasia List Now a Top K9 Agent With Police Department

  25-05-2017 21:07 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  "All he needed was a chance," cops said.
  
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• Not a little list: EU draws up Brexit bill

  25-05-2017 20:56 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  By Jan StrupczewskiBRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will next month demand Britain agree to pay a fixed percentage of the EU's outstanding obligations on the day it leaves the bloc, in defiance of a British rejection of that logic as "preposterous".A draft EU negotiating paper, seen by Reuters, that will be put to London when Brexit talks begin following a national election in Britain on June 8 makes clear that suggestions from Prime Minister Theresa May's government that the Union might
  
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• Macron unshaken by Trump power grip

  25-05-2017 20:42 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Diplomacy can be a white-knuckle ride at times, but French President Emmanuel Macron refused to be shaken when he found himself in an unexpected standoff with US counterpart Donald Trump Thursday.Former reality TV star Trump is known to make visitors flinch with a strong handshake that he often combines with a wrench of the arm to leave his victim off balance.As the world cameras watched, Macron held on tight to Trump's notorious power grip as the two men sat next to each other, the Frenchman's
  
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• Montana governor slams alleged Gianforte body-slam: Yahoo interview

  25-05-2017 20:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Montana Gov. Steve Bullock called congressional candidate Greg Gianforte’s alleged assault of a reporter “a real wake-up call” in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric, as voters in his state head to the polls today.
  
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• Feel the power of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test in new video

  25-05-2017 20:01 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  SpaceX is marching ever closer to launching a brand new, huge rocket for the first time this summer. A new video released by the Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company shows a test firing of one of the boosters that will be used for a Falcon Heavy rocket launch.  SEE ALSO: SpaceX's most recent rocket landing looks like something out of science fiction The "side booster" will eventually be strapped onto the main stage of the Falcon Heavy to help give it the extreme power it needs to fly heavy
  
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• House speaker calls Erdogan visit violence 'indefensible'

  25-05-2017 19:58 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that the violence against peaceful protesters by bodyguards for Turkey's president was "completely indefensible," as members of Congress pressed the Trump administration for a more forceful U.S. response.
  
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• 2016 Ford Mustang GT

  25-05-2017 19:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The Mustang GT quickly gained supporters for its sinister presence and a design penned with just the right amount of retro.
  
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• BMW Concept 8-series: Eight Is Greater than Six

  25-05-2017 19:20 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  This shapely coupe concept previews the replacement for the 6-series.
  
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• US deaths from Alzheimer's soar 55 percent since 1999

  25-05-2017 19:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Deaths from Alzheimer's in America have soared 55 percent since 1999, as the burden of this fatal form of dementia grows and the population ages, a federal health report said Thursday.The study in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report spanned 1999 to 2014.Experts say the data shows more caregivers are needed, along with more resources to help people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
  
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• Soldiers launch attacks in besieged Philippine city

  25-05-2017 18:43 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  MARAWI, Philippines (AP) — Backed by tanks and rocket-firing helicopters, Philippine troops launched "precision attacks" Thursday to clear extremists linked to the Islamic State group from a city that has been under siege since a raid that failed to capture one of Asia's most-wanted militants.
  
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• ‘Knuckles turning white’: Macron is a match for the Trump power handshake

  25-05-2017 18:39 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Of President Trump’s many idiosyncrasies, one that stands out is his aggressive style of shaking hands, which he has bestowed upon various world leaders since taking office.Trump and the newly elected Macron met in Brussels before a NATO summit and held the customary photo op, complete with an intense handshake.
  
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• Billy Cosby Breaks His Silence as Final Juror Picked in His Sexual Assault Trial

  25-05-2017 18:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Opening arguments are set to begin June 5.
  
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• Paul Ryan says Gianforte should apologize, not withdraw, after altercation with reporter

  25-05-2017 18:02 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that GOP candidate Greg Gianforte should apologize for an apparently violent interaction with a reporter, but Ryan also said he would accept the Montanan into the House if he won his special election later in the day.“First, let me just say physical altercations — there’s never a call for physical altercations,” Ryan said when asked whether Gianforte should withdraw from the race.“There is no time where a physical alte
  
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• Officials: Manchester bomber passed through Germany, Turkey

  25-05-2017 18:01 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The suspected bomber in the concert attack in Britain passed through Germany and Turkey before the attack, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• Qatar hack, bloody Bahrain raid follow Trump's Mideast trip

  25-05-2017 17:52 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar found itself on the defensive once again Thursday as more Arab nations blocked access to websites of its flagship Al-Jazeera news network, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast visit positioned America squarely with Sunni Arab countries against Shiite power Iran.
  
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• Sea Lion Attack: Child Victim’s Father Speaks Out

  25-05-2017 17:51 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  The father told the CBC that his family was not feeding the sea lion when it dragged his daughter underwater, but did confirm that his daughter is being treated for a possible infection.
  
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• Smooth waves bursting with color give inside view of surfer’s paradise

  25-05-2017 17:32 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Ever wondered what Hawaii’s famous waves look like from the inside? Photographer and non- commissioned officer in the United States Army, Marco Mitre shares the beauty of the shore on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
  
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• Salman Abedi: young man thirsting for revenge

  25-05-2017 16:53 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was a British-born university dropout with Libyan jihadi links who, according to his sister, may have sought revenge for the deaths of Muslim children.Abedi was named by British authorities the day after he detonated a bomb packed with nuts and screws at the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people and maiming dozens more at a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande.Born in Britain to a devoutly Muslim Libyan family, Abedi was an "isolated, quiet, reserved individu
  
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• Ariana Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, tweets message in wake of Manchester attack

  25-05-2017 16:35 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Ariana Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, tweeted an emotional message Thursday morning urging his followers to "appreciate every day" in the wake of Monday's terrorist attack in Manchester. "With extraordinary evil we must fight with extraordinary greatness," he wrote. "Fight on ... Tomorrow I live full." SEE ALSO: People are pissed Kim Kardashian posted, and deleted, this photo after Manchester attacks Read his full remarks below:Tonight I got home and took my parents out to dinner. Korean bbq.
  
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• Tesla Model 3 leaked data suggests 0-60 time of 5.6 seconds

  25-05-2017 15:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  More details on the Tesla Model 3 have emerged ahead of the car’s July debut.Slides comparing the Model 3 with the Model S recently surfaced on a Tesla enthusiast site and are said to have been supplied by a company insider.The slides are allegedly part of a Tesla campaign to train salespeople to upsell customers a Model S over the production-constrained Model 3.
  
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• Obama gets rock-star welcome in Berlin, praises Merkel

  25-05-2017 14:55 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Barack Obama received a rock-star welcome in Berlin as he appeared at a public debate Thursday with Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he praised as one of his "favorite partners" during his presidency.
  
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• What It Takes to Get Accepted Into the Ivy League

  25-05-2017 14:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Many students dream of attending one of the colleges in the elite Ivy League for their undergraduate education.
  
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• T-Mobile is about to make its most exciting new service free for all subscribers

  25-05-2017 14:00 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  It might’ve taken a little longer than the company had hoped, but T-Mobile is finally ready to unleash its new "Digits" product. First teased all the way back in October 2015 when a T-Mobile executive fired shots at AT&T's just-announced NumberSync, T-Mobile eventually introduced Digits as a beta this past December. That beta has now hosted tens of thousands of participants according to Evan Feldman, T-Mobile's director of product marketing, and the company is ready to make i
  
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• Everest rescuers retrieve bodies of two Indian climbers

  25-05-2017 13:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two Indian climbers who died on Mount Everest last year but whose remains could not be moved due to bad weather, an official said Thursday.A team of Nepali climbers retrieved the bodies of Goutam Ghosh and Paresh Nath from the balcony, an area just below the summit of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain.Ghosh's remains were only located this year by other climbers on the mountain.
  
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• Beijing protests US Navy patrol through South China Sea

  25-05-2017 13:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China protested a U.S. Navy patrol that sent a guided missile destroyer near a group of man-made islands in the South China Sea on Thursday, in the first American challenge to Beijing's claims to the waters since President Donald Trump took office.
  
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• Lack of new launches leaves Ford playing catchup with GM

  25-05-2017 12:43 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  By Paul LienertDETROIT (Reuters) - James Hackett spent the last year plotting Ford Motor Co's long-term self-driving car strategy.In his first week as chief executive, he has more immediate concerns: stopping a skid in North American sales and fending off a market share grab by resurgent archrival General Motors Co.The U.S. No. 2 automaker is stuck in a product drought that shows no signs of easing until 2019, according to two sources who track Detroit's launch plans.Given the auto industry's lo
  
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• Manhunt in Manchester as probe leak row grows

  25-05-2017 12:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Britain raced Thursday to hunt down a jihadist network thought to be behind the Manchester concert attack, as a row escalated between London and Washington over leaked material from the probe.As more children were named among the 22 victims of Monday's massacre, Libyan authorities detained the suicide bomber's father as well as his brother and police in Britain also carried out new arrests and raids.Carmel McLaughlan, 69, came to St Ann's Square in Manchester for the minute's silence.
  
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• THAAD Deployment Will Weaken Kim Jong Un's Leverage

  25-05-2017 11:29 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A top American military commander in Seoul said Thursday that a "very dangerous situation" is looming over the Korean peninsula.
  
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• Unusual mass attack injures 8 California guards, 7 inmates

  25-05-2017 10:54 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a brawl that officials say was extreme even by the violent standard of California prisons, correctional officers had to open fire to stop a melee that sent eight guards and seven inmates to hospitals.
  
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• British Officials Blame US Officials, Not White House For Manchester Attack Details

  25-05-2017 09:31 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  British officials are furious after the New York Times published photographs Wednesday from the scene of attack, which happened at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday at the Manchester Arena.
  
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• Manchester terror attack probe widens as US leaks grate

  25-05-2017 08:50 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Britain raced Thursday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert attack, while a row escalated between London and Washington over leaked material from the probe.As more children were named among the 22 victims of Monday's massacre, the suicide bomber's father and brother were arrested in Libya and police in Britain made new arrests.
  
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• GOP candidate charged with misdemeanor assault of reporter

  25-05-2017 07:38 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — The Republican candidate for Montana's sole congressional seat was charged with misdemeanor assault Wednesday night after witnesses told police Greg Gianforte grabbed a reporter by the neck and slammed him to the ground the night before polls close in the nationally-watched election.
  
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• Top militant Hapilon often has eluded Philippine authorities

  25-05-2017 06:06 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  Philippine security forces are battling Muslim militants who have laid siege to a city in the volatile southern region of Mindanao. The upheaval began after troops raided a hideout in search of Isnilon Hapilon, one of Asia's top militant leaders. Some background on Hapilon:
  
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• The Latest: Army trucks roll deeper into Philippine city

  25-05-2017 06:02 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Latest on the siege of a Philippine city that led President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in the south (all times local):
  
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• In first under Trump, U.S. warship challenges Beijing's claims in South China Sea

  25-05-2017 03:32 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  By Idrees Ali and Phil StewartWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, the first such challenge to Beijing in the strategic waterway since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the USS Dewey traveled close to the Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which Chi
  
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• Greg Gianforte, Republican candidate in Montana special election, allegedly body-slams reporter

  25-05-2017 03:18 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  On the eve of a special election to fill Montana’s House seat, the Republican candidate allegedly assaulted a journalist.
  
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• Local Hero: Girl, 12, Rescues 4-Year-Old Neighbor From Alleged Abduction: Cops

  25-05-2017 03:15 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A 4-year-old girl was being led away by a man gripping her hand, according to a 12-year-old neighbor who pulled the child away and took her home.
  
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