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• Deployed dad surprises son for his birthday

  06-05-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  Airman Mark Coffelt, who had been deployed to Qatar, surprised his son, Ronin, for his 9th birthday.
  
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• Low turnout worries politicians as Lebanon voting ends

  06-05-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's first national elections in nine years were marked by a tepid turnout Sunday, reflecting voter frustration over endemic corruption and a stagnant economy.
  
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• Michelle Obama Explains Why People Shouldn't Look To Her To Run For Office

  06-05-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Michelle Obama spoke bluntly to those hoping she will run for political
  
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• Teens aged 13 and 15 shot in suburb amid London crime spike

  06-05-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Two young teenagers were shot in broad daylight in London on Sunday, the day after another teen was fatally gunned down, police said, as the British capital grapples with a surge in violent crime.London's Metropolitan Police said the pair, aged 13 and 15, were taken to hospitals after officers found them within minutes of each other nursing gunshot wounds at separate nearby locations in the suburb of Harrow.The incident came just hours after a 17-year-old boy was shot in Southwark, south London,
  
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• Vape pen may be to blame for deadly Florida house fire

  06-05-2018 23:18 via yahoo.com
  A Florida man is dead after a fire breaks out inside his Saint Petersburg home and officials say a vape pen may be to blame.
  
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• Evacuees rescue valuables from Hawaii volcano lava

  06-05-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  By Karin StantonPAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Residents evacuated from homes threatened by a volcanic eruption spewing lava and gas on Hawaii's Big Island were able to make a quick return visit on Sunday to rescue pets, medicines and essential documents.Nine homes had been destroyed, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said."This is not the time for sightseeing," the agency said on social media, urging others to stay away from the community about a dozen miles (19 km) from where the Kilauea volca
  
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• Giuliani: Trump would have had Cohen pay off more women 'if necessary'

  06-05-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he had ‘no knowledge’ of other payments to women.Donald Trump would have had attorney Michael Cohen make payments to women other than Stormy Daniels if “necessary”, the president’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday as the White House sought without success to impose order on an increasingly chaotic and damaging scandal.
  
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• White House accuses China of 'Orwellian nonsense' over airline rules

  06-05-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  The White House has dismissed China's attempts to change how American airlines refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau in their public materials as “Orwellian nonsense”.The Chinese Civil Aviation Administration has asked 36 foreign air carriers – including a number of American airlines – to refrain from referring to the three destinations as separate countries.China considers Taiwan a province, and Hong Kong and Macau as largely self-governing parts of the country.
  
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• Egypt says no hidden rooms in King Tut's tomb after all

  06-05-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — New radar scans have provided conclusive evidence that there are no hidden rooms inside King Tutankhamun's burial chamber, Egypt's antiquities ministry said Sunday, bringing a disappointing end to years of excitement over the prospect.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani's ABC Interview Was A Mess. Here Are The Biggest Takeaways.

  06-05-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who recently joined President
  
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• Hawaii Volcano Spews Lava and Smoke, Forcing Residents to Evacuate

  06-05-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  It's not clear how long residents will be displaced.
  
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• From prison to politics, ex-coal CEO set for Senate vote

  06-05-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Former coal executive Don Blankenship went from prison to politics after serving a one-year sentence related to the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades.
  
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• Erdogan vows new military campaigns as he launches manifesto 

  06-05-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday promised new military operations against Kurdish militants along its border in Syria and Iraq as he presented his election manifesto. Speaking before thousands of supporters in Istanbul on Sunday, Erdogan described next month's snap presidential and parliamentary polls as a "milestone" for a strong Turkey. The country would "take the stage as a global power," he vowed. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the membe
  
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• The Latest: Morrisey says Blankenship didn't reveal finances

  06-05-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on the Republican U.S. Senate candidacy of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship: (all times local):
  
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• Outrage After Celebrating Black Graduates Are Yanked Off College's Stage

  06-05-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  A day of joy and celebration spurred complaints of racism after a college
  
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• John McCain says he 'doesn’t want Donald Trump at his funeral'

  06-05-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Sources close to the senator from Arizona said this week that his family had asked the White House to send Vice President Mike Pence to the service instead.Mr McCain has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for nearly a year, after being diagnosed with glioblastoma in July.Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush are slated to be eulogists at the funeral, a source close to Mr McCain told NBC News.
  
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• Republican House Armed Service chair warns Trump against leaving Iran deal

  06-05-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  The Republican leader of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee said President Trump should not walk away from the Iran nuclear deal.President Donald Trump is facing a May 12 deadline on whether to re-impose sanctions against Iran.Texas Congressman Mac Thornberry said on Fox News Sunday it would be a mistake for Trump to scuttle the nuclear accord reached with Tehran.
  
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• Teenage girl killed seconds after taking off seatbelt to take a selfie

  06-05-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  The grieving parents of a teenager killed seconds after she took off her seatbelt to take a selfie are launching a campaign to convince people to keep their belts on at all times.Kailee Mills, 16, was with three friends in a car near her home in Texas, heading out to a party when the vehicle crashed and rolled over.The other three teenagers, who had their seatbelts on, survived.
  
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• Israel says troops kill 3 men in Gaza border breach attempt

  06-05-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians who tried to breach the Gaza border fence, the military said on Sunday, adding that an axe and a wire cutter were found in their possession.
  
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• Lebanese vote in first general election in nine years

  06-05-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  By Angus McDowalland Dahlia NehmeBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese voted in their first general election for nine years on Sunday, with the Tehran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies expecting to emerge stronger, a result that would affirm Iran's regional ascendancy from its own borders to the Mediterranean.Sunni Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is frontrunner to keep his job and form a new coalition government after an election seen as vital to Lebanon's economic stability, but his Future Movement was
  
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• Slain teens honored at Florida high school's senior prom

  06-05-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Four Florida high school seniors slain in a mass shooting were honored by their classmates celebrating their senior prom.
  
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• No secret chambers behind ancient Egypt's young king Tutankhamen: research

  06-05-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Researchers at Italy's Turin Polytechnic University have found no evidence of the existence of any hidden chambers behind the walls in the tomb of ancient Egypt's boy-king, Tutankhamen, the Antiquities Ministry said on Sunday.Experts have been divided over the existence of a concealed chamber behind the tomb, which some believe could be the final resting place of the lost Queen, Nefertiti.International interest in Nefertiti is high.
  
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• Rubin: If the U.S. breaks the Iran Deal, ‘the guardrails are off’

  06-05-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  Opponents of the Iran Deal, such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, used similar rhetoric leading up to the Iraq War.
  
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• Phang: Giuliani is on a ‘destruction of credibility tour’

  06-05-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  The role of Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is unclear. Is it as a mouth piece for the president, or Trump’s legal representation? MSNBC Legal Analyst Katie Phang delves into how the blurred job responsibilities may hurt Trump.
  
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• Two Dogs Killed in House Fire They Accidentally Started

  06-05-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  Two dogs belonging to a firefighter were killed in a house fire when officials say they accidentally turned on the stove.
  
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• Fmr. Asst. U.S. Attorney: Giuliani is ‘catastrophic’ for Trump

  06-05-2018 19:32 via yahoo.com
  The newest addition to President Trump’s legal team, Rudy Giuliani, disclosed previously unknown information about payments to Stormy Daniels and then downplayed it by the end of the week. Is Giuliani helping or hurting the president’s legal case?
  
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• Tesla Earning Call Gives Timeline for Model Y

  06-05-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  According to Tesla, its Model Y small crossover is at least two years away.
  
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• S.African film-maker killed by giraffe

  06-05-2018 19:27 via yahoo.com
  A South African film-maker was killed by a giraffe while filming on a reserve outside Johannesburg, the game lodge's owner has said, adding that he died after being air-lifted to hospital.The giraffe hit Carlos Carvalho in the head at the Glen Afric Country Lodge in North West province."When Carlos was standing in front of the giraffe, the animal spread its legs, bent its neck and swung its head at Carlos," Richard Brooker, whose family owns the lodge, told the Netwerk24 Afrikaans news website.
  
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• Trump Promised To Reshape America. He's Already Told 1 Million Immigrants Who Had Legal Protections To Get Out.

  06-05-2018 19:15 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― From the day he launched his presidential campaign, Donald Trump
  
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• Remembering the National Guard members killed in Georgia plane crash

  06-05-2018 18:29 via yahoo.com
  After nine members of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard were killed in a plane crash near Savannah, Georgia, their grieving families say the airmen never should have been on the plane, which was on its way to Arizona to be retired.
  
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• At NRA’s annual convention, gun rights supporters stand firm

  06-05-2018 18:10 via yahoo.com
  NBC News’ Catie Beck reports from the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, where protesters called for stricter gun laws after mass shootings and gun rights advocates held firm that guns are not the problem.
  
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• Twenty two arrested in eastern India in three separate rape cases

  06-05-2018 17:40 via yahoo.com
  Police have arrested 22 people in eastern India in three separate rape cases involving teenage girls, officials said on Sunday, as grisly new attacks against women come to light despite tougher penalties.Police arrested 14 men and a woman in one of the latest cases after a 16-year-old girl, who had been raped, was attacked and burned to death after her parents complained to a village council.The village elders had levied a fine of 50,000 rupees ($749) on her two alleged assailants and asked them
  
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• Trump's lawyer could have paid off women other than Stormy Daniels, says Rudy Giuliani

  06-05-2018 17:36 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s personal attorney would have paid other women to maintain their silence "if it was necessary", according to the latest addition to the White House legal team, Rudy Giuliani.The former New York City mayor and one time presidential candidate insisted he did not know Michael Cohen, the president’s long-time attorney and personal "fixer" had done that, nor did he rule it out.Mr Cohen has already admitted to paying $130,000 (£96,000) to Stormy Daniels, an adult film s
  
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• Harry and Meghan's wedding rules: no phones, no gifts, no swords

  06-05-2018 17:27 via yahoo.com
  All weddings come with a degree of logistical difficulty, from transport to speeches to the all-important wearing of hats. Few will come with written instruction regarding the usefulness of swords. The guests invited to the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been sent their instructions on how best to enjoy the day, it has been reported, including a ban on cameras and bringing gifts. Guests have been offered seven pages of "critical guidance", according to the Mail on Sunday, with me
  
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• Rep. Ratcliffe on Nunes' calls to hold Sessions in contempt

  06-05-2018 17:15 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Devin Nunes pushes to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt over refusal to provide information to Congress; Rep. John Ratcliffe weighs in on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
  
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• Illinois counties declare 'sanctuary' status for gun owners

  06-05-2018 16:59 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Several rural Illinois counties have taken a stand for gun rights by co-opting a word that conservatives associate with a liberal policy to skirt the law: sanctuary.
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan says will carry out new military operations after Syria offensives

  06-05-2018 16:54 via yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out new military operations along its borders after its two previous offensives into Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, as he announced his manifesto for next month's snap elections.Turkey is now carrying out an offensive into northern Syria's Afrin region against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara considers a terrorist organization linked to Kurdish militants waging an insurgency on Turkish soil.
  
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• McCain Doesn't Want Trump Attending His Funeral: Reports

  06-05-2018 16:46 via yahoo.com
  Amid Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) battle with brain cancer, the 81-year-old
  
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• Amazing creatures of the deep

  06-05-2018 16:43 via yahoo.com
  Photographer Ace Wu, from Taiwan, searches the deep seas to photograph stunning underwater creatures — and the results are sublime. 
  
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• Israeli PM steps us calls to end the Iranian nuclear deal

  06-05-2018 16:24 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday stepped up his calls to end the Iranian nuclear deal as President Donald Trump weighs whether to withdraw the United States from the 2015 agreement.
  
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• Iraq says its warplanes targeted IS jihadists in Syria

  06-05-2018 16:22 via yahoo.com
  Iraqi warplanes carried out a raid Sunday targeting Islamic State group commanders in eastern Syria, in the second such strike on the jihadists since mid-April, the premier's office said.Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the "painful strike" which targeted "a meeting of IS commanders south of Al-Dushashiya in Syrian territory", a statement said.F-16 fighter jets were used in the early morning strike and the raid was "successful", the spokesman of Iraq's security media centre, General Yehya
  
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• Six Indian engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan: officials

  06-05-2018 16:13 via yahoo.com
  Six Indian engineers working on a power plant project in northern Afghanistan were kidnapped along with their Afghan driver on Sunday, Afghan officials said.Gunmen snatched the seven from a vehicle on the outskirts of Baghlan provincial capital Pule-Khumri, police spokesman Zabi Shuja told AFP.Provincial council chairman Mohammad Safdar Mohseni said the group had been travelling in a largely Taliban-controlled area when they were abducted after ignoring warnings to take a police escort.
  
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• ZTE says asked U.S. Commerce Department to suspend business ban

  06-05-2018 16:01 via yahoo.com
  China's ZTE Corp has submitted an application to the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for the suspension of a business ban, it said in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange on Sunday.Washington imposed a seven-year ban on U.S. companies selling components and software to ZTE last month after finding the Chinese telecoms company breached U.S. sanctions on Iran.ZTE's exchange filing on Sunday did not give details of its request or say when it had been made, but it
  
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• Doesn't a long list of kids dressing up as old people sound great right now?

  06-05-2018 16:00 via yahoo.com
  What's better than a cute child? A cute child dressed up as an old person. Whether it's their 100th day of school (a day in which some kids dress up like they're 100 years old) or Halloween, you have to admit there's nothing you can't enjoy about a young child looking like their elders. The contrast between young and old, the tiny version of our inevitable future, is what everyone deserves to see. That's why we've compiled a list of kids dressed up as old people for your enjoyment.  SEE ALS
  
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• Protesters killed as Indian troops move on militants in Kashmir

  06-05-2018 15:53 via yahoo.com
  Five civilians were killed and more than 50 wounded when Indian troops opened fire on hundreds of people who pelted them with stones as they carried out an operation against militants in Kashmir, a senior police official said.The police official, who asked not to be identified as he is not authorized to speak to the media, said at least 10 of the wounded protesters were hit by bullets and four were in a critical condition.Indian security services killed five militants in an operation in Indian-c
  
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• Air France's future in the balance, warns economy minister

  06-05-2018 15:49 via yahoo.com
  France's economy minister on Sunday warned that the survival of strike-hit Air France was in the balance following the departure of the company's chief executive over a pay dispute.Jean-Marc Janaillac, boss of parent company Air France-KLM, resigned on Friday after staff rejected a final pay offer from him which would have raised wages by seven percent over four years."I call on everyone to be responsible: crew, ground staff, and pilots who are asking for unjustified pay hikes," Economy Minister
  
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• Trump threatens to shut down US government in push for wall on border with Mexico

  06-05-2018 15:46 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has reportedly threatened to close down the US government in a new drive to secure a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out immigrants.The president did not specify what he meant by “closing up the country”, but last month he told supporters that unless Congress met his funding demands on border security, there could be a government shutdown in the autumn.Current government funding is due to run out in September.
  
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• North Korea Accuses U.S. of 'Misleading' Claims Ahead of Summit

  06-05-2018 15:36 via yahoo.com
  North Korea says claims are a "dangerous attempt" to ruin a budding detente
  
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• LA mayor, eyes on White House, hawks ties to Hawkeye state

  06-05-2018 15:21 via yahoo.com
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the Democratic leader of a city with 75 miles of coastline, immigrants from around the world and the Kardashians, is considering running for president in 2020. But first he would have to make it through Iowa. On a recent visit, he did his best to connect, playing up everything his city shares with the rural, overwhelmingly white voters. It was no easy task.
  
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• Israeli troops kill two Palestinians trying to cross from Gaza: army

  06-05-2018 15:18 via yahoo.com
  Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians who tried to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the military said."Troops fired towards three suspects who attempted to infiltrate into Israel from the southern Gaza Strip and to damage security infrastructure in the area of the security fence," the military said in a statement."Two suspects were killed."Palestinian health officials said the two men had been killed by Israeli gunfire near the town of Khan Younis.
  
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