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• Payment revelations show Cohen at center of billion dollar deals

  10-05-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  The Washington Post reports that money paid by AT to Michael Cohen was meant to help them gain approval for a multi-billion dollar merger with Time Warner.
  
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• Ex-NFL player: Police fabricated evidence for gun charge

  10-05-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A former NFL linebacker's career was cut short after authorities in New Jersey fabricated evidence linking him to a gun used in a shooting, the player alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.
  
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• Video of Apex High School student tearing down Black Lives Matter mural goes viral

  10-05-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  A video of an Apex student tearing down a Black Lives Matter mural at his high school is going viral on Twitter and now that student has been suspended.
  
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• Here Are Those Facebook Ads That House Dems Say Russia Ran During The 2016 Election

  10-05-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released the 3,000
  
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• Here Are Some More Of Those Facebook Ads That Russia Ran During The 2016 Election

  10-05-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released the 3,000
  
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• Ex-Illinois congressman sentenced to prison on tax charges

  10-05-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Former Illinois U.S. congressman Mel Reynolds was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for failing to file federal income tax returns, according to prosecutors.Reynolds, 66, was convicted last September on four counts of failing to file a federal return after not filing in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, prosecutors said.Reynolds will serve four months in prison since he already served two months in custody, prosecutors' spokeswoman Kim Nerheim said by telephone.
  
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• Here's What Georgina Chapman Could Be Packing When She Moves Out of the NYC Townhouse She Shared with Harvey Weinstein

  10-05-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  Chapman gave a recent interview toVogue in the $25.6 million home, which her soon-to-be ex-husband sold earlier this year
  
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• Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady Have Dropped the Price of Their Sky-High Madison Square Park Apartment

  10-05-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  The picturesque couple originally listed the 48th-floor, 3,310-square-foot apartment for $17.25 million and have dropped the price to $13.95 million
  
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• Toxic gas alert for Hawaii eruption; new areas at risk

  10-05-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  By Terray SylvesterPAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Hawaii residents were alerted on Thursday to rising levels of toxic gas from volcanic fissures and geologists warned that new areas east of the erupting Kilauea volcano may be at risk to lava bursting from the ground.Hawaii County authorities sent a text message to residents in the southeast corner of the Big Island that a wind change would bring rising levels of sulfur dioxide gas, which is fatal if inhaled in large quantities."Due to decreasing trad
  
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• Devin Nunes Gets Meeting On Secret Russia Probe Source After Threatening DOJ

  10-05-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), a prominent defender of President
  
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• Human remains found near spot where SUV plunged off cliff

  10-05-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California resident found a pair of jeans and human remains inside a girl's shoe on a beach near the spot where a woman drove her large family off a cliff in March, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• US issues apology after Canadian minister told to take off turban at airport

  10-05-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Officials from the Trump administration issued an apology after a security agent at a Detroit airport repeatedly demanded that a Canadian cabinet minister remove his turban, the minister has revealed.
  
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• The Curious Case Of The Russian Oligarch And National Park Service Latrines

  10-05-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- Sanctions that the Trump administration slapped on a Russian
  
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• Venezuela angered by ConocoPhillips move on Caribbean oil

  10-05-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela on Thursday strongly rejected the takeover of its Caribbean oil stocks by ConocoPhillips, after the US company enforced a $2 billion international arbitration award last month.A ConocoPhillips source said the company was enforcing the award at four locations in the Caribbean, without specifying the facilities affected.Press reports said the affected assets are in Curacao, Bonaire and Saint Eustace.
  
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• NOT REAL NEWS: No ruling that Mueller overstepped authority

  10-05-2018 22:14 via yahoo.com
  A federal judge did not rule that special counsel Robert Mueller overstepped his authority by bringing charges against a former Trump campaign chairman, contrary to an article circulating the internet.
  
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• Flake seeks report on Haspel's role in destruction of CIA interrogation tapes

  10-05-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  The Republican senator from Arizona joins Democrats in calling for the release of a classified CIA report on Gina Haspel’s role in the destruction of videos of enhanced interrogation techniques.
  
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• Police investigate viral video of officer putting man in chokehold outside Waffle House after prom

  10-05-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  Warsaw police are investigating after a video went viral of one of its officers putting a man in a chokehold.
  
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• Remains possibly belonging to girl killed after SUV plunged off cliff in unincorporated Mendocino County found

  10-05-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Mendocino County Sheriff's officials say remains possibly belonging to one of the three children who died after the SUV they were in went off a cliff in Westport have been found on a beach.
  
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• Police officer chokes young black man who took his sister to prom outside Waffle House

  10-05-2018 22:06 via yahoo.com
  Police in North Carolina are under fire after a video emerged of an officer choking and slamming an African-American man.In a video posted to Facebook, an officer in a tactical vest can be seen pushing a young African-American man in formal attire against a wall, choking him and then hurling him on the ground in front of a Waffle House.The town of Warsaw, North Carolina’s chief of police told the Raleigh News & Observer that his department was investigating the incident, as was distric
  
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• Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Is Still Erupting. Here's What to Know if You're Traveling to Hawaii

  10-05-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Keep your vacation safe
  
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• Kim Kardashian Says Tristan Thompson Blocked Her After She Defended Khloe

  10-05-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  Don't shoot the messenger: the Kim Kardashian edition.
  
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• Trump Is Going To Indiana To Slam Joe Donnelly. Don’t Expect The Democrat To Hit Back.

  10-05-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  HIGHLAND, Ind. -- President Donald Trump is set to fly to Indiana on Thursday
  
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• Republicans Fill Court Seat They Denied To Obama For 6 Years

  10-05-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Michael Brennan to a
  
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• EU calls Iranian strikes against Israel 'extremely worrying'

  10-05-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The European Union called reports about Iranian strikes against Israeli army posts from inside Syria "extremely worrying" and said Israel had the right to defend itself.It also called on all regional actors to show restraint and avoid any escalation."Reports about last night's Iranian attacks against Israeli army posts from inside Syria, to which Israel responded by striking against Iranian targets in Syria, are extremely worrying," said a spokeswoman for the bloc's foreign policy chief, Federic
  
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• Best Bites: Snickerdoodle apple pie bites

  10-05-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
  
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• Hawaii volcano threatens power plant; mass evacuations possible

  10-05-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  By Terray SylvesterPAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Hawaii authorities scrambled to move tens of thousands of gallons of highly flammable chemicals from the path of lava on Thursday, and the state's governor warned mass evacuations might be needed as the Kilauea volcano's eruption became more violent.Geologists have warned that Kilauea may be entering a phase of explosive eruptions, the likes of which Hawaii has not seen in nearly a century, that could hurl "ballistic blocks" and dust towns with volcan
  
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• Prince Harry's Army Comrades Are 'Pretty Excited' About Their Royal Wedding Role

  10-05-2018 21:15 via yahoo.com
  Some of the Armed Forces members are from Prince Harry's former regiment
  
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• Republican rebels in House maneuver to seek protection for Dreamers

  10-05-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  A renegade group of centrist Republicans in Congress are maneuvering around their leadership in an effort to introduce immigration reforms to secure legal protections for young, undocumented people in the United States.The Republican-led effort follows a failure of Congress to act on immigration reform after Donald Trump cancelled Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), an Obama-era program that extended protections from deportation to nearly 700,000 immigrants brought to the US as childr
  
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• Mail sent to UPS headquarters rerouted to Chicago apartment

  10-05-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A former UPS worker has been charged in a scam that rerouted thousands of pieces of mail meant for the company's headquarters to his small Chicago apartment.
  
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• Britain says it supports Israel's right to defend itself against Iran

  10-05-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Britain supports Israel's right to defend itself against Iranian aggression, Prime Minister Theresa May told her Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Thursday.Israel said it had attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time in the most extensive military exchange ever between the two adversaries."The Prime Minister condemned the Iranian rocket attacks against Israeli
  
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• Fox Business Guest Defends Torture: It Worked On John McCain

  10-05-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  A guest on Fox Business Network touted torture as an effective way to extract
  
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• Canada minister tells of US airport security hassels over turban

  10-05-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  The zealous airport security screening of a Canadian government minister wearing a turban last year led Ottawa to file a diplomatic protest with Washington, his office said Thursday.Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains is a devout Sikh.
  
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• VIDEO: Fresno County father makes citizen's arrest of man suspected of sexting teen daughter

  10-05-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  After finding a strange cellphone in his daughter's possession, a Fresno County father arranged to meet the man who allegedly gave it to her.
  
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• Iraqi forces capture 5 top IS leaders in cross-border raid

  10-05-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces in coordination with U.S.-backed Syrian forces have captured five senior Islamic State group leaders, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday in a statement.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani Quits Law Firm After Wild Week Of Interviews

  10-05-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who has become one of President
  
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• Owner of Ford Mustang that melted in Hawaii speaks out

  10-05-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  In an interview with WX Chasing, owner Michael Hale explained why he left the silver Mustang behind as lava approached his home.Hale said the Mustang had a dead battery at the time and needed a jump.With the volcanic activity has come a series of earthquakes, to make matters even more unfortunate.
  
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• Hawaii volcano: Rush to move tens of thousands of gallons of flammable chemicals from lava path

  10-05-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Officials in Hawaii are rushing to move tens of thousands of gallons of highly flammable chemicals out of the path of the lava flows there, and residents have been warned that mass evacuations may be necessary if the Kilauea volcano eruptions become more violent.The chemicals evacuation was started after a new fissure in the volcano opened Wednesday about a half a mile from a geothermal power plant.In response to that development, Hawaii Governor David Ige created an emergency task force.
  
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• Guterres demands end to 'hostile acts' after Israel-Iran escalation

  10-05-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  In the statement, Guterres also called on the Security Council to "remain actively seized of the matter and shoulder its responsibilities" under the UN Charter."The Secretary-General urges for an immediate halt to all hostile acts and any provocative actions to avoid a new conflagration in the region already embroiled in terrible conflicts with immense suffering of civilians," a spokesman for Guterres said.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein's wife Georgina Chapman breaks silence over sexual harassment allegations

  10-05-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Georgina Chapman, the estranged wife of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, has spoken out for the first time since her husband was accused of sexually harassing dozens of women.The prominent fashion designer who was married to Weinstein for 10-years has stayed silent in the six months since allegations about her husband's alleged misconduct began to surface.
  
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• Man kayaks close to great white shark

  10-05-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  A great white shark lurked in the water near a kayaker in Santa Cruz County, California.
  
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• Israel-Iran flare-up raises spectre of major confrontation

  10-05-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Deadly strikes by Israel against alleged Iranian sites in Syria have raised fears of a dramatic escalation in regional conflict, but the situation remains shrouded by contradictory accounts and uncertainty.Israel says its raids early Thursday were in immediate response to Iranian missiles raining down on the occupied Golan Heights.Israel has repeatedly warned it considers an entrenched Iranian military presence in war-ravaged Syria to be a dangerous red line.
  
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• Yale 'troubled' by police call for napping black student

  10-05-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  In an email to students on Wednesday, Kimberly Goff-Crews said that the black student, Lolade Siyonbola, had "every right to be there" and that the university was working to address incidents of racial discrimination and harassment."This incident and others recently reported to me underscore that we have work to do to make Yale not only excellent but also inclusive," Goff-Crews wrote.In the first video, Siyonbola films the student who called the police, identified by Siyonbola and the Yale Daily
  
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• After North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb inside a mountain, scientists watched it move

  10-05-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  When North Korea detonates nuclear bombs, it brings the devices into tunnels dug deep inside Mount Mantap, a granite peak over 7,000 feet tall. Mantap has now sustained six such detonations, with the last of which — set off on September 3, 2017 — moving the mountain more than 11 feet (3.5 meters), according to researchers who used space imaging technology, called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, to map how much Mantap's surface shifted and then settled back down during the blast. Th
  
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• Apple helps discover new technique that could make aluminium for iPhones and other products without damaging the environment

  10-05-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Apple has helped find a new way of making aluminium that could revolutionise the way that iPhones and other products are made.The new technique completely eliminates greenhouse gases from the smelting process, in a discovery that it says is a "revolutionary" change in the way the key metal is made.Aluminium is one of the most important materials used by Apple: it is what just about every Apple product's case is made of.
  
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• Democrats, pinning hopes on Mueller, push back at Pence on ending probe

  10-05-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  It's difficult to overstate the hope that many Democrats have placed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's to turn up evidence that will damage the presidency of Donald Trump.
  
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• Speaker chides breakaway Republicans for immigration quest

  10-05-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Paul Ryan mocked an effort by breakaway Republicans to force election-year votes on rival immigration proposals as a drive that would produce "show ponies," not legislation the president would sign into law.
  
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• Photo of rescue dog's 'freedom ride' from euthanasia goes viral

  10-05-2018 19:46 via yahoo.com
  The adorable photo of a shelter dog taking his "freedom ride" photo has gone viral for all of the right reasons.
  
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• Mercedes-AMG Hasn’t Finished Testing The GT 63 At The Nürburgring

  10-05-2018 19:45 via yahoo.com
  Around and around the ‘Ring they go.
  
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• Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria after rocket fire

  10-05-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  By Dan Williams and Angus McDowallJERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time in the most extensive military exchange ever between the two adversaries.It was the heaviest Israeli barrage in Syria since the 2011 start of the civil war in which Iranians, allied Shi'ite Muslim militias and Russian troops have deployed in support of President Bash
  
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• Mahathir, 92, sworn in as Malaysia's seventh prime minister

  10-05-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  By Liz Lee and Rozanna LatiffKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia's seventh prime minister on Thursday after a stunning election comeback, defeating the coalition that has ruled the nation for six decades since independence from Britain.Malaysia's constitutional monarch, Sultan Muhammad V, administered the oath of office just before 10 p.m. (1400 GMT), in a ceremony carried live on state television from the palace.Mahathir, 92, dubbed the "Father of Modern Malaysia"
  
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