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• Omarosa Releases Tape Of John Kelly Firing Her In White House Situation Room

  12-08-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman said on Sunday that she
  
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• Intense fighting as Taliban presses to take Afghan city

  12-08-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Taliban insurgents attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in Ghazni in central Afghanistan on Sunday, killing dozens of soldiers and police and threatening to seize control of the city, officials and residents said.U.S. aircraft conducted at least four air strikes but details of the fighting were unclear as most of the city's telecoms masts were destroyed in fighting over recent days.A senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to spea
  
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• 'Touch the sun': NASA spacecraft hurtles toward our star

  12-08-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Embarking on a mission that scientists have been dreaming of since the Sputnik era, a NASA spacecraft hurtled Sunday toward the sun on a quest to unlock some of its mysteries by getting closer than any object sent before.
  
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• Protestors Against Racial Hatred Counter White Supremacists on Charlottesville Rally Anniversary

  12-08-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  A second 'Unite the Right' rally is being held in D.C. Sunday
  
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• Giuliani now says Trump never discussed Michael Flynn with Comey

  12-08-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  ‘There was no conversation about Michael Flynn,’ Rudy Giuliani said on CNN’s State of the Union show on Sunday, contradicting his previous position.Donald Trump will deny having ever discussed former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn with former FBI director James Comey, if he is questioned about it in a sit down interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• Love Triangle Leads to Man`s Murder, Suspect Behind Bars

  12-08-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Investigators say Hosea Metcalf gunned down a 41-year-old man who was allegedly having having an affair with his girlfriend.
  
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• Rep. Keith Ellison Denies Domestic Abuse Accusations

  12-08-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Sunday denied that he assaulted an ex-
  
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• Fallout 76 Is Starting To Make Sense

  12-08-2018 21:01 via gamespot.com
  
  QuakeCon’s Fallout 76 panel answered a lot of fan questions and concerns about the PS4, Xbox One, and PC game. We discuss how the systems work and how it’ll play.
  
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• A new protest is organizing to get Alex Jones booted off of Twitter

  12-08-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Alex Jones is still on Twitter, despite the fact that he repeatedly violated the platform's rules of conduct. But this is 2018, and Twitter users are ready to protest. Before we go any further, let's be clear about some terminology: Jones supporters would have you believe that his recent removal from other platforms is an act of censorship and a violation of First Amendment rights. That's simply untrue. SEE ALSO: How the dominoes in Alex Jones' social media empire all fell at once The First Amen
  
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• Heather Heyer Remembered By Lawmakers, Activists On Charlottesville Anniversary

  12-08-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Politicians and activists shared tributes to Heather Heyer on Sunday, honoring
  
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• Stormy Daniels lawyer says would 'hit harder' to beat Trump in 2020

  12-08-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  As the lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti has been a persistent thorn in Donald Trump's side.Avenatti, who represents Daniels in the legal dispute over her claim that a Trump lawyer paid her to remain silent about an alleged affair with the future president, traveled to the Iowa State Fair on Thursday -- an almost mandatory stop for presidential aspirants in the first state to hold a presidential nominating contest every four years.
  
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• A Florida Legislature Candidate Reportedly Lied About Graduating From College

  12-08-2018 20:35 via yahoo.com
  Miami University in Ohio claims Melissa Howard did not graduate
  
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• Texas restaurant faces backlash for serving Jeff Sessions

  12-08-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  Texas restaurant shuts down its social media because of backlash over serving Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
  
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• Who Will Fund Elon Musk's Tesla Takeover? It Could Be Saudi Arabia

  12-08-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  The country's sovereign wealth fund already has nearly a 5% stake in Tesla
  
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• Wife Of Sutherland Springs Church Shooter Breaks Silence: I Love Him 'No Matter What'

  12-08-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  The wife of the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooter has revealed new
  
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• Children among 39 civilians dead in Syria arms depot blast: monitor

  12-08-2018 19:32 via yahoo.com
  Sarmadā (Syria) (AFP) - An explosion at a weapons depot that toppled buildings in a rebel-held town of northwest Syria killed at least 39 civilians including a dozen children Sunday, a monitor said.An AFP correspondent at the site in Sarmada in Idlib province near the Turkish border said the explosion of unknown origin caused the collapse of two buildings.Rescue workers used bulldozers to remove rubble and extract trapped people from the flattened buildings, the correspondent said.
  
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• Humanitarian ship seeks European port for rescued migrants

  12-08-2018 19:27 via yahoo.com
  The Aquarius, run by Franco-German charity SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders (MSF), rescued 141 people in two separate operations off the Libyan coast last week.As that rescue was underway, SOS Mediterranee and MSF asked for guidance on where to take those they had saved."What is of utmost importance is that the survivors are brought to a place of safety without delay, where their basic needs can be met and where they can be protected from abuse," said Nick Romaniuk, search and rescue
  
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• Man charged with murder after common-law wife found stabbed to death in east Harris Co.

  12-08-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  Feliz Ruiz, who's currently in the hospital with a self-inflicted stab wound to the throat, has been charged with the murder of his common-law wife.
  
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• Turkey ready to create more safe zones in Syria

  12-08-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  Turkey said on Sunday it had finalised preparations to create more safe areas in Syria, which would allow the return of refugees who have fled the civil war.Speaking at his AK Party's provincial headquarters in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, President Tayyip Erdogan said a quarter of a million people had already returned to liberated areas in Syria."God willing soon we will have liberated more places and made more areas safe," he said.
  
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• Greek cat sanctuary 'overwhelmed' with emails after advertising paid job on idyllic island with 55 felines

  12-08-2018 19:13 via yahoo.com
  The job advert on Facebook sounded almost too good to be true. A living wage, a car, a lovely house to live in - bills paid - with a terrace overlooking the Aegean, just a short walk from a pristine beach on the Greek island of Syros. The job? Caring for up to 70 cats amounting to four hours of work per day. Nearly 1,000 Britons applied for the role after the announcement posted by Greek cat sanctuary owner Joan Bowell on Facebook last week went viral. Her inbox is brimming with application
  
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• Trump will deny asking FBI chief to go easy on Flynn, if asked under oath: lawyer

  12-08-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump will deny he ever asked former FBI director James Comey to go easy on fired former national security adviser Michael Flynn if made to testify about it under oath, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday."There was no conversation about Michael Flynn," Giuliani said on CNN's "State of the Union" show, of the February 14, 2017 Oval Office meeting.The private sit-down is a key episode in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible obstruction of justice in the R
  
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• Ex-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Says Democrats Should Consider Impeaching Trump

  12-08-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Sunday said impeachment should be
  
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• 'Beebo Was Loved By Everyone.' Family Left Heartbroken After Airline Worker Steals and Crashes Plane

  12-08-2018 19:05 via yahoo.com
  29-year-old Richard B. Russell was an employee of Horizon Air
  
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• Erdogan says lira crash 'political plot' against Turkey

  12-08-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said the crash of the Turkish lira, sparked by a bitter dispute with the United States, was a "political plot" against Turkey and warned Ankara would now seek new markets and partners.The dispute between the two NATO allies -- which reached new intensity over the detention of an American pastor in Turkey -- has hammered the lira and also raised questions over the future partnership between Washington and Ankara.The already embattled Turkish lira tumbled s
  
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• Officials: Man who stole plane, died in crash not a pilot

  12-08-2018 18:20 via yahoo.com
  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Investigators are piecing together how an airline ground agent stole an empty commercial airplane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound after being chased by military jets that were quickly scrambled to intercept the aircraft.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Has Trouble Naming A Top Black White House Aide

  12-08-2018 17:58 via yahoo.com
  Kellyanne Conway, the chief counselor to President Donald Trump, had
  
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• Erdogan says crash of lira 'political plot' against Turkey

  12-08-2018 17:47 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday slammed the crash of the lira amid a widening spat with the United States as a "political plot" and said his country would instead seek new markets and new allies."The aim of the operation is to make Turkey surrender in all areas from finance to politics.With God's permission we will overcome this," Erdogan told his party members in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
  
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• Fight for Afghan city rages despite govt claim of upper hand

  12-08-2018 17:46 via yahoo.com
  The fight for the eastern Afghan city of Ghazni entered its third day as Taliban militants and security forces engaged in heavy clashes Sunday, despite Kabul's claim that the city was firmly under government control.Taliban fighters continued to roam the city, torching government offices, and were in control of several police checkpoints, as reinforcements deployed from Kabul slowly entered the area to confront the insurgents."The situation is chaotic," Amanullah Kamrani, deputy head of the Ghaz
  
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• Erdogan says U.S. set deadline for pastor's release

  12-08-2018 17:30 via yahoo.com
  The United States gave Turkey a deadline until last Wednesday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, to release an American pastor being tried by a Turkish court.The case of Andrew Brunson, an evangelical Christian, is one of a series of disputes that lies at the heart of deteriorating ties between the two NATO allies.Speaking to supporters in the Black Sea coastal city of Trabzon, Erdogan revealed details of negotiations held last week between the two countries, saying Washington had
  
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• Richard Russell: quiet, well-liked Seattle airport worker who stole a plane

  12-08-2018 17:22 via yahoo.com
  Russell, who was widely identified as the pilot on Saturday morning, was the sole victim in the crash.Russell’s death and the dramatic moments that preceded it – a passenger plane trailed by F-15 fighter jets cutting rolls against the setting sun – left those who knew him stunned and saddened.
  
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• Bereaved mother orca finally drops calf after carrying corpse for unprecedented 17 days

  12-08-2018 17:13 via yahoo.com
  A grieving orca whale who carried the corpse of her dead calf for an unprecedented 17 days has finally let it go.The killer whale, known as J35 to scientists monitoring the population in the Pacific Northwest, was spotted swimming without the infant balanced on her head for the first time since July.“J35 frolicked past my window today with other J pod whales, and she looks vigorous and healthy,” Ken Balcomb, of the Centre for Whale Research, told The Seattle Times.
  
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• Vote counting in Kansas GOP primary race enters final stage

  12-08-2018 17:04 via yahoo.com
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — County election officials across Kansas on Monday will begin deciding which provisional ballots from last week's primary election will count toward the final official vote totals, with possibility that they could create a new leader in the hotly contested Republican race for governor.
  
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• Forget winged rats — photographer snaps some of the world's most unique and vibrant pigeons

  12-08-2018 16:44 via yahoo.com
  Rather than focus on the gray, nondescript birds people usually associate with the term "pigeon," Leila Jeffreys captures the more vibrant varieties.
  
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• Israel Now Has a Supersonic Air-Launched Ballistic Missile. Here's What It Can Do.

  12-08-2018 16:00 via yahoo.com
  And why Iran should worry. 
  
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• US marines make 24-year-old the first woman ever to lead an infantry platoon

  12-08-2018 15:55 via yahoo.com
  A 24-year-old has become the first ever woman to lead an infantry platoon in the US marines.First Lieutenant Marina Hierl has 35 male soldiers under her command in the Third Platoon of 4th Echo Company.The Pennsylvania native first became interested in joining the military after a meeting with a recruiting officer while at school, the newspaper reports.
  
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• Ships 'not willing to save Mediterranean migrants' say aid groups as Aquarius seeks safe harbour

  12-08-2018 15:54 via yahoo.com
  The NGO rescue ship the Aquarius has called on European governments to offer it safe harbour after rescuing 141 migrants from the Mediterranean, saying it has been stranded at sea for more than two days. Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and SOS Mediterranee, which jointly operate the Aquarius, said they had contacted authorities in Italy, Malta, Tunisia and Libya following Friday’s rescues but have been denied a place to disembark. They called for urgent humanitarian assistance for those on
  
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• Iraq PM cancels visit to sanctions-hit Iran

  12-08-2018 15:54 via yahoo.com
  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has cancelled a visit to Iran, his press office said Sunday, as the premier came under strong Iranian criticism over his stand on renewed US sanctions against Tehran.Abadi will still go ahead with a planned visit to Turkey on Tuesday but has scrapped the Iran leg of the trip "because of his busy schedule", his office said.An Iraqi official had said Saturday that Abadi would visit both neighbouring Turkey and Iran to discuss economic issues.
  
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• Russia's Lavrov says Putin-Trump meeting possible to improve relations: RIA

  12-08-2018 15:44 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump may meet if they feel the need to focus on improving relations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday, according to the RIA state news agency."If the leaders feel the need to meet and get back to the questions that we think should unite Russia and the United States, but which provoke rejection among some circles in the United States, I think such meeting will take place," Lavrov said.After their last meeting in Hels
  
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• Houston restaurant owner apologizes for controversial photo with attorney general Jeff Sessions

  12-08-2018 15:39 via yahoo.com
  A Houston restaurant is receiving major backlash after hosting Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
  
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• The Latest: Death toll from Syria blast climbs to 36

  12-08-2018 15:37 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
  
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• New Jersey Police Rescue Bride in Wedding Gown After Newlyweds Get Trapped in Flood

  12-08-2018 15:28 via yahoo.com
  Not quite the blessed day they expected.
  
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• Russia says will ditch U.S. securities amid sanctions: RIA

  12-08-2018 15:21 via yahoo.com
  On Friday, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russia would regard any U.S. move to curb the activities of its banks as a "declaration of economic war" and would take retaliatory action.Washington said on Wednesday it would impose fresh sanctions by the end of August after it determined that Moscow had used a nerve agent against a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain, sending Russia's rouble currency to a two-year low.Speaking on a weekly TV talk show, Siluanov said the new U.S. sanc
  
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• Seattle Airport Employee Who Stole Plane ID'd as Family Speaks Out: 'Beebo Was a Warm, Compassionate Man'

  12-08-2018 14:45 via yahoo.com
  The 29-year-old's full name was Richard Russell and he died in a crash following the bizarre flight.
  
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• Intense fighting in Afghan city Ghazni as Taliban presses

  12-08-2018 14:26 via yahoo.com
  Taliban insurgents attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in Ghazni in central Afghanistan on Sunday and were threatening to seize control of the city, with the main highway now heavily mined, local lawmakers and residents said.Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, Afghan army chief of staff, said the city was not under threat of collapse and heavy fighting was underway to push back the Taliban from city limits."Strategic locations and centers in the city are under the control of Afghan
  
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• Manchester police say 10 people hospitalized after shooting

  12-08-2018 14:21 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Ten people, including two children, were injured early Sunday morning when shots were fired after a Caribbean carnival in the northern English city of Manchester.
  
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• Afghan forces battle Taliban in key city for third day

  12-08-2018 14:03 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says security forces are battling the Taliban for the third straight day after the insurgents' massive attack into the key city of Ghazni.
  
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• The New Saudi Arabia Is A Lot Like The Old Saudi Arabia When It Comes To Women

  12-08-2018 14:01 via yahoo.com
  When Hala Al-Dosari told her father in 2013 that she planned to join the
  
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• Watch The New BMW M5 Furiously Accelerate From 0 To Top Speed

  12-08-2018 14:00 via yahoo.com
  Well, it's easy peasy lemon squeezy.
  
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• Ten people hurt in 'shooting' in UK's Manchester

  12-08-2018 13:36 via yahoo.com
  Ten people, including two children, were taken to hospital on Sunday with pellet-type wounds after reports of a shooting in Manchester in northern England, police said."Nine people went to hospital, including two children, with pellet-type wounds that are not believed to be serious," a statement from Greater Manchester Police said.
  
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• Netanyahu demands 'total' Gaza ceasefire

  12-08-2018 13:25 via yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday demanded a "total" ceasefire from Gaza's Hamas rulers in his first public comments on another deadly flare-up between the two sides.There have been efforts by UN officials and Egypt to secure a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas, though Israeli officials have not commented on them."We are in the midst of a campaign against terror in Gaza," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting.
  
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