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• UPDATE 2-Suspect caught after seven bodies found at two Tennessee homes

  28-04-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect in the killings of seven people in rural Tennessee was shot and captured by police after an hours-long manhunt triggered by the discovery of the bodies in two separate homes, authorities said on Sunday.Dozens of people gathered to commemorate the victims on Sunday evening at a Methodist church in Westmoreland, a town in the area where the shootings occurred, according to Nashville television station FOX 17.The suspect, Michael Cummins, 25, was in custody after suffering non-life threat
  
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• The Latest: Sri Lanka emergency law bans face coverings

  28-04-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Latest on the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka (all times local):
  
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• Synagogue Shooting Suspect Was a Piano-Playing Nursing Student From Religious Family With a Racist Secret

  28-04-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Sandy Huffaker/AFP/GettyPOWAY, California—Nineteen-year-old nursing student John T. Earnest, who was charged with murder Sunday as the lone gunman in the deadly Poway Synagogue shooting, played piano for hours a day and earned a 4.31 grade point average. His father was a church elder whom neighbors called “the sweetest man.”But somewhere on his path, Earnest took a terrible turn, claiming Adolf Hitler as an idol and writing what appears to be his own rambling manifesto that Jew
  
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• Southwest: Boeing didn't say it had deactivated safety alert

  28-04-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines says Boeing did not disclose that it had deactivated a safety feature on its 737 Max jets until after one of the airliners crashed last year.
  
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• An actual real-life hero ran the London Marathon dressed as Big Ben

  28-04-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  To the total stranger who seemingly ran all 26.2 miles of the London Marathon while wearing a full-body Big Ben costume: I salute you.Who does this? What kind of a brain dreams it up? There's actually a good, heartwarming reason. But first, you need to see it. Behold the excellence of this absolute real life superhero....> Meet Lukas Bates, who is aiming to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon dressed as a landmark building.> > Livehttps://t.co/Iu4lj6ixO3>@BBCOne&
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Kellyanne Conway for slamming her response to Sri Lanka attacks

  28-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York lashed out at White House aide Kellyanne Conway who accused herof being silent about the Sri Lanka "massacre of Christians."
  
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• The Unsung Hero Of The Muscle Car Era: AMX

  28-04-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  AMC was not best known for pushing the boat out.Despite attempting to broaden their horizons in the luxury car segment, their brand image simply couldn’t cut it.It provided inspiration for the upcoming AMC Javelin, the supposed answer to the Mustang’s newly established pony car segment.
  
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• One Of A Kind Corvette Hatchback Needs Saving

  28-04-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Corvettes are arguably the definitive American sports car, and their popularity over the decades has spurred the model from one generation to the next.This unique Corvette hatchback is one of just one.Found on Ebay, this rather distressed looking Chevrolet Corvette might be written off by many, but it is, in fact, something rather special.
  
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• Richard Lugar, US foreign-policy luminary, dies at 87

  28-04-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Richard Lugar, a leading US voice on foreign policy for decades and a onetime presidential candidate known for his civility and bipartisan ways, has died at a medical center in Falls Church, Virginia.Lugar died of chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy, according to a statement from the Lugar Center in Washington, a global policy institute which he founded in 2013.A soft-spoken Republican moderate, Lugar was twice chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and built a reputation as
  
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• Take A Ride Through Time In This 1914 Ford Model T Geneva Coach

  28-04-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  While there are plenty of classic cars that would be great to own, few carry the same level of historical significance as this 1914 Ford Model T Geneva Coach.This car built for the masses can be yours to enjoy, thanks to Vintage Car Collector.Lovingly known as Tin Lizzie, the Model T put Ford on the map and is considered by many to be one of the most important vehicles of the 20th century.
  
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• Is This Jewel-Encrusted Ford Escort The Most Expensive Ever?

  28-04-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  This 6-inch replica of Ari Vatanen's 1970s Ford Escort RS1800 is crafted from silver, gold, platnium and diamonds - and could just be the most expensive Ford Escort of all time.Glance towards an Escort Cosworth or RS2000 and you’ll be hit with the Ford tax harder than Conor McGregor takes a punch.In truth, it’s been cheaper to purchase jewellery over adrenaline-fuelled Ford classics as of late.
  
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• Tenn. police investigating whether suspect knew 7 victims

  28-04-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  WESTMORELAND, Tenn. (AP) — Police on Sunday raised the death toll at two homes in rural Tennessee to seven and said they are investigating whether a suspect captured after an hourslong manhunt knew the victims.
  
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• New York Archdiocese releases list of 120 priests accused of child sexual abuse

  28-04-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The list released by the New York Archdiocese includes 120 men, none of them in active ministry now.
  
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• What Animal-Rights Activists Forget

  28-04-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is demanding a cut of $15 billion a year in the budget of the National Institutes of Health. It’s even lobbying President Trump by driving a mobile billboard around his Mar-a-Lago resort complex. PETA claims that the NIH is spending money on animal experiments “that fail to produce cures or treatments for humans.” How soon we forget our history.Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, but the Centers for Di
  
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• The Latest: Tenn. police increase death toll at 2 homes to 7

  28-04-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  WESTMORELAND, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on the deaths of multiple victims at two homes in rural Tennessee (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Pence says Lugar was 'leader on the world stage'

  28-04-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the death of former Sen. Richard Lugar (all times local):
  
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• UPDATE 1-Gunmen kidnap Canadian, Scottish oil workers from Nigerian oil rig

  28-04-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Gunman kidnapped three oil workers from Canada, Scotland and Nigeria at a rig in Nigeria's Delta region on Saturday, officials said - the second abduction in the area in less than a week.The attackers raided the rig owned by Niger Delta Petroleum Resources in Ogbele, Rivers State at around 8 a.m. (0700 GMT), the spokesman for the area's military operations, Major Ibrahim Abubakar, said.The Niger Delta produces the bulk of Nigeria's crude.
  
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• Poway Synagogue Shooting Suspect John Earnest Charged With Murder

  28-04-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Sandy Huffaker/AFP/GettyThe 19-year-old man accused of using an assault rifle to open fire on the Chabad of Poway synagogue in suburban San Diego was charged with murder Sunday afternoon, according to jail records filed by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. John Earnest was charged with one count of murder in the death of 60-year-old Lori Kaye and three counts of attempted murder in the mass shooting that took place on the last day of Passover.Earnest is being held in county jail o
  
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• Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein recounts Poway synagogue shooting: 'I met the terrorist face-to-face'

  28-04-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite the harrowing experience, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said he and his congregation will not be "intimidated or deterred" by the threat of violence.
  
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• REFILE-No clear majority in Spain's election with 50 pct of votes counted

  28-04-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Neither the rightist or the leftist political bloc in Spain was holding a clear majority in Sunday's national election, according to a tally of results from the interior ministry with 50 percent of votes counted.The partial results, which in past Spanish elections have not always accurately reflected the final outcome, suggested neither bloc would be able to form a government on its own, and would need to ally with smaller regional parties to prevent a deadlocked parliament.
  
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• VIDEO: Killer Whales play with food, teach calf how to hunt

  28-04-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A rare sight was caught on camera- killer whales playing with their food.
  
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• Tears and troops as Sri Lanka mourns suicide bomb dead

  28-04-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka's churches remained shut Sunday, forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country's Roman Catholic leader called "an insult to humanity".Fearing a repeat of the Easter Sunday bombings of churches and hotels in which 253 people died, the archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, held a private Mass after cancelling all public services."Today during this Mass we are paying attention to last Sunday's tragedy and we try to unders
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. attorney general balks at closed-door testimony on Mueller findings

  28-04-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr is threatening to skip his planned appearance on Thursday, the aide told Reuters on condition of anonymity.The committee's chairman, Democrat Jerrold Nadler, has proposed that Barr's public testimony be followed by a second round of questioning, where sensitive matters would be discussed behind closed doors and include committee staff lawyers, a House Democratic aide told Reuters.Barr opposes both stipulations, according to the aide.
  
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• Rep. Clyburn slams Trump's praise for Robert E. Lee: 'The president is now glorifying a loser'

  28-04-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  “Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. Robert E. Lee was a loser.”
  
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• No Mass for Sri Lanka's Catholics; no veils for Muslim women

  28-04-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The effects of Sri Lanka's Easter suicide bombings reverberated across two faiths Sunday, with Catholics shut out of their churches for fear of new attacks, left with only a televised Mass, and Muslim women ordered to stop wearing veils in public.
  
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• Extreme Right Vox Party Set to Enter Spain’s Parliament, But Socialists Will Govern

  28-04-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/GettyBARCELONA—It was 10 a.m. and Antonia Huguet, 75, trundled home from a dilapidated school in the middle of Barcelona’s Gothic neighborhood after voting in Spain’s general election. With her dyed blond hair done up in a bun, Huguet looked like a character out of a Pedro Almodóvar movie—which seems rather appropriate since Spanish democracy these days could easily be mistaken for something on the verge of a nervous breakdown.  Like m
  
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• U.S. attorney general balks at closed-door testimony on Mueller findings

  28-04-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr is threatening to skip his planned appearance on Thursday, the aide told Reuters on condition of anonymity.The committee's chairman, Jerrold Nadler, has proposed that Barr's public testimony be followed by a second round of questioning, where sensitive matters would be discussed behind closed doors and include committee staff lawyers, a House Democratic aide told Reuters.Barr opposes both stipulations, according to the aide.
  
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• Historian Ron Chernow Used Past Presidents to Call for Civility at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

  28-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  "Civility has been an essential lubricant in our democratic culture"
  
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• FAA considered grounding some Boeing 737 Max planes last year: source

  28-04-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  US regulators considered grounding some Boeing 737 MAX planes last year after learning belatedly of a problem with a system that is now the main suspect in two deadly crashes, a source close to the matter said.Investigators in the Lion Air crash in October off the coast of Indonesia and the Ethiopia Airlines disaster in March have zeroed in on the planes' anti-stall system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS.Last year, before the Lion crash, inspectors with the F
  
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• The Problem with Russia's New Armata Tank

  28-04-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Along with the Armata production problems, the Su-57 5th generation stealth fighter has also been shelved for the time being due to budgetary constraints.When Russia first unveiled the T-14 Armata tank to the public in 2015, western militaries took note of next-generation juggernaut’s futuristic and flexible design, which was built to replace several armored ground units. But unfortunately for the Russian armed forces, a sluggish economy hit by sanctions and massive corruption doesn’
  
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• Rabbi wounded in synagogue shooting says ‘senseless hate’ killings must stop

  28-04-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A defiant Yisroel Goldstein, who was shot at point blank range in California attack, says ‘we are being mown down like animals’* Synagogue shooting victim died ‘trying to save rabbi’A makeshift memorial by a light pole a block away from the Saturday shooting where one person was killed at the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California. Photograph: John Gastaldo/ReutersThe rabbi wounded in the shooting at his synagogue in California spoke from the hospital on Sunday to say th
  
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• Russia's Vladimir Putin blasts U.S. sentencing of Maria Butina as a 'travesty of justice'

  28-04-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Gun-rights activist Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for her role in a Russian effort to infiltrate U.S. politics.
  
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• President Trump slams 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett as a 'third-rate actor'

  28-04-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is taking a shot at "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, again, for referencing MAGA country.
  
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• Ending sanctions waiver will anger US allies: Iran FM

  28-04-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The US decision to end sanctions waivers for purchases of Iranian oil later this week will backfire by angering Washington's allies, Tehran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday.Zarif said US policy is designed to make life hard for the Iranian people so they will "take action" against the Tehran government.In May last year, President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers, which had given the Islamic republic sanctions relief in exchange
  
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• Fuel House: Unkoe has a secret admirer. Who isn’t so secret...

  28-04-2019 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Jack introduces Jack Bot to the Fuel House, but not everyone is a fan.New episodes Sundays. Presented by Jack in the Box!
  
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• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deletes tweet after mistaking a Democrat for a Republican

  28-04-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a tweet Thursday after she attempted to call out "older male" Republicans for posing next to a cardboard cutout of her.
  
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• Trump's attorney general may refuse to attend congressional hearing on Mueller report, officials says

  28-04-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s attorney general William Barr may refuse to attend this week's scheduled congressional hearing to review special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference. The Justice Department has told the House Judiciary Committee it has objections over the format of planned questioning, according a Democratic senior committee aide.The department disapproves of plans to allow committee lawyers from both sides to question Mr Barr after the traditional round of
  
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• 'Biden's the most difficult' Democrat for Trump to run against: Chris Christie

  28-04-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics, including former Vice President Joe Biden officially getting into the 2020 presidential race.
  
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• Mueller does believe Trump obstructed justice, but 'he's just dead wrong': Dershowitz

  28-04-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC News Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams and Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz analyze the potential case for obstruction of justice laid out in the Mueller report.
  
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• John Earnest, 19, identified as gunman who killed 1, injured 3 in Poway synagogue

  28-04-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  John Earnest may be charged with a hate crime in addition to homicide, according to San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore.
  
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• Trump Off Sounds in Interview With Mark Levin: ‘Lot of Good People’ in Charlottesville

  28-04-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERS/Yara NardiAbout an hour into a wide ranging radio interview on Friday with conservative radio personality Mark Levin, President Donald Trump took a stab at explaining exactly what he meant when he said there were “very fine people on both sides” of the neo-Nazi march that ended in the death 32-year-old counter-protester Heather Heyer, in Charlottesville in 2017. Levin, having hashed over the Mueller report with the president ad nauseam, had one last topic while he still had t
  
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• Trump takes swipes at media in rally during White House correspondents dinner

  28-04-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump attacked the press during a rally he held in Green Bay, Wisc. Saturday that aimed to be counter-programing to the White House correspondents dinner.
  
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• U.S. envoy signed North Korea document to pay for Warmbier's care: Bolton

  28-04-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States signed a document agreeing to pay North Korea for the care of American Otto Warmbier but never paid the $2 million Pyongyang demanded, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.Bolton, who said he was not part of the administration at the time, confirmed newspaper reports that North Korea demanded the money before Warmbier was flown out of Pyongyang in a coma on June 13, 2017.Asked whether U.S. envoy Joseph Yun signed the document when he went to retrieve
  
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• Creating Cuphead's Most Ambitious Boss Fight

  28-04-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  From "thicc Mugman" to Rampage Easter eggs, there's a lot more to All Bets Are Off! from Cuphead than you'd think. Jared Moldenhauer from Studio MDHR breaks down how it was designed.
  
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• 20 Years Of Super Smash Bros.

  28-04-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  20 years ago this month, the original Super Smash Bros. launched for Nintendo 64 in North America. It hardly needs to be stated how important that game would prove to be for Nintendo's fortunes. The mascot brawler would eventually grow into one of the company's most beloved and lavish franchises, selling millions of copies and inspiring a string of imitators on other platforms in its wake. But despite all of the marquee characters attached to the game, it was also a big risk for Nintendo, a curi
  
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• House panel to interview ex-White House security clearance chief

  28-04-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic chairman of a congressional committee has put off holding a former White House security clearance chief in contempt until after the panel interviews him about decisions made on some of President Donald Trump's advisers.The House Oversight and Government Reform committee voted last week to subpoena Carl Kline over whistleblower allegations that the Trump administration inappropriately reversed career officials’ decisions to deny some advisers security clearances.Congressional
  
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• What we know about the Sri Lanka bombers

  28-04-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka's horrific Easter attacks that killed 253 people were orchestrated by a firebrand cleric who sought out young men from wealthy families and radicalised them into suicide bombers, according to initial evidence gathered by investigators.The attacks were led by Zahran Hashim, a Sri Lankan Muslim preacher who founded the radical National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) organisation in the eastern town of Kattankudy.After Hashim's violent diatribes sparked a police investigation in 2017, he fled t
  
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• Stephen Moore Vows to Survive ‘Smear Campaign’ in Consideration for Fed

  28-04-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  “I’m going to make it through this process,” Stephen Moore, a former Trump campaign adviser and Heritage Foundation fellow, said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.Last month, Trump said he planned to nominate Moore to one of two open seats on the Federal Reserve Board.
  
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• Arnold Schwarzenegger congratulates son Joseph Baena for graduating: 'I’m so proud of you'

  28-04-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Arnold Schwarzenegger's lookalike son Joseph Baena says "Hasta la vista, baby" to college with his dad by his side. "Today is your big day!"
  
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• Pilots demand better training if Boeing wants to rebuild trust in 737 MAX

  28-04-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines pilots have warned that Boeing Co's draft training proposals for the troubled 737 MAX do not go far enough to address their concerns, according to written comments submitted to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and seen by Reuters.The comments were made by the Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents pilots at American Airlines Group Inc , the world's largest airline and one of the biggest 737 MAX operators in the United States.
  
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