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• Trump Says Don't Do It as Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set

  05-05-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The president’s comment, in a pair of Twitter postings on Sunday, came hours after a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee said that a “tentative date” of May 15 had been set for testimony by the former FBI director to discuss his investigation into the 2016 election.Democrats have been eager for Mueller to testify at least since last month, when his report on Russian election interference and Trump’s subsequent actions to squelch the investigation became pub
  
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• 'The flames were huge': At least 41 dead in fiery Moscow jet landing caught on video

  05-05-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian Aeroflot jet landed in Moscow engulfed in flames and billowing smoke Sunday, which was captured on video.
  
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• Venezuela helicopter crash kills seven military officers near Caracas

  05-05-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven military officers have died in Venezuela after their helicopter crashed on Saturday.The group had been travelling to San Carlos in Cojedes state, where Nicolas Maduro, the country’s president, was overseeing training exercises at a military facility.The Cougar helicopter the men were travelling in plunged into a mountain outside Caracas, Venezuela’s capital in the early hours of the day.An investigation has been opened into the cause of the crash.Two lieutenant colonels and fiv
  
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• SUVs are hot sellers and that means you'll find sweet deals on sedans

  05-05-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  SUVs are hot, and that means there are good deals on some terrific cars, like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Ford Focus, VW Jetta and Chevy Malibu.
  
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• Trump abruptly renews China tariffs threat ahead of upcoming trade deal

  05-05-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has announced an increase in US tariffs on Chinese goods, saying trade negotiations with the country are going “too slowly.” The president appeared to contradict statements from his administration suggesting trade talks with China have been going well in recent weeks. His renewed threats suggest the US will increase tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods from 10 to 25 per cent, after postponing the initial tariffs when officials from both countries agreed to meet for negotia
  
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• Gandhi Family Faces Tough Fight to Secure Key Seats: India Votes

  05-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rahul Gandhi is contesting for the fourth time from the seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh -- a family bastion that he has not lost since his first election in 2004.A former model and television soap opera actress, the outspoken Irani was beaten in 2014 but narrowed Gandhi’s margin of victory.
  
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• Gandhi Family Faces Tough Fight to Secure Key Seats in India’s Elections

  05-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rahul Gandhi is contesting for the fourth time from the seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh -- a family bastion that he has not lost since his first election in 2004.A former model and television soap opera actress, the outspoken Irani was beaten in 2014 but narrowed Gandhi’s margin of victory.
  
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• Trump picks Obama-era Border Patrol head to lead ICE after several recent Fox News appearances

  05-05-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump tapped former Border Patrol chief under former President Barack Obama to run the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
  
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• Barr vs. Mueller: The attorney general fights his own battle with the special counsel as he stands up for Trump

  05-05-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump had complained that his previous attorney general didn't protect him. Attorney General William Barr did that this week.
  
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• Report: Red Sox skipper Cora won't go to White House

  05-05-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Boston manager Alex Cora will not be with his team Thursday when the Red Sox celebrate winning the 2018 World Series at the White House.El Nuevo Dia in Puerto Rico reported the news Sunday and said Cora has declined the invitation because his native land continues to struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017.Last year, Cora criticized President Donald Trump for his tweets downplaying the number of Puerto Ricans who died as a result of the natural disaster.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi tries to herd Democrats: Today's Toon

  05-05-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
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• Trump says Special Counsel Mueller should not testify on Russia probe

  05-05-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not testify in Congress about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, after saying on Friday it was up to the Justice Department's top official.Trump said on Twitter that Democrats in Congress were seeking a "redo" of Mueller's report, which declined to conclude whether the president's efforts to impede the investigation constituted obstruction of justice."Bob Mueller shou
  
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• Maximum Security owner denies impeding Kentucky Derby winner

  05-05-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Gary West, in an interview with Daily Racing Form, added that he may need to appeal the Kentucky Derby decision to U.S. federal courts because of Kentucky regulations.Maximum Security on Saturday became the first horse in the history of the 145-year-old race to be disqualified after crossing the line first.Stewards ruled Maximum Security was guilty of a contact foul when he drifted out heading into the stretch and affected the progress of several horses.
  
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• Donald Trump set for new clash with Democrats as he urges Robert Mueller not to testify before Congress

  05-05-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is on course for a new clash with Democrats after he called on Robert Mueller not to testify before Congress. The US president intervened on Twitter, after it was reported that Mr Mueller had "tentatively agreed" to appear before the Democrat-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on May 15. Democrats are keen to hear from Mr Mueller, who carried out a two-year investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. But Mr Trump accused
  
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• US, Russia butt heads over Venezuela

  05-05-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Sunday for Russia to get out of Venezuela, while his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, called on Washington to "abandon its irresponsible plans" in the crisis-wracked country.The push and shove set the stage for a Pompeo meeting with Lavrov in Finland this week, and belied the conciliatory tone taken by US President Donald Trump on Friday after what he said was "a very good conversation" with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Venezuela: Russia urges US to abandon ‘irresponsible’ plan to topple Maduro

  05-05-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state meanwhile slammed Russian meddling in the country: ‘We don’t want anyone messing around with Venezuela’Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Venezuela’s foreign minister Jorge Arreaza give a press conference in Moscow on Sunday. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty ImagesWashington and Moscow traded barbs over Venezuela on Sunday with Russia’s foreign minister urging the United States to abandon its “irresponsible” pla
  
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• Sanders Pitches to Iowa, Wants Halt to Agriculture Mega-Mergers

  05-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking to supporters in tiny Osage, Iowa -- a farming community with about 4,000 residents -- Sanders also promised to steer more farm subsidies away from bigger companies and to strengthen antitrust laws governing the industry.“In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they possibly can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and in many ways are being treated like modern-day indentured servants,” Sanders s
  
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• Trump says Mueller should not testify: 'No redos for the Dems!'

  05-05-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said the special counsel shouldn't testify, and called for “no redos” of the two-year probe that found no conspiracy between him and Russia.
  
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• Plane Crash in Moscow: At Least 40 Dead After Russian Aeroflot Jet’s Fiery Crash Landing

  05-05-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Marchukaites/AFP/GettyAt least 40 people were killed Sunday when a Russian plane made a fiery crash landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, according to Russian officials. The Russian Aeroflot carrier plane had reportedly departed from Moscow, en route to the northern city of Murmansk. But video shows the plane quickly returning at about 7:30 p.m. local time, skidding across the Moscow runway with the back half engulfed in flames and billowing thick clouds of black smoke. It&rsquo
  
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• Pompeo insists North Korea nuclear deal still possible despite weapons test

  05-05-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state echoes the president, saying ‘there’s opportunity to get a negotiated outcome’ on a denuclearization dealSecretary of state Mike Pompeo said latest missile launches ‘anded in the water east of North Korea and didn’t present a threat to the US or to South Korea or Japan’. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesSecretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Sunday that a nuclear disarmament deal between the US and North Korea was still possible, d
  
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• Correction: Trump-Russia Probe-Congress story

  05-05-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 5 about congressional efforts to force the White House to comply with requests for information related to the special counsel's Russia investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the House Judiciary Committee is demanding a redacted version of Mueller's report. The committee wants an unredacted version.
  
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• Joe Biden Pivots to Courting Black Voters in South Carolina

  05-05-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  “We’ve got Jim Crow sneaking back in,” the former vice president said Saturday at a rally in Columbia, comparing new restrictions on voting to the racial segregation laws of the past.Biden capped his first week as an official candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination with a weekend trip to the Palmetto State.Both groups will be key to Democrats’ chances of defeating President Donald Trump in 2020.
  
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• Man charged with posing as ride-share driver and sexually assaulting woman at knifepoint

  05-05-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been arrested after a woman in Delaware was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by a man posing as a ride-share service Saturday, police said.
  
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• Mueller testimony to US Congress proposed for May 15: lawmaker

  05-05-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller, the man who led the nearly two-year investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, has been asked to testify to Congress on May 15, a lawmaker said Sunday.US President Donald Trump has said Mueller's voluminous report vindicated him of allegations of collusion with Russia, but Democrats want to ask Mueller about evidence the president might have obstructed justice.
  
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• Brexit deal prospects in doubt in 'bad faith' spat

  05-05-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday urged Labour to do a deal on Brexit this week, but the main opposition party accused her of acting in bad faith.The Conservatives and Labour both lost ground in Thursday's English local authority polls as voters vented their frustration at the Brexit impasse dominating British politics.
  
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• Republicans push tax relief through Kansas Legislature

  05-05-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators have pushed a tax relief proposal through the Kansas Legislature, ignoring predictions from Gov. Laura Kelly's fellow Democrats that she will veto it, just as she did with a larger plan.
  
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• Trump says Mueller should not testify before Congress after date announced for public questioning

  05-05-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has urged Special Counsel Robert Mueller not to testify to the US Congress about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president’s latest comments arrived after he said he would not allow former White House counsel Don McGahn — a prominent figure in the special counsel’s nearly 400-page report — to testify to the House as it continues probing election interference and the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian operatives. &ldq
  
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• Taliban kill 13 in attack on police headquarters in northern Afghanistan

  05-05-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Afghan forces battled for hours against Taliban insurgents who stormed a police headquarters in the northern city of Pul-e-Khumri, after a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car, killing at least 13 people, officials said on Sunday."The complex attack on Baghlan police headquarters has ended with the death of all nine attackers, including the suicide bomber," he said.The Taliban, which is seeking to restore strict Islamic rule and expel foreign forces from Afghanistan, claimed responsibi
  
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• UPDATE 4-Boeing did not disclose 737 MAX alert issue to FAA for 13 months

  05-05-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. planemaker has been trying for weeks to dispel suggestions that it made airlines pay for safety features after it emerged that an alert designed to show discrepancies in Angle of Attack readings from two sensors was optional on the 737 MAX.Erroneous data from a sensor responsible for measuring the angle at which the wing slices through the air - known as the Angle of Attack - is suspected of triggering a flawed piece of software that pushed the plane downward in two recent crashes.In a
  
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• UPDATE 3-Boeing inadvertently made 737 MAX alert optional, denies safety risk

  05-05-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Sunday it had inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to a mismatch of flight data optional on the 737 MAX, instead of standard as on earlier 737s, but reiterated that the missing display represented no safety risk.The U.S. planemaker has been trying for weeks to dispel suggestions that it made airlines pay for safety features after it emerged that an alert designed to show discrepancies in Angle of Attack readings from two sensors was
  
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• Trump picks Morgan, backer of border wall, to head U.S. immigration agency

  05-05-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Morgan, who headed U.S Border Patrol for six months after a career at the FBI, came out in support of Trump's border wall in January, urging Trump in an interview with legal news website Law & Crime to "stay the course.""I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE," Trump wrote on Twitter.When Trump took office in January 2017, Mor
  
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• Fuel House - Positive Effect

  05-05-2019 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  (Presented by Jack in the Box) Esports can be demanding. But Jack and EFFECT are about to discover that having a personal life is a big part of being your best.
  
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• Arrest made in sex assault of woman by faux ride-share driver

  05-05-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have arrested Roberto Rodriguez after a woman reported being held at knifepoint and sexually by a man posing as a ride-share driver.
  
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• U.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy

  05-05-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism - opposition to Israel's existence as a homeland for the Jewish people - was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would "fight it relentlessly".The State Department's special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, said this U.S. position could spell reviews of ties with foreign governments or leaders."The United States is willing to r
  
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• Israel army denies Gaza woman, baby killed by Israeli strike

  05-05-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's army on Sunday denied claims from Gazan authorities that an Israeli strike killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and a baby, saying errant Hamas fire was to blame for the deaths.The Gazan health ministry said on Saturday that Falestine Abu Arar, 37, and her 14-month-old daughter Saba were killed by an Israeli strike that hit their home in eastern Gaza City.Israel rejected the claim that one of its retaliatory strikes in response to barrages of rockets from Gaza killed the two.
  
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• NASA fits 265,000 galaxies into a single ‘Hubble Legacy Field’ image

  05-05-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronomers have assembled the most all-encompassing image of space ever created.It puts together 16 years of data captured from the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a statement from NASA. All together, the composite is made up of nearly 7,500 individual exposures. Dubbed the "Hubble Legacy Field," this wide view image shows around 265,000 galaxies. These galaxies go back 13.3 billion years to 500 million years after the big bang, showcasing how they have changed over time.This latest H
  
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• North Carolina K-9 police officer fatally shot during traffic stop; suspect kills himself, police say

  05-05-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Details of why the suspect was pulled over or why they opened fire have not been released.
  
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• Curfew in Sri Lanka city as religious tensions rise

  05-05-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka clamped curfews at a city outside the capital Sunday to contain religious tensions as the authorities prepared to reopen schools after Easter bombings that killed 257 people.A senior police officer said the night curfew was imposed to prevent an escalation of mob violence after attacks occurred in Negombo -- north of Colombo -- where over 100 Christians died in a church bombing two weeks ago."At least two motorcycles and two three-wheel taxis have been damaged in the clashes," the poli
  
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• Trump Nominates Obama-Era Border Patrol Chief As New ICE Director

  05-05-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  NICHOLAS KAMMIn a surprise move, President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he would nominate Mark Morgan, the former chief of U.S. Border Patrol under President Barack Obama, to serve as the new permanent director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).“I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE,” Trump tw
  
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• 'The Good Doctor' star Hill Harper in Detroit to help boost your credit score

  05-05-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Experian partners with actor and activist Hill Harper to promote new program to help those with limited credit histories improve their scores.
  
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• How Dead Cells Secretly Stops You From Dying

  05-05-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  In Dead Cells, you die. A lot. But you'd actually die a lot more if it weren't for some hidden design tricks that developers Motion Twin snuck into the game.
  
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• Black box found, pets can't be saved after Boeing 737 crash lands in Jacksonville, Florida

  05-05-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  All 143 people aboard a Boeing 737 survived after the plane skidded off a runway into a river in Jacksonville, but pets might not have been as lucky.
  
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• US still sees 'path forward' in N.Korea talks: Pompeo

  05-05-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the US still sees "a path forward" in its nuclear talks with North Korea, even after Pyongyang's latest round of test launches.North Korea's state media said that leader Kim Jong Un had overseen a rocket and tactical guided weapons test on Saturday, after the drill raised concerns Pyongyang was escalating provocations with US nuclear negotiations deadlocked.
  
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• 6 facts about bonds that you need to understand now

  05-05-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Conventional wisdom says bonds zig when stocks zag, smoothing out bumpy periods for investors who own both. Yet last year, that didn’t happen.
  
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• Pelosi worries Trump 'would poison the public mind' if he narrowly loses reelection bid

  05-05-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The only way President Trump will accept defeat in the 2020 election is if Democrats win by a big enough margin that he can’t dispute it, argues House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido Doesn't Rule Out U.S. Military Action

  05-05-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Guaido, who is the National Assembly president and is recognized as the country’s legitimate leader by President Donald Trump and about 50 other countries, suggested he expected many more defectors from the military, along with Maduro’s resignation, after the opposition leader led a failed uprising this week.Instead of unilateral U.S. intervention, Guaido said such an operation would have to be accompanied by Venezuelan forces, without offering further details.
  
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• Pompeo Says All Venezuela Options Open, Including Military

  05-05-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  “We’re preparing those for him so that when the situation arises, we’re not flat-footed,’’ Pompeo said on ABC’s “This Week,” one of three scheduled appearances on Sunday morning political shows.Pompeo said Sunday that he can’t predict when Maduro will be forced out of office -- whether days, weeks or months.“There’s enormous poverty, enormous starvation, sick children that can’t get medicine,” Pompeo said.
  
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• A full-time rabbi, jingling keys, snoring: what Michael Cohen will find in prison

  05-05-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump’s ex-fixer who paid off porn stars on the president’s behalf is to begin a three-year sentence in upstate New York on MondayMichael Cohen is scheduled to report to federal prison on Monday. Photograph: Yana Paskova/ReutersMichael Cohen, the former longtime aide to Donald Trump, is scheduled to report to federal prison on Monday to begin serving a three-year sentence.Cohen, 53, was sentenced last December for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance violations. He bec
  
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• Cyprus police find fifth victim of suspected serial killer

  05-05-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Cyprus found a body in a lake on Sunday that they believe to be the fifth victim of a suspected serial killer who preyed on foreign women for almost three years without detection.It is not identifiable and is being taken to the mortuary now for further inquiries," a police official said.A 35-year-old career army captain has been in custody since late April on suspicion of killing five adult women and the young daughters of two of the victims.
  
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• Warplanes strike hospital in Syria's rebel-held Idlib

  05-05-2019 16:49 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Warplanes struck a hospital in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, knocking it out of service, as government forces continued to bombard the rebel-held region following insurgent attacks last week.
  
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