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• President Trump Insulted Pete Buttigieg With a 'Mad' Magazine Reference. Mayor Pete Might Be Too Young to Get It

  11-05-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump Insulted Pete Buttigieg With a 'Mad' Magazine Reference. Mayor Pete Might Be Too Young to Get It
  
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• Judge strikes down Kentucky law restricting abortions after 15 weeks

  11-05-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kentucky judge has struck down a law that prohibited a method of abortion commonly used in the second trimester, saying the measure would create a “sustainable obstacle” to a woman’s right to choose. US district judge Joseph McKinley Jr ruled on Friday that the state’s law violated a woman’s constitutional right to privacy. The law, aimed at halting dilation-and-evacuation (D&E) terminations, was found to “unduly burden” women seeking abortions. Th
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido urges backers to reject 'fear' as Maduro clamps down

  11-05-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday urged his supporters to reject fear and maintainnationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro, who has been ratcheting up pressure on the lawmaker since a failed military uprising.Some 1,500 to 2,000 people filled a square in an opposition-friendly part of eastern Caracas to hear Guaido, but that was far fewer than the several thousands who took part in earlier protests.The smaller turnouts were seen as a sign of possibly waning interes
  
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• Venezuela's Guaidó asks for relations with US military

  11-05-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday said he's instructed his political envoy in Washington to immediately open relations with the U.S. military in a bid to bring more pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to resign.
  
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• Fight to replace PM May complicating Brexit talks: Labour's McDonnell

  11-05-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The battle among leading Conservatives to replace Theresa May as prime minister threatens to derail talks with the opposition Labour Party and the bid to find a Brexit compromise, Labour's John McDonnell said.May, who has offered to quit if lawmakers accept her Brexit deal, opened cross-party talks with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party more than a month ago after parliament rejected her European Union withdrawal deal three times.The talks with Labour are a last resort for May, whose party's deep div
  
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• Venezuelan Opposition Leader Seeks Contact With U.S. Military

  11-05-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Admiral Craig Faller, the head of Southern Command, said on Twitter this week he was open to meeting with Guaido and what he termed the “legitimate” government of Venezuela.“I look forward to discussing how we can support the future role of those @ArmadaFANB leaders who make the right decision, put the Venezuela people first & restore constitutional order,” Faller said in the tweet, referring to the Venezuelan armed forces.
  
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• Stop Hijacking Students’ Grief after School Shootings

  11-05-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, a vigil was held at the STEM School in Colorado to commemorate and honor the bravery of Kendrick Castillo -- the 18-year-old student who gave his life rushing a shooter who was threatening the lives of his classmates. During the vigil, Senator Michael Bennet (D) and Congressman Jason Crow (D) departed from memorializing Castillo and began to agitate for gun control.Suddenly the vigil erupted. Within moments, hundreds of heartbroken teens began to walk out in protest again
  
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• Female Afghan former journalist shot dead in Kabul

  11-05-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A former journalist who worked for the Afghan parliament was shot and killed in Kabul on Saturday, an official said, in the latest brazen attack to rock Afghanistan's capital.Mena Mangal was well known in Kabul circles for her work presenting shows on several television networks, before she left journalism to become a cultural advisor to parliament.According to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, Mangal was gunned down in eastern Kabul in broad daylight.
  
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• Polish far-right protests US law on Jewish restitution

  11-05-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Several thousand nationalists rallied in Warsaw on Saturday against a US law on the restitution of Jewish properties seized during the Holocaust, an issue which has surfaced ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.The latter refers to the US Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act which requires the US State Department to report to Congress on the progress of countries including Poland on the restitution of Jewish assets seized during World War Two and its aftermath.Pre-war
  
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• Ukrainians Slam Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Shameful Play’ to Meddle in Their Politics

  11-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Drew AngererMOSCOW—Democracy-minded Ukrainians, of whom there are many, learned with grim bemusement this week that Donald Trump’s eccentric lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was on his way to Kiev. When they heard he canceled the trip as suddenly as he had announced it there was a collective sigh of relief.  But what the hell was he thinking? Giuliani’s expressed intent was to politicize an investigation in a country where, for years, the Americans have encouraged Ukrainians to trav
  
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• President Trump raises tariffs on Chinese goods as latest round of trade talks ends without a deal

  11-05-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Trade negotiations stalled when China called for changes to the text that served as a blueprint for a deal; reaction and analysis from Michael Pillsbury, director for Chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis

  11-05-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Saturday he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with Pentagon officials to "cooperate" on a solution to the South American country's political crisis.Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, added he had received word from China that the country would join a diplomatic effort between European and Latin American countries, known as the International Contact Group on Venezuela, to negotiate an end to the crisis
  
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• Houthi rebels claim to begin withdrawal from key Yemen ports

  11-05-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday began a long-delayed withdrawal of forces from the port facility in the key city of Hodeida, the group said, following the terms of a December cease-fire aimed at alleviating the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The government described the Houthi claim as a "farce."
  
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• The Latest: Shanahan says troops aim to help secure border

  11-05-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's visit to the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local):
  
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• Women are now in charge of NASA's science missions

  11-05-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  When the next car-sized rover lands on Mars in 2020, the ultimate head of this extraterrestrial endeavor will be physicist Lori Glaze. She's leads NASA's Planetary Science Division.  And she's not alone. For the first time in history, three of NASA's four science divisions are now run by women, a milestone announced by NASA on Friday.  "I am proud to say that for the 1st time in #NASA's history, women are in charge of 3 out of 4 #NASAScience divisions. They are inspiring the next gener
  
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• Nadler: Mueller will not testify before Congress next week

  11-05-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Nadler said he will subpoena Mueller if necessary.
  
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• James Comey called Trump a 'chronic liar.' What his anti-Trump politics mean for the FBI

  11-05-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  James Comey has carved an unusually political path in the two years since President Trump fired him as FBI director.
  
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• Vice President Pence to graduates: Be prepared to be ridiculed for being Christian

  11-05-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence told Liberty University graduates that they have to be ready to be ridiculed for their Christian faith.
  
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• For Harris, memories of a warrior mother guide her campaign

  11-05-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Speaking from the Senate floor for the first time, Kamala Harris expressed gratitude for a woman on whose shoulders she said she stood. In her autobiography, Harris interspersed the well-worn details of her resume with an extended ode to the one she calls "the reason for everything." And taking the stage to announce her presidential candidacy , she framed it as a race grounded in the compassion and values of the person she credits for her fighting spirit.
  
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• Britain's Conservatives in fourth place in EU election poll, Farage leads

  11-05-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Theresa May's Conservative Party has fallen into fourth place in a poll on voting intentions for the European elections, well behind Nigel Farage's new Brexit Party which has more support than Britain's traditionally two biggest parties combined.According to the latest Opinium poll for the Observer newspaper, Farage's newly formed party is on 34% of the vote ahead of the May 23 election that is being held because Britain failed to leave the European Union as expected in March.
  
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• US deployments across Mideast factor in Iran tensions

  11-05-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group rushes toward the Persian Gulf. Decades-old B-52 bombers rumble down runways at desert air bases. The Pentagon, meanwhile, routes a Patriot missile battery and an amphibious supply ship to return to the region.
  
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Becomes Youngest Woman Ever to Preside Over the House of Representatives

  11-05-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "It’s certainly a view," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said
  
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• Hostages rescued from Burkina Faso "hell" praise fallen French commandos

  11-05-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the hostages as they stepped off the French government jet less than 48 hours after French special forces stormed their captors' hideout in a daring night-time raid.Two Frenchmen kidnapped while on safari in Benin more than a week earlier, as well as an American woman and a South Korean woman who were being held with them, were liberated in the high-risk mission authorized by Macron."All our thoughts go to the families of the soldiers and to the soldiers who lo
  
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• 4 assailants, 1 guard killed in hotel attack in SW Pakistan

  11-05-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Four insurgents armed with rifles and grenades attacked a luxury hotel in the southwestern coastal town of Gwadar on Saturday, triggering an intense, hours-long shootout in which one hotel guard and all the attackers were killed, officials said.
  
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• Rep. Andy Biggs on whether standoff between House Democrats and the White House is a constitutional crisis

  11-05-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi agrees with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler's declaration of a constitutional crisis after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt.
  
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• Men ordered not to look at women during Ramadan in Iran as hardliners tighten control amid nuclear deal row

  11-05-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Men in Iran have been ordered not to look at women during Ramadan as part of a round of draconian restrictions imposed by the increasingly isolated regime. In a sign of frustration with growing civil discontent and economic pain caused by US sanctions, hardliners in Iran's government are forcing through unusually strict social diktats to bring people into line. The country's judiciary has announced that those eating in public during the fasting period are also in breach of laws and will be prose
  
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• Trump lawyer Giuliani threatens, then abandons, Ukraine trip

  11-05-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats denounced a plan by President Donald Trump's personal attorney to push Ukraine to open investigations that he hopes could benefit Trump politically, saying it was an overt attempt to recruit foreign help to influence a U.S. election.
  
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• Behold this ancient crowd of galaxies in deep, deep space

  11-05-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The aging Hubble Space Telescope looks back into deep time, billions of years ago, before our sun was even born.  At the very limits of Hubble's viewing abilities lies a cluster of spiraling, disk-shaped galaxies, collectively called SPT0615. NASA posted an image of these ancient structures, one of which was born over 13 billion years ago, relatively soon after the Big Bang likely created the universe. Light left these faraway galaxies long ago, but Hubble can sleuth out this ancient lumino
  
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• May expected to clarify resignation timetable: senior MP

  11-05-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to set out her departure plans within days, the leader of backbench lawmakers in her governing Conservative Party said Saturday.Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 Committee of rank-and-file Conservative MPs, said he expected May to provide clarity on her exit timetable at a meeting with him on Wednesday."I find it very hard to see how that route can lead to any sensible resolution," Brady told BBC radio.
  
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• Colorado School Shooting Shows Students Aren’t Always Ready to Turn Tragedy Into Politics

  11-05-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Not all shooting survivors are willing to quickly turn their grief into demands for gun control
  
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• Gunmen storm luxury hotel in Pakistan port city of Gwadar

  11-05-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  At least one person has been killed after three gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar, the centrepiece of a multi-billion dollar Chinese infrastructure project, the military said Saturday.The gunmen shot dead a security guard at the entrance to the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel before entering, the army said.It was the second deadly attack to take place in a prominent Pakistani city this week.
  
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• Fallout Miami and Cascadia - What It Takes To Make A Large-Scale Mod

  11-05-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  While we may not see another single-player Fallout entry for years, modders are hard at work on some insanely ambitious mods. Here's an inside look at Fallout Miami and Cascadia and what it takes to make a large-scale mod.
  
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• Rep. Dan Kildee on 'constitutional crisis:' We are not there yet

  11-05-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler believe the country is in a constitutional crisis;House Democratic Chief Deputy Whip Dan Kildee disagrees.
  
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• 'I have a plan for that': Elizabeth Warren leads the Democratic 'ideas primary'

  11-05-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  As candidates follow the senator in churning out progressive proposals, some activists warn the priority must be beating Trump Elizabeth Warren speaks in Ames, Iowa. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/APElizabeth Warren has a plan for that. And that. And that as well. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts senator unveiled the 12th major policy proposal of her presidential run, a $100bn plan to combat the opioid crisis. Warren’s reputation as the ideas generator has gained widespread attention. But s
  
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• UPDATE 2-Pentagon eyes longer-term support on U.S.-Mexico border

  11-05-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan made his second trip to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday as the Pentagon looks to develop a longer-term plan to support President Donald Trump's immigration policies.Shanahan traveled to McAllen, Texas, to meet with officials and visit a migrant processing facility and Border Patrol station, two days after the White House announced Trump's intention to nominate the former Boeing Co executive as defense secretary."We're not going to leave until the
  
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• Detention cells at Mexico border so overcrowded US authorities resort to moving migrants by plane

  11-05-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Overcrowding at Border Patrol stations in South Texas has become so acute in recent days that US authorities have taken the rare step of using aircraft to relocate migrants to other areas of the border simply to begin processing them, according to three Homeland Security officials.The first flight left McAllen, Texas, on Friday, transferring detainees to Border Patrol facilities in Del Rio, Texas.There are daily flights scheduled for the next several days, with two planned for Tuesday, according
  
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• China will ‘not flinch’ in face of US pressure, chief negotiator says as talks end

  11-05-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  China will not flinch in the face of American pressure to agree to a trade deal, Beijing’s chief negotiator said on Saturday after the latest round of talks ended without agreement and higher tariffs were imposed on Chinese exports.Liu He, China’s vice premier, tried to strike a resolute but relatively conciliatory note as he left Washington following the end of the fractious talks.“It is like a marathon. The last phase can be the hardest,” Mr Liu told Hong Kong-based Pho
  
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• Potential sale of shuttered GM plant clouded with doubt

  11-05-2019 16:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The fate of a shuttered General Motors plant in Ohio remains very much up in the air even after a tweet from President Donald Trump heralded the potential sale of a factory he has shown an intense interest in saving.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes youngest congresswoman to preside over House

  11-05-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  "Every day here is a sacred privilege + responsibility entrusted to me by my community," she later tweeted.
  
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• Why I left the Colorado school shooting vigil: Students want change but first let us mourn

  11-05-2019 16:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Watching politicians and activists use our classmate's death and our pain to promote their agendas was disrespectful and inappropriate.
  
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• Pokemon: How To Get Free Shiny Pikachu And Eevee For Let's Go

  11-05-2019 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  For a limited time, Pokemon fans in the US will be able to add a special Pokemon to their collections in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. The Pokemon Company is giving away a free Shiny Pikachu or Shiny Eevee for the Switch games from May 11 to June 23 at participating Target stores around the country, but this time around, the process to claim one is a little different than usual.Rather than just walking into the store and picking up a download code, you'll first need to download a new phone app cal
  
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• How To Get Free Shiny Pikachu / Eevee For Pokemon: Let's Go

  11-05-2019 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  For a limited time, Pokemon fans in the US will be able to add a special Pokemon to their collections in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. The Pokemon Company is giving away a free Shiny Pikachu or Shiny Eevee for the Switch games from May 11 to June 23 at participating Target stores around the country, but this time around, the process to claim one is a little different than usual.Rather than just walking into the store and picking up a download code, you'll first need to download a new phone app cal
  
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• Big Bullet: The New AMP Round Means U.S. M1 Abrams Tanks Kill Everything

  11-05-2019 16:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In a 2016 Army statement on AMP, quoting a senior program manager, describes it impact this way…. "Right now our crews face the dilemma as they go into combat of deciding what rounds to load in the turret and carry in the gun. If they choose wrong, they could have a mismatch between target and ammunition, which will cost them valuable seconds while in enemy contact.”A single emerging US Army Abrams tank round is engineered to attack and destroy enemy tanks, bunkers, concrete walls,
  
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• Trump's Tariffs Put China at Center of 2020 Re-Election Bid

  11-05-2019 15:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump set out his rationale in a series of tweets Friday morning after raising tariffs to 25% on $200 billion in goods from China and threatening more.Chinese and U.S. officials held brief talks in Washington that were unproductive, according to people unfamiliar with the matter.“Tariffs will make our Country MUCH STRONGER, not weaker,” the president predicted in a tweet.
  
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• Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan set to visit the US-Mexico border

  11-05-2019 15:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Pentagon approves plans to shift $1.5 billion for the wall as apprehensions are reportedly expected to reach a 13-year high in 2019.
  
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• U.S. states sue Teva, 19 other drug companies in price-fixing complaint

  11-05-2019 15:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Forty-four U.S. states have filed a lawsuit accusing 20 drug companies including Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc of a sweeping scheme to inflate drug prices and stifle competition for more than 100 generic drugs, state prosecutors said on Saturday.The complaint, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, said the drug companies engaged in "numerous illegal conspiracies in order to unreasonably restrain trade, artificially inflate and manipulate prices and reduce competition," accord
  
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• Watergate prosecutor says Trump will ‘pay political price’ for resistance on Mueller report

  11-05-2019 15:43 via news.yahoo.com
  This week, House speaker Nancy Pelosi stood before reporters in the US Capitol and called for patience.Just days after the the Trump administration showed its disdain for congress by refusing to honour a subpoena for the full Mueller report and its underlying evidence, Ms Pelosi channelled the Philadelphia 76ers NBA team and asked America to trust the process.With congressional investigations already under way, the House speaker claimed the goal is uncovering truth, and that it will take time fo
  
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• Pence at Liberty, UNCC-Charlotte graduation, Mother's Day: 5 things you need to know this weekend

  11-05-2019 15:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Liberty University, millions of moms will celebrate Mother's day and more of the weekend's news to know.
  
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• Nike’s app will use augmented reality to determine your shoe size

  11-05-2019 15:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Do you know your own shoe size? You might think you do, but there's a good chance you're walking around in shoes that aren't actually a perfect fit. Nike thinks it can change that with a new addition to its smartphone app that leverages the power of augmented reality to perform a super-accurate scan of your feet, matching you with the ideal size, depending on the kind of shoe you're shopping for.In a new blog post, Nike calls out the current system of shoe sizing as "antiquated," calling it "a g
  
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• Meghan McCain, John McCain's daughter, is the very definition of toxic femininity

  11-05-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Daughter of the late senator has made herself the authority on antisemitism. Did we mention she’s John McCain’s daughter? After Meghan McCain appeared on Late Night with host Seth Meyers, her husband took to Twitter to lambast the host. Photograph: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagesMeghan McCain: the postergirl for toxic femininity Meghan McCain seems to have appointed herself the leading authority on antisemitism in America. She may not be Jewish herself but some of her best frien
  
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