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• AOC slams New York Times article for framing of Hope Hicks's 'existential question'

  26-05-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rebuked a New York Times piece about former White House communications director Hope Hicks, who was recently issued a subpoena to submit documents and testify before the House Judiciary Committee as part of its congressional investigation into possible obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by President Trump.
  
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• Buttigieg rips Trump over potential pardons, says president implies 'being sent to war turns you into a murderer'

  26-05-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Pete Buttigieg lambasted President Trump for considering pardons for accused or convicted war criminals over Memorial Day weekend.
  
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• Euro Rises as Mainstream Europe Holds Populist Parties at Bay

  26-05-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The euro rose, reversing an earlier decline, as initial exit polls showed mainstream European Union parties held their ground against populists in elections for the bloc’s Parliament.
  
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• Bud Light's message about Miller Lite and Coors Light now has limits

  26-05-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The company behind Bud Light will not be able to use two TV ads and two billboards regarding its light beer rivals.
  
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• EU elections primer: How they work, what happened

  26-05-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European voters have turned out in record numbers to choose lawmakers to represent them at the European Parliament for the next five years.
  
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• Qatar says invited to emergency Arab summits in Mecca by Saudi King

  26-05-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Qatar has been invited by Saudi Arabia to attend two emergency Arab summits being convened in the Saudi city of Mecca on May 30, Qatar's foreign ministry said on Sunday, after previously saying it had not been.Last week Qatar said it had not been invited to the two summits Saudi is planning in Islam's holiest site to discuss the implications of drone strikes on oil installations in the kingdom and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, off the UAE coast earlier this month.
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump agrees with Kim Jong Un that Joe Biden is "Low IQ"

  26-05-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  When asked whether it was appropriate to agree with a "murderous authoritarian dictator," Sarah Sanders said that Trump didn't need help in assessing Biden.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido defends planned talks with Maduro representatives

  26-05-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have to play on all the boards... we have to have an active presence in all places," Guaido told hundreds of supporters in Barquisimeto in Venezuela's Lara state.Guaido, recognized by the United States and dozens of other countries as Venezuela's interim president, said Saturday that the opposition delegation will be headed by deputy legislative speaker Stalin Gonzalez and the ex-deputy Gerardo Blyde.
  
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• Race to succeed UK PM May centers on 'no deal' Brexit battle

  26-05-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  May said on Friday she was quitting over her failure to deliver Brexit, potentially opening the way for a new leader who could seek a more divisive split with the European Union and lead to confrontation with the bloc or a possible parliamentary election.Setting out their pitch to the Conservative Party's largely pro-Brexit membership who will decide the outcome of the contest, four of the leadership hopefuls have said Britain must leave the EU on Oct. 31 even if this means a no-deal Brexit."If
  
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• Big win for Orban's party in Hungary EU vote

  26-05-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fidesz party of Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban scored a big win in European parliament elections, according to results published by Hungarian media on Sunday.With 98 percent of the vote counted, Fidesz has won 52 percent according to the Magyar Nemzet newspaper, up from the 51 percent it won in 2014.The left-wing Democratic Coalition (DK) is far behind in second place with 16.3 percent and the small liberal Momentum party is set to break into the European parliament for th
  
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• West Point Just Graduated the Most Diverse Class in its History

  26-05-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  On Saturday, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point graduated the most diverse class in the academy's history.Of the 980 cadets who are commissioning into the U.S. Army as second lieutenants, there was the highest number of African American women, Hispanic women, and highest number of women overall since the first class of women graduated in 1980, according to a West Point press release.Frank Demaro, West Point spokesman, told CNN that last year's class had 27 African American women g
  
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• 1 Dead, 9 Wounded in Mass Shooting at Party in Virginia

  26-05-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A mass shooting at a party in Virginia has left one dead and another 9 injured.
  
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• Rescuers search for survivors after Oklahoma tornado kills at least two

  26-05-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The tornado that hit El Reno on Saturday night was the latest in a barrage of violent weather that is expected to continue after pounding the Central Plains states last week with deadly tornadoes, high winds, drenching thunderstorms and widespread flooding.In addition to the two fatalities, 29 people suffered minor to critical injuries in the El Reno twister and hundreds more were displaced, the city's mayor said.People have absolutely lost everything."Rescue workers searched the debris field th
  
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• UPDATE 2-Race to succeed UK PM May centers on 'no deal' Brexit battle

  26-05-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The prospect of a "no deal" Brexit was fast becoming the central battle of the race to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday, as environment minister Michael Gove became the eighth candidate to declare.May said on Friday she was quitting over her failure to deliver Brexit, potentially opening the way for a new leader who could seek a more divisive split with the European Union and lead to confrontation with the bloc or a possible parliamentary election.Setting out their pitch to t
  
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• What Americans Should Do on Memorial Day

  26-05-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  This Memorial Day put aside the politics and the shopping sprees. This day is about remembering one thing and one thing only: those who gave their lives in the service of their fellow Americans.That’s actually a lot to take in. So many wars. So many causes. So many lives. It’s impossible to remember them all. But for those looking for a place to start, here’s one you can remember, even if you’ve never heard of him.We’ve all heard of O’Hare, the nation’s
  
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• Hawaii woman rescued from forest told self not to give up

  26-05-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii woman who was found alive in a forest on Maui island after going missing more than two weeks ago said she at times struggled not to give up.
  
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• Algeria to block Total from buying Anadarko’s Algerian assets - minister

  26-05-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Algeria will block Total from acquiring Anadarko’s assets in Algeria, energy minister Mohamed Arkab told reporters on a sidelines of a conference on Sunday.Occidental Petroleum has agreed to sell Anadarko Petroleum Corporation's assets in Algeria, Ghana, Mozambique and South Africa to Total for $8.8 billion if the U.S. oil company succeeds in completing its plan to take over Anadarko.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez slams New York Times for framing of Hope Hicks's 'existential question'

  26-05-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rebuked a New York Times piece about former White House communications director Hope Hicks.
  
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• Facebook defends decision to leave up fake Pelosi video, saying it has no policy that posts must be 'true'

  26-05-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook defends decision to leave up fake Pelosi video, saying it has no "policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true."
  
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• European elections 2019 results: Brexit Party expected to win most UK seats

  26-05-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigel Farage's Brexit Party is tipped to win the most UK seats in the European Parliament elections, with establishment parties forecast to lose their majority across the European Union. Official exit polls are revealing a tough night for establishment parties across the continent, while voter turnout is at 51 per cent according to the EU Parliament - its highest since 1994. In France, Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party will take top spot, with 23.2 per
  
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• Michael Gove enters Conservative race to succeed Theresa May

  26-05-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — British Environment Secretary Michael Gove on Sunday became the eighth lawmaker to enter the race to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, as other contenders staked out uncompromising positions on Brexit.
  
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• The Latest: European Election turnout is highest in 20 years

  26-05-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on elections for the European Parliament (all times local):
  
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• New York's De Blasio, At 0.5%, Skirts Likability Issue for 2020

  26-05-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday about poor favorability ratings and an April 3 Quinnipiac University survey showing that 76% of voters in his own city don’t think he should run, de Blasio said he won two elections in New York overwhelmingly, and that voters will get to know him.“The more folks hear the message and look at the experience I’ve had and done for working people, the more they will come to this side,” de Blasio said.De Blasio, 58, s
  
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• Houthi leader says drone attacks a response to spurned Yemen peace moves

  26-05-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A leader of Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it had resumed drone strikes deep inside Saudi Arabia this month in response to what he called the Saudi-led coalition's spurning of "peace initiatives" by his group.Mohammed Ali al-Houthi dismissed Saudi accusations that the attacks had been carried out on the orders on Iran - at a time of growing tension between Tehran and Riyadh alongside its Western and regional allies.Saudi Arabia, leading a Western-backed Sunni Muslim coalitio
  
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• Very good boy crashes high school graduation, ‘waters’ the plants in the middle of class photo

  26-05-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Graduation is a big day in the life of a high school student. It's the final step in a journey that takes years and regardless of what lies beyond -- be it college, technical training, or a plunge into the workforce -- it's cause for celebration. Charlie feels the same way.Charlie is a dog. More specifically, he's the Walls family dog and Logan Walls, a member of the class of 2019, is a student at Horseshoe Bend High School in Alabama. The school, which is just a stone's throw from the Walls hom
  
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• 8 killed in crash over Memorial Day weekend: CHP

  26-05-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight people died in a crash within the first six hours of the holiday weekend enforcement period, according to the California Highway Patrol.
  
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• VP Pence tells West Point grads they should expect to see combat

  26-05-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence told the most diverse graduating class in the history of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that the world is "a dangerous place" and they should expect to see combat.
  
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• Rep. Riggleman says criticism of Barr handling classified Russia documents is 'ridiculous'

  26-05-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Denver Riggleman gives his take on President Trump giving the attorney general authority over the investigation documents.
  
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• Yoga instructor lost for 16 days in Hawaii ate moths and berries to survive

  26-05-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A yoga instructor who was lost for more than two weeks in the wilds of Hawaii 'ate moths' as she battled to survive. Amanda Eller, 35, spoke for the first time this weekend about her ordeal, saying she almost gave up deep in the jungle.  Miss Eller spent 16 days wondering the Makawao Forest Reserve on the island of Maui after becoming lost during what was meant to be a quick three-mile hike. So quick, in fact, that she had left her mobile phone and water battle behind in her car. Speaking t
  
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• Regime bombardment kills 12 civilians in northwest Syria

  26-05-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Maaret al-Numan (Syria) (AFP) - Regime air strikes killed 12 civilians including four at a market on Sunday in a jihadist bastion in northwest Syria, a war monitor said.A young girl was among those killed at the market in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Eight other civilians were killed elsewhere by government fire in Idlib, a stronghold of Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Britain-based monitor said.
  
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• Magnitude 8 Earthquake Strikes Amazon Jungle in Peru

  26-05-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Amazon jungle in north-central Peru early Sunday, the U.S. Geological survey reported, collapsing buildings and knocking out power to some areas.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler and Renault talk of linking businesses is heating up, report says

  26-05-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and French automaker Renault are in talks that could result in a tie-up of their operations, the Wall Street Journal reports
  
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• White House renews Trump's criticism of Biden from Tokyo

  26-05-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The longtime Washington adage that politics should stop at the water's edge took a new beating over the weekend, as US President Donald Trump cited the North Korean dictator as agreeing with his own dim view ofDemocrat Joe Biden.A White House spokeswoman on Sunday brushed off criticism of Trump's remark and confirmed the two leaders' critical opinion of the former US vice president.Trump later corrected the spelling of Biden's name, but his reliance on a dictator's opinion to ambush a political
  
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• Support for abortion rights grows as some U.S. states curb access: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  26-05-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll found that 58% of American adults said abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 50% who said that in a similar poll that ran in July 2018.While support broke down along partisan lines, passions were higher among registered Democrats, with 81% saying abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while 55% of registered Republicans said it should be illegal in most or all cases.This year, eight Republican-led states have passed new restrictions on abortion, measures that ac
  
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• Germany's Greens surge in EU vote as Merkel bloc's lead shrinks

  26-05-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right bloc was leading in European elections in Germany, exit polls showed Sunday, but the score was shaping out to be a historic low, while the Greens recorded a surge.Merkel's Christian Democratic Party and allies Christian Social Union were set to garner around 28 percent, two separate polls by national broadcasters ARD and ZDF showed, sharply under their 35.3 percent in 2014.The far-right AfD was set to improve on their 2014 score of 7.1 percent, with both e
  
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• Modi meets mum, 95, after Indian election landslide

  26-05-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped in on Sunday on his 95-year-old mother after his election landslide, a day ahead of a victory rally in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi.Modi, 68, told his 47.6 million Twitter followers that he wanted to "seek blessings" from his mother Hiraba Modi in his home state of Gujarat in western India after his massive win."The coming five years are going to be unprecedented for India as well as the world.
  
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• Far-right advances in Flanders as Belgium votes

  26-05-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The far-right Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang made strong gains Sunday in national, regional and European elections, partial results showed.Voting in the triple election was also marked by a protest outside Brussels Gare du Nord station at which police said 200 "yellow vest" anti-establishment protesters were arrested.The vote will set the stage for negotiations to form a government, five month after the ruling coalition collapsed and left Prime Minister Charles Michel in charge of caretaker a
  
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• UPDATE 2-Teva Pharm to pay Oklahoma $85 mln to settle opioid claims

  26-05-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON/JERUSALEM, May 26 (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd said on Sunday it had agreed to pay an $85 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma days before the company was set to face trial over allegations that it and other drugmakers helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic.Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker, said the settlement "does not establish any wrongdoing on the part of the company" and denied contributing to opioid abuse in Oklahoma.Claims against Teva focused on
  
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• UPDATE 1-Teva Pharm to pay Oklahoma $85 mln to settle opioid claims

  26-05-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON/JERUSALEM, May 26 (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said on Sunday it had agreed an $85 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma days before the company was set to face trial over allegations that it and other drugmakers helped to fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic.Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker, said the settlement "does not establish any wrongdoing on the part of the company" and denied contributing to opioid abuse in Oklahoma.Claims against Teva focused on the bra
  
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• White House says U.S. president, N. Korean dictator 'agree' on 'low IQ' assessment of Joe Biden, continues downplaying N. Korea missile threat

  26-05-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “agree” on an assessment of Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden as a “low IQ” person.
  
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• Rouhani says Iran could hold referendum on nuclear programme as tensions with US rise

  26-05-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani has suggested that the Islamic Republic could hold a public referendum on its nuclear programme, in the wake of rising tensions in the Persian Gulf. "Article 59 of the Constitution (referendum) is a deadlock breaker ... and could be a problem-solver at any junction," the semi-official news agency ILNA quoted Rouhani as saying late on Saturday. The statement followed Mr Rouhani’s public dressing-down by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his
  
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• Barr Will Get to Bottom of FBI, DOJ ‘Corruption,’ Sanders Says

  26-05-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president wants transparency, and he’s given the attorney general the ability to put that transparency in place, make those decisions,”’ Sanders said.Sanders didn’t specifically respond to a question about whether Trump would accept “exoneration” of the motives behind the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, if that’s what Barr concludes.
  
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• Scouted: How to Get Better Sleep, From Mattresses to Sheets and Beyond

  26-05-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Welcome to the Everything Guide to Getting Better Sleep. We’ve rounded up all of our best stories about everything bedroom related. We go in-depth with researching the best mattresses, the softest sheets, and the most comfortable pillows, and we’ve rounded them all up in this handy guide. We’ll continue to update this as we learn more about the sleep space so keep this page bookmarked. Bedroom and sleep accessoriesThe nodpod Weighted Sleep Mask Is The One Thing That Helps Me Ge
  
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• Right-wing figures warn of looming 'civil war' over abortion laws

  26-05-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  As the abortion rights debate continues, some prominent right-wing American Christians have shared an ominous warning: that conflict over abortion access may lead to a new civil war. With restrictive abortion bills passing around the US - like the Alabama abortion ban and foetal heartbeat bills, which restrict elective abortion at the about six weeks into pregnancy - America seems divided on a woman's right to choose. Both lawmakers and influential Christians sources have reinforced this narrati
  
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• UPDATE 1-Trump agrees with North Korean leader Kim on Biden -White House

  26-05-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un agree on their assessment of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Sunday, aligning the American president with an authoritarian foreign leader over a former U.S. vice president.North Korea's state-run news agency issued a biting attack last week on Biden, who has been critical of the communist state."I think they agree in their assessment of former Vice President Joe Biden," Sander
  
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• Mike Pence: West Point grads should expect to see combat

  26-05-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence told the most diverse graduating class in the history of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that the world is "a dangerous place" and they should expect to see combat.
  
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• Iraq warns of 'danger of war' as Iran's top diplomat visits

  26-05-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraqi leaders has warned of the risks of war during a visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, whose country is locked in a tense standoff with the United States.Zarif's visit to neighbouring Iraq -- which is caught in the middle of its two allies, the US and Iran -- follows a decision by Washington to deploy 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East."We are currently repelling all the efforts of war against Iran, whether economic or military," Zarif said at a joint news conferen
  
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• Perfect 1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS Seeks New Custodian

  26-05-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Chevrolet Camaro needs no introduction.Boasting the Rally Sport Option with a special grille arrangement featuring concealed headlights, this specimen from Midwest Car Exchange appears perfect in every way.The original Protect-o-Plate dictates that the original dealership was in Norfolk, Virginia, which leads us to believe this Camaro has been garaged most of its life to escape the winter weather.
  
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• Auburn radio announcer, wife die after car crash

  26-05-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Auburn radio announcer Rod Bramblett and his wife, Paula, died from injuries sustained in a car crash Saturday night near the campus.The Lee County Coroner's Office confirmed Sunday morning that Rod Bramblett died from a severe closed head injury at Birmingham's UAB Hospital, where he had been airlifted.Paula Bramblett, who was 53, died of internal injuries at the East Alabama Medical Center.
  
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• Iran state TV fires managers over 'insult' to Sunnis

  26-05-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian state TV has fired two channel managers over a live programme deemed insulting to Sunni Muslims, it said in a statement Sunday.The sackings at Channel 5 came after a broadcast on May 20 celebrating the birthday of the second imam in Shiite Islam, Hassan ibn Ali.During the programme, religious chanter and story-teller Ahmad Qadami recited a eulogy that "insulted the sanctities of Sunni Muslims", according to official news agency IRNA.
  
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