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• Explosions rock Syria's northern city of Raqqa, killing 10

  01-06-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Two explosions killed 10 people in Raqqa Saturday in the latest attacks to hit the city in northern Syria, opposition activists reported.
  
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• Eleven wounded in Sudan by gunfire near sit-in -opposition committee

  01-06-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's main protest group blamed the violence on the Transitional Military Council (TMC), saying that it is part of a plan to violently clear the protests."The killing and intimidation on Nile Street is just a prelude to committing a massacre to end the sit-in by force," Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA) said in a statement late on Saturday.Tensions are mounting between the TMC and an alliance of protest and opposition groups who want a quick handover of power to civilians.
  
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• This 1994 Toyota Has Been Turned Into Thunderbird 2

  01-06-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not often that Thunderbird 2 comes up for sale at £35k ($45k). Well, it's sort of Thunderbird 2...
  
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• Is the United States Baiting Iran into a War?

  01-06-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Middle East region and the American foreign-policy establishment are breathing a collective sigh of relief, as President Donald Trump has dialed back U.S. threats to Iran and undercut his administration's top hawks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton. But while tensions in the Persian Gulf may appear to be getting lower as a result, the likelihood of military exchanges between the United States and Iran are actually increasing.In fact, this simmering cri
  
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• Navy confirms request to keep USS John S. McCain out of sight during President Trump's visit

  01-06-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The Navy confirmed it received a request to keep the USS John McCain out of view of President Donald Trump's sight during his visit to Japan recently.
  
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• Captain charged over Budapest boat tragedy

  01-06-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel was charged Saturday over the accident in Budapest that killed seven South Korean tourists and left 21 missing.The Mermaid carrying mainly South Korean tourists overturned and sank late Wednesday, seconds after colliding with the Viking Sigyn cruise ship on a busy stretch of the Danube in the heart of Budapest.Strong currents have hampered the search for those missing -- 19 South Koreans and two Hungarians -- prev
  
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• Trump says lawyer Emmet Flood leaving in June

  01-06-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that a member of his legal team, Emmet Flood, will leave his post later this month after helping him handle the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election campaign."Emmet Flood, who came to the White House to help me with the Mueller Report, will be leaving service on June 14th.Trump has been restructuring his legal team as he shifts from dealing with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe to battling Democratic-led inves
  
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• DR Congo's Tshisekedi laid to rest as his son looks on

  01-06-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi was laid to rest Saturday as his son, the president, looked on, following three days of ceremonies honouring his memory.President Felix Tshisekedi was visibly moved as he watched the final ceremony for his father, who died in February 2017 in Brussels at the age of 84.The former prime minister turned opposition leader was buried in a private plot at Nsele, on the outskirts of the capital Kinshasa.
  
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• President says Iran will not be 'bullied' into US talks

  01-06-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani stressed Saturday that Tehran will not be "bullied" into negotiations with the United States and laid down the Islamic republic's conditions."We are men of reason and negotiation ... if one sits at the negotiating table with total respect and in the framework of international law," Rouhani said, quoted by the government's website.Rouhani has repeatedly ruled out negotiations unless Washington lifts sanctions against the Islamic republic and returns to the 2015 nuc
  
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• Virginia Beach shooting: 12 victims and gunman named after 'horrific crime'

  01-06-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Eleven killed were city staff members, one was contractorPolice say additional weapons found at suspect’s home A law enforcement official stands at an entrance to Municipal Building Two, in Virginia Beach. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/APAmerica was reeling on Saturday after 12 people were shot dead at a government building in Virginia Beach late on Friday afternoon. It was the deadliest mass shooting this year and prompted fresh demands for gun control reform. The 12 who died were named. D
  
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• E3 2019 Nintendo Direct Livestream: What Time Is It On And How To Watch

  01-06-2019 22:00 via gamespot.com
  
  We're less than two weeks away from E3 2019. While many of the industry's biggest publishers still hold press conferences in the days leading up to the expo, Nintendo will once again air a pre-recorded Nintendo Direct in lieu of a live stage show, which will showcase a number of games coming to Switch this year. Before that, however, the company is airing a Pokemon-focused Direct on June 5, with a series of invitational tournaments following on June 8. If you plan on tuning in, here's everything
  
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• Virginia Beach shooting suspect DeWayne Craddock worked for city for 15 years

  01-06-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in Virginia Beach said they would name DeWayne Craddock only once and will not refer to him again.
  
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• The Latest: UK intercepts 74 migrants crossing the Channel

  01-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on migrants crossing the Channel into Britain (all times local):
  
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• It just got harder to make the later 2020 Democratic debates

  01-06-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  For debates scheduled for September and October, candidates will have to hit 2% in four qualifying polls and count at least 130,000 individual donors.
  
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• Israel strikes Syria after rockets fired at Golan

  01-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said its aircraft struck Syrian army targets on Sunday after rockets were fired at the Golan Heights, and Syria's state media said three soldiers were killed in the second such flare-up in a week.Syrian television reported big explosions near Damascus before dawn and said air defences had "confronted the enemy".The Israeli military said it struck Syrian artillery and aerial defence batteries in retaliation for Saturday's firing of two rockets at
  
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• Rockets fired from Syria at Israeli-occupied Golan Heights -military

  01-06-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Two rockets were fired on Saturday from Syria towards the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights causing no casualties, the Israeli military said.A military spokeswoman said that the details were still being looked into and that it remained unclear who had fired the rockets and where they had landed.Israel says that arch-foe Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, both of whom are fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war, are trying to turn Syria into a new front against Israeli
  
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• Turkey, Russia face conflicts over Syria's push into Idlib

  01-06-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Ankara and Moscow are again facing an escalation of violence in Syria's last rebel-held territory, a development that puts their cooperation to the test even as they support opposing sides in the eight-year war that has devastated Syria.
  
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• At least 12 killed in Virginia Beach mass shooting: What we know

  01-06-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A shooter opened fire workers at a municipal center in Virginia Beach on Friday, killing 12 people and wounding others. Here's what we know so far.
  
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• Pope braves rain-soaked mountain roads for Transylvania Mass

  01-06-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  MIERCUREA CIUC, Romania (AP) — Pope Francis braved a rain-soaked, twisting drive through the mountains of Transylvania on Saturday to visit Romania's most famous shrine, urging Romanian and ethnic Hungarian faithful to work together for their future.
  
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• Against the Mexico Tariffs

  01-06-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump believes, not without good reason, that the Mexican government is not doing its utmost to stop the illegal flow of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border. And so he has responded with . . . a $17 billion–a–year–and–rising sales tax on Americans.The president loves tariffs. He believes that they are an effective means of protecting American firms from unfair overseas competition and a good negotiating tool as he works to reform trade agreements that he
  
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• UPDATE 1-Iranian president says talks possible only if Washington shows "respect"

  01-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday suggested Iran may be willing to hold talks if the United States showed it respect, but said Tehran would not be pressured into negotiations, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.Iran and the United States have been drawn into starker confrontation in the past month, a year after Washington pulled out of a deal between Iran and global powers to curb Tehran's nuclear program in return for lifting international sanctions.Washington re-imposed sanctions l
  
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• E3 2019: Marvel's Avengers -- What We Know And Want To See

  01-06-2019 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  One of the most eagerly anticipated games of E3 2019 is Square Enix's Avengers title. It should come as no surprise that there's a great deal of excitement surrounding the game; not only has Marvel just wrapped up one of the most exciting movie events of the last decade with Avengers: Endgame, but it also scored a win in the video game space. Marvel's Spider-Man, which was developed by Insomniac Games and launched as a PlayStation 4 exclusive in 2018, received widespread critical acclaim for its
  
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• Larry Hogan Won't Challenge Trump in 2020, Wash Post Reports

  01-06-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  “I’m not going to be a candidate for president in 2020,” Hogan told the newspaper in an interview.Former Ohio Governor John Kasich, who ended his 2016 quest for the nomination three months before the convention, hasn’t ruled out another run, tweeting on Friday that "while the path looks tough, all of my options are on the table." He tweeted after saying on CNN “there is no path right now for me.Former Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld has already announ
  
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• Corbyn accuses Trump of interfering in UK politics with Johnson comments

  01-06-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  UK Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday U.S. President Donald Trump's comments endorsing Conservative front-runner Boris Johnson as the next prime minister were an "unacceptable interference" in Britain's affairs.In an interview with the Sun newspaper ahead of his three-day state visit to Britain next week, Trump said of the former foreign secretary: "I think Boris would do a very good job.
  
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• The Latest: Hungary IDs 7 Korean victims of boat sinking

  01-06-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Latest on the deadly tour boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary (all times local):
  
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• E3 2019 Xbox Press Conference: What Time It Starts And How To Watch

  01-06-2019 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  It's already June, which means E3 2019 is only a handful of days away. The Electronic Entertainment Expo is one of the biggest days in any gamer's calendar, and for Xbox One fans this year's show looks set to be a big one. Microsoft's E3 Xbox press conference will showcase 14 first-party games, and the company says it's "going big" at this year's show.What Time Does Microsoft's Press Conference Livestream Start?The Xbox showcase kicks off on Sunday, June 9. For those in the United States, that's
  
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• E3 2019 Xbox Press Conference: What Time Is It On And How To Watch

  01-06-2019 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  It's June, which means E3 2019 is just days away. The Electronic Entertainment Expo is one of the biggest days in any gamer's calendar, and for Xbox One fans this year's show looks set to be a big one. Microsoft's E3 Xbox press conference will showcase 14 first-party games, and the company says it's "going big" at this year's show.What Time Does Microsoft's Press Conference Livestream Start?The Xbox showcase kicks off on Sunday, June 9. For those in the United States, that's 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. F
  
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• Martian clouds sail above NASA's Curiosity rover

  01-06-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  While traversing across rocky plains in the shadow of Mount Sharp, the Mars Curiosity rover captured wispy clouds hovering in the sky. The car-sized robot — which landed on Mars in 2012 — captured these lofty clouds on May 17, 2019, which translates to the 2410th sol, or Martian day, of its mission. From millions of miles away, NASA scientists suspect these clouds hovered some 19-miles above the red Martian surface. NASA also notes the clouds are "noctilucent," meaning they're high e
  
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• iPhone Killer?: Is Samsung's Galaxy Fold Smartphone the Future?

  01-06-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Imagine the day when you’ll unroll or unfold your smartphone to answer it. If things go to plan, this day may be sooner than you think.And we’re not just talking flip-phones here, but smartphones where the actual screens are flexible, not just the handset.Okay, so Samsung’s plans to launch its Galaxy Fold phone might be on hold after a few early reviews reported cracks in the screen, but 2019 is said to be a year when many of the major mobile phone manufacturers aim to release
  
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• WhatsApp Hacked and Bugs in Intel Chips: What You Need to Know

  01-06-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s been a day of high-profile security incidents.First there was news the popular WhatsApp messenger app was hacked. Updated versions of WhatsApp have been released, which you should install if you’re one of the more than one billion people who use the app.There was also news of several security flaws in the majority of Intel processors, found in many of the world’s desktop, laptop and server computers.Software patches to prevent exploitation of these hardware flaws have been
  
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• US yanks funds for anti-Iran Twitter feed after complaints

  01-06-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has suspended funding for an online project aimed at fighting Iranian disinformation after it tweeted harsh criticism of individual human rights workers, academics and journalists, some of whom are U.S. citizens.
  
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• Rep. Tom McClintock on new calls for impeachment proceedings

  01-06-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats ramp up impeachment calls after hearing from former special counsel Robert Mueller; reaction from Republican House Judiciary Committee member Tom McClintock.
  
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• E3 2019 Square Enix Press Conference: When And How To Watch

  01-06-2019 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  For a second year, Square Enix is hosting its own E3 press conference. In Sony's absence--as the company chose to withdraw its traditional press conference from E3 2019--Square Enix is taking the final slot on Monday, June 10. The publisher hasn't revealed every game it plans on showcasing this year, only teasing that it will be "another exciting lineup of titles."However, we do know of a few Square Enix games confirmed for E3 this year, so it stands to reason that they will be shown off during
  
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• NASA spots explosion of X-rays glowing in the universe

  01-06-2019 16:37 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA peers deep into the cosmos at the bright, leftover cinders of exploded stars, called pulsars. Now, the space agency has released a map-like image showing loops and arcs of X-ray energy — invisible to the naked eye — radiating from these dense cores of once massive stars. The most radiant spots are the suspected pulsars, repeatedly blasting X-ray energy into space. These trails of energy, or electromagnetic radiation, reveal the powerful sources of these X-rays. "Even with minima
  
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• UPDATE 2-China to probe FedEx after Huawei says parcels diverted

  01-06-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  China will investigate whether FedEx Corp
  
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• E3 2019: What Halo Infinite Must Do To Reinvigorate The Series

  01-06-2019 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  It's been almost four years since the release of Halo 5: Guardians in 2015, so Halo fans are understandably eager to learn more about Halo Infinite. Thankfully, it's expected that Microsoft is going to showcase the Xbox One and PC game during the Xbox E3 2019 briefing on June 10.Besides Minecraft, Halo is arguably Microsoft's biggest and best-known franchise. It has millions of dedicated fans and it is steeped in history and evolution. But it isn't a stretch to say it's fallen out of prominence
  
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• E3 2019: What Halo Infinite Must Do To Get People Excited About Halo Again

  01-06-2019 16:00 via gamespot.com
  
  It's been almost four years since the release of Halo 5: Guardians in 2015, so Halo fans are understandably eager to learn more about the next entry in the sci-fi shooter series, Halo Infinite. Thankfully, it's expected that Microsoft is going to showcase the Xbox One and PC game during the Xbox E3 2019 briefing on June 10.Besides Minecraft, Halo is arguably Microsoft's biggest and best-known franchise. It has millions of dedicated fans and it is steeped in history and evolution. But it isn't a
  
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• Defense chief calls out China on tech theft, South China Sea

  01-06-2019 15:54 via news.yahoo.com
  SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Saturday denounced China's efforts to steal technology from other nations and militarize man-made outposts in the South China Sea as a "toolkit of coercion," saying activities by Beijing the U.S. perceives as hostile must end.
  
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• Virginia Beach Shooting Victims Were Engineers, Admin Assistants, Agents

  01-06-2019 15:47 via news.yahoo.com
  ERIC BARADAT/AFP/Getty ImagesIn wake of what he called a “senseless incomprehensible act of violence,” Virginia Beach city manager Dave Hansen named and briefly eulogized the 12 victims—11 city employees and a contractor—who lost their lives when a disgruntled engineer who worked in the same building opened fire.The victims were ethnically diverse men and women who were just finishing their work week on a Friday afternoon at city's municipal public works complex when DeWa
  
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• Virginia Beach Carnage: Victims Were Gunman's Colleagues

  01-06-2019 15:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Courtesy City of Virginia BeachIn the wake of what he called a “senseless incomprehensible act of violence,” Virginia Beach city manager Dave Hansen named and eulogized the 12 victims—11 colleagues and a contractor—who lost their lives when a disgruntled engineer who worked in the same building opened fire.The victims were ethnically diverse men and women who were just finishing their work week on a Friday afternoon at the ci
  
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• Virginia Beach gunman who killed 12 was disgruntled city engineer

  01-06-2019 15:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The gunman who killed 12 people at a Virginia Beach municipal building before dying in a shootout with police was identified on Saturday as a disgruntled city engineer and co-worker of most of the victims.All but one of the victims from Friday's mass shooting in the coastal resort community were employed by the city, officials said, while the other was a contractor seeking a permit.The gunman, DeWayne Craddock, had worked for the city's public utilities department for about 15 years, Virginia Be
  
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• Trump Fires the First Shot in Mexico Tariff War

  01-06-2019 14:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Whether on China, Iran, or Venezuela, the Trump administration’s consistent refrain is “maximum pressure.” Mexico is no different. Thursday evening President Donald Trump announced a new series of tariffs on all imports from Mexico. This is in response to the ongoing migrant crisis along the southern border which has seen over a hundred thousand people enter the United States every month. “Mexico’s passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an e
  
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• Leader of Merkel’s SPD Coalition Ally Faces Pressure to Resign

  01-06-2019 14:20 via news.yahoo.com
  After losses in the May European election that shrunk the SPD to Germany’s third-biggest party behind Merkel’s Christian Democrat-led block and the Greens, lawmakers from Hesse state said they won’t back their caucus chief in the surprise vote of confidence called by Nahles for Tuesday, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said.“I like Andrea, but we need a new solution,” the newspaper quoted Ulli Nissen, an SPD lawmaker from Frankfurt, as saying.
  
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• Professor who has correctly predicted 9 presidential elections says Trump will win in 2020 unless Democrats impeach him

  01-06-2019 14:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Is this why Democrats are fired up about impeachment? American Conservative Union president Matt Schlapp reacts.
  
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• Europe’s Center Holds, Mueller Speaks, Modi Wins: Weekend Reads

  01-06-2019 14:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Europe proved its resilience again this week.Forecasts that populists would score unprecedented gains in elections to the European Parliament proved unfounded, with the center holding and Greens surging.In the U.K., a conservative drubbing in the vote cast a shadow over the parade of hopefuls vying take the place of Prime Minister Theresa May.
  
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• Breast cancer drug gives new hope to young women with disease by improving survival by 50 per cent

  01-06-2019 13:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Young women with incurable breast cancer have been offered new hope after a “fantastic” drug combination was found to boost survival by more than 50 per cent.  Charities said the breakthrough is one of the greatest advances in treatment of the disease for decades - giving precious time to thousands of women with few treatment options.  They said the results, announced at the world’s largest cancer conference, in Chicago, were “indescribably good news” for
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: $2.13 tipped minimum wage is 'indentured servitude'

  01-06-2019 13:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York congresswoman returned to a restaurant in Queens on Friday, seeking to highlight the plight of workers she knowsAs she returned to New York to waitress and bartend for the first time since being elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the federal tipped minimum wage was tantamount to “indentured servitude”. Before she rose to national fame as the representative for New York’s 14th congressional district, the 29-year-old from the Bronx worked at a Mexican
  
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• 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Saturday: $8 wireless charger, $17 Wi-Fi extender, Fire TV Sticks, more

  01-06-2019 13:22 via news.yahoo.com
  It might be the weekend, but that won't stop us from digging through hundreds of daily deals and telling you about all the best ones. Highlights from Saturday's roundup include a fast wireless charging pad for just $7.99, a top-selling Wi-Fi range extender for $16.99, Anker's best true wireless earbuds for $41.99 instead of $60, $20 off AirPods 2 (they're sold out, but order now to lock in the discount), Anker-owned eufy smart LED bulbs for $11.99 a piece, $40 off the upgraded version of Instant
  
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• I was let go as substitute teacher because I corrected my students' grammar

  01-06-2019 13:00 via news.yahoo.com
  What students apparently objected to was me handing back their papers, hectoring them about language errors.
  
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• Mexico won't panic over Trump trade threats, president says

  01-06-2019 12:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president has said his country will not panic over Donald Trump’s threat to impose punitive tariffs in a row over migrants crossing the US border.Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged “great prudence” as he sent his top diplomat to Washington for talks to head off the 5 per cent tax on Mexican goods scheduled for 10 June.“I tell all Mexicans to have faith, we will overcome this attitude of the US government, they will make rectifications because the Mex
  
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