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• Hotel owner sues insurance company after Vegas mass shooting

  22-06-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 4,000 people are seeking damages from MGM Resorts International related to the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting that left 58 people dead, the casino giant said in a lawsuit alleging its insurance company has failed to pay promised legal costs.Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts alleges breach-of-contract and accuses Illinois-based Zurich American Insurance Co. of failing to pay defense costs for damage claims stemming from the 2017 shooting.MGM Resorts owns the Mandalay Bay hotel, where the shoot
  
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• Arab ministers to discuss financial support for Palestinian Authority -agency

  22-06-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Arab finance ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss helping the Palestinian Authority cope with a deepening cash crunch amid a persistent dispute with Israel over payments to families of jailed and deceased militants.The meeting comes ahead of a U.S.-led economic conference in Bahrain expected to call for a $50 billion global investment fund for the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon which the Palestinian Authority is boycotting.The Palestinian Authority sees
  
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• Biden calls for enshrining Roe v. Wade in federal law

  22-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden spoke at a Planned Parenthood forum two weeks after reversing his opposition to federal funding for most abortions.
  
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• Biden stumbles over abortion rights while Warren receives cheers

  22-06-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  In a first-of-its-kind forum, the former vice-president claimed a ‘100% voting record’ – before his mic suddenly cut outJoe Biden at the forum in South Carolina. When the mic came back on, Biden had moved on to healthcare. Photograph: Leah Millis/ReutersIn the first presidential forum on reproductive rights in recent memory, former vice-president Joe Biden told an audience of mostly female Planned Parenthood supporters he had a “100% voting record” on reproductive r
  
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• Journey To The Savage Planet's Lets You Make Your Own Laughs With 'Interactive Slapstick'

  22-06-2019 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  Getting humor in video games right is tough. While games share a lot with the medium of film in terms of visual storytelling, the presence of a player introduces an unpredictable variable that can totally blow a joke. You never know if they will miss the gag, look the wrong way at a crucial moment, or ignore a punchline because they're too busy running, shooting, jumping, or looking for their next challenge.Humor is a big part of Journey to the Savage Planet, the first-person "explore-'em-up" an
  
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• Trump Suspends ICE Raids, Demands Swift Legislative Action

  22-06-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSIn a surprise move hours before ICE agents were scheduled to conduct raids in search of undocumented immigrants in cities across the country, President Trump announced on Twitter that he was suspending the order scheduled for Sunday, but issued a stern warning that he wanted a swift legislative solution or the “Deportations start!”“At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and R
  
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• US to hit Iran with 'major' new sanctions Monday: Trump

  22-06-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would impose "major" new sanctions on Iran in two days -- a move sure to exacerbate tensions with the Islamic republic inflamed by the downing of a US spy plane.Trump tamped down the threat of military action on Friday, when he called off retaliatory strikes at the last minute because the response was not "proportionate" to the drone's destruction over the Strait of Hormuz.Now, he has set a timetable for fresh punitive economic measures
  
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• Trump says he abruptly canceled retaliatory strike on Iran after drone attack

  22-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  There are no indications that Trump's decision will be reversed, the official said.
  
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• Middle East Chaos: All the Hell That Was the Iran-Iraq War

  22-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The world awoke to ominous news on September 22, 1980. Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein had launched a massive armored and air attack across the Iraq-Iran border. Believing that his Islamic fundamentalist neighbor to the east had been weakened by the ongoing revolutionary turmoil that in February 1979 had toppled the Shah, Hussein was confident that his forces would win a lightning victory and restore long-disputed territory to Iraqi control. Such a victory, not incidentally, would put Hussein at the
  
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• WRAPUP 5-Trump says new sanctions on Iran to start Monday, dials back rhetoric

  22-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would impose fresh sanctions on Iran but that he wanted to make a deal to bolster its flagging economy, an apparent move to defuse tensions following the shooting down of an unmanned U.S. drone this week by the Islamic Republic.On Thursday, an Iranian missile destroyed a U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone, an incident that Washington said happened in international airspace.Trump later said he had called off a
  
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• School will no longer be recognised as Catholic after refusing to fire gay teacher, church officials say

  22-06-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A school that refused to fire a gay teacher as ordered by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis says it has been told by church officials that it will no longer be recognised as Catholic. But school leaders pledged to keep the institution's religious identification.The archdiocese announced in a statement that it would no longer recognise Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, an independently operated school, because it was not insisting that all employees "be supportive of all teachings of the Catholic
  
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• Protestors ask Pete Buttigieg about black lives matter movement during heated confrontation

  22-06-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg cancelled several 2020 campaign events this week following a police-involved shooting that left a black man dead.
  
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• US, Taliban to hold more talks on ending war

  22-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States and the Taliban will open fresh negotiations next week, the US negotiator said Saturday, as he voiced hope for progress in ending America's longest war.Zalmay Khalilzad, the US special representative on Afghanistan, said the two sides would start their seventh round of talks on June 29."Based on my recent visits to Afghanistan and Qatar, I believe all sides want rapid progress," Khalilzad wrote on Twitter.
  
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• The Latest: At SC convention, Sanders hammers Dem centrists

  22-06-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Bernie Sanders is hammering back at a centrist Democratic group he says is dismissing him as an "existential threat" to the party's 2020 hopes.The Vermont senator and second-time presidential candidate hammered Third Way as a corporate-financed group as he spoke Saturday at the South Carolina Democratic convention.Some of the group's members have garnered fresh attention for warming toward liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
  
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• NASA just set preliminary dates for its commercial crew launches, with SpaceX in the lead

  22-06-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  There's a space race happening right now. It's not between the United States and Russia, or any nations at all, for that matter, but it's definitely happening. It's a race between SpaceX and Boeing to be the first company to deliver a crew-capable spacecraft to NASA, and it's been filled with twists, turns, and delays since the very start.Now, a new preliminary planning schedule for NASA's "Commercial Crew" program hints that SpaceX might ultimately be the victor, but it's far from a sure thing.
  
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• 'Not all country boys are bigots': Photo of duct tape Pride flag on truck goes viral

  22-06-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Cody Barlow missed Tulsa's Pride parade but he did not miss out on the chance to show his support as an LGBTQ ally. He decorated his truck for Pride.
  
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• Oregon Statehouse Shut Down After Lawmakers Team Up With Right-Wing Militias

  22-06-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSOregon’s statehouse shut down for safety concerns on Saturday. But the threats weren’t coming from anonymous trolls or foreign fighters—they were coming from the state’s Republican senators, who have teamed up with right-wing militias to threaten violence over a climate change bill.Eleven of Oregon’s Senate Republicans fled the state this week to avoid a vote on a bill that would cap greenhouse emissions. The group, believed to be hiding in Idaho, left the st
  
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• VIDEO: New Vs Old Shelby GT350R

  22-06-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Does the 2016 model hold up against the original 1965? Recently, V8TV took a comparative look at the original 1965 Shelby GT350R, a race car that ruled the tracks during the muscle car golden age, and the 2016 Shelby GT350R. Despite these two vehicles sharing a nameplate, there’s a lot that’s different about them. How exactly do they stack up? The results may surprise you.Shelby ditched pretty much everything it could to shed weight on the 1965 car, using plexiglass for windows, dump
  
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• Iran executes 'CIA spy' amid Gulf tensions

  22-06-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has hanged a CIA informer said to be a former member of the military unit that downed the US drone on Thursday. Iran’s Judiciary Unit for Armed Forces confirmed an earlier report by Iran Human Rights organisation (IRH) that Seyyed Jamal Haji-Zavareh was executed last week on charges of "spying for an enemy state and the CIA”. Hajizavareh was reportedly executed at the Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. The justice department has denied Haji-Zavareh had been a senior me
  
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• UK PM hopeful Hunt says would go for no-deal Brexit if EU doesn't shift

  22-06-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeremy Hunt, the underdog in the race to be next British prime minister, said he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union without a deal on Oct. 31 if the EU had not showed it was willing to renegotiate the Brexit deal."If we got to the 31st of October, and the EU have not shown the willingness to negotiate a better deal ... then my judgment is that weighing those difficult options up, the political risk of no Brexit is far worse than the economic risk of no deal," Hunt said at a
  
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• Navy SEALs Testify Their Chief Shot Girl, Man in Iraq

  22-06-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Mike Blake/ReutersSAN DIEGO NAVAL BASE, Calif.—Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. “Eddie” Gallagher, a 20-year veteran of the Navy, fatally shot a man and a young girl in Iraq during separate incidents in 2017, two of his fellow SEALS told a military court Friday afternoon. He also admonished snipers for failing to kill the man who had been walking along a river path.Gallagher, 40, is on trial and facing seven criminal counts, including attempted murder for allegedly shoo
  
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• Johnson Is Cheered by Tories Amid Private Turmoil: Brexit Update

  22-06-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit on Twitter, join our Facebook group and sign up to our Brexit Bulletin.Front-runner Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are facing Conservative party members for the first time since making it to a two-man runoff to succeed U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. Grass-roots Tories quizzed the two candidates on Saturday, kicking off a nationwide series of hustings, or political roadshows, before party members pick the winner in a postal ballot in July.Key Developments:When Conse
  
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• 'The only one that matters is me': Trump backs Bolton amid Iran tensions

  22-06-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  There has been speculation in recent months that Trump is frustrated with Bolton.
  
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• Turkey: Key facts in Istanbul's rerun election

  22-06-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey's top election authority voided the first vote, which an opposition candidate narrowly won.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party challenged the March 31 vote, alleging irregularities.The election is taking place again because Turkey's electoral board ordered a rerun after ruling in favor of the governing party, on the grounds that some officials overseeing the vote were not civil servants as required by law.
  
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• The Hard Costs Of Making A Game Alone

  22-06-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Game development is a risky endeavor. Between designing, programming, QA testing, and all the other steps involved, you can spend years working on the same project. There's no guarantee that what you'll make will be well-received when it's released and, even if it is, a lack of exposure could still spell financial loss. There's a lot of pressure to succeed, and failing to meet expectations might mean there's not enough money for a next time.And yet, despite this pressure, there are some people o
  
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• Militia threat shuts down Oregon Statehouse amid walkout

  22-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Oregon Capitol will be closed Saturday due to a "possible militia threat" from right-wing protesters as a walkout by Republican lawmakers over landmark climate change legislation drags on. Republican state senators fled the Legislature — and some, the state — earlier this week to deny the majority Democrats enough votes to take up the climate bill, which would dramatically reduce fossil fuel emissions by 2050.
  
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• A look at how immigration authorities make arrests

  22-06-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  This one is different because President Donald Trump announced Monday on Twitter that it would be the start of an effort to deport millions of people in the country illegally, a near-impossibility given limited resources of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which makes the arrests and carries out deportation orders.The Obama and Trump administrations have targeted families in previous operations.Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in charge of arresting and deporting immigrants who la
  
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• Pakistan foreign minister says trust must be rebuilt with Afghanistan

  22-06-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday called for trust to be rebuilt between Islamabad and Kabul as Pakistan began a new initiative to bolster a faltering peace process aiming to end Afghanistan's lengthy civil war.Pakistan on Saturday hosted a conference to bring together more than 50 Afghan leaders, including politicians and tribal elders, but there were no representatives of the Afghan Taliban militants, who have been fighting for years to expel foreign forces and defea
  
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• Oregon Governor Orders State Police to Find GOP State Senators Avoiding a Climate Vote

  22-06-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  “Send bachelors and come heavily armed,” a Republican state senator said
  
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• UPDATE 2-Trump eyes more Iran sanctions; military action still on table

  22-06-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he will impose additional sanctions on Iran in an effort to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, adding that military action was still a possibility.Trump, who was speaking to reporters at the White House, made his comments after recently calling off military action against Iran to retaliate for the downing of a U.S. military drone."We are putting additional sanctions on Iran," Trump said.
  
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• Woman falls asleep on flight and wakes up in pitch dark on locked and empty plane

  22-06-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman has claimed she was left alone in a dark and locked plane after falling asleep on a flight.Tiffani Adams took a 90-minute Air Canada flight from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June.Ms Adams fell asleep during the journey but woke up to find the aircraft empty, cleared and parked in Toronto.She had somehow been left inside the dark plane, which appeared to have been locked for the night.“I fell asleep probably less than halfway through my short 1.5 hour flight,” she said, in a message
  
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• For Dems, there's no chickening out at Clyburn's fish fry

  22-06-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Crowds snaked out the lot of the amphitheater, waiting for a free meal and a chance to hear 21 Democrats make their presidential pitch. What could go wrong?
  
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• Trump delays mass deportation raids, seeks deal with Democrats

  22-06-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone mass deportation raids for two weeks as he seeks compromise with Democratic leaders on immigration issues.The president was under pressure from Democrats to call off the roundup, which was expected to target families in up to 10 U.S. cities on Sunday.U.S. House of Representatives' Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, asked Trump by phone on Friday night to call off the raids, according to a person familiar with the mat
  
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• Sea Of Solitude Confronts The Topic Of Mental Health In An Empowering Way

  22-06-2019 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Coming from Jo-Mei Games, Sea of Solitude is the next EA Originals title, following 2018's A Way Out from Hazelight studios. Taking an unorthodox approach to something of a well-worn adventure premise, you'll explore the ruins of a seemingly flooded world that's completely abandoned. But therein lies the hook; in this puzzle-adventure game, that sense of isolation and loneliness is palpable, which is reflected in the struggles the main character has with her own mental state. While at E3 2019, w
  
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• Iran summons Emirates' top envoy over US drone incident

  22-06-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran summoned the United Arab Emirates' top envoy to Tehran to protest the neighboring Arab nation's decision to allow the U.S. to use a base there to launch a drone that Iran says entered its airspace, state media reported Saturday.Iran issued a "strong protest" to the UAE diplomat, saying Iran does not tolerate the facilitation of foreign forces that violate its territory, the report by the official IRNA news agency said.The shoot-down by elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces marked the fir
  
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• Utah Woman Tortured Puppy for Days to `Keep the Dog Quiet,` Police Say

  22-06-2019 16:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A puppy is in need of surgery and a woman is facing a felony charge for what she allegedly did to keep her dog quiet.
  
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• Saints QB Brees awarded $6M in diamond lawsuit

  22-06-2019 16:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury awarded more than $6 million to Drew Brees in a lawsuit that claimed a San Diego County jeweler sold him overpriced diamonds.The New Orleans Saints quarterback was not in court in San Diego on Friday for the verdict, but Brees and his wife, Brittany, both testified during the two-week trial against La Jolla, Calif., jeweler Vahid Moradi.Moradi denied the allegations.
  
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• Biden attack ads featuring his comments on race to be launched by right-wing group

  22-06-2019 15:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Club for Growth, a conservative political group, will launch new attack ads against Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden targeting his past statements about race next week.The ads, which come amid criticism of Mr Biden’s work with segregationists in the 1970s, will run during his first Democratic debate appearance.The decision to attack Mr Biden is based on internal polling Club for Growth conducted that has been viewed by Reuters. The ads will air on MSNBC and NBC stations in Des
  
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• Texas sends an additional 1,000 troops to the US-Mexico border

  22-06-2019 15:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Governor Greg Abbott says the surge of illegal immigration can't go unchecked.
  
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• Fox News’ Sean Hannity and convicted Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort secretly shared information about Mueller investigation, text messages reveal

  22-06-2019 15:18 via news.yahoo.com
  He has been called the shadow White House chief of staff, but Sean Hannity also sought to assist Paul Manafort as he defended himself from the special counsel’s investigation, according to court documents unsealed on Friday.Mr Hannity, a Fox News host who is a close ally of Donald Trump, advised Manafort on how to fight his prosecution in the court of public opinion and also pressed for confidential details about the case, according to a compilation of hundreds of text messages exchanged b
  
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• Skydiving Plane in Deadly Hawaii Crash Was Still Operating After Earlier Mishap

  22-06-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  LUCKYWELIVE.COMThe skydiving plane that crashed and burst into flames in Hawaii on Friday night, killing 11 people, had been involved in an earlier mishap in Northern California in which it reportedly stalled and spun out of control. Citing an investigative report by the National Transportation Safety Board, the Associated Press reports that the Beechcraft 65 King Air stalled three times and spun out before the pilot managed to land it in the earlier incident. Fourteen skydivers who were on boar
  
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• Hong Kong protesters end blockade of police headquarters

  22-06-2019 14:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters in Hong Kong ended their overnight siege of police headquarters peacefully Saturday, disappointed that their demands for the territory's leader to formally withdraw a contentious extradition bill and police to apologize for heavy handed tactics have gone unmet.The police statement did not say whether they were injured in clashes or had otherwise become unwell.Around police headquarters, masked and helmeted protesters covered surveillance cameras with masking tape and lashed barriers t
  
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• Russians hit out at Kremlin ban on flights to Georgia

  22-06-2019 12:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's travel industryhit out Saturday at a decision by the Kremlin to suspend flights to Georgia as a politically motivated move that has little to do with safety concerns.President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning Russian airlines from flying to Georgia from July 8 late Friday in response to anti-government rallies in the ex-Soviet neighbour.The outbreak of protests was sparked by a parliamentary address in Tbilisi by a Moscow lawmaker earlier this week.
  
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• Curtis Flowers: Death row inmate has conviction quashed due to lack of black jurors

  22-06-2019 12:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Supreme Court has quashed the murder conviction of a black man on death row in Mississippi because of a prosecutor’s “relentless” efforts to stop African Americans appearing on the jury at successive trials.Curtis Flowers, 49, has already been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial following the decision by the country’s highest federal court.He has been in jail more than 22 years, ever since his arrest after four people were found shot dead in a furnit
  
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• Best New-Car Deals for July 4th

  22-06-2019 12:03 via news.yahoo.com
  As the nation commemorates Independence Day, car dealerships celebrate with discounted prices on new cars. But you don’t have to wait until the busy, long weekend to shop. Our latest analysis sho...
  
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• U.S. conservative group to launch attack ads against Biden during Democratic debate

  22-06-2019 12:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Club for Growth, a conservative political group, will launch new attack ads against Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden targeting his past statements about race that will run during his first debate appearance next week.The decision by Club for Growth to attack Biden is based on internal polling the organization conducted that was viewed exclusively by Reuters.Club for Growth, whose stated top policy goals include reducing income tax rates, a full repeal of Obamacare and reducing the
  
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• Why Pelosi Continues to Deflect the Censure Gambit

  22-06-2019 12:00 via news.yahoo.com
  One-quarter of House Democrats publicly support impeaching President Trump. It is an oft-reported talking point in media-Democrat circles. Not much mentioned is the corollary: That means three-quarters would rather see the question go away.This is the challenge that Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to navigate -- deftly.When last we visited this issue, the speaker was deflecting impeachment chatter by insisting that she would prefer to see the president prosecuted and sent to prison.Now the latest
  
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• Whoever Wins Istanbul’s Mayoral Election, There’s Trouble Ahead for Erdogan

  22-06-2019 11:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Tomorrow, for the second time this year, residents of Istanbul will go to the polls to determine who will be the city’s mayor. Some observers see the vote as the latest test of whether Turkey will shed what remains of its more democratic recent past and move firmly into the orbit of Russia and/or China. But it also marks the moment when many Turks have for the first time become willing to entertain, or even embrace, the notion that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s control over the co
  
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• Right-wing ‘militia threat’ shuts down Oregon Capitol as Republicans flee climate bill vote

  22-06-2019 11:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The Oregon Capitol will be closed on Saturday due to a "possible militia threat" from right-wing protesters as a walkout by Republican lawmakers over landmark climate change legislation drags on.Republican state senators fled the legislature — and some, the state — earlier this week to deny the majority Democrats enough votes to take up the climate bill, which would dramatically reduce fossil fuel emissions by 2050.It would be the second programme of its kind in the nation after Cali
  
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• Hawaii crash: Skydiving aircraft goes down in ‘deadliest US civilian plane accident for 4 years’

  22-06-2019 11:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine people have died after a skydiving plane crashed in flames in Hawaii, in what is believed to be the worst civilian US plane crash since 2015.The twin engine King Air plane crashed on Friday night near Dillingham Airfield, a small airport in Oahu, according to a department of transportation spokesperson.Officials said there were no survivors.“Upon arrival, we saw the plane fully engulfed in fire,” said Manuel Neves, Honolulu Fire Chief.“The first crews on scene extinguished
  
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