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• The Latest: Helicopter crash victim was helping friend

  06-07-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the victims of the helicopter crash that killed seven people in the Bahamas was 22-year-old Delaney Wykle.Wykle says that when one of the party got sick and needed to be transported back to the mainland, Delaney Wykle wanted to be there to help.
  
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• Months of aftershocks could follow big California earthquake

  06-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in Southern California expressed relief Saturday that damage and injuries weren't worse after the largest earthquake the region has seen in nearly 20 years, while voicing concerns about the possibility of major aftershocks in the days and even months to come.No fatalities or major injuries were reported after Friday night's 7.1-magnitude earthquake, which jolted an area from Sacramento to Mexico and prompted the evacuation of the Navy's largest single landholding, Naval Air Weapons Sta
  
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• California earthquake: Here's what we know about injuries, damage and aftershocks

  06-07-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked Southern California late Friday. Here's what we know about injuries, damage and aftershocks.
  
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• Biden: I Was Wrong to Tout Work With Racist Senators

  06-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Leah Millis/ReutersJoe Biden said Saturday that he regrets comments he made last month about his past work with segregationist senators—remarks that ignited scrutiny and criticism of his record on racial issues.“Was I wrong a few weeks ago? Yes, I was, and I regret it,” the former vice president said Saturday at a speech in South Carolina.He said it was a mistake to give the impression he was praising former Democratic Sens. James Eastland and Herman Talmadge—noted racist
  
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• Otto Warmbier's family make claim for North Korean ship 'Wise Honest' seized by US

  06-07-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. had seized the ship, the "Wise Honest," because of violations of international sanctions against North Korea.
  
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• Iran hints it could enrich uranium to 5 percent

  06-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A top advisor to Iran's supreme leader has hinted Tehran could boost its uranium enrichment to five percent for "peaceful" aims, ahead of deadline it set for world powers to save a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.Iran is acting on its May 8 threat to suspend from Sunday parts of the agreement in response to US President Donald Trump's reimposition of crippling sanctions after withdrawing from the deal in May last year.The accord capped Iran's enrichment maximum at 3.67 percent, sufficient for power g
  
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• Far-right extremists Proud Boys outnumbered by counter-protesters at Washington, DC, rally

  06-07-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A few dozen antifa and hundreds of other counter-protesters showed up against the self-proclaimed "chauvinistic" Proud Boys' Demand Free Speech rally.
  
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• Biden apologizes for remarks about segregationists, defends civil rights record

  06-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic candidate also highlights his time in the Obama administration in a South Carolina address.
  
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• Top official says Iran ready for higher uranium enrichment

  06-07-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A top aide to Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic is ready to enrich uranium beyond the level set by Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal, just ahead of a deadline it set Sunday for Europe to offer new terms to the accord.A video message by Ali Akbar Velayati included him saying that "Americans directly and Europeans indirectly violated the deal," part of Tehran's hardening tone with Europe.European parties to the deal have yet to offer a way for Iran to avoid the sweeping economic sanctions i
  
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• Madrid fills with rainbow flags for gay pride parade

  06-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of colourful floats were commissioned by civil groups, corporations and political parties to roll through the city in a spectacle that has become familiar in Spain, which in 2005 became only the third country in the world to allow gay marriage."This is pure pride, it is pride in our rights, more than partying or drinking," said Sergio Mendez, who was attending the celebration with his partner during their first visit to Europe from their native Colombia.
  
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• The Latest: Small town of Trona is hit hard by earthquake

  06-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire officials say as many as 50 structures in the small town of Trona were damaged by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake Friday night in Southern California.In addition, San Bernardino County Supervisor Robert Lovingood said Saturday that damaged water lines prompted FEMA to deliver a tractor-trailer full of bottled water to the town, and firefighters were checking numerous reports of gas leaks.The town was temporarily cut off after the earthquake, when officials shut down a highway connecting Trona
  
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• California's Biggest Earthquake in 20 Years Disrupted Sports Games, Liquor Stores and Roller Coasters

  06-07-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  "How are they continuing to play baseball?"
  
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• Harris's $100 Billion Plan Aims to Help Black Families Buy Homes

  06-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Taking aim at the racial wealth gap in the U.S., Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposed a $100 billion program to help black families and individuals buy homes.Speaking at the Essence Festival in New Orleans on Saturday, Harris said the program would help with down payments and other costs associated with purchasing homes.The program, she estimated, would help 4 million families who live or rent in historically red-lined areas, or those where loans are often refu
  
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• The stuff of nightmares: Inside the migrant detention center in Clint, Texas

  06-07-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An out-of-the-way border station in the desert near El Paso is the epicenter of outrage over the Trump administration’s policies on the border.
  
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• Drone shootdown highlights history of U.S. incursions into Iran's airspace

  06-07-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. military drone Iran shot down near the Persian Gulf June 20 likely didn’t stray into Iranian airspace, as the Iranians claimed it had, according to several former senior officials. But had it done so, it would not have been the first U.S. drone to fly into Iran, according to two of those officials.
  
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• Multiple injuries in Florida gas explosion

  06-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A powerful gas explosion ripped through a shopping mall in Florida on Saturday, causing multiple injuries, firefighters said. Photos on US news outlets showed a large field of debris outside the Fountains Plaza shopping center in Plantation in south Florida. The building where the explosion happen destroyed. People I spoke with described feeling Surrounding buildings shake as far as South of SR 595 @WPLGLocal10pic.twitter.com/gd4qLU21n4— Roy Ramos (@RRamosWPLG) July 6, 2019 The photos show
  
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• Justin Amash: The few times a member of Congress has left a political party in recent history

  06-07-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Amash's announcement that he's leaving the Republican Party makes him part of a small group of congressmen that have quit or changed political parties.
  
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• Iran to lift uranium enrichment to 5%, above level in 2015 deal: official

  06-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran will announce on Sunday that it will raise its uranium enrichment level to 5%, a concentration above the limit set by its 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, an Iranian official told Reuters.Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported earlier that Iran's senior nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi will announce more cuts in its commitments to the pact on Sunday.
  
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• Kamala Harris proposes $100B in homeownership assistance

  06-07-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is proposing $100 billion in federal grants to pay for down payment and closing costs to help close what she says is a racial wealth gap and address historical discrimination in homeownership against black families.Harris announced her plan Saturday at the Essence Festival in New Orleans, where the California senator was among several of the 2020 White House candidates attending the largest annual gathering of black women in the country.Harris said
  
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• Kamala Harris proposes $100 billion plan for black homeownership

  06-07-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Harris said her program would “put homeownership within the reach” of millions of families.
  
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• Nearly 900 drivers suspended in wake of deadly motorcycle crash in New Hampshire

  06-07-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The Massachusetts RMV has suspended 876 drivers whose out-of-state infractions hadn't been tracked after a motorcycle crash killed 7 in New Hampshire
  
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• Pope Francis claims US televangelist performed miracle, paving way for sainthood

  06-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis has declared that a late US television preacher once performed a miracle, moving him one step closer to sainthood.The Vatican announced on Saturday the formal approval of the miracle, thought to relate to claims about a baby’s extraordinary recovery in an Illinois hospital.The Diocese of Peoria believes that Archbishop Fulton J Sheen – who died in 1979 – interceded in 2010 on behalf of a baby who began breathing 61 minutes after showing no signs of life at birth.On
  
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• Russian Oligarch Scoffed at FBI’s Collusion Theory

  06-07-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  John Solomon is a terrific reporter, and he has done excellent work on the Trump-Russia investigation. Nevertheless, legal analysis is not his specialty. That is evident in his otherwise intriguing report at The Hill about Oleg Deripaska’s dealings with the FBI.Deripaska is an aluminum magnate who is sometimes referred to as “Putin’s oligarch” thanks to his close relationship with the Russian strongman. He was also Paul Manafort’s business partner.Man
  
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• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Newt Gingrich's 'dishonest' smear

  06-07-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who called her “dishonest.”
  
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• UPDATE 3-Iran to lift uranium enrichment to 5%, above level in 2015 deal -official

  06-07-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran on Sunday will announce an increase in uranium enrichment to 5%, a concentration above the limit set by its 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian official told Reuters, in a move signalling adeepening challenge to escalating U.S. sanctions pressure.The declaration comes at a time of sharply increased U.S.-Iranian confrontation, a year after Washington quit the pact and reimposed sanctions that had been lifted under the accord in exchange for Tehran curbing its nuclear work."The main announcement to
  
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• Sneaky: America's F-22 Stealth Fighter Snuck up on an Iranian F-4 Phantom

  06-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It was a close call.Back in 2013, Pentagon press secretary George Little said that an Iranian air force F-4 Phantom combat plane attempted to intercept a U.S. MQ-1 Predator drone flying through international airspace near Iran.As we reported back then, one of the two F-4 Phantom jets — in service in Iran since the Shah — came to about 16 miles from the Predator, but broke off pursuit after two American planes escorting the drone broadcast a warning message.It was a close call.The Mar
  
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• Trump Says Fed ‘Doesn’t Have a Clue’

  06-07-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump renewed his attack on the Federal Reserve, saying the central bank “doesn’t have a clue,” and may be sizing up his two latest picks for Fed governor as successors to Chairman Jerome Powell.The fresh criticism is consistent with ideas that the president is laying the groundwork to replace Powell when the chairman’s term is up in 2022, assuming Trump is re-elected, or will attempt to do so earlier if the Fed doesn’t bend quickly e
  
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• 'Scared to death': 7.1 earthquake follows 6.4, leaving Ridgecrest residents fearful, resilient

  06-07-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A California earthquake of a magnitude 7.1 followed the previous day's 6.4, leaving Ridgecrest residents fearing whether another Big One could hit.
  
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• Russian State-Run Media Mocked President Trump's July 4 'Salute to America'

  06-07-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  They said military machinery was held together with "adhesive tape" and covered with "peeling paint"
  
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• Mexican authorities rescue 24 kidnapped migrants

  06-07-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican authorities on Friday rescued 24 Central American migrants, including nine children, who had been held hostage for nearly three weeks in the crime-ridden state of Guanajuato, officials said.The migrants were held for 20 days in the town of Celaya, about 210 kilometres (130 miles) from Mexico City, said Secretary of State Security Juan Jose Gonzalez.Separately, the security ministry announced the arrest of 59 migrants, including 55 Hondurans, around the northeastern town of Saltillo, near
  
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• Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke says she put pressure on herself "to feel normal" after suffering a stroke

  06-07-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Emilia Clarke had said she put pressure on herself "to feel normal" after suffering a stroke as she backs NHS drive to improve stroke care for young people.  The Game of Thrones star shocked fans earlier in the year when she revealed she had suffered a life-threatening stroke eight years ago. The star had kept the news of her illness from the national spotlight but said she continued to pressure herself “to feel normal” and “that strain exhausted me more than anything, for
  
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• 20 civilians killed in northwest Syria: monitor

  06-07-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian regime and Russian bombardment has killed 20 civilians including seven children in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday, in the latest deadly raids on the embattled opposition bastion.Regime warplanes and helicopters late Friday carried out air strikes on Mahambel village in Idlib province, killing 13 civilians including the seven children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Another seven civilians were killed Saturday, including a woman hit by regime rocket fire on t
  
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• California braced for more aftershocks after 7.1 magnitude earthquake

  06-07-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  * Powerful tremor strikes 125 miles north of Los Angeles * Communities already assessing damage from 4 July quakeOfficials in southern California’s high desert were braced for strong, potentially dangerous aftershocks after a major earthquake damaged buildings, ruptured gas lines and sparked fires near its remote epicenter.As darkness fell on Friday, the magnitude 7.1 tremor rocked the Mojave desert town of Ridgecrest near Death Valley National Park, jolting the area with eight times more
  
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• Crews assess damage from second big quake in Southern California

  06-07-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Emergency rescue crews fanned out Saturday to assess damage from the second powerful earthquake to hit Southern California in as many days -- a 7.1 magnitude tremor that revived fears of the so-called Big One the region has feared for decades.No fatalities or serious injuries have been reported from this second quake, the largest in Southern California in more than two decades.It hit Friday night in a remote and sparsely populated area around 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles,
  
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• VIDEO: Disneyland's Space Mountain ride stopped after 7.1 earthquake rattles Southern California

  06-07-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Video shows the interior of Space Mountain after an earthquake in Kern County prompted the shutdown of the popular ride.
  
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• Otto Warmbier's family files claim on seized North Korean coal ship

  06-07-2019 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of an American college student who died after he was held prisoner in North Korea, has filed a claim on cargo ship that was seized from the country by US authorities. Otto Warmbier was accused of theft on a visit to the secretive communist state in January 2016 and jailed for almost a-year-and-a-half. When he was released back to the US in June 2017 he was in a vegetative state. He was blind and deaf, and had sustained severe brain damage. He died later that month. Last December, a US
  
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• Hong Kong protesters hold vigil ahead of Sunday march

  06-07-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A vigil was held Saturday night for a Hong Kong woman who fell to her death this week, one of three apparent suicides linked to ongoing protests over fears that freedoms are being eroded in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.A mostly youthful gathering placed lit candles and incense at temporary memorials in a square in central Hong Kong.Before falling from a shopping mall on June 30, the 29-year-old woman left a message on Facebook that wished for the protesters' success but said she could n
  
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• Starbucks barista asks police officers to leave because customer 'did not feel safe,' police union claims

  06-07-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The barista allegedly asked the officers to move out of the customer's line of sight or to leave.
  
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• Starbucks barista asks police officers to leave because customer 'did not feel safe,' police union claims

  06-07-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The barista allegedly asked the officers to move out of the customer's line of sight or to leave.
  
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• U.S. envoy says latest peace talks with Taliban 'most productive' so far

  06-07-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. and Taliban officials will reconvene on Tuesday to continue peace talks described as the "most productive session" by a top U.S. negotiator leading the discussions with the hardline Islamists group to end the Afghan war.The warring sides started a seventh round of peace talks last week, aiming to hammer out a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops in exchange for Taliban guarantees that international militant groups will not use Afghanistan as a base for launching attacks.In a tweet
  
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• U.S., Taliban take a break from peace talks for Afghan rivals to meet

  06-07-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. and Taliban officials decided on Saturday to put their ongoing peace talks on hold for two days to allow for a meeting between rival Afghan groups to be held in Qatar, a Taliban official said.The warring sides started a seventh round of peace talks last week, aiming to hammer out a schedule for the withdrawal of foreign troops in exchange for Taliban guarantees that international militant groups will not use Afghanistan as a base for launching attacks.Agreement on the timetable has been elu
  
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• North Korea says released Australian student was spying

  06-07-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea said Saturday that an Australian student who it detained for a week had spread anti-Pyongyang propaganda and engaged in spying by providing photos and other materials to news outlets with critical views toward the North.Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, said North Korea deported Alek Sigley on Thursday after he pleaded for forgiveness for his activities, which the agency said infringed on the country's sovereignty.
  
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• 'Dancing aunties' spark new Hong Kong protest

  06-07-2019 16:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Renewed confrontations broke out between police and protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday evening -- this timesparked by anger over provocative "dancing aunties" who have long vexed local residents near the border with China.In the latest flashpoint with authorities, hundreds of protesters blocked roads and chanted slogans at police in the northwestern district of Tuen Mun, an AFP reporter on the scene said.Hong Kong has been rocked by a month of huge peaceful protests as well as a series of separ
  
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• 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolts Southern California: Here's what we know

  06-07-2019 16:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A 7.1 magnitude earthquake centered near Ridgecrest rocked Southern California late Friday, a day after the region was rattled by powerful quakes that ignited fires and raised concerns about even more powerful jolts.
  
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• 'Reclamation project': Trump hits back at Biden

  06-07-2019 16:02 via news.yahoo.com
  "Some things are just not salvageable," Trump wrote on Twitter.
  
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• Boeing 737 Max crash: Did foreign pilots have enough training to fly commercial jets?

  06-07-2019 15:39 via news.yahoo.com
  In the U.S., copilots must have a minimum of 1,500 flight hours. Internationally, it's only 240 hours -- and regulators might decrease or scrap that.
  
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• Is China's J-20 Stealth Fighter a Ripoff of Russian Technology?

  06-07-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  TASS, Russia’s leading state news agency, echoed Sputnik in noting that a number of J-20’s currently run on the AL-31F engine and that the J-20 shares a distinctive “duck-like” aerodynamic design with the MiG-1.44, but stopped just short of claiming that the Chinese directly consulted the Russian fighter’s design in building the J-20.As the Su-57 enters serial production in much larger quantities than previously expected, Moscow is making a concerted effort to pitch
  
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• Trump says he may issue executive order over citizenship question on 2020 census

  06-07-2019 14:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said he has "four or five options" as his lawyers look to deal with a Supreme Court decision that blocked a citizenship question on the census.
  
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• Trump administration could fell 320,000 trees to supply US 2020 census

  06-07-2019 14:47 via news.yahoo.com
  We've only just passed the halfway mark in 2019. Just a bit under six months left in the year, about six months before 2020 arrives.It seems, to the layperson, like a lot of time in which to accomplish something as seemingly trivial as printing out the forms needed for the next census, which will be completed next year.Most of us have printed things out before; only rarely has it taken six months for any of us to do so.So when the Trump administration claimed last week that it had to abandon its
  
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• 'There was a very interesting problem': Trump adds mystery to why Pence abruptly canceled trip

  06-07-2019 14:39 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Friday extended the mystery of why Vice President Mike Pence abruptly canceled a trip to New Hampshire on Tuesday.
  
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