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• NY mayor criticized for being on campaign trail during blackout

  14-07-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  New York Mayor and 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio found himself under fire Sunday -- notably from the state's governor -- for being out of town when a major blackout hit the city because he was campaigning in Iowa.De Blasio had planned to spend the night in Iowa, and initially told CNN he needed more information before he could decide whether or not to rush home.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat like De Blasio, pulled no punches when he himself appeared on CNN.
  
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• WWE Extreme Rules: Results, Match Card, And More For The 2019 Pay-Per-View

  14-07-2019 23:45 via gamespot.com
  
  It's time to get extreme! WWE's annual celebration of hardcore, Extreme Rules, has arrived and the pay-per-view event is bringing with it plenty of matched with a variety of stipulations--and several championship title defenses. The show is airing live on the WWE Network, along with traditional pay-per-view, and kicks off 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. Before that, though, Extreme Rules also features a one-hour kickoff show, launching at 6 PM ET/4 PM PT.Among the 10 "extreme" bouts that will be featured on to
  
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• WWE Extreme Rules: Live Results, Matches, And More For The 2019 Pay-Per-View

  14-07-2019 23:45 via gamespot.com
  
  It's time to get extreme! WWE's annual celebration of hardcore, Extreme Rules, has arrived and the pay-per-view event is bringing with it plenty of matched with a variety of stipulations--and several championship title defenses. The show is airing live on the WWE Network, along with traditional pay-per-view, and kicks off 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. Before that, though, Extreme Rules also features a one-hour kickoff show, launching at 6 PM ET/4 PM PT.Among the 10 "extreme" bouts that will be featured on to
  
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• WWE Extreme Rules 2019 Results: AJ Styles Vs. Ricochet

  14-07-2019 23:45 via gamespot.com
  
  It's time to get extreme! WWE's annual celebration of hardcore, Extreme Rules, has arrived and the pay-per-view event is bringing with it plenty of matched with a variety of stipulations--and several championship title defenses. The show is airing live on the WWE Network, along with traditional pay-per-view, and kicks off 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. Before that, though, Extreme Rules also features a one-hour kickoff show, launching at 6 PM ET/4 PM PT.Among the 12 "extreme" bouts that will be featured on to
  
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• WWE Extreme Rules 2019 Live Results: The Undertaker Returns To Action

  14-07-2019 23:45 via gamespot.com
  
  It's time to get extreme! WWE's annual celebration of hardcore, Extreme Rules, has arrived and the pay-per-view event is bringing with it plenty of matched with a variety of stipulations--and several championship title defenses. The show is airing live on the WWE Network, along with traditional pay-per-view, and kicks off 7 PM ET/4 PM PT. Before that, though, Extreme Rules also features a one-hour kickoff show, launching at 6 PM ET/4 PM PT.Among the 10 "extreme" bouts that will be featured on to
  
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• WWE Extreme Rules 2019 Full Results: Brock Lesnar Cashes In Money In The Bank

  14-07-2019 23:45 via gamespot.com
  
  As WWE went to the extreme with its Extreme Rules 2019 pay-per-view event, the company actually switched things up quite a bit in what would seemingly be a rather run of the mill show. Between a number or title changes, a surprise appearance by Brock Lesnar, and a couple of last-minute additions to the card, Extreme Rules 2019 was actually a pretty exciting show.Among the 12 "extreme" bouts features on tonight's show were a No Holds Barred match pitting Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre against Ro
  
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• A Texas grandmother fell three years ago. Her daughter let her decay on the floor, police say

  14-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Delissa Crayton lived with her mother's decaying remains for three years after she fell in their shared residence, police in Seguin, Texas said.
  
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• Note to Trump: Iran Would Need 1 Year to Build a Nuclear Weapon

  14-07-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran is taking steps to shorten the time it would take to produce a nuclear warhead.The commission overseeing the 2015 deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program is “treating this issue with the seriousness it deserves,” said Jackie Wolcott, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency.Iran’s effort to shorten the time to produce a nuke “does not pose an immediate risk,” wrote Kelsey Davenport, an expert with the Arms Control Association in the Unit
  
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• AOC fact-checked Trump's tweet seemingly telling her to 'go back' to 'broken and crime infested' country: I 'come from' the US

  14-07-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump had tweeted earlier in the day, telling four freshman, American, Democratic representatives they "can't leave fast enough."
  
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• Police investigate after US flag removed during protest

  14-07-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say they will be reviewing any available video to help them identify protesters who trespassed and pulled down the American flag in front of an immigration detention center in suburban Denver, tried to burn it and replaced it with a Mexican flag.Friday night's protest in Aurora, one of many coordinated across the country, drew about 2,000 people and was mostly peaceful.Cristian Solano-Cordova, a spokesman for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, told The Denver Post that those who pul
  
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• Florida suspect punches hotel owner

  14-07-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Raw video: Surveillance video captures a suspect attacking a hotel owner over parking space dispute.
  
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• Decorated soldier dies in combat operations in Afghanistan

  14-07-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A decorated Special Forces company sergeant major has died during combat in Afghanistan, U.S. military officials said Sunday.James G. "Ryan" Sartor, 40, was killed Saturday during combat operations in Faryab Province, according to Lt. Col. Loren Bymer, spokesman for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command.Sartor was from Teague, Texas, and was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group in Fort Carson, Colorado.
  
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• Hurricane Barry photos show an otherworldly city, deep under water

  14-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  For the people of Mandeville, Louisiana, the effects of Hurricane Barry continue to be nothing short of otherworldly.On Saturday, the now tropical storm made landfall along the northern Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane, leaving tens of thousands across Louisiana and Mississippi without power and otherwise cut off from drier parts of the region. Areas of widespread flooding varied in severity with some seeing accumulations of 20 inches, while others escaped with substantially lower-than-
  
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• American Airlines extends Boeing plane flight cancellations

  14-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines said Sunday that it will keep the Boeing 737 Max plane off its schedule until Nov. 3, which is two months longer than it had planned.In a statement, American said the action will result in the cancellation of about 115 flights per day.It said it "remains confident" that the Boeing plane will be recertified this year.
  
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• Puerto Rico governor rejects calls to resign amid scandal

  14-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters in Puerto Rico gathered outside La Fortaleza governor's residence on Sunday, demanding Gov. Ricardo Rosselló step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finances.Undersecretary of La Fortaleza's press office, Michelle De la Cruz, said she did not know if the governor was home.Some activists say they are ashamed of the language used by Rosselló
  
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• Teen girl bitten by shark while boogie boarding

  14-07-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A 16-year-old girl has been bitten by a shark while boogie boarding in Florida, police say.
  
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• Inside Epstein network, layer upon layer to protect the boss

  14-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A few cells away from drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at a New York City jail, jet-setting financier Jeffrey Epstein sits accused of running a different kind of criminal network.There was the team of recruiters and enablers bringing Epstein dozens of underage girls to sexually abuse, federal prosecutors allege.There were the mansions in New York and Florida, the sprawling ranch in New Mexico and the private island in the Caribbean that kept prying eyes at a distance, and the forms his employ
  
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• 2 killed, 4 hurt in suspected Oklahoma road rage attack

  14-07-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say a drunken driver who was on probation for a previous DUI conviction deliberately forced another vehicle into oncoming traffic on an Oklahoma highway, causing a head-on collision that killed two people and injured four others.The suspected road rage attack happened at around 5 p.m. Saturday west of Durant, which is about 120 miles (193 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said.Authorities identified the driver as 52-year-old Ralph F. McEnnerney, of K
  
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• Guatemala president calls off US meeting with Trump

  14-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, who is under pressure at home not to seal a migration deal with the United States, on Sunday called off White House talks with Donald Trump with just a day to spare, his office announced.The meeting scheduled for Monday in Washington has been pushed back over "speculation" about the signing of a possible deal, the Guatemalan government said in a statement.Such a deal would make Guatemala a "safe third country" -- and mean that it would be obliged to offer asyl
  
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• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized for his absence during the city's partial blackout Saturday night: 'You have to be on site'

  14-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Governor Andrew Cuomo and other New Yorkers were annoyed de Blasio was campaigning for his long-shot presidential campaign, and not in the city.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez reminds Trump, 'I come from the United States' after the president suggests congresswomen of color should 'go back' home

  14-07-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at President Trump, who tweeted that she and three other congresswomen of color should “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries, pointing out that she was born in the United States.
  
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• The former prime minister of Israel defended his business dealings with Jeffrey Epstein: 'You expect me to have noticed?'

  14-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak defended business dealings with Jeffrey Epstein, saying he had no idea Epstein allegedly solicited underage girls.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. grants visa to Iran's Zarif for UN meeting this week -sources

  14-07-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has granted a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend a U.N. meeting in New York this week, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday, saying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had approved the decision.Had Pompeo not approved giving a visa to Zarif, Iran's top diplomat and nuclear negotiator, it could have been a signal that the United States was trying to further isolate the Islamic Republic and perhaps closing the door to diplomacy.
  
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• Israeli minister's remarks on gays widely condemned

  14-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's new education minister's remarks in favor of "conversion therapy," a controversial technique that seeks to turn gays into heterosexuals, came under widespread criticism and led hundreds to protest Sunday.Rafi Peretz, who leads a small religious nationalist party, said in a televised interview over the weekend that he supports conversion therapy and has performed it.It was Peretz's second major controversy in just a month on the job.
  
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• Leave the US, Trump tells liberal Democratic congresswomen

  14-07-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump was almost certainly referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and her allies in what's become known as "the squad."
  
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• Iran's president said they would hold talks with the US if it returns to the 2015 nuclear deal

  14-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wants the US to return to the 2015 nuclear deal that was negotiated by Barack Obama's administration.
  
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• Trump tells Congresswomen to 'go back' where they're from

  14-07-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Sunday told unnamed Democratic Congresswomen to "go back" where they came from, prompting senior members of the party to brand him a "racist" and a xenophobe.It is the latest controversial comment by Trump, who last year reportedly referred to countries in Africa as "shithole" nations, and who has spoken of "an invasion" of undocumented migrants.In a tweet, Trump referred to "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," which appeared to be a reference to a group of outspo
  
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• A healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk for Alzheimer's

  14-07-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of developing Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia even if you have genes that raise your risk for these mind-destroying diseases, a large study has found.People with high genetic risk and poor health habits were about three times more likely to develop dementia versus those with low genetic risk and good habits, researchers reported Sunday.Regardless of how much genetic risk someone had, a good diet, adequate exercise, limiting alcohol and not smoking mad
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a women of color problem

  14-07-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi is not a racist but she should learn from women of color like AOC, Tlaib and Omar. They have constituents and a responsibility to speak up.
  
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• U.S. grants visa to Iran's Zarif for U.N. meeting this week: sources

  14-07-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has granted a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend a U.N. meeting in New York this week, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday, saying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had approved the decision.Had Pompeo not approved giving a visa to Zarif, Iran's top diplomat and nuclear negotiator, it could have been a signal that the United States was trying to further isolate the Islamic Republic and perhaps closing the door to diplomacy.U.S.-Iranian
  
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• Phoenix could feel more like Baghdad by 2050, a new climate study says

  14-07-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Scientists projected temperatures ahead 30 years then compared major cities with conditions from today. The upshot: The heat is moving north.
  
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• Agencies boost efforts to stop wildland firefighter suicides

  14-07-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating wildfires in the U.S. West.On some days he directed a thousand firefighters and helped coordinate aircraft attacks on massive blazes.Del Grosso, 50, killed himself May 9, 2016, not long before the start of another wildfire season.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Erdogan says Trump can waive sanctions on Turkey

  14-07-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump has the authority to waive sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of Russian air defence systems and should find a "middle ground" in the dispute, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.Erdogan's comments came two days after NATO member Turkey took delivery of the first consignment of advanced Russian S-400 missile defence system parts, despite warnings from Washington that the move would trigger U.S. sanctions.Broadcaster Haberturk quoted Erdogan as telling Turkish jo
  
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• Trump tells Democratic congresswomen to 'go back' to 'fix' countries they came from

  14-07-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday told a group of mostly American-born Democratic congresswomen to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," a comment that was condemned by Democrats as racist."So interesting to see 'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe... viciously telling the people of the United States... how our government is to be run," Trump said in
  
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• Police clashes as Hong Kong protest sweeps into neighbourhood popular with Chinese shoppers

  14-07-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police and protesters fought running battles in a Hong Kong shopping mall Sunday night as unrest caused by a widely loathed plan to allow extraditions to mainland China showed no sign of abating. Police used pepper spray and batons against small groups of protesters, who responded by hurling bottles and other projectiles, in a night of fresh violence in the international hub. Sunday's clashes took place at the end of another huge rally - this time in Sha Tin a district that lies between the
  
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• Tennessee man dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria

  14-07-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee man died last week after contracting Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, while swimming in Florida.
  
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• Erdogan says Trump can waive sanctions on Turkey for Russian defense purchase

  14-07-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump has the authority to waive sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of Russian air defense systems and should find a "middle ground" in the dispute, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.Erdogan's comments came two days after NATO member Turkey took delivery of the first consignment of advanced Russian S-400 missile defense system parts, despite warnings from Washington that the move would trigger U.S. sanctions.
  
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• Erdogan says Trump can waive sanctions on Turkey

  14-07-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump has the authority to waive sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of Russian air defense systems and should find a "middle ground" in the dispute, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.Erdogan's comments came two days after NATO member Turkey took delivery of the first consignment of advanced Russian S-400 missile defense system parts, despite warnings from Washington that the move would trigger U.S. sanctions.
  
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• Donald Trump defends migrant detention centers, says nothing about ICE raids

  14-07-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump Administration officials who appeared on the Sunday news shows declined to provide details on the planned ICE raids.
  
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• Mall clashes at latest Hong Kong anti-extradition march

  14-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police and protesters fought running battles in a Hong Kong shopping mall Sunday night as unrest caused by a widely loathed plan to allow extraditions to mainland China showed no sign of abating.Police used pepper spray and batons against small groups of protesters, who responded by hurling bottles and other projectiles, in a night of fresh violence in the international hub.Sunday's clashes took place at the end of another huge rally -- this time in Sha Tin a district that lies between the
  
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• Billionaire Tom Steyer's entrance into the 2020 Democratic race is the perfect example of the rot at the core of the US political system

  14-07-2019 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Tom Steyer's entered the 2020 presidential race with a promise to spend $100 million on his campaign, but he should use that money elsewhere.
  
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• European leaders fail to grasp 'hardening' of UK view on Brexit, Latvia warns

  14-07-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A hard Brexit could be made more likely because European Union leaders have failed to grasp the hardening of opinion in Britain, Latvia’s foreign minister has warned.  Edgars Rinkēvičs, who has served as the Baltic state’s chief diplomat for eight years, said a mutual gulf of understanding between London and Brussels means revising the Withdrawal Agreement before the October 31 deadline will be “extremely difficult.” And he warned that Boris Johnson’s
  
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• Are tariffs against China bringing factories and jobs back to the U.S.?

  14-07-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  About 41% of U.S. companies are considering or have relocated manufacturing outside China but fewer than 6% have or are considering relocating to U.S.
  
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• Rain, flooding follow Storm Barry as it spins north from New Orleans

  14-07-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Storm Barry trudged through northwestern Louisiana on Sunday, weakening to a tropical depression but dropping up to 15 inches (38 cm) of rain in some places to create life-threatening flood conditions along the Mississippi River.Barry, which made landfall on Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity and then quickly weakened to a tropical storm, was 20 miles (35 km) north-northeast of Shreveport with maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour (55 kph
  
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• Rouhani says Iran ready to talk to U.S. if sanctions lifted

  14-07-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Sunday.U.S. President Donald Trump's administration says it is open to negotiations with Iran on a more far-reaching agreement on nuclear and security issues."We have always believed in talks ... if they lift sanctions, end the imposed economic pressure and return to the deal
  
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• Dozens detained in Moscow as opposition demands to be included in vote

  14-07-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Moscow detained more than 25 protestors at a rally to demonstrate against a possible ban on opposition candidates running in elections to the Russian capital's parliament.Opposition leaders cried foul after Moscow's election commission said most of their sponsored candidates failed to secure the required number of signatures to participate in the election.The commission has yet to officially announce the list of legitimate candidates for the Sept. 8 vote to the 45-seat parliament.
  
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• Teacher jailed for 20 years after having sex with 13-year-old boy

  14-07-2019 16:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A teacher has been jailed for 20 years after she admitted having sex with a 13-year-old boy multiple times.But Brittany Zamora, 28, insists she’s a “good and genuine person” who is “not a threat to society”.Police say she had sex with the boy multiple times, both in her car and her classroom, including one occasion when an 11-year-old pupil was in the room acting as lookout.She admitted 10 counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, two counts of molestation, two of f
  
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• Trump Trails Biden, Warren, Sanders in NBC-WSJ Poll Matchups

  14-07-2019 16:25 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump trails at least three Democratic hopefuls -- Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren -- in theoretical head-to-head matchups for the 2020 general election, a new poll showed.Biden, the former vice president, held the biggest lead among registered voters in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday: 51% to 42%, well outside the survey’s margin of error, which was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.Senator Sanders of Vermont led Trump
  
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• Germany calls for 'coalition of the willing' to take in migrants rescued from Mediterranean

  14-07-2019 16:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Germany has called for a “coalition of the willing” to take in migrants rescued while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister, called for a core group of European Union countries to agree a scheme without waiting for approval from the rest of the bloc. “We need a coalition of the willing for a binding quota system,” he said in an interview with a German regional newspaper group at the weekend.  "We must now go ahead wi
  
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• Immigration raids across US spark anxiety, anger and protests

  14-07-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  * Raids expected to target 2,000 migrants in nearly a dozen cities* Ice unsuccessful in Saturday raids in New York CityPeople gather for a vigil to protest the treatment of immigrants in detention centers during the ‘Lights for Liberty’ event in El Paso, Texas, on Friday. Photograph: Luke Montavon/AFP/Getty ImagesImmigration raids conducted by the Trump administration were expected in major US cities on Sunday, a prospect that sparked vigils, protests, anger and fear.On Saturday nigh
  
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