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• Ethiopia says army to take over security in troubled south

  22-07-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopia announced Monday that soldiers and federal police will take over security in a restive southern region following days of violence that has left at least 18 people dead."The regular security structure has been unable to ensure rule of law and has been stymied by various agendas," said a statement read on regional state television late Monday.The unrest stems from efforts by the Sidama ethnic group, the largest in the southern region, to establish a new semi-autonomous state - a project t
  
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• More officer diversity won't cut racial disparity in US police shootings – study

  22-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Research found as percentage of black officers who fired in fatal shootings increased, the citizen shot was more likely to be blackThe report also found that of all the shootings analysed, in 56% of fatal officer-involved shootings a single officer fired their weapon. Photograph: Eric Thayer/ReutersIncreasing the diversity of America’s police officers will not necessarily cut racial disparities in fatal police shootings, according to a new study which claims that race-specific crime rates
  
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• Target Is Offering 25% Off PS4, Xbox One Games With In-Store Pickup

  22-07-2019 23:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Target really wants you to visit your local Target store: The retailer is currently slashing 25% off the price of select PS4 and Xbox One games when you select Order Pickup at checkout, meaning you'll need to swing by your neighborhood Target to grab your games. This offer is available now through Saturday, July 27.This marks the return of a popular deal that initially launched before Prime Day, about a month ago. No word yet on whether Amazon will hijack this sale like it did with the last one,
  
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• Get 25% Off PS4, Xbox One Games With In-Store Pickup At Target

  22-07-2019 23:42 via gamespot.com
  
  Target really wants you to visit your local Target store: The retailer is currently slashing 25% off the price of select PS4 and Xbox One games when you select Order Pickup at checkout, meaning you'll need to swing by your neighborhood Target to grab your games. This offer is available now through Saturday, July 27.This marks the return of a popular deal that initially launched before Prime Day, about a month ago. No word yet on whether Amazon will hijack this sale like it did with the last one,
  
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• Fortnite 9.41 Content Update Adds A Storm-Tracking Rifle

  22-07-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Season 9 of Fortnite may be winding down, but developer Epic Games still has some more new content in store for the hit battle royale shooter before Season 10 officially arrives. On the heels of the big monster-robot showdown that took place this past weekend, Epic will be rolling out the game's 9.41 content update, which will add another new weapon to Battle Royale mode. [Update: Fortnite's 9.41 content update is now live on all platforms; you can see the full patch notes here.]The 9.41 content
  
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• Fortnite 9.41 Content Update Adding A Storm-Tracking Rifle

  22-07-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Season 9 of Fortnite may be winding down, but developer Epic Games still has some more new content in store for the hit battle royale shooter before Season 10 officially arrives. On the heels of the big monster-robot showdown that took place this past weekend, Epic will be rolling out the game's 9.41 content update, which will add another new weapon to Battle Royale mode.The 9.41 content update is scheduled to go live on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices tomorrow, July 23, a
  
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• Rep. Johnson: There needs to be spending control going forward

  22-07-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. debt in focus as lawmakers, White House close in on budget deal; Republican Study Committee chair Rep. Mike Johnson weighs in.
  
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• The Latest: Hospital sued over school principal's death

  22-07-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A hospital sued by the family of a New Jersey high school principal who died after a procedure to donate blood marrow to an anonymous French teenager says it is saddened by the tragic death.Hackensack University Medical Center is a defendant in the suit filed by the fiancee and family of Derrick Nelson, who fell into a coma in February and died in April.A spokeswoman for Hackensack Meridian Health says the hospital isn't commenting on the lawsuit but says it has been in touch with Nelson's famil
  
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• NASA Finally Completes the Orion Crew Capsule

  22-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA hopes the capsule will take astronauts back to the Moon, and Mars after that.
  
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• Here’s the clearest evidence yet of why Huawei can’t be trusted, and it involves North Korea

  22-07-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Up to this point, Huawei has made a valiant effort at defending its reputation against a US-led opposition campaign that's stoked fears the company is basically a proxy for the Chinese central government and security apparatus. Pressed to defend its actions and ban of the company's products, the Trump campaign has offered up a kind of pre-emptive war defense -- that just the threat alone justifies the actions taken. That's the same sentiment former US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge shared
  
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• Mother: Family will sue cruise company over toddler's death

  22-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  There are "a million things" the cruise company could have done to prevent the death of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico, the toddler's mother said in an interview broadcast Monday. Michael Winkleman, the family's attorney, has challenged a Puerto Rico police report that says Chloe Wiegand's grandfather dropped the toddler out of a window July 7th when the Freedom of the Seas was docked in Puerto Rico.
  
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• Iran caught UK by surprise in Gulf: audio company

  22-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The man behind the dramatic audio of Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf says the episode played out over a chaotic 20-40 minutes while a UK warship raced in from an hour away -- too far to be of any help.The HMS Montrose "really didn't have much chance of having an impact on the scene," Dryad Global shipping risk management company head Philip Diacon told AFP.Diacon refused to discuss how his London-based firm obtained the audio of Friday's high-seas drama over the Stena Impe
  
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• Who Is Yelena Belova, Marvel's Other Black Widow?

  22-07-2019 22:37 via gamespot.com
  
  The Black Widow codename may be all but synonymous with Natasha Romanoff thanks to Scarlett Johansson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but with the upcoming Black Widow solo movie, and Natasha's rather unfortunate (and emphatically final) demise in Avengers: Endgame, the status quo is about to be shaken up in a major way. Thankfully, the history of Black Widow over in Marvel's comics is full of weird loopholes, clones, and top-secret spy training programs, giving us all kinds of wiggle room wh
  
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• Rep. Rashida Tlaib Calls For $20 An Hour Minimum Wage

  22-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib called for a federal minimum wage of up to $20 an hour at a “One Fair Wage” event in Detroit on Sunday.“Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15. Now I think it should be $20 … It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour,” Tlaib said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday.Tlaib and Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingell participated in an event called “Server for an Hour&rdq
  
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• Fox News’ Shep Smith Grills Embattled Puerto Rico Governor: Can You Name Anyone Who Supports You?

  22-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  During his first television interview since the scandal broke out over leaked private chats that have resulted in near-unanimous calls for his resignation, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló struggled to come up with a single name when Fox News anchor Shepard Smith pressed him to offer up anyone who currently supports him.With hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans taking to the streets of San Juan on Monday to demand Rosselló’s resignation after the governor said he wouldn&rs
  
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• Report: Pence canceled trip to avoid contact with an alleged drug dealer

  22-07-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence abruptly canceled a trip to New Hampshire this month to avoid shaking hands with an alleged interstate drug dealer, Politico reported Monday.
  
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• New Budget Deal Puts Final Nail in the Tea-Party Coffin

  22-07-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump and congressional leaders are nearing a deal that would raise the discretionary-spending caps by $320 billion over two years and offset less than one-quarter of those costs (and even those offsets would take a decade to materialize). The budget deal would essentially repeal the final two years of the 2011 Budget Control Act and raise the baseline for future discretionary spending by nearly $2 trillion over the decade.This represents a fitting conclusion of the Budget Control Act
  
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• Live-Action Lion King 2019: 25 Differences Between The Remake And The Animated Cartoon Classic

  22-07-2019 22:11 via gamespot.com
  
  Lion King spoilers ahead--for both versions!On July 19, the "live-action" remake of The Lion King debuted in U.S. theaters. "Live-action" is in quotation marks, because really, it's still animated--only with photorealistic CGI instead of being drawn by hand like the original.And one of the main criticisms about this remake is that the finely detailed, realistically-rendered characters have less emotional range than their rubbery, hand-drawn counterparts. And if that's true, then what purpose doe
  
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• Why No Enemy Would Dare Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

  22-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Circumstances obviously matter for an attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier. An out-of-the-blue attack from a conventionally armed state actor would enjoy the highest levels of success, but would also have an impact on elite and public opinion in the United States that might drive calls for dire retribution. Since the 1950s, the supercarrier has been the most visible representation of U.S. military power and maritime hegemony. Although supercarriers have participated in nearly every military co
  
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• UPDATE 1-Iran warns West against starting conflict, says not looking for confrontation

  22-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's foreign minister warned the West on Monday against "starting a conflict," saying it was not seeking confrontation after its military seized the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz last week.London described the seizure of the Stena Impero as "state piracy" and on Monday called for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.Speaking in Nicaragua, Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said Iran had taken measures against the ship to i
  
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• Gambian soldier names ex-president in reporter's 2004 murder

  22-07-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A Gambian army officer on Monday accused ex-president Yahya Jammeh of ordering the 2004 murder of journalist Deyda Hydara and admitted he was involved in the killing.Hydara, who was editor and co-founder of the independent The Point daily and a correspondent for AFP and Journalists Without Borders (RSF), was killed by unidentified gunmen in his car on the outskirts of the Gambian capital Banjul in December 2004.The murder was widely condemned locally and abroad as another sign of Jammeh's despot
  
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• This Is the ATV-Mounted Jammer That Took Down an Iranian Drone

  22-07-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The drone was less than a mile from the USS Boxer when the Marines caused it to crash.
  
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• Neighbors Say They Warned City About Giant Tree That Toppled on Homes

  22-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A storm in St. Louis brought down a huge tree damaging four homes, but neighbors say they`ve been complaining about the tree for two years.
  
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• France, Germany Refuse Italy's Demand to Open Ports to Migrants

  22-07-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- France and Germany widened the group of countries willing to accept asylum seekers arriving by boat across the Mediterranean, but made no move to accept demands by Italy’s Matteo Salvini that they accept migrant ships directly in their ports.Salvini, in his capacity as Italian interior minister, said Monday’s meeting of European interior ministers was a “flop” that “basically said Italy must continue to be the refugee camp of Europe,” according
  
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• Royal Caribbean, MSC Cruises cancel port stops in Puerto Rico ahead of planned protests

  22-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Several cruise lines have canceled port stops in San Juan ahead of planned protests Monday in Puerto Rico, aimed at forcing the governor to resign.
  
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• India launches 'historic' flight bound for the moon

  22-07-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Days after the U.S. celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human steps on the moon, India launched an unmanned flight bound for the far side.
  
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• A boy stole two planes for a joyride. Pilots now want to teach him how to fly

  22-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The boy trespassed a small airport in Huzhou, a city in eastern China, piloting and crashing a seaplane onto a guard rail and driving another one.
  
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• Lawyer: Man who killed mob boss thought he was helping Trump

  22-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A man charged with killing a reputed New York mob boss was deluded by internet conspiracy theories and thought he was helping President Donald Trump defend Democracy, his attorney said in court papers filed Friday.Anthony Comello is facing murder charges in the March 13 shooting of Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali, an alleged leader in the Gambino crime family.In a legal filing, attorney Robert Gottleib said Comello was gripped by an irrational belief that Cali was part of a "deep state" that secretl
  
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• Trump boasts Afghanistan would be easy to fix: 'I just don't want to kill 10 million people'

  22-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The president said he could “win that war in a week.”
  
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• Drug kingpin 'El Chapo' appeals life sentence

  22-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Fallen Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, once one of the world's most powerful and notorious criminals, has appealed his life sentence, court documents published on Monday showed.Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico's feared Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February of smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States.A symbolic 30 years was also added to the sentence and he was also ordered to pay $12.6 billion in f
  
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• PS Classic On Sale For $20 At Best Buy, Target (US)

  22-07-2019 20:55 via gamespot.com
  
  The PlayStation Classic didn't impress many fans when it released in December 2018, and its price quickly dropped from $100 to $60 USD less than a month after it hit the market. Ever since, Sony's retro console has continued to drop in price and hit what may be its lowest price yet, $20, during Amazon Prime Day 2019. Now, it seems Best Buy has decided to keep that deal going, as the retailer has once again dropped the price of the PlayStation Classic to $20 this week. [Update: Target is now offe
  
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• Best DC Cosplay From Comic-Con 2019

  22-07-2019 20:39 via gamespot.com
  
  This year's Comic-Con has come and gone, and the biggest news of the weekend came from the Marvel Studios panel, where everything for Phase 4 was announced. However, SDCC doesn't just revolve around news. It's a pop culture extravaganza. The Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego completely transforms, and it's filled with thousands of people from con-goers to people handing out fliers to promote their products to protesters who took the day off to be invisible to the masses trying to have a good time.Ho
  
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• Trump calls congresswomen racist day after his adviser says the term is used to silence speech

  22-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's latest attack on four minority women lawmakers involves familiar a tactic: Accusing others of what he has been accused of.
  
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• Iran claims arrest of 17 CIA spies; Pompeo: Iran has 'long history of lying'

  22-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran claims its authorities arrested 17 spies recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the Middle East nation's nuclear and military sites.
  
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• Comic-Con 2019: Funko Pops At The Show That Are Insanely Expensive

  22-07-2019 20:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Comic-Con 2019 may have just ended, but there is still so much to talk about at the show. There was a whole weekend of huge SDCC news, and there was one collectible that seemed to be everyone. Hopefully, you've figured out that we're talking about Funko Pops. I'd hope so since the headline of the article is supposed to give away what the piece is about.Funko Pops are so popular that they should have their own convention, Pop-N-Lock-Con, which could also be a break dancing convention. Funko has
  
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• Correction: Military-Hyperfit Women story

  22-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story July 21 about a U.S. military study of "hyperfit" women, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a vo2 Max score measures how many millimeters of oxygen are used per kilogram of body weight per minute.ARMY SOLDIER SYSTEMS CENTER, Mass. (AP) — In the nearly four years since the Pentagon announced it was opening all combat jobs to women, at least 30 have earned the Army Ranger tab, two have graduated Marine infantry school and three have passed the grueling initial assessme
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders shows up to govs shindig as Arkansas rumors swirl

  22-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders is seen as a possible 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial candidate.
  
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• Wolfenstein: Youngblood Devs Talk The Game's Origins And The Series' Political Voice

  22-07-2019 20:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Following Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Machine Games' reboot series is seeing another round of some significant changes in the next spin-off. In Wolfenstein: Youngblood, the emphasis is still on slaying Nazis and their scumbag allies in gruesome fashion, however, it moves away from the linear, story-driven style of previous games, and instead leans closer to an open-ended co-op shooter. Now focusing on the hero BJ Blaskowitz's twin daughters as they dismantle fascist, white supremacist rule
  
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• Wolfenstein: Youngblood Devs Discuss The Game's Origins And The Series' Political Voice

  22-07-2019 20:09 via gamespot.com
  
  Following Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Machine Games' reboot series is going through some significant changes in the next spin-off. In Wolfenstein: Youngblood, the emphasis is still on slaying Nazis and their scumbag allies in gruesome fashion, however, it moves away from the linear, story-driven style of previous games, and instead leans closer to an open-ended co-op shooter. Now focusing on the hero BJ Blaskowitz's twin daughters as they dismantle fascist, white supremacist rule in 1980s
  
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• How Arrow Got The Original Robin For Its Crisis On Infinite Earths Crossover

  22-07-2019 20:07 via gamespot.com
  
  San Diego Comic-Con was filled with surprises, from the announcement of a massive slate of films and TV shows from Marvel Studios to new trailers for things like The Witcher and Westworld Season 3. One of the most exciting moments, though, came during the Batwoman panel. It was revealed that in the upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, which will encompass the five Arrow-verse shows, original Batman TV series star Burt Ward will appear.Speaking to GameSpot after the panel, Marc Guggenhei
  
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• Xbox One S (With Disc Drive) On Sale For $175 With Free Shipping

  22-07-2019 20:03 via gamespot.com
  
  With Project Scarlett launching late next year, the Xbox One is nearing the end of its lifespan, which means current Xbox models are slowly starting to dip in price. If you've been looking to pick up an Xbox One S for yourself or someone else, now may be the best time to do it (at least until the holidays), as it'll cost you only $175 to pick up the console this week if you claim MassGenie's latest Power Deal. From now until July 29 (or until the deal sells out), the Xbox One S will be discounte
  
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• Democratic Senator Takes Shot at DeVos: ‘I Think We Should Send Her Back’

  22-07-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Debbie Stabenow attacked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in a speech Monday, saying "I think we should send her back."“Too many of our children languish in inadequate, ill-equipped schools. Thank you, Betsy DeVos," Stabenow said during her address to the NAACP convention in Detroit. "I really wish she was not from Michigan. I think we should send her back."Stabenow was referencing the chant of "send her back" that Trump supporters launched into during the presiden
  
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• Overwatch Sigma Origins Trailer

  22-07-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Hero 31 has been officially revealed, and he's a scientist stuck in the pull of gravity.
  
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• Overwatch Confirms Sigma Is Hero 31 With Story Teaser

  22-07-2019 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Overwatch has been teasing an impending announcement, and all signs pointed to it being Sigma, the rumored Hero 31. That has been confirmed today, with a story trailer that sheds more light on the mysterious scientist.Hero 31 is indeed Sigma, though "hero" is a pretty loose term. The trailer makes him seem downright supervillainous, complete with an ambitious experiment gone horribly wrong. It isn't long before Sigma's mind is severely disturbed and he's monologuing about harnessing the power of
  
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• Fox News Host Calls for ‘9/11-Style Commission’ to Investigate How AOC Was Elected to Congress

  22-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Reacting to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) call for a “9/11-style commission” to be convened to investigate the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the border, Fox News host Pete Hegseth said on Monday that there should instead be an investigation to see how the progressive lawmaker was elected to Congress in the first place.During a town hall in her district on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez called for a lengthy study into the president’s zero-tolera
  
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• Mexico, US to launch plan against arms smuggling at border

  22-07-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Mexican government said Monday it has reached agreement with the United States for a joint operation to combat gun smuggling along the U.S. border after seeing a spike in the number of illegal firearms detected.Seizures of assault rifles in Mexico are up 122% so far this year.Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Mexico's military would coordinate with U.S. authorities to launch anti-gun-smuggling operations in five Mexican border cities — Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo
  
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• 12 Ways to Save Money Without Trying

  22-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  According to the Federal Reserve Board's 2018 Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households, 40% of Americans reported not having $400 in their emergency savings account."People always make things too complicated when it comes to financial planning," says Brent Weiss, co-founder and chief evangelist at the Baltimore-based financial firm Facet Wealth.Contribute to a workplace retirement plan.
  
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• Ships urged to alert navies before sailing through Strait of Hormuz

  22-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Shipping associations have called on ship owners to inform Britain's navy of their movements before sailing into the Middle East Gulf and Strait of Hormuz because of the escalating international crisis in the region.About a fifth of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz and shipping companies are already deploying more unarmed security guards as an extra safeguard.
  
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• 2 inmates in New Mexico charged with attempted murder after attack on prison guards

  22-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility remains on lockdown after two prison guards were attacked by several inmates Tuesday evening.
  
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• Every police officer in Stebbins, Alaska, has pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges

  22-07-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  There are seven police officers in Stebbins, Alaska, and all of them have beenconvicted of domestic violence
  
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