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• Police: 1998 Arkansas school shooter killed in crash

  28-07-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who was 11 years old in 1998 when he and a friend fatally shot four students and a teacher at their Arkansas middle school has died in a crash on a northeastern Arkansas highway, the State Police said.Drew Grant, 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden and had been living in Jackson, Missouri, died at around 9 p.m. Saturday, television station KAIT reported.The vehicle he was driving crashed head-on into another vehicle on Highway 167 near Cave City, which is about 100 mile
  
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• 'I promise you, you're wrong': Fox News' Wallace shuts down Mulvaney claim Mueller vindicated Trump

  28-07-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  "The record will show what it shows. I promise you, you're wrong," Wallace said after Mulvaney claimed Mueller had cleared Trump of obstruction.
  
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• Donald Trump 'richly deserves' to be impeached, says top Democrat on House committee

  28-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump "richly deserves" to be impeached, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which can unilaterally launch proceedings to remove the president from office has said. Rep. Jerrold Nadler has previously said that Mr Trump was guilty of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" - the benchmark for impeachment - but these were his strongest comments yet. "My personal opinion is that [Trump] richly deserves impeachment," Rep. Nadler told CNN's 'State of the Union'. "He has done many i
  
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• Puerto Rico chaos: Governor-apparent Wanda Vázquez doesn't want the job

  28-07-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The woman in line to become governor of Puerto Rico said she hopes Gov. Rosselló appoints a secretary of state who would then serve as his successor.
  
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• Emmett Till memorial will be made bulletproof after photo of gun-toting students surfaces

  28-07-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Emmett Till's memorial will be bulletproof after outrage over a photo of three gun-toting Ole Miss students posing in front of the sign.
  
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• Romania suspect admits killing two teenage girls, charged with murder

  28-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in Romania has admitted to killing two teenage girls including a 15-year-old whose disappearance this week shook the country and claimed the scalp of the police chief, the suspect's lawyer said Sunday.The suspect, named as 65-year-old Gheorghe Dinca, "has confessed his crimes", lawyer Alexandru Bogdan was quoted as saying by Agerpres news agency.After initially refusing to answer any questions, Dinca eventually caved and admitted to the murders of Alexandra who vanished on Wednesday and 19
  
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• Trump doubles down on Cummings attacks, shares vulgar comment about Baltimore on Twitter

  28-07-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump doubled down on his attacks against House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, whose district he called a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” by retweeting a comment from a British columnist who referred to Baltimore as a “proper sh*thole.”
  
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• Chaser: ‘World’s smartest dog’, which knew over 1,000 words, dies aged 15

  28-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Many owners struggle to teach their dogs to sit, fetch or even bark on command, but John Pilley, a retired psychiatrist, taught his border collie to understand more than 1,000 nouns, a feat that earned them both worldwide recognition.In 2004, Mr Pilley bought a black-and-white border collie he named Chaser.For three years, Mr Pilley trained her for four to five hours a day. He showed her an object, said its name up to 40 times, then hid it and asked her to find it.He used 800 cloth animal toys,
  
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• Two-year-old boy missing after both parents found dead in apparent 'murder-suicide'

  28-07-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are looking for an Oregon toddler who remains missing after his parents died in what is believed to be a murder suicide. The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for Aiden Salcido, aged two, whose parents Daniel Salcido and Hannah Janiak died after fleeing from police. The couple, who had felony burglary warrants for their arrest, were found dead on Wednesday in Kalispell, Montana. Shortly before, officers had stopped a car and identified Salcido and Janiak inside. How
  
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• Bernie Sanders denounces 'greed' of American drug companies

  28-07-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused American pharmaceutical companies Sunday of letting diabetic patients die out of "greed," after he accompanied a group of Americans to Canada to buy insulin.Sanders joined the group, which took a bus from the US city of Detroit to Windsor, Ontario to restock on insulin, which costs 10 times more in the United States than in its northern neighbor."How come the same exact medicine, in this case insulin, is sold here in Canada for one-tenth of the price
  
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• Pennsylvania man accused of killing wife apologizes to victim's family

  28-07-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A man charged in the death of his wife at their eastern Pennsylvania home on the Fourth of July has apologized to her family, but declined to say anything to the rest of the community.
  
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• Wall Street Journal Corrects ‘Bombshell’ Report On North Korea Nukes

  28-07-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Wall Street Journal quietly added a massive correction to a story that, if accurate, would have had significant implications for nuclear talks between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.On Thursday, the newspaper reported that analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) believe that North Korea may have developed as many as 12 nuclear weapons since the historic Trump-Kim summit in Singapore June 12, 2018.“Analysts at the U.S. Defense
  
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• Dozens of migrants still stuck on vessel in Italy port

  28-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian coastguard vessel stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 130 migrants aboard has been allowed to dock in the Sicilian port of Augusta but Rome on Sunday refused to let them disembark until a deal is struck with the EU. "The Gregoretti berthed in the port of Augusta overnight, as is the normal procedure for a military vessel. Now the EU has to act because the migration question concerns the whole continent," Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said in a statement. Some
  
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• NYC police seek 2 shooters in Brooklyn playground shooting

  28-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A popular community festival was coming to a close when gunfire erupted in a Brooklyn neighborhood, leaving one man dead, another person in critical condition and 10 others wounded, authorities said Sunday as they searched for two shooters they believe were involved.New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the shooting late Saturday in the borough's Brownsville section "was a tragic end to a wonderful weekend" in which thousands of people had gathered to take part in the annual Old Timers
  
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• Italian police launch investigation into picture showing blindfolded US suspect in Rome police murder

  28-07-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian police have launched an investigation into a picture showing a US student suspected of killing an officer, in a blindfold and handcuffs soon after the arrest. Two American teenagers were arrested on Saturday in Rome accused of the stabbing murder of Italian military police officer Mario Cerciello Rega in a drug deal gone awry.  Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, and Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18, are both from San Francisco and had been holidaying in the Italian capital. The pair ar
  
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• 'Pink Lady Bandit,' wanted by FBI after string of bank robberies along the East Coast

  28-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the suspect who robbed four banks along the East Coast.
  
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• Brazil miners kill tribal leader in Amazon land invasion

  28-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Armed miners have reportedly invaded a village in a remote part of Brazil and killed a tribal leader. Villagers fled but were planning to return, sparking fears of a "bloodbath," according to local reports. The violence began last week when the indigenous leader was reportedly stabbed to death in an area belonging to the Waiapi tribe in Amapa state, in the north of the country. It came as around 50 miners, known as "garimpeiros," were said to have overrun the Waiapi village of Mariry. The leader
  
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• Death toll in Nigeria Boko Haram attack up to 65: official

  28-07-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday."It is 65 people dead and 10 injured," local government chairman Muhammed Bulama said.Bulama said more than 20 people died in the initial attack on a funeral gathering.
  
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• Kenya governor of president's home area held for corruption

  28-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The governor of President Uhuru Kenyatta's home region has been detained by authorities, a lawyer said Sunday.It is the latest of a series of arrests of top government officials in a push by Kenyatta to crackdown on runaway graft.Governor Ferdinand Waititu surrendered himself Sunday to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission following prosecution orders issued Friday by the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji, said his lawyer Kipchumba Karori.
  
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• The Latest: Iran official says 24 tons of uranium enriched

  28-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization says the country has enriched 24 tons of uranium since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.The nuclear accord included a stockpile limit of 300 kilograms.Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted by state TV on Sunday as saying Iran "did not enrich 300 kilograms of uranium, but enriched 24 (metric) tons of uranium," or what is 24,000 kilograms (nearly 53,000 pounds.).
  
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• NYPD officer's widow speaks out on police attacks

  28-07-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Peixia Chen says the water dousings of NYPD officers are 'disrespectful.'
  
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• Woman wakes up in hotel, finds snake on her arm: 'I won't be sleeping for a while after this'

  28-07-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk about a rude awakening: A woman staying at a Hampton Inn in Memphis, Tennessee, woke up to find a snake stretched across her arm.
  
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• Indian villagers beat tiger to death after attacks

  28-07-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  An investigation has been launched in India after a tigress blamed for injuring a number of villagers was clubbed to death in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The killing was compared to a “lynching” by Indian media and online commentators after news channels aired footage of over 40 villagers beating the tiger to death with sticks and clubs. Forestry Department officials said they tried to intervene and remove the animal from the game reserve that bordered the village in Uttar P
  
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• Vietnam detains 380 Chinese people in illegal online gambling bust

  28-07-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Vietnam on Sunday detained more than 380 Chinese people accused of running the country's largest-ever underground online gambling ring, the government said.Gambling is illegal in Vietnam in most cases, though foreigners are allowed to gamble at local casinos.Last year, Vietnam said it would allow some local citizens to gamble at selected casinos on a trial basis.
  
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• Hong Kong plunges into pandemonium for second day in a row as protests continue

  28-07-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong descended into pandemonium for the second day in a row on Sunday as police again fired tear gas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy protesters as clashes in the city become increasingly violent.   In the western end of Hong Kong island, rounds of tear gas coming from all sides were fired continuously to disperse protesters as riot police charged forward, beating people with batons and shields and cuffing others. Anger among the largely peaceful demonstrators has escalated sig
  
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• Trump campaign appoints beauty queen who was ‘stripped of title over offensive tweets about Muslims and black people’

  28-07-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A student who lost her beauty queen title over tweets about Muslims and black people is joining a Trump campaign advisory board.Kathy Zhu said she was crowned Miss Michigan but lost her title after organisers discovered her tweets.“It has been brought to the attention of Miss World America (MWA) that your social media accounts contain offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content,” MWA appears to have said, in an email Ms Zhu posted online.The organisation stated the removal of th
  
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• Nadler: Mueller’s testimony ‘broke the lie’ Trump has been telling Americans

  28-07-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  * House judiciary chair says it could clear path to impeachment* Adam Shiff: ‘We are now in preliminary to a judicial proceeding’Democrats Adam Schiff, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Jerrold Nadler, and Elijah Cummings, at a news conference after Robert Mueller’s testimony on 24 July. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/APRobert Mueller’s testimony to Congress “broke the lie” Donald Trump has been telling and potentially cleared the path to impeachment, House j
  
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• F-15s Attack!: Israel Shot Down 88 Syrian Fighter Jets In this Famous Battle

  28-07-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  By June 1982, the Lebanese Civil War had been going on — off and on — for seven years. It began as a conflict between Christian Planange Party militia and various Muslim factions, including, the PLO (which had been in Lebanon since 1970, following its ousting from Jordan). As explained by Steve Davies and Doug Dildy in their book F-15 Eagle Engaged,  in May 1976 the Syrians added their troops, tanks and aircraft to the mix, ostensibly to stabilize the situation but ult
  
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• 'Abortion is freedom': Pro-choice billboard adverts protest all-male council declaring city ‘sanctuary for the unborn’

  28-07-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost overnight, a small town nestled in the heart of the Southern Bible Belt has become a battleground for America’s deeply divisive debate over women’s reproductive rights.There are no abortion clinics in Waskom, located near the Louisiana border, but last month an all-male city council passed an ordinance largely written by an anti-abortion group declaring it a “sanctuary city for the unborn”.Officials insisted it was a preventive measure, designed to allay the counci
  
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• Obama endorses article accusing Trump of racism, bigotry and ‘poisoning democracy’

  28-07-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Barack Obama, who doesn’t often comment on current politics, seemed to endorse on Saturday an op-ed written by 148 African Americans who served in his administration that called out Donald Trump for recent comments degrading four US congresswomen of colour.“I’ve always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration. But more than what we did, I’m proud of how they’re continuing to fight for an America that’s better,” Mr Obama tweeted
  
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• Diplomats recommit to saving Iran deal, oppose US sanctions

  28-07-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Diplomats from Iran and five world powers recommitted Sunday to salvaging a major nuclear deal amid mounting tensions between the West and Tehran since the U.S. withdrew from the accord and reimposed sanctions.Representatives of Iran, Germany, France, Britain, China, Russia and the European Union met in Vienna to discuss the 2015 agreement that restricts the Iranian nuclear program.Fu Cong, the head of Chinese delegation, said that while there were "some tense moments" during the meeting, "on th
  
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• 'I'm going to faint'; Family, friends react to arrest of Bay Area men charged with murder of Italian police officer

  28-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian authorities say Elder and Natale Hjorth have confessed to being involved in a violent altercation that resulted in the stabbing death of the officer.
  
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• Pokemon Go: Team Rocket Invasion Event Happening Today

  28-07-2019 17:27 via gamespot.com
  
  After numerous teases, Team Rocket finally made their debut in Pokemon Go earlier this week. The villainous trainers would "take over" various PokeStops around the world and challenge players to battles using their Shadow Pokemon. Although Rocket sightings up until now have been relatively rare, particularly if you live in rural areas, you'll have a better chance to encounter some Rocket grunts today, July 28, thanks to a special limited-time event.From 4-5 PM local time, Team Rocket grunts will
  
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• Chris Wallace Confronts WH Chief of Staff on Trump’s Racist Baltimore Tweets: There’s a ‘Clear Pattern Here’

  28-07-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox NewsPressed by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday to defend President Trump recently calling Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore district a “rodent infested mess,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney claimed that the president’s attacks had “absolutely zero to do with race."With the president doubling down on his tweets on Sunday morning, Wallace began his Fox News Sunday interview with Mulvaney by asking “what is the president talking about&r
  
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• Chris Wallace Confronts WH Chief of Staff on Trump's Racist Baltimore Tweets: There's a 'Clear Pattern Here'

  28-07-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Pressed by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday to defend President Trump recently calling Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore district a “rodent infested mess,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney claimed that the president’s attacks had “absolutely zero to do with race."With the president doubling down on his tweets on Sunday morning, Wallace began his Fox News Sunday interview with Mulvaney by asking “what is the president talking about” wh
  
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• Arizona lawmaker criticized for saying US might look like South America

  28-07-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Sylvia Allen, a Republican from Snowflake, made the comments at an event celebrating Mormon political pioneers, according to the Phoenix New Times.
  
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• Man Who Claims He Started ‘Storm Area 51’ Facebook Page Reveals Identity

  28-07-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The reported creator of the viral Facebook page “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” revealed his identity to KLAS-TV of Las Vegas on Thursday.Matty Roberts, a California resident, claimed he created the satirical Facebook page, which calls on people across the nation to raid Area 51, the top-secret Air Force facility in Nevada on Sept. 20, 2019. Roberts said he never expected the page to attract so much attention. Since its launch on June 27, 1.6 million people resp
  
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• British man who ‘faked death’ while facing rape charges arrested in US

  28-07-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A British man has been arrested in the US after allegedly faking his own death while facing rape charges in Scotland.Kim Gordon, also known as Kim Vincent Avis, disappeared in February after his son reported that he had not come out of the sea after swimming at a Californian beach.But investigators said the boy’s account “fell apart” and he could not say how they supposedly travelled to Monastery Beach, which is locally nicknamed Mortuary Beach because of frequent drownings.The
  
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• U.K. Deploys Destroyer to Protect Shipping in Strait of Hormuz

  28-07-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. has deployed one of its Type 45 warships to help escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British vessel amid heightening tensions with the West.The frigate, HMS Duncan, will operate alongside the Royal Navy’s HMS Montrose Type 23 to shepherd British-flagged ships through the strait, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The air defense destroyer will operate until late August, it said.Oman, which shares the waterway with Iran,
  
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• Trump will sign budget deal, Mulvaney says

  28-07-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  “When the Democrats won the House, everybody knew we’d end up spending more money,” Mulvaney said on “Fox News Sunday,” but the bill is still a win for the Trump administration.
  
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• Vatican says no recent bones found in search of ossuary

  28-07-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts say they have found no recent bones in their examination of a ossuary as part of a search for a teenager who disappeared 36 years ago, Vatican officials said Sunday.A Vatican spokesman said a team of specialists, who completed their work Sunday, had found no bones old enough to match those of Emanuela Orlandi, the missing teenager.Forensics specialist Giovanni Arcudi, who led the team, said they had found "no bone structure dating back to a period later than the end of the 19th century,"
  
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• The Second 2020 Democratic Debate Is Almost Here. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

  28-07-2019 16:19 via news.yahoo.com
  20 presidential candidates will face off in Detroit
  
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• Supermarkets told to shut the door as it emerges open fridges use one per cent of Britain's electricity

  28-07-2019 16:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Supermarket fridges should be closed, campaigners have said, as it emerges that the appliances use up one per cent of all UK electricity. Most shops use open fridges, which use far more energy to stay cool than alternatives with doors. These are favoured by supermarkets because it means customers are able to grab products quickly. However, they have been criticised by campaigners and MPs as a "massive waste of energy and money" which are contributing to global warming. A study carried out with t
  
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• Michigan voters slam Joe Biden on CNN panel

  28-07-2019 15:41 via news.yahoo.com
  One Michigan voter calls Joe Biden 'Hillary Clinton 2.0.'
  
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• Family, supporters cheer as father leaves custody one day after Bronx twins' hot car death

  28-07-2019 15:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Police said twin babies died inside a car in the Bronx after their father told police he forgot they were there, went to work for the day, and found them hours later.
  
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• ‘Doomsday prepper’ held twin daughters captive and sexually abused them for years, police say

  28-07-2019 14:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida couple described as “doomsday preppers” allegedly abused their adopted twin daughters, subjecting them to beatings, sexual assaults and a restricted food intake, police said.Mirko and Regina Ceska were arrested on 12 July for charges including sexual assault and neglect.Their 22-year-old daughters escaped from the family’s home in Wakulla County on 28 June 2019 after 11 years of suspected abuse.The women were adopted from the foster case system in 2008 at the age of 1
  
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• UPDATE 1-Beijing says millions of tonnes of U.S. soy shipped to China in trade consensus

  28-07-2019 14:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries' leaders met in June, Chinese state media said on Sunday, an apparent sign of goodwill before trade talks in Shanghai this week.The U.S.-China trade war has curbed the export of U.S. crops to China, with soybean sales falling sharply after Beijing slapped tariffs of 25% on American cargoes.China has made enquiries to U.S. suppliers for the purchase of soybeans, cotton, pork sorghum and other agricul
  
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• Baltimore paper blasts Trump after his attacks on city: 'Better to have a few rats than to be one'

  28-07-2019 14:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Baltimore Sun editorial board lit up President Trump Saturday night for his Twitter tirade against its city and Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful Democrat who represents Maryland’s Seventh District.
  
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• Taliban deny imminent formal talks with Kabul

  28-07-2019 14:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taliban have rejected Afghan government claims the enemies could meet for groundbreaking talks with in a fortnight. Abdul Salam Rahimi, Afghanistan's state minister for peace affairs, told AP that a 15-member government delegation will meet the insurgents in Europe. The Taliban quickly denied any meeting however, saying there would be no talks until it had agreed a timetable with America for the withdrawal of US troops. Zalmay Khalilzad, Donald Trump's envoy for peace in Afghanistan, seemed
  
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• Beijing says China stepping up U.S. soy imports, yet to show up in U.S. data

  28-07-2019 13:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese state media said on Sunday the United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries' leaders met in June, although U.S. government data shows that the volume was much less.The U.S.-China trade war has curbed the export of U.S. crops to China, with soybean sales falling sharply after Beijing slapped tariffs of 25% on American cargoes.U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data shows that just 1.02 million tonnes of soybeans were shipped to China for
  
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