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• Canadian police divers search river for missing teen murder suspects

  04-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police divers are searching a river for two missing teenagers suspected of a double murder, after finding an abandoned boat on its shores.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.Authorities announced on 31 July that they were scaling back the search, which had taken officers to the remote town of Gillam in northern Manitoba.
  
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• Arrow Boss Teases "Proper" Series Finale, Whether Green Lantern Will Appear

  04-08-2019 23:02 via gamespot.com
  
  As production on the final season of Arrow rolls on, the end of the series is in sight. The CW series that launched a universe of superhero TV shows is ready to go out with a bang, though how it's going to do that remains a mystery.There's one thing executive producer Marc Guggenheim cleared up after a panel for the show at the TCA press tour, though. The final episodes of Arrow will not be tied up in the fallout of the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover that will help close the series out."I w
  
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• Trump Says ‘Hate Has No Place’ in U.S. After Two Mass Killings

  04-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.In his first verbal response to the killings, which left about 30 people dead, President Donald Trump said that “hate has no place” in the U.S.Gun control has been a mostly peripheral theme on the Democrats’ 2020 campaign trail until now. Some have written it off as
  
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• Majority of House Democrats back a Trump impeachment inquiry, adding pressure to Nancy Pelosi to act

  04-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been reluctant to move on impeachment of Donald Trump but it may be harder to avoid now that most Democrats support it.
  
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• Chicago shootings leave 40 shot, 3 fatally; Mt. Sinai Hospital closes emergency room

  04-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A West Side hospital is not accepting any more patients to its emergency room after a violent weekend in which 40 people were shot, three fatally, across the city.
  
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• You Probably Forgot All about These Great Performing '90s Cars

  04-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The '90s were great for semi-secret performance cars like these.From Car and Driver
  
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• More than 175 killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• 175 people killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

  04-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theoriesProtesters against gun violence dressed in white march in Times Square in response to recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Denton, Ohio, on Sunday in New York City.Photograph: Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesIn the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, includ
  
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• Dayton, El Paso, Gilroy and beyond: You're right to be afraid. Mass shootings are more numerous and deadly

  04-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A survey found 41% of Americans fear random mass shootings. FBI data shows a rise in shootings – and victims – so that's not an unreasonable fear.
  
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• Teen arrested after 'throwing' boy from London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager was arrested on Sunday after allegedly throwing a six-year-old boy from a tenth-floor viewing platform of London's Tate Modern gallery, police said.The boy was airlifted to hospital and is in a critical condition, while the 17-year-old male suspect is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.The Tate Modern, a leading contemporary art museum on the banks of the River Thames, was initially locked down but visitors were later allowed to leave.
  
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• Report: Iran seizes tanker carrying 'smuggled fuel' in Gulf

  04-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian forces seized a ship in the Persian Gulf suspected of carrying smuggled fuel, state media reported Sunday, marking the Revolutionary Guard's third seizure of a vessel in recent weeks and the latest show of strength by the paramilitary force amid a spike in regional tensions. State TV and the semi-official Fars news agency reported that seven crew members were detained when the ship was seized late Wednesday carrying 700,000 liters (185,000 gallons) of "smuggled fuel" from Iran. The islan
  
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• Republican officials point to video games after El Paso mass shooting

  04-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  After a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas left 20 people dead, Republican officials partially blamed the attacks of terror on violent video games.
  
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• Iran seizes third tanker and seven sailors in Persian Gulf

  04-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran yesterday said it had captured an oil tanker and seven sailors it accused of “smuggling” fuel through the Persian Gulf to Arab states – the third such seizure in recent months.   Iranian state television reported that the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp detained the tanker, its crew and 700,000 litres of fuel on Wednesday. "The seizure of the oil tanker was in coordination with Iran's judiciary authorities and based on their order
  
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• Brazil gang leader dresses up as daughter in jail escape bid

  04-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by dressing up as his daughter when she visited him behind bars and walking out the penitentiary's main door in her place, authorities said Sunday.Rio's State Secretary of Prison Administration released photos showing da Silva in a silicon girl's mask and long dark-haired wig, wearing tight jeans and a pink shirt with a cartoon image of donuts.Authorities say da Silva was part of the leadership of the Red Command, one of the most powerful crimi
  
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• Alert for Pakistan villagers amid tension with India

  04-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistani authorities on Sunday asked villagers along the heavily militarised de facto Kashmir border to remain alert as tensions rose with India.The advisory came after Pakistani officials evacuated more than 50 Chinese nationals working on a dam being constructed in Pakistani Kashmir along the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers.Pakistan on Sunday accused India of using cluster bombs against civilians in the same area, in Noseri sector.
  
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• Trump tweets as gun violence and white nationalist terrorism stalk America

  04-08-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Domestic terrorism now results in more deaths than the foreign kind but the president shows no sign of toning down his rhetoricDonald Trump takes part in a listening session on 21 February 2018 on gun violence with teachers and students after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo menaces have stalked America throughout its history. One is gun violence. The other is white supremacy. In El Paso, Texas, on Saturday they collided.A 21-year
  
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• Trump smirked at idea of shooting migrants at rally three months before El Paso massacre

  04-08-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump laughed and joked after a supporter suggested shooting Mexican migrants at a rally in May 2019.The clip of the interaction is once again spreading across social media, as the US reels from the El Paso massacre.“When you have 15,000 people marching up, and you have hundreds and hundreds of [immigrants], and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great – and don’t forget we don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons,”
  
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• Teen arrested in boy's fall from top of London's Tate Modern

  04-08-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Sunday after a 6-year-old child was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery, police said.The Metropolitan Police said officers and paramedics found the injured child on a fifth-floor roof of the Tate."A 17-year-old male had remained with members of the public on the10th floor viewing platform," the statement said.
  
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• Arrow-verse Adds Iconic Batman Actor To Crisis On Infinite Earths Cast

  04-08-2019 19:24 via gamespot.com
  
  The CW's upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, which will bring the various Arrow-verse shows together for their biggest showdown yet, just got a bit more interesting. It was announced at the TCA press tour that none other than Bruce Wayne himself would finally appear in the universe.What's even more exciting is who will play the role. Batman: The Animated Series star Kevin Conroy will appear as a version of Bruce Wayne from the future. It's interesting to note that the press release fro
  
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• Gunman's Sister Among 9 Killed in Dayton Shooting. Here's What We Know So Far

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  10 people were killed, including the shooter's sister
  
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• Dayton Shooting Lasted Just 32 Seconds and Left 9 Dead. Here's the Latest on the Tragedy

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what we know so far
  
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• Dayton Shooter Was Trying to Enter Bar With Assault Rifle and 100-Round Magazine When He Was Killed

  04-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's what we know so far
  
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• Not Even ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ From NRA—Just Boasts About Its Legislative Wins

  04-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At times like this, I pay a visit to the NRA’s website. If you’ve never looked at it, do so. As you’d expect, it’s a slick and professionally produced affair, nearly all of it devoted to boasting about the group’s successes and legislative wins. There wasn’t a word, Sunday morning, about the weekend’s carnage in El Paso and Dayton. There was, however, one piece of content that the weekend’s events turned into a macabre joke. The lead story, so
  
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• Dayton Shooter Murdered Sister in Attack, Officials Say

  04-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Bryan Woolston/ReutersThe gunman who attacked a bar in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday morning killed his sister in the massacre, officials said.Connor Betts, 24, of Ohio was identified as the deceased gunman by authorities during a Sunday afternoon press conference. Betts killed his sister, 22-year-old Megan, and eight other people, officials added. At least 26 other people were injured.Betts opened fire outside of a bar called Ned Peppers in the city’s Oregon District, a downtown hub filled with
  
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• Suspect sought after woman stabbed in stomach at Brooklyn subway station

  04-08-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Police released video of the suspect wanted in connection with a stabbing on a subway platform in Brooklyn.
  
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• 25-Year-Old Mom 'Gave Her Life' to Shield Her 2-Month-Old: These Are the El Paso Shooting Victims

  04-08-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  At least seven of the victims were Mexican nationals
  
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• Sherrod Brown rips Republican inaction on guns

  04-08-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ohio Democrat also assails Trump for “racist, divisive talk.”
  
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• Floating nuclear power plant to be towed across Russian Arctic despite 'Chernobyl on ice' concerns

  04-08-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The wind and rain whipped by at several feet per second as crew members stepped outside for a quick smoke, but the world's only floating nuclear power plant barely shifted in the choppy waves of the Kola bay. The length of one-and-a-half football pitches, the Academic Lomonosov looks the part as the vanguard of Russia's “nuclearification” of the Arctic, at least now that its rusty hull has been repainted in the white, red and blue of the national flag.  Later this month it
  
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• Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria: Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• UPDATE 3-Turkey to launch offensive in Kurdish-controlled area in northern Syria -Erdogan

  04-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third offensive to dislodge Kurdish militia fighters close to its border.Turkey had in the past warned of carrying out military operations east of the river, but put them on hold after agreeing with the United States to create a safe zone inside Syria's northeastern border with Turkey that would be cleared of the Kurdish YPG militia
  
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• Thousands take to Hong Kong streets as Beijing says protests must stop

  04-08-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands again took to the streets on Sunday in Hong Kong to call for broad political changes as Beijing warned that it would not let protests persist.  A commentary run by Xinhua, China's official state news agency said the central government “will not sit idly by and let this situation continue." Two demonstrations snaked through Hong Kong, one close to China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, now heavily guarded after it was vandalised by protesters a few weeks ago.  Demons
  
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• 25-year-old mother died shielding her baby from El Paso gunman

  04-08-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A 25-year-old mother was shot dead as she shielded her baby during a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. Jordan Anchondo had been shopping at Walmart for back-to-school supplies when suspected white supremacist Patrick Crusius is reported to have opened fire in the supermarket, killing 20 people and injuring dozens of others. Her sister, Leta Jamrowski, 19, told US media that Ms Anchondo appeared to have thrown herself on top of her two-month-old baby, which survive
  
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• Poll shows Germany still divided 30 years after fall of Berlin Wall

  04-08-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new poll has exposed the enduring political divisions in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has surged to first place in the former communist east, with 23 per cent support. But it has failed to make a similar breakthrough in the former west, where it is in fourth place with just 12 per cent. The figures for the Green Party, which is in second place in the national polls, are almost a mirror image of the AfD&rsqu
  
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• Russian opposition plans new protest despite over 1,000 arrests

  04-08-2019 16:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's anti-Kremlin opposition said it was planning a nationwide protest next weekend despite police forcibly detaining over 1,000 people on Saturday for attending what they said was an illegal march in Moscow to demand free elections.Saturday's protest, conceived by opposition activists as a peaceful walk to protest against the exclusion of their candidates from a Moscow election next month, was systematically and sometimes violently dispersed by police.Russian investigators had initiated a c
  
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• The Latest: HK police tear gas protesters in shopping area

  04-08-2019 16:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police in Hong Kong have fired rounds of tear gas at protesters occupying a high-end shopping area.The tear gas Sunday evening beat back most of the crowd, but some protesters resisted by throwing the canisters back at officers and hurling eggs and other objects.Demonstrators debated whether they could feasibly defend the area or if they should migrate to another district, as they have been doing throughout the night.
  
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• Nuon Chea: the Khmer Rouge's unrepentant revolutionary

  04-08-2019 15:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, who died Sunday aged 93, was considered the chief ideologue of the murderous Cambodian regime and a key architect of its killing machine.Once leader Pol Pot's most trusted deputy, he was arrested in September 2007 on charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity that occurred during the brutal Khmer Rouge reign from 1975 to 1979.The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia sentenced him to life in prison last year after he was fou
  
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• Riot Police Break Up Causeway Bay Protest: Hong Kong Update

  04-08-2019 15:38 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong riot police broke up protests blocking roads in Causeway Bay and fired tear gas in the popular shopping district, capping a weekend of violent demonstrations across the city that marked the ninth week of civil unrest in the Asian financial capital.Earlier Sunday, police used gas to deter hundreds of black-clad protesters, many wearing hard hats, goggles and gas masks, from approaching the China liaison office in Sai Wan.The protest movement that began as weekend marches
  
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• Nuon Chea, ideologue of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, dies at 93

  04-08-2019 15:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country's U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal said.Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right-hand man of Pol Pot, the leader of the regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.Researchers believe Nuon Chea was responsible for the extremist policies of the Khmer Rouge and was directly involved in its purges and executions.
  
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• EU must change its negotiating terms for Brexit, says Britain's Barclay

  04-08-2019 15:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, must go back to the bloc's leaders to change the terms of the talks because Britain's parliament will not accept the current deal, British Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Sunday.Writing in the Mail on Sunday newspaper, Barclay said the "political realities" had changed since Barnier's instructions were set after Britain voted to leave the EU more than three years and that his mandate should reflect those differences.Britain's
  
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• Egypt displays restoration of Tutankhamun gilded coffin

  04-08-2019 15:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt displayed on Sunday the gilded coffin of Tutankhamun, under restoration for the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922.The restoration process began in mid-July after the three-tiered coffin was transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo from the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, southern Egypt."We are showing you a unique historical artefact, not just for Egypt but for the world," Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany told a press conference at the new museum, w
  
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• Kashmir turmoil rises as India restricts movement, regional leaders fear arrest

  04-08-2019 14:55 via news.yahoo.com
  SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The disputed region of Kashmir was thrown into further turmoil in the early hours of Monday as regional leaders said they feared being arrested and Indian officials imposed restrictions in the city of Srinagar and suspended mobile data services in parts of the state.Tensions in Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan, had risen since Friday when local Indian officials issued an alert over possible militant attacks by Pakistan-based groups.Pakistan has
  
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• El Paso shooting: Some victims too scared to seek medical help for ‘fear over immigration status’

  04-08-2019 14:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Some of the victims of the El Paso Walmart mass shooting avoided seeking medical treatment because they were worried about their immigration status, it is feared.Three weeks ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials carried out mass raids on the homes of migrants in a crackdown by Donald Trump on those in the country without documentation.Juliette Kayyem, formerly of the Homeland Security Department, told CNN: “This is a concern.“It’s clear that there are people not un
  
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• Police Fire Tear Gas to Protect China Office: Hong Kong Update

  04-08-2019 14:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police once again used tear gas against protesters trying to attack China’s main representation office, capping a weekend of violent demonstrations across the city that mark the ninth week of civil unrest in the Asian financial capital.Riot police used gas to deter hundreds of black-clad protesters, many wearing hard hats, goggles and gas masks, from approaching the China liaison office in Sai Wan on Sunday. Protesters then migrated to Causeway Bay, a bustling shop
  
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• Twin Mass Shootings Turn U.S. Focus to Gun Control, Racism

  04-08-2019 14:19 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Two mass shootings within 24 hours put the nation’s focus back onto gun control and, given the alleged anti-immigrant views of a shooter in Texas, elevate the issue of the dangers of hate speech.Gun control has been a mostly peripheral theme on the Democrats’ 2020 campaign trail until now. Some have written it off as a lost cause after years of violent incidents with little policy response from lawmakers or others. It’s set to dominate Sunday morning talk shows,
  
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• Man, nanny found dead in double murder at suburban New Jersey home

  04-08-2019 14:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Police confirmed that they started investigating the murders of a man and a woman at a home on Walton Road near Jefferson Avenue in Maplewood around 6 a.m.
  
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• Texas Lt. Gov Warns Antifa: ‘Stay Out Of Texas’ In Wake Of Walmart Shooting

  04-08-2019 14:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told Antifa to “stay out of Texas” in the aftermath of a shooting at an El Paso Walmart Saturday.More from The National Interest: This Is the Worst U.S. President EverMake Your Pick for the 6 Best Presidents Ever The Best President Ever: Lincoln Patrick said to Fox News that police have a 21-year-old male suspect in custody, but that police have not confirmed if this suspect in custody is the shooter. He also added that there have been 15 to
  
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• White House fence project obscures tourists' view

  04-08-2019 14:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Tourists aiming for postcard-perfect photos of the White House at first couldn't avoid the black metal bicycle racks that were arranged to form an extra security barrier against possible fence-jumpers.The barrier recently went up as the National Park Service and the Secret Service began a $64 million project to install a 13-foot, 1-inch (3.96 meter) steel picket fence around the White House — twice as tall as the fence being replaced.Loetscher said he had no idea the White House had become
  
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• El Paso shooting: 21-year-old suspect Patrick Crusius ‘espoused racist tropes and voiced support for Christchurch mosque gunman’

  04-08-2019 13:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspected gunman behind the El Paso shooting that has left at least 20 people dead is believed to be a 21-year-old white man called Patrick Crusius. Though Crusius was not named by law enforcement as the shooter, local media reported his name and published what it said were CCTV images of the suspect armed with a rifle.The Texas city’s police chief said the assault on a Walmart store on Saturday, which left another 26 people wounded, was being investigated as a potential hate crimePoli
  
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• Migrants on German NGO ship allowed to disembark in Malta

  04-08-2019 13:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Forty migrants aboard a German NGO rescue ship arrived in Malta on Sunday after Italy refused to let them land and a distribution agreement was made between several EU countries.The Alan Kurdi ship, run by charity Sea-Eye, had rescued the migrants off the Libyan coast on Wednesday but Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini denied the boat the right to use Italian ports.The boat instead travelled to Malta.
  
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• Bill Maher: Democrats Are ‘Blowing It’ With Open Borders, Free College Talk

  04-08-2019 13:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Comedian Bill Maher said Friday night that Democrats are “blowing” their chances of defeating President Donald Trump in 2020 by proposing open border and free college policies.“All the Democrats have to do to win is to come off less crazy than Trump — and, of course, they’re blowing it,” Maher said in his closing monologue during his HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher.”More from The National Interest: This Is the Worst U.S. President EverMak
  
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