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• Ohio governor stopped mid-speech at vigil for Dayton shooting victims: 'Do something'

  05-08-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  During a vigil to remember the dead killed in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday, the Republican governor of the state was stopped mid-speech with demands that he “do something” about the kind of violence that had left at least nine people dead less than 24 hours earlier.Mike DeWine had just remarked on the size of the crowd in Dayton’s Oregon District, when he was confronted with pleas for action.“Do something!” a member of the crowd yelled, prompting echoes from the others i
  
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• Furious Trump denounces 'major violation' as China intensifies trade war and markets plunge

  05-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  US stocks suffered their worst day of the year as China devalued its currency in a move condemned as a “major violation” by a furious Donald Trump.The Dow closed down 767.27 points, or 2.9%. The S&P 500 dropped about 3%, its biggest one-day decline since December, representing a paper loss of $766 billion, according to Refinitiv data. The Nadaq Composite was down 278.03 points, or 3.47%.It came as the yuan was weakened to its lowest level in 11 years, in what was interpreted as a
  
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• Chicago suffers bloody weekend as gun violence leaves seven dead

  05-08-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mass shootings command widespread media coverage, but lost in the national conversations about guns are everyday killings A memorial where 26-year-old Chantell Grant and 35-year-old Andrea Stoudemire were shot and killed on 28 July in the South Side of Chicago. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP/Getty ImagesAs deadly mass shootings devastated communities in Texas and Ohio and reignited calls for lawmakers to act on gun reform, Chicago experienced yet another bloody weekend – suffering
  
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• Soldier praised for heroic act at El Paso shooting: 'What I did was what I was supposed to do'

  05-08-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A 22-year-old off-duty U
  
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• The Outer Worlds Developer Speaks Out Against Crunch

  05-08-2019 23:16 via gamespot.com
  
  With crunch becoming an increasingly hot-button topic in the games industry, many developers are speaking out against the ruthless work environments employees at high-profile studios like Epic Games and Rockstar routinely face. The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian Entertainment is one such studio, saying it is "very committed" to keeping its work environment crunch-free.In an interview with PCGamesN, The Outer Worlds' senior designer, Brian Hines, said crunch is not in the studio's development fo
  
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• Joe Biden's brother and hedge fund manager accused of fraud

  05-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal lawsuit accuses the brother of former Vice President Joe Biden, hedge fund manager Michael Lewitt, and others of attempting to defraud a Tennessee business.The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the defendants have until mid-August to respond to the lawsuit filed last month by Michael Frey and Dr. Mohannad Azzam.It says the plaintiffs founded Diverse Medical Management to reform failing rural hospitals, and Jim Biden promised to sell the health care plan to investors.
  
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• Refugees in Pakistan fearful after India abolishes Kashmir autonomy

  05-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Refugees in Pakistani-held Kashmir voiced fears for relatives still on the other side of the disputed Himalayan border Monday after India abolished the Muslim-majority region's special autonomy, raising fears of fresh violence.Many of the roughly 250 people in the Manak Paiyan refugee camp near Muzaffarabad, the largest city in Pakistani-held Kashmir, fled fighting in the 1990s but still have family on the other side of the Line of Control, the de facto border slicing through the heavily militar
  
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• Amazon And Paramount Developing An Event Horizon TV Show

  05-08-2019 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Let's face it: Space is scary. Between the endless, uncaring void, the potential for chest-bursting aliens, and the omnipresent threat of catastrophic tech failure and accident, the cosmos itself is already horrific enough just on its own. But, if you needed yet another reason to be made extremely uncomfortable by the prospect of the abyss--don't worry. Variety has reported that Paramount and Amazon are teaming up to develop a TV adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi horror classic, Event Horizon.Thoug
  
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• Amazon And Paramount Are Developing An Event Horizon TV Show

  05-08-2019 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Let's face it: Space is scary. Between the endless, uncaring void, the potential for chest-bursting aliens, and the omnipresent threat of catastrophic tech failure and accident, the cosmos itself is already horrific enough just on its own. But, if you needed yet another reason to be made extremely uncomfortable by the prospect of the abyss--don't worry. Variety has reported that Paramount and Amazon are teaming up to develop a TV adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi horror classic, Event Horizon.Thoug
  
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• Obama: Americans must not let racist views become normalized

  05-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The statement , which did not mention President Donald Trump directly, also reminded Americans that "we are not helpless" in the face of the nation's high frequency of mass shootings compared to other countries."And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening," Obama wrote.A shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday killed 22 people, and a second shooting outside a crowded bar in Dayton, Ohi
  
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• Did Dayton gunman target his own sister? Idea 'defies believability,' police chief says

  05-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio officials were reluctant to guess what set 24-year-old Connor Betts on his rampage.
  
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• 'We Are Not Helpless Here.' Obama Responds to Mass Shootings in Dayton, El Paso

  05-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  'No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do'
  
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• Mexican man who shielded wife in Texas mass shooting dies

  05-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mexican man who threw himself in front of his wife to shield her from bullets in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, died on Monday, officials and his family said, raising the toll of Mexican nationals killed in one of two weekend mass shootings in the United States to eight.Juan de Dios Velazquez, 77, had moved to El Paso with his wife Estela Nicolasa, 65, from Ciudad Juarez, just across the border in Mexico, six months before they were caught in Saturday's mass shooting at a Walmart store."He
  
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• Man allegedly tries to rob bank in Cleveland, gets caught after leaving a note with his name, address

  05-08-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio man accused of robbing a bank was caught by police last week after hemade a pretty unfortunate mistake
  
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• New River City Girls Trailer Spotlights Hot-Blooded Misako

  05-08-2019 22:39 via gamespot.com
  
  WayForward has released a new trailer for River City Girls, an upcoming beat-'em-up. The trailer highlights the personality of Misako, one of the two playable characters in the game. You can watch the new trailer below.In the trailer description, Misako is described by WayForward as "hot-blooded," just like her best friend Kyoko. She's also "tough, impulsive, and always ready for a fight." Misako seems to have a bit of an angry streak to her as well, having no patience for her classmates who get
  
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• Shep Smith Soberly Notes We’ll Soon Offer More ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ for Another Mass Shooting

  05-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox NewsFox News anchor Shepard Smith began his Monday afternoon news broadcast by observing that all the offerings of “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of two horrific mass shootings over the weekend will be tossed out “soon yet again” after another similar tragedy occurs in the near future.“Yet again in America,” Smith soberly noted. “Yet again in America, innocent families are slumped to their knees in grief living an unimaginable weight, to retrieve
  
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• Suspect arrested in murders of man, nanny found dead at suburban New Jersey home

  05-08-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have made an arrest in the killings of a man and a live-in nanny who worked with his family in New Jersey.
  
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• Obama calls for gun control: 'We are not helpless' to stop attacks

  05-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  In a Monday statement, former President Barack Obama urged the country to reject hateful and anti-immigrant rhetoric from "any of our leaders."
  
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• Probe: No bias by TSA supervisor, but profiling concerns

  05-08-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators were unable to corroborate specific allegations that a Transportation Security Administration supervisor instructed air marshals to racially discriminate against passengers at Florida's busiest airport.The Office of Inspector General launched the investigation a year ago at the request of U.S. lawmakers after three air marshals went public with the discrimination allegations about the supervisor.
  
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• Here's When Fire Emblem: Three Houses' DLC Will Release

  05-08-2019 22:07 via gamespot.com
  
  Fire Emblem: Three Houses is out now on Nintendo Switch, but there's still a lot of content on the way for the game. In addition to an upcoming free update, Nintendo will be releasing several waves of DLC as part of the title's expansion pass, and the company has outlined when fans can expect that content to arrive.The first "wave" of DLC launched alongside the game and added male and female Officers Academy outfits for protagonist Byleth. Wave 2 is scheduled to release by October 31, 2019 and w
  
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• Pokemon Store Coming To London This Fall To Mark Sword And Shield Launch

  05-08-2019 22:02 via gamespot.com
  
  The Pokemon Company is getting a pop-up store in the heart of London for a limited time, to pair with the UK-inspired Pokemon Sword and Shield. The store will be located in the Westfield London from October 18-November 15.According to the company, the store will offer a range of Pokemon products, including some exclusives. The announcement states that it is meant to pay tribute to the UK's role in inspiring the new Galar region featured in Sword and Shield, which will release on November 15.We'r
  
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• Bolton warns China, Russia not to double down on support of Maduro

  05-08-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton on Monday warned China and Russia not to double down in support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, saying Venezuela might not repay its debt to them after Maduro falls.Bolton said a democratically elected government in Venezuela may view the two countries as hostile powers for supporting what he called the "criminal regime" of Maduro for so long, and could opt not to pay them back billions of dollars in loans.
  
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• One inmate killed and five others hospitalized after clash between white and black federal prisoners

  05-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  One inmate was killed and five others were injured in a violent clash between black and white inmates at a Florida federal prison.
  
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• Ugandan presidential hopeful says ally dead after abduction, torture

  05-08-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A Ugandan musician-turned-legislator who is seeking to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni said on Monday a supporter and fellow singer had died after being abducted and tortured, in what police are treating as a homicide.Since joining politics two years ago Robert Kyagulanyi has rattled authorities in the East African country with his growing popularity and biting criticism of Museveni, who has ruled since taking power in a 1986 coup.In a statement, Kyagulanyi said that Michael Kalinda,
  
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• Trump's response to the weekend massacres show he is an ethical black hole

  05-08-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump is playing the country like he’s a conductor of a symphony of racist violence‘Under this president, people are now afraid to go the hospital or to go the police.’ Photograph: Susan Walsh/APDonald Trump continues to play his cynical game of dodging responsibility, shifting blame and exploiting tragedy. In a press conference called to address the horrors of two mass shootings in the United States over the past weekend, the president said nothing about his pivotal role in st
  
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• O.C. murder fugitive who allegedly murdered wife in 2012 captured in Mexico, authorities say

  05-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A Southern California multimillionaire who went on the run after he was charged in the 2012 death of his wife was captured in Mexico, according to the Newport Beach Police Department.
  
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• Syria Kurds warn of Turkish attack despite US mediation

  05-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A top Kurdish political official in northeast Syria Monday warned neighbouring Turkey would attack at the first chance it got, despite US efforts to prevent a cross-border incursion.On Sunday, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country was running out of patience with floundering US efforts to set up a buffer zone along its southern border."Erdogan is serious and will embark on an attack at the first opportunity" against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, Aldar Khalil told AFP
  
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• Preacher Season 4 Episode 1 "Masada" Best Easter Eggs

  05-08-2019 21:19 via gamespot.com
  
  Preacher returns for its fourth and final season. Ryan breaks down all his favorite comic book Easter Eggs from Episode 1 including The Grail's secret fortress, Jesse Custer's eyepatch and Frankie the Eunuch.
  
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• Mexico president urges US to take action on gun control

  05-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Monday for the United States to "control the indiscriminate sale of weapons" after a shooting in Texas left eight Mexicans dead.A gunman opened fire with an assault rifle on Saturday at a Walmart store in El Paso, which is located near the border with Mexico, killing a total of 22 people and wounding more than two dozen.Lopez Obrador said neither Republicans nor Democrats in the US have done enough to protect people from mass shootings.
  
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• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Won't Have Battle Royale Mode

  05-08-2019 21:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 launched with Blackout, Treyarch's foray into the massively popular battle royale genre. Though the genre is rife with potential, it's steadily becoming oversaturated with content, something developer Infinity Ward seems to be aware of. As it stands, Infinity Ward is uninterested in a battle royale mode for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.Joe Cecot, Infinity Ward's multiplayer design director, told IGN that Black Ops 4 and Modern Warfare are different vibes, s
  
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• After Trump mistakes Toledo for Dayton, mayors of both cities take notice

  05-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  In his first formal comments on two mass shootings, the president mistakenly identified Sunday's killings in Ohio as having occurred in Toledo rather than Dayton. The mistake was not lost on the mayors of both cities.
  
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• New Rainbow Six Siege Y4S3 Operators Possibly Leaked

  05-08-2019 20:44 via gamespot.com
  
  It appears yet another leak for a Ubisoft game has made its way onto the internet. This time it's for Rainbow Six Siege and the rumored Operators scheduled to release for the game's Year 4 Season 3 expansion.Two pieces of concept art for Siege's next two Operators have leaked onto Reddit. On ResetEra, user Kormora--a reliable Siege leaker according to VG247--has confirmed the leaked images are legitimate and do showcase Year 4 Season 3's two Operators. Both Operators seems to hail from, or at le
  
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• The Latest: UN chief worried about rising tensions in region

  05-08-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters Monday that over the past few days the U.N. Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan "has observed and reported an increase in military activity along the Line of Control" — the highly militarized line dividing Kashmir between the two countries.The government cut off communications and is deploying thousands of troops in the restive Himalayan region amid fears its actions could spark uprisings.
  
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• The guns used to kill dozens in Dayton and El Paso were legal — high-capacity options included

  05-08-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  More details about the weapons used in the weekend's deadly shooting rampages in Ohio and Dayton
  
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• North Korea took $2 billion in cyberattacks to fund weapons program: U.N. report

  05-08-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using "widespread and increasingly sophisticated" cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday.Pyongyang also "continued to enhance its nuclear and missile programmes although it did not conduct a nuclear test or ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) launch," said the report to the U.N. Security Council North Korea
  
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• Outrage in Gambia over release of ex-president's assassins

  05-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of people murdered by death squads in The Gambia expressed outrage on Monday over the release of three former hitmen, who said they committed dozens of assassinations ordered by ex-president Yahya Jammeh.The men, who were part of an unofficial paramilitary unit known as the Junglers, were freed from army custody two weeks after appearing before the West African country's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC).During the hearings, the assassins accused Jammeh -- who rul
  
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• An Ohio state lawmaker blamed everything from gay marriage and drag queens to marijuana for 2 recent mass shootings

  05-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  State Rep. Candace Keller of Ohio blamed mass shootings on drag queens, recreational marijuana, video games, and President Barack Obama.
  
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• Thousands evacuated after explosions at Russia ammo depot

  05-08-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Massive explosions at a Russian military ammunition depot in Siberia injured at least eight people and prompted the evacuation of thousands Monday.Russia's Defense Ministry said a fire triggered the explosions at a storage facility for gunpowder charges near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region.
  
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• The Indian Government Is Revoking Kashmir's Special Status. Here's What That Means

  05-08-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  On Monday, the Indian government announced plans to remove Kashmir's constitutionally mandated autonomy, and divide up the disputed region.
  
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• What the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500's 0–100–0-MPH Time Means

  05-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  We place Ford's acceleration and braking claim in context.
  
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• Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Does 0–100–0 MPH in 10.6 Seconds. Here's What That Means.

  05-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  We place Ford's acceleration and braking claim in context.
  
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• Classmate Says Dayton Shooter Targeted Her in High School: ‘We Predicted He Would Do This’

  05-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  via TwitterJessica Masseth was months into her sophomore year at Bellbrook High School in Ohio when she started getting disturbing text messages from a freshman named Connor Betts. Betts texted that Masseth was on his “rape list,” describing in detail “what he wanted to do” to her, she said—even sending her the list of all of his proposed victims to prove she wasn’t the only one. Finally, Masseth said she had enough and went to police. “I
  
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• This is the gun control legislation Mitch McConnell won't allow senators to vote on

  05-08-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked background check legislation that had previously passed the House. Here's what that legislation would do.
  
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• There have been 255 mass shootings in the US so far in 2019 — here's the full list

  05-08-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  As of August 5, 2019, there have been more mass shootings in the US than there are days. At least 275 people have died in mass shootings this year.
  
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• Cellmate uses toilet to drown convicted Florida pedophile

  05-08-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Dixon has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of David Oseas Ramirez. The death allegedly occurred after the cellmates got into an argument.
  
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• Colombia to authorize nationality for 24,000 Venezuelan children

  05-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Colombia President Ivan Duque signed an order on Monday allowing 24,000 children born in the country to Venezuelan parents and risking statelessness to be given Colombian nationality.The children were the victims of a legal loophole that prevented them from obtaining their parents' nationality due to "insurmountable obstacles" but left them without Colombian nationality due to legislation that doesn't recognize citizenship based on place of birth."Today Colombia has shown the world that despite
  
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• Hidden camera catches husband trying to poison his wife's coffee

  05-08-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  What she caught on film made her fall to her knees and sob
  
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• New Guilty Gear Game Revealed At EVO 2019

  05-08-2019 19:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Arc System Works blessed the fighting game community with a brief look at a brand new Guilty Gear game. During EVO 2019, which took place from August 2-4 in Las Vegas, the Japanese developer unveiled Guilty Gear 2020 with a teaser trailer, expected to launch sometime next year for unspecified platforms.The trailer, below, shows some gorgeous visuals as the fight between series mainstays--Ky Kiske and Sol Badguy--transitions between 2.5D and 3D, and back again. It seems Arc Systems Works is exper
  
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• Mugabe still in Singapore hospital since April: president

  05-08-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's ex-leader Robert Mugabe remains hopsitalised in Singapore where he has been receiving medical care for four months, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday.Mnangagwa said in a statement that the 95-year-old Mugabe had been receiving medical care for an undisclosed ailment, and was responding well to treatment."Founding president and founding father of our nation (comrade) Robert Mugabe remains detained at a hospital in Singapore where he is receiving medical attentio
  
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• Utah State Student Killed Herself After Eight Months of Racist Attacks—and the School Did Nothing, Suit Claims

  05-08-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Courtesy Anderson and Karrenberg Law Firm“Every day I dread going to class now because I sit three feet from my white bully,” a Malaysian student at Utah State University texted her friend months before she killed herself, according to a federal lawsuit filed last week on her family’s behalf.After eight months of racist bullying by classmates, 24-year-old Ph.D. candidate Jerusha Sanjeevi ended her life in April 2017, the 91-page complaint states. Sanjeevi was of Chinese and Ind
  
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