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• Despite warning signs, why wasn't Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch when he died?

  10-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide has raised questions whether a New York jail followed proper procedures to ensure Epstein didn't kill himself.
  
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• FBI Arrests Las Vegas Man Allegedly Planning Attack on Synagogue, LGBTQ Community

  10-08-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Conor Climo, 23, was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly owning parts of an explosive device
  
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• Background Checks Won't Stop Many Mass Shootings. We Need Them Anyway, Experts Say

  10-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Many public health experts agree background checks are a crucial part of efforts to limit gun deaths
  
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• India to bring supplies to Kashmir; Pakistan to go to UN

  10-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities enforcing a strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir will bring in trucks of essential supplies for an Islamic festival next week, as the divided Himalayan region remained in a lockdown Saturday after India's decision to strip it of its constitutional autonomy.Pakistan said that with the support of China, it will take up India's unilateral actions in Kashmir with the U.N. Security Council and may approach the U.N. Human Rights Commission over what it says is the "genocide" of the
  
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• US military says service member dead in Iraq mission

  10-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The US military said Saturday that an American service member died during an operation alongside Iraqi security personnel in Nineveh province."One US service member died today during an Iraqi Security Force mission in... Iraq, while advising and accompanying the ISF during a planned operation," US Central Command said in a statement.Iraq's government in late 2017 declared victory against IS, which seized vast swathes of the country including the key northern city of Mosul in a lightning 2014 off
  
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• Man who alleged police locked him in closet awarded $50M

  10-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury in Cleveland on Friday awarded $50 million to a man who claimed police beat him while he was handcuffed and locked him in a storage closet for four days with no toilet and nothing to eat or drink but a carton of milk.A different Cuyahoga County jury awarded Black $22 million in June 2016 during a three-day trial where no attorneys representing East Cleveland attended.The city subsequently appealed, and the lawsuit was sent back to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for another trial.
  
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• Epstein’s Victims Will Pursue Civil Cases Against His Estate

  10-08-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Epstein is dead in an apparent suicide, but the women who say he sexually abused them plan to seek justice by suing his estate and helping any prosecutions of his enablers, according to lawyers and one of the women.Epstein, a financier accused of sex trafficking and conspiracy, was found dead Saturday morning in his jail cell in lower Manhattan. He was accused last month of trafficking underage girls from 2002 to 2005, but authorities may have expanded the case after dozen
  
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• Elon Musk Says He Supports 2020 White House Hopeful Andrew Yang

  10-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk supports Andrew Yang, the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer said in a tweet that could give the tech entrepreneur’s 2020 White House bid a boost.Musk, who often interacts with some of his almost 28 million followers on Twitter, made the declaration while responding to political commentator Dan Carlin, who uses the handle @HardcoreHistory. Carlin’s tweet had cited Yang’s earlier tweet on leadership.Musk said in a separate tweet that universal basic inco
  
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• Vegas man accused of plotting to bomb synagogues, LGBTQ bar

  10-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Court documents say Conor Climo, 23, of Las Vegas told an FBI informant in recent weeks that he was scouting places to attack.
  
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• ICE used ankle monitors, informants to plan immigration raids where 680 people were arrested

  10-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, hundreds of immigration officials descended on seven Mississippi plants owned by four companies. Here's how ICE planned the operation.
  
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• More major US immigration raids likely despite outcry – report

  10-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  White House ordered Ice agents to identify targets across the US, report says, with focus on workplacesMore than 600 Latinx workers were detained at poultry plants in Mississippi. Photograph: HO/AFP/Getty ImagesMore major raids aimed at picking up undocumented immigrants are likely soon despite a flood of outrage at a huge operation last week that saw more than 600 Latino workers detained at poultry plants in Mississippi.Donald Trump’s White House has ordered US Immigration and Customs Enf
  
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• Tens of thousands rally in Moscow in growing election protest

  10-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Moscow Saturday to protest the refusal of authorities to allow a slate of independent candidates on the fall city council elections.
  
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• The Latest: Congress party says people dying in Kashmir

  10-08-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  India's main opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has demanded a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the situation in Kashmir, saying there are reports of violence and people dying.Pakistan says that with the support of China, it will take up India's unilateral actions in the disputed region of Kashmir with the U.N. Security Council and may approach the U.N. Human Rights Commission over what it says is the "genocide" of the Kashmiri people.Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the comm
  
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• Police are investigating a social media threat of the 'biggest mass shooting in modern American history' targeting Walmart stores in Missouri

  10-08-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The threat was posted this week to Reddit by someone claiming to have two AR-15 semi-automatic weapons and 22 pipe bombs.
  
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• Inside the El Paso shooting: A store manager, a frantic father, grateful survivors

  10-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Here is how the shooting at an El Paso Walmart unfolded through the eyes of those who were there.
  
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• Moscow election protest attracts huge crowd, spurs spinoffs

  10-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people rallied Saturday against the exclusion of some city council candidates from Moscow's upcoming election, turning out for one of the Russian capital's biggest political protests in years.After the rally, which was officially sanctioned, hundreds of participants streamed to an area near the presidential administration building to continue with an unauthorized demonstration.The rally was the fourth consecutive weekend demonstration in Moscow over the local election.
  
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• Dozens arrested at huge opposition rally in Moscow

  10-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 50,000 opposition supporters rallied and dozens were arrested in Moscow on Saturday at one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.Demonstrators crowded the central Prospekt Andreya Sakharova street, where city authorities deployed a massive police presence, including officers in riot gear, after giving permission for the rally to go ahead.The White Counter, an NGO that tracks participants in rallies, counted 49,900 people, while M
  
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• Devastating photos show the damage of Typhoon Lekima, which killed at least 18 people and forced 1 million to evacuate in China

  10-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A million people were evacuated from their homes and thousands of flights were cancelled across major airports in China.
  
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• The Latest: Israel says suspects in soldier's death arrested

  10-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli military says it has arrested Palestinians suspected of involvement in the killing of an off-duty Israeli soldier in the West Bank this week.Israel's Channel 13 TV reported that the suspects were two brothers from Hebron.A Hamas spokesman says four Palestinian militants who were killed crossing the Gaza perimeter fence were engaging in "an individual act," stressing that the operation was not planned by Hamas.
  
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• New Democratic Unity Can Overpower the NRA

  10-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The following is an adaptation of remarks delivered at a candidate forum on gun safety in Des Moines, Iowa. The forum was sponsored by Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action.This has been a tragically sad week in America.But we are ending the week on a hopeful note — because all of you are here today. You’re here because you know America can answer this challenge and because you refuse to settl
  
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• Germany to suspend Amazon aid to Brazil

  10-08-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Germany said Saturday it would suspend Brazilian aid aimed at helping protect the Amazon forest in light of data that showed deforestation had surged since President Jair Bolsonaro took office."Brazilian government policies in the Amazon raise doubts about continued, sustained declines in the rate of deforestation," Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told the television news show Tagesspiegel.It said a first step would be to block payment of 35 million euros ($40 million) for forest conservatio
  
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• 66 killed in floods, mudslides in southern India

  10-08-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 66 people have died and some 360,000 have moved to relief camps following flash floods and mudslides caused by days of torrential rains in the southern Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, a news report said Saturday. The Press Trust of India news agency, or PTI, quoted officials as saying that 42 people have died in Kerala since Thursday. Authorities have set up 1,111 relief camps with about 125,000 people.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris cross paths in northern Iowa, where voters say bumping into 2020 candidates is 'normal'

  10-08-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Just as Elizabeth Warren finished up her short speech at the Iowa Wing Ding dinner — “2020 is our chance, we can make this government work for all of America”, she said — a key rival of her’s was leaning down, just a stone’s throw away, and talking to a 10-year-old girl.Swarmed by reporters on the side of the venue in Clear Lake, Iowa, a town with just under 8,000 residents, Kamala Harris took a moment to hear from Eva Shannon, a little girl wearing a bright r
  
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• Some signs of normality return to Kashmir, but India's clampdown still strict

  10-08-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time in six days, India eased travel restrictions in some parts of Srinagar on Saturday, and people flooded the streets of Kashmir's summer capital to buy provisions ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha on Monday.Seeking to tighten its grip on the region also claimed by neighboring Pakistan, New Delhi on Monday scrapped the state's right to frame its own laws and allowed non-residents to buy property there.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government also locked down the revolt
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's death is a perfect storm for conspiracy theories

  10-08-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The death Saturday morning of financier Jeffrey Epstein, an accused sex trafficker with connections to some of the most powerful people in the world, represents a perfect storm in the world of conspiracy theories.
  
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• UPDATE 4-Norway mosque shooter may have killed family member first -police

  10-08-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The man suspected of a shooting at a mosque in Norway may also have killed a relative before launching the attack, police said late on Saturday."A young woman was found dead at the suspect's address," assistant chief of police Rune Skjold told a news conference, adding that the man was suspected of murder.
  
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• 'She should be shot': Ohio man charged after Facebook threat against Ocasio-Cortez

  10-08-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  “She should be shot," the man had written on Facebook, along with a link to a story about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
  
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• Pastor accused of sexually assaulting sex abuse victim when she was 15 years old

  10-08-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  After watching a documentary on survivors of sexual abuse, the woman disclosed her allegations to authorities.
  
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• Prague Pride parade draws 30,000

  10-08-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people took part in the Prague Pride parade of the LGBT community on Saturday while a similar march in neighbouring Poland went smoothly despite fears of far-right disruption. "We had 30,000 people according to our estimate which we arrived at after consulting the police," said Bohdana Rambouskova, spokeswoman for the week-long Prague Pride festival. On Thursday, someone set fire to a rainbow flag in central Prague and fired flares at an island hosting the festival workshops
  
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• U.S. service member killed in Iraq: coalition statement

  10-08-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A United States service member advising Iraqi security forces on a mission was killed on Saturday in the northern Nineveh province, the U.S.-led international coalition fighting Islamic State said in a statement."One U.S. service member died today during an Iraqi Security Force mission in Ninewah province, Iraq, while advising and accompanying the (Iraqi security forces) during a planned operation, the statement said.It added that the name of the service member would be withheld until next of ki
  
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• NKorea fires 2 missiles into sea in likely protest of drills

  10-08-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea on Saturday extended a recent streak of weapons displays by firing what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, according to South Korea's military. The fifth round of launches in less than three weeks was likely another protest at the slow pace of nuclear negotiations with the United States and the continuance of U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises that the North says are aimed at a northward invasion. The South's military alerted reporters to the launc
  
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• Some 2.5 million Muslim hajj pilgrims scale Mount Arafat

  10-08-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 2.5 million Muslim hajj pilgrims converged on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia Saturday marshalled by tens of thousands of stewards in a bid to prevent any repetition of previous years' deadly stampedes.Raising their palms skywards, the pilgrims set off on the climb to the summit where they held prayers to atone for their sins in a ritual that is regarded as the high point of the annual hajj.
  
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• Pakistan says will move to UN Security Council with China's support over Kashmir

  10-08-2019 16:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan says it will move the United Nations Security Council with China's support with a motion to condemn India for its decision to strip its portion of the Kashmir region of special status."I have shared with China that the Pakistan government has decided to take this issue to UN Security Council.
  
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• Tanzanian police say 62 killed when siphoned tanker explodes

  10-08-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A damaged tanker truck exploded in eastern Tanzania as people were trying to siphon fuel out of it Saturday, killing at least 62 in one of the worst incidents of its kind in the East African country. Tanzanian state broadcaster TBC, citing police figures, said at least 70 more people were injured during the explosion in the town of Morogoro, located about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from the economic hub of Dar es Salaam. Regional commissioner Steven Kebwe told the local Azam TV that many suffere
  
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• Police say 62 killed in Tanzania fuel tanker explosion

  10-08-2019 16:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A damaged tanker truck exploded in eastern Tanzania as people were trying to siphon fuel out of it Saturday, killing at least 62 in one of the worst incidents of its kind in the East African country.Tanzanian state broadcaster TBC, citing police figures, said at least 70 more people were injured during the explosion in the town of Morogoro, located about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from the economic hub of Dar es Salaam.Regional police commissioner Steven Kabwe told the local Azam TV that many su
  
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• Israel army says killed 4 armed Palestinians on Gaza border

  10-08-2019 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army said its troops shot dead four heavily armed Palestinians on the Gaza border early Saturday, alleging one of them had managed to cross and throw a grenade at soldiers.There have been frequent clashes along the Gaza border since the Palestinians began organising regular mass protests there in March 2018."The terrorists were equipped with AK-47 assault rifles, RPG grenade launchers and hand grenades," an army statement said.
  
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• Southern separatists overrun barracks in Yemen's Aden

  10-08-2019 16:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Southern separatists gained ground across Yemen's second city Aden on Saturday and surrounded the presidential palace amid fierce battles with loyalist forces, military and security sources said.The deadly fighting reflects deep divisions between secessionists and forces backing the internationally recognised government of President Abderabbo Mansour Hadi, experts say.The force, known as the Security Belt, overran three military barracks belonging to unionist forces on Saturday and were surround
  
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• Parents of murdered British backpacker fear trial in Kashmir could collapse

  10-08-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of a Guernsey backpacker killed in Kashmir fear the trial of her alleged murderer may collapse or face interminable delays after Indian prime minister Narendra Modi stripped the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status. Sarah Groves, 24, a fitness instructor who went to St Mary’s School, Ascot and Chelsea College of Art, was stabbed 46 times and found in a pool of blood on her bed on a houseboat on Dal Lake on 6 April 2013. Sarah had gone to India on a round-the
  
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• Iowa State Fair: How the 2020 underdogs are keeping hope alive

  10-08-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii congresswoman who begins most speeches with a cheery “aloha”, wants Iowans to know about the “high cost of war” that she says detracts from domestic priorities like education and infrastructure development.Marianne Williamson, a self-help author with a seemingly unflappable calm, says she wants to disrupt of American politics in a way that goes beyond beating Donald Trump, and to a “way more powerful level”. You have to lead with love
  
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• The El Paso shooting has reignited a debate over whether the federal government has a double-standard when it comes to white nationalist terrorism

  10-08-2019 15:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The government has been unable to address homegrown extremism because of civil liberties concerns and because the US has no domestic terrorism law.
  
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• The Polish village where no boys have been born for almost a decade

  10-08-2019 15:08 via news.yahoo.com
  It was during a competition for junior firefighters that somebody first noticed something unusual about the small Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie. Every single one of the uniformed children showing off their skills was a girl.  The reason is as simple as it is surprising. No boys have been born in Miejsce Odrzanskie for almost a decade, while the village’s women in the rural backwater of 300 souls have given birth to 12 girls. The boy shortage is so acute that the mayor has offer
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein has died in jail by apparent suicide, 2 weeks after he was placed on suicide watch then taken off it

  10-08-2019 15:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday morning. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. He was put on suicide watch in July.
  
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• Democratic presidential contenders demand action on guns

  10-08-2019 15:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential contenders on Saturday urged Congress to take action to curb gun violence following mass shootings last weekend in Texas and Ohio that left 31 dead.Speaking at a hastily convened forum in Iowa, they called for the imposition of universal background checks on gun buyers, so-called "red flag" laws, and ultimately a ban on military-style assault weapons.The candidates took questions from gun-control advocates and shooting survivors at a program sponsored by Everytown for Gun
  
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• Documents reveal the FBI kept using the Steele dossier for FISA renewals despite evidence of 'extreme bias'

  10-08-2019 15:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett says these documents mean that the FBI knew Christopher Steele was a 'phony' from the beginning.
  
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• Warren Proposes Renewing Assault Weapon Ban, Hiking Gun Taxes

  10-08-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Less than a week after two deadly mass shootings renewed the gun control debate in the U.S., Elizabeth Warren set out an agenda for executive action and legislation to tighten firearms regulation and reinstitute a federal assault weapons ban.The Democratic presidential candidate said that if she’s elected she would ask Congress, among other measures, to create a federal licensing system for gun ownership, expand background checks and raise the tax on firearms to 30% for fire
  
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• Fire Emblem: Three Houses - More Tips You Need To Know

  10-08-2019 15:00 via gamespot.com
  
  If you're a bit further into Fire Emblem: Three Houses and you're looking for some more in-depth tips, we've got you covered in this video! Just a heads up, there are some minor spoilers, so if you aren't a few months in yet we recommend checking out our other tips videos first.
  
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• Overwhelming support for gun restrictions in the suburbs is good news for Democrats, but real gun reform is unlikely with a GOP Senate

  10-08-2019 14:57 via news.yahoo.com
  In a poll conducted after the El Paso and Dayton shootings, 71% of suburban voters and 64% of Republican women backed banning assault-style weapons.
  
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• Pakistan cuts last remaining transport link to India over Kashmir dispute

  10-08-2019 14:52 via news.yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD/LAHORE (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Saturday it had canceled a bus linking Lahore with India's capital New Delhi, the last remaining public transport link between the neighbors divided by a dispute over the Kashmir region.Islamabad reacted with fury this week after India revoked the special status for the portion of Kashmir that it controls, calling the action illegal, a claim New Delhi denies.Pakistan has already cut two rail links, suspended bilateral trade and expelled India's ambas
  
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• Scenes from Iowa's rowdy, anti-Trump Wing Ding

  10-08-2019 14:47 via news.yahoo.com
  In a shift, Democrats train their attacks on the president, not each other.
  
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• Inside the 20-day manhunt for 2 Canadian teens police believe went on a brutal killing spree

  10-08-2019 14:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The search for childhood friends Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, ended on August 6, when their bodies were found in Manitoba, Canada.
  
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