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• A Minnesota father told police he dropped his 5-month-old boy on his head for being 'fussy.' The baby died

  11-08-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Matthew Hoisser, 35, complained that his son was "difficult" and "fussy," according to court documents. He dropped the baby on his head, killing him.
  
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• Manhunt over: Escaped Tennessee inmate Curtis Ray Watson captured, death penalty possible

  11-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Curtis Ray Watson, 44, was charged with the murder of a correctional administrator after he escaped in the midst of a 15-year kidnapping sentence.
  
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• Eric Shawn: Joe Biden... and who?

  11-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly half of Democrats say he can beat President Trump.
  
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• DHS chief regrets 'unfortunate' timing of ICE raid of food processing plants in Mississippi

  11-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The sweep took place less than a week after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that targeted Hispanics.
  
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• WWE Summerslam PPV Live Updates And Results: A Very Long Kickoff Show Is Over

  11-08-2019 22:45 via gamespot.com
  
  The results for the Kickoff Show for the WWE PPV Summerslam are posted below. Live updates for the main card to follow for the biggest WWE event of the summer. Keep coming back to GameSpot to find out the winners and losers for the show.Today is the day. It's the biggest event of the summer for WWE. Summerslam is kicking off at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario as we speak. Over the course of the evening, WWE's biggest superstars will face each other in the ring in what should be a fanta
  
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• WWE Summerslam PPV Final Results: Seth Rollins Is The Beast Slayer

  11-08-2019 22:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Summerslam has come to a close, and there is a new WWE Universal Champion. Aside from that, we witnessed the debut of "The Fiend," and it lived up to all the hype. You can check out the full results for the WWE PPV below for yourself.Today is the day. It's the biggest event of the summer for WWE. Summerslam is kicking off at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario as we speak. Over the course of the evening, WWE's biggest superstars will face each other in the ring in what should be a fantasti
  
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• WWE Summerslam PPV Final Results: Bray Wyatt Terrifies All As "The Fiend"

  11-08-2019 22:45 via gamespot.com
  
  The WWE PPV, Summerslam, aired last night, and while the card was pretty stacked, overall, the show ended up being a lot of fun. Well, it was fun when the WWE Network wasn't crashing constantly. Seriously, the WWE Network redesign was a disaster for everyone who watched the August 11 PPV. Anyway, you'll full results for the entire PPV below.Today is the day. It's the biggest event of the summer for WWE. Summerslam is kicking off at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario as we speak. Over the
  
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• WWE Summerslam: Live Updates And Results For The 2019 PPV

  11-08-2019 22:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Today is the day. It's the biggest event of the summer for WWE. Summerslam is kicking off at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario as we speak. Over the course of the evening, WWE's biggest superstars will face each other in the ring in what should be a fantastic evening of wrestling.There are a couple ways to watch this event. You can order the PPV through your local cable or satellite provider. Or you can head over to the WWE Network, and if you're a new subscriber, you can get one month f
  
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• WWE Summerslam 2019 PPV Live Updates And Streaming Results

  11-08-2019 22:45 via gamespot.com
  
  Summerslam continues, and we have the results for many of the matches that have already happened below, including Goldberg beating down Dolph Ziggler over and over again. However, we're still waiting for Bray Wyatt vs. Finn Balor.Today is the day. It's the biggest event of the summer for WWE. Summerslam is kicking off at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario as we speak. Over the course of the evening, WWE's biggest superstars will face each other in the ring in what should be a fantastic ev
  
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• Trump administration defends Ice raids and says timing was 'unfortunate'

  11-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting head of homeland security admits raids in Mississippi were badly timed after El Paso attacks targeting Mexicans Acting secretary of homeland security Kevin McAleenan, right, speaks on the US-Mexico border in Arizona. Photograph: Randy Hoeft/APTrump administration officials are defending last week’s mass immigration raids in Mississippi, including emotional footage of a girl pleading with authorities to let her father go.Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner Mark Morgan a
  
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• 'The fire was just nuts': At least 5 children dead in Erie blaze, authorities say

  11-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  At least five children died in a Pennsylvania house fire that blew flames out of every first-floor window early Sunday morning, authorities said.
  
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• Dayton bar patrons commemorate 1 week since mass shooting

  11-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  People who gathered at the scene of the Dayton mass shooting observed a moment of silence Sunday in tribute to the victims.Nine people were killed in the Aug. 4 attack that injured more than 30 people in the city's historic Oregon District.Investigators say Connor Betts, 24, opened fire with an AR-15 style gun outside the district's businesses.
  
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• Goldman Sachs economists say fears rise that U.S.-China trade war leading to recession

  11-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "We expect tariffs targeting the remaining $300bn of US imports from China to go into effect," the bank said in a note sent to clients.U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 1 that he would impose a 10% tariff on a final $300 billion worth of Chinese imports on Sept. 1, prompting China to halt purchases of U.S. agricultural products.China denies that it has manipulated the yuan for competitive gain.
  
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• UAE-backed separatists pull back after seizing Yemen's Aden

  11-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemeni separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in the southern port city of Aden.Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that's been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015.
  
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• Probe of Michigan Police Officer's KKK Document May Lead to New Investigation of 2009 Shooting

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A prosecutor says an internal investigation of a white police officer whose house had an apparent Ku Klux Klan document on display will help determine whether there will be further review of the officer’s 2009 fatal shooting of a black man.
  
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• Police arrest white supremacist for threatening Walmart attack

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A white supremacist has been arrested after he posted a message on Facebook threatening a shooting at a Walmart in Florida, police have said.Richard Clayton, 26, was arrested after making an online threat on Friday, according to police, just days after a gunman stormed a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. That suspect, Patrick Crusius, reportedly posted an anti-immigrant screed on the online messaging forum 8chan shortly before the mass shooting. Mr Clayton reportedly wrote on Faceboo
  
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• Another 81 migrants rescued by charity ship off Libya

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  French charities SOS Mediterranean and MSF rescued another 81 migrants off the coast of Libya on Sunday, who joined 130 others aboard the ship the Ocean Viking, an AFP reporter said.The young men, mostly Sudanese, who had left Libya late Saturday in a blue rubber dinghy, clapped and cheered as the ship came into view.The ship, jointly operated by SOS Mediterranean and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has been patrolling international waters some 50 nautical miles off the coast of Tripoli.
  
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• Bolsonaro: Brazil doesn't need Germany's biodiversity funds

  11-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday dismissed the importance of Germany's funding of sustainability projects in the South American country's forests, as the European nation weighed withdrawing from the region."The country doesn't need this," the far-right president known for his ties to agribusiness told reporters about a possible loss of German funding in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest.Citing Environment Minister Svenja Schulz, German daily Tagesspiegel reported Saturday the governmen
  
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• Alleged underage sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein found dead in cell

  11-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in New York, officials said Saturday.
  
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• No money, no sheep: lockdown hampers Eid in Kashmir

  11-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Tradition dictates that Muslims slaughter a sheep during Monday's Eid al-Adha festival, and despite the military lockdown in Kashmir's main city Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad was determined to respect the custom.Muslim-majority Kashmir is set to celebrate Eid al-Adha on Monday, exactly a week after India's Hindu nationalist government scrapped the restive region's special autonomy status and imposed a curfew.Locals mark Eid by buying tens of thousands of sheep and goats to kill in an annual ritual that
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Unveils New Plan to Reduce U.S. Gun Deaths by 80%

  11-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Some of her plan's details, like the elimination of the Senate filibuster, might have difficulty finding legislator support
  
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• Russia honors 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast

  11-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia has bestowed posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city.U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Puti
  
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• CORRECTED-Russians killed in rocket blast put forward for awards

  11-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia will consider bestowing posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city.U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vl
  
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• For rescued migrant, Libya stay was worst ordeal on way to Europe

  11-08-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A young Ivorian mother endured a string of hardships before finally boarding the Ocean Viking rescue ship, but she says she would rather have died at sea than have to return to a Libyan detention centre where beatings were routine.The 28-year-old, who would give only her first name Bintu, was rescued Friday along with two of her children, aged one and three, and is now recovering aboard the charity ship Ocean Viking.Libya has been mired in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and kill
  
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• Guatemala votes for new president following unpopular Donald Trump immigration deal

  11-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Guatemalans on Sunday were voting for a new president who will face a major challenge after the country signed an unpopular deal with Washington to act as a buffer against illegal immigration under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. Threatened with economic sanctions if it said no, the administration of outgoing President Jimmy Morales reached an accord in late July to make Guatemala a so-called safe third country for migrants, despite the endemic poverty and violence plaguing
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein is 'gone, but justice still must be served': Accusers say they feel robbed

  11-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  After the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, women who say he raped them are angry and want authorities to continue the investigation.
  
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• Over 3,800 workers at Tyson Foods beef plant in Kansas out of work after fire

  11-08-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Tyson Foods spokesman Worth Sparkman said the plant would remain closed indefinitely and there were no details yet on the cause of the fire and or the extent of the damage.Independent trader Dan Norcini said the cattle market could respond negatively to news of the fire, but the impact would depend on how long the plant stays closed.Tyson said in a statement that it would meet with workers in shifts at the facility on Monday to answer their questions.
  
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• '#ClintonBodyCount': Trump's sharing of Epstein conspiracy theory draws outrage

  11-08-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump drew widespread backlash after sharing a baseless conspiracy theory tying the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected convicted sex offender, to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  
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• The Arctic town at the centre of a Norway-Russia 'spy war'

  11-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  When Frode Berg was a guard on the border near Kirkenes, Norway, in the 1990s and 2000s, relations with neighbouring Russia were so good that he would do joint patrols and go fishing with his colleagues from across the line. They drank vodka toasts after holding an annual cross-border ski race. But in recent years this town of 3,500 on Norway's Arctic coast has found itself caught up in a geopolitical chess game between Nato and Russia. Mr Berg became the first pawn to be captured when he was ar
  
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• Versace apologies in flap over T-shirts sold in China

  11-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian fashion house Versace apologized Sunday in China for selling T-shirts that it said attached incorrect country names to cities, after being attacked on social media for challenging China's territorial integrity. Versace did not identify the T-shirt in its own post on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media site, but the Global Times newspaper said the item mislabeled Hong Kong and Macao as countries. Both are former European colonies that were returned to China in the late 1990s.
  
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• Family sues nursing home over video of aides taunting woman, 91, with dementia; aides charged and fired

  11-08-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Two nursing home aides in north suburban Glenview have been fired and charged after a Snapchat video showed them taunting a 91-year-old woman with dementia. Her family is now taking legal action.
  
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• Beto O’Rourke says Trump retweeting Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies to distract from ‘terrorist attack in El Paso’

  11-08-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke has lashed out at Donald Trump for retweeting a conspiracy theory connecting Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison, saying the president was distracting from “an epidemic of gun violence” occurring “every single day” under his watch.The former Democratic congressman from Texas called out Mr Trump and “unfounded conspiracy theories” in an interview with CNN on Sunday after the president retweeted a post over the
  
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• Bannon Floats Idea of Michelle Obama Run Against Trump

  11-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats eager to oust President Donald Trump in 2020 could pin their hopes on an eleventh-hour bid by former first lady Michelle Obama rather than the roughly two dozen candidates now in the mix, former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested.“I don’t see anybody that’s on this stage right now that can take President Trump one-on-one,” Bannon, a key player in Trump’s 2016 victory, said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
  
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• Fox News Host Confronts Kellyanne Conway on Trump’s Epstein Retweet

  11-08-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Perhaps Kellyanne Conway thought she would have an easier time than usual on Fox News Sunday this week with regular host Chris Wallace on vacation. She was wrong. Right out of the gate, fill-in host Bill Hemmer confronted the White House counselor about President Trump’s retweet of a conspiracy theory linking Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein’s prison suicide over the weekend. “I think the president just wants everything to be investigated,” Conway said before all
  
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• Law enforcement officials capture an escaped Tennessee inmate

  11-08-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The manhunt for an escaped Tennessee prison inmate has come to an end. Police captured the man after catching him on a home surveillance camera.
  
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• Steve Scalise: Don’t blame Trump for mass shootings

  11-08-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president's no more responsible for that shooting as your next guest, Bernie Sanders, is for my shooting,” the Louisiana congressman said.
  
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• The Latest: Official tells Times jail broke rules on Epstein

  11-08-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A law enforcement source tells The New York Times financier Jeffrey Epstein was alone in his jail cell the night of his apparent suicide.An official with knowledge of the investigation told the Times that Epstein's cellmate was transferred.The official says the Justice Department was told Epstein would have a cellmate and be monitored by a guard every 30 minutes.
  
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• U.S. adviser Bolton to urge tougher UK stance on Iran and China

  11-08-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, is expected to urge Britain to toughen its stance on Iran and Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei when he arrives on Sunday for talks in London.As the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, its biggest geopolitical shift since World War Two, many diplomats expect London to become increasingly reliant on the United States.
  
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• Canada cable car cord severed in 'likely sabotage'

  11-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police are investigating an apparent act of vandalism after a cord carrying cable cars was severed, sending all 30 of them crashing to the ground.The company said the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, north of Vancouver, was not operating at the time of the incident, and that no guests or staff members were injured.The attraction’s manager told Canadian broadcaster CBC that maintenance on the line had been recently carried out “and it was a big, thick, beautiful healthy rope&r
  
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• Trump aide regrets 'unfortunate' timing on ICE raid of food processing plants in Mississippi

  11-08-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The sweep took place less than a week after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that targeted Hispanics.
  
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• India promises to ease Kashmir curfew as Pakistan accuses New Delhi government of 'ethnic cleansing'

  11-08-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian security forces said they had eased a week-long curfew and restrictions on movement in Kashmir ahead of a major Muslim festival on Monday. The move came as police denied carrying out a violent crackdown against protesters in the region, despite the emergence of footage showing troops firing into a crowd. Jammu and Kashmir police said on Sunday that “not a single bullet had been fired in the last six days” and called the reports “mischievous and motivated news”. The
  
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• Ask the Captain: How dangerous is a cracked cockpit windshield? How do pilots handle one?

  11-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Should you worry if your plane experiences a cracked windshield or cabin window? Captain John Cox explains how they're built and how pilots respond.
  
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• Brazil ex-billionaire Batista out of jail: officials

  11-08-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Once one of the world's richest men, Brazilian entrepreneur Eike Batista was out of jail Sunday after having been detained for violating terms of his house arrest, prison officials said.Batista, 62, had been under house arrest pending an appeal of a 30-year jail sentence.Then on Thursday he was arrested in Rio de Janeiro on suspicion of insider trading and money laundering, the news portal G1 said.
  
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• Harris decries Trump's 'campaign of terror' against immigrants

  11-08-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, said President Trump’s administration is running a “campaign of terror” against immigrants.
  
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• Saudi-led coalition launches strike after Aden 'coup'

  11-08-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A Saudi-led coalition launched Sunday a strike against Yemen's southern separatists after clashes in the second city Aden left around 40 people dead, threatening to push the war-ravaged nation deeper into turmoil.The strike came a day after the separatists seized the presidential palace in Aden, a move decried by the Riyadh-backed Yemeni government as a UAE-supported coup.The deadly violence, which threatens to exacerbate Yemen's humanitarian crisis, reflects deep divisions between secessionists
  
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• Republicans can find common ground on guns, Kellyanne Conway says

  11-08-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is "actively talking to Republicans and Democrats" on background checks, Conway said.
  
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• Former Billionaire Eike Batista Released From Prison in Brazil

  11-08-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest man, was released from jail Saturday, as an appeals judge revoked a temporary arrest order that expired on Monday.He had been detained last week as part of the ongoing corruption probe known as Carwash. His detention was ordered amid worries Batista might hinder the investigation into financial markets and privileged information.The appeal justice cut short the arrest, ruling his detention can’t be used as a tool to constrain the def
  
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• Kellyanne Conway on Epstein’s death: Trump wants everything investigated

  11-08-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  She addresses the president’s retweet of a Clinton conspiracy theory.
  
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• Epstein: How he died and what it means for his accusers

  11-08-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Financier Jeffrey Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in New York, officials said Saturday. Epstein was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then sexually abusing them at various locations, including homes in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York from 2002 through 2005. WHO WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN?
  
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• Andrew Yang breaks down in tears over gun violence as 2020 Democrats in Iowa call for action after Santa Fe shooting

  11-08-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A week after two mass shootings left more than 30 dead, the issue of gun violence was unavoidable for Democratic presidential candidates at the Iowa State Fair.As children zoomed down slides and munched on deep-fried Oreos, caucus goers still working out which Democratic candidates to support flocked to ask candidates how they might address the epidemic of shootings.Of the 14 candidates who attended a last-minute forum in downtown Des Moines on Saturday, it was Andrew Yang, a businessman and lon
  
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