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• Child found dead in hot vehicle at New Jersey train station

  16-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating the death of a young child who was left in a vehicle parked at a commuter train station in New Jersey.
  
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• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare News Coming At Gamescom

  16-08-2019 23:54 via gamespot.com
  
  Gamescom is beginning soon, with a wide array of events and press conferences taking place Monday before the show floor opens on Tuesday. This year the show has its own formal opening ceremony, with Geoff Keighley hosting Gamescom Opening Night Live. Some games have already been announced as part of the show, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.Activision teased "exciting news" for Gamescom. Keighley was very slightly more specific on Twitter, saying the game will show new footage and a speci
  
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• Arrests precede major demonstrations in Portland, Oregon

  16-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities arrested the leader of a right-wing group on the eve of a rally that's expected to draw people from around the U.S. to Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, prompting Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson to urge his followers to "show up one hundred-fold" in response.Self-described anti-fascists have vowed to confront the right-wing groups at the downtown rally and the arrests of Gibson and five other right-wing supporters appeared to be intended to send a signal from police to organizers to remain
  
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• Smiling cops take selfie near where dead baby was just found. Missouri city apologizes

  16-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  “The photos were by no means meant to take away from the extremely serious nature of the incident,” city officials say.
  
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• Trump news: Impeachment support swells as president forced into rare apology after hurling abuse at overweight supporter

  16-08-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has apologised to a supporter he fat-shamed at his latest 2020 campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday night, after mistaking the MAGA fan for a protester and telling him to “go home and start exercising”.​On a typically wild evening, the president inspired new chants of “Lock her up!” and “Send her back!”, directed at Hillary Clinton and Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar respectively, took credit for an Obama-era law, ple
  
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• Tlaib refuses to visit under Israel's set conditions

  16-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Diala Shamas of the Center for Constitutional Rights says Israel's decision to ban Tlaib is "troubling," and that the country is treating congresswomen "the same way they deal with all Palestinians."
  
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• Here’s what the NRA’s Marion Hammer says about Florida’s proposed assault weapons ban

  16-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer warned state economists Friday that a proposed assault rifle ban would be devastating to gun manufacturers lured to the state over the last eight years.
  
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• Limited Run Games Unveil River City Girls Physical Edition

  16-08-2019 23:15 via gamespot.com
  
  We're less than three weeks away from River City Girls' September 5 launch for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Video game distributor Limited Run Games took the time as a liberty to reveal the upcoming beat-em-up's physical release, which is slated for PS4 and Switch.LRG shared the news on Twitter, reminding players of the game's premise: "two street-tough high-schoolers who must fight their way through the six regions of River City to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends." Pre-or
  
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• Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel

  16-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  To the extent that I care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump’s tweeted demands and that blocking Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel handed them a short-term propaganda victory. But that’s not the most important part of the story.The most important element of the story is the fact that two American
  
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• Halo Infinite Will Have "AAA Player Investment Experience" That Includes Microtransactions

  16-08-2019 23:04 via gamespot.com
  
  A newly posted job ad at Halo Infinite developer 343 Industries provides a clue into what to expect from the Xbox One and PC shooter as it relates to the "live" nature of the game.Microsoft is hiring a "Live Design Lead" who will come up with strategies to keep people engaged with Halo Infinite for a long time after release. This includes all manner of things, from in- and out-of-game progression, social media engagement, and seemingly through some kind of microtransaction strategy. One line in
  
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• Astral Chain's Silent Protagonist Feels Really Strange

  16-08-2019 23:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Given the pedigree of Platinum Games, there's reason to believe the Nintendo Switch exclusive Astral Chain could be the next breakout game in the stylish hard-action genre. It's directed by Takahisa Taura, who was a lead designer on Nier: Automata, and supervised by Hideki Kamiya, who brought us Bayonetta and the original Devil May Cry. But what those games had, in addition to gratifying and refined combat systems, was a star character with a unique voice who brought their stories to life.You ma
  
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• Florida man uses front-end loader to dump dirt on car his girlfriend drove, cops say

  16-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Beware boyfriends in front-end loaders.
  
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• DNA leads to arrest in another Florida rape case from 1980s

  16-08-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  For the second time in a year, authorities in a south Florida community have used DNA evidence to identify and arrest a suspect in a decades-old rape case.Timothy Norris, 60, is charged in the knifepoint rape of a Florida woman at her home in 1983, Coral Springs police spokesman Tyler Reik said Friday.Authorities found Norris serving time for bank robbery at a West Virginia federal prison, Reik said.
  
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• Crisis On Infinite Earths: Everything We Know About The Arrow-Verse Crossover

  16-08-2019 22:51 via gamespot.com
  
  How did we get here?
  It's the most significant crossover the Arrow-verse has tried to pull off yet. Crisis on Infinite Earths is such a massive moment for The CW's DC Entertainment shows that it was first announced a year ago during 2018's Elseworlds crossover. What's more, it's impending arrival was teased throughout the most recent seasons of Arrow, Supergirl, and The Flash.Crisis will include the most TV episodes of an Arrow-verse crossover yet, and manage to integrate six different shows, al
  
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• Pokemon Sword And Shield Take Online Battling More Seriously Than Past Games

  16-08-2019 22:43 via gamespot.com
  
  The Pokemon Company dropped a new trailer for Sword and Shield ahead of this weekend's Pokemon World Championships. Fittingly given the occasion, the video focuses primarily on new battle mechanics that are being introduced, and now the official Pokemon website has shared more details about how online battling will work in the titles.Like previous Pokemon games, Sword and Shield will give players the ability to connect online and battle other trainers around the world via the Battle Stadium. Thi
  
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• Pokemon Sword & Shield Take Online Battling More Seriously Than Past Games

  16-08-2019 22:43 via gamespot.com
  
  The Pokemon Company dropped a new trailer for Sword and Shield ahead of this weekend's Pokemon World Championships. Fittingly given the occasion, the video focuses primarily on new battle mechanics that are being introduced, and now the official Pokemon website has shared more details about how online battling will work in the titles.Like previous Pokemon games, Sword and Shield will give players the ability to connect online and battle other trainers around the world via the Battle Stadium. Thi
  
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• GPS monitoring violates some sex offenders’ rights, NC Supreme Court rules

  16-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Sex offenders have rights, too, and in some cases the state has been violating those rights, the NC Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
  
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• Family, friends bid goodbye to slain corrections employee

  16-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of family and friends gathered Friday in a Tennessee church to bid goodbye to a beloved correctional administrator killed last week, allegedly by an escaped inmate who sparked a four-day manhunt.The 64-year-old Debra Johnson was remembered for being a devout Christian, with loved ones noting her willingness to greet church congregants with a big smile and even bigger hug.
  
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• Super Mario Bros. Movie Deleted Scene Shows Brothers Facing Greatest Nemesis: Other Plumbers

  16-08-2019 22:31 via gamespot.com
  
  The 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie is a classically infamous example of video game movies gone wrong, but it still has a place as a historical curiosity. The Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive has been documenting this oddity and happened to recently discover an extended cut of the film, complete with extra footage. The fan site recently uploaded the first of these hidden treasures to YouTube.The scene takes place before Mario and Luigi go on their wild journey into Dinohattan, while the two are
  
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• Report: Halo Infinite Creative Director Leaves 343 Studios

  16-08-2019 22:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Former Halo Infinite creative director Tim Longo has left 343 Industries. Longo previously worked at the creative director for Halo 5: Guardians.According to Kotaku, Longo was a part of a 343 Studios leadership shakeup, having previously been moved out of the creative director role to another position a few weeks ago. Following this change in position, Longo left 343 Studios voluntarily.We've reached out to 343 Studios for further comment and will update this story as it develops.
  
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• Halo Infinite Creative Director Leaves 343 Studios

  16-08-2019 22:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Former Halo Infinite creative director Tim Longo has left 343 Industries. Longo previously worked as the creative director for Halo 5: Guardians.As first reported by Kotaku, Longo was a part of a 343 Studios leadership shakeup, having previously been moved out of the creative director role to another position a few weeks ago. Following this change in position, Longo left 343 Studios voluntarily.In a statement, Microsoft wrote that "creative vision and production of the game remains led by [Halo
  
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• Halo Infinite Creative Director Leaves 343 Industries

  16-08-2019 22:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Tim Longo, the creative director for Halo Infinite, has left 343 Industries. Longo previously worked as the creative director for Halo 5: Guardians.As first reported by Kotaku, Longo was a part of a 343 Industries leadership shakeup, having previously been moved out of the creative director role to another position a few weeks ago. Following this change in position, Longo left 343 Industries voluntarily.In a statement, Microsoft wrote, "Roles and responsibilities of various team members regularl
  
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• Mexico does not want El Paso shooter executed

  16-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that Mexico does not want the El Paso shooter who killed 22 people, including eight Mexicans, to be executed, and may seek to extradite him from the United States.The confessed shooter in the mass killing in the Texas border city, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, potentially faces the death penalty in the US.Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment leftist, said that while Mexico condemns Crusius's "reprehensible, abominable" crimes, it does not want to
  
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• Frustrated Philadelphia mayor calls for gun control. Here's why it hasn't happened in his city.

  16-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Following a standoff between police and an armed gunman, Philadelphia's mayor calls on legislators to let the city pass its own gun laws.
  
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• She wanted a late-night hookup, but he fell asleep. So she burned his house down, police say

  16-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Police accuse Taija Russell, 29, of sending a series of angry texts, then buying lighter fluid, matches and a lighter at a nearby gas station.
  
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• Cliff Bleszinski Clarifies Comments About Making A New Game, Which Is Not Battle Royale

  16-08-2019 22:03 via gamespot.com
  
  Cliff Bleszinski tweeted recently that he had an idea for a new video game, and naturally this led to a lot of speculation and intrigue about what the Gears of War creator might do next, especially after he initially said he would probably never make another game.Bleszinski has now clarified his comments, saying his new game would be "small" and developed "remotely." It sounds like it would be very different from the productions he's worked on in the past, including Gears of War and LawBreakers,
  
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• Obama told Biden advisers not to let the former Veep ‘damage his legacy’ in his 2020 presidential run

  16-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Obama is reportedly concerned that Biden is relying on advisers who are "too old and out of touch with the current political climate,"
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein’s Body Claimed by His Brother

  16-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeenah Moon/ReutersJeffrey Esptein’s body was claimed from the New York City medical examiner’s office by his brother Mark Epstein, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast on Friday.The exclusive details come as Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson is preparing to issue a report on Epstein’s autopsy and a final ruling on his cause of death. Officials have previously said Epstein’s death is being investigated as a suicide.Epstein, 66, was fou
  
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• How WWE's "Fiend" Bray Wyatt Got His Horrifying New Mask And Lantern

  16-08-2019 21:34 via gamespot.com
  
  For the last four months, WWE Superstar Bray Wyatt teased his return with a series of "Firefly Funhouse" vignettes, in which he plays a creepy Mr. Rogers-esque kid's show host.As these segments continued, week after week, they got increasingly unsettling and began featuring a monstrous persona known as "The Fiend." The buildup finally culminated in a legend-making entrance and match at Summerslam, where "The Fiend" took on and destroyed Finn Balor. Wyatt was a ball of energy, but most striking w
  
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• Taliban chief's brother killed in Pakistan blast: militant sources

  16-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Afghan Taliban leader's brother was among four people killed in a blast at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan Friday, insurgent sources and a Pakistani official told AFP.The Taliban have not officially commented, but an unofficial statement circulating among Taliban fighters on WhatsApp and seen by AFP confirmed the claim.The blast comes at a delicate moment as a deal between the insurgents and Washington to end America's war in Afghanistan is believed to be imminent.
  
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• Democratic pollster divulges details to jurors about Greg Craig's Ukraine work

  16-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  As the pollster and consultant entered the witness box, he seemed to give a nod in Craig’s direction.
  
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• Why Nora's family may never know the truth behind her mysterious death

  16-08-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Nora Quoirin’s parents did not have to say that their hearts were broken over her terrible death in an unforgiving Malaysian jungle. For days the horror of losing their eldest child in mystifying circumstances in a country far from home had been etched on their agonised faces. The discovery of the 15-year-old’s body on Tuesday brought a final, painful end to the question of what had happened to the young girl nine days after she disappeared from her Franco-Irish family’s holida
  
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• Mexico to deport U.S. citizen suspected of supporting 'violent jihad'

  16-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting militant Islamists in an example of Mexico's security cooperation with the United States even as the two neighbors grapple with sharp disagreements over trade and migration.The unidentified American man sought by Interpol was under investigation for supporting terrorist groups and will be deported to the United States later on Friday, the Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement.The man was detained at a migrants o
  
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• Tlaib declines to visit West Bank, citing Israeli conditions

  16-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, despite being granted an Israeli permit on humanitarian grounds, saying Israel's "oppressive" conditions aimed to humiliate her.Israel barred Tlaib and another Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, from visiting Jerusalem and the West Bank over their support for the international boycott movement following an unprecedented appeal from President Donald Trump to deny them entry.Israel had said Tlaib could
  
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• Inside The Taco Bell Hotel & Resort

  16-08-2019 21:16 via gamespot.com
  
  Check out our first look and tour of The Bell - the official Taco Bell Hotel & Resort in Palm Springs, California!
  
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• Israel intercepts Gaza rocket after weeks of calm

  16-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at southern Israel on Friday night in what the army said was the first such attack in over a month.A military statement said the projectile was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, after air raid sirens sounded in the southern town of Sderot and its surroundings.Earlier, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that 32 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli live fire along the Gaza border fence as part of weekly protests ther
  
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• Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Coming To PC and PS4

  16-08-2019 21:11 via gamespot.com
  
  Though it has been more than half a year since Travis Touchdown returned in the Nintendo Switch exclusive Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Travis strikes once again on PC and PlayStation 4 this fall. Publishers Marvelous Inc. and Xseed Games have announced that the hack-n-slash spinoff will receive a digital Complete Edition on October 17.Pre-ordering Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Complete Edition on the PlayStation Store or Steam, which retails for $40 USD / $59 AUD / £33 GBP,
  
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• Zimbabwe police beat protesters defying regime 'worse than Mugabe'

  16-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police in Zimbabwe on Friday fired teargas and beat demonstrators who defied a protest ban, as the opposition accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of surpassing Robert Mugabe's regime in brutality.Scores of people gathered in a square in the capital Harare to demonstrate against the country's worsening economy, despite massive police deployment and a ban upheld by a court the same morning.Police cornered one group of protesters and beat them with batons, an AFP reporter saw.
  
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• 3-year-old girl alone on Texas boat told rescuer ‘daddy went swimming,’ deputies say

  16-08-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas authorities are searching for a missing father after a little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday.
  
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• Republicans still waiting on Pompeo in Kansas Senate race

  16-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Even though U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has declared a Senate run to be "off the table" next year, many fellow Republicans in Washington and his home state of Kansas aren't buying it.Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is among the GOP senators encouraging the former congressman to rethink a run for Kansas' open Senate seat.A top Senate Republican strategist who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person isn't authorized to discuss the situation said McConnell
  
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• 3-year-old girl found alone in boat, man’s body discovered nearby, Texas cops say

  16-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas authorities found a man’s body after searching for a missing father whose little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday.
  
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• 3-year-old girl alone on Texas boat said ‘daddy went swimming;’ man’s body found

  16-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas authorities found a man’s body after searching for a missing father whose little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday.
  
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• American Airlines reviewing rare mix-up of Charlotte passenger boarding wrong plane

  16-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A flight from Charlotte to Asheville was delayed for almost an hour and a half Wednesday after a man boarded the wrong plane, an American Airlines spokeswoman said Friday.
  
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• A Wisconsin college student was arrested after tearing up a classmate's swastika sign

  16-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee junior Grae Hosmanek was participating in an event organized by Students Supporting Israel when she was arrested.
  
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• Gamescom Opening Night Live Conference Start Time; Watch Here

  16-08-2019 20:50 via gamespot.com
  
  Gamescom is one of the biggest video game conventions in the world, and it's almost here. Microsoft, Google, and Nintendo will all be presenting with their own livestreams chock full of game announcements and reveals. This year, though, the event itself has a formal kickoff ceremony hosted by Geoff Keighley.Gamescom: Opening Night Live will take place the evening of Monday, August 19 in Cologne, Germany. It promises announcements from major publishers and indies, new trailers, and surprise guest
  
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• Shooting near Alabama campus kills 2, injures 3

  16-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A shooting on the edge of an Alabama college campus killed a student and another man and wounded three others. Gunfire broke out Thursday night near Alabama State University in Montgomery. President Quinton T. Ross told a news conference Friday the shooting occurred at a business near the school.
  
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• Facial recognition scanners are already at some US airports. Here's what to know

  16-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The next time you go to the airport, you might notice something different during the security process: A machine scanning your face.
  
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• The Latest: Omar disputes Netanyahu's claims about itinerary

  16-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota disputes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that she and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan didn't ask to meet with Israeli government or opposition officials before he barred them from visiting Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank next week.Omar tweeted Friday they planned to meet with Jewish and Arab members of the Israeli parliament plus other Israeli officials.
  
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• Kidnapping Victim Elizabeth Smart's Father Comes Out as Gay

  16-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of the Utah kidnapping survivor says his decision brings challenges but also "huge relief."
  
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• Hezbollah shows 'missile arsenal' used against Israeli warship

  16-08-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah released footage of what it says are anti-ship missiles of the kind it used 13 years ago against Israel before marking on Friday its self-declared "victory" in the 2006 war.Israel has fought several conflicts against the Iran-backed Hezbollah, the last in 2006.More than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, the majority soldiers, died during the last conflict but many in Israel consider the war a failure as Hezbollah was not defeated.
  
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