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• Cannibal trial: Man accused of raping, murdering and eating parts of ex-girlfriend's body granted mistrial

  23-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The trial of a man accused of raping, murdering and eating parts of his ex-girlfriend's body has ended in a mistrial.Joseph Oberhansley, 38, is facing life in prison without parole on charges of murder, rape and burglary after prosecutors say he stalked, raped, and killed 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton before eating parts of her body in 2014.
  
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• Man Who Stopped to 'Assist' Woman Having Car Trouble Accused of Sexually Assaulting Her

  23-08-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Monroe County, Indiana are working to identify a suspect in a rape case.
  
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• Chinese embassy says the US is trying to suppress Huawei

  23-08-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  An embassy statement to The Associated Press said the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities is "of course different" from China's detentions of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor."The Meng Wanzhou incident is not just a judicial case, but the U.S. using state power to work with its certain ally to suppress a private high-tech Chinese enterprise on unwarranted charges.
  
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• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for malignant tumor on pancreas

  23-08-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a three-week radiation course after a "localized malignant tumor" was found on her pancreas.
  
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• The Latest: Harris gets warm welcome at California meeting

  23-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  California Sen. Kamala Harris is getting a rousing hometown welcome at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting in San Francisco.Harris is looking to California as a potentially key part of her path to the Democratic presidential nomination.With scores of supporters in the gallery Friday, Harris harkened back to her first political race for district attorney.
  
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• Encouraged by Johnson's visit, UK officials now hoping rest of EU agrees to work on Brexit solution

  23-08-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain is hoping the rest of the European Union falls in behind France and Germany and agrees to work on solving a deadlock over Brexit, with officials sensing a glimmer of hope after meetings this week, but conscious of the need for a wider consensus in Europe.Britain is on course to leave the EU, its biggest trading partner, on Oct. 31 without any formal deal to soften the unprecedented divorce, unless both sides agree to reopen stalled talks and find a way to resolve their differences.This w
  
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• Another Game Of Thrones Actor Reportedly Joining The MCU

  23-08-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The MCU just can't seem to stop collecting replacement Starks. First, Richard Madden signed up as Ikaris, a member of the upcoming Phase 4 movie The Eternals, as confirmed during Marvel Studios' massive San Diego Comic-Con panel this year. Now, as D23 Expo gets rolling, yet another alumni has reportedly been added to the mix--Kit Harington is turning his sword and dire wolf in for spandex, according to Deadline.Which project Harington is reportedly joining is a mystery, but if it's going to happ
  
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• Another Game Of Thrones Actor Is Joining The MCU

  23-08-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  The MCU just can't seem to stop collecting replacement Starks. First, Richard Madden signed up as Ikaris, a member of the upcoming Phase 4 movie The Eternals, as confirmed during Marvel Studios' massive San Diego Comic-Con panel this year. Now, as D23 Expo gets rolling, yet another alumni has reportedly been added to the mix--Kit Harington is turning his sword and dire wolf in for spandex, according to Deadline.Which project Harington is reportedly joining is a mystery, but if it's going to happ
  
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• The Overstock CEO Resigned Claiming 'Deep State' Conspiracy and a Relationship With a Russian Spy. Here's What to Know

  23-08-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Patrick Byrne issued a bizarre statement through Overstock criticizing the FBI, referring to a “deep state” conspiracy. Here's what to know about the incident.
  
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• Lawsuit: Ex-Citadel staffer drugged, sexually abused cadet

  23-08-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A student at The Citadel sued an ex-instructor who he says agreed not to discipline him in exchange for sex.Former Citadel Lt. Col. Kenneth Boes was charged last year with sexually assaulting the cadet, but prosecutors dropped those charges for reasons that aren't explained in online court records.Boes' lawyer on Friday described the cadet as a false victim and violent young man who wants to make a quick buck at the expense of a man with an impeccable reputation.
  
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• Six EU nations agree to take 356 Ocean Viking migrants

  23-08-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Six EU countries Friday agreed to take in 356 migrants stranded on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean after a two-week standoff again exposed the failure of European leaders to deal quickly with desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa.The Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking, run by charities MSF and SOS Mediterranee, had been seeking a port after rescuing four boats of migrants off the Libyan coast between August 9 and 12.The migrants screamed with joy as the news broke, the adults sw
  
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• Hotline for detained migrants featured on Orange is the New Black shut down

  23-08-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Hotline shut down by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement connected detained migrants to an advocacy groupFounded in 2013, the hotline connected migrants with advocates at Freedom for Immigrants, which also consulted for the Netflix production and was named in the show. Photograph: Handout/Getty ImagesUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has shut down a national hotline that connected detained migrants to an advocacy group, a month after the hotline was featured in a storyline in the h
  
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• Ms. Marvel Show Reportedly In The Works For Disney+

  23-08-2019 22:57 via gamespot.com
  
  One of Marvel's most recent hit characters is reportedly getting her own show on Disney's upcoming streaming service. Ms. Marvel aka Kamala Khan, the company's first Muslim superhero, is said to be in the works with British writer Bisha K. Ali attached as writer and showrunner.THR reports that the announcement will be made at Disney's D23 presentation. Though the name "Ms. Marvel" has belonged to various heroes since the 1970s, Kamala Khan was introduced in 2013. The Pakistani American character
  
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• Ms. Marvel Show In The Works For Disney+, She Will Join MCU Movies Too

  23-08-2019 22:57 via gamespot.com
  
  One of Marvel's most recent hit characters is reportedly getting her own show on Disney's upcoming streaming service. Ms. Marvel aka Kamala Khan, the company's first Muslim superhero, is in the works. THR reports that British writer Bisha K. Ali attached as writer and showrunner.The announcement was made at Disney's D23 presentation, when Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said that viewers will be introduced to Kamala through the TV show, but then see her in the MCU movies. This is the first confi
  
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• 21 Democratic presidential candidates left in the 2020 race

  23-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Voters at the Democratic National Convention summer meeting in San Francisco guess which candidates are still in the 2020 presidential race.
  
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• A youth sports organization is raffling off a semi-automatic weapon to help its cheerleading and football teams

  23-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  As a result of the controversy, the president of the organization said he is considering doing away with the rifle raffle for future fundraisers.
  
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• FIFA 20 - Volta Mode Manchester United Vs Tottenham Spurs Gameplay | Gamescom 2019

  23-08-2019 22:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Watch a full match of the new Volta Mode in FIFA 20 with Manchester United vs Tottenham Spurs from Gamescom 2019.
  
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• FIFA 20 - Volta Mode Manchester United Vs Tottenham Hotspurs Gameplay | Gamescom 2019

  23-08-2019 22:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Watch a full match of the new Volta Mode in FIFA 20 with Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspurs from Gamescom 2019.
  
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• Activists Protest DNC Snub of Climate Debate: Campaign Update

  23-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A progressive climate group that is behind the Green New Deal held a large protest inside the hotel hosting the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Friday in response to the party’s rejection of a debate focused on climate change.Lining the halls of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square hotel, protesters loudly cheered and sang as delegates and staff walked by. On Thursday, the DNC’s resolutions committee rejected a proposal to let candidates appear si
  
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• Pelosi’s Go-Slow Impeachment Strategy Is Tested in Fight Over Trump’s Bank Records

  23-08-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s lawyers were in a New York courtroom Friday trying to block Democrats’ access to financial records from Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp. -- and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has much at stake over the outcome.The president has been in a fight to keep his financial information private, especially since Democrats won control of the House in November. His lawyers went before a three-judge federal appeals court panel seeking to overturn a ruling
  
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• An innocent man spent months in jail after customs officials thought honey he brought back from Jamaica was liquid meth

  23-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Leon Haughton told The Washington Post he was jailed for 82 days after customs officials in Baltimore alleged that the three jars of honey were meth.
  
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• Destiny 2's PS4-Exclusive Gun Is Finally Available To All, Thanks To Cross-Save (Sort Of)

  23-08-2019 22:39 via gamespot.com
  
  Destiny 2's newly implemented cross-save feature went live this week, and it's quite wonderful. Provided you own the necessary content on each platform, it allows you to take your Guardians from PS4 to Xbox One to PC, letting you enjoy the benefits of PC or play with friends on another platform. But it has an additional perk for those who have previously invested in the Xbox One or PC versions: the ability to get a new, PS4-exclusive Exotic weapon, Wavesplitter.As is customary on Fridays, Xur ha
  
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• US school spends $48 million on curved corridors and hiding places to foil mass shooters

  23-08-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A school in the United States has spent $48 million redesigning its buildings with curved corridors, hiding places, and cement barriers in a bid to thwart mass shooters. The project at Fruitport High School in Michigan is aimed at reducing casualties in the event of an attack by hampering the sight lines available to a gunman in corridors. Cement barriers are being installed in hallways for pupils and teachers to take cover. Classroom windows looking on to hallways are being covered with impact-
  
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• Woman finds venomous spider in her ear after mistaking it for water

  23-08-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The discomfort in Susie Torres’ left ear felt like the water that can get stuck there after swimming. She heard swooshing when she woke up on Tuesday and assumed it had been caused by an allergy shot.Torres, of Kansas City, Missouri, discovered she was wrong when doctors extracted a dime-sized, venomous brown recluse spider, Fox 4 News reported.
  
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• Trump's threat to dump thousands of ISIS fighters into Europe could end up hurting the US's fiercest ally in Syria

  23-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  "I'll have no choice but to release them," President Donald Trump said Wednesday. This could end up complicating the fight against the Islamic State.
  
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• Serial killer pleads guilty in 4 slayings

  23-08-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who claims he has killed more than 90 women across the country pleaded guilty Friday to murdering four women in Ohio. Samuel Little appeared via Skype from the California state prison where he's serving multiple life sentences. Little is possibly the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, surpassing others such as John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.
  
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• Pokemon Go Water Festival Now Live, And It Adds New Shiny Pokemon

  23-08-2019 22:05 via gamespot.com
  
  A new event is now underway in Pokemon Go. Niantic has brought the Water Festival back for a limited time, giving players around the world a chance to encounter more Water-types and even catch a couple of new Shiny Pokemon.The Water Festival runs from August 23-30. During that time, Water Pokemon like Magikarp, Wooper, and Wailmer will appear in the wild more often than normal. If you happen to be near a body of water, you'll also have a greater chance of encountering the Pokemon listed below.In
  
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• Putin orders Russia to respond after US missile test

  23-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military on Friday to work out a quid pro quo response after the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty.In Sunday's test, a modified ground-launched version of a U.S. Navy Tomahawk cruise missile accurately struck its target more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) away.The test came after Moscow and Washington withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: 15 prison guards subpoenaed after two accused of sleeping on the job

  23-08-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The warden and the head of the US Bureau of Prisons have been reassigned. Two employees accused of sleeping on the job and falsifying records have been placed on administrative leave.Now, roughly 15 employees at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his jail cell have been subpoenaed as the criminal investigation into the events around his suicide intensifies, according to a prison official and a person with knowledge of the matter.
  
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• Marvel Producer "Cautiously Hopeful" Spider-Man Will Remain In MCU

  23-08-2019 21:28 via gamespot.com
  
  In the wake of negotiations that may end Disney and Sony's partnership--and take Spider-Man out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe altogether--at least one Marvel executive producer remains optimistic. Jon Favreau, who directed and produced the original Iron Man and has remained an executive producer through Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, says he's still holding out hope."After all that time, it took 10 years for him to get to a good relationship!" Favreau told ET. "It's still early days. As
  
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• Jussie Smollett case: Dan Webb appointed special prosecutor in 'Empire' actor's case

  23-08-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A former U.S. Attorney has been appointed as a special prosecutor in the Jussie Smollett case.
  
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• Antisemitic beliefs spreading among evangelical Christians in America

  23-08-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  As she cleans up the counter where the teenagers at her church’s Vacation Bible School ate their cookies and yoghurt, Luba Yanko complains about the state of the country. President Donald Trump is trying to act on Christian values, she believes. But from what she reads online, it seems that a certain group keeps getting in the way.Trump, she says, “is surrounded by a Zionist environment with completely different values from Christians. It’s kabbalist. It’s Talmudic values
  
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• David Koch's Millions Remade the Republican Party. He Didn't Like the Results

  23-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  David Koch was the most vilified symbol of the billionaires who have turned 21st century politics their playground. He died at 79.
  
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• These Countries Are the Winners of the China-U.S. Trade War

  23-08-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  On Friday, the contentious China-U.S. trade conflict escalated after Beijing announced it will impose new tariffs on about $75 billion worth of U.S. goods. The announcement from China's Finance Ministry said the new duties on top of existing rates will take effect on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15.The move by China comes a little more than a week after Washington announced plans to impose tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods beginning Dec. 15.The retaliating moves by China and the United States a
  
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• Chinese buyers pull back from U.S. housing market, hurting home sales

  23-08-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese investors are buying fewer U.S. homes because of money controls in China. That's lowering prices and giving U.S. buyers a better chance to buy
  
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• US city council candidate says she wants to keep town 'a white community as much as possible'

  23-08-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A city council candidate in Michigan told an audience that she wanted to keep her city “a white community”.Jean Cramer shocked constituents and politicians in Marysville, Michigan when she gave an overtly racist answer to a question about how the town should attract more foreign-born residents in the Great Lakes area.
  
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• Powell hints the Fed will cut interest rates again as soon as next month

  23-08-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Fed Chairman Jerome Powell hinted the Fed will cut rates again as soon as next month. He cited the US trade war with China and global turbulence
  
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• The Latest: Serial killer pleads guilty to more slayings

  23-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A confessed serial killer just hours after pleading guilty and being sentenced for the slayings of two women in Cincinnati has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for killing two women in Cleveland.From a prison in California, 79-year-old Samuel Little pleaded guilty Friday afternoon via Skype to two counts of aggravated murder for killing 21-year-old Mary Jo Peyton in 1984 and 32-year-old Rose Evans in 1991.Cuyahoga County Judge John Russo sentenced Little in Cleveland to a minimum of 40 years in
  
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• Syria regime forces surround Turkish army post: monitor

  23-08-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian government forces surrounded a Turkish observation post in the northwest Friday after overrunning nearby areas, a war monitor said, while Ankara vowed not to withdraw from its position."Regime forces have surrounded the Turkish observation post in Morek after capturing other towns and villages in this pocket," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The Syrian regime has upped the stakes with Ankara in its months-long Russian-backed offensive against the jihadist-ruled Idlib region,
  
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• Rep. Jerry Nadler slams 'growing anti-Semitism,' condemns cartoon shared by Omar and Tlaib

  23-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Zach Friend and David Bahnsen weigh in on controversial comments made by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ilhan Omar and President Trump.
  
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• Who are the Koch brothers and how did David Koch help shape conservatism in America?

  23-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The Koch brothers built a massive political empire that has influenced conservative politics for decades.
  
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• Printer who nixed gay pride shirt goes to Ky. Supreme Court

  23-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kentucky print shop owner who refused to make a gay pride T-shirt argued before the Kentucky Supreme Court that he shouldn't be compelled to promote messages that go against his religious beliefs.Blaine Adamson, owner of Hands-On Originals in Lexington, declined a T-shirt order from Lexington's Gay and Lesbian Services Organization for the city's 2012 Gay Pride Festival.The design had the text "Lexington Pride Festival" wrapped around the number five, celebrating the event's fifth year.
  
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• Trump's economic anxiety comes to a boil

  23-08-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The president directs U.S. businesses to pull out of China, but maintains that the "economy is doing really well."
  
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• Florida will be target of tropical depression expected to form off Southeast coast this weekend

  23-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A tropical disturbance that formed Wednesday near the Bahamas continues to spin toward Florida.
  
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• U.S. Justice Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer

  23-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed a three-week course of radiation therapy to treat a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, a court spokeswoman said on Friday.The 86-year old justice, who has had previous cancer scares, tolerated the therapy well and no further treatment is required, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement.An abnormality was first detected in July, and the tumor was identified following a biopsy performed on July 31 at Memorial Sloan Kettering
  
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• After Beating and Hernia, American Prisoner Paul Whelan Refused Hospitalization by FSB Doctors

  23-08-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEVMOSCOW–Paul Whelan, a U.S. citizen held in Russia on suspicion of spying, looked pale and sick when his prison guards brought him to Lefortovo court on Friday. He said he had been beaten and is suffering from a hernia, but his condition is hardly a surprise after eight months in Moscow’s Lefortovo, a prison run but the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB, and it looks like Whelan has learned only too well how incarceration there operates.Whelan is facing 20 y
  
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• Qantas to test 'ultra long-haul' Sydney to NY, London flights

  23-08-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Qantas on Thursday said it will run "ultra long-haul" test flights in the coming months from New York and London to Sydney in order to assess the health of pilots and passengers, as it eyes commercial services on the marathon routes.Qantas last year introduced the first direct service from the western Australian city of Perth to London, with the 17-hour journey one of the longest passenger flights in the world."Flying non-stop from the East Coast of Australia to London and New York is truly the
  
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• Counting the Costs of Gavin Newsom’s Abortion Pledge

  23-08-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A controversial bill in California has not been the easy win that Governor Gavin Newsom expected. During his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, he pledged to sign into law, the first such in the nation, a bill that would require all 34 of California’s public-university health centers to distribute the RU-486 chemical-abortion pills to students, effectively making all the state’s university health centers into on-campus abortion vendors. The bill’s sponsor has indicated that the goal
  
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• Man flees police on mobility scooter in low-speed chase as onlookers cheer 'Go old man!'

  23-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The video shows Charlie Durham, a double amputee, speeding on his scooter as a police officer attempted to pull him over in New Zealand.
  
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• Dem. Senator: Trump Is ‘Serious’ about Bipartisan Background-Check Legislation

  23-08-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) said Friday that he believes President Trump may still try to get Republicans on board with legislative efforts to tighten background checks for gun purchasers, although he admitted he is still unsure of how hard Trump is willing to push.“The president and the White House have been clear that they are willing to support background-checks legislation that might not today be popular in the Republican party,” Murphy told reporters. “
  
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