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• Man charged in 31-year-old cold case murder. Police suspect he may have killed others

  08-09-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawrence Gene 'Larry' Timmons was charged Friday with the 1988 slaying of a 31-year-old Missouri woman. Other cold cases now being looked at.
  
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• Florida man, 82, called 'Holiday Bandit' arrested in burglaries of luxury NYC apartments

  08-09-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  An 82-year-old from Florida was charged with 11 counts of burglary following a decade-long crime spree that reportedly netted $400K worth of items, police say.
  
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• NEWSMAKER-New Saudi energy minister: a royal with decades of experience in OPEC cuts

  08-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  When former Saudi oil minister Ali al Naimi crushed oil prices in 2014 by adding to global oversupply, one man in the kingdom stood firmly against this strategy.Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, King Salman's son and a veteran oil official, who on Sunday was named as new Saudi energy minister, is known in the industry for decades of work helping to foster OPEC production cuts.As he takes the reins at the world's largest oil exporter from Khaled al-Falih, Prince Abdulaziz faces intensifying demands fr
  
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• Mass protest in Santiago against abuses of Pinochet era

  08-09-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Santiago on Sunday to honor the victims of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, in a march that started peacefully but ended in violence.Although it has been 46 years since the military coup that brought Pinochet to power, his memory still divides Chileans.The protest began in central Santiago, with many demonstrators carrying red carnations and holding photos of loved ones who were killed or disappeared during the Pinochet years.
  
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• GOP will stop shooting survivor Gabby Giffords' husband, 'dead in his tracks,' official says

  08-09-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Kelly, Arizona Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who survived a mass shooting near Tucson.
  
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• Trump shares bizarre cat meme about his altered hurricane map

  08-09-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump prolonged a weeklong controversy over Hurricane Dorian, sharing cat video late Saturday night that mocked coverage of his incorrect claims about the storm’s path.
  
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• The Latest: Dorian death toll rises to 44 in Bahamas

  08-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen by one to 44.Officials have warned that the number of deaths is likely to rise as security forces and other teams search devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.The government also announced a telephone hotline where Bahamians can call to report family members who have been unaccounted for since the storm.
  
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• 500,000 lose power as unrelenting Dorian marches into Canada

  08-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm made landfall for at least the fifth time on Saturday in Nova Scotia, the latest as a post-tropical cyclone still hurling 100 mph winds.
  
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• Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shook Chicago

  08-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a message to his father.
  
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• A disgruntled mechanic has been charged with sabotaging an American Airlines flight

  08-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  All of us have had a beef with the boss or disagreements and other assorted unpleasantness at work from time to time, which is the nature of being at the mercy of someone who's in charge of your productivity, never mind whether that intersects with your happiness.But it's probably fair to assume that most people don't act on those feelings and certainly don't take it out on innocent people. Which is, unfortunately, exactly what happened recently when a disgruntled American Airlines mechanic was
  
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• 'They hold our nation hostage and pay lip service to peace': Afghans respond to the collapse of US-Taliban talks

  08-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Afghans awoke on Sunday to find that months of negotiations that had electrified the country had been ended with a tweet. Over the course of three messages, the United States president halted talks between America and the Taliban after more than a year of meetings in the Gulf. Those talks, which had excluded the Afghan government, had been pored over and analysed for months by those at their mercy, but without a say. “The game is not played by Afghans,” said Ahmad Eqbal, 25-year-old
  
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• UPDATE 1-Former Hezbollah official found dead in Beirut flat

  08-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday.Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine the cause of death, National News Agency said, giving only the initials of the man.A Hezbollah official who requested anonymity confirmed the death of Ali Hatoum and told Reuters an investigation was under w
  
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• Poland's foreign ministry condemns attack on Israeli students

  08-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned violence against a group of Israeli students beaten at a Warsaw nightclub early on Saturday, following criticism that Polish leaders are not doing enough to denounce antisemitism.Earlier this year, the World Jewish Congress condemned the burning of an effigy of Judas in the Polish town of Pruchnik and hundreds of far-right supporters marching in Warsaw against a U.S. law on restitution of Jewish property seized during or after World War Two.Poland wa
  
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• A Muslim man told a Starbucks barista his name was 'Aziz.' The employee wrote 'ISIS' on his cup

  08-09-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Muslim man said his name is "Aziz." A Starbucks barista wrote "ISIS." Was it a mistake or discrimination?
  
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• Flammable lithium batteries may have sparked deadly Santa Barbara boat fire, diver says

  08-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  As the investigation continues into what caused the Santa Barbara boat fire, a former passenger of the Conception wonders whether lithium batteries may have sparked the blaze.
  
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• Forecasters monitoring several areas for tropical activity in the Atlantic this week

  08-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Behind Dorian, AccuWeather meteorologists are keeping a close eye on a few areas of disturbed weather in the Atlantic basin this week.One area of disturbed weather is a tropical wave that pushed off the western shores of Africa last week. As of Sunday morning, it was located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands.While the showers and thunderstorms associated with this wave were looking disorganized on Sunday, there is a 40% chance that this system gradually strengthens while track
  
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• Defamation suit over Haiti sex abuse claim settled

  08-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A defamation lawsuit against an activist who accused an orphanage founder in Haiti of being a serial pedophile has been settled, ending a lawsuit that has dragged on for six years, an attorney said.Paul Kendrick's insurance companies agreed to pay $3 million to Hearts With Haiti, but nothing to orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld, attorney Mark Randall, who represents Kendrick, told The Associated Press.Hearts With Haiti and Geilenfeld dropped their defamation claims, he said.
  
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• More than 2,000 attend Sarajevo's first Gay Pride march

  08-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  More than two thousand people turned out in Sarajevo Sunday for the city's first Gay Pride march to protest hate crimes suffered by the LGBT community in Bosnia.More than 1,100 officers, including riot police, sealed off the route of the march through the city centre to protect participants from a counter protest by about 150 people.Activist Lejla Huremovic celebrated the fact that members of the LGBT community had been able to make themselves more visible.
  
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• Zimbabwe announces Mugabe funeral amid row over burial site

  08-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe’s government has announced a date for Robert Mugabe’s funeral amid a row over where the former president will be buried.  A government memo declared the funeral will be at Harare National Sports stadium on Saturday, September 14th but gave no location for the burial to follow the next day.  Members of Mr Mugabe’s family are battling with the ruling Zanu PF party over its plan to bury Zimbabwe’s liberator-turned-despot in a cemetery for heroes of the lib
  
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• Former Hezbollah official found dead in Beirut flat -Lebanese state news agency

  08-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday.Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine the cause of death, National News Agency said, giving only the initials of the man.Hezbollah and the Israeli army exchanged cross-border fire last Sunday after a drone attack in a Hezbollah-controlled Beirut
  
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• Beekeepers are suing Trump administration over decision to allow wider use of insecticides

  08-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Beekeepers are suing the Trump administration over its decision to allow the wider use of an insecticide linked to the deaths of entire honeybee colonies.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed restrictions on sulfoxaflor in July and approved a host of new uses for the chemical.
  
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• Macron, Putin discussed Ukraine, Iran by phone

  08-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Sunday ahead of a meeting of the joint Franco-Russian Council on security issues scheduled for Monday in Moscow, the French presidency said in a statement.
  
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• British Airways tells passengers not turn up at airports, as airline's biggest ever strike begins

  08-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  British Airways has told its passengers not to turn up at airports as the biggest strike action in the airline’s 100 year history begins today. More than 1,500 flights have been cancelled as the company was accused of bullying its own staff by union bosses, who warned they could continue the action until the end of the year. Some 280,000 people will be affected by the strike which is set to continue tomorrow, costing BA £80m in lost revenue. BA and The British Airline Pilots’ A
  
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• Cruise lines contribute as survivors mull next steps

  08-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Survivors of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas say that they don't know how long it will take for Freeport, Great Abaco and other areas to recover from the Category 5 storm.Patrik Dahlgren, the senior vice president for global marine operations with Celebrity Cruises, says the cruise line is using all of the resources at its disposal to deliver relief supplies to Freeport, including 10,000 meals.By Sunday, a week after one of the strongest Caribbean hurricanes on record plowed into the archipelago
  
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• Warren Gains on Biden in Perceived Electability in CBS Poll

  08-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren is gaining both in probable Democratic convention delegates and in perceived electability, a CBS News/YouGov tracker poll showed on Sunday, even as former Vice President Joe Biden leads in an estimate of likely delegates from early-voting states.Among those considering supporting the Massachusetts senator, the percentage who think she would probably beat President Donald Trump in 2020 has jumped 16 percentage points since June, to 55% from 39%. That cuts into Bide
  
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• Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shocked Chicago

  08-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  It stands as one of Chicago's most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and killed there. Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a me
  
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• Dorian still slamming eastern Canada at hurricane force

  08-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees.There were no reported deaths in Canada, though the storm was blamed for at least 49 elsewhere along its path.
  
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• Donald Trump Tweets Bizarre Cat Meme About Doctored Hurricane Dorian Map

  08-09-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Tweets Cat Video About Hurricane Dorian
  
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• Billionaire Tom Steyer clears hurdle to join U.S. Democratic debate in October

  08-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The 62-year-old former hedge fund manager from San Francisco, who is not well-known beyond political circles, will be one of 11 candidates who has met the Democratic National Committee's minimum requirements to participate in the Ohio debate on Oct. 15-16."It’s now more clear than ever that Tom’s message is resonating with Americans across the country — that it is time to break the corporate stranglehold on Washington and bring democracy back to the American people,” Stey
  
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• University of Tennessee turns bullied kid's homemade shirt into their newest merch

  08-09-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The college football season got a wonderful, heart-warming story to start the season when a student who was bullied for his homemade t-shirt got to see his favorite team make the shirt part of their official merch. Laura Snyder, an elementary school teacher in Florida, shared on Facebook the story of one of her students who wore a homemade shirt to support the University of Tennessee's football team for the school's college colors day.The student was excited to wear a bright orange shirt (t
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch decries lack of access to justice for many Americans

  08-09-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The nation's youngest Supreme Court justice, in a new book and USA TODAY interview, warns of problems in the justice system and a crisis in civility.
  
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• Saudi king tightens grip with promotion of another son

  08-09-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi King Salman on Sunday promoted one of his sons to the pivotal role of energy minister, strengthening his family's grip on the levers of power from oil to finance and defence.The appointment of Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as the new energy minister mirrors the ascent of his half-brother Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler.Prince Khalid bin Salman, their younger brother, is effectively in charge of the defence ministry.
  
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• Female prisoner who asked for help says she was 'beaten so badly' she was paralyzed

  08-09-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A female inmate in a Florida prison who said she was beaten by four guards has sued the state’s corrections agency. Cheryl Weimar said the alleged beating left her paralyzed, ane with with “serious and life-threatening injuries, including a broken neck,” in a complaint filed in district court on Tuesday.
  
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• Thousands of lightning strikes hit Washington State, triggering delays, power outages

  08-09-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of Washington was rattled by an estimated 2,200 lightning strikes during a thunderstorm that triggered widespread power outages Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.Most of the strikes were recorded in the western area of the state; 200 of those were recorded in the Seattle metro area from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. PDT. According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Renee Duff, the thunderstorms erupted in western Washington as a strong push of cool air from the Pacific Ocean moved ash
  
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• Thousands of lightning strikes hit Washington state, triggering delays and power outages

  08-09-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of Washington was rattled by an estimated 2,200 lightning strikes during a thunderstorm that triggered widespread power outages Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.Most of the strikes were recorded in the western area of the state; 200 of those were recorded in the Seattle metro area from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. PDT. According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Renee Duff, the thunderstorms erupted in western Washington as a strong push of cool air from the Pacific Ocean moved ash
  
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• GOP senator urges Trump to set guidelines for gun legislation

  08-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president needs to step up here and set some guidelines for what he would do,” Roy Blunt says.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: more than 23 members of Sidney Poitier's family missing

  08-09-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 23 of Sidney Poitier’s family members are feared missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the actor’s nephew as said. Jeffrey Poitier,66, said that they were still waiting for news from the relatives, including his sister Barbara and his adult children in Freeport, Bahamas. The family is one of hundreds desperately scrabbling to locate their loved ones a week after the category 5 hurricane wreaked devastation across the islands.   In some cases entire familie
  
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• The Latest: Local, international aid follows Dorian

  08-09-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The government of the Bahamas says more than 900 members of the Bahamian police and military are on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands to help with hurricane relief.The government also says 120 Jamaican security personnel arrived in the Bahamas on Saturday evening and 100 troops from Trinidad and Tobago are to arrive Sunday as part of the aid effort in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.The Bahamas says "large numbers of security forces" from Britain and the United States are already involved in search, r
  
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• Matteo Salvini to join protest against Italy's new government as it moves to undo hardline policies

  08-09-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy’s former interior minister Matteo Salvini will take to the streets on Monday in a far-Right protest against the new coalition government’s moves to undo his signature hardline policies. Last week the 21 members of the new cabinet signalled a softer approach to immigration at their first meeting.  One of their first moves was to challenge anti-migrant measures introduced in the northeastern region of Friuli Veneto Giulia, a stronghold of Mr Salvini’s far-right League
  
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• Biden in lead, but does campaign have enthusiasm to keep it?

  08-09-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  When Joe Biden took the stage in New Hampshire, he was greeted with the respect that comes with being a former vice president.The scene at New Hampshire's Democratic convention on Saturday highlighted one of the riddles of Biden's candidacy: He maintains a lead in nearly every poll, but his campaign events often lack the look and feel of a front-runner.Biden's team insists such optics are overrated as indicators of a candidate's strength.
  
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• Taliban say peace deal breakdown with Donald Trump ‘will harm America more than anyone else’

  08-09-2019 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taliban has warned Donald Trump’s decision to cancel peace negotiations with the militant group after a car bomb claimed the life of a US soldier would increase America’s “human losses”.Mr Trump confirmed he would not attend a planned meeting with Taliban leaders and the President of Afghanistan in a tweet on Sunday after the militant group took credit for a car bomb in Kabul that claimed the lives of 12 people including an American soldier.
  
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• The graying of America's prisons: 'When is enough enough?'

  08-09-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Inmates over 55 are among the fastest growing population. They burden prisons and taxpayers, but pose the lowest threat to society.
  
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• MIT Media Lab chief out after 'deeply disturbing' link to Jeffrey Epstein

  08-09-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The fallout comes three weeks after another senior lab employee quit in protest over revelations lab director Joi Ito took money from Epstein.
  
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• Ministers Say Johnson Won’t Bend After Rudd Quits: Brexit Update

  08-09-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit on Twitter, join our Facebook group and sign up to our Brexit Bulletin.Boris Johnson is facing open rebellion in his Conservative Party as he presses on with his “do-or-die” strategy to get the U.K. out of the European Union on Oct. 31. Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd quit in a blaze of fury on Saturday night and other Tory MPs have criticized his strategy.After Parliament voted to block a no-deal split from the EU last week -- and against Johnson
  
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• Bangladesh university suspends student for being Rohingya

  08-09-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP) - A Bangladesh university has suspended a student for being Rohingya, officials said Sunday, as impatience with the refugees grows following a second failed attempt to repatriate them to Myanmar.Formal education in Bangladesh is forbidden for refugees.Cox's Bazar International University said it had suspended Rahima Akter Khushi, 20, and would investigate her case after local media said she hid her Rohingya identity to enrol.
  
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• Tom Steyer qualifies for October debate

  08-09-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The billionaire is the 11th candidate to qualify after only 10 made the stage for the third debate.
  
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• New Jersey man scammed $2M from women by posing as a soldier on dating sites, prosecutors say

  08-09-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say the 35-year-old New Jersey man worked with conspirators in Ghana to deceive the victims.
  
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• Putin’s Party Braces for Verdict of Angry Voters in Russia Polls

  08-09-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- What was supposed to be a sleepy round of off-cycle regional elections on Sunday has turned into a referendum on President Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party.Initial results in a few races for governor appeared to show good news for the Kremlin even as its candidates faced unusual opposition in several regions across the country amid stagnant incomes and unpopular reforms. Elections for Moscow’s largely toothless city council this summer sparked Russia’s
  
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• Housing aid for Puerto Rican evacuees close to running out

  08-09-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  In the months after Hurricane Maria destroyed her home in Puerto Rico, Ashley Gonzales moved to Connecticut, where federal and state aid helped her and her longtime partner avoid homelessness.Connecticut, which saw over 13,000 people arrive from the U.S. Caribbean territory after the hurricane hit in September 2017, was unique in providing almost a million dollars in aid to help families after the Federal Emergency Management Agency's support ran out last year.The supplementary state aid fund, o
  
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• India locates lander lost on final approach to moon

  08-09-2019 16:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The lander module from India's moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation's space agency said.The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organization chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras from the moon mission's orbiter had located the lander."It must have been a hard landing," PTI quoted Sivan as saying.
  
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