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• GameStop Is Still Struggling, Says That Anticipation For PS5 And Scarlett Is Hurting Sales

  10-12-2019 23:52
  
  Video game retailer GameStop continues to struggle. The Texas-based company announced earnings for its fiscal third quarter ended November 2, and the results were less than great, with revenue falling overall and sales decreasing across nearly every category of the company's businessTotal revenue fell by 25.7 percent to $1.4 billion. In terms of specific results, new hardware sales dropped by 45.8 percent, a significant downturn that GameStop management said was due in part to the anticipation f
  
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• Elon Musk's Plan for One Giant Solar Farm Is a Little Insane, but Not Completely Insane

  10-12-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He's had crazier ideas.
  
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• This Xbox One Games Sale Is Full Of Awesome Titles

  10-12-2019 23:50
  
  With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, the consoles are starting to get back into their regular routine of weekly deals. This week, the Xbox One has a ton of discounts featured on some great games, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Assassin's Creed Origins, and Far Cry 5.In addition to Origins, several remastered Assassin's Creed games are on sale. Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection, Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered, and Assassin's Creed III Remastered are all discounted. Other Ubis
  
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• Facebook rebuffs Attorney General William Barr on encrypted messages

  10-12-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told William Barr that Facebook is moving forward with encryption on all of its messaging services
  
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• 'Obstruction of Congress:' Trump's stonewalling becomes basis for impeachment

  10-12-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's a simple dispute, easy for Americans to digest: Democrats say Trump must comply with congressional subpoenas. He calls it a partisan inquiry.
  
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• U.S. Senate leader McConnell raises possibility of quick impeachment trial

  10-12-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell raised the prospect on Tuesday of a short Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump in which no witnesses would be called.The scenario of a truncated trial would put McConnell, the top Senate Republican, at odds with Trump, also a Republican, who has been calling for a full trial with witnesses, including former Vice President Joe Biden, on the Senate floor.
  
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• AP Analysis: Trump faces narrow but consequential charges

  10-12-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The articles of impeachment offered up Tuesday against President Donald Trump are narrow, but consequential.The impending vote will thrust Trump into a club no president wants to join: only the third American leader to be impeached by the House of Representatives.House Democrats say Trump abused the American presidency for personal political gain by asking Ukraine for help investigating political rivals, including Joe Biden, the former vice president and current Democratic White House contender.
  
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• Pokemon Go December Events Include New Gen 5 Pokemon, Team Rocket Special Research, And More

  10-12-2019 23:35
  
  Pokemon Go's big December Community Day takes place this weekend, but that isn't the only event on the horizon for the hit mobile game. Niantic has now outlined a handful of other events that are happening this month, and they include a new Special Research quest, a special Raid weekend, and more.First, Niantic is rolling out new Team Rocket-focused Special Research questline called A Challenging Development. This questline will be available until the end of December and will give players anothe
  
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• US immigration officials bar doctors from giving flu shots to detained kids

  10-12-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Doctors warn of more deaths after being turned away from a Customs and Border Protection facility in San DiegoUS immigration authorities blocked doctors from giving flu vaccines to detained migrant children this week, a move that physicians say will lead to more deaths behind bars.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) refused to grant a group of doctors access to provide vaccines in San Diego on Monday despite at least three recent flu deaths of children in US immigration custody, aged two, six an
  
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• Asian Stocks to Mark Time as Trade Deadline Looms: Markets Wrap

  10-12-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks are poised for another muted open as investors debated whether China and the Trump administration will reach a meaningful trade deal ahead of the looming tariff deadline. Treasuries slipped ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting.Futures in Japan and Australia were flat, and ticked higher in Hong Kong. The S&P 500 Index fell in below-average volumes as investors digested mixed signals on the likelihood of fresh tariffs on Dec. 15. Multiple reports indic
  
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• Netflix Reveals How Many People Have Watched The Irishman

  10-12-2019 23:29
  
  Netflix has announced how many people have watched Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. The streaming network said on Twitter that some 26.4 million accounts globally viewed the very long movie within its first seven days. Anyone who watches 70 percent of a movie is counted as viewer.Netflix programming boss Ted Sarandos said during a speaking event this week that he expects The Irishman to climb to 40 million views over its first 28 days, according to Variety. The movie came to Netflix on November 2
  
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• 'We're in!' Andrew Yang's campaign manager notifies him mid-interview he's made the debate stage

  10-12-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Yang's campaign manager notified him mid-interview with the Des Moines Register's editorial board he had qualified for the December debate.
  
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• Dems Think Their Day of Whiplash Is Just Perfect

  10-12-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If one day could neatly encapsulate House Democrats’ long, busy, and sometimes messy year, Tuesday, December 10, was close to perfect. At nine o’clock in the morning, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and six of her committee chairs announced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. An hour later, Pelosi appeared with 30 of her colleagues to announce they had struck a deal with Trump and his administration on the president’s top legislative priority: a new U.S.-Cana
  
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• UPDATE 4-New Jersey gun battle leaves six dead, including cop and both suspects

  10-12-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police waged an hours-long gunfight with two men armed with high-powered rifles on Tuesday in and around a New Jersey cemetery and kosher market, leaving six people dead, including one officer and both suspects, authorities said.The violence began after noon in the heart of Jersey City, the state's second-largest municipality directly across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, prompting a lockdown of all Jersey City schools as law enforcement swarmed the area.Police arriving on the scene imme
  
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• UPDATE 3-Six dead, including a cop and 2 suspects, in New Jersey shooting

  10-12-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded on Tuesday afternoon near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, police said.The two suspects killed acted alone, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly told a news conference hours later in the state's second-largest city, which sits directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan.The two gunmen and three civilian victims were pronounced dead inside the
  
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• Majority of Black Voters Support Biden in Poll: Campaign Update

  10-12-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A majority of African-American Democratic voters support former Vice President Joe Biden according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Tuesday.The survey found that found Biden was supported by 51% of black voters. Senator Bernie Sanders had 13% and Senator Elizabeth Warren had 12%. Michael Bloomberg received 4%, while Pete Buttigieg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang all received 2%. No other candidate obtained more than 1%. Bloomberg is the founder and majo
  
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• 15 Million Iranian Bank Accounts Hacked During Protests

  10-12-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following massive anti-government protests in Iran in November, during which demonstrators set fire to banks across the country, the details of 15 million Iranian debit cards were published online, exposing the account information of almost one-fifth of Iran's population."This is the largest financial scam in Iran’s history," conservative Iranian outlet Aftab News reported. "Millions of Iranians are worried to find their names among the list of hacked accounts."The affected banks had been
  
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• Virginia museum unveils Kehinde Wiley work in response to Confederate statues

  10-12-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As debate swirls over fate of Confederate monuments, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond displays a very different statueAs national debate continues in the US about the fate of Confederate statues, in the Virginia capital of Richmond a monument that sends a very different message was unveiled on Tuesday.Though like many of the Confederate statues and memorials it features a martial-looking man riding a horse, Rumors of War by Kehinde Wiley is a very different piece of art.The enormous stat
  
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• UPDATE 2-Huawei's CFO wins Canada court fight to see more documents on her arrest

  10-12-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lawyers for Huawei’s chief financial officer have won a court battle after a judge asked Canada’s attorney general to hand over more evidence and documents relating to the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, according to a court ruling released on Tuesday.Meng’s legal team has contested her extradition in the Canadian courts on grounds that the United States is using it for economic and political gain, and that she was unlawfully held, searched and interrogated by Canadian authorities acti
  
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• Win A Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Xbox One Bundle*

  10-12-2019 23:00
  
  If you've been waiting to get a chance to play Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, now is a great opportunity to do so. In Fallen Order, you'll play as Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis as he trains to become a full-fledged Jedi to restore the ancient order. If you've been waiting to get a chance to play Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, now is a great opportunity to do so. In Fallen Order, you'll play as Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis as he trains to become a full-fledged Jedi to restore the ancient order.In this giveawa
  
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• History's Mystery: What Sank the Navy Submarine USS Thresher?

  10-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We have some theories.
  
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• In hard-line Congress, moderates boosted with Trump impeachment articles, trade deal

  10-12-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats declined to use the Mueller report in the articles of impeachment, all the while announcing a deal with Trump on USMCA.
  
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• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Patch Makes A Welcome Lightsaber Change

  10-12-2019 22:54
  
  A new update for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is coming on December 11. In addition to a new Photo Mode, the update makes a small but welcome change to how your lightsaber can look. The change involves understanding a certain plot point, so be aware this post contains some spoilers down below.Mild spoilers for Jedi Fallen Order follow below.After completing a certain amount of the story, you're required to equip a switch given to you by Cere to your lightsaber following a story event. This throw
  
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• Pentagon Must Demand Refunds on Flawed F-35 Parts, Congress Says

  10-12-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon must press Lockheed Martin Corp. to recoup fees paid to the No. 1 defense contractor for F-35 parts that weren’t ready to use in the planes after delivery to the military, according to the planned defense policy bill for this fiscal year.“Consistent with the findings and recommendations” of the Pentagon inspector general in a June report, the Pentagon “shall seek relief” for delivery of “non-compliant ready-for-issue spare parts pur
  
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• Republicans blamed Democrats for USMCA delays. Mitch McConnell promptly delayed it further.

  10-12-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yes, the USMCA is facing further delays. No, Democrats aren't the chief cause.After House Democrats announced Tuesday they'd crafted a deal on a U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement they and the White House could both agree on, House Republicans started pushing for an immediate vote on the trade deal. But it was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) who's stopping their wishes, saying Tuesday the Senate wouldn't see the trade deal until at least next year.Republicans followed Democrats' Tuesday
  
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• Barr Joins Trump in Excoriating FBI, Snubbing DOJ Watchdog

  10-12-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Attorney General William Barr dismissed the key conclusions of his department’s inspector general a day after a report determined that the FBI was justified in probing whether then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.In a pair of interviews on Tuesday, Barr described the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s work in the 2016 election probe as “flimsy,” “baseless,” and a “complete sham” marre
  
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• New Jersey gun battle leaves six dead, including cop and both suspects

  10-12-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police waged an hours-long gunfight with two men armed with high-powered rifles on Tuesday in and around a New Jersey cemetery and kosher market, leaving six people dead, including one officer and both suspects, authorities said.The violence began after noon in the heart of Jersey City, the state's second-largest municipality directly across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, prompting a lockdown of all Jersey City schools as law enforcement swarmed the area.Police arriving on the scene imme
  
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• Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Photo Mode Coming This Week, Here's How It Works

  10-12-2019 22:32
  
  Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order is getting a Photo Mode. The new feature is coming to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC game in the newest patch scheduled for December 11.The Photo Mode is enabled through the game settings, and players can snap photos by pressing LS and RS on Xbox or L3 and R3 on PlayStation at the same time. The game will then pause, and players can utilize a number of different settings to take the nicest photo possible. You can rotate the camera, adjust the height, zoom in, and tilt. Som
  
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• Republicans believe white people experience same level of racism as black people, report says

  10-12-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers have punctured right-wing claims that a wave of "racism against white people" has coincided with efforts to prevent discrimination against blacks.A study published in Nature Human Behaviour compared perceptions of racial discrimination in "societies that supposedly favour non-white people" and found that white people consistently experienced far less discrimination than black people, despite the influence of far-right groups and increasingly polarised political views that have argued
  
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• Joe Biden leads two national polls, while Michael Bloomberg debuts in top five

  10-12-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bloomberg is at 5% with Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters in a poll published Tuesday, still far from the leading three candidates.
  
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• Panel urges the U.S. to weigh sanctions against India's home minister

  10-12-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal panel on religion has urged the United States to weigh sanctions against India's Home Minister Amit Shah if the South Asian nation adopts legislation to exclude Muslims from a path to citizenship for religious minorities from its neighbors.
  
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• Rick and Morty Season 4 Episode 4 "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty" Breakdown

  10-12-2019 22:11
  
  The latest episode of Rick and Morty featured horny dragons and a talking cat voiced by Matthew Broderick. Dave breaks down the plot, Easter eggs and references in Season 4, Episode 4, "Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty".
  
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• Congress Flexes Foreign-Policy Muscle With Rebukes of Trump

  10-12-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump will face a more assertive Congress on foreign policy as he fights off impeachment and seeks re-election, with lawmakers pushing legislation at odds with his priorities and personal style on the global stage.This will be on full display Wednesday when the Republican-led Senate Foreign Relations Committee considers sanctions on Turkey and Russia, both countries that Trump has tried to court despite Congress’s wariness. The panel has also been the drivin
  
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• Johnson on track for 24-seat majority - Focaldata

  10-12-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party is on track for a 24-seat majority after Thursday's general election, polling company Focaldata forecast on Tuesday, down sharply from its forecast last month of an 82-seat majority.Focaldata predicted that the Conservatives would win 337 seats in the 650-seat parliament, followed by Labour on 235, the Scottish National Party with 41, and the Liberal Democrats with 14 based on its forecasting model and recent polling data.This compares with a pre
  
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• Andrew Yang qualifies for December presidential debate

  10-12-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Businessman Andrew Yang qualified Tuesday to participate in next week's Democratic presidential debate, making him the seventh candidate to make the stage in Los Angeles.The 44-year-old entrepreneur received 4% in a national poll by Quinnipiac University, meeting the polling threshold set by the Democratic National Committee.The DNC won't officially say which candidates have qualified until after a Thursday night deadline.
  
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• Stocks Drop With Bonds as Trade Deadline Looms: Markets Wrap

  10-12-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks fell for a second day as investors pulled back ahead of the Federal Reserve rate decision, U.K. election and Sunday’s tariff deadline. Treasuries slipped.The S&P 500 Index fluctuated for most of the day before ending lower. Trade took center stage, with investors debating whether China and the Trump administration will reach a meaningful trade deal to avert fresh tariffs. Multiple reports indicated a delay was likely, before administration officials said the
  
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• Arkansas senator blasts WeWork at hearing: Adam Neumann 'is the reason people in America are open to socialism'

  10-12-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Tom Cotton also chastised law firms and Wall Street, accusing them of aiding and abetting WeWork and contributing to its fall.
  
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• Resident Evil 3 Remake: Release Date, Trailer, Pre-Order Details, And More

  10-12-2019 21:56
  
  Resident Evil 3 is real. After a bout of rumors and leaks, the Resident Evil 3 remake was officially announced during Sony's final State of Play presentation of 2019. The game is, obviously, a remake of Capcom's Resident Evil 3: Nemesis from 1999, and it's coming packaged with another game too--which producers Masachika Kawata and Peter Fabiano spoke more about following the trailer reveal.Resident Evil fans probably had a few questions about the Nemesis remake answered after watching that first
  
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• FBI warned six months ago about loophole Pensacola shooter used to obtain a gun

  10-12-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than six months before the Dec. 6 shooting at a naval base in Pensacola, Fla., where a Saudi gunman used a weapon obtained using a hunting license exemption, the FBI issued a report warning about precisely this loophole.
  
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• Trump 'flouting his oath of office' by hosting Russian envoy and 'echoing Putin's propaganda', Democrats say

  10-12-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's decision to grant Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov an Oval Office meeting is yet another example of his abdication of his responsibilities, several Democratic politicians have told The Independent.Mr Lavrov arrived at the White House at about 2.15pm on Tuesday afternoon, entering the West Wing after telling reporters he was there to "say good afternoon to the president". The pair met behind closed doors and Mr Lavrov left after about an hour.
  
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• Trump's new major trade deal looks a lot like NAFTA. Here are key differences between them.

  10-12-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, is similar to the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, but there are also some major changes.
  
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• RedBox No Longer Renting Games, Purchases To End Soon

  10-12-2019 21:43
  
  The kiosk rental service Redbox is no longer renting video games, and will cease sales of used games at the end of the year. The company announced that it is "permanently transitioning out of the games business" and will now exclusively rent movies.The company confirmed the move on Twitter after Reddit users noticed their local kiosks were no longer offering game rentals. In a statement to The Verge, the company said you'll be able to buy games through the kiosks through the end of the year. Tha
  
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• Redbox Ending Game Rentals; Purchases Going Away Soon

  10-12-2019 21:43
  
  The kiosk rental service Redbox is no longer renting video games, and will cease sales of used games at the end of the year. The company announced that it is "permanently transitioning out of the games business" and will now exclusively rent movies.The company confirmed the move on Twitter after Reddit users noticed their local kiosks were no longer offering game rentals. In a statement to The Verge, the company said you'll be able to buy games through the kiosks through the end of the year. Tha
  
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• Lisa Page Sues FBI and the Justice Department for Leaking Her Texts With Peter Strzok

  10-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former FBI attorney Lisa Page on Tuesday sued the FBI and the Justice Department over the leaking of her text messages that prompted a barrage of public attacks from lawmakers and President Donald Trump himself.“I sued the Department of Justice and FBI today,” she wrote on Twitter. “I take little joy in having done so. But what they did in leaking my messages to the press was not only wrong, it was illegal.”The lawsuit accuses both agencies of violating the Privacy Act wh
  
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• GOP Rep. Jim Jordan: 'I don't care how I'm remembered'

  10-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's Republican allies in his battle against impeachment don't seem too bothered about what the history books might say about them one day.Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who has appeared on both the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committee panels during the impeachment inquiry, frankly couldn't seem to care less about his personal legacy. "I don't care how I'm remembered," Jordan told HuffPost, adding that he hasn't given anything like that a "second's thought."Instead Jordan sai
  
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• A Florida sheriff office's captain told a deputy to act like a 'white supremacist' and a 'Nazi' when stopping a black murder suspect

  10-12-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The comment made by Monroe County Sheriff's Capt. Penny Phelps was recorded by a deputy's body camera during a conversation in late 2017.
  
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• 40 million more people at risk of flooding as Greenland loses ice 'seven times faster than in 1990s'

  10-12-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greenland's ice is melting seven times faster than it was in the 1990s, and at much greater speeds than current predictions, according to a new study. It came as another report warned that melting Arctic permafrost could be causing carbon stores to be released into the atmosphere, adding to warming.  The increase in Greenland ice melt could lead to global sea level rises of 7cm above current estimates by 2100, leaving 40 million more people at risk of flooding.  The study, which reexam
  
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• EXCLUSIVE-Nearly 175 Saudi military aviation students grounded in U.S. after base shooting

  10-12-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 175 Saudi Arabian military aviation students have been grounded as part of a "safety stand-down" after a Saudi AirForce lieutenant shot and killed three people last week at a U.S. Navy base in Florida, U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday.The FBI has said U.S. investigators believe Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, acted alone when he attacked a U.S. Navy base in Pensacola, Florida on Friday, before he was fatally shot by a deputy sheriff.The shootings hav
  
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• Democrats Map Trump Impeachment Path on Power Abuse, Obstruction

  10-12-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats delivered two tightly crafted articles of impeachment against Donald Trump on Tuesday that urged his removal as president for abusing the power of his office and keeping Congress from exercising its duty as a check on the executive branch.Read More: The latest updates on House Democrats' Trump impeachment inquiry for Dec. 10, 2019In a single nine-page resolution introduced Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee accuses Trump of having “abused the powers of the
  
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• John Kerry: World's richest nations are failing to 'behave like adults'

  10-12-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world’s richest nations are failing to “behave like adults” and act firmly enough to meet global warming targets set in the Paris climate accord, former Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
  
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