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• Alex Jones' Ex-Wife Says He 'Came Out Ahead' Despite Takedown by Megyn Kelly: 'He Loves the Hype'

  19-06-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  The couple is currently locked in a bitter custody battle over their children.
  
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• Otto Warmbier, the American Student Just Released From North Korea, Has Died

  19-06-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Three other U.S. citizens are still held as prisoner in the Hermit Kingdom.
  
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• Trump's Self-Contradictory Defense

  19-06-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Is the special counsel looking at the president? Did Trump fire James Comey on his own or because of a recommendation? On key questions, the White House can’t choose what story it wants to tell.
  
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• America's widening role in Syria's civil war

  19-06-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  
  The unprecedented US downing of a Syrian regime warplane highlights the rapidly shifting dynamic in the six-year conflict where President Donald Trump has given American commanders a freer rein in the battlefield.The United States insisted Monday it wants no broader role in Syria's civil war, and seeks only to destroy the Islamic State group, but the weekend incident shows the limits of America's ability to stay disengaged.With myriad competing forces quickly converging in Syria, and new powers
  
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• Hawaii lawmaker switches to Democrat after criticizing Trump

  19-06-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii lawmaker who was ousted from her leadership post in the Republican Party after criticizing President Donald Trump has been accepted by the state's Democrats.
  
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• U.S. student freed from N. Korea dies

  19-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the U.S. student who was freed from North Korea last week, has died at the age of 22. Warmbier was imprisoned for more than 17 months and was returned home to Ohio in a coma. His family released a statement Monday saying, “It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home.”
  
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• Otto Warmbier dead: Trump attacks 'brutality of North Korea' after imprisoned student's death

  19-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has attacked the "brutality of the North Korean regime" following the death of American student Otto Warmbier - who had been imprisoned in the country for 17 months.The US President has offered the family of Mr Warmbier his respects after news broke that the young man had died after being transported back to the United States from North Korea.“Melania and I offer our deepest condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier on his untimely passing,” Mr Trump said in a statement
  
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• Otto Warmbier dead: Donald Trump attacks 'brutality' of North Korea after imprisoned student's death

  19-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has attacked the "brutality of the North Korean regime" following the death of American student Otto Warmbier - who had been imprisoned in the country for 17 months.The US President has offered the family of Mr Warmbier his respects after news broke that the young man had died after being transported back to the United States from North Korea.“Melania and I offer our deepest condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier on his untimely passing,” Mr Trump said in a statement
  
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• Jared Kushner speaks in public. And Washington takes notice.

  19-06-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Jared Kushner spoke in public on Monday. And that alone counted as news.
  
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• First Core i9 Benchmarks: Here’s How Intel’s Powerhouse Performs

  19-06-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Intel’s new high-end Skylake-X series includes the top-of-the-line Core i9-7900X, which impressively features 10 cores and a turbo boost of up to 4.5 GHz.This new i9 CPU certainly has impressive technical specs, but at an astronomic price of $999, how does it compare to AMD’s latest Ryzen offerings and Intel’s own less expensive models for gaming?Credit: IntelOur sister sites, Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech, put the i9-7900X chip through rigorous tests against such CPUs as
  
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• Car rams police vehicle on famed Paris avenue; attacker dies

  19-06-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — A man on the radar of French authorities for extremism was killed Monday after ramming a car carrying arms and explosives into a police convoy on Paris' famed Champs-Elysees Avenue, setting off a fiery blast and a cloud of orange smoke, officials said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation.
  
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• US student evacuated from N. Korea has died: family

  19-06-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the US student released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in detention, has died, his family said Monday.The 22-year-old, who had suffered severe brain damage, was medically evacuated to the United States on June 13."It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home," his family said in a statement.
  
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• Student Otto Warmbier, Held in North Korea Until Last Week, Has Died, Family Says

  19-06-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  The 22-year-old college student arrived in a coma last week after being held prisoner in North Korea.
  
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• Jon Ossoff making final campaigns stops as special election nears

  19-06-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' MaryAlice Parks speaks to Jon Ossoff and some of his supporters ahead of Georgia's special election.
  
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• Police Release Dashcam Audio In Fatal Shooting Of Pregnant Mother

  19-06-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Seattle police shot and killed 30-year-old Charleena Lyles Sunday.
  
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• Trump’s Approval Rating Drops Again Following Brag On Twitter

  19-06-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Just one day after boasting about his numbers on Twitter, the president's approval rating fell to 48 percent in the conservative poll.
  
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• Health Care Declassified: Republicans are skeptical of a closed drafting process – but will they act to open it up?

  19-06-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo News peeks behind the curtain of secrecy surrounding the Republican health care bill to learn what we can about what it may contain.
  
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• Police chief: Heroic officer drew gunman's fire at park

  19-06-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A female police officer with less than 2 years' experience withstood a barrage of gunfire from a gunman who wounded a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field last week, giving fellow officers an opportunity to return fire and kill the shooter, her police chief said Monday.
  
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• The Latest: Paris police remove body after attempted attack

  19-06-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs-Elysees (all times local):
  
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• Ancient Egyptians Were Among First To Have Cats

  19-06-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  When and where did cats become our pets? Researchers have traced the domestic feline’s lineage to one ancient cat species and a few civilizations.
  
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• How the AP-NORC poll on Trump's travel ban was conducted

  19-06-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on President Donald Trump's travel ban was conducted by NORC on June 8-11. It is based on online and telephone interviews of 1,068 adults who are members of NORC's nationally representative AmeriSpeak panel.
  
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• 200 Million Voters' Info Exposed: Are You At Risk?

  19-06-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Personal information pertaining to as many as 198 million American registered voters was held in a publicly accessible online database, a security researcher revealed today (June 19).The data was held in an online repository operated by Deep Root Analytics (DRA), a voter-data-analytics firm associated with the Republican National Committee.It included full names, street addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, political affiliation and ethnicities, but did not include more sensitive data su
  
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• Rich guy Leo DiCaprio surrenders priceless art in wake of embezzlement scandal

  19-06-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Leonardo DiCaprio may have received some very expensive paintings in a super shady way. According toartnet, DiCaprio, a known art collector, is reportedly in the process of surrendering a $3.2 million Pablo Picasso painting and a $9 million Jean-Michel Basquiat collage to U.S. authorities in the wake of a huge embezzlement scandal. Red Granite — the company that produced DiCaprio's movieThe Wolf of Wall Street — was co-founded by Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysian pri
  
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• Airline Gives Newborn Baby Free Trips for Life After Being Delivered Mid-Flight

  19-06-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  A baby was delivered at about 35,000 feet in the air successfully on a Jet Airways flight to India.
  
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• US Supreme Court to hear 'gerrymandering' case

  19-06-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear a case about possible gerrymandering in the drawing up of Congressional district boundaries, a running sore point between Republicans and Democrats.The case involves the state of Wisconsin, where ruling Republicans have been accused of taking partisan measures to redraw boundaries in their favor, but the court decision could have implications for the rest of the United States.The Wisconsin case will be the first time since 2004 that Supreme Cou
  
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• NASA telescope finds 10 more planets that could have life

  19-06-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA's planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them, broadly hinting that we are probably not alone.
  
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• Syria brings new urgency to easing US-Russia tensions

  19-06-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter jet for the first time. Syria attacks America's allies against Islamic State militants. Iran fires missiles into Syria. Russia threatens to target U.S. coalition planes.
  
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• Mike Pence's new puppy and kitten have no idea what they just got into

  19-06-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence keeps filling Trump's pet-less White House with his own collection of animals.  SEE ALSO: Presidential pets, ranked Over Father's Day weekend, Pence was back in Indiana where he was surprised with a new puppy, Harley.And... for Father's Day, we surprised @VP with an Indiana puppy! Introducing: Harley! pic.twitter.com/ZlvNasOw9b — Karen Pence (@SecondLady) June 18, 2017Harley already took a flight on Air Force Two and is getting the lay of Veep-land in Washing
  
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• Barron Trump's Fashion Turns Heads as First Family Visits Camp David

  19-06-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  The family spent just one night at the historic, government-owned presidential retreat.
  
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• The Latest: Panama, US leaders discuss security, economy

  19-06-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Panama President Juan Carlos Varela's visit to the White House (all times local):
  
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• US police under scrutiny over pregnant woman's shooting

  19-06-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Police in the western US state of Washington were under scrutiny on Monday after a pregnant woman was fatally shot by officers responding to a burglary call.Authorities said the 30-year-old victim, identified as Charleena Lyles, had called to report an attempted burglary at her apartment on Sunday morning and pulled a knife on the two officers, who shot and killed her.Family members said Lyles was three months pregnant and struggled with mental health issues.
  
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• Donald Trump fails to personally address terror attack on London mosque and murdered Muslim woman

  19-06-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has failed to personally acknowledge the attack on members of a mosque in London, and the murder of a Muslim teenager in Virginia, prompting critics to attack his silence.The White House has commented on the Finsbury Park attack, saying that they have reached out and offered to help in any way possible.Fifteen hours after a man drove a van into a group of Muslims near a London mosque, killing at least one and injuring 10 others, there was still no note of condolences from the Presid
  
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• Donald Trump fails to address terror attack on London mosque and murdered Muslim woman

  19-06-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has failed to personally acknowledge the attack on members of a mosque in London, and the murder of a Muslim teenager in Virginia, prompting critics to attack his silence.The White House has commented on the Finsbury Park attack, saying that they have reached out and offered to help in any way possible.Fifteen hours after a man drove a van into a group of Muslims near a London mosque, killing at least one and injuring 10 others, there was still no note of condolences from the Presid
  
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• France's Macron begins fine-tuning team after parliament sweep

  19-06-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  President Emmanuel Macron began fine-tuning his government team on Monday after his centrist party redrew France's political map with a resounding victory in parliamentary elections, dealing him a strong hand to forge ahead with pro-EU, business-friendly reforms.Macron, France's youngest-ever president at 39,asked close ally Richard Ferrand, who is embroiled in a conflict of interest scandal, to leave his cabinet and seek the leadership of the ruling Republic on the Move (REM) party in parliamen
  
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• Cosby alternate juror 'probably' would have voted to convict

  19-06-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — An alternate juror in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case said Monday he "probably" would have voted to convict and was "ridiculously sick" when he found out the main jury couldn't reach a verdict.
  
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• What's next for woman convicted of manslaughter in suicide

  19-06-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The unprecedented manslaughter conviction of a young woman who as a teenager sent text messages encouraging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself seems destined to be appealed after it sparked intense debate over free speech, virtual presence and modern forms of communication.
  
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• Jon Ossoff Responds to Trump's Attacks

  19-06-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  On the eve of the Georgia 6th District special election, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff joins Lawrence O'Donnell to react to President Donald Trump's attacks on him and why he is trying to talk about health care as much as possible during the campaign.
  
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• Reliable insider suggests the Galaxy Note 7 will launch sooner than we thought

  19-06-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  After a series of reports said that Samsung intends to unveil the Galaxy Note 8 in late August or early September, around the IFA tech event in Berlin, Germany, a new leak says the phone will be out even sooner than that.Chinese leaker of Weibo fame Ice Universe said on Monday that Samsung has already settled on the Galaxy Note 8’s launch date. Apparently, the Galaxy Note 8 will be unveiled in New York City during the third week of August in New York City.
  If accurate, it means the Galaxy
  
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• US condemns London attack, but no word from Trump

  19-06-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The US government and Ivanka Trump on Monday expressed sympathy with worshippers attacked while leaving a London mosque -- while the president himself remained silent.State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert issued an official condemnation of the deadly assault but Donald Trump -- often quick to comment on Twitter after extremist violence -- kept his counsel."The United States strongly condemns last night's attack that appears to have targeted Muslim worshippers in London," Nauert said.
  
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• Preet Bharara explains his embrace of Twitter. He’ll let Trump ‘keep his own wise counsel’ on the same.

  19-06-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Preet Bharara, the high-profile U.S. attorney fired by President Trump, has embraced the commander in chief’s favorite communications platform: Twitter.
  
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• Discussing crisis in Venezuela not 'intervention': OAS

  19-06-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The crisis talks are the latest in a series of OAS foreign ministers' meetings that caused an irate President Nicolas Maduro to announce Venezuela's withdrawal from the OAS in April -- a process that will take two years.The leftist leader accuses the OAS of "interventionism" for seeking diplomatic solutions to Venezuela's deteriorating political and economic crisis.
  
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• Cheap Building Materials May Have Made the London Tower Blaze Even Worse

  19-06-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A neglected $6,000 renovation may have cost the lives of 30 or more people.
  
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• Trump feels ‘very good’ about Senate health care bill, whatever it is, White House says

  19-06-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump feels “very good” about the Senate’s progress in drafting its own version of his signature health care bill, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Monday.When asked if the president or members of his legislative team has seen a copy of the bill, however, Spicer said he did not know.
  
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• Tensions rise in Syria as Russia, Iran send US warnings

  19-06-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Russia on Monday threatened aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition in Syrian-controlled airspace and suspended a hotline intended to avoid collisions in retaliation for the U.S. military shooting down a Syrian warplane.
  
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• Trump Makes Matters Worse for Legal Counsel

  19-06-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's errant tweets and public statements continually run at odds with his legal counsel, making it nearly impossible for them to be on the same page. Lachlan Markay, Ed Dowd, and David Jolly join Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• GOP official apologizes for saying Scalise shooting helps party in Ga. election

  19-06-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  A Georgia GOP official apologized for a remark that last week's baseball shooting would win a special election for Republican candidate Karen Handel.
  
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• Jared Kushner speaks, Twitter reacts

  19-06-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Trump, spoke — for the first time publicly since his father-in-law took office — at a technology summit Monday in Washington, D.C., and Twitter users gave their opinions of hearing his voice for the first time.
  
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• Lawrence: Trump Has the Worst Lawyers of Any President

  19-06-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Robert Mueller has hired a dream team of 13+ experienced lawyers from the DOJ and other government bodies to handle the Russia probe. Lawrence O'Donnell argues that many of Trump's lawyers lack the experience and the abilities to properly defend him.
  
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• NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanets

  19-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  NASA revealed Monday 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life.The Kepler mission team released a survey of 219 potential exoplanets -- planets outside of our solar system -- that had been detected by the space observatory launched in 2009 to scan the Milky Way galaxy.Ten of the new discoveries were orbiting their suns at a distance similar to Earth's orbit around the sun, the so-called habitable zone that could potentially have liquid water and
  
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