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• CBO likely to say millions lose coverage under Senate health care bill

  25-06-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Experts from across the spectrum expect the CBO to predict widespread coverage loss when it scores the Senate version of the health care bill.
  
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• Schumer: new Democratic 'agenda' will 'resonate with the middle class'

  25-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Senator Chuck Schumer also talked about watching a New York Yankees baseball game alongside a man who wore pro-Trump clothing.Within a month, the Democratic party will present a “strong, bold, sharp-edged and common-sense economic agenda” to underpin its efforts against Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday.
  
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• Rescue underway after Colombia tourist ferry carrying 150 people sinks

  25-06-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  A rescue operation was underway in Colombia after a tourist boat with about 150 people on board sank in a reservoir near Medellin, killing at least nine people.The air force said on Twitter that it was sending a helicopter to the Guatape reservoir while Medellin's mayor said firefighters and scuba divers were heading to the town on Sunday.Eduardo Rivera, director of a hospital in Guatape, told Teleantioquia that three people killed in the accident had arrived at the medical facility.
  
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• Is Sergey Kislyak Going Home?

  25-06-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S.-Russia Business Council is throwing a retirement party at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington July 11.
  
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• Visitor numbers down but Paris Air Show was 'good vintage'

  25-06-2017 23:27 via yahoo.com
  
  This year's Paris Air Show at Le Bourget has proved a "good vintage" with orders up 13 percent though fewer visitors showed up, organisers said as the event wound down Sunday.Tight security owing to an ongoing state of emergency in the wake of several terror attacks in France in the past 18 months saw the number of visitors slide compared with the last edition two years ago -- the event alternates with Farnborough in England.Boeing managed to outpace its rival thanks to its new 737 MAX 10 airlin
  
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• Europeans learn to live with _ and adapt to _ terror attacks

  25-06-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The jihadis' targets in Europe are depressingly repetitive: the Brussels metro, the Champs-Elysees in Paris (twice), tourist-filled bridges in London (twice) and a U.K. rock concert. And that's just the past few months.
  
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• Iran's Rouhani backs Qatar, rejects 'siege'

  25-06-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani voiced support on Sunday for Qatar in its confrontation with Iran's rival Saudi Arabia and its allies, saying a "siege of Qatar is unacceptable", the state news agency IRNA reported.Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahraincut ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of support for Islamist militants, an allegation Qatar denies.
  
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• U.S.-backed Syrian groups take Raqqa district from Islamic State

  25-06-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.S.-backed Syrian coalition of Kurdish and Arab groups advanced against Islamic State in the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa on Sunday, taking the al-Qadisia district, they said.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began its assault on Raqqa earlier this month after a long campaign to isolate Islamic State inside the city.It took Qadisia, located in the west of Raqqa, after three days of intense fighting, it said in a statement on one of its official social media feeds.
  
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• Israel attacks Syrian posts after cross-border fire from Syria

  25-06-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Israel said it had attacked Syrian military targets on Sunday after stray shells from fighting in Syria's civil war landed inside the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.The Syrian shells hit an open area in the northern Golan Heights, causing no injuries, and in retaliation the Israeli military said it "targeted two artillery positions and an ammunitions truck belonging to the Syrian regime".Syria's military later said in a statement that Israel had attacked one of its military posts in support of
  
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• The stench of death rises over Mosul's Old City

  25-06-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of jihadists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where Iraqi forces are battling the last Islamic State group fighters.Lieutenant Colonel Salam al-Obeidi told AFP that he believes only "a few hundred Daesh fighters", an Arabic acronym for Islamic State group jihadists, are left in the Old City.Three years after overrunning Mosul and making it the de facto Iraqi capital of the "caliphate" they proclaimed, the jihadists now o
  
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• As Trump tries to fix VA, GOP health care bill threatens coverage for millions of vets

  25-06-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  The president signed a bill to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs while a health care bill he supports threatens the care of countless vets.
  
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• Transplanted: Large Idaho sequoia tree finds new home

  25-06-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A large sequoia tree with a history rooted in conservation was standing in the way of progress, so on Sunday, it was moved.
  
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• Turkey rejects Arab terms to Qatar, US urges sides to talk

  25-06-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president on Sunday rejected a demand by major Arab states to remove Turkish troops from Qatar, among a sweeping list of ultimatums that the United States has described as "difficult to meet."
  
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• The Latest: 153 killed in Pakistan tanker fire

  25-06-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  
  MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — The Latest on an oil tanker fire in Pakistan that killed more than 140 people (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Senator: GOP plan doesn't 'repeal nor replace'

  25-06-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Senate Republican health care bill (all times local):
  
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• Seniors Will Be Hit If Medicaid Is Cut

  25-06-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Medicaid cuts would hurt seniors.
  
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• Israel strikes targets in Syria for 2nd day

  25-06-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Sunday said it attacked a series of targets belonging to the Syrian military, after several projectiles from neighboring Syria landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights for a second day.
  
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• Mosul celebrates first Eid without Islamic State in years

  25-06-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  By Alaa MarjaniMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - People in the Iraqi city of Mosul celebrated their first Muslim Eid holiday without Islamic State in years on Sunday after the militants were ejected from much of the city, and hoped the battle to recapture the remaining area would soon be over.Some played on old swings and others with toy guns and rifles, which were among the toys allowed by Islamic State militants after they took over the city in June 2014.Eid prayers were allowed under Islamic State but
  
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• Police: Girl, 4, rescued after officers fatally shoot gunman

  25-06-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 4-year-old girl was saved from a hostage barricade situation in Las Vegas after police fatally shot a heavily armed man.
  
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• US high court looks to travel ban ruling and a possible retirement

  25-06-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House declined to comment Sunday on speculation that a pivotal US Supreme Court justice might announce his retirement on Monday, the last day of the high court's current session.Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has cast the decisive vote in some of the court's most far-reaching decisions, turns 81 next month and is widely believed to be thinking of retiring.One of those decisions could come Monday, if the nine justices are prepared to rule on a White House challenge to lower-court findings
  
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• How the CIA hacks computers that aren’t even connected to the internet

  25-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Air-gapped computers are supposed to be ultra-secure PCs that can’t be infected with malware that spreads with the help of the internet. That’s because of these computers, often connected to sensitive machines, aren’t also connected to the internet. You’d think these systems would be impenetrable by remote attacks and would require a hacker to be in the same room with the PC. But, unsurprisingly, the CIA developed tools that can infect air-gapped computers.Wikileaks on Th
  
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• Conservative Koch network criticizes U.S. Senate healthcare bill

  25-06-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  By James OliphantCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Officials with the conservative U.S. political network overseen by the Koch brothers say they are unhappy with the healthcare bill that may be voted on by the Senate this week and will lobby for changes to it.At a weekend event with conservative donors, top aides to Charles Koch, the billionaire energy magnate, said the Senate bill does not go far enough to dismantle former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, also known as Obama
  
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• Theme park nightmare takes a happy turn after one attendee falls 25 feet

  25-06-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Is there any theme park horror story scarier than the one where someone falls out of a high-flying ride? That's exactly what happened at Six Flags Great Escape in Lake George, NY on Saturday — though the incident thankfully had a happy ending. As an unidentified teenage parkgoer dangled 25 feet above the ground, a crowd gathered below to catch her — which they did — once she fell. SEE ALSO: The "Stranger Things" kids keep forgetting to invite us to their fun hangouts A tense vi
  
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• New York City gay pride parade

  25-06-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Gay pride parades in New York and other cities are spotlighting resistance to what participants see as new pressure on gay rights. But the event organizers and participants are also facing the prospect of protests against their own diversity and direction.
  
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• U.S. top court to rule on last cases as talk about Kennedy swirls

  25-06-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to issue the final rulings of its current term on Monday, including one on religious rights, amid talk that swing voter Justice Anthony Kennedy is considering retirement.The court in the coming days is also expected to act on President Donald Trump's emergency request seeking to revive his travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority countries, which was blocked by lower courts.Although there are n
  
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• Iran seeks stronger ties with Qatar: Rouhani

  25-06-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar and rejected a Saudi-led blockade of the Gulf Arab emirate."Iran's policy is to develop more and more its relations with Doha," Rouhani said in a phone conversation with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, according to the presidency website."Tehran stands alongside the people and government of Qatar and we believe that... pressure, threats and sanctions are not a good solution to solve p
  
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• Muslim travel ban: US Supreme Court to rule on Donald Trump's controversial policy

  25-06-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Supreme Court is set to make a ruling on Donald Trump's controversial travel ban on the last day of its current term.The executive order had put a halt to all travellers from six Muslim-majority countries – Syria, Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen – entering the US for 90 days.The Trump administration said the ban was in the best interests of national security.
  
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• Martha The Neapolitan Mastiff Is Crowned 'World's Ugliest Dog'

  25-06-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Martha beat out 13 dogs at this year's Sonoma-Marin Fair in California.
  
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• US urges Qatar and Saudi-led group to 'lower rhetoric'

  25-06-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Sunday for a "lowering of rhetoric" between Qatar and a four-nation group led by Saudi Arabia after Doha denounced their sweeping list of demands.Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt want Qatar to meet their 13-point ultimatum -- ostensibly aimed at fighting extremism and terrorism -- in return for an end to a nearly three-week-old diplomatic and trade "blockade" of the emirate.
  
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• Russia Investigation Should Have Been Disclosed Earlier, Schiff Says

  25-06-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Joe Munchin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is no friend and treating him as an ally is a mistake.
  
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• Hogwarts, horcruxes and hippogriffs: Harry Potter turns 20

  25-06-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Harry Potter turns 20 on Monday when muggle readers in gowns and glasses from Indonesia to Uruguay will celebrate the birth of a global publishing phenomenon in 1997."Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (later renamed "Sorcerer's Stone" for the US market) introduced the boy wizard and a magical cast of supporting characters.Penniless single mother J.K. Rowling finally succeeded after a series of rebuffs from publishers, and the book became the first instalment of a seven-novel series that
  
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• Trump wants 'heart' as Republicans seek to deliver Senate healthcare bill

  25-06-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell leaves the chamber after announcing the release of the Republicans’ healthcare bill.President Trump has called for an injection of what he called “heart” into the US Senate’s healthcare bill, as at least eight Republican senators continue to express doubts about the deal ahead of a critical vote this week.
  
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• Girl Falls Out Of Six Flags Ride As Bystanders Catch Her From Below

  25-06-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  "It was horrifying," a witness said.
  
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• Watch SpaceX Launch The Second Iridium Satellite Load Live

  25-06-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX is launching the second round of Iridium communication satellites live Sunday. Watch here live.
  
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• Israel targets Syria after fresh stray fire: army

  25-06-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Israeli forces fired on Syrian regime positions after projectiles from the war-torn country hit the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, the army said, in the second such exchange in two days.The military "targeted two artillery positions and an ammunitions truck belonging to the Syrian regime," a statement read, noting the army had also ordered Israelis to keep away from open areas near Quneitra, where internal fighting was heavy.Hours earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed t
  
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• UAE president receives Eid al-Fitr greeting in rare appearance since 2014 stroke

  25-06-2017 18:34 via yahoo.com
  
  The president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, made a rare public appearance on Sunday since suffering a stroke in 2014, state news agency WAM said, receiving well-wishers for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr feast.The agency posted photos of Sheikh Khalifa, who is also the ruler of Abu Dhabi, greeting rulers of other emirates in the seven-member UAE federation at a traditional reception for the feast that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.In a vide
  
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• Trump, and 2 Democrats, criticize Obama's response to Russia hacking

  25-06-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  
  In a flurry of weekend tweets and a prerecorded television appearance, Trump said his predecessor failed to act after the CIA informed him in August that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered an operation to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton in the November election."Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action?" he asked in one tweet.
  
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• Trump complains about Democrats’ rallying cry to ‘resist’

  25-06-2017 18:15 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump admitted that he likes divisive rhetoric as a campaign tactic, but now finds it frustrating when it is used by Democrats to counter his agenda.
  
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• Top Democrat Schiff criticizes Obama over reaction to Russian hacks

  25-06-2017 18:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Adam Schiff speaks during a discussion in Washington earlier this month.The Obama adminstration “should have done a lot more” to combat Russian interference in the 2016 US election before the result was known, a top congressional Democrat said on Sunday.Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, also said Donald Trump’s complaints about White House inaction, tweeted after the Washington Post reported that Barack Obama knew about Russian interference as
  
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• Pakistan Tanker Explosion: at Least 153 Killed

  25-06-2017 18:09 via yahoo.com
  
  An oil tanker truck crashed on a busy highway in Pakistan Sunday, killing at least 153 people when it exploded as crowds rushed to the scene to collect leaking fuel.
  
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• Air Asia Pilots Asks Passengers ‘To Pray’ During Wild Flight

  25-06-2017 18:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The pilot twice asked passengers to pray on Air Asia flight D7237 from Australia to Malaysia as the plane shook like a "washing machine" for two hours, according to passengers.
  
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• ‘Nobody Can Be Totally Happy’: Trump Sounds Off On Senate Healthcare

  25-06-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  
  As Republicans and Democrats sounded the alarm on the bill across the Sunday morning shows, the president lamented the delayed process in a Fox News interview.
  
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• AT&T promises massive broadband investment if Trump gives it tax breaks

  25-06-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  
  There's a tired old trick for internet service providers that want a tax break to continue gouging customers. The ISP will make some vague promise of future broadband investment, in return for immediate tax breaks or approval of an industry deal. On the surface, it sounds good: delivering broadband to rural areas is often uneconomic, so government often wants to cut a deal with private industry to deliver it.
  But the problem is that internet providers seem to have a really tricky time keepi
  
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• Father Buries Wrong Man After Coroner Misidentifies Body of His Son: Reports

  25-06-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Frank Kerrigan buried his son on May 12 and spoke to him by phone 11 days later.
  
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• The Latest: Tear gas, checkpoints greet LGBT pride in Turkey

  25-06-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the banned LGBT march in Istanbul (all times local):
  
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• Scores missing in massive China landslide; 10 bodies found

  25-06-2017 17:50 via yahoo.com
  
  MAO COUNTY, China (AP) — Rescuers recovered 10 bodies and were still searching for 93 missing people on Sunday, a day after a massive landslide buried a picturesque mountain village in southwestern China.
  
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• Battling to save campaign, Schulz hits out at 'arrogant' Merkel

  25-06-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Social Democrat chief Martin Schulz lashed out Sunday at Chancellor Angela Merkel, accusing her of "arrogance" as he sought to reverse his party's plunging popularity three months before general elections.Schulz's decision to take his party's reinsinitially jolted the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to life, but the trend has reversed.With weeks to go before Germany heads to the polls on September 24, the SPD is trailing Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) by 15 percentage point
  
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• U.S. urges Arab states to reach resolution in dispute

  25-06-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday that Qatar and the four Arab states that imposed a boycott on their tiny but wealthy neighbor should sit down together in order to try to reach a resolution."A productive next step would be for each of the countries to sit together and continue this conversation," Tillerson said in a statement."We believe our allies and partners are stronger when they are working together towards one goal which we all agree is stopping terrorism and countering
  
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• Israel cancels landmark plan for Western Wall mixed prayer

  25-06-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Israel's government on Sunday cancelled a landmark deal to create a space for women and men to pray together at the Western Wall, angering activists who have fought for the change for years.Women and men currently must pray separately at Jerusalem's Western Wall under strict interpretation of Jewish law.The deal to alter rules at one of Judaism's holiest sites was called off following pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition.
  
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• Turkey's Identity Crisis

  25-06-2017 17:20 via yahoo.com
  
  On June 14, a Turkish court sentenced Enis Berberoglu to 25 years in prison for spying. The decision sent shockwaves through Turkey, even after a year during which the government arrested, detained, or purged more than 200,000 people in the aftermath of last summer’s attempted coup d’etat. Berberoglu is neither a supporter of the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses of orchestrating the military intervention, nor is he a member of
  
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