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• Venezuela president says supporters will take up arms if government falls

  27-06-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  As the death toll continues to rise from three months of political unrest in Venezuela, the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has warned that his supporters will take up arms if his government is overthrown.Speaking at a rally to promote a 30 July vote for a constituent assembly, Maduro said he would fight to defend the “Bolivarian revolution” of his predecessor Hugo Chávez.
  
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• Woman Stabbed to Death While Walking Home Through Park Behind School: 'No One Deserves That'

  27-06-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Debra Gulliver, 33, was stabbed at least 12 times.
  
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• Great Decorating News: Brass is Back!

  27-06-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  It’s not the flashy brass of the 1980s. The current brass is softer, duller, and warmer. Here are 5 ways to use it in your home.
  
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• Saudi, Qatar ministers spar over Arab nations' demands

  27-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday that there would be no negotiations over demands by the kingdom and other Arab states for Qatar to stop supporting terrorism.Doha retorted that the allegations against it and demands were baseless and unacceptable.Qatar has previously also said the demands were aimed at curbing its sovereignty.
  
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• Starting today, you can finally get an Amazon Fire TV that’s actually a TV

  27-06-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Amazon’s Fire TV Stick and Fire TV box are two of the most popular streaming media devices on the planet. Amazon’s interface is terrific and simple, and tossing Alexa into the mix makes it a slam dunk. These devices are great for TVs you already have in your home, but now there’s finally a solution for Amazon lovers who are buying a new TV. Check out the Element 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV - Amazon Fire TV Edition. It just launched today, it’s available in four different siz
  
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• Outrage as Mother of 'Baby Doe' Walks Free Following Boyfriend's Conviction

  27-06-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachelle Bond testified against boyfriend Michael McCarthy, who was convicted of murder.
  
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• Hedge fund executive Scaramucci lands post at Export-Import Bank: source

  27-06-2017 23:19
  
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund industry executive Anthony Scaramucci, an advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, has been named chief strategy officer of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a source familiar...
  
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• California moves forward on letting customers sue banks, inspired by Wells Fargo

  27-06-2017 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California took another step on Tuesday toward allowing state residents to sue financial institutions for fraud, rather than letting banks force customers to settle disputes in...
  
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• Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman will block all US arms sales to Saudi Arabia and five other countries

  27-06-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker has announced he will block any future arms sales to six Gulf Region countries while they are engaged in a major dispute over funding for terrorism.Five Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members voted to cut ties with fellow Council member Qatar earlier this month.The states, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, claim Qatar has been funding Sunni Islamic terrorism and working on behalf of Iran.
  
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• Family sues over fatal police shooting of Louisiana black man

  27-06-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  
  The family of a black man killed last year by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and police on Tuesday, alleging a history of excessive-force incidents and racism toward African-Americans.The death of Alton Sterling, 37, was among a series of racially charged police killings that inflamed a national debate over treatment of minorities by law enforcement.The lawsuit, filed in state court on behalf of Sterling's five children, seeks unspecified damage
  
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• White House clashes with journalists over 'inflammatory' accusations of 'fake news'

  27-06-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House press office and reporters tasked with covering the President have once again broken out in heated arguments and shouting during the daily press briefing.Early during questioning, White House Deputy Press Secretary was asked by a Brietbart News reporter about tweets from the President overnight calling out a CNN report that had to be retracted following concerns that it had not gone through regular editorial processes.Ms Huckabee Sanders continued to accuse the news media of forg
  
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• The Latest: US warns Syria against chemical attack

  27-06-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the White House saying it has "potential" evidence that Syria's government is preparing another chemical weapons attack (all times local):
  
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• Reporter unloads on deputy press secretary at White House briefing: ‘What you just did is inflammatory!’

  27-06-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump’s ongoing battle with the media boiled over during the White House press briefing on Tuesday when a reporter tore into Sarah Huckabee Sanders for complaining about the “constant barrage of fake news.”
  
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• New president's politicking raises ethics flags

  27-06-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely five months into office, President Donald Trump keeps taking time out from governing to run for re-election.
  
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• Bitcoin exchange operator tied to hacks gets five-and-a-half years U.S. prison

  27-06-2017 22:43
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man was sentenced on Tuesday to 5-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to operating an illegal bitcoin exchange suspected of laundering money for hackers and...
  
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• World's first ATM machine turns to gold on 50th birthday

  27-06-2017 22:41
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Five decades since it heralded a transformation in the way people obtained and used cash, the world's first ATM was turned into gold for celebrations of its fiftieth anniversary.
  
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• U.S. says it saw preparations for possible Syria chemical attack

  27-06-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason and Dmitry SolovyovWASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - A U.S. warning to Syria's leadership against staging a chemical weapons attack was based on intelligence about what appeared to be active preparations at a Syrian airfield used for such an attack in April, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.Russia, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main international backer, denounced the warning and dismissed White House assertions that a strike was being prepared as "unacceptable," raising the tension
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro warns of war if 'revolution' toppled

  27-06-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro warned on Tuesday that he and supporters would take up arms if his socialist government was violently overthrown by opponents who have been on the streets protesting for three months."I'm telling the world, and I hope the world listens after 90 days of protest, destruction and death," Maduro said in reference to anti-government unrest that has led to at least 75 deaths in the OPEC nation since April."If Venezuela was plunged into chaos and violence and the Bo
  
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• What the Heck Are Hip Dips? The Facts Behind the Body Part That's Driving a Social Media Craze

  27-06-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  A sports medicine doctor talks about the tiny pelvic curves so many women are suddenly celebrating.
  
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• Trump resorts have a fake Time cover on the walls, featuring guess who?

  27-06-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump, sworn enemy of fake news, is also a purveyor of it: the Washington Post reports at least four of his golf resorts have phony Time magazine covers featuring the commander in chief.“Donald Trump: ‘The Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the cover reads, adding an emphatic “Trump is hitting on all fronts … even TV!” across the top.The cover is dated March 1, 2009, the first day of the second season of “The Celebrity Apprentice,&
  
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• China's verdant 'forest city' will fight pollution with a million plants

  27-06-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  If tree-covered skyscrapers act like enormous air filters, this cluster of buildings will be a clean air oasis. China has broken ground on a "forest city" in the southern city of Liuzhou. The development, which will span two-thirds of a mile along the Liujiang River, involves blanketing offices, apartments, hotels, and schools with more than a million plants and about 40,000 trees. SEE ALSO: How drones are helping to plant trees The verdant towers will help soak up urban air pollution, produce c
  
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• North Carolina man gets life in prison for plotting Islamic State attack

  27-06-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Justin Sullivan, 21, of Morganton, was sentenced in federal court in Asheville on one count of attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, the Justice Department said in a statement.Sullivan had pleaded guilty in November 2016, and the agreement with prosecutors called for the life sentence.Prosecutors said Sullivan conspired with Junaid Hussain, a British hacker who was an online recruiter of people to carry out attacks on behalf of the militant group Islamic Stat
  
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• Huckabee Sanders faces off with reporter at daily briefing

  27-06-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  During Tuesday’s daily briefing, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sentinel newspaper reporter Brian Karen had a heated exchange after Sanders criticized the press for its coverage of the Trump White House, citing the retracted CNN story.
  
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• 'Handmaid's Tale' protesters are back, and this time they're at the Capitol

  27-06-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Handmaids in red robes and white bonnets stood in front of the Capitol Tuesday to protest the latest iteration of the GOP health care bill that's up for a vote in the senate. SEE ALSO: Why 'Handmaid's Tale' costumes are the most powerful meme of the resistance yet The protesters — clad in uniforms from Margaret Atwood's dystopian novelThe Handmaid's Tale — are demonstrating against a struggling senate bill that would overhaul Obamacare. The vote has been delayed until after the July
  
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• Trump growing frustrated with China, weighs trade steps: officials

  27-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  By Steve HollandWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with China over its inaction on North Korea and bilateral trade issues and is now considering possible trade actions against Beijing, three senior administration officials told Reuters.The officials said Trump was impatient with China and was looking at a range of options, including tariffs on steel imports, which Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has already said he is considering as part of a national
  
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• Female teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with student in car

  27-06-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  
  A female substitute teacher has been arrested and charged with alleged sexual contact with a 17-year-old student in Missouri.Loryn Barclay, 24, has been charged with purportedly having sex with the student in his car and at his home on numerous occasions between November 2016 and January 2017.A local police officer who also serves at the school, Jay Jastal, was tipped off about the possible relationship.
  
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• With Human Trafficking Report, Tillerson Rebukes China on Human Rights

  27-06-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The first daughter joined the secretary of state for the report's launch as the Trump administration tries to find its footing on human rights.
  
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• Saudis Shrug Off Arms Sale Freeze, Convinced Qatar Will Bend

  27-06-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  As the diplomatic rift drags on, neither side shows much willingness to budge.
  
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• Ten Commandments monument installed in Arkansas; ACLU vows court fight

  27-06-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Arkansas installed a Ten Commandments monument on the state's Capitol grounds on Tuesday, and a civil liberties group pledged a court challenge, saying it showed an unconstitutional government preference for a certain religion.Legislators approved the act for the monument in 2015, and whether it was appropriate for the public grounds has been debated since.At the installation ceremony for the some 3,000-pound (1,360 kg) granite slab in Little Rock, state Senator Jason Rapert noted that the Ten C
  
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• The Latest: Vetted refugees can come to US through July 6

  27-06-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to partially reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban (all times local):
  
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• A&M adds new senior director to disputes and investigations unit

  27-06-2017 21:20
  
  (Reuters) - Professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal named Candus Hinderer as senior director of the company's disputes and investigations practice.
  
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• The Latest: Aid group fears for migrants at Italy border

  27-06-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The Latest on Europe's response to the large numbers of migrants and refugees trying to reach the continent (all times local):
  
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• N. Carolina man sentenced in foiled IS-inspired shooting

  27-06-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A man who plotted to shoot hundreds of people on behalf of the Islamic State group received a life sentence Tuesday in a case that prosecutors say illustrates the dangers of Americans radicalized through social media.
  
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• In Mosul's Old City, Iraqi soldiers on foot fight last pocket of Islamic State

  27-06-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  By Stephen KalinMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Peering through a lookout hole at the Mosul frontline on Tuesday, Iraqi soldiers clad in black uniforms surveyed the last remaining patch of land controlled by Islamic State in the city's historic center.Just steps away in no-man's land stands the stump of the Hadba minaret, which towered above the city for 850 years until the militants rigged it with explosives and razed it to the ground last week.Getting this deep into Mosul's Old City means soldiers fro
  
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• Sen Warner: A Lot of Facts We Need to Get Out

  27-06-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Senator Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about progress in the Trump Russia investigation and the path forward, including processing 2000 pages of financial evidence with more on the way.
  
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• California man isn't asked, doesn't say where missing son is

  27-06-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A California father told a judge on Tuesday that he wasn't hiding from authorities when he was arrested in Las Vegas, and will not fight his transfer in custody to Los Angeles to face a murder charge in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son.
  
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• The Latest: No word in court or from lawyer where boy is

  27-06-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the arrest in Las Vegas of a California man on a murder charge in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son after a trip to Disneyland (all times local):
  
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• Senate Republicans suddenly delay health care vote, Trump tells GOPers he won't 'like' if bill fails

  27-06-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Senate Republican leadership abruptly decided to delay a vote on their plan to begin voting on a sweeping and controversial overhaul of the nation’s health care system.
  
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• Mali bishop pledges to make cardinal's ceremony amid scandal

  27-06-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — An ailing Mali archbishop facing allegations of financial impropriety assured the Vatican on Tuesday he plans to show up at St. Peter's Basilica to be made a cardinal by Pope Francis.
  
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• Britain's Colossal New Carrier Will Launch American F-35s

  27-06-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  
  With "four acres of sovereign territory," the HMS Queen Elizabeth will launch U.S. F-35Bs during its first years of service.
  
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• Astronomers Release Most Detailed Image of a Star That's Not the Sun

  27-06-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  
  supergiant is a huge red supergiant, so we can get pretty good images of the enormous star.
  
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• The U.S. Air Force Just Had an Awful Week

  27-06-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Crashes, ground accidents, and tornadoes, and crippled aircraft were all on the menu last week.
  
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• 15 Still Missing After Tourist Boat Sinks in Colombia

  27-06-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the tourist boat packed with more than 150 passengers that capsized, leaving at least six people dead.
  
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• 10 must-have iPhone accessories under $25

  27-06-2017 19:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple’s iPhones are arguably the best smartphones on the planet. The hardware is fantastic, the customer service is positively unbeatable, and the iOS platform is the best mobile software platform in the world. Of course, all that comes at a price — iPhones are also some of the most expensive smartphones out there. You’ve already spent somewhere between $650 and $950 on your iPhone, so now it’s time to save some money. In this post, you’ll find 10 different must-hav
  
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• Why People Are Pissed About Taco Bell's Double Chalupa

  27-06-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  
  What a bummer.
  
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• Republicans delay vote on healthcare bill in major setback for Trump's Obamacare repeal

  27-06-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Facing growing opposition from members of his own party, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has delayed the vote on the Republicans' healthcare bill until after Congress's 4 July recess.The schedule change is another setback for Donald Trump's effort to repeal and replace Obamacare – officially known as the Affordable Care Act – which he has repeatedly referred to as "dead".Mr Trump summoned all 52 Republican senators to the White House on Tuesday afternoon to discuss how to proc
  
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• Rare spate of bear attacks leaves two dead in Alaska

  27-06-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  A warning sign in Anchorage, Alaska, after a 16-year-old runner was recently killed by a black bear.There have only been six fatal bear attacks in the state in 130 years.Alaska is experiencing a spate of bear attacks, with four people attacked in less than a week, resulting in two fatalities.
  
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• Emmett Till Mississippi civil rights memorial vandalised for second time in two months

  27-06-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  An sign marking the site where black teenager was accused of whistling at a white woman - something that would subsequently result in him being lynched - has been vandalised for the second time in two months.The marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail was damaged last month when someone scratched on it.Allan Hammons, whose company manages the Mississippi Freedom Trail, more than a dozen signs established in 2011 to mark seminal moments and locations in the civil rights movements, said the incide
  
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• MacNaughton to join UBS as head of HY trading

  27-06-2017 19:40
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Robert MacNaughton is joining UBS as managing director and head of high-yield trading, according to a source familiar with the matter.
  
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