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• Huge California wildfire spreads overnight as crews dig in

  15-07-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  By Dan WhitcombLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Firefighters battled on Saturday to gain control of a destructive wildfire burning near Santa Barbara, California that mushroomed in size overnight, pushed by gusty offshore winds into dry brush that has not burned in decades.The Whittier Fire, which broke out July 8 and has already destroyed eight homes, had been more than 50 percent contained on Friday before so-called "Sundowner" winds picked up in the evening, according to a California Department of For
  
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• Trump campaign paid lawyer now representing son $50,000 before emails released 

  15-07-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's presidential re-election campaign made a $50,000 payment in June to the law office now representing Donald Trump Jr. more than a week before revelations that the president's son had met with a Russian lawyer during the campaign. The payment to the Law Offices of Alan S. Futerfas, dated June 27, was disclosed in a filing with the Federal Election Commission on Saturday. It was described as covering "legal consulting" fees. Separately, the campaign also paid Jones Day, the law firm
  
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• Hamas says target Israelis after Jerusalem site attack

  15-07-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza's militant Hamas rulers on Saturday called on Palestinians to attack Israeli forces in Jerusalem after a sacred site was closed following a deadly assault there.
  
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• Top US court asks Hawaii respond by Tuesday to Trump travel ban motion

  15-07-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court has given Hawaii until Tuesday to respond to the White House's motion to block a ruling exempting grandparents of people living in the US from the president's travel ban, the court's public information office said Saturday.In a court filing Friday, the Donald Trump administration requested the nation's highest bench overturn Thursday's decision by a Hawaii federal judge, which limited the reach of the executive order temporarily barring refugees and other travelers from six pre
  
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• Over 7 Million Pounds Of Hot Dogs Recalled Over Bone Fragments

  15-07-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Check your label before you start off the grill. Over 7 million pounds of hot dogs are being recalled over bone fragments.
  
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• Skydiving Tandem In Australia Die When Parachute Doesn't Open

  15-07-2017 22:41 via yahoo.com
  
  A video captured the instructor in high spirits before the dive in an area outside of Sydney.
  
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• The Latest: Italy's migrant crisis is spawning new protests

  15-07-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — The Latest on the migrant crisis in Europe (all times local):
  
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• Officers Help Delivery Woman's Baby Boy on Side of the Road

  15-07-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The baby's head was already coming out when officer's arrived.
  
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• After deadly shooting, Israel says Jerusalem's Noble Sanctuary to reopen Sunday

  15-07-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Israel will reopen the Noble Sanctuary-Temple Mount compound on Sunday, a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, after the holy site had been shut down following a deadly shooting.On Friday, three Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli policemen on the outskirts of the compound, holy to Muslims and Jews, and were then killed by security forces.Netanyahu's statement said the site, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, would be open from Su
  
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• Turkey marks the 1-year anniversary of failed coup attempt

  15-07-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Tens of thousands joined a national unity march in Istanbul on Saturday, converging at the iconic July 15 Martyrs' Bridge to mark the anniversary of the failed military coup attempt that 250 people died resisting.
  
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• France aims to be 'facilitator' in Gulf crisis talks

  15-07-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday that Paris wants to assist Kuwait-led mediation on the crisis between Qatar and four other Arab states after holding talks in Doha and Jeddah.Le Drian stopped in Qatar at the start of a Gulf tour aimed at helping defuse the crisis pitting Qatar against Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt.
  
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• Xi confidant and rising Chinese political star promoted

  15-07-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  By Adam Jourdan and Philip WenSHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Saturday named rising political star Chen Miner as Communist Party boss in southwestern Chongqing, cementing his reputation as a favorite of President Xi Jinping ahead of a leadership reshuffle at a key party congress in the autumn.The elevation of Chen, a trusted confidant of Xi, is a sign the president is flexing his political muscles as he maneuvers to line up a new Politburo Standing Committee, the apex of political power in
  
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• France calls for swift lifting of sanctions on Qatari nationals

  15-07-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  
  France called on Saturday for a swift lifting of sanctions that target Qatari nationals in an effort to ease a month-long rift between the Gulf country and several of its neighbors.Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed sanctions on Qatar on June 5, accusing it of financing extremist groups and allying with the Gulf Arab states' arch-foe Iran.Doha denies the accusations.
  
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• Supreme Court gives Hawaii until Tuesday to answer Trump travel ban motion

  15-07-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the State of Hawaii to respond by Tuesday at noon to President Donald Trump's motion to block a judge's ruling that prevented his travel ban from being applied to grandparents of U.S. citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies, the court's publicinformation office said on Saturday.In a court filing on Friday, the administration asked the justices to overturn Thursday's decision by a U.S. district judge in Hawaii, which limited the scop
  
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• U.S. Journalist, 3 Security Guards Remain Missing After Attack in Congo

  15-07-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  An American journalist and at least three security guards remain missing after an attack by the Mai Mai militia outside of Mambasa
  
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• Reebok responds to Trump's comments to Brigitte Macron with chart showing when they would be 'appropriate'

  15-07-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Sports apparel company Reebok has responded with to Donald Trump's comments to Brigitte Macron with a chart outlining scenarios when the comments would be "appropriate".Mr Trump said France's First Lady, wife of President Emmanuel Macron, was "beautiful" and "in such good shape" repeatedly during what many called an awkward interaction at the beginning of the US President's visit to Paris for Bastille Day.The company took to Mr Trump's favoured public outreach forum, Twitter, to share the chart.
  
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• 'We Don't Have Any Gays.' Chechen Leader Denies Persecution of Gay Men

  15-07-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Chechnya's strongman leader has harshly denounced claims that his southern Russian republic has tortured and even killed gay men
  
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• Syrian army takes more oil fields from Islamic State in Raqqa and eastern desert

  15-07-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  By Suleiman Al-KhalidiBEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air strikes seized a string of oil wells in southwest Raqqa province on Saturday, as retreating Islamic State militants battle to defend their remaining territory in the country.State-owned Ikhbariyah television quoted a military source as saying the army had taken control of Wahab, al Fahd, Dbaysan, al-Qseer, Abu al Qatat and Abu Qatash oil fields and several other villages in the desert area that lies in the south
  
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• Rival groups clash in Syria's rebel-packed Idlib

  15-07-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes have broken out in northwestern Syria between two of the most powerful insurgent groups there raising fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib, the groups and an opposition monitor said Saturday.
  
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• Major insurance groups call part of health bill 'unworkable'

  15-07-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Major insurance groups call part of health bill 'unworkable'
  
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• Probe into fatal Honolulu apartment tower fire

  15-07-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Honolulu fire officials on Saturday were hoping to determine the cause of a blaze that tore through three upper floors of a 36-story residential tower in Hawaii's capital.
  
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• Egypt police probe motives of Red Sea beach attacker

  15-07-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Police on Saturday questioned the suspected jihadist who stabbed to death two German women and wounded four others at a Red Sea beach resort, adding to the woes of Egypt's hobbled tourism industry.Elsewhere the interior ministry said police killed six militants in two shootouts near Cairo and the eastern Ismailiya province.Egypt has struggled to quash militant attacks led by the Islamic State group, whose local branch is based in the Sinai Peninsula, after the army ousted Islamist president Moha
  
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• Georgia elections chief plans changes after security issues

  15-07-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's top elections official stood out by refusing help from the Department of Homeland Security last August amid national concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections.
  
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• Egypt knife attacker first sat, spoke with 2 German victims

  15-07-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  HURGHADA, Egypt (AP) — The Egyptian university graduate who stabbed two German women to death at a popular Red Sea resort first sat and spoke to them in fluent German before producing a large kitchen knife and attacking them, security officials said Saturday.
  
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• White House pitches health bill to skeptical US governors

  15-07-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Trump administration is struggling to get support from skeptical U.S. governors for a revised health care bill before the U.S. Senate.
  
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• Maths 'genius' Maryam Mirzakhani dies, aged 40

  15-07-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, died Saturday in a US hospital after a battle with cancer.Mirzakhani's friend Firouz Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA, announced her death on Instagram.Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford University in California, died after the cancer she had been battling for four years spread to her bone marrow, Iranian media said.
  
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• What Led To The Deaths Of 4 Missing Pennsylvania Men?

  15-07-2017 19:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Cosmo DiNardo admitted to the murders, but what was his motive?
  
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• Democrats turn focus on Jared Kushner as they scent blood amid drip, drip, drip of Russia scandal

  15-07-2017 18:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Last week, Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump were hobnobbing with technology titans and billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett, at an annual conference for the global elite put on by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in Sun Valley, Idaho. For America's foremost power couple it was a welcome retreat from Washington, where a full-scale Democratic assault on the pair has reached fever pitch. Mr Kushner, in particular, has become the focus of a concerted, multi-pronged attempt to
  
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• A Skydiver Told His Wife He Wasn't Going to Pull Parachute Cord. She Arrived 'Moments' Too Late

  15-07-2017 18:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The wife of a skydiver arrived moments too late to save him after he sent her a message saying he wasn't going to pull his parachute cord.
  
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• Sorrow as Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win mathematics' Fields Medal, dies aged 40

  15-07-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40. Mirzakhani' friend Firouz Naderi announced her death on Saturday on Instagram, and her relatives confirmed the death to the Mehr agency in Iran. "A light was turned off today. It breaks my heart ..... gone far too soon," wrote Naderi, a former director of Solar Systems Exploration at NASA. "A genius? Yes. But also a daughter,
  
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• Lighting should have alerted pilots of potential disaster

  15-07-2017 18:26 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  Investigators looking into the frighteningly close call involving an airliner that nearly hit planes on the ground at San Francisco International Airport will try to determine why the pilots made such ...
  
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• How a Connecticut Nonprofit Aims to Foster Employment for Autism

  15-07-2017 18:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Roses for Autism is a non-profit social enterprise that sells roses and a variety other flowers — all proceeds from the sales fund scholarships and career training for transition age Autism.
  
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• Congrats to this clever mama raccoon who broke into a car to give birth

  15-07-2017 18:16 via yahoo.com
  
  No one wants their car broken into, but sometimes you gotta give credit where credit is due.  Consider, for example, this mother raccoon, who climbed through a plastic window cover and tumbled into the backseat of a parked convertible at an auto shop so she could safely give birth to her kits.  She was later relocated by Devon of Wildlife, Inc. Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Manatee, Florida. SEE ALSO: Pelican in a cop car wants you to know this isn't what it looks like "I capture
  
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• The Plant-Based Burger That Smells, Tastes and Bleeds Like the Real Thing

  15-07-2017 18:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Pat Brown, the scientist and chief executive behind the plant-based burger from Impossible Foods, is on a mission to recreate the texture, smell, and flavor of meat that carnivores crave — while cutting down on the waste in meat production.
  
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• Nevada Marijuana Shortage: State Officials Scramble to Stock up

  15-07-2017 18:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Just two weeks after pot sales began, state officials are scrambling to prevent a shortage. The stakes are high — the state budget is counting on millions in anticipated tax revenue from pot sales.
  
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• Pres. Trump Plays Down Controversies As WH Hires Lawyer for Russia

  15-07-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The president took to Twitter to play down the controversies of the last week surrounding his son Don Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer. Inside the White House, the administration named a Washington veteran to handle the Russia investigation internally.
  
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• Honolulu Fire: At Least Three Killed in High-Fire Blaze

  15-07-2017 18:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The fire broke out at a Honolulu high-rise condominium building on Friday, sending flames and smoke billowing out from the tower's upper floors and causing people to flee to safety.
  
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• Sanders Says Trump Jr Emails Are 'Damaging'

  15-07-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  
  The Vermont senator has a stance on Donald Trump Jr. but has maintained his focus on healthcare.
  
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• PSA: You might want to look up at the sky on Sunday night

  15-07-2017 17:53 via yahoo.com
  
  If you're free on Sunday night and you live within a certain range of northern latitudes, you might want to look out a window.  Meteorologists are predicting an aurora borealis, or northern lights show. Do you live where the #Aurora may be visible Sunday night?Don't forget to check the cloud forecast! https://t.co/VyWINDk3xP #AuroraBorealis pic.twitter.com/gmggkmScDv — NWS (@NWS) July 14, 2017The northern lights are the result of our sun's solar storms, which emit streams of char
  
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• Lobbyist who met Trump team says he's not with Russian intel

  15-07-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian-American lobbyist who attended a meeting at Trump Tower last year is a former military officer who has attracted congressional scrutiny over his political activities and has been shadowed by allegations of connections to Russian intelligence that he denies.
  
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• US Embassy: No need for diplomatic status for Russian center

  15-07-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The U.S. embassy in Belgrade said there's no need to grant diplomatic status to the Russian staff of the controversial facility in Serbia that some consider a spy base but that Moscow insists is a disaster relief center.
  
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• Major Insurance Groups Call Key Provision in Senate Health Care Bill 'Unworkable'

  15-07-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The specific language was crafted by Sen. Ted Cruz
  
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• Workers pose with British cannonball unearthed after 250 years - not realising it was still live

  15-07-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  
  When a Canadian construction team came across a giant cannonball as they excavated a building site in Quebec, they did what anyone else would do in this age of Snapchat and Instagram. They moved the 200lb projectile into better view and posed with it for photographs. It was only later, when an archaeologist was studying the missile, the workers learned of their lucky escape: The cannonball was still live, packed with a charge and gunpowder just as it would have been when fired by British gu
  
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• Three killed in Rakhine explosion: Myanmar police

  15-07-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  
  Three people, including two teenage boys, were killed by an explosion in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on Saturday, a police officer said.Police were investigating if the mine had been laid intentionally or if the victims had accidentally struck unexploded ordnance leftover from a previous conflict, an officer told AFP.The north of Rakhine state is an impoverished area scarred by a brutal army crackdown on its Muslim Rohingya population.
  
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• Chechen leader invokes damnation for gay persecution claims

  15-07-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Chechnya's strongman leader has harshly denounced claims that his southern Russian republic has tortured and even killed gay men, denying that there even are any homosexual men in his region.
  
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• US and Australia test hypersonic missiles that fly at a mile a second

  15-07-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  
  The US has been testing hypersonic aircraft missiles that could fly at a mile per second.It has collaborated with Australia to research and pilot weapons able to fly at least five times faster than the speed of sound - anywhere from 3,836mph up to 7,700 mph.The round of experiments concluded on 12 July, confirmed Australian defence minister Marise Payne.
  
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• Three soldiers killed in Ivory Coast barrack shooting

  15-07-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Three soldiers died after shooting erupted overnight at a base in Ivory Coast, which has been gripped by tensions within the military, security sources said Saturday.Gunfire was heard coming from the barracks at Korhogo, a city in the north of the the West African country, at around 1:00 am (0100 GMT), Adama Coulibaly, a local carpenter reached by phone said."There are three dead soldiers," an officer told AFP separately, without giving further details.
  
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• EU leaders willing to compromise on freedom of movement, says Tony Blair

  15-07-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andy BruceLONDON (Reuters) - European Union leaders are willing to change the bloc's rules for the freedom of movement of workers, opening an opportunity for Britain to avoid a damaging "hard Brexit", former prime minister Tony Blair said on Saturday.The election of French President Emmanuel Macron had put reform of the EU on the table, meaning Britain and the EU could meet "halfway" to strike a deal that would keep Britain inside the world's largest trading area, Blair said."The European lea
  
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• Trump regrets 'bizarre mistake' of Paris climate pullout, Branson claims

  15-07-2017 17:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump regrets the “bizarre mistake” of withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement, Sir Richard Branson has said.Speaking in Brooklyn on Friday, the Virgin Group founder said businesses and cities were firmly behind a transition to low-carbon energy, which made Trump’s decision to exit the Paris deal “very, very strange”.“With climate change, it’s America first and our beautiful globe last, and that seems incredibly sad,” said Branso
  
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• Afghan girls robotics team land in US after visa U-turn

  15-07-2017 17:11 via yahoo.com
  
  A team of Afghan girls who were earlier denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition landed in the United States early Saturday following an intervention by US President Donald Trump.The six-member team were greeted at Dulles International Airport by a throng of supporters, including Afghan ambassador Hamdullah Mohib and acting special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Alice G Wells, and were presented with bouquets."Our acting special rep to #Afghanistan/#Pakistan welcomes
  
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