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• Trump Has Essentially Abdicated The Basic Responsibilities Of A President

  27-08-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  On Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested that the president of the United States does not speak for American values.
  
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• Local leaders say 1,000 dead from Sierra Leone mudslides

  27-08-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — More than 1,000 people have died from the mudslide and flood that hit Sierra Leone's capital nearly two weeks ago, a local leader and a minister said Sunday during services honoring the disaster's victims.
  
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• Trump meets and tweets as Texas gov praises Harvey response

  27-08-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to showcase the federal government's response to Hurricane Harvey in a tweetstorm of his own Sunday, marveling over its size like a TV host and announcing a visit to Texas with the natural disaster only just beginning to take its catastrophic toll.
  
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• First lady appears to borrow from Michelle Obama's playbook

  27-08-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  Bare arms and a belted waist, a White House vegetable garden and parents in the residence: Melania Trump is borrowing pages from Michelle Obama's playbook.
  
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• Tropical Storm Harvey in photos: Views of the Houston flood from the ground

  27-08-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Harvey is no ordinary storm. Those old enough to remember Hurricane Katrina in 2005 can recall chilling images and video of a city submerged. A storm surge washed across New Orleans, inflicting countless casualties and billions in property damage.  In Houston, it was not a surge of seawater that flooded the nation's 4th-largest city, but rather trillions of gallons of water from relentless rainbands rotating around a stationary storm. SEE ALSO: Houston's good Samaritans are watching out for
  
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• How to help victims of Harvey

  27-08-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  The devastating storm has left millions of Texas residents in need of aid — and there are many ways you can help.
  
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 accidents in Europe's Alps

  27-08-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
  
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• Blake Lively Celebrates Turning ’16 … but Like 14 Years Late’ with Friends, Including Anna Kendrick

  27-08-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Blake Lively is ringing in her 30th year in sweet style
  
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• Here's how you can help with Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts

  27-08-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Harvey is turning out to be one of the most powerful storms to hit the U.S. since 2005, and you don't have to sit on the sidelines as it continues to inundate parts of Texas SEE ALSO: Airbnb offers Hurricane Harvey evacuees free shelter The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other relief agencies are already taking stock of the situation to help with evacuations and rescue efforts in Texas. But if you're looking to pitch in sooner, here are some of the most reliable no
  
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• 'No Fascist USA.' Thousands Protest Planned Right-Wing Rally at Berkeley

  27-08-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  There were a few skirmishes
  
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• Texas gov praises Harvey response; Trump meets and tweets

  27-08-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott loaded heavy praise Sunday on President Donald Trump and the federal government for its response to Hurricane Harvey, describing an "A-plus" effort with the storm only just beginning to take its catastrophic toll.
  
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• As Tropical Storm Harvey rages in Texas, Trump drops hodgepodge of tweets

  27-08-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  President Trump took to Twitter Sunday to indicate he was monitoring Tropical Storm Harvey, but wedged between well wishes were off-topic missives.
  
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• 'The President Speaks for Himself.' Rex Tillerson Distances Himself From Trump

  27-08-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  "The president speaks for himself"
  
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• Wisconsin Democrats face crowded field against Walker

  27-08-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats have sometimes struggled to field candidates against Republican Gov. Scott Walker. This time around, they find themselves with the opposite problem.
  
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• Rex Tillerson defends American values but says Donald Trump 'speaks for himself'

  27-08-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s values are not necessarily America’s values, according to Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, who ignited fresh questions on Sunday about the fall-out from the president’s handling of violence in Charlottesville earlier this month. Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Mr Tillerson was asked about Mr Trump’s comments apparently finding moral equivalence between white supremacists and the people who marched against them. His response – in which he said there
  
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• Trump Rescinded Obama's Flood Risk Rules Before Harvey

  27-08-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The president wanted to make it quicker to get infrastructure built.
  
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• Trump Rescinded Obama's Flood-Risk Rule Before Harvey

  27-08-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The president wants to make it quicker to get infrastructure built.
  
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• Tillerson keeps distance from Trump's race row stance

  27-08-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson defended American values on Sunday after a UN panel criticized the official response to racist violence -- but conspicuously declined to speak for President Donald Trump.Trump triggered outrage earlier this month when he suggested both sides were at fault after unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a woman was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a group of counter-protesters.Tillerson, asked on Fox News Sunday whether Trump's stance had mad
  
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• Houston's good Samaritans are watching out for each other as Harvey rages on

  27-08-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  As Tropical Storm Harvey beats down on Houston, good Samaritans throughout the area are showing up for one another in whatever ways possible.  These shows of kindness — for strangers, for animals, for local correspondents — come as the city suffers historic flooding that the National Weather Service has deemed "unprecedented". SEE ALSO: Apple is accepting donations through iTunes to aid Harvey storm relief As the city braces for more rainfall in the coming hours, its residents a
  
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 accidents in European alps

  27-08-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
  
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• Pakistani police fire tear gas to disperse anti-US crowd

  27-08-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police used tear gas and batons Sunday to disperse anti-U.S. protesters in the southern port city of Karachi, while in the federal capital Islamabad the foreign office issued a terse announcement that it canceled this week's visit by a senior U.S. delegation.
  
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• Five climbers killed, one injured in Austrian mountain accident

  27-08-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Five climbers were killed and one seriously injured after a mountain accident on Sunday in the Austrian state of Salzburg, the Austrian Press Agency reported.The tragedy involved a group of climbers in the so-called Mannlkarscharte, a gap in the mountains southwest of Salzburg at about 3,000 meters (10,000 ft) above sea level.The accident was observed by another group of climbers.
  
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• Social media is helping police make arrests related to the violence in Charlottesville

  27-08-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Social media is helping track down the white supremacists responsible for brutally assaulting a counterprotester in Charlottesville. Per aNew York Times report, Daniel P. Borden, one of the multiple assailants who attacked 20-year-old Deandre Harris during the infamous "Unite the Right" rally on August 12 has been arrested. Police have also issued a wanted poster for Alex Michael Ramos, another man sought in connection to the crime. Both have face charges of malicious wounding.  SEE ALSO: Y
  
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• Majority of people in France now dissatisfied with Macron: poll

  27-08-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  By Sudip Kar-GuptaPARIS (Reuters) - Most French voters are now dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron's performance, a poll showed on Sunday, a dramatic decline for a president who basked in a landslide election victory less than four months ago.The poll, conducted by Ifop for newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), showed Macron's "dissatisfaction rating" rising to 57 percent, from 43 percent in July.French government spokesman Christophe Castaner said the ruling party was going through a tricky tim
  
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• 'Out of bounds': Republicans criticize Trump over Joe Arpaio pardon

  27-08-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The onslaught of criticism against Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio did not let up on Sunday, with members of the president’s own party calling the move “absolutely staggering”, “out of bounds” and a dangerous message to send to law enforcement.“It absolutely should be out of bounds for somebody to use [the power to pardon] as some sort of a political wedge,” said Ohio governor John Kasich, who competed against Trump in t
  
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• Smugglers' tunnel uncovered on US-Mexico border

  27-08-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Military authorities have uncovered a tunnel under the Mexico-US border that was used to smuggle migrants from the city of Tijuana to San Diego, California, the Mexican government said Sunday.The entrance on the Mexican side was inside a warehouse and the exit was just beyond the border fence in San Diego, officials said.Twenty-five migrants were picked up by the US Border Patrol as they emerged from the passageway, a Mexican state police official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
  
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• The Latest: Climbing accidents leave 8 dead in European alps

  27-08-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on climbing deaths and mountain rescues in Europe (all times local):
  
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• Angela Merkel tells asylum seekers not to take holidays in their country of origin

  27-08-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Harsher measures should be taken against asylum seekers if they take a holiday in their country of origin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview, in which she also said she had no regrets over her open-door refugee policy. "Taking holidays in the country in which you are being persecuted is not on," she said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag, adding that it could be a reason to re-examine an asylum case.  While there is no official data on asylum seekers returning to their
  
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• In a deal, remains of Lebanon soldiers held by IS located

  27-08-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The remains of eight Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago were located Sunday, a senior Lebanese official said, in a negotiated deal that followed a military offensive to drive the militants out of the border area with Syria.
  
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• After decades of war, Colombia's FARC rebels debut political party

  27-08-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  By Nelson Bocanegra and Julia Symmes CobbBOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's leftist FARC rebel group is introducing its political party at a conference that began on Sunday, a major step in its transition into a civilian organization after more than 50 years of war and its first chance to announce policy to skeptical voters.The six-day meeting in Bogota of FARC members, who have handed in more than 8,000 weapons to the United Nations during their demobilization, is expected to conclude on Friday with
  
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• Police: Concrete slab may hold remains of long-missing woman

  27-08-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  MILTON, Pa. (AP) — Investigators hope tests on a three-ton hunk of concrete will soon solve the 1989 disappearance of a young mother, by determining whether her remains were fed through wood chipper and then entombed in the basement of a Pennsylvania duplex.
  
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• After Charlottesville, Tillerson says Trump 'speaks for himself'

  27-08-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declined to say Sunday whether President Trump’s values align with the United States’ values, instead maintaining that Trump “speaks for himself.” The comment was made during Tillerson’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” after host Chris Wallace questioned him about a U.N. committee’s criticism of Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
  
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• Novartis hopeful for novel heart drug, despite 'modest' benefit

  27-08-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  By John MillerZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis will seek regulatory approval this year for a new kind of anti-inflammatory heart drug, though some experts fear fatal infection risks and a high price may overshadow the medicine's limited benefits.Keenly awaited clinical trial results released on Sunday showed heart-attack survivors on one of three doses of canakinumab were 15 percent less likely to suffer another major cardiac event than those on a placebo.Novartis had said in June that the drug met i
  
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• Pakistan postpones U.S. visit after Trump speech

  27-08-2017 19:06 via yahoo.com
  By Kay JohnsonISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan postponed a visit by a U.S. acting Assistant Secretary of State, officials said, as small protests broke out against President Donald Trump's accusations that Islamabad was prolonging the war in Afghanistan.The visit of Alice Wells, acting assistant Secretary of State for South and Asian Affairs, scheduled for Monday, would have been the first high-profile visit by a U.S. official since Trump's Afghan policy speech on Aug. 21.
  
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• Kind Police Officer Pays For Man's Gas Who Didn't Have Money To Fill His Tank

  27-08-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  The man didn't make it in time to cash his paycheck.
  
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• NBC News Special Report: Catastrophic Flooding in Houston

  27-08-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  The deadly Tropical Storm Harvey is bringing catastrophic flooding to Houston and the surrounding region. Lester Holt anchors the NBC News special report.
  
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• Trump Aide Claims People Don't Care About Arpaio Pardon

  27-08-2017 18:50 via yahoo.com
  Speaking to ABC’s "This Week," Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert said that in the wake of Hurricane Harvey the public was not focused on just one person.
  
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• Guatemala expels head of U.N. anti-graft unit probing president

  27-08-2017 18:50 via yahoo.com
  By Sofia MenchuGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has declared as "persona non grata" the head of an influential U.N. anti-graft unit seeking to investigate his campaign financing and ordered the official to leave the Central American country immediately.Speaking in a video published on his Facebook account on Sunday, the president said Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), must leave national territory with immedia
  
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• Ongoing Myanmar clashes leave 96 dead, including 6 civilians

  27-08-2017 18:46 via yahoo.com
  BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's government and advocates for the country's Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority traded charges Sunday of killing civilians, burning down buildings and planting land mines, as clashes that began last week when insurgents launched attacks against police posts continued.
  
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• The Latest: Berkeley police brace for possible protests

  27-08-2017 18:41 via yahoo.com
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on protests in the San Francisco Bay Area (all times local):
  
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• Stranded Texans turn to social media for help as flood waters rise

  27-08-2017 18:39 via yahoo.com
  Flood-stranded Texans in the Houston area took to social media on Sunday with desperate pleas to be rescued from their homes as Tropical Storm Harvey and its torrential rains slowly lumbered across the region.With authorities urging Houston's more than 2 million residents to stay in their homes rather than risk venturing outside, some 70,000 of them formed a Facebook group that many of them used to call for help.TOGETHER WE WILL REBUILD."Martinez said 20 people, including six children, an elderl
  
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• After Charlottesville, Tillerson says Trump 'speaks for himself'

  27-08-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declined to say Sunday whether President Trump’s values align with the United States’ values, instead maintaining that Trump “speaks for himself.”
  
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• 'Harvey The Hurricane Hawk' Hunkers Down With Cabbie During Storm

  27-08-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  Houston driver William Bruso said he was stocking up on supplies on Friday ahead of Hurricane Harvey when he returned to find the bird sitting on his passenger seat.“He’s been free to go, any time now, but they’re going to take him,” Bruso said as a woman with TWRC retrieved Harvey.
  
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• Rex Tillerson says Donald Trump 'speaks for himself' over Charlottesville response

  27-08-2017 18:31 via yahoo.com
  Rex Tillerson, the US’s top diplomat, has said Donald Trump “speaks for himself” on his values, but that there should be no doubts about the government’s commitment to long-held American principles in the wake of violence in Charlottesville.During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Mr Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, told host Chris Wallace that the State Department expresses America’s values.“We represent the American people, we represent America’s v
  
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• Gunfire heard near Bangladesh border as thousands flee Myanmar violence

  27-08-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  By Ruma PaulCOX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Myanmar's government said it had evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in northwestern Rakhine state, as thousands more Rohingya Muslims sought to flee across the border to Bangladesh on Sunday.The death toll from the violence that erupted on Friday with coordinated attacks by Rohingya insurgents has climbed to 104, the vast majority militants, plus 12 members of security forces and several civilians, according to a Reu
  
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• Harvey plays havoc with people living on the margins

  27-08-2017 18:19 via yahoo.com
  Craig Uggen stopped short in his white Ford truck on Friday as gusting winds from Hurricane Harvey pushed waves from Corpus Christi Bay over the road. His anxiety rose with the water, now covering half his front wheels.
  
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• 8 mountain climbers die in 3 different accidents in Alps

  27-08-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Eight mountain climbers have died in three different accidents this weekend in the Austrian and Italian Alps.
  
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• Ceasefire halts Syria-Lebanon border fight against Islamic State

  27-08-2017 17:57 via yahoo.com
  By Ellen FrancisBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers in Islamic State captivity since 2014 are almost certainly dead, a senior security official said on Sunday, just hours after the army announced a ceasefire to hold talks over their fate.The ceasefire halted the fighting in an Islamic State enclave at the Syria-Lebanon border, where the militants have been fighting the Lebanese army on one front and Hezbollah with Syrian troops on the other.Islamic State has held nine Lebanese soldiers captive
  
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• A Look at Why Houston Floods

  27-08-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  Experts say the “bayou city” is so vulnerable to floods — not only because it is low-lying — because explosive growth in the metro area has added 25 percent more pavement in the last 15 years...
  
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• Touching Photo Captures Woman Viewing Total Eclipse With Her Elderly Father

  27-08-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  He suffered a stroke four years ago.
  
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