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• Syrian Army, U.S-Backed Forces Rub Shoulders In Eastern Syria

  11-09-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Fighters from opposite camps converge on the ISIS stronghold of Deir Ezzour — with potentially explosive consequences.
  
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• Here's What We Know About The Florida Keys After Hurricane Irma

  11-09-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Irma had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it crawled north out of Florida on Monday.
  
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• Police: 9 dead, including suspect, at suburban Dallas home

  11-09-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  PLANO, Texas (AP) — Nine people, including a suspect who was fatally shot by an officer, have died after a man opened fire during a gathering to watch football at a suburban Dallas home, police said Monday.
  
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• Supreme Court Lifts Trump Travel Ban Exemption

  11-09-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  The stay of a lower court's ruling is in effect while the court receives responses from those suing the government.
  
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• Supreme Court justice temporarily preserves Trump refugee ban

  11-09-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday provided a temporary reprieve for President Trump's order blocking most refugees from entering the United States, putting on hold a lower court's ruling loosening the prohibition.Kennedy's action gave the nine justices more time to consider the Justice Department's challenge filed on Monday to the lower court's decision allowing entry to refugees from around the world if they had a formal offer from a r
  
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• Eight victims killed by gunman in Texas were gathered for party

  11-09-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  A gunman who fatally shot eight people at a Dallas-area house knew at least some of the victims gathered there to watch a football game, authorities said on Monday.The shooter in Plano, Texas, was killed by the first police officer to arrive at the scene on Sunday, Plano Police Chief Gregory Rushin said at a news conference.The officer discovered seven victims who had been fatally shot, and two others were taken to a hospital.
  
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• Bossert says the link between climate change and recent hurricanes to be analyzed 'at a later date'

  11-09-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  During a briefing on Monday, Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert dodged a question about the connection between climate change and the recent hurricanes. He said the “causality is something outside my ability to analyze.”
  
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• Armie Hammer Calls Out James Woods for Slamming Gay Movie Romance: You Dated a ’19-Year-Old When You Were 60'

  11-09-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  Armie Hammer is calling James Woods out for a hypocritical tweet about his upcoming movie.
  
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• 'Little People, Big World' Stars Jeremy And Audrey Roloff Welcome Baby Girl

  11-09-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  The “Little People, Big World” stars are now parents to a baby girl, Jeremy’s rep confirmed to People.
  
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• Hurricane Irma Couldn't Faze Florida's Mermaids

  11-09-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Weeki Wachee Springs State Park is closed until further notice, but aims to reopen after a few days of cleanup.
  
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• Group Founded By Obama Administration Alumni Says Joe Arpaio Pardon Was Unconstitutional

  11-09-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― An advocacy group run by former government attorneys says President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is unconstitutional, and is urging a district court judge to refuse Arpaio’s request to vacate his contempt of court conviction.
  
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• 'Not fit to live on': Chaos grips Caribbean islands days after Irma's rampage

  11-09-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  A handout picture released by the British Ministry of Defence shows an aerial view of damage caused by Hurricane Irma in Road Town, on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.Small Caribbean islands smashed by Hurricane Irma are in a state of chaos and rising panic, with unknown numbers of dead and injured and many still missing or stranded almost a week after the storm ripped through the region.Wide areas of the British Virgin Islands have been reduced to rubble, with rats swarming through damage
  
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• Three men including two soliders charged with being members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action

  11-09-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Three men, including two British soldiers, have been charged with terror offences as part of an investigation into the banned neo-Nazi group National Action. Five men, including four soldiers, were held on suspicion of terror offences last week and two have since been released without charge. West Midlands Police said Alexander Deakin, 22, Mikko Vehvilainen, 32, and Mark Barrett, 24, have been charged with being members of a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 11 of the Terrorism Act. De
  
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• Rescuers Save Adorable Baby Seal Abandoned by Her Mom

  11-09-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  The pup was only a day old.
  
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• Former aide testifies Menendez helped co-defendant on visas

  11-09-2017 22:14 via yahoo.com
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former staffer for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez testified Monday that the Democrat helped with the visa applications of friends of a wealthy doctor who faces bribery charges with him, while defense attorneys sought to show Menendez's actions were unremarkable and part of the duties of his office.
  
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• The Latest: Person hospitalized in Texas shooting dies

  11-09-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  PLANO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the deaths of at least eight people, including the suspect, after a shooting at a Texas home (all times local):
  
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• EPA grants pollution waiver to Florida utilities after Irma

  11-09-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — State and federal environmental regulators issued a blanket waiver on Monday for Florida electricity companies to violate clean air and water standards without penalty for the next two weeks.
  
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• Democrats Aren't Happy About Hillary Clinton's Return

  11-09-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Morning Must Reads: September 11
  
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• Prosecutor: Man who killed Holly Bobo lived in 'dark world'

  11-09-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — A man who lived in the "dark, dark world" of methamphetamine and morphine abducted a Tennessee nursing student from her rural home in 2011, then drugged, raped and shot her before discarding her body and bragging about it, a prosecutor said Monday.
  
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• Endangered Florida deer spotted after Irma raised fears for species

  11-09-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Several endangered deer found only in the lower Florida keys were sighted on Monday, easing fears about the fate of the tiny species after Hurricane Irma swamped their vulnerable archipelago ecosystem.With the highway to the Keys open only to emergency vehicles, power mostly out and communications disrupted, experts said it was too early to tell how the overall population of up to one thousand Key deer had fared."So thrilled ... can you imagine how terrified they were and are!?" wrote one North
  
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• Police: Woman kept children in makeshift cages, filth

  11-09-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  ACCOMAC, Va. (AP) — A woman kept two of her five young children in makeshift cages and all of them lived in a home full of trash, rotting food and fleas on Virginia's Eastern Shore, authorities said.
  
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• California Sues Trump Administration Over DACA Elimination

  11-09-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO ― California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) announced Monday he is suing President Donald Trump’s administration to block it from ending protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Brazil police search home of executive who turned himself in

  11-09-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police searched the homes of former and current executives of the world's largest meatpacker whose plea bargain testimony has implicated the president in corruption, a firm that represents the men said Monday.
  
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• Pence: Flight 93 passengers might have saved my life on 9/11

  11-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence told relatives and friends of the victims of United Flight 93 attending the 16th anniversary ceremony Monday in Pennsylvania that the passengers might well have saved his life.
  
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• Russia Scoops US Media on Trump Meeting Again

  11-09-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump meeting with new Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov in the White House, but not telling U.S. press about it until it was already reported by Russian state media.
  
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• Supreme Court justice puts hold on Trump refugee ban ruling

  11-09-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday put a temporarily hold on limits imposed by a lower court on President Donald Trump's order barring most refugees from entering the United States.Kennedy acted in response to the U.S. Justice Department's challenge to the part of a Thursday ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that would let refugees from around the world enter the country if they have a formal offer from
  
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• Cuba counts the cost of deadly Hurricane Irma

  11-09-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Cuba emerged from a 72-hour thrashing by Hurricane Irma on Monday with three-quarters of the population without power, as the country began the task of restoring basic infrastructure and services.Among the worst-hit areas were Havana, where at least seven bodies were recovered, and the coastal towns of Caibarien and Cojimar.Dazed citizens like Yanmara Suarez surveyed the devastation in the historic old town of Havana, largely submerged by a wind-whipped tidal surge that left many people wading i
  
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• The Latest: Mexican diplomat meets with California officials

  11-09-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California's lawsuit against the Trump administration over its ending a program that protects young immigrants from deportation (all times local):
  
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• 'Goodbye Spain': Huge rally for Catalan independence before vote

  11-09-2017 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans rallied on Monday to demand their region's secession from Spain, in a show of strength three weeks ahead of an independence referendum which has been banned by Madrid.Draped in red, yellow and blue separatist flags -- with one banner reading "Goodbye Spain" -- they marched through central Barcelona in what many hope will be the last protest before independence.Around one million people took part in the event, Barcelona's municipal police said in a Twitter post.
  
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• Supreme Court lifts restriction on Trump 'Muslim ban', barring 24,000 people from entering US

  11-09-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  The US Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily lift restrictions on the President's travel ban, quashing an opportunity for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the country.At the request of the Justice Department, the Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling that would have exempted some people for the administration's ban on refugees.In a one-page ruling, signed by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court announced that the exemption would be stayed, pe
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Rips Into Trump At GLAAD Gala

  11-09-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Count House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is among those “appalled” by President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender recruits from enlisting in the military.
  
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• Trump Aides Facing Mueller Query Lawyer-Up

  11-09-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  Maddow looks at current and former Trump White House staffers who have hired lawyers as Special Counsel Robert Mueller has turned his attention their way, and considers what can be gleaned about the Trump Russia investigation from recent developments
  
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• Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court on refugee ban

  11-09-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is back at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to continue to allow strict enforcement of a temporary ban on refugees from around the world.
  
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• The German Election Is a Christian Civil War

  11-09-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Germany’s far-right is saying out loud what Angela Merkel’s party has always quietly believed: that Christian culture depends on Christian demographics.  
  
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• Russian Pol: Russia Elected US President

  11-09-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow rounds up some of the day's major headlines, including news of a Russian parliamentarian saying on a TV show that U.S. intelligence "slept through" Russia electing the U.S. president.
  
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• Planned Parenthood Kansas City Gets Its Abortion License Back

  11-09-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) ― the PP affiliate that provides health services in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma ― has been licensed to start performing medication abortions at its Kansas City center, according to a Monday press release.
  
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• Around one million rally for Catalan independence from Spain

  11-09-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  By Sam EdwardsBARCELONA (Reuters) - Around one million Catalans rallied in Barcelona on Monday, waving red and yellow striped flags and banging drums, in a show of support for independence after Madrid moved to block a referendum on the region's split from Spain.Sept. 11 marks the 'Diada', Catalonia's national day, which commemorates the fall of Barcelona to Spain in 1714 and is traditionally used by pro-independence activists to call for secession for the northeastern region with a distinct lan
  
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• 400 hurricane survivors arrive in France, Netherlands

  11-09-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  About 400 exhausted and traumatised survivors of Hurricane Irma, which pummelled Caribbean islands last week, arrived in France and the Netherlands on Monday aboard military planes.A plane with 278 aboard landed in Paris, while another 100 people flew into Eindhoven in the southern Netherlands from the Guadeloupe capital Pointe-a-Pitre.Both the French and Dutch governments have come under criticism over delays in their responses to the crisis and in particular over how they handled outbreaks of
  
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• Mexico Reverses Hurricane Harvey Aid Offer to Texas

  11-09-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  After a series of natural disasters in Mexico, the country is reversing its offer of aid to Texas victims of Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Teenage Partygoer Found Dead in Hotel's Walk-In Freezer

  11-09-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Kenneka Jenkins was pronounced dead at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont on Sunday.
  
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• Kenneka Jenkins Twitter Story Alleges Teen Was Set Up By Friends

  11-09-2017 19:31 via yahoo.com
  The 19-year-old was found dead inside a walk-in freezer in Chicago.
  
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• Trump Doesn’t Understand the Economics of Immigration

  11-09-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  The United States is facing an aging population and a lack of skilled workers. The president's immigration policy is only going to make it worse.
  
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• The 5 Best Jobs for People With ADD and ADHD

  11-09-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  For adults who have problems focusing at work and have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, here are the top 5 jobs that work with your disorder.
  
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• Hunter S. Thompson's 9/11 Essay Is Still Chillingly Accurate 16 Years Later

  11-09-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  When terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, no one knew exactly what the future would hold.
  
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• Former F-Squared CEO goes to trial in SEC fraud case

  11-09-2017 19:17
  BOSTON (Reuters) - The former chief executive of F-Squared Investments Inc, once the largest U.S. money manager creating portfolios out of exchange-traded funds, went to trial on Monday on charges by...
  
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• Ex-Platinum executive, NYC union chief must face fraud charges

  11-09-2017 19:15
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan on Monday refused to dismiss fraud charges against a former Platinum Partners hedge fund executive and a former union leader for New York City prison...
  
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• ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Asks If 9/11 Memorial Will Face Same Fate As Confederate Statues

  11-09-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  Leave it up to a Fox News Channel talk show host to ask a tone-deaf question.
  
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• Top 10 Foods Dietitians Won't Eat

  11-09-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  We all know we should eat more fruits and vegetables, but everyone indulges in "bad" foods from time to time. Even registered dietitians will tell you that eating these—often processed—foods won't change your health over the long haul.
  
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• 9/11 Aftermath, As Seen From Space

  11-09-2017 19:04 via yahoo.com
  On the 16th anniversary of the attacks, NASA released images captured by its satellites and by U.S. astronaut Frank Culbertson, who was aboard the International Space Station at the time.
  
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• Steve Bannon’s Long Struggle With the Catholic Church

  11-09-2017 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Bannon has slammed U.S. bishops for defending undocumented immigration, claiming the Catholic Chruch “needs illegal aliens to fill the churches.”
  
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