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• Children dead in Syria bombardments as UN aid chief visits

  09-01-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  Ten children were among 24 people killed in strikes on a rebel enclave near the Syrian capital Tuesday, a monitor said as the UN's humanitarian chief paid his first visit to the country.Eastern Ghouta has been under government siege since 2013 and its estimated 400,000 inhabitants are suffering severe shortages of food and medicine.The deadliest strikes hit the Hammuriyeh district, while more than 80 people were wounded in the bombardments of the rebel territory, said the Observatory, which reli
  
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• Trump hosts odd immigration meeting TV stunt

  09-01-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on a meeting convened by Donald Trump to ostensibly have a biparistan discussion of immigration policy that turned out to mostly be an inconsequential waste of time at which Trump showed his lack of understanding of his own position.
  
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• Steve Bannon out at Breitbart, XM Radio

  09-01-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on Steve Bannon's losing the faith of his billionaire benefactors after humiliating Donald Trump with insights in the new book Fire and Fury.
  
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• First Black Woman On U.S. Olympic Long-Track Skating Team Started Sport Only 4 Months Ago

  09-01-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  A 25-year-old long-track speed skater is gearing up for the 2018 Winter Olympics just four months after she first took to the ice.
  
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• Israel to approve hundreds of new settler homes in West Bank

  09-01-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Israel will approve construction of hundreds of new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday.Settlements are one of the most heated issues in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, frozen since 2014.Palestinians want the West Bank for a future state, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
  
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• Protests turn violent in Tunisia over price hikes

  09-01-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  Tunisia’s prime minister promised Tuesday to crack down on rioters after violent protests over price hikes left one person dead and raised fears of broader unrest in the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring.The clashes earlier this week recalled the 2010-2011 protest movement that led to the ouster of authoritarian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked uprisings across the Arab world.Tunisia’s economy has struggled ever since.
  
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• Author of Trump dossier had concerns about Russian blackmail

  09-01-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The former British spy who compiled a dossier of allegations about Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia brought the document to the FBI in July 2016 because he was worried about "whether a political candidate was being blackmailed," according to a congressional interview transcript released Tuesday.
  
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• Massachusetts hedge fund manager pleads guilty to fraud

  09-01-2018 23:11
  BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts hedge fund manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday after prosecutors accused him of misusing millions of dollars from investors to pay for lavish personal expenses like a...
  
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• Road to bitcoin ETF paved with red tape

  09-01-2018 23:09
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The going is getting tough for U.S. companies hoping to win the race to bring a bitcoin exchange-traded fund to market.
  
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• Bannon out at Breitbart

  09-01-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon’s rapid fall from grace continued Tuesday as he was removed from his post at the head of the Breitbart News media organization.
  
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• U.S. probing if 'viral' attack sickened diplomats in Cuba: official

  09-01-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  By Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators are looking at a range of theories, including the possibility of a "viral" attack, to explain what may havesickened some American diplomats who were stationed in Havana, the State Department said on Tuesday.U.S. experts have yet to determine who or what was behind the mysterious illnesses that began occurring in late 2016 and heightened tensions between the old Cold War foes.State Department officials testified that it was "incomprehens
  
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• Woman Dies From Flesh-Eating Bacteria After Eating Oysters: 'She Knew She Was Dying,' Says Relative

  09-01-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Jeanette LeBlanc loved to go crabbing with friends and family when she visited Louisiana, but the 55-year-old from Texas had no idea that a fun-filled boat trip in September would be her last
  
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• Legendary French Actress Catherine Deneuve Decries #MeToo Movement As 'Puritanism'

  09-01-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  French movie icon Catherine Deneuve thinks the #MeToo movement to hold sexual harassers accountable has gone too far, joining a group of other influential French women arguing that it amounts to “puritanism” and “a wave of purification” that has created “a climate of a totalitarian society.”
  
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• Supreme Court takes the wheel in 2 cases of vehicle searches

  09-01-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's justices put themselves in the driver's seat Tuesday, hearing arguments in two cases involving vehicle searches, but it was unclear what routes the justices will take to resolve the cases.
  
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• Ex-Idaho lawmaker facing sex-abuse inquiry kills himself

  09-01-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Republican state lawmaker from Idaho who was facing a sexual abuse investigation has shot and killed himself, authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• Salvadorans say going home not an option after U.S. axes protection

  09-01-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  By Joseph Ax and Mica RosenbergRED BANK, N.J. (Reuters) - Three decades after fleeing civil war in his native El Salvador, Luis Munoz has built a life for himself in the New Jersey coastal town of Red Bank, working as a mechanic and raising three children with his wife.Now Munoz and his adult kids may face deportation in 2019 along with around 200,000 other Salvadorans, after the Trump administration said on Monday they would no longer have legal protection under a program known as Temporary Pro
  
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• New York Times Responds To Backlash From Mormons Over Late Leader's Obit

  09-01-2018 22:29 via yahoo.com
  More than 160,000 people have signed a petition urging The New York Times to rewrite its obituary for Mormon leader Thomas Monson, who died last week.
  
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• Bad man Steve Bannon steps down from bad website 'Breitbart'

  09-01-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  At least we'll always have American carnage. Steven Bannon's tipsy fall from grace continued gaining terminal velocity Tuesday afternoon asBreitbart announced that President Trump's former chief strategist would step down as the executive chairman of the alt-right rag. Things have been going from bad to worse for the former Goldman Sachs middle-level executive over the past couple weeks and much of the fallout has to do with the nation's best-selling book, Michael Wolff'sFire and Fury: Inside th
  
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• Transgender Rights Advocate Found Stabbed and Beaten to Death in Her Home

  09-01-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  She helped launch the first New England Trans Pride event a decade ago
  
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• Steve Bannon Out At Breitbart

  09-01-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is out at far-right Breitbart News, a New York Times reporter learned Tuesday.
  
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• Black Artists Creatively Reimagine Racist H&M Ad

  09-01-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  Black artists have stepped up to create new versions of a racist H&M ad after the brand drew criticism for a photo on its website.The Weeknd announced he was ending of his partnership with the brand over the ad.Amid the backlash, black celebrities and creatives have stepped up to do what they do best: turn a horrible situation into a reason to celebrate.
  
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• Democrat Asks Judge To Block Trump Voter Fraud Probe From Deleting Or Moving Records

  09-01-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  A Democrat on President Donald Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission is asking a federal judge to step in and block officials from deleting any of the panel’s records or transferring voter data.
  
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• Opacity of Trump time in Russia drew scrutiny

  09-01-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reads highlights from the Fusion GPS Senate Judiciary transcript in which co-founder Glenn Simpson describes the broad scope of their project and how the opacity of Donald Trump's Russia dealings caused them to seek out a Russia specialist.
  
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• 14-year-old girl pulled from 'tangled mess of a house' after California mudslide

  09-01-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Firefighters in Montecito, California, were able to rescue a 14-year-old girl trapped inside her mangled home on Tuesday following a deadly mudslide that claimed the lives of at least five people, according to NBC News.
  
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• Kansas lawmaker quits posts after remarks about blacks

  09-01-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A white Kansas lawmaker who suggested at a public forum that blacks were predisposed to abusing drugs resigned from two legislative committee leadership jobs on Tuesday but did not give up his seat in the Legislature.
  
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• Louisiana teacher handcuffed forcibly after asking questions at board meeting

  09-01-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Video of Deyshia Hargrave being handcuffed and dragged out of a meeting by a town marshal.A Louisiana teacher who was forcibly removed from a school board hearing in a viral video clip was booked on two crimes and bonded out of jail on Tuesday morning, court documents show.Deyshia Hargrave, a middle school English teacher in the Vermilion Parish School District was handcuffed and dragged out of the meeting by a town marshal on Monday night after voicing her concerns about a contract that would g
  
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• What's The Deal With Depression Naps?

  09-01-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Spend some time scrolling through your social media feed and you’re likely to come across the term “depression nap.”
  
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• North Korea to go to South Korea's Olympics after talks

  09-01-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas moved toward easing their bitter animosity Tuesday during rare talks, with North Korea agreeing to take part in next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea. The countries also agreed to hold more discussions on reducing tension along their border and to reopen a military hotline.
  
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• U.S. hails Korea talks, despite North's rejection of denuclearization

  09-01-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  By Christine Kim and David Brunnstrom SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North and South Korea held their first talks in more than two years on Tuesday and Washington hailed them as a good first step in solving the crisis over the North's nuclear missile program, even though Pyongyang said it would not discuss weapons that were only aimed at the United States. The U.S. State Department said Washington would be interested in joining future talks, but stuck to its insistence they must be aimed at denucl
  
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• Julius Baer buys remaining 20 percent in Kairos for 96 million euros

  09-01-2018 21:19
  ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss private bank Julius Baer said on Tuesday it bought the 20 percent in Italian wealth management firm Kairos Investment Management SpA it did not already own for 96 million...
  
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• FBI had source inside Trump team, claims Fusion GPS founder

  09-01-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  The man behind a controversial dossier of information about then-candidate Donald Trump claimed the FBI had a source inside Mr Trump's network during their investigation of his campaign, a newly released transcript has shown.Glenn Simpson, the founder of research firm Fusion GPS – who commissioned former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to compile the dossier – testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee in August.In his testimony, he suggested that Mr Steele had claimed the existence
  
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• Here's How Frozen Alligators Survived Last Week's Winter Blast

  09-01-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  A viral video of alligators frozen in an icy pond at North Carolina’s Shallotte River Swamp Park has been the talk of social media, with many people wondering whether coldblooded crocodilians can survive in brutally cold temperatures.
  
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• It's finally raining in Southern California, but there's a big problem

  09-01-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  The rains have finally come to Southern California after months of bone dry weather and multiple wildfires, but they're not helping the previously parched state. In fact, the deluge has created treacherous conditions in several regions, sparking evacuation orders in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties and leaving at least five people dead. SEE ALSO: Thomas Fire becomes largest blaze in California history, during state's worst fire year A combination of heavy rain and scarred vegetat
  
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• Mass. Dad Forced to Fatally Stab Family's Pit Bull Who Was Attacking 1-Year-Old Daughter

  09-01-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  The father of a 1-year-old girl was forced to kill the family’s pet pit bull to stop it from mauling the child to death, PEOPLE confirms
  
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• US says 'viral attack' among the theories in Cuba illnesses

  09-01-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is investigating a range of possibilities beyond "sonic attacks" for the cause of U.S. diplomats' mysterious illnesses in Cuba, the Trump administration told Congress on Tuesday, including the possibility of a viral attack.
  
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• Virginia Motorcycle Theft Case Reaches Supreme Court

  09-01-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Virginia Motorcycle Theft Case Reaches Supreme Court It's not often that motorcycle-related legal cases end up in the Supreme Court, but that's exactly what's happening this very moment as the result of a dispute over a stolen bike in Virginia. The case
  
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• The Latest: US denies aiding drone attack on Russian bases

  09-01-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Hyundai Nexo: A Bigger, Better Fuel-Cell SUV

  09-01-2018 20:35 via yahoo.com
  The company's first dedicated fuel-cell platform makes its debut at CES.
  
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• Trump Suggests Comprehensive Immigration Reform If He Gets His Border Wall

  09-01-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is open to a deal that would pair protections for undocumented young people with border security, and would be willing to address “comprehensive immigration reform” later.
  
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• Trump touts 'bill of love' for Dreamers and raises sweeping immigration reform

  09-01-2018 20:29 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said legislation to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation should be a “bill of love” and expressed a desire to enact comprehensive immigration reform, a legislative achievement that has eluded Congress for decades.Dreamers are young immigrants who would qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (Daca) program, enacted under Barack Obama in 2012.
  
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• Ecuador seeks mediator to resolve Assange standoff: minister

  09-01-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  Ecuador is seeking a mediator to resolve thestandoff with Britain on the future of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in its London embassy since 2012, the South American country's foreign minister said Tuesday.Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said the South American country was looking at the possibility of a "third country or a personality" stepping in to settle the five-year impasse.Assange, an Australian citizen now aged 46, moved into Ecuador's embassy to avoid
  
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• Ancient finding in Peru sheds light on desert society: archaeologist

  09-01-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Archaeologists have discovered two chambers used for political ceremonies on Peru's desert coast more than 1,500 years ago that had previously only been glimpsed in the illustrations of the ancient Moche people, an archaeologist said on Monday.The finding, at the ruins of the Limon archaeological complex in the region of Lambayeque, will provide key clues to understanding the Moche's political life before the desert society's sudden decline, said lead archaeologist Walter Alva.One room features
  
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• Dianne Feinstein Releases Transcript Of Fusion GPS Co-Founder's Testimony On Russia

  09-01-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office released a transcript Tuesday of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  
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• Turkey summons ambassadors over Syria's Idlib strikes: sources

  09-01-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  Turkey's foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned the Russian and Iranian ambassadors to Ankara after accusing the Syrian regime of stepping up its offensive on key rebel-held areas, according to Turkish diplomatic sources.The strikes targeted moderate opposition forces in Idlib province near the Turkish border, according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who warned it could torpedo talks aimed at ending the war."Regime forces are striking moderate opposition with the pretext of fighting
  
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• California mudslides demolish homes, five deaths reported

  09-01-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Mudslides unleashed by a ferocious storm demolished homes in southern California, authorities said Tuesday.Santa Barbara County Fire Department (SBCFD) says the bodies were discovered in mud and debris during rescue operations in Montecito, northwest of Los Angeles, according to various reports."Firefighters successfully rescued a 14-yr-old girl after she was trapped for hours inside a destroyed home in Montecito," it added.
  
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• Alabama Player Proposes After Game Because A National Title Isn't Enough

  09-01-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  While many Alabama players will remember the Crimson Tide’s 26-23 national title game victory over Georgia as the pinnacle of a glorious season, center Bradley Bozeman may have a different recollection.
  
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• President Trump has some thoughts on Oprah running for president, and they're almost coherent!

  09-01-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  Oprah may be running for president in 2020 — and, uh, even the Trumps are getting on board. Last night, Ivanka Trump retweeted Oprah's now-famous Golden Globes speech with enthusiasm and included the anti-sexual harassment #TimesUp hashtag (with no mention, of course, of her father's accusers). Then on Tuesday, Trump expressed his own qualified enthusiasm for a potential Oprah run. SEE ALSO: Should Oprah run for president? Here's what political experts think. "Yeah, I'll beat Oprah," Trump
  
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• Democrats to introduce ‘stable genius act’ making presidential candidates undergo mental health test

  09-01-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  A House Democrat is introducing a bill called the "Stable Genius Act" that would require presidential candidates to take a mental health exam after President Donald Trump's tweet referring to himself as a "stable genius".Mr Trump's tweet just ahead of Michael Wolff's tell-all book Fire and Fury: Inside the White House hit shelves in which he wrote that White House staff consistently questioned the President's mental stability.
  
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• Tonya Harding Almost Ends TV Interview After Host Says Nancy Kerrigan Was the Real Victim

  09-01-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  Tonya Harding nearly cut short a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning Britain during an interview with host Piers Morgan
  
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• Okla. Dad Claimed Ex-Cheerleader Daughter Killed Herself — But Now He Faces Trial on Murder Charges

  09-01-2018 19:47 via yahoo.com
  An Oklahoma dad who claimed his ex-cheerleader daughter fatally shot herself will be tried for murder after a detective said the shot could not have been self-inflicted, according to several media reports
  
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