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• AP Explains: How past wounds fuel debate over Polish law

  06-02-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's president signed legislation Tuesday that imposes prison terms of up to three years for falsely and intentionally attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany to Poland.
  
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• Liftoff! SpaceX successfully launched world’s most powerful rocket

  06-02-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, February 6, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  
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• Lawmaker warns U.S. Attorney General against stifling whistleblowers

  06-02-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Justice Department memo issued in January to employees about their communications with Congress may run afoul of rules designed to protect government whistleblowers from being muzzled, a Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday.In a Feb. 5 letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said he feared the Jan. 29 memo was an attempt to "prevent direct communications between federal employees and Congress."Gr
  
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• 2020 Mercedes-Benz S-class Spied: Big Changes Beneath Its Classy Body

  06-02-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  Foresight is 20-20.
  
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• ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators To Make New ‘Star Wars’ Film Series

  06-02-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators of “Game of Thrones,” are going to write and produce a “Star Wars” film series, StarWars.com
  
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• Credit Suisse 'volatility' fund liquidated after market selloff

  06-02-2018 23:10
  ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Credit Suissesaid on Tuesday it would terminate the second-largest publicly traded product betting on future swings in the S&P 500 after its value plunged during the...
  
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• Taylor Swift Has Spent Nearly $50 Million on Real Estate on This One New York City Block Alone

  06-02-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  The singer recently purchased a $9.75 million apartment in Tribeca, bringing the grand total to $47.7 million
  
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• SpaceX just landed two Falcon Heavy rocket boosters back on Earth, but the third didn't make it

  06-02-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  After SpaceX successfully blasted its Falcon Heavy mega-rocket into outer space today, two of the rocket's three boosters turned around, plummeted through the atmosphere, and landed back on Earth. SpaceX later revealed that the third booster didn't land on its done ship in the Atlantic Ocean as expected. Instead it crashed into the ocean at about 300 miles per hour, according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.  SpaceX provided a live webcast of the unprecedented launch and double landing, which c
  
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• New England Patriots Star Rob Gronkowski's Massachusetts Home Was Burglarized the Day After the Superbowl

  06-02-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Gronkowski, or "Gronk" as fans call him, was still in Minnesota for the Super Bowl when the incident took place at his Foxborough home
  
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• US launches new air attacks against Taliban

  06-02-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  US bombers have struck multiple Taliban targets in a new air offensive over the past four days in far northeastern Afghanistan near the China and Tajikistan borders, the Southern Command said Tuesday.The strikes hit Taliban training facilities in Badakhshan province, "preventing the planning and rehearsal of terrorist acts," the Southern Command said in a statement.The bombing also destroyed vehicles that it said the Taliban took from the Afghan National Army and were turning into vehicle-born e
  
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• Cops: Woman says Voodoo ritual led her to kill sons, 5 and 8

  06-02-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman used a kitchen knife to stab two of her children to death and later told police it was part of a Voodoo ritual, authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• South Africa's Zuma ready to quit if conditions met says news service

  06-02-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  By James MachariaJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress party on Tuesdayput off a key meeting due to discuss President Jacob Zuma's future later this week, while an online news service quoted sources saying he was ready to quit if certain conditions were met.The ANC had called a special meeting of its executive committee for Wednesday in Cape Town, heralding what could be a new bid to unseat the 75-year-old president who is beset by corruption allegations and da
  
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• 45-Minute Farm Standoff Ends When Cops Realize Tiger Is Stuffed

  06-02-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  You don’t want to toy around with tigers, which is why police in Peterhead, Scotland, sprang into action Saturday night.
  
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• 2 Children Have Died From the Flu in New York City

  06-02-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Including an 8-year-old from Queens
  
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• Elon Musk Just Sent His Tesla to Space

  06-02-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time Tuesday, along with Musk’s cherry red Tesla Roadster sports car
  
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• 'I Wasn't Driving That Car,' Says Suspect in Crash That Killed NFL Player, Uber Driver

  06-02-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  The man accused of killing Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and a Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe appeared briefly in court this morning.
  
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• Israeli troops kill Palestinian suspect in settler's killing

  06-02-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces in an early morning raid Tuesday shot and killed a Palestinian suspected of being behind the killing of a West Bank settler last month, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
  
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• Israel kills Hamas militant suspected of murdering rabbi

  06-02-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Israeli forces on Tuesday shot dead a Hamas militant suspected of murdering a rabbi as two killings of Israeli settlers in a month sparked deadly clashes in the occupied West Bank.Another Palestinian was killed and several dozen wounded later in clashes with Israeli forces during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said.
  
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• Elon Musk Sends Electric Car To Space Aboard World's Most Powerful Rocket

  06-02-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — SpaceX made history Tuesday afternoon when it successfully launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket carrying an electric car bound for deep space and returned two of three 15-story boosters back to Earth for perfect vertical landings.
  
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• US gymnastics coach facing criminal probe

  06-02-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  The coach of the gold-medal-winning US women's gymnastics team at the London Olympics in 2012 is under criminal investigation following accusations that came to light during the sexual assault case against disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar.The sheriff's office in Eaton County, Michigan, where John Geddert owns a training facility, said there is an open criminal investigation against the high-profile coach."We have had people coming forward, and our investigation is ongoing," Eaton County Sher
  
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• Watch: Justin Trudeau urges woman who uses ‘mankind’ to say ‘peoplekind’ instead

  06-02-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, interrupted a woman who said the phrase “mankind” and suggested “peoplekind” should be used instead.  The comment came as Mr Trudeau took questions during a visit to the Ewan University in Edmonton, Canada, on Thursday.  A young woman from the World Mission Society Church of God, a controversial feminist church founded in South Korea, asked a question from the audience.  She said: “We have received the Quee
  
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• Democrats Appear to Flip Another Red District

  06-02-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on the returns in four state-level Missouri elections in districts Donald Trump won by large margins showing huge Democratic swings and even a Democratic victory, though the results are not yet certified.
  
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• 'Dancing With The Stars' Tour Bus Involved In Fatal Multi-Car Pileup

  06-02-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  A “Dancing with the Stars” tour bus was one of 19 vehicles involved in a fatal pileup during a snowstorm en route to Ames, Iowa, on Monday.
  
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• Lebanon looks to block Israeli frontier wall

  06-02-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Lebanon on Tuesday pledged a diplomatic push to prevent neighbouring Israel's construction of a dividing wall between the two countries as tensions mount over off-shore exploration for oil and gas.President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and parliament speaker Nabih Berri pledged to "pursue efforts to mobilise at the regional and international level to block building of the wall by Israel", a statement said after a meeting.Israel has been building a wall since 2012 on its volatile front
  
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• Veteran congressman: Military parade 'stupidest thing I've ever heard'

  06-02-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN), the highest ranking enlisted soldier to serve in Congress, calls Pres. Trump's idea for a military parade "the stupidest idea" he's ever heard. Walz is also offended by Trump's comments on treason. He joins Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• China's arrest of Swedish bookseller could set dangerous precedent: Germany

  06-02-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  China's detention of Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai while he was being accompanied by Swedish diplomats could set a dangerous precedent for other EU citizens, Germany's ambassador to China said Tuesday.Michael Clauss said all European countries with diplomatic representation in Beijing were concerned about China's actions, and "stood behind Sweden" in its efforts to secure Gui's release and in condemning his arrest."That China's authorities treat an EU citizen this way is without precedence.
  
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• Maldives Supreme Court in U-turn over freeing dissidents

  06-02-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  The Maldives' highest court Tuesday revoked an order to release high-profile political prisoners a day after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency in the honeymoon islands and arrested two top judges on corruption charges.The remaining three judges of the Supreme Court said they were rescinding their February 1 order to release the prisoners "in light of the concerns raised by the President"."The Supreme Court bench hereby rescinds number 5 of its order to release the individual
  
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• Trump adviser urges followers to 'inoculate yourself with the word of God' against flu

  06-02-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  An evangelical Christian adviser to Donald Trump has suggested people do not need a winter flu vaccine and urged believers to “inoculate yourself with the word of God” against the disease.“We’ve already had our shot” thanks to God who “bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases”, Ms Copeland said in the clip promoting her ministry’s Miracles on the Mountain healing event.Along with her husband Ms Copeland established Kenneth Copeland Ministries (
  
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• At least two dead in magnitude 6.4 quake in Taiwan: Premier

  06-02-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  At least two people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck near the coastal city of Hualien in Taiwan late on Tuesday. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Bresha Meadows, Teen Who Killed Allegedly Abusive Father, Is Finally Free

  06-02-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Bresha Meadows, the Ohio teenager who killed her father after he allegedly terrorized and abused her family for years, is finally home.
  
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• Rebel areas pounded by Syrian forces despite cease-fire call

  06-02-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Russian and Syrian government forces launched a new wave of airstrikes and shelling on Tuesday, plunging the besieged area just outside of Syria's capital of Damascus into a spiral of violence and despair.
  
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• Stalker who killed ex-girlfriend when she ended their relationship is jailed for life

  06-02-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  A warehouse worker who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death after she ended their relationship had been reported to the police four years earlier for stalking a previous partner, it can be revealed. Joshua Stimpson brutally killed 23-year-old Molly McLaren in a shopping centre car park in Kent after she reported him to the police for posting derogatory remarks about her online. During his trial it emerged that he had stalked two ex-girlfriends and had been reported to the police before about his b
  
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• Polish president signs Holocaust bill, triggers Israeli, U.S. criticism

  06-02-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  By Pawel SobczakWARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's president signed into law on Tuesday a bill that imposes jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the Holocaust, prompting sharp criticism from Israel and the United States.Andrzej Duda said in a televised address the legislation would safeguard Poland's international reputation, but Israel called for amendments, saying the two countries had a "joint responsibility" to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.The United States, a close NATO a
  
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• GOP Sen. Sasse rips 'cuckoo' Trump ambassador nominee

  06-02-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  "Cynics and nuts are probably going to have a hard time securing Senate confirmation," said a spokesman for Sen. Ben Sasse. The GOP senator was addressing President Trump's nominee to Barbados, Leandro Rizzuto Jr.
  
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• Lonely Planet's Top U.S. Destination Of 2018 Is An Underrated Treasure

  06-02-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Everyone and their mother wants to see New York, Nashville and Charleston.
  
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• Mnuchin grilled by House Financial Services Committee

  06-02-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Reps. Keith Ellison and Maxine Waters grilled Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.
  
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• The Latest: Death toll from Syria airstrikes rises to 55

  06-02-2018 20:29 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Icahn calls U.S. stock nosedive 'rumblings of an earthquake': CNBC

  06-02-2018 20:29
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn warned on Tuesday that investors have exposure to "way too many derivatives" and called the stock market's nosedive just "rumblings of an...
  
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• Ozone layer declining over populated zones: study

  06-02-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  The ozone layer that protects life on Earth from deadly ultraviolet radiation is unexpectedly declining above the planet's most populated regions, according to a study released Tuesday.Nearly three decades later, the "ozone hole" over the South Pole and the upper reaches of the stratosphere are showing clear signs of recovery."In tropical and middle latitudes" -- home to most of humanity -- "the ozone layer has not started to recover yet," lead author William Ball, a researcher at the Swiss Fede
  
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• Magnitude 6.4 quake hits Taiwan, causing buildings to collapse

  06-02-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the coastal city of Hualien in Taiwan late on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing buildings including a hotel to collapse and forcing the closure of a nearby highway.The quake struck about 22 kms (14 miles) northeast of Hualien - which is home to about 100,000 people - shortly before midnight, and the epicenter was very shallow at just 1km, the USGS said.There was no immediate confirmation of any deaths or injuries or word of any tsunam
  
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• The Latest: Pritzker apologizes for comments on race

  06-02-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on newly released FBI wiretaps of Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (all times local):
  
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• John Kelly: Trump Plan Would Help Dreamers 'Too Afraid' Or 'Too Lazy' To Apply For DACA

  06-02-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― White House chief of staff John Kelly said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s offer to save undocumented young people ― though only if he can build a border wall and slash legal immigration ― is generous because it would help immigrants who may have previously been “too lazy” to seek protections.
  
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• Fake Tsunami Alert Brings Chaos to East Coast After Technical Glitch

  06-02-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  The alert came just three weeks after cellphones in Hawaii blared a false ballistic missile warning.
  
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• U.S. jurors' identities in 'El Chapo' drug trial to remain secret

  06-02-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  A U.S. judge in Brooklyn has ruled that the identities of jurors expected to decide the fate of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at a trial this year will be kept secret.In a decision on Monday, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan said jurors' names, addresses and places of employment will be shielded from Guzman, his lawyers, prosecutors and the press.Guzman's lawyer had argued that an anonymous jury would undermine the presumption that his client was innocent, create an "extreme
  
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• Police: Toddler who died in freezing weather wandered outside while her father was asleep

  06-02-2018 19:21 via yahoo.com
  Heartbreaking new details have come to light in the case of a 2-year-old girl who died after being found outside of her Ohio home in frigid temperatures by her mother.
  
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• Fidelity fixes website glitch after 'technical difficulties'

  06-02-2018 19:14
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments said on Tuesday that problems with its website had been resolved after it was hit with "intermittent technical difficulties" as clients nervously watched a...
  
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• Puerto Rico: Trump administration gave job of delivering 30 million meals to small contractor who delivered just 50,000

  06-02-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration tasked a small, inexperienced contractor with delivering 30m meals to Puerto Ricans affected by Hurricane Maria, according to a new report.When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in late last September, it demolished homes, destroyed the electricity system and left millions of people dependent on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for food and water.On 3 October, FEMA signed a $156m contract with self-described “serial entrepreneur” Tiffany Brown to
  
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• Key Democrat suggests contempt proceedings for Bannon

  06-02-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  The top Democrat in the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday the panel should begin contempt proceedings if Steve Bannon, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, continues to refuse to testify in an investigation of Russia and the 2016 presidential election.U.S. Representative Adam Schiff said the House of Representatives committee's subpoena remained in effect and Bannon's interview has been rescheduled for next week."Testifying before the Special Counsel does not obviate Mr. B
  
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• Donald Trump Jr says his father can't be racist because 'of all the rappers' he has hung out with

  06-02-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Jr has insisted his father is not racist because he used to spend with rappers.The US President's eldest child claimed criticisms of his father went so far as to undermine people who are “actually” affected by “real” discrimination.Defending his father's record on racism, he added: “I know him.
  
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• House members grill Treasury Secretary Mnuchin about market turmoil

  06-02-2018 18:56 via yahoo.com
  Steven Mnuchin said he's "not overly concerned" about Monday's Dow point drop and recent market volatility.
  
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