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• US says microphones found in Guantanamo legal meeting room

  07-03-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Microphones were found in a room where a Saudi prisoner met with his lawyers at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, U.S. officials said in recently filed court documents that shed light on an incident that has halted legal proceedings in a high-profile terrorism case.
  
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• Former Trump Attorney Stuns 'Fox & Friends,' Says Stormy Daniels NDA Is Likely Invalid

  07-03-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  A former attorney and adviser of Donald Trump stunned “Fox & Friends” anchors on Wednesday with a revelation about a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels).Jay Goldberg, who represented the president in both of his divorces, told show hosts that Clifford may have a point that her nondisclosure agreement with Trump is invalid if he didn’t sign it.After Goldberg’s input, the “Fox & Friends” hosts quickly end the segmen
  
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• Powerball winner wants to give up to $50 million to charity

  07-03-2018 23:06 via yahoo.com
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman who won a Powerball jackpot worth nearly $560 million plans to give as much as $50 million to charity as a legal fight to keep her identity private proceeds, her lawyers said Wednesday.
  
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• The Latest: Romero biographer lauds saint candidate

  07-03-2018 23:01 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the route to sainthood for Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero (all times local):
  
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• Latinas lead Democratic rise in Texas primary election

  07-03-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Hispanic voter turnout surged in the Texas primary election on Tuesday and two Latinas emerged as likely the first from the state to be elected to the U.S. Congress, offering Texas Democrats some hope of closing their wide gap with Republicans.The population of Texas is about 40 percent Hispanic, and it has the longest border with Mexico of any U.S. state.
  
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• McDonald's Is Flipping Its Arches for Women's Day and People Are Mad

  07-03-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  The fast food chain is honoring International Women's Day by turnings its iconic golden arches upside down, making them W's.
  
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• Australian Woman Discovers Message In A Bottle Sent In 1886

  07-03-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  An Australian woman happened upon what experts believe is the oldest message in a bottle ever found, dating back to 1886.Tonya Illman of Perth said she walking along the beach on Wedge Island in January when she spied the old glass bottle and picked it up.Using basic German language skills and Google Translate, Kym Illman figured out the person who dispatched the bottle wanted to know where and when it was found.
  
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• Man Went on Stabbing Attack in Vienna Because He Was in a Bad Mood, Police Say

  07-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  "He could have stabbed me as well had I been there by chance"
  
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• Man Arrested After Knife Attacks in Vienna

  07-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  "He could have stabbed me as well had I been there by chance"
  
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• Family Stabbed in Vienna Knife Attack, Police Say

  07-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  "He could have stabbed me as well had I been there by chance"
  
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• Gop Aims To Shut Down Incomplete House Trump Russia Investigation

  07-03-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Ari Melber about the Republican effort to end the House Intelligence Committee's Trump Russia investigation without trying in good faith to fulfill its mission.
  
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• California at 'war' with Washington over immigration: governor

  07-03-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  California Governor Jerry Brown accused the Trump administration Wednesday of launching a war over the state's protections for illegal immigrants, after the Justice Department sued to block its sanctuary laws."This is basically going to war against the state of California, the engine of the American economy.It's not wise, it's not right, and it will not stand," said Governor Jerry Brown.
  
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• Police: At least 3 people injured in knife attack in Vienna

  07-03-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police said at least three people were injured in a knife attack Wednesday on the streets of Vienna, with the attacker possibly injuring a fourth nearby.
  
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• Watchdog report: Failed VA leadership put patients at risk

  07-03-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — "Failed leadership" at the Department of Veterans Affairs during the Obama years put patients at a major hospital at risk, an internal probe finds — another blow to Secretary David Shulkin, who served at the VA then and is fighting to keep his job.
  
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• Slain Salvador Archbishop Romero to be a saint, pope decrees

  07-03-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has cleared the way for Archbishop Oscar Romero to be made a saint, declaring that the churchman murdered by El Salvador's right-wing death squads for standing up for the poor and oppressed should be a model for today's church.
  
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• White House 'getting hollowed out' by high-profile departures, says Chuck Schumer - as Trump administration defends high turnover

  07-03-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has said “the White House is getting hollowed out” as top-level officials continue to leave President Donald Trump’s administration.“The number of people capable of doing things - doing real things, whether you agree or disagree ideologically - is getting smaller and smaller,” Mr Schumer told reporters at a news conference.The President’s top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, announced on Wednesday that he planned to resign, t
  
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• General says China’s control of a port in Djibouti could have ‘significant’ repercussions for US

  07-03-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  The top US general for Africa Command (Africom) said the military could face a “significant” ramifications if China takes control of a port in Djibouti.Marine General Thomas Waldhauser explained during a House Armed Services Committee hearing that the port was important for re-supplying the US base in the country as well as a fuelling stop for Navy ships.China has already built a military base in the small east African nation because of its geographic importance as a route to the Sue
  
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• Chrissy Teigen Says Her ‘Heart Aches’ After Loss Of Beloved Dog Puddy

  07-03-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Clearly, he was a very good boy.
  
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• We Just Got One More Clue About Amelia Earhart's Final Resting Place

  07-03-2018 22:06 via yahoo.com
  Bones found in 1940 on Nikumaroro Island may indeed be hers
  
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• Trump risks following Nixon mistake in talking with witnesses

  07-03-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Ari Melber about how New York Times reporting on Donald Trump talking to Robert Mueller witnesses compares to past presidents also taking such legally ill-advised action.
  
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• Syria regime captures half of Ghouta enclave as death toll climbs

  07-03-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Syria's government has recaptured half of Eastern Ghouta, battering the shrinking rebel enclave on Wednesday with air strikes that killed dozens and defying UN calls for a halt to violence.The blistering onslaught has prompted international outrage, including accusations by the United Nations that the government was orchestrating an "apocalypse".The Russia-backed Syrian army and allied militia began a fierce bombing campaign on February 18 on Eastern Ghouta -- the last opposition bastion near Da
  
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• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Visited Parkland. It Didn't Go Over Well With Students

  07-03-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  “It was a publicity stunt, really. There was no point to it"
  
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• Police officer hospitalised as Scotland Yard reveals nerve agent was used in Russian spy case 

  07-03-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  A police officer remains seriously ill in intensive care after being poisoned by a nerve agent when he came to the aid of a Russian spy targeted in Salisbury. The unnamed officer was one of the first on the scene on Sunday when double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were attacked by would-be assassins in shopping arcade in the city centre. He was initially treated in hospital as a precaution and then discharged, but his condition soon deteriorated and he was readmitted on Tu
  
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• Florida school shooter indicted on 17 murder counts

  07-03-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was indicted Wednesday on 17 counts of murder and 17 more of attempted murder, the state attorney's office said.On February 14 Cruz entered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, just north of Miami, and opened fire with a semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle, killing 14 students and three staff members.A Broward County grand jury charged Cruz -- who has confessed to the killings -- with 17 counts of first degree premeditated murder and 17 counts
  
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• Jeff Sessions Blasts California's Sanctuary Laws as 'Radical, Irrational'

  07-03-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  "California, we have a problem."
  
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• McGahn is White House lawyer, not Trump lawyer, Trump should know

  07-03-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Ari Melber about the kind of legal jeopardy Donald Trump could be in based on new reporting from The New York Times, and the role of the White House legal counsel.
  
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• The Latest: Oakland mayor now asks Sessions: 'How dare you?'

  07-03-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Justice Department lawsuit suing California over so-called sanctuary laws (all times local):
  
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• Kushner faces uphill task to smooth Trump bust-ups with Mexico

  07-03-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  By Dave Graham and Frank Jack DanielMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner began a visit to Mexico on Wednesday to try to fix rifts over trade, drugs and immigration but many in the host country were skeptical he could repair the damaged relationship.Mexican diplomats and opposition leaders said that although Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, is seen in Mexico as dovish, tensions are running high.Kushner is also perceived in Mexico as having lost power in th
  
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• U.S. investors wanting out of gun stocks find it's not so easy

  07-03-2018 21:18
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the three weeks since America's deadliest high school took the lives of 17 students and teachers, companies such as Delta Air Lines Inc and Dick's Sporting Goods Inc have cut...
  
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• Trump blames video games, Parkland student proposes real policies

  07-03-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  Pressure from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student activists has pushed the Republican Florida House of Representatives to pass a gun control bill. David Hogg, a survivor of the massacre, joins Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• It's Not Just You: Amazon Admitted That Alexa Has Been Laughing at People

  07-03-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  No word yet on when it will be fixed
  
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• PHOTOS: Anti-Muslim violence flares in central Sri Lanka; Buddhists burn homes and shops

  07-03-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Religious violence flared in central Sri Lanka Wednesday despite a state of emergency, with Buddhist mobs sweeping through towns and villages, burning Muslim homes and businesses and leaving victims barricaded inside mosques.
  
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• UK's May defends Saudi ties as crown prince gets royal welcome in London

  07-03-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  By William JamesLONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May defended Britain's links to security ally Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Queen Elizabeth for lunch on a high-profile visit that drew protests over Riyadh's human rights record.A fiery exchange in parliament between May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn underlined tension in Britain over Prince Mohammed's trip, which was aimed at building a broader economic partnership between the two countries, but
  
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• Stormy Daniels' lawyer: White House claims are "nonsense"

  07-03-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti says that his client "won't hold back" if given the chance to tell the story of her relationship with Donald Trump. Avenatti tells Lawrence O'Donnell that the White House's response.
  
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• More than 500 doctors in Canada sign public letter in protest over own pay rises

  07-03-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  More than 500 doctors and 150 medial students have signed a public letter in protest over their own pay rises.The group, known as Médecins Québécois pour le Régime Public (MQRP), from Canada, have raised concerns that they would receive an increase in their salaries while patients and nurses are struggling.Like the UK, Canada has a public health system which provides coverage to all who need it.
  
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• Pritzker prize goes to Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi

  07-03-2018 21:04 via yahoo.com
  Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, a pioneer of low-cost housing design, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize on Wednesday, considered architecture's Nobel equivalent.The 90-year-old Doshi -- one of the last living architects to have apprenticed with the Franco-Swiss trailblazer Le Corbusier -- distinguished his work by committing to sustainable architecture and inexpensive housing, bringing modernist design to an India rooted in traditionalism.
  
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• 'Never before have we seen any behaviour like this': Appeals court overturns conviction after judge shocks defendant three times with stun belt

  07-03-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  A judge administered multiple electric shocks to a defendant on trial as a “punishment” for not answering his questions properly, an appeals court has heard.Judge George Gallagher ordered Terry Lee Morris to be shocked three times during his 2014 trial in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was accused and subsequently convicted of soliciting sexual performance from a 15-year-old girl.The Texas Eight Court of Appeals in El Paso has overturned the judgement on the basis the shocks “viol
  
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• Nerve agents, the deadliest of chemical weapons

  07-03-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Nerve agents such as that used to try and kill a former Russian double-agent in Britain, were first developed as neurotoxins by German scientists in the 1930s, but never used as chemical weapons in WWII.Q: What is a nerve agent?A: Nerve agents are the most toxic known chemical warfare agents.
  
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• CBS' O'Donnell interviews Saudi Arabia's crown prince

  07-03-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS' Norah O'Donnell traveled to Saudi Arabia to conduct an the first U.S. television interview with that country's de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to run on "60 Minutes" shortly before he visits the United States.
  
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• Assad troops take half of besieged Ghouta as rebel groups negotiate surrender

  07-03-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  Rebels in besieged Eastern Ghouta have begun negotiating possible surrender in the face of a ferocious new ground offensive by Bashar al-Assad’s troops. Tthe government’s two-starred flag was sseen flying in Hammouriyeh’s central square and claimed residents had welcomed their arrival. The pocket - one of the rebels’ last remaining strongholds - is now close to being sliced in half, leaving thousands on the western side cut off from the east. The government claimed s
  
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• Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade Pays Surprise Visit To Parkland High School

  07-03-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Miami Heat basketball star Dwyane Wade dropped by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday to thank students for their inspiring response to last month’s mass shooting at their Parkland, Florida, campus.Students and school staff flooded social media with photos and videos from Wade’s visit.The shooting guard, who has called for gun safety in the wake of the massacre, spoke as students excitedly crowded around him.
  
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• UK rolls out red carpet for Saudi crown prince amid protests

  07-03-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday at the start of a controversial state visit where he faces questions over Riyadh's involvement in the Yemen war.The crown prince lunched with the queen at Buckingham Palace ahead of talks with Prime Minister Theresa May, but his arrival drew protests on the streets of London over the brutal Yemen conflict.May defended the invitation when she was grilled in parliament over why Prince Mohammed was being affor
  
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• Former student indicted on 17 counts of murder in Florida school shooting

  07-03-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  No date was set for an arraignment, at which Cruz will be allowed to enter a plea, said Constance Simmons, a spokeswoman for the Broward County state attorney's office.The 19-year-old former student is accused of using a semiautomatic assault rifle to kill 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14.
  
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• Volkswagen Is Killing Off the Beetle

  07-03-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  VW confirmed today at the Geneva Motor Show it will not have a replacement for the current Beetle once it goes out of production.
  
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• Confessions brought relief, but now killer set to walk free

  07-03-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — One of two brothers who admitted stalking, raping and killing young women during a string of eight murders in the 1980s is close to walking out of prison.
  
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• This good corgi was fat-shamed and his owner is not having it

  07-03-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  No matter how cute you are, it seems that the internet's gonna find some reason to hate you. Meet Pax, a very good corgi. This good boy loves getting pampered at PetSmart, so his owner posted a picture of him enjoying his grooming time. SEE ALSO: Best English teacher comes to work every day packing a corgiThis handsome love getting the works at Petsmart ❤ A post shared byPax, Carter, and Apollo (@pcacorgis) on Mar 4, 2018 at 12:53pm PSTUnfortunately, as is the nature of the internet, peop
  
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• Trump Charges His Campaign Top Dollar To Rent A Basically Empty Trump Tower Office

  07-03-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Republican donors last year paid over a half-million dollars for Trump re-election campaign offices in Trump Tower ― a decision that personally benefited the president, but provided workspace for at most a handful of staff.According to a HuffPost analysis of Federal Election Commission filings, the monthly rent was more than what candidate Donald Trump had been charging from June 2015 to March 2016, back when he was largely self-funding his campaign and when there w
  
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• California Governor Jerry Brown's furious response to Jeff Sessions’ immigration lawsuit: 'We know the Trump administration is full of liars'

  07-03-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  In a blistering response to the Department of Justice challenging his state’s immigration laws, California Governor Jerry Brown has dismissed the lawsuit as an act of political theatre from an administration in disarray.The Trump administration has challenged a set of California laws that limit cooperation with federal law enforcement, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions called a “rejection of law” that “creates an open border system”.In response, Mr Brown said the
  
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• 'That was very frustrating': Parkland high school students not impressed by Betsy DeVos's visit after shooting

  07-03-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas were not impressed with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who visited the high school in the wake of a mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff members last month.Ms DeVos visited the school on the first full day of classes since the massacre, saying she wanted to hear from students about improving school safety.Aly Sheehy, a senior at the high school, said Ms DeVos spoke little to the students, aside from offering her condolences.
  
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• Geometric clusters of cyclones churn over Jupiter's poles

  07-03-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jupiter's poles are blanketed by geometric clusters of cyclones and its atmosphere is deeper than scientists suspected.
  
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