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• Former FEMA Executive Investigated For Sexual Misconduct

  30-07-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  A former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is being
  
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• Countdown to midterm elections

  30-07-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  Will Democrats be able to flip their districts?
  
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• Trump administration eyes capital gains tax cut for wealthy: NY Times

  30-07-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration is considering bypassing Congress to grant a $100 billion tax cut to wealthy Americans by allowing taxpayers to account for inflation while determining capital gains tax liabilities, the New York Times reported on Monday.The newspaper, quoting from an interview with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, said the administration could change the definition of "cost" used to calculate capital gains, allowing taxpayers to adjust the value of an asset for inflation when it is so
  
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• How one airline is helping to shave seconds to help stay on time

  30-07-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  Delta Airlines is creating a quick and effective way to keep flights on time, such as laser parking, 45-degree taxi parking and quick bag transfer for connecting flights called "hot bags".
  
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• Eight US states craft Trump lawsuit on 3D guns

  30-07-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Eight US states are filing a lawsuit Monday to block a Trump administration decision enabling 3D printers to make plastic handguns that opponents say will be almost impossible to control.Democratic Party attorney generals of Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia have joined the petition, to be filed in federal court.The suit will seek a temporary restraining order nationwide and argue that the decision violates s
  
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• Family Of Duck Boat Drowning Victims Files $100 Million Lawsuit

  30-07-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  Relatives of two drowning victims are seeking $100 million in damages after 17
  
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• The Koch Network Finally Has GOP-Controlled Government. They’re Not Satisfied.

  30-07-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ― The Koch Network should be celebrating. The
  
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• Small plane crash near rural Maine airport leaves 3 dead

  30-07-2018 23:34 via yahoo.com
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police and federal authorities were investigating the crash of a small plane in rural Maine that killed three people on Monday after the aircraft departed from Canada.
  
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• Trump renews threat to shut down government over border wall

  30-07-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has given Republicans a fresh electoral headache by reiterating his threat to shut down the US government if Congress fails to provide extra money for border security.“I would have no problem doing a shutdown,” the president said during a joint press conference at the White House with Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.
  
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• CBS keeps Moonves in place during sexual misconduct inquiry

  30-07-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — CBS will keep CEO Les Moonves in place during an investigation of sexual misconduct charges against him, the company said. It will hire an outside counsel to conduct the probe.
  
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• Firefighters gain on sprawling California wildfire, six dead

  30-07-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  By Bob StrongREDDING, Calif. (Reuters) - California firefighters on Monday gained ground on a massive wildfire that has killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes, while rescuers searched for at least seven missing people.The Carr Fire ignited a week ago outside Redding, about 150 miles (240 km) north of Sacramento, and doubled in size over the weekend, charring an area half the size of New York City and forcing 38,000 people to flee their homes.Two firefighters, a 70-year-old woman and h
  
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• The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Apologizing

  30-07-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  Apologizing can be very difficult. It takes maturity to put aside your pride
  
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• Rudy Giuliani Stuns Fox News Hosts With Rambling Account Of Trump Tower Meetings

  30-07-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani baffled Fox News hosts Monday when he attempted to clarify
  
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• Italy: Black athlete's injury among cases probed for racism

  30-07-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  ROME (AP) — A black Italian athlete was wounded in the eye when an egg was hurled at her Monday, the latest of at least nine attacks since Italy's anti-migrant government took power that are being investigated as possible acts of racism.
  
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• Jeff Bezos Might Have Teased a Roving Alexa Concept on Instagram

  30-07-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  Wow Jeff, you've done it again.
  
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• The Latest: CBS keeps CEO in place during misconduct probe

  30-07-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on CBS CEO Les Moonves facing sexual harassment allegations (all times local):
  
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• Julie Chen Addresses Husband Les Moonves' Sexual Misconduct Claims on The Talk

  30-07-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Six women have accused the CBS head of sexual harassment
  
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• Trump says he would meet Iran's leaders 'anytime' with 'no preconditions'

  30-07-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Months after pulling the United States out of a nuclear deal with Iran, the president says he is willing to meet with leaders from Tehran.
  
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• Families of Missouri 'duck boat' sinking victims sue tour company

  30-07-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - The families of four of the 17 people killed when a World War Two-style tourist "duck boat" sank on a Missouri lake during a storm this month have sued the tour operator, saying it recklessly allowed the vessel out in dangerous weather.
  
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• Accusations fly as firms seek to avoid Trump's steel tariff

  30-07-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. companies seeking to be exempted from President Donald Trump's tariff on imported steel are accusing American steel manufacturers of spreading inaccurate and misleading information, and they fear it may torpedo their requests.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Tech stocks drag US indexes lower

  30-07-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• CBS board to discuss CEO Moonves investigation

  30-07-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  CBS Corp's board will discuss the investigation into allegations of personal misconduct against the company's chief executive Leslie Moonves. Fred Katayama reports.
  
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• Syrian government retakes Golan Heights frontier with Israel

  30-07-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government regained control of the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights for the first time in seven years on Monday, after Islamic State-linked militants gave up their last pocket of territory in the area.
  
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• Zimbabwe election: Nelson Chamisa claims foul play as historic poll closes

  30-07-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe’s leading opposition candidate accused the country’s electoral authorities of trying to suppress voter turnout at presidential elections on Monday, raising fears of a disputed outcome to the historic poll.  Millions of Zimbabweans turned out to vote in the country’s first presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections since dictator Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup in November. The outcome will decide whether Emmerson Mnangagwa, a 75-year-o
  
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• Counting begins in Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe election

  30-07-2018 22:06 via yahoo.com
  Counting was underway in Zimbabwe's first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted after 37 years in power as observers warned of possible shortcomings in Monday's landmark poll.President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former right-hand man in the ruling ZANU-PF party, faced off against opposition leader Nelson Chamisa of the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) in the historic vote.
  
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• India's Modi and Pakistan's Khan discuss regional peace in post-election call

  30-07-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  By Drazen JorgicISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Imran Khan on Mondayto congratulate him on his party's victory in the Pakistangeneral election, with both men discussing regional peace.It was their first call since Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party emerged victorious from the July 25 vote that has been marred by claims of pre-election rigging and irregularities on the day.Khan, widely seen as Pakistan's prime minister-in-waiting, is now courting independ
  
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• The Latest: Minneapolis cops: Feared for lives in shooting

  30-07-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the release of body-camera video in the June fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Schumer says GOP rushing Kavanaugh confirmation

  30-07-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times local):
  
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• Zimbabwe counts votes after first post-Mugabe election

  30-07-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe BrockHARARE (Reuters) - Counting began in Zimbabwe on Monday in the first election since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote that could pull a pariah state back into the international fold and spark an economic revival.The election is a two-horse race between 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, and 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor who is vying to become Zimbabwe's youngest head of state.Mnanga
  
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• Marine Killed In Car Crash After Visiting Newborn Daughter In Hospital

  30-07-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Kevin Quinn's dream of becoming a father came true for on Wednesday when his
  
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• President Trump Says He Would Meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani With 'No Preconditions'

  30-07-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  "There’s nothing wrong with meeting," Trump said
  
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• Harley-Davidson unveils new range of electric motorbikes and an electric bicycle

  30-07-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Harley-Davidson unveiled on Monday its first ever electric motorcycles and an electric bicycle, in what is being seen as the most radical shakeup of the struggling company in its 115-year-history. Matt Levatich, CEO of the Milwaukee-based company, said the new products were designed in response to changing times. “We are not running away from our core,” he said. The electric motorcycle range will include several of what Mr Levatich called “lightweight, urban” transportati
  
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• CBS board will not suspend CEO Les Moonves over sexual harassment allegations during investigation

  30-07-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  The CBS board of trustees has elected not to suspend longtime CEO Les Moonves during its investigation into sexual harassment claims against him – at least for the time being.The board convened on Monday in response to an explosive article detailing six women’s allegations against Mr Moonves, as well as claims that the network responded inadequately to sexual harassment by its other employees.The board was reportedly considering whether or not to suspend Mr Moonves, who has led the c
  
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• On retirement question, Justice Ginsburg has go-to answers

  30-07-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than a decade, audiences and interviewers have had one pressing question for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: When will you retire?
  
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• Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School's Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short

  30-07-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from
  
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• Whatever Happened to Iran's Qaher F-313 'Stealth' Fighter?

  30-07-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Several years back,  Iran rolled out its Qaher F-313 ‘stealth fighter’ in front of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Within hours it was met with near universal derision from defense and aerospace experts around the world.
  
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• California wildfire: Firefighters gain ground on devastating inferno as victims' families reel from loss

  30-07-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Firefighters in northern California have finally begun gaining ground on the massive wildfire that has claimed at least six lives after doubling over the weekend – fuelled by hot, dry conditions and swift winds that pushed the flames.The family of a 70-year-old woman and two children killed by the massive fires, for instance, described the final moments of their loved ones, with the woman trying in vain to save her two great-grandchildren using a wet blanket at their house outside of Reddi
  
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• Minneapolis Police Were Justified in Killing Black Man, Prosecutor Says

  30-07-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  The county attorney said 'the decision to use deadly force' was authorized
  
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• Trump praises populist Italian prime minister for ‘being tough’ on immigration

  30-07-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump celebrated Giuseppe Conte's hard-line approach to immigration during the newly-elected Italian prime minister's first visit to the White House.The world leaders discussed their views on immigration and the global migrant crisis during a press conference, with Mr Trump praising Mr Conte for their shared ideologies.The president claimed Mr Conte had been "tough" on illegal immigration since his appointment just two months ago, and that Italy had been under “enormous strain&rdquo
  
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• Homeless College Graduate Entertains Hundreds of Job Offers After Handing Out Resume at Busy Intersection

  30-07-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  David Casarez was seen holding a sign that read: "Homeless. Hungry 4 success. Take a resume.”
  
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• No charges after US police kill man who yelled 'don't shoot'

  30-07-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  Blevins took the gun out of his pants pocket and turned towards the officers just before they fired 14 shots, according to the Hennepin County prosecutor's office.Blevins then collapsed and blood began to pool beneath his body, as an officer kicked away a handgun that had fallen to the ground."Mr Blevins represented a danger to the lives of (the officers)," County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a written statement.
  
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• 2,500 Scientists Warn Against the Border Wall's Huge Environmental Cost

  30-07-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  "Barriers are very bad for our future."
  
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• Space photos show fires tormenting bone-dry California

  30-07-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame. The Carr Fire, which started on July 23 after a vehicle caught fire, has spread to nearly 100,000 acres as of July 30. From hundreds of miles above, satellite images show a state besieged by an imposing plume of smoke, with a vast part of the region blanketed in a thick, brown haze.  SEE ALSO: Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to p
  
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• Pakistan parties vow to oppose Khan, say vote was 'rigged'

  30-07-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — At least four Pakistani political parties said Monday they will join hands against the "stolen mandate" of Imran Khan, whose party won the most votes in an election marred by allegations of fraud.
  
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• Four tourists killed by armed attackers in Tajikistan

  30-07-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Four foreign cyclists were killed by armed attackers in Tajikistan in what was originally reported as a hit-and-run road accident, the Central Asian country's interior minister said Monday.The victims, two Americans, a Swiss and Dutch citizen, were struck by a car and attacked on Sunday while on a popular cycle route in the Danghara district, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of the capital Dushanbe."(The suspects) had knives and firearms," said interior minister Ramazon Hamro Rahimzoda, add
  
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• The Entire 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Cast Wants Disney to Rehire James Gunn

  30-07-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  The stars all posted a signed letter at the same time.
  
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• Bode Miller and Morgan Beck Detail Pain of Daughter's Tragic Death in Emotional Interview

  30-07-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Their family tragedy had "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie in tears.
  
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• 'Medicare for All' Could Cost $32.6 Trillion, George Mason Study Says

  30-07-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Bernie Sanders' proposed plan could cost trillions over ten years
  
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• Family of Branson Duck Boat Victims Seeks $100 Million for Deadly Sinking

  30-07-2018 19:41 via yahoo.com
  The suit alleges "decades of unacceptable, greed-driven, and willful ignorance"
  
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• Khan's party claims majority to form Pakistan govt after coalition talks

  30-07-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  Imran Khan's party announced Monday it has acquired enough seats in Pakistan's lower house through coalition talks to form a majority government.Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said after getting the backing of other political parties, as well as seats reserved for minorities and women, Khan's party was in a position to "comfortably" form the federal government."We currently have the backing of 168 members including coalition parties and the reserved seats for minorities
  
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