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• Ex-Con Freed By New York Judge Is Suspect In Homicidal Crime Spree

  31-07-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  A New York judge allowed Danueal Drayton, a man with a violent past whom
  
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• Prosecutor: Manafort had a $15,000 jacket 'made from an ostrich'

  31-07-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  A federal prosecutor highlighted Paul Manafort's $15,000 jacket “made from an ostrich" during the opening statements of the former Trump campaign chairman's trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
  
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• "Everybody wants to find Mollie": Iowa authorities

  31-07-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  Officials continue to search for 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts who went missing nearly two weeks ago and was last seen jogging near her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Family who lost 9 in duck boat tragedy files 2nd lawsuit

  31-07-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Fifty-three members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when a duck boat sank in Missouri described their pain and unfathomable loss Tuesday while calling for a ban on the amphibious tourist boats that their attorney likened to "coffins and death traps."
  
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• DoubleLine's Gundlach: Short-maturity U.S. Treasuries look attractive

  31-07-2018 23:27
  Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on Tuesday that short-maturity U.S. Treasuries "look as good" relative to stocks and long-maturing bonds than they have in a long time.
  
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• Apple quarterly profit leaps, nears $1 trillion value

  31-07-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  Apple said Tuesday that its profit had jumped more than 30 percent to $11.5 billion in the recently ended quarter, besting market expectations despite selling fewer iPhones than analysts projected.Apple's revenue in the fiscal third quarter soared 17 percent to $53.3 billion from the same period a year earlier on the back of sales of pricier iPhones, online services and wearable devices."We're thrilled to report Apple's best June quarter ever, and our fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit r
  
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• Mexico plane crash: Aeromexico flight with 101 people on board crashes in Durango

  31-07-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  The airline said flight number 2431 was an Embraer 190 with a capacity for 100 passengers and was bound for Mexico City when it crashed.The head of Mexico’s Transport Department said “the plane fell upon takeoff”.Gerardo Ruiz Eparza said there were 97 passengers and four crew members aboard the plane.
  
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• Mexico plane crash: Aeromexico flight crashes in Durango during storm but all 103 on board survive

  31-07-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  An Aeromexico plane has crashed in the northern Mexican state of Durango after taking off in stormy weather, with all 103 people on board able to escape before the aircraft was engulfed in flames.The airline said flight number 2431 was an Embraer 190 with a capacity for 100 passengers and was bound for Mexico City when it crashed.Many of the 49 passengers taken to hospital after the crash received treatment for minor injuries and all are expected to live, according to the Durango state governor.
  
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• Herman Shine death: One of few Auschwitz escapees and a voice for Holocaust survivors dies, aged 95

  31-07-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Herman Shine who was one of the few people to escape from Auschwitz – becoming a voice for Holocaust survivors – has died at the age of 95 in his California home.Mr Shine, who was born in Berlin and named Mendel Scheingesicht, was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a teenager before later being sent to one of three subcamps included in Auschwitz.There he met Marianne Schlesinger, a woman who worked at the camp but was allowed to live at home because she was only half-Je
  
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• The Latest: Missing student had trip planned for wedding

  31-07-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — The latest on the disappearance of an Iowa college student (all times local):
  
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• Apple earnings beat expectations with share prices rising in extended trading

  31-07-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Shares of Apple Inc have jumped after the company posted quarterly results that beat out Wall Street targets while forecasting revenue above expectations in the current quarter.The immediate spike in shares was not enough, however, to make Apple the first company to be valued at one trillion, but the company has come very close to that moniker and continued growth in future quarters could potentially push it over that line.Apple’s postings showed that the average iPhone sold cost $724, far
  
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• LAPD chief: Officers kill a hostage for 1st time in 13 years

  31-07-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police released video Tuesday showing officers fatally shooting an armed man and the woman he was holding hostage, marking the second time LAPD gunfire has killed a bystander in the last six weeks.
  
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• 3D guns: Trump will be 'totally responsible' for every printed weapon 'roaming the streets', senator warns

  31-07-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has one day left to stop a company from publishing 3D blueprints for weapons online that can be printed nationwide, Democrats have warned.In a press conference, a group of Democratic senators urged the president to take action after his own administration settled a lawsuit with Defence Distributors, allowing the gun company to begin uploading 3D gun designs to their website on Wednesday.Edward Markey, a Massachusetts senator, said Mr Trump would be held personally responsible if Ame
  
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• Redding, California, police chief goes back to scorched home

  31-07-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Redding Police Chief Roger Moore stands where his home once was while discussing the fires that have torn through Northern California.
  
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• Facebook Warns Of ‘Bad Actors,’ Deletes Accounts Ahead Of Midterms

  31-07-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  Facebook said Tuesday it removed over a dozen pages, profiles and accounts
  
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• Investigators still baffled by disappearance of Iowa student

  31-07-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — Blake and Dalton Jack were planning to leave their small Iowa town Wednesday for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Dominican Republic.
  
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• Three Russians 'carrying press cards' killed in Central Africa

  31-07-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  Three Russians carrying press cards have been killed in the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), Russia's foreign ministry said Tuesday."According to information received on July 30 (Monday), three people were killed not far from the town of Sibut, 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of Bangui," the ministry said in statement.Although the foreign ministry said the trio were carrying press cards, a Russian security official reached in Bangui said representatives in the CAR were not aware of the
  
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• Mollie Tibbetts, what we know so far

  31-07-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  What we know so far about the disappearance of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts.
  
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• New York University prevails in lawsuit over employee retirement plans

  31-07-2018 23:04
  New York University on Tuesday won the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of thousands of employees who accused the school of mismanaging their retirement plans.
  
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• See How The Ford Focus Pickup Might Look In Fresh Renders

  31-07-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  If it happens, Ford would be the only automaker in the U.S. with a compact, unibody pickup.
  
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• The Latest: Dad suspected in murder-suicide had lots of ammo

  31-07-2018 22:49 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a New York City murder-suicide that left four people dead, including a 6-year-old boy (all times local):
  
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• Penn State frat member gets house arrest in hazing death

  31-07-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State University fraternity member who plied a pledge with vodka the night he was fatally injured in a series of falls avoided jail time Tuesday when a judge sentenced him to three months of house arrest.
  
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• California's Wildfires Are Spreading Faster and Burning More This Year. Experts Say It 'Can Only Get Worse'

  31-07-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  More acres have burned across the state this year than at this point in 2017
  
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• One Big Problem For Trump's Shutdown Threats: Congressional Republicans

  31-07-2018 22:29 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump has once again threatened to shut down the
  
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• The House Tully Castle from Game of Thrones Is Up for Sale in Northern Ireland for Less Than $1 Million

  31-07-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Gosford Castle, located in Northern Ireland, was used for exterior shots in Season 3 of the HBO series for the House Tully stronghold, Riverrun
  
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• Queen Elizabeth Gifted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle With a Historic House Inside the Walls of Windsor Castle

  31-07-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Adelaide Cottage was built back in 1831 as a retreat for William IV's wife, Queen Adelaide, and is in the Home Park inside the walls of Windsor Castle
  
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• The Latest: Lawyer calls frat death case sentence 1st step

  31-07-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing for a Pennsylvania State University fraternity member in connection with the death of pledge (all times local):
  
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• At Paul Manafort Trial, Defense Puts The Blame On Mueller Witness Rick Gates

  31-07-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. ― An attorney for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
  
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• Desperate Women, Desperate Doctors and the Surprising History Behind the Breastfeeding Debate

  31-07-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  "What it meant was that a wealthy baby lived and a poor baby died"
  
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• Iran rejects Trump offer of talks as a dream, without value

  31-07-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  By Bozorgmehr SharafedinLONDON (Reuters) - Senior Iranian officials and military commanders on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and "a dream", saying his words contradicted his action of reimposing sanctions on Tehran.Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Trump's repudiation of an international nuclear deal reached in 2015 was "illegal" and Iran would not easily yield to Washington's renewed campaign to strangle Iran's v
  
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• Government Official Says He Warned That Separating Families Could Traumatize Children

  31-07-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  The government official leading the effort to reunite immigrant families
  
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• Reporter: Manafort Appeared Relaxed in Courtroom

  31-07-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  A jury has been seated in the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on tax evasion and bank fraud charges. Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker says Manafort seemed calm and prepared for the court proceedings. (July 31)
  
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• Orca mother falling behind family as she carries dead calf during week of 'deep grieving'

  31-07-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  A grieving mother orca whale is falling behind the rest of her family after carrying the corpse of her calf a week after it died.Experts at the Whale Museum on San Juan Island have been monitoring the 20-year-old killer whale, known as J35, since her calf died shortly after she gave birth last week.Since then she has been balancing the dead calf on her forehead or pushing it to the surface of the water.
  
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• Zimbabwe says election is clean; opposition is skeptical

  31-07-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe's election took an uneasy turn Tuesday when the opposition alleged results were not posted outside one-fifth of polling stations as required by law, and the electoral commission said the impatient nation would have to wait longer to learn who will be its next president.
  
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• How Another Government Shutdown Would Affect You

  31-07-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump loves a government shutdown threat.
  
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• New N. Korea missiles unlikely to doom talks, experts say

  31-07-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  News that North Korea appears to be building more intercontinental missiles does not necessarily mean negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang are headed for trouble, experts said Tuesday.Just weeks after President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met at a high-stakes summit in Singapore, officials told the Washington Post that Pyongyang seems to be developing at least one or two liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles.The work is underway at a factory outside Pyon
  
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• Woman Fights Off Carjacking Suspect at Missouri Gas Station

  31-07-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  New security images show a woman fighting off a brazen carjacking suspect at a Missouri gas station last Tuesday.
  
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• Mollie Tibbetts Case: Investigators 'Confident' With Timeline for Day College Student Vanished

  31-07-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  Tibbetts was apparently last seen running in Brooklyn, about 60 miles east of Des Moines, on July 18.
  
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• Elon Musk Announces "Party and Camper Mode" Is Coming to the Tesla Model 3

  31-07-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  Just in time for the second half of summer.
  
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• Man Charged With Assaulting Elderly Catholic Priest In Delaware

  31-07-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Police in Delaware have arrested a 25-year-old man they claim violently
  
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• Why Donald Trump is going to war with the billionaire donor Koch brothers

  31-07-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  For well over a decade, the billionaire Koch brothers have been the ageing poster children for the idea of unelected, unaccountable power that liberals have lined up to hate.As the CEO and VP respectively, of Koch Industries, 82-year-old Charles Koch and his younger brother David, 78, have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the political and lobbying system – promoting conservative, libertarian and free trade causes dear to their hearts.The have opposed regulating pollution, promo
  
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• Penn State frat member gets house arrest over pledge death

  31-07-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State fraternity member who plied a pledge with vodka the night he was fatally injured in a series of falls avoided jail time Tuesday when a judge sentenced him to three months of house arrest.
  
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• US Vatican cardinal: "Not once did I even suspect" McCarrick

  31-07-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The highest-ranking American at the Vatican insisted Tuesday he never knew or even suspected that his former boss, disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, allegedly sexually abused boys and adult seminarians, telling The Associated Press he is livid that he was kept in the dark because he would have done something about it.
  
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• Republicans Look To Go All-In On Tax Cuts For The Rich

  31-07-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration might go around Congress to cut taxes on investors, a
  
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• Loukoumakis the dog recovers from Greek wildfire

  31-07-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  By Deborah Kyvrikosaios and Idyli TsakiriMATI, Greece (Reuters) - Loukoumakis the dog cowered in a corner for two days until he was found by animal rescuers in the ashen devastation of Mati in Greece, traumatized and seemingly unable to move.The white poodle-cross was found singed yellow from the smoke and flames of the wildfires and had difficulty breathing."Even its eyelashes are burned, I wonder how this dog survived," said Diana Topali, 42, who is offering Loukoumaki foster care as the dog s
  
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• Trump says collusion is not a crime as first Russia probe trial begins

  31-07-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  By Doina ChiacuWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump again attacked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election on Tuesday, reiterating that his campaign did not collude with Moscow and saying collusion is not a crime anyway.Trump commented hours before his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was due to go on trial on tax and bank fraud charges in Virginia.As the first trial in the 14-month Russia probe, the case throws a fresh spotlight on a federa
  
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• Anti-Violence Activists Plan to Shut Down Chicago Expressway During Lollapalooza

  31-07-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  Protesters are planning to shut down Lake Shore Drive Thursday afternoon as the city is hosting one of the biggest events of the year and say they do not need the mayor`s approval.
  
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• Carr fire: California wildfires will only get worse in the future because of climate change, experts say

  31-07-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  Nearly 20 major wildfires have torn through California in the last month, killing at least six people and causing thousands more to flee their homes.“What we’re seeing over the last few years in terms of the wildfire season in California … [is] very consistent with the historical trends in terms of increasing temperatures, increasing dryness, and increasing wildfire risk,” Stanford Earth System Science Professor Noah Diffenbaugh told The Independent.California recorded 9
  
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• 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints Are Already Being Downloaded By Thousands Of People

  31-07-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  As state officials and congressional lawmakers scramble to block the
  
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