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• Police say remains are 'consistent' with missing Iowa boy

  16-08-2018 23:57 via yahoo.com
  LA PORTE CITY, Iowa (AP) — Human remains recovered from a creek this week are believed to be those of a 16-year-old autistic boy who vanished from his small Iowa hometown in April, authorities said Thursday.
  
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• Man held on suspicion of killing wife, two kids in Colorado

  16-08-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  The body of a woman, believed to be the spouse of Christopher Watts, 33, has been recovered, authorities said.Watts was taken into custody late on Wednesday for the suspected murder of his wife Shanann Watts, 34, and of the couple's children."This is absolutely the worst possible outcome that any of us could imagine," John Camper, director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said at a news briefing about the incident in Frederick, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Denver.
  
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• Manafort jury ends first day of deliberations with questions

  16-08-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The jury in the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations with a series of questions to the judge, including a request to "redefine" reasonable doubt.
  
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• Vatican expresses 'shame and sorrow' over Pennsylvania child abuse scandal

  16-08-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  The Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke, right, pictured with Pope Francis, issued a statement in which he said victims ‘should know that the pope is on their side’.The Vatican has expressed “shame and sorrow” over the sexual abuse of at least 1,000 children by more than 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania, and has said Pope Francis is “on the side” of survivors.In response to the publication on Tuesday of a detailed grand jury investigation into abuse in the state
  
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• First crack at Musk could give top Tesla funds an edge

  16-08-2018 23:48
  Information about Elon Musk's efforts to take Tesla Incprivate is scarce. But some small investors wonder if top funds have an edge.
  
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• Child's Remains Found At New Mexico Compound Identified As Missing Georgia Boy

  16-08-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  New Mexico authorities Thursday said the remains found Aug. 6 at a makeshift
  
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• The Latest: Jury sends 4 questions to Manafort judge

  16-08-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of Paul Manafort (all times local):
  
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• Michigan Lawmaker Under Fire For Alleged Racial Slurs Against Asian Opponent

  16-08-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  Michigan state Rep. Bettie Cook Scott is facing calls from 19 groups to
  
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• Michigan Lawmaker Apologizes For Racial Slurs Against Asian Opponent

  16-08-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  Amid mounting criticism, Michigan state Rep. Bettie Cook Scott has apologized
  
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• GOP buys Cuomo ticket to Canada after US greatness comment

  16-08-2018 23:27 via yahoo.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political opponents on the right and left seized Thursday on his comment that America "was never that great," with Republicans buying him a bus ticket to Canada and intra-party rival Cynthia Nixon accusing him of trying and failing to sound like a progressive.
  
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• Italy opens probe into operator of collapsed bridge, investors dump shares

  16-08-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  A section of the bridge gave way on Tuesday in busy lunchtime traffic, plunging dozens of vehicles 50m (160 feet) below and engulfing Autostrade per l'Italia into a political fire storm.Shares in the operator's parent, Milan-listed international Atlantia , fell by as much as 25 percent at one point as investors spooked by threats of government retaliation dumped the stock.Shares in other toll-road firms such as SIASand ASTMalso fell, after Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said the state would
  
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• Vatican Feels 'Shame And Sorrow' Over Abuse By Pennsylvania Priests, Spokesman Says

  16-08-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  As Catholics in the U.S. grapple with fallout from a grand jury's shocking
  
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• Pope Francis expresses 'shame and sorrow' over Pennsylvania paedophile priest scandal 

  16-08-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis has expressed "shame and sorrow" over the latest paedophile priest scandal and vowed to "root out this tragic horror". The Vatican said Francis was "on the side" of victims following recent revelations that 301 "predator priests" operated in the US state of Pennsylvania over the last seven decades, in many cases having their crimes covered up by the Church. In a statement the Vatican said: "Victims should know that the pope is on their side. Those who have suffered are his priority,
  
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• Hit the Woodward Dream Cruise in this 1978 Chrysler LeBaron Medallion

  16-08-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  It's no dream, but it is relentlessly brown.
  
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• Fears over twin of collapsed Genoa bridge in Venezuela

  16-08-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  Venezuelans are concerned over the safety of a "twin" viaduct of the collapsed Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy, after a fire on the concrete structure caused a major blackout.Designed by Italian structural engineer Riccardo Morandi, it predates by five years his 1967 bridge in Genoa that collapsed this week causing the death of 39 people.
  
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• Omarosa Says Donald Trump Hit On Her, Too

  16-08-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  Omarosa Manigault Newman has made a lot of striking allegations during the
  
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• New Haven overdose: What is K2 weed alternative and how dangerous is the synthetic marijuana?

  16-08-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  Officials have announced a state of emergency in New Haven, Connecticut after at least 76 people overdosed on a synthetic marijuana alternative.The harrowing incident is just the latest in a wave of synthetic marijuana overdoses nationwide, in which hundreds of victims have suffered a myriad of side effects, from bleeding out of their eye sockets to delusional thinking and repeated vomiting.Researchers and police believe the recent string of K2 overdoses may have been caused in part by mixing th
  
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• US creates 'Iran Action Group' to up pressure on Tehran

  16-08-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a new high-level team to focus US and international efforts to increase diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran.The Iran Action Group will drive Washington's "maximum pressure" strategy to change Tehran's behavior, including potentially sanctioning other countries which trade with the country.The group will be headed by Brian Hook as the State Department's Special Representative for Iran.
  
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• Washington cardinal entangled in two sex-abuse scandals

  16-08-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, is facing a storm of criticism and calls for his resignation after becoming entangled in two major sexual abuse scandals roiling the church that he has served with distinction since 1966.
  
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• 'It’s Basically Happening Everywhere.' Survivors Say More States Should Investigate Church Abuse Like Pennsylvania

  16-08-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  'I hope leadership emerges'
  
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• Vatican expresses 'shame and sorrow' over abuse of 1,000 children by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania

  16-08-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  The Vatican has expressed "shame and sorrow" in its first response to a groundbreaking US Grand Jury report detailing decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.The report accuses over 300 "predator" priests throughout Pennsylvania of abusing nearly 1,000 children — and the Church of conducting a systematic cover-up."We believe that the real number of children whose records were lost or who were afraid ever to come forward is in the thousands," the grand jury noted in its lengthy repor
  
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• Republicans Are Using An Unprecedented Partisan Vetting Process To Rush Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation

  16-08-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Republicans are circumventing the normal vetting process for
  
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• Senate Republicans weigh in on Brennan security revocation

  16-08-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  Most defended Trump, blamed former CIA director's rhetoric for losing his clearance.
  
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• Police work to stop overdoses after 76 fall ill

  16-08-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Police swarmed a Connecticut park near Yale University and searched people's homes for drugs Thursday in an effort to prevent more overdoses from a batch of synthetic marijuana blamed hospitalizing more than 70 people.
  
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• Cardinal Wuerl says he won't resign following abuse report

  16-08-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Tim Carney, commentary editor at The Washington Examiner, says the Archbishop of Washington was dismissive of the Pennsylvania grand jury report that names 300 Catholic priests as having abused children or helped cover up the abuse.
  
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• Chinese bombers likely training for US strikes: Pentagon

  16-08-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  The annual report to Congress, released Thursday, highlights China's growing military, economic and diplomatic clout and how Beijing is leveraging this to rapidly build its international footprint and establish regional dominance.In the case of China's air power, the report states that Chinese bombers are developing capabilities to hit targets as far from China as possible."Over the last three years, the PLA (People's Liberation Army) has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, ga
  
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• Jury deliberates in ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort's trial

  16-08-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  The six men and six women received final instructions from U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis before retreating to a room in the federal courthouse in Alexandria, outside Washington, to weigh the 18 criminal counts brought against Manafort, 69, by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.The case is the first to go to trial stemming from Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election, although the charges largely predate Manafort's five months working on Trump's campaign, including three
  
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• Iran's Economy Can't be Shielded from U.S. Sanctions

  16-08-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Tehran has no real defense against U.S. sanctions.
  
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• This Is Why Iran Won't Negotiate with Trump

  16-08-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Tehran no longer trusts Washington and will wait until after the U.S. 2020 elections and Iran's 2021 elections to come back to the table.
  
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• U.S. Secretary of State names special representative for Iran

  16-08-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday named senior policy adviser Brian Hook as special representative for Iran.The move came as the administration prepared to increase economic pressure on Iran to force it to end its nuclear program and support for militant groups in the Middle East.Hook will lead the Iran Action Group to coordinate the State Department's actions on Iran, Pompeo told a news conference.
  
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• Police: Husband confesses to murder, body found

  16-08-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  Officials in Colorado say Chris Watts confessed to killing his family and offered to lead investigators to the bodies; Jonathan Hunt reports.
  
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• Redding firefighter was killed by massive fire tornado while helping people evacuate, report says

  16-08-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  We're getting a new look at the ferocity of the Carr "fire tornado" that Cal Fire says is blamed for killing 37-year-old fire inspector Jeremy Stoke.
  
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• Drug Overdoses In America Hit A Record High — Again

  16-08-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Drug overdose deaths killed a record 72,287 Americans last year, according to
  
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• Colorado authorities: Bodies believed to be pregnant woman, 2 daughters found on oil property; husband arrested

  16-08-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  The bodies believed to be a pregnant woman and her two kids were found on a Colorado oil property where her husband used to work, authorities said.
  
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• Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, leaves behind an astonishing net worth

  16-08-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul,' has passed away at the age of 76.
  
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• D.C. Archbishop Faces Criticism and Calls for Resignation After Pennsylvania Report on Priest Sex Abuse

  16-08-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  People are calling for Wuerl's resignation following the grand jury report
  
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• Rights groups condemn Kabul school blast as outrage grows

  16-08-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Rights groups Thursday condemned a suicide blast inside a school that killed dozens of students in Kabul a day earlier, as outrage over the attack grew while tearful families buried loved ones in the war-weary Afghan capital.The attack was just one of the most shocking in a blood-soaked week across Afghanistan that has left security forces and civilians reeling.Two gunmen attacked an intelligence training centre in Kabul Thursday, firing on security forces for several hours before they were kill
  
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• The Internet Schools GOP Senate Candidate Chris McDaniel About Robert E. Lee And Slavery

  16-08-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  Republican Chris McDaniel, running to represent Mississippi in the U.S.
  
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• Omarosa releases new tape of Trump campaign's 'hush money' offer

  16-08-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  Omarosa Manigault Newman played clips of the call on MSNBC, which she says was recorded shortly after she was dismissed from the White House.Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House aide, has released fresh audio recordings that she claims show she was offered “hush money” by Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.Manigault Newman has already made several serious and provocative accusations about Trump and the White House in her book Unhinged, including that there are reco
  
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• Turkey will emerge stronger from lira crisis despite row with U.S.: minister

  16-08-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  In a conference call with thousands of investors and economists, Albayrak - who is President Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law - said Turkey fully understood and recognized all its domestic challenges but was dealing with what he described as a market anomaly.With Ankara locked in a complex rift with Washington, he also played down a decision by President Donald Trump to double tariffs on imports of Turkish metals.Washington later said it was ready to impose further economic sanctions on Turkey.
  
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• Newspapers across U.S. rebuke Trump for attacks on press

  16-08-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of U.S. newspapers on Thursday launched a coordinated defense of press freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for denouncing some media organizations as enemies of the American people."A central pillar of President Trump's politics is a sustained assault on the free press," said the editorial by the Boston Globe, which coordinated publication among more than 350 newspapers."The greatness of America is dependent on the role of a free press to speak the truth to the powerful," the
  
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• Hennessey Corvette Z06 Could Be The Best Sounding V8 Ever

  16-08-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Yes it's fast, but with a soundtrack like this who cares?
  
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• Egypt finalizing details of long-term Hamas-Israel truce: source

  16-08-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Egypt is finalizing details of a long-term truce deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security source said on Thursday, amid easing tensions on the border of the enclave where some two million Palestinians live.Cairo has brokered an interim truce that has allowed commercial goods into Gaza ahead of the Muslim Eid al-Adha feast which starts next week."We are putting the final touches to the terms of the truce that will be signed by all sides, and we expect to announce the
  
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• NYU To Cover Tuition For All Medical Students

  16-08-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  New York University will pay for the tuition of all its medical students, the
  
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• Presidents pay tribute to Aretha Franklin

  16-08-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  The current and former presidents are paying tribute to soul legend Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at her home in Detroit. She was 76.
  
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• Senate adopts resolution backing free press after Trump attacks

  16-08-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  The vote comes after more than 300 hundred U.S. newspapers on Thursday launched a coordinated defense of press freedom and a rebuke of President Donald Trump for denouncing some media organizations as enemies of the American people."A central pillar of President Trump's politics is a sustained assault on the free press," said the editorial by the Boston Globe, which coordinated publication among more than 350 newspapers.
  
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• Best Bites: Summer corn and zucchini chowder

  16-08-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
  
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• Boy Repeatedly Stabs 14-Year-Old Girl During School Assembly in Oklahoma, Police Say

  16-08-2018 19:59 via yahoo.com
  The 14-year-old girl was stabbed 'multiple times ... five, six, seven times'
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II's doctor killed in cycling collision

  16-08-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  One of Queen Elizabeth II's doctors was killed in a road accident while cycling through London, police said Thursday.Peter Fisher, 67, collided with a truck on Wednesday, Scotland Yard said.Buckingham Palace said the monarch had been informed.
  
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• Connecticut's Mass K2 Overdose Raises Fears About Fentanyl’s Growing Reach

  16-08-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  "I really hope people aren't adding fentanyl to these compounds."
  
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