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• Defense DNA request denied in deaths of Colorado mom, kids

  18-08-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  FREDERICK, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado has judge denied a request by a defense attorney for a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters to require a coroner to collect DNA from the necks of the young girls.
  
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• Report: White House Counsel Is Cooperating Extensively In Russia Probe

  18-08-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Don McGahn, the White House counsel, has been cooperating extensively with
  
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• We're Pronouncing Ariana Grande's Name All Wrong, According To Her Grandfather

  18-08-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Listen to your elders, or be true to your roots?
  
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• Suspect in UK Parliament crash charged with attempted murder

  18-08-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — A driver whose car collided with several people before crashing outside Britain's Parliament has been charged with attempted murder, police in London said Saturday
  
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• Scott Dixon qualifies 13th for Pocono race

  18-08-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Scott Dixon has been about flawless as he chases his fifth IndyCar championship.
  
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• Power goes for 3rd straight win at Pocono to aid title shot

  18-08-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Will Power flirted with the idea of hurling a baseball much like a cricket bowler would throw the ball toward a batsman.
  
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• Second cardinal withdraws from Ireland congress amid abuse scandals

  18-08-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  The meeting, a major congress held every three years, will be closed by Pope Francis during the first papal visit in almost 40 years to Ireland where a series of abuse scandals has also rocked the church's standing in the once staunchly Catholic country.The withdrawal from the Dublin event followed a bombshell grand jury report this week that detailed widespread abuse by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania and a systematic cover-up campaign by their bishops over a 70-year per
  
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• Venezuelan migrants' dreams of new life dashed by Ecuador passport rule

  18-08-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  The 50-year-old mechanic fled Venezuela three days ago.Traveling by bus with his fiance Yenny to the border town of Ipiales in southwest Colombia, Malavolta said he heard on the final leg of the trip that their plan had been ruined.As of 12 a.m. on Saturday, new regulations put in place by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno prohibit Venezuelans from entering Ecuador without a valid passport.
  
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• Greek central bank chief warns over backtracking, turbulence post-bailout

  18-08-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Greece's central bank governor warned the country not to backtrack on commitments to its lenders after it exits the last of its three bailouts next week, saying markets would abandon it.Yannis Stournaras told Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper any backpedalling could leave Greece facing major risks at a time when it would be particularly vulnerable to financial turbulence in neighboring Turkey, Italy and beyond.Athens is set to exit its latest bailout on Aug. 20 and rely on bond markets thereafter t
  
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• Postal Worker Discovers Eight-Foot-Long Python Lounging on Kansas Home`s Mailbox

  18-08-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  A huge snake that likely belonged to a neighbor was found curled up around a mailbox at a Kansas home Friday, startling the postal worker who discovered it.
  
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• Omarosa Has Video, Emails and Texts Supporting Her Claims About President Trump, Sources Say

  18-08-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  "I will not be intimidated. I'm not going to be bullied by Donald Trump"
  
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• Trump claims social media 'discriminating' against right-wing voices

  18-08-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump denounced the treatment of Republicans and conservatives by social media companies, claiming right-wing voices were being censored.The US president’s Twitter rant about censorship also featured another assault on the mainstream media, but he insisted he would not dare “remove” outlets like CNN and MSNBC.“Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” he stated.
  
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• Putin on the Ritz at Austrian minister’s wedding

  18-08-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm in arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday after receiving an invitation that opposition critics said undermined the West's stance against Moscow. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Wing Ding ding-dong: Michael Avenatti in Iowa spat with 2020 Democratic hopeful

  18-08-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  If Stormy Daniels’ lawyer and a Maryland congressman argue about coverage of their 2020 ambitions, do they make a sound?Michael Avenatti last week with supporters after speaking at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding, a fundraiser that attracts presidential hopefuls.The first public spat of the 2020 Iowa caucus bubbled up on Saturday, as one declared candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination complained about not getting any national coverage and one as yet undeclared contestant, who h
  
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• Nigerian President Buhari back from holiday: aide

  18-08-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned from his annual vacation on Saturday, his office said in a statement, as the presidential race in the country intensifies ahead of February polls."President @MBuhari returns to Abuja from the UK, after a 10 working day vacation," said Bashir Ahmad, Buhari's new media aide, in a statement posted on Twitter.Buhari started his vacation in London from August 3 without disclosing whether he would see his doctor while there, raising concerns about his healt
  
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• How Kofi Annan Established the World’s Largest Fund for HIV/AIDS Prevention

  18-08-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  “We must deliver scientific breakthroughs.”
  
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• Putin Warns Merkel That Europe Can't Afford a New Syria Refugee Crisis

  18-08-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  Merkel was hosting Putin for their first bilateral talks in Germany since 2013
  
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• Kofi Annan and Africa: from the scars of genocide to diplomatic success

  18-08-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Ghana-born Kofi Annan, who died Saturday aged 80, was the first UN chief from sub-Saharan Africa, and it was on this continent that he experienced both the most difficult moment of his career, as well as some of his biggest diplomatic successes.Like a whole generation of officials, diplomats and foreign ministers, Annan was forever scarred by the failure of the international community to foresee and prevent the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where, according to UN figures, 800,000 people died, largely T
  
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• Global reactions to death of former UN chief Kofi Annan

  18-08-2018 20:37 via yahoo.com
  GENEVA (AP) — Reactions to the death of Kofi Annan, the first black African to become U.N. secretary-general and a Nobel Peace Prize winner who died early Saturday at age 80 after a short illness:
  
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• Vigil held in Colorado town for slain pregnant woman and daughters

  18-08-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Shanann Watts, 34, and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, were reported missing from their home in Frederick, 25 miles north of Denver, by a family friend on Monday afternoon, touching off an exhaustive search by law enforcement agencies.Chris Watts was taken into custody on Wednesday on suspicion of murder, a day before the bodies of his wife and children were found.Watts, 33, had pleaded for the safe return of his pregnant wife and two young daughters while the search was underway.
  
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• Kansas Postal Worker Finds Giant Boa Constrictor Wrapped Around Mailbox

  18-08-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  No letters for these folks today!
  
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• How Kofi Annan Once Reacted To Being Mistaken For Morgan Freeman

  18-08-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  With the passing of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan,
  
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• Trump alleges social media 'censorship' of conservatives

  18-08-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  The president's comments come after several top social media platforms including Facebook and Spotify curbed or banned accounts of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones."Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices," Trump said in a series of morning tweets.
  
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• President Trump Tweets John Brennan 'Cannot Be Trusted' After the Ex-CIA Chief Says the President's 'Drunk With Power'

  18-08-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Trump also called John Brennan 'a loudmouth, partisan, political hack'
  
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• Cossacks and flowers as Putin dances at Austrian minister's wedding

  18-08-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm-in-arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after receiving an invitation that opposition critics said undermined the West's stance against Moscow.Photographs showed Kneissl, 53, smiling in a long white and cream "dirndl" dress and talking to Putin as they danced in a vineyard in southern Styria province, the venue of her wedding to entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger.Putin - who made a toast in German at the wedding, a
  
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• Putin attends Austrian foreign minster's wedding

  18-08-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl on Saturday, in a visit that the opposition says has damaged Austria's reputation for political neutrality.Putin was one of around 100 guests at Kneissl's wedding to businessman Wolfgang Meilinger in the picturesque village of Gamlitz in southeastern Austria.
  
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• Ghana mourns Annan, grandson of tribal chiefs to UN chief

  18-08-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Streets were hushed as the West African nation of Ghana on Saturday mourned Kofi Annan, the grandson of tribal chiefs who became the first black African to assume the world's top diplomatic post.
  
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• New panda mom doesn't know she has twins thanks to these sneaky zookeepers

  18-08-2018 19:16 via yahoo.com
  Crafty zookeepers are keeping a set of newborn panda twins alive by switching them out every day.  Although twins aren't uncommon, when pandas have multiple babies they tend to devote all of their attention to only one of their cubs, leaving the other to starve.  SEE ALSO: Someone tried to smuggle a snake onto a plane by hiding it in a hard drive But these zookeepers have managed to get new panda moms to care for both babies by rotating them out, tricking the pandas into believing they
  
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• Florida deputy rescues child from hot car

  18-08-2018 19:15 via yahoo.com
  Florida police video shows Deputy Bill Dunn rescuing a three-year-old girl.
  
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• Venezuelans flee economic crisis at home

  18-08-2018 18:55 via yahoo.com
  The Pentagon is preparing to dispatch a hospital ship to Colombia and possibly other parts of South America to help relieve strain on health care systems overloaded by an influx of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans. An estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the crisis-torn country as of June, mainly to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil.
  
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• Body found in burning vehicle at Disney World in Florida, say police

  18-08-2018 18:48 via yahoo.com
  The unidentified victim was discovered when firefighters extinguished the blaze near the Fantasia Gardens miniature golf course.Homicide detectives have joined the investigation, according to a statement from Orange County Sheriff's Office.Deputies were called to the scene at 1209 Epcot Resorts Boulevard to assist the Reedy Creek Fire Department at 4.11am on Saturday morning.
  
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• Singapore wary of 'Crazy Rich Asians' film

  18-08-2018 18:38 via yahoo.com
  Hailed as a watershed moment for Asian American representation in Hollywood, the new romantic comedy ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ has been given a more muted reception in Singapore, the setting of the colourful tale of glamour and excess. As the first Hollywood movie to feature an all-East Asian cast in 25 years, it has been widely touted as a progressive win for Asian Americans who have long been shortchanged on US screen time. The film has an impressive 92 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes
  
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• Vladimir Putin dances at Austrian foreign minister's wedding 

  18-08-2018 18:31 via yahoo.com
   Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm in arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after receiving an invitation that opposition critics said undermined the West's stance against Moscow. Putin arrived in a car carrying a bouquet of flowers and accompanied, local media said, by a troupe of Cossack singers booked to serenade the newlyweds - on a stopover on his way to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside Berlin. Photograph
  
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• Mueller says former Trump aide should spend six months in jail for lying to FBI in Russia probe

  18-08-2018 18:15 via yahoo.com
  Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has recommended a former foreign policy aide to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign be jailed for up to six months for lying to the FBI.George Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to the charge in 2017 as part of a plea deal in one of the first indictments handed down by the FBI and Mr Mueller's team as part of the investigation into alleged collusion between the campaign team and Russian officials.Prosecutors said in court filings the former aide severely hindered the earl
  
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• Israel rejects UN report on protecting Palestinians

  18-08-2018 18:10 via yahoo.com
  Israel has rejected a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres outlining options for strengthening the protection of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories.The 14-page report laid out four options, from increasing aid to the Palestinians, sending UN rights monitors and unarmed observers to deploying a military or police force under UN mandate.
  
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• Former U.N. chief and Nobel peace laureate Kofi Annan dies aged 80

  18-08-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  In Geneva, the Kofi Annan Foundation announced his peaceful death after a short undisclosed illness with "immense sadness", saying he was surrounded in his last days by his second wife Nane and children Ama, Kojo and Nina.After rising through the ranks of the United Nations, Annan served two terms as U.N. Secretary-General in New York from 1997-2006 and retired to live in a Swiss village in the Geneva countryside."In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations.
  
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• John Brennan Is The Latest Victim In Trump's Crusade To Punish All Of His Critics

  18-08-2018 17:33 via yahoo.com
  On Wednesday afternoon, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
  
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• Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Other World Leaders Celebrate the Life of Kofi Annan

  18-08-2018 17:33 via yahoo.com
  "Kofi Annan was a guiding force for good"
  
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• Frightened Students Recount Shooting That Left 2 Injured at South Florida High School Football Game

  18-08-2018 17:30 via yahoo.com
  Two people were shot at a practice game in Palm Beach County on Friday.
  
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• Thousands Stranded Amid Kerala Floods

  18-08-2018 17:25 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of stranded people were waiting for rescue Saturday and officials pleaded for more help as relentless monsoon floods battered the south Indian state of Kerala, where more than 190 have died. (Aug. 18)
  
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• Deadly, 40,000-foot fire tornado revealed in new videos

  18-08-2018 17:11 via yahoo.com
  Harrowing new footage released by California's firefighting agency Cal Fire reveals the massive fire tornado that led to the death of a firefighter on July 26. The fire tornado was part of the Carr Fire that's engulfed 223,610 acres of land in Northern California so far. A report from Cal Fire breaks down the details surrounding the fiery phenomenon. SEE ALSO: A fire tornado hit California. Here's how it happened. Per the report, the tornado "was a large rotating fire plume that was roughly 1,00
  
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• Annan lashed out at state of global leadership before death

  18-08-2018 17:05 via yahoo.com
  Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who died on Saturday, lashed out at the state of global leadership in an exclusive interview with AFP last year, urging more cooperation to deal with terrorism, migration and climate change."Honestly speaking, we are in a mess," the Nobel peace laureate said on December 12 ahead of a major climate conference in Paris.Speaking two years to the day after the Paris climate deal was agreed -- and following President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States would
  
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• Iran says its economy not at 'dead end' from U.S. sanctions

  18-08-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Iran said on Saturday it would resist the pressures of U.S. sanctions by relying on its natural and human resources, as Washington pushes allies to cut economic ties with Tehran."It is a critical moment for our economy, but we are not in a dead end," Vice President Eshagh Jahangiri was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA."This country has plenty of human and natural resources that can rely on.""The size of our oil and gas resources is number one in the world.
  
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• Q&A: The hajj pilgrimage and its significance in Islam

  18-08-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  Over 2 million Muslims from around the world are beginning the five-day hajj pilgrimage on Sunday. They will circle Islam's most sacred site, the cube-shaped Kaaba in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, and take part in a series of rituals intended to bring about greater humility and unity among Muslims.
  
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• Erdogan vows Turkey will not be cowed by US

  18-08-2018 16:40 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared Saturday that his country would not be cowed by the United States, his latest broadside in the bitter feud between Ankara and Washington.The two NATO members are at odds over Turkey's detention of an American pastor, which has triggered a trade row and sent the local currency the lira into a tailspin."We will not surrender to those who present themselves as a strategic partner while at the same time trying to make us a strategic target," Erdogan sa
  
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• French bridges 'at risk of collapse'

  18-08-2018 16:38 via yahoo.com
  More than 800 road bridges in France are at risk of collapsing within a few years, according to a survey carried out for the Transport Ministry that has raised alarm following the Genoa tragedy. The July report, commissioned by the ministry from two private consultancies, predates the Italian motorway bridge collapse in which four French holidaymakers were killed on Tuesday, but French media have highlighted its findings this week. It says that about 840 French bridges, a third of those maintain
  
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• Celebrated United Nations Leader Kofi Annan Dead at 80

  18-08-2018 16:14 via yahoo.com
  Beloved for his charisma and devotion to diplomacy, Anna was the UN's first black secretary general.
  
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• Cricket hero Imran Khan sworn in as PM, taking power in Pakistan

  18-08-2018 15:27 via yahoo.com
  Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad on Saturday, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country.A tearful Khan smiled as he stumbled over some of the words of the oath administered to him by President Mamnoon Hussain during the ceremony, televised live by the state broadcaster PTV.The 65-year-old former cricketer, who captained Pakistan to World Cup victory in 1992, had won
  
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