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• Trump Achieves The Impossible: Democratic Voters Want Jeff Sessions To Stick Around

  10-09-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has scrambled many of Washington's standard operating
  
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• US to shut Palestinian mission over lack of peace talks

  10-09-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  The United States announced Monday it will shutter the Palestinians' mission in Washington, accusing them of rebuffing peace talks with Israel.The State Department said the Palestinians had refused to engage with either the United States or Israel and of rejecting outright a still unseen US peace plan.
  
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• Bank employees back in fatal shooting aftermath

  10-09-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The husband of a bank executive who was shot at least 12 times publicly thanked police and emergency medical caregivers Monday for saving her life.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Mocked For Hypocritically Bashing 'Cowardly' Anonymous NYT Writer

  10-09-2018 23:20 via yahoo.com
  Kellyanne Conway on Monday slammed the unnamed Trump administration official
  
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• Hurricane Florence growing in size and strength as it heads toward Carolinas, max winds now 140 mph

  10-09-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Florence rapidly strengthened into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane on Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds and water that could wreak havoc over a wide stretch of the eastern United States later this week.
  
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• BMW X3 M and X4 M Are Definitely Happening

  10-09-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  The first ever M versions of the X3 and the X4 will reach showrooms a year from now as 2020 models.
  
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• Trump Adviser Threatens Syria With 'Much Stronger' Military Assault If It Uses Chemical Weapons

  10-09-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  If Syria uses chemical weapons again, National Security Adviser John Bolton promised the U.S. would deliver a counterattack.
  
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• The White House explains President Trump’s incorrect tweet about the economy

  10-09-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  At the White House Press Briefing, Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Kevin Hassett explains how President Trump incorrectly tweeted that the GDP is higher than the unemployment rate for the first time in 100 years.
  
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• As mid-terms approach, Trump insists the economy is not Obama's

  10-09-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  In his fiery speeches and Twitter blitzes, President Donald Trump has forcefully claimed ownership of the American economy's vigorous health while denigrating the legacy of Barack Obama, the president in office during most of the last decade's expansion.Following Friday's blockbuster August jobs report, and with nail-biting midterm elections less than 60 days away, the 44th and 45th presidents crossed swords, with Trump continuing to counterpunch through the weekend and into Monday morning.Obama
  
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• The Latest: Hospital releases bank shooting victim

  10-09-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the Sept. 6 shootings in a Cincinnati bank building (all times local):
  
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• CBS sets Moonves payoff at $120 mln

  10-09-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  CBS says it will pay $120 million to former chief executive Leslie Moonves if an internal investigation into allegations of harassment fails to provide grounds for his dismissal. Fred Katayama reports.
  
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• Turkey renews call for ceasefire in Idlib

  10-09-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Turkey on Monday urged Syria and Russia to halt all bombing on the Syrian province of Idlib, and called for a ceasefire in the region near its border."Our priority is to put an end as soon as possible to all the ground and air attacks and to ensure the implementation of a ceasefire and of stability," Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.The province of Idlib, in Syria's northwest, has been the target in recent days of artillery bombing b
  
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• California Pledges 100% Clean Electricity by 2045

  10-09-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  The ambitious commitment comes as the state gears up for a sprawling climate change summit
  
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• Dallas Cop Seen Crying Moments After Shooting Neighbor When She Entered Wrong Apartment

  10-09-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Paramedics were unable to save the life of Botham Jean after the 26-year-old was shot by Officer Amber Guyger when she entered his apartment by mistake.
  
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• Exclusive: Venezuela signs oil deals similar to ones rolled back under Chavez - document

  10-09-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  The effort signals that President Nicolas Maduro, who is struggling under a hyper-inflationary economic meltdown and fast-declining oil output, is willing to reverse the aggressive efforts of his predecessor - who died in 2013 - to expand the state's role in the energy industry of the OPEC nation.The government had already announced a vague plan to boost oil output with the help of seven companies.The plan was described during a televised event on Aug. 28 in which representatives of those compan
  
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• Omarosa Suggests Tape Of Trump Using Racial Slur Will Come Out Before Elections

  10-09-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  Since the publication of her book Unhinged last month, former White House aide
  
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• US midterm elections: How do they work and what do they mean for America's political future?

  10-09-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  The US 2018 midterm elections are approaching, and both Republicans and Democrats are vying for control of Congress.While midterm elections generally garner lower numbers of voter turnout and participation than general elections do, a study has revealed that voter turnout has increased in primary elections across the country this year.According to the Pew Research Centre, half of the registered voters have reported to be more enthusiastic about voting in 2018 than in previous years – and t
  
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• The Latest: Evacuations lifted in Napa County blaze

  10-09-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local):
  
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• South Carolina orders one million to evacuate ahead of Florence

  10-09-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The storm had winds of 130 miles per hour (209 kph) and was due to gain strength before making landfall, which the U.S. National Hurricane Center said was likely to occur early Thursday, bringing heavy rain that could cause severe flooding through the region."We do not want to risk one South Carolina life in this hurricane," Governor Henry McMaster said at a news conference.In North Carolina, officials already had ordered some 250,000 residents and visitors to begin evacuating the Outer Banks ba
  
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• Hybrid pythons could threaten beyond Florida Everglades

  10-09-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Pythons as long as SUV’s are tightening their grip on the Florida Everglades and with no natural predators in the state, the snakes native to Southeast Asia have quickly risen to the top of the food chain. A new study in the journal “Ecology and Evolution” suggests the python problem could slither beyond just the swamp
  
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• The Latest: Husband of bank shooting victim thanks police

  10-09-2018 21:04 via yahoo.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the Sept. 6 shootings in a Cincinnati bank building (all times local):
  
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• Vatican preparing response to archbishop's accusations, cardinals say

  10-09-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  The statement came at the end of the first day of a three-day meeting of the "C-9", a group of nine cardinals from around the world who meet with the pope at the Vatican several times a year to advise him on Church matters.In an 11-page statement published on Aug. 26, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Vatican ambassador to Washington, launched an unprecedented broadside by a Church insider against the pope and a long list of Vatican and U.S. Church officials.The cardinals' stateme
  
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• Vatican promises 'clarifications' to pope cover-up claims

  10-09-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is preparing the "necessary clarifications" about accusations that top Vatican officials including Pope Francis covered up the sexual misconduct of a now-disgraced American ex-cardinal, Francis' top advisers said Monday.
  
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• Trump may have to rescue 'unlikeable' Ted Cruz as former spokesman warns Beto O’Rourke could win crucial Texas seat

  10-09-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  Republicans are scrambling to save the seat of Senator Ted Cruz amid concerns he is not seen as “likeable” enough by voters and an onslaught from a charismatic, insurgent Democratic challenger.While Mr Cruz, 47, is a favourite of the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, he is widely disliked on Capitol Hill, by members of both parties.Already worried about the prospect of losing control of the House of Representatives, Republicans are doing all they can to keep their narrow hold o
  
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• Sweden joins Europe's move to right over migration backlash

  10-09-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden has become the latest European country to have its political order shaken by a backlash against large-scale immigration, with voters giving a boost to a far-right party and weakening the more established ones.
  
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• Miss America 2019: Miss Michigan praised for addressing Flint water crisis during pageant opening

  10-09-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Emily Sioma may not have won the crown in the 2019 Miss America pageant, but she has been hailed as a queen for addressing the Flint water crisis while in the spotlight.The 2019 Miss Michigan contestant used her introduction to the national stage to spotlight the ongoing water crisis in her home state, drawing instant praise among the crowd and across social media."From a state with 84 per cent of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink, I am Miss Michigan, Emily Sioma," she said.
  
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• Melania Trump's Camp Lashes Out at 'The View' for Mocking Her Accent

  10-09-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  The spokeswoman blasted the ladies of "The View" for mocking the first lady's accent, which they did not do.
  
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• More than 30,000 displaced in Syria's Idlib in latest offensive: U.N.

  10-09-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 30,000 people have so far fled their homes in northwest Syria since Syrian government and allied forces resumed air and ground bombardments there last week, the U.N. agency coordinating relief efforts said on Monday.The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said an all-out military assault on the last major stronghold of active opposition to President Bashar al-Assad could set 800,000 people to flight.The OCHA chief, Mark Lowcock, war
  
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• Florence upgraded again, now a Category 4 hurricane

  10-09-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Florence is rapidly strengthening and is now a Category 4 hurricane.
  
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• Les Moonves' CBS Replacement Dodges Sexual Misconduct Issues In Email To Staff

  10-09-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Interim CBS Corp. chief executive Joseph Ianniello took the helm at the media
  
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• Trump closing Palestinian mission in pro-Israel move

  10-09-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is closing the Palestine Liberation Organization's mission in Washington, the latest U.S. blow against the Palestinians and an international court during the stalled Mideast peace process.
  
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• Unlikely weapon: petanque balls help disarm Paris attacker

  10-09-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — They only went out to play a calm game of petanque and enjoy some late summer warmth by a Parisian canal. By the end of the evening, the three friends had neutralized a knife-wielding attacker who had stabbed seven people, with an unlikely weapon: the game's clanking — and hefty — metal balls.
  
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• California Commits To 100 Percent Clean Energy By 2045

  10-09-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  In a move bucking the Trump administration's push to revive the coal industry,
  
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• Elon Musk's access to government secrets questioned after bizarre cannabis interview

  10-09-2018 19:18 via yahoo.com
  Elon Musk has access to some of the government's most important secrets.The SpaceX boss has high-level security clearance as a result of his work with the rocket firm he founded and which carries sometimes mysterious government hardware up into space.After that video surfaced, numerous reports suggested that the Air Force was reconsidering Mr Musk's government clearance.
  
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• Serbian president's praise of Milosevic triggers outrage

  10-09-2018 19:16 via yahoo.com
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The Serbian president's praise of Slobodan Milosevic as a "great" leader triggered outrage on Monday in neighboring states where his nationalist policies in the 1990s caused bloodshed and destruction.
  
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• Ford Model T Buying Guide

  10-09-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  Here’s how to buy a solid Ford Model T, a prime slice of Americana and one of the most significant cars in motoring history…
  
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• On North Korea, Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good

  10-09-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  Kim likely won't give up his nukes, but that doesn't mean Trump should stop pursuing diplomacy.
  
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• The Latest: Mother of man killed by Dallas cop seeks answers

  10-09-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting involving an off-duty Dallas police officer (all times local):
  
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• Julie Chen Skips Season Premiere of 'The Talk,' a Day After Husband, CBS Honcho Les Moonves, Resigns

  10-09-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  In a statement to Inside Edition, Chen said she was taking a few days off to be with family.
  
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• John Legend's EGOT Win Gave Chrissy Teigen the Perfect Chance to Lovingly Troll Him

  10-09-2018 18:47 via yahoo.com
  As one does
  
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• The Latest: California highway reopens after 6-day closure

  10-09-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local):
  
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• Major Idlib raid could spark worst catastrophe of 21st century: UN

  10-09-2018 18:33 via yahoo.com
  The UN's new humanitarian chief warned Monday that a large-scale military operation against the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib could create "the worst humanitarian catastrophe" of this century."There needs to be ways of dealing with this problem that don't turn the next few months in Idlib into the worst humanitarian catastrophe with the biggest loss of life in the 21st century," Mark Lowcock told reporters in Geneva.Since 2015, Idlib has been home to a complex array of anti-regime forces:
  
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• Hedge fund Citadel replaces head of crude trading: sources

  10-09-2018 18:30
  Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge fund managers, is replacing its head of crude oil trading, according to two sources familiar with the matter, after what one of the sources said were...
  
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• Pennsylvania explosion: Evacuations and destroyed homes near Pittsburgh after huge gas line blast

  10-09-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  Residents have been forced to evacuate after a gas line explosion outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania destroyed buildings amid massive flames.There have been no reported injuries as yet but the 5 am explosion and fire affected the approximately 30 homes within a half-mile radius.The line is operated by a company called Energy Transfer in Center Township, a suburb approximately 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
  
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• Sessions: Immigration judges must be efficient with backlog

  10-09-2018 18:25 via yahoo.com
  FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a group of new immigration judges Monday they have an obligation to decide cases efficiently in a system besieged by ballooning dockets and lengthy backlogs.
  
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• Hedge fund Tiger Global ups stake in Fiat Chrysler to $1 billion: filing

  10-09-2018 18:23
  U.S. hedge fund Tiger Global Management has raised its stake in Fiat Chrysler Automobilesto 873.3 million euros ($1 billion), a recent filing with the Dutch regulator showed.
  
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• Nissan Design Chief Suggests a New Z-Car Is Coming

  10-09-2018 18:19 via yahoo.com
  A replacement for the 370Z is long overdue, and it is on its way.
  
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• Murder charge still possible for officer involved in wrong apartment shooting

  10-09-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  The Texas Rangers, a law enforcement agency assigned to conduct an independent investigation of the case, obtained an arrest warrant against Guyger, 30, on Sunday on suspicion of manslaughter.
  
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• Apple supplier stocks dip as Trump tweets threats over China tariffs

  10-09-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has seemingly triggered a drop in the shares of China-based suppliers of Apple Inc after threatening price increases against the tech giant on Twitter.The president claimed "prices may increase" for the world's most popular smartphone provider thanks to "massive tariffs we may be imposing on China," in a message calling on Apple to manufacture its products in the US."Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China - but there is an easy solution
  
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• Daily Digit: Why are millennials still living with their parents?

  10-09-2018 18:17 via yahoo.com
  A little more than 26 percent of millennials ages 25-34 are still living at home with their parents, up from 15.3 percent in 2000, according to the National Association of Home Builders. And while 42 percent of millennials are already homeowners, 68 percent of them regret buying.
  
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