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• Driver charged in death of Broadway actress' child has died of apparent suicide

  08-11-2018 23:57 via yahoo.com
  Dorothy Bruns was found dead in her home, a suicidal note and pills were also found near her body.
  
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• Missouri tour boat captain indicted after sinking kills 17

  08-11-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The captain of a tourist boat that sank in southwest Missouri and killed 17 people, including nine members of an Indiana family, didn't tell passengers to put on flotation devices or prepare them to abandon ship even after waves crashed into the boat during a severe storm, according to an indictment released Thursday.
  
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• Florida braces for recounts in governor, Senate races

  08-11-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Florida's races for governor and US Senate appeared headed Thursday for law-mandated recounts, while the Democratic candidate for governor in neighboring Georgia threatened legal action to ensure all votes are counted in her tight race.The two southern states are in the spotlight after Tuesday's closely watched midterm elections, in which Democrats reclaimed the House of Representatives from President Donald Trump's Republicans and flipped a number of governorships.Two Democratic candidates, And
  
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• White House defends doctored Trump-Acosta clip used to justify reporter's ban

  08-11-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  The White House has stood by its decision to revoke the access of CNN reporter Jim Acosta after a fiery standoff with the president, and defended sharing a video on social media that had been altered to make Acosta’s actions towards an intern look more aggressive.The video, originally made by an employee of Infowars, a far-right conspiracy website, shows Acosta’s reaction to a White House employee who tried to grab a microphone from him while he attempted to question Donald Trump at
  
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• Trade players to watch in Congress after Democrats retake House

  08-11-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  The trade landscape in the U.S. House of Representatives will shift significantly next year following Democrats' seizure of control in Tuesday's elections.In the Senate, the Republicans strengthened their majority.Here is a look at key congressional trade players to watch:NANCY PELOSIHouse Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has announced her intention to return as House speaker and so far has no challengers.
  
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• Woman Overseeing Broward Vote Count Illegally Destroyed Ballots in Previous Race

  08-11-2018 23:35 via yahoo.com
  Brenda Snipes, the Broward County Board of Elections Supervisor previously convicted for illegally destroying ballots, is once again under scrutiny for her questionable handling of Tuesday’s elections.Snipes has so far refused to disclose the number of Broward County ballots that have yet to be counted more than 40 hours after the polls closed, in possible violation of Florida law, which requires timely reporting of vote counts.Senator Marco Rubio of Florida castigated Snipes Thursday for
  
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• These Are the Deadliest Mass Shootings of 2018

  08-11-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  The mass carnage began on Valentine's Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
  
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• Ex-Marine apparently acted alone in California bar shooting: FBI

  08-11-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  A former U.S. Marine combat veteran opened fire in a Los Angeles area bar and dance hall filled with college students, killing 12 people, police said on Thursday, in a mass shooting that stunned a Southern California community with a reputation for safety.The gunman, identified by police 28-year-old Ian David Long,was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound following the massacre in the office of the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, a suburb 40 miles (64 km) northwest
  
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• California bar massacre leaves another American community reeling after 12 gunned down by Marine veteran

  08-11-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  Another American community has been left reeling after a mass shooting, with 12 dead after a gunman opened fire at a western themed bar in Thousand Oaks, California.The shooting began late Wednesday night in the Borderline Bar & Grill, sending people diving under pool tables and other furniture for cover.Witnesses and victims said that stools were thrown through windows to enable bar patrons to get away from the hail of bullets.
  
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• U.S. Democrats seek hearings on Trump’s ouster of Sessions

  08-11-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Thursday demanded emergency hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives to investigate President Donald Trump's ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling the move an effort to undermine a federal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Trump forced the resignation of Sessions on Wednesday, a day after elections in which his fellow Republicans lost control of the House but increased their majority in the Se
  
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• Subaru recalls 640K vehicles globally for stalling problems

  08-11-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Subaru is recalling about 640,000 vehicles worldwide to fix two problems that can cause them to stall.
  
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• Trump Blocks Asylum For Immigrants Who Cross Border Illegally

  08-11-2018 22:44 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump followed through Friday on his legally questionable
  
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• What America Can Learn from Taiwan’s Digital Democracy

  08-11-2018 22:42 via yahoo.com
  Taipei's "vTaiwan" has proved innovative for security and citizen involvement.
  
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• Bernie Sanders Says Not All Voters Who Feel 'Uncomfortable' With Black Candidates Are Racist

  08-11-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) drew criticism Thursday after saying many white
  
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• Wind-Driven Fire Barrels Through Northern California's Butte County

  08-11-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  An 18,000-acre fire in Northern California's Butte County forced thousands to
  
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• Some of the most recent deadly US mass shootings

  08-11-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  The shooting at a bar in southern California marks the second deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in 2018.
  
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• Stacey Abrams to sue in Georgia governor election as Brian Kemp resigns as Secretary of State

  08-11-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign has announced its intention to sue over alleged voting issues that allegedly hampered turnout in Doughtery County.The county was reportedly slow to mail out absentee ballots in part due to the impact of Hurricane Michael across the region, the campaign said Thursday.Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, who serves as the campaign’s chairwoman, told reporters Thursday the lawsuit will demand all absentee ballots are counted as part of the total results of the g
  
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• Shades of 2000: With ballots still uncounted, Florida races are going to recounts

  08-11-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  Gov. Rick Scott and former Rep. Ron DeSantis hold leads in their respective races that have been shrinking since Election Day.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Hospital treatment for Supreme Court justice strikes fear into US liberals

  08-11-2018 22:06 via yahoo.com
  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is recovering in hospital after fracturing three ribs from a fall early Thursday morning, prompting panic from supporters worried about what it would mean or her seat on the court.Known as one of the most liberal judges on the court, which has had its conservative majority restored by two nominations from Donal trump, Ms Ginsburg has become a feminist icon.“She can have all my ribs,” Rabia Chaudry, an attorney, tweeted.
  
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• Father who searched for son says he was killed in the Thousand Oaks, Calif., mass shooting

  08-11-2018 22:06 via yahoo.com
  Jason Coffman says that his son Cody was one of the people killed in the Thousand Oaks, Calif., mass shooting. Coffman searched for his son in the hours after the shooting, making public pleas to help locate Cody after he couldn’t be reached.
  
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• 6 Weeks After Senate Testimony, Christine Blasey Ford Still Getting Threats

  08-11-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday formally took his seat on
  
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• Judge Releases Defendants After Losing Re-Election, Asking If They'd Kill Anyone

  08-11-2018 21:51 via yahoo.com
  A Texas judge reportedly released nearly all of his juvenile defendants after
  
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• Factbox: Democrats pick up net 32 seats in U.S. House, with some races still undecided

  08-11-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Democrats have gained a net 32 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after elections on Tuesday, with only seven races still undecided, according to the latest projections by media outlets and data provider DDHQ. The Democratic Party needed to pick up only 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. Following is the latest tally of seats that will change parties, based on the projections. ...
  
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• What It's Worth: What You Can Get With $3.5M

  08-11-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Whether you’re in the biggest city or smallest suburban town, every map dot in
  
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• U.N. aims for Yemen talks by year-end, not end of month

  08-11-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  A proxy war is playing out in Yemen between Iran and Saudi Arabia.A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in Yemen in 2015, backing government forces fighting the Iran-allied Houthi group.The United States and Britain last week stepped up calls for an end to the nearly four-year war that has driven impoverished Yemen to the verge of famine, raising pressure on Saudi Arabia as it faces a global outcry over the murder of a prominent Saudi journalist in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
  
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• Incoming Mexico government sends marijuana bill to Congress

  08-11-2018 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Mexico's incoming government submitted a bill on Thursday to create a medical marijuana industry and allow its recreational use, part of a crime-fighting plan that would make Mexico one of the world's most populous countries to legalize the drug.The bill would permit companies to grow and commercialize marijuana.People would also be allowed to cultivate plants for private use, as long as they register in an anonymous government listing and produce no more than 480 grams (1 lb) of marijuana per y
  
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• Florida Just Enfranchised Over 1 Million People. They Still Face Big Obstacles To Voting.

  08-11-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Florida voters made history on Tuesday, amending their state constitution to
  
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• CBS Reporter Major Garrett Says Journalists Must 'Lock Arms' To Cover President Trump

  08-11-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of CNN Senior reporter Jim Acosta having his White House press
  
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• Florida Senate Race Heads for Automatic Recount

  08-11-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Senate in Florida race is likely headed for an automatic recount.Republican Rick Scott, who resigned as governor to pursue the Senate seat, led incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson by roughly 22,000 votes, or .26 percent of all votes cast, as of Thursday morning.Florida law requires a machine recount if the candidates finish within 0.5 percentage points of each other and a manual recount if the final margin is thinner than 0.25 points.
  
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• Best Bites: Fall brussel sprouts, squash and quinoa salad

  08-11-2018 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
  
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• Mass shooting in California reignites gun control debate

  08-11-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  A mass shooting in Thousand Oaks left 12 people dead, and there are constitutional questions about the appointment of Attorney General Sessions' replacement.
  
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• Goodbye, Jeff Sessions—and Hello to Attorney General Chris Christie or Pam Bondi?

  08-11-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The Attorney General’s firing has upset some on the Right.
  
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• What we know about the California shooting and gunman

  08-11-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  The man who shot and killed 12 people in Thousand Oaks, California, was identified on Monday as Ian David Long.Ron Helus, a Ventura county sheriff’s sergeant, was among those killed at the Borderline Bar and Grill, about 40 miles west of Los Angeles.Ventura county sheriff Geoff Dean said sheriff’s deputies were called to Long’s home in Newbury Park, five miles west of Thousand Oaks, in April 2018.
  
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• California shooting: Gunman who killed 12 at Thousand Oaks bar named as former US Marine 

  08-11-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  A former US Marine killed 12 people as he opened fire in a California country music bar packed with college students. America's latest mass shooting took place in the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, a leafy, middle class city near Los Angeles. The gunman Ian David Long, 28, had served in the Marines for five years until 2013, earning the rank of corporal, and had been deployed as a machine gunner to Afghanistan in 2010.  He was believed to be suffering from post-traumat
  
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• House Dems Demand Acting AG Recuse Himself from Mueller Probe

  08-11-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  House Democrats are demanding that acting attorney general Matt Whitaker, who took over for Attorney General Jeff Sessions after President Trump requested, received, and accepted Sessions’s resignation Wednesday, recuse himself from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.In a letter to Whitaker, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee urged him to recuse himself based on previous criticisms he has made of the probe.“There is little doubt that President Trump&rsqu
  
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• Volkswagen plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23,000 -source

  08-11-2018 20:43 via yahoo.com
  Volkswagenintends to sell electric cars for less than 20,000 euros ($22,836) and protect German jobs by converting three factories to make Teslarivals, a source familiar with the plans said.VW and other carmakers are struggling to adapt quickly enough to stringent rules introduced after the carmaker was found to have cheated diesel emissions tests, with its chief executive Herbert Diess warning last month that Germany's auto industry faces extinction.Plans for VW's electric car, known as "MEB en
  
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• First Victims in Thousand Oaks Bar Shooting Identified as Sheriff's Deputy and 22-Year-Old

  08-11-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  They include a sheriff's deputy and a 22-year-old
  
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• Trump impeachment must be priority for Congress after midterm elections, Democrats say

  08-11-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  Now that the midterms are over, Democrat voters are clear on one of the priorities for the leaders of their party when they take control of the House of Representatives next year - impeaching Donald Trump.According to a Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll, 43 per cent of respondents who identified as Democrat wanted impeachment to be top priorities for Congress.Aligned with that, one in four Democrats said they would like to see Congress protect the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Rober
  
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• The 2018 Ford Mustang's 10-Speed Automatic Makes It a Quicker Pony

  08-11-2018 20:27 via yahoo.com
  But it doesn't enliven the Mustang's pulse.
  
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• Native American women's election to US House celebrated

  08-11-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As a girl, Debra Haaland remembers joining her grandmother as she chopped wood and fetched water for her home in tiny Mesita, a Native American community situated in New Mexico's high desert.
  
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• Gisele Bündchen Reveals Why She Left Victoria's Secret

  08-11-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Gisele Bundchen is one of the world's highest-paid supermodels. Though she's
  
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• Father of shooting victim: 'Cody, I love you'

  08-11-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  Jason Coffman sobbed as he told reporters that authorities told him his oldest son Cody Coffman was killed in the mass shooting at a Southern California bar. (Nov. 8)
  
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• Anti-Fascist Protesters Target Fox News' Tucker Carlson At His Home

  08-11-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Police responded Wednesday night when anti-fascist activists showed up at the
  
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• Father confirms son, 22, was among Thousand Oaks shooting victims

  08-11-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Jason Coffman, who was desperately searching for his son, Cody, in the hours after the deadly mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., received the heartbreaking news on Thursday that the 22-year-old was among the victims of the massacre.
  
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• Why the Midterm Results Should Concern You Regardless of Which Party You Support

  08-11-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  The House of Representatives is not representative
  
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• Key House Democrat promises hearings on GOP tax package

  08-11-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The Democratic lawmaker poised to lead the powerful tax-writing committee in the U.S. House said he would consider President Donald Trump's proposal for a middle-income tax cut, but only if there are adjustments on tax rates for top income earners.
  
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• Twitter Users Jokingly Offer To Donate Their Ribs To Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  08-11-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Some Americans jokingly offered to make a supreme sacrifice for Ruth Bader
  
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• Pelosi Promises ‘Bipartisan, Commonsense’ Gun Control after Calif. Mass Shooting

  08-11-2018 20:00 via yahoo.com
  House minority leader Nancy Pelosi vowed to advance “bipartisan, commonsense” gun-control legislation on Thursday, hours after a gunman shot and killed twelve people at a bar in Southern California.“The American people deserve real action to end the daily epidemic of gun violence that is stealing the lives of our children on campuses, in places of worship and on our streets,” said Pelosi, who is expected to lead the Democrats’ newly secured majority as speaker.&ldqu
  
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• Today on Inside Edition: Tamera Mowry-Housley's Niece Is Among California Victims; Who Was the Shooter?

  08-11-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  Inside Edition has the latest on the California bar shooting.
  
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• Wells Fargo to combine private bank with ultra-rich client business

  08-11-2018 19:51
  Wells Fargo & Cosaid on Thursday it is restructuring its wealth and investment management business to combine its two high-net worth operations, the private bank and Abbot Downing, under a new unit...
  
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