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• Trump's plan to name Herman Cain to Fed meets Republican pushback

  09-04-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of the president's own party signal that the former Godfather's Pizza CEO faces an uphill confirmation battle.
  
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• Netanyahu, main rival Gantz, claim victory in Israeli election

  09-04-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Exit polls on two of Israel's three main TV channels showedGantz's centrist Blue and White Party won slightly more seats than Likud in the 120-member parliament, while a third survey forecast a tie.If he wins, Netanyahu, 69, will be on track to be the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's 71-year history.Gantz, 59, a former military chief, is a political novice.
  
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• NHL suspends Voynov for 2019-20 season for domestic violence

  09-04-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The NHL suspended defenseman Slava Voynov on Tuesday for the 2019-20 season and 2020 playoffs after determining he committed acts of domestic violence.
  
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• Benny Gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu both claim victory in Israeli elections

  09-04-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel’s elections were too close to call on Tuesday night as both Benjamin Netanyahu and the former general trying to unseat him claimed victory.  Minutes after voting stopped, Mr Netanyahu, the incumbent prime minister, said “the Right-wing bloc led by Likud won a clear victory”.  “I thank the citizens of Israel for their trust. I will start assembling a Right-wing government with our natural partners tonight,” he said.  Former army chief Benny
  
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• Facebook is finally being forced to take privacy, security, and transparency seriously

  09-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook has had a couple of rough years when it comes to transparency, user privacy, and security. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal from last spring all the way to the most recent security issue, Facebook had to convince the general public and regulators around the world that it's going to change its ways in the coming years.And it looks like the giant social network is finally going to care about its users. It's not really a choice, however, as Facebook appears to have been forced into agr
  
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• AP Explains: Israel's parliamentary elections

  09-04-2019 23:23 via finance.yahoo.com
  Israel is holding the country's 21st parliamentary elections on Tuesday, with over 6.3 million people eligible to cast ballots in a vote largely seen as a referendum on long-seated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Netanyahu is seeking his fourth consecutive term and fifth overall, including an earlier stint in the 1990s.With another victory, Netanyahu will secure a place in history later this year as the longest-serving prime minister, surpassing Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion.
  
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• More Trump firings of senior U.S. immigration officials seen likely

  09-04-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Two days after Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced her departure, a senior administration official said others at DHS were not doing enough to enact Trump's promised immigration crackdown, a top priority for him since he announced his candidacy for the White House four years ago.Several DHS officials could be forced out soon, said an official familiar with the matter.Among them were the department's acting No. 2 official, Claire Grady, DHS general counsel John Mitnick and U.S.
  
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• President Trump Likes Acting Cabinet Members. Research Shows They May Hurt Him

  09-04-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The move allows the President to bypass Senate confirmation of his picks
  
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• Japan's air force loses contact with F-35 stealth fighter

  09-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Japan's military said on Tuesday it lost contact with one of its Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan.Japan's first squadron of F-35s has just become operational at the Misawa air base and the government plans to buy 87 of the stealth fighters to modernize its air defenses as China's military power grows.The advanced single-seat jet was flying about 135 km (84 miles) east of the air base in Aomori Prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT) on Tuesday
  
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• Boeing orders and deliveries tumble as Max jet is grounded

  09-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Boeing failed to win any orders for its 737 Max airliner in March as scrutiny of the plane increased following a second deadly crash in less than five months.
  
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• Mnuchin Says He Isn’t Afraid of Getting Fired Over Trump’s Tax Returns

  09-04-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  “I’m not afraid of being fired at all,” he told House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts has requested six years of Trump’s personal returns as well as those for several of the president’s business entities, citing a law that allows the chairmen of congressional tax-writing committees to request any filer’s returns.
  
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• Parents at UC Berkeley Easter-Egg Hunt Must Sign Waivers Due to Kids’ Risk of ‘Death’

  09-04-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Children were not allowed to participate in an Easter-egg hunt at the University of California, Berkeley without their parents’ first signing a waiver — due to the apparent risk of injury or even death.According to Reason, parents had to stand in line for up to half an hour to hand in the waiver before their kids could attend the 25th Annual Easter Egg Hunt Learning Festival. The waiver, which was obtained by Reason, listed risks including “minor injuries, such as scratche
  
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• Redacted Mueller report set for release 'within a week'

  09-04-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump's justice chief said Tuesday his review of the two-year Russian meddling investigation is on schedule and a redacted version of the report could be released by next week.Attorney General Bill Barr repeated his refusal however to give Congress the full, unaltered report -- including crucial secret testimony -- despite the threat of a subpoena.In his first public remarks since declaring President Donald Trump cleared of conspiracy to collude with Russia and obstruction of
  
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• Israel Elections a Cliffhanger for Netanyahu, New Hope for His Opposition

  09-04-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  GALI TIBBONJERUSALEM–It will be a long night in Israel, where initial exit polls Tuesday evening indicated a close electoral victory for opposition head Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff. But the prognosis for his chances to form a winning coalition block against right-wing parties led by the Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has held office for 10 years, and dominated Israeli politics for a generation.Both candidates declared immediate victory, though Gantz’s decl
  
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• Suit filed over gun controls inspired by synagogue shooting

  09-04-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gun rights groups sued Tuesday to block Pittsburgh from enforcing firearms legislation passed after a mass shooting at a synagogue, accusing city officials of blatantly defying the state's prohibition on municipal gun regulation.
  
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• EU to agree Brexit delay but France pushes for conditions

  09-04-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  European Union leaders will grant Prime Minister Theresa May a second delay to Brexit but France pushed for conditions to limit Britain's ability to undermine the bloc. Anna Bevan reports.
  
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• UPDATE 4-U.S. judge defers ruling on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan

  09-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve a PG&E Corp plan to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees, saying he wants more details from the California power producer that is facing bankruptcy following last year's wildfires.Judge Dennis Montali of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco set April 23 as the next date for a hearing on the plan, saying he wants PG&E to give him a "tutorial" on it.The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of
  
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• U.S. judge defers hearing on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan

  09-04-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve or reject a motion by PG&E Corp to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees after the power producer said the plan excluded senior executives and would help it fight devastating wildfires.The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of a previously proposed 2018 bonus program for some 14,000 employees that PG&E scuttled after criticism from wildfire victims and their lawyers.The U.S. Trustee, the governme
  
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• Actor Loughlin faces new charges in cheating scandal

  09-04-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. prosecutors filed fresh conspiracy and money laundering charges on Tuesday against 16 parents charged with paying bribes to secure their children seats in elite universities in the largest college admissions scam uncovered in U.S. history. Zachary Goelman reports.
  
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• Mnuchin's Chief of Staff Eli Miller Plans to Join Blackstone

  09-04-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Miller will work on public policy at the world’s largest alternative asset manager, according to a spokeswoman for New York-based Blackstone.Mnuchin last week announced that Miller is leaving the Treasury Department.Miller’s role has been less as a Wall Street liaison and more a trusted adviser to Mnuchin, helping ensure his boss’s political survival in a White House full of adversaries vying for influence.
  
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• Fox News’ Shep Smith and John Roberts Tag-Team to Fact-Check Trump Lies on Family Separation

  09-04-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Hours after President Trump falsely claimed his predecessor was the one responsible for separating migrant children from their families, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith and chief White House correspondent John Roberts tag-teamed to deliver a comprehensive fact-check of the president’s lies.During a press spray at the White House on Tuesday, Trump repeated the falsehood that President Obama’s administration instituted the specific policy of separating families at the border, wildly clai
  
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• Southwest flight canceled? Here's why the airline won't book you on another carrier

  09-04-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustrated Southwest Airlines passengers have bombarded the airline with questions in the wake of heavy Boeing 737 Max 8 flight cancellations.
  
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• Lori Loughlin and husband hit with new charge in college admissions bribery case

  09-04-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents were indicted on Tuesday on money laundering and mail fraud charges, the latest development in the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme. It comes a day after actress Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents and a coach originally charged in the case agreed to plead guilty - signaling an escalation in the case against the parents who are continuing to fight the allegations against them. The scandal involv
  
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• US actress Lori Loughlin faces new charge in college bribery scandal

  09-04-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  American actress Lori Loughlin was hit with a second charge on Tuesday stemming from a college admissions bribery scandal, increasing the likelihood that she could serve time in prison.The actress, known for her role on "Full House," now faces the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering in addition to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, federal prosecutor Andrew Lelling said.Unlike actress Felicity Huffman, who was also among 33 parents charged in the case, Loughlin has so far chos
  
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• Mueller report will be released within a week: U.S. attorney general

  09-04-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  During a congressional hearing, Barr was repeatedly challenged by Democrats who raised suspicions that he may have misrepresented Mueller's report to paint the Republican president in a better light.Barr, an appointee of Trump who last month announced what he said were the main findings of the report, said he would be as open as possible about redactions of sensitive information when he hands over the full document."Within a week I will be in position to release that report to the public and the
  
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• Apple just made the experience of upgrading to a new Mac far less painful

  09-04-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  While the cost alone is a deterrent for many shoppers, the scariest risk when upgrading to a new computer is the risk of losing all of your data in the transfer process. Apple has made that process somewhat less painful by offering Data Migrations with the purchase of a new Mac, but charged a whopping $99 for the service. At least, the company used to charge $99, as the exorbitant fee has apparently been eliminated as of this month.According to TidBITS, the MacBook maker just recently made the c
  
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• Protect your precious Apple Watch Series 4 with a $9 clear case

  09-04-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  If you're going to spend hundreds of dollars on a new Apple Watch Series 4, you might want to consider spending an additional few bucks to ensure that it's protected from scratches. The Smiling Apple Watch 4 Clear Case with Built in TPU Screen Protector is a top-rated Apple Watch clear case on Amazon, and it's available for 40mm and 44mm Apple Watch Series 4 models. A two pack is only $9 in either size, and the case's great design leaves the back open so it doesn't interfere at all with heart ra
  
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• Why Trump’s Latest Move Against Iran Was Pointless—and Dangerous

  09-04-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The action was worrisome theater, write two former State Department officials
  
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• 3 things to know: The "crisis" at the border and in Trump's Homeland Security Department

  09-04-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration says there's a "crisis" along the southern border, but there's a separate crisis in the Homeland Security Department.
  
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• Can we talk? McConnell says it's time for new spending pact

  09-04-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Tuesday it's time to kick off bipartisan talks on a new budget pact to fund federal agencies over the next two years.
  
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• Turkey says US move against Iran Guards creates 'instability'

  09-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Tuesday condemned the US move to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards a "terrorist group", saying the decision would create "instability" in the region.Washington's move against the Revolutionary Guards was the first time that the United States has branded part of a foreign government a terrorist group."These kinds of decisions will pave the way for instability in our region," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara.
  
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• The Mercedes Handbuilt By Porsche’s 959 Factory

  09-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  If someone asks you what sleeper you would have given the choice, most of us would throw out suggestions like an RS2, a V70R or maybe even a Mercury Marauder.When looking at Mercedes’ lineup of the last thirty years, nothing really screams sleeper to you, or does it?Porsche wasn’t doing too well in the late eighties, with their product range being rather aged.
  
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• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will now fly on Wednesday, hopefully

  09-04-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you were eagerly anticipating the second-ever launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket this past weekend, you were sorely disappointed when the company was forced to delay the launch. We had a feeling that might happen, and the launch was pushed back to today, Tuesday, April 9th, but now yet another delay has pushed it back even further.SpaceX now says that Falcon Heavy will likely launch tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10th. Today's would-be launch was scrubbed due to inclement weather, but Wednesd
  
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• Europe grudgingly prepares to offer Britain Brexit delay

  09-04-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  European leaders were grudgingly preparing to postpone Brexit on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Theresa May made last-ditch visits to Paris and Berlin to beg for more time.May asked to be given until June 30 to arrange Britain's orderly departure, but EU leaders fear that won't be long enough and are now expected to offer her up to a year."There are times when you need to give time time," EU Council president Donald Tusk tweeted, as he issued invitations to an emergency EU summit in Brussels on W
  
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• Iraq says tried to stop US blacklist of Iran Revolutionary Guard

  09-04-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Baghdad tried to stop Washington from blacklisting Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "terrorist organisation," Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said Tuesday, warning that the decision could further destabilise the region.The United States declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "terrorist" group on Monday, prompting Tehran to quickly slap US troops with the same designation.
  
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• New York City declares public health emergency, orders mandatory measles vaccinations

  09-04-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has "the power to do this."
  
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• Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected

  09-04-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The proposed class-action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticisms of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California.Koh said the original settlement was not "fundamentally fair, adequate and reasonable" because it had no overall dollar value and did not say how much victims might expect to recover.Yahoo, now part of New York-based Verizon Communications Inc, had been accused of being slow to disclose three data breaches affecting about 3 billion accounts from 2
  
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• Trump news: Attorney General interrogated by Congress over 'unanswered questions' in Mueller report, as Republicans round on president over 'mess'

  09-04-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  William Barr appeared before Congress to answer questions on the Justice Department's budget, but the hearing instead turned into a barrage of questions about the much-delayed release of the Mueller report.The attorney general told members of Congress at his first public appearance since receiving the special counsel’s report that his earlier projection of releasing a version by mid-April still stood.The nearly 400-page report is being scoured now to remove grand jury information and detai
  
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• AT&T expands mobile 5G rollout with seven new cities, total rises to 19

  09-04-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The 5G battle between carriers is picking up steam.
  
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• Prison Is the Key to Felicity Huffman’s Future. Just Ask Martha Stewart.

  09-04-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos by GettyUnless Felicity Huffman accepts the 4- to 10-month prison term recommended by the prosecutors, she faces a life sentence of scorn.Wherever she goes, she will be a person of putrid privilege. She will have escaped punishment after paying $15,000 to give her daughter a dishonest edge at getting into college. And she will have done so at the expense of students who, in the words of the apology that accompanied her decision to plead
  
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• The Latest: NRA backs suit on synagogue-inspired gun control

  09-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on Pittsburgh's effort to restrict firearms and ammunition (all times local):
  
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• Trump threatens tariffs on EU products over Airbus subsidies

  09-04-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the EU, vowing to impose tariffs on billions in imports over subsidies to the aviation giant Airbus, suddenly escalating a transatlantic skirmish that is more than a decade old.Trump had sparked outrage in Europe last year by imposing steep duties on steel and aluminum and threatening new ones on autos."The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus has adversely impacted the United States, which will now put Tariffs
  
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• Stephen Miller, Trump's hardline anti-immigrant provocateur

  09-04-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephen Miller may have been denounced by fellow Republicans and his own family, but the White House anti-immigration ideologue has the one ear that counts: President Donald Trump's.Miller's influence was clear this week with the sweeping shakeup of the Department of Homeland Security, including the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, amid Trump's frustration at its failure to halt hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from entering the country.The 33-year-old, s
  
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• Lori Loughlin, 15 others in college admissions scandal indicted on fraud, money laundering charges

  09-04-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The actress is part of a group of 16 people indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston; Molly Line reports on the charges.
  
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• Facebook pledges to stop asking users to wish dead friends happy birthday by fixing AI

  09-04-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook has admitted accidentally asking users to invite dead friends to events or wish them happy birthday, as the company pledged to fix the issue. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Office, said it was overhauling its algorithms to avoid such faux pas and “minimize experiences that might be painful”. Her comments come as the social media giant announced a raft of changes to the way it deals with the accounts of dead users. After a Facebook learns a user has died it
  
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• UN Security Council to meet Wednesday on Libya

  09-04-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The UN Security Council will hold urgent closed-door consultations on Wednesday on the crisis in Libya, where fighting has derailed UN-led efforts to prepare for elections.UN envoy Ghassan Salame will brief the council on his decision to postpone a national conference aimed at drawing up an election roadmap, diplomats said.Thousands of people have fled Tripoli after forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar, who controls part of eastern Libya, launched an offensive last week to take the capital
  
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• Trump says he is not reviving U.S. immigration policy that separated children from parents

  09-04-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was not reviving a policy of separating children from parents who had illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, one day after media reports that his administration was considering putting it back in place."We're not looking to do that," Trump told reporters before a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, adding a raft of criticisms of U.S. immigration policy and Congress.Outgoing Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen oversaw the "zero toleran
  
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• William Barr: Attorney general says Mueller report will be released ‘within a week’ – here’s what it will look like

  09-04-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  US attorney general William Barr has told lawmakers they could expect a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week”.Mr Barr was speaking about the report into possible links between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill that yielded more questions than answers. The attorney general abruptly declined to answer further questions about the investigation halfway through the hearing, saying:
  
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• Nancy Pelosi once again mocks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for using Twitter for back-up support

  09-04-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a subtle jab towards Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her alleged dependency on Twitter for public support, insinuating that the freshman lawmaker is neglecting to do work required pass the Democratic agenda into laws.Ms Ocasio-Cortez has almost 4 million followers on Twitter and has often used Twitter as a tool to rally public support for her progressive proposals including the Green New Deal.Ms Pelosi, 79, told USA Today on Monday that she is running into issu
  
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• Democrats press Barr over Trump's war on Obamacare

  09-04-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney General William Barr was pressed on the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act that, if it prevails, would cause millions of Americans to lose their health care coverage.
  
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