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• 4 killed by runaway truck on Denver interstate; driver faces homicide charges

  26-04-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A stretch of I-70 west of Denver remained closed hours after a semi-tractor trailer carrying wood slammed into stopped cars causing multiple deaths.
  
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• Migrants protest after hundreds escape from Mexican detention center

  26-04-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico) (AFP) - Central American migrants at a detention center in southern Mexico protested against their captivity on Friday, a day after an escape involving around 1,300 mostly Cuban inmates.Dozens of migrants shouted on Friday morning: "We want to go," and "we're hungry" at the facility in Tapachula, in the southern state of Chiapas.At dinner time on Thursday, some 1,300 migrants escaped after threatening to set fire to the detention center to protest against overcro
  
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• Trump’s decision to withdraw from the UN Arms Treaty could pull US into more foreign wars, critics claim

  26-04-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty could lead the country into future foreign wars and exacerbate the immigration crisis at the southern border with Mexico, critics have claimed.Speaking at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Indianapolis, the president said he was withdrawing US support or the accord because it gave a degree of sovereignty to other countries.But some critics decried the move, saying it w
  
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• The Latest: Defense rests in trial of Minneapolis officer

  26-04-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime (all times local):
  
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• Skullduggery TV: Mueller's Hidden Nuggets

  26-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Shane Harris, senior national security writer at the Washington Post, and Paul Rosenzweig, a senior fellow on national security and cybersecurity at the R Street Institute, join co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman and Yahoo News’ White House correspondent, Hunter Walker. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to comb through the Mueller report, the “Skullduggery” crew analyzes and reveals hidden nuggets that could easily turn out to be important pieces in the potent
  
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• Google bans one of the biggest Android app developers from the Play Store

  26-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  On the heels of the revelation last week, via a BuzzFeed analysis, that several of the most-downloaded apps from the Google Play Store may have been caught sharing data they collect with the Chinese government, we've just learned that Google is banning the app developer in question. In addition, Google is removing all apps from the developer, DO Global, that have collectively garnered more than half a billion downloads.Google had already discovered the developer was engaged in ad fraud and had b
  
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• Russian Agent Maria Butina Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

  26-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian agent Maria Butina was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy against the U.S.Butina, 30, was charged last summer with acting on behalf of the Russian government before and after the 2016 presidential election and failing to register as a foreign agent. She was arrested on July 16 and has spent the better part of the last year in jail in Alexandria, Va.As a grad student at American University in Washington, D.C. Butina est
  
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• YouTuber captures moment just before impact in fiery Denver truck crash

  26-04-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  YouTuber "Burger Planet" captured the moment just before a semi-truck slammed into several cars resulting in a fiery crash near Denver.
  
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• Truck driver arrested in fiery crash that killed 4

  26-04-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The truck driver accused of killing four people in a fiery crash near Denver is a 23-year-old licensed operator from Texas. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos is being held on suspicion of vehicular homicide authorities in Colorado said Friday. (April 26)
  
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• American Airlines cuts profit forecast as 737 MAX woes bite

  26-04-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines slashed its profit forecast Friday largely due to the crisis around the Boeing 737 MAX, a somewhat more profound hit to operations and customer bookings than at other carriers affected by the jet's grounding."That's not just our passengers," said American Airlines President Robert Isom.American's hit from the MAX crisis came as the aviation industry watches for Boeing to clear several key hurdles with the US Federal Aviation Administration and other global regulators to allow t
  
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• South Carolina state House passes 'heartbeat' bill to ban abortions after six weeks

  26-04-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The South Carolina state House passed a bill which prohibits abortion when a heartbeat is detectable. Current law in South Carolina permits abortion up to 20 weeks. This bill, called the “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act” reduces that to a mere six weeks, before many women know that they are pregnant, with exceptions for rape, incest, and if the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the woman.This bill is not the first of its kind, heartbeat abortion bi
  
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• Biden spars with Trump on age, faces questions on women

  26-04-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Newly announced 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden faced scrutiny on multiple fronts Friday, as President Donald Trump knocked him for his age and an all-female panel questioned his past treatment of women.It was unlikely the rollout that the former vice president had expected on the first full day of his White House campaign, but the attention from Trump himself served to signal Biden's status as the leading challenger in a crowded field seeking to oust the current president.Biden's day in the
  
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• Intel puts modem business up for sale, held talks with Apple: WSJ

  26-04-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Intel decided to exit the 5G modem chip business last week, hours after Apple settled a longstanding legal dispute with Qualcomm Inc, a key supplier of iPhone modem chips.Apple had held talks with Intel around last summer and continued to do so for months until halting recently around the time of its settlement with Qualcomm, the WSJ report said.
  
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• College admissions scam: USC announces changes to student-athlete admissions process

  26-04-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The University of Southern California announced a revamped admissions process for prospective student-athletes in the wake of the national college admissions scam.
  
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• Biden Raises $6.3 Million on First Day of Campaign, Topping Democratic Field

  26-04-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Joe Biden's campaign brought in $6.3 million in the first 24 hours after its Thursday launch, trouncing the Day One numbers of all his rivals in the crowded race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Biden's campaign reported that a total of 96,926 donors gave it money in its first. The average online donation was $41 and 97 percent of online contributions were under $200.Biden's haul broke the marks set by former Texas representative Beto O’Rourke, who
  
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• India Amory Releases New Table Linens, and Partners with Mottahedeh to Show Them Off

  26-04-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Julia Amory, purveyor of colorful block-printed linens, is out with her spring collection of tablecloths and napkins
  
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• US adds Venezuela foreign minister to sanctions target list

  26-04-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States on Friday added Venezuela's foreign minister and a judge who has ruled against Venezuelan opposition figures to a sanctions list aimed at forcing a change of government in the South American country.
  
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• Trump fired his way to fame on TV, but shrinks from it in real life

  26-04-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The president says he didn't tell White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller.
  
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• Trump Makes a Show of Un-Signing Arms Trade Treaty at NRA Convention

  26-04-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump told gun rights activists at the NRA's annual convention that he will pull the U.S. from an arms trade treaty
  
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• Japan Has Big Plans for a U.S. Summit. But Trump Just Wants to Talk Cars and Military Costs

  26-04-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Administration officials say Trump's only goals for Japan summit are talking about defense spending and automotive trade.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks are closing at fresh record highs

  26-04-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Now Is Not the Time to Get Rid of the A-10 Warthog (And Replace It with the F-35)

  26-04-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  I admit it, as a former infantryman, I’m a partial to the A-10 Thunderbolt II. I don’t mind that it’s ugly. I don’t mind that it entered service all the way back in the mid 1970s, making it older than me. I don’t mind that it’s slow, basically a flying 30 mm cannon sheathed in a 1,200-pound titanium “bathtub.” In fact, these are exactly the things that endear the A-10 to grunts like me. It’s our plane. It was made for us and us alone.The Wart
  
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• Mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer discussed bereavement with Joe Biden

  26-04-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden said he was running for president following statements President Donald Trump made after the clashes in Charlottesville that included neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
  
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• U.S. man released from Venezuelan prison after five years

  26-04-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen arrested in Venezuela in 2014 on weapons trafficking and attempted murder charges his family called "trumped-up" was released this week, his family said in a statement on Friday.Todd Leininger, 37, was arrested in western Tachira state where he and his Venezuelan wife were visiting his sister-in-law, Reuters reported at the time.In January, President Nicolas Maduro announced he was breaking off diplomatic relations after the United States recognized
  
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• Joe Biden raises $6.3m in 24 hours to set new record for first day fundraising

  26-04-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden has set a new fundraising record for the 2020 Democratic primaries after raising a staggering $6.3m (£4.8m) in just 24 hours.The former vice president raised funds from more more than 96,000 contributors, according to his campaign. He beat out previous records set first by Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke and then bested by Bernie Sanders, whose campaign has raised the most funds so far ahead of the primaries. Mr Biden enters the massive primary field as one of the clear frontr
  
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• Trump says U.S. paid no money to North Korea over Warmbier

  26-04-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay any money to North Korea as it sought the release of Otto Warmbier, a day after a report said Trump had approved a $2 million bill from Pyongyang for the American student's care."No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else," Trump wrote in a tweet.The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump had approved payment of a $2 million bill from Pyongyang to cover its care o
  
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• A Federal Judge Has Defied the Law to Protect Abortion

  26-04-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Honestly, after two years of nationwide injunctions, ludicrously expanded standing rules, and blatant disregard for precedent, it’s become hard for the judicial resistance to surprise. If there is a Trump regulation they can block — at least temporarily — they will do so, sound reasoning be damned. But even my cynical heart received a jolt at the sheer brazenness of Judge Stanley Bastian, from the Eastern District of Washington.Yesterday he issued (yes, of course) a nationwide
  
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• Father recalls devastating choice he was forced to make during Sri Lanka bombings

  26-04-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  An American ex-pat and former investment banker has revealed the devastating moment he was forced to choose which of his two dying children to try and save.
  
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• Judge slams Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx for double standard: 'Your office created this mess'

  26-04-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A Cook County judge recently castigated State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for having a double standard by prosecuting an anonymous woman for filing a false police report after dropping all charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who was indicted for the same offense.
  
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• Biden outpaces pack, raises $6.3 mn in first 24 hours

  26-04-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden raked in $6.3 million in the 24 hours since launching his presidential bid, his campaign said Friday, outpacing Day 1 fundraising of all other Democrats in the crowded 2020 field.Online donations to the former vice president, already considered the frontrunner among the Democrats seeking to challenge President Donald Trump, averaged $41, and 61 percent of total money raised came from new donors who were not on earlier Biden email lists.The dollar figure eclipsed the $6.1 million openin
  
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• 2020 Vision: Trump makes race about 'freedom' — and keeping prisoners from voting

  26-04-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Friday delivered speeches at the National Rifle Association’s annual conference in Indianapolis, where they blasted Bernie Sanders' plan to give felons the right to vote.
  
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• Biden quickly raises $6.3 million, marking the largest 24-hour haul from 2020 candidates

  26-04-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden has brought in the largest haul for Day One fundraising — surpassing Beto O'Rourke who previously held that honor.
  
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• Noah pits Biden against Trump in 'the most entertaining debate of all time'

  26-04-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The former vice president is finally in the race for the top office. The comics look at his gaffes and a possible debate in Best of Late Night.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Intel puts modem business up for sale, held talks with Apple - WSJ

  26-04-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Intel Corp is exploring strategic options for its modem chip business, including a possible sale to Apple or another acquirer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.Intel decided to exit the 5G modem chip business last week, hours after Apple settled a longstanding legal dispute with Qualcomm Inc, a key supplier of iPhone modem chips.Apple had held talks with Intel around last summer and continued to do so for months until halting recently around the
  
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• Joe Biden on Anita Hill: 'I don't think I treated her badly'

  26-04-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden said he waited 28 years to call Anita Hill about her treatment from an all-male Senate panel he led in 1991.
  
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• AOC responds to NRA's claim she does not represent 'real Americans'

  26-04-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rejected claims from the NRA she does not real Americans, saying just because her constituents do not want assault weapons in schools they still belong to the same country.Speaking at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Indianapolis, Chris Cox, the gun industry group’s chief lobbyist, claimed Ms Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives were trying to stop people from owning weapons, a claim that is not true.&ldq
  
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• Trump news: President says US is ‘taking our signature back' from UN Arms Trade Treaty, claiming guns 'make our communities safer'

  26-04-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump railed against "radical left-wing" 2020 hopefuls and praised members of the National Rifle Association during a speech hosted by the guns right's group Friday."Far-left radicals in Congress want to take away your voice, your jobs, your rights," the president said. "And they especially want to take away your guns." He went on to slam the press as "fake news" and vowed to protect the Second Amendment in the US.Mr Trump also called in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Thursday e
  
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• Lawyer: US man had Myanmar's permission to grow cannabis

  26-04-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The arrest of an American man in Myanmar for growing 20 acres of cannabis plants is unjust because authorities were aware that his company was doing scientific research and police were confusing hemp with recreational marijuana, his lawyer said Friday.
  
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• Trump's visits Buttigieg country for speech at NRA convention but singles out only Bernie Sanders

  26-04-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump visited Pete Buttigieg territory for the NRA convention and mentioned Bernie Sanders but not the South Bend mayor.
  
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• Trump and Pence attack Sen. Sanders over his comments on prisoner voting rights

  26-04-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  During their speeches at the NRA’s annual convention, President Trump and Vice President Pence criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders’s recent comments concerning prisoner voting rights. At a CNN town hall on April 22, Sanders said he believed prisoners should have the right to vote, even “terrible people” convicted of crimes such as sexual assault or murder.
  
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• Proxy adviser ISS recommends against three directors at Sturm Ruger

  26-04-2019 21:00
  Institutional Shareholder Services recommended investors withhold support from three directors at gunmaker Sturm Ruger & Co ahead of its May 8 annual meeting, the top proxy adviser said in a report...
  
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• 8 Ways to Invest in the U.K. Now

  26-04-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A new report by consulting and accounting firm EY found that Britain is the top corporate investment destination in the world.For the first time in the 10-year history of the EY annual survey, the U.K. is the top destination for foreign corporate investment in mergers and acquisitions.The U.K. Brexit vote to leave the European Union has created political chaos in Britain, but it has also tanked the pound and made assets cheaper for outside investors.
  
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• Joe Biden Tops Bernie Sanders’ First-Day Fundraising Tally

  26-04-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSJoe Biden’s presidential campaign announced Friday that it had raised a total of $6.3 million in the first 24 hours of his candidacy—the largest single-day tally for any 2020 candidate thus far. “That’s more than any other presidential campaign so far,” boasted a note to supporters. The campaign said that 97 percent of online donations were under $200 and that the average online donation was $41. Additionally, they said that a total of 96,926 people contribut
  
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• Nearing end of his tenure, Rosenstein hits back at critics

  26-04-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is taking swipes at his critics as he prepares to leave the Justice Department, using one of his final speeches to defend his handling of the special counsel's Russia investigation and condemn decisions made before he took the job.
  
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• Hundreds of migrants in southern Mexico board 'The Beast' heading north

  26-04-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The risky move to board the train, known as "La Bestia" (The Beast), followed a mass breakout of migrants from a holding center in the southern border city of Tapachula on Thursday night.Men, women and children from various countries boarded the slow train as it pulled out of the town of Arriaga in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexican media reported.The large group descended from the train on Friday after it reached the town of Ixtepec to the northwest of Arriaga.
  
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• Parrot taken into custody after warning owners of police arrival

  26-04-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Police found drugs at the home where the bird lived and arrested a man for drug trafficking.
  
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• Under fire, former U.S. V.P. Biden says he did not treat Anita Hill badly

  26-04-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden had joined the burgeoning 2020 Democratic field a day earlier.At times, Biden seemed to oscillate between defending his behavior and saying he did nothing wrong and apologizing and trying to make amends.Biden’s conduct during the hearings in 1991, when he was chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, became a renewed subject of controversy after the New York Times reported that Biden had called Hill earlier this month in the run-up to his presidential bid and that Hill was dis
  
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• How Does the GMC Sierra's CarbonPro Bed Compare vs. the Ford F-150's Aluminum Bed?

  26-04-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Which material is best for a pickup bed?
  
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• Prosecutor: 'No basis' for Minneapolis cop to shoot woman

  26-04-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A prosecutor criticized a former Minneapolis police officer for his decision to shoot an unarmed woman who approached his squad car, suggesting Friday that he had "no basis" to fire when he couldn't see a weapon or the woman's hands.
  
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