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• Iran's Rouhani calls for unity to face 'unprecedented' U.S. pressure

  11-05-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for unity among Iran's political factions to overcome conditions which he said may be harder than those during the 1980s war with Iraq, state media reported, as the country faces tightening U.S. sanctions.U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran's leaders talk with him about giving up their nuclear program and said he could not rule out a military confrontation.U.S.Trump made the offer as he increased economic and military pressure on Iran, m
  
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• President Trump Insulted Pete Buttigieg With a 'Mad' Magazine Reference. Mayor Pete Might Be Too Young to Get It

  11-05-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump Insulted Pete Buttigieg With a 'Mad' Magazine Reference. Mayor Pete Might Be Too Young to Get It
  
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• Judge strikes down Kentucky law restricting abortions after 15 weeks

  11-05-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kentucky judge has struck down a law that prohibited a method of abortion commonly used in the second trimester, saying the measure would create a “sustainable obstacle” to a woman’s right to choose. US district judge Joseph McKinley Jr ruled on Friday that the state’s law violated a woman’s constitutional right to privacy. The law, aimed at halting dilation-and-evacuation (D&E) terminations, was found to “unduly burden” women seeking abortions. Th
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido urges backers to reject 'fear' as Maduro clamps down

  11-05-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday urged his supporters to reject fear and maintainnationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro, who has been ratcheting up pressure on the lawmaker since a failed military uprising.Some 1,500 to 2,000 people filled a square in an opposition-friendly part of eastern Caracas to hear Guaido, but that was far fewer than the several thousands who took part in earlier protests.The smaller turnouts were seen as a sign of possibly waning interes
  
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• Islamic State claims it killed 11 soldiers in northeastern Nigeria

  11-05-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has carried out a string of attacks in Nigeria in recent months.The group split in 2016 from Nigeria-based Boko Haram, which has waged a decade-long insurgency in northeast Nigeria that has killed some 30,000 people and displaced a further 2 million.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaidó asks for relations with US military

  11-05-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday said he's instructed his political envoy in Washington to immediately open relations with the U.S. military in a bid to bring more pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to resign.
  
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• Fight to replace PM May complicating Brexit talks: Labour's McDonnell

  11-05-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The battle among leading Conservatives to replace Theresa May as prime minister threatens to derail talks with the opposition Labour Party and the bid to find a Brexit compromise, Labour's John McDonnell said.May, who has offered to quit if lawmakers accept her Brexit deal, opened cross-party talks with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party more than a month ago after parliament rejected her European Union withdrawal deal three times.The talks with Labour are a last resort for May, whose party's deep div
  
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• Venezuela: Juan Guaido ‘to work with US military’ in bid to unseat Nicolas Maduro

  11-05-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s opposition leader, has instructed his Washington envoy to meet with Pentagon officials to “cooperate” on a solution to the country’s political turmoil.The 35-year-old declared himself the nation’s legitimate leader in January and has been attempting to oust embattle president Nicolas Maduro, with US backing.“We have instructed our ambassador Carlos Vecchio to meet immediately ... with the Southern Command and its admiral to establish a
  
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• Venezuelan Opposition Leader Seeks Contact With U.S. Military

  11-05-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Admiral Craig Faller, the head of Southern Command, said on Twitter this week he was open to meeting with Guaido and what he termed the “legitimate” government of Venezuela.“I look forward to discussing how we can support the future role of those @ArmadaFANB leaders who make the right decision, put the Venezuela people first & restore constitutional order,” Faller said in the tweet, referring to the Venezuelan armed forces.
  
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• UN confirms Yemen aid port withdrawal underway

  11-05-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The UN confirmed a withdrawal by Yemen's Huthi rebels from three Red Sea ports had begun Saturday, while a senior pro-government official accused the rebels of faking the pullout.The rebel pullback is a first step in implementing a hard-won ceasefire deal reached between Yemen's internationally-recognised government and the Iran-backed Huthi rebels late last year."Yes, it has begun," said UN spokesman Farhan Haq, when AFP asked whether redeployment of Huthi troops was underway.
  
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• Stop Hijacking Students’ Grief after School Shootings

  11-05-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, a vigil was held at the STEM School in Colorado to commemorate and honor the bravery of Kendrick Castillo -- the 18-year-old student who gave his life rushing a shooter who was threatening the lives of his classmates. During the vigil, Senator Michael Bennet (D) and Congressman Jason Crow (D) departed from memorializing Castillo and began to agitate for gun control.Suddenly the vigil erupted. Within moments, hundreds of heartbroken teens began to walk out in protest again
  
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• Grandmother, teen parents of newborn claimed to be abandoned in Chicago alley charged, police say

  11-05-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The teen mother and father of a newborn baby that was thought to have been abandoned in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood have been charged with attempted murder.
  
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• Female Afghan former journalist shot dead in Kabul

  11-05-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A former journalist who worked for the Afghan parliament was shot and killed in Kabul on Saturday, an official said, in the latest brazen attack to rock Afghanistan's capital.Mena Mangal was well known in Kabul circles for her work presenting shows on several television networks, before she left journalism to become a cultural advisor to parliament.According to interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi, Mangal was gunned down in eastern Kabul in broad daylight.
  
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• Polish far-right protests US law on Jewish restitution

  11-05-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Several thousand nationalists rallied in Warsaw on Saturday against a US law on the restitution of Jewish properties seized during the Holocaust, an issue which has surfaced ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.The latter refers to the US Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act which requires the US State Department to report to Congress on the progress of countries including Poland on the restitution of Jewish assets seized during World War Two and its aftermath.Pre-war
  
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• Ukrainians Slam Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Shameful Play’ to Meddle in Their Politics

  11-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Drew AngererMOSCOW—Democracy-minded Ukrainians, of whom there are many, learned with grim bemusement this week that Donald Trump’s eccentric lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was on his way to Kiev. When they heard he canceled the trip as suddenly as he had announced it there was a collective sigh of relief.  But what the hell was he thinking? Giuliani’s expressed intent was to politicize an investigation in a country where, for years, the Americans have encouraged Ukrainians to trav
  
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• Venezuela's Juan Guaidó rallies his supporters as President Maduro clamps down

  11-05-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday urged his supporters once again to protest nationwide against President Nicolás Maduro, who has slowly ratcheted up the pressure on the lawmaker since a failed military uprising.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido seeks U.S. Pentagon cooperation to solve political crisis

  11-05-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said on Saturday he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with Pentagon officials to "cooperate" on a solution to the South American country's political crisis.Guaido, the leader of the opposition-controlled National Assembly, added he had received word from China that the country would join a diplomatic effort between European and Latin American countries, known as the International Contact Group on Venezuela, to negotiate an end to the crisis
  
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• Houthi rebels claim to begin withdrawal from key Yemen ports

  11-05-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday began a long-delayed withdrawal of forces from the port facility in the key city of Hodeida, the group said, following the terms of a December cease-fire aimed at alleviating the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The government described the Houthi claim as a "farce."
  
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• The Latest: Shanahan says troops aim to help secure border

  11-05-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's visit to the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local):
  
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• Trump says voters don't care about his personal tax returns

  11-05-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is scoffing at Democrats' attempts to pry loose his tax returns, saying his refusal to release the records as a candidate didn't hurt him in 2016 and voters "didn't care" about the issue.
  
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• Women are now in charge of NASA's science missions

  11-05-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  When the next car-sized rover lands on Mars in 2020, the ultimate head of this extraterrestrial endeavor will be physicist Lori Glaze. She's leads NASA's Planetary Science Division.  And she's not alone. For the first time in history, three of NASA's four science divisions are now run by women, a milestone announced by NASA on Friday.  "I am proud to say that for the 1st time in #NASA's history, women are in charge of 3 out of 4 #NASAScience divisions. They are inspiring the next gener
  
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Becomes Youngest Woman Ever to Preside Over the House of Representatives

  11-05-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Becomes Youngest Woman Ever to Preside Over the House of Representatives
  
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• James Comey called Trump a 'chronic liar.' What his anti-Trump politics mean for the FBI

  11-05-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  James Comey has carved an unusually political path in the two years since President Trump fired him as FBI director.
  
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• Vice President Pence to graduates: Be prepared to be ridiculed for being Christian

  11-05-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence told Liberty University graduates that they have to be ready to be ridiculed for their Christian faith.
  
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• US deployments across Mideast factor in Iran tensions

  11-05-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group rushes toward the Persian Gulf. Decades-old B-52 bombers rumble down runways at desert air bases. The Pentagon, meanwhile, routes a Patriot missile battery and an amphibious supply ship to return to the region.
  
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• Who's been sitting in Pelosi's chair? Rep. Ocasio-Cortez

  11-05-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  In another first for rookie congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the liberal Democrat from New York on Friday became the youngest woman to preside over the U.S. House of Representatives.
  
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• Hostages rescued from Burkina Faso "hell" praise fallen French commandos

  11-05-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the hostages as they stepped off the French government jet less than 48 hours after French special forces stormed their captors' hideout in a daring night-time raid.Two Frenchmen kidnapped while on safari in Benin more than a week earlier, as well as an American woman and a South Korean woman who were being held with them, were liberated in the high-risk mission authorized by Macron."All our thoughts go to the families of the soldiers and to the soldiers who lo
  
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• Firestorm erupts around Sen. Richard Burr, man behind Donald Trump Jr. subpoena. He's not backing down

  11-05-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who spent decades in Washington and is a reliable conservative vote, is not the usual target of Trump's ire.
  
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• 4 assailants, 1 guard killed in hotel attack in SW Pakistan

  11-05-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Four insurgents armed with rifles and grenades attacked a luxury hotel in the southwestern coastal town of Gwadar on Saturday, triggering an intense, hours-long shootout in which one hotel guard and all the attackers were killed, officials said.
  
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• Rep. Andy Biggs on whether standoff between House Democrats and the White House is a constitutional crisis

  11-05-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi agrees with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler's declaration of a constitutional crisis after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt.
  
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• Men ordered not to look at women during Ramadan in Iran as hardliners tighten control amid nuclear deal row

  11-05-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Men in Iran have been ordered not to look at women during Ramadan as part of a round of draconian restrictions imposed by the increasingly isolated regime. In a sign of frustration with growing civil discontent and economic pain caused by US sanctions, hardliners in Iran's government are forcing through unusually strict social diktats to bring people into line. The country's judiciary has announced that those eating in public during the fasting period are also in breach of laws and will be prose
  
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• Benin ex-hostages arrive in Paris with presidential greeting

  11-05-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron greeted three ex-hostages as they arrived on French soil Saturday, one day after a pre-dawn military operation freed them in Burkina Faso but cost the lives of two French special forces officers, as well as four "terrorists."
  
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• Behold this ancient crowd of galaxies in deep, deep space

  11-05-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The aging Hubble Space Telescope looks back into deep time, billions of years ago, before our sun was even born.  At the very limits of Hubble's viewing abilities lies a cluster of spiraling, disk-shaped galaxies, collectively called SPT0615. NASA posted an image of these ancient structures, one of which was born over 13 billion years ago, relatively soon after the Big Bang likely created the universe. Light left these faraway galaxies long ago, but Hubble can sleuth out this ancient lumino
  
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• May expected to clarify resignation timetable: senior MP

  11-05-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to set out her departure plans within days, the leader of backbench lawmakers in her governing Conservative Party said Saturday.Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 Committee of rank-and-file Conservative MPs, said he expected May to provide clarity on her exit timetable at a meeting with him on Wednesday."I find it very hard to see how that route can lead to any sensible resolution," Brady told BBC radio.
  
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• Border Detention Centers Are So Overcrowded, Authorities Are Now Using Planes To Relocate Migrants: Report

  11-05-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  HERIKA MARTINEZThe Trump administration has taken an unprecedented step to combat the growing number of migrants detained at the border: organizing aircraft flights for relocation to other detention facilities for processing.According to The Washington Post, Customs and Border Protection began transporting migrants by plane last week to several border detention centers along the border to mitigate the reports of overcrowding and understaffing. “This is the worst I have ever seen it, by far
  
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• Colorado School Shooting Shows Students Aren’t Always Ready to Turn Tragedy Into Politics

  11-05-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Not all shooting survivors are willing to quickly turn their grief into demands for gun control
  
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• Gunmen storm luxury hotel in Pakistan port city of Gwadar

  11-05-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  At least one person has been killed after three gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar, the centrepiece of a multi-billion dollar Chinese infrastructure project, the military said Saturday.The gunmen shot dead a security guard at the entrance to the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel before entering, the army said.It was the second deadly attack to take place in a prominent Pakistani city this week.
  
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• Rep. Dan Kildee on Rep. Nadler's claim of a 'constitutional crisis:' We are not there yet

  11-05-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler believe the country is in a constitutional crisis;House Democratic Chief Deputy Whip Dan Kildee disagrees.
  
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• Rep. Dan Kildee on 'constitutional crisis:' We are not there yet

  11-05-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler believe the country is in a constitutional crisis;House Democratic Chief Deputy Whip Dan Kildee disagrees.
  
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• 'I have a plan for that': Elizabeth Warren leads the Democratic 'ideas primary'

  11-05-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  As candidates follow the senator in churning out progressive proposals, some activists warn the priority must be beating Trump Elizabeth Warren speaks in Ames, Iowa. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/APElizabeth Warren has a plan for that. And that. And that as well. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts senator unveiled the 12th major policy proposal of her presidential run, a $100bn plan to combat the opioid crisis. Warren’s reputation as the ideas generator has gained widespread attention. But s
  
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• UPDATE 2-Pentagon eyes longer-term support on U.S.-Mexico border

  11-05-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan made his second trip to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday as the Pentagon looks to develop a longer-term plan to support President Donald Trump's immigration policies.Shanahan traveled to McAllen, Texas, to meet with officials and visit a migrant processing facility and Border Patrol station, two days after the White House announced Trump's intention to nominate the former Boeing Co executive as defense secretary."We're not going to leave until the
  
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• Detention cells at Mexico border so overcrowded US authorities resort to moving migrants by plane

  11-05-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Overcrowding at Border Patrol stations in South Texas has become so acute in recent days that US authorities have taken the rare step of using aircraft to relocate migrants to other areas of the border simply to begin processing them, according to three Homeland Security officials.The first flight left McAllen, Texas, on Friday, transferring detainees to Border Patrol facilities in Del Rio, Texas.There are daily flights scheduled for the next several days, with two planned for Tuesday, according
  
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• China will ‘not flinch’ in face of US pressure, chief negotiator says as talks end

  11-05-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  China will not flinch in the face of American pressure to agree to a trade deal, Beijing’s chief negotiator said on Saturday after the latest round of talks ended without agreement and higher tariffs were imposed on Chinese exports.Liu He, China’s vice premier, tried to strike a resolute but relatively conciliatory note as he left Washington following the end of the fractious talks.“It is like a marathon. The last phase can be the hardest,” Mr Liu told Hong Kong-based Pho
  
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• Two accessories totaling $30 let you charge your iPhone three times faster

  11-05-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Rumor has it Apple will finally include a fast charging adapter and a USB-C to Lightning cable in the box with the iPhone 11 series this year. That would be fantastic, of course, but it's not going to help you charge your iPhone any faster right now. Instead of being stuck with the crummy little 5W charger that comes with iPhones, we've got two products you can buy for $30 combined that will charge your phone more than three times faster. In fact, they'll charge your phone from 0% to 80% in unde
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes youngest congresswoman to preside over House

  11-05-2019 16:28 via news.yahoo.com
  "Every day here is a sacred privilege + responsibility entrusted to me by my community," she later tweeted.
  
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• Big Bullet: The New AMP Round Means U.S. M1 Abrams Tanks Kill Everything

  11-05-2019 16:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In a 2016 Army statement on AMP, quoting a senior program manager, describes it impact this way…. "Right now our crews face the dilemma as they go into combat of deciding what rounds to load in the turret and carry in the gun. If they choose wrong, they could have a mismatch between target and ammunition, which will cost them valuable seconds while in enemy contact.”A single emerging US Army Abrams tank round is engineered to attack and destroy enemy tanks, bunkers, concrete walls,
  
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• Trump's Tariffs Put China at Center of 2020 Re-Election Bid

  11-05-2019 15:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump set out his rationale in a series of tweets Friday morning after raising tariffs to 25% on $200 billion in goods from China and threatening more.Chinese and U.S. officials held brief talks in Washington that were unproductive, according to people unfamiliar with the matter.“Tariffs will make our Country MUCH STRONGER, not weaker,” the president predicted in a tweet.
  
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• Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan set to visit the US-Mexico border

  11-05-2019 15:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Pentagon approves plans to shift $1.5 billion for the wall as apprehensions are reportedly expected to reach a 13-year high in 2019.
  
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• U.S. states sue Teva, 19 other drug companies in price-fixing complaint

  11-05-2019 15:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Forty-four U.S. states have filed a lawsuit accusing 20 drug companies including Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc of a sweeping scheme to inflate drug prices and stifle competition for more than 100 generic drugs, state prosecutors said on Saturday.The complaint, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, said the drug companies engaged in "numerous illegal conspiracies in order to unreasonably restrain trade, artificially inflate and manipulate prices and reduce competition," accord
  
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• Watergate prosecutor says Trump will ‘pay political price’ for resistance on Mueller report

  11-05-2019 15:43 via news.yahoo.com
  This week, House speaker Nancy Pelosi stood before reporters in the US Capitol and called for patience.Just days after the the Trump administration showed its disdain for congress by refusing to honour a subpoena for the full Mueller report and its underlying evidence, Ms Pelosi channelled the Philadelphia 76ers NBA team and asked America to trust the process.With congressional investigations already under way, the House speaker claimed the goal is uncovering truth, and that it will take time fo
  
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