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• Disease that can be transferred from dog to human confirmed in Iowa, officials say

  12-05-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The zoonotic disease, known as "canine Brucellosis," is spread through reproductive fluids. Instances were found at a small-dog breeding facility.
  
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• White House Economic Advisor Contradicts President Trump on Who Actually Pays for the Tariffs on China

  12-05-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has characterized his tariffs as being paid for largely by China
  
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• Christians should prepare to be 'shunned' for their beliefs, Mike Pence warns as he reaffirms Trump administration's anti-abortion stance

  12-05-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Mike Pence has warned Christian graduates of an evangelical university that they should prepare to face “ridicule” for their beliefs.The deeply religious vice president told Liberty University students that “some of the loudest voices for tolerance today have little tolerance for traditional Christian beliefs”.In a commencement address at the college founded by right-wing preacher Jerry Falwell, he said: “Throughout most of American history, it’s been pretty e
  
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• REFILE-Trump says the U.S. is 'right where we want to be with China'

  12-05-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States is "right where we want to be with China," adding that Beijing "broke the deal with us" and then sought to renegotiate."We will be taking in Tens of Billions of Dollars in Tariffs from China.Buyers of product can make it themselves in the USA (ideal), or buy it from non-Tariffed countries," Trump said on Twitter.
  
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• Popularity No Gauge for Winning Seats in India’s Elections

  12-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In the cut-throat election contest in India, political parties are focused on turning votes into winning seats.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and Rahul Gandhi’s main opposition Congress party are trying to raise vote shares -- the percentage of total votes polled -- in their favor as the country’s election moves into its final phase.In India’s first-past-the-post system, with a large number of contenders for each seat, the winner just needs to get e
  
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• Man Nicknamed ‘Sovereign’ Hacked Appalachian Trail Hiker to Death Weeks After Release From Jail: Feds

  12-05-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastA man who calls himself “Sovereign” was charged with attacking two Appalachian Trail hikers with a machete, killing one of them—just weeks after he pleaded guilty to threatening other trekkers and was set free, authorities said on Sunday.James L. Jordan, 30, from West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, allegedly knifed an unidentified man and woman early Saturday morning in an isolated stretch of the 2,190-mile hiking trail that runs through Wythe Cou
  
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• Elon Musk shows us the 60 satellites that will one day help power a better internet

  12-05-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The first seeds of SpaceX's Starlink project will soon be planted.On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted out a photo of 60 satellites loaded into the fairing, or nose cone, of his company's Falcon rocket. The hardware represents a first step toward completing Starlink, an eventual satellite constellation that will beam high-speed internet down to Earth from space.The fairing is the same one that carried a Tesla Roadster into space in 2018. Musk included a photo of that as well, just to give his follower
  
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• Connecticut man accused of sending letters threatening to kill President Trump

  12-05-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A Connecticut man has been indicted on charges that he threatened to kill President Trump and sent letters he claimed contained anthrax.
  
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• Dogs detect human decomposition in car of man arrested in case of missing girl Maleah Davis, 4

  12-05-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Dogs detected the scent of human decomposition in the car of a man arrested in connection with the disappearance of Maleah Davis, 4, outside Houston.
  
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• Facebook takes down fake Italian accounts ahead of EU election

  12-05-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook said on Sunday it had taken down numerous Italian accounts on its platform that were false or were spreading fake news ahead of a European parliamentary election later this month.The European Union has warned of foreign interference in campaigning for the vote of May 23-26, and in April the European Commission urged Google, Facebook and Twitter to do more to tackle fake news before the poll."We have removed a series of false and duplicated accounts which violated our authenticity policy
  
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• Cory Booker says this Elizabeth Warren proposal sounds like 'a Donald Trump thing to say'

  12-05-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Cory Booker characterized his colleague and 2020 opponent Elizabeth Warren’s proposals to break up tech giants as “a Donald Trump thing to say."
  
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• Kodak Black arrested at Rolling Loud Music Festival

  12-05-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Marshals Service said Kodak Black was charged with a crime in connection with weapons but didn't elaborate.
  
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• Starmer Says Brexit Deal Needs Public Vote to Get Parliament Backing

  12-05-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Keir Starmer, the U.K. Labour Party’s Brexit secretary, said a referendum may have to be part of any package agreed with the Conservative Party in a cross-party deal, and that up to 150 Labour lawmakers would reject an agreement that didn’t include one.“A significant number of Labour MPs, probably 120 if not 150, would not back a deal if it hasn’t got a confirmatory vote,” he told the Guardian in an interview.Labour should, in “the coming days,” make an
  
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• Seized NKorean Cargo Ship Arrives in American Samoa

  12-05-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Korean cargo ship seized by the U.S. because of suspicion it was used to violate international sanctions arrived on Saturday at the American Samoan capital. (May 12)
  
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• Trump's China trade stance has political risks as he seeks re-election

  12-05-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Trade talks between the United States and China ran into serious trouble last week as Beijing backtracked on some key agreements and Trump placed higher tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods, with more to follow.The trade war could continue for some time, bleeding directly into Trump's efforts to win a second four-year term."If ... he doesn't resolve this by the time we get deep into the presidential campaign and we have pain in the soybean parts of the country ... it's goi
  
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• ANALYSIS-Trump's China trade stance has political risks as he seeks re-election

  12-05-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  When he ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump delighted crowds with his harsh rhetoric on China.Trade talks between the United States and China ran into serious trouble last week as Beijing backtracked on some key agreements and Trump placed higher tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods, with more to follow.The trade war could continue for some time, bleeding directly into Trump's efforts to win a second four-year term.
  
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• Pompeo to Meet Putin as Trump Seeks Better Russia Ties Again

  12-05-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Pompeo will meet U.S. diplomats at the American Embassy in Moscow on Monday before flying to Sochi for talks with President Vladimir Putin and other officials.With the Mueller inquiry wrapped up, Trump has returned to signaling his interest in improving U.S.-Russia ties, speaking with Putin for more than an hour earlier this month and tweeting that there is “tremendous potential for a good/great relationship with Russia.” The two leaders had kept their distance as Mueller’s pro
  
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• Iran commander calls U.S. military in Gulf a target not a threat: ISNA

  12-05-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Sunday the U.S. military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now represented a target, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported.The U.S. military has sent forces, including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers, to the Middle East in a move U.S. officials said was to counter "clear indications" of threats from Iran to its forces in the region.
  
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• Anger over author's critical post of worker eating on train

  12-05-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A writer on the verge of releasing her debut novel is facing a backlash after she posted a picture on Twitter of a public transit worker eating on a train and reported details about the woman to her bosses.
  
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• Indians vote in penultimate phase of seven-round general election

  12-05-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Polling kicked off on April 11 with Modi as front-runner after an escalation of tension with neighboring Pakistan.The president of the main opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, said the main issues in the election were unemployment, economic hardship in the countryside, the de-monetization of bank notes and a new sales tax."Narendra Modi used hatred, we used love.
  
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• The Google Play Store is nagging some users to get rid of old apps

  12-05-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  There have been a handful of updates to the Google Play Store's operation that garnered headlines in recent days, such as the news that apps' rating calculations will start being more heavily weighted toward the most recent user ratings. Meanwhile, some users have started seeing something new from the Play Store -- a notification gently reminding them to remove apps they may have downloaded years ago and long since stopped using.The folks at Android Police note that the reminder is reminiscent o
  
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• Lime-Yellow 1973 Datsun 240Z up for Auction is the Cleanest We've Seen outside a Museum

  12-05-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  This pristine Japanese sports coupe is a Me Decade time machine.
  
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• Maduro's foes fill embassies in Venezuela as crisis deepens

  12-05-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — From the lush tropical garden of the Chilean ambassador's residence, Venezuelan opposition leader Freddy Guevara takes a much-anticipated call from a foreign diplomat and asks him to protect a fellow lawmaker fleeing President Nicolás Maduro's latest crackdown.
  
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• Some help after graduation?: Today's Toon

  12-05-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
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• AP EXPLAINS: Why send a US aircraft carrier to the Gulf?

  12-05-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group is being deployed to the Persian Gulf to counter an alleged but still-unspecified threat from Iran, the latest in a long line of such deployments to the strategic region.
  
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• Israel says site found for Golan 'Trump' settlement

  12-05-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a site for a promised new settlement to be named after US President Donald Trump had been chosen and formal approval was under way."I promised that we would establish a community named after President Trump," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting."I would like to inform you that we have already selected a site in the Golan Heights where this new community will be established, and we have started the process," he said
  
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• Prosecutor: Dogs detected decomposition in missing girl case

  12-05-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Trained dogs detected the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle of a man arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 4-year-old Texas girl, according to a prosecutor.
  
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• Myanmar plane in emergency touchdown as landing gear fails

  12-05-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A Myanmar pilot saved the day after his aircraft's landing gear failed, safely putting the jet on the runway with no front wheels on Sunday, an official said.Myanmar Airlines flight UB-103 -- an Embraer-190 model -- touched the ground at around 9:00 am in Mandalay (0230 GMT), a city popular among foreign tourists.The plane carried 82 passengers and a crew of seven.
  
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• Trade war update: White House expects China to retaliate on tariffs

  12-05-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. is awaiting retaliation from China over increased tariffs, after talks in Washington ended without a deal on trade.
  
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• Author accused of shaming black Metro employee for eating on train; book deal halted

  12-05-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Author Natasha Tynes has been accused of shaming a black woman who works on the Washington. D.C., Metro for eating on a train.
  
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• 1-on-1 with 2020 candidate Sen. Cory Booker

  12-05-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Watch the extended cut of Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl's interview for "This Week" with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., on the campaign trail in South Carolina.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Gunmen kill six in second church attack in Burkina Faso

  12-05-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists.Congregants were leaving church around 9 a.m. (0900 GMT) in the town of Dablo in the Central North region when about twenty men encircled them and shot six dead, according to a government statement and local sources.The government statement only mentioned the burning of a shop and two vehic
  
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• CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Gunmen kill six in second church attack in Burkina Faso

  12-05-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists.Congregants were leaving church around 9 a.m. (0900 GMT) in the town of Dablo in the Central North region when about 20 men encircled them and shot six dead, according to a government statement and local sources.The attackers then burned the church, looted a pharmacy and some others stores,
  
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• Boeing crash payouts would be partly based on how long passengers knew they were doomed

  12-05-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Settlements to the families of 346 people who died in the two catastrophic Boeing Max plane crashes will be calculated, in part, by how long the victims knew they were doomed. Lawyers handling claims against the US aerospace company said the longer the passengers and crew were aware of their desperate fate, the larger the likely payout. “There’s a better chance of (financial) recovery if it took minutes rather than seconds for the plane to crash,’’ Joe Power, a personal-i
  
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• Guaidó says Maduro is 'sowing terror' against leaders who tried to oust him

  12-05-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader speaks to the Guardian as his allies face years in jail for their role in the abortive 30 April uprisingVenezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself the interim-president of Venezuela before the start of an interview, at the Popular Will party’s headquarters in Caracas on 10 May. Photograph: Martín Mejía/APThe Venezuelan politician fighting to depose Nicolás Maduro has accused his rival of attempting to oblit
  
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• Booker plays up Vegas connection in crucial Nevada caucus

  12-05-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — As Democratic presidential hopefuls hit the ground to woo voters in the early voting state of Nevada, many are touting how closely their home states align with the fast-growing tourist mecca. Few, though, can say it's where they stop for mom's home cooking. 
  
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• Fallen Chicago police officers to be honored at National Police Week

  12-05-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Four fallen Chicago Police Department officers will be honored in Washington, D.C. Sunday as National Police Week begins.
  
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• White House Top Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow Undercuts Trump on Tariffs

  12-05-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex Edelman-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Trump’s top economic adviser admitted on Sunday that American companies and consumers would have to pay for new tariffs on Chinese goods—undercutting the president, who has repeatedly claimed that China would somehow be paying for the new penalties directly.On Fox News Sunday, anchor Chris Wallace pressed the White House’s Larry Kudlow: “It’s not China that pays the tariffs, it’s the American importers, the American comp
  
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• Trump may provoke U.S. lawmakers to impeach him -senior Democrat

  12-05-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats are reluctant to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump, but he may provoke such a move by continuing to obstruct Congress' efforts to oversee his administration, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday.Adam Schiff, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, told ABC's "This Week" that impeachment by the Democratic-run House would be politically divisive and unlikely to succeed in the Republican-run Senate."But he (Trump) may get us there," Schiff said.
  
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• Graduation gifts: Why stocks are better than straight cash

  12-05-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Cash and gift cards are popular graduation gifts, but stocks can have a more lasting financial effect.
  
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• German CDU Head Says She Won’t Seek Early Merkel Exit, Welt Says

  12-05-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Merkel’s successor as CDU chairman also has no ambition to seek a cabinet role before the next election, she said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag published on Sunday.The CDU party will nominate its candidate for the chancellorship at a party conference in the fall of 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer said.“The chancellor and the government were elected for a full legislative term, and citizens rightly expect the commitment that came with the election to be taken seriously,” Kramp-Ka
  
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• Why tariff war threatens Beijing's global economic ambitions

  12-05-2019 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — China's intensified tariff war with the Trump administration is threatening Beijing's ambition to transform itself into the dominant player in global technology.
  
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• Prince Harry, Meghan pay tribute to all mothers

  12-05-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Meghan gave birth in the early hours of Monday morning to Archie, the seventh-in-line to the British throne, leaving his father, Queen Elizabeth's grandson, and royal fans across the world enthralled.While Britain celebrates Mother's Day on March 22, other countries including the United States, Canada, Australia and others mark it on the second Sunday in May.
  
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• WRAPUP 1-U.S. and China at impasse over trade, Kudlow says new tariffs will remain

  12-05-2019 16:20 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) - The United States and China appeared at a deadlock over trade negotiations on Sunday as Washington demanded promises ofconcrete changes to Chinese law and Beijing said it would not swallow any "bitter fruit" that harmed its interests.The trade war between the world's top two economies escalated on Friday, with the United States hiking tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods after President Donald Trump said Beijing 'broke the deal' by reneging on ear
  
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• Harry and Meghan issue poignant tribute to Princess Diana as they mark international Mother's Day

  12-05-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to visit Windsor on Monday to meet their  newborn nephew for the first time, a week after his birth. It comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex paid a poignant tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales yesterday, by honouring mothers “lost but forever remembered” on international Mother's Day. The message was accompanied by a photograph of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s tiny feet cradled in his mother’s hand against
  
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• Meghan Markle Just Shared the Most Adorable Picture of Royal Baby Archie for Mother's Day

  12-05-2019 16:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The baby is already playing the part of a royal with this beautiful photo
  
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• Patrick Shanahan gets a firsthand look at the US-Mexico border

  12-05-2019 15:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting homeland security secretary and acting defense secretary talk to Brian Kilmeade about how the two departments are teaming up to keep the border safe.
  
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• UN monitoring rebel withdrawal from Yemen's Hodeida

  12-05-2019 15:53 via news.yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — The U.N. said Sunday it is monitoring the redeployment of rebel forces from three key ports in Yemen after the government dismissed the withdrawal as a "farce."
  
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• South Africa's ANC celebrates election victory in downtown Johannesburg

  12-05-2019 15:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of supporters of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) took to the streets of downtown Johannesburg on Sunday to celebrate their party's victory in last week's election despite a lower share of the vote.The ANC won 57.5% of the parliamentary vote and retained power in eight of nine provinces in President Cyril Ramaphosa's first test at the polls since he took power in February 2018.The result was the ANC's worst performance in a parliamentary vote since the end of white minori
  
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• Mosques attacked in Sri Lanka town after Facebook row, curfew imposed

  12-05-2019 15:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka's west coast on Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters.Three weeks ago in Sri Lanka Islamist bombers blew themselves up in four hotels and three churches, killing more than 250 people.Since then Muslim groups say they have received dozens of complaints from across the country about people being harassed.
  
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