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• Wynn and MGM in talks about sale of Encore Boston casino

  17-05-2019 23:49 via finance.yahoo.com
  Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International said in a joint statement they've engaged in conversations about the potential sale of Encore Boston Harbor.This comes as Wynn is about to open the $2.6 billion Everett, Massachusetts, casino.The companies say the talks won't delay the Everett opening scheduled for next month.
  
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• Trump's diversion of billions for border wall faces first U.S. court test

  17-05-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  "As everyone knows the executive branch cannot build this wall without Congress," Douglas Letter, representing the House, told the U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California."The president asked for $8.1 billion to build the wall and Congress said no to that.This money was clearly denied by Congress under immense pressure."The House, 20 states and two advocacy groups asked Gilliam to block the transfer of funds to prevent the wall construction.
  
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• Attorney General Barr not satisfied with early answers he's getting on allegations of Trump campaign spying

  17-05-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  New revelations from Attorney General William Barr about the investigation into how the Russia probe started; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Royal baby Archie's birth certificate shows he was born in London hospital

  17-05-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The birth certificate for Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor says Duchess Meghan gave birth gave to Harry's son in an American-owned London hospital.
  
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• Michael McLellan indicted in murder of 13-year-old Hania Aguilar

  17-05-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of strangling 13-year-old Hania Aguilar has been indicted in the case.
  
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• Fox Poll: Voters give Barr negative ratings for his handling of the Mueller report

  17-05-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The latest Fox News Poll finds voters give Barr negative ratings for his handling of the Mueller report (35 approve, 44 disapprove), and by a 12-point margin more think he is “covering up” for the president than being transparent with the American people (45-33 percent).
  
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• US Treasury defies Congress subpoena for Trump tax records

  17-05-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected Friday a congressional subpoena for President Donald Trump's tax records, setting up a new court battle between the two sides of government.Mnuchin told Democratic Representative Richard Neal, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, that the committee "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose" to demand Trump's tax returns.Neal issued the subpoena on May 10, saying the confidential documents were necessary in carrying out oversight of taxat
  
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• Lawmaker tries to walk back 'consensual rapes' comment

  17-05-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri state lawmaker said he misspoke on the House floor Friday when he referred to "consensual rapes" during a highly charged debate on a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks , including in cases of rape and incest
  
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• 'I Need Help Killing a Pregnant Woman': Three Held Without Bond in Murder of Pregnant Chicago Teen

  17-05-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly a month before the murder of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, Clarisa Figueroa allegedly told her daughter she needed help killing a pregnant woman and taking a baby. That's just one of the horrific details that prosecutors revealed in bond court.
  
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• Fellow Dem: De Blasio can seek presidency, but why would he?

  17-05-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — With friends like these, Mayor Bill de Blasio doesn't need enemies.
  
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• Conrad Black: I assumed Trump's call about pardon was a prank

  17-05-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Media mogul Conrad Black speaks out about being pardoned by President Trump on 'Your World.'
  
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• Sanders to Propose Moratorium on Public Funding Of Charter Schools

  17-05-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) will call for a ban on for-profit charter schools and a temporary moratorium on funding for public-charter-school expansion in a campaign speech to be delivered Saturday, CNN first reported.In his Saturday speech in South Carolina, Sanders plans to endorse the NAACP's claim that charter-school expansion has had an adverse effect on African Americans who suffer from the resulting lack of funding for public schools. In order to combat this alleged harm, Sanders wil
  
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• How Architect I.M. Pei Achieved Greatness By Forever Testing and Challenging Himself

  17-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Famed architect I.M. Pei designed some of the greatest buildings across the globe in his more than half century career.
  
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• US approves missile sales to S.Korea, Japan

  17-05-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said Friday it had approved more than $600 million in sales of air defense missiles to South Korea and Japan as tensions return with North Korea.The State Department said it had approved 94 SM-2 missiles used by ships against air threats, along with 12 guidance systems for a total cost of $313.9 million.It separately gave the green light to sell 160 anti-air AMRAAM missiles and related guidance equipment to Japan for $317 million.
  
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• Judge won't kick decision in Smollett case to another judge

  17-05-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge has rejected a request to have a judge outside Chicago consider whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the Jussie Smollett case.
  
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• Death row inmate dies 1 day after fellow inmate's execution

  17-05-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee death row inmate died in prison on Friday, less than three months before his scheduled execution and less than a day after a fellow inmate was executed .
  
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• Missouri lawmaker walks back on 'consensual rape' comment during anti-abortion debate

  17-05-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Rep. Barry Hovis said he misspoke on the House floor when he said that most of the sexual assaults he handled during his career in law enforcement were "date rapes or consensual rapes."
  
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• Trump sows confusion on Iran as tensions appear to ease

  17-05-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It started with a surprise statement on a Sunday night that the U.S. was rushing military forces to counter alleged Iranian threats. What followed were two weeks of bombastic rhetoric and swells of fear and confusion over whether Washington and Tehran were lurching toward open conflict. And that's how President Donald Trump says he likes it.
  
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• Prosecutor: Mom and daughter strangled pregnant Chicago teen; cut out baby

  17-05-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said Friday in urging a judge to keep the defendants locked up.
  
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• U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin rejects subpoena for Trump tax returns

  17-05-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  In a widely expected move, Mnuchin rejected a demand for the documents from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, saying the panel lacks "a legitimate legislative purpose" for obtaining the tax records that Democrats view as critical to their efforts to investigate Trump and his presidency."We are unable to provide the requested information in response to the committee's subpoena," Mnuchin said in a letter to Neal, released ahead of a 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) deadline for delivering
  
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• BMW X1 Recalled Because It Doesn’t Meet Federal Safety Standards

  17-05-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  BMW is recalling 106,182 of its 2016 to 2019 X1 SUVs. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in the event of a crash where an occupant’s head contacts the B-pillar, the ...
  
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• Trump cools trade war by lifting North American metal tariffs

  17-05-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  * Steel and aluminium imports from Mexico and Canada affected* Trump pauses implementation of auto tariffs on EU and JapanA man works in a steel distribution factory in Monterrey in northern Mexico. Photograph: Julio César Aguilar/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration moved to cool the simmering trade war with its major trading partners on Friday, ending tariffs on metal imports from Canada and Mexico and announcing a pause on planned tariffs on cars and car parts.“I’m plea
  
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• Rape victim who had illegal abortion aged 13 condemns Alabama's new law as 'abomination'

  17-05-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A rape victim who had an illegal abortion at the age of 13 has argued that Alabama’s new law mandating a near total ban on abortion is an “abomination” which punishes “the woman for being a woman”.Maralyn Mosley, an 81-year-old, had her first illegal abortion 22 years before Roe v Wade – the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion nationwide in 1973.After being raped by a tenant at her aunt’s Birmingham boarding house, Ms Mosley's mother
  
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• 3 charged after pregnant woman found dead, baby cut from womb in Chicago

  17-05-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago woman who sold baby clothes to a pregnant woman and lured her back to her house with an offer of more clothing has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling the woman with a cord and cutting the infant from her womb, police said Thursday.
  
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• Marlen Ochoa Lopez: Three arrested after murdered teenager 'had baby cut from womb'

  17-05-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Three people have been charged in the death of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, a 19-year-old who was murdered days before she was due to give birth in Chicago. Clarisa and Desiree Figueroa have been charged with murder after Ochoa-Lopez’s body was allegedly found in a bin in their backyard. 40-year-old Piotr Bobak, Clarisa Figueroa’s boyfriend, has been charged with concealment of a homicide.Having sold Ochoa-Lopez used baby clothes in the past, Clarisa Figueroa, 46, allegedly lured the expectan
  
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• Huawei and suppliers make plans to face U.S. trade blacklist - Nikkei

  17-05-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is asking its top Asian chipmakers to maintain deliveries after Washington decided to curb the telecom giant's access to American technology, the Nikkei reported https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/Huawei-and-suppliers-dust-off-backup-plans-to-prepare-for-storm on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd said it will maintain supplies for the time being even though it was assessing the impact of Washington'
  
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• Missouri follows Alabama by passing restrictive abortion bill

  17-05-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Missouri lawmakers passed a bill on Friday that prohibits women from seeking an abortion after the eighth week of pregnancy, days after Alabama enacted the most restrictive abortion law in the United States.The legislation allows for an abortion after the eighth week only in the case of medical emergencies.On Wednesday, Alabama banned abortions at any time, with the same exception.
  
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• Three suspects charged in the murder of pregnant Chicago teen

  17-05-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Medical examiners say 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled to death and her unborn child was forcibly cut from her womb.
  
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• JetBlue switching to Pepsi from Coca-Cola

  17-05-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  JetBlue customers, be prepared for a major shake-up when you order a soda on your next flight.
  
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• Prosecutor: Mom and daughter strangled pregnant Chicago teen

  17-05-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said Friday in urging a judge to keep the defendants locked up.
  
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• Wall Street Weekahead: Tariffs could lead to markdowns in retail shares

  17-05-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Although it reported better-than-expected earnings, Macy's shares slipped this week after it said the latest tariffs on Chinese imports by Washington are hitting its furniture business and warned that additional tariffs would affect clothing and other areas.Late last week, after Washington imposed a tariff rate increase to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China,
  
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• NYC's Bill De Blasio Trades Criticism at Home for Curiosity in Iowa

  17-05-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio stepped away from the criticism in his hometown to engage curiosity in Iowa, making his first stop as a presidential candidate in the middle of farm country to demonstrate his interest in agricultural issues and take shots at President Donald Trump.
  
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• The Latest: Family: Pregnant woman's slaying 'a nightmare'

  17-05-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the killing of a pregnant Chicago woman whose baby was cut from her womb (all times local):
  
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• Missouri, latest US state to restrict abortion

  17-05-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Missouri House passed a bill on Friday banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, making it the latest US state to pass restrictions on ending a pregnancy.The bill, overwhelmingly approved by the Republican-led legislature and expected to be signed by the Midwestern state's Republican governor, would ban abortions from about eight weeks of pregnancy.Republican-led legislatures in several US states have recently passed bills restricting abortion access in a bid to eventually challe
  
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• Trump says 'good chance' Democrats will back his immigration, border plan

  17-05-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after unveiling a plan to shift to a "merit-based" immigration system, the Republican president said there was a "good chance" that Democrats would back him and provide funding to manage record migrant flows along the U.S.-Mexico border."The Democrats now realize that there is a National Emergency at the Border and that, if we work together, it can be immediately fixed.Such talk of bipartisan cooperation on the explosive immigration issue for years has ended in failure and finger-pointing.
  
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• Defiant Iran says it can 'easily' hit U.S. ships, works to counter sanctions

  17-05-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran said on Friday it could "easily" hit U.S. warships in the Gulf, the latest in days of saber rattling between Washington and Tehran, while its top diplomat worked to counter U.S. sanctions and salvage a nuclear deal denounced by President Donald Trump.Earlier this week, the United States pulled some diplomatic staff from its embassy in Baghdad following weekend attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf."Even our short-range missiles can easily reach (U.S.) warships in the Persian Gulf," Mohamm
  
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• The V-8 Engine Has No Future at Genesis

  17-05-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The next-generation G80 sedan will go no higher than a V-6, and the G90's Tau V-8 will eventually be phased out.
  
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• FOCUS-Direct lenders vie to resurrect cemetery owner StoneMor

  17-05-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The rising debt load at U.S. cemetery operator StoneMor Partners LP has helped bring it to death's door, but specialized lending funds are clamoring to refinance the company's borrowings, according to sources familiar with talks.In the wake of the financial crisis when interest rates sank to historic lows, StoneMor borrowed over $300 million to acquire cemeteries and funeral parlors.The strategy added the deathcare company to a generation of companies now saddled with debt that has limited growt
  
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• Want to live in 'Big Bang Theory' star Kaley Cuoco's house? You can – for $6.9M

  17-05-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  "The Big Bang Theory" isn't the only thing coming to an end for Kaley Cuoco: she is also selling her California home. See what $6.9 million buys.
  
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• Overstock CEO says he had to sell shares to supplement his pay

  17-05-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  By Noel Randewich and Aishwarya Venugopal (Reuters) - Overstock.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne lashed out on Friday at investors who questioned his recent sale of shares, saying he had to supplement his $100,000 a year salary and vowing never to "give such an explanation again." His letter to shareholders http://investors.overstock.com/news-releases/news-release-details/overstockcom-ceo-patrick-byrne-issues-statement-recent-sale followed a 21% slump on Wednesday and Thursday in Ov
  
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• Prosecutor: Pregnant teen killed while being shown photos

  17-05-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A pregnant Chicago teen who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers, a prosecutor said Friday in urging a judge to keep the defendants locked up.
  
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• Marlen Ochoa-Lopez death: 3 charged in brutal murder of pregnant Chicago woman denied bond

  17-05-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother and daughter accused of murdering 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez and the mother's boyfriend, who is accused of concealing the murder were all denied bond Friday.
  
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• A camera phone that puts Samsung and Apple to shame now has 5G, too – but it’s banned in the US

  17-05-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Verizon just launched the Galaxy S10 5G, but Samsung is hardly the only company putting out 5G smartphones this year. International carriers have also started rolling out 5G networks and compatible smartphones, and UK carriers are the latest ones to prepare for their 5G launches. However, one of the first phones to deliver 5G experiences in Britain is a device that you'll have a hard time scoring in the States, even if you just want the older 4G version. That's because it's made by Huawei, the C
  
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• Alabama abortion law raised hope for execution reprieve

  17-05-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A lawyer for a condemned inmate said he hoped Gov. Kay Ivey might a grant clemency request and block the execution after she talked about her belief that "life is precious" in signing a bill to virtually outlaw abortion in Alabama.
  
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• Boris Johnson clear favorite among UK Conservative members to succeed PM May: poll

  17-05-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson, a prominent leader of the Brexit campaign and former foreign minister, is the top choice among members of Britain's ruling Conservative Party to replace Theresa May as prime minister, according to a poll published on Friday.Johnson is the first choice among 39 percent of party members, followed by former Brexit minister Dominic Raab in second place on 13 percent, according to the survey by YouGov for The Times newspaper.Conservative Party members are due to have the final say on w
  
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• The life and legacy of 'Grumpy Cat'

  17-05-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The viral sensation died at the age of 7.
  
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• Iran issues new threat to US amid rising tensions

  17-05-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian commander says even their short-range missiles can reach warships in the Persian Gulf; Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon.
  
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• Insurer report says Iran's Revolutionary Guards likely to have organized tanker attacks

  17-05-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are "highly likely" to have facilitated attacks last Sunday on four tankers including two Saudi ships off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, according to a Norwegian insurers' report seen by Reuters.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. oil drillers cut rigs to lowest count since March 2018 -Baker Hughes

  17-05-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. energy firms this week reduced the number of oil rigs operating for the second week in a row, with the rig count at its lowest since March 2018, as some drillers follow through on plans to cut spending.Drillers cut three oil rigs in the week to May 17, bringing the total count down to 802, below the 844 units operating a year ago, General Electric Co's Baker Hughes energy services firm said in its closely followed report on Friday.More than half the total U.S. oil rigs are in the Permian ba
  
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• Western powers clash at U.N. with Russia, Syria, on Syrian hospital attacks

  17-05-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations said on Friday at least 18 health centers have been attacked in the past three weeks in northwestern Syria, prompting a confrontation between western powers and Russia and Syria at the Security Council over who is to blame.Some three million civilians are at risk, the United Nations said."Since we know that Russia and Syria are the only countries that fly planes in the area, is the answer ... the Russian and Syrian air forces?" Britain's U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce said to th
  
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