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• Fox poll: Biden leads Trump by 10 points

  16-06-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  GOP strategist O'B Murray and former senior advisor to Hillary Clinton in South Carolina Antjuan Seawright weigh in on the upcoming election.
  
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• Unruly passenger hits flight attendant, then pukes during Delta flight to Paris

  16-06-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal complaint says a man struck a flight attendant in the throat and then threw up during a Delta flight to Paris.
  
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• Suspected North Carolina burglar caught after being fought off by boy with machete

  16-06-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Jataveon Dashawn Hall, 19, is accused of breaking into a home in Hillsborough on Friday and forcing the boy into a closet while he gathered the family's electronics, according to a statement by the Orange County Sheriff's Office.After the boy hit Hall in the head with a machete, Hall sought treatment at the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, where workers who had been asked to look out for a man with a head wound notified sheriff's deputies, including an officer who was eating lunch at the cente
  
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• UK PM front-runner Johnson pledges to 'end the digital divide' by 2025

  16-06-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson, the front-runner to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, pledged on Sunday to "end the digital divide" in Britain with the rollout of full fiber broadband by 2025.Using his column in the Telegraph newspaper, Johnson, who was criticized for missing the first television debate on Sunday with the other contenders for Conservative Party leader, said he would speed up the rollout of full fiber broadband."The government has just set a new target for the 100 per cent roll-out of full fibe
  
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• Burglary suspect caught, had machete wound inflicted by boy

  16-06-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina burglary suspect who was fought off by an 11-year-old boy with a machete was caught Sunday, nearly two days after he slipped away from the hospital where he was treated for a head wound.Sgt. Shane Brown of the Burlington Police Department said Jataveon Dashawn Hall was arrested in an apartment there Sunday afternoon.Hall, 19, was returned to Orange County, where the sheriff's office said he faces charges including breaking and entering and assault.
  
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• Mexico detains 791 migrants, including 368 children under eight

  16-06-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A total of 791 Central American migrants, including 368 children under the age of eight, have been detained in the Mexican state of Veracruz, officials said Sunday.The detentions of the migrants, who were being transported hidden in four trailers, were carried out at two points, the National Migration Institute said in a statement.While the total age breakdown of the migrants remains unclear, a source speaking on condition of anonymity earlier on Sunday told AFP 270 of the migrants are six or se
  
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• Argentina, Uruguay restoring power after massive blackout

  16-06-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Electricity services have been restored to more than 50 percent of Argentina and Uruguay following a massive blackout that left around 48 million people without power on Sunday, authorities said.At around 3:30 pm (1830 GMT), Argentina's Energy Minister Gustavo Lopetegui said services had been restored in 56 percent of the country.In neighboring Uruguay, the state power company UTE said power had returned to three-quarters of the country.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Cricket-India retain upper hand in World Cup rivalry with Pakistan

  16-06-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Noisy India and Pakistan cricket fans brought a taste of the subcontinent to Manchester on Sunday, their enthusiasm undimmed in a rain-hit, stop-start World Cup match between the regional rivals that drew a massive global audience.Pakistan have never beaten India in a World Cup but Sarfaraz Ahmed's men received encouragement from Prime Minister Imran Khan, the former cricketer who led the country to their maiden World Cup trophy in 1992.India handled the pressure better and extended their unblem
  
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• Correction: Election 2020-Governors story

  16-06-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story June 14 about governors' struggles in presidential races, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Montana Gov. Steve Bullock missed appearing on "Face the Nation." He appeared on the show from Denver.Three Western executives are learning that the hard way in a crowded Democratic scramble dominated by former Vice President Joe Biden and a gaggle of nationally known senators.Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a late entry into the field of two dozen, failed to qualify for Democrats' fir
  
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• Mike Pence Is Not Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Successor

  16-06-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  It isn’t too soon to start thinking about who will succeed Donald Trump. Win or lose in 2020, attention will quickly turn to who might pick up his populist/nationalist mantle. The question is broader than who will be the GOP presidential nominee four years hence. Who will lead and shape the conservative movement in the future?It is easier to say who should not try to step into the president’s place: Vice President Mike Pence.He is a “good guy,” as former vice president Jo
  
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• Trump Should Grant Georgia an Exemption from Steel Tariffs

  16-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the defining features of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his administration’s use of national-security tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. The controversial tariffs have plenty of detractors, both domestic and international, while supporters justify their legitimacy and effectiveness. However, specifically regarding the 25 percent tariff on steel imports, the tool has caused a great deal of collateral damage. A clear example of this is the country of Georg
  
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• Trump Campaign Dumps Pollsters After Low Numbers, Reports Say

  16-06-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has severed ties with some of its pollsters after the leak of months-old surveys showed him trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in key states, according to multiple reports.The moves come ahead of the official launch of Trump’s campaign at a Tuesday rally in the battleground state of Florida, and as an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday showed that a majority of voters are “uncomfortable” with vot
  
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• Deutsche Bank to set up 50 billion euro bad bank: FT

  16-06-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  With the creation of the bad bank, Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is shifting the German lender away from investment banking and focusing on transaction banking and private wealth management, the newspaper said.The bank is planning cuts at its U.S. equities business, including prime brokerage and equity derivatives, to win over shareholders unhappy about its performance, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in May."As we said at the AGM on May 23, Deutsche Bank is working
  
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• Most Americans want Trump to comply with House subpoenas. But impeach him? Not so fast

  16-06-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds those views aren't partisan.
  
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• Raptors' victory parade could draw up to 2 million fans

  16-06-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Toronto Raptors fans already are lining up along the route for Monday's victory parade, which could bring as many as two million people to the streets of Toronto to celebrate the team's first NBA title.Mike Bartlett, head of community affairs and events with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, provided that estimate to Toronto's CP24.The parade is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. ET at Exhibition Place's Princes' Gates and will end at Nathan Phillips Square for a 12:30 p.m. rally.
  
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• Hong Kong government apologizes for extradition bill, but defiant crowds pressing on

  16-06-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  As thousands of Hong Kong residents jammed the city’s streets Sunday, the government apologized for the handling of an extradition bill.
  
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• Democrrrrrrats, let's get rrready to rrrumble!: Today's Toon

  16-06-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
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• Trump calls newspaper report on Russia power grid 'treason'

  16-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has lashed out at The New York Times, saying it engaged in a "virtual act of treason" for a story that said the U.S. was ramping up its cyber-intrusions into Russia's power grid.The Times reported on Saturday that the U.S. has bored into Russian utility systems in an escalating campaign meant to deter future cyber activity by Russia.It comes as the U.S. looks for new ways to punish Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and prevent a recurrence.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Israel launches 'Trump Heights' on Golan, but construction may lag

  16-06-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles.The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March.At a special cabinet session in Beruchim, a sparse clutch of homes just 12 km (7.5 miles) from the Golan Hei
  
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• Boeing CEO calls handling of 737 Max crashes a 'mistake,' vows improvements

  16-06-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg calls his company's handling of two software-related crashes of the 737 Max aircraft a 'mistake.'
  
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• Trump campaign fires some of its pollsters after leaks show poor numbers for the president

  16-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump was trailing Biden by double digits in the key swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Michigan, according to leaked numbers.
  
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• Israel PM inaugurates Golan settlement honouring Trump

  16-06-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday inaugurated a new settlement in the Golan Heights, named after the country's "great friend" US President Donald Trump.Netanyahu unveiled a "Trump Heights" sign, featuring an Israeli and a US flag, to mark the site of the new settlement."Thank you PM @netanyahu and the State of Israel for this great honor!" Trump tweeted.
  
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• Trump keeps returning to Mueller report during Stephanopoulos interview

  16-06-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump appeared to be focused on Robert Mueller's report during his wide-ranging interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, insisting that he read the special counsel’s report while repeatedly claiming it says there was “no collusion” despite Mueller stating specifically that no determination was reached on the concept of collusion.
  
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• Istanbul candidates clash on TV before election test for Erdogan

  16-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Istanbul's mayoral candidates argued over the election they contested in March and their policy plans in a rare televised debate on Sunday, a week before a re-run vote seen as a test of Turkish democracy and President Tayyip Erdogan's AK party.In the first debate of its kind in Turkey in nearly two decades, AKP candidate Binali Yildirim faced the opposition's Ekrem Imamoglu, who won the initial vote in March but was ousted from city hall when the result was annulled in May.Yildirim, a former pri
  
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• Tory Rivals Clash as Johnson Dodges TV Debate: Brexit Update

  16-06-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Key DevelopmentsDominic Raab clashed with rivals over his threat to suspend Parliament in order to get Britain out of the EU with no deal, if necessaryRaab, Rory Stewart, Michael Gove, Jeremy Hunt, and Sajid Javid took part in the first television debate on Channel 4 Cabinet minister Amber Rudd warned Parliament will find a way to stop a no-deal Brexit, and rebel Tories could vote to topple the next PM YouGov/Sunday Times Poll put Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in lead on 24%, with Conservati
  
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• O.J. Simpson Has Joined Twitter: 'I Got a Little Getting Even to Do'

  16-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  "I got a little getting even to do," he said in a video posted to the account
  
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• Report: Stanton to return Tuesday for Yankees

  16-06-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York Yankees' lineup could be on the cusp of becoming a modern-day Murderers' Row.Manager Aaron Boone said Sunday that Giancarlo Stanton will return from the injured list and play on Tuesday, adding that newly acquired slugger Edwin Encarnacion will be active Monday night when the Yankees host the Tampa Bay Rays, per ESPN's Coley Harvey.Encarnacion will become the team's primary designated hitter and Stanton will return to the outfield.
  
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• Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border

  16-06-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants.Officials in Texas and even Maine are scrambling to absorb the sharp increase in African migrants.
  
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• Hong Kong leader apologises as rally chokes city

  16-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  About two million protesters choked Hong Kong's streets in a powerful rebuke of a reviled extradition law, organisers said Sunday, piling pressure on the city's embattled pro-Beijing leader who apologised for causing "conflict" but refused to step down.Throngs of largely black-clad protesters snaked their way for miles through the streets to the city's parliament -- with the organisers' estimate for the crowd size doubling an already record-breaking demonstration the previous Sunday in the city
  
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• As Battle for Tripoli Rages, Libyan Premier Demands New Dialogue

  16-06-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Fayez Al-Sarraj, in a press briefing Sunday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, proposed the conference be held with the help of the United Nations and that it decide on a road map for elections to take place in 2019.Sarraj’s overture came after the UN’s Libya envoy, Ghassan Salame, said Security Council members that include the U.S., Russia and France now agree that the violence that’s killed more than 600 people and displaced tens of thousands since April must stop.Haftar’s
  
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• Ex-Tehran mayor to face trial over wife's killing

  16-06-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tehran mayor and prominent reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi will stand trial next month on charges of murdering his wife, the government-run Iran newspaper said Sunday.Najafi, 67, turned himself in and confessed to shooting his second wife Mitra Ostad on May 28 at their home in northern Tehran, according to Iranian media."On July 1, the first trial session of Mohammad Ali Najafi, former Tehran mayor, will be held at Tehran's Criminal Court," the Iran daily reported.
  
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• Israel launches 'Trump Heights' on Golan, but construction may lag

  16-06-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles.The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties after Trump broke with other world powers to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the plateau in March.At a special cabinet session in Beruchim, a sparse clutch of homes just 12 km (7.5 miles) from the Golan Hei
  
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• Jon Stewart Shames Mitch McConnell for Failing 9/11 First Responders on ‘Fox News Sunday’

  16-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  “We don’t want to be here,” Jon Stewart told the handful of lawmakers who showed up to watch him plea for an extension of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund last week. The former host of The Daily Show likely didn’t want to be on Fox News Sunday this Father’s Day either, but there he was making his case to Chris Wallace.Given the subject matter, it was an understandably serious interview. However, there was one fleeting moment of levity when Wallace noted tha
  
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• Donald Trump declares report of US cyber actions against Russian grid an 'act of treason'

  16-06-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has erupted in fury after it was reported that America has laid the groundwork for a potentially devastating cyber attack on Russia's electric grid, describing the article as a “virtual act of treason”. According to a three month investigation by the New York Times, increasingly sophisticated malware has been embedded in the Russian electricity system which could be activated to plunge the country into darkness in the event of a major confrontation. The president yesterd
  
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• India imposing increased, retaliatory tariffs on US exports including apples, almonds

  16-06-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  India is now imposing increased tariffs on 28 U.S. products including apples, almonds and walnuts, a move seen as a retaliatory act.
  
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• Trump Faces Many ‘Uncomfortable’ Voters in 2020 Race

  16-06-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A flurry of opinion polls on Sunday also showed that a majority of voters think the Trump administration has gone too far on its immigration enforcement efforts, and that economic optimism has slipped from the high levels seen shortly before Trump’s inauguration in 2017.In an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, some 52% reported being very uncomfortable about Trump and an additional 10% had some reservations.The negative response about Trump was up 3 percentage points from a poll conducted in la
  
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• Moscow warns against 'baseless accusations' over tanker attacks

  16-06-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  "We always urge a sober appraisal of the situation and to wait for more or less convincing evidence to appear," Peskov said on Russian television, extracts of which were published by the RIA Novosti news agency.A Japanese and a Norwegian oil tanker were targeted in attacks on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman.
  
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• Ross Downplays Prospect of Major Trade Deal at Trump-Xi Meeting

  16-06-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross downplayed the prospect of a major trade deal emerging from a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, this month.“I think the most that will come out of the G-20 might be an agreement to actively resume talks,” Ross said in an interview Sunday with the Wall Street Journal from Paris, where he was attending the Paris Air Show.Talks between China and the U.S. broke off in
  
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• Pompeo tries rallying foreign leaders in alleged oil attacks

  16-06-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reaching out to wary foreign leaders to frame alleged Iranian attacks in a Middle East oil shipping route as a problem for the world at large, especially for Asian countries vitally dependent on that oil.Pompeo, in a series of Sunday television interviews, emphasized the U.S. international outreach in the wake of what the U.S. says were Iranian attacks Thursday on two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz .The world needs to unite," Pompeo said.
  
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• Israel moves to name Golan settlement after Trump

  16-06-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Now it is the namesake of a tiny Israeli settlement in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet convened in this hamlet Sunday to inaugurate a new settlement named after President Donald Trump in a gesture of appreciation for the U.S. leader's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the territory.
  
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• New poll shows Trump trailing Biden and four other Democrats

  16-06-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A nationwide Fox News poll released Sunday shows President Donald Trump trailing former vice president Joe Biden and no fewer than four other Democratic contenders as early campaigning for the 2020 election begins to gain steam.A separate survey of battleground states, by CBS, shows Democrats strongly favor Biden as the candidate most likely to beat Trump in next year's elections.The Fox poll showed Biden leading Trump by 49 percent to 39 percent among all registered voters nationwide, while Sen
  
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• Hong Kong leader apologises as record rally chokes city

  16-06-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Some two million protesters choked Hong Kong's streets in a powerful rebuke of a reviled extradition law, organisers said Sunday, piling pressure on the city's embattled pro-Beijing leader who apologised for causing "conflict" but refused to step down.The historic show of force saw vast crowds marching for hours in tropical heat, calling for the resignation of chief executive Carrie Lam, who was forced to suspend the bill as public anger mounted.Throngs of largely black-clad protesters snaked th
  
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• AOC's New York office building broken into by man who sprayed police with fire extinguisher

  16-06-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in New York City broke into an office building where representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has offices, before spraying police with a fire extinguisher and hiding in a utility closet.The trespassing occurred on Saturday afternoon, when the office was closed and the liberal firebrand was in Washington.The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said the individual was taken to a nearby hospital for psychiatric evaluation. Officials also said the man was emotionally disturbed.“No one
  
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• White House departures: Who's been fired and who resigned

  16-06-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Here are the notable firings and resignations of the Trump administration, starting with the most recent departure of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
  
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• Turkish post in Idlib hit 'deliberately' by Syrian attack

  16-06-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey said Syrian government forces "deliberately" attacked on Sunday a Turkish military observation post in northwestern Syria.In a statement, the defense ministry said Turkish troops responded with "heavy weapons" after the artillery attack in Idlib province.Syrian forces launched an offensive to take the last rebel-held territory in Idlib late April, leading to the collapse of a ceae-fire negotiated by Turkey and Russia last year.
  
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• Pompeo vows US will guarantee passage through Strait of Hormuz

  16-06-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Sunday that the US will guarantee free passage through the vital Strait of Hormuz, as he accused Iran of recent attacks on oil tankers and the downing of a US drone.Pompeo would not be drawn on what options the US is considering to protect shipping -- or to punish Iran -- in the wake of Thursday's attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, but reiterated that President Donald Trump is not seeking war with Iran.
  
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• Saudi crown prince accuses rival Iran of tanker attacks

  16-06-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in remarks published Sunday that the kingdom will not hesitate to confront Iranian threats to its security.Tensions in the Persian Gulf have escalated since the U.S. sent an aircraft carrier strike group and other military assets to the region in what it says is defensive posturing against alleged Iranian threats.The crisis takes root in the Trump Administration's decision to re-impose punishing economic sanctions on Tehran and its oil exports
  
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• QUIZ: Could You Still Pass a Basic Driver's-Ed Test?

  16-06-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Some people could use a little refresher. Share it with someone you love.
  
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• AOC on Trump's willingness to accept political 'dirt' on rivals: 'The pressure to impeach grows'

  16-06-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Days after President Trump asserted he would take damaging information on his political rivals from a foreign power, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said "the pressure to impeach grows.”
  
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• UPDATE 2-Boeing says will take time to win back confidence

  16-06-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of Boeing said on Sunday the U.S. planemaker had made a mistake in implementing a faulty cockpit warning system on the 737 MAX and predicted it would take time to rebuild the confidence of customers in the wake of two fatal crashes.Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg said Boeing failed to communicate "crisply" with regulators and customers, but defended the broad engineering and design approach to nose-down control software at the centre of probes into the accidents that led
  
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