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• Terrifying images show enormous spider eating a possum in Australia

  19-06-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A recently published set of photos on Facebook shows a terrifyingly largespider eating a possum at a cabin in Australia
  
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• St. Louis LGBTQ Community Divided After Uniformed Officers Allowed to Participate in Pride Parade

  19-06-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of the local LGBTQ community are divided after an announcement that uniformed police officers will be allowed to participate in this year's St. Louis Pride Parade.
  
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• Self-help guru convicted in lurid sex-trafficking case

  19-06-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The guru of a cult-like self-improvement group that attracted heiresses and Hollywood actresses was convicted Wednesday of turning his female devotees into his sex slaves through such means as shame, punishment and nude blackmail photos.A jury in federal court in Brooklyn took less than five hours to find 58-year-old Keith Raniere guilty on all counts of sex-trafficking and coercing women into sex.Raniere, a short, bespectacled figure who wore pullover sweaters in court, listened attentively but
  
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• U.S. Congress-White House budget, debt limit talks sputter: congressional leaders

  19-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Negotiations on Wednesday between the Trump administration and top officials in the U.S. Congress failed to produce a deal on overall federal spending levels for the fiscal year starting on Oct. 1 and the need to raise Washington's borrowing authority, congressional leaders said."We did not reach an agreement," said House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer in a statement.
  
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• The Navy’s Next Warship Will Look a Lot Like the USS Zumwalt

  19-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Large Surface Combatant will retain the Zumwalt class of destroyers’ knifelike appearance.
  
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• DoubleLine's Gundlach says Fed's 'pivot' is following bond market's lead

  19-06-2019 23:28
  Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital and the most widely followed bond investor, said the Federal Reserve's dovish turn in its policy statement on Wednesday took its lead from the...
  
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• NXIVM Co-Founder and Alleged 'Sex Cult' Leader Keith Raniere Convicted on 7 Charges, Including Sex Trafficking

  19-06-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The Associated Press reports that the jury took less than five hours to deliberate
  
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• Why grisly UN report on Khashoggi murder will not change Trump policy toward Saudi Arabia

  19-06-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration was mum on UN report, which found "credible evidence" high-level officials in Saudi Arabia were involved in Khashoggi's death.
  
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• Jon Stewart, first responders, give emotional testimony before Congress on 9/11 victim fund

  19-06-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  "Shameful. It is an embarrassment to the country and it is a stain on this institution,” Stewart said to a congressional panel.
  
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• Fed stands pat on rates, signals it's prepared to cut if trade war intensifies

  19-06-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fed kept its key interest rate at 2.25% to 2.5% but signaled it was prepared to cut rates if the US trade war with China deepens
  
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• New accountability report finds NASA has been paying Boeing huge bonuses for failing

  19-06-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Between its various ongoing Mars missions, orbiters studying asteroids and other planets, and a Moon trip on the horizon, NASA spends a lot of money. Boeing, which has contracts with NASA to build the rocket for its Space Launch System (SLS) is a big recipient of that cash, and a new government accountability report reveals that NASA has not only been paying more and more despite Boeing falling way behind on its deadlines, it's actually also been paying the company bonuses for its performance. A
  
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• Meghan McCain hurls harsh words at Joy Behar on 'The View' but it doesn't affect friendship

  19-06-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  "... Women can debate on TV in a spirited way without it being personal," Meghan McCain said after directing an expletive at "View" co-host Joy Behar.
  
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• US official pressed to say Iran not behind 9/11

  19-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  US lawmakers warned Wednesday against using a war authorization passed in the wake of September 11 for action against Iran, pressing a senior official to acknowledge that Tehran was not behind the 2001 attacks.Brian Hook, the US special representative on Iran, repeatedly declined to say if President Donald Trump legally enjoyed the right to attack Iran, echoing the non-committal comments in April before Congress by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
  
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• Semi crash, explosion in Wisconsin leaves 2 dead, multiple injured

  19-06-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  At least two people have died and multiple others were critically injured when a semi crashed, exploded and ignited other vehicles on Interstate 94 in Racine County, Wisconsin.
  
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• Sully sounds off on what Boeing 737 Max needs to get back in the air

  19-06-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Before the Boeing 737 Max flies again after 2 fatal crashes, the "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger says pilots need training.
  
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• Trump Tells His Team to Tone Down the Tough Talk on Iran

  19-06-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex Wong/GettyPresident Donald Trump has privately pushed his representatives to walk back their tough talk on Iran—and reiterate that the administration is not aiming to go to war with Tehran. Two senior officials and three other individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s strategy in the region tell The Daily Beast that the president has asked officials to tone down their heated rhetoric on Iran, despite the attacks on tanker ships in the Gulf of Oman that Washington
  
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• Dell, HP, Intel and Microsoft Join Forces to Oppose Trump Tariff

  19-06-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc., Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are joining forces to oppose President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on laptop computers and tablets among $300 billion in Chinese goods targeted for duties.The companies submitted joint comments opposing the tariff escalation, saying it would hurt consumer products and industry, while failing to address China’s trade practices. The tariffs are poised to hit during the peak holiday and back-to-school sa
  
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• The Latest: 4 charged in downing of Malaysian airliner

  19-06-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The international team investigating the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 announced murder charges Wednesday against three Russians and one Ukrainian for their alleged roles in the attack that killed all 298 people on board.It noted that the international team turned a blind eye to Ukraine's failure to close its airspace to commercial flights despite the fighting in the east.
  
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• AOC’s Holocaust Remarks Divide Congressional Democrats

  19-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats are split over Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments earlier this week equating American immigrant-detention centers with the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, some in her party defending the remarks while others spoke against them.“The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border, and that is exactly what they are,” the 29-year-old New York Democrat said during an Instagram Live stream on Monday. “I want to talk to the people that a
  
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• Train derails in Nevada, spilling vegetable oil, closing major highway

  19-06-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The vegetable oil spilled out of one of the 22 derailed cars after the train went off the tracks shortly before 11 a.m. local time, the Elko County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook, citing Union Pacific Railroad officials."We had some vegetable oil and some diesel spill.There was nothing hazardous that was released or in the derailed cars," Union Pacific spokeswoman Kristen South said.
  
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• U.S. targets families for deportation to discourage migrants

  19-06-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
      U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will target for deportation families that have received a removal order from a U.S. immigration court, said Mark Morgan, the acting director of ICE, in a call with reporters.    On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump formally launched his re-election bid with a vow to continue his hardline against illegal immigration.
  
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• Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere found guilty on all counts

  19-06-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A New York self-help guru who was accused of running a sex cult of starving women branded with his initials has been found guilty of all counts. A jury took less than five hours to find Keith Raniere guilty of charges including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and possession of child pornography, at the end of a six week trial. The 58-year-old faces up to 40 years in prison when he is sentenced later this year. Five women who were charged alongside Raniere, including Smallville actress A
  
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• Booker, de Blasio Hit Biden for Reminiscing About Working With Segregationists

  19-06-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Cory Booker and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized Joe Biden Wednesday for reminiscing about segregationist lawmakers.
  
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• Tucker Carlson Finds It ‘Painful’ to Watch Trans Women Athletes ‘Stealing Athletic Opportunities From Girls’

  19-06-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  AP/ShutterstockIf history is any judge, Fox News host Tucker Carlson and his producers apparently follow that old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” when it comes to the topic of transgender Americans.Let me first make a full disclosure: I am a transgender woman, and I worked in television news for 30 years, including at two of the networks where Carlson once earned a big fat paycheck. I’ve also appeared on another Fox News show to discuss the issue of trans
  
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• Man decapitates roommate’s dog because she owed him rent money, police say

  19-06-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A man beheaded his roommate’s dog as she was moving out of their shared house because of a financial dispute, officials said on Tuesday. Jose Vega Meza, a 21-year-old living in a suburb outside of Phoenix, Arizona, has been arrested over suspicion of mutilating the animal. He told investigators he killed the dog over the weekend because his roommate owed rent money to his mother, who owns the home in the city of Buckeye, according to police. The owner of the dog told police she had lost tr
  
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• Black lawmakers get Biden's back amid 'segregationist' uproar

  19-06-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  “I worked with Strom Thurmond all my life,“ Jim Clyburn says.
  
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• Harvard right to dump Kyle Kashuv for racist remarks: Today's talker

  19-06-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  If this were any other youth, this wouldn't be news and we wouldn't be giving it a second thought. Kids have been denied admission for much less.
  
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• Hellcat-Powered Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 6x6 Pickup Exists Because It Can

  19-06-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  When the going gets absurd, the absurd get a Jeep Wrangler Hellcat 6x6 at auction.
  
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• Mom who died in Michigan river with 2 girls was 'tired, sad'

  19-06-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A Michigan woman who drove her car into a river, killing herself and twin daughters, had been talking about being "sad and lonely," a family member said.The bodies of Ineza McClinton, 44, and 9-year-old twins Angel and Faith McClinton were recovered Monday and Tuesday from the Kalamazoo River.McClinton was "having some difficulties in her life," another daughter, Tishyron McClinton, told TV station WWMT .
  
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• Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticized Mitch McConnell for Saying Slavery's Effects Were in the Past

  19-06-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Coates passionately rebutted McConnell at a House hearing on reparations Wednesday
  
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• Erdogan says opposition candidate's alleged insult could bar him from Istanbul mayoralty

  19-06-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan intensified pressure on the opposition candidate in a re-run election for mayor of Istanbul by saying he would be barred from taking office if found guilty of insulting a provincial governor.Ekrem Imamoglu, from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), narrowly beat the candidate of Erdogan's AK Party in a March mayoral contest.The AKP's loss of Istanbul in the March 31 local elections was one of the worst setbacks for Erdogan since his Islamist-roote
  
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• Schiff: House in the dark about DOJ’s 2016 campaign spying probe

  19-06-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney General Bill Barr said he wanted to find out whether there was inappropriate government “spying” on the Trump campaign.
  
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• Fatal Semi Crash Shuts Down All Lanes on Wisconsin Interstate

  19-06-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  All north and south bound lanes on I-41/94 are closed at County K in Racine County, Wisconsin after a fatal multiple vehicle crash and fire.
  
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• Great white shark lured to fisherman's boat in Jaws-like incident off Jersey Shore

  19-06-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in New Jersey spotted a great white shark while out fishing on Monday - and caught the whole thing on camera.In what he called the “best day ever on the water,” boat captain Jeff Crilly lured the shark towards his boat, Big Nutz Required II, with a bag of food.The incident happened as Mr Crilly was sailing in the Manasquan inlet off the coast of New Jersey, known as the Jersey Shore, with his brother Scott.In a video later posted to Facebook, the shark leaps up to the boat, giv
  
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• Iranian Official Downplays Possibility of Military Confrontation with U.S.

  19-06-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A top Iranian official on Wednesday predicted that no military conflict with the U.S. was coming, despite the Trump administration's decision to send more troops to the Middle East amid tensions with Tehran.“There will not be a military confrontation between Iran and America since there is no reason for a war,” said Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, according to state media outlet IRNA.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Iran
  
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• Why the new Ford Explorer has more in common with BMW and Mercedes

  19-06-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Rear-wheel drive, responsive steering and firm breaks in the new 2020 Ford Explorer makes for smooth riding, on- or off-road.
  
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• 'Credible evidence' linking Saudi crown prince to Khashoggi murder: UN expert

  19-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  There is "credible evidence" linking Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a UN expert said Wednesday, calling for sanctions on the prince's foreign assets.The conclusion was outlined in a report by the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard.Callamard, an independent human rights expert who does not speak for the United Nations but reports her findings to it, called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
  
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• Trump envoy not ruling out using Afghan war law to justify Iranian strikes

  19-06-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  'We’re not seeking military action,' said Brian Hook, the State Department's special representative for Iran. 'There is no talk of offensive action.'
  
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• Low Mileage 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Shelby GT500 Is A Baby

  19-06-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Less Than 100 Miles On The Dash Say So. If you’re looking for a sweet deal, look no further – no pun intended. This stunning 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Shelby GT500 is finished in candy apple red paint to leave jaws on the ground. Offered up by Old Town Automobiles in Huntingtown, Maryland, the current price is set at $55,000.This vehicle recently received a complete restoration and is sporting a rust-free, straight solid body and floors. It’s powered by a Ford 390 cubic-inch big
  
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• Alaskan teens murder friend after being offered $9 million

  19-06-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The group of teens are facing child pornography charges in addition murder charges; Dan Springer reports.
  
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• Rabbi calls Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments on concentration camps 'absurd'

  19-06-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Abraham Cooper says Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should not be weaponzing history.
  
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• ‘Stain of slavery’: Congress debates reparations to atone for America's original sin

  19-06-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Danny Glover among witnesses who debated the legacy of slavery – and the modern scourges of inequality and poverty that afflict black AmericansFor the first time in more than a decade, a debate has taken place between lawmakers in Congress on the original sin of the United States – the enslavement of 4 million Africans and their descendants – and the question of what can be done to atone for it through reparations.At a hearing at a House judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday, law
  
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• This Boring Looking Plane Is Deadlier Than an F-35, B-2 Bomber or F-22

  19-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The E-6’s basic mission is known as Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO). In a military that operates Raptor stealth fighters, A-10 tank busters, B-52 bombers and Harrier jump jets, the U.S. Navy’s placid-looking E-6 Mercury, based on the 707 airliner, seems particularly inoffensive. But don’t be deceived by appearances. Though the Mercury doesn’t carry any weapons of its own, it may be in a sense the deadliest aircraft operated by the Pentagon, as its job is to command the
  
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• Oklahoma Teens Fall Ill After Graduation Trip to Dominican Republic

  19-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of high school graduates from Oklahoma fell victim to a string of mysterious illnesses in the Dominican Republic.
  
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• The Stealth Sniper: The F-22 Raptor Has a New Job

  19-06-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The flying branch only bought 187 operational Raptors — out of an original goal of 381. The F-22 also won’t fly into the 2060s without upgrades. Three years ago, four F-22 Raptors taking part in the second-wave of the U.S.-led coalition’s opening airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria dropped their bombs. It was the first time the stealthy fifth-generation fighters had ever engaged in combat. The coalition’s war planners also used the F-22s to leverage their low-observ
  
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• 2 killed when semitrailers explode on I-94 in Wisconsin

  19-06-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Two semitrailers exploded into flames Wednesday on an interstate in southeastern Wisconsin, killing both drivers and setting other vehicles on fire, authorities said. Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said one trailer was southbound on Interstate 94 around 11 a.m. when it hit a construction barrier, overcorrected and crashed onto a median that separated northbound traffic.
  
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• Alaskan teenager convinced by online fraudster to murder mentally ill girl for $9 million

  19-06-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  An Alaskan teenager has been charged with conspiring to murder her friend after a man she met online offered her $9 million (£7m) to commit the crime. Denali Brehmer, 18, struck up a friendship with a man she believed to be “Tyler”, a wealthy businessman from Kansas. The man was in fact 21-year-old Darin Schilmiller of Indiana. The pair spoke online about a plan to rape and murder someone in Alaska, sending Schilmiller videos and photos of the act in exchange for the money. Bre
  
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• A rip current at the beach can be deadly, but experts say you can escape by doing this

  19-06-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 100 people are killed by rip currents every year. Here's what you need to know about how to spot them and what to do if you're caught.
  
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• Four charged over MH17, Russia slams 'unfounded allegations'

  19-06-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  International investigators on Wednesday charged three Russians and a Ukrainian with murder over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the first people to face justice over the tragedy five years ago in which 298 people were killed.The trial of the four men with military and intelligence links will start in the Netherlands in March next year, although they are likely to be tried in absentia as neither Russia nor Ukraine extradites their nationals.Moscow slammed the "absolutely unfo
  
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• 9/11 responder who appeared with Jon Stewart on Capitol Hill is now in hospice care

  19-06-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Lou Alvarez, a 53-year-old former NYPD detective who testified alongside Jon Stewart at last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on reauthorizing the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, says his cancer has worsened.
  
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