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• Despite gaffes, Biden holds strong support among blacks in South Carolina

  21-06-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  As nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates here for a ritual fish fry event that marks the symbolic kickoff of the South Carolina campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden appears to be enjoying considerable early support, especially from the capital’s tight-knit black community.South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn’s “World Famous Fish Fry” gathers African-American party leaders, deep-pocketed Democratic donors, presidential candidates and reporters in a backyard-s
  
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• Democrats call for party's 2020 hopefuls to cut down attacks against Biden

  21-06-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidates take aim at former vice president; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Kim, Xi agree to grow ties whatever the external situation: North Korean media

  21-06-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and China's President Xi Jinping reached a consensus on "important issues," and agreed to build on their countries' friendly relations "whatever the international situation," North Korean state media reported.Xi left the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Friday after a two-day visit, the first by a Chinese leader in 14 years.State-run news agency KCNA issued a report on Saturday of the results of the visit.
  
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• Heart problems may hasten cognitive decline

  21-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  This was true whether patients had suffered a heart attack or they had angina, which is the term for chest pains caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.At the start, none of them had a history of stroke, heart attack, angina, or dementia.By the end of the study, 480 people, or 5.6% of the participants, had a heart attack or developed angina.
  
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• Huawei files lawsuit against U.S. Commerce Dept over seized equipment -filing

  21-06-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Huawei Technologies Co Inc filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commerce Department on Friday in a fight over whether telecommunications equipment that it sent from China to the United States, and then back to China, is covered by Export Administration Regulations, according to a court filing.The equipment was seized by the U.S. government while on its way back to China in September 2017, and no decision has been made about what to do with it, the filing said."The equipment, to the best of HT USA's
  
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• Trump: president for all eternity?

  21-06-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Friday again joked about ignoring constitutional term limits by retweeting a meme showing him staying in the White House not just for one more term, but for eternity.The meme, ripping off an authentic Time magazine cover from October last year, portrays Trump re-election posters starting in 2024, then progressing steadily into the future.The date then rattles increasingly quickly through presidential terms, spinning past not just four years, but centuries at a time and
  
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• FDA approves drug for loss of sexual desire in women

  21-06-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Analysts have said that a drug that safely and effectively treats loss of sexual desire in women could eventually reach annual sales of about $1 billion.Palatin's shares jumped 44% to $1.93, while Amag shares rose 11.5% after market.Vyleesi, chemically known as bremelanotide, activates pathways in the brain involved in sexual desire, helping premenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).
  
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• The Latest: Refinery fire controlled but still burning

  21-06-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A fire at a refinery complex in Philadelphia is controlled and contained but still burning more than 12 hours after it started.Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy says the blaze at Philadelphia Energy Solutions started in a tank that holds a mix of propane and butane.Murphy says five employees had minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
  
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• Missouri won't renew license of St. Louis Planned Parenthood, state's last abortion clinic

  21-06-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Missouri's health department will not renew the license of Planned Parenthood of St. Louis. An injunction will keep the last abortion provider open for now.
  
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• Trump 'threatened journalist with prison time' for taking photograph of letter from Kim Jong-un

  21-06-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump appeared to threaten a journalist with jail time after they took a photograph of a letter he said had been sent to him by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.During an interview earlier this week with reporters from Time magazine, the president showed them a letter from the North Korean, who he said had dispatched it to him recently. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders intervened when a photographer took a photograph of it.The interview then continued, but appeared to become testy
  
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• Stakes are High for Erdogan as Istanbul Heads for a Revote

  21-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- He’s not even running, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the man with the most at stake in Sunday’s rerun of the Istanbul mayoral election.If his AK Party wins Sunday’s round, his pro-Islamic political movement will resume a quarter century of rule over the commercial powerhouse where Erdogan launched his own political career as Istanbul mayor. If political upstart Ekrem Imamoglu is declared the winner again, Erdogan may find himself with a future cha
  
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• Buttigieg criticized after police killing of black man

  21-06-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawyer for the family of a black man fatally shot by a white police officer in the Indiana city where Pete Buttigieg is mayor on Friday accused the Democratic presidential candidate of failing to be aggressive enough in setting rules to curb police misconduct.Attorney Brian Coffman said he's preparing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of South Bend on behalf of the family of 54-year-old Eric Logan, who was shot by an officer Sunday."It is overall total acceptance of this behavior
  
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• Court tosses black man's murder conviction over racial bias

  21-06-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury.The removal of black prospective jurors deprived inmate Curtis Flowers of a fair trial, the court said in a 7-2 decision written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.The long record of Flowers' trials stretching back more than 20 years shows District Attorney Doug Evans' "relentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black
  
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• Trump Blacklists More China Tech Companies Days Before Xi Summit

  21-06-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. put five more Chinese tech entities on a trade blacklist just days ahead of a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping even as it offered a quiet olive branch by postponing a potentially provocative speech.The move on Friday to list four companies and a research institute involved in China’s super-computing efforts follows the similar blacklisting of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. last month, blocking
  
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• Prosecutors accuse witness of lying in Navy SEAL trial

  21-06-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Medic claims he killed ISIS prisoner, not defendant Edward Gallagher; Jonathan Hunt reports.
  
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• The 2020 Mercedes-AMG G63 Is Getting a Trail Package with Legit All-Terrain Tires

  21-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  You no longer have to sacrifice off-road ability in pursuit of better on-road performance when you buy an AMG G-wagen.
  
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• The Latest: US Treasury head warns Iran's financial sector

  21-06-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Iran's financial sector will soon face penalties if it doesn't work to stop evading international guidelines designed to combat money laundering.Mnuchin says Iran has not taken steps to comply with the guidelines.As a result, he says, branches and subsidiaries of financial institutions based in Iran will be subjected to increased oversight.
  
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• US blacklists 5 Chinese groups working in supercomputing

  21-06-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is blacklisting five Chinese organizations involved in supercomputing, calling them national security threats and cutting them off from critical U.S. technology.The move Friday by the U.S. Commerce Department could complicate talks next week between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, aimed at de-escalating a trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies.Commerce is putting five Chinese organizations, including supercomputer maker Sugon, on
  
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• Georgia death row inmate becomes 1,500th person to be executed since US brought back death penalty

  21-06-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has executed the 1,500th person since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to a database keeping track of executions.Marion Wilson Jr was killed by lethal injection at 9.52pm on Thursday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia after the US Supreme Court denied a stay of execution.The state’s Department of Corrections confirmed his death. According to their press release, he was the 73rd person executed in Georgi
  
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• Why You Should Skip Target-Date Funds in Your Portfolio

  21-06-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  While there's no such thing as a perfect retirement investment, some experts might argue that target funds come close."Target-date funds have become popular because they offer an all in one solution," says Denny Baish, a senior investment analyst and portfolio manager at Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh.Baish says these funds are common in retirement plans for participants who don't want to bother, don't have the time or simply don't know how to build out a proper allocation.
  
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• How to Mow Your Lawn in Hot Weather and Keep It Green

  21-06-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  With the dog days of summer finally here, it's time to re-evaluate how you mow your lawn. While a low-cut, manicured lawn might seem ideal, turf grass actually does better in the summer heat when...
  
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• SpaceX is just days away from its third Falcon Heavy launch

  21-06-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX's largest functional launch vehicle, the Falcon Heavy, has already taken to the skies twice over the past couple of years, and both launches were nearly perfect, save for some snafus during retrieval of its boosters. If you missed the chance to watch those events live, you'll get yet another opportunity this coming Monday.The third Falcon Heavy launch is scheduled for as early as 8:30 p.m. PDT (that's 11:30 p.m. EDT) on Monday, June 24th, and NASA is eagerly anticipating it. Assuming all
  
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• Trump Leaves Iran, Allies Uneasy Even After Stopping Airstrike

  21-06-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he called off retaliatory strikes on three Iranian sites following the downing of a U.S. Navy drone because the action wouldn’t have been “proportionate.”“We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General,” Trump tweeted Friday. “10 minutes before the strike I stopped it.”A commander in Iran’s Islamic Re
  
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• U.S. ramps up returns of asylum seekers to Mexico, adding Cubans

  21-06-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  EL PASO, TEXAS/TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - The United States is more than doubling the number of asylum seekers it returns to Mexico in one city and adding groups like Cubans as it rapidly expands a policy to make migrants wait out claims south of the border, Mexican and U.S. officials said.The policy, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), is being applied to all Spanish-speaking asylum seekers, other than Mexicans, at three U.S.-Mexico border crossings, said a U.S. government official fam
  
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• Pete Buttigieg will miss South Democratic dinner and fish fry after South Bend shooting

  21-06-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The South Bend, Indiana, mayor will instead take part in a march in his city that comes after a white police officer fatally shot a black man Sunday.
  
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• U.S. judge tosses former SAC Capital trader's insider trading guilty plea

  21-06-2019 21:31
  A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday threw out the 2013 insider trading guilty plea of a former trader at SAC Capital Advisors LP, the hedge fund once run by billionaire Steven A. Cohen, saying...
  
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• California governor proposes a $21 billion wildfire fund

  21-06-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed helping utilities create a fund of up to $21 billion to compensate future victims of wildfires sparked by the companies' equipment or employees, an aide said on Friday.The proposal by the Democratic governor follows the bankruptcy filing earlier this year of San Francisco-based utility PG&E Corp, which anticipates $30 billion in liabilities from wildfires that have been blamed on its equipment, including the state's deadliest blaze which killed m
  
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• Prosecutors won't drop charges against Navy SEAL despite trial twist

  21-06-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Military prosecutors said on Friday they will not drop premeditated murder charges against a U.S. Navy SEAL charged with stabbing to death a teenaged Islamic State militant in Iraq in 2017, despite testimony from another SEAL who claimed to have killed the prisoner.Navy SEAL medic Corey Scott told the court on Thursday that he held his thumb over the victim's breathing tube until he died, saying he did so to save the young militant from being tortured by Iraqi forces.Scott said the young man's o
  
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• Prosecutors won't drop charges against Navy SEAL despite medic's stunning admission

  21-06-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors said on Friday they will not drop premeditated murder charges against a Navy SEAL charged with stabbing to death a teenaged Islamic State militant in Iraq in 2017 after another SEAL told a court martial he killed the prisoner.Navy SEAL medic Corey Scott told the court on Thursday the fighter was breathing through a tube when Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher stabbed him in the neck.
  
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• ICE Plans to Target 2,000 Undocumented Immigrants in New Deportation Operation

  21-06-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin an operation Sunday targeting over 2,000 undocumented immigrants who have received deportation orders, according to reports.The operation will last several days and target families in up to ten U.S. cities, including those with large immigrant populations such as Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, and Miami. Agents plan to use hotel rooms to hold undocumented individuals until all the members of their family are together, at which time they wi
  
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• Lawsuit: Inmate had free weekends, made acid attack on wife

  21-06-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mississippi sheriff repeatedly freed a woman's abusive husband from jail on weekends, and the man tried to run her over, beat her unconscious and then drenched her body with sulfuric acid, the woman says in a lawsuit.The former Webster County sheriff, Tim Mitchell has since been arrested on unrelated corruption charges involving guns, drugs and sex with inmates.Robinson accuses Mitchell, Webster County and a former dispatcher of negligence.
  
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• 'This was a direct attack on U.S. assets': Trump's aborted Iran strike draws criticism from Republicans

  21-06-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Congressional Republicans were divided Friday following President Donald Trump's decision to abort a planned missile strike against Iran.
  
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• Spain's top court convicts 5 men in gang rape case

  21-06-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Spain's Supreme Court on Friday overruled two lower courts and sentenced five men to 15 years in prison for raping an 18-year-old woman.The case had triggered an outcry because the lower courts last year convicted the men of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and handed down nine-year sentences.Women's rights advocates had expressed anger about what they saw as the lower court's leniency and the confirmation of that sentence by a second court.
  
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• Ex-Girlfriend of Kidnapping Suspect Testifies About Recordings Taken When She Wore Wire for FBI

  21-06-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The ex-girlfriend of a man accused of kidnapping and murdering a visiting University of Illinois Chinese scholar testified in court about conversations recorded while she was wearing a wire for the FBI.
  
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• AT&T has this year’s fastest US mobile network (thanks to those misleading ‘5GE’ upgrades)

  21-06-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Thanks in part to its confusingly (some would say misleadingly) labeled LTE upgrades, AT&T has just been crowned by PCMag as having the fastest mobile network in the US.The distinction comes as a result of the magazine's annual speed-focused matchup of the various wireless carriers. As always, it's important to point out in a comparison like this that you should take the results with a grain of salt, which is putting it mildly.Measuring performance and overall quality of cellphone networks i
  
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• Video shows kids chase mom's SUV when 3-year-old hit and killed

  21-06-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A Houston mom charged with criminally negligent homicide after surveillance video showed her SUV hitting and killing her child.
  
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• Chevy Claims Its New Silverado 3500 Accelerates Quicker Than the Ram 3500—and Ram Fires Back

  21-06-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Chevy may be down 90 lb-ft of torque from the 1000 lb-ft Ram 3500, but they still claim they can outrun the Ram, trailering or not, so the truck wars go on.
  
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• Missouri Officials Won't Renew Planned Parenthood's License to Perform Abortions

  21-06-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The St. Louis facility is the state's only abortion provider
  
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• Mexico immigration chief vows to cut number of people migrating by 60%

  21-06-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Newly appointed chief, Francisco Garduño, said he hoped to prevent hundreds of thousands of migrants entering the country each yearMigrants cross at the US-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso on 15 June 2019. Photograph: Christian Torres/APMexico’s immigration chief has vowed to slash the number of migrants entering his country by 60% and prevent Mexico from being used as “a trampoline” to the United States, as the Mexican government scrambles to satisfy Dona
  
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• 'The Pack' found guilty of gang rape in Spanish shock case

  21-06-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Spain's Supreme Court Friday found five men who called themselves "The Pack" guilty of gang raping a young woman, overturning previous convictions for the lesser offence of sexual abuse in a case that shook the country.The Madrid-based tribunal sentenced each defendant to 15 years in prison -- up from nine years each -- overriding two previous rulings in the case that had sparked mass protests in Spain."The factual account describes a genuine scenario of intimidation in which the victim never co
  
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• Supreme Court Backs Immigrant Unaware of Legal Status in Gun-Possession Case

  21-06-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that an illegal immigrant unaware that his legal status barred him from possessing a gun cannot be prosecuted for possession, in a decision that could affect thousands of previous cases.The Court's decision will force prosecutors to prove that a member of a group barred from having a firearm knows they are a member before they can be convicted of a crime. In cases where the individual's status is the “crucial element,” the person must be aware o
  
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• Trump says he abruptly canceled retaliatory strike on Iran after drone attack

  21-06-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  There are no indications that Trump's decision will be reversed, the official said.
  
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• Armed Militias Pledge to Fight for Fugitive Oregon GOP Lawmakers ‘At Any Cost’

  21-06-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Mint ImagesRight-wing militia groups across the Pacific Northwest are mobilizing to prevent Oregon state police from arresting Republican state senators who went into hiding on Thursday in order to prevent climate change legislation from passing. All 11 of Oregon’s Republican state senators are currently on the lam, with some leaving for Idaho in an effort to deny the Democrat-controlled state senate a quorum to pass a cap-and-trade bill. In response, Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D), citing
  
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• Cardi B indicted by grand jury in NY in connection with strip club brawl

  21-06-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Cardi B was indicted by a grand jury in Queens on Friday, a Queens District Attorney's Office spokesperson confirmed.
  
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• Key witness in Navy SEAL case takes blame for 2017 killing of Iraqi detainee

  21-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Corey Scott claimed he suffocated a teenage detainee in Iraq in an act of mercy after Edward Gallagher stabbed him.
  
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• Donald Trump vowed to raise pressure on Iran and cripple its economy. Did it backfire?

  21-06-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Critics of Donald Trump’s Iran strategy say it has created the current crisis but the administration says Tehran will be forced to negotiate.
  
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• Donald Trump plays down Iran attack on US drone as a 'big mistake' by someone 'stupid'

  21-06-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said he found it “hard to believe" that Iran's shooting down of a U.S. drone was intentional and declined to say how he would respond.
  
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• What we know after Trump abruptly canceled the Iran strike

  21-06-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Tensions between United States and Iran continued to rise after a U.S. drone was shot down. Poll shows many think we'll be at war within a few years.
  
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• 17 money-saving Disney World and Disneyland hacks to try

  21-06-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  You don't have to give Mickey all your money. Save by Checking the calendar for the cheapest ticket dates and buying these items outside the park.
  
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• Democrats look to other lawsuits to block GOP lame-duck laws

  21-06-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Wisconsin Democrats trying to undo laws passed by Republicans during a lame-duck session just before Gov. Scott Walker left office are putting their hopes behind a federal court challenge following a resounding legal defeat Friday.The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, breaking 4-3 along ideological lines, upheld the lame-duck session during which Republicans passed laws limiting the powers of incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul.
  
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