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• Tulare County mother accused of killing her 12-year-old child and seriously injuring 7-year-old

  30-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Sherri Telnas faces murder charges for killing her 12-year-old child and seriously injuring her 7-year-old.
  
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• Why America Prefers a Weak and Peaceful Europe

  30-06-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has a very large military—its budget is nearly four times greater than China’s (although China is four times as populous and maintains nearly twice as many active personnel). The U.S. military budget is nearly two and a half times greater than those of all of Europe’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries combined. Washington’s defense budget is greater than the combined defense budgets of China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, Fr
  
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• NATO Prefers a Weak and Peaceful Europe

  30-06-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has a very large military—its budget is nearly four times greater than China’s (although China is four times as populous and maintains nearly twice as many active personnel). The U.S. military budget is nearly two and a half times greater than those of all of Europe’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries combined. Washington’s defense budget is greater than the combined defense budgets of China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, Fr
  
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• US Army veteran comes out at NYC Pride March after returning from Iraq

  30-06-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Army veteran took advantage of the world's biggest celebration of LGBTQ pride to officially come out on live TV.
  
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• Top Democrats criticise Trump for ‘photo-op’ meeting with Kim Jong-un on North Korea border

  30-06-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are speaking out against Donald Trump’s venture into North Korea, the first time a sitting US president has stepped into the country.The Republican president met with the North Korean leader in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that divides North and South Korea on Sunday, in a meeting that appeared to have been planned on a whim earlier in the week. Joining many critics who called the journey a publicity stunt, nominees for the top Democrat
  
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• Hong Kong braces for mass rally on China handover anniversary

  30-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong braced for another mass rally Monday as the city marks the anniversary of its handover to China, with attendance at an annual pro-democracy march likely to be bolstered by huge recent anti-government protests.The rallies are the latest manifestation of growing fears that China is stamping down on the city's unique freedoms and culture with the help of the finance hub's pro-Beijing leaders.Although Hong Kong was returned from British to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, it is still administ
  
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• Some 2020 Democrats spoke in Spanish during their first debate. Was it 'Hispandering'?

  30-06-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Young Latinos are one of the fastest growing populations in the country, and will likely be key voters in 2020. Trump's stance on immigration issues has thrust Latino voters into the political spotlight.
  
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• This sneaky kitten is a terrible and adorable little stalker

  30-06-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Cats are natural predators. They can't help but hunt and stalk. This one just happens to be exceedingly bad at it.The 8-week-old kitten in question belongs to Twitter user @_TakivaBreanna. Her baby cat has developed a habit of hiding just behind a wall whenever she knows her human is approaching and then leaping out at just the right moment to surprise her much larger prey.That's the apparent intent, anyway. The execution... could be better. See for yourself.> My 8 week old kitten started doi
  
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• Drowned migrants return to El Salvador for burial

  30-06-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The bodies of the father and daughter who drowned together last week while trying to cross the Rio Grande to the U.S. returned to El Salvador on Sunday for burial.Photographs of Valeria, face down with her little arm wrapped around the neck of her father, Oscar Alberto Martínez, broke hearts around the world and underscored the dangers that migrants undertake in trying to reach the U.S.The father and daughter were swept away by the current in the river between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brown
  
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• New York stages huge Gay Pride march, 50 years after Stonewall

  30-06-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Throngs of people gathered in the streets of New York on Sunday for a Gay Pride march before an expected crowd of up to three million rainbow-flag-waving supporters, 50 years after the Stonewall riots that galvanized the modern gay rights movement.Mayor Bill de Blasio, a vocal defender of gay rights and a Democratic presidential hopeful, had predicted "the greatest Pride celebration in the history of the globe," and participants were not about to contradict him."It is insane how many people are
  
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• Contractor says suspect in killing wanted secret room

  30-06-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A construction contractor says the primary suspect in the killing of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck approached him in April about building a secretive and soundproof room under a front porch. Brian Wolf told the Desert News that the construction request from homeowner Ayoola A. Ajayi made him uneasy and included hooks mounted high on a concrete wall for reasons that didn't make sense. Wolf turned the job down and reported the encounter to Salt Lake City police after seeing news repor
  
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• Contractor says suspect in killing of Mackenzie Lueck wanted secret room

  30-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A construction contractor says the primary suspect in the killing of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck approached him in April about building a secretive and soundproof room under a front porch.
  
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• The Latest: Thunderstorms end Chicago Pride Parade early

  30-06-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago police say the remainder of the city's Pride Parade has been canceled as thunderstorms roll through the area.Mayor Lori Lightfoot led the festivities as a grand marshal.Sunday's parade marks the 50th anniversary of the police raid that sparked the modern-day gay rights movement.
  
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• Two men dead in apparent murder-suicide after argument during double date

  30-06-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in northeast Harris County.
  
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• Donald Trump meets Kim Jong Un in DMZ, steps onto North Korean soil

  30-06-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump met briefly with Kim Jong Un and became the first U.S. president to step onto North Korean territory.
  
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• Harris surges to third place in national poll among Dems after debate

  30-06-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of Democratic primary voters who pick Kamala Harris as their first choice for president doubled after the first Democratic debates, vaulting the California senator into a third-place tie in a new poll.
  
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• PHOTOS: New York City pride parade

  30-06-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of marchers paraded through New York streets Sunday in a huge LGBTQ pride parade, with many proudly carrying rainbow flags or carrying signs.
  
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• Right-wing protesters, 'antifa' clashes bring chaos to streets of Portland, Oregon

  30-06-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Order was restored to the streets of Portland, Oregon, after protests that clogged streets, crippled public transit and left at least 8 people hurt.
  
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• When is the next Democratic primary debate?: July 30 and 31 in Detroit

  30-06-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Like the debate in Miami, the upcoming one in Detroit will feature 20 candidates out of the 24 Democrats seeking their party's nomination.
  
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• Former White House Officials Say President Trump 'Is Lying' Over Claims Obama Tried to Meet With Kim Jong Un

  30-06-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  "I was there for all eight years. Obama never sought a meeting with Kim Jong Un"
  
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• Governor Cuomo signs legislation banning 'gay and trans panic' legal defense

  30-06-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The defense had been used to justify violent reaction to finding out the person someone is with is gay or transgender.
  
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• Mexican leader admits shortcomings on security at launch of new police force

  30-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday his 7-month-old government had yet to make progress in tackling record levels of violence afflicting the country as he launched a new militarized police force tasked with fixing the problem.Formally inaugurating the new National Guard, veteran leftist Lopez Obrador blamed the economic policies of previous administrations for exacerbating the violence and said his government was rooting out corruption and inequality in Mexico."But we st
  
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• Racism Questions, Trump Jr. Give Biden-Harris Clash Longevity

  30-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are coming in hot from Thursday night’s Democratic debate as chatter focused on two race-driven topics -- “birtherism” and “busing” -- gained legs on the internet.If Google Trends are any indication of the American electorate, Harris came out on top as the most-searched candidate from last week’s pair of debates, which gave millions of potential voters their first look at the huge slate of Democratic hopefuls.Echoes o
  
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• Donald Trump's future depends in part on Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un

  30-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's short trip to Asia focused on global goals that will continue throughout the presidential election
  
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• Booker not sure Biden ‘up to the task’ of reconciling US over racial injustices

  30-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Booker, a Democratic presidential candidate, says Biden has ‘an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made’Senator Cory Booker speaks at the Democratic debate in Miami, Florida, on 26 June. Photograph: Mike Segar/ReutersThe Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said on Sunday that while the US must fix racial injustice, he is not sure Joe Biden is “up to that task”.“Whoever our nominee is going to be, whoever the next president is going to be, rea
  
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• Booker not sure Biden ‘up to the task’ of fixing US racial injustice

  30-06-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  New Jersey senator and 2020 candidate says Biden has ‘an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made’Booker at the debate last week. He said: ‘Whoever is that nominee needs to be able to pull this country together because we need to reconcile.’ Photograph: Mike Segar/ReutersThe Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said on Sunday he is not sure Joe Biden is “up to that task” of fixing America’s racial injustice.Booker told NBC’s M
  
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• The new and improved Gay Street sign is all over NYC Pride Twitter

  30-06-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  This year the New York City Pride March marks 50 years since the Stonewall Riot, and the parade is  bigger and more colorful than ever. As the march makes its way to Greenwich Village, one street sign in particular is popping up on social media as a symbol of 2019's much-needed focus on inclusion in the queer community. It's pure coincidence that Gay Street intersects with Christopher Street right near the Stonewall Inn -- the "Gay" of Gay Street is a family name -- but its location on
  
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• Fox host Tucker Carlson defends North Korean regime: ‘Leading a country means killing people’

  30-06-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Tucker Carlson has appeared to downplay North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s human rights abuses, by saying that leading a country “means killing people”.The controversial commentator was asked about Donald Trump’s close relationship with the dictator. He was also pressed on Kim Jong-un’s human rights abuses during the segment.“There’s no defending the North Korean regime, it’s the last really Stalinist regime in the world,” Mr Carlson said duri
  
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• Mexicans hail Paris designer amid cultural appropriation row

  30-06-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian designer Maurizio Galante gave a lesson Sunday in how to take inspiration from indigenous cultures without being accused of cultural appropriation.With the fashion world shaken this month by the Mexican government threatening legal against New York-based label Carolina Herrera for "ripping off" native designs, Galante gave Mexican artisans top billing in his Paris haute couture show.The courtier worked with Mexico's top fashion institute and makers in 18 parts of the country on a collect
  
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• Merkel Faces Resistance to Her EU Jobs Plan From Allies and Foes

  30-06-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Angela Merkel’s latest proposal for divvying up the European Union’s top jobs ran into strong opposition as the bloc’s leaders sat down for another summit on Sunday evening.Ireland’s premier Leo Varadkar went straight to the point, saying the Christian Democratic bloc that includes Merkel’s CDU hasn’t agreed to her proposal to appoint Dutch Socialist Frans Timmermans to the helm of the European Commission.“As the EPP we haven’t agree
  
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• Racist, anti-gay student flyers challenge Wyoming district

  30-06-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  In the capital of the state known for the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard, school officials have worked to respond to the spring incident."We've got a pretty good plan to try to work on all of that," said Boyd Brown, superintendent of Laramie County School District No. 1.The new approach to student bullying and harassment sounds good, but "only time will tell if it's upheld," said parent Abby Kercher.
  
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• US officials attend Israeli settler-linked event in Jerusalem

  30-06-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  US officials attended an archaeological event organised by an Israeli settler-linked group in east Jerusalem on Sunday, their latest move breaking with precedent and angering Palestinians.White House adviser Jason Greenblatt and US ambassador to Israel David Friedman were among US officials present at the event marking the completion of an archaeological project next to the Old City in mainly Palestinian east Jerusalem.Greenblatt and Friedman, who gave a speech at the ceremony organised by the C
  
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• Trump steps into North Korea in historic first

  30-06-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first Sunday as he met Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world's last Cold War frontier.Moments after becoming the only sitting US president to set foot inside North Korea, Trump brought Kim back over the dividing line for a meeting where they agreed to start working-level talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons.Trump, 73, also said he had invited 35-year-old Kim to the White House "anytime he wants t
  
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• Millions celebrate LGBTQ pride in New York amid global fight for equality: organizers

  30-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions lined the streets of New York on Sunday to wave rainbow flags, celebrate the movement toward LGBTQ equality and renew calls for action in what organizers billed as the largest gay pride celebration in history.Event organizers and city officials said 150,000 parade marchers and up to 4 million visitors commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that triggered the modern LGBTQ movement, with corporate sponsorship and police protection that would have been unthinkable half
  
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• Millions celebrate LGBTQ pride in New York amid global fight for equality

  30-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions lined the streets of New York on Sunday to wave rainbow flags, celebrate the movement toward LGBTQ equality and renew calls for action in what organizers billed as the largest gay pride celebration in history.Some 150,000 parade marchers and an estimated 4 million spectators commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that triggered the modern LGBTQ movement, with corporate sponsorship and police protection that would have been unthinkable half a century ago.Similar para
  
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• Limos, vodka and nukes: How a sanctions' sleuth traces North Korea's illicit transactions

  30-06-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Expert say if North Korea's Kim Jong Un can get a limo in spite of sanctions, he also has access to items for his ballistic and nuclear programs.
  
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• World's biggest divorce settlement will see Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pay $38 billion to wife, MacKenzie

  30-06-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the world's richest man, is to pay $38bn (£29bn) to settle the divorce with his wife of nearly 26 years, MacKenzie Bezos. A judge is expected to rubber-stamp the world's most expensive divorce settlement this week, confirming an agreement which will see Ms Bezos, taking a four per cent stake in the online shopping behemoth. The couple, who have four children, married in 1993, before Mr Bezos set up Amazon from his garage in Seattle. Ms Bezos, 49, who w
  
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• Nigeria protesters demand end to anti-Boko Haram militia

  30-06-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 2,000 people protested Sunday in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, calling for a ban on the anti-Boko Haram CJTF militia they accuse of abuses after the killing of a rickshaw driver.The protesters blocked major roads in the Suleimanti area of the city and set fires, causing chaos despite pleas from police and military officers, an AFP reporter at the scene saw."We want the CJTF to be banned from the city because of the abuses we suffer in their hands," said Suleimanti resident B
  
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• O'Rourke visits Mexico, meets turned away US asylum seekers

  30-06-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke visited Mexico on Sunday and listened to tearful immigrants say they fled Central American violence and turmoil to seek asylum in the U.S., but were turned away at the border.A fluent Spanish speaker, O'Rourke met around a table at a shelter with immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, some of whom wept as they told of being denied entry into the U.S. while their asylum claims are processed."We hope, by sharing these stories, that the
  
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• Booker: Biden's words 'causing a lot of frustration and even pain'

  30-06-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The New Jersey senator says Biden is definitely not bringing people together.
  
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• Hunt for pet-eating python as 9ft snake goes on the loose in Cambridge

  30-06-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Rabbit and chicken owners in Cambridge have been warned to be vigilant following the escape of a nine-foot reticulated python. The non-venomous snake is unlikely to pose a threat to human life but could make small animals like rabbits and chickens its prey. Police in Cambridgeshire received reports that a snake had been spotted near Lovell Road in Cambridge. In the early hours of Sunday morning officers attended the area but failed to spot the animal. The snake's owners have been located an
  
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• The 2022 BMW i4 Could Be the Tesla Model 3's Biggest Threat Yet

  30-06-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  This fully electric sports sedan is likely to come standard with all-wheel drive and offer a driving range of up to 350 miles.
  
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• Iran announces visa waiver for Chinese tourists

  30-06-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran will no longer require Chinese visitors to obtain visas, state media reported Sunday, as the sanctions-hit country attempts to boost tourism in the face of an economic crisis."The cabinet has agreed to waive visa requirements for Chinese nationals entering the Islamic Republic of Iran," state news agency IRNA said.The sanctions have particularly targeted Iran's vital oil exports and international financial transactions, and were a major factor in the country's ongoing recession.
  
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• Democrat Says Diplomacy Is More Than Bringing a Casserole to Kim

  30-06-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats seeking to replace Donald Trump said while it’s good the president is talking with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about eliminating his nuclear weapons, this weekend’s drama appeared to be more of a show than a path toward getting results.“Of course as a country, we want this to work,” Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said on CNN’s “State of the Union’’ on Sunday. “But it&rsq
  
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• GOP senator: ‘Underestimate Joe Biden at your own peril’

  30-06-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Lindsey Graham also says of Kamala Harris: “She’s got game.”
  
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• Tim Ryan savages Trump on North Korea, Huawei

  30-06-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  “This has been the President Trump appeasement tour.”
  
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• Democratic candidates dump on Trump over North Korea meeting

  30-06-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's latest overture to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the leaders' meeting lacked substance and elevated a ruthless dictator.The Republican Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to step into North Korea on Sunday, drawing on his penchant for showmanship and surprise to pull off talks with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.The meeting, at Trump
  
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• Tucker Carlson: Leading a Country ‘Means Killing People’

  30-06-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Brendan McDermid/ReutersFox News host Tucker Carlson said on Sunday that part of “what it means to lead a country” is “killing people.” Carlson made the comment while speaking to Fox & Friends from South Korea, after witnessing President Trump become the first sitting president to walk into North Korean territory.Carlson was reportedly a guest of the White House on the diplomatic trip to South Korea, along with the president's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jar
  
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• Democratic candidates defend Kamala Harris from 'racist' attacks by conservatives, Donald Trump Jr.

  30-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The criticism revived debate over "birtherism" -- a false allegation that dogged President Barack Obama.
  
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