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• Huge crack in earth detected in satellite images after earthquake in California

  08-07-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The earthquake that recently shook residents of California, was powerful enough to leave a crack visible in satellite images.As people in southern California communities such as Ridgecrest, continued to clear up from two of the biggest earthquakes in decades, scientists revealed the quake had left large cracks in some locations.“Ridgecrest earthquake before (4th July) & after (6th July) images from Doves, clearly showing surface rupture,” tweeted Will Marshall, the CEO and founde
  
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• California earthquake: 7.1 magnitude quake created crack so big it can be seen in satellite images

  08-07-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The earthquake that recently shook residents of California, was powerful enough to leave a crack visible in satellite images.As people in southern California communities such as Ridgecrest, continued to clear up from two of the biggest earthquakes in decades, scientists revealed the quake had left large cracks in some locations.“Ridgecrest earthquake before (4th July) & after (6th July) images from Doves, clearly showing surface rupture,” tweeted Will Marshall, the CEO and founde
  
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• Mexican government watchdog concerned about National Guard's detaining migrants

  08-07-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's newly created National Guard has detained U.S.-bound migrants and the government should make public the rules governing their power to curb immigration, the head of the government's human rights ombudsman said on Monday.The National Guard is a security force created by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to bring down record homicide rates.
  
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• Police Issue Alert After 3 Virginia Sex Offenders Go Missing

  08-07-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have shared the photos of three convicted sex offenders who are now wanted for failing to re-register, according to police.
  
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• Do charges against Jeffrey Epstein signal 'bigger targets'?

  08-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The criminal charges against Jeffrey Epstein allege years of gross abuse, exploitation and trafficking. Co-conspirators could be exposed soon.
  
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• Al Gore blasts Trump environmental speech that fails to mention climate change

  08-07-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The former vice president describes the president's environmental speech as being "meant to deceive and deflect."
  
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• Trump Has Been Unrealistic About His Talks With North Korea. Here's Why We Shouldn't Dismiss the Meetings Altogether

  08-07-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Peace isn’t a gift to North Korea or an endorsement of the government’s actions; peace is the means that allows us to achieve our goals.
  
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• UN rights chief 'appalled' by conditions in US for migrants

  08-07-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations' human rights chief said Monday she was "appalled" by the conditions migrants and refugees face in U.S. detention facilities, intensifying a challenge to the Trump administration's immigration policies.United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said children stopped by border agents should never be held in immigration detention facilities or separated from their families, and detention should not be the norm for adults, either.
  
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• Indiana family 'in shock' after toddler dies following 11-story fall from cruise ship

  08-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The 1-year-old daughter of an Indiana police officer, slipped from her grandfather's arms Sunday while their ship was docked in San Juan.
  
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• Swalwell becomes first major Democrat to drop out of 2020 race

  08-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Eric Swalwell officially ended his presidential bid on Monday after failing to gain traction in a crowded Democratic primary.
  
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• US Rep. Swalwell ends presidential bid, will seek reelection

  08-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Eric Swalwell on Monday became the first candidate in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary to exit the campaign, saying he would run for reelection to his California congressional seat next year.Swalwell, 38, announced his exit in his home district, describing his decision as "the beginning of an opportunity in Congress with a new perspective" influenced by his 3-month-long presidential bid.The four-term congressman's White House effort never progressed significantly with voters
  
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• Barr: Mueller shouldn't 'subject himself' to testimony before Congress

  08-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Muller is testifying in open session before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17.
  
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• Swalwell Abandons Race, Seeks House Re-Election: Campaign Update

  08-07-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Eric Swalwell announced Monday that he’s exiting the presidential contest and will be seeking re-election to his House seat.The California congressman, who focused his campaign on toughening gun control, dropped out after just three months.“Today ends our presidential campaign,” he said in Dublin, California. He said his goal was to win and that his candidacy hadn’t been “a vanity project” or a means “to write a book.”Swalwell said t
  
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• Wall St. drops as Apple falls, Fed eyed

  08-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. stocks fell on Monday as Apple shares dropped following a broker downgrade and investors continued to weigh chances of an aggressive interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve later this month. Apple Inc fell 2.2% and was the biggest drag on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The technology <.SPLRCT> index was down 0.7%, while the healthcare index <.SPXHC> fell 0.8%, weighed down by U.S. President Donald Trump's recent statement about an upcoming executive order that would lower prescrip
  
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• BMW Built a One-Off X7 Pickup, and It Looks Awesome

  08-07-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The concept was built by BMW trainees for its Motorrad Days event.
  
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• What does the Constitution say about citizenship and the census?

  08-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Does the Constitution spell out the Trump administration's argument for a citizenship question in the census?
  
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• Donald Trump vows to hold 4th of July bash next year and for 'the foreseeable future'

  08-07-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is promising to repeat his 4th of July celebration on the National Mall again next year and in "the foreseeable future."
  
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• Winning the World Cup like a girl: Today's Toon

  08-07-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Want to keep up with USA TODAY's editorial cartoons? Bookmark this page. We'll update it frequently.
  
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• Wealthy financier charged with molesting dozens of girls

  08-07-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A decade after they were accused of letting Jeffrey Epstein off the hook, federal prosecutors made another run at putting the billionaire financier behind bars on sex allegations, charging him Monday with abusing dozens of underage girls as young as 14.Prosecutors said the evidence included a "vast trove" of hundreds or even thousands of lewd photographs of young women or girls, discovered in a search of his New York mansion."This is ancient stuff," Epstein attorney Reid Weingarten said in court
  
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• The Latest: Pelosi says Trump wants to make US 'white again'

  08-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The California Democrat says the administration is battling in federal court to insert the question because it would have a chilling effect on who responds.Census Bureau experts and critics of the question say it would discourage people in the U.S. illegally from responding, including large numbers of migrants from Central America.Pelosi says at a San Francisco news conference that if people don't answer their census forms, the administration will win.
  
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• Woman suing L.A. fertility clinic claims she gave birth to someone else's babies in IVF mix-up

  08-07-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A couple in New York City is suing a Los Angeles fertility clinic, alleging they gave birth to someone else's children after an IVF mix-up.
  
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• Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein pleads not guilty to sex-trafficking claims that 'shock the conscience'

  08-07-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire financier, was charged with sex-trafficking and related offenses in a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
  
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• Man Shot, Killed by Chicago Police After Couple Says They Were Kidnapped

  08-07-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A man suspected of kidnapping a man and woman is dead after being shot by Chicago police.
  
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• Trump takes parting Brexit shot at Theresa May, says he won't 'deal' with U.K. ambassador

  08-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The president also sharply criticized the U.K.'s ambassador, who described him as "inept."
  
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• Vice President Pence to visit border amid outcry over conditions at migrant detention centers

  08-07-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence is traveling to the southern border Friday, the same day that House Democrats are holding a hearing on migrant detention centers.
  
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• Torrential rain pounds Washington, DC area

  08-07-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Several drivers rescued from cars stranded in high water; Mark Meredith reports from Arlington, Virginia.
  
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• First lady Melania Trump in West Virginia for opioid talk

  08-07-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  First lady Melania Trump visited West Virginia on Monday to learn how a city at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic is grappling with the crisis."I am here to give you my support," Trump told participants in the roundtable discussion.West Virginia has the country's highest fatal opioid overdose rate and has struggled, like many other states, to confront the many aspects of the problem.
  
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• Warren Pulls in over $19 Million in Second Quarter

  08-07-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign raised more than $19 million during the second quarter of this year, the third-most of any contender for the Democratic nomination over that span.From April 1 through June 30, approximately 384,000 individual donors made over 683,000 contributions to Warren's campaign, with the average donation size hovering around $28, campaign officials announced Monday. Less than $100,000 of the $19 million+ haul is earmarked for the general election
  
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• The Latest: Victims speak out after Jeffrey Epstein charged

  08-07-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Some of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers say they're encouraged he's been charged with sex trafficking.Accuser Sarah Ransome says in a statement Monday that Epstein's arrest "is a step in the right direction" for holding the wealthy registered sex offender accountable.The 66-year-old Epstein pleaded not guilty Monday in his first court appearance following his weekend arrest.
  
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• Mexican officials find 51 migrants in truck using giant X-ray

  08-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican officials using a large X-ray scanner at a checkpoint in the central state of Zacatecas found 51 Central American migrants in hidden compartments inside a truck.Footage of the X-ray shows a ghost-like truck filled with the brightened silhouettes of the migrants, some sitting, others lying down along two levels in the crowded compartments.The migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Ecuador, 21 of whom were minors, are now in the custody of the country's National Migr
  
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• UK trade official to offer Ivanka Trump apology for leaked memos bashing 'inept' administration

  08-07-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, who called the leak "malicious" and "unconscionable," told the BBC that he intends to apologize Ivanka Trump.
  
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• Florida principal gets slammed for saying 'not everyone believes the Holocaust happened'

  08-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida high school principal is under fire for saying that "not everyone believes the Holocaust happened." The Palm Beach Post reports that Spanish River High School principal Willam Latson wrote the email last year to a student's mother who asked whether the school taught about the Holocaust.
  
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• 1-year-old dies in fall from cruise ship in Puerto Rico

  08-07-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A 1-year-old girl apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands and fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, police said Monday. Police Sgt. Nelson Sotelo told The Associated Press that the family of the child will remain in the U.S. territory until the investigation is complete. Authorities said the girl was traveling with her parents, two siblings and two sets of grandparents aboard the Freedom of the Seas, which docked in Puerto Rico on Sunday after a we
  
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• How T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint fight robocalls on their network

  08-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Your cell phone provider can help protect you from robocalls. These are the tools T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint offer to their customers.
  
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• Rains strand Washington drivers, flood White House basement

  08-07-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A slow-moving rainstorm Monday washed out roads, stranded drivers and soaked basements, including the White House's, during a chaotic morning commute in the national capital region.Flooding led to electrical outages that closed the National Archives Building and Museum, according to a statement from the National Archives, which said the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were safe and not in any danger.National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Ledbetter said t
  
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• Trump attacks British ambassador, takes swipe at UK PM May

  08-07-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he "will no longer deal" with the British ambassador to the United States, after a weekend news report that the UK diplomat had described Trump’s administration as dysfunctional, clumsy and inept."I do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked or well thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him," Trump said in a Twitter post that also criticized outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May."The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom i
  
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• The Latest: French president sends adviser to Iran for talks

  08-07-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron is sending his chief diplomatic adviser to Iran following its decision enrich uranium beyond the threshold of the 2015 nuclear accord.The Elysee Palace said Monday that Emmanuel Bonne was returning on Tuesday to Tehran.Europe is under pressure to try to salvage the accord between Iran and world powers after the U.S. withdrew from it last year and restored heavy sanctions.
  
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• Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein accused of paying girls as young as 14 for sex

  08-07-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Court documents unsealed Monday show Epstein is charged with creating and maintaining a network that allowed him to sexually exploit and abuse dozens of underage girls, with alleged victims as young as 14 at the time.
  
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• Double the speed of your Fire TV or Chromecast with one $14 gadget

  08-07-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Do you have a Fire TV Stick, a Fire TV Stick 4K, or a Chromecast? If you do, you undoubtedly love it… most of the time. When it's working perfectly and nothing interrupts your streaming, it's great. But there are a lot of times when things start to slow down and quality gets choppy, or the stream just drops out completely. Once in a blue moon, it's your internet provider's fault, but 99 times out of 100, it's your Wi-Fi causing the slowdowns. If you want to speed up your connection and st
  
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• US hedge fund billionaire charged with sex trafficking minors

  08-07-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein, a hedge fund billionaire with ties to top politicians and celebrities, was charged on Monday with sexually exploiting dozens of young girls.Epstein, 66, was arrested at an airport in New Jersey on Saturday after returning to the United States from Paris on a private jet.In an indictment unsealed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, he was charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.
  
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• Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein Pleads Not Guilty to Sex Trafficking of Minors

  08-07-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein pled not guilty on Monday to charges that he ran a sex-trafficking ring and sexually abused dozens of underage girls over a period of about four years.Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed an indictment against the well-connected financier on Monday, charging him with one count of sex trafficking minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors.Epstein, a registered sex offender, was arrested Saturday in New Jersey after his private
  
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• Israel shoots down drone, discovers tunnel from Gaza

  08-07-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's military on Monday shot down a drone that crossed into its territory from the Gaza Strip and discovered an attack tunnel running under the Gaza perimeter fence.Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have developed a drone program with Iranian assistance.The Israeli military also said it exposed an attack tunnel during construction of its subterranean barrier around the territory.
  
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• SunTrust Is Latest Bank to Halt Financing of Private Prisons

  08-07-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- SunTrust Banks Inc., the lender merging with BB&T Corp., said it won’t provide future financing to companies that manage private prisons and immigration holding facilities.“This decision was made after extensive consideration of the views of our stakeholders on this deeply complex issue,” the Atlanta-based bank said in an emailed statement Monday.SunTrust’s decision follows similar moves by Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo
  
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• Saudi carrier cancels troubled Boeing 737 order for Airbus

  08-07-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing's campaign to restore the reputation of its best-selling plane after two deadly crashes suffered a blow with a Saudi airline canceling an order worth up to $5.9 billion in favor of a European rival of the U.S. manufacturer.Flyadeal, the budget airline arm of Saudi Arabian Airlines Corp., ordered 30 A320neo jets from Airbus and took options on 20 more, meaning that its entire fleet will consist of planes from that company.It's a potentially troubling sign for Boeing, which has not seen cus
  
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• Warren raises $19.1 million for presidential bid in second quarter, third among crowd of rivals

  08-07-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren raised $19.1 million in the second quarter of the year, placing her in the top three for the period among top-tier rivals, her campaign announced in an email to supporters on Monday.The top second-quarter fundraising hauls among Democratic candidates reported so far have been by South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who raised $24.8 million, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who raised $21.5 million.More than two dozen Democrats are competi
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Triples Her First-Quarter Haul, Outraises Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris

  08-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Kamil KrzaczynskiSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) saw a massive fundraising surge in the last three months, lending further credence to her status as a frontrunner among a large 2020 presidential field. In an email shared with supporters on Monday afternoon, Warren's campaign manager Roger Lau said that in the second quarter of the year, the Massachusetts Democrat raised more than $19.1 million from more than 384,000 people making more than 683,000 donations. The average contribution was $28 and, ac
  
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• 'He wanted to kill me': How a former South Dakota senator battled Joe Biden on busing

  08-07-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Jim Abourezk talks about the 1977 confrontation with current presidential candidate Joe Biden over civil rights legislation.
  
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• Trump defends conditions at border detention facilities

  08-07-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  New reports claim facilities are experiencing outbreaks of diseases like scabies, shingles and chickenpox.
  
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• US won't waver from Iran pressure as nuclear deal unravels

  08-07-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will not waver from its course of maximum pressure against Iran, Vice President Mike Pence said Monday, as tensions rise and the U.S.-brokered nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers appears unraveling with the Trump administration's pullout.Pence's assertion to a pro-Israel Christian organization that the U.S. "will never allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon" came on the same day that Iran began enriching uranium to 4.5 percent , breaking the limit set in t
  
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• Toddler Falls Through Grandfather's Arms, Drops to Her Death on Cruise Ship

  08-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A 1-year-old American girl died after plummeting from a cruise ship in Puerto Rico.
  
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