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• 2 adults shot; 2 children died from smoke; man in custody

  10-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Two neighbors died from gunshots while two children found dead in one of the victim's home died from smoke inhalation from a fire set in the house, a coroner said Wednesday.Relatives said the two neighbors, a man and a woman, didn't really know each other.Officers first found David Cousin Jr. shot to death in a vacant lot and then found the bodies of the three others in a nearby house where they smelled smoke inside, police said.
  
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• Oklahoma men charged with hate crime in beating of black man

  10-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Two white men have been charged with a hate crime in the beating of a black man outside of a central Oklahoma music venue last month.Court records show Brandon Wayne Killian, 28, and Devan Nathaniel Johnson, 24, were charged Friday with aggravated assault and battery, conspiracy and malicious intimidation, which is Oklahoma's hate crimes statute, in connection with the June 22 attack on Jarric DeShawn Carolina, 36, in the parking lot outside the BrickHouse Saloon in Shawnee, about 35 miles (60 k
  
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• U.S. Reveals Second Thoughts About Flynn’s No-Prison Deal

  10-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Michael Flynn’s hopes of avoiding a prison term could be in jeopardy after U.S. prosecutors said that his new legal strategy had prompted them to reassess their two-year-old cooperation agreement.Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, had been expected to testify against his former business partner, Bijan Kian. A trial for Kian is scheduled to begin next week in Alexandria, Virginia, on federal charges that he acted as an un
  
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• Baby delivered from dead donor's transplanted womb is North America's first

  10-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  In a first for North America, the Cleveland Clinic of Ohio announced onTuesday that it delivered a baby from the transplanted womb of a dead donor
  
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• Hurricane predicted to make landfall this weekend | Houston is in the cone

  10-07-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  We have our first forecast from the National Hurricane Center on the tropical disturbance in the Gulf.
  
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• House Speaker Pelosi tells her Democrats to kill the tweets

  10-07-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged unity among fellow Democrats in the face of battles over the direction of the party and warned members to ditch Twitter and keep their disagreements private.It was not clear if Pelosi, the top elected U.S. Democrat, was aiming her remarks at a specific lawmaker's tweet or issuing a general warning about using social media, the favorite means of communication for Republican President Donald Trump.
  
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• 'Best day ever!' Internet pokes fun at Mexico's finance minister grim-faced job acceptance

  10-07-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's Arturo Herrera looks grim in a viral video in which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador names him finance minister, a job Herrera's predecessor left in a huff at a time when Latin America's second largest economy is signaling weakness.The well-regarded Herrera looks so downcast in the video as to garner far more online attention than Lopez Obrador's Tuesday remarks.
  
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• Christian Student Group Claims Anti-Religious Discrimination at Wayne State University

  10-07-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSA Christian student group on Wednesday argued in a federal court hearing in Michigan that public universities must “treat religious student groups equally with other campus groups,” in a case that has pitted the 142-year-old InterVarsity Christian Fellowship against Wayne State University. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is an organization with at least 1,000 individual chapters, and, according to its website, the purpose of the Wayne State InterVarsity chapter is to &l
  
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• Hurricane watch issued in Louisiana as tropical system gains strength in Gulf of Mexico

  10-07-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The second storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to form Wednesday or Thursday along the Gulf Coast.
  
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• High School Teacher Fired for Same-Sex Marriage Files Lawsuit Against Archdiocese of Indianapolis

  10-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A teacher fired by Cathedral High School filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
  
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• Pemex in the Eye of the Storm With AMLO Ruling Mexico’s Economy

  10-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The surprise departure of Mexico’s finance minister has the state oil company’s watchers biting their nails.Carlos Urzua resigned Tuesday, citing conflicts of interest and policy disagreements within Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration. That sent the peso plunging as much as 2.3%, and stocks sliding. Yields on both sovereign and Petroleos Mexicanos bonds surged, reflecting the tight link between the nation and the oil giant.The first major cabinet loss s
  
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• Against family wishes, Venezuela government buries navy captain who died in captivity

  10-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday buried the remains of a navy captain who died in military custody last month, despite the opposition of family members who say he was tortured to death and want an independent autopsy.Rafael Acosta was detained in June 21 for alleged participation in a coup plot but died following a week in custody of military intelligence agency DGCIM.The government of President Nicolas Maduro confirmed the death but did not comment on the torture accusations.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: How the sex-trafficking investigation could shed light on corruption

  10-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The wealthy financier pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking charges, but revelations about his past have sparked accusations of corruption.
  
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• Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz says she was 15 when 'he forcibly raped me'

  10-07-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A new accuser says she was forcibly raped at age 15 by Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy hedge fund leader now jailed on statutory rape charges.
  
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• Court rules against Florida officials on medical marijuana

  10-07-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida appellate court ruled that the state's approach to regulating marijuana is unconstitutional, possibly allowing more providers to jump into a market positioned to become one of the country's most lucrative.If the ruling stands, it could force state officials to lift existing caps on how many medical marijuana treatment centers can operate in Florida.Tuesday's ruling by the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee was another setback for Florida officials trying to regulate the burgeo
  
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• Penalizing candidates who interrupt, and other changes coming to the Democratic debates

  10-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The candidates in the Democratic debates will not be asked to give one-word answers or just raise their hands in response to complex policy issues.
  
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• Mississippi Republican says gay female journalist covering his campaign must have male chaperone

  10-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Republican candidate for governor in Mississippi has banned a female reporter from riding along on a campaign trip unless she brought a male colleague to accompany her, citing concerns that the journalist could be used in a smear campaign alleging an extramarital affair.The reporter, Mississippi Today’s Larrison Campbell, wrote about the incident with state representative and candidate Robert Foster on Tuesday, noting that two other candidates in the state’s Republican primary agre
  
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• Tropical depression or storm to form along Gulf, could hit land near La. as hurricane Saturday

  10-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The second storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to form Wednesday or Thursday along the Gulf Coast.
  
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• Accuser says Jeffrey Epstein raped her when she was 15

  10-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A new accuser of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the wealthy financier raped her at his New York mansion when she was 15.
  
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• Two active-duty Marines accused of smuggling migrants from Mexico 'for financial gain'

  10-07-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Lance Cpls. Byron Darnell Law II and David Salazar-Quintero, both active-duty Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, were arrested by Border Patrol agents.
  
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• Arizona teacher may have been grooming other students for sex, report says

  10-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Brittany Zamora was scheduled to be sentenced for molesting her 13-year-old student after pleading guilty. Records provide more details of the abuse.
  
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• Ivanka Trump's women's initiative announces $27M in grants

  10-07-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A White House initiative spearheaded by Ivanka Trump to help women in developing countries get ahead economically announced its first batch of grants on Wednesday: $27 million for 14 projects in 22 countries, mostly in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.The Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative was launched in February with an initial investment of $50 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development.The 14 projects sharing the $27 million were chosen from over 120
  
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• Southwest updates safety information cards to avoid Boeing 737 Max confusion

  10-07-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest has stopped using combined safety information cards following the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft due to fatal crashes.
  
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• Legalize it, marijuana advocates tell Congress

  10-07-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Marijuana, the subject of a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, has become increasingly uncontroversial, with even a majority of Republicans in a 2018 poll saying they wanted the drug made legal.
  
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• Indiana teacher fired for same-sex marriage sues archdiocese

  10-07-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A Catholic high school teacher who was fired because he's in a same-sex marriage sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday, accusing it of discrimination and interfering with his teaching contract.Joshua Payne-Elliott is suing the archdiocese in Marion County court and seeking unspecified compensatory, emotional distress and other damages.Payne-Elliott taught at Cathedral High School for 13 years and Cathedral renewed his annual teaching contract on May 21, his attorney, Kathleen DeLaney
  
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• Russian Navy Claims Sailors Prevented 'Planetary Catastrophe'

  10-07-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Was the damaged submarine’s reactor in danger of causing a nuclear accident?
  
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• New Orleans threatened by floods as big storm forms

  10-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The US city of New Orleans was under a storm-surge watch Wednesday along with a stretch of Louisiana coast as a tropical storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the region with potentially life-threatening rains."Conditions appear favorable for this system to strengthen to a hurricane as it approaches the central Gulf Coast by the weekend," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.A flash flood emergency was declared earlier Wednesday in New Orleans, part of which is built below se
  
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• The 2020 BMW 840i Will Be Priced under $100K, the Only 8-Series That Cheap

  10-07-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  It'll soon be possible to park an 8er coupe or convertible in your driveway for less than six figures, but you'll have to settle for six cylinders.
  
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• Border arrests dropped sharply in June

  10-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Border Patrol arrested roughly 95,000 migrants in June, according to figures released Wednesday by Customs and Border Protection.
  
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• Fed chief calls for Facebook to halt Libra project until concerns addressed

  10-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that Facebook's plan to build a digital currency called Libra "cannot go forward" until serious concerns are addressed, comments that pressured the project and dented the price of the original cryptocurrency bitcoin. "Libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability," Powell said during his semi-annual testimony on monetary policy before the U.S. House of Representativ
  
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• Indiana teachers offered $18K to drive school buses

  10-07-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Carmel Clay Schools and much of the country has struggled to find bus drivers for years. So administrators are trying an unusual strategy.
  
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• Ex-White House Counsel Gregory Craig Asks Judge to Toss Lobbying Case

  10-07-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Gregory Craig, the former White House counsel accused of misleading the U.S. about work he did for a pro-Russia government in Ukraine, asked a judge to throw out the two-count criminal indictment against him.Craig’s lawyers told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday the charges are technically flawed and their client is being accused of failing to disclose information he hadn’t been asked about and had no duty to reveal to enforcers of the Foreign Agents
  
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• Heavy rains flood New Orleans streets in taste of storm ahead

  10-07-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The weather system churning in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to intensify this week into the second named tropical storm of the year, and ultimately the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019 as it heads closer to land, forecasters said.New Orleans officials warned that a hurricane could bring a coastal storm surge into the mouth of the Mississippi River capable of raising the river's height to 20 feet (6 meters) above sea level, high enough to overflow some sections of the levee system protecting th
  
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• FOREX-Dollar slammed after Powell's bleak U.S. outlook

  10-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  * GRAPHIC-World FX rates in 2019: http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh* Fed's Powell says trade, global concerns weigh on U.S. economy* Dollar hits session low vs yen, euro after Powell remarks* Markets expect 25-basis-point cut later this month(Adds analyst comment, updates prices)By Gertrude Chavez-DreyfussNEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - The dollar retreated on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck a downbeat tone in congressional testimony, saying trade uncertainties and concerns ab
  
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• Body of Slain University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck Was Found Bound in Shallow Grave

  10-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has been charged with murder days after police found her body in a shallow grave, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.Ayoola Ajayi, a 31-year-old former Army IT specialist, was formally charged Tuesday with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a human body, and obstruction of justice. On June 3, authorities found Lueck’s body in a shallow grave about an hour from th
  
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• The Latest: 200 unaccompanied kids in Border Patrol custody

  10-07-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection says only 200 unaccompanied immigrant children remain in Border Patrol custody.Children who travel to the U.S. alone or who arrive with relatives who aren't parents or legal guardians are considered unaccompanied minors.The agency says HHS has been able to pick up kids from CBP custody much more quickly since getting more funding.
  
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• New holding center for migrant children opens in Texas

  10-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A former oilfield worker camp off a dirt road in rural Texas has become the U.S. government's newest holding center for detaining migrant children after they leave Border Patrol stations, where complaints of overcrowding and filthy conditions have sparked a worldwide outcry.Inside the wire fence that encircles the site are soccer fields, a giant air-conditioned tent that serves as a dining hall, and trailers set up for use as classrooms and as places where children can call their families.The De
  
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• Formal Murder, Kidnapping Charges Filed in MacKenzie Lueck Homicide

  10-07-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors have filed formal charges in the murder of MacKenzie Lueck. The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office charged Ayoola Ajayi with aggravated murder, a capital offense; aggravated kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of a human body.
  
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• Woman caught on tape peeing into ice cream bucket, spitting on ice cream, police say

  10-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The tape also showed the suspect picking her nose and putting her hands in the ice cream.
  
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• Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax says eyewitness backs up his story

  10-07-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  An attorney for Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax says there's a witness who can corroborate his story that he did not rape a woman while they were students at Duke University nearly 20 years ago.Fairfax lawyer Barry Pollack sent a letter Tuesday to a North Carolina prosecutor saying the unnamed witness "has stated unequivocally" that the allegations made against Fairfax are false.Once a rising star among Virginia Democrats, Fairfax has fended off widespread calls for his resignation after two wo
  
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• As standoff deepens, US tries coalition-building on Iran

  10-07-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  In seeking a coalition at sea to monitor Iran, the United States is hoping to present a united front at a time when its hawkish policy has aggravated tensions and key allies are at loggerheads.General Joseph Dunford, the top US military officer, said the United States would take the commanding role and provide surveillance as other countries escort vessels under their own flags.The budding coalition comes as tensions soar with Iran, which shot down a US spy drone and has been blamed by Washingto
  
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• Another Woman Has Come Forward Alleging Jeffrey Epstein Sexually Assaulted Her When She Was 15 Years Old

  10-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, 'please stop.'"
  
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• Tropical depression or storm expected to form along Gulf Coast, forecast to hit land as hurricane

  10-07-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The second storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to form Wednesday or Thursday along the Gulf Coast.
  
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• Pelosi after quarrels with AOC, Tlaib: 'You got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it'

  10-07-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi appeared to make a peace offering Wednesday morning after party infighting with some of Congress' most popular new members.
  
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• Lindsey Graham blames press after Donald Trump causes UK ambassador’s resignation

  10-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Lindsey Graham blamed the press for Kim Darroch’s sudden resignation as the UK ambassador to the US shortly after Donald Trump angrily announced he would no longer work with the foreign official.Mr Darroch announced his resignation from the post on Wednesday morning after the president called him “pompous” and “stupid” in a series of tweets.The president’s Twitter attacks followed leaked memos that Mr Darroch sent to the US about Mr Trump, in which the UK amba
  
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• Iran, Russia pour scorn on US moves at UN nuclear watchdog

  10-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran and Russia on Wednesday poured scorn on America's call for Tehran to adhere to limits in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, at a special meeting of the UN's nuclear watchdog.The meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was requested by the US after it was confirmed last week that Iran had exceeded the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).The US Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott
  
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• As Beetle ends, iconic original thrives in Mexico City hills

  10-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Beetle is dead.Long live the Beetle.The modern edition of the iconic Volkswagen model ceased production Wednesday, but people in Cuautepec on the outskirts of Mexico City still rely on the original no-frills version, praising it for its affordability, reparability and, most of all, its dexterity at handling the district's steep streets.
  
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• CORRECTED-World's major cities to face 'unknown' climate conditions by 2050

  10-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A fifth of the world's major cities will face "unknown" climate conditions by 2050, researchers warned on Wednesday, as rising temperatures heighten the risks of drought and flooding.Climate scientists at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at ETH Zurich, a science and technology university, analysed 520 cities across the world, including all capitals and most urban centres with a population of more than 1 million.Looking at current climate conditions in these cities - including precipitati
  
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• Inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion: 'Vast trove' of lewd photos, a life-size doll and other oddities

  10-07-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal agents who searched  the East Side mansion of sex  offender Jeffrey Epstein turned up a 'vast trove' of lewd photos of young-looking girls.
  
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• Toddler cruise ship death: Grandfather thought window was closed, lawyer says

  10-07-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  An attorney said that Chloe Wiegand's grandfather sat the 1-year-old girl on a railing in a play area near what he believed was a closed window.
  
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