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• SpaceX: Leaky valve caused crew capsule to explode in test

  15-07-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A leaky valve caused a SpaceX crew capsule to explode during a ground test back in April, destroying the spacecraft and dealing a blow to the company's effort to launch astronauts.SpaceX's crew Dragon capsule had just returned, minus astronauts, from a successful test flight to the International Space Station and was undergoing a ground test April 20 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.Hans Koenigsmann, a SpaceX vice president, said a check valve allowed a slug of liquid oxidizer to leak into th
  
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• UN concerned at US limits on Iran FM's access

  15-07-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations voiced concern Monday after the United States imposed unusually harsh restrictions on the movements of Iran's foreign minister, who was visiting the world body and also speaking on the soaring tensions between the countries.Weeks after the United States threatened sanctions against Zarif, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Washington issued him a visa but forbade him from moving beyond six blocks of Iran's UN mission in Midtown Manhattan.
  
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• SpaceX astronaut mission looking 'increasingly difficult' in 2019 - executive

  15-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the space company's Crew Dragon capsules exploded on a test stand at a Florida Air Force station moments before firing eight emergency abort thrusters designed to propel an on-board crew to safety in the event of a failure.Crew Dragon was slated earlier this year to carry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in a first manned test mission in July, although that date slipped until November following the explosion and some other hitches in the vehicle's design."I'm pretty opti
  
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• Trump Says ‘Many People’ Are Racist Like Him… and He’s Right

  15-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photo Getty“If you’re not happy, you can leave.”Those are the words of an American president, spoken from the steps of the White House this morning. Even for someone like Donald Trump, a man with a long history of bigotry and racism, the scene was breathtaking. This is who he is, and who his supporters are.  “If you’re not happy in the U.S., if you’re complaining all the time—very simply,” he said. &l
  
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• Anti-Semitism event at Justice Department turns into pro-Israel rally

  15-07-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  As the public grappled with President Trump’s latest insulting tweetstorm, widely condemned as racist, the Department of Justice held a Monday event billed as a summit on combating anti-Semitism.
  
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• A 3-year-old girl was asked to choose between her mom or dad as a border patrol agent tried to separate the family

  15-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A young girl named Sofi was asked by a Border Patrol agent if she wanted to go with her mom, or her dad, as they tried to separate the migrant family.
  
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• Vaping may aid smoking cessation but also boost relapse risk

  15-07-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  "Among adults, electronic cigarette use by never smokers is extremely rare - most users are smokers who want to quit or reduce their tobacco consumption or former smokers who want to prevent a relapse," said Ramchandar Gomajee, lead author of the study and a researcher at Sorbonne University in Paris.
  
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• Imagine If Russia and China Built Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers Together

  15-07-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  China could partner with Russia in order to develop nuclear-powered icebreakers.While the vessels would be useful in their own right, the main benefit could be to help Beijing refine reactor technology for use in a future nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, according to the Hong Kong South China Morning Post.The Chinese navy already possesses two conventionally-powered flattops and is building a third.But naval expert Li Jie told the newspaper that to be truly competitive, the Chinese navy needs a
  
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• Man killed at Washington immigration jail shot many times

  15-07-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say an armed man who threw incendiary devices at an immigration detention center in Washington state died of multiple gunshot wounds after four police officers opened fire.The Pierce County medical examiner's office said Monday that Willem Van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island was killed Saturday morning outside the privately run Tacoma Northwest Detention Center.The detention center has also held immigration-seeking parents separated from their children under President Donald Trump's "
  
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• Government restrictions on religion increasing worldwide

  15-07-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Government restrictions on religion have increased markedly in many places around the world, not only in authoritarian countries, but also in many of Europe's democracies, according to a report surveying 198 countries that was released Monday.The report released by the Pew Research Center, covering developments through 2017, also seeks to document the scope of religion-based harassment and violence.This was Pew's 10th annual Report on Global Restrictions on Religion.
  
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• An anonymous Democratic group leaked a poll that shows swing voters deeply dislike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left wing, widening the party's rift

  15-07-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating among 1,003 white non-college-educated voters who knew of her.
  
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• Iran Loves This: The Royal Navy Doesn’t Have Enough Ships to Patrol Persian Gulf

  15-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Royal Navy plans briefly to double its number of warships in the Persian Gulf following an attempted attack by Iranian forces on a British oil tanker on July 20, 2019.But the temporary increase in British warships in the region, from one to two, underscores just how few ships the Royal Navy can deploy even in an emergency.Iranian boats tried to “impede” the British oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, the BBC reported. HMS Montrose, a Type 23 frigate, “was forced to move b
  
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• Facing new asylum curb, nerves for those waiting at U.S.-Mexico border

  15-07-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Number 12,026 - better known as Marcial Artigas, 33, from Holguin, Cuba - waited nervously at a migration office at the U.S.-Mexico border as a Mexican official called out numbers from a long list of hopefuls waiting to cross to the United States.Artigas said he was praying his number would be called next, before a new U.S. policy announced on Monday enters into force that bars almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the country's southern border.The Trump administration's interim rule
  
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• Lone Black Republican Senator Condemns Trump’s ‘Racially Offensive’ Tweets

  15-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) on Monday condemned the weekend Twitter tirade that President Trump directed at Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and her fellow freshman progressive lawmakers.Scott, the only African-American senator in the Republican caucus, criticized Trump's attack on Omar on the grounds that it was “racially offensive,” and also seemed to suggest that it was politically costly, in that it unnecessarily disrupted what was an ongoing internecine dispute within the
  
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• This revolutionary Galaxy S11 design could succeed where the Galaxy Fold failed

  15-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  With the release of the Galaxy S10 earlier this year, Samsung made its biggest leap forward in terms of design since the launch of the Galaxy S6 edge in 2015. From the phone's Infinity-O display to its ultrasonic fingerprint sensor to its triple rear camera, it quickly became one of the most advanced smartphones on the market. But if newly-discovered patents are any indication, Samsung has even bigger plans in store for its 2020 flagship.Over the weekend, Dutch technology blog LetsGoDigital shar
  
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• UPDATE 3-U.S. judge slashes Roundup jury award to $25.3 mln; Bayer still plans to appeal

  15-07-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Monday slashed a damages award Bayer AG owed a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, to $25.27 million from $80.27 million, while rejecting the company's bid for a new trial.U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said evidence against the former Monsanto Co, which Bayer bought last year, supported the $5.27 million in compensatory damages that a jury awarded Edwin Hardeman.Chhabria nonetheless reduced punitive damages to $20 million from $7
  
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• Trump Aide Kellyanne Conway Skips House Hearing Despite Subpoena

  15-07-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- White House counselor Kellyanne Conway won’t appear at a House hearing Monday on whether she violated a law prohibiting administration officials from engaging in political work while on the public payroll.President Donald Trump directed her to skip the hearing “in order to protect the prerogatives of the Office of the President,” White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said in a letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings.The Department of
  
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• The US Air Force is warning people to stay away from Area 51 after a viral Facebook joke to storm the base and 'see them aliens'

  15-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  After Facebook users planned to "storm" Area 51 in search of alien life, the US Air Force warned that the base is active — and dangerous to civilians.
  
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• Trump’s ‘blatantly illegal’ immigration rules end asylum protections

  15-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The ACLU has vowed to sue the administration over the ‘unlawful’ new rules, which raise the asylum eligibility barImmigrants seeking asylum are taken into custody by border patrol agents in McAllen, Texas. Photograph: John Moore/Getty ImagesThe Trump administration has announced new immigration rules ending asylum protections for almost all migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border, in violation of both US and international law.According to the new rules, any asylum seekers who pas
  
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• Kellyanne Conway defies subpoena, skips Oversight hearing

  15-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Elijah Cummings threatened to hold Conway in contempt if she doesn't testify before July 25.
  
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• Trump nominates Esper to be defense chief, succeeding Mattis

  15-07-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Senate to confirm Mark Esper as the successor to former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whose resignation last December opened an unprecedented period of senior-level instability at the Pentagon.The moment the nomination was received by the Senate on Monday afternoon, Esper was required to step out of his role as acting defense secretary — a job he has held since June — until he is confirmed as the permanent secretary.Filling in for Esper pend
  
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• Man Murdered Teen Star and Posted Instagram Photos, Cops Say

  15-07-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Photos via InstagramAn upstate New York man is accused of brutally slaying a teenage internet personality he met online and posting pictures of her body to the internet, according to police.Authorities say Brandon Clark slashed Bianca Devins’ throat early Sunday, nearly decapitating her. They first met online, and met in person two months ago, police told The Daily Beast. Shortly after her murder, Clark posted pictures of her corpse online. He then stabbed himself in front of officers who
  
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• The Latest: Charlottesville victims describe pain of attack

  15-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeanne "Star" Peterson was one of seven people who gave victim impact statements Monday before a judge sentenced James Alex Fields Jr. to life in prison, plus 419 years, on state charges.Fields was given a life sentence on federal hate crime charges last month.
  
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• Woman missing in remote area near California-Nevada border, family fears she was abducted

  15-07-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Sheryl Powell, 60, took her dog for a walk from a campground in the White Mountains and didn't return.
  
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• Italy seizes 'combat-ready' missile and automatic weapon stash in raids on far-Right figures

  15-07-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian police have seized a large arsenal of weapons, including an air-to-air missile, in raids on neo-Nazi sympathisers, they said on Monday. Elite police forces searched properties across northern Italy following an investigation into Italians who had fought alongside Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, a police statement said. Three men were arrested, including a customs officer who has previously stood for parliament for an extreme right party. Duri
  
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• Trump weighs ousting commerce secretary Ross: report

  15-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is considering removing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross after the administration failed to add a question on citizenship to next year's census, NBC news reported Monday.Ross was at Trump's side on Thursday as he announced he had abandoned the effort to add the citizenship question after the Supreme Court effectively blocked them from doing so last month.A Commerce Department spokesman said Monday that Ross remained in his position and was busy overseeing the response to Hur
  
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• The Latest: Man killed at immigration jail shot many times

  15-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say an armed man who threw incendiary devices at an immigration detention center in Washington state died of multiple gunshot wounds after four police officers opened fire.The Pierce County medical examiner's office said Monday that 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen of Vashon Island was killed Saturday morning outside the privately run Tacoma Northwest Detention Center.The shooting happened hours after a protest outside the facility, which is used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Sec
  
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• Trump says his friendship with Xi not as good

  15-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The two leaders agreed to resume trade talks, which broke off in early May.
  
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• U.N. concerned by U.S. curbs on Iranian foreign minister while in New York

  15-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations told the United States it is concerned by tight travel restrictions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during his visit to New York this week, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said on Monday.Zarif arrived in New York on Sunday after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on the visit amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
  
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• Neo-Nazi James Fields get life plus 419 years in state court for murder in Charlottesville

  15-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  James Alex Fields Jr., a neo-Nazi who rammed his car into counterprotesters of an alt-right rally, was sentenced to life in prison in state court.
  
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• Balyasny gains in first half after losses prompted reorganization in 2018

  15-07-2019 21:41
  Balyasny Asset Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund that shed $4 billion in assets last year and cut 20% of its staff, was back in positive territory for the first half of this year, suggesting its...
  
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• Two alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein call on judge not to grant bail

  15-07-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Two women who said they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein on Monday called on the judge handling the case not to grant bail to the disgraced financier."I was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 14," said Courtney Wild during the bail hearing."He is a scary person to have walking on the streets," said Wild, who lives in Palm Beach, where Epstein has a residence.
  
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• Rapper arrested after allegedly throwing $250,000 worth of meth off balcony

  15-07-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says Alabama rapper Kelvin James Dark, who is accused of throwing $250,000 worth of methamphetamine off an apartment balcony during a raid, has been arrested.
  
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• 2 killed, 4 hurt in suspected Oklahoma road rage attack

  15-07-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say a drunken driver who was on probation for a previous DUI conviction forced another vehicle into oncoming traffic on an Oklahoma highway, causing a head-on collision that killed two people and injured four others.
  
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• Inside Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner's Honeymoon Villa in the Maldives

  15-07-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The newlyweds shared photos of their romantic getaway with fans
  
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• Trump signs order to make American-made goods more American

  15-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday requiring federal agencies to purchase products using more American components.The order strengthens the standards that federal agencies must follow under the Buy American Act, which creates a preference for American-made goods.Trump said his order will gradually boost the percentage of U.S. components for qualifying American-made products from 50 percent to 75 percent.
  
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• Australian model sentenced for airline flight disturbance

  15-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An Australian model was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to community service and probation for slapping a flight attendant and going on an obscene tirade during a flight, with a federal judge saying he believed she was deeply remorseful and did not deserve fines or prison time.U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Adau Mornyang to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service.Prosecutors had sought a month in jail for Mornyang.
  
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• Mom wants health industry to focus on protein-packed diet after daughter’s unexpected death

  15-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A heartbroken Australian mother is speaking out about the potential dangers of protein shakes and supplements after she says her 25-year-old daughter’s diet triggered an undiagnosed condition which ultimately contributed to her death two years ago.
  
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• Babysitter charged with homicide over death of two-year-old at unlicensed day care

  15-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been charged with homicide after a toddler died at an unlicensed day care in Wisconsin.Hunter Jones was charged earlier this month with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of 2-year-old Matthew Bolinski.A criminal complaint said Mr Jones called 911 on 27 March to say the child had jumped out of his playpen and hit his head. The complaint also said Mr Jones was on the phone with a dispatcher for four minutes before he revealed the child wasn’t breathing.Katherine Bolinski,
  
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• Land crabs infest Florida man's house after heavy rainfall

  15-07-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in Florida recently received hundreds of crabs as unexpected house guests.Heavy rain fall in south Florida forced hundreds of land crabs, which burrow underground, out of their holes and into the property of Dan Skowronski, a resident of of Port St Lucie. In a video shared to Facebook, the Florida man witnessed the home invasion with a surprising calm.“They must have got rained out of their holes,” he said while filming the crabs, which were scurrying all over his house and pro
  
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• Keep Jeffrey Epstein in Jail, Alleged Victims Say, as Feds Find Cash, Diamonds

  15-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- As two alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein urged a judge to keep him locked up, prosecutors said they had found piles of cash, dozens of diamonds and an expired foreign passport, with Epstein’s picture and a different name, in a safe in his Manhattan mansion.“He’s a scary person to have walking the street,” Courtney Wild, who claims Epstein sexually abused her at 14, said at his bail hearing Monday in Manhattan. She asked U.S. District Judge Richard Berman t
  
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• The wireless camera that lets your smartphone see anywhere is down to $27 for Prime Day

  15-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  You know that crazy wireless camera we tell you about from time to time that lets your iPhone or Android phone see anywhere? Of course you do -- tens of thousands of our readers have bought them on sale at deep discounts over the years. None of those discounts have been quite as deep as the one Amazon is offering today for Prime Day, though. Pick up a DEPSTECH WF010 WiFi Borescope Inspection Camera today or tomorrow and you can get it for just $26.99! All you have to do is clip the coupon on Ama
  
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• People are canceling their Amazon Prime memberships to support the worker protests — here's how to cancel yours (AMZN)

  15-07-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  You can't cancel your Amazon Prime membership in just one click — there are four steps to follow. Here's how to do it.
  
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• Georgia man dies in Dominican Republic after drinking soda that didn't 'taste right'

  15-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Another American tourist has died suspiciously in the Dominican Republic, bringing the total number of mysterious deaths in the country to well over 10. 
  
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• Off-duty New Jersey police lieutenant in custody after fatal shooting at ex-wife's home

  15-07-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  An off-duty Newark police lieutenant surrendered to police after a shooting at his ex-wife's home. Newark has since suspended him without pay.
  
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• EU agrees sanctions against Turkey for drilling off Cyprus

  15-07-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  European Union officials on Monday agreed political and financial sanctions against Turkey after Ankara went ahead with drilling operations off Cyprus despite repeated warnings, European diplomats said."The conclusions on Turkey have been adopted and they will be made public in the coming hours," the EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told reporters after a meeting with members states' foreign ministers.
  
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• Serial killer linked to Arkansas woman's 1994 slaying

  15-07-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating whether possibly the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history is behind the death of an Arkansas woman in 1994.Police in Pine Bluff are reviewing the case of Jolanda Jones's death after Samuel Little confessed to her killing, which had been determined to be drug-related.According to a police memo, when Little was in custody in Dallas, Texas, in October 2018, he indicated that he killed Jones, the Pine Bluff Commercial reported .
  
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• 17 seemingly suspicious cases of tourists getting sick, assaulted, and dying in the Dominican Republic since June 2018

  15-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 13 Americans have died in the Dominican Republic under suspicious circumstances since June 2018.
  
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• The Latest: Elders brace for arrest for blocking summit road

  15-07-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Hawaii officials have closed a road leading to the summit of the state's tallest mountain, the site of an embattled giant telescope project.The road was officially closed Monday, but protesters who say they're protecting Mauna Kea from desecration had already blocked it.Hundreds gathered to protest the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope, hoping to stop construction convoys from delivering equipment to the top.
  
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• A case involving a woman who claimed Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew at the age of 17 is to be unsealed

  15-07-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia Roberts accused Epstein — who was charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy last week — for recruiting her as a 'sex slave.'
  
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