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• In crowded 2020 Democratic field, a clear top tier emerges

  16-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  No votes have been cast in the Democratic presidential nominating contest, but the winnowing has begun.A distinct top tier of candidates is breaking away from the pack in early polling and fundraising, building distance between themselves and the rest of the bloated field.Although the first nominating contest in Iowa is still more than six months away, tighter qualifying standards for the fall debates and cash flow problems have prompted questions about how many campaigns will still be operation
  
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• Utah Police Find New Evidence in MacKenzie Lueck Case

  16-07-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ayoola Ajayi made his first court appearance in connection to the murder of University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck.
  
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• Fewer kids die from guns in states with stricter laws, study says

  16-07-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Children living in states with more restrictions on firearms are less likely to die from them, a new study says.
  
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• The Latest: Phoenix reaches hottest temperature of the year

  16-07-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Phoenix is having its hottest day of the year.The National Weather Service in Phoenix confirmed on social media Tuesday afternoon that the city's high temperature has hit 115 degrees.The sweltering conditions prompted the agency to issue an excessive heat warning earlier in the day.
  
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• America and Iran: On a Path Towards War?

  16-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s leader has taken a defiant stance against the United States and its allies, signalling a potential “fraying” of the 2015 deal limiting Iran’s nuclear program, The New York Times reported.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on July 16, 2019 denounced “the vicious British” after U.K. forces earlier in the month seized an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar.In a speech to clerics, Khamenei “appeared to signal his intention to ignore diplomacy for the moment and stok
  
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• What If America Lost a Carrier in a War with Iran?

  16-07-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The Navy simply lacks enough ships and aircraft to meet the increasing demands of its global mission. The recent oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman reinforce the need to reestablish a highly visible U.S. naval deterrent in the Middle East. For eight months last year, no aircraft carrier strike group plied the region, the longest such interruption this millennium. With the United States needing a more robust posture against Iran and confronting renewed challenges in Asia a
  
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• 'What am I supposed to do with you?' Judge bars Roger Stone from social media for breaking gag order

  16-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge ordered former Trump adviser Roger Stone to stop using social media after saying he had violated a gag order in his criminal case.
  
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• Pelosi Runs Afoul of House Rules in Calling Trump Tweets Racist

  16-07-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suffered an embarrassing setback Tuesday after Republicans called her out for violating the chamber’s rules by saying President Donald Trump’s comments about four freshman House members were racist.”These comments from the White House are disgraceful and disgusting and those comments are racist,” Pelosi had said on the House floor during debate on a proposed resolution condemning the president’s remarks as racist.The Democra
  
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• Landlords Sue NYC Over New Rent Caps on a Million Apartments

  16-07-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- New York City’s rent-stabilization law is under attack after a group of real-estate trade groups and landlords sued to overturn regulations that cover more than 1 million apartments.The decades-old law that limits rent increases violates the U.S. Constitution by placing an unfair burden on property owners, particularly those who own pre-1974 buildings with six or more units, according to the suit, filed Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.The state legislature, now under ful
  
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• U.S. Justice Department asks appeals court to pause antitrust ruling against Qualcomm

  16-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  "For DoD, Qualcomm is a key player both in terms of its trusted supply chain and as a leader in innovation, and it would be impossible to replace Qualcomm's critical role in 5G technology in the short term," Ellen M. Lord, Under Secretary for Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, wrote in a filing made in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.Qualcomm, the largest supplier of modem chips that connect smartphones to wireless data networks, on May 21 lost in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Feder
  
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• Humane Society SOS: Dogs swim for their lives as Ark. shelter floods. Community comes to the rescue.

  16-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An Arkansas animal shelter issued an SOS as flash flooding poured in and a puppy drowned. Then the community came to the rescue.
  
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• Ten dead, at least 10 feared trapped in Mumbai building collapse

  16-07-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were feared trapped under rubble after a building collapsed during heavy monsoon rains which lashed India's financial capital Mumbai on Tuesday, officials said, the second such tragedy in two weeks."Ten dead bodies have been recovered and nine injured have been sent to hospital," disaster management spokesman Tanaji Kamble told AFP of the building collapse in southern Mumbai's congested Dongri area."Rescue operations will continue till everyone stuck
  
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• Trump administration blasts WTO ruling on China

  16-07-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration blasted a World Trade Organization decision Tuesday that could let China levy sanctions on the United States.The 2-1 decision by the WTO's appellate body was actually a mixed verdict in a case that dates back to 2007 and is unrelated to the tariffs the administration has slapped on $250 billion in Chinese goods.In its final decision, the WTO agreed with the U.S. that China lets state-owned enterprises (SOEs) subsidize Chinese firms by providing components at unfairly low
  
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• 'One giant leap': US marks Apollo mission 50 years on

  16-07-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Fifty years after a mighty rocket set off from Florida carrying the first humans to the Moon, a veteran of the Apollo 11 crew returned to its fabled launch pad Tuesday to commemorate "one giant leap" that became a defining moment in human history."We crew felt the weight of the world on our shoulders, we knew that everyone would be looking at us, friend or foe," command module pilot Michael Collins said from the Kennedy Space Center.
  
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• Texas fossil uncovers new species of duckbilled dinosaur

  16-07-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The fossil discovered at the Big Bend National Park in Texas led to the classification of the Aquilarhinus palilmentus.
  
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• Blackface scandal dampens Virginia governor's fundraising

  16-07-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is struggling to raise big money in a key election year after a blackface scandal nearly ended his political career.Virginia governors cannot serve consecutive terms but are typically their party's biggest fundraisers for off-year legislative elections.All 140 seats in the General Assembly are on the ballot in November, and Virginia is the only state where Democrats have a chance of flipping control of the legislature this year.
  
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• Resolution to condemn Trump held up after Rep. Collins demands Nancy Pelosi's remarks be taken down

  16-07-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Congressman Doug Collins says Pelosi's remarks crossed the line; Chad Pergram reports from Capitol Hill.
  
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• Pictures of teen's death go viral on Instagram

  16-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  17-year-old Bianca Devins was killed by a New York man on Sunday after attending a concert, authorities said.
  
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• McConnell says Trump is 'not a racist' and calls for Washington to 'tone down' rhetoric

  16-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he doesn’t believe Donald Trump is a racist despite the president’s calls for four Democratic lawmakers to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.”
  
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• UPDATE 1-Iran says it came to help of disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf

  16-07-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian navy vessels came to the assistance of a disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that needed repairs, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official news agency ISNA."(Spokesman) Abbas Mousavi said... that an international oil tanker was in trouble due to a technical fault in the Persian Gulf... After receiving a request for assistance, Iranian forces approached it and used a tugboat to pull it towards Iranian waters for the necessary repairs to be
  
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• Iran Says Missing Tanker Had Problems and Was Towed for Repairs

  16-07-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A small oil tanker that had gone missing in the Persian Gulf had technical difficulties and was towed into Iranian waters for repairs, an Iranian foreign ministry official said, according to the ISNA news agency.Further details on the ship, the Panamanian-flagged Riah, will be announced later, Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said, according to the semi-offficial ISNA. Iran responded after a request for assistance from the tanker, the report said.The Iranian comments did l
  
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• Schumer on ending filibuster: 'Nothing's off the table'

  16-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer opened the door on Tuesday to ending the procedural rule that requires 60 votes to steer most bills through the chamber if Democrats take the Senate and White House in 2020 — a boon to presidential candidates and activists in his party who have called for that change.Schumer told reporters that "nothing's off the table" if Democrats defeat President Donald Trump and take back the Senate in 2020.It wasn't the first time Schumer has signaled that he would
  
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• Boxy and Beautiful: 2004 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG

  16-07-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Tear up the urban jungle in this high-powered SUV!The Mercedes-Benz G-Class was born from a rugged, off-road military truck, but today's versions of this legendary SUV are more likely to terrify unsuspecting sports cars than to traverse rugged terrain. That's especially the case when it comes to the AMG-tuned G-Class SUVs, which is what Dallas Motor Collection is offering up for sale with this lovely 2004 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG.Although the G-Wagen dates back to 1979 and the second-gen model went
  
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• European sites where US nuclear weapons held inadvertently revealed in Nato-linked document

  16-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The European sites where America's nuclear weapons are stored has been inadvertently revealed in a document published by a Nato-linked body, according to Belgian media reports.  The document written by for the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly made passing reference to the roughly 150 US nuclear weapons being stored in Europe. “These bombs are stored at six US and European bases - Kleine Brogel in Belgium, Büchel in Germany, Aviano and Ghedi-Torre
  
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• Qatar says French missile found among arms seized in Italy was sold 25 years ago

  16-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A French missile once owned by Qatar's military and found among a huge arsenal of weapons seized in Italy was sold by Qatar 25 years ago to a third country, Qatar's foreign ministry told Reuters on Tuesday.Italian police said on Monday that a French-made Matra air-to-air missile belonging to Qatar's armed forces was discovered during raids on neo-Nazi sympathizers.In a statement to Reuters, Qatar said the missile was part of a larger weapons sale made to a third "friendly" country 25 years earli
  
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• Former tenant charged in killing of Louisiana civil rights activist

  16-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Baton Rouge detectives arrested Ron Jermaine Bell in the killing of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, whose body was found stuffed in the trunk of her car on Friday afternoon, Police Chief Murphy Paul told a news conference.The suspect was already in jail in East Baton Rouge Parish for failing to register as a sex offender when police linked him to the murder, said Sheriff Sid J. Gautreaux, III, at the same news conference.Roberts-Joseph's death was ruled a homicide by the East Baton Rouge Parish Corone
  
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• FACTBOX-U.S. police officers who kill unarmed black men often avoid criminal liability

  16-07-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A New York City policeman became the latest example of a law enforcement officer to face no criminal liability for killing an unarmed black man when the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday it would not prosecute him in the July 17, 2014 killing of Eric Garner with a prohibited chokehold.Garner, 43, died after Daniel Pantaleo, a white police officer, used a chokehold as police attempted to arrest him on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on a sidewalk.The following are outcomes
  
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• Beloved Yosemite landmarks' original names restored after trademark dispute

  16-07-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Visitors were unhappy when a changeover in services prompted the national park to change the names of hotels and attractionsThe iconic Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite national park has its name back after briefly being called the Majestic Yosemite Hotel.Photograph: John Walker/Associated PressSome of Yosemite’s most well-known and beloved attractions will get their original names back, following a settlement in an intellectual property dispute that briefly changed the monikers of the national p
  
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• Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacesuit unveiled at Smithsonian

  16-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The spacesuit astronaut Neil Armstrong wore during his mission to the moon went on public display for the first time in 13 years on Tuesday, at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum exactly 50 years to the day when Apollo 11 launched into space.Armstrong's son Rick unveiled the suit along with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence who recalled how the country was deeply divided in the late 1960s but came together in pride when Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon."On top of the contribut
  
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• National $15 minimum wage expected to pass in House of Representatives this week

  16-07-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The "Raise the Wage Act" would make 15-dollars an hour a reality for all American workers by 2024.
  
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• Woman Infected with Flesh-Eating Bacteria at Virginia Beach

  16-07-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A Norfolk woman says she was in the water at a Norfolk beach for maybe 10 minutes, but it was enough time for her to contract a flesh-eating bacteria.
  
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• Climate crisis: US ‘on path to extreme heat’ in coming decades if emissions aren’t reduced, study says

  16-07-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Widespread "increases in extreme heat” due to climate change could bring unprecedented risks to the US in coming decades, a new study has warned. By 2050, hundreds of American cities could experience an entire month each year with US "heat index" temperatures above 100F (38C) if nothing is done to tackle emissions and the resultant climate crisis, scientists said. In the US, the National Weather Service heat index scale starts topping out above temperatures of 127F (52C), depending on the
  
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• The Latest: UAE official says tanker sent no distress call

  16-07-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  An Emirati official says a small oil tanker that's based in the United Arab Emirates offered no distress call before switching off its tracker over two days ago in the Strait of Hormuz.The comment Tuesday comes a U.S. defense official told The Associated Press that America "has suspicions" that Iran seized the vessel.A U.S. defense official tells The Associated Press that America "has suspicions" that Iran seized an oil tanker based in the United Arab Emirates that turned off its tracker over tw
  
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• Iran says it came to help of disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf

  16-07-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian navy vessels came to the assistance of a disabled foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that needed repairs, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official news agency ISNA."(Spokesman) Abbas Mousavi said... that an international oil tanker was in trouble due to a technical fault in the Persian Gulf... After receiving a request for assistance, Iranian forces approached it and used a tugboat to pull it towards Iranian waters for the necessary repairs to be
  
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• Woman pleads not guilty in Las Vegas manicurist murder case

  16-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who authorities say ran down a salon worker trying to stop her from skipping out on a $35 manicure pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder and other charges and lost a bid to be freed from jail pending trial.A judge in Las Vegas told Krystal Whipple, standing in shackles, that "proof is evident and the presumption is great" that she was involved in a homicide.Police said Whipple tried to pay for her Dec. 29, 2018, manicure with a fraudulent credit card before telling Ngoc Quynh Nhu Nguyen t
  
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• MS-13 Members in Los Angeles Hacked Victims to Death With Machetes: Prosecutors

  16-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  OSCAR RIVERAMembers of the notorious MS-13 gang in Los Angeles have been charged in connection with the murders of seven people over the last two years—including the dismemberment of a rival gang member whose heart was cut out, federal authorities allege in a 12-count indictment unsealed Tuesday.A total of 22 people linked to the Fulton clique, a faction of the gang based in the San Fernando Valley, have been indicted by a grand jury on several charges, including racketeering and murder, f
  
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• Anti-Defamation League blasts Trump for 'invoking support for Israel to defend this racism'

  16-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's attack on Democratic lawmakers is panned by the Jewish civil rights group.
  
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• Emails show Iowa official's Tupac fixation before his ouster

  16-07-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The director of Iowa's social services agency was a huge fan of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, and he frequently let his subordinates know it. Then last month, he sent another such email to all 4,300 agency employees. The agency released 350 pages of emails with the words "Tupac" or "2Pac" sent to and from Foxhoven during his two-year tenure in response to an AP request.
  
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• 'Dangerous': Air Force responds to plans to 'storm Area 51' and 'see them aliens'

  16-07-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  As more than a million people on Facebook say they're "going" to a joke event to "storm Area 51," the U.S. military has responded to the plans.
  
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• US manufacturing sinks into recession amid trade wars

  16-07-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  US manufacturing sunk into recession in June after two consecutive quarters of declines amid President Donald Trump's bitter trade wars and a slowdown in China and other trading partners.The decline comes as the United States enters its 11th year of economic recovery and occurs despite Trump's constant pledges to restore America to manufacturing greatness -- even though services now drive three quarters of the US economy.Despite jumping in June, manufacturing fell by a 2.2 percent annual rate in
  
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• 'Breaking' the heat index: US heat waves to skyrocket as globe warms, study suggests

  16-07-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  As the globe warms in the years ahead, days with extreme heat are forecast to skyrocket across hundreds of U.S. cities, a study suggests.
  
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• Judge restricts social media use of Trump friend Roger Stone

  16-07-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge barred Stone from posting on social media Tuesday after finding that the longtime confidant of President Donald Trump repeatedly flouted her gag order.Stone, who is charged with lying in the Russia investigation, has used social media repeatedly to disparage the case against him and the broader election interference probe.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Grills Trump Pentagon Pick Over His Defense Lobbyist Past

  16-07-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Congressional Quarterly/GettyPresident Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he would not agree to recuse himself, if confirmed, from decisions affecting the defense contracting giant for which he previously served as a top Washington lobbyist.In a contentious exchange with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination, acting Pentagon chief Mark Esper said he would not commit to steering
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: ‘What’s Your Ethnicity?’

  16-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  When White House reporter Andrew Feinberg posed a question to Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday about the president’s racist tweets against the four congresswomen known as the “Squad,” he found himself taken aback by her response. Feinberg, a reporter for the website BeltwayBreakfast.com, asked the White House counselor which countries President Donald Trump was referring to when he suggested Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar—all U.S.
  
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• This is what today's America looks like. The squad is us

  16-07-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  We should all be grateful to the four women of color who are offering moral and political guidance to a nation goaded by its commander-in-chief‘To be told to “go back to where you came from” is a form of being told to shut up, an obvious attempt to silence dissent and political participation.’ Photograph: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire/REX/ShutterstockOn Monday, the best of the United States of America was on full display.In a moving press conference in Washington, DC, the four pro
  
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• Apollo 11 astronaut returns to launch pad 50 years later

  16-07-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.Collins said he wished his two moonwalking colleagues could have shared the moment at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, the departure point for humanity's first moon landing."Wonderful feeling to be back," the 88-year-old command module pilot said on NASA TV.
  
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• The Latest: Judge bars Roger Stone from social media

  16-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge has restricted Roger Stone's use of social media after finding that the longtime friend of President Donald Trump violated her gag order. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Stone on Tuesday that he could not use Instagram or other social media platforms while the case against him moves forward. Stone is charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, accused of lying to lawmakers and witness tampering.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway challenges reporter who questioned Trump's tweet: 'What's your ethnicity?'

  16-07-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The counselor to the president lashed out at a White House reporter who pressed her on President Trump’s tweets saying four Democratic congresswomen of color should “go back” to their home countries.
  
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• Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalls first moments on the moon on 50th anniversary of mission

  16-07-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  "To me, it was the dream we had all signed up to chase, what we had imagined, worked and trained for, the apex of national service to a country we unabashedly loved," Buzz Aldrin said.
  
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• Odd Man Out: How the Independent Justin Amash Could Shake Up the 2020 Presidential Election

  16-07-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington circles are abuzz with the suggestion that Justin Amash, the ex-Republican congressman from Michigan, may mount a third-party presidential campaign in 2020. In the few days since leaving the GOP, he’s talked about “room for a third party” and refused to rule out running for president. But sources close to Amash and the Libertarian Party deny that a presidential run is in the works—although the door is still open. For the time being, the Libertarian-leaning repr
  
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