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• Britain urges Iran to free seized tanker

  20-07-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain on Saturday urged Iran to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf by releasing a UK-flagged ship it said had been illegally seized in Omani waters in an "utterly unacceptable" gambit. Tehran was defiantly ignoring mounting European appeals to free the captured oil tanker and its mostly Indian crew, as the United States prepared to redeploy troops to Iran's regional arch-rival Saudi Arabia. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it seized the Stena Impero ship on Friday for breakin
  
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• Iran's poking at West heightens risks of military missteps

  20-07-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Rather than tangle with a stronger U.S. military, Iran is poking and prodding its Western antagonists in ways apparently designed to avoid triggering war but that nonetheless seem to heighten the risk of missteps and miscalculation that could lead to an armed conflict with global consequences.The tensions picked up Friday with Iran reporting it had seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Persian Gulf , one day after the U.S. said it destroyed an Iranian drone that had flown within threatening
  
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• Nigeria president condemns latest killings in northwestern Sokoto state

  20-07-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari condemns the killing of 37 people by bandits in the northwestern state of Sokoto, his spokesman said in a statement.Armed gangs have killed hundreds of people in northwest Nigeria this year and forced at least 20,000 to flee to neighboring Niger, adding to security problems in a country also struggling with an Islamist insurgency in the northeast and clashes between farmers and herders in central states."President Muhammadu Buhari strongly condemns the killin
  
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• Top Gun 2: How the U.S. Military Helped Make This Must See Movie

  20-07-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The internet was set ablaze on Jul. 18, 2019 when the first, sierra hotel trailer for Top Gun: Maverick debuted.As reported by Washington Business Journal, we still must wait a year for the finished product to hit the screen, but we know the Pentagon had a lot to do with the production of this long-awaited sequel to 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun.” Shooting began in September 2018, but delays pushed the release date to June 2020.Actually the Pentagon gave Paramount Pic
  
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• Swedish prime minister warns Donald Trump he cannot influence ASAP Rocky judicial process

  20-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Swedish prime minister has disputed Donald Trump’s claim over the treatment of a detained American rapper following a phone call between the two leaders.  Platinum-selling artist A$AP Rocky was arrested in Sweden in early July on suspicion of assault following a street brawl. Mr Trump tweeted on Saturday that he had spoken to Prime Minister Stefan Lofven offering to personally vouch for his bail. Mr Trump said the Swedish PM assured him that the rapper would be treated fairly. &ld
  
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• Megan Rapinoe condemns Trump’s racist tweets: ‘It’s disgusting, to be honest’

  20-07-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  US women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe has launched a new attack on Donald Trump, terming his racist tweets about four minority congressman “disgusting”.The 34-year co-captain and midfielder of the team who had a very public spat with the president, said she thought his tweets and comments about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, were unacceptable. She said she took heart from the fact there had been such criticism of his language.“It&r
  
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• Megan Rapinoe condemns Donald Trump’s racist tweets: ‘It’s disgusting, to be honest

  20-07-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  US women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe has launched a new attack on Donald Trump, terming his racist tweets about four minority congressman “disgusting”.The 34-year co-captain and midfielder of the team who had a very public spat with the president, said she thought his tweets and comments about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, were unacceptable. She said she took heart from the fact there had been such criticism of his language.“It&r
  
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• Why Trump Won't Bomb Iran

  20-07-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  After President Donald Trump decided not to “bomb Iran” in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned Navy drone that was either very close to Iranian air space, many of his conservative critics accused him of acting more like President Barack Obama rather than President Ronald Reagan.According to critics like Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), President Donald Trump’s decision to call off the air strikes, which he had apparently appr
  
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• Twitter blocks accounts of Iranian state media outlets

  20-07-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after Twitter suspended the accounts of several Iranian state media outlets, the social networking service said Saturday it acted after harassment of people linked to the Baha'i faith.Amid soaring tensions in the region, heightened by Iran's seizure on Friday of a British-flagged tanker, some of the affected media outlets had speculated that the suspensions were related to their coverage of the seizure.
  
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• BA suspends flights to Cairo on security grounds

  20-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  British Airways said Saturday it had suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precautionary measure following a security review."We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment," the airline said in a statement.Egypt's civil aviation ministry said it was "coordinating" with the British embassy in Cairo and the local BA representative and starting an extra
  
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• National Weather Service bakes biscuits in scorching van during heat wave

  20-07-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  While the middle of the biscuit remained doughy, the outside was "actually edible," meteorologists said.
  
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• Video shows moments before a Boeing 737 crashes near Guam

  20-07-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Dramatic new video shows the final moments of a Boeing 737 before it crashed from inside the cockpit.
  
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• Lawmaker describes 'unacceptable' border detention conditions, meets with US citizen in Border Patrol custody

  20-07-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. lawmaker described 'unacceptable' border detention facilities while meeting with a U.S. citizen in Border Patrol custody.
  
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• Venezuela Claims U.S. Military Aircraft Violated Its Airspace

  20-07-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. intelligence aircraft flew over Venezuelan airspace on Friday in “a clear provocation” and in violation of international treaties, officials with President Nicolas Maduro‘s defense ministry said.The alleged incident may further roil Washington-Caracas relations at a time Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is visiting Latin America, and as a summit of so-called anti-imperialist countries is held in Venezuela’s capital.The U.S. military aircraft entered
  
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• Explosion in popularity of hemp products leaves Texas unable to bust marijuana users

  20-07-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas politicians thought they were clear: the bill they overwhelmingly passed allowing the growth and sale of hemp had nothing to do with legalising cannabis.“This is no slippery slope towards marijuana,” Charles Perry, a Republican state senator who sponsored the bill, said in May, according to The Dallas Morning News.But since Greg Abbott signed the measure into law in June, county prosecutors around Texas have been dropping some marijuana possession charges and declining to file
  
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• Iran crisis: How a British oil tanker was seized by Iran's balaclava-clad Revolutionary Guards

  20-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  “Allahu akbar”, or God is great, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard marine was heard shouting off camera as the group took control of the British-flagged Stena Impero. Scaling down ropes onto its bow, the balaclava-wearing hijackers made a daring - and seemingly well-rehearsed - raid of the oil tanker, as seen in alleged footage released by Fars news agency last night.  The wind was choppy, the skies overcast. With no navy escort, the Stena stood little chance. Publication de la vi
  
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• Animal shelter uses Area 51 meme in textbook display of chaotic good

  20-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The internet's collective plan to storm Area 51 in September may or may not pan out -- but the viral moment has already done some good, helping 22 dogs find their forever homes at an animal shelter in Oklahoma.On Friday, Oklahoma City Animal Welfare events coordinator Natalie Winfree dressed up three of the shelter's most photogenic (and cooperative) pups in tinfoil hats in hopes of raising awareness for the organization's cause. "Come storm our shelter," read Winfree's now-viral post on th
  
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• Thousands protest in Moscow after opposition figures barred from city council ballot

  20-07-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  As many as 25,000 protesters turned out in central Moscow Saturday to protest the refusal by city election officials to allow several opposition figures to run for the Moscow city council.
  
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• Secrets: Everything You Wanted to Know About Israel's Nuclear Weapons

  20-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iranian nuclear nonproliferation agreement has been the top foreign policy issue throughout Washington for the past two months.  Approving or disapproving the deal was the first order of business for the U.S. Congress until the very last day of congressional action under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (September 17).  Hours of debate have been conducted on the floors of the House and Senate, both chambers have held roll call votes, and Senate Democrats bonded together to fil
  
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• Iran tanker crisis 'ominous' for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, husband says

  20-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The husband of jailed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said he is worried her future has become “more uncertain and ominous” after Iran’s seizing of a UK tanker in the Gulf. Richard Ratcliffe has expressed concerned for his wife, whom he has not heard from since she was moved on Monday from Tehran’s Evin prison to a psychiatric hospital. Mr Ratcliffe said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, who had recently ended a 15-day hunger strike, has not been all
  
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• Polish Gay Pride marchers defy stone-throwing hooligans

  20-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The first-ever Gay Pride parade was held in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok on Saturday, but the march was marred by violence from soccer hooligans and conservative campaigners staged counter protests, local police said.Some 800 supporters of LGBT+ rights marched through the city some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of Warsaw, waving rainbow-coloured flags and banners with slogans such as "love is not a sin".
  
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• UK 'asked US not to sabre rattle over tanker seized by Iran'

  20-07-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The UK is believed to have asked its US ally to initially refrain from making inflammatory public statements about the seizure of the Stena Impero by Iran as they sought a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Donald Trump was noticeably muted in his immediate response and Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, said little in the immediate aftermath. Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, spoke with his counterpart Mike Pompeo, who was in Argentina, on Friday night. British and US officials continued
  
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• Vatican college space holds bones of dozens, expert says

  20-07-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The expert, Giorgio Portera, said the "enormous" size of the collection under the Teutonic College was revealed when Vatican-appointed experts began cataloguing the remains, which were discovered last week ."We didn't expect such an enormous number" of bones and other remains which "had been thrown into a cavity," Portera said."We want to know why and how" the bones ended up there.
  
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• 'Send Him Back': Virginia Democrats vow to boycott Jamestown celebration if Trump attends

  20-07-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia state Democrats say they'll boycott an event commemorating representative democracy in America if President Donald Trump comes.
  
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• Where Are the Trump Officials? Aspen Forum Goes Without in 2019

  20-07-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Call it the Case of the Vanishing Trump Administration Officials.That was the mystery that played out at the 2019 Aspen Security Forum, where senior officials, thought leaders and reporters gather annually in one of America’s wealthiest ski and sun playgrounds to debate timely matters of national security and foreign policy. The event was established a decade ago to bring Republicans and Democrats together for robust, bipartisan discussions.But this year’s gathering wa
  
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• The Latest: Iran says Saudis release tanker after 2 ½ months

  20-07-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency is reporting that Saudi Arabia has released an Iranian oil tanker after two and a half months.Happyness 1, belonging to the Iranian National Tanker Company (NITC), which was carrying over 1 million barrels of fuel oil, suffered a malfunction in the Red Sea off the coast of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on April 30.Mehr said Saudi officials had prevented the oil tanker from leaving the Jeddah port despite the fact that Iran had paid all the costs of maintenance
  
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• Two soldiers, civilian killed in east Ukraine ahead of polls

  20-07-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian were killed in incidents involving Kremlin-backed separatists, Kiev said Saturday, a day before the country votes in a parliamentary election.The Ukrainian army's press secretary, Dmytro Gutsulyak, said the two soldiers were killed by sniper fire, and added that four other servicemen were injured.Ukraine is to hold a parliamentary election on Sunday in which President Volodymyr Zelensky's party is expected to win the largest share of votes.
  
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• Vatican opens burial chambers in hunt for princesses and missing teen

  20-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The Vatican on Saturday opened two burial chambers discovered under a trapdoor as it attempts to get to the bottom of a riddle involving two 19th-century princesses and a teenager who went missing 36 years ago.The ossuaries were found last week under the floor of the Pontifical Teutonic College after the shock discovery earlier this month that the bones of the princesses had disappeared from tombs in the Teutonic Cemetery.The graves of Princess Sophie von Hohenlohe and Princess Charlotte Federic
  
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• Is a new US-led war looming with Iran?

  20-07-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is deploying troops in Saudi Arabia as tensions soar with its arch-rival Iran raising concerns over navigation in the Gulf's strategic Strait of Hormuz.It will be the first deployment of its kind since 2003, when American forces withdrew from the kingdom after a 12-year presence and two US-led wars with Iraq that culminated with the toppling of dictator Saddam Hussein.Separate statements from Riyadh and the US Central Command, or CENTCOM, say the Saudi deployment aims to ensure
  
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• 'Work with us': United States looks to other countries for help with Iran

  20-07-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is seeking partners to patrol and escort ships in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf as tensions with Iran escalate.
  
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• Listeria contamination: Sandwiches and salads sold at Target recalled amid fears of potential infection

  20-07-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A food manufacturer that makes sandwiches and salads sold at one of the country’s biggest biggest retailers is recalling more than 1,000 cases amid fears of potential listeria contamination.Elevation Foods, which produces Archer Farms-branded sandwiches and salads, said it was voluntarily recalling a series sold at Target, and Fresh Market. Target is the eighth largest retailer in the US.The products include Freskëtbrand egg salad, tuna salad, and Thai lobster salad, along with Archer
  
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• Iraqi forces launch anti-IS operation north of Baghdad

  20-07-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraq's military said Saturday its troops in partnership with security agencies and paramilitary forces launched the second phase of an operation aimed at clearing remnants of the Islamic State group from north of Baghdad and surrounding areas.The military said the new target area is north of Baghdad and in the Diyala, Salahuddin and Anbar provinces.Although Iraq declared victory against IS in July 2017, the extremists have turned into an insurgency and continue to carry out deadly attacks in the
  
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• Funeral service held for 86 Muslims killed by Serbs

  20-07-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  PRIJEDOR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand people attended a funeral service in Bosnia on Saturday for 86 Muslims who were slain by Serbs in one of the worst atrocities of the country's 1992-95 war.Relatives of the victims, religious leaders and others gathered at a soccer stadium near the eastern town of Prijedor, standing solemnly behind lines of coffins draped with green cloths.The Serbs later threw bombs onto the bodies, which made identifying the victims difficult.
  
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• West Virginia attorney general calls on diocese to 'come clean' on remarkable allegations against former bishop

  20-07-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite disciplinary action by Pope Francis, West Virginia's attorney general called on a Catholic diocese to detail allegation against a former bishop.
  
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• NASA imagines a 1969 webpage for the Apollo 11 landing

  20-07-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 touched down on the surface of Earth's moon. Now, 50 years later, NASA has imagined what the space mission's website would have looked like.It's a cute tie-in for the U.S. space agency's ongoing 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing. The "website" is really more of a screenshot mock-up. It doesn't really have 1969 internet vibes because there was no internet in 1969. But it does look like an old-ass landing page from the World Wide Web.Here, see for yoursel
  
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• Iraq Kurds arrest two suspects in killing of Turkish vice consul

  20-07-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraqi Kurdish authorities announced Saturday they had arrested two suspects involved in the murder of three people, including a Turkish diplomat, in the regional capital Arbil this week.The autonomous region's security council first said its counterterrorism unit had arrested "the main perpetrator" Mazloum Dag, a 27-year-old from Turkey's Diyarbakir region.The council had put out a wanted notice for Dag a day earlier in connection to Wednesday's killing of Turkish Vice Consul Osman Kose and two
  
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• Gabbard, AOC join lawmakers to call on Puerto Rican governor to resign over corruption scandal

  20-07-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has joined a growing chorus of lawmakers calling for the resignation of the Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló.
  
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• Trump Says ‘NASA’s Back’ Thanks to ‘Rich Guys’ Paying U.S. Rent

  20-07-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump pledged to re-establish U.S. dominance in space, a day after he welcomed the surviving Apollo 11 astronauts to the White House to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.“Sustained exploration that extends from our Earth to the Moon and on to the Martian surface will usher in a new era of American ingenuity,” Trump said in a message on Saturday, which he declared Space Exploration Day.Trump on Friday invited retired astronauts Bu
  
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• US heatwave: National Weather Service bakes biscuits inside hot car in safety warning about leaving children or pets

  20-07-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Weather Service has baked biscuits inside a hot car, in a safety message about the peril of leaving children or pets inside a vehicle.As a heatwave takes grip of large swathe of the US, with up to 200m people expected to be affected by a heat index of up to 115f degrees (46c), the officials performed the experiment inside a car in Nebraska to show how hot vehicles can become when left unattended. To demonstrate the dangers, the NWS staff set about baking the biscuits in the city of
  
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• Ex-Marine, professor, MLB draft pick among high court clerks

  20-07-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The group of 16 women and 23 men hired by the justices were already on paths to become leading judges, professors and Supreme Court advocates.... You put it on your resume and all of a sudden doors open, sometimes justifiably so and sometimes not," Justice Elena Kagan has said .Kagan, who clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall, is one of five current justices who was once a Supreme Court clerk.
  
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• The Air Force Has Sent Stealth F-22 Raptors to Qatar to Deter Iran

  20-07-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Since becoming operational in 2005, the F-22 has achieved roughly a 50-percent readiness rate, on average -- one of the lowest rates of all U.S. fighter types. The Raptor's complex systems and delicate, radar-absorbing coating require intensive maintenance.The U.S. Air Force on June 27, 2019 deployed F-22 Raptor stealth fighters for the first time to Qatar as part of a build-up of forces ahead of a possible clash with Iran.The Air Force did not specify how many F-22s traveled to Qatar. Photograp
  
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• Florida's 'pill mills' were a gateway to the opioid crisis

  20-07-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida survives on tourism, but a decade ago thousands of visitors made frequent trips to the state not to visit its theme parks or beaches.Instead, they came for cheap and easy prescription painkillers sold at unscrupulous walk-in clinics.
  
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• Deadly N.H. motorcycle crash leads Mass. governor to push tougher driver's license regulations

  20-07-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Drivers who have been suspended at any point over the past three years wouldn't be eligible to receive a commercial driver's license in Massachusetts.
  
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• Kentucky host Matt Jones yanked amid speculation he'll challenge Mitch McConnell

  20-07-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Sports radio host Matt Jones is being pulled from his "Hey Kentucky!" anchor job until he makes a decision on running for U.S. Senate in 2020.
  
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• British warship was an hour from tanker seized by Iran in 'hostile act'

  20-07-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Alan Mendoza: The only surprise about Iran's seizure is that it didn't happen sooner Analysis: Boris Johnson could face early test as Iran 'exploits' political uncertainty US developing 'coalition' of navies to protect ships amid Iran tensions Mark Almond: Brexit myopia and a fatal lack of foresight has enabled Iran to put Britain on the spot Former head of Navy questions why British ships weren't protected  Foreign office summon Iranian diplomats  Britain has admitted its ne
  
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• In reversal, Trump disavows criticism of chanting crowd

  20-07-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has reversed his previous criticisms of a North Carolina campaign crowd that chanted "send her back" about a Somali-born congresswoman. Trump on Friday defended the rally-goers as "patriots" while again questioning the loyalty of four Democratic lawmakers of color. When reporters at the White House asked if he was unhappy with the Wednesday night crowd, Trump responded: "Those are incredible people.
  
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• Western allies back UK over tanker seizure

  20-07-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's seizure of a UK-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz has ramped up tensions in the Gulf region after the US military claimed it had downed an Iranian drone.US President Donald Trump said he would hold talks with Britain about the tanker's seizure by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
  
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• At least 17 people killed in Ethiopia during unrest over Sidama autonomy - local official

  20-07-2019 16:37 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian security forces and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Sidama ethnic group, according to a local official and hospital authorities.A local district official told Reuters on Saturday that at least 13 people were killed in a town near Hawassa city, 275 kms from the capital Addis Ababa, while hospital authorities said on Friday that four protesters had died of gunshot wounds in the city itself.Emboldened by political
  
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• Two Delta Air Lines planes clip wings at Boston Logan International Airport

  20-07-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Delta Air Lines planes touched wings at Boston Logan International Airport as a flight was arriving to its gate Friday night.
  
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• Private Investigator Says He Shared Two Epstein Female Fixer Names with Feds

  20-07-2019 16:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Private investigator Michael Fisten first started digging into financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking crimes more than a decade ago when attorney Brad Edwards hired him. After Epstein signed a non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors in 2008, Edwards had sued Epstein in civil court on behalf of a number of alleged victims who had been blindsided by the plea deal (which a judge later ruled to have violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act). Fisten was tasked with finding as m
  
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