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• DOJ won't charge William Barr, Wilbur Ross after contempt vote

  24-07-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers never expected the Justice Department to prosecute its own leader.
  
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• Treasury's Mnuchin says Amazon 'destroyed' U.S. retail sector

  24-07-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Mnuchin said he looked forward to hearing the results of a Justice Department probe, announced on Tuesday, into whether big U.S. technology firms engage in anticompetitive practices, the strongest sign yet that the Trump administration is stepping up its scrutiny of Big Tech. "If you look at Amazon, although they're certain benefits to it, they've destroyed the retail industry across the United States," Mnuchin told CNBC.
  
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• 'We had a very good day,' Trump says of Mueller hearing

  24-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that Robert Mueller's high-stakes testimony in Congress had been a win for the White House -- and a "disaster" for his Democratic opponents."There was no defense to this ridiculous hoax," Trump charged.This was a very big day for the Republican Party.
  
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• U.S. blocks U.N. rebuke of Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes -diplomats

  24-07-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats said.Israel said the 10 apartment buildings demolished on Monday, most of them still under construction, had been built illegally and posed a security risk to Israeli armed forces operating along a barrier that runs through the occupied West Bank.U.N. officials, who had calle
  
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• Trump wants restraining order to keep his New York tax returns away from Democrats

  24-07-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s another volley in the tug-of-war between Trump and Democrats who are bent on getting ahold of his tax returns.
  
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• Border Patrol boss joined Facebook page to read staff posts

  24-07-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the U.S. Border Patrol said Wednesday that she joined a Facebook group whose members mocked migrants and lawmakers so she could read what her personnel thought about her, and said she knew little about the group.Chief Carla Provost said during a congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington that she logged on to Facebook very rarely and that she immediately reported her membership in the group to an oversight division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection after she realized she wa
  
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• Report: Truck crossed highway line in crash that killed 8

  24-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A crash that killed eight people in Mississippi last month happened after a box truck crossed the center line of a two-lane rural highway and struck a van, according to a federal report issued Wednesday.The National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report confirms what the van driver, Alejandro Estrejo Resendiz, told The Associated Press hours after the June 3 wreck near Scooba — that he swerved but the truck hit the van.The van was owned by Sharp Forestry in Columbus, Mississippi
  
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• Justice Department will not pursue criminal contempt charges in Census dispute with Congress

  24-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department will not pursue criminal charges against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, after Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to hold them in contempt in a dispute over documents concerning whether to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. "Accordingly, the department will not bring the congressional contempt citations before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General or the Secretary," he add
  
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• Wind shifts huge wildfire away from nuke facilities in Idaho

  24-07-2019 23:10 via yahoo.com
  The largest wildfire at the nation's primary nuclear research facility in recent history had been burning close to buildings containing nuclear fuel and other radioactive material but a change in wind direction Wednesday was pushing the flames into open range at the sprawling site in Idaho, officials said.The lightning-caused fire at the Idaho National Laboratory is one of several across the U.S. West.Before the wind shifted, the Idaho blaze got close to several lab facilities, including one whe
  
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• New San Francisco campaign aims to house 1,100 homeless

  24-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Homelessness and a housing crunch have come to define San Francisco as much as the Golden Gate Bridge or Alcatraz.Now a new public engagement campaign is urging residents to put aside their political differences and support finding homes for more than 1,000 homeless people.Philanthropist Daniel Lurie, founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit behind "All In," says he wants to inspire people in a city known for its liberal politics to tackle a problem mired in negativity, despair and political fighti
  
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• Today, Impeachment Died Another Death

  24-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  There was a moment, early in Robert Mueller’s House Judiciary Committee testimony today, that stood at least a some small chance of altering the inexorable momentum against impeachment. It came in the course of questioning by California Democrat Ted Lieu.“I’d like to ask you the reason, again, that you did not indict Donald Trump is because of OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] opinion stating that you cannot indict a sitting president, correct?” Lieu asked Mueller.Mueller res
  
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• Rudy Giuliani says Democrats using Mueller hearing for 2020 'soundbites,' imitates Mueller

  24-07-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  "The Democrats are going for soundbites for the election," Rudy Giuliani, one of the president's personal lawyers, said on "Fox and Friends" Wednesday. before attempting an impression of Robert Mueller.
  
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• Key takeaways from Robert Mueller's congressional testimony

  24-07-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller refused to play the part.In back-to-back hearings before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, the former special counsel in the investigation of Russian interference into the 2016 presidential elections largely honored his pledge to stick to his 448-page report .Republicans tried to get Mueller to spell out the findings that there wasn't enough evidence to prove any criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
  
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• Biden Fires Back at Booker on Crime Record: Campaign Update

  24-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Vice President Joe Biden parried criticism of his criminal justice record from Cory Booker, saying that his Democratic presidential rival had been responsible for controversial law-and-order policies while mayor of Newark, New Jersey.“His police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly African American men,” Biden told reporters in Dearborn, Michigan, on Wednesday. “If he wants to go back and talk about records I’m happy to do that but I’d
  
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• Mueller: Trump's answers were 'generally' untruthful

  24-07-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday that President Trump’s written answers to his questions were not only incomplete — they were “generally” untruthful.
  
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• America’s New B-21 Stealth Bomber Is Just Two Years Away

  24-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Air Force’s new B-21 stealth bomber could fly as early as December 2021, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. Stephen Wilson said at an event in Washington, D.C. on July 24, 2019.Air Force magazine broke the news.Wilson told the audience he in recent weeks visited Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Melbourne, Florida, where he was “looking at the B-21.” Northrop is “moving out on that pretty fast.” Wilson said, adding he has an app on his phone “cou
  
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• Jon Stewart: Rand Paul is 'a scalawag and a ragamuffin'

  24-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  This week Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against a bill that replenishes funding for the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. And on Wednesday, Jon Stewart reacted in a now ongoing feud between the comedian and the GOP senator.
  
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• A note left in a Domino's Pizza box led to rescue of a kidnapped woman, police say

  24-07-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who was allegedly bound, gagged and beaten was rescued after leaving a note asking for help at a Domino's Pizza in Anthony, Texas.
  
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• Titanic explorer to search for Amelia Earhart's plane

  24-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Ballard, the underwater explorer who found the Titanic, has a new quest -- searching for the plane of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937.National Geographic said Ballard plans to leave from Samoa on August 7 to carry out the hunt with his state-of-the-art research vessel E/V Nautilus.National Geographic said it plans to film the expedition and air a documentary about it on its television channel on October 20.
  
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• Newborn found on doorstep at apartment complex where another baby was left 2 years ago

  24-07-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Orlando Police found a 1-day-old infant wrapped only in a T-shirt on front doorstep.
  
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• Mexico taco stalls serving fake guacamole due to US demand and cartel control of market

  24-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Rising avocado prices in Mexico caused by poor harvests and cartel control have reportedly prompted taco chefs to substitute them for courgettes in guacamole, the staple dip on the table of nearly every restaurant in Mexico.  Avocado prices in Mexico have soared in recent months due to a poor crop, forcing enterprising chefs to swap them for cheap and plentiful courgettes in the dip - and successfully fooling customers in the process.   Rising demand for the fruit in the US, caused by
  
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• Mueller Tells Congress: FBI ‘Currently’ Looking Into Issues of Trump Team Blackmail

  24-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSTowards the end of Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, the former special counsel indicated that the FBI is currently investigating matters of blackmail and compromise involving those who were in President Donald Trump’s orbit.During his allotted time, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) noted that because it was outside the Mueller investigation’s purview, the final report did not reach any counterintelligence conclusions regardi
  
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• Governor acknowledges Native Hawaiian plight on Mauna Kea

  24-07-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  After a week of tension and dozens of arrests, Hawaii's governor is vowing to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing stalemate with Native Hawaiian activists who are trying to prevent the construction of another telescope atop a Big Island volcano.Gov. David Ige visited the protest site Tuesday evening after acknowledging that their grievances were not just about the new observatory but also the treatment of Native Hawaiians going back more than a century.Activists welcomed Ige with a nose-to
  
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• The Pixel 4 is stealing one of the iPhone XS’s signature features – and we couldn’t be happier

  24-07-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  When the Pixel 4 launches this fall, it'll feature several signature features, some more exciting than others. For example, the phone will pack the first dual-lens camera in Pixel history, and we know that thanks to Google's official Pixel 4 teaser that showed the phone's rear design. Several reports also claimed that the front side of the handset will house at least two features that were never before seen on Pixel handsets, including one that's not available on any other smartphone to date. No
  
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• Mom arrested after bringing dead daughter to hospital claiming her neck was injured in wreck

  24-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested the mother of a 5-year-old girl who her brought to an Alexandria hospital said the girl's neck was injured in an auto accident.
  
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• Here's Why Mueller Kept Getting Asked About a Mysterious Maltese Professor

  24-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The shadowy Maltese professor has been at the center of some Republicans’ efforts to discredit Mueller’s probe
  
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• Trump administration's own study shows food stamp move may hurt poor

  24-07-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A Trump administration proposal to tighten eligibility for food stamps could undercut access to basic nutrition for millions of Americans and hurt some low-cost retailers, according to an analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which runs the program. The study clashes with the administration's defense of the proposed rule change, unveiled on Tuesday, which it said would end widespread abuse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by Americans with suffic
  
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• UPDATE 1-Trump administration's own study shows food stamp move may hurt poor

  24-07-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A Trump administration proposal to tighten eligibility for food stamps could undercut access to basic nutrition for millions of Americans and hurt some low-cost retailers, according to an analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which runs the program.The study clashes with the administration's defense of the proposed rule change, unveiled on Tuesday, which it said would end widespread abuse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by Americans with suffici
  
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• Democrats ask Mueller if Trump could avoid criminal charges if he serves a 2nd term

  24-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  After testifying that the president could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office, former special counsel Robert Mueller is asked about the statute of limitations.
  
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• Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee vandalized with anti-Trump graffiti

  24-07-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A statue of Robert E. Lee that was at the center of violent protests in 2017 at a Charlottesville, Virginia, park, was vandalized early Wednesday.
  
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• Mueller Clarifies Much-Touted Answer on DOJ Guidelines

  24-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller clarified on Wednesday that he declined to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice because his team did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump committed a crime, rather than because Justice Department policy stipulates that a sitting president cannot be indicted.During a morning hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Mueller appeared to confirm to Representative Ted Lieu (D., Calif.) that the only reason he did not indict Trump was because of the Justice D
  
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• Mueller: A president can be charged with obstruction of justice after leaving office

  24-07-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller did not make a recommendation for or against obstruction charges for Trump, and instead discussed the Justice Department policy.
  
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• Toddler injured after jumping on baggage belt, falling in luggage room at Atlanta airport

  24-07-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A 2-year-old boy was hurt after jumping on a baggage conveyor belt at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He landed in a luggage room.
  
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• Mueller corrects testimony, says his probe did not reach determination as to whether Trump committed a crime

  24-07-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller corrects the answer he gave to Rep. Ted Lieu that guidance from the Office of Legal Counsel prevented an indictment of President Trump.
  
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• Temperature records broke in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands today

  24-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  It's back. After a June heat wave smashed national temperature records in France and broke historic June records across Europe, a mass of hot air has returned to the continent. On Wednesday, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute reported that the nation's all-time temperature record, which stood for the last 75 years, fell as temperatures hit 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit (38.8 C).Belgium broke its national heat record too, as temperatures reached 103.8 F (39.9 C), reported David Dehenau
  
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• Schiff: Mueller investigation showed Trump's 'disloyalty to country'

  24-07-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The House intelligence committee chairman said it doesn’t matter whether Trump or his campaign’s conduct during the 2016 elections and ensuing FBI investigation amounted to crimes. To Schiff, they amounted to something worse.
  
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• Sudan's army chief among several arrested in new coup plot

  24-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan's army chief was among several people arrested in a coup plot, the country's military said Wednesday, shortly after reports emerged of at least a dozen high-ranking army officers and Islamists being taken into custody in the conspiracy.This was the second coup plot reported this month in Sudan, where talks between the military and the country's pro-democracy movement have dragged out over the final and crucial part of a power-sharing deal for the nation's transitional period.Earlier in Jul
  
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• Europe's heatwave: Eurostar trains breaks down as records tumble in Belgium, Netherlands and Germany

  24-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Eurostar trains broke down, tigers in zoos were fed chicken ice cubes, and France warned that Notre-Dame was at the risk of collapse on Wednesday, as Europe sweltered under a record-breaking heatwave. For the second time in a month, a high pressure system drew scorching air from the Sahara desert, breaking heat records for Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, while France risked doing the same. In the Netherlands, the temperature reached 39.1C, breaking the previous record of 38.6C set in Augus
  
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• Mueller testimony exposes Trump as special counsel outlines possible crimes and Russian interference

  24-07-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller defended the findings from his report about Russian interference in the 2016 election on Wednesday during back-to-back congressional testimonies on Capitol Hill.While the former special counsel publicly outlined examples of alleged obstruction of justice on the part of Donald Trump and his White House aides, the hearings fell short of a summer blockbuster testimony many Democrats had hoped for. Mr Mueller directly refuted the president’s frequent claims he did not obstruct j
  
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• 2020 Democrats are repeating Hillary's 2016 mistake with Trump supporters: Today's talker

  24-07-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Declaring Donald Trump's supporters a basket of deplorables, or white racists, is a political mistake. Identity politics will drive voters to Trump.
  
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• Home Depot Employee Dies After Dry Wall Falls on Him

  24-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A 60-year-old man died overnight following an accident at the Missouri Home Depot where he worked.
  
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• Syrian father scrambles to reach his children after airstrike in Idlib

  24-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Intense bombing in the Syrian province of Idlib left a father scrambling to rescue his children while his baby daughter dangled off the edge of a destroyed building.  The widely circulated photograph showed the aftermath of a Russian or Assad regime strike on the town of Ariha in western Idlib, the last rebel-held bastion in Syria.  The man, Amjad al-Abdullah, looks on in horror as he tries to reach his children. His infant daughter, Rawan, is held up by a scrap of clothing while two o
  
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• Texas man charged in deadly shooting of 62-year-old woman in car

  24-07-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Tekoney Blackledge, 19, has been charged with the murder of 62-year-old Saron James.
  
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• Mueller refuses to answer questions on 'Steele dossier'

  24-07-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller steered clear of answering questions on the document commissioned by former British spy Christopher Steele.
  
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• How does the Mueller testimony impact Trump’s chances of being impeached?

  24-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller has finally testified on Capitol Hill, something long-sought by Democrats seeking to impeach Donald Trump, who has opposed the proceedings.In testimony to two committees of the House of Representatives – the judiciary committee and the intelligence committee – the 74-year-old stuck largely to details already contained in the 448-page report that was released by the department of justice in April.He did confirm that the president had asked his special co
  
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• Mueller's testimony on Trump and Russia: the biggest takeaways

  24-07-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The former special counsel explained Trump was not exonerated and warned of continuing election interference by Russia* Mueller testifies at hearings – live updatesIn highly anticipated testimony before the US Congress, the former special counsel Robert Mueller submitted to seven hours of questioning in back-to-back appearances before the House judiciary and intelligence committees.His testimony comes four months after he concluded the two-year investigation into Russian interference in th
  
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• 'Free from this nightmare': Prisoner released after rape victim's startling revelation

  24-07-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  James Clay had begun serving a 25 - 50 year prison sentence for rape based on DNA. He was released following a Free Press investigation into his case.
  
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• Abandoned Siberian factory could cause Chernobyl-style disaster, warns official

  24-07-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian state official warned on Wednesday that an abandoned chemicals factory in Siberia could cause an environmental disaster akin to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident unless urgent action is taken to tackle it.The Usolyekhimprom plant, which produced chlorine and other chemicals in the Irkutsk region, was abandoned due to bankruptcy in 2017, according to Russian news agencies.The official, Svetlana Radionova, said she had recently visited the facility and, among other things, discovered w
  
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• With a Bang, Israel’s Explosive Politics Move Into Palestinian Territory

  24-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Anadolu Agency/GettyDARSALAH, West Bank—The bulldozers came early to Wadi Hummus, the whimsically named hamlet in Sur Baher, a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem. They rumbled in slowly Monday at 6 a.m., and immediately their maws began to carve huge chunks out of buildings, most of them partially built. The din of the de-construction was heard far and wide, and activists embedded on-site to protest the demolition activity said that two hours earlier they’d seen soldier
  
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• Florida girl, 9, attacked by bison at Yellowstone National Park

  24-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A nine-year-old girl was thrown into the air by a bison at YellowstoneNational Park on Monday
  
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