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• Woman shoots 2 Israeli men to death at Mexico City shopping mall

  25-07-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman wearing a blond wig disguise shot two Israeli men to death at a restaurant in an upscale Mexico City shopping mall, and authorities said Thursday they were investigating links to organized crime.
  
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• New UK PM Johnson to begin hiring 20,000 extra police officers

  25-07-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced plans to start hiring an extra 20,000 police officers in the next few weeks, reversing cuts made under previous governments in a pitch to voters concerned about rising violent crime.The police have suffered big staffing and funding squeezes under austerity measures by the last two Conservative-led governments.The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates the additional officers will cost 1.1 billion pounds ($1.37 billion) a year.
  
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• Inmate questioned after Jeffrey Epstein is found nearly unconscious in jail cell

  25-07-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  An inmate was questioned over an incident in which financier and convicted sexoffender Jeffrey Epstein was found nearly unconscious in his New York Cityjail cell, WNBC reports
  
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• Remains Found in Colorado Are Those of Girl Missing Since 1984: Police

  25-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The remains of a 12-year-old girl who disappeared in 1984 after performing at a Christmas holiday concert have been found by construction workers in Weld County, Colorado, police said Thursday.
  
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• Mueller's Testimony Didn't Move Us Toward Impeachment. But It Should Make Us Determined to Vote Trump Out

  25-07-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress didn't move the needle on impeachment. But it should encourage us to vote out Donald Trump in 2020, David French argues.
  
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• Puerto Rico's Governor Is Resigning. But His Successor Worries Protestors Too

  25-07-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez has controversies of her own
  
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• Investors book profits from U.S.-based equity funds ahead of Fed meeting

  25-07-2019 23:27
  U.S.-based equity funds posted more than $8.4 billion of cash withdrawals in the week ended Wednesday, following two weeks of inflows, according to Refinitiv's Lipper.
  
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• VIDEO: Police break window to rescue 2 girls locked in hot car outside Ohio Walmart

  25-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  DRAMATIC RESCUE: Police officers break window to save two young girls locked in a hot car outside a Walmart.
  
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• Two Israeli men shot dead in apparent Mexico City shopping mall hit

  25-07-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Israeli men were shot dead in an apparent gangland hit at a luxury Mexico City shopping mall, authorities said on Thursday, in the latest flare-up of violence convulsing the capital.Mexico City police said a woman and a man opened fire on the Israelis on Wednesday afternoon in a restaurant in the upscale Plaza Artz Pedregal in the southwest of the capital, then fled.The Israeli embassy in Mexico identified the men as Alon Azulay, 41, and Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, 44.
  
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• Soccer-Arsenal's Ozil and Kolasinac escape knife-wielding attackers

  25-07-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Mesut Ozil and Arsenal team mate Sead Kolasinac escaped unhurt after an attempted carjacking by knife-wielding attackers in North London on Thursday, British media reported.The Dail Mail website said former Germany international midfielder Ozil was driving his black Mercedes when the car was boxed in by motorbike riders wearing helmets.Ozil was shown in a photograph talking to police outside a Turkish restaurant.
  
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• Gambia ex-president accused of ordering murder of two US businessmen

  25-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Former members of a Gambian death squad known as the Junglers on Thursday accused ex-president Yahya Jammeh of ordering the murder of two US citizens in 2013, having already confessed to the killing of a well known journalist.Since Monday, Gambians have been gripped by live coverage of three ex-Junglers -- Malick Jatta, Omar Jallow and Amadou Badjie -- before the West African country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.On the last day of hearings before the commission adjourns until August 5,
  
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• Woman shoots 2 Israeli men to death at Mexico shopping mall

  25-07-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman wearing a blond wig disguise fatally shot two Israeli men at a restaurant in an upscale Mexico City shopping mall, and authorities said Thursday they were investigating links to organized crime.Authorities said the woman and another man sat down Wednesday at a table near the victims at a restaurant in the Plaza Artz mall.Ulises Lara, spokesman for the city prosecutor's office, said a total of four suspects were involved in either the killing, logistics or getaway.
  
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• The Latest: Lawmaker who asked for Epstein probe threatened

  25-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida lawmaker says she has gotten threats since asking the governor to order an investigation into why financier Jeffrey Epstein was allowed out on work release while serving a jail sentence.Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book told news outlets Thursday she has received a dozen threatening text messages and phone calls telling her to back off from pushing a probe into the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.Epstein was allowed to go to his office on work release while in the Palm Beach County
  
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• Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein found injured in jail, received medical care

  25-07-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, was found injured in his Manhattan jail cell and received medical care.
  
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• California college student Harrison Duran has long been 'obsessed' with dinosaurs. He just found a real one

  25-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Harrison Duran, a fifth-year biology student from the University of California, Merced, found the 65-million-year-old fossil in North Dakota.
  
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• Trump speech: Staffer responsible for fake US presidential seal with Russian eagles and golf clubs fired

  25-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A Turning Point USA employee has been fired over their involvement in placing an altered presidential seal behind Donald Trump during a speech earlier in the week.A spokesperson for the conservative group told the Washington Post, that a member of its video team responsible for the seal, which featured a two-headed eagle similar to the one on Russia’s seal as well as a pack of golf clubs, had been dismissed.“We did let the individual go,” the spokesperson said. “I don&rsq
  
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• South Korean Fighters Fired 300 Warning Shots at Russian A-50 AEW&C Aircraft

  25-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  “We confirmed Russia’s A50 has invaded Japan’s airspace while two of Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers flew around Japan. We took measures against the invasion,” said a spokesman for the country’s Ministry of Defense.On Jul. 23, 2019 warplanes from four countries faced off in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island off the coast of South Korea and Japan.As reported by CNN, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff iss
  
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• Blunder sees Donald Trump appear with fake presidential seal mocking golf and Russia links

  25-07-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has accidentally appeared on stage alongside a doctored image of the US presidential seal which seemed to mock his love of golf and the controversy over Russian links.  The version that appeared behind Mr Trump during a speech had the eagle at the centre of the seal carrying a number of golf clubs rather than arrows. The eagle also had two heads rather than one, bearing a resemblance to Russia's coat of arms, which features the heads of two birds turned away from
  
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• Trump Might Launch an Amphibious Assault Against Iran If a War Starts

  25-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  If tensions with Iran continue to heat up, one option would be to stage an amphibious raid against a land or sea-based Iranian military facility. One of the greatest truisms of life is that land wars in Asia are futile. The continent’s vastness allows defenders to trade space for time, extending the logistical lifelines of invaders to the breaking point. This argument holds for Iran, which at a population of one quarter that of the United States and the size of the West Coast is too large
  
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• In War Games, the F-15s and F-22s Have an Amazing 41-1 Kill Ratio

  25-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Additionally the 104th FW fired 14,661 bullets, totaling 100 percent of the guns on the aircraft firing every time.Over 250 Airmen and 9 F-15 Eagles from the 104th Fighter Wing (FW), Massachusetts Air National Guard (ANG)recently deployed to Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, to take part in Weapons Systems Evaluation Program (WSEP), alongside Canadian F-18s, F-35s, F-16s, and F-22s.As told by Master Sgt. Julie Avey, 104th Fighter Wing in the article 104th Fighter Wing Eagles on Target at Un
  
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• Palestinian president says to stop agreements with Israel

  25-07-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Thursday he has decided to stop implementing agreements with Israel amid worsening relations between the two sides."We announce the leadership's decision to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side," he said in a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Abbas had previously not spoken so clearly and definitively of a break in cooperation, although Palestinian officials have in the past made threats to stop implementing all accords with
  
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• Glaciers Are Melting Underwater. It's Worse Than Previously Thought

  25-07-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Underwater glacier melt could be happening faster than previously thought, a dangerous finding as melting ice and glaciers raise sea levels
  
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• Is the Infamous Russian Troll Farm Pushing Deadly LGBT Hate?

  25-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/GettyMOSCOW—Thousands of people stood in silence at an anti-government rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday night. The demonstrators demanded an end to violence against Russia’s LGBT community and political opposition. The minute of silence was devoted to the victim of a terrible murder, Yelena Grigoryeva, a 41-year-old gay activist who was stabbed to death last week.A pedestrian found her body in some bushes near Pulkovskaya Street on Sunda
  
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• The Latest: Report says states have outdated voting machines

  25-07-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Russian government directed "extensive activity" against U.S. election systems ahead of the 2016 presidential election.The election security report is the first chapter of several volumes that the committee is expected to release in its probe of Russian election interference.The nation's intelligence chiefs say Russia remains intent on disrupting U.S. elections after attempting to breach the election systems of 21 states in 2016.
  
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• Ukraine seizes Russian tanker in Black Sea

  25-07-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ukrainian Security Service said Thursday it had seized a Russian tanker in a Black Sea port, a move that could undermine an anticipated prisoner swap between the two countries.The security service said it detained the Russian tanker in a Ukrainian port on Wednesday.Authorities said the tanker was involved in blocking Ukrainian vessels from sailing through the Kerch Strait in November.
  
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• Giant dinosaur bone found in southwestern France

  25-07-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwestern France where remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have been dug up since 2010.The two-meter long femur at the Angeac-Charente site is thought to have belonged to a sauropod, herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails which were widespread in the late Jurassic era, over 140 million years ago."This is a major discovery," Ronan Allain, a paleontologis
  
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• Ex-wife of slain former NBA player pleads guilty

  25-07-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The ex-wife of slain former NBA player Lorenzen Wright pleaded guilty Thursday to facilitation of first-degree murder in his shooting death nine years ago, a surprise development in one of Memphis, Tennessee's biggest murder cases.Sherra Wright also pleaded guilty to facilitation of a criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder in a hearing in Shelby County Criminal Court.Coffee said Sherra Wright would be eligible for parole once she served 30% of her sentence, which would be around nine yea
  
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• Guatemalan mother begs soldier to let her enter U.S. in Reuters photo

  25-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Lety Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking them from crossing into the United States.The plight of this mother and son who had traveled some 1,500 miles (2,410 km) from their home country of Guatemala to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, only to be stopped mere feet from the United States, was captured by Reuters photographer Jose Luis Gonzalez as tw
  
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• Russia warns of 'consequences' after Ukraine seizes tanker

  25-07-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine on Thursday seized a Russian tanker it said was used in a naval confrontation last November amid sensitive prisoner swap talks between the two countries who have been at loggerheads since 2014.Kiev's SBU security service said it stopped the tanker, the Neyma, as it entered the port of Izmail in the southern Odessa region.Investigators seized documents onboard and questioned crew members, an SBU statement said.
  
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• Chris Wallace says Mueller's testimony does not give Trump a 'clean bill of health'

  25-07-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Chris Wallace says former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Capitol Hill testimony was a win for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because she doesn't want to spend the political capital on impeachment.
  
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• Slain Ole Miss Sorority Sister Called Accused Killer ‘Crazy Aggressive’: Friend

  25-07-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  HandoutPolice on Thursday released surveillance video showing murdered University of Mississippi sorority sister Alexandria “Ally” Kostial walking out of a bar just hours before her tragic death. The footage shows the 21-year-old, who was wearing a white shirt and blue shorts, walking away from the bar Friday night with her head down and apparently texting.The next morning, Kostial’s bullet-riddled body was found by a sheriff’s deputy during his Saturday morning patrol ne
  
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• Ally Kostial murder: Former-neighbor shares dark details about suspect in Ole Miss student's death

  25-07-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The former dorm neighbor of Brandon Theesfeld spoke out on the suspected killer Wednesday, calling him "arrogant" and "misogynistic."
  
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• Ally Kostial murder: Former-neighbor shares dark details about suspect in Ole Miss student's death

  25-07-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  " "I'm not going to sugar coat it, he was pretty much a daddy's boy type,"University of Mississippi student Rex Ravita told KMOV
  
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• McConnell Nixes Two Dem. Election-Security Bills

  25-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday blocked votes on two bills designed to combat election interference, accusing Democrats of pushing them for political purposes.McConnell rejected Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's request for consent to pass legislation approved by the House that funds the Election Assistance Commission and sets up a requirement to use paper ballots, calling it "partisan legislation.""Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly so
  
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• From impeachment to indictment: 5 repercussions from Robert Mueller's testimony

  25-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  From impeachment to indictment, 5 ways Robert Mueller's long-awaited testimony is likely to resonate down the road
  
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• ISS backs Icahn's call for more shareholder say after Anadarko deal

  25-07-2019 20:26
  Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Thursday urged Occidental Petroleum Corp shareholders to ask management to let them weigh in on board and governance issues as the company...
  
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• US ship sails through Taiwan Strait after threat of force from China against independence

  25-07-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An American warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the US Navy and Taiwanese authorities said on Thursday, a day after China - which views Taiwan as a renegade province - unveiled a defence white paper threatening to use force to thwart any move towards the self-ruled island's independence, and accusing the United States of undermining global stability. It also followed an unprecedented joint Chinese-Russian air force exercise this week that triggered furious protests of airspace violations f
  
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• After outrage over viral video, 3 teens arrested in beating of girl with disabilities

  25-07-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago police have arrested three teenage girls in the beating of a girl with disabilities that was recorded on cellphone video and shared online.
  
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• Four teens charged over London bus attack on lesbians

  25-07-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  British police on Thursday charged four teenage boys over an alleged homophobic attack on a lesbian couple who refused to kiss in front of them on a London night bus.Melania Geymonat, 28, said she and her girlfriend Chris were robbed and left covered in blood after the incident in the trendy Camden Town area on May 30.The four boys, aged between 15 and 17, were all charged with committing "an aggravated hate crime", London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
  
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• Ford's "Baby Bronco" Compact SUV Shows Off Its Off-Road Chops

  25-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  This Escape-based crossover could be called Bronco Scout, Bronco Sport, or Adventurer.
  
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• Reps. Tlaib, Jordan clash over subpoena for Ivanka Trump's private emails

  25-07-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Raw video: Heated exchange between progressive 'Squad' member Rashida Tlaib and Republican Congressman Jim Jordan at House Oversight hearing.
  
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• The death of Neil Armstrong and a $6 million secret

  25-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  When Neil Armstrong died in 2012, it was officially put down to complications arising from heart surgery.The Cincinnati Enquirer also received the documents, which were sent anonymously.According to the newspapers, the family had threatened to publicly accuse the hospital of medical malpractice.
  
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• The Guy Who Found the Titanic Is Now Looking for Amelia Earhart's Plane

  25-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Ballard's search is on for the missing Lockheed Electra.
  
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• Ukraine’s Rookie Leader Ups the Ante in Match-Up With Putin

  25-07-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Best known as a TV comic before he shot to power this spring, Ukraine‘s leader isn’t joking any longer.Looking for a quick win early in his presidency, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has prioritized freeing the Ukrainian sailors held by Russia after a naval clash in 2018. Talks last week with Vladimir Putin yielded little, but the stakes rose dramatically on Thursday when Ukraine seized a Russian oil tanker and its crew.It’s a bold gambit. Putin is comfortable locking horns
  
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• We’re Getting an Idea of Boris Johnson’s Plan A: Deal, Then Election

  25-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson hasn’t given much information about his Brexit plans B, C or D, but his statement to Parliament on Thursday gives us an idea of his Plan A:Prepare Britain for No Deal. Posters, TV ads, roads widened and infrastructure installed. The message: “Britain Can Take It”Tell the EU it can either give way, or take its share of the economic hit from a no-deal split. Secure enough concessions to go back to ParliamentGet the deal through Parliament. Britain lea
  
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• 16 Marines Arrested After Being Tied to Smuggling of Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico

  25-07-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Sixteen Marines with 1st Marine Division were arrested on Thursday at a battalion formation for "alleged involvement in various illegal activities ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses," the Corps said in a press release.Another eight Marines were questioned about their involvement in alleged drug offenses, the release said, which added that "information gained from a previous human smuggling investigation precipitated the arrests."The arrest of the 16 can be traced back to the c
  
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• US long-term mortgage rates fall; 30-year average at 3.75%

  25-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week, edging toward three-year lows amid signals from Federal Reserve officials that they could cut their benchmark interest rate at their meeting next week.Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the key 30-year mortgage dipped to 3.75% from 3.81% last week.On Thursday, the European Central Bank joined the Fed in making clear that more stimulus could be coming soon to support an economy weakening in the face of global trade tensions.
  
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• Fmr. Trump national security adviser reacts to Mueller hearing

  25-07-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Tom Bossert discusses what he views as "collective disappointment" over Mueller's testimony not differing from what was written in the report.
  
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• US government will execute inmates for first time since 2003

  25-07-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. government will execute federal death row inmates for the first time since 2003, the Justice Department announced Thursday, bringing back a seldom-used punishment pushed by President Donald Trump and escalating another divisive issue ahead of the 2020 presidential election.In 2014, following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, then-President Barack Obama directed the department to conduct a review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs.
  
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• School board member longs for Muslim congresswoman's death in post: 'My life would be complete'

  25-07-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Toms River Regional Board of Education member Dan Leonard has come under fire for a series of posts against Muslims.
  
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