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• Economist: New Trump farm aid may be distributed more fairly

  26-07-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration's decision to base new handouts to farmers hit by the trade war with China on how many acres they've planted might be a fairer way to distribute the cash than the previous system of payments per bushel heavily skewed toward soybean growers, an agricultural economist said Friday.U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Thursday that the administration will pay another $16 billion more in aid to farmers affected by the president's trade war with China.
  
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• Why Did the Manson Family Kill Sharon Tate? Here’s the Story Charles Manson Told the Last Man Who Interviewed Him

  26-07-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the biggest questions is the extent to which Charles Manson himself was involved
  
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• Looking for a boost, Beto O'Rourke to try new strategy in second debates

  26-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke will try to make up for what some critics saw as an uneven performance in the first round of debates.
  
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• Looking for a boost, Beto O'Rourke to try new strategy in second debate

  26-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke will try to make up for what some critics saw as an uneven performance in the first round of debates.
  
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• Donald Trump rips book deal for Barack, Michelle Obama, complains about White House AC

  26-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Friday that investigators ought to look into a book deal signed by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
  
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• 'Armed and dangerous' pair wanted by New Jersey State Police

  26-07-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  New Jersey State Police are looking for a Mount Holly couple wanted for possession of weapons, homemade explosives and drugs, after their home was searched earlier this week.
  
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• $250 million Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post dismissed by federal judge

  26-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Nick Sandmann and Nathan Phillips were captured on videos that went viral in January when they stood across from each other on the National Mall.
  
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• Venezuela Supreme Court annuls opposition bid to re-join defense treaty

  26-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's Supreme Court on Friday annulled a decision by the opposition-controlled legislature to re-join a regional defense treaty that could provide a legal framework for foreign military intervention.Venezuela's top court, made up of judges loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, said the National Assembly's decision to rejoin the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) on Tuesday had no legal basis.Maduro's predecessor and mentor, late president Hugo Chavez, withdrew the country f
  
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• Pelosi downplays differences with Ocasio-Cortez after meeting to 'clear the air'

  26-07-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  "In our caucus, we have our differences. Respect that instead of making a big issue of it," Pelosi told reporters.
  
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• School will accept donations to cover student lunch debt after threatening child with foster care

  26-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A school district in Pennsylvania will accept a donation to cover debts owed to pay for students’ school lunches, instead of sending parents in debt to court.Wyoming Valley West School District sparked outrage when it threatened parents who did not send their children to school with either food or money for a provided lunch with a summons to a so-called dependency court. “This is a failure to provide your child with proper nutrition and you can be sent to dependency court for neglect
  
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• Pelosi downplays differences with Ocasio-Cortez after 'very positive' meeting

  26-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi told reporters that "I don't think we have that many differences" despite some sharp words back and forth recently.
  
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• No, McConnell Isn’t ‘Moscow Mitch’

  26-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  As an act of political theater, the Democrats’ recent attempt to cast Mitch McConnell in a bad light has been quite successful. The Internet is awash in headlines contending that he blocked election-security reforms despite warnings about ongoing Russian interference from Robert Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee.The reactions are overwrought and unfair. McConnell was right to stop the two bills at the center of the controversy, and the Democrats knew full well ahead of time tha
  
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• Trump says he does not blame Turkey for buying Russian air defense system

  26-07-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he does not blame Turkey for buying a Russian missile defense system, which prompted his administration to remove the NATO ally from the F-35 fighter jet program.Trump, who was speaking to reporters at the White House, did not say when he would decide on imposing sanctions on Turkey for doing business with the Russian military, as required by a 2017 U.S. sanctions law."We're looking at the whole Turkey situation," Trump said.
  
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• UPDATE 1-After Trump threat, Guatemala signs immigration asylum deal

  26-07-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States and Guatemala signed a so-called safe third country immigration asylum agreement on Friday just days afterU.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on the Central American country if it did not agree to the deal.Speaking to reporters at the White House during a signing ceremony, Trump said the agreement would allow easier access to farmer workers for U.S. farms and ranches.Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales was due to sign a deal with Trump last week that would
  
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• 9 campus officers fired for sexist, racist posts, historically black university says

  26-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Hampton University said in a statement that it fired the officers over “egregious violations" of the university's code of conduct.
  
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• Ex-Nazi testimony casts fresh doubt on 1933 Reichstag blaze: media

  26-07-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Newly found German testimony from 60 years ago has cast fresh doubt on Nazi-era claims a Dutch communist was responsible for the 1933 fire that gutted the Reichstag building, German media reported on Friday.The Reichstag blaze remains a source of controversy in Germany as Adolf Hitler used the fire to claim a Communist plot and consolidate his influence with a crackdown.Germany's RND newspaper group on Friday published an affidavit of a former Nazi paramilitary dating from 1955 and found in arch
  
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• Guatemala agrees to new migration measures to avoid Trump sanctions threat

  26-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he agreed to drop the threat of economic sanctions against Guatemala after the country said it would implement new measures aimed at reducing U.S. asylum claims from migrants fleeing Honduras and El Salvador.The Trump administration has grappled with a surge of mainly Central American migrants claiming asylum at the United States' southern border with Mexico, an influx that has made it difficult for Trump to restric
  
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• Look up! The Delta Aquariid meteor shower will light up the night sky Sunday night

  26-07-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The nights may be short, but with the weather warm it's a great time to check out a few meteors: The Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks Sunday night, July 28.
  
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• Stealth Rules: Israel's F-35I Adir Is the First to Attack an Enemy

  26-07-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel said its recent air strikes inside Syria targeted Iranian military infrastructure, in response to rocket fire aimed at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights.The F-35 stealth fighter has seen its first ever combat action, flying in an operation for the Israeli Air Force (IAF).On May 22, 2018 in fact Maj Gen Amikam Norkin, IAF chief, told heads of 20 foreign air forces meeting in Israel at the International Air Force Commander Conference that “The ‘Adir&r
  
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• Father of slain Mississippi student Ally Kostial shares heartbreaking photo on day of her vigil

  26-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of murdered University of Mississippi student Ally Kostial took to Facebook to share a photo of his daughter taken when she was a small child.
  
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• Impeachment Would Probably Cost Democrats the House

  26-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York Times reports that House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler has “gradually become convinced that his panel should proceed with impeachment hearings and do so as expeditiously as possible, though he has not stated so publicly,” citing “lawmakers and aides familiar with his thinking.”Nadler should not be surprised that he’s encountering so much resistance to this idea from House speaker Nancy Pelosi. A great deal has been written about how impeac
  
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• 'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season

  26-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska are producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from spaceThe Arctic is suffering its worst wildfire season on record, with huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space.The Arctic region has recorded its hottest June ever. Since the start of that month, more than 100 wildfires have burned in the Arctic circle. In Russia, 11 of 49 regions are experiencing wildfires.The World Meteorological Organizati
  
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• Trump administration plan for Bears Ears slammed as 'recklessly' weakening protections

  26-07-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The Bureau of Land Management posted to the federal register the management plan for the Utah monument, which was created by former Democratic President Barack Obama in 2016 to protect Native American cultural and archaeological sites but reduced in size by 85% by Republican President Donald Trump in 2017 to open up the land to resource extraction, grazing, logging and vehicle use.While U.S. national parks can be created only by an act of Congress, national monuments can be designated unilateral
  
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• Basil From Mexico Is Likely Cause of Cyclospora Food Poisoning Outbreak

  26-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A food poisoning outbreak tied to 132 cyclospora illnesses in 11 states was likely caused by fresh basil imported from Mexico by Siga Logistics de RL de CV, the Food and Drug Administration annou...
  
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• Widow of serial killer's victim: 'Mr. Kohlhepp, I forgive you'

  26-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Sixteen years after her husband was gunned down, Melissa Brackman and her teenage son were face-to-face with the killer inside a courtroom.
  
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• Kamala Harris hits back at Trump's racist comments: 'We're not going anywhere, except the White House

  26-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris says women of colour in American politics have no intention of going anywhere, except to the White House.The comments come in response to Donald Trump telling four women in Congress to “go back” to the countries they came from, instead of “loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States” how to run the country.The remarks — which were aimed at politicians Ilhan Omar, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Rashid Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley &mdash
  
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• House files lawsuit for grand-jury evidence behind Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation

  26-07-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The House filed a lawsuit Friday seeking grand-jury evidence behind former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia interference.
  
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• Asteroid zoomed 'near' Earth late Wednesday, astronomers say

  26-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  According NASA, the asteroid was an estimated 187 to 427 feet wide and came within about 45,000 miles of Earth.
  
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• What we know about the arrest of 16 Marines on human smuggling, drug charges

  26-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The arrest of 16 Marines at Camp Pendleton is related to an two earlier arrests on human smuggling charges.
  
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• As Trump expands deportation powers, immigrants prepare

  26-07-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A sweeping expansion of deportation powers unveiled this week by the Trump administration has sent chills through immigrant communities and prompted some lawyers to advise migrants to gather up as much documentation as possible — pay stubs, apartment leases or even gym key tags — to prove they've been in the U.S.Attorneys and immigrant rights groups gave conflicting advice about whether to carry these documents.The new rules will allow immigration officers nationwide to deport anyone
  
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• US teenager detained at border lost 26 pounds in a month: 'It was inhumane how they treated us'

  26-07-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A US teenager who was detained by border agents for nearly a month, has detailed bleak conditions during his stay, saying: “They were not treating us humanely.”Francisco Galicia, who was born in Texas, was detained at a customs and border agency (CBP) checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas on June 27 while travelling with his brother Marlon, a 17-year-old who was born in Mexico, who was also detained. After two days of detention, Marlon signed a voluntary deportation form and was released t
  
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• Alexandraia Ocasio-Cortez can't get very far without Nancy Pelosi, says Run for America co-founder

  26-07-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Hoover Institute fellow Lanhee Chen and Run for America co-founder David Burstein weigh in on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's meeting.
  
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• Murdered Israelis involved in 'money laundering,' says Mexico government

  26-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Israelis shot dead in Mexico City were involved in money laundering and had links to local mafias, Mexico's government said on Friday.Alon Azulay, 41, and Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, 44, were gunned down in a restaurant inside a mall in the south of the sprawling capital city on Thursday."These are a settling of scores between organized criminal gangs with various interests," said Alfonso Durazo, the secretary of security and civilian protection.
  
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• Turkey determined to destroy 'terror corridor' in Syria

  26-07-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday his country is determined to destroy what he called a "terror corridor" in northern Syria — regardless of whether or not Turkey and the United States agree on the establishment of a so-called "safe zone" there.U.S. and Turkish officials have been holding talks on creating a safe zone east of the Euphrates River to address Turkey's security concerns stemming from the presence of Syrian Kurdish fighters in the region.Turkey views the Kurdish
  
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• Victims identified in deadly San Fernando Valley shooting spree; suspect held without bail

  26-07-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials have identified three of the four victims killed in the shooting rampage across the San Fernando Valley Thursday, including the suspect's father and brother.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi says Democrats demanding impeachment ‘only gives me leverage’ as over 100 House members call for removal of Trump

  26-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has defended herself at a press conference against accusations from a growing number of members within her own party, that she was “trying to run out the clock” on impeaching Donald Trump. “Everybody has the liberty and the luxury to espouse their own position and to criticise me for trying to go down the path in the most determined, positive way,” Ms Pelosi said about her stance on launching an impeachment inquiry into the president. The House
  
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• U.S. tax collectors urge owners of virtual currencies to pay back taxes, file amended returns

  26-07-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Friday said it was sending thousands of letters to taxpayers who failed to report virtual currency transactions, saying they may owe taxes.The IRS said it planned to send over 10,000 letters to taxpayers in an effort that began earlier in July and will continue through August."Taxpayers who do not properly report the income tax consequences of virtual currency transactions are, when appropriate, liable for tax, penalties and interest," the agency said in a st
  
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• Democrats Raise Impeaching Trump in Suit for Mueller's Evidence

  26-07-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats took a significant step toward opening an inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as the House Judiciary Committee prepared to ask a federal court to force the release of grand jury information from Robert Mueller’s investigation.The suit, approved by panel chairman Jerrold Nadler for filing on Friday, explicitly cited Congress’s impeachment authority, marking the first time the Democrats have made an official move in that direction.“Becaus
  
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• Senate Intel Committee Confirms Russians Hacked Election Systems in 50 States, Didn’t Change Vote Totals

  26-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed Friday that Russian hackers targeted election systems in all 50 states in advance of the 2016 elections, but did not attempt to alter any vote totals.The panel released the first section of a five-volume report on Thursday afternoon that details “an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure” carried out by Russian hackers. While it was previously known that hackers targeted a handful of states in the run up
  
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• Hezbollah denies using Lebanon's port for arms smuggling

  26-07-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Friday denied using Beirut's sea port to import arms in response to an accusation by Israel's United Nations envoy this week."I completely deny the claim of the Israeli representative in the Security Council that Hezbollah uses the Beirut port to transfer weapons or weapon components into Lebanon," Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a television speech.
  
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• Tennessee inmate declines to choose execution method

  26-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee death row inmate has declined to choose the method of his execution scheduled for mid-August, a non-decision that would result in his death by lethal injection.Tennessee Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa Taylor confirmed in an email Friday that Stephen West declined to pick his method of execution when given the opportunity.Four inmates have been executed in Tennessee since August 2018.
  
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• Nadler: We’re Pursuing a De Facto Impeachment Inquiry

  26-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Wilson/GettyHouse Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Friday that his committee was “in effect” conducting an impeachment inquiry, even as he shied away from using that exact phrase. “The committee is exercising its authority to investigate all of these scandals and to decide what to do about them, which could include articles of impeachment,” said Nadler at a press conference. “Whether you call that an inquiry, or whatever you want to call th
  
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• Pelosi downplays differences with AOC after talk

  26-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is downplaying any differences she has with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying she had a "nice meeting" Friday with the New York lawmaker, who's made some tart observations about the Democratic leadership team.
  
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• Massive manhunt in Canadian wilderness for teen murder suspects

  26-07-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Two teen triple murder suspects on the run in the central Canadian wilderness -- perhaps holed up in thick, insect-infested forest inhabited by wolves and bears,-- were staying one step ahead of a massive police manhunt Friday.Since Tuesday, the village of Gillam near Hudson Bay has been on the alert for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, who are wanted for three murders.The fugitives wound up near the Manitoba province village located 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) north of Winnipeg after
  
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• North Carolina woman who hurled racial slur at black diners in viral video: 'I would say it again'

  26-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman whose profane, racist rant inside a North Carolina restaurant wascaught on camera says she will not apologize for the incident
  
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• 2020 Vision: Trump blasts Fox News over poll showing him losing to Biden

  26-07-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A month after he was attacked by Sen. Kamala Harris over his record on race at the first Democratic presidential debate, the former vice president appears to have steadied himself.
  
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• Photo of mother begging Mexican guard becomes symbol of migrants' struggle

  26-07-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Viral images show Ledy Pérez sobbing as she pleads with an armed guard to let her and her son aged six cross the US-Mexico borderGuatemalan migrant Ledy Pérez embraces her son, Anthony, while praying to ask a member of the Mexican national guard to let them cross into the US, as seen from Ciudad Juárez. Photograph: José Luis González/ReutersLedy Pérez grasped her six-year-old son and sobbed as she begged a Mexican guard to let her bring him across the US
  
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• SC murder suspect planned escape with fire, attack on guards

  26-07-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge planned an escape from a county jail in South Carolina by having fellow prisoners set fire to a mattress and attack guards trying to help them escape the smoke while he scaled a barbed wire topped fence, authorities said.The sheriff said he poured as many deputies and other officers into the search as he could because Stinnette was so dangerous.Stinnette killed a man during an argument in 2018, buried his body and dug it up twice because he feared some
  
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• Ultimate Showdown: America's F-15C Eagle vs Russia's Su-57

  26-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Su-57—especially once it receives its new second stage engines—will be a handful for any fourth generation fighter given its combination of speed, maneuverability, stealth and electronic warfare capability. However, the U.S. Air Force does have a plan to defeat enemy stealth aircraft and a counter is already in the works.The venerable Boeing F-15C Eagle has long been hailed as the world’s greatest air superiority fighter given its lopsided combat record of 104 kills to zero
  
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• Trump news - live: President invents imaginary word as bizarre propaganda video shown to right-wing youth group emerges

  26-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has continued to lash out in the wake of Robert Mueller's explosive testimony in front of Congress, while taking the time to make up words and tweet about the imprisonment of A$AP Rocky.The president is trying to undo the damage from the hearings involving Mr Mueller, who said he was not able to say that his report had cleared Mr Trump of any wrongdoing.He has also been wrapped in another controversy after he spoke in front of a bizarre version of the presidential seal, which includ
  
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