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• National Chicken Wing Day: Get free wings Monday at Buffalo Wild Wings, Wingstop and more

  27-07-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  July 29 is National Lasagna Day and National Chicken Wing Day. We've rounded up deals and freebies at Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters, Wingstop and more.
  
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• Eric Shawn: Pres. Trump's bold plan for Middle East peace

  27-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Envoy Jason Greenblatt says 'The president wants to help the Palestinians.'
  
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• Our Former Long-Term Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Test Car Is for Sale

  27-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  We thought we'd heard the last of the somewhat problematic sports sedan after its 40,000-mile test, but here it is again.
  
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• Migration deal with US meets mixed reactions in Guatemala

  27-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump, who has pushed hard to slow the flow of migrants, said Friday that the "safe third country asylum" agreement would require would-be asylum seekers traveling through Guatemala to seek refuge there, not in the United States.Anyone failing to do so would be sent back to Guatemala.
  
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• Thousands protest in Romania over kidnapped 15-year-old girl

  27-07-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandra Macesanu called the European emergency number 112 three times, saying she had been kidnapped by a man while hitchhiking to her home village from the nearby southern town of Caracal.It took authorities 19 hours to locate and enter the premises where she was believed to be held, where they found what appeared to be human remains and jewelry.
  
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• Michelle Obama Voices Pride in Baltimore Students After Trump's Twitter Rant Against Local Congressman

  27-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Michelle Obama Praises Baltimore Students After Trump Rant
  
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• Off-duty LAPD officer killed, 1 other person wounded in Lincoln Heights shooting

  27-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was killed in a Lincoln Heights shooting that left a second victim wounded, authorities said.
  
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• Ex-UK finance minister, Labour plot ways to block no-deal Brexit -paper

  27-07-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Former British finance minister Philip Hammond, who quit the government last week before Boris Johnson took over as prime minister, has held secret talks with the opposition Labour Party about how to stop a no-deal Brexit, a newspaper said.Hammond, who has long opposed leaving the European Union without a transition deal to soften the economic shock, met Labour's top Brexit official, Kier Starmer, shortly after he quit the government, the Observer said.The newspaper said Hammond and Starmer agre
  
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• You Might Not Get $125 From Equifax After All

  27-07-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  You may receive a much smaller chunk of change
  
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• Boko Haram kills 23 mourners after Nigeria funeral

  27-07-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Boko Haram gunmen on Saturday killed 23 mourners in Borno state in Nigeria's restive northeast after they attended a funeral, local militia and residents said.At around 1030 GMT, the attackers on three motorbikes opened fire on a group of men as they walked back from a funeral in Nganzai district near the state capital Maiduguri, local militia leader Bunu Bukar Mustapha said.
  
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• Trump Supports Labeling Antifa A ‘Major Organization Of Terror’

  27-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump lent support to labeling Antifa a terrorist organization Saturday, calling the group a collection of “gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs.”“Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others),” Trump wrote. “Would make it easier for police to do their job!”It is unc
  
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• Russia's Lavrov says Venezuela dialogue should have 'no preconditions'

  27-07-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday a dialogue to resolve Venezuela's political crisis should have "no preconditions," as he visited the small South American country of Suriname at the end of a multi-nation Latin American tour.Venezuela's bitterly divided government and opposition are engaged in a dialogue mediated by Norway's government.The opposition, led by National Assembly president Juan Guaido, has insisted President Nicolas Maduro step down to allow a transition govern
  
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• Man accidentally shot dead by own passenger in ‘failed drive-by attempt’

  27-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has died after being accidentally shot by his own passenger as he attempted to fire out of a car window, police say.Matthew Gibson, 26, was pronounced dead on 22 July after being shot in the head during the incident which prosecutors portrayed as a drive-by shooting gone bad in Park Manor, Chicago.Video footage from 21 July showed Gibson pulling alongside a white SUV that was waiting to make a left turn at around 5:40am, according to reports from the Chicago Sun-Times.As the car slowed his
  
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• Coast Guard Seizes 26,000 Pounds Of Cocaine In The Pacific Ocean

  27-07-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Coast Guard seized over 26,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $350 million from several drug busts throughout the Pacific Ocean, which it unloaded in San Diego Friday.The Coast Guard Cutter Steadfast intercepted six suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, Central and South America between late June and mid-July, according to a Coast Guard press release.“This was 26,000 of cocaine that will not make it to the main str
  
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• US soldiers now stationed inside migrant detention camp as ‘prison guards’

  27-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Soldiers are monitoring migrants at a detention centre in Texas, in what one congressman fears comes close to a breach of the Posse Comitatus Act, a cornerstone of US society.Under the 1878 federal law members of the army are prohibited from acting as a domestic police force.Active-duty troops are only allowed to help police officers under limited exceptions to the act, including when expressly authorised by law or by the constitution.But troops are currently keeping watch over detainees at a fa
  
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• France's Macron to host Putin ahead of G7 summit

  27-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Bormes-les-Mimosas (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed Saturday he had invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for talks on August 19, days before hosting a G7 summit.Macron said the meeting with Putin would take place at his summer retreat, the medieval fort of Bregancon near the village of Bormes-les-Mimosas on France's Mediterranean coast.
  
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• CNN's Victor Blackwell offers an emotional response to Trump's racist Baltimore tweets

  27-07-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning with a mean-spirited and racist attack on Congressman Elijah Cummings and the West Baltimore district he represents. CNN's Victor Blackwell wasn't having it.The president singled out Cummings -- who notably chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, one of several investigating Trump's conduct -- in a string of morning tweets. He called the Congressman "a brutal bully" and labeled his district as a "rat and rodent infested mess" where "no hu
  
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• It's not cricket – but Las Vegas grasshopper invasion is harmless

  27-07-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  * Some tourists panicked by Sin City swarms* State entomologist says wet weather behind migrationGrasshoppers on a sidewalk outside the offices of the Las Vegas Sun. Photograph: Steve Marcus/APMillions of grasshoppers have descended on Las Vegas, causing alarming images and videos to spread on social media and prompting some tourists to panic.“It was crazy,” one tourist, Diana Rodriquez, told the TV station KLAS. “We didn’t even want to walk through there. Everybody was g
  
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• Georgia could be ordered to use paper ballots over fears electronic voting machines vulnerable to hacking

  27-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A US state could be forced to use paper ballots at its next election over fears its electronic voting machines are vulnerable to hacking.According to district judge Amy Totenberg, Georgia allowed its election system to grow “way too old and archaic” and now has a deep hole to dig out of to ensure the constitutional right to vote is protected.Ms Totenberg is in the difficult position of having to decide whether the state, which plans to implement a new voting system next year, must im
  
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• Southern California water polo players among injured in deadly balcony collapse at South Korea nightclub

  27-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Several USA Water Polo team members from Southern California were among the 16 people injured when a balcony collapsed inside a South Korea nightclub, killing two others, officials said.
  
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• US man allegedly wanted to kill American soldiers, arrested while trying to join Taliban

  27-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A 33-year-old man faces terror charges after his arrest at a New York airport while allegedly en route to join the Taliban.
  
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• Moscow police arrest hundreds at banned rally for fair elections

  27-07-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Moscow said they arrested more than 1,000 people Saturday at a banned opposition protest calling for city authorities to reverse decisions to exclude key opposition candidates from the ballot paper.The protest was the latest in a wave of demonstrations calling for fair local elections in the capital.In all, "1,074 people have been arrested for a variety of offences during an unauthorised demonstration in the centre of the capital", Moscow police were quoted as saying by Russian news ag
  
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• Russian police arrest more than 1,000 in Moscow protest

  27-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian police cracked down fiercely Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting more than 1,000 who were protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council.Police also stormed into a TV station broadcasting the protest.State news agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti cited police as saying 1,074 were arrested over the course of the protests, which lasted more than seven hours.
  
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• Student group says Harvard failed to address racist messages

  27-07-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  An association of black students at Harvard Law School says the university "woefully failed to act" after four students received offensive emails and text messages from an anonymous sender.The Harvard Black Law Students Association issued a statement on Friday criticizing the school after it was unable to determine who sent the "hateful, racist and sexist" messages, and after officials refused to share details of an investigation with students who received the messages.Harvard officials say the
  
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• Trump signs ‘cruel and illegal’ deal with Guatemala to stop asylum seekers getting to US

  27-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has struck a highly controversial deal with Guatemala, which will prevent some migrants fleeing their home countries from submitting asylum applications to the US.Refugees travelling to the US who enter Guatemala, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, will now be required to apply for asylum protection from the Central American nation instead of at the US border.Under the deal Guatemala has been declared a so-called “safe third country”.The Central American na
  
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• Mobster 'Whitey' Bulger buried 3 bodies at Boston home now on sale for $3.5M

  27-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A house where James "Whitey" Bulger killed and buried three people is located in a South Boston neighborhood that's experiencing a real estate boom.
  
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• Epstein case: judge agrees to keep documents on 2008 plea deal secret

  27-07-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Court grants prosecutors’ request amid concern that releasing materials could hinder investigation of financier’s associatesJeffrey Epstein, left, looks on during a bail hearing, in a 15 July court sketch. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/ReutersA judge in New York has granted a request from prosecutors to keep secret documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 sexual abuse plea deal, on the grounds that the materials could hamper their investigation of others in the f
  
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• Moscow police arrest hundreds at rally for fair elections: monitor

  27-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested more than 800 people as they gathered in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair local elections, a protest monitor said, following the latest in a wave of demonstrations after authorities blocked opposition candidates from the ballot paper.The demonstration came a week after the capital's biggest protest in years, when some 22,000 marchers called on officials to reverse rulings and allow opposition activists to stand for the city council in September.Since then investigators have raid
  
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• Pelosi denounces Trump's 'racist attacks' on Rep. Elijah Cummings and Baltimore

  27-07-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  "We all reject racist attacks against (Cummings) and support his steadfast leadership," Pelosi said in a Saturday tweet.
  
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• House Democrats are divided over impeachment decision

  27-07-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  New Jersey Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew says impeachment is not a tool to be used because you have an intense dislike for a particular president.
  
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• Police Union calls on NYPD commissioner to resign amid incidents of water dousing of officers

  27-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  NYPD Sgt. Joe Imperatrice says nobody should ever be able to get in somebody's safe space like that.
  
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• Former Governor Ricardo Rossellό isn't the only weight on Puerto Rico

  27-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  For far too long, the rules have been written for Puerto Ricans, not by them. Congress must give Puerto Rico the self-determination we deserve.
  
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• Grasshoppers invade Las Vegas Strip

  27-07-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Massive swarms of grasshoppers have descended on the Las Vegas Strip this week, startling tourists and residents as they pass through town on their northbound migration.Videos posted on social media show swarms of the bugs, called pallid-winged grasshoppers, converging on the bright neon lights of the Strip and sidewalks covered with the insects.The Nevada Department of Agriculture said the rare invasion was linked to an unseasonably wet winter and spring.
  
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• Libyan officials say fighting rages near capital

  27-07-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The battle between rival militias for control of the Libyan capital raged amid increased fighting over the past the past 24 hours, officials said Saturday, with both sides relying heavily on airpower to make progress in the stalemated conflict.Forces loyal to Khalifa Hifter, a veteran army officer based in the country's east, began an offensive to capture Tripoli in early April.Hifter's self-styled Libyan National Army has been advancing into the city's southern outskirts, clashing with an array
  
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• US citizen says he lost 26 pounds under 'inhumane' conditions at border facility in Texas

  27-07-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  An 18-year-old U.S. citizen from Dallas says he lost 26 pounds while being held for more than three weeks at a U.S. border detention center.
  
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• CNN anchor Victor Blackwell gives emotional on-air defense of hometown Baltimore after Trump attacks

  27-07-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  CNN anchor Victor Blackwell gave an emotional defense of his hometown of Baltimore saying, "People are proud of their community."
  
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• Police arrest Scottish rape suspect who may have faked death

  27-07-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A Scottish man who authorities say faked his death off California's Carmel coast to avoid rape charges back home has been arrested, authorities announced Friday.Kim Vincent Avis, 55, also known as Ken Gordon-Avis, was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colorado, last week and is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service, Cmdr. Kathy Pallozolo with the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said.The Associated Press has identified him as Kim Gordon.
  
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• Trump launches vicious attack on senior congressman from ‘rat-infested district’, apparently regurgitating Fox News segment

  27-07-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has lashed out at a senior Democratic congressman, calling him a “brutal bully” from a “rat infested” district, less than one hour after a Fox News segment criticising the representative.The president accused Elijah Cummings, who is a prominent critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, of “shouting and screaming” at Border Patrol officials over conditions on the US-Mexico border.He went on to claim Mr Cummings’ Maryland
  
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• Sebastian Kurz accused of secretly destroying hard drives in oligarch far-Right scandal

  27-07-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Fresh questions are being raised over former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz's bid for re-election after he was drawn back into the heart of a scandal over a fake Russian oligarch that brought his government down. Mr Kurz, who was, at 32, one of the world's youngest democratically elected leaders, lost his grip on power earlier this year when he was forced lost a no confidence vote and was forced into a snap election. At the time, he distanced himself from leaked videos showing his far-Right
  
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• Europeans stall on mission to protect tankers in Gulf after Raab calls for joint patrols with US

  27-07-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Divisions have emerged over plans for a European naval mission in the Persian Gulf, with Britain suggesting the operation would need US support while France and Germany insist it stay independent of America.  In a first sign that the UK may move closer to the US position on Iran under Boris Johnson, the new foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said a European mission was probably not “viable” without American help.  “I think we do want to see a European-led approach, but
  
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• US drug busts in Pacific net cocaine worth $350 mn

  27-07-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Coast Guard have seized $350 million worth of cocaine in a series of operations in the Pacific Ocean, captured in a dramatic video showing suspected drug smugglers frantically tossing their cargo from a speeding boat.The Coast Guard released images late Friday of the high-speed chase by one of its cutters, one of six recent interdictions in international waters of the Pacific Ocean, off the Mexican and Latin American coasts.The Coast Guard did not specify how many arrests were made in the
  
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• Russian police crack down hard on Moscow election protest

  27-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian police cracked down hard Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting hundreds of others protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council.OVD-Info, an organization that monitors political arrests in Russia, said 638 people were detained.Moscow police earlier said 295 people had been taken in, but did not immediately give a final figure.
  
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• US and Guatemala sign agreement to restrict asylum cases

  27-07-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's administration signed an agreement with Guatemala that will restrict asylum applications to the US from Central America. The "safe third country" agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the US, to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of at the US border. It could potentially ease the crush of migrants overwhelming the US immigration system, although many questions remain about how the agreement will be e
  
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• Iran tells Oman neighbours have made talks impossible

  27-07-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's neighbours have made talks impossible through their "hasty and arrogant moves", a top security official told Oman's foreign minister in Tehran on Saturday amid a tanker crisis.Oman, a past mediator between Iran and its foes, sent its top diplomat to the Islamic republic amid amplified tensions between Iran and the United States and its allies, including in the Gulf.
  
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• Paris Digs in on Digital Tax as Trump Floats Wine Tariffs

  27-07-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- France stuck to its plan to tax big multinational tech companies, defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might impose tariffs on French wine.“It’s in all of our interest to move toward a just taxation worldwide for digital companies,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in Paris. Wine tariffs and the digital tax are “completely different issues” and shouldn’t be lumped together, he told reporters on Saturday.It&rs
  
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• Twin 1-Year-Olds Die Inside Hot New York City Car

  27-07-2019 16:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The father apparently left the children for 8 hours while working at a hospital nearby
  
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• Donald Trump says he has 'safe third country' deal with Guatemala

  27-07-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The agreement is designed to reduce asylum claims in the United States.
  
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• AP Explains: How big a threat is an electromagnetic attack?

  27-07-2019 16:29 via news.yahoo.com
  When much of Venezuela was plunged into darkness after a massive blackout this week, President Nicolás Maduro blamed the power outage on an "electromagnetic attack" carried out by the U.S.Blackouts are a regrettably frequent part of life in Venezuela, where the electric grid has fallen into serious disrepair."In Venezuela, it's a lot easier for him to say we did something to him than he did it to himself," said Sharon Burke, senior adviser at New America, a nonpartisan think tank, and for
  
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• The Latest: Hong Kong police warn protesters of arrest

  27-07-2019 16:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Hong Kong have warned protesters that they may be arrested if they refuse to leave a gathering around a train station.Police said in a statement Saturday evening that most protesters who participated in a rally in the city's Yuen Long area earlier in the day had already left, but that some remained near the mass transit station.The station was the site of a brutal mob attack last Sunday night, when unknown white-clad man beat up protesters and other commuters.
  
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• 4 problems plague 2020 Democrats as they approach the Detroit debate double-header

  27-07-2019 16:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Can't anybody play this game? Democrats have 25 candidates and significant obstacles to beating Trump, from 'socialism' to health care to age.
  
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