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• Parents sue school, fraternity brother after sons' suicides

  01-08-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of two students who killed themselves at a Truman State University fraternity house are suing the Missouri school, the fraternity and a fraternity member who they claim encouraged the suicides.The joint lawsuit filed Wednesday in Adair County also links the fraternity member to two other suicides in the same academic year and a fifth death that remains under investigation, The Kansas City Star reported.The parents of Alexander David Mullins, of Kansas City, and Joshua Michael Thomas,
  
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• A woman's limbs were amputated after her dogs licked her and gave her a bacterial infection. Most dogs carry the same bacteria.

  01-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Capnocytophaga canimorsus can cause flu-like symptoms. People with weakened immune systems are most susceptible.
  
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• Biden's flub shows why candidates should be allowed to bring notes to debates

  01-08-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden's botched closing statement at the CNN Democratic debate shows why notes should be allowed.
  
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• 10-Year-Old Girl Crashes Mom's SUV While Driving Herself to McDonald's

  01-08-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Kansas City police say a 10-year-old girl went to the hospital Wednesday morning after she crashed her mom`s SUV into a minivan and electrical box while trying to go to McDonald's.
  
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• Chief apologizes over hiring of officer who shot black man

  01-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A Louisiana police chief apologized Thursday to his city and to the family of a black man shot and killed by a former police officer in 2016, saying the officer never should have been hired, at the same time his office announced a settlement reversing the officer's 2018 firing and allowing him to resign instead.At a news conference in Baton Rouge, Police Chief Murphy Paul and a police lawyer detailed repeated problems with Officer Blane Salamoni that they said should have raised red flags long b
  
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• A man drowned on his honeymoon in Florida. It was his first time swimming in the ocean.

  01-08-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  For Dalton Cottrell and Cheyenne Hedrick, "three days of wedded bliss turned into a nightmare very quickly," Hedrick wrote on Facebook.
  
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• ‘Everybody Uses Us.’ What It Was Like to Watch the Democratic Debate in Flint, Michigan

  01-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Between Harris, Biden, and Booker, no clear favorite emerged. Instead, these Flint voters seemed drawn to candidates like businessman Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh won't face discipline over Senate confrontation

  01-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh cannot be disciplined for his behavior during last year's confirmation battle, a judicial panel ruled.
  
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• Trump Addresses Possibility of ‘Send Her Back’ Chants Ahead of Rally

  01-08-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox NewsHours before his Thursday night campaign rally in Ohio, President Trump addressed the possibility of the crowd taking part in another racist chant directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). The president was non-committal about whether he’d try to stop it.During a rally earlier this month, the president basked in chants of “Send Her Back!” after he railed against Omar. The chants came on the heels of the president’s repeated bigoted attacks on Omar and other progressive
  
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• James Comey: Justice Department will not charge former FBI director in spite of Trump attacks

  01-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Justice Department has declined to prosecute the former FBI director James Comey over how he dealt with his own memos containing “confidential” information, which was shared with the media after being fired from his post by Donald Trump.The decision was announced on Thursday, shortly after the department’s inspector general referred Mr Comey for potential prosecution, and just hours after Mr Trump shared a Fox News clip suggesting that the intelligence official had been cau
  
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• Ex-Boyfriend Allegedly Confessed to Killing Russian Influencer After She Called Him ‘Sexually Unworthy’

  01-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  InstagramThe ex-boyfriend of a Russian Instagram influencer whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase last week has confessed to her murder, saying he snapped after feeling “repeatedly insulted and humiliated” by her disparaging remarks, Russian authorities allege. Maxim Gareyev, 33, admitted to authorities that he stabbed 24-year-old Ekaterina Karaglanova “at least five times in the neck and chest” last week, BBC reported. He has been charged with murder, but has n
  
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• GOP pushes immigration bill, skirting rules as Dems protest

  01-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee upended the rules Thursday for immigration legislation that would extend family detentions as chairman Lindsey Graham muscled the measure forward over the objections of Democrats.Graham gaveled open the hearing saying he wasn't going to wait any longer to address the crisis at the southern border. He acknowledged that his outreach to Democrats has failed to reach a compromise on detention policies for children and families.In pushing the bill forward
  
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• Woman who survived Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, 2017 Las Vegas massacre: 'I can't believe this is happening again'

  01-08-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  One woman who narrowly escaped the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting says she experienced a harrowing feeling of familiarity during the attack.
  
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• Navy confirms pilot died in jet crash in Death Valley

  01-08-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The pilot of a U.S. Navy jet fighter that crashed in Death Valley National Park was killed, the military said Thursday.The F/A-18E Super Hornet was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-151 based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California's Central Valley.The jet went down Wednesday during low-level flying in what was described as routine training.
  
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• A New Alzheimer's Blood Test Proved 94% Accurate in Finding Brain Changes Related to the Disease

  01-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A blood-based test could identify Alzheimer’s disease earlier, which could give patients a better chance of slowing or eventually preventing the brain disease
  
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• The Latest: Lawyer: Officer happy he can resign, not fired

  01-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawyer for a former Louisiana police officer who shot and killed a black man says they're happy with a settlement that withdraws his termination and allows him to resign instead.John McClindon represents Blane Salamoni, a former Baton Rouge police officer who shot Alton Sterling during a 2016 altercation that led to widespread protests.Police chief Murphy Paul fired Salamoni last year.
  
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• US Air Force F-15 fighter jets are patrolling the Persian Gulf with cluster bombs, and they may be Iranian gunboat killers

  01-08-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Just one of these bombs could devastate a swarm of speed boats, like the ones Iranian commandos use to harass warships and oil tankers.
  
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• Trump Watch: Judge Blocks NY From Turning Over Trump Tax Returns To Congress

  01-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge blocked New York state from turning over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress Thursday.The order from Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, came in agreement to a proposal from the state that would allow it to challenge Nichols’ jurisdiction over the issue, Politico reported Thursday.The order will block any House Ways and Means Committee requests for the tax returns via the New York law until the jurisdictional dispute is resolved.The
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard Accuses MSNBC Anchor Of Being Fed Talking Points By Harris’s Team

  01-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris’s team of feeding talking points to MSNBC anchor Yasmin Vossoughian.Gabbard got testy while talking to Vossoughian Thursday.“Every time I come back here on MSNBC, you guys talk to me about these issues. It sounds like these are talking points that Kamala Harris and her campaign are feeding you because she’s refusing to address the questions that were posed to her,” Gabbard told
  
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• Argentina's Navy and Air Force are Dying a Slow Death. Here's Why.

  01-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Argentine navy has had a rough few decades. It lost ships and sailors fighting the Royal Navy over the Falkland Islands in 1982. Political upheaval and economic depression robbed it of funding and support. Sanctions constrained modernization efforts. Ships rusted out. Some sank. More sailors died.Now the Argentine navy is set to lose two more of its larger, oceangoing “blue-water” vessels, potentially shrinking the fleet to just a handful of operational warships that increasingly
  
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• Joe Biden 'surprised' by fellow Democrats attacking Obama's legacy at debates

  01-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  "I don’t think there is anything he has to apologize for," the former vice president said. "It kind of surprised me, the degree of the criticism.”
  
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• Night 2 of Detroit Dem debates drew 10.7 million viewers, well below June ratings

  01-08-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The second night of the Miami debates raked in 18.1 million viewers, the highest-rated Democratic debate in Nielsen ratings history.
  
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• UK, France and Germany condemn North Korea missile launches

  01-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday condemned North Korea's latest ballistic missile launches as violations of U.N. sanctions and urged Pyongyang to engage in "meaningful negotiations" with the United States on eliminating its nuclear weapons.The three countries also urged North Korea "to take concrete steps toward its complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization" and said international sanctions should remain in place and be fully enforced until its nuclear and ballisti
  
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• Gunmaker asks US Supreme Court to hear Sandy Hook appeal

  01-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal Thursday of a state ruling against the company.Remington Arms, based in Madison, North Carolina, cited a much-debated 2005 federal law that shields firearms manufacturers from liability in most cases when their products are used in crimes.Gunman Adam Lanza opened fire at the Newtown, Connecticut, school with a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle on Dec. 14, 2012, killing 20 first gra
  
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• China’s Army Signals It May Move Against Hong Kong Protests

  01-08-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Bloomberg/GettyHONG KONG—China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, is ready to sow fear. Late on Wednesday evening, it released a video featuring armored vehicles and tanks, as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s troops performing a drill to crack down on protesters. They scale a building, storm a residence, and rappel from a helicopter. They board and take control of a ship, and snipe from a hill. In one scene, an officer speaks in Cantonese—the l
  
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• As Troops Mass in China, Hong Kong Protestors Call For ‘The Revolution of Our Time’

  01-08-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Bloomberg/GettyHONG KONG—China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army, is ready to sow fear. Late on Wednesday evening, it released a video featuring armored vehicles and tanks, as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s troops performing a drill to crack down on protestors. They scale a building, storm a residence, and rappel from a helicopter. They board and take control of a ship, and snipe from a hill. In one scene, an officer speaks in Cantonese—the l
  
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• New Ford 7.3-Liter "Godzilla" Gasoline V-8 Coming for Super Duty Lineup

  01-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The new engine will be rated at up to 430 horsepower and 475 lb-ft of torque.
  
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• Top Navy SEAL commander writes scathing letter saying the force has a problem in the wake of SEAL scandals

  01-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Rear Adm. Collin Green wrote a scathing letter to his forces, saying special operators need to shape up in the wake of SEAL scandals.
  
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• The Latest: Family of ex-cop convicted of rape "devastated"

  01-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a former Oklahoma City police officer convicted of rape says it's devastated that a court has rejected his appeal.The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday upheld the convictions of 32-year-old Daniel Holtzclaw.A statement from Holtzclaw's sister, Jenny Holtzclaw, said Holtzclaw is also devastated, but strong, and that the family will "pursue every available avenue" to prove his innocence and win his freedom.
  
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• A$AP Rocky testifies in Sweden, says he tried to avoid fight

  01-08-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  American rapper A$AP Rocky testified Thursday at his assault trial in Sweden that he did everything possible to avoid a confrontation with two men he said were persistently following his entourage in Stockholm, but one of those men picked a fight with one of his bodyguards.The recording artist, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, is accused along with two other men believed to be members of his entourage of beating a 19-year-old man, Mustafa Jafari, in Stockholm on June 30.Mayers told Stockholm Dis
  
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• Southwest Flight Attendant Makes Air Travel More Surprising By Hanging Out in Overhead Bin

  01-08-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  "Is this a dream?"
  
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• US Air Force orders all units to stand down for one day as suicide rate skyrockets

  01-08-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Air Force has seen 78 suicides so far this year, significantly more than this time last year, and the service is scrambling for answers.
  
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• US Air Force orders all units to stand down for one day as suicide rate rises

  01-08-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Air Force has seen 78 suicides so far this year, significantly more than this time last year, and the service is scrambling for answers.
  
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• Mother of boy found in Denver storage unit pleads to abuse

  01-08-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother pleaded guilty Thursday to child abuse resulting in the death of her 7-year-old son whose body was found in a Denver storage unit, in a deal requiring her cooperation with prosecutors who have charged the boy's father with murder.The plea agreement approved by a judge recommends that Elisha Pankey spend between 16 and 32 years in prison.Prosecutors said she will not be sentenced until after the trial of her husband, Leland Pankey.
  
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• Ethiopia's PM says 'people from abroad' had role in June twin attacks

  01-08-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that attackers in a failed regional coup in June had been trained by people who had come from foreign countries, without giving details.A rogue militia tried to seize power on June 22 in the northern Amhara region, an attack which authorities blamed on Asamnew Tsige, who was killed in fighting on the outskirts of the regional capital Bahir Dar.The army chief of staff was also killed in the capital Addis Ababa simultaneously with the failed Bah
  
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• Trump and Epstein's friendship reportedly soured after they fought over a $41 million Palm Beach mansion. 2 weeks after the home's auction, cops received a tip about underage women at Epstein's house.

  01-08-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The formerly friendly New Yorkers both wanted to buy the Maison de l'Amitie at a bankruptcy auction in 2004, the Washington Post reported.
  
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• Dutch ban on burqas in public places takes effect

  01-08-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Netherlands banned the wearing of a face-covering veil, such as a burqa or niqab, in public buildings and on transport from Thursday as a contentious law on the garment worn by some Muslim women came into force.Far-right politician Geert Wilders had proposed the face-covering veil ban back in 2005."I believe we should now try to take it to the next step," Wilders wrote in a tweet on Thursday, urging that the simple headscarf should be banned as well.
  
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• Trump adviser Stone loses bid to dismiss indictment stemming from Mueller probe

  01-08-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's longtime political adviser Roger Stone on Thursday lost a long-shot bid to overturn a seven-count indictment against him stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Stone's attorneys had failed to identify any legal grounds that would support dismissing the indictment, which accused him of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
  
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• Ethiopia's PM says "people from abroad" had role in June twin attacks

  01-08-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that attackers in a failed regional coup in June had been trained by people who had come from foreign countries, without giving details.A rogue militia tried to seize power on June 22 in the northern Amhara region, an attack which authorities blamed on Asamnew Tsige, who was killed in fighting on the outskirts of the regional capital Bahir Dar.The army chief of staff was also killed in the capital Addis Ababa simultaneously with the failed Bah
  
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• Princess Haya custody case tests Britain's loyalties to allies Jordan and UAE

  01-08-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Hugging her brother who clasps a protective arm tightly around her shoulder, Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein appears eager to ensure the flag of her native Jordan on her jumper is prominent in her latest photograph. The Jordanian princess is locked in an acrimonious legal battle in the British courts with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the multi-millionaire ruler of Dubai, over the welfare of their two children. The picture, probably taken at her £85 million home in Kensington, shows
  
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• Hamza bin Laden's death 'only symbolic blow to al-Qaeda'

  01-08-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The killing of Hamza bin Laden has dealt a symbolic blow to al-Qaeda, but may have little practical impact on the resilient jihadist network, terrorism experts said. The death of Osama bin Laden's favourite son ends jihadist hopes of a dynasty leading what was once the world's most notorious terrorist group. The younger bin Laden, thought to be around 30, was being prepared to one day oversee al-Qaeda and usher in a new, younger leadership in the network his father founded. American officials ga
  
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• Can Kazakhstan be America's New Partner in Central Asia?

  01-08-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Change has come to Kazakhstan, at last.The former Soviet republic’s first president, seventy-nine-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev, stepped down in March after nearly thirty years in power. His successor, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, won the post in last month’s elections, racking up 70 percent of the vote.The election process, albeit imperfect, was Kazakhstan’s most legitimate yet. (In the previous election, for example, Nazarbayev won with a reported 97.7 percent of the vote.) Just as
  
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• Trump supporters line up in Cincinnati for president's upcoming rally

  01-08-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Supporters of President Trump are getting ready for the president's rally in Cincinnati set to take place later Thursday evening.
  
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• Exchange of fire on Gaza border kills Palestinian, wounds 3 Israel soldiers

  01-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A Palestinian seeking to avenge his brother's death by Israeli fire entered Israel from Gaza Thursday, sparking a firefight in which the Israeli army said he was killed and three Israeli soldiers wounded.An Israeli tank fired at a Hamas military post after the incident which began at around 2:00 am, Israel's military said.It said an army officer was moderately wounded and two soldiers were lightly injured by gunfire from the Palestinian, who breached the Israeli border fence from the Khan Yunis
  
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• Meghan McCain Clashes With ‘View’ Co-Hosts on Tulsi Gabbard: She’s No ‘Russian Stooge’

  01-08-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Meghan McCain rallied to Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s defense Thursday on The View, as she pushed back against her co-hosts’ concerns that the Hawaii congresswoman could be a “Trojan horse” getting a boost from Russian propaganda outlets.During Wednesday night’s Democratic primary debate, Gabbard had a brief breakout moment when she called out California Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on her record as a prosecutor and on criminal justice. Following t
  
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• 5 years on, Yazidis still live with IS massacre, enslavement

  01-08-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Five years after their lives were torn apart by Islamic State militants, the Yazidis of Iraq are still unable to return home or locate hundreds of their women and children kidnapped and enslaved by the extremists.Yazidi community leaders and Iraqi politicians met Thursday in Baghdad to commemorate the fifth anniversary of IS rampaging through the Sinjar region in northern Iraq in Aug 2014.The militants destroyed villages, and religious sites, lined men up and shot them before kidnapping thousand
  
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• Dozens swallowed by 'tsunami' after wave pool malfunctions at water park

  01-08-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A horrifying video going viral on social media shows the moment the giant tidal wave forms and crashes on a crowd floating in the wave pool.
  
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• Iran was able to capture a British oil tanker because it only gave the Royal Navy 1 hour's notice to escort it, rather than 24, former UK Defence Secretary says

  01-08-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Penny Mordaunt has offered insight into how Iran's Revolutionary Guard corps managed to seize the Stena Impero oil tanker in July.
  
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• Poland remembers failed 1944 revolt against Germans

  01-08-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Maria Mostowska was a young pediatric nurse when the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi Germans occupying Poland broke out on Aug. 1, 1944.Seventy-five years on, she still vividly remembers how German troops put her against a wall and aimed a machine gun.Some 50,000 fighters of Poland's clandestine Home Army — most of them poorly armed — fought the Germans for 63 days before surrendering, in the biggest single act of resistance in occupied Europe during World War II. Some 18,000 insurg
  
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• Iowa newlywed, 22, drowns on honeymoon during first-ever time in ocean, just 3 days after wedding

  01-08-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A 22-year-old Iowa man tragically drowned Tuesday during his Floridahoneymoon, just three days after he and his bride said, "I do
  
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