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• RFK granddaughter dies; police awaiting toxicology reports

  02-08-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities said Friday they are looking to toxicology reports for clues to the death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old granddaughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.The Kennedy family confirmed the death in a statement after police responded to a call Thursday afternoon about a possible drug overdose at the storied Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.The statement was issued by Brian Wright O'Connor, a spokesman for Saoirse Hill's uncle, former congre
  
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• British student may have fallen from plane after adverse reaction to medication, family says

  02-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A British student who deliberately opened the doors of a plane and fell to herdeath may have done so after suffering from a severe reaction to prescribeddrugs, the Guardian reports
  
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• Police locate mother of abandoned baby found on porch in Pennsylvania

  02-08-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Police said they have located the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned on a porch in Pennsylvania earlier this week.
  
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• US to test new missile as arms treaty with Russia ends

  02-08-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  With the scrapping of a landmark arms control agreement Friday, the U.S. announced plans to test a new missile amid growing concerns about emerging threats and new weapons.U.S. officials said they are no longer hamstrung and could now develop weapons systems previously banned under the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia, a Cold War-era agreement that both sides repeatedly accused the other of violating.The treaty was also criticized because it did not cover China or missile tec
  
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• ‘Way Too Much Pork’ Makes Trade War Bite U.S. Hog Markets

  02-08-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Trade concerns are starting to make all other factors in the hog market look obsolete.Futures have tumbled to the lowest since March. That’s as African swine fever decimates China’s pig herd in an unprecedented global supply disruption. Even though the Asian nation is importing huge amounts of meat, American producers are losing out to rivals in Brazil and elsewhere because of Donald Trump’s trade war. What’s more, the U.S. president’s threat of addit
  
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• Family told dead Chinese scholar's body may be in landfill

  02-08-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a visiting Chinese scholar whose body was never recovered after a former University of Illinois doctoral student kidnapped and killed her has been told the woman's remains may be in a landfill in eastern Illinois, an attorney for the slain scholar's family said Friday.In a statement, attorney Steve Beckett said the family of Yingying Zhang was notified by prosecutors that Brendt Christensen's attorneys provided information that led investigators to think the "potential site" of the
  
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• Cummings says he scared off intruder at Baltimore home

  02-08-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Elijah Cummings says he scared off an intruder at his Baltimore home last weekend, providing details for the first time after President Donald Trump tweeted Friday about the break-in."I was notified of the intrusion by my security system, and I scared the intruder away by yelling before the person gained entry into the residential portion of the house," Cummings said.Trump tweeted earlier Friday, "Really bad news! The Baltimore house of Elijah Cummings was robbed.
  
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• N. Carolina governor moves to block conversion therapy funds

  02-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  North Carolina's state health department is barred from allowing public funds to pay for conversion therapy for minors, a controversial practice aimed at changing young LGBT people's sexual orientations, under an order signed Friday by Gov. Roy Cooper.Advocacy groups praised the Democratic governor's executive order as a pioneering step to restrict the therapy in the U.S. South.Cooper's order forbids funds controlled by executive branch agencies from paying for such therapy for minors.
  
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• Fox News Host Neil Cavuto Tells Viewers Trump Is Wrong: ‘China Isn’t Paying These Tariffs. You Are.’

  02-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Immediately after President Donald Trump boasted to White House reporters that the United States rakes in billions of dollars from China because of his tariffs, Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto issued an on-air fact-check of the president’s remarks, directly telling his viewers that Trump is wrong.While taking questions on the White House lawn Friday afternoon, the president insisted Americans farmers are fully behind his trade war and support his latest tariffs on $300 billion worth of goods f
  
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• Police chief says officer faked shooting, distress call

  02-08-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  An Alabama police officer staged a shooting last month to make it appear as though he was under attack, a police chief said Thursday.
  
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• Online threat appears to refer to California festival attack

  02-08-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested a man after he made threats online that apparently referenced the deadly shooting at a Northern California food festival, authorities said.Jose Pinon of Gilroy posted Wednesday on Facebook that "my goal is to kill 500, not three," believed to be a reference to the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival that killed three people Sunday, police said.Gilroy police Capt. Joseph Deras said officials did not seize any weapons from Pinon's home Thursday and do not believe he was planning
  
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• Retirement of only black House Republican jars GOP for 2020

  02-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The only black House Republican, a critic of President Donald Trump's, has joined a growing list of GOP lawmakers not seeking reelection next year, jarring the party's efforts to woo minority voters and recapture House control.Rep. Will Hurd, a moderate Texan who's split with Trump over race and immigration, became the ninth House Republican to say he or she will depart and the sixth in just over a week.
  
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• Freedom sought for US teen jailed in Rome police slaying

  02-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawyer for one of two American teens jailed in the investigation of an Italian police officer's slaying has petitioned for his client's release.Francesco Petrelli said Friday he didn't know when a tribunal would hear the appeal, filed a day earlier, on behalf of Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 18.Natale-Hjorth and fellow Californian Finnegan Lee Elder, 19, are being held in a Rome jail while prosecutors probe the slaying of an unarmed officer, Mario Cerciello Rega, who was knifed 11 times on
  
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• China wants trade talks but if US wants fight it will fight

  02-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  China is ready to talk to the United States about their escalating trade war but "if they want to fight we will fight" and it will not be a fight for China alone but for an open international economy, Beijing's new U.N. ambassador said Friday.Zhang Jun told reporters that U.S. sanctions and increasing tariffs hurt China and the world, but they are also "not in the long-term interest of the United States," where consumers will be paying higher prices.
  
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• Kennedy family tree: A look at notable members of the dynasty in wake of Saoirse Kennedy Hill's death

  02-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Kennedy is one of the most well-known family names in modern American history. Unfortunately, the family has been marred by tragedy over the years.
  
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• 'Self-inflicted wound': Donald Trump signs budget bill as experts warn he's on track to add trillions to U.S. debt

  02-08-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump claimed when he was a candidate that he could erase the national debt in eight years. He has instead raised it by more than $4 trillion.
  
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• The Latest: A$AP Rocky: Detention was "humbling" experience

  02-08-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A Swedish court ruled Friday that the rapper and two other U.S. suspects in an assault trial can be freed until the verdict in their case is announced on Aug. 14.According to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, the rapper plans to leave Sweden on Friday evening on a private plane for the U.S.Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, is accused together with Daniel Rispers Jr. and Bladimir Corniel of beating a 19-year-old man in Stockholm on June 30.
  
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• How innovative Hong Kong protesters are using lasers, traffic cones and parkour in battle with police

  02-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  In her pink top and billowy skirt there is little outward sign that Diana, 24, spends her weekends executing inventive, eye-catching protest tactics on the frontlines of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. Millions of young people have taken to the streets all summer to fight for the city’s freedoms in the face of growing repression from China.  In increasingly chaotic clashes, the protesters at the frontline bring with them a variety of homespun tools to confound highly-trained
  
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• Federal Judge Halts Trump Administration Policy of Denying Asylum to Those Who Cross Border Illegally

  02-08-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Washington, D.C. federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration's policy of denying asylum to migrants who fail to enter the U.S. through a legal port of entry.The policy is "inconsistent with" the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Judge Randolph Moss wrote.A federal judge in San Francisco, Jon Tigar, halted the policy for one month a few weeks after it was implemented in November, saying it “irreconcilably conflicts with” the 1965 law, which states
  
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• Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22-year-old granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, found dead at Kennedy compound

  02-08-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The family's statement said Saoirse was passionate about human rights and worked with indigenous communities to build schools in Mexico.
  
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• Mitch McConnell Didn’t Stop Obama from Doing Anything about Russia in 2016

  02-08-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the enduring myths told by Democrats about the 2016 campaign is that President Obama was ready to issue a stern warning to the American people about Russian meddling that would have changed the course of the election but that he was thwarted by Mitch McConnell. This is self-serving nonsense, and the closer you look at the evidence, the weaker it becomes.Democrats and liberals have lately been campaigning to delegitimize McConnell by claiming that he is, in the words of Washington Post col
  
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• Confederate monument removed from California cemetery

  02-08-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A Confederate monument recently vandalized with red paint and the word "racists" has been removed from a Southern California cemetery.The 9-foot-tall (2.7-meter) granite marker was placed at Santa Ana Cemetery by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 2004.The Orange County Cemetery District, which operates the cemetery, said the monument had become "an unsightly public nuisance" after the vandalism, and the district wanted to remove it quickly.
  
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• Car-to-car shooting suspect arrested after firing at officer, crashing into San Bernardino home

  02-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect involved in two shootings, including one involving a police officer, was taken into custody after crashing into a home in San Bernardino Friday morning, authorities say.
  
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• Police officer in Eric Garner's death, Daniel Pantaleo, should be fired, NYPD judge says

  02-08-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Eric Garner’s pleas of "I can’t breathe" became a rallying cry on police brutality. Daniel Pantaleo, the officer, should be fired, judge says.
  
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• How President Trump Is Undercutting Pompeo in a Dispute Over Turkey's Purchase of a Russian Missile System

  02-08-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has publicly stated that Turkey's purchase of a Russian S-400 ran afoul of a 2017 law meant to punish Russia.
  
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• U.S. Headed Toward Blockade of Venezuela, Trump Official Says

  02-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump is serious about a possible U.S. blockade of Venezuela, a senior administration official said Friday, saying that the country’s president Nicolas Maduro has a short window to voluntarily leave power.Trump told reporters on Thursday that he was considering a blockade or quarantine of the Latin American country, where the U.S. has been trying for months to unseat Maduro. He didn’t elaborate.But the official said Trump’s statement should be taken seriou
  
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• Illinois state senator Indicted on embezzlement charges

  02-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  An Illinois state senator has been indicted on federal charges that he took more than $250,000 in salary and benefits over a three-year period from the Teamsters while doing little or no work, prosecutors announced Friday.In a news release, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago said Thomas E. Cullerton of Villa Park was indicted by a federal grand jury on 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union, one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union and employee benefit plans and one count
  
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• Trump plays down latest North Korea missile tests

  02-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed recent missile tests by North Korea and flattered the country's leader as a friend with a "great and beautiful vision for his country," as the U.S. tries to lure Kim Jong Un back to nuclear talks. Trump's series of three tweets — which take great pains to excuse the actions of a man he once dismissed as "Little Rocket Man" — shows just how much the president has riding on North Korea. Despite widespread skepticism that Kim will give up his
  
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• Canada raises detained citizens with China

  02-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday she had spoken to her Chinese counterpart in their first public meeting since the countries became embroiled in a diplomatic spat over two Canadians detained in China.Freeland told reporters she brought up the arrests of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor with Wang Yi during a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Thailand.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Republicans becoming ever more a party of white men

  02-08-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  After Rep. Will Hurd’s retirement, the next Congress will have exactly one black Republican: Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.
  
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• Officer in Eric Garner Death Suspended After NYPD Investigation. Here's What to Know About the Case

  02-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A New York judge recommends that Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who wrestled Eric Garner to the ground as he gasped “I can’t breathe," be fired
  
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• LAPD conducts raids in 2 counties, arrests 3 suspects in fatal shooting of Officer Juan Diaz

  02-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Los Angeles police conducted raids in two counties and arrested three primary suspects days after the fatal shooting of Officer Juan Jose Diaz.
  
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• Taiwan says a Chinese warship slammed into one of its cargo ships and then sailed off into the night

  02-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chinese warship collided with a Taiwanese cargo ship in the Taiwan Strait and fled the scene, coast guard officials said.
  
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• Senator Josh Hawley Reveals the Nasty Truth Behind Confucius Institutes

  02-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese-government-sponsored Confucius Institutes are “a tool for China to spread influence and exercise soft power,” “a known threat to academic freedom,” and “a danger to our national defense and security,” says Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) in a letter sent last week to the University of Missouri and Webster University. Both institutions host Confucius Institutes, campus centers that teach Chinese language and culture and are funded and partly staffed and o
  
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• De Blasio Says Justice Given to Eric Garner—Family Says No

  02-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday a measure of justice had finally been served for the death of Eric Garner after an NYPD judge recommended the police officer who killed him in 2014 be fired.“Until today, the Garner family has been failed by this entire process,” he said. “Today we finally saw a step towards justice and accountability,” Daniel Pantaleo was immediately suspended without pay by the NYPD on Friday after a department judge recommended
  
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• Airport strikes: More than 100 flights cancelled at Heathrow Airport ahead of first wave of walkouts

  02-08-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 100 flights have been cancelled at Heathrow Airport next week, as holidaymakers brace themselves for the first of a wave of strikes set to scupper their travel plans. Security guards, firefighters and engineers are among those staging crippling walkouts on Monday and Tuesday at the height of the summer getaway period. The strikes, orchestrated by the UK’s largest union Unite, are expected to hit almost 90,000 passengers and lead to the cancellation of around a fifth of flights fr
  
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• Wild footage captures bat flying around Spirit Airlines plane midflight

  02-08-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A shocking video that allegedly shows a bat flying around a Spirit Airlinesplane midflight has gone viral
  
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• Will Hurd’s Departure Shows That Trump’s GOP Is Becoming No Party for Black Reps

  02-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Clark/GettyAn unexpected political earthquake shook national Republican party circles Friday night, when the party’s lone African American Congressman, William Hurd (R-TX), announced he is retiring after only three terms in the House of Representatives. This is a huge loss for the Republican party, and an ominous sign about where it is headed. Notably, his only mention of the party comes in the closing line of his statement about leaving: “I will keep fighting to remind peo
  
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• QAnon Says FBI Labeling Them a Terror Threat Just Proves There’s a Deep-State Conspiracy Against Them

  02-08-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Scott Olson/GettyOn paper, Thursday was a bad day for followers of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. A newly revealed FBI report warned that the theory’s followers presented a heightened risk for terrorism. Multiple popular predictions by QAnon followers also failed to materialize.But for hardcore Q followers, the rough week won’t shake their faith.The FBI memo, which was published in late May and first reported by Yahoo News, warned of the theory’s likelihood to “sp
  
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• JPMorgan set for historic majority stake in China funds JV: sources

  02-08-2019 19:44
  JPMorgan was on Friday poised to become the first foreign company to hold a majority stake in a Chinese mutual fund business, two sources said, setting a precedent that one analyst said would trigger...
  
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• Death of Saoirse Kennedy Hill from an apparent overdose the latest tragedy to befall the US political dynasty

  02-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kennedy family has been hit by yet another tragedy as Saoirse Kennedy Hill, granddaughter of Robert Kennedy, died from an apparent overdose at her family's compound aged 22. It was the latest in a long line of horrific events to befall the American political dynasty in what has become known as the "Kennedy curse." Miss Kennedy Hill, who had suffered from mental illness, was the child of Courtney Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's daughter. Her father Paul Hill is one of the Guildford Four, who were w
  
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• China's new U.N. envoy says Beijing ready to fight U.S. on trade

  02-08-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  China's new U.N. ambassador warned on Friday that if the United States wanted to fight China on trade "then we will fight," and signaled that trade tensions could hurt cooperation between the countries on dealing with North Korea.U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Thursday to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from next month, sharply escalating a trade dispute between the world's biggest economies.In unusually blunt remarks for a United Nations' diplomat from China, Zhang Ju
  
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• 'There was no way that they could've survived': A Boeing 737 Max victim’s mom and brother are demanding justice from the FAA (BA)

  02-08-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Samya Stumo was 24 years old when the Boeing 737 Max she was on crashed in Ethiopia. Now her family is demanding justice from the FAA.
  
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• NASA Exoplanet Hunter Finds 'Hot Earth'

  02-08-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Hot Earth: So hot right now.
  
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• Illinois State Senator Tom Cullerton indicted on federal embezzlement charges

  02-08-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Illinois State Senator Tom Cullerton has been indicted on federal embezzlement charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced Friday.
  
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• Ugandan activist defiant as jailed for 'harassing' president

  02-08-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A prominent Ugandan activist bared her breasts and screamed obscenities in protest Friday as a magistrate sentenced her to 18 months prison on controversial charges of 'harassing' President Yoweri Museveni.Stella Nyanzi, a university researcher and rights activist who previously been detained for calling Museveni "a pair of buttocks", was sentenced to jail amid chaotic scenes at a Kampala courtroom.
  
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• R. Kelly's lawyer says his client is nothing like Jeffrey Epstein

  02-08-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein have drawn comparisons after coming under the scrutiny of federal prosecutors in recent weeks and months.
  
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• Almost 30 people jump off boat into shark-filled waters after fire: 'All hell broke loose'

  02-08-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  About 30 passengers and crew members on a small boat in the Galapagos had to jump into shark-filled waters last month after a fire broke out on board.
  
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• Sunk Your Battleship: How Russia's Su-57 Stealth Fighter Is a Navy Killer

  02-08-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  “Today the enterprise is working on developing an active homing warhead for the promising anti-ship missile that is planned to be carried by the Su-57 fighter as well," Krivoruchko said.Russia is designing an anti-ship missile for its Su-57 stealth fighter.But is hunting ships the best mission for such an advanced aircraft?Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko made the announcement while visiting the Detal Design Bureau, which is developing a new anti-ship missile, according to Russia
  
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• Cincinnati, you kept it classy during Trump's rally; Democrats, you need to keep it simple

  02-08-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  If Donald Trump's rally in Cincinnati was a test for him and his supporters, they passed. Now, 2020 Democrats should learn from his tactics that work.
  
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