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• IS 'resurging' in Syria as US pulls troops: watchdog

  06-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group was "resurging" in Syria while the United States withdrew troops, and has solidified its insurgent capabilities in neighboring Iraq, a Defense Department watchdog said Tuesday.The jihadists -- who suffered major territorial losses at the hands of Iraqi and Syrian forces backed by a US-led international air campaign -- are exploiting weaknesses in local forces to make gains, the report from the Office of Inspector General said."Despite losing its territorial
  
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• Texas to Enact at Least 9 Pro-Gun Laws in Wake of El Paso's Mass Shooting

  06-08-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The new laws would make it easier to carry or store firearms in all sorts of places
  
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• Jerry Nadler makes new push for Kavanaugh’s White House records

  06-08-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Judiciary Committee chairman is reopening a divisive battle over the Supreme Court justice.
  
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• FBI Uncovers List of Other Possible Targets for Gilroy Garlic Festival Gunman

  06-08-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI opened the investigation after finding a list of organizations that might have been possible targets.
  
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• U.S. House Democrats seek Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh's records

  06-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, including the panel's chairman, asked the National Archives on Tuesday forrecords from Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's service in the White House under former President George W. Bush.In a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration, Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Representative Hank Johnson said they were seeking records from 2001 to 2006 that include documents unavailable during Kavanaugh's 2018 Senate confirmation, which
  
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• ‘There's no rehabbing the Boy Scouts.’ Former scout speaks out about latest lawsuit

  06-08-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A former scout who exposed secret files on volunteers the organization knew were pedophiles speaks out.
  
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• The U.S. Navy’s Minesweeper Fleet Is in Bad Shape

  06-08-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Navy’s number one means of countering Iranian sea mines in the Persian Gulf is long overdue for replacement.
  
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• How immigrants became the target of white nationalists

  06-08-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The influx of Latino immigrants was part of a larger trend that had emerged across much of the southern United States toward the end of the last century and particularly in North Carolina, which saw a 110 percent increase in Latinos between 1990 and 1998.
  
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• Authorities: Man assaulted boy who kept hat on during anthem

  06-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A man is facing an assault charge after Montana authorities say someone saw him throw a 13-year-old boy to the ground because the teenager didn't remove his hat when the national anthem was played at a rodeo.The witness, Taylor Hennick, told the Missoulian she was at the rodeo on Saturday when she heard a "pop" and saw the boy on the ground, bleeding from his ears.The assailant justified his actions by saying the boy "was disrespecting the national anthem so he had every right to do that," Henni
  
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• Polls show top tier 2020 Democrats widening lead over rest of presidential field

  06-08-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  In the first polls after the second Democratic debate, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders are the top contenders.
  
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• 'Good Guys With Guns' Can Rarely Stop Mass Shootings, and Texas and Ohio Show Why

  06-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso show the NRA's push to relax gun laws hasn't stopped the death toll from gunmen.
  
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• Lithuania Jewish Community closes Vilnius synagogue over threats

  06-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Jewish leaders in Lithuania announced Tuesday they were temporarily closing the Vilnius Synagogue and the community's headquarters due to threats, citing an "atmosphere of rising tension".The move comes amid a highly-charged public debate over commemorations to Lithuanian wartime officials, who the Lithuanian Jewish Community (LJC) claims were involved in the Holocaust.In recent days authorities have acted to remove a plaque to one of the men and rename a street named after another -- sparking a
  
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• Girl with special needs found dead in hot car in South Carolina

  06-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Colleton County officials said the 13-year-old victim appeared to have been in the car for at least two hours. Two adults, including a teacher, have been charged.
  
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• Chernobyl's 'sarcophagus,' which helped contain the spread of radiation, is being dismantled because it's teetering on collapse

  06-08-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ukrainian company that manages the Chernobyl plant will tear down its protective "sarcophagus," which is surrounded by a 32,000-ton shell.
  
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• A nanny broke up with her boyfriend. He stabbed her and her boss to death, police say

  06-08-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Court records lay out grisly details of an early-morning double homicide set off by a violent refusal to accept a rejection.
  
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• Survivor of El Paso shooting praised for distracting gunman by throwing bottles

  06-08-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A survivor of last week's deadly mass shooting in El Paso is being hailed forhis heroism after he attempted to distract the gunman by throwing bottles athim
  
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• Double your iPhone XR’s battery life for $27

  06-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  There is no question that the iPhone XR offers battery life that is among the best we've ever seen on an iPhone. There's also no question that it's not enough. When it comes to battery life, it's never enough. If you want to make sure you never run out of juice when you need your phone most, definitely check out the Euhan 4200mAh Slim iPhone XR Battery Case on Amazon. It'll be the best $27 you've spent in a long time.Here's what you need to know from the product page:* SYNC & Portable Built-
  
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• The Latest: Gunman's family 'horrified' by festival attack

  06-08-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Family members of the gunman in a mass shooting at a California food festival say they are "deeply shocked and horrified" by his actions.Santino William Legan opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 28 before shooting himself.Authorities have opened a domestic terrorism case after finding a "target list" containing religious institutions, courthouses and other sites compiled by the gunman.
  
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• Biden Still Holds Sizable Lead Nationwide: Campaign Update

  06-08-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden still maintains a significant lead in the Democratic primary, but Elizabeth Warren’s support is growing, a new Quinnipiac Poll released Tuesday found.Biden has 32% support, trailed by Warren with 21%, Bernie Sanders with 14% and Kamala Harris with 7%. The latest poll shows a sizable jump for Warren and a slump for Harris since the debates last week in Detroit. A Quinnipiac poll released before the Detroit debates showed Warren with 15% support and Harris at 12% sup
  
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• Ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok challenges firing; accuses President Trump of waging 'pressure' campaign

  06-08-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Former FBI agent Peter Strzok challenged the agency's decision to fire him, which he says was caused by a "pressure" campaign from President Trump.
  
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• Ohio Rep. Candice Keller, who blamed mass shootings on drag queens and marijuana, refuses calls for her resignation

  06-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio state lawmaker who blamed mass shootings on legal marijuana, gay marriage and "drag queen advocates" is sticking by her comments.
  
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• Florida to Investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach Plea Deal

  06-08-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ordered an investigation into the controversial handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea for soliciting prostitution from minors and the unusually lenient terms of his imprisonment in Palm Beach County.The Palm Beach County sheriff was already looking into how its office handled the case, as well as the decision to allow Epstein to spend 6 days a week at work during the 13 months he spent in prison, but asked DeSantis to reassign the case
  
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• Peter Pan Bus Driver Arrested After Allegedly Locking Passenger in Vehicle's Luggage Compartment

  06-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Peter Pan Bus Driver Arrested for Locking Passenger in Luggage Area
  
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• Armed robbers in Mexico steal $2.5 million in gold coins

  06-08-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Armed robbers broke into a Mexican government coin manufacturer on Tuesday and filled a backpack with more than $2 million worth of gold coins from a vault that had been left open, security officials said.The daylight robbery was the latest high-profile crime to hit Mexico City, where crime has increased during record lawlessness plaguing the country.Two people, one wielding a firearm, broke into a "Casa de Moneda" branch in the morning after throwing a security guard to the ground and taking hi
  
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• Russia tries to remove child from parents over opposition rally

  06-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian prosecutors sought to strip a couple of parental rights on Tuesday after they brought their baby to a rally, as the authorities pressed ahead with a crackdown on the opposition.Over the past few weeks, thousands of Muscovites have taken part in protests against the exclusion of popular opposition politicians from Moscow's parliament elections in September.The authorities have retaliated with a crackdown, opening a probe into "mass unrest" and making nearly 2,400 arrests at two recent una
  
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• Before massacre, El Paso became a hot spot on Mexican border

  06-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Deny Martinez paid a smuggler $7,000 to take him and his teenage son from Honduras to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, across from El Paso, Texas.An unprecedented wave of Central American families has reached the U.S. border this year — most strikingly in El Paso, where the suspected assailant was linked to an online screed against a "Hispanic invasion" and Latino asylum seekers.It is unknown why the gunman traveled from his hometown near Dallas to El Paso, but the border city of 700,00
  
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• Ohio's Republican Governor Proposes Gun Laws After Dayton Shooting

  06-08-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio's Republican Governor Proposes Gun Laws After Dayton Shooting
  
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• China warns Hong Kong protesters of 'dangerous abyss'

  06-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  China warned Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters Tuesday that "those who play with fire will perish by it", a day after the most widespread unrest of the two-month crisis.In its harshest warning yet, Beijing said the immense strength of the central government should not be underestimated, while police in the semi-autonomous city announced they had arrested almost 150 people in connection with Monday's violence.The global financial center has been plunged into chaos by weeks of protests triggere
  
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• Texas Police Department Under Fire After Viral Photo Shows Officers on Horseback Leading Handcuffed Man By Rope

  06-08-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Chief Vernon L. Hale III of the Galveston police department said the officers "showed poor judgment" in the incident and that they did not have any ill intentions with their decision
  
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• Trump, Republican party sue over California tax return law

  06-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump campaign and Republican Party sued California on Tuesday over a new law requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in the state's primary, legislation that was aimed at prying loose President Donald Trump's returns. California's law is "a naked political attack against the sitting President of the United States," the state and national Republican parties argued in one of two lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. The law signed last week by Demo
  
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• The US Army is tripling the power on a laser cannon built to shoot down rockets, drones, and 'more stressing threats'

  06-08-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The Army has decided it will no longer build a 100-kilowatt laser. Instead, it's going for a 250-300 kilowatt laser that will pack more of a punch.
  
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• E. Guinea accused of planning border wall with Cameroon: army sources

  06-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Yaoundé (AFP) - Equatorial Guinea is planning to build a wall along the border with its neighbour Cameroon, according to sources in the Cameroon army.An army officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Equatorial Guinean soldiers had crossed the Ntem river that forms a natural border between the two countries, and erected milestones in the town of Kye-Ossi on the Cameroonian side.At the weekend, state radio reported that Cameroon army chief, Rene Claude Meka, visited the sp
  
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• 'Target list' prompts domestic terrorism case in Gilroy

  06-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The discovery of a "target list" containing religious institutions, courthouses and other sites compiled by the gunman in a mass shooting at a California food festival has prompted the FBI to open a domestic terrorism case.Shooter Santino William Legan, 19, fatally shot three people, including two children, with a Romanian-made, AK-47-style rifle before turning the gun on himself on July 28 at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival.Legan appeared to be interested in conflicting ideologies, but autho
  
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• Agent fired over anti-Trump text messages sues FBI, Justice

  06-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A veteran FBI agent who wrote derogatory text messages about Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the bureau caved to "unrelenting pressure" from the president when it fired him. The suit from Peter Strzok also alleges he was unfairly punished for expressing his political opinions, and that the Justice Department violated his privacy when it shared hundreds of his text messages with reporters. The complaint, which names as defendants Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director C
  
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• Cyntoia Brown scheduled to leave prison after clemency

  06-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who said she was a 16-year-old sex-trafficking victim when she killed a man in 2004 is scheduled to be released from prison this week after being granted clemency .Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna and other celebrities had lobbied for Cyntoia Brown's release, and then-Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam agreed in January.The now-31-year-old Brown will remain on parole supervision for 10 years after her release Wednesday, on the condition she does not violate any state or federal laws, holds a job, an
  
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• Not Just Trump: GOP Members Warned of Immigration ‘Invasion’ From House Floor

  06-08-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyWhen the El Paso shooter took up arms against defenseless Walmart shoppers this week, he was doing so to stop a mythical "cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion." The “invasion” rhetoric was straight out of a white nationalist fever swamp and President Donald Trump’s own rhetoric on immigration. But Trump is hardly the only elected Republican to characterize immigration as a menacing “invasion” by a
  
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• CNN Disputes Matt Gaetz’s Claim the Network Snubbed Him on Gun Talks

  06-08-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) suggested this week that CNN deliberately tried to silence him in the wake of several mass shootings over the weekend. But the network says Gaetz is deliberately misrepresenting the facts.The Florida Republican made the suggestion Tuesday in response to CNN noting the number of Republicans who were unwilling to appear on the network to discuss gun laws following the shootings. Gaetz, a TV-friendly regular on Fox News and other cable-news programs, responded that he
  
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• Alabama student arrested after threatening shooting, bombing at his high school

  06-08-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager was arrested at his Alabama home Tuesday after threatening multipleattacks at Mary G
  
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• Trump incorrectly blamed mental illness for mass shootings, but blocked a rule that would have made it harder for some people with mental illnesses to buy guns

  06-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump blocked a proposed Obama-era rule that made it more difficult for some individuals with diagnosed mental illnesses to obtain firearms.
  
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• Thousands evacuated after explosions in Russia ammo depot

  06-08-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Explosions at a Russian military ammunition depot in Siberia injured at least eight people and began the evacuation of thousands Monday.
  
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• Trump attacked immigrants for 'murders, killings, murders' during most recent El Paso visit, months ahead of shooting

  06-08-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The last time Donald Trump visited El Paso, the president attacked immigrants in the United States, and emphasised repeatedly that some had committed “murders, murders, killings, murders”.Mr Trump’s attacks on immigrants came in the form of praise for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which he said had picked up immigrants for tens of thousands of crimes, and ticked off a list of those crimes and the stats that he claimed accompanied them.When he got to murder —
  
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• Mike Gravel endorses Bernie Sanders in 2020 race

  06-08-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  “Bernie has a program that benefits all Americans, not just the 1 percent," Gravel said in a video posted to Twitter.
  
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• The Dayton shooter modified his gun with a 'pistol brace,' a device that could become the new bump stock of the gun-control debate

  06-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A device used in Sunday's deadly shooting in Dayton, Ohio, could spur a new debate over guns and how some owners are modifying them.
  
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• U.S. appeals court voids Google 'cookie' privacy settlement that paid users nothing

  06-08-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  In a 3-0 decision, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said it could not tell whether the $5.5 million settlement was fair, reasonable and adequate, and said a lower court judge should revisit the case.Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, had been accused of exploiting loopholes in Apple Inc's Safari and Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer browsers to help advertisers bypass cookie blockers.The settlement approved in February 2017 by U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Delaware calle
  
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• These are the most popular guns made in the US, and how many Americans own them

  06-08-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  After mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, politicians are talking about gun ownership in America. Here's what that looks like.
  
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• Trump Spokesperson Hogan Gidley Attacks Obama for Condemning Racism

  06-08-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley became visibly agitated on Tuesday when Fox News host Melissa Francis brought up what she called a “somewhat veiled jab” from former President Barack Obama following the pair of mass shootings that have rocked the nation over these past few days. “We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments,” Obama wrote, “leaders wh
  
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• United Airlines Pilots Under Fire After Allegedly Failing Alcohol Breath Test Before International Flight

  06-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Scotland have released one of two United Airlines pilots on Tuesday who allegedly failed an alcohol breath test before their flight to the U.S. this past weekend
  
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• Texas police condemned after officers on horseback lead black suspect by rope

  06-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Texas have apologised after photographs emerged of two white officers on horseback leading a black man down the street by a rope. Donald Neely, 43, had been arrested on suspicion of trespassing in an office building in downtown Galveston, a coastal city of 50,000 people just outside Houston. The officers attached a rope to the handcuffs behind his back, before leading him to a police staging area eight street blocks away. A passerby took photographs which circulated on social media, le
  
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• DOJ Claims Hacking Scheme Bribed AT&T Employees To Unlock Millions Of Company Phones

  06-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyA Pakistani man allegedly bribed AT&T; employees in a suburb of Seattle with more than a million dollars to illegally access two million of their company’s phones from 2012 to 2017 in a complex reselling scheme, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.Authorities arrested Muhammad Fahd, the 34-year-old alleged briber, in Hong Kong in February and extradited him to the United States in early August. Per the indictment, his potential crimes inc
  
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• FBI opens domestic terrorism case in Gilroy shooting

  06-08-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI is opening a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting that killed three people, including two children, at a popular California food festival, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.Nineteen-year-old gunman Santino William Legan fatally shot three people with a Romanian-made AK-47-tyle rifle before turning the gun on himself on July 28 at the popular Gilroy Garlic Festival.The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation before a news conference and spoke on the co
  
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