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• Trump Invites Tech Leaders to Hasty Online Extremism Summit

  07-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex Wong/Getty ImagesIn response to two mass shootings over the weekend, the White House will host a discussion on violent online extremism with a group of unspecified technology companies this Friday.The summit will include “senior administration officials along with representatives of a range of companies,” according to White House spokesman Judd Deere. Prior to last weekend's mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that took the lives of 22 people, the shooter posted a racist anti-i
  
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• Magnitude 6.0 quake rattles Taiwan, triggers some power cuts

  07-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Taiwan's northeastern coast on Thursday, the island's weather bureau said, shaking buildings and cutting power to around 2,000 buildings.A Reuters witness said the shallow quake shook buildings in the capital, Taipei.The earthquake triggered limited power cuts and forced the suspension of regional railway service in northern Taiwan.
  
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• Puerto Rico Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez sworn in as governor

  07-08-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The move comes after Puerto Rico Supreme Court ruled former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's successor, Pedro Pierluisi, was not legitimate.
  
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• 2nd ex-New Orleans cop takes plea deal in Hispanic beating

  07-08-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  WDSU-TV reports that Spencer Sutton pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace.John Galman, the other officer in the case, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery in February.Both officers, who are white and were off-duty at the time of the incident, had been on the force less than a year and both were fired a day after the July 24, 2018, beating.
  
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• Emotions Erupt During Court Hearing for DUI Vehicular Homicide Suspect

  07-08-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A 62-year-old Washington state woman who has a history of driving while under the influence has pleaded not guilty in the death of a 24-year-old man.
  
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• Trump words linked to more hate crime? Some experts think so

  07-08-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The rampage in Texas has brought new attention to the dangers of immigration-motivated hate crimes and violence in a country with 58 million Latinos amid daily political rhetoric from the White House, conservative politicians and the dark corners of the internet about migrants coming across the border.Overall, statistics released by the FBI late last year showed hate crimes in the United States rose 17% in 2017 compared to the previous year, the third straight annual increase.
  
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• Boos, tweets and protests: Trump's efforts to comfort shooting victims marred by controversy

  07-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s efforts to provide comfort and support to victims of two mass shooting has been engulfed by controversy, as protesters emotionally claimed his rhetoric was responsible for spreading bigotry and the president sent angry tweets while flying between the two cities on Air Force One.Five days after a gun entered a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, and opened fire killing 29 people, for the violence to be echoed within hours by the killing of nine people in Dayton, Ohio, Mr Trump v
  
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• Parts of Alaska Have No Sea Ice For the First Time Ever As Temperatures in the Region Hit Record Highs

  07-08-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  It will have ramifications on the arctic climate and the Earth as a whole
  
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• Scientists Just Found 39 Ancient Galaxies

  07-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  They all used to be connected through supermassive black holes.
  
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• Latinos in El Paso after the mass shooting are not living in fear — instead they're outraged at Trump

  07-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Some of El Paso's Latino residents felt Trump's rhetoric endangered immigrants and that his visit would make things worse after a mass shooting.
  
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• Two bodies found near Canadian river believed to be teens suspected of 3 murders

  07-08-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The bodies of Kam McLeod and Bryan Schmegelsky, who are suspected in three killings, have been found, according to Manitoba Police.
  
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• Poll: Most Republicans support assault weapons ban, despite Trump saying 'no appetite'

  07-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump campaigned in 2016 on his strong support for the Second Amendment. But the poll found that more than half of GOP voters said they would support stricter gun laws after the recent shootings.
  
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• White House Circulates Executive Order to Combat Big Tech’s Alleged Anti-Conservative Bias

  07-08-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House is drafting an executive order intended to address allegations of anti-conservative bias at major social-media companies.The specifics of the executive order, such as how it would define bias at what penalties it would impose, remain unclear since the document has not yet been finalized, three White House officials told Politico.“If the internet is going to be presented as this egalitarian platform and most of Twitter is liberal cesspools of venom, then at least the pr
  
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• Yellowstone officials warn of dangerous behavior with bison

  07-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man reaches over a railing to pet a bison on the head in yet another example of dangerous behavior by visitors to Yellowstone National Park.Nobody was hurt but Yellowstone officials warned Wednesday the outcome could have been different if the animal had charged.Bison injure a handful of people in Yellowstone every year on average.
  
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• DRC medics arrested over murder of WHO Ebola doctor

  07-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Three Congolese medics have been detained over the murder of a World Health Organization (WHO) doctor who was fighting an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo, a military prosecutor said on Wednesday.Cameroonian doctor Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung was shot dead on April 19 in an attack on a hospital in the eastern city of Butembo.The arrested doctors will be prosecuted for "terrorism" and "criminal conspiracy," Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Baptiste Kumbu Ngoma, military prosecutor for But
  
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• 'Oh well': Dayton mayor confused by Trump's criticism of how she described his visit

  07-08-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  White House said President Donald Trump was treated like a "rockstar" and criticized several Ohio lawmakers for "mischaracterizing" the visit.
  
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• Dem Rep. Cummings: 'Stop the hateful, incendiary comments'

  07-08-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Government officials must stop making "hateful, incendiary comments" that only to serve to divide and distract the nation from its real problems, including mass shootings and white supremacy, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings said Wednesday in comments aimed at President Donald Trump.Cummings, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight Committee, did not name Trump in a speech Wednesday, but it was clear whom he was addressing.Trump disparaged Cummings and his native Baltimore in a barrage of ra
  
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• Conservative think tank sues Wisconsin's Evers over access

  07-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A conservative think tank has filed a federal lawsuit against Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, alleging he violated the First Amendment rights of staff members who were denied access to a press briefing and kept off an advisory list sent to other reporters.The MacIver Institute for Public Policy filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Madison alleging that Evers violated its staffers' constitutional rights to free speech, freedom of the press and equal access.Evers' spokeswoman, Melissa Baldauff, said
  
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• Lawyer: Iraqi refugees removing tethers to avoid deportation

  07-08-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Some Iraqi refugees in Michigan are removing GPS tethers to evade immigration officials and deportation before their court cases are heard, according to an attorney representing nearly two dozen refugees.Detroit-based lawyer Shanta Driver told The Detroit News that at least seven Iraqi nationals have removed tethers in Michigan over the past month.
  
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• Florida doubles efforts to hunt invasive pythons

  07-08-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Standing in front of a hissing, squirming 12-foot-long python Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he's doubling resources to remove the invasive species that's destroying the natural food chain in Florida's delicate Everglades.It even hosts a popular python hunt for the public every three years in an attempt to control the tens of thousands of pythons that are estimated to be slithering through the Everglades.Scientists say the giant constrictor snakes, which can grow over 20 feet (6 meters) long,
  
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• Immigration officials: 680 arrested in Mississippi raid

  07-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  In Morton, Mississippi immigration agents arrested 680 people at chicken processing plant.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Canada police find two bodies believed to be teen fugitives

  07-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police said on Wednesday they found two bodies that they believe are of the fugitive teenage boys charged with killing a university lecturer and suspected in the murders of two tourists in British Columbia.Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, both from Port Alberni, British Columbia, fled from British Columbia to Manitoba and were the target of an intense three-week manhunt.The pair was charged with second-degree murder in July of Leonard Dyck, 64, a botany lecturer at the Univers
  
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• Police believe they have found alleged Canadian murder suspects dead

  07-08-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The bodies of two teens suspected of multiple murders in Canada are believed to have been found dead.
  
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• Killings at tortilla shop follow extortion protest in Mexico

  07-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Extortion gangs have grown so bold in the Mexican city of Celaya that when local tortilla shop owners protested the problem at city hall, gunmen immediately attacked one of their businesses, killing three employees.While gangs have demanded protection money in other parts of Mexico, seldom has retaliation for a public protest been so swift and deadly, and industry officials say tortilla shops have already started closing in the city of about 500,000 people.On Tuesday, Celaya city officials pledg
  
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• Canadian highway murders: Police say 2 bodies found, believed to be fugitives

  07-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Police believe the two fugitives suspected of killing a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend as well as another man have been found dead.
  
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• Hedge fund investor Tarrant, who bet with Warren Buffett, dies

  07-08-2019 21:40
  Investor Jeffrey Tarrant, whose firm Protege Partners backed billionaire managers including William Ackman and Marc Lasry early in their careers and made a bet with Warren Buffett that hedge funds...
  
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• Watch Samsung reveal the Galaxy Note 10 at its Unpacked event right here

  07-08-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  I'm sure I sound like a broken record at this point, but Samsung is once again preparing to launch a new smartphone that has been thoroughly spoiled by leaks in the weeks leading up to the event. On Wednesday at 4 PM ET, Samsung will host the latest Unpacked event, where it will officially announce the Galaxy Note 10 and the various models of the device that will be available at launch. Leaks have spoiled many of the surprises, but if you want to be one of the first to see the legitimate reveal
  
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• Fox Business Host Calls on Trump to Ban Assault Weapons, Battles Ex-NRA Spokeswoman

  07-08-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  D DipasupilIn a somewhat surprising move, Fox Business Network host Trish Regan—a vocal and loyal booster of President Donald Trump—on Wednesday called for stricter gun laws and the ban of assault weapons. Her comments drew the ire of one-time NRA spokesperson and frequent Fox News guest Dana Loesch.With renewed calls for action on gun control and universal background checks following this past weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the conservative Fox personality too
  
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• U.S. money market assets rise to highest since 2009 - iMoneyNet

  07-08-2019 21:27
  U.S. money market fund assets jumped to their highest level since 2009 as investors unnerved by the rapid deterioration in trade talks between China and the United States piled into these cash-like...
  
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• The bodies of 2 Canadian murder suspects have been found after a 20-day manhunt across 5 provinces, police say

  07-08-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a nationwide manhunt for 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-year-old Bryer Schmegelsky on July 19.
  
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• Chicago mayor calls out Ivanka Trump's 'nonsense tweets' about her city

  07-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  After the president’s eldest daughter compares gun violence in Chicago to the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot responds.
  
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• Russian couple face losing custody of child after protest

  07-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Moscow's ombudsman for children's rights and members of a presidential council have expressed outrage over Russian prosecutors trying to take a 1-year-old boy from his parents because they allegedly brought him to an unauthorized protest.The ombudsman, Yevgeny Bunimovich, denounced the custody removal request prosecutors filed Tuesday as "political blackmail involving children" and said he wrote Moscow's chief prosecutor to urge dropping a criminal case against the parents.Prosecutors alleged in
  
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• The Latest: 32 busted in drug operation in San Francisco

  07-08-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors say they've charged 32 people who sold drugs in a notorious San Francisco neighborhood as part of an international operation.Chris Nielsen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco, said Wednesday that most of the dealers were Honduran nationals and part of an operation that stretched from Mexico to Seattle.At a press conference, U.S. Attorney David Anderson also announced the launch of a crackdown in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood,
  
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• Puerto Rico high court overturns Pedro Pierluisi as governor

  07-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico's Supreme Court has overturned the swearing in of Pedro Pierluisi as the island's governor.
  
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• Man leads police on chase from Missouri to Tennessee after stealing car full of kittens

  07-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of stealing a car full of cats led police through at least fourdifferent states before he was finally arrested Monday, according to WTVF
  
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• The El Paso shooting suspect wanted to get Russian-developed ammunition that gun bloggers have raved is the 'most lethal'

  07-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  It's unclear whether the gunman actually obtained ammunition he wanted, but his manifesto describes how the bullets expand and fragment.
  
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• Correction: Ohio Shooting story

  07-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  In stories Aug. 4-5 about the deadly shootings in Dayton, Ohio, The Associated Press reported erroneously on the number of mass killings so far in 2019.The Dayton rampage marked the 23rd mass killing so far in 2019, leaving 131 people dead.Unknowns in Ohio shooting: Did gunman target his sister?
  
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• Trump confronted by Democrats and protests in Dayton

  07-08-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost immediately after stepping off Air Force One in Ohio, the president was met by two prominent critics of his response to the recent mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso, Texas.
  
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• Here are all the most controversial things Fox News host Tucker Carlson has said over the years

  07-08-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson has ignited multiple waves of controversy in recent years, but this could be his biggest yet.
  
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• Regime advances after scrapping northwest Syria truce: monitor

  07-08-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Regime forces captured a town and village from jihadists and allied rebels in northwest Syria Wednesday following deadly clashes, days after ditching a ceasefire for the area, a war monitor said.The town of Al-Zakat and Al-Arbaeen village in Hama province came under regime control on Wednesday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Fierce clashes in the area since Tuesday night have killed 17 regime personnel as well as 23 anti-government fighters including 16 jihadists, the Brita
  
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• Dayton shooting: What we know about the gunman's politics

  07-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Connor Betts, 24, was a registered Democrat. Some internet postings linked to him point to a radical, far-left ideology.
  
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• The Apple Card is so much more revolutionary than you think

  07-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's one of the best indicators that a new era has dawned at Apple, which has been looking for new products and services to focus on as sales of the company's all-important iPhone continue to mature.The fiscal third-quarter earnings Apple reported just a few days ago revealed a remarkable new reality for the company, with sales of the iPhone now representing less than half of its overall revenue. Under CEO Tim Cook, however, the company has not been waiting idly for that maturation of the prod
  
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• Pakistan downgrades ties with India in deepening Kashmir row

  07-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan downgraded its diplomatic ties with nuclear-armed rival India Wednesday, announcing that it will expel the Indian envoy and suspend trade in a deepening row over New Delhi's clampdown on disputed Kashmir.India stripped the Himalayan region of its seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status on Monday through a contentious presidential decree, just hours after it imposed a crippling curfew on the picturesque valley.Experts have predicted the move will trigger conflict with Pakistan, which ha
  
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• 'More than 100' immigrants tear gassed by ICE in US detention centre

  07-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  American immigration officials used tear gas and allegedly fired rubber bullets on more than 100 immigrants conducting a hunger strike at a detention facility in Louisiana over the weekend, just a day after as many as 40 detainees who were demonstrating against their detention conditions were reportedly pepper sprayed at a separate facility in the state.The spraying occurred at a facility in Pine Prairie, where more than 1,000 detainees are held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a
  
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• Steve Bullock: Trump reelection 'more likely with each passing minute'

  07-08-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  "We cannot defeat Trump's politics of personal destruction if we practice self-destruction," he told a roomful of reporters in D.C.
  
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• Floods in India kill 33, displace thousands

  07-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  MUMBAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Floods brought by heavy rains and overflowing rivers across large swathes of western and southern India have killed at least 33 people and forced the evacuation of 180,000 from their homes, officials said on Thursday.Seasonal monsoon rains from June to September cause deaths and mass displacement across South Asia every year, but they deliver more than 70% of India's rainfall, crucial for farm output and economic growth.The tally of dead in the floods was 25 in the w
  
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• Baby-faced robbers suspected in $2.5 million Mexico gold heist

  07-08-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mexican official on Wednesday blamed the theft of gold coins worth $2.5 million from the open vault of a government currency store on a security breakdown and said employees were being questioned.Two clean-cut, young-looking men in neat office attire and another man in a black baseball cap and heavy jacket made off with 1,567 gold coins in the daytime caper on Tuesday, according to security camera images."The line of investigation ... is that there were deficiencies in the security protocol,"
  
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• The F-35 can now help the US Army track and destroy incoming enemy missiles

  07-08-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The F-35 can stealthily gather critical target information and relay it back to the Army, giving US ground forces an edge in a tough fight.
  
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• Body Believed to Be British Astrophysicist Found in Greece Weeks After Murder of American Biologist

  07-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The disappearance comes just a few weeks after an American female scientist was killed on the Greek island of Crete.
  
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• Rise in snakebites across US linked to climate crisis and sprawling suburbs

  07-08-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  * Dramatic increase in bites continues recent upward trend* North Carolina, Georgia and Texas on track to break recordsA snake eats a squirrel at Augusta National Golf Club Georgia. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty ImagesClimate warming and the expansion of human settlements across the southern states of the US has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people bitten during encounters with venomous snakes, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.The increase in bites is on track to b
  
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