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• Mexico gang feud: 19 bodies found in Michoacan

  09-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Mexico found 19 bodies in the western state of Michoacan, with some found hanging from an overpass alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals.
  
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• Canada praises 'grit' of Canadians detained in China

  09-08-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian consular officials meet Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig on a monthly basis, and saw them both earlier this week, but the ministry does not offer any information about their condition for privacy reasons."They are two brave Canadians who are facing a difficult situation through no fault of their own and they are conducting themselves with incredible grace and tenacity," Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Calgary.
  
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• Biden criticized after saying: 'Poor kids are as bright as white kids'

  09-08-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice-president’s remarks prompt criticism from left and right amid Democrat’s history of gaffesJoe Biden speaks at the Iowa state fair on Thursday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJoe Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, found his record on race under scrutiny again on Friday after a gaffe on the campaign trail.“We should challenge students in these schools,” the former vice-president said during a speech to the Asian & L
  
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• Russia says five killed in mysterious rocket test accident - RIA

  09-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom said early on Saturday that five of its staff members had been killed in an accident during tests on a military site in northern Russia, the RIA news agency reported.The accident occurred during tests on a liquid propellant rocket engine, the agency said, citing Rosatom.Russian authorities had previously said that two people had been killed in the incident and that a nearby city had reported a rise in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testin
  
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• Walmart pulls violent game displays but will still sell guns

  09-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart has ordered workers to remove video game signs and displays that depict violence from stores nationwide after 22 people died in a shooting at one of its Texas stores, but the big box retailer will continue to sell guns.In an internal memo, the retailer told employees to remove any violent marketing material, unplug Xbox and PlayStation consoles that show violent video games and turn off any violence depicted on screens in its electronics departments.Walmart will still sell the violent vi
  
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• Trump attacks Biden following the former VP's latest gaffe

  09-08-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden says 'poor kids' just as bright as 'white kids'; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• Father pleads for help finding daughter after her boyfriend raps about killing a woman

  09-08-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities on Thursday outlined a timeline for a man suspected in a Monrovia woman's kidnapping more than a week ago as investigators expanded the search for her.
  
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• Arizona prosecutor who questioned Kavanaugh accuser promoted

  09-08-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An Arizona sex-crimes prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford about her sexual assault allegation against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been promoted to a top prosecutorial job in metro Phoenix.Rachel Mitchell was named chief deputy of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office last week, taking on the top staff position with Republican County Attorney Bill Montgomery.Mitchell was chief of the county's sex crimes division when the 11 Republican men on the Senate Judiciary Com
  
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• Family of slain Chinese scholar holds memorial

  09-08-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Held just weeks after Yingying Zhang's killer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison and just two days after the family's attorneys held a news conference to explain why recovery of the dismembered remains believed to be buried deep in a landfill will likely never be recovered, her father, Ronggao Zhang, told stories that he hoped would convey what made his daughter so special.In Mandarin, his words translated for those sitting before him at the First Baptist Church in Savoy, just a few m
  
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• President Trump met by protests in Hamptons ahead of controversial fundraiser

  09-08-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump arrived in the Hamptons Friday for a high-priced fundraiser that has sparked controversy and threats of boycotts.
  
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• Mexico Considers Banning Cash for Gasoline Purchases, Highway Tolls

  09-08-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico is considering a ban on the use of cash for purchasing gasoline and to pay for tolls as a way to fight tax evasion and money laundering, according to people with direct knowledge of the discussions.The plan, which has been discussed between the banking industry and the government, hasn’t been fully approved. A final decision may not be taken until after the central bank rolls out its digital payments platform known as CoDi next month which is part of a broader governm
  
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• 2020 candidate Tim Ryan leads gun control caravan to Mitch McConnell

  09-08-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential hopeful Tim Ryan said that Mitch McConnell needs to call the Senate back into session "immediately."
  
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• Authorities: Suspect said he used AK-47 in El Paso shooting

  09-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say the man accused of killing 22 people and injuring about two dozen others in a Texas Walmart shooting told detectives he used an AK-47 assault rifle in the attack.In an arrest warrant affidavit, a detective writes that 21-year-old Patrick Crusius described how he entered the store last weekend in the border city of El Paso with the weapon and multiple magazines."The defendant stated once inside the store he opened fire using his AK-47 shooting multiple innocent victims," the detec
  
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• EPA won't approve warning labels for Roundup chemical

  09-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration says it won't approve warning labels for products that contain glyphosate, a move aimed at California as it fights one of the world's largest agriculture companies about the potentially cancer-causing chemical.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disagrees, saying its research shows the chemical poses no risks to public health.California has not enforced the warning label for glyphosate because Monsanto, the company that makes Roundup, sued and a federal judge tempor
  
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• New Hampshire governor vetoes 3 gun control bills

  09-08-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The bills passed by the Democratic-controlled Legislature included background checks for commercial firearms sales, imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm, and prohibiting firearms on school property."Here in New Hampshire, we have taken multiple steps to address our mental health needs and to build a more welcoming and tolerant state.
  
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• Father of black man killed by US police in 2014 demands answers

  09-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of Michael Brown, the black American whose killing by police triggered countrywide protests, on Friday marked the fifth anniversary of his son's death by calling on the Justice Department to re-open its investigation into the shooting.Prosecutors dropped the case against the officer who shot the unarmed 18-year-old, sparking riots in Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis in the conservative state of Missouri."I am demanding evidence to be reanalyzed, and accountability to follow," Michael Br
  
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• U.S. bond yields rise on confusion over U.S. trade move

  09-08-2019 22:42
  U.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday amid confusion over the United States policy on trade with China, while political turmoil in Italy compounded investor concerns, capping a volatile week in the...
  
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• Mexico detains migrant children in cramped holding center despite court ruling

  09-08-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Overcrowding, prison-like conditions, bed bugs and illness are among the complaints of migrants in a Mexico City detention center that holds dozens of minors two months after a court ruled it was unconstitutional.Under the threat of economic sanctions from U.S. President Donald Trump, Mexico has stepped up migrant detentions this year to stem a surge in asylum-seekers from Central America.Known as Las Agujas, the Mexico City holding center enclosed by spike-topped walls in the eastern district o
  
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• Apple loses more ground in smartphone market

  09-08-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple lost more ground in the shrinking smartphone market last quarter, with a sales tracker saying the tech giant was pushed off the top-three seller list by a Chinese rival.Apple fell to fourth place in global smartphone sales, shipping 35.3 million iPhones in the second quarter compared to the 36.2 million units shipped by Oppo, according to a report from IHS Markit this week.South Korean consumer electronics titan Samsung remained in first place with 23 percent of the market, having shipped
  
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• Destroy All With A 1993 Toyota Supra RZ

  09-08-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Yep, it has a 2JZ-GTE under the hood. While owning a Supra will almost guarantee plenty of attention at any import car meet, this 1993 Toyota Supra RZ is even more special. It’s a true Japanese domestic market vehicle, which means you get to sit on the right side instead of the left to drive. Legally imported, the Japanese performance car is ready to thrill.The key to this car’s potency is the 2JZ-GTE twin turbo. That engine has become the stuff of legends, thanks to it being so over
  
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• Market weighs risk of negative U.S. Treasury yields

  09-08-2019 22:12
  Traders and analysts are considering whether U.S. bond yields would fall below zero as a record amount around the world sank into negative territory this week.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein Sent Girl to Governor and Senator for Sex, She Testified

  09-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Epstein and a friend sent an underage girl to have sex with former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell and asset manager Glenn Dubin, she testified in court documents that were made public Friday -- allegations the three deny.Virginia Giuffre, now an adult, says she was also sent to modeling executive Jean Luc Brunel and the late MIT scientist Marvin Minsky, according to parts of a 2016 deposition she gave. The testimony by Giuffre, who
  
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• US Border Patrol boat fired on from Mexico

  09-08-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A US Border Patrol boat came under heavy gunfire from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande early Friday, but no injuries were reported, the Customs and Border Protection agency said.Agents saw four assailants with automatic weapons shoot more than 50 rounds at the marine unit as it patrolled the river demarcating the border near Fronton, Texas, a CBP statement said.There was no information on who fired on the vessel and the CBP did not say whether the US agents returned fire.
  
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• Trump Administration Re-Authorizes Using 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Coyotes and Dogs. Here's What to Know

  09-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Environmentalist groups have raised concerns about the traps' effectiveness and safety
  
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• Officer on leave after apparent Klan document seen at home

  09-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A white police officer in western Michigan was placed on paid administrative leave after a house hunter who was viewing the officer's home said he saw a framed Ku Klux Klan application and multiple Confederate flags.The Muskegon Police Department opened an internal investigation after Robert Mathis, who is black, posted a picture of the document on Facebook after touring Officer Charles Anderson's Holton-area home, which was for sale."I was just so disgusted," Mathis told MLive.com.
  
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• Poop less for a cleaner planet, says Brazil's president

  09-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Friday that people "poop every other day" as a way to save the environment, after he came under fire for a surge in deforestation of the Amazon since he came to power.Bolsonaro has been criticized for a rapid acceleration in deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, which covers vast swathes of Brazil and is considered vital to combatting global warming.According to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which tra
  
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• Melania Trump holds two-month-old baby orphaned in El Paso

  09-08-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The two-month-old baby orphaned in the El Paso shooting has been pictured being held by Melania Trump. Paul Anchondo's parents, Andre and Jordan Anchondo, were among the 22 people killed in the tragedy last week. The baby was brought to the hospital by relatives when the US president and first lady visited on Wednesday. In the image Mr Trump gave a thumbs up sign, which his opponents on social media criticised. But Tito Anchondo, the baby's uncle, who brought him to the hospital, defended the pr
  
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• 1990 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible Is A '53 Throwback

  09-08-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  This C4 is rocking an iconic C1 color combination!When Chevrolet first introduced the Corvette in 1953, all of the cars that year came in a Polo White paint job with a red interior and a black top. Fast forward to 1990, and the 1990 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible where this white over red color combination is one of the most popular for that year. Aside from some of the special edition and low-volume, these were pretty common sports cars, but this particular car is in great condition. The odomet
  
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• Against Universal Background Checks

  09-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Mitch McConnell has confirmed that when the Senate reconvenes in September to discuss new federal gun-control measures, “universal background checks” will “lead the discussion.” If that is the case, the Senate should listen carefully to the proposals on offer, and then politely decline to assent.Absent further examination, “universal background checks” appear to represent the inoffensive extension of an already existing principle. At p
  
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• Trump says students returning to school have 'nothing to worry about' after the recent mass shootings

  09-08-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Friday assured students going back to school that they “have nothing to worry about,” as the nation continues to reel after numerous mass shootings.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Jeffrey Epstein accuser links powerful men to financier -civil court filing

  09-08-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein of keeping her as a sex slave said one of the financier's associates had instructed her to have sex with at least a half-dozen prominent men, according to a court filing unsealed on Friday in a civil lawsuit.The claim by Virginia Giuffre came in a deposition that was included among roughly 2,000 pages of documents related to her defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate whom Giuffre has said helped Epstein procure girls for sex.Lawyers for Ma
  
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• Border Patrol Agents Shot at from Mexican Side of Rio Grande

  09-08-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol boat patrolling the Rio Grande was shot at Friday morning, the agency has announced.“Early this morning, agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station Marine Unit patrolling near Fronton, Texas, reported they were fired upon from the Mexican riverbank,” CBP said in a statement released Friday morning. “Agents saw four subjects with automatic weapons who shot over 50 rounds at them. The boat was hit several times but no one on board was inj
  
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• Chicago immigrants warned possible ICE raids targeting Pilsen homes, businesses

  09-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  ICE agents were reportedly spotted in a Chicago neighborhood.
  
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• A Russian military ammo depot that blew up earlier this week just exploded again

  09-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The ammo depot, believed to house tens of thousands of artillery shells, exploded on Monday. It just exploded again, injuring at least ten more people.
  
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• Explosion at interracial couple's home treated as hate crime after swastika painted on garage

  09-08-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An explosion which destroyed the home of an interracial couple after a swastika and a racial slur were found painted on the garage, is being investigated by the FBI.The suspected arson attack on the house of Brad and Angela Frase in the township of Sterling in Wayne County, Ohio, as a hate crime, investigators said. Police were called to the scene by a neighbour who reported a blast and fire at the building in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Firefighters managed to extinguish the flames bu
  
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• Affidavit says fugitive Curtis Ray Watson strangled, sexually assaulted Tennessee corrections employee

  09-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Affidavits from the Lauderdale County Clerk's Office details charges against Curtis Watson, a fugitive who escaped at West Tennessee prison.
  
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• 3D printer gun plans seller pleads guilty to sex with minor

  09-08-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The founder of a Texas company that sells plans for making untraceable 3D printed guns pleaded guilty Friday to having sex with an underage girl.Travis County Assistant District Attorney Joe Frederick said Cody Wilson pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child under a plea deal with prosecutors.Wilson initially faced sexual assault charges.
  
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• The Latest: Strict curfew eased in Kashmir, tensions high

  09-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In Iran's capital, the leader of Friday prayers cautioned India over its sudden downgrading of Indian-administered Kashmir, the Hindu-majority nation's only Muslim-majority region.The semiofficial Fars News Agency said he cautioned India not to provoke a confrontation with Muslims.
  
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• Walmart workers grapple with heightened fears in the aftermath of deadly shootings (WMT)

  09-08-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "If someone wants to walk in my store with an AK-47 and start shooting there's nothing I can do about it," a Walmart employee said.
  
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• US House speaker Nancy Pelosi questions Donald Trump's migration deal on visit to Guatemala

  09-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat speaker of the House of Representatives, criticised US treatment of migrants as "shameful" during a visit to Guatemala. Mrs Pelosi also raised doubts about whether the Central American country could cope with a migration deal it had agreed with the White House. Guatemala has come under increasing pressure from Donald Trump to do more to stop migrants reaching the United States. Last month, under threat of economic sanctions, it agreed to become a so-called "safe third
  
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• Court unseals 2,000 documents related to Jeffrey Epstein case

  09-08-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The court warns that everything in the documents released are not necessarily true.
  
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• Fox News Reporter Publicly Rebukes Tucker Carlson: ‘White Supremacy Is Real’

  09-08-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Chip SomodevillaThree days after Fox News host Tucker Carlson declared on-air that white supremacy is a “hoax,” his colleague, Fox News reporter Cristina Corbin, tweeted out a rebuke of the primetime star’s comments, noting that his views do not represent hers.“White supremacy is real, as evidenced by fact,” she wrote on Friday. “Claims that it is a ‘hoax’ do not represent my views.”Corbin is currently listed on Fox News’ website as &ld
  
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• Shooter's ex-girlfriend: The dilemma of when to intervene

  09-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Adelia Johnson thought she understood where Connor Betts was coming from when he shared that he'd contemplated suicide, and even when he once told her in a drunken call about wanting to hurt people.As they dated this spring, they bonded over their struggles with mental illness, she said, so his dark thoughts didn't seem so abnormal.Now investigators are trying to figure out why Betts, 24, gunned down nine people, including his own sister, and wounded many more Sunday outside a strip of bars in D
  
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• 'Flabbergasted': Chase Bank forgives all credit card debt for Canadian customers

  09-08-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadians who had credit cards with Chase Bank could breathe a sigh of relief Thursday when the company said it would "forgive" all outstanding debt.
  
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• Michael Brown's father seeks new investigation into killing

  09-08-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, his father urged St. Louis County's top prosecutor Friday to reopen the investigation into the white police officer who fatally shot the black and unarmed 18-year-old. Before a memorial service in the Ferguson street where a white police officer fatally shot his son on Aug. 9, 2014, Michael Brown Sr. addressed reporters outside of the St. Louis County Justice Center in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton. "Justice has not been served," B
  
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• Ethiopia to hold national election next year

  09-08-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopia's ruling coalition said on Friday it will hold a national election next year, defying worries over security and displacement in the Horn of Africa country that had led some to speculate the election might be postponed.The executive committee did not give a date for the poll."The executive committee have decided the election to be conducted next year," committee member Getachew Reda said.
  
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• 'Unreal scene': Police say shooting melee on Houston highway likely drug-related

  09-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Two people were killed in a shooting on Interstate 10 in Texas on Thursday evening, Houston Police said.
  
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• Apple is launching a special new iPhone designed for professional hackers — but you won't be able to buy it (AAPL)

  09-08-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple is allowing security experts to apply for a special new iPhone to be used for research purposes. It's part of the firm's bug-bounty program.
  
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• Crowd erupts as Straight Pride Parade leader says 'we're a totally peaceful, racist group'

  09-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A city council meeting in Modesto, California went into uproar when the leader of a straight pride event accidentally described his organisation as a “racist group”. Don Grundmann urged the city council to grant a permit for the event while defending the so-called “National Straight Pride Coalition”, which is leading efforts to host a parade at the Graceada Park in Modesto this month. He and other supporters of the parade were met with a more sizeable crowd of opponents,
  
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