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• Stacey Abrams: I'd be 'honored' to be running mate of any 2020 Dem presidential candidate

  14-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Tuesday the Georgia Democrat quashed months of speculation about her possibly jumping into the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field to seek the top of the ticket.
  
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• Wisconsin fugitive survives 3 years in makeshift bunker

  14-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A Wisconsin fugitive wanted on child sexual assault and child pornography charges hid out for more than three years in a makeshift bunker powered by solar panels and a pedal generator before a hunter stumbled onto him last week, police said.WSAW-TV reports that several months ago Thomas Nelson of Wausau found a bunker with a log door carved into an embankment on state land in the township of Ringle west of Wausau, about 145 miles (233 kilometers) north of Madison, the state Capitol.
  
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• Impacts of new immigration policy

  14-08-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Evelyn Rusli and Angela Sutherland, co-founders of Yumi, discuss their families' immigration stories, and how this new immigration policy with affect people who are on public assistance.
  
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• U.S. scientist to file whistleblower complaint after agency halts his climate work

  14-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A climate scientist for the Trump administration's health protection agency who was ordered by his agency to drop work on climate issues will file a whistleblower complaint this week with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, his lawyers said on Wednesday.George Luber, who ran the climate and health program at the Centers for Disease Control, is an expert on the health impacts of climate change including risks to hospitals and public health infrastructure and of diseases borne by mosquitoes and ti
  
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• Jihadists down regime plane, detain pilot in northwest Syria

  14-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Jihadists Wednesday downed a regime plane flying over northwest Syria as it took part in a deadly campaign that has seen loyalists inch forward against their opponents, a monitor said.An AFP correspondent saw smoke rising in the south of Idlib province above the debris of the plane, with its wing bearing the Syrian flag.After eight years of civil war in Syria, the Idlib region -- controlled by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate -- is the last major stronghold of opposition to President Bashar al-
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz files first lawsuit following his death

  14-08-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who claims that Jeffrey Epstein raped her as a teenager has filed the first lawsuit in the wake of his death.
  
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• Rep. Maxine Waters holds hearing on 'homelessness crisis' in Los Angeles

  14-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Maxine Waters returned home to Los Angeles on Wednesday to draw attention to the plight of 60,000 homeless county residents.
  
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• Trump administration aims to shift money to immigration enforcement

  14-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The move is sure to rile Democrats already angered by what they see as President Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies.
  
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• Family of Dayton gunman apologizes for writing 'insensitive' obituary

  14-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  An obituary for Connor Betts, the gunman in Dayton, Ohio, who killed nine, was removed from a funeral home's website at the request of the family.
  
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• China asks for U.N. Security Council to discuss Kashmir this week -diplomats

  14-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  China on Wednesday backed Pakistan's request for the United Nations Security Council to discuss India's decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, asking for the body to meet behind closed doors on Thursday or Friday, diplomats said.The Aug. 5 decision by India blocks the right of the state of Jammu and Kashmir to frame its own laws and allows non-residents to buy property there."Pakistan will not provoke a conflict.
  
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• Steve King: 2020 presidential candidates, GOP challenger, condemn 'rape and incest' remarks

  14-08-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Both Republicans and Democrats publicly condemned U.S. Rep. Steve King's comments on Wednesday regarding abortion exemptions for rape or incest.
  
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• Pelosi calls McConnell 'Moscow Mitch' while criticizing inaction on legislation

  14-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  At an Illinois Democrats event, Nancy Pelosi referred to Mitch McConnell by the nickname "Moscow Mitch," attacking inaction on gun control.
  
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• Planned Parenthood sets exit from family planning program

  14-08-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Raising the stakes in an ideologically charged standoff over women's health, Planned Parenthood said Wednesday it will soon leave the federal family planning program unless a court puts a hold on Trump administration rules that bar clinics from referring patients for abortions. The administration responded that it is ready to operate the Title X family planning program without the organization that has been the largest provider. About 4 million women are served nationwide under the program, whic
  
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• Glacier National Park death: Utah teen killed by falling rocks during family vacation

  14-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A 14-year-old girl was killed in Montana's Glacier National Park on Mondayafter large rocks fell from a mountainside and struck her family's vehicle
  
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• Lawyers Ask Court to Protect Epstein Accomplices’ Rights

  14-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  This story has been corrected to reflect that Wednesday’s filing was by lawyers for Epstein and not federal prosecutors. The Daily Beast regrets the error.Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein are opposing a new request by victims to rescind the 2008 sweetheart plea deal that gave immunity to his alleged accomplices.Attorneys for Jane Doe 1 and 2 said in a filing on Tuesday that Epstein’s death by apparent suicide in jail last weekend is all the more reason the non-prosecution agreement signed
  
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• Florida Prosecutors Who Misled Epstein Victims Now Worried About His Accomplices’ Rights

  14-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors in Florida who broke the law by keeping Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in the dark when they cut a sweetheart plea deal with him are now fighting to make sure his alleged accomplices are kept in the loop.In a court filing on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida wrote that co-conspirators should be given notice of any decisions that might affect them “so that they have a full and fair opportunity to litigate the claims affecti
  
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• Portland mayor decries violence, hatred ahead of rally

  14-08-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Mayor Ted Wheeler spoke at a rally with other city leaders ahead of the event Saturday, which is also expected to bring out anti-fascist protesters.The Saturday event is being organized by a member of the Proud Boys, who have been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.Wheeler spoke at a rally with dozens of representatives from the city's religious, police and business groups.
  
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• Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life in Iraq shootings

  14-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.Federal judge Royce Lamberth issued the sentence after a succession of friends and relatives requested leniency for Nicholas Slatten, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in December.Prosecutors charged that Slatten, 35, was the first to fire shots in the September 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians at a crowded t
  
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• A man with no family lost his wife in the El Paso shooting. So he invited the public to her funeral

  14-08-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Margie Reckard, 63, was one of the victims of a mass shooting by a 21-year-old who targeted customers and employees who were Hispanic.
  
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• Trump's acting immigration chief introduced legislation as a state senator that would have allowed companies to fire employees who didn't speak English

  14-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  He's now Trump's acting immigration chief, but Ken Cuccinelli has a long history as an anti-immigration hardliner.
  
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• United after pilot arrests: No drinking 12 hours before work, longer than FAA requires

  14-08-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  United Airlines now requires pilots and flight attendants to refrain from drinking alcohol 12 hours before work. The FAA minimum is eight hours.
  
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• Tens of thousands of women march in Brazil against Bolsonaro

  14-08-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Brasília (AFP) - Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Brazil's capital Wednesday to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro, in the third anti-government protest in the city in two days.The huge demonstration in Brasilia comes as Bolsonaro faces increasing heat over rampant deforestation in the Amazon rainforest as well as education funding cuts, which have sparked nationwide protests by students and professors in recent months, including one in the capital on Tuesday.The "March of
  
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• Ex-lover of dead woman stuffed in suitcase is being hunted by FBI, Mo. officials say

  14-08-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspect is charged with kidnapping the children of a woman found dead by a Missouri highway, federal prosecutors say.
  
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• Stocks fall sharply after bond market warns of recession

  14-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  When yields get "inverted," market watchers say a recession may be a year or two away.
  
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• 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Daytona 50th Anniversary Gets a 717-HP Hellcat V-8

  14-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Production will be limited to 501 units, just like the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona that inspired it.
  
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• The Southwest is sizzling: Here's where it is expected to hit 115 or more

  14-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Scorching heat is blazing across the Southwest this week: Both Phoenix and Yuma expected to near 115 Wednesday and over the next few days.
  
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• Judge: Captured Tennessee inmate could face death penalty

  14-08-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee convict accused of killing a corrections administrator and escaping prison could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder, a judge told the prisoner Wednesday.Curtis Ray Watson appeared before Judge Janice Craig in a video arraignment in Lauderdale County court.Craig told Watson that he is charged with especially aggravated burglary, aggravated sexual assault and escape in addition to the murder charge.
  
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• Mexico rescues 45,000 migrants from human traffickers in eight months

  14-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico said Wednesday it has rescued more than 45,000 undocumented migrants from human traffickers since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office last December.The foreign ministry said Mexican authorities rescued 46,616 migrants from people smugglers between December 1 -- when Lopez Obrador took office -- and August 11.
  
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• Harry and Meghan go on first holiday as family of three to celebrate Duchess's birthday

  14-08-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have taken baby Archie on his first family holiday, it has been reported, as they flew to Ibiza for a five day summer break.  The family of three, reported by the local media to be on the Balearic island, are said to have flown by private jet for the trip, timed around the Duchess’s birthday in August.  They are understood to have stayed in a secluded villa away from the cameras, accompanied as usual by their protection officers but without the inpu
  
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• Migrant rescue ship heads for Italy after judge overrules Salvini

  14-08-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms headed for the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday with 147 rescued migrants on board after a judge in Rome suspended far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's decree banning them from Italy's territorial waters.The Proactiva Open Arms charity which operates the ship said it would not try to force entry to Lampedusa port, as another rescue vessel, the Sea-Watch 3 did in June, prompting its seizure and the arrest of its captain.The Open Arms is seeking
  
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• Democratic Dishonesty on Assault-Weapon Bans

  14-08-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘The 1994 assault weapons and high-capacity magazines bans worked. And if I am elected president, we’re going to pass them again — and this time, we’ll make them even stronger,” Joe Biden promised this week.The only thing stopping the assault-weapon ban from getting through the Republican-controlled Senate, Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed on Monday, is “weak-willed leaders who care more about their campaign coffers than children in coffins.”Accusin
  
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• Greenland's ice is melting at the rate scientists thought would be our worst-case scenario in 2070

  14-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Summer heat waves have caused Greenland's ice to melt at rates scientists didn't expect to see for another 50 years.
  
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• Warren Catches Up to Biden in New National Poll

  14-08-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren are polling within just one percentage point of each other as Warren catches up to the former vice president, who has led the pack of Democratic presidential candidates nationally for weeks.Biden stands at 21 percent support, while Warren is right behind him at 20 percent, up four points from last week, according to the latest national Economist–YouGov poll.Trailing them are Senator Bernie Sanders, who gained three points from last week to clock in at
  
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• Statue of Liberty seen handcuffed by ICE in Las Vegas mural by British artist

  14-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A mural showing the Statue of Liberty being handcuffed by immigration enforcement officers has been unveiled in Las Vegas, amid rancour and anger over Donald Trump’s harsh immigration policies.The mural by British artist Izaac Zevalking, an immigrant who also uses the name Recycled Propaganda, is making the news a day after Mr Trump’s top immigration official suggested the poem that accompanies the iconic landmark – “Give me your tired and your poor” – ought t
  
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• Key Mexico Lawmaker Recommends Narrowing 2020 Primary Surplus

  14-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A key lower house lawmaker is recommending that Mexico narrow its primary budget surplus by half next year to alleviate fiscal pressure on the government and send more resources to strengthen Petroleos Mexicanos. The peso extended its decline.Mario Delgado, the lower house majority leader for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Morena party, said in an interview Wednesday that targeting a surplus of 0.5%, instead of the 1.3% outlined by the Finance Ministry in April, wou
  
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• The black hole at the center of our galaxy just lit up twice as bright as ever. Who knows why

  14-08-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronomers observing the black hole at the center of our galaxy watched it light up with "unprecedented brightness." And they aren't sure why.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers to region facing Alaska

  14-08-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  * State media says it shows Moscow can deploy close to U.S.MOSCOW, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had flown two nuclear-capable TU-160 bombers to a far eastern Russian region opposite Alaska as part of a training exercise that state media said showed Moscow's ability to park nuclear arms on the United States' doorstep.
  
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• Inmate asks for electric chair death in Thursday execution

  14-08-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee inmate has made a last-minute request to be put to death in the electric chair, an option his lawyer described as "also unconstitutional, yet still less painful" than the state's preference of a three-drug lethal injection.The state Department of Correction on Wednesday confirmed 56-year-old Stephen West made the request and said the Thursday execution will be carried out by electrocution.West previously opted against selecting a preference, which would have resulted in lethal inject
  
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• Wife's body found after police kill estranged husband

  14-08-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Police announced Wednesday that a woman's body has been found in Arkansas after police fatally shot her estranged rifle-toting husband the day before near a popular shopping area in Kansas City, Kansas.The body of 49-year-old Sylvia Ussery-Pearson was found Tuesday night in northwest Arkansas' Benton County, police said during a news conference in Overland Park, Kansas, where she was from.The discovery was made hours after 51-year-old Charles Pearson, a 21-year veteran Army Ranger who had comple
  
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• After His Wife's Death in Walmart Mass Shooting, El Paso Man With No Other Immediate Family Invites Public to Her Funeral

  14-08-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man whose wife of 22 years was killed in the El Paso, Texas shooting is inviting the public to her funeral services because he has no other family in the area, a funeral home said Tuesday
  
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• More than 1 million people had their fingerprint data exposed by a huge security hole

  14-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The easiest thing you can do to protect yourself after a data breach is to change the exposed password, preferably to something unique and more secure than the previous one. However, if hackers steal your actual fingerprint -- mind you, not an encrypted version of it -- then there's really nothing you can do to prevent anyone from abusing it since you obviously can't change your fingerprints. And that's precisely what could have easily happened with Suprema's Biostar 2 biometrics lock systems.Re
  
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• Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers to region facing Alaska

  14-08-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia said on Wednesday it had flown two nuclear-capable TU-160 bombers to a far eastern Russian region opposite Alaska as part of a training exercise that state media said showed Moscow's ability to park nuclear arms on the United States' doorstep.The Tupolev TU-160 strategic bomber, nicknamed the White Swan in Russia, is a supersonic Soviet-era aircraft capable of carrying up to 12 short-range nuclear missiles and of flying 12,000 km (7,500 miles) non-stop without re-fuelling.Russia's Ministr
  
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• Rep. Steve King on abortion stance: We're all products of rape and incest

  14-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iowa Republican offered a bizarre defense for his opposition to anti-abortion legislation that allows exceptions in cases of rape and incest.
  
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• The Latest: Wife's body found after police shoot husband

  14-08-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have found a woman's body in Arkansas after police fatally shot her estranged husband near a popular shopping area in Kansas City, Kansas.Police in Overland Park, Kansas, said Wednesday that the body of 49-year-old Sylvia Ussery-Pearson was found Tuesday night in Arkansas Benton County.The discovery was made hours after 51-year-old Charles Pearson walked into a Country Inn & Suites and told the general manager he killed his wife.
  
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• Novices banned from Everest after deadliest climbing season in four years

  14-08-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Amateur climbers will be banned from scaling Everest under tough new proposals unveiled by Nepal in the wake of a spate of deaths on the world's highest peak. Training and experience in high altitude climbing must be mandatory for all climbers on mountain and other high peaks, a government panel said on Wednesday, following the deadliest climbing season in four years. Eleven climbers were killed or went missing on the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) mountain in May – nine on the Nepali side and
  
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• The Latest: Official: Most jailers on OT when Epstein died

  14-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A Justice Department official says more than half of the staff in the Metropolitan Correctional Center at the time Jeffrey Epstein killed himself was working overtime.The official said 18 staff members working in the jail, and 10 were them on overtime.Two guards who were supposed to be watching Epstein were placed on leave Tuesday.
  
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• 12-year-old boy suffered permanent brain damage after bullying incident, lawsuit says

  14-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a 12-year-old boy who was bullied at a Los Angeles charter school is suing the school and the organization that manages it.
  
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• Democrats warn Supreme Court to 'heal itself' or face restructuring

  14-08-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Top Senate Democrats including 2020 hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand are warning the Supreme Court to stay out of a New York gun case.
  
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• 7 Tips for Investors When the Yield Curve Inverts

  14-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Investors witnessed one of the most historically bearish leading economic indicators on Aug. 14 when bond yields on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note dropped below yields on the two-year Treasury note.The transition is known as a yield curve inversion given yields on longer-dated Treasury notes are typically higher than shorter-dated yields.
  
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• Huawei technicians have been helping governments in Uganda and Zambia spy on their political opponents, a new report says

  14-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ugandan and Zambian governments reportedly enlisted help from Huawei employees to spy on their political opponents.
  
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