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• Child found dead in hot vehicle at New Jersey train station

  16-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating the death of a young child who was left in a vehicle parked at a commuter train station in New Jersey.
  
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• Arrests precede major demonstrations in Portland, Oregon

  16-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities arrested the leader of a right-wing group on the eve of a rally that's expected to draw people from around the U.S. to Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, prompting Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson to urge his followers to "show up one hundred-fold" in response.Self-described anti-fascists have vowed to confront the right-wing groups at the downtown rally and the arrests of Gibson and five other right-wing supporters appeared to be intended to send a signal from police to organizers to remain
  
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• Claims: Migrant children molested in US-funded foster care

  16-08-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  This story is part of an ongoing joint investigation between The Associated Press and the PBS series FRONTLINE on the treatment of migrant children, which includes an upcoming film. The boy, now 8, went into a U.S.-funded foster home for migrant children in New York. The foster care programs are aimed at providing migrant children with care while authorities work to connect them with parents, relatives or other sponsors.
  
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• NASA picks Alabama's 'Rocket City' for lunar lander job

  16-08-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA picked Alabama's "Rocket City" on Friday to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts.Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville beat out Johnson Space Center in Houston, which managed the Apollo lunar lander a half-century ago.The new lunar lander — not yet built or even designed — is meant to carry an American woman and a man to the moon's south pole by 2024.
  
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• Thousands of travelers delayed at U.S. airports by computer outage

  16-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of travelers at U.S. airports faced delays on Friday because of an nationwide outage of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) processing systems that lasted several hours.People at various U.S. airports posted videos on social media sites of lengthy lines at processing checkpoints and several airports warned of extensive delays.
  
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• Hundreds defy restrictions, join protests in Kashmir

  16-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people protested an unprecedented security crackdown and clashed with police Friday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, as India's government said it was constantly reviewing the situation in the disputed region and the restrictions there will be removed over the next few days.The U.N. Security Council met on Jammu and Kashmir for the first time in decades, and Pakistan's ambassador to the world body said the session showed that people in the region "may be locked up ... but their voices w
  
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• Smiling cops take selfie near where dead baby was just found. Missouri city apologizes

  16-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  “The photos were by no means meant to take away from the extremely serious nature of the incident,” city officials say.
  
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• President Trump saves Black Friday — and consumers’ cash — from himself | Opinion

  16-08-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration just put the black back in Black Friday.
  
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• Afghan palace emerges from ruins as centenary nears

  16-08-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Inside an imposing building in Kabul, a team of welders hastily fuse a sweeping metal bannister to a grand staircase.With questions looming over Afghanistan's future and a possible deal between the US and the Taliban imminent, the war-torn nation is this month hoping to briefly celebrate its past -- and Darulaman will be the centrepiece.Work at the famed palace must be completed by August 19, the date marking 100 years of Afghan independence from Britain, when President Ashraf Ghani will inaugur
  
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• Trump news: Impeachment support swells as president forced into rare apology after hurling abuse at overweight supporter

  16-08-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has apologised to a supporter he fat-shamed at his latest 2020 campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday night, after mistaking the MAGA fan for a protester and telling him to “go home and start exercising”.​On a typically wild evening, the president inspired new chants of “Lock her up!” and “Send her back!”, directed at Hillary Clinton and Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar respectively, took credit for an Obama-era law, ple
  
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• Tlaib refuses to visit under Israel's set conditions

  16-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Diala Shamas of the Center for Constitutional Rights says Israel's decision to ban Tlaib is "troubling," and that the country is treating congresswomen "the same way they deal with all Palestinians."
  
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• Here’s what the NRA’s Marion Hammer says about Florida’s proposed assault weapons ban

  16-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer warned state economists Friday that a proposed assault rifle ban would be devastating to gun manufacturers lured to the state over the last eight years.
  
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• O'Rourke visits town targeted by 'terrifying' ICE raids

  16-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke on Friday became the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit one of the Mississippi towns where federal immigration agents raided chicken processing plants and arrested nearly 700 people — kicking off a new phase of his campaign he says will focus on President Donald Trump's damaging policies.It was the former Texas congressman's first campaign stop since he suspended his White House bid for nearly two weeks to stay in his hometown of El Paso, where a mass shooting k
  
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• Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel

  16-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  To the extent that I care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump’s tweeted demands and that blocking Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel handed them a short-term propaganda victory. But that’s not the most important part of the story.The most important element of the story is the fact that two American
  
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• Colorado OKs electric car requirement to fight air pollution

  16-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Colorado tightened its air quality regulations on Friday, requiring that at least 5% of the vehicles sold in the state by 2023 emit zero pollution.The state Air Quality Control Commission, which passed the rule on an 8-1 vote, said the requirement applies to auto manufacturers, not buyers.It's intended to boost the number of electric vehicles in a state struggling to control ozone pollution in its most heavily populated area.
  
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• Florida man uses front-end loader to dump dirt on car his girlfriend drove, cops say

  16-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Beware boyfriends in front-end loaders.
  
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• DNA leads to arrest in another Florida rape case from 1980s

  16-08-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  For the second time in a year, authorities in a south Florida community have used DNA evidence to identify and arrest a suspect in a decades-old rape case.Timothy Norris, 60, is charged in the knifepoint rape of a Florida woman at her home in 1983, Coral Springs police spokesman Tyler Reik said Friday.Authorities found Norris serving time for bank robbery at a West Virginia federal prison, Reik said.
  
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• GPS monitoring violates some sex offenders’ rights, NC Supreme Court rules

  16-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Sex offenders have rights, too, and in some cases the state has been violating those rights, the NC Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
  
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• Family, friends bid goodbye to slain corrections employee

  16-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of family and friends gathered Friday in a Tennessee church to bid goodbye to a beloved correctional administrator killed last week, allegedly by an escaped inmate who sparked a four-day manhunt.The 64-year-old Debra Johnson was remembered for being a devout Christian, with loved ones noting her willingness to greet church congregants with a big smile and even bigger hug.
  
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• Verdict for Salvadoran woman accused of killing stillborn expected next week

  16-08-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The verdict in a retrial of a Salvadoran woman convicted of aggravated homicide after a stillbirth is expected on Monday, the woman's lawyer said on Friday, in a closely watched case that could overturn a 30-year prison sentence.Defendant Evelyn Hernandez, 21, has already served three years of the three-decade sentence handed down after prosecutors said she had induced an abortion."We are done with the trial and we are only waiting for the ruling on Monday," said Hernandez's lawyer, Bertha de Le
  
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• Video shows man get struck by lightning while walking in storm

  16-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Surveillance video captured the moment a man was struck by lightning as he walked outside during a storm.
  
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• President Trump's tariff troubles

  16-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The latest battle in the trade war with China could affect holiday shopping in the United States.
  
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• Frustrated Philadelphia mayor calls for gun control. Here's why it hasn't happened in his city.

  16-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Following a standoff between police and an armed gunman, Philadelphia's mayor calls on legislators to let the city pass its own gun laws.
  
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• She wanted a late-night hookup, but he fell asleep. So she burned his house down, police say

  16-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Police accuse Taija Russell, 29, of sending a series of angry texts, then buying lighter fluid, matches and a lighter at a nearby gas station.
  
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• Venezuelan exodus may soon double, triggering a bigger regional crisis | Opinion

  16-08-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the things that surprised me the most during a lengthy interview with Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan National Assembly president who is recognized by the United States and more than 50 countries as Venezuela’s legitimate leader, was his forecast that the number of Venezuelan exiles may “easily” reach 8 million by next year.It’s a mindboggling figure, because it would be twice the 4 million exiles that, according to a recent United Nations report, have already f
  
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• Obama told Biden advisers not to let the former Veep ‘damage his legacy’ in his 2020 presidential run

  16-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Obama is reportedly concerned that Biden is relying on advisers who are "too old and out of touch with the current political climate,"
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein’s Body Claimed by His Brother

  16-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeenah Moon/ReutersJeffrey Esptein’s body was claimed from the New York City medical examiner’s office by his brother Mark Epstein, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast on Friday.The exclusive details come as Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson is preparing to issue a report on Epstein’s autopsy and a final ruling on his cause of death. Officials have previously said Epstein’s death is being investigated as a suicide.Epstein, 66, was fou
  
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• Mexico president opposes prosecuting predecessors

  16-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador repeated Friday his opposition to prosecuting former presidents even as he said that a president would know everything that happened during his administration.The question of prosecuting ex-presidents has taken new life with prosecutors' pursuit of Rosario Robles, an ex-Cabinet minister of former President Enrique Peña Nieto.This week a judge ordered that Robles be held in jail pending trial for allegedly knowing about the diversi
  
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• Warren Named as No. 2 Choice Among Democrats: Campaign Update

  16-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren is the second choice for the greatest number of Democratic primary voters, suggesting more upside for the Massachusetts senator as the field begins to narrow.Polls have consistently shown that Joe Biden is the first choice of a plurality of Democrats. But he’s still well under 50%, giving ample room for Democrats to coalesce around another candidate.A new Pew Research Center survey suggests that other than Biden, Warren is best positioned to be that candidat
  
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• Sen. Bernie Sanders to Israel: Ban U.S. congresswoman — then don’t take U.S. money.

  16-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Bernie Sanders has suggested Israel should now decline the billions of dollars it receives in U.S. aid in the wake of its ban on Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country.
  
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• Taliban chief's brother killed in Pakistan blast: militant sources

  16-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Afghan Taliban leader's brother was among four people killed in a blast at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan Friday, insurgent sources and a Pakistani official told AFP.The Taliban have not officially commented, but an unofficial statement circulating among Taliban fighters on WhatsApp and seen by AFP confirmed the claim.The blast comes at a delicate moment as a deal between the insurgents and Washington to end America's war in Afghanistan is believed to be imminent.
  
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• Democratic pollster divulges details to jurors about Greg Craig's Ukraine work

  16-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  As the pollster and consultant entered the witness box, he seemed to give a nod in Craig’s direction.
  
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• Why Nora's family may never know the truth behind her mysterious death

  16-08-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Nora Quoirin’s parents did not have to say that their hearts were broken over her terrible death in an unforgiving Malaysian jungle. For days the horror of losing their eldest child in mystifying circumstances in a country far from home had been etched on their agonised faces. The discovery of the 15-year-old’s body on Tuesday brought a final, painful end to the question of what had happened to the young girl nine days after she disappeared from her Franco-Irish family’s holida
  
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• Mexico to deport U.S. citizen suspected of supporting 'violent jihad'

  16-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting militant Islamists in an example of Mexico's security cooperation with the United States even as the two neighbors grapple with sharp disagreements over trade and migration.The unidentified American man sought by Interpol was under investigation for supporting terrorist groups and will be deported to the United States later on Friday, the Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement.The man was detained at a migrants o
  
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• Israel intercepts Gaza rocket after weeks of calm

  16-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at southern Israel on Friday night in what the army said was the first such attack in over a month.A military statement said the projectile was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, after air raid sirens sounded in the southern town of Sderot and its surroundings.Earlier, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that 32 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli live fire along the Gaza border fence as part of weekly protests ther
  
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• Zimbabwe police beat protesters defying regime 'worse than Mugabe'

  16-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Riot police in Zimbabwe on Friday fired teargas and beat demonstrators who defied a protest ban, as the opposition accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government of surpassing Robert Mugabe's regime in brutality.Scores of people gathered in a square in the capital Harare to demonstrate against the country's worsening economy, despite massive police deployment and a ban upheld by a court the same morning.Police cornered one group of protesters and beat them with batons, an AFP reporter saw.
  
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• Report: LGBTQ-hate violence increased during Pride month, Stonewall's 50th anniversary

  16-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reported an increase in hate violence against LGBTQ people during Pride Month and Stonewall 50.
  
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• 3-year-old girl found alone in boat, man’s body discovered nearby, Texas cops say

  16-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas authorities found a man’s body after searching for a missing father whose little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday.
  
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• 3-year-old girl alone on Texas boat told rescuer ‘daddy went swimming,’ deputies say

  16-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas authorities are searching for a missing father after a little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday.
  
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• 3-year-old girl alone on Texas boat said ‘daddy went swimming;’ man’s body found

  16-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas authorities found a man’s body after searching for a missing father whose little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday.
  
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• American Airlines reviewing rare mix-up of Charlotte passenger boarding wrong plane

  16-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A flight from Charlotte to Asheville was delayed for almost an hour and a half Wednesday after a man boarded the wrong plane, an American Airlines spokeswoman said Friday.
  
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• A Wisconsin college student was arrested after tearing up a classmate's swastika sign

  16-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee junior Grae Hosmanek was participating in an event organized by Students Supporting Israel when she was arrested.
  
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• Trump, Netanyahu relationship erodes core values of U.S.-Israeli bond: Today's talker

  16-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Netanyahu barred Reps. Omar and Talib from entering Israel after Trump urged him. This was a mistake for Israel.
  
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• Shooting near Alabama campus kills 2, injures 3

  16-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A shooting on the edge of an Alabama college campus killed a student and another man and wounded three others. Gunfire broke out Thursday night near Alabama State University in Montgomery. President Quinton T. Ross told a news conference Friday the shooting occurred at a business near the school.
  
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• Facial recognition scanners are already at some US airports. Here's what to know

  16-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The next time you go to the airport, you might notice something different during the security process: A machine scanning your face.
  
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• Yields rise on German fiscal stimulus hopes

  16-08-2019 20:45
  Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday on a report that Germany may be open to running a deficit to boost growth, while stronger stock markets also reduced demand for safe haven debt.
  
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• The Latest: Omar disputes Netanyahu's claims about itinerary

  16-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota disputes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that she and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan didn't ask to meet with Israeli government or opposition officials before he barred them from visiting Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank next week.Omar tweeted Friday they planned to meet with Jewish and Arab members of the Israeli parliament plus other Israeli officials.
  
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• Kidnapping Victim Elizabeth Smart's Father Comes Out as Gay

  16-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of the Utah kidnapping survivor says his decision brings challenges but also "huge relief."
  
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• Hezbollah shows 'missile arsenal' used against Israeli warship

  16-08-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah released footage of what it says are anti-ship missiles of the kind it used 13 years ago against Israel before marking on Friday its self-declared "victory" in the 2006 war.Israel has fought several conflicts against the Iran-backed Hezbollah, the last in 2006.More than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, the majority soldiers, died during the last conflict but many in Israel consider the war a failure as Hezbollah was not defeated.
  
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• How Kamala Harris was shaped by 'the People's Republic of Berkeley'

  16-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Kamala Harris grew up in the radical environs of Berkeley and spent her childhood at marches and protests with her parents. But she went to law school and became a prosecutor, an unexpected career choice that she has to explain — and defend — to Democratic voters as she seeks the presidency.
  
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