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• Sanders touts $16 trillion climate plan in fire-ravaged town

  22-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate plan on Thursday before touring a Northern California town ravaged by wildfire, declaring the setting a "wake-up call for our entire nation" to the dangers of a warming planet."Climate change is a major, major crisis for our country, and the entire world, and one of the manifestations of that crisis is what happened here," the Vermont senator said as he walked through a burned-out mobile home park in Paradise alon
  
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• Inslee: 'We elevated the climate change crisis'

  22-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, but he says he’s proud of elevating the climate crisis topic (Aug. 22)
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker -State Dept official

  22-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• France watching Kashmir rights, Macron tells Modi

  22-08-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  France's Emmanuel Macron had a "frank" exchange with India's Narendra Modi about tensions in divided Kashmir on Thursday, telling him Paris would remain attentive to the rights of people living both sides of the ceasefire line.As tensions soared in the flashpoint region, the French president said he would also have a similar exchange with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan in the coming days.
  
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• U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker: State Department official

  22-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• Brexit Held at the Border

  22-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  In the last two days Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that Ireland temporarily leave the European Union to align with the economic rules of a post-Brexit U.K. German chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested, somewhat flippantly, that the U.K. could figure out a special trading arrangement for itself and Ireland in the next 30 days. And French president Emmanuel Macron has said that there’s still room for negotiation between the U.K. and the EU, but he’s willing to be “th
  
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• Critics of Missouri abortion law sue over referendum failure

  22-08-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Abortion-rights advocates on Thursday sued Missouri's top election official, alleging his actions and state laws denied them the right to put one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws to a public vote.No Bans on Choice Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union sought to put the law on the 2020 ballot in hopes that voters would overturn it.Attorneys for those who sued put the blame on Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.
  
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• Mexico struggles: whether to talk to vigilantes or jail them

  22-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's government appears to be split about whether it should talk to armed vigilante groups, or treat them as criminals.President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he disagreed with his assistant interior secretary's decision to attend a ceremony with vigilantes, who often call themselves "self-defense" groups.The debate came to a head Wednesday when Ricardo Peralta, an assistant secretary of the interior, attended the groundbreaking of an agricultural processing plant in the v
  
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• Freaking Out over Trump’s Jokes Is a Great Way to Make Sure He Wins in 2020

  22-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking at a veterans’ event on Wednesday, President Donald Trump joked that he wanted to give himself the Medal of Honor, and didn’t do so only because his aides talked him out of it.Trump made the joke to a WWII veteran and Medal of Honor recipient during the 75th annual national convention of American Veterans, and it was met with laughs by the people in the crowd.But not everyone thought it was funny.“It is an honor, but it is an honor for something unimaginable that someo
  
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• Overstock CEO Resigns After Unusual Message About 'Deep State'

  22-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Overstock CEO Resigns After Unusual Message About 'Deep State'
  
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• Modi Ally Calls for Boycott of China Companies on Kashmir, Trade

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Indians should stop buying from Chinese companies and the government should reconsider trade concessions to its biggest neighbor after China allied with Pakistan on Kashmir, according to an economic policy group linked with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.Companies like technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. should be barred from accessing the Indian market in the future and Chinese companies should be banned from state tenders, Ashwani Mahajan, co-convenor of the Swadeshi Jag
  
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• Lone Analyst Who Cut Cathay to Sell Says He Faces Huge Pressure

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The analyst who issued a report warning investors to dump shares of embattled Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. before they tumble to their lowest levels since 1998, is getting a lot of blowback after his controversial call.“Never before in my 12 years of investment analyst career have I received this much pressure on a particular stock rating,” Zhao Dongchen, who last week issued his inaugural report on Cathay with a “strong sell,” said in an emailed response to
  
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• Overstock.com CEO Resigns after Disclosing Relationship with Russian Agent Maria Butina

  22-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne stepped down Thursday amid the backlash to his disclosure of a romantic relationship with Russian agent Maria Butina.Byrne caused Overstock's shares to plummet last week after he admitted to carrying on a romantic relationship with Butina from 2015 to 2016. The fallout from his disclosure complicated “all manner of business relationships,” he said in a statement announcing his resignation.“Thus, while I believe that I did what was necessary
  
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• Parking lot shooter told detectives he feared severe injury

  22-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors played Michael Drejka's interview with Pinellas County detectives during his manslaughter trial in Clearwater, Florida.Drejka, who is white, shot while on his back from close range seconds after McGlockton shoved him as Drejka argued with McGlockton's girlfriend.Pinellas County Sheriff's Detective Richard Redman testified that Drejka, 49, willingly spoke to him and Detective George Moffett about five hours after the shooting without an attorney.
  
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• Suspect in California campus killing was co-worker

  22-08-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect arrested in the stabbing death of a man at the California State University, Fullerton campus was a co-worker of the victim, police said Thursday.Chuyen Vo, 51, was arrested Wednesday night at his home in Huntington Beach, officials announced at a news conference near the killing scene in a campus parking lot.The victim, Steven Shek Keung Chan, 57, worked as the director of budget and finance and student services for university extended education but retired in 2017.
  
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• New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation

  22-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 meters (135 feet) for six minutes before it hit the surface.Ryugu is just 900 meters wide and so its gravity is 66,500 time
  
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• Guggenheim's Scott Minerd warns world bond markets are in a 'bubble'

  22-08-2019 22:39
  The bond market is in a "bubble," particularly sovereign debt, Guggenheim Partners global chief investment officer Scott Minerd warned on Thursday, and he said that efforts by the Federal Reserve to...
  
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• Man arrested for holding woman as sex slave and keeping her eight-month-old baby captive

  22-08-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina man has been arrested after holding a woman and her 8-month-old baby captive for over a month, authorities said.The Pender County Sheriff’s department said in a press release they received an emergency call on 9 August from a woman who said she was being held against her will at a home in Willard, North Carolina.
  
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• Netanyahu hints at Israeli involvement in Iraq blasts

  22-08-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Thursday of possible Israeli involvement in attacks against Iranian-linked targets in Iraq.A series of blasts in the past few weeks have hit weapon depots and bases belonging to paramilitary groups in Iraq, many of them backed by Israel's regional foe Iran.The groups blamed the United States and Israel for the blasts on Wednesday.
  
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• Man convicted of killing college student 40 years ago found innocent of the crime

  22-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A three-judge panel found a convicted murderer innocent of the 1979 murder that sent him to prison.
  
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• A woman never returned to work after her lunch break. Police say a coworker killed her

  22-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Kenneth C. Saal, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Carolyn Byington, who never returned to work from a lunch break.
  
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• Trump Invited Himself to Denmark Before Canceling Trip, Danes Say

  22-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettySpeaking to reporters on the White House’s South Lawn in late July, President Donald Trump revealed that he was “looking at” a stop in Denmark after an upcoming trip to Poland to attend a World War II commemorative ceremony.For officials in Copenhagen, the comment came as a surprise. Although it is customary in Denmark for there to be a standing invitation for the U.S. president—and though officials in both countries had
  
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• Oklahoma man gets life in prison for child pornography

  22-08-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge sentenced an Oklahoma man to life in prison plus nearly 150 years more for hiding cameras in homes to capture images of girls, saying she would have ordered his castration if the law allowed.Ryan Aaron Alden pleaded guilty in June to 28 felonies, including creating child pornography, aggravated possession of obscene material of minors and using video equipment in a clandestine manner."We're here because of the choices that you and you alone made," Oklahoma County District Judge Amy Palum
  
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• Column: U.S. Medicare readies new plan-shopping website, but timing prompts concerns

  22-08-2019 22:13
  (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein had painting of girl lying with tiger

  22-08-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein had a painting of a girl of indeterminate age lying with a tiger at his New Mexico home in the latest odd revelation of art.
  
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• Weekslong migrant standoffs in Med becoming 'new normal'

  22-08-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A rescue ship carrying 356 people, mostly Africans, rescued in the Mediterranean off Libya is nearing two weeks at sea without being assigned a safe port to offload its traumatized passengers — a situation one charity worker decried as "the new normal" as Europe fails to devise a systematic response.It is inhumane," Jay Berger, project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders on the ship, the Ocean Viking, said by satellite phone Thursday.The Ocean Viking conducted four rescues off Libya fr
  
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• North Dakota court overturns life term in cut from womb case

  22-08-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge overstepped by giving a life prison sentence to a man whose girlfriend cut the baby from the womb of an unsuspecting neighbor, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday, ordering that the man be resentenced.William Hoehn, of Fargo, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the August 2017 attack on Savanna Greywind, who died of her injuries but whose baby survived.Hoehn's girlfriend, Brooke Crews, admitted that she sliced Greywind's baby from her womb.
  
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• Should I stay or should I run? Pompeo under pressure over U.S. Senate seat

  22-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican pressure on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for the U.S. Senate next year to help keep the party's majority intact is coming up against President Donald Trump's hope of keeping one of his most trusted aides in his administration.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans believe the former U.S. congressman from Kansas would be a strong candidate should he decide to run for one of the state's Senate seats in 2020."Secretary Pompeo would clear the field an
  
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• Judge hurries U.S. naturalization as pregnant woman gets contractions

  22-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge in California had to speed up the naturalization of a pregnant immigrant on Thursday when the woman, anxious to become a U.S. citizen because of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, started experiencing contractions.The 31-year-old Armenian-American woman, who was scheduled to give birth to her second child next week by cesarean section, said she started to feel contractions after a walk to a Los Angeles convention center where the judge was naturalizing about 3,200 immigrants.
  
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• This 26-pound cat is in need of a forever home

  22-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A Philadelphia animal shelter is looking for someone with a huge heart to help this huge kitty.Morris Animal Refuge tweeted that a cat named BeeJay, or Mr. B for short is currently up for adoption. He is an absolute whopper on the cat scale, weighing in at a jaw-dropping 26 pounds.> OMG, big boi Mr. B is a CHONK. He's a chonk of a chonk. He redefines the term. Can you guess how much he weighs? More importantly, can you give him a home? Adopt this jumbo-sized package of fluff & love: https
  
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• Half of Venezuela's Oil Rigs May Disappear If U.S. Waivers Lapse

  22-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A looming U.S. sanctions deadline is threatening to clobber Venezuela’s dwindling oil-rig fleet and hamper energy production in the nation with the world’s largest crude reserves.Almost half the rigs operating in Venezuela will shut down by Oct. 25 if the Trump administration doesn’t extend a 90-day waiver from its sanctions, according to data compiled from consultancy Caracas Capital Markets. That could further cripple the OPEC member’s production because
  
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• We should welcome deep digs into 1619. Slavery and white supremacy shaped today's America.

  22-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  You don't have to be black to see the importance of slavery to the American story. It has fundamentally shaped who we are. Erasing that erases history.
  
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• Kremlin dismisses doctors' complaints they were exposed to radiation after blast

  22-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Doctors who treated the victims of a military test explosion have accused Russian authorities of carelessly exposing them to radiation and then forcing them to keep silent. Staff from the Arkhangelsk regional hospital were not informed at first that they were treating irradiated patients, and protective measures were not taken until the next day, they told Russian media this week. In some cases, staff said they were falsely told patients had been decontaminated. One doctor was later found to hav
  
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• White House Scraps Planned Foreign-Aid Cuts: REPORT

  22-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House decided Thursday not to move forward with a broadly unpopular proposal to cut billions of dollars in foreign aid, according to multiple reports.The Office of Management and Budget had planned a package of $4.3 billion in cuts to foreign aid, but the White House backed off the plan amid concerns that it would jeopardize the sweeping, bipartisan budget deal Congress passed earlier this month.Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Republic
  
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• 'Help America Grow': Republican group selling T-shirts with map of US that includes Greenland

  22-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A fundraising group dedicated to electing Republicans to Congress is selling a T-shirt that includes Greenland on a map of the US, just after the president cancelled a trip to Denmark in protest at the prime minister saying he could not buy the country.Casey Tolan, a reporter based in California, spotted the T-shirt on a fundraising message from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which asked donors to "Support President Trump and his efforts to help America grow!" It appears to hav
  
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• Walmart to revamp, reopen El Paso store after mass shooting

  22-08-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart plans to reopen the El Paso store where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting earlier this month, the retail giant said Thursday, but the entire interior of the building will first be rebuilt.The renovated store will include an on-site memorial honoring the victims of the shooting, many of whom were Latino, and recognizing the "binational relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez" just across the border in Mexico, Walmart spokesman Randy Hargrove said."Nothing will erase the pain
  
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• Federal judge rules that immigration law is unconstitutional

  22-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to "encourage" or "induce" immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional.KCUR-FM reports that U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia issued his ruling from the bench Wednesday before throwing out the convictions of Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo and Mauro Papalotzi.Kansas isn't governed by the Ninth Circuit, but Murguia found the argument persuasive.
  
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• AP NewsBreak: Police say suspect arrested in campus killing

  22-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing death of a man at the California State University, Fullerton campus, police said on Thursday.Fullerton police Lt. Jon Radus told The Associated Press that a suspect was arrested in the death of 57-year-old Steven Shek Keung Chan.
  
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• After 11 tons of trash taken off Mount Everest, officials ban single-use plastics

  22-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Mount Everest has become littered with trash and bodies as more adventurers try their luck at scaling the natural wonder.
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro blames Amazon fires on NGOs as Twitter erupts

  22-08-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes.Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter."No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user.
  
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• Hispanic Journalism Group Boots Fox News Over Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric

  22-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin HagenA major organization for Hispanic journalists on Thursday gave Fox News the boot from its upcoming conference in response to the network’s use “invasion” rhetoric when discussing immigration.Fox News was set to appear as a sponsor at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ confab next month in San Antonio, but in a letter to the group’s members, NAHJ President Hugo Balta said that invitation has been revoked.“The line between commentary an
  
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• Beijing fires back after Trudeau vows to stand up to China

  22-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Beijing on Thursday accused Ottawa of worsening relations after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to stand up to China amid deepening diplomatic and trade disputes.
  
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• Israel warns Hamas further attacks risk more Gaza suffering

  22-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army on Thursday warned the Gaza Strip's residents and its Hamas rulers that further attacks on Israel could incur tougher conditions for the coastal territory.The warning came in a tweet from the army's chief Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee, hours after Israeli aircraft hit Hamas targets in retaliation for overnight Palestinian rocket attacks.Hamas launched two rockets at Israel late Wednesday -- bringing to six the number of strikes from Gaza in less than a week -- the arm
  
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• New images from asteroid probe offer clues on planet formation

  22-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have offered new clues about its composition, insights that will help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) hitched a ride on Japan's Hayabusa2 spaceship, touching down on the 900-meter (3,000 feet) wide asteroid, whose orbit lies mostly between Earth and Mars, on October 3, 2018.Ryugu's gravity is 66,500 times weaker than Earth's, an
  
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• Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences

  22-08-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The arrests won't fully or permanently stop a person determined to inflict mass death — and the US is nowhere near close to tackling the root causes.
  
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• Viral Thread Gets Very Deep Into Hasbro's New Socialism-Themed Monopoly Game

  22-08-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Hasbro has unveiled a new edition of its classic board game that parodies socialism
  
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• 'Sorry!' Johnson puts foot in it at Macron's palace

  22-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  An invitation to the gilded Elysee palace of France's president in Paris usually prompts a sense of decorum and formality in a visitor of any rank.During crunch talks over Brexit with French President Emmanuel Macron -- who Johnson insisted on repeatedly addressing as "Monsieur le President" -- the British premier joked and waved his hands flamboyantly.The episode appeared part of a shared joke with Macron, who could be seen laughing heartily.
  
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• Trump fumes over emissions deal between automakers and California

  22-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The president decried a deal between the most populous U.S. state and four major automakers.
  
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• Death row inmate who always maintained his innocence has been executed

  22-08-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A death row inmate who always maintained his innocence has been executed for the abduction, rape and murder of a student more than 20 years ago.Larry Swearingen received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in the Texan city of Huntsville for the 1998 killing of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter.
  
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• Ghana draws African-American tourists with 'Year of Return'

  22-08-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  US preacher Roxanne Caleb blinked away the tears as she emerged from a pitch-dark dungeon where African slaves were once held before being shipped across the Atlantic to America.Caleb is among the African-American visitors flocking to Ghana as it marks the "Year of Return" to remember the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia.A string of prominent African-Americans have headed to the site this year to mark the anniversary since the first slave landing in 1619.
  
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