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• Eric Shawn: Remember, it's still Communist China

  24-08-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Pres. Trump, the G7, and the escalating trade war with Beijing.
  
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• Keep city as white 'as much as possible,' council candidate says, stunning forum in Michigan

  24-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Jean Cramer, a candidate for city council in Marysville, Michigan, made the comment at Thursday night in response to a question about diversity.
  
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• Economic storm clouds hovering over Trump and global leaders

  24-08-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Under the threatening clouds of a global economic slowdown, President Donald Trump is confronting the consequences of his preference to go it alone, with low expectations that the leaders of the richest democracies can make substantive progress on an array of issues at their summit in France. The meeting of the Group of Seven nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. — in the beach resort town of Biarritz comes at one of the most unpredictable moments in T
  
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• Doubling down on racist comments, council candidate says she opposes interracial marriage

  24-08-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Marysville, Michigan mayor Dan Damman has called for city council candidate Jean Cramer to withdraw. She says she doesn't plan to.
  
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• Retailers Dealt Another Blow as Trump Steps Up China Tariffs

  24-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. For American retailers, what Trump giveth, Trump taketh away.President Donald Trump’s administration, which said just 10 days ago it would delay until December some of its new tariffs on Chinese goods, has hit the retail sector with a new blow: The new levies will be raised to 15% from 10% as retaliation after China threatened to impose additional tariffs on $75 billion of
  
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• Britain will withhold $37 billion from EU in no-deal Brexit: Mail on Sunday

  24-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to tell European Union leaders he will withhold 30 billion pounds ($37 billion) from the Brexit divorce bill unless they agree to changes to the deal, the Mail on Sunday reported.If Britain leaves the bloc without a trade deal, lawyers have concluded the government's will only have to pay the EU 9 billion pounds, rather than 39 billion pounds, the newspaper reported.
  
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• Immigration: Baby girl in critical condition after illegal border crossing in Texas

  24-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A baby girl is in critical condition after being detained by the U.S. with her father. They had crossed the Rio Grande illegally in a group of 21 people.
  
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• Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones': military

  24-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said."The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement.The elite Quds Force is the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (I
  
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• Dozens arrested for alleged mass shooting threats in the weeks following attacks in El Paso and Dayton

  24-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Public tips prevented three potential mass shootings in CT, FL & OH.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones' - military

  24-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said."The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement.
  
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• U.S. ‘Starting to Lose China,’ Says Global Times’ Hu Xijin

  24-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. China will follow through with retaliatory measures announced Friday and fight the trade war to the end, in the face of the U.S.’s failure to keep its promises, the state-run People’s Daily wrote in a Saturday editorial.Later, the influential Chinese journalist Hu Xijin said on Twitter that the U.S. is “starting to lose China.”On Friday, Beijing unveiled
  
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• Oregon defends past nonunanimous jury verdicts to high court

  24-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Oregon's criminal justice system would be "overwhelmed" if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in an upcoming case that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional, the state's attorney general has told the court.Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in an amicus brief on Friday that if the U.S. Supreme Court finds nonunanimous juries unconstitutional, it could invalidate hundreds or even thousands of convictions in Oregon.Oregon is the only state in America allowing 11-1 or 10-2 jury verdicts in c
  
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• Teenager may have infected Disneyland tourists with measles while visiting theme park, health officials warn

  24-08-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Disneyland visitors may have been exposed to measles after a teenager visited the theme park while she had the disease, public health officials have warned.A New Zealand girl travelled to the tourist spot and other popular southern California destinations last week despite being sick with the highly-infectious disease.
  
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• Revered as a saint by online extremists, how Christchurch shooter inspired copycat terrorists around the world

  24-08-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  “Brenton Tarrant was a catalyst for me personally. He showed me that it could be done. And that it needed to be done.”Those were the words written by John Timothy Earnest shortly before he stormed a synagogue in Poway, California, and opened fire on the Jewish congregation.
  
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• Syrian govt troops mass in northwest after gains

  24-08-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian government forces massed Saturday in northwest Syria in an apparent bid to press an offensive against jihadists and allied rebels that has heightened tensions with neighbouring Turkey.The Syrian military has since Wednesday seized the key town of Khan Sheikhun from jihadists and allied rebels and overran the countryside to the south, encircling a Turkish observation post in northern Hama.In Khan Sheikhun, smoke still curled into the sky from multiple locations on Saturday among buildings
  
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• Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play with a penguin because it's pure, uncut goodness

  24-08-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The world can be a cruel, unforgiving place. But, somehow, watching Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez play and dance with a penguin makes everything just a little bit better. Even if only for a moment. On Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a video of herself and her flipper-sporting friend engaged in a round of what looks to be playful dance. Seriously, it's adorable. The penguin is all the way in."A new day, a new friend," Ocasio-Cortez wrote of her encounter. Importantly, Ocas
  
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• Syrian troops surround Turkish post in country's northwest

  24-08-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A heavily fortified Turkish observation post in the northwestern village of Morek stood surrounded on all sides by Syrian troops Saturday, a testament to the rapid advance of President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria's northwest over the past three weeks as rebel defenses collapsed.Syrian authorities took a group of journalists to tour the observation post, several newly captured villages and the town of Khan Sheikhoun, which was a major rebel stronghold until it was taken by government forces ea
  
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• Exclusive: Sudan needs up to $10 billion in aid to rebuild economy, new PM says

  24-08-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Sudan needs $8 billion in foreign aid over the next two years to cover its import bill and help rebuild its ravaged economy after months of political turmoil, its new prime minister said on Saturday.Abdalla Hamdok, sworn in three days earlier to head a transitional government after the ousting of veteran leader Omar al-Bashir, said up to another $2 billion of foreign reserves deposits were needed in the next three months to halt a fall in the currency.The 61-year-old economist, who has worked fo
  
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• Evoking 1968, Joe Biden asks New Hampshire voters: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated in 2008?

  24-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Reflecting on a turbulent period in the late 1960s that included high-profile assassinations of prominent U.S. political figures, former VP Joe Biden asked voters in New Hampshire to imagine what would have happened if Barack Obama had been assassinated in 2008.
  
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• At G7, EU warns it will respond 'in kind' if Trump puts tariff on French wine

  24-08-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Council President Donald Tusk says the E.U. will stand by France if Trump follows through on his threat to put tariffs on French wines.
  
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• Trump’s Offer to Help N.Y. With Subway Baffles Governor's Office

  24-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he is ready to help New York extend the Second Avenue subway in New York City, an announcement that left even state Governor Andrew Cuomo baffled.“Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andrewcuomo complete the long anticipated, and partially built, Second Avenue Subway,” President Donald Trump said in a tweet.Cuomo’s office on Saturday said that while the governor is involved in discussions with the president and the D
  
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• Felix Sater: Trump wanted to reveal my secret CIA, FBI work during the campaign

  24-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump wanted to reveal years of secret work that his one-time real estate adviser Felix Sater did for the CIA and FBI, Sater tells the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast.
  
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• Divorcing Spouse Claims NASA Astronaut Committed Crime in Space: Report

  24-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA astronaut Anne McClain's former partner has accused her of committing identity theft from the International Space Station, according to a report.
  
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• How Trump Fits Into the Long, Fraught History of the Relationship Between Israel and American Jews

  24-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Daniel Gordis, author of 'We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel,' talks to TIME
  
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• Britain sends another warship to Gulf

  24-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A third British warship is heading to the Gulf, the Royal Navy announced Saturday, amid heightened tensions in the region.Britain has already sent the HMS Kent to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain, and is now redirecting the Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender from its mission to the Pacific.Britain outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.
  
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• 2020 Democratic presidential field begins to shrink

  24-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Christian Hanley and Kristen Hawn weigh in on the field of 2020 Democratic hopefuls as candidates begin to drop out of the race.
  
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• A man was training to get a gun permit. The instructor accidentally shot him, police say

  24-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The instructor, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department trainer, accidentally shot a student attending the class to get a concealed weapons permit.
  
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• Will the real Mr. No-Deal step forward please?

  24-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  As world leaders touched down in the French seaside resort of Biarritz for the Group of Seven summit, the long-running tensions over Britain's departure from the EU got a tad personal.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Council president Donald Tusk each suggested that the other is bent on scuttling the chances that the UK will break away from the single market of 500 million with an agreement.
  
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• French Riot Police Fire Tear Gas on Protesters: G-7 Update

  24-08-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Group of Seven leaders are arriving in Biarritz, France, Saturday for two days of talks with tempers flaring on a range of issues from trade to climate.Must read:U.S. Thinks Macron Twisting G-7 to Hurt Trump, Win Favor at HomeBoris Johnson’s Long Journey From Trump Hater to Best FriendKey Developments:France thrusts climate at the top of agenda, and gets pushbackMacron isolated over threat to block Mercosur trade dealTrump and Macron have lunch but all is not well between th
  
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• The Latest: Iran imposes sanctions on US think tank

  24-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Foreign Ministry says it has imposed sanctions on the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its CEO for its role in promoting sanctions and "economic terrorism" against Iran.A Saturday report by Iranian media, including the semi-official Fars news agency, quoted a statement by Iran's Foreign Ministry as saying the foundation and its CEO Mark Dubowitz "intentionally" damaged vital interests of Iran through spreading lies and negative campaigning against Iran.
  
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• Britain sends another warship to boost presence in the Gulf

  24-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain is sending another warship to the Gulf to defend freedom of navigation, the defence minister said on Saturday, after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in the region.Tensions have risen between Iran and Britain after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker last month.
  
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• Israel arrests Palestinians after deadly West Bank blast

  24-08-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli security forces have arrested a number of Palestinians in the West Bank as part of a manhunt after an explosion that killed an Israeli teenager, the army said Saturday.The homemade bomb on Friday near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Ramallah, killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and wounded her father Eitan and brother Dvir.No Palestinian group took responsibility for the blast.
  
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• 2 women accused of shoplifting strollers and accidentally leaving their baby behind

  24-08-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two women were arrested for allegedly shoplifting baby strollers and accidentally leaving their own baby behind as they tried to get away.
  
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• Measles-stricken New Zealand girl visited Disneyland, other California destinations

  24-08-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenage girl from New Zealand sick with measles visited Disneyland and other popular tourist stops across Southern California earlier this month, possibly infecting others, local government health officials warned.The alert comes amid the worst outbreak of measles in the United States in a quarter century, with more than 1,200 cases reported across 30 states since October 2018, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
  
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• Trump says he hopes Ruth Bader Ginsburg 'does really well' after tumor treatment

  24-08-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump had encouraging words for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she recovers from treatment for a malignant tumor.
  
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• Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strain confirmed as 'superbugs' continue to worry experts

  24-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A strain of Salmonella found in beef and soft cheeses in the United States and Mexico has been found resistant to antibiotics, according to the CDC.
  
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• Wanted: 60,000 drivers. What the shortages at US trucking companies means to you

  24-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Bad press, high demand and a lack of skilled labor has led to a yearlong truck driver shortage, and it doesn't show signs of stopping.
  
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• Fear grips Bangladesh camp as 2 Rohingya refugees killed

  24-08-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Bangladesh police said they had shot dead two Rohingya refugees during a gunfight in a refugee camp on Saturday after the pair were accused of killing a ruling party official.Nearly a million Rohingya live in squalid camps in southeast Bangladesh, 740,000 of whom fled a 2017 military offensive against the Muslim minority in Myanmar.The incident comes two days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees, which saw not a single Rohingya turn up to return across the border to conflict-
  
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• The first crime in space? Nasa investigates an unprecedented divorce case

  24-08-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The divorce case has details that are all too familiar - two partners at loggerheads, a young child caught in the middle and claims of financial malpractice.  Except there is a twist. The person accused of wrongdoing was in space.  In what is believed to be a first, Nasa is investigating whether one of its astronauts committed a crime while in orbit.  The person in question, Anne McClain, was taking part in a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station [ISS] when the
  
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• 'Red flag laws' offer tool for preventing some gun violence

  24-08-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  After a white supremacist discussed plans on Facebook for a mass shooting at a synagogue, police in Washington used a new law to quickly seize his 12 firearms, long before he was convicted of any crime.Family members and police routinely face agonizing decisions when otherwise lawful gun owners reveal an impulse to harm themselves or others, and more states are enacting laws that let authorities take away their weapons.With bipartisan support in many cases, 17 states and Washington D.C. have now
  
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• 'It was sarcasm': President Donald Trump changes course on 'chosen one' remark

  24-08-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  After raising eyebrows this week claiming he was "the chosen one" to take on China, President Donald Trump said he was being "sarcastic."
  
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• The left melts down over the idea of President Trump filling another Supreme Court vacancy

  24-08-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wraps up cancer treatment.
  
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• Montana is back among states without state-funded preschool

  24-08-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Montana enters the upcoming school year back among the handful of states without publicly funded preschool, and the unions and education groups that are otherwise staunch allies of Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock are a big reason why his fledgling pre-kindergarten program fizzled.The state briefly broke from those ranks with a 2017 budget item that provided funding for preschool programs through 10 school districts and seven private providers.Bullock, who is now running for the Democratic nominati
  
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• Britain's Prince Andrew denies knowledge of Epstein's crimes

  24-08-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain's Prince Andrew responded to intense media scrutiny of his links to Jeffrey Epstein by issuing a statement Saturday denying any knowledge of criminal behavior by his one-time friend who killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. "At no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction," Andrew said in the written statement, referring to Epstein's
  
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• EU leaders round on Trump over trade at G7

  24-08-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  EU leaders rounded on US President Donald Trump over his trade threats on Saturday as they arrived in the chic French seaside resort of Biarritz for a G7 summit overshadowed by trans-Atlantic tensions and worries about the global economy. Already embroiled in a high-risk trade war with China, Trump warned late Friday he would impose punishing tariffs on French wine if France doesn't withdraw a new digital tax that will hit US tech giants. The European Union "will respond in kind," EU Council Pre
  
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• Trump to re-open US consulate in Greenland after being told it's not for sale

  24-08-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The US says it will reopen its consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades - just days after Denmark’s refusal to sell the region sparked a presidential tantrum.Donald Trump angrily pulled out of a state visit to Denmark and dubbed prime minister Mette Frederiksen “nasty” for telling him that his wish to buy Greenland was “absurd”.
  
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• 51 homes, 3 businesses lost in Alaska wildfire

  24-08-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A wildfire burning north of Anchorage, Alaska, has destroyed 51 homes and three businesses, officials said Friday. Another 84 buildings between the communities of Willow and Talkeetna, about 70 miles north of the state's largest city, also have been destroyed, fire information manager Kale Casey said. Hundreds of people have been evacuated because of the fire that started Sunday night along the Parks Highway, the main thoroughfare that connects Anchorage to Denali National Park and Preserve and
  
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• Court rejects Kentucky's attempt to shirk legal fees in Kim Davis gay marriage case

  24-08-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Rowan County clerk Kim Davis was successfully sued in 2015 for refusing to follow the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage.
  
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• No, seriously, one $69 device will have you cooking perfect steak like a pro chef every single time

  24-08-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  If you want to make sure your steak or any other meat is cooked perfectly each and every time, there's no better way to do it than with a meat thermometer. Of course, taking your steak off the heat a bunch of times or opening your grill to check the internal temperature can affect your cook. Don't worry though, because there's a better way. The MEATER True Wireless Smart Meat Thermometer is a little device that you stick in your meat and leave it in while you cook. It connects to an app on your
  
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• Illinois trooper serving warrant dies from gunshot wounds

  24-08-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  An Illinois State Police trooper died from wounds suffered early Friday while executing a search warrant in East St. Louis. Trooper Nicholas Hopkins, 33, of Waterloo, a 10-year veteran of the force, was wounded during an exchange of gunfire while serving the warrant at an East St. Louis home, said State Police Acting Director Brendan Kelly. Police didn't say if anyone else was shot, nor have they revealed the issues addressed in the search warrant.
  
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