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• Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for appearing in racist sketch while in college in 1960s

  29-08-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  In a 1960s radio interview, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's then-fiancee said Ivey wore blackface in a college sketch. Ivey apologized in a statement Thursday.
  
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• Neil Cavuto Torches Trump for Whining About Fox News: You’re Not Entitled to Our Loyalty

  29-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on Thursday fired back at President Donald Trump over his persistent whining about Fox News of late, telling the president that he is not entitled to undivided loyalty from the network and should not expect to get a “free pass.”Noting at the end of his Fox News broadcast on Thursday that Trump had complained earlier in the day to Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade that he was not happy with the conservative-leaning network, Cavuto said that he thinks it
  
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• Trump cancels Poland visit as hurricane heads for Florida

  29-08-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled a trip to Poland as Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, where it could make landfall as a dangerous Category 4 storm.Trump, who had been scheduled to attend World War II anniversary commemorations in Poland this weekend, said he would focus instead on preparations for the approaching hurricane.Vice President Mike Pence would go to Poland in his place, Trump said.
  
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• US discards thousands of donated kidneys each year as patients die on waitlist, study says

  29-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  About 12 people die every day waiting for a kidney, while at least 10 kidneys are discarded daily.
  
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• The Pentagon was apparently blindsided by a Trump administration move that affects some children of deployed troops

  29-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A new policy affecting the citizenship of children born to some US service members appears to have surprised the Department of Defense.
  
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• Video of raid on Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion reveals home decorated in part with illicit photos

  29-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In 2005 the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a raid on the Palm Beach mansion of Jeffrey Epstein. Newly obtained footage of the raid revealed a home decorated in part with multiple nude photos and paintings of young women. Included in the photos is one of a naked woman lying on a sandy beach, reportedly Epstein's ex-girlfriend and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
  
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• Final lineup set for ABC Democratic primary debate; de Blasio, others miss cut

  29-08-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight months into the campaign season, the third matchup in a series of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned primary debates will feature a winnowed field. It's the smallest qualifying roster yet for a debate with 20 candidates still in the running.
  
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• Mattis suggests he might not like Trump 'one fricking bit' but says he's holding fire on him — for now

  29-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The widely respected former defense secretary says he is keeping his criticisms of Trump to himself for now, but this won't last "forever."
  
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• Hurricane Dorian takes aim at Florida

  29-08-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane hunters are monitoring the storm from above the Atlantic Ocean.
  
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• Exclusive: Second homicide identified in string of deaths at VA hospital; family 'floored'

  29-08-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The death of veteran George Shaw, 81, in April 2018 was ruled a homicide, one of 10 suspicious deaths at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia.
  
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• Surgeon General to teens and pregnant women: Weed is way too risky for developing brains

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  'No amount of marijuana use in pregnancy or adolescence is safe,' said Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
  
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• Prosecutors are looking into the network of women they believe Jeffrey Epstein used to recruit underage girls for sex-trafficking

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The convicted sex offender was charged with sex trafficking and accused of molesting dozens of underage girls. The case was dismissed after his death.
  
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• Israel: Iran, Hezbollah intensifying missile efforts

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  "Today we uncovered part of Iran and Hezbollah's precision missile project.Hezbollah denies harboring missile factories.Israel considers Iran to be its greatest enemy and has identified Hezbollah as the most potent military threat on its borders.
  
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• Why President Trump Cut a Methane Regulation That Even Big Oil Companies Wanted to Keep

  29-08-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The decision to side with a group of smaller fossil fuel producers shows the influence these companies retain within the administration
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Florida declares state of emergency as it awaits storm's arrival

  29-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico was spared, but storm is expected to land in Florida Sunday night, potentially as a category 4 hurricaneFlorida governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Wednesday for counties in the path of destruction as Hurricane Dorian swept across the Caribbean towards the US east coast.Photograph: Jose Romero/AFP/Getty ImagesFlorida is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian with weather experts on Thursday proclaiming the state’s entire east coast at risk.A state of emerge
  
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• North Korea says it won't give up arms modernization

  29-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea accused the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday of meddling in its "self-defensive measures for arms modernization," saying the West will make "no greater mistake" than thinking Pyongyang will give up its right to have weapons that it says are needed to ensure peace.The North's official Korean Central News Agency circulated a statement from Kim Son Gyong, an adviser at the Korea-Europe Association, in response to a joint statement Tuesday from the three important U.S. alli
  
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• Atmospheric battle will determine where Dorian hits Florida

  29-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a battle of mammoth meteorological forces, and at stake is where Hurricane Dorian strikes the United States.Four days before the system is expected to come ashore, Dorian could hit practically anywhere in Florida because the weather forces that will determine its path have not yet had their showdown, meteorologists said.As of Thursday, the National Hurricane Center had practically all of eastern Florida in a cone of uncertainty, meaning the entire region was at risk.
  
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• Israel Is Escalating Its Shadow War With Iran. Here's What to Know

  29-08-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel-attributed attacks on targets in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq highlight the risks of a wider confrontation
  
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• Yemen President urges end of UAE strikes, fears secession

  29-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's president urged Saudi Arabia on Thursday to rein in the United Arab Emirates after warplanes from his former ally staged airstrikes on Yemeni government troops, killing and wounding dozens as they headed to retake the key southern port city of Aden from separatists backed by the UAE.In a rare statement, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi condemned the UAE, a former ally, for "blatant intervention" in Yemen by providing "support, money and plans" for separatists who aim at "dividing up" th
  
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• DOJ declines prosecution of ex-FBI Director James Comey for leaked Trump memos, found he violated policy

  29-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice declined prosecution of ex-FBI Dir. James Comey for leaked Trump memos, but the inspector general found he violated policy.
  
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• US targets Lebanon, Oman financiers for Hezbollah

  29-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Thursday announced sanctions in Lebanon and Oman aimed at shutting down financing to the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas militants.Powerful US financial sanctions were imposed on the Jammal Trust Bank in Lebanon, which was accused of acting as a key financial institution for Hezbollah, which opposes US ally Israel.
  
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• Woman cleared of murder charges after 35 years in prison gets $3 million

  29-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didn't commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her attorney said Wednesday.
  
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• Ohio man accused of planning to attack Jewish center faces federal charge

  29-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  James Reardon, 20, whose case is one of many thwarted potential mass shootings reported by U.S. law enforcement in recent weeks, faces one count of transmitting threatening communications via interstate commerce, federal prosecutors said as his indictment was unsealed on Thursday.Federal authorities said their investigation is ongoing.
  
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• 'This ain't your mother's marijuana,' surgeon general says

  29-08-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use.Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana "a dangerous drug." Officials said President Donald Trump has donated $100,000 — one-quarter of his annual government salary — toward a digital campaign
  
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• Puerto Ricans who fled to Florida from storm face new storm

  29-08-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Jose Santiago was worried about his two adult daughters as Hurricane Dorian threatened Puerto Rico midweek."One of them told me, 'Daddy, this isn't going to hit Puerto Rico directly, but now I'm worried about you,'" said Santiago, who drives cars for an auction house in Orlando.Like Santiago, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans moved to Florida after Hurricane Maria to escape the devastation of the Category 4 storm.
  
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• Israel says Iran seeking to build precision missiles in Lebanon

  29-08-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army on Thursday accused Iran of collaborating with Lebanon's Hezbollah to assemble precision-guided missiles that could cause "massive" human casualties in Israel.Tehran and the Shiite movement plan to convert "stupid rockets into precision-guided missiles", Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists in a conference call.Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah targets.
  
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• 'I'm On the Mend.' Alex Trebek Returns to Jeopardy! Just Months After Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis

  29-08-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  'I've gone through a lot of chemotherapy, and thankfully that is now over'
  
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• Uganda says a traveling Congolese girl has Ebola

  29-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A 9-year-old Congolese girl tested positive for Ebola in Uganda on Thursday after traveling from Congo, where an outbreak of the highly infectious disease has killed nearly 2,000 people.The child, who is now in isolation at a hospital in the Ugandan border district of Kasese, traveled from Congo with her mother on Wednesday, Uganda's health ministry said in a statement.The girl, who was bleeding through the mouth and had a high fever, was identified and screened for Ebola at an official border c
  
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• White House slams Comey for violating FBI policies and falsely claims the Russia investigation was launched because he 'shamefully leaked information to the press'

  29-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was well underway by the time Comey shared his memos with the media.
  
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• Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for participating in blackface skit in college

  29-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes," Ivey said.
  
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• Woman Claims She Gave Birth Alone in Denver County Jail Cell with No Medical Treatment

  29-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman has filed a lawsuit after she said she was forced to deliver a baby alone on a bench in a jail cell at the Denver County Jail.
  
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• Judge ends case against Epstein, with a nod to the accusers

  29-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, but not without a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the financier.
  
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• Brigitte Macron speaks out against sexism amid G7 Amazon fire funding row with Brazilian president

  29-08-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, hit back on Thursday at mockery of her age and appearance on Jair Bolsonaro’s Facebook page amid a war of words between the Brazilian president and her husband that has left £18m in emergency funding for the Amazon in limbo. Her comments came as Mr Bolsonaro, accused by critics of allowing tens of thousands of fires to rage unchecked in the Amazon rainforest, announced a two-month ban on fires deliberately started by farmers. Critics have a
  
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• Longest-ever wrongfully imprisoned woman in US history gets $3m in lawsuit settlement

  29-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit has been awarded $3m (£2.5m) as a partial settlement in her civil rights case, according to her lawyers.Cathy Woods, 68, was released from prison in 2015 after she was exonerated due to new DNA evidence found on a cigarette stub.
  
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• El Salvador busts alleged migrant smuggling network, nabs 25

  29-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 25 people were arrested across El Salvador on Thursday, including businesspeople, lawyers and a former police officer, as part of an operation to break up an alleged migrant smuggling network.Authorities said they conducted raids in a number of municipalities and seized 23 vehicles and 14 properties with a collective value of about $1 million.The director of the attorney general's office anticorruption unit said 32 arrest warrants were issued.
  
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• Lineup cut in half: Here's who made the third Democratic presidential debate

  29-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  After two debates that spanned two nights and included 20 candidates, the third Democratic debate will cut those numbers in half.
  
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• US intelligence suggests Russia was fishing Putin's doomsday missile out of the sea when it mysteriously exploded

  29-08-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Sources familiar with an intelligence report told CNBC that Russia was trying to recover the weapon after another unsuccessful flight test.
  
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• Israeli PM, libertarians hash out weed deal ahead of polls

  29-08-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a deal with a far-right party which agreed to withdraw from elections next month in exchange for a pledge to legalise medicinal cannabis.Zehut, a libertarian Jewish nationalist party, was also promised a ministerial portfolio in exchange for not putting up candidates for the September 17 legislative elections, its head Moshe Feiglin said.The veteran Israeli prime minister and Likud party chair is trying to secure right-wing votes fo
  
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• Trump 2020 press secretary: President has never lied to American people

  29-08-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  "Interview's over," CNN's Chris Cuomo said to Trump's campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany after she refused back off the statement that the president has never lied.
  
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• EU should not let itself be scared into Brexit renegotiation: Merkel ally

  29-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union should not let itself be pressured into Brexit renegotiations following British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to order the suspension of parliament for almost a month, a senior German conservative said on Thursday."If the rationale was to scare the EU into renegotiation by removing parliament as the final obstacle to NoDeal Brexit, the UK government has been gravely misled," Norbert Roettgen, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament,
  
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• Hurricane Dorian now expected to reach Category 4 strength ahead of US landfall

  29-08-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The latest forecast for Hurricane Dorian's path turns it more west, increasing the chances the strong hurricane makes landfall on Florida's Atlantic coast.
  
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• The Latest: Colombia leader seeks arrest of rearmed rebels

  29-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Colombia's President Iván Duque is accusing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of providing safe haven to a cadre of demobilized rebel leaders who have just announced they are rearming.Duque also says he's offering a nearly $1 million reward for the arrest of the insurgents, who include the former chief negotiator of a 2016 deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.In a televised address Thursday, Duque accused Maduro of sheltering the rebels in vi
  
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• Democrat O'Rourke vows to end Trump's trade war with China under new plan

  29-08-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke released a plan on Thursday that would end Republican President Donald Trump's trade war with China, but would also demand that China stop unfair practices such as currency manipulation and corporate espionage.The former Texas congressman said that, if elected president he would immediately eliminate Trump's tariffs against Chinese goods, demanding in exchange that China revoke its retaliatory tariffs against American products including soybeans, b
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to shooting man in the head inside car while on Facebook Live

  29-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Sentencing is scheduled for a later date, which will include statements from the victim.
  
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• Idaho artifacts show human presence in Americas 16,600 years ago

  29-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Artifacts including stone tools and animal bone fragments found in Idaho dating back about 16,600 years represent what may be the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas and offer insight into the routes people took as they spread into the New World.Scientists on Thursday said they used a technique called radiocarbon dating to determine the age of artifacts unearthed at an archeological site called Cooper's Ferry along the Salmon River in western Idaho near the town of Cottonwood.People were p
  
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• A 360-pound alligator that snuck up on a kayaker was captured after a 3-hour hunt

  29-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The alligator chased Bo Storey out of the pond. Hours later, it was caught because it was deemed to be a nuisance due to its size and demeanor.
  
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• Ukraine president picks young lawyer as prime minister

  29-08-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday picked untested 35-year-old lawyer Oleksiy Goncharuk as his prime minister, as a new parliament met for the first time.Zelensky, a popular comedian before winning the presidency this year, has promised to bring in fresh faces to clear away an establishment that he says has ruled Ukraine since independence in 1991.Goncharuk, who has just three months' experience of government in Zelensky's administration, vowed to "put an end" to corruption durin
  
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• Trump Wanted Puerto Rico Recovery Aid Tied to Anti-Corruption Measures

  29-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  CARLOS BARRIA/GettyDonald Trump has made his animus towards the island of Puerto Rico no secret. The president has repeatedly objected to the amount of federal disaster aid spent to help the American citizens there recover from the hurricanes that have ravaged their home.But while the president has begrudgingly signed legislation to send billions of dollars to Puerto Rico, he has also privately tried to add conditions to that support. According to three people with direct knowledge of the discus
  
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• Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rumbles 150 miles off Oregon coast

  29-08-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the Oregon coast but did not generate a tsunami or cause any damage or injuries, authorities said.The quake was caused by slipping along an offshore fault called the Blanco Fracture Zone and has nothing to do with the more well-known Cascadia fault, which is believed to be overdue for a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, said Paul Bodin, manager of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington.The slips along the Casc
  
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• Senator: Trump Policy Is ‘Death Sentence’ For Sick Kids

  29-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  JOHAN ORDONEZWhen Suhas Khamgaonkar came to the United States 14 years ago as the wife of a chemical engineer with an employer-sponsored visa, she thought that her legal immigration status in the country was assured. But when her husband died suddenly of a heart attack in 2015, Khamgaonkar was warned by her immigration attorney that she might be forced to leave the country—even though she had a pending application for permanent U.S. residency.On her attorney’s advice, Khamgaonkar, a
  
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