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• 'Multiple gunshot victims' amid active shooter report in Midland-Odessa, Texas: Police

  31-08-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The Odessa Police Department said it was looking for at least one suspect who was "driving around Odessa shooting at random people."
  
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• Hong Kong Masses Defy Police, Show China They’re Ready to Fight

  31-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s masses swarmed downtown areas in defiance of a police ban on Saturday, showing they’re ready to resist harsher measures by local authorities and Beijing to quash pro-democracy protests that have raged for almost three months.Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and bricks, and set aflame a massive road block in the city center after tens of thousands marched and vowed to drag out disruptive anti-China protests until their demands were met. Some train stati
  
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• 'Shut up': 911 dispatcher scolded drowning woman during her final moments, police say

  31-08-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Debra Stevens drowned while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher Saturday after flash floods swept her away. Police said they were working to "save" her.
  
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• Fall Campaign Season Begins With Biden Teetering Atop Democratic Field

  31-08-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Still, the fall campaign will certainly test Biden's advantages in the race
  
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• Iran's Rouhani warns Macron of looming nuclear step

  31-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  President Hassan Rouhani spoke with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Saturday, warning him Iran would take the next step in reducing its nuclear commitments unless Europe lives up to its own undertakings.Tensions have spiked in the Gulf since May last year when President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers -- known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).Macron has been leading efforts to de-escalate the situation and h
  
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• Lebanon's Hezbollah says response to 'Israeli' attack 'decided'

  31-08-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday his Lebanese movement's response to a recent alleged Israeli drone attack on the group's Beirut stronghold had been "decided".Israel "must pay a price", he said.The threat comes as tensions soar between Lebanon and Israel after an alleged Israeli attack on southern Beirut last Sunday.
  
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• One dead, eight injured in French knife rampage

  31-08-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A police source said the alleged perpetrator was an Afghan asylum-seeker, unknown previously to both the police and the intelligence services.An eye-witness in Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, described the attack as frenzied.Of the eight people wounded in the attack, three were in a critical condition, said the prosecutor's office.
  
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• US strikes jihadists in Syria, monitor says 40 killed

  31-08-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  US forces attacked jihadist leaders in northwestern Syria on Saturday, the Pentagon said, in what a battlefield monitor called a missile strike that left at least 40 dead.The US strike came as renewed Syrian regime bombardment of Idlib province killed one civilian in a first violation of a Russian-backed truce for the region that came into effect just hours before, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The US Defense Department said its own attack targeted leaders of Al-Qaeda in the north
  
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• Watch a man brazenly light a cigarette at gunpoint during an armed robbery

  31-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  If you think you're cool under pressure, you've got absolutely nothing on a St. Louis man who -- in a scene that could have easily been part of a Tarantino movie -- calmly and brazenly lit a cigarette while the bar he was in was being robbed.Not only that, our fearless hero refused to let the robber snatch his smartphone away. All the while, the robber was carrying around an assault weapon that was later revealed to be a Hi-Point Carbine. If that sounds familiar, the Hi-Point Carbine was one of
  
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• One dead, nine wounded in French knife attack

  31-08-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old man was killed and another nine wounded, three seriously, on Saturday in a knife attack near the French city of Lyon, a regional official and emergency services said. Two men, one armed with a knife and the other with a skewer, carried out the attack in Villeurbanne, a Lyon suburb, in southeastern France, the official said, without giving further details on the motive for the stabbing.
  
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• 9 counts of attempted murder for student who allegedly opened fire in football stadium

  31-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Deangelo Parnell, 17, has been charged with nine counts of attempted murder for allegedly opening fire Friday into a stadium in Mobile, Alabama.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian heading to the Bahamas: What we know about its latest path

  31-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The strengthened storm bears down on the Bahamas but may turn north before hitting Florida directly.
  
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• October Democratic presidential primary debate to be held in Ohio, state party says

  31-08-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate could stretch into two nights if more candidates meet the polling and fundraising qualifications before Oct. 1.
  
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• Suit settled in teen suicide that led to Illinois law change

  31-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of 16-year-old Corey Walgren that focused on those questions has been resolved, with the city of Naperville expected to approve a settlement on Tuesday in which it and the local school district each agree to pay the Walgren family $125,000.Walgren's death on Jan. 11, 2017, three hours after a dean and in-school police officer at Naperville High School told the honor-roll student he might face child pornography charges also prompted a change in Illi
  
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• China's Loyal Wingman Drone Flies Alongside Manned Fighters

  31-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's another endorsement for the robotic flying buddy concept.
  
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• Hezbollah leader: We have no missile factories in Lebanon

  31-08-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday categorically denied Israeli claims about his group having factories to produce precision-guided missiles in Lebanon, saying such "lies" were an attempt to justify Israeli attacks against the country.In a speech to hundreds of his followers who gathered in the group's stronghold in southern Beirut, Hassan Nasrallah said his group possessed precision-guided missiles but not the factories to produce them."We do not have factories to produce precision-g
  
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• Bernie Sanders proposes canceling $81 billion U.S. medical debt

  31-08-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. presidential contender Bernie Sanders proposed a plan on Saturday to cancel $81 billion in existing past-due medical debt for Americans, but offered no details on how it would be financed.Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, said in a statement that under his plan, the government would negotiate and pay off past-due medical bills that have been reported to credit agencies. The proposal, he said, would also repeal some elements of the 2005 Bankruptcy reform bill and allow
  
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• Trucker pleads guilty to California crash that killed 13

  31-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A trucker who fell asleep behind the wheel was sentenced to four years in state prison after he pleaded guilty to causing a tour bus crash on a Southern California freeway that killed 13 people in 2016, officials said.Bruce Guilford of Covington, Georgia, faced 42 charges of reckless driving and vehicular manslaughter.John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, said Guildford pleaded guilty to all counts Friday.
  
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• One dead, eight wounded in French knife attack

  31-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old man was killed and another eight people were wounded, three seriously, in a knife attack Saturday in the French city of Lyon, a regional official and emergency services said.Police have arrested the suspected attacker and placed him in custody for murder and attempted murder, the Lyon prosecutor's office told AFP.A police source said the man was an Afghan asylum-seeker.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian is churning towards Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina – Here is where and when it's due to strike

  31-08-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian's path is nearing Florida, where it is no longer projected to make landfall, but still cause 'devastating hurricane-force winds.'
  
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• Erdogan vows Syria operation if US falls short in safe zone

  31-08-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey's president threatened Saturday to launch a unilateral offensive into northeastern Syria if plans to establish a so-called safe zone along Turkey's border fail to meet his expectations, including a demand that Turkish soldiers control the corridor.Speaking to graduates of a military academy in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the U.S. had up to three weeks to satisfy Turkish demands.Earlier in August, Turkish and U.S. officials agreed to set up the zone east of the Euphrates River.
  
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• Taliban launch major attack on Afghan city of Kunduz

  31-08-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taliban launched a large-scale attack on Kunduz, one of Afghanistan's main cities, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 75 others, government officials said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America's longest war.The militants, who have demanded that all foreign forces leave Afghanistan, now control or hold sway over roughly half of the country and are at their strongest since their 2001 defeat by a U.S.-led invasion.Th
  
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• Sirhan Sirhan: Robert Kennedy assassin stabbed in prison

  31-08-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The man who was convicted of shooting Robert F Kennedy was stabbed in a California prison by a fellow inmate.Sirhan Sirhan, 75, was taken to hospital after the attack at the Richard J Donovan Correctional Facility, where he is serving a life sentence for the 1968 killing of the senator and presidential candidate.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian may be similar to Matthew — but stronger and slower, forecaster warns

  31-08-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  While residents should "think in Matthew terms," the storm could still come over the Florida Coast, forecaster Bryan Norcross said.
  
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• Second rescue boat heading to Lampedusa in potential new stand-off with Rome

  31-08-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A second migrant rescue boat is heading towards the south Italian island of Lampedusa, potentially creating another stand-off with Italian authorities who are banning non-governmental organizations from bringing migrants ashore.Italy's outgoing interior minister Matteo Salvini has imposed a closed ports policy in the last year to stem illegal immigration from North Africa, calling for other European countries to share responsibility for refugees' shelter.The Alan Kurdi boat, operated by the Germ
  
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• Fire, tear gas and petrol bombs as Hong Kong engulfed by chaos

  31-08-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Chaos engulfed the heart of Hong Kong late Saturday as police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who set large fires and threw petrol bombs, defying a ban on rallying -- and mounting threats from China -- to take to the streets for a 13th straight weekend.As evening fell, violence ricocheted through the city's commercial centre, with a minority of hardcore protesters unleashing a barrage of petrol bombs and rocks at riot police.
  
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• Anger as US parks service announces largest mobile phone coverage expansion in history

  31-08-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The hills of one of America’s most spectacular national parks will soon be alive with the sound of mobile phone ring tones, after Grand Teton approved controversial plans for phone coverage inside one of the country's most treasured national parks. The biggest expansion of telecoms coverage in the history of the national parks service comes as campaigners battle to maintain peace and serenity in the wilderness across the US. “It’s a harbinger of what’s to come,” war
  
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• Cease-fire brings temporary calm to Syria's Idlib

  31-08-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Government airstrikes and artillery attacks ceased Saturday following a unilateral cease-fire in the northwestern province of Idlib, a Syrian war monitor said.The U.S. military, meanwhile, said it struck an al-Qaida leadership facility north of Idlib, marking the first American strike inside the war-torn country since July .The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had earlier reported a missile attack on a meeting of militants in Idlib province that it said killed at least 40 milita
  
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• British police urged to assist New York investigators with Epstein case

  31-08-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  British police should assist the New York investigators with their inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network, a source close to one of his victims has said. New York authorities have repeatedly said that they will continue investigating whether he had co-conspirators, and will not let the case die with the disgraced financier. Epstein, 66, died on August 10 from what a coroner ruled was suicide, while awaiting trial in a Manhattan jail. New York prosecutors are now turning the
  
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• German media, lawmakers point finger at Moscow over executed Georgian

  31-08-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite Russian denials, German politicians and media are blaming Moscow for the Berlin assassination of a Georgian who once fought Russian forces in Chechnya, an affair that could spark a diplomatic crisis.One security source, in comments to German weekly Der Spiegel, described the killing as a second Skripal affair -- referring to the attempt on the life of a former Russian agent in England last year.On Friday, August 23, German police arrested a 49-year-old suspect from Russia's Chechnya repu
  
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• Florida warned against complacency as Hurricane Dorian switches course

  31-08-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida residents were being warned not to be complacent on Saturday, after Hurricane Dorian appeared to change path and potentially avoid smashing into the state. The storm was strengthening on Saturday, with winds increasing from 140mph to 150mph in the Category Four storm. It had been predicted to make a direct hit on southern Florida on Sunday, in what some feared could be the strongest storm to hit the region in 30 years. On Friday night, however, the forecast changed to suggest it would sk
  
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• Hurricane Dorian changes course, strengthens to Category 4

  31-08-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Monstrous Hurricane Dorian changed course slightly on Saturday and put itself on a possible track to hit the Carolinas rather than Florida as previously forecast, after a dangerous blast through the Bahamas.Meteorologists said Dorian has grown into an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm as it heads toward land with great potential for destruction."There's been a notable change overnight to the forecast of #Dorian after Tuesday," the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Twitter.
  
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• Asia Bibi pleads for justice for victims of Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws as she plans to settle in Europe

  31-08-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  As Asia Bibi sits free at last in a secret location in Canada, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after a false blasphemy charge thinks of those left behind still facing the same ordeal. Nearly four months after the 54-year-old finally left Pakistan following a miscarriage of justice that caused worldwide outcry, she has the opportunity to rebuild a new life for her and her daughters. Yet while she is enthusiastically grateful for the international efforts to free her, sh
  
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• Clashes Spread to City’s Metro System: Hong Kong Update

  31-08-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police fired tear gas, sprayed blue dye from water cannons and baton-charged demonstrators who had lobbed petrol bombs and built bonfires in one of the city’s most violent days in its 13th weekend of social unrest.Tens of thousands joined an unauthorized march following the arrest of several top opposition figures this week including Joshua Wong. The demonstrations began in June over a bill allowing extraditions to mainland China before morphing into a wider push a
  
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• Man who served 36 years in jail for stealing $50 from bakery to be finally freed

  31-08-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  An Alabama man who served 36 years in prison for stealing $50.75 (£41 today) from a bakery will finally be released.Alvin Kennard was given a life sentence without parole in 1983 after being convicted of first degree robbery.
  
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• Trial date set for men charged with 9/11 attacks

  31-08-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Dr. James Mitchell personally interrogated the men charged with plotting the 9/11 attacks. He says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would kill almost 3,000 people all over again if given the chance.
  
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• Evacuations begin in Bahamas as Category 4 Dorian bears down

  31-08-2019 17:48 via news.yahoo.com
  McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian shut down most major resorts in the Bahamas and forced authorities to evacuate much of the northern shore and low-lying islands Saturday as the fierce Category 4 storm prepared to unleash torrents of rain and howling winds but was projected to spin farther away from the coast of the Southeast U.S. next week. Forecasters expect Dorian, packing 150 mph (240 kph) winds, to hit the northwestern Bahamas on Sunday before curving upward. The stor
  
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• Hurricane Dorian track update: Storm strengthens to Cat 4 storm, may turn before FL landfall

  31-08-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian has gained fearsome new muscle as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm. Latest models show Dorian turning before landfall in Florida meaning possible impact near the NC coast later this week.
  
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• Colombia blames Maduro for sheltering reemerging Farc guerillas

  31-08-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Hardliners from Colombia’s ruling party have told the Telegraph that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro must be held accountable for harbouring FARC leaders who announced a return to arms, as the country's army killed nine rebels in a raid.  On Thursday, senior commanders from the leftist guerrilla group said they were breaking with the peace deal that saw all but a few dissident factions disarm in 2017, ending one of the world's longest conflicts.  The declaration from Iv&
  
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• 1st Special Forces Green Beret dies during combat operations in Afghanistan

  31-08-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Sgt. 1st Class Dustin B. Ard, 31, of Idaho, died from wounds sustained during Operation Freedom's Sentinel in Afghanistan on Aug. 29.He is the third U.S. service member killed during combat operations in Afghanistan this week.
  
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• Southeast US braces for potentially deadly Dorian

  31-08-2019 17:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The Bahamas and the southeastern US are bracing for Hurricane Dorian as it barrels towards the region with an unclear trajectory and chance of “strong winds and life-threatening storm surge”, according to the National Hurricane Centre.Dorian was expected to move up the southeast coastline and stay just offshore of Florida while skirting the coast of Georgia, forecasters said on Sunday, with the possibility of landfall still a threat on Wednesday. The storm was then expected to contin
  
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• Statue honors Dane credited as Nanjing Massacre lifesaver

  31-08-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A statue of a Danish citizen who is credited with saving thousands of people in China during the Japanese invasion that led to the Nanjing Massacre was unveiled by Denmark's queen on Saturday.Queen Margrethe II revealed the three-meter (10-foot) bronze statue of Bernhard Arp Sindberg at a park in Aarhus, the city where he was born in 1911.Designed by Chinese and Danish artists, the statue was a gift from the city of Nanjing, which was the capital at the time of the massacre in December 1937 and
  
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• Pro-life group claims Facebook is falsely labeling their post as fake news

  31-08-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Live Action founder Lila Rose says that Facebook is using abortionists as fact-checkers.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's swipe at Puerto Rico, G-7 comments

  31-08-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump presented a distorted picture of the auto industry, told a fanciful story about Iran duping Barack Obama and took a misinformed swipe at Puerto Rico just as its residents braced for a catastrophe that didn't come.A look at some statements by Trump and his team during a week bookended by the Group of Seven summit and the approach of Hurricane Dorian to the U.S. mainland after it brushed past Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto
  
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• RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stable after prison stabbing

  31-08-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Diego prison. A statement from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the stabbing occurred Friday afternoon at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego. Corrections officials reported that the alleged attacker has been identified and has been segregated from the rest of the prison po
  
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• 9 Arizona State students from China detained at LA airport, denied admission to U.S.

  31-08-2019 16:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The students were "denied admission to the U.S. to continue their studies" and were sent back to China, ASU said.
  
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• New York Times columnist Bret Stephens linked getting called a 'bedbug' on Twitter to Nazi rhetoric in his latest op-ed

  31-08-2019 16:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephens' column highlighted parallels in the Nazis' plans to slaughter of Jewish people under the Nazi regime to "delousing" and "bedbugs."
  
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• Trump will likely survive his primary challenge from Joe Walsh — but history suggests that it could hurt him in the general election

  31-08-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  "Where Walsh could be interesting is the fact that he is media-savvy and he might be able to provoke Trump," one political scientist told Insider.
  
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• How Ebola went from killing 11,000 people in one year to being on the verge of a cure

  31-08-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Ebola, which has killed tens of thousands of people, was thought to be incurable. Now a cure is in doctors' sights. Here's a timeline of the virus.
  
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• Here’s the real reason that Juul’s CEO is warning people against using his e-cigs

  31-08-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Juul's CEO said: "Don't vape. Don't use Juul." Juul has walked a fine line between portraying its products as a trendy gadget and a healthcare tool.
  
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