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• Trump's approval rating remains below 50% in Wisconsin

  04-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A poll released Wednesday shows that President Donald Trump's job approval in the key swing state of Wisconsin remains below 50%, a troubling sign for Republicans 14 months before the 2020 election.The poll offers the latest glimpse into voter attitudes more than a year before the election.Wisconsin is one of four swing states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida are the others — that could determine the outcome of the 2020 election because their electorates are so evenly divided.
  
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• Trump displays incorrectly altered map of Hurricane Dorian path

  04-09-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Trouble is raining down on US President Donald Trump, who appears to have given Americans incorrect information on Hurricane Dorian's trajectory.During an Oval Office press conference Wednesday, Trump displayed a map from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) showing the devastating storm's initial predicted path.As he held up the poster board to give the journalists present a better view, it became clear the map had been edited: Dorian's cone had been extended with what appeared to be black marke
  
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• San Francisco Deemed the NRA a ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization’. Here’s Why That’s Wrong.

  04-09-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution labeling the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization.”The resolution also states that “the City and County of San Francisco should take every reasonable step to limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization.”“The National Rifle Association musters its considerable wealth and organi
  
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• Guatemala sees hike in migrant expulsions from Mexico

  04-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico has sent more than 100,000 Central American migrants back across its border with Guatemala since January, a 63 percent rise on the same period last year, the government announced Wednesday.The hike in expulsions came as Washington increases pressure on its southern neighbor to curb illegal immigration from Central America, after tens of thousands of migrants flocked through Mexico to the US border earlier this year.Mexico sent 54,037 Hondurans, 34,430 Guatemalans, 12,317 Salvadorans and 1
  
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• NTSB: Metal fatigue caused wing to snap in fatal plane crash

  04-09-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Metal fatigue created by frequent takeoffs and landings caused a wing to snap off a university's training plane last year, resulting in a crash that killed the student pilot and a flight examiner, federal inspectors said Wednesday.The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report that the single-engine Piper Arrow owned by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University crashed April 4, 2018, after its left wing snapped off at 900 feet (274 meters).Pilot Zack Capra, a 25-year-old Navy veteran, was
  
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• 33 bodies recovered after California dive boat disaster

  04-09-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescue workers have recovered a total of 33 bodies from a scuba-diving boat disaster off the coast of California, authorities said Wednesday, adding that one person remains missing.Divers have since recovered 13 other bodies, according to the Santa Barbara County sheriff's department, which is in charge of the investigation.The boat had been on a diving excursion around Santa Cruz Island, just west of Santa Barbara in southern California.
  
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• Union head: Climate plans must accommodate coal workers

  04-09-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidates seeking to address climate change must account for thousands of coal workers whose jobs are at risk because of mine closures and competition from cheaper natural gas, the head of the largest coal miners' union said Wednesday.Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said the Green New Deal and other climate plans threaten union members' jobs and their families' standard of living."I don't think a good starting point for Democrats is elimin
  
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• Ex-UAW official pleads guilty in US court to kickbacks

  04-09-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A former United Auto Workers official pleaded guilty on Wednesday to taking kickbacks and bribes from vendors connected to a training fund operated jointly by the union and General Motors.Michael Grimes, who played a key role in the UAW's GM Department for more than a decade, admitted in federal court to taking over $1.5 million from vendors who did business between 2006 and 2018 with the fund, a training center for union members employed by GM.Grimes and two as-yet unidentified union officials
  
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• Trump shows fake map in effort to back his false claim Hurricane Dorian may hit Alabama

  04-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump presented an altered National Hurricane Centre map that expanded Hurricane Dorian’s official forecast so it would include Alabama, a state he incorrectly and repeatedly said would be hit by the storm.Speaking to media in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the president asked acting department of homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan to retrieve a large map from behind him showing the hurricane’s potential path over the US after it pummelled the Bahamas throughout the we
  
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• Trump shows fake hurricane map in apparent bid to validate incorrect tweet

  04-09-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  * Trump points to map with black loop extending hurricane’s path* President made baseless claim that Alabama would be affectedTo the annals of American political scandal, we must now add Sharpiegate.In the Oval Office at lunchtime on Wednesday, Donald Trump held a briefing on Hurricane Dorian. At one point, the president held up a National Hurricane Center (NHC) map from 29 August, displaying the hurricane’s track and intensity.Bizarrely, someone had apparently used a Sharpie, a kind
  
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• British PM in limbo after MPs reject his Brexit plan, elections

  04-09-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was left in limbo on Wednesday after MPs voted to derail his Brexit plan and rejected his call for an early election to break the political deadlock.Just six weeks after taking office, Johnson lost his majority in the House of Commons as his own MPs joined opposition parties to stop him taking Britain out of the EU next month without a deal.On Wednesday evening, they approved a bill that could force Johnson to delay Brexit to January or even late
  
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• Tropical Storm Fernand makes landfall in Mexico as Gabrielle spins in the Atlantic

  04-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Fernand made landfall along the Mexico coast just south of the U.S. border, and Tropical Storm Gabrielle is spinning in the Atlantic.
  
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• House panel subpoenas DHS over alleged Trump pardon offers

  04-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed the Department of Homeland Security for documents that could shed light on President Donald Trump's alleged offer of pardons to officials implementing U.S. immigration policy.The committee, which is considering whether to recommend impeachment against Trump, cited press reports that the president offered pardons to officials should they face legal action for following his instructions to close a section
  
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• Canada names new China envoy amid damaged relations

  04-09-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada on Wednesday announced the appointment of a prominent businessman as its new ambassador to China amid damaged relations following the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Dominic Barton, the former global managing director of the influential consulting firm McKinsey & Co, as the new envoy.Barton is head of the Trudeau government's economic advisory council.
  
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• US offered millions in cash to captain of Iranian tanker

  04-09-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior US official personally offered several million dollars to the Indian captain of an Iranian oil tanker suspected of heading to Syria, the State Department confirmed Wednesday.The Financial Times reported that Brian Hook, the State Department pointman on Iran, sent emails to captain Akhilesh Kumar in which he offered "good news" of millions in US cash to live comfortably if he steered the Adrian Darya 1 to a country where it could be seized."We have seen the Financial Times article and ca
  
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• California boat fire: stairs from sleeping quarters led to space filled with flames

  04-09-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators believe passengers and crew may not have had any means of escape because stairs ended in the same enclosed spaceFBI investigators climb aboard the Vision, a sister vessel to the scuba boat Conception to document its layout and learn more about the deadly pre-dawn fire in Santa Barbara, California. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/APPassengers and crew on a scuba diving boat that caught fire off Santa Barbara over the Labor Day weekend may not have had any means of escape because th
  
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• 'Total devastation. Apocalyptic': Massive rescue effort underway in Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian

  04-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll from Hurricane Dorian reached seven in the Bahamas and was expected to climb as rescue teams raced the clock to aid survivors.
  
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• Trump denies he suggested Pence stay at his Irish country club

  04-09-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Wednesday that the idea for Vice President Mike Pence to stay at his Irish golf resort didn’t come from him — contradicting a previous statement by Pence’s top aide.
  
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• Chanel Miller goes public, woman Brock Turner convicted of sexually assaulting

  04-09-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Chanel Miller, the woman who was sexually assaulted by former Stanford University student Brock Turner, has revealed her identity.
  
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• Trump says 'I don't know' how map was altered to show Alabama in Hurricane Dorian's path

  04-09-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  During an Oval Office briefing, the president showed reporters an enlarged map that he said was the initial forecasted path of the storm. It appeared to have been altered with a marker to include Alabama.
  
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• Teacher, biologist, nurse: These are some of the victims of the California boat fire

  04-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities have yet to release the names of the victims of the dive boat fire, but families and friends identified some of the passengers.
  
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• Cocaine washes ashore on Florida beach as Hurricane Dorian churns in Atlantic

  04-09-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  In one case, a beachgoer reportedly found a duffel bag stuffed with more than $300,000 worth of cocaine on the beach.
  
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• Jury finds former Obama White House Counsel Gregory Craig not guilty in foreign-influence case

  04-09-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury found former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig not guilty Wednesday of providing false information to federal investigators.
  
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• 2020 Ford Explorer and Toyota Highlander Hybrids Duke It Out over MPG, Capability

  04-09-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ford claims more towing capacity, while the Toyota boasts significantly better fuel economy.
  
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• CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Britain abandons plan to immediately end freedom of movement after Brexit

  04-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain's government has abandoned plans to end freedom of movement for European Union citizens immediately after a possible no-deal Brexit and will instead return to an earlier policy of giving them three years' temporary leave to remain.The fate of EU migrants had been thrown further into confusion by the government’s announcement last month that their automatic right to live and work in Britain would end abruptly - and sooner than expected - in the event of a no-deal Brexit.The plan was
  
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• How Disney World kept the magic alive as Hurricane Dorian threatened Florida

  04-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Early closures of Disney World parks Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Dorian meant many vacationers headed to the hotels to wait out the storm.
  
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• Woman sets herself on fire after being charged for illegally entering football match in Iran

  04-09-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian woman has set herself on fire outside a court in Tehran after being tried for resisting arrest by morality police for trying to enter a football stadium disguised as a male spectator. According to Rokna news agency, the woman, named only as Sahar, has been taken to a local hospital with life-threatening burns. A spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary has said the woman “had been engaged in a physical confrontation with security forces in February" after resisting arrest on char
  
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• Albanian crime boss who ran multi-million pound drugs racked ordered to pay only £14,380

  04-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  An Albanian drugs kingpin who ran a multi-million pound cocaine racket only has to pay back £14,380 after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) requested a “risible” sum, a judge has complained. Gang leader Erald Mema who was jailed for 25 years for flooding the UK with class A drugs was this week given three months to repay and to allow time for the auctioning of his Rolex watch. Judge Peter Ross said he had no option but to approve the pay back order but criticised the CPS for
  
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• Getting out -- tariffs push some US manufacturers to exit China

  04-09-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  As fresh US tariffs on Chinese imports kick in, Illinois-based phone accessories manufacturer Ben Buttolph has been urgently moving production to other Asian countries despite the cost, inconvenience and deep uncertainty."It's a huge inconvenience, it's a huge expense," he told AFP after Xentris set up in the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam since the trade war between the US and China erupted 18 months ago."Building up these supply chains took 30 years in China.
  
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• Iran ratchets up pressure ahead of weekend nuclear deadline

  04-09-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian officials ratcheted up pressure Wednesday ahead of a weekend nuclear deadline for European nations to come up with a solution for Iran to sell its oil abroad in the aftermath of escalated U.S. sanctions.President Hassan Rouhani reiterated a threat that Tehran would take additional steps away from the 2015 nuclear accord on Friday and accelerate nuclear activities if Europe fails to provide a solution, calling it Iran's third, "most important step" away from the deal."Iran's third step is
  
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• Erdogan says it's unacceptable that Turkey can't have nuclear weapons

  04-09-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday it was unacceptable for nuclear-armed states to forbid Ankara from obtaining its own nuclear weapons, but did not say whether Turkey had plans to obtain them."Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not one or two."There is no developed nation in the world that doesn't have them," Erdogan said.
  
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• British MPs inflict new defeat on Johnson's Brexit strategy

  04-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  British MPs inflicted a fresh defeat on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hardline Brexit strategy on Wednesday, approving a law that could stop him taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal next month.In a second parliamentary revolt in as many days, the House of Commons voted 327 to 299 in favour of a bill that could delay Brexit for three months.The prime minister called for parliament to vote in favour of holding an early election on October 15, insisting Britain must leave the EU
  
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• Jacob Wohl Wanted on Felony Arrest Warrant

  04-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Roberts/ReutersConservative operative Jacob Wohl is wanted on a felony arrest warrant in California, a development that could hamper his spree of bizarre, blundering political schemes.Wohl and former business partner Matthew Johnson were both charged with the unlawful sale of securities in a Riverside Superior Court criminal complaint filed on Aug. 19. Wohl has not been arrested yet on the charge, according to the court docket. Prosecutors recommended $5,000 bonds for both Wohl and J
  
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• Jacob Wohl Charged With Felony in California

  04-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Roberts/ReutersCalifornia authorities issued an arrest warrant for blundering conservative operative Jacob Wohl, who is now due to be arraigned on a felony charge next month, court records show.As The Daily Beast first reported earlier on Wednesday, Wohl and a former business partner were both wanted on a warrant signed in Riverside County on Aug. 19.The warrant was recalled after Wohl—best known for a spree of bizarre, half-baked political schemes—appeared in court on Wednesd
  
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• Maid of honor shows up to wedding in T. rex costume after being told she could wear anything

  04-09-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Deanna Adams told her sister and maid of honor she could wear "anything" to the wedding.
  
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• Couple wounded in El Paso mass shooting sues Walmart

  04-09-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Guillermo and Jessica Garcia believe Walmart's failure to employ armed security guards at the store, despite using them in other stores, was a factor in the massacre, where 22 people were killed, their lawyers said on Wednesday. The Garcias said they were shopping with their two children when the gunman, identified by authorities as Patrick Crusius, opened fire. Guillermo Garcia remains hospitalized in critical condition after being shot in the spine, while Jessica Garcia was hospitalized and la
  
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• S.African businesses reeling after xenophobic onslaught

  04-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Dihi treads cautiously through the charred carcass of his two-story shop building, taking a heartbreaking tally of the destruction wrought by xenophobic violence that raged through parts of South Africa in recent days.Dihi, who rented space to shopkeepers from Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe among others, said he received a late night call from a tenant telling him his property was ablaze, as mobs descended on foreign-owned shops and businesses in Johannesburg's eastern suburb of Malvern
  
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• Students Repeatedly Posed in Blackface and Threatened Black Classmates. Their School Ignored, Lawsuit Alleges.

  04-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Star Tribune via Getty ImagesSome white students at Chaska High School in Minnesota ended last school year the same way they began it: In photos, wearing blackface.The academic year in the 28,000-person suburb began in September 2018 with white students attending a football game in blackface, and, in one student’s case, an afro. In December, a middle school student in the same district—located roughly 30 miles southwest of Minneapolis—found that his gym shirt had been stolen, v
  
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• A Mississippi Wedding Venue Refused to Serve Gay or Interracial Couples. Amid Backlash, the Owner Is Now Apologizing

  04-09-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The alleged owner of the event hall cited her "Christian belief"
  
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• The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Zips Past the Sun for a Third Time

  04-09-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  It's on a mission to reveal the sun's long-held secrets.
  
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• Iran warns of new cut in nuclear commitments, US imposes more sanctions

  04-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will announce a new step in scaling back its nuclear commitments by Thursday as it seeks sanctions relief from the United States, which responded by imposing even more restrictions.Iran and three European countries -- Britain, France and Germany -- have been engaged in talks to reduce tensions and save a 2015 nuclear deal that has been unravelling since US President Donald Trump withdrew from it in May last year.The efforts have been led by French President Emm
  
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• MillerCoors wins another battle in 'corn syrup' war with Anheuser-Busch

  04-09-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Anheuser-Busch must stop declaring on its packaging that its beer contains "no corn syrup," a judge has ruled.
  
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• British PM ruffles feathers with 'chlorinated chicken' taunt

  04-09-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  As British lawmakers battle over Brexit, they are making decisions of historic importance.During a testy House of Commons debate Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson accused Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn of ducking an election and being "a chlorinated chicken" — a reference to claims the U.K. will have to lower its food safety standards to get a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.Such banter is nothing new in the chamber, despite its strict rules against "unparliamentary
  
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• Planned Parenthood cares about abortion above all, even patients' health: Today's talker

  04-09-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A recent lawsuit reveals the lengths Planned Parenthood will go to protect its abortion business — even if it means sending women to the hospital.
  
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• Conversion therapy organization founder comes out as gay: 'Please forgive me'

  04-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  McKrae Game, the founder of the South Carolina-based conversion therapy ministry Hope for Wholeness, came out as gay this summer.
  
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• Walmart’s Retreat on Guns Means Woke Capitalism Is Here to Stay

  04-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  My first job was selling guns at Walmart. I was a clerk in the sporting-goods department at our local store in Georgetown, Ky. Georgetown was a much smaller place then. This was years before Toyota came to town, put an immense car plant in a field not far from my house, and started producing Camrys by the tens of thousands. The population was less than 10,000, tobacco farms dotted the countryside, and Future Farmers of America was one of the largest clubs in my high school.This was also the era
  
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• Pope acknowledges opposition within the conservative right wing toward him

  04-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis acknowledged his growing opposition within the conservative right wing of the U.S. Catholic Church and said in offhand remarks aboard the papal plane Wednesday that it is "an honor if the Americans attack me."
  
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• Everything we know about the California boat fire victims

  04-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Three sisters who were helping celebrate their father's birthday are thought to be among the 34 people killed when a diving boat caught fire off the coast of Southern California.Susana Rosas of Stockton, California, posted on social media that her three daughters, their father and stepmother were on board.
  
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• San Francisco supervisors call National Rifle Association a 'domestic terrorist organization'

  04-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  San Francisco officials have officially deemed the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization."
  
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• Michigan will be first state to ban flavored electronic cigarettes, cites dangers of vaping

  04-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said the state will ban online and retail sales of sweet, fruity, minty flavored products, but the restriction does not apply to tobacco flavors.
  
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