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• Unregulated vaping spawns new teenage nicotine addicts. And now adult vapers are dying.

  05-09-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Lung illnesses have emerged among at least 215 people who used e-cigarettes. THC could be a common factor. Where's the oversight?: Our view
  
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• Black hole movies coming soon, says leading astronomer

  05-09-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  By the time an international group of scientists stunned the world with the first ever image of a black hole, they were already planning a sequel: a movie showing how massive clouds of gas are forever sucked into the void.The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has already recorded the necessary observations and is processing the mountains of data to produce the first video, which will likely be a little jerky, in 2020."What I predict is that by the end of the next decade we will be making hig
  
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• Confrontation between ICE and suspect leads to shots fired

  05-09-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent opened fire in a grocery store parking lot in Tennessee early Thursday during an attempted apprehension, ICE spokesman Bryan Cox said.ICE called Nashville police about the weapons discharge just after 7 a.m., but the suspect had not been apprehended as of midafternoon.Nashville Mayor David Briley released a statement saying police were looking for the man so that he could receive medical assistance.
  
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• Russian, Italian charged with stealing GE Aviation secrets

  05-09-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian with government ties and an Italian aerospace expert have been charged with the theft of jet engine technology from leading American manufacturer GE Aviation, the US Justice Department announced Thursday.Alexander Yuryevich Korshunov, 57, and Maurizio Paolo Bianchi, 59 were charged in a just-unsealed criminal complaint with stealing trade secrets in the latest case involving theft of US aviation industry intellectual property.The Justice Department said that from 2013 to 2018, Korshuno
  
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• Scientists monitoring new marine heat wave off West Coast

  05-09-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal scientists said Thursday they are monitoring a new ocean heat wave off the U.S. West Coast, a development that could badly disrupt marine life including salmon, whales and sea lions.The expanse of unusually warm water stretches from Alaska to California, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday .It resembles a similar heat wave about five years ago that was blamed for poorer survival rates for young salmon, more humpback whales becoming entangled
  
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• Vaping is leading to a spate of lung injuries, comas, and death. Lung experts say oils like vitamin E may be partially to blame.

  05-09-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  E-cigarettes were billed as a safer alternative to smoking, but evidence is emerging that the devices may have life-threatening health consequences.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Royal Caribbean, Disney Cruise Line, Carnival, others pledge support to Bahamas

  05-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Royal Caribbean, The Walt Disney Co. and others are offering support to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian ripped a destructive path across the nation
  
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• Here's What It's Like in the Bahamas After It Was Devastated by Hurricane Dorian

  05-09-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The nation's Prime Minister has described the storm as a 'historic tragedy'
  
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• Gun Used in Texas Shooting Was Illegally Manufactured and Sold: REPORT

  05-09-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities believe the gun used in the drive-by shooting in Midland and Odessa, Texas this weekend was illegally manufactured and sold by a Lubbock, Texas man, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is currently investigating a man who they believe illegally manufactured and sold the AR-15-style rifle that Seth Ator used to kill seven people and injure 22 more on Saturday, before he was shot and killed by police.Ator, 36, had
  
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• Ghost Ship Trial: Verdict reached in deadly Oakland warehouse fire

  05-09-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  More than two and a half years after 36 people died in the Ghost Ship inferno, a decision has been reached in the case against the two men prosecutors claim are criminally responsible.
  
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• Amazon's Ring camera raises civil liberties concerns: U.S. senator

  05-09-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Democratic Senator Edward Markey raised concerns on Thursday that law enforcement use of Amazon.com Inc's Ring doorbell camera in investigations could disproportionately affect people of color and encourage racial profiling.In a letter to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, Markey said sharing information from Ring's at-home camera systems with police departments "could easily create a surveillance network that places dangerous burdens on people of color" and stoke "racial anxieties" in comm
  
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• Trump administration unveils Fannie, Freddie overhaul, urges Congress to act

  05-09-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Treasury on Thursday said the government should draw up a plan to begin recapitalizing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while calling on Congress to pen a comprehensive housing reform that would allow them to be safely freed from government control.The Treasury's plan, released in a 53-page report, marks the first major effort to jump-start housing finance reform in Washington after a failed 2012 attempt by the Obama administration.The report calls for recuperating Fannie and
  
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• Trump prepares to pitch gun proposals few really want

  05-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The president is considering tougher penalties for straw buyers, the death penalty for mass shooters and bringing more records to the background check database.
  
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• Trudeau says China uses detentions as political tool

  05-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday accused Beijing of using "arbitrary detentions" as a tool in pursuit of political goals -- the latest broadside in a diplomatic and trade row with China.Canada's relations with China soured after its arrest of Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant last December.Nine days later, Beijing detained two Canadians -- former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor -- accusing them of espionage in a move widely viewed as r
  
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• Hurricane Dorian has killed at least 30 people in the Bahamas, including an 8-year-old boy who reportedly drowned

  05-09-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian pummeled the Bahamas this past weekend as a Category 5 storm, destroying houses and creating a storm surge of up to 23 feet.
  
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• Shep Smith Torches Trump Over Dorian Map: ‘It Was Fake News Defined’

  05-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  With President Donald Trump continuing to double down on his bizarre false claim that Alabama was at one point in the path of Hurricane Dorian, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith took the president to task on Thursday afternoon for his days-long obsession of insisting he’s right over obviously inaccurate information.“Some things in Trumplandia are inexplicable,” Smith noted during Thursday’s broadcast of Shepard Smith Reporting. “The president said that Alabama was at ri
  
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• Florida inmate says beating by guards left her paralyzed

  05-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A female inmate at a Florida prison is suing the state corrections agency, saying she was left paralyzed after being beaten by four guards.Cheryl Weimar and her husband, Karl, said in their lawsuit that her civil rights were violated when she was nearly beaten to death by guards last month at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida.Weimar was left with a broken neck and is now a paraplegic because of the guards' use of force, according to the lawsuit.
  
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• Trump's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan architect quits

  05-09-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Jason Greenblatt, a key architect of President Donald Trump's troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, announced his resignation Thursday.For all the warm words, Greenblatt's departure only adds to the sense that Trump's promise to transform the US approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is floundering.
  
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• Trump may have committed tax fraud by fabricating a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million

  05-09-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  "If he didn't actually buy the loan, this is just garden-variety fraud," a commercial-real-estate-finance expert told Mother Jones.
  
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• U.S. Treasury warns anyone fueling Iran tanker risks being blacklisted

  05-09-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday warned that anyone around the world who helps fuel Iranian vessels blacklisted by Washington runs the risk of being designated as well.The Treasury Department blacklisted the Adrian Darya, a tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, on Aug. 30.Washington has warned that it would regard any assistance given to the ship as support for a terrorist group, namely, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  
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• Arrests of Straight Pride Parade counter protesters in Boston turns into courtroom battle

  05-09-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The Boston DA's decision to drop charges against left-wing protesters arrested at a Straight Pride Parade has turned into a courtroom fight.
  
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• The U.S. in Afghanistan, Talking Peace and Waging War, Doesn’t Count All The Civilians It Slaughters

  05-09-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  WAKIL KOHSARLOY MANDA, Afghanistan–Bloodied and broken, 13 members of an extended family were lifted, one by one, from a minibus and placed in wheelchairs and on hospital beds with clean white sheets. The out patient department at Emergency Hospital in Helmand’s capital Lashkar Gah was soon beyond capacity. Nurses from throughout the building rushed to assist. The victims ranged in age from four to fifty. They’d been at home on the afternoon of November 24, 2018, when two
  
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• Iran poised for faster centrifuges as nuclear deal collapses

  05-09-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran was poised Thursday to begin work on advanced centrifuges that will enrich uranium faster as the 2015 nuclear deal unravels further and a last-minute French proposal offering a $15-billion line of credit to compensate Iran for not being able to sell its crude oil abroad because of U.S. sanctions looked increasingly unlikely.Meanwhile, Iran released seven crew members from a detained British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero in a goodwill gesture and the mariners flew out of Iran, the ship's o
  
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• Verdicts reached in California warehouse fire that killed 36

  05-09-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury has decided the fate of two men charged with involuntary manslaughter after prosecutors say they turned a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse into a cluttered maze that trapped 36 partygoers during a fast-moving fire.The verdicts for Derick Almena and Max Harris will be announced Thursday afternoon after a three-month trial that drew family and friends of the victims to a packed courtroom.The building was packed with furniture, extension cords and other flammable material but had only two ex
  
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• Turkey threatens to ‘open gates’ for Syrian refugees to leave and move to the West if it doesn't get safe zone

  05-09-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey has threatened to allow millions of Syrian refugees to cross into the West unless the US agrees to help establish a safe zone to resettle them in northern Syria immediately. "We will be forced to open the gates,” said Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We cannot be forced to handle the burden alone.” Mr Erdogan wants to establish the so-called safe zone along its border with Syria and resettle at least 1m of the 3.6m Syrian refugees currently living in Turkey there
  
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• A Florida cop rescued a puppy from a flooded vehicle and named her 'Dorian' after the deadly hurricane

  05-09-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Dorian was originally meant to be handed over to the Orange County Animal Services, but is now "living her best life" with the deputy who rescued her.
  
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• Manafort's lawyers: State charges are double jeopardy

  05-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort filed court papers seeking the dismissal of his New York mortgage fraud case, arguing that the charges brought in the wake of his federal convictions amount to double jeopardy. The state case involves some of the same allegations as federal cases that have landed Manafort behind bars, violating a state law that bars repeat prosecutions for the same general conduct, lawyer Todd Blanche wrote in the filing late Wednesday. Manhattan District
  
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• Ireland raises prospect of some no-deal Brexit checks near border

  05-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  If Britain quits the European Union without a deal next month, some checks may need to take place near Ireland's border with British-run Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Thursday.How to manage the land border between EU-member Ireland and Northern Ireland - and in particular the emergency "backstop" proposal to prevent the return of extensive controls - has bedevilled Brexit negotiations for the last three years.Ireland said in July that to meet its twin aims of avoidi
  
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• Photos show the mangled airplanes and buildings at Grand Bahama airport that Hurricane Dorian left behind

  05-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Buildings and airplanes at Grand Bahama Island's only international airport were left mangled and shattered following the storm.
  
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• Kushner's Middle East peace plan drifts further astray as envoy resigns

  05-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The ‘ultimate deal’ for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is due to come out after the Israeli elections on 17 SeptemberJason Greenblatt, the US special envoy for Middle East peace, will leave his post. Photograph: Handout/ReutersJason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Middle East peace, tasked with working on the “ultimate deal” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is to leave the post, it has been announced.Greenblatt may
  
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• DR Congo cabinet chief fingered in $15mn graft scandal

  05-09-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi's cabinet chief has been accused of playing a role in the siphoning off $15 million (13.6 million euros) from government coffers, with an opposition movement calling Thursday for a protest march.Lutte pour le Changement (Struggle for Change) said it would stage a march on Friday in defiance of an official ban.The document blamed several officials for the "irregularity" including cabinet chief Vital Kamerhe.
  
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• Amid Tensions With U.S., China Is Solidifying Relationships in Latin America

  05-09-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  China's decadeslong economic has fueled its growing presence around the world, funding programs and infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa and into Latin America.Trade between China and Latin America reached a reported $306 billion in 2018, a dramatic increase from the $12 billion figure in 2000.Factor in the White House seeking to build walls and reduce foreign aid to Latin America and it becomes clear that Central and South American leaders need to craft trade strategies that balance thei
  
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• Trump news: President lashes out amid widespread ridicule over fake weather map, after repeating 'kill 10 million' Afghans remark

  05-09-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has lashed out after being roundly mocked once again for posing in the Oval Office with a map of Hurricane Dorian that had been altered to include Alabama in the storm’s path, therein backing up one of the president’s weekend tweets contested by government meteorologists.Asked who had made the change – it being a federal offence to publicise misleading weather forecasts - Mr Trump told reporters: “I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.&rd
  
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• A Fast-Moving Wildfire Has Burned 2,000 Acres in Southern California. What to Know About the Tenaja Fire

  05-09-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders to over 400 homes in Riverside County
  
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• A Fast-Moving Wildfire Burned 1,400 Acres in Less Than a Day. What to Know About the Tenaja Fire

  05-09-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders to over 400 homes in Riverside County
  
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• Palestinians say US envoy resigning 'admission of failure'

  05-09-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The resignation Thursday of US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy is an "admission of failure" for the White House's much-delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a senior Palestinian official said.Jason Greenblatt worked alongside Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on the plan, which has been rejected in advance by the Palestinians.
  
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• So...Why Did This Underwater Data Station Suddenly Just Disappear?

  05-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The scientific instruments have vanished. Only questions remain.
  
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• Taliban blast kills US soldier, several civilians in Kabul

  05-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A Taliban car bomb exploded and killed U.S. and Romanian service members and 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, the second major attack this week as the Afghan government warned that a U.S.-Taliban deal on ending America's longest war was moving at dangerous speed.U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, under pressure after announcing earlier in the week that "on principle" he and the Taliban had reached an agreement, returned abruptly to Qatar, site of the t
  
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• Bernie Sanders Advocates Population Control in ‘Poor Countries’

  05-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  During yesterday evening’s lengthy climate-change town hall, Democratic candidates proposed a variety of increasingly absurd policies to address environmental issues. California senator Kamala Harris, for instance, continued her theme of promising to arrogate unconstitutional power to herself as president, announcing that she would deal with supposed GOP obstruction on climate change by abolishing the filibuster.Entirely ignored during the course of the event was the fact that all seven De
  
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• Texas Governor Issues Spate of Executive Orders Designed to Prevent Mass Shootings

  05-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas governor Greg Abbott on Thursday issued eight executive orders aimed at preventing mass shootings after two massacres last month left the Lone Star State shaken."Mental instability, racial hatred, extremist ideology, a desire to sow domestic terror, and other factors have contributed to these horrific mass shootings in varying degrees," the executive orders said. They also pointed out that police had been alerted to both shooters before they carried out their attacks.Abbott ordered the sta
  
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• US woman arrested at Manila airport with newborn in bag

  05-09-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  An American woman who attempted to carry a 6-day-old baby out of the Philippines hidden inside a sling bag has been arrested at Manila's airport and charged with human trafficking, officials said Thursday.Talbot was unable to produce any passport, boarding pass or government permits for the baby, airport officials said.Philippines officials previously said Talbot was from Ohio, and records indicate she has family connections there.
  
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• Ukraine releases 'key MH17 suspect' ahead of expected prisoner swap with Russia

  05-09-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kiev court has released a “key suspect” in the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 shortly before Vladimir Putin said prisoner swap negotiations with Ukraine were in their final stages, raising fears among European politicians that the man will be sent to Russia. That would put him out of the reach of international investigators, as Russia doesn't typically extradite its citizens.  Vladimir Tsemakh, a former fighter for Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine who was
  
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• This time it's Boris Johnson's younger brother jumping ship

  05-09-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's bad week got even worse Thursday when younger brother Jo walked away from his government post over their differing stances on Brexit.It was clearly a difficult decision for Jo Johnson, who had returned to government as an education minister when his big brother replaced Theresa May as prime minister in July.Jo Johnson had quit May's government last year and argued that Britain should have another vote over its decision to leave the European Union.
  
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• 'This Crisis Has Gone Undiscussed and Unaddressed For Years.' St. Louis Grapples With Wave of Gun Violence That Killed 13 Children This Summer

  05-09-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Community members and activists say that these shootings have further traumatized the city and put citizens in a state of shock
  
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• An ICE Agent Opened Fire at Truck During an Apprehension Near Nashville

  05-09-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  An ICE agent fired a gun during an attempted apprehension in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville on Thursday morning, according to police.
  
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• Two Years After DACA Was Rescinded, Hundreds of Thousands of Dreamers Remain in Limbo. Even the Supreme Court Can't Fix the Problem

  05-09-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Two years after the Trump Administration announced that it was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Congress has done nothing to help the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who have no protections from deportation or path to citizenship.
  
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• States, politicians back gun-maker in Sandy Hook appeal

  05-09-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Ten states and nearly two dozen members of Congress are joining the National Rifle Association in supporting gun-maker Remington Arms as it fights a Connecticut court ruling involving liability for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Officials in the 10 conservative states, 22 House Republicans and the NRA are among groups that filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.
  
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• Dear 2020 Democrats, If you want to slow climate change, carbon pricing is a necessity.

  05-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a policy that's hard to sell in a quippy slogan. That doesn't mean it can be neglected.
  
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• More than 76,000 in hurricane-hit Bahamas may need food, other aid: WFP

  05-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 76,000 people could be in need of food and other aid in the Bahamas after the Caribbean nation was ravaged by Hurricane Dorian, the UN's World Food Programme said on Thursday, with eight tonnes of supplies ready to arrive.Dorian was a Category 5 hurricane -- the highest on the five-level wind scale -- when it hit the northern Bahamas, leaving a trail of destruction and killing at least 20 people.As an international rescue effort ramped up for thousands of victims of Dorian on the north
  
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• Hurricane Dorian vs. East Coast: How popular destinations from Florida to Maryland are faring

  05-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A preliminary look at how Hurricane Dorian is affecting popular East Coast destinations, from Florida to Maryland.
  
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