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• Bodies Crushed By Debris, Looting and Limited Sanitation: Survivors Describe Dorian’s Aftermath on Great Abaco Island

  06-09-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Many people do not have access to adequate food and water, or a means to evacuate
  
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• Hurricane Dorian updates: After making landfall in North Carolina, the storm is moving up the coast. At least 30 people have died in the Bahamas.

  06-09-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian is moving away from North Carolina and Virginia. The storm passed over North Carolina's Outer Banks at 8:35 a.m. ET on Friday.
  
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• Democrats bite on burgers and straws — and Republicans feast

  06-09-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  2020 presidential hopefuls fall for the GOP's culture war trap.
  
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• India space agency loses communication with Moon-landing craft

  06-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  India's space agency on Saturday lost communication with its spacecraft just before it was due to land near the South Pole of the Moon, in a blow to the nation's lunar ambitions.India had hoped to become just the fourth country -- after the United States, Russia and China -- to successfully land on the Moon.The country also aimed to be the first to land in the Southern Polar region, an area the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said was "completely unexplored".
  
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• Vexed Canada takes China to WTO over canola ban

  06-09-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada has requested a meeting with Beijing at the World Trade Organization to try to bring an end to China's ban on its canola, Trade Minister Jim Carr announced Friday.In a news release, Carr said Canada raised concerns at the WTO General Council in May about the ban that has compounded already strained relations.Now Canada is seeking formal bilateral consultations at the WTO as direct engagement with China has not lead to a resolution of the trade spat, he said.
  
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• US weighs releasing name sought in Saudi 9/11 suit

  06-09-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Justice Department is wrestling with whether to disclose a name sought by the plaintiffs in a long-running lawsuit that seeks to link the government of Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 attacks.Attorney General William Barr faced a Friday deadline for deciding whether to release the name or to invoke a rarely used state secrets privilege and refuse to divulge the information."We make this request because the FBI's response to the motion is being coordinated at the highest levels of the Department of
  
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• Texas country singer dies in car crash in New Mexico

  06-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Kylie Rae Harris, a rising country singer from Texas, died in a car accident in New Mexico.
  
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• Arizona GOP pledges to stop Gabby Giffords's husband 'dead in his tracks'

  06-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward went after Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly with a controversial choice of words.
  
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• What the Xenophobic Violence Gripping South Africa Means for Future of Country

  06-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Violence against foreigners in South Africa threatens to turn into big crisis for the country as it tries to revive economy.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters aim to 'stress test' airport

  06-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters are planning to disrupt transport links to the airport Saturday in the first mobilisation of their movement since the city's leader made a surprise concession earlier this week.Millions of pro-democracy supporters have taken to Hong Kong's streets for the past three months in the biggest challenge to China's rule since the city's handover from Britain in 1997.On Wednesday, the city's unelected pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam surprised many by announcing she was
  
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• California says tax return law doesn't bar ballot access

  06-09-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  California's attorney general is urging a federal judge not to halt a state law requiring presidential candidates release their tax returns, arguing it doesn't bar anyone from accessing the ballot or deprive voters of their rights.Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, made his arguments in a Thursday filing in response to a Trump campaign request for an injunction, which would stall the law from taking effect as lawsuits proceeds.The new California law says candidates for president and go
  
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• Massachusetts mayor arrested for extorting marijuana vendors for 6-figure bribes

  06-09-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia, 27, is accused of getting marijuana vendors approved in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
  
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• The head of the Navy SEALs sacked 3 SEAL Team 7 leaders after team members were kicked out of Iraq

  06-09-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Rear Adm. Collin Green removed three senior SEAL Team 7 leaders "due to a loss of confidence that resulted from leadership failures."
  
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• Moscow Cops Raid Offices of Putin Opponent Alexei Navalny, Who Just Won’t Quit

  06-09-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Oleg Nikishin/Epsilon/GettyMOSCOW—At about 8 o’clock Thursday night, days before municipal elections, police special forces—men in black uniforms with faces hidden under black balaclavas—broke the door to opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, stormed in and confiscated pretty much everything: computers, cameras, film lights, cell phones, clothes, food, as well as thousands of documents important for independent election observers. Two hours
  
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• Russian robot 'Fedor' leaves ISS

  06-09-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A lifesize Russian robot known as 'Fedor' successfully departed the International Space Station Friday, two weeks after an aborted docking attempt delayed its arrival.A live translation from Russian space agency Roscosmos showed a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft leaving the ISS.Roscosmos said the ship would land in Kazakhstan overnight.
  
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• US tells migrant woman 8 months pregnant to wait in Mexico

  06-09-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight-and-a-half-months pregnant and experiencing contractions, a Salvadoran woman who had crossed the Rio Grande and was apprehended by the Border Patrol was forced to go back to Mexico. The woman was waiting Thursday with her 3-year-old daughter in a makeshift tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico, next to an international bridge, due to give birth any day, said her attorney, Jodi Goodwin. "She's concerned about having the baby in the street or having to have the baby in a shelter," Goodwin said.
  
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• Child care worker charged with killing infant who wouldn't stop crying

  06-09-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Dejoynay Ferguson, 19, is charged with first-degree murder in death of 4-month-old girl at Little People Child Development Center in Bear, Delaware.
  
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• Iceland's WOW Air to resume flights with new owners

  06-09-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  An American aviation firm said on Friday it had taken over Iceland's bankrupt airline WOW Air together with local investors and said flights would resume in October.USAerospace Associates CEO Michele Ballarin told a news conference that the company would relaunch carrying the same name, and that its first flight would be between Dulles airport in Washington DC and Keflavik in Iceland next month.The bankruptcy of the low-cost carrier March caused a big stir in Iceland where it was expected to hav
  
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• What Motivates Democrats: Stopping Climate Change, or Ending Capitalism?

  06-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Part of what makes the climate debate so difficult to engage is the diversity of motives. Wide-ranging proposals to stop climate change usually have several motives, and not all of them are related to climate. Some proposals -- such as the Green New Deal -- are so sweeping and socialistic that one can reasonably wonder if climate is even the principal motive.Take, for example, the risk of increased coastal flooding. Very few climate-policy proposals address the problem at all. In the recent CNN
  
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• Hurricane Dorian hits Outer Banks: How mid-Atlantic tourist spots are being affected

  06-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Now that Hurricane Dorian has finally made landfall, here's what's happening in the mid-Atlantic region this weekend.
  
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• Two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli fire during clashes: Gaza ministry

  06-09-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Palestinian teenagers were killed by Israeli fire in renewed clashes along the Gaza border on Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said.Ali al-Ashqar, 17, was shot in the neck along the border fence east of Jabalia in northern Gaza, a health ministry spokesman told AFP.A second teenager was shot in the stomach east of Gaza City, the spokesman said, later identifying him as Khaled al-Rabaee, 14.
  
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• Mexican national shot by ICE in Tennessee recovering

  06-09-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mexican man shot while fleeing from immigration agents in Tennessee was recovering Friday, an attorney for his family said.Andrew Free said in an interview the man was shot in the stomach and elbow Thursday morning by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.Free and another attorney later negotiated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the man surrendered Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Democrats condemn reported Trump plan to bar most refugees from US

  06-09-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  * Administration officials reportedly aim to slash admissions* Beto O’Rourke: ‘We need more refugees, not fewer’Central Americans walk from Mexico to the US side of the border to ask authorities for asylum on 29 April 2018 in Tijuana. Photograph: David McNew/Getty ImagesLeading Democrats have condemned reported moves by the Trump administration to effectively bar refugees arriving from most parts of the world.As reported by the New York Times, the administration plans to cut ba
  
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• Trump Has Make-Up Meeting With David Bossie

  06-09-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Scott Olson/GettyDonald Trump has made up—for now—with David Bossie, his former top 2016 campaign aide who was exiled from Trumpworld following revelations of apparent financial self-dealing that misled the president’s supporters and donors.Early last week, the president welcomed Bossie back into the White House for a private meeting, where Bossie pleaded his case directly to his former boss, a senior administration official and another source with knowledge of the conversation
  
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• Sentences of 3 Blackwater guards reduced from 2007 massacre

  06-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Thursday greatly reduced the sentences of three former Blackwater security contractors, in the latest development from a complex case dating back to the 2007 shootings of unarmed civilians in Baghdad.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Paul Slough to 15 years in prison, Evan Liberty to 14 years and Dustin Heard to 12 years and seven months.All three had received 30-year terms in a 2015 trial -- a mandatory sentence for the commission of a felony while using a military
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Bahamas death toll likely to be 'staggering' as North Carolina residents hide in their attics

  06-09-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in the Bahamas have warned the death toll from Hurricane Dorian could become “staggering”, as the now weakened storm rocked residents of North Carolina, some of whom had to be rescued from their attics.Five days after Dorian struck the Bahamas with a force last seen in 1935, officials said it was becoming clear the damage there had been “unimaginable”.
  
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• Is Vaping Marijuana Safe? Deaths and Lung Disease Linked to E-Cigs Call That Into Question

  06-09-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The CDC is advising consumers to use caution
  
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• Mugabe dies; liberated Zimbabwe, then held it for 37 years

  06-09-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power when the African country shook off white minority rule and presided for decades while economic turmoil and human rights violations eroded its early promise, has died in Singapore.Mugabe enjoyed strong support from Zimbabwe's people soon after he became the first post-colonial leader of what had been British-controlled Rhodesia.Often violent farm seizures from whites who owned huge tracts of land made him a hated figure
  
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• Iran gives new knock to nuclear deal but it's not yet broken

  06-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to stitch together a deal with Iran to stop the 2015 nuclear accord from collapsing was hanging by threads Friday — but not yet broken, despite Tehran's announced plans to step farther back from its international commitments.Iran was poised to begin work on advanced centrifuges that will enrich uranium faster with no solution from Europe to provide a way to revive the deal ahead of the Friday deadline — the third incremental breach of the accord.Eu
  
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• Ted Cruz to Debate Gun Control with Actress Alyssa Milano

  06-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Following a lengthy Twitter confrontation over how best to respond to the scourge of mass shootings, Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and actress Alyssa Milano have agreed to meet in person to debate the issue.Milano on Sunday challenged her Twitter followers to produce a Biblical passage that would support a God-given right to gun ownership. Cruz responded with a ten-tweet thread detailing how the right to self-defense, if not gun ownership specifically, is in fact enshrined in the Bible.> An ex
  
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• US to allow trophy hunter to import body of rare black rhino

  06-09-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration says it will issue permit to a Michigan trophy hunter to import the skin, skull and horns from a rare black rhinoceros he shot in Africa. Documents show Chris D. Peyerk of Shelby Township, Michigan, applied last year for the permit required by the Fish and Wildlife Service to import animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.
  
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• A woman says she escaped a suspected serial killer in Detroit by stabbing him with a box cutter and diving out a window

  06-09-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities had warned residents in June that a possible serial killer and rapist in Detroit was targeting sex workers in their 50s.
  
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• Female prisoner who asked for help 'beaten so badly by prison guards she was left paralysed and in need of 24hr care for rest of her life'

  06-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A female inmate in a Florida prison who said she was beaten by four guards has sued the state’s corrections agency.Cheryl Weimar said the alleged beating left her paralysed with “serious and life-threatening injuries, including a broken neck” in a complaint filed in district court on Tuesday.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Taliban attack Afghan province as doubts on peace deal grow

  06-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  KABUL/HERAT, Afghanistan, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Taliban fighters launched fresh assaults in the western Afghan province of Farah on Friday, government officials said, part of a wave of violence that has cast a shadow over a peace deal struck between U.S. and Taliban negotiators this week.By the evening, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Amadi said its fighters had seized Anar Dara - a district in the sparsely populated province bordering Iran where the insurgents have wide control.Afghan leaders includ
  
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• Hurricane Dorian made landfall in North Carolina Friday morning. The storm has killed at least 30 people in the Bahamas and 5 in the US.

  06-09-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian passed over North Carolina's Outer Banks at 8:35 a.m. ET on Friday. The storm's effects are starting to be felt in Virginia, too.
  
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• White House officials, Washington Post spar over coverage of Trump

  06-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said on Twitter on Friday the Post had not reported on a Trump measure. Others pointed out that it had.
  
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• California boat fire victims likely died of smoke inhalation

  06-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The 34 people killed when a dive boat caught fire and sank off the California coast likely died from smoke inhalation and may have been dead before flames consumed their bunk area, the local sheriff said on Friday.The disclosure raises questions over whether crew members, who told investigators they tried desperately to rescue the passengers in their below-decks sleeping quarters, were already too late to save them by the time they were alerted to the blaze.Divers have so far recovered the burne
  
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• AccuWeather's latest analysis predicts a poor 2019 yield for corn and soybeans

  06-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  AccuWeather is predicting it will be the lowest corn yield since 2012. (John Roach/AccuWeather)The latest AccuWeather 2019 crop production analysis affirms the belief that 2019 will be a down year for corn and soybean production both in terms of quantity and quality. AccuWeather analysts predict the 2019 corn yield will be 13.36 billion bushels compared to 14.42 billion in 2018, while the soybean yield will be 3.658 billion bushels compared to 4.543 billion bushels in 2018.It would be the lowest
  
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• Pompeo presses Europeans after Iran curbs nuclear promises

  06-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday pressed European nations to stop Iran's "extortion" after Tehran again reduced its commitments under a nuclear deal in response to US sanctions."We are confident that the UK, France and Germany -- indeed, all civilized nations -- will take decisive actions to stop Iran's nuclear extortion," Pompeo, who visited the European Union headquarters in Brussels earlier in the week, wrote on Twitter.
  
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• Afghan president postpones US trip to discuss Taliban deal

  06-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Afghanistan's president has postponed a planned visit to Washington early next week where he was to discuss the U.S.-Taliban talks on ending America's longest war, a person familiar with the negotiations said Friday.The development emerged after the U.S. envoy negotiating with the Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad, abruptly returned to Qatar for unexpected talks with the insurgents on the deal that he had described as complete just days ago.The agreement "in principle" to begin a U.S. troop withdrawal o
  
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• Mugabe, Zimbabwe hero-turned-despot, dies aged 95

  06-09-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95.First heralded as a liberator who rid the former British colony Rhodesia of white minority rule, Mugabe used repression and fear to govern until he was finally ousted by his previously loyal generals in November 2017.President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his predecessor had been declared a "national hero" and that Zimbabwe would mourn him until the burial.
  
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• Hundreds feared to be trapped in 'catastrophic flooding' on a North Carolina island

  06-09-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  As Hurricane Dorian continues to move through North Carolina, hundreds are feared to be trapped in 'catastrophic flooding' conditions on Ocracoke Island.
  
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• CDC Warns against Vaping after Third Recorded Death from Mystery Illness

  06-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday warned against using e-cigarettes, amid 450 potential cases of a mysterious lung ailment related to vaping, which has now claimed three lives.“While the investigation is ongoing, the CDC has advised that individuals consider not using e-cigarettes because as of now, this is the primary means of preventing lung disease,” said Dr. Dana Meaney-Delman, a CDC incident manager. “We believe that a chemical exposure is likel
  
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• Hong Kong protesters reject leader's concession with new rallies

  06-09-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of Hong Kongers held rallies on Friday night, rejecting calls by the city's pro-Beijing leader to end their movement as the finance hub braces for another weekend of clashes, including a plan to disrupt the airport.Police fired brief volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets against a few hundred protesters who had gathered outside a police station in Mongkok district.The demonstrators later blocked roads, set barricades on fire and faced off with riot police before dispersing without any
  
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• Trump's GOP challengers cry foul at report some states may cancel GOP presidential primaries

  06-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's Republican challengers for 2020 sound off after reports that four states may not hold Republican presidential primaries and caucuses.
  
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• UPDATE 6-Thousands try to flee hurricane-devastated Bahamas islands

  06-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people fled the Bahamas island of Great Abaco by boat and plane on Friday and thousands more lined up to get on a cruise ship leaving neighboring Grand Bahama to escape the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.The most powerful hurricane on record to hit the Bahamas swept through the islands earlier this week, leveling some neighborhoods, swallowing others with storm surge, and causing what one official described as a "staggering" number of deaths.Hundreds, if not thousands, ar
  
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• New video shows devastation of Abaco shantytown

  06-09-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Dorian, the most powerful hurricane on record to hit the Bahamas, swept through the islands earlier this week, leveling neighborhoods and knocking out key infrastructure. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are still missing. The death toll, which currently stands at 30, is likely to shoot up.
  
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• UK's Johnson is no Winston Churchill says wartime leader's sacked grandson

  06-09-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill but someone who tells lies about the European Union, according to the grandson of Britain's wartime leader who was sacked from the Conservative Party this week.Nicholas Soames, 71, the son of Mary Soames, the youngest of Churchill's five children, was expelled from Johnson's party after defying party orders over Brexit."Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill.
  
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• NC election tests Trump clout, suburban flight from GOP

  06-09-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A tossup special election in North Carolina is shaping up as a pre-2020 test of President Donald Trump's pull on voters and whether the suburbs are continuing the flight from Republicans that fueled the party's 2018 congressional election debacle.It's up for grabs after state officials invalidated last November's election following allegations of voter fraud by a GOP operative.The Democrat who narrowly lost, former Marine and Harvard MBA Dan McCready, is running again, portraying himself as a ce
  
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• Iran inching towards talks with USA

  06-09-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  "That has always been our aim here, it's to get the Iranians on a diplomatic path so we can talk to them," Esper said during a news conference with his British counterpart Ben Wallace in London.Friction between the two countries has grown since U.S. President Donald Trump last year withdrew from a 2015 international accord under which Iran had agreed to rein in its atomic program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.During the news conference Wallace said Britain would always help the
  
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