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• Man charged in 31-year-old cold case murder. Police suspect he may have killed others

  08-09-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawrence Gene 'Larry' Timmons was charged Friday with the 1988 slaying of a 31-year-old Missouri woman. Other cold cases now being looked at.
  
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• US, Taliban keep open door to talks after summit scrapped

  08-09-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States and Afghanistan's Taliban on Sunday both left the door open to fresh talks after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a secret summit, but the insurgents threatened to inflict greater costs.The United States also said it would not relent in fighting the militants after Trump cited a Taliban attack that killed a US soldier for scuttling the unprecedented meeting.Trump said he had invited Taliban leaders, as well as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, for talks Sunday at the presi
  
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• Impeach Trump? House Democrats face delicate choice as lawmakers, but not public, push for action

  08-09-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A majority of House Democrats favor starting an impeachment inquiry. A majority of Americans oppose it. Now they face a delicate political question.
  
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• NEWSMAKER-New Saudi energy minister: a royal with decades of experience in OPEC cuts

  08-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  When former Saudi oil minister Ali al Naimi crushed oil prices in 2014 by adding to global oversupply, one man in the kingdom stood firmly against this strategy.Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, King Salman's son and a veteran oil official, who on Sunday was named as new Saudi energy minister, is known in the industry for decades of work helping to foster OPEC production cuts.As he takes the reins at the world's largest oil exporter from Khaled al-Falih, Prince Abdulaziz faces intensifying demands fr
  
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• Mass protest in Santiago against abuses of Pinochet era

  08-09-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Santiago on Sunday to honor the victims of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, in a march that started peacefully but ended in violence.Although it has been 46 years since the military coup that brought Pinochet to power, his memory still divides Chileans.The protest began in central Santiago, with many demonstrators carrying red carnations and holding photos of loved ones who were killed or disappeared during the Pinochet years.
  
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• MIT Media Lab chief out after 'deeply disturbing' link to Jeffrey Epstein

  08-09-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The fallout comes three weeks after another senior lab employee quit in protest over revelations lab director Joi Ito took money from Epstein.
  
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• GOP will stop shooting survivor Gabby Giffords' husband, 'dead in his tracks,' official says

  08-09-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Kelly, Arizona Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who survived a mass shooting near Tucson.
  
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• Apple calls out Google for 'stoking fear' and creating 'false impression' of iOS exploit

  08-09-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple called Google’s recent Project Zero report on iOS malware misleading and wants to make sure customers have "all the facts"
  
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• Trump shares bizarre cat meme about his altered hurricane map

  08-09-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump prolonged a weeklong controversy over Hurricane Dorian, sharing cat video late Saturday night that mocked coverage of his incorrect claims about the storm’s path.
  
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• 500,000 lose power as unrelenting Dorian marches into Canada

  08-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm made landfall for at least the fifth time on Saturday in Nova Scotia, the latest as a post-tropical cyclone still hurling 100 mph winds.
  
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• Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shook Chicago

  08-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a message to his father.
  
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• A disgruntled mechanic has been charged with sabotaging an American Airlines flight

  08-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  All of us have had a beef with the boss or disagreements and other assorted unpleasantness at work from time to time, which is the nature of being at the mercy of someone who's in charge of your productivity, never mind whether that intersects with your happiness.But it's probably fair to assume that most people don't act on those feelings and certainly don't take it out on innocent people. Which is, unfortunately, exactly what happened recently when a disgruntled American Airlines mechanic was
  
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• 'They hold our nation hostage and pay lip service to peace': Afghans respond to the collapse of US-Taliban talks

  08-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Afghans awoke on Sunday to find that months of negotiations that had electrified the country had been ended with a tweet. Over the course of three messages, the United States president halted talks between America and the Taliban after more than a year of meetings in the Gulf. Those talks, which had excluded the Afghan government, had been pored over and analysed for months by those at their mercy, but without a say. “The game is not played by Afghans,” said Ahmad Eqbal, 25-year-old
  
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• UPDATE 1-Former Hezbollah official found dead in Beirut flat

  08-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday.Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine the cause of death, National News Agency said, giving only the initials of the man.A Hezbollah official who requested anonymity confirmed the death of Ali Hatoum and told Reuters an investigation was under w
  
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• Poland's foreign ministry condemns attack on Israeli students

  08-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned violence against a group of Israeli students beaten at a Warsaw nightclub early on Saturday, following criticism that Polish leaders are not doing enough to denounce antisemitism.Earlier this year, the World Jewish Congress condemned the burning of an effigy of Judas in the Polish town of Pruchnik and hundreds of far-right supporters marching in Warsaw against a U.S. law on restitution of Jewish property seized during or after World War Two.Poland wa
  
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• A Muslim man told a Starbucks barista his name was 'Aziz.' The employee wrote 'ISIS' on his cup

  08-09-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Muslim man said his name is "Aziz." A Starbucks barista wrote "ISIS." Was it a mistake or discrimination?
  
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• India tightens Kashmir lockdown over Muslim processions

  08-09-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities on Sunday tightened a month-long security lockdown in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar after breaking up religious processions by Shiite Muslims who defied a ban.A military clampdown was imposed in Muslim-majority Kashmir from August 5 to prevent unrest as New Delhi revoked the disputed region's autonomy, with mobile phone networks and the internet still cut off in all but a few pockets.
  
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• Flammable lithium batteries may have sparked deadly Santa Barbara boat fire, diver says

  08-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  As the investigation continues into what caused the Santa Barbara boat fire, a former passenger of the Conception wonders whether lithium batteries may have sparked the blaze.
  
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• Defamation suit over Haiti sex abuse claim settled

  08-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A defamation lawsuit against an activist who accused an orphanage founder in Haiti of being a serial pedophile has been settled, ending a lawsuit that has dragged on for six years, an attorney said.Paul Kendrick's insurance companies agreed to pay $3 million to Hearts With Haiti, but nothing to orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld, attorney Mark Randall, who represents Kendrick, told The Associated Press.Hearts With Haiti and Geilenfeld dropped their defamation claims, he said.
  
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• The Latest: Dorian death toll rises to 44 in Bahamas

  08-09-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen by one to 44.Officials have warned that the number of deaths is likely to rise as security forces and other teams search devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.The government also announced a telephone hotline where Bahamians can call to report family members who have been unaccounted for since the storm.
  
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• Tesla Gets Tax Break in China as Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai Continues Construction

  08-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaked images show partly built Tesla Model 3 cars on a partly complete production line at Gigafactory 3.
  
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• Taliban warns of more US dead after Trump says he cancelled peace talks

  08-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  President tweets that he called off planned Camp David meeting after Kabul attack killed US soldierThe US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, watches as an army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt 1st Class Elis Barreto Ortiz at Dover air force base, Delaware. Photograph: Cliff Owen/APDonald Trump says he has cancelled secret peace talks on Afghanistan scheduled for Sunday that would have brought him face to face with Taliban leaders at Camp David, the presidential retrea
  
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• Zimbabwe announces Mugabe funeral amid row over burial site

  08-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe’s government has announced a date for Robert Mugabe’s funeral amid a row over where the former president will be buried.  A government memo declared the funeral will be at Harare National Sports stadium on Saturday, September 14th but gave no location for the burial to follow the next day.  Members of Mr Mugabe’s family are battling with the ruling Zanu PF party over its plan to bury Zimbabwe’s liberator-turned-despot in a cemetery for heroes of the lib
  
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• Former Hezbollah official found dead in Beirut flat -Lebanese state news agency

  08-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday.Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine the cause of death, National News Agency said, giving only the initials of the man.Hezbollah and the Israeli army exchanged cross-border fire last Sunday after a drone attack in a Hezbollah-controlled Beirut
  
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• Beekeepers are suing Trump administration over decision to allow wider use of insecticides

  08-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Beekeepers are suing the Trump administration over its decision to allow the wider use of an insecticide linked to the deaths of entire honeybee colonies.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed restrictions on sulfoxaflor in July and approved a host of new uses for the chemical.
  
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• Macron, Putin discussed Ukraine, Iran by phone

  08-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Sunday ahead of a meeting of the joint Franco-Russian Council on security issues scheduled for Monday in Moscow, the French presidency said in a statement.
  
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• Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust honored in Warsaw

  08-09-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S.-based Jewish foundation honored Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, with U.S. and Israeli diplomats also paying their respects at the event Sunday in Warsaw to the elderly Poles who put their lives in danger to save others.Today, the rescuers are in their 80s and 90s, and they arrived at the event in Warsaw helped by their children, with some in wheelchairs."On behalf of the Jewish people, I thank you for your noble deeds so many y
  
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• British Airways tells passengers not turn up at airports, as airline's biggest ever strike begins

  08-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  British Airways has told its passengers not to turn up at airports as the biggest strike action in the airline’s 100 year history begins today. More than 1,500 flights have been cancelled as the company was accused of bullying its own staff by union bosses, who warned they could continue the action until the end of the year. Some 280,000 people will be affected by the strike which is set to continue tomorrow, costing BA £80m in lost revenue. BA and The British Airline Pilots’ A
  
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• British Airways tells passengers not to turn up at airports, as airline's biggest ever strike begins

  08-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  British Airways has told its passengers not to turn up at airports as the biggest strike action in the airline’s 100 year history begins today. More than 1,500 flights have been cancelled as the company was accused of bullying its own staff by union bosses, who warned they could continue the action until the end of the year. Some 280,000 people will be affected by the strike which is set to continue tomorrow, costing BA £80m in lost revenue. BA and The British Airline Pilots’ A
  
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• Next-gen Siri may be able to have ‘back and forth’ conversations about health issues

  08-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A new report from The Guardian reveals that the impending release of iOS 13 will include some interesting updates to Siri. Specifically, the next-gen version of Siri will reportedly have more expansive capabilities insofar that it will be further integrated into apps like Find My Friends and the App Store.Additionally, Apple at WWDC revealed that Siri guidance during navigation will be much more natural and helpful in iOS 13. So instead of hearing Siri say "in 1,000 feet turn left," the new iter
  
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• Cruise lines contribute as survivors mull next steps

  08-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Survivors of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas say that they don't know how long it will take for Freeport, Great Abaco and other areas to recover from the Category 5 storm.Patrik Dahlgren, the senior vice president for global marine operations with Celebrity Cruises, says the cruise line is using all of the resources at its disposal to deliver relief supplies to Freeport, including 10,000 meals.By Sunday, a week after one of the strongest Caribbean hurricanes on record plowed into the archipelago
  
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• Warren Gains on Biden in Perceived Electability in CBS Poll

  08-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren is gaining both in probable Democratic convention delegates and in perceived electability, a CBS News/YouGov tracker poll showed on Sunday, even as former Vice President Joe Biden leads in an estimate of likely delegates from early-voting states.Among those considering supporting the Massachusetts senator, the percentage who think she would probably beat President Donald Trump in 2020 has jumped 16 percentage points since June, to 55% from 39%. That cuts into Bide
  
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• California GOP opens alternative pathway for 2020 delegates

  08-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  California Republicans have approved a rule change intended to ensure the party can send delegates to the GOP's national convention next summer, even if President Donald Trump is kept off the state's 2020 primary ballot.The measure was drafted in response to a state law signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in July that requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns, a move aimed squarely at the Republican president.Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel said he was con
  
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• Florida man, 82, called 'Holiday Bandit' arrested in burglaries of luxury NYC apartments

  08-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An 82-year-old from Florida was charged with 11 counts of burglary following a decade-long crime spree that reportedly netted $400K worth of items, police say.
  
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• Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shocked Chicago

  08-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  It stands as one of Chicago's most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and killed there.Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a mes
  
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• UN atomic official in Iran as it runs advanced centrifuges

  08-09-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran defended Sunday its decision to use advanced centrifuges prohibited by its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as a visiting top official of the United Nations atomic watchdog urged Tehran to offer "time and active cooperation" with his inspectors.The visit and careful comments by Cornel Feruta, the acting director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, show the pressure his organization is now under as Iran steps further away from the deal the IAEA is meant to monito
  
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• Donald Trump Tweets Bizarre Cat Meme About Doctored Hurricane Dorian Map

  08-09-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Tweets Cat Video About Hurricane Dorian
  
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• Billionaire Tom Steyer clears hurdle to join U.S. Democratic debate in October

  08-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The 62-year-old former hedge fund manager from San Francisco, who is not well-known beyond political circles, will be one of 11 candidates who has met the Democratic National Committee's minimum requirements to participate in the Ohio debate on Oct. 15-16."It’s now more clear than ever that Tom’s message is resonating with Americans across the country — that it is time to break the corporate stranglehold on Washington and bring democracy back to the American people,” Stey
  
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• University of Tennessee turns bullied kid's homemade shirt into their newest merch

  08-09-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The college football season got a wonderful, heart-warming story to start the season when a student who was bullied for his homemade t-shirt got to see his favorite team make the shirt part of their official merch. Laura Snyder, an elementary school teacher in Florida, shared on Facebook the story of one of her students who wore a homemade shirt to support the University of Tennessee's football team for the school's college colors day.The student was excited to wear a bright orange shirt (t
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch decries lack of access to justice for many Americans

  08-09-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The nation's youngest Supreme Court justice, in a new book and USA TODAY interview, warns of problems in the justice system and a crisis in civility.
  
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• San Francisco makes $2.5 billion bid for PG&E's electric system

  08-09-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of San Francisco has offered to buy PG&E Corp'spower lines and other electrical system infrastructure serving the city for $2.5 billion, according to the utility, which sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January.PG&E is expected to file a reorganization plan in a U.S. bankruptcy court in San Francisco this week that addresses its estimated $30 billion in liabilities from wildfires in California in 2017 and 2018, including November's Camp Fire, the deadliest and most dest
  
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• Two years before the Harvey Weinstein story broke, his brother wrote him a letter saying his 'misbehavior' had 'brought shame' to the family

  08-09-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A book from the New York Times journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein story contains a letter from his brother about his 'misbehavior.'
  
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• Hundreds of thousands turn out for Pope Francis Madagascar mass

  08-09-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday gathered on the outskirts of the Madagascan capital Antananarivo to hear Pope Francis say mass and deliver a homily condemning "privilege and exclusion" on the second leg of his three-nation African tour.Many people wore pope-emblazoned white and yellow caps -- the colours of the Vatican, and cheered as the pope-mobile made its way through wind-swept clouds of red dust at the sprawling site near Soamandrakizay.The massive crowd, estimated by organisers t
  
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• Former Fresno County sheriff's deputy admits to domestic violence, avoids felony strikes

  08-09-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A Fresno County sheriff's deputy who lost his job after a second domestic violence related arrest last month has admitted to some of his crimes.
  
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• Lithium batteries may have caused fatal boat fire, diver says

  08-09-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  An experienced diver and former passenger says many things inside dive boats typically run off of the batteries, such as computers and cameras.
  
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• The Latest: Mattis says trust is question in Taliban talks

  08-09-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says that when it comes to trying to negotiate an Afghanistan peace deal with the Taliban, the key question is whether they can be trusted.Mattis says the U.S. since the Bush administration, has "demanded that they break with al-Qaida" but "they've refused to do so." He also says "we should never forget" that they were behind the Sept. 11 attacks.President Donald Trump says he was set this weekend to meet at Camp David with leaders of the Taliban.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters call for help from Donald Trump

  08-09-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustrated Hong Kong protesters appealed directly to the United States for help yesterday, calling on President Donald Trump to help “liberate” the city.  Riot police fired tear gas after tens of thousands of protesters marched to the US consulate, waving American flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner.  The protests were the biggest since Carrie Lam formally announced the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill that set off months of unrest. The move was large
  
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• Saudi king tightens grip with promotion of another son

  08-09-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi King Salman on Sunday promoted one of his sons to the pivotal role of energy minister, strengthening his family's grip on the levers of power from oil to finance and defence.The appointment of Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as the new energy minister mirrors the ascent of his half-brother Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler.Prince Khalid bin Salman, their younger brother, is effectively in charge of the defence ministry.
  
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• Female prisoner who asked for help says she was 'beaten so badly' she was paralyzed

  08-09-2019 18:12 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 paralyzed, ane with with “serious and life-threatening injuries, including a broken neck,” in a complaint filed in district court on Tuesday.
  
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• Thousands of lightning strikes hit Washington State, triggering delays, power outages

  08-09-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of Washington was rattled by an estimated 2,200 lightning strikes during a thunderstorm that triggered widespread power outages Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.Most of the strikes were recorded in the western area of the state; 200 of those were recorded in the Seattle metro area from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. PDT. According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Renee Duff, the thunderstorms erupted in western Washington as a strong push of cool air from the Pacific Ocean moved ash
  
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