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• Elizabeth Warren’s Daft Fracking Scheme

  09-09-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts promises that if she is elected president, she will issue an immediate unilateral prohibition — based on some presidential power that she’ll invent as soon as she gets around to it — on the method of natural-gas production known colloquially as “fracking.” Other Democratic contenders, including Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris of California, have made similar promises.Another way of saying this is that the
  
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• Trump says he's a dealmaker, but the derailed Taliban talks are just the latest major negotiation he's bungled as president

  09-09-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Based on his track record as president, Trump seems to be more skilled at breaking deals than making them.
  
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• US judge blocks Trump move on asylum-seekers

  09-09-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Monday blocked a move by President Donald Trump's administration that would have prevented most Central American migrants from seeking asylum at the US border.The ruling by District Court Judge Jon Tigar is the latest setback for Trump's immigration policies, which have been the subject of numerous court challenges.The Trump administration in July required migrants seeking asylum in the United States to make their request in a country along their route, effectively banning the
  
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• President Trump's tour of Hurricane Dorian damage canceled due to weather

  09-09-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Air Force One touched down in Havelock Monday evening but President Trump's tour of Hurricane Dorian damage was canceled due to weather.
  
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• Judge reinstates nationwide halt on Trump asylum policy plan

  09-09-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. judge in California on Monday reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration's plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled in Oakland that an injunction blocking the administration's policy from taking effect should apply nationwide.Tigar blocked the policy in July after a lawsuit by groups that help asylum seekers.
  
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• Kamala Harris apologizes for her response to slur after backlash from disability community

  09-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  After a supporter used an offensive term to talk about the president at her event, Kamala Harris laughed and said "Well said."
  
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• Body Cam Footage Released of Utah Officer-Involved Shooting During DUI Processing

  09-09-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Utah police released body camera footage from an officer-involved shooting during a DUI processing.
  
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• 78 years later, a Navy veteran killed in Pearl Harbor finally returns home to New Jersey

  09-09-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An outpouring is expected for the homecoming funeral of a sailor from New Jersey, 78 years after his death in the Pearl Harbor attack.
  
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• Trump Agriculture Trade Official Calls Xi ‘Communist Zealot’

  09-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department’s top trade official called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “communist zealot,” as he warned farmers the Asian leader is a tough adversary in negotiations.Ted McKinney, the department’s undersecretary for trade, offered the provocative characterization of the Chinese leader Monday at a sensitive time in U.S.-China relations. After a summer of bombast and tariff escalation the two sides have agreed to hold face-to-face working-
  
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• Syria says Israel was behind airstrike in country's east

  09-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Unknown warplanes targeted an arms depot and posts of Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border, killing at least 18 fighters in a nighttime attack, Syrian opposition activists said Monday.A Syrian security official said Israeli jets staged the airstrikes, but denied there were any casualties.The attack comes amid rising tensions in the Middle East and the crisis between Iran and the U.S. in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
  
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• Epstein bombarded Bill Gates with calls and contacts to score a meeting with the billionaire a year before his $2 million donation to MIT

  09-09-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A spokesperson for Bill Gates confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein "worked aggressively" to meet with him in 2013, a year before giving $2 million to MIT.
  
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• North Korea says it's willing to resume nuke talks with US

  09-09-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea said Monday it is willing to resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States in late September but that Washington must come to the negotiating table with acceptable new proposals.If the proposals don't satisfy North Korea, dealings between the two countries may come to an end, First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said.Choe's statement was apparently aimed at pressuring the United States to make concessions when the North Korea-U.S. talks restart.
  
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• Cathay Pacific’s Crisis Puts Spotlight on Air China’s Next Move

  09-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.China’s crackdown on Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. has raised questions about the government’s insider at the carrier: Air China Ltd.State-run Air China has quietly owned almost 30% of Cathay for more than a decade, giving the national flag carrier a ringside view of the Hong Kong airline’s worldwide operations. Restrictions imposed on Cathay by China’s aviation re
  
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• Trump claims he'll release 'extremely complete' financial details

  09-09-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump’s finances have been a major issue of contention, stemming from his refusal to release his tax returns while running for president.
  
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• Trump says he won't debate 'laughingstock' Republican primary challengers

  09-09-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The president brushes aside the notion of debating the Republicans seeking to replace him in 2020.
  
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• Three SKorean crew members of capsized cargo ship rescued

  09-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Three South Korean crew members of a massive cargo ship were rescued on Monday after a hole was cut into the steel hull of the capsized vessel, the US Coast Guard said.A rescue operation was ongoing for the fourth trapped member of the crew of the MV Golden Ray, which listed and caught fire in St. Simons Sound off the coast of Brunswick, Georgia.US Coast Guard Captain John Reed told reporters the fourth crew member was "stuck behind glass in an engineering control room" of the vessel, which is l
  
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• New iPhone 11 leak confirms what we already knew about the phone’s design

  09-09-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  We are just hours away from the official unveiling of the next iPhone, but until Apple takes the stage on Tuesday, the leaks will continue to spring, as they did once again last week. Prolific leaker Mr. White shared a photo on Twitter on Friday that appears to the front panel of one of the new iPhone 11 models. As per usual, he didn't provide any other details, so all we have is the photo itself and a vague note about it not being special. In a Reddit thread about the leak, multiple users claim
  
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• Michelle Malkin on who's funding illegal immigration

  09-09-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Michelle Malkin investigates the funding of illegal immigration in her book 'Open Borders Inc.'
  
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• California and Alabama are the only two states that aren't participating in the giant antitrust investigation of Google, and neither is really saying why (GOOGL, FB)

  09-09-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Every other US state, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, is taking part in the inquiry.
  
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• The GOP lawmakers disgusted by Trump’s invitation to the Taliban are the latest sign his foreign policy is in shambles

  09-09-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taliban invitation and subsequent backlash adds to an expanding list of foreign policy controversies and failures for Trump ahead of 2020.
  
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• Lebanon's Hezbollah says downs Israeli drone

  09-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said Monday it had downed and seized an Israeli drone as it flew across the Lebanese border, a week after a flash confrontation between the arch-foes.Israel's army said a drone it was operating "fell" in Lebanon on Sunday.In what appeared to be a response, an air strike at "around midnight" left 18 pro-Iranian fighters dead in eastern Syria, a monitor said.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren endorses 2 liberal House candidates challenging Democrat incumbents

  09-09-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The endorsements of immigration attorney Jessica Cisneros in southern Texas and marketing consultant Marie Newman in the Chicagoland district offer Warren, a Massachusetts senator, an opportunity to underscore her alliance with the more liberal wing of the Democratic party.
  
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• Cheerleader accused of killing newborn told her dad 'I tried to cremate the baby'

  09-09-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Skylar Richardson is charged with aggravated murder and involuntary manslaughter. She's accused of deliberately killing her baby and burying her.
  
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• Israeli leader claims to find new Iranian nuke site

  09-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's prime minister on Monday unveiled what he said was a previously undisclosed Iranian nuclear weapons site, further escalating a showdown between the two enemy countries.Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement came as the U.N. nuclear watchdog held a meeting in Vienna, where he's hoping the agency will take tougher action against Iran.It also came in the final stages of Israeli national elections, drawing criticism from opponents that the sudden press conference was a campaign stunt.
  
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• Rocks discovered from the day the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth

  09-09-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Rocks from the most pivotal moment in Earth's history were discovered offshore of the Yucatan Peninsula, a study says.
  
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• China warns the UK could be committing 'hostile action' if it sends carrier into territory

  09-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain has been warned by China that the deployment of HMS Queen Elizabeth to the South China Sea could be viewed as a “hostile action”.  The MoD plans to send Britain’s new aircraft carrier to the Asia Pacific region on her first operational deployment, due in 2021. The government is keen to assert freedom of navigation through international waters and, alongside US and Australian allies, has been forthright in defending such actions against an increasingly belligerent C
  
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• McConnell backs short-term spending bill to avert shutdown

  09-09-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  “A major focus of the Senate this month will be ... passing a temporary continuing resolution for the outstanding parts of the government," McConnell says.
  
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• Colombia to tell UN that Venezuela harbors 'terrorists'

  09-09-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A reportedly leaked intelligence report indicates that President Nicolás Maduro's socialist government is harboring Colombian rebels inside Venezuela, allegations that dovetail with evidence Colombian officials say they will present this month to the United Nations.Bogota-based Semana magazine on Sunday published a report it said was based on Venezuelan documents showing how a top military official under instructions from Maduro ordered generals to provide support to a so-called "Red Grou
  
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• The U.S. forced to extract top spy from Russia after Trump revealed classified information to Russians in Oval Office meeting

  09-09-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. was forced to extract a top-secret source from Russia after President Trump revealed classified information to two Russian officials in 2017, CNN reported on Monday.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says NC election no predictor for 2020

  09-09-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump says he doesn't think a special election Tuesday in North Carolina is a bellwether for his performance in the state next year.Speaking to reporters before leaving the White House to campaign for Dan Bishop, the Republican in that race, Trump is tamping down expectations for the vote to fill a vacant House seat representing the once-reliably GOP district.Trump is holding a rally for Bishop Monday as he faces off with Democrat Dan McCready in the final stroke of the 2018 mid
  
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• New York college student arrested in Russia over medical marijuana possession

  09-09-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Audrey Lorber, a student at Pace University, was stopped at the airport in St. Petersburg with 19.05 grams of medical marijuana.
  
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• Donald Trump denies overruling Pence and other advisers on Camp David meeting with Taliban

  09-09-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump pushed back Monday on reports that he overruled objections from Vice President Pence and others on a meeting with Taliban leaders.
  
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• Two Ohio Planned Parenthood Clinics to Close amid Funding Crunch

  09-09-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Planned Parenthood announced Monday that two Ohio clinics will be closing this month due to stifling regulations and a loss of state and federal funding.The two Cincinnati clinics, located in the Springdale and Western Hills neighborhoods, will close September 20, the organization said. Neither clinic performs abortions. Women in the greater Cincinnati and Miami Valley areas will still have access to five other Planned Parenthood locations after the two clinics shut their doors, and to 26 locati
  
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• Netanyahu accuses Iran of destroying secret 'nuclear site'

  09-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of having a previously undisclosed site aimed at developing nuclear weapons that it destroyed.Iran destroyed the site located near the city of Abadeh, south of Isfahan, sometime between late June and late July after realising that Israel had detected it, Netanyahu alleged.In an address on live television, with photos of the alleged site on a screen behind him, Netanyahu referred to an intelligence trove he had previously announced
  
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• WV pol charged after anger over racist signs turns physical

  09-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A West Virginia lawmaker has been charged for kicking a door into a statehouse staffer and elbowing a delegate because he was mad about racist signs at the Capitol, authorities said.A criminal complaint filed Friday charges Democratic Del. Mike Caputo with misdemeanor battery for the incident in March.Caputo has admitted to kicking the door because he was upset about a display outside the House chamber on "WV GOP Day" that falsely linked U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
  
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• Governor in blackface scandal names new diversity director

  09-09-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Ralph Northam announced at a Capitol news conference that he had hired Janice Underwood as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.Underwood, a former director of diversity initiatives at Old Dominion University, said one of the things that drew her to the new job was Northam's commitment to rebuilding trust in the wake of a scandal that nearly forced him from office."He hasn't always gotten it right, but what I respect the most is that he's willing to learn and do the work," Underwood
  
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• Fox News Host Steve Hilton Blasts Liz Cheney: Your Dad ‘Literally’ Killed Millions

  09-09-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News host Steve Hilton tore into Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Monday for publicly objecting to President Donald Trump’s initial plan to invite the Taliban to Camp David just days before the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, pointing out that her father was “literally” responsible for “millions of deaths.”Over the weekend, Trump announced via Twitter that he was canceling secret Camp David peace talks with the Taliban and the Afghanistan government to bring an eventu
  
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• Billy Bush claims ‘everyone’ at NBC knew about Donald Trump ‘grab them by the p****’ tape

  09-09-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Billy Bush has claimed that “everybody” at NBC knew about the infamous Access Hollywood tape in which Donald Trump was heard bragging about grabbing women “by the p****”.Bush spoke to Gayle King in an interview for CBS as he prepared to return to television as the host of Extra, the syndicated entertainment show.
  
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• U.S. military likely to ramp up operations against Taliban -U.S. general

  09-09-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. military is likely to accelerate the pace of its operations in Afghanistan to counter an increase in Taliban attacks, a senior U.S. general said on Monday following Washington's suspension of peace talks with the insurgents.U.S. Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, said during a visit to Afghanistan that the Taliban overplayed its hand in peace negotiations by carrying out a spate of high profile attacks, including one that killed a U.S. soldier last week.
  
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• Border chief: Mexico must step up immigration enforcement

  09-09-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The border chief added that the U.S. continues to discuss a possible safe third country asylum deal with Mexico.
  
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• NOAA scientist: agency likely broke science integrity rules

  09-09-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said his agency likely violated its scientific integrity rules last week when it publicly chastised a weather office that contradicted President Donald Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama.Two top NOAA civil servants not so quietly revolted against an unsigned agency press release issued late Friday rebuking the Birmingham weather office for saying Alabama was safe.
  
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• Brazilian official who protects Amazon indigenous tribes shot dead

  09-09-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Brazilian government official who spent more than a decade working to protect indigenous people in the Amazon from loggers, miners and other threats to their way of life has been killed. Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was shot twice in the head in front of his family in an apparent execution, according to a union that represents such workers.  Mr Santos had spent more than 12 years working for Funai, the National Indian Foundation, which is a Brazilian government body that defends the in
  
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• US prepares to step up strikes on Taliban after Trump halts talks

  09-09-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  American forces are preparing to redouble a campaign to kill Taliban commanders in Afghanistan, in an attempt to put more pressure on the insurgents following Donald Trump's decision to call off negotiations with the militants. US commanders are expected to step up the tempo of their campaign of air strikes and raids targeting militant leaders, military sources said. The Taliban are expected to respond to the halt in talks with their own increase in operations, leaving Afghanistan braced for int
  
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• Couple arrested after bank mistakenly deposited $120,000 they spent, police say

  09-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The couple from Montoursville, Pennsylvania, allegedly purchased a car, paid their bills and handed the money out to friends, police said.
  
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• 2020 Democrats embrace mandatory buybacks of assault weapons

  09-09-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  As mass shootings pile up, several Democratic presidential candidates are embracing mandated buybacks of assault weapons, a proposal that sharpens the political divide on guns and raises the stakes for the 2020 election.
  
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• 2020 Vision Monday: State by state, Warren is getting closer to the Democratic nomination

  09-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren has steadily ticked up in national surveys since the start of May, more than doubling her polling average, from 8 percent to 18, over that period of time. Everyone else has slipped.
  
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• Netanyahu fights for political life a week before Israel votes

  09-09-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel moved into its final week of campaigning Monday for an unprecedented second general election in five months with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu battling for political survival while facing a potential corruption indictment.With the September 17 vote looming, Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud drew outrage from opposition parties with a push for last-minute legislation that would allow party officials to bring cameras to polling stations.Netanyahu has used similar tactics in the past, i
  
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• Chrissy Teigen destroys Donald Trump on Twitter

  09-09-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  "Filthy-mouthed" Chrissy Teigen vs. "p**** a** b****" President Trump.
  
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• We can't let the Founders' Electoral College, Senate trade-offs distort democracy forever

  09-09-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Don't sentimentalize the framers' 1780s horse-trading. They saddled us with a system that is wrong for our times and nearly impossible to change.
  
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• U.S. should side with Hong Kong protesters, says ex-Pentagon chief Mattis

  09-09-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday anti-government protests in Hong Kong were "not an internal" Chinese matter and that the United States should offer at least moral support to the demonstrators.The retired U.S. Marine general, speaking at a Reuters Newsmaker event in New York, said the United States should generally side with those standing up for human rights, which he said included the Hong Kong protesters."When people stand up for those (rights), I just inherently think
  
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