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• Google Earth leads to remains of missing Florida man in lake

  12-09-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  It took 22 years, but a missing man's remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake, authorities said.The skeletal remains were of William Moldt, who went missing in 1997 at the age of 40, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.Sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said on Thursday that a previous resident of the Grand Isles neighborhood in Wellington, Florida, was
  
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• An Oklahoma woman who got a 12-year prison sentence for $31 of pot was jailed again — for overdue court fees

  12-09-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Patricia Spottedcrow made headlines in 2011 when she was sentenced to 12 years in prison over $31 of pot. She was jailed again over court fees.
  
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• Trump administration puts tough new asylum rule into effect

  12-09-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A new level of despair spread among tens of thousands of migrants waiting on the Mexican border to seek refuge in the U.S. as the Trump administration began enforcing radical new restrictions Thursday on who qualifies for asylum."The United States is the only option," Dunea Romero, a 31-year-old Honduran, lamented with tears in her eyes at a border crossing in Tijuana.The new U.S. policy would effectively deny asylum to nearly all migrants arriving at the southern border who aren't from Mexico.
  
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• Ex-FBI No. 2 official faces prospect of criminal charges

  12-09-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of President Donald Trump's wrath, faces the prospect of criminal charges after his lawyers failed to persuade senior Justice Department officials that he didn't intentionally lie to internal investigators.Two people familiar with the matter said Thursday that Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen declined an appeal from McCabe's lawyers aimed at preventing a prosecution.Any indictment would put the spotlight not only on McCabe's action
  
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• Tropical storm warnings issued in the Bahamas as system cranks up

  12-09-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Some models show the system that could become Tropical Storm Humberto intensifying into a hurricane off the Southeast coast by early next week.
  
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• It came from outer space: Newly discovered comet is likely interstellar visitor

  12-09-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A newly discovered comet appears to be from outside our solar system. If confirmed, it would be only the second such object ever detected.
  
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• What to expect for CNN contributor Andrew McCabe after US attorney recommends charges

  12-09-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Judge Andrew Napolitano weighs in on the latest recommendation by the US attorney to proceed with charges against CNN contributor and former FBI official Andrew McCabe.
  
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• Cubans fear return to 90s austerity amid cuts

  12-09-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Havana awoke Thursday to long lines at gas stations and public transportation stops after President Miguel Diaz-Canel warned fellow Cubans to expect fuel shortages and blackouts that he blamed on US sanctions.Terrified!" said Katia Morfa, 36, as she took her seven-year-old daughter to school.It's inevitable that we think of the dark and very sad days of the Special Period," Morfa told AFP.
  
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• Climate change pushes U.S. fund managers to bet on AC makers

  12-09-2019 23:20
  Record heatwaves in Europe and Asia this summer are leading fund managers to buy shares of air conditioning manufacturers, betting that the public health risks of rising temperatures will compel...
  
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• US to disclose name of Saudi sought by 9/11 victims

  12-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. said Thursday that it will disclose the name of a Saudi citizen sought by lawyers for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks who want to link the kingdom to the terrorist plot.Attorney General William Barr had the option of invoking a "state secrets" privilege to withhold the release of the name, which lawyers for survivors and victims' relatives believe belongs to a Saudi government official who they say assigned two men in California to assist two of the hijackers.Instead, Justice Department
  
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• NASA says a new comet is likely an 'interstellar visitor' from another star system — the second ever detected

  12-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  If the comet-like object has interstellar origins, "it's the next best thing to sending a probe to a different solar system," one astronomer said.
  
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• U.S. House panel wants Boeing CEO to allow employee interviews on 737 MAX crashes

  12-09-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Congress on Thursday asked Boeing Co's chief executive to make several employees available for interviews as part of a congressional probe into the design, development and certification of 737 MAX aircraft involved in two crashes that killed 346 people.The committee plans another Boeing hearing in the coming weeks and previously asked whistleblowers to come forward with any information about the plane's development.Boeing has provided more than 300,000 pages of documents, a person briefed on the
  
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• Under US pressure Mexico shifts immigration policy

  12-09-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Under growing pressure from the U.S. government, Mexico's immigration policy has moved from one promising to help migrants to another characterized by militarized enforcement that has support of the country's foreign secretary.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has faced pointed criticism from the left about the change in direction, but Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard made clear this week after a meeting at the White House that Mexico plans to stick with the get-tough approach
  
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• Congress orders US Taliban negotiator to testify

  12-09-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The US envoy charged with negotiating with the Taliban was ordered Thursday to testify by the Democratic-led House of Representatives, which complained it had been kept in the dark on the now called-off peace process.Representative Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a subpoena to force Zalmay Khalilzad to appear on September 19.The legally-binding order came days after President Donald Trump said diplomacy with the Taliban was "dead" and offered the bombshel
  
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• Congress committee subpoenas Trump envoy to Taliban talks

  12-09-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday issued a subpoena to the Trump administration's envoy to the U.S.-Taliban talks, demanding that he testify at an open congressional hearing next week.Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., complained that the Trump administration was keeping Congress and the American people "in the dark" about negotiations with the Taliban, which have broken down.Engel issued the subpoena to compel Zalmay Khalilzad to testify Sept. 19.
  
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• This is why Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson won't be in tonight's Democratic debate

  12-09-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and author Marianne Williamson dominate search results during or after the debates.
  
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• Peru ex-president denied bail in U.S., wife dragged from court after outburst

  12-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Peruvian first lady was dragged out of a courtroom in San Francisco on Thursday as she cursed a judge's decision to keep her husband, ex-president Alejandro Toledo, in jail pending extradition proceedings.Toledo, 73, is wanted in Peru to stand trial over accusations that he took a $20 million bribe from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht during his 2001-2006 term.Toledo denies wrongdoing.
  
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• US says tanker spotted in Syria shows Iran deceitful

  12-09-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said Thursday that Iran had shown itself to be untrustworthy after a tanker apparently delivered oil to Syria in defiance of promises."I think the importance here to our friends around the world in the international community is to note that once again you have been lied to and misled by the Iranian regime," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told reporters.An Iranian vessel, originally called the Grace 1 and renamed the Adrian Darya 1, was held for six weeks by the Br
  
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• Jeep's Hot-Selling Gladiator under Stop-Sale Order for Driveshaft Problem

  12-09-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeep's Gladiator pickup truck has been on sale for just a handful of months, but it's already being recalled for a flaw with the rear driveshaft.
  
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• Ohio Cheerleader Found Not Guilty of Murdering Her Newborn Baby

  12-09-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo Courtesy Warren County Sheriff's OfficeThe Ohio cheerleader accused of killing her newborn baby and burying her in the backyard in an unmarked grave has been acquitted of the most serious charges against her. Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, was found not guilty of three charges, including aggravated murder, and involuntary manslaughter. The jury did find her guilty of gross abuse of a corpse, for which she will be sentenced on Friday. The char
  
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• Ohio cheerleader bursts into tears as murder verdict is read

  12-09-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury found a former cheerleader,20-year old Brooke Skylar Richardson, not guilty in the 2017 death of her newborn daughter.The jury found Richardson not guilty of aggravated murder, not guilty of involuntary manslaughter, not guilty of child endangerment and guilty of abuse of a corpse
  
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• Elizabeth Warren says she's got a detailed plan for almost everything, but she still lacks specifics on Medicare for All

  12-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren still lacks specifics on Medicare for All, which allows her to redefine her vision on universal healthcare later on in the primary.
  
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• Rand Paul and Liz Cheney Compete for Trump’s Affections, Get Into ‘Butt-Kissing’ Twitter Spat

  12-09-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Two fully grown, elected members of the United States Congress have spent two days fighting on Twitter over who loves President Donald Trump more.Since at least Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Liz Cheney, both Republicans, have been trading barbs online (and on television) over foreign policy and who is in better standing with Trump.The shameless spat began when Paul shared a week-old Washington Examiner op-ed from Wyoming state legislators telling Cheney to “stop carping at T
  
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• Russia asks Interpol for help over alleged CIA mole's whereabouts

  12-09-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  * Oleg Smolenkov reportedly taken to safety by US agents in 2017* ‘Interpol was presented with questions about his disappearance’The house in Stafford, Virginia, where the alleged spy, named as Oleg Smolenkov, is said to have lived. Smolenkov is reported to have worked at the Russian embassy under ambassador Yury Ushakov in Washington. Photograph: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty ImagesRussia has asked the United States via Interpol to provide information on the whereabouts of a former member
  
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• Remains of missing man found on Google Earth after 20 years after submerged car spotted in lake

  12-09-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The remains of a man who went missing more than two decades ago have been found after his car was spotted on Google Earth submerged in a lake. William Earl Moldt, 40, disappeared after he set out to drive home from a nightclub on Nov 7, 1997 in Lantana, Florida. A property surveyor looking at Google Earth spotted the car on August 28 this year. Palm Beach County sheriff's deputies went to look at the vehicle, finding it was heavily calcified and had been there for a long time. When they pulled i
  
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• All 6 crew members were asleep when a fire started on the diving boat that went up in flames off the California coast and killed 34 people: NTSB preliminary report

  12-09-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The incident killed 34 of the boat's 39 occupants, including all 33 passengers. The NTSB has not yet determined the cause of the fire.
  
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• Brothers arrested, accused of operating 'empire of illegal drugs' in Wisconsin

  12-09-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Police seized THC products valued at $1.5 million; insight from Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth.
  
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• Woman charged; led police to apparent remains of child, 5

  12-09-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mississippi woman has been charged with capital murder and child neglect after police say she led them to a house basement where they found what could be the remains of a 5-year-old child who had been missing for months.Celeste Louise Smith, 35, of Meridian, made an initial appearance Thursday in Meridian city court and her bond was set at $250,000, the Meridian Star reported.A preliminary hearing is scheduled on Monday.
  
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• MIT President: Oh Yeah, We DID Cover Up Epstein’s Donations

  12-09-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Marotta/GettyThe president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is admitting that not only did the school hide donations from Jeffrey Epstein—he wrote the accused sex trafficker a thank you letter.“It is now clear that senior members of the administration were aware of gifts the Media Lab received between 2013 and 2017 from Jeffrey Epstein’s foundations,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif said in a statement Thursday afternoon.“Because the members of my team
  
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• A pair US F-15 fighter jets came close to taking out a couple of free-falling skydivers at nearly 350 mph

  12-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The skydivers, who were in freefall at 120 mph, caught the fighters on video passing beneath them at 345 mph, a UK air safety board reported.
  
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• After Trump fires Bolton, Rand Paul and Liz Cheney go to war over it

  12-09-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In the wake of the national security adviser's firing, two Republicans trade barbs over the president's foreign policy.
  
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• Trump news - live: House takes major step towards impeachment, as Democrats prepare for next debate

  12-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The top 10 Democrats in the 2020 presidential race are preparing for a showdown this evening, where Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren will meet for the first time head-to-head in the primary season.The debate comes following a busy day in Washington, where the House Judiciary Committee approved a key resolution as it gears up towards potential impeachment of Donald Trump. The resolution has defined the boundaries of a probe that Democrats hope could lead to said impeachment, and potentially his rem
  
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• China secretly abducted a university president on a trip through Germany and convicted him in a sham trial. Two years on, he may be executed.

  12-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese Muslims are being held in concentration camps, and leaders are being targeted — one of whom may face execution after 2 years in secret prison.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Israel must have freedom to act against Iran, Netanyahu says in Russia

  12-09-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel must be allowed to act freely against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday during a visit to Sochi, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss security coordination in Syria.The two leaders have met more than a dozen times in recent years and the countries' militaries have been working to avoid accidental clashes in Syria, where Israel says it has carried out hundreds of strikes against Iranian targets to stop Tehran establishing a permanent military
  
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• Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger

  12-09-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The universe is looking younger every day, it seems.New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos.The huge swings in scientists' estimates — even this new calculation could be off by billions of years — reflect different approaches to the tricky problem of figuring the universe
  
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• American Airlines mechanic stripped of FAA certificate ordered held in sabotage case

  12-09-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  An American Airlines mechanic charged with purposely damaging an aircraft in July during a dispute between the airline and its mechanics union involving stalled contract negotiations will remain behind bars until at least Sept. 20, according to a court filing on Thursday.The Federal Aviation Administration also disclosed Thursday that it had issued an emergency order earlier this week revoking Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani's mechanic certificate with immediate effect.Pilots of a flight from Mi
  
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• Justice Department nears prosecution of ex-FBI official McCabe: sources

  12-09-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department moved closer to a politically sensitive prosecution of former top FBI official Andrew McCabe on Thursday by rejecting a request from his legal team to drop the case, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.The notice indicates that the department could soon bring criminal charges against the FBI's former No. 2 official, who has endured years of criticism by President Donald Trump after playing a key role in the investigation into the Trump campaign's
  
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• Trump's immigration crackdown starts to gain traction

  12-09-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  With a little help from the Supreme Court and Mexico, US President Donald Trump's fitful crackdown on immigration is finally gaining traction.Trump has spent his entire presidency promising to stop illegal immigration, shut out asylum seekers and wall off the Mexican border.Undeterred, Trump has hammered away, making construction of a US-Mexican border wall one of his presidency's centerpieces -- and a key part of his 2020 reelection platform.
  
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• Federal prosecutors recommend that Andrew McCabe, former FBI second-in-command, face criminal charge

  12-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors recommended that the former FBI deputy director be charged. He faced scrutiny over a 2016 leak about Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Three New Jersey vapers sue Juul Labs over e-cigarettes

  12-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawsuits allege Juul Lab Inc. endangers the health of minors through their use of e-cigarettes
  
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• Greenpeace protesters dangle from Fred Hartman Bridge ahead of Democratic debate

  12-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Greenpeace protesters are trying to stop the flow of oil and gas through the Houston Ship Channel ahead of the third 2020 Democratic debate.
  
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• Tesla Model S Spotted Lapping the Legendary Nurburgring

  12-09-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  It looks like Elon Musk was serious about trying to beat the Porsche Taycan's lap record, but he didn’t bring a production model to the attempt.
  
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• Stowaway passengers killed in DR Congo train disaster

  12-09-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A freight train derailed in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, killing between 10 and 50 people stowing away onboard according to conflicting reports, in the latest rail tragedy to strike the vast central African nation.Estimates of the death toll have varied widely.
  
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• Lebanon detains former militia member accused of torture

  12-09-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon has detained a senior member of a disbanded Israel-backed militia, a judicial source said Thursday, after his return to the country sparked widespread condemnation and revived accusations of torture.Lebanon's military court had ordered the arrest of Amer al-Fakhoury, a former member of the pro-Israel South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia and a senior warden in the notorious SLA-run Khiyam prison, the source said.Another security source said the former SLA member had fled to the United States
  
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• The Words Missing from a New York Times Essay about Religious Liberty

  12-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The headline is jolting. “Religious Crusaders at the Supreme Court’s Gates.” Thus starts Linda Greenhouse’s analysis of the actual and potential religion cases before the Court during its October term. Her thesis is that the Court’s relative restraint in its religion cases the previous term represented the justices’ merely “biding their time.” This term the gloves may come off. Now the Court may well “go further and adopt new rules for loweri
  
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• Woodford listed fund says administrator to cut valuation in another of its holdings

  12-09-2019 20:35
  Woodford Patient Capital Trust, the listed trust run by under-fire money manager Neil Woodford, said its administratorLink Fund Solutions would cut the valuation of its stake in another of the...
  
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• Netanyahu’s Facebook page suspended over hate speech

  12-09-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu’s official Facebook page posted a message calling on voters to oppose a government composed of “Arabs who want to destroy us all — women, children and men.”
  
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• Parents of Georgia Tech student shot by police file lawsuit

  12-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The parents of a Georgia Tech student killed by a campus police officer two years ago have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school, the university system and the officer.Authorities have said university police officer Tyler Beck fatally shot 21-year-old Scott "Scout" Schultz on Sept. 16, 2017.The federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by William and Lynne Schultz names Georgia Tech, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and Beck as defendants.
  
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• Charred wreckage of California dive boat raised from ocean floor

  12-09-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast, killing 34 people, was raised from the ocean floor on Thursday as federal safety officials said the crew had no night watchman on duty, as required, when the flames erupted.Television images showed the blackened, burned out hulk of the 75-foot (23-meter) Conception as it was hoisted to the surface near Santa Cruz Island, to be loaded onto a barge and taken to an undisclosed location as part of a federal investigation into the accide
  
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• Sen. Marsha Blackburn blasts 'unconstructive' Democratic opposition to GOP gun control proposals

  12-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is reportedly poised to reject any gun proposals from the White House as pressure mounts to reach consensus; insight from Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  
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