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• Netanyahu's rule threatened by deadlocked Israeli polls

  18-09-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long grip on power appeared in jeopardy on Wednesday after elections left him tied with his main challenger Benny Gantz raising the prospect of tough negotiations to build a unity government or even the end of the Israeli premier's record long rule.In a sign of the demanding negotiations to come, sources in Netanyahu's office told AFP he was cancelling a planned trip next week to the UN General Assembly in New York due to the "political context" in Israel.With
  
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• Bail Set at $2 Million for Suspected Killer in Seattle Light Rail Shooting

  18-09-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A probable cause hearing was held Tuesday at the King County Courthouse for a 20-year-old suspected of shooting three people at a Seattle light rail station.
  
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• 5-year-old girl was abducted from playground, NJ police say

  18-09-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI is now involved in a search for a man who may have taken the girl to a van and driven away from the park in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
  
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• Trump visits US-Mexico border wall amid protests

  18-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  With protests raging nearby, Donald Trump has visited a section of the US-Mexico border in San Diego to see part of the wall he has hinged his political career on building.Mr Trump visited the border in the Otay Mesa neighbourhood, the same location he stopped at last year when he reviewed several border wall prototypes that he has prescribed as a major fix for the immigration crisis he claims is threatening American values.
  
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• High school cheerleaders placed on probation after posing with Trump 2020 sign

  18-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A cheerleading team has been placed on probation after posing with a Trump 2020 banner during a football game last month.After a photo of the cheerleaders at North Stanly High School in New London, North Carolina, circulated on social media, the team was placed on probation for the remainder of the football season by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA).
  
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• Saudis couldn't stop oil attack, even with top US defenses

  18-09-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia spent billions to protect a kingdom built on oil but could not stop the suspected Iranian drone and missile attack, exposing gaps that even America's most advanced weaponry failed to fill.In addition to deciding whether that firepower should be turned on Iran in retaliation, the Saudis and their American allies must now figure out how to prevent a repeat of last weekend's attack -- or worse, such as an assault on the Saudis' export facilities in the Persian Gulf or any of the desali
  
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• Dan Rather: Corey Lewandowski Won Car-Crash CNN Interview, ‘The Press and Best Interests of the Country Lost’

  18-09-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Steven Ferdman/GettyWednesday’s CNN appearance by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, the morning after he acknowledged to the House Judiciary Committee that he feels no obligation to be honest with the news media, re-ignited an ongoing debate among staffers at the cable network over who should and not be accorded airtime if they are simply using it as a forum to mislead.CNN Brings on Corey Lewandowski, a Known Liar, for Totally Batshit InterviewThe controversial booking of Le
  
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• 2020 presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard on Trump's response to attacks on Saudi oil facilities

  18-09-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Hawaii Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says it is a disgrace to the American people that President Trump would put the U.S. in a position where we are servants to the Saudi kingdom.
  
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• Teens are pledging not to have kids until the government takes climate change seriously

  18-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Emma Lim, an 18-year-old student at McGill University in Montreal, recently launched a climate-change movement called "NoFutureNoChildren."
  
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• Democrats bristle at O'Rourke's vow to confiscate guns

  18-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer are the latest Democrats to take issue with O'Rourke's mandatory buyback plan for high-capacity firearms.
  
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• It's National Cheeseburger Day: Here are some deals offered by SoCal restaurants

  18-09-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  It's National Cheeseburger Day and plenty of local restaurants are offering deals to help you celebrate right.
  
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• High water from Imelda threatens buildings in Galveston's Strand district

  18-09-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Heavy rains from what was once Tropical Storm Imelda have deluged Galveston Island.
  
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• Dozens of people charged for illegally distributing millions of opioid pills

  18-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of people - including six doctors and seven pharmacists - have been charged with fraud for illegally distributing more than 6 million opioid pills.Some of the pills were obtained using counterfeit prescription pads, and the stolen identities of legitimate doctors, prosecutors say.
  
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• Three hunters mauled in grizzly bear attacks at Yellowstone: 'He was in their face before they even had chance to grab a gun'

  18-09-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Three hunters were badly hurt in two separate grizzly bear attacks in Montana on the same day, state officials have said.All three suffered “moderate to severe” injuries after being mauled by a lone bear in the Gravelley Mountains on Monday, according to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency.
  
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• Firm advertised huge returns. It won an award in Monaco. The SEC calls it a fraud

  18-09-2019 22:32
  Mediatrix Capital said its clients went five years without a single monthly loss. It said it won an award as top global asset manager for its returns over that time. A group in Monaco declared...
  
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• Canadian Teenager Diagnosed With 'Severe Respiratory Illness' Linked to Vaping

  18-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The teenager was on life support in an intensive care unit and has since recovered
  
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• Bolton unloads on Trump’s foreign policy behind closed doors

  18-09-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The recently fired national security made little secret of his disagreements with the president.
  
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• Arkansas attorney general wants judge barred from her cases

  18-09-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Arkansas' attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to reassign cases involving her office from a judge who has been prohibited from handling execution cases, accusing him of regularly being biased against her staff.Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office on Tuesday requested that the court reassign cases from Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen.
  
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• Israel's Election Has Ended in Deadlock. Here's What Could Happen Next

  18-09-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces an uncertain future and as the official count started coming in, no side emerged with a clear path to government
  
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• Intense Doorbell Camera Footage Captures Sound of Dogs Attacking Man in Utah Neighborhood

  18-09-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Security camera footage shows the owners of two pit bulls walking by minutes after you hear the dogs attack a man and his pet.
  
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• Analysts: Weapons in Saudi attack similar to Iranian ones

  18-09-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A cruise missile and drone fragments that Saudi Arabia says it recovered from an attack on its oil industry bear similarities to Iranian-manufactured weapons, though more information is needed to make a definitive link, analysts told The Associated Press on Wednesday.Particularly striking was the cruise missile, which they said resembled a Quds-1 missile previously displayed by Yemen's Houthi rebels during a televised weapons exhibition in July."It did not come from Yemen," said Michael Elleman,
  
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• Makeup guru Bobbi Brown reveals her top six favorite products from Walmart

  18-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If we're going to take beauty advice from anybody, it's going to be Bobbi Brown. 
  
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• Suspect in Detroit serial killings charged in murders of 4 women

  18-09-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Social media rumors had been developing since mid-May that there was a serial killer in Detroit, but police repudiated them.
  
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• The Best Airlines for Any Kind of Travel

  18-09-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  These carriers are standouts in the categories of customer service, sustainability, and more.
  
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• Prosecutor: Man charged in killings of 4 women in Detroit

  18-09-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women in Detroit whose deaths authorities have characterized as the work of a serial killer.Deangelo Martin is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of felony murder in the killings of the women whose bodies were found in abandoned houses in the city as far back as February 2018, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said at a news conference.Police Chief James Craig has said
  
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• Israeli vote leaves Netanyahu's political future in doubt

  18-09-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  After a decade of mesmerizing world leaders, subduing his rivals and eking out dramatic election victories, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political future is suddenly in doubt.With near-final results from Israel's election on Tuesday, he has been left well short of the parliamentary majority he had sought — not only to continue in power but also to fend off a looming corruption indictment.With over 90% of the votes counted late Wednesday, challenger Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and Wh
  
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• How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Learned to Play by Washington's Rules

  18-09-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- Less than two weeks after being sworn in last year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young progressive star fresh off an upset of one of the top Democratic leaders in the House, put her fellow Democrats on notice that she would soon be coming for them, too.Appearing in a promotional video for Justice Democrats, the insurgent liberal group dedicated to unseating entrenched Democratic lawmakers that helped sweep Ocasio-Cortez to power, the Bronx firebrand urged her supporters to recr
  
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• French woman 'killed by partner in front of their three children'

  18-09-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A French woman was killed by her partner in front of their three children, prosecutors in northern France said,prompting hundreds of protesters to gather nearby calling for an end to deadly domestic violence.The couple were in the process of separation, prosecutors said in a statement late Tuesday.
  
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• NATO Is Making Sure It Can Stop a Russian Invasion

  18-09-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  NATO has stood up a new command who job it is to speed alliance troops and tanks around Europe in order to defend against a Russian invasion.
  
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• Navy Confirms Existence of 'Unidentified' Flying Objects Seen in Leaked Footage

  18-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A Navy official confirmed flying objects seen in multiple videos are unidentified aerial phenomena.
  
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• Investor Netter pushes FSD to restructure or return cash

  18-09-2019 21:02
  Investment manager Donald Netter is stepping up his battle with First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund (FSD) by asking the closed-end fund to restructure or give investors their money back because...
  
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• Northern Ireland's DUP calls for Brexit "refit" of 1998 peace accord

  18-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  "We want to see a refit of some of the structures of the Belfast Agreement to reflect the new emerging relationships – both between Northern Ireland and the Republic as well as between the United Kingdom and the Republic," she said."Updated arrangements to take account of any new Brexit deal secured would allow the new environment to be managed in a pro-active and democratic manner," she said.The Democratic Unionist Party's opposition to the so-called "backstop" mechanism to maintain a sea
  
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• Chicken plants lured them. Feds jailed them. How Mississippi's immigration crisis unfolded

  18-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Undocumented immigrants helped build poultry into Mississippi's richest agricultural commodity.
  
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• Bill Gates warned that a devastating 'quirk of nature' could kill 30 million people in less than a year. Experts say we're still not doing enough to prepare.

  18-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  An outbreak could easily spread around the globe in 36 hours, sickening millions and costing $3 trillion. Epidemiologists say we're not prepared.
  
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• Rep. Omar accuses Trump of endangering her life

  18-09-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Ilhan Omar accused President Trump on Wednesday of endangering her life by “continuing to spread lies” that she “partied” on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
  
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• 'Serial killer' charged with killing four women and leaving their bodies in abandoned houses

  18-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspected serial killer has been charged with murdering four women and leaving their bodies in abandoned houses in Detroit.Police had arrested Deangelo Martin in June for allegedly stabbing and sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman, who managed to escape, the previous month.
  
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• Greta Thunberg takes climate fight to Congress

  18-09-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg took her fight for climate change to Capitol Hill for a second day, demanding lawmakers "take real action." (Sept. 18)
  
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• Pelosi welcomes Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to Capitol

  18-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday welcomed Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to the U.S. Capitol, sending a message to Beijing that Congress supports the protesters in their months-long campaign for human rights.Pelosi thanked the activists for "challenging the conscience," not only of the Chinese government, but the worldwide community with their mass protests over the territory's autonomous status."If we do not speak up because of commercial interests in support of human rights in China,
  
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• Trump Can’t Sue New York Over Tax-Return Law in D.C., State Says

  18-09-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- If the president wants to challenge a New York state law, let him do it on New York’s turf.That’s what lawyers for the state told a federal judge in Washington on Wednesday in a hearing on Donald Trump’s suit over a law that could allow House Democrats to get his state tax returns.“It is improper for this court sitting in D.C. to exercise authority over elected officials sued only in their official capacity,” said Andrew Amer, a lawyer for New York At
  
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• Trump and Iran may be on the brink of a war that would likely be devastating to both sides

  18-09-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A war with Iran would likely be disastrous and further destabilize a region that's been consumed by conflict for years.
  
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• No severe impacts from Imelda as it moves through Texas

  18-09-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Imelda has deluged parts of Southeast Texas with more than 12 inches of rain, but officials in Houston and surrounding communities said Wednesday that so far there have been no severe impacts from the tropical depression.Glenn LaMont, deputy emergency management coordinator in Brazoria County, located south of Houston along the Gulf Coast, said that despite the heavy rainfall he has seen no reports of flooded homes or people stranded.
  
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• Yemen rebels threaten strikes against Dubai and Abu Dhabi

  18-09-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Wednesday threatened to attack dozens of targets in the United Arab Emirates, including in the skyscraper-filled city states of Dubai and Abu Dhabi."We announce... that we have dozens of targets in the UAE, among them Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and that they can be targeted at any moment," Huthi military spokesman Brigadier Yahya Saree said.The UAE is part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Huthis in Yemen in an intractable five-year conflict that has devastate
  
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• Poll shows Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren gaining in the Democratic field

  18-09-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden remains the highest-polling candidate, coming in at 31%, a 5-percentage-point gain from July. Warren jumped from 19% to 25%.
  
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• New York Times essay on Brett Kavanaugh never should have been published: Today's talker

  18-09-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  What did the essay tell me that I had not already read or heard? Not much about Brett Kavanaugh, but perhaps something about The New York Times.
  
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• Illinois opens 24 cases of alleged priest sex abuse after finding reports weren't reviewed

  18-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has opened 24 new investigations into alleged sexual misconduct by Catholic priests.
  
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• FedEx tumbles 13% on weak 2020 outlook, brokers cut price targets

  18-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The profit warning that came in just ahead of the all-important holiday shopping season for retailers, wiped off the stock's gains for the year and prompted several brokerages to cut their price targets. FedEx shares are on course for their biggest one-day percentage drop since 2008. J.P. Morgan was the most aggressive in slashing its price target by $22, saying growth at the company's Express business, the largest unit, was taking a hit from delays in integration of TNT Express, a Dutch deliver
  
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• Distant asteroid calamity shaped life on Earth 466 million years ago

  18-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The cataclysmic asteroid impact off Mexico's coast that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not the only time an astronomical event shaped the history of life on Earth.Scientists on Wednesday said dust spawned by a gigantic collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 400 million years earlier triggered an ice age on Earth that ushered in a significant increase in marine biodiversity.The event, occurring when life was concentrated in the seas and far before vertebrates first
  
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• Republicans Slam Democrats Uninterested in Spying Investigation

  18-09-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Why don't they want to know?
  
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• Trump bars California from setting stricter fuel standards

  18-09-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration is revoking California's authority to set auto mileage standards stricter than those issued by federal regulators, a move critics said would result in less fuel efficient cars that create more planet-warming pollution.In a tweet, Trump said his action would result in less expensive, safer cars."Many more cars will be produced under the new and uniform standard, meaning significantly more JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! Automakers should seize
  
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• Pompeo says attack was 'act of war' on Saudi Arabia, seeks coalition

  18-09-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States wants to build a coalition of European and Arab partners to deter Iran after an attack on Saudi Arabia that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described on Wednesday as "an act of war" against the world's top oil exporter. "This is an attack of a scale we’ve just not seen before," Pompeo told reporters traveling with him before landing in the Saudi city of Jeddah for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The top U.S. diplomat, who will also visit the United Arab Emirat
  
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