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• 'She was drunk:' Bus driver facing DUI charges after child calls 911 to report her

  22-09-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A bus driver in Washington has been arrested after a child called 911 to report that she was driving under the influence.
  
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• 3 dead, 4 hospitalized in suspected drug overdose

  22-09-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  All of the victims were wearing orange paper bands on their wrists.Police determined the victims initially went to a venue together, then headed to the apartment where they overdosed.It appears to have been isolated to a single location," the Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
  
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• Mike Pence takes motorcade across island where cars have been banned for a century

  22-09-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  For over a century, motorized vehicles have been banned from Michigan’s Mackinac Island, giving the former Revolutionary War battle site a unique charm and turning it into a tourist haven.
  
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• Italy to take in 182 migrants from humanitarian ship

  22-09-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A ship carrying 182 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea said Sunday that Italy has granted permission for its passengers to disembark in Sicily.Italy's decision to take in the Ocean Viking comes ahead of a meeting in Malta on Monday that will be attended by French, German and Italian authorities.The officials will attempt to make a temporary deal to manage the standoffs that have in the past year kept migrants rescued by NGO ships stuck at sea for days and even weeks.
  
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• The US and Saudi Arabia are searching for a 'smoking gun' among wrecked weapons that will conclusively link Iran to the attacks on Saudi oil sites

  22-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The US and Saudi Arabia are looking for evidence proving Iranian culpability as the two countries weigh their responses to the debilitating attacks.
  
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• Face transplant recipient's donor face failing

  22-09-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who was severely burned in Vermont is hoping for a second face transplant after doctors recently foundtissue damage that likely will lead to the loss of her donor face.
  
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• Trump goes on offensive over Biden and Ukraine as Schiff ponders impeachment

  22-09-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  * Whistleblower scandal swirls over Washington* Q&A: What is the Trump-Ukraine scandal about?Donald Trump, his aides and allies went on the offensive on Sunday, over what the president claims is un-investigated corruption involving Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine.In return, the Democratic chair of the House intelligence committee said the president’s reported conduct in the matter may make impeachment “the only remedy that is coequal to the evil”.Donald Trump is reported t
  
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• Republican casino magnate Adelson cautioned Trump on trade war with China: WSJ

  22-09-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A top Republican donor warned President Donald Trump in a phone call last month that his escalating trade war with China could hurt his re-election prospects, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the call.Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson discussed with Trump the broader implications of the U.S.-China trade war rather than the impact on Adelson's business interests, one of the people familiar with the call said, according to the newspaper report.Adelson, a major d
  
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• Chinese journalists will have to pass a government test on Marxism and President Xi Jinping to be granted press passes

  22-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  'Pilot tests' will be issued to Chinese journalists starting next month via an app to test their loyalty to President Xi Jinping to get press passes.
  
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• Impeachment Pressure Builds for Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats After Ukraine Whistleblower and Trump Admission

  22-09-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyDemocratic members of Congress grappling with the question of impeachment spoke with new urgency on Sunday following reports that President Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son in a July phone call between the two leaders. The moment arrives amid frustration among some of the candidates running in the 2020 Democratic primary, as well as voters and activists, that the Democ
  
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• The US government warns people against using conditioner after a nuclear explosion. It could trap radiation in your hair.

  22-09-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Shampoo can be a life-saving tool in the case of a nuclear blast, but conditioner could become a dangerous agent in the wake of an explosion.
  
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• World leaders feel the heat in upcoming climate summit

  22-09-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Only those with new, specific and bold plans can command the podium and the ever-warming world's attention, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.As if to underscore the seriousness of the problem, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization released a science report Sunday showing that in the last several years, warming, sea level rise and carbon pollution have all accelerated.Brazil's, Poland's and Saudi Arabia's proposals for dealing with climate change fell short, so they're not on Monday
  
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• Mexico's Minimum Wage Under Review for Gradual Boost: AMLO

  22-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s minimum wage will be reviewed for a possible boost to strengthen the purchasing power of workers, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday, the newspaper Reforma reported.The increase will be gradual, he said while touring the state of Campeche, because the rate can’t be changed by decree. Economic activity has to increase so businesses are able to provide jobs that pay fair wages, he said.A national poll last week showed Lopez Obrador’s approva
  
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• Africa to seek declaration of global climate emergency at UN summit

  22-09-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  African countries plan to call on the United Nations to declare a global climate emergency, among a set of demands to be presented at a climate summit in New York on Monday organised by the U.N. chief.Backed by African climate change negotiators, the statement is also expected to say that countries’ climate action plans should be made legally binding, to ensure the 2015 Paris Agreement goals to limit global warming are met.African governments will also likely request more international fun
  
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• See This Aircraft Carrier? Meet USS Enterprise (It Changed Everything)

  22-09-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Enterprise, or “Big E,” was commissioned on November 25, 1961. The ship’s subsequent twenty-five deployments read like a history of the Cold War and modern U.S. foreign policy. She made some serious history.
  
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• Israel cuts power in parts of West Bank over debts

  22-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's national electricity company said Sunday it was cutting power to parts of the occupied West Bank due to outstanding payments amounting to nearly $483 million.The Israel Electric Corporation said it was owed 1.7 billion shekels in debts from the main Palestinian power distributor for the West Bank, which is based in east Jerusalem.From Monday, the company "will reduce the current in some areas of the West Bank" because of the debts, it said in a statement.
  
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• ASEAN Wants a U.S. Counterbalance to Chinese Regional Ambitions

  22-09-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The ASEAN-U.S. Maritime exercises were aimed at China, not directly in terms of military drills and assets, but instead strategically, namely by signaling shared concerns over rising maritime tensions in the region.
  
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• Facial Recognition Meets the Fourth Amendment Test

  22-09-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  There may be no way to address the overarching fears all new surveillance technologies raise; however, major concerns can be addressed without slowing the use of facial recognition.
  
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• How Iran or Russia Could Fight America in a War: Kill the GPS

  22-09-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  It is the key to America's modern military.
  
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• Warren leads Biden for first time in a US primary race: poll

  22-09-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has overtaken former vice president Joe Biden in the key state of Iowa for the first time in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new poll out Sunday showed.The Des Moines Register/CNN poll had Warren with 22 percent of the vote among likely participants in the Iowa caucuses, compared to 20 percent for Biden and 11 percent for Bernie Sanders.Biden had until now has been the dominant frontrunner in the crowded Democratic field, but the surve
  
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• In gun buyback talk, how do you round up so many weapons?

  22-09-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's recent vow to take away people's AR-15 and AK-47 rifles raised one big question: How is it possible to round up the millions of such guns that exist in the United States?Many gun owners are also unwilling to turn over the weapons, and if the government offered to buy them all back at face value, the price tag could easily run into the billions of dollars.O'Rourke's pointed declaration during a recent debate — "Hell yes, we're gonna take you
  
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• Albania quake has 340 aftershocks, people afraid to go home

  22-09-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Fear and safety hazards kept many residents of Albania's capital of Tirana and the port city of Durres out of their homes Sunday after an earthquake the day before injured 105 people and damaged hundreds of buildings.Albania's Institute of Geosciences, Energy, Water and Environment said more than 340 aftershocks have followed the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Saturday afternoon near Durres.About 600 houses, most built before 1990, suffered damage in the quake, which also temporarily knocked
  
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• Ilhan Omar: Biden not right candidate for 'progress we all want to see'

  22-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  * Congresswoman addresses Iowa People’s Presidential Forum* Elizabeth Warren overtakes Joe Biden in new Iowa pollIlhan Omar, at the Capitol in Washington earlier this year. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/APAt the Iowa People’s Presidential Forum on Saturday, organisers hoped to serve up an antidote to the Polk County Steak Fry, an event a few miles down the road that drew 17 Democratic presidential candidates to deliver stump speeches and pose for selfies with 12,000 attendees.The pe
  
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• Israel's Arab party throws its support to Benny Gantz in bid to oust Netanyahu

  22-09-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power slipped further last night after Israel’s Arab minority party threw its support behind his rival Benny Gantz, virtually guaranteeing that Mr Gantz will get the first chance to form a government. The decision by the Joint List, which mainly represents Israel’s 2 million Palestinian citizens, is the first time since 1992 that an Arab party has endorsed a Jewish candidate like Mr Gantz to be prime minister.  Ayman Odeh, the Joint List leader
  
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• Florida school resource officer who arrested two kids, ages 6 and 8, is under investigation

  22-09-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An Orlando school resource officer is facing an investigation after he arrested a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old on misdemeanor charges.
  
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• Impeachment 'may be the only remedy' if Trump-Ukraine reports are true: House intel chair

  22-09-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Adam Schiff, head of the House Intelligence Committee, suggests impeachment is in order if President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden.
  
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• Banks worth $47 trillion adopt new U.N.-backed climate principles

  22-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Banks with more than $47 trillion in assets, or a third of the global industry, adopted new U.N.-backed "responsible banking" principles to fight climate change on Sunday that would shift their loan books away from fossil fuels.Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and Barclays were among 130 banks to join the new framework on the eve of a United Nations summit in New York aimed at pushing companies and governments to act quickly to avert catastrophic global warming."These principles mean banks have to consi
  
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• Tropical Storm Karen Has the Internet Saying the Storm 'Wants to Speak to a Manager'

  22-09-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  "The hurricane being named Karen is like a gift to the internet"
  
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• Arab lawmakers in Israel endorse Gantz for prime minister

  22-09-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The Arab bloc in Israel's parliament broke with tradition Sunday and endorsed Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz for prime minister, giving the former military chief an edge for the job over incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu.The historic endorsement highlighted the first day of President Reuven Rivlin's crucial consultations with various party representatives.Israel's largely ceremonial president is responsible for picking the politician with the best chance of forming a stable coalition gover
  
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• A Motorcade on Michigan's Mackinac Island? Some Call Vice President Mike Pence's Flouting Vehicle Ban 'Disrespectful'

  22-09-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The vehicle ban has been in place on the island for about 121 years
  
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• Trump acknowledges bringing up Joe Biden in phone call with Ukraine president

  22-09-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers call for more details on a claim that Donald Trump pressured Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden.
  
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• Israeli Arab parties back Gantz for PM in break with precedent

  22-09-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Arab political parties broke with longstanding precedent Sunday and endorsed ex-military chief Benny Gantz for prime minister following last week's elections, seeking to keep the president from asking incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu to form the next government.The dramatic move came after the mainly Arab Joint List alliance won 13 seats in Tuesday's polls, making them the third-largest force in the 120-seat parliament.In announcing the decision, Joint List leader Ayman Odeh said the allianc
  
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• AOC says bigger scandal than Trump's 'lawbreaking behavior' is Dems' refusal to impeach

  22-09-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ocasio-Cortez added further fuel to the impeachment fire by saying the bigger scandal was Democrats' refusal to impeach President Trump.
  
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• Trump says he hopes 'they release' his call with Ukraine's president, in which he says he talked about Joe and Hunter Biden and 'corruption taking place'

  22-09-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid calls to release a transcript of his conversation with Ukraine's leader, President Donald Trump said he talked about both Joe and Hunter Biden.
  
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• Trump hopes 'they release' his call with Ukraine's president, in which he says he talked about both Joe and Hunter Biden and 'corruption taking place'

  22-09-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid calls to release a transcript of his conversation with Ukraine's leader, President Donald Trump says he talked about both Joe and Hunter Biden.
  
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• Joe Biden rounds on Donald Trump as Ukraine controversy escalates

  22-09-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of abusing his power as the row over the former vice-president’s son’s business dealings in Ukraine escalated over the weekend. Mr Biden sought to turn the tables on the US president and prevent the controversy over his son, Hunter, derailing his bid for the nomination. His intervention came as the latest opinion poll in Iowa showed that he had fallen behind Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren in the race to be the party’s presidential candidat
  
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• Face transplant recipient's donor face now failing

  22-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who was severely burned in a domestic violence attack in Vermont is hoping for a second face transplant after doctors recently discovered tissue damage that likely will lead to the loss of her donor face. Carmen Blandin Tarleton, 51, was burned over 80% of her body when her estranged husband beat her with a baseball bat and doused her body with lye in 2007. Six years ago, she received a face transplant at Brigham and Woman's Hospital in Boston, where she's being evaluated for a possible
  
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• Ex-cop's murder trial for shooting neighbor set to start

  22-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment.For some, the shooting was a tragic accident with circumstances that can only be described as "very unique." Others place it in pattern of white officers killing black men that, they say, points to systemic problems in American policing.On the eve of trial, one of the only points of agreement about her case in Dallas is that it has the potential to profoundly affect the relationship between police an
  
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• The Latest: Arab lawmakers in Israel endorse Gantz for PM

  22-09-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The Arab bloc in Israel's parliament has endorsed Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz for prime minister.With that nod, Gantz looks to edge by incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu in the number of lawmakers who will endorse him.Representatives of the Joint List of Arab parties told President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday that they recommend the former military chief.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Israel's Arab party support pushes Gantz ahead of Netanyahu

  22-09-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's Arab-dominated Joint List party moved on Sunday to back the centre-left bloc of Benny Gantz, who is challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing alliance, to form a new government.With final results all but in, neither Gantz nor Netanyahu command a majority in parliament, so the Arab List's decision to end its usual policy of withholding support for any candidate in the wake of elections could nudge President Reuven Rivlin to ask Gantz to form a government.Rivlin, who bega
  
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• A Crackdown on Islam Is Spreading Across China

  22-09-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  YINCHUAN, China -- In China's northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a picturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. Authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, including one in a small village near Linxia, a city known as "Little Mecca."Similar demolitions have been carried out in Inner Mongolia, Henan and Ningxia, the homeland of China's largest Muslim ethnic minority, the Hui. In the southern province of Yunnan,
  
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• Israel's Arab party support pushes Gantz ahead of Netanyahu

  22-09-2019 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's Arab-dominated Joint List party moved on Sunday to back the center-left bloc of Benny Gantz, who is challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing alliance, to form a new government.With final results all but in, neither Gantz nor Netanyahu command a majority in parliament, so the Arab List's decision to end its usual policy of withholding support for any candidate in the wake of elections could nudge President Reuven Rivlin to ask Gantz to form a government.
  
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• South Korea's Population Disaster Is Coming

  22-09-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a people problem.
  
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• Pelosi warns White House over whistleblower complaint

  22-09-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  She wrote that President Donald Trump would enter “a grave new chapter of lawlessness” if he succeeded in blocking Congress.
  
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• Israel's president floats unity government between Netanyahu and Gantz

  22-09-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's president on Sunday began consulting with party leaders to discuss who should lead the country after no clear victor emerged from last week's election, suggesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud join forces with its main rival.Netanyahu's right-wing Likud failed, for the second time in five months, to secure a clear election victory.The centrist Blue and White party led by ex-armed forces chief Benny Gantz has a slight lead with nearly all votes counted.
  
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• She Quit Her Job. He Got Night Goggles. They Searched 57 Days for Their Dog.

  22-09-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  After a late night at a stock-car race, Carole and Verne King returned to their dog-friendly hotel in Kalispell, Montana, and made a devastating discovery.Their 7-year-old border collie, Katie, was no longer in the room. She had apparently managed to unlatch the door, possibly spooked by a thunderstorm that had swept through the area. At the front desk, an attendant said she had seen an anxious dog bolt out the front door hours before.The Kings were stunned. In the town of 23,000 people that bac
  
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• Tropical Storm Karen Has Formed in the Atlantic and Could Hit Puerto Rico. Here’s What to Know About Its Path

  22-09-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  It could approach Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by Tuesday
  
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• UPDATE 1-Pompeo urges world to resist China's demands to repatriate ethnic Uighurs

  22-09-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  U.N. experts and activists say at least 1 million Uighurs, and members of other largely Muslim minority groups, have been detained in camps in the remote Xinjiang region."Further on the subject of terrorism, I want to make clear that China’s repressive campaign in Xinjiang is not about terrorism.
  
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• 3 dead, 4 hospitalized in Pittsburgh's trendy South Side Flats. All were wearing orange wrist bands

  22-09-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  All the victims are wearing orange paper bands on their wrists, police said. Those hospitalized were conditions ranging from critical to serious.
  
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• Long-live the Electoral College! All of the Reasons to Keep It

  22-09-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., recently proposed killing it on the grounds that the presidential selection mechanism leads candidates to focus on just a handful of “swing states” that are most likely to determine the election.
  
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