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• Stacey Abrams is breaking all the rules in the best way possible

  25-09-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  When it comes to politics, Stacey Abrams is a powerhouse -- and she has no plans on slowing down anytime soon.
  
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• Mexico searching another dump in case of 43 missing students

  25-09-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A member of an international team supporting the search for 43 missing students in southern Mexico said Wednesday that new information has led Mexican authorities to begin working at another garbage dump.The dump outside the town of Iguala, Guerrero "is in the epicenter of the action," said former Colombian prosecutor Ángela Buitrago of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights group supporting the investigation.The administration of then-President Enrique Peña Nieto said the s
  
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• Colombia's Duque tells U.N. that dossier proves Maduro supports terrorists

  25-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Colombia will give the United Nations a dossier of "conclusive proof" of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's support for terrorist groups, President Ivan Duque said in his speech to the organization's General Assembly on Wednesday.Colombia has long accused Maduro of sheltering rebel fighters and crime gang members.
  
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• Pelosi, Trump and impeachment: How the speaker got to 'yes'

  25-09-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  With those two words, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered Donald Trump one last chance to avoid becoming only the fourth president in office to face impeachment proceedings .Pelosi's decision to launch an impeachment inquiry Tuesday was set in motion even before that early morning phone call, the inevitable response to an administration that repeatedly defied Congress before refusing to turn over a whistleblower's complaint against the president.Trump pleaded innocence when he called Pelosi, D-Ca
  
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• Trump was preparing for impeachment 'weeks' before Ukraine scandal; now he wants to go 'nuclear' on Biden

  25-09-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Even before the Democrats announced plans for an impeachment inquiry on Tuesday, the White House and President Trump’s campaign were preparing a counterattack.
  
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• Iranian president warns of a region 'on the edge of collapse'; blames U.S. sanctions

  25-09-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's president warned world leaders Wednesday that security in the energy-rich Persian Gulf could collapse quickly with a "single blunder," and he accused the United States of engaging in "merciless economic terrorism" against his country.
  
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• Secretary of State Pompeo says U.S. wants peaceful resolution with Iran

  25-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday the United States wants a peaceful resolution to tensions with Iran but that rests with Tehran."We want a peaceful resolution with the Islamic Republic of Iran, we're hoping we can get that way.In the end, it will be up to the Iranians to make that decision," Pompeo told a news conference on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
  
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• The defense secretary praised the crew of an attack submarine that hasn't been on a mission since 2015

  25-09-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the nuclear-powered attack sub USS Boise on Wednesday, calling it an "accomplished warship."
  
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• Volvo’s First Electric Vehicle Is a Two-Motor XC40 SUV

  25-09-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The electric version of the compact crossover will debut on October 16.
  
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• Meghan Markle's 24K gold plated earrings are not as expensive as you think

  25-09-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The duchess recently stepped out wearing a simple black jumpsuit by Everlane and styled it up with gold statement earrings.
  
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• Honduras to accept more asylum seekers under latest U.S. immigration deal

  25-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Honduras signed a deal with the U.S. government on Wednesday that could push migrants who cross the country on the way to the United States back to seek asylum, in the latest bilateral deal with Central American countries aimed at curbing migration.Wednesday's "safe third country"-type deal is similar to agreements signed by El Salvador on Sept. 20 and Guatemala on July 26.The Honduras deal "will allow migrants to seek protection as close to home as possible," said a senior U.S. Department of Ho
  
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• Shep Smith Hammers Fox News Guest for ‘Repugnant’ Attack on Colleague Judge Napolitano

  25-09-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News anchor Shep Smith took aim Wednesday at Trump ally and frequent Fox News guest Joe diGenova for calling his colleague, senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano, a “fool” during a Tuesday night appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight.Napolitano declared on Tuesday that Trump effectively admitted to committing a crime with his phone call to the Ukrainian president. That evening, diGenova went off on the judge while reacting to his analysis.“I think Judge Napolitano i
  
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• Group sues US for details about impact of grazing program

  25-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. government is keeping details secret about a cattle grazing program in six Western states that could be harming habitat and endangered species, an environmental group says.In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Western Watersheds Project said the Interior Department is unlawfully withholding information from the public about a grazing initiative announced in 2017."This is the latest example of the (Trump) administration favoring industrial agriculture over conservation, biod
  
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• Teacher under fire for allegedly telling students to 'write something funny' under photos of slaves

  25-09-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A Long Island middle school teacher is under fire for allegedly asking her students to "write something funny" underneath images of slaves.  
  
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• Giuliani Hunted Corruption. Now the Legal Peril May Be His

  25-09-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani, once a feared prosecutor who has relentlessly defended President Donald Trump as his personal lawyer, could now have legal woes of his own.In a call with Ukraine’s president, Trump said multiple times that Giuliani was acting on his behalf. Since the president has plenty of Justice Department officials to tap, questions arise about whether Giuliani was primarily pursuing a political goal abroad.Giuliani, who has deep ties to Ukraine and many business connectio
  
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• Trump, with Ukraine's president by his side, defends call to investigate Biden

  25-09-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid mounting calls for President Trump’s impeachment over his July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump met face-to-face with Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
  
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• Entangled in US scandal, Ukraine's president speaks at UN

  25-09-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Abruptly cast into the center of a political storm in the United States, Ukraine's president steered clear of the controversy Wednesday as he made his debut at the United Nations, focusing instead on the horrors of war and on his country's ongoing conflict with Russia.Volodymyr Zelenskiy's address at the U.N. General Assembly came less than a day after a formal U.S. House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump was launched — a development that was sparked partly by a July 25 phone
  
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• Trump criticizes Pelosi amid impeachment firestorm, saying she's 'no longer the speaker of the House'

  25-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's comments come a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House was going to open an impeachment inquiry into the president.
  
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• Rashida Tlaib’s Vaping Interview: She’s Either Lying or Ignorant

  25-09-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Rashida Tlaib’s performance during a House subcommittee hearing on vaping was so completely, totally absurd that she must either be willfully lying or totally stupid.No, I am not exaggerating. Tlaib made some straight-up bananas comments during Tuesday’s hearing, including asking Vicki Porter (who, as Reason’s Robby Soave notes, was the only pro-vaping witness at the hearing) whether or not she was a “conspiracy theorist.”Tlaib asked:“Ms. Porter
  
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• Mom helped daughter beat up classmate at school bus stop, police say

  25-09-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Kalina Gaines, 30, was arrested after the Monday 8:30 a.m. incident at a school bus stop.
  
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• Senate again rebukes Trump on national emergency declaration

  25-09-2019 21:35 via yahoo.com
  The president will likely veto the resolution.
  
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• Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Trump phone call: 'Nobody pushed me'

  25-09-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump sits down with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, a meeting fraught with potential to be the most awkward he's has had with a foreign leader.
  
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• Russia's Lavrov favors resumption of direct flights to Georgia: Kommersant

  25-09-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov supports the resumption of direct flights from Russia to Georgia that Moscow suspended in July, the Kommersant daily cited him as saying in an interview published on Wednesday."It seems to me that it will be right (to restore flights) after the majority of the Georgian population realized the counterproductive and provocative nature of the trick that took place in the Georgian parliament," Lavrov said, according to Kommersant.Russian President Vladimir Puti
  
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• Nancy Pelosi's impeachment waiting game paid off. Americans will turn on Donald Trump.

  25-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi waited to launch an impeachment inquiry because she knew Donald Trump would do something to hang himself. He didn't disappoint.
  
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• Tropical Storm Karen is expected to loop-de-loop back towards the Bahamas after soaking Puerto Rico

  25-09-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Karen may loop around in the Atlantic, heading back towards the Bahamas, after hitting Puerto Rico with serious rain on Tuesday.
  
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• China Launched a Special Type of Warship That Can Help Invade Taiwan

  25-09-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Beijing now has an 'assault ship'. It probably can accommodate dozens of helicopters and landing craft and hundreds of marines.
  
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• Netanyahu tasked with forming new Israeli government

  25-09-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's president tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government Wednesday after last week's deadlocked elections, but the premier faces a tough battle in negotiating a coalition deal to keep him in power.President Reuven Rivlin mandated Netanyahu to try to form the government after his initial attempts at negotiating a unity deal between the prime minister and his main challenger Benny Gantz failed.Netanyahu again called for a unity government when accepting the mandate
  
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• Factbox: Six new pieces of information in memo on Trump's Ukraine call

  25-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House released a memo on Wednesday summarizing President Donald Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in July that prompted Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to start an impeachment inquiry. In the memo, Trump asks Zelenskiy directly to investigate his political rival, Democratic challenger Joe Biden, Biden's son's business dealings, and a Ukraine prosecutor.
  
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• Pence defends Trump's -- and his own -- interactions with Ukraine as scrutiny intensifies

  25-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence said the president did nothing wrong when he brought up Biden's family in a call with the Ukrainian president.
  
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• Here's what the US Air Force has planned for all its bombers

  25-09-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  From the venerable B-52 to the future B-21, the US leads the way in firepower and stealth technology. This is what the US has in the skies.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu given chance to form new government

  25-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's president on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government, giving the longtime leader the difficult task of breaking a post-election deadlock that has paralyzed the country's political system.After a divisive campaign, Netanyahu called for a "broad unity government" with his chief rival former military chief Benny Gantz.President Reuven Rivlin announced his decision late Wednesday after a second meeting aimed at brokering a unity deal between Netanyahu and
  
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• Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Tapped to Form New Government After Repeat Election

  25-09-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Corinna Kern/ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been nominated to form a new government, the country’s president, Reuven Rivlin, announced Wednesday. “The meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz has concluded. In a short time, the responsibility for forming the government will be given to Benjamin Netanyahu, after which President Rivlin and Prime Minister Netanyahu will give remarks,” Rivlin tweeted on Wednesday.Shortly thereafter, Netanyahu made a
  
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• Former US college football player home from prison in China

  25-09-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  After three years in a Chinese prison for allegedly assaulting a man during a bar fight, Brown returned home Wednesday to the hugs and smiling faces of his loved ones.Brown, who played at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Detroit and Ball State University in Indiana, was teaching English and coaching American football in southwestern China when he was arrested in September 2016 and charged with intentional assault."I was devastated," his mother, Antoinette Brown, told the AP.
  
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• 'Nothing call.' Trump strikes defiant tone after release of details of call with Ukraine's Zelenskiy

  25-09-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump took a defiant tone Wednesday, dismissing the contents of a controversial call he took months ago with the president of Ukraine.
  
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• 'Historic' September blizzard, bitter cold to wallop northern Rockies this weekend

  25-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Heavy snow – up to 3 feet in some areas – and temperatures in the 20s and 30s will bring an early taste of winter to Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
  
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• Intel IG Found Whistleblower Has ‘Arguable Political Bias’ against Trump, But Complaint Is Still ‘Credible’

  25-09-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) found that the Ukraine whistleblower exhibited "arguable political bias" but said the allegations included in his complaint were nevertheless worthy of investigation, according to a Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel opinion released Wednesday.“Although the ICIG’s preliminary review found ‘some indica of an arguable political bias on the part of the Complainant in favor of a rival political candidate,’ the ICIG c
  
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• Rouhani at UN demands Saudis end war in Yemen

  25-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday demanded that Saudi Arabia end its offensive in Yemen after an attack in the oil-rich kingdom which Washington blamed on Tehran."The security of Saudi Arabia will be guaranteed with the termination of aggression in Yemen, rather than by inviting foreigners," he told the UN General Assembly.Saudi Arabia is leading an air campaign aimed at defeating Iranian-backed Huthi rebels who control much of Yemen, contributing to a humanitarian crisis in which th
  
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• Baby Archie looks just like his dad Prince Harry as a baby -- see the incredible resemblance!

  25-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  At only 5-months-old, baby Archie Harrison made his first royal engagement on day three of the royal family's 10-day tour of Africa
  
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• Meghan Markle shares emotional group hug with young women in Cape Town: 'You guys are going to make me cry'

  25-09-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle had an adorable moment with young women outside of mothers2mothers in Cape Town.
  
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• ‘I would like you to do us a favour though’: The one sentence that could bring Trump down

  25-09-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The memorandum of the phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July that triggered an impeachment investigation into the incumbent of the White House has only served to convince his opponents they were right to do so.Mr Trump is adamant that he has done no wrong and there is no explicit quid pro quo in the document released of the call, but Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has called it a “smoking gun”.
  
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• 'I would like you to do us a favour though': The one sentence that could bring Trump down

  25-09-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The memorandum of the phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on 25 July that triggered an impeachment investigation into the incumbent of the White House has only served to convince his opponents they were right to do so.Mr Trump is adamant that he has done no wrong and there is no explicit quid pro quo in the document released of the call, but Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has called it a “smoking gun”.
  
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• Details emerge on Mama June Shannon's court appearance after crack cocaine arrest

  25-09-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Mama June Shannon, who is reportedly estranged from her children, and her boyfriend are facing felony charges.
  
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• American Farmers Are Main Winners from U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement

  25-09-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. farmers -- reeling from trade wars, low commodity prices and bad weather -- are set to be the main winners from President Donald Trump’s initial accord with Japan.Under a trade agreement announced by Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, the Asian country will lower or reduce tariffs on some $7.2 billion of American-grown farming products, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.Japan will reduce tariffs in stages on U.S. farm good
  
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• Deadly violence rocks Afghanistan as campaign season ends

  25-09-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election pushed their messages for the last time Wednesday as campaigning for weekend polls wrapped up amid deadly violence.The bloodshed that has marred the election since day one showed no sign of abating, with fresh blasts targeting the campaign offices of President Ashraf Ghani, including one late Tuesday that killed a local journalist.After two days of no campaigning on Thursday and Friday, Afghans head to the polls Saturday to decide whether Ghani -
  
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• Netanyahu tapped by Israel's president to form new government

  25-09-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's president tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday with assembling a new government after power-sharing talks with his strongest rival, Benny Gantz, failed following an inconclusive election.Accepting the mandate from President Reuven Rivlin at a televised ceremony, a politically weakened Netanyahu said his chances of success were only marginally higher than those of Gantz, a former general who heads the Blue and White party.In his remarks, Netanyahu seemed to envision a sc
  
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• The Latest: Netanyahu tapped to form new government

  25-09-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The office of Israel's president says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given the difficult task of forming a new government.Wednesday's decision came after President Reuven Rivlin's attempts to broker a unity government between Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, failed.Rivlin and Netanyahu were to give statements later Wednesday.
  
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• U.S. consumer watchdog hires new enforcement chief, fills other vacancies

  25-09-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday announced new hires at the agency, including a former state regulator to serve as new permanent chief of its enforcement office.Bryan Schneider, former head of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, will serve as the associate director of the agency's Division of Supervision, Enforcement and Fair Lending.According to his LinkedIn profile, Schneider has also previously been employed at pharmaceutical giant, the
  
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• Senate votes again to end Trump's border emergency declaration

  25-09-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday for a second time to end the national emergency on the southern border the president declared in February, a move Donald Trump would almost certainly veto if it reached his desk.Trump, with his very first veto, struck down a similar measure that had cleared both the House and Senate in March.Congress was unable to muster the votes to override that veto.
  
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• Doctors in India are stunned by baby born with 4 legs and 3 hands

  25-09-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The mother was expecting triplets, but ended up delivering twins — one of which seemed to have absorbed extra limbs from the third unborn fetus.
  
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• Mexican president trades barbs with business, civic groups

  25-09-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president engaged in a war of words Wednesday with business and civic groups that have lodged legal challenges to one of his pet projects.The groups were angered when Andrés Manuel López Obrador abandoned the previous administration's partly built airport on a former lakebed, claiming the project was drenched in corruption and cost too much.Instead, López Obrador wants to build the new airport at a military base farther away, arguing it would cost less.
  
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