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• Trump mounts last-minute push to thwart Democratic governor in Louisiana

  11-10-2019 23:30 via politico.com
  President Donald Trump traveled to Louisiana Friday for an eleventh-hour mission to stop the state's Democratic governor — one of the few statewide Democrats in the Deep South — from winning a second term.If that has the makings of an awkward spectacle, blame Louisiana’s open primary system.Candidates from both parties, including incumbent Gov. John Bel Edwards, are running in Saturday's primary.
  
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• The Latest: Los Angeles fire grows, but some containment

  11-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The wildfire burning on the northern edge of Los Angeles has grown to more than 11 square miles (28 square kilometers) but there is also some containment.Fire Capt. Branden Silverman says damage assessments are continuing.The California Highway Patrol says sections of two interstates and one state highway remain closed.
  
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• Fugitive Frenchman wanted over family murders arrested in Scotland

  11-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A Frenchman suspected of killing his entire family in 2011 and who later disappeared, in a mystery that transfixed France, was arrested on Friday afternoon at Glasgow airport in Scotland.Scottish police confirmed that a suspect had been detained on Friday, though they did not give details of his identity."A man was arrested at Glasgow Airport and remains in police custody in connection with a European Arrest Warrant issued by the French Authorities," Scottish police said in a statement.
  
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• More hazing complaints hit Ohio University, leading to the suspension of the marching band, 3 sororities, a professional fraternity, and all social fraternities

  11-10-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  After suspending all its social fraternities for hazing allegations, Ohio University received complaints against sororities and the marching band.
  
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• What Does Rand Paul Think America Owes Our Kurdish Allies?

  11-10-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  In 2014, Republican senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was all over the map on what, if anything, the United States should do to stop the growing army of jihadists known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.In June 2014, after ISIS conquered Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city at the time, Paul was very skeptical of even using American air power against ISIS. Airstrikes against ISIS could turn America into “Iran’s air force,” Paul wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, &
  
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• The Latest: Greta Thunberg joins climate strike in Denver

  11-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says young people must be prepared to keep striking to call for action on climate change — but she's encouraged by those joining the movement.Thunberg spoke Friday in Denver, where she said she was overwhelmed by a crowd of several thousand people at a climate strike rally.Echoing a line from a speech she delivered at the United Nations last month, she asked several times of leaders, "How dare they?" Some in the Denver crowd repeated the line.
  
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• Indicted Giuliani associate attended private ‘16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump

  11-10-2019 23:16 via politico.com
  Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the latest scandal that threatens his presidency on Thursday by saying he didn’t know either of the foreign-born Rudy Giuliani associates that his own Justice Department had just indicted for alleged campaign finance violations.In fact, Lev Parnas described himself to a foreign correspondent at the cash-bar event in midtown Manhattan as a friend of the president-elect who didn’t live far from his South Florida winter home.Parnas arrived at
  
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• AP Explains: Columbus, once immigrant hero, now heel to some

  11-10-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The image and story of Christopher Columbus, the 15th century navigator who began European incursions into the Americas, have changed in the U.S. over the decades.Columbus was an obscure figure until his adventures were revitalized in the 1800s.Born in the Republic of Genoa (now Italy), Columbus took part in several voyages in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas as a teenager and later participated in expeditions to Africa.
  
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• Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith Resigns

  11-10-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News Channel's chief anchor, Shepard Smith, announced on air Friday that he would be resigning from his post after 23 years with the network.“This is my last newscast here,” said Smith. “Recently, I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News. After requesting that I stay, they obliged.” He added that, due to his exit agreement, “I won’t be reporting elsewhere at least in the near future.”> Full video: Shepard Smith's final sign off from Fox N
  
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• Tens of thousands evacuated as California wildfires rage

  11-10-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Much of California was on high alert Friday as wind-driven wildfires tore through the state's south, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and destroying multiple structures and homes.Fire officials said an 89-year-old woman died in Calimesa, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, when fire swept through a trailer park overnight after the driver of a garbage truck that caught fire dumped his burning load nearby.Another man in his 50s died Thursday night from cardiac
  
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• The California power outages show how dire the wildfire crisis has gotten — 9 of the state's 10 biggest fires came in the last 16 years

  11-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  California utility company PG&E; preemptively shut down power lines that could have sparked wildfires this week. It could be a new normal.
  
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• Decades after her daughter's death, a mother gets answers

  11-10-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The faded photo of Rosie Hill shows a smiling teenager with her hands on her hips and a pink hat on her head, standing on the front porch of her mother's house.Minnie Hill speaks lovingly about her daughter, "a beautiful personality," killed while living as a single mother in Florida.Authorities say Rosie Hill was one of scores of vulnerable women preyed upon by Samuel Little, declared by the FBI this week as the deadliest serial killer in U.S. history.
  
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• 1 Cameroon migrant dead, 2 missing in boat capsize in Mexico

  11-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  One migrant from the African country of Cameroon was found dead Friday and two others are missing after a boat capsized just off Mexico's southern Pacific coast.The Mexican Navy was helping in the efforts.The prosecutors' office in the southern state of Chiapas said the accident occurred early Friday near the Guatemalan border, in an area used by migrant traffickers in the past.
  
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• California executive avoids jail in college cheating scheme

  11-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The owner of a California frozen foods company avoided jail Friday for paying $15,000 to rig his daughter's college entrance exam in a widespread admissions scandal.Peter Jan Sartorio, of Menlo Park, California, was sentenced in federal court in Boston to a year of probation after pleading guilty in May to a single count of fraud and conspiracy in a deal with prosecutors.U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani also ordered him to perform 250 hours of community service and pay a $9,500 fine.
  
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• Secretary of Defense Esper blames Turkey for attacks on Kurds, says US has not abandoned them

  11-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Top Pentagon official says Turkey's attack on Kurds was 'impulsive,' and Turkish artillery shells land within a quarter mile of U.S. troops.
  
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• UPDATE 3-U.S. troops in Syria came under fire from Turkish positions -Pentagon

  11-10-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. troops in northern Syria came under artillery fire from Turkish positions on Friday but none were wounded, the Pentagon said, an incident that highlights the risks to U.S. troops as Turkey wages an offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish militia."The explosion occurred within a few hundred meters of a location outside the Security Mechanism zone and in an area known by the Turks to have U.S. forces present," Navy Captain Brook DeWalt, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
  
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• Trump's stonewalling could speed up impeachment

  11-10-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats believe they have enough evidence to impeach Trump, in the form of a whistleblower complaint and a partial transcript of a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
  
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• US hopes to keep Venezuela off UN Human Rights Council

  11-10-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. is hoping to keep Venezuela from winning a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council.A State Department official said Friday that members of the U.N. General Assembly should vote against Venezuela next week because of severe human rights abuses under President Nicolás Maduro.The Maduro government has killed political opponents, has withheld food from supporters of the opposition, holds nearly 500 political prisoners and has shut down independent media outlets, said Jon Piec
  
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• The Latest: Pritzker board member resigns amid senator probe

  11-10-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An appointee of Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has stepped down from the Illinois Tollway board after he was mentioned as part of a federal investigation into a state senator.Cesar Santoy resigned Friday at Pritzker's request after an unredacted search warrant released Friday indicated that authorities sought information involving Santoy and his architectural firm Studio Arq.
  
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• Kamala’s Fake Lover: Jacob Wohl Told Me It Was for a Spike TV Show

  11-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Inept conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman held another bizarre press conference in Burkman’s driveway on Wednesday, this time to smear Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) with obviously fake allegations of an extramarital affair. And like past efforts to manufacture sexual claims against Trump foes—from Robert Mueller, to Pete Buttigieg, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)—the Harris charade fell apart quickly. The pair’s bogus accuser—26-year-old Sean N
  
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• Dog lost since 2007 found over 1K miles away in Pittsburgh

  11-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A toy fox terrier that disappeared from its family's south Florida home in 2007 was found this week over a thousand miles away in Pittsburgh and reunited with its owner on Friday.The 14-year-old named Dutchess was found hungry, shivering and in serious need of a nail trim under a shed on Monday, according to Humane Animal Rescue.The property owner took the dog to a Humane Animal Rescue location, where staffers were able to locate a microchip and trace the dog back to its owners in Boca Raton, Fl
  
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• Federal judges rule against Trump in 3 cases on executive powers

  11-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's legal team was handed three courtroom defeats on Friday.
  
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• Half of THC vape samples have risky Vitamin E acetate, but pesticides, metals found too

  11-10-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Vitamin E is a likely culprit, but metal fume poisoning and cadmium poisoning are also possible. Cheap vaping devices would increase the risk.
  
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• Federal judge blocks Trump administration 'public charge' rule targeting poor immigrants

  11-10-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration was set to implement a new "public charge" rule blocking poor immigrants from getting green cards, but a judge blocked it.
  
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• Big avocado earns Hawaii family Guinness World Records honor

  11-10-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world's heaviest avocado.The Pokini family from the island of Maui received the Guinness certificate this week for the avocado weighing 5.6 pounds (2.54 kilograms), The Maui News reported Thursday.The Pokini family's avocado tree is more than 10 years old and 20 feet (6.1 meters) tall.
  
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• U.S. company supplying tear gas to Hong Kong police faces mounting criticism

  11-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Another U.S. senator has joined a chorus against Pennsylvania-based NonLethal Technologies Inc for selling riot gear to Hong Kong that is being used against pro-democracy protesters.The privately held company, which makes and exports a wide range of riot and crowd control equipment for military and law enforcement agencies, has been in the spotlight ever since it was discovered that Hong Kong police are employing its tear gas canisters to disperse anti-government demonstrations.In one photo that
  
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• Turkey Mistakenly Shells U.S. Special Forces in Syria: Report

  11-10-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. special forces based in Syria have been caught in Turkish artillery fire, according to Newsweek. It remains unclear whether there were any other casualties.The contingent of U.S. troops was operating in the Kurdish-dominated city of Kobani in northeastern Syria when they were hit by shelling from Turkey's military, which is currently invading the region.A senior Pentagon official confirmed the incident, saying Turkish forces should have precise knowledge of American positions.Earlier on Fri
  
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• The White House accidentally sent Ukraine talking points to House Democrats again

  11-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  They've done it again.The White House on Friday sent around a list of talking points on Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who testified before Congress as part of its impeachment inquiry Friday. The only problem? The talking points went out to House Democrats, ABC News' Ben Siegel reports.> This appears to be the second time the White House has sent impeachment talking points to House Democrats - this time on Yovanovitch: pic.twitter.com/vv5BeYwqXs> > -- Ben Siege
  
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• Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia's Oil Facilities, But Not For the Reason You Think

  11-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran doesn't want war.
  
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• Could Chelsea Clinton run for a New York House seat?

  11-10-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  “If you care about what’s happening in the world, you have to care about running for and holding elected office,” Chelsea Clinton said last year.
  
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• Xi’s Seaside Summit With Modi Aims to Reset China-India Ties

  11-10-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Ancient temples carved into massive rock faces along the ocean formed the backdrop to Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s informal talks in which they discussed boosting commerce and economic ties amid border disputes and trade tensions.The leaders of the world’s two most populous countries met Friday in the southern Indian coastal town of Mamallapuram, on the outskirts of Chennai, with their dinner discussion running two-and-half hou
  
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• UPDATE 2-Cargo plane crashes in Congo with presidential staff on board

  11-10-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashed in eastern Congo on Thursday, and all eight passengers and crew are feared dead, a presidential adviser told Reuters on Friday.The plane, carrying President Felix Tshisekedi's driver, a logistics manager and some soldiers, was headed from Goma to the capital Kinshasa and went off radar on Thursday afternoon, an hour after departing, a statement from the civil aviation authority said.The Russian embassy in Democratic Republic of Congo said on its
  
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• Ruling leaves Ohio ban on Down syndrome abortions on hold

  11-10-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a judge's decision to put on hold an Ohio law prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome.The 2-1 ruling from a panel the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said the law signed in 2017 by former Republican Gov. John Kasich is likely unconstitutional but didn't make such a declaration outright.The Ohio Attorney General's Office said the state will seek reconsideration by the full 6th Circuit.
  
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• Felony charge for girl, 13, who pointed finger-guns at other students, officials say

  11-10-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  There were previous encounters involving the student that resulted in classmates being "fearful" of her, according to police.
  
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• California adopts broadest U.S. rules for seizing guns

  11-10-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that will make the state the first to allow employers, co-workers and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people.
  
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• California Democrats Spend Nearly $1 Million To Settle Harassment Suits Against Former Chair

  11-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Former chairman Eric Bauman cost the California Democratic Party more than $800,000 in a discrimination and sexual misconduct settlements, according to records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.State and federal campaign finance filings show $378,348 in legal settlements for three lawsuits, filed by Alton Wang, William Rodriguez-Kennedy, and Kate Earley. In January, the trio filed against Bauman, and alleged that the abuse was “well-known and apparently tolerated” by other officials.
  
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• The Latest: Company mentioned in US probe denies wrongdoing

  11-10-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The warrant used in a Feb. 24 raid of offices belonging to Illinois state Sen. Martin Sandoval indicates the FBI was seeking items related to numerous politicians, lobbyists and companies including SafeSpeed.SafeSpeed provides red-light camera systems for communities throughout the Chicago area.SafeSpeed spokesman Dennis Culloton i says the company's culture is based on safety and cooperation with law enforcement.
  
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• Trump appears to do bizarre impression of FBI agent having sex

  11-10-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump appeared to perform an impression of former FBI agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page having sex while the president was in the middle of a speech during a rally in Minnesota on Thursday.Mr Trump slammed his hand on the podium and shouted “I love you, Lisa,” and “I love you too, Peter” before moaning “Lisa, I love you, Lisa! Lisa! Oh, God, I love you Lisa!”
  
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• Rubio, Cruz ask Trump to keep Citgo in Venezuela opposition's hands

  11-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. lawmakers including Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz wrote a letter to President Donald Trump this week requesting that he take executive action to prevent holders of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's bonds from seizing U.S. refiner Citgo.Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido earlier this year assumed control of Citgo - a PDVSA subsidiary whose three refineries process 750,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude - after Washington recognized him as the OPEC nation's leader, arguing socialist Presi
  
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• A week inside the Fox News bubble: From daytime sanity to prime-time Hannity

  11-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the most startling things about Fox News is just how quickly it managed to embed itself in American culture.Despite being younger than, say, Logan Paul, it has an outsized level of clout which has only increased with the election of Donald Trump.
  
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• 'Whatever happened to Hunter?' Donald Trump steps up attacks on Joe Biden and his son at Minneapolis rally

  11-10-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Breaking out a new stump speech amid an impeachment inquiry, Donald Trump delivered an extended attack on rival Joe Biden during a Minneapolis rally.
  
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• Trump’s Stonewalling on Impeachment Shows Cracks With Testimony

  11-10-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Three days after the White House said it was going to block all cooperation with the House impeachment inquiry, one State Department official testified and another plans to.Their appearances raise questions about whether the Trump administration may back down from its threat to stonewall House Democrats’ request for testimony and documents, or whether the White House is being selective in how it proceeds.On Oct. 17, the committees will hear from a witness Republican lawmaker
  
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• Putin's test missile failed and exploded in deadly nuclear accident

  11-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  An Aug. 8 nuclear accident near Nyonoksa, Russia, was caused by a nuclear reaction that occurred while Russians were attempting to recover a nuclear-powered cruise missile submerged in the White Sea after a failed test last year.
  
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• Poll: 40% of Americans say they think Mike Pence would make a better president than Trump

  11-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  An outsize chunk of the American population think Vice President Mike Pence would make a better president than President Trump, according to a new Insider poll.
  
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• Ousted US ambassador to Ukraine claims Donald Trump pushed for her removal

  11-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The ousted US ambassador to Ukraine has claimed that Donald Trump pushed for her removal, denting the US president’s attempts to wave away the scandal that triggered the impeachment inquiry.  Marie Yovanovitch told congressmen on Friday that she was “abruptly” ordered in late April to get “the next plane” back to America and was dismissed shortly after returning.  Ms Yovanovitch had become the subject of claims from Trump allies that she was blocking
  
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• Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash

  11-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, also has been working for the legal team of a Ukrainian oligarch who faces bribery charges in the United States, according to attorneys for the businessmen and the oligarch.Parnas was arrested on Thursday along with the other Florida businessman, Igor Fruman, on unrelated charges that included illegally funneling $325,000 to a political action committ
  
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• NASA conducts spacewalk as world's 1st spacewalker dies

  11-10-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronauts replaced oversized batteries outside the International Space Station on Friday, as news broke of the death of the world's first spacewalker.NASA interrupted live TV coverage of its second spacewalk this week to announce Leonov's death at age 85.Leonov's 12-minute spacewalk on March 18, 1965, preceded the first U.S. spacewalk by Ed White by less than three months.
  
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• Trump Records Must Be Given to the House, Appeals Court Says

  11-10-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump, under siege from House Democrats weighing impeachment, suffered a stinging blow as a federal appeals court upheld a subpoena ordering his accountants to provide Congress with his financial records.The ruling, by a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, means Trump will lose control of his long-secret financial records at Mazars USA LLP unless the full court reconsiders the decision or the U.S. Supreme Court blocks it.In their
  
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• The Latest: Syrian Kurds say Turkish shells hit IS prison

  11-10-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian Kurdish officials say Turkish shelling has hit a prison holding Islamic State militants in northeastern Syria.An official with the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces says some of the men in the video are security guards seeking to contain the escape and regain control of the prisoners.The Kurdish officials said Turkish shells fell near another prison facility on Friday and Wednesday in Qamishli, which is only 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the Turkish border.
  
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