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• The Latest: Newsom demands payments for those who lost power

  14-10-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking Pacific Gas & Electric Co., to pay the customers who lost power last week when the state's largest utility cut electricity to prevent wildfires.The Democratic governor sent a letter Monday asking PG&E chief executive Bill Johnson to provide a bill credit or rebate worth $100 for residential customers and $250 for small businesses.Newsom says the shutoffs affected too many customers for too long, and it's clear PG&E implemented them "with astounding neglect
  
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• In Jamal Khashoggi's death, Saudi money is talking louder than murder

  14-10-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump praises Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Jared Kushner is among those flocking to the Saudi 'Davos in the Desert': Our view
  
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• Trump suggested the Kurds were releasing ISIS prisoners, but US officials say Turkish-backed forces are actually doing this

  14-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump had no evidence to back up the suggestion the Kurds released ISIS detainees, and US officials said it was actually Turkish-backed forces.
  
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• Saudi Arabia: We are undergoing an unprecedented transformation

  14-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Jamal Khashoggi's death was an aberration that should not define us as a nation, writes Fahad Nazer, spokesperson for the Saudi Embassy.
  
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• California governor demands PG&E accountability for mismanaging power shutoffs

  14-10-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday that utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co should be held accountable for mismanaging last week's widespread power shutoffs and urged the company to provide credits or rebates to affected customers.Separately, the California Public Utility Commission ordered corrective steps by PG&E, the state's largest investor-owned utility, while summoning eight of its top executives to an emergency meeting on Friday.The utility, a unit of PG&E Corp , cut
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly had dozens of private meetings with conservatives to talk 'free speech'

  14-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Zuckerberg is firing up the grill for the GOP.The Facebook founder and CEO has received a lot of flack, including from President Trump and GOP lawmakers, for apparently holding a bias against conservative viewpoints. So in what seems to be an attempt to patch things up, Zuckerberg has been inviting conservative commentators and even one lawmaker to "informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners" over the past few months to discuss "free speech" and "partnerships," Politico reports.Previo
  
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• Fort Worth Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Quits. Here's What to Know About the Police Shooting

  14-10-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her her home early on Oct. 12. Here's what to know about the case.
  
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• Fort Worth Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Charged With Murder. Here's What to Know About the Police Shooting

  14-10-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson inside her her home early on Oct. 12. Here's what to know about the case.
  
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• Karl Rove: Democrats seem to think President Trump is 'under the law'

  14-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats appear to believe President Trump is not worthy of receiving basic protections of our system, says Fox News contributor Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff.
  
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• Some states celebrate indigenous people instead of Columbus

  14-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A handful of states are celebrating their first Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday as part of a trend to move away from a day honoring Christopher Columbus.New Mexico, Vermont and Maine are among the latest to pass measures doing away with Columbus Day celebrations in deference to Native Americans.In all, around 10 states observe some version of Indigenous Peoples Day, along with more than 100 U.S. cities.
  
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• California becomes first US state to push back school start time

  14-10-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  California has become the first state in the country to push back start times at most public schools in the hope the measure will help adolescents perform better in class.The new law signed on Sunday by Governor Gavin Newsom calls for middle schools to ring in classes no earlier than 8:00 am and high schools no earlier than 8:30 am.Most California schools currently start the day around 8:00 am and some require students to be in class before 7:30 a.m.
  
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• Trump: Let 'Napoleon Bonaparte' rescue Kurds

  14-10-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump suggested Monday that Syria's formerly US-allied Kurds could look to 19th century French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte for protection after the US president ordered the departure of nearly 1,000 US troops from the country.Turkey was threatening to invade northeastern Syria after launching a military assault on the Kurds last week, leaving more than 300 dead on both sides and sending 160,000 refugees fleeing."Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me, whet
  
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• Breastfeeding gap widens between black and white U.S. babies

  14-10-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Researchers examined data 167,842 infants born from 2009 to 2015.Overall, the proportion of mothers who initiated breastfeeding increased by 7.1 percentage points, and the proportion of women exclusively breastfeeding climbed by 9.2 percentage points.At the start of the study, the proportion of black infants being exclusively breast fed was just 0.5 percentage points behind white babies, but by the end this gap widened to 4.5 percentage points.
  
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• 'Gaetz-crasher': Here's why a Republican lawmaker was barred from closed-door testimony

  14-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  When Republican congressman Matt Gaetz tried to attend an impeachment inquiry deposition Monday morning in the U.S. Capitol, he ran smack into the often arcane and confusing rules of Congress. Here's why he wasn't allowed to attend.
  
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• Nigerian police rescue 67 from 'inhuman' conditions at Islamic 'school'

  14-10-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The raid in Katsina, the northwestern home state of President Muhammadu Buhari, came less than a month after about 300 men and boys were freed from another supposed Islamic school in neighboring Kaduna state where they were allegedly tortured and sexually abused."In the course of investigation, sixty-seven persons from the ages of 7 to 40 years were found shackled with chains," Katsina police spokesman Sanusi Buba said in a statement.
  
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• Populists win Poland vote, raising fears of new EU tensions

  14-10-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland's governing right-wing populist party won a weekend election, full official results showed on Monday, retaining a parliamentary majority that could allow it to pursue a judicial reform agenda that has put it at loggerheads with the EU.The triumph by the Law and Justice (PiS) party followed a campaign focussed on a raft of new welfare measures coupled with attacks on LGBT rights and Western values.
  
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• When Cops Create Their Own Risk, Innocent People Die for Their Mistakes

  14-10-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The video is puzzling and shocking. After receiving a call to a non-emergency number requesting that police check on a neighbor’s house that had its doors open and its lights on, police approach silently. They look into an open door and into a brightly lit room, but they don’t say anything. They then creep around the house, moving from light to dark. They use a flashlight. They keep moving around the edges of the house.Suddenly, in a mere moment, one of them spots movement in a windo
  
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• Scrambling to limit damage, Trump tells Turkey to stop its Syria invasion

  14-10-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion in Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from his much-criticized decision to clear U.S. troops from Turkey's path.Vice President Mike Pence said Trump had told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Monday to agree to an immediate ceasefire.
  
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• Yahoo data breach settlement 2019: How to get up to $358 or free credit monitoring

  14-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Yahoo users can now file a claim for a piece of the $117.5 million class action settlement related to data breaches between 2012 and 2016.
  
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• Warren, Buttigieg Dismiss O’Rourke’s Call to Strip Churches of Tax-Exempt Status If They Oppose Gay Marriage

  14-10-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg have both distanced themselves from fellow candidate Beto O’Rourke's call to revoke the tax-exempt status afforded to religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage.“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone … that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us.” O'Rourke said during CNN’s “Equality in America” town hall last
  
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• PHOTOS: Typhoon Hagibis leaves dozens dead in Japan

  14-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm dumped record amounts of rain, causing rivers to overflow their banks and turning many neighborhoods into swamps.
  
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• US condemns executions by Turkish-allied Syria groups

  14-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said Monday it was appalled and seeking more information after accounts that pro-Turkish fighters in Syria have summarily executed civilians including a female Kurdish politician.The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces said that at least nine civilians were "executed" as part of Turkey's invasion that it launched Wednesday against the former US allies.Among them was 35-year-old Hevrin Khalaf, the secretary-general of the Future Syria Party, who according to the forces wa
  
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• Regime returns to northeast Syria to halt Turkey assault on Kurds

  14-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Syrian regime deployed troops near the Turkish border and entered a key city Monday to contain Ankara's deadly offensive against the Kurds, stepping in for US forces due to begin a controversial withdrawal.The army has kept a presence in Kurdish-controlled Qamishli and Hasakeh in Syria's northeast since the 2011 outbreak of the country's war, and deployed a limited number of troops around the strategic city of Manbij last year at the request of Kurdish forces.
  
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• Target Cuts Workers’ Hours after Vowing to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 By 2020

  14-10-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers at Target stores are struggling to pay their bills after the company cut the total amount of employee working hours in preparation for raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, according to a report from CNN."I got that dollar raise but I'm getting $200 less in my paycheck," said Heather, who works at a Florida branch. She began working 40 hours per week but is now offered less than 20."I have no idea how I'm going to pay rent or buy food," she continued.Target committed to raisin
  
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• The U.S. Army’s Robot Tanks Could Arrive Years Early

  14-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Army future robotic army is taking shape faster, and better, than some officials expected.
  
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• Assisted living workers accused of forcing seniors with dementia to battle

  14-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Three workers at the Danby House assisted living facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina were arrested and accused of running a 'fight club'-type operation; Phil Keating reports.
  
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• How Democrats might go after Vice President Pence if he doesn't meet document deadline

  14-10-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  What happens to Vice President Mike Pence if he doesn't meet Tuesday's deadline to give Democrats documents for their impeachment inquiry?
  
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• U.S. officials are considering pulling nuclear weapons from Turkey

  14-10-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  On Monday, The New York Times reported that US officials were considering plans to move the U.S. nuclear arsenal from Incirlik air base in Turkey. This move would be likely to further deteriorate the tense relationship between the U.S. and Turkey, which has rapidly devolved as Turkey invaded northeastern Syria in assault on the Kurdish forces that fought ISIS alongside the US.
  
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• Newly discovered comet is confirmed as an interstellar visitor – with a surprisingly familiar look

  14-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The comet is only the second interstellar comet ever detected in our solar system and the first that looks like a traditional comet.
  
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• Funeral prank by deceased grandfather leaves mourners laughing

  14-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A funeral prank that had a deceased grandfather talking from beyond the grave left mourners laughing.
  
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• Liz Cheney Blames Turkey’s Invasion of Syria on Democrats’ Impeachment Inquiry

  14-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  During a Fox & Friends appearance on Monday morning, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) suggested that Turkey’s invasion of Syria and attack on America’s Kurdish allies was tied to Democrats launching an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.The Wyoming congresswoman and co-host Brian Kilmeade, both of whom have been critical of Trump’s decision to pull back American troops and abandon the Kurds ahead of Turkey’s invasion, expressed their concerns that ISIS could ret
  
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• The Latest: Columbus statue defaced in Southern California

  14-10-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A statue of Christopher Columbus in a Southern California park was found to be vandalized with red paint on the federal holiday honoring the 15th century Italian navigator.The San Diego Union-Tribune reports a police officer discovered the damage Monday at Discovery Park in the city of Chula Vista.Columbus statues were also vandalized in San Francisco and Rhode Island.
  
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• An American Airlines pilot gifted his wings to a 2-year-old passenger for this sweet reason

  14-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  An American Airlines pilot passed on his wings to a passenger with Down syndrome on his final flight.
  
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• Bible found opened to Psalm 106 and 107 one of few objects to survive deadliest fire in US history

  14-10-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  When the smoke cleared, little was left intact. It was almost as if a town had never even existed there. Some broken China and a tabernacle survived the inferno. So did a Bible. The Good Book was charred by the flames and petrified by the intense heat, but found intact -- and opened to Psalms 106 and 107."Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!" the beginning of Psalm 106 and 107 reads, a haunting declaration that may seem to contradict the tragedy tha
  
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• The Latest: UN: Syria fighting worsens humanitarian crisis

  14-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  U.N. officials say the latest fighting in northeast Syria is compounding an already dire humanitarian situation.According to U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, at least 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the Turkish offensive began on Oct. 9.Northeast Syria was already facing a humanitarian crisis before the Turkish offensive, with 1.8 million of the 3 million women, children and men in the region in need of assistance, "including over 910,000 in acute need," Dujarric said.
  
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• Executed man's daughter asks court to order DNA testing

  14-10-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman whose father was executed for murder in Tennessee 13 years ago asked a judge on Monday to order the testing of DNA evidence in the case.The hearing in Memphis focused largely on whether April Alley can legally bring a petition for DNA testing on behalf of her father's estate.Sedley Alley was convicted of the 1985 murder of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl.
  
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• Panera Bread employee fired for posting viral TikTok showing boiled mac and cheese

  14-10-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Panera Bread employee has been fired after a TikTok video of hers went viral, showing that the restaurant chain heats up frozen mac and cheese for all of its customers.The TikTok video — titled "exposing panera" — was posted by a woman, identified online as Bri, who can be seen in the video walking into the restaurant’s kitchen, picking up a frozen packet, and putting it into boiling water to defrost.
  
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• Johnson Sets Tone for Election in Queen’s Speech: Brexit Update

  14-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Queen Elizabeth II delivered a speech outlining the U.K. government’s program in Parliament as Boris Johnson laid the ground for a general election in which he aims to win public support for his Brexit strategy. The prime minister later repeatedly pledged to “get Brexit done” as he underlined the campaigning nature of the plans in his own speech to The House of Commons.In Brussels, Brexit talks continued after European Union Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier said o
  
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• Could the spread of the Saddleridge Fire be due to a power tower that wasn't shut off?

  14-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  While hundreds of thousands of Californians were left without electricity last week, it was an ignition under an electrical tower that may be partially responsible for the massively destructive Saddleridge Fire in Southern California.Investigators are currently looking into a report from Roberto Delgado, a Sylmar resident. According to Delgado, the fire started in the back of his house underneath a transmission tower."A whole lot of people have been here looking around that tower," Delgado told
  
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• Trump loyalist accused of being president’s ‘eyes and ears’ after crashing closed-door impeachment hearing

  14-10-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A loyal supporter of Donald Trump has been removed from a closed-door impeachment hearing after House officials ruled he had no right to be there.Matt Gaetz, a Republican congressman from Florida, had attempted to crash a meeting put together by the House intelligence, foreign affairs and oversight committees — the official congressional panels spearheading an impeachment inquiry into the president.
  
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• Law and Justice party wins one of largest victories in Poland's democratic history

  14-10-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Poland’s governing party has vowed his party will carrying on changing Poland “for the better” after it romped to one of the biggest wins in the country’s modern democratic history in Sunday’s general election. Law and Justice scooped 43.59 per cent of the vote, around 16 per cent more than the Civic Coalition, a centrist grouping, while a left-wing bloc came third with 12.56 per cent. The turnout of 61 per cent was the highest in three decades. The re
  
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• UPDATE 4-Texas policeman faces murder charges after killing black woman in her home

  14-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was jailed on murder charges on Monday in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old black woman who was babysitting inside her home, the police department said.Atatiana Jefferson was killed on Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. when officer Aaron Dean fired a single shot through a window into her home as she cared for her 8-year-old nephew.Dean was responding to a call from a concerned neighbor who said Jefferson's door was open.
  
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• The Latest: Juggling marriage, kids and Nobel-winning work

  14-10-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Nobel Economics Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo say they're just like any other married couple trying to juggle kids and work.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have two children ages 5 and 7.Duflo told a news conference Monday at MIT in Cambridge that her kids "believe they are the center of the universe, and they don't accept kitchen table conversation" about weighty matters like economics.
  
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• Booker Scolds Buttigieg for Referring to Gun ‘Buybacks’ as ‘Confiscation’: ‘Doing the NRA’s Work for Them’

  14-10-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) admonished fellow presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday for referring to a mandatory gun buyback proposal as "confiscation" on the grounds that doing so propagates a right-wing talking point."Calling buyback programs 'confiscation' is doing the NRA's work for them," wrote Booker on Twitter, "and they don't need our help."Buttigieg insisted on referring to buybacks as "confiscation" in an interview on the Snapchat show Good Luck America. Previously, t
  
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• Mexico Ambush Kills 14 Cops in Deadliest Attack of AMLO's Tenure

  14-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Fourteen Mexican police were killed in the western state of Michoacan in the biggest attack on law enforcement since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office.The slaying occurred in Aguililla, a town of about 15,000, Mexico’s Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection said on Twitter on Monday. Officers were ambushed at the entrance of the town by men in armored trucks, possibly members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful and v
  
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• Will Trump's withdrawal from Syria make Republicans back impeachment?

  14-10-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  America’s foreign policy establishment has been revolting against Donald Trump’s latest move in Syria. Senior members of his own party has been publicly slamming him for abandoning America’s Kurdish allies to be attacked by Turkey’s forces.This raises the question of whether this is a tipping point for the GOP to no longer shy away from criticising Trump or worry about its political consequences. And now that Republicans have gathered the courage to push back against thei
  
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• Deutsche Bank reportedly hired unqualified relatives of Beijing's political elite in a bid to win over China

  14-10-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Deutsche Bank has been under a lot of scrutiny recently, mostly due to its role as the primary lender to President Trump. But it turns out the bank also has a questionable history in China, The New York Times, along with German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, reports.Beginning nearly two decades ago, Deutsche Bank, while seeking to make inroads in China, conducted a campaign that involved enriching Beijing's elite in exchange for contracts. This included some lavish gifts for the country's former
  
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• Russia's submarines are getting harder to find, and the Navy is sending more people to keep an eye on them

  14-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian naval activity around Europe is a growing concern, and the US Navy is reactivating command units to help manage its own forces in the region.
  
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• Ohio's Reputation As a Must-Win State May No Longer Be True

  14-10-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  As national demographics shift, Ohio's status as a must-win state declines.
  
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