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• Mitt Romney said everyone in the Senate is 'really nice' except for Bernie Sanders, who 'just kind of scowls'

  20-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Romney has emerged as one of the few Republican senators willing to take a stand against Trump, but he says most people are really nice.
  
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• 'You said what you said': Fox News' Chris Wallace rejects Mulvaney's attempt to walk back Ukraine comments

  20-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  "No, you totally said that," Chris Wallace said after Mick Mulvaney denied admitting there had been a "quid pro quo" in aid to Ukraine.
  
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• Republicans to push for censure of Schiff in probe

  20-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry.House committees are trying to determine if President Donald Trump violated his oath of office by asking a foreign country to investigate a political opponent.House Republicans are expected to push a vote Monday on a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the panels investigating impeachment.
  
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• 3 soldiers die, 3 hurt in Army Fort Stewart training accident

  20-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  After a Bradley Fighting Vehicle crashed, three Fort Stewart soldiers were pronounced dead at the scene; three more were evacuated to a hospital.
  
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• Hell, yes, Beto O'Rourke: Today's Toon

  20-10-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
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• Hard Rock Hotel: Demolition blasts one crane near French Quarter, other dangles

  20-10-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Engineers detonated two cranes at the site of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse on Sunday.
  
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• Thomas D'Alesandro III, ex-Baltimore mayor and brother to Nancy Pelosi, dies at 90

  20-10-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  "Tommy was the finest public servant I have ever known," Pelosi said. "All his life, Tommy worked on the side of the angels. Now, he is with them."
  
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• Man sprays bear repellent during California Trump protest

  20-10-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Southern California say a supporter of Donald Trump was arrested after spraying bear repellent on a small crowd protesting the president at the Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica police say pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators were shouting at each other Saturday when a scuffle broke out.
  
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• Killing took place in New York, but Nicaragua hosts trial

  20-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Witnesses have gathered in a small city in upstate New York over the past three weeks to testify in the trial of a man accused of strangling a young nursing student.In an exceedingly rare legal proceeding, the trial of former Binghamton University student Orlando Tercero in the 2018 killing of 22-year-old Haley Anderson is being held at a court in Managua, Nicaragua, with a Nicaraguan prosecutor and a Nicaraguan judge applying Nicaraguan law.American prosecutors have no authority over the trial,
  
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• Kurdish fighters withdraw from besieged Syria town

  20-10-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Ras al-Ain (Syria) (AFP) - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces fully withdrew from a Turkish-encircled town in northern Syria on Sunday, in what appeared to be the start of a wider pullout under a ceasefire deal.Ankara launched a cross-border attack against Syria's Kurds on October 9 after the United States announced a military pullout from the war-torn country's north.A US-brokered ceasefire was announced late Thursday, giving Kurdish forces until Tuesday evening to withdraw from a buffer
  
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• US troops in Syria going to Iraq, not home as Trump claims

  20-10-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  While President Donald Trump insists he's bringing home Americans from "endless wars" in the Mideast, his Pentagon chief says all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American military will continue operations against the Islamic State group.The fight in Syria against IS, once spearheaded by American allied Syrian Kurds who have been cast aside by Trump, will be undertaken by U.S. forces, possibly from neighboring Iraq.
  
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• The Orionid meteor shower is coming Monday night

  20-10-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Keep your eyes to the night sky Monday night: You might get a peek at the Orionid meteor shower.
  
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• Black school guard fired for telling student not to call him the N-word by using it himself

  20-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A security guard lost his job after 11 years for telling an unruly student to quit using the N-word by using the word himself.
  
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• Pound Falls as Much-Awaited Brexit Breakthrough Proves Elusive

  20-10-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.Sterling fell after U.K. politicians failed to deliver the decisive Brexit vote that had been promised at the weekend.The decline brought to a halt a four-day winning streak that was fueled by speculation Prime Minister Boris Johnson could win parliamentary backing for his divorce deal. But strategists say the drop may prove short-lived.“Investors will have to balance the disappointm
  
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• Tear gas and water cannon as Hong Kong crowds defy rally ban

  20-10-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas Sunday as crowds held an illegal march, with hardcore protesters throwing petrol bombs and trashing businesses to cap a week of anger after recent attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators.Authorities had forbidden the rally in Tsim Sha Tsui, a densely-packed shopping district filled with luxury boutiques and hotels, citing public safety and previous violence from hardcore protesters.
  
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• Republican Weighing Trump Impeachment Sees ‘Egregious’ Faults

  20-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A House Republican open to the idea of impeaching President Donald Trump said he fears for his party’s future, calling the administration’s effort to taint Democrats with Ukrainian help “egregious” and its Syria policy even worse.After announcing Saturday he won’t seek a third term in 2020, Representative Francis Rooney of Florida doubled down by questioning the integrity of Rudy Giuliani, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, and the presi
  
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• Chile protests: At least eight people killed during riots in Santiago

  20-10-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  At least eight people have been killed in Chile during a second day of protests and rioting in the South American nation.Three people were left dead after a looted building was set ablaze, the governor of Santiago, the country’s capital, said.
  
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• Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute

  20-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt sees the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as an existential risk, fearing it will threaten scarce water supplies in Egypt and power generation at its own dam in Aswan.Cairo says it has exhausted efforts to reach an agreement on the conditions for operating GERD and filling the reservoir behind it, after years of three-party talks with Ethiopia and Sudan.
  
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• Chile Riots Over Income Inequality Spread to Rest of Country

  20-10-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- At least two died and dozens were injured from looting and riots this weekend in Santiago and other major Chilean cities as protests against income equality intensified and spread across the country.The government has declared a state of emergency in the capital and four other regions in central Chile, giving it broader powers to enact security measures like curfews, for the first time since Augusto Pinochet was dictator.President Sebastian Pinera announced Saturday night that he
  
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• US troops leave northern Syria for Iraq despite Trump's claims they are returning 'home'

  20-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  US forces began withdrawing from their largest base in northern Syria on Sunday after the Pentagon chief confirmed that nearly 1,000 troops would be relocated to “help defend Iraq” against Isil’s re-emergence. As President Donald Trump claimed that he was "bringing soldiers home", he was contradicted by his defence secretary, Mark Esper, who said the troops were instead headed for Syria's neighbour to join an existing US force of 5,000.  “The current g
  
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• Thomas D’Alesandro III, Pelosi's brother and former Baltimore mayor, dies at 90

  20-10-2019 21:06 via politico.com
  Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former mayor of Baltimore and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, diedSunday at 90.The Baltimore Sun reportedD’Alesandro died in his North Baltimore home of complications from a stroke.Affectionately called “Young Tommy,” D’Alesandro served as Baltimore’s mayor for one term, from 1967 to 1971.
  
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• Lebanon rocked by vast protests demanding resignation of Hariri government

  20-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon was shaken on Sunday by its largest protests in years as young and old turned out en masse to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and his coalition government. It marked the fourth day of protests following a proposal for new taxes, which ignited widespread anger over austerity measures and corruption in a deeply unequal society.  The plan - to tax WhatsApp calls and other third-party applications that have long afforded cash-strapped Lebanese a chance to chat fo
  
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• 8 tornadoes later, Nestor's rains are helping more than hurting parched Southeast, East

  20-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Nestor, a once feared and fierce tropical storm, was helping more than hurting as it nudged north while spreading rain over a wide swath of the East.
  
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• Chicago Police Superintendent Seeks Investigation Into Himself

  20-10-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  It was barely Thursday when someone in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago called 911 to report a person asleep in an SUV at a stop sign.When police officers arrived around 12:30 a.m., they found their boss, Superintendent Eddie Johnson, "slumped over" in his city-issued Chevrolet Tahoe, according to officials and news reports.Officers did not see any signs of impairment, and Johnson, who reported parking his car after feeling lightheaded, was allowed to drive himself home, the police said.La
  
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• Her son shot his way into an Indiana high school. Now she's facing six felony charges

  20-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Mary York faces felony charges because of her son's actions at Dennis Intermediate School. Parents of school shooters are rarely charged.
  
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• Boeing expresses regret over ex-pilot's 737 MAX messages, faults simulator

  20-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Sunday it understood the outcry over leaked messages from a former test pilot over erratic software behavior on its 737 MAX jet two years before recent crashes, and added it was still investigating what they meant.The world's largest planemaker, under growing pressure to explain what it knew about 737 MAX problems before it entered service, said it had not been able to speak directly to former employee Mark Forkner but echoed his lawyer's subseque
  
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• Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar continue criticizing Warren over Medicare-for-All

  20-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) are still going after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in a continuation of the most recent Democratic presidential debate.Both candidates appeared on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, where they maintained their support for a public option in their health care plans. Neither were satisfied with the Warren campaign's response efforts to clarify how the senator plans to pay for Medicare-for-All, either. Both Buttigieg and
  
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• Qantas completes 19-hour commercial test flight from New York to Sydney

  20-10-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Qantas, the Australian airline, has carried out a test flight for what would be the longest non-stop commercial service, delivering passengers from New York to Sydney. A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner touched down after a flight of 19 hours and 16 minutes, which was used to assess the effects of ultra long-haul trips on crew fatigue and jet lag for travellers. Tests included monitoring pilots' brain waves, melatonin levels, and alertness, and there were exercise classes for passengers in economy and bu
  
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• Mick Mulvaney seeks Trump damage control over impeachment and more

  20-10-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  * Chief of staff defends Doral G7 fiasco and own Ukraine remarks* Nancy Pelosi visits Jordan to discuss Turkey Syria incursionMick Mulvaney in his news conference at the White House on Thursday. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPASenior Trump administration officials were on Sunday scrambling to defend the president from escalating domestic and foreign policy scandals, ranging from impeachment proceedings in Washington to the US troop withdrawal in northern Syria.Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney
  
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• Justin Amash: Republican who took on Trump won't rule out White House run

  20-10-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Michigan congressman left party over his criticism of Trump and called for impeachment earlier this yearMichigan congressman Justin Amash: ‘We need new voices on the national stage running for national office, including the presidency.’Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/APJustin Amash, the Michigan congressman who left the Republican party over his criticism of Donald Trump and support for impeachment, has refused to rule out a run for the White House.“I think I’m very effect
  
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• Kurdish-Led SDF Withdraws From Syria’s Ras Al Ayn: Syria Update

  20-10-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have pulled back from the border town of Ras Al Ayn in the northern part of the country, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to resume the offensive against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria if they don’t withdraw by the end of a U.S.-brokered truce on Tuesday night.Turkey and the Kurds have disagreed on the parameters of the truce, highlighting its fragility. The Syrian Democratic Forces has said the cease-fire was limited
  
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• Erdogan says he will never allow vaping, will block e-cigarettes in Turkey

  20-10-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday he will never allow electronic cigarette companies to produce their products in Turkey, urging Turks to drink tea instead.Speaking at an event against smoking in Istanbul, Erdogan said he had ordered his Trade Minister "never" to allow e-cigarettes in Turkey and said that tobacco companies were "getting rich by poisoning" people.Around 27% percent of Turkey's total population aged over 15 smoked cigarettes in 2016, according to World Health Organiz
  
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• Mick Mulvaney Melts Down Under Brutal Grilling By Fox’s Chris Wallace

  20-10-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Days after his disastrous White House press briefing in which he admitted President Donald Trump was seeking out a quid pro quo with Ukraine before saying never mind, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney struggled to walk back his comments under the intense and relentless grilling of Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace.Almost immediately during the Sunday morning broadcast, Wallace pressed Mulvaney on his remarks, asking why he said during the press conference that military aid to Uk
  
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• Bulletproof memorial to Mississippi civil rights icon Emmett Till replaces vandalized sign

  20-10-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A new, 500-pound reinforced steel memorial honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till was dedicated in Mississippi. Past signs were vandalized.
  
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• Kurds evacuate Syrian town in 1st pullout of cease-fire

  20-10-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of vehicles rolled out of a besieged Syrian border town, evacuating Kurdish fighters and civilians and opening the way for Turkish-backed forces to take over in the first pullback under a three-day-old U.S.-brokered cease-fire.Kurdish officials say the evacuation of the town of Ras al-Ayn will be followed by a withdrawal of their forces from a broader section of the border with Turkey, a central requirement of the cease-fire deal.Turkey says it wants a "safe zone" clear of the Kurdish fig
  
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• School apologizes after photo showing students with cardboard boxes over their heads during exam goes viral

  20-10-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  An school in India has issued an apology after a bizarre image of students wearing cardboard boxes on their heads went viral. The images were taken during a chemistry exam at Bhagat Pre-University College in the town of Haveri.
  
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• Buttigieg blasts Trump on Syria, says he’d make ‘better' deals

  20-10-2019 18:38 via yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg on Sunday dismissed President Donald Trump’s move to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, saying he’d make “better” foreign policy deals if he won the White House. Trump has ordered the vast majority of U.S. troops in Syria to withdraw, a move that critics argue abandons Kurdish allies who have fought the Islamic State alongside U.S. forces. “Right now, what is happening is the future [in Syria] is being decided by everybod
  
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• Trump is 'in the hospitality business,' Mulvaney says, after president reverses plan to host summit at his golf club

  20-10-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision to host next year’s G-7 summit at his hotel resort, saying the president “still considers himself to be in the hospitality business.”
  
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• Longest non-stop passenger flight arrives in Sydney

  20-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The longest non-stop passenger flight touched down in Australia Sunday morning after more than 19 hours in the air, a milestone journey from New York that Qantas hopes to parlay into commercial success.Qantas flight QF7879 took 19 hours and 16 minutes to fly direct from New York to Sydney in the first of three "ultra long-haul" journeys planned by the airline this year.The national flag carrier is operating the test flights -- which also include one from London to Sydney -- as it weighs a rollou
  
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• Syria critic Lindsey Graham reverses stance, says Trump's policy could succeed

  20-10-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump's decision to move U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria, said on Sunday he now believed "historic solutions" were possible.In an interview with Fox News Channel, Graham said a conversation he had with Trump over the weekend had fueled his optimism that a solution could be reached where the security of Turkey and the Kurds was guaranteed and fighters from Islamic State contained."I am increasi
  
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• Trump accidentally refers to defense secretary Esper as 'Mark Esperanto' in tweet defending Syria withdrawal

  20-10-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump quoted "Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense" on Sunday. But the man in charge of the Pentagon is named Mark Esper, not Esperanto.
  
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• Milan seeks US apology for WWII bomb that killed children

  20-10-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Milan's mayor appealed Sunday to U.S. authorities to apologize for a World War II bombing raid that killed 184 elementary school children.Mayor Giuseppe Sala made the request following a Mass marking the 75th anniversary of the Gorla massacre, named for the quarter in the city that was struck, the news agency ANSA reported."I think it's necessary that the American government apologizes, knowing that we are here to forgive," Sala said, adding that he would formalize the request with the U.S. cons
  
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• Petrol bombs thrown in Hong Kong as anger flares over 'triad' attack on protest leader

  20-10-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Police and protesters exchanged tear gas and petrol bombs in Hong Kong on Sunday amid anger over an attack on a leading activist by men allegedly linked to triad gangsters.   Clashes broke out as tens of thousands took to the streets for an unsanctioned anti-government march, many also defying a face mask ban introduced in a bid to curb the protests.  Tensions ran high after Jimmy Sham, the leader the Civil Human Rights Front which called the march, was attacked earlier in the week by
  
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• Ex-model says Jean-Luc Brunel, model agent and Jeffrey Epstein's friend, spiked her drink and raped her

  20-10-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The fashion industry veteran is currently facing allegations of sexual assault and harassment from several former models.
  
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• Bob Menendez says Pompeo ‘in a parallel alternate universe’

  20-10-2019 17:28 via politico.com
  Sen. Bob Menendez said Sunday there are “no guarantees” that U.S. interests in the Middle East are still being served following the White House decision to pull troops out of northern Syria.The New Jersey Democrat also scoffed at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s assertions that the region has become more stable since the U.S. announced its withdrawal and that the Islamic State is being effectively countered.President Donald Trump’s abruptly announced pullout allowed Turke
  
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• Detroit-area men who sent millions to Yemen spared prison

  20-10-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of Detroit-area men opened bank accounts to move millions of dollars to Yemen, their war-torn native country.One by one, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn declined to send them to prison, despite guidelines that call for a few years or more behind bars.The Detroit area is believed to have the highest U.S. population of Yemenis, a demographic that has risen amid war in Yemen that has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions more with food and health care shortages.
  
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• The Latest: Kurdish fighters pull out of Syrian border town

  20-10-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A spokesman for the main Kurdish-led group in Syria says their fighters have evacuated the northern town of Ras al-Ayn, saying they have no armed presence there anymore.Kino Gabriel of the Syrian Democratic Forces said Sunday's evacuation was part of the agreement to pause military operations with Turkey with American mediation.The withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from Ras al-Ayn would open the way for them to leave a broader swath of territory along the Syria-Turkey border, as part of an agreemen
  
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• William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics

  20-10-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Prominent liberal Catholics have warned that the U.S. attorney general’s devout Catholic faith threatens the separation of church and state, after William Barr delivered a speech on religious freedom in which he warned that “militant secularists” were behind a “campaign to destroy the traditional moral order.”
  
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• Trump aide Mulvaney says was 'absolutely not' asked to resign

  20-10-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Top White House aide Mick Mulvaney said Sunday he has "absolutely not" been asked to resign over his public admission that Donald Trump had tied military aid for Ukraine to Kiev's opening a probe into the Democrats.Mulvaney, Trump's acting chief of staff, walked back that admission only hours after making it Thursday, and on Sunday he again revised his explanation of Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, playing down any linkage to a political investigation.
  
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• Pervasive Violence in 20th Week of Protests: Hong Kong Update

  20-10-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong protesters set off fires and vandalized subway stations, banks and stores as another weekend of demonstrations descended into destruction and violence. Organizers estimated at least 350,000 people took part in an unauthorized march that authorities had banned. Police used tear gas and water cannons to clear demonstrators who lingered to cause damage after the rally ended, and said it accidentally sprayed dyed water at the entrance of a mosque while trying to disperse pro
  
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