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• Pro-Touring 1965 Ford Mustang GT Up For Grabs

  25-10-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  There's just something extra special about the first-gen fastback Mustangs.We see so many six-figure restomods and pro-touring cars these days that they've almost lost the shock value. If you're yearning for a classic that has an old-school look and feel with a modernized ride and improved handling, then this 1965 Ford Mustang GT Fastback that will be going up for auction online through All Collector Cars Auctions starting this weekend is a great fit.From the outside, there's little to signify t
  
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• Democrats Get More of Mueller Report for Impeachment Inquiry

  25-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Congressional Democrats reviewing possible impeachment of President Donald Trump won a court order compelling the U.S. Justice Department to turn over grand-jury materials from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election by Oct. 30.The House Judiciary Committee has shown “that it needs the grand-jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry,” Beryl Ho
  
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• U.S. bars airline flights to all Cuban airports except Havana from December 10

  25-10-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday it would bar U.S. airlines from flying to all destinations in Cuba besides Havana starting on Dec. 10 as the Trump administration boosts pressure on the Cuban government.The move will bar U.S. air carrier flights to any of the nine international airports in Cuba other than Havana and impact about 8 flights a day.
  
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• UAW says it has ratified General Motors contract, ending strike

  25-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors hourly workers ratified a new contract with the auto giant on Friday, ending the longest automotive strike in nearly 50 years.The package includes an $11,000 ratification bonus, wage increases and no increases in health care costs, said statements from GM and the United Auto Workers, touting the agreement as a compromise that worked for both sides after difficult negotiations.Nearly 50,000 hourly workers had been on strike since September 16, effectively shutting down GM's US manu
  
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• 'I'm the team': Trump dismisses need for impeachment response team

  25-10-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking to reporters Friday, Trump said, "Here's the thing. I don't have teams, everyone's talking about teams. I'm the team. I did nothing wrong."
  
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• Trump speaks at South Carolina HBCU at forum on criminal justice reform

  25-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump delivers remarks at a forum on criminal justice reform at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, S.C.
  
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• Another death at Penn State: Chi Phi fraternity suspended after teen dies off campus

  25-10-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  For the second time in two years, a young man has died at Penn State at a house with frat members. PSU and Chi Phi have distanced themselves from it.
  
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• House Democrats win court case to see Mueller's grand jury evidence

  25-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Here comes another two wins for impeachment Democrats.Washington's top federal judge ruled Friday that the House should get to see the previously withheld grand jury evidence from ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The Justice Department will have to hand over the evidence by Oct. 30, Judge Beryl Howell ruled Friday -- along with issuing a ruling in favor of Democrats' impeachment inquiry.House Democrats sued the DOJ for access to the redacted Mueller evidence in July, but the Wh
  
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• Flynn’s Lawyer Claims FBI Tampered with Interview Notes, Demands Charges Be Dropped

  25-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Former national-security adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer claims in a new bombshell court filing that the FBI tampered with notes from his 2017 interview, during which Flynn pleaded guilty to lying.In a 37-page motion, attorney Sidney Powell called on the court to “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct” over allegations that FBI agents manipulated a form summarizing Flynn's statements to investigators.The interview dealt with Flynn's contacts with Rus
  
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• Georgia high court declines to hear appeal or halt execution

  25-10-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52 is scheduled for a lethal injection Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson.Cromartie maintains his innocence, and his lawyers asked the Georgia Supreme Court for permission to appeal a lower court's rejection of a request for DNA testing and a request for a new trial.Cromartie still has other requests for relief pending in the courts.
  
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• Trump says impeachment has given him experience with broken criminal justice system

  25-10-2019 23:01 via politico.com
  President Donald Trump on Friday told a criminal justice forum at a historically black college that the impeachment investigation has given him a greater understanding of those incarcerated or unfairly prosecuted.Trump used much of his address to defend his signature criminal justice reform law, after traveling down to South Carolina for a speech tailored to appeal to African American voters ahead of his reelection campaign.
  
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• Schiff, Nadler Criticize Durham for Elevating Russiagate Probe to Criminal Investigation

  25-10-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Representatives Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) and Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) criticized the Justice Department late Thursday after the DOJ upgraded its inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe into a criminal investigation.The investigation, which is expected to delve into the origins of the counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, is led by U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham, and was opened by U.S. Attorney General William Barr."These reports, i
  
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• Reps. Schiff, Nadler criticize DOJ for elevating Russia probe to criminal investigation

  25-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., criticized the Justice Department late Thursday after the DOJ upgraded its inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway defends her comments in viral phone interview: 'Exactly none of it is anyone's business'

  25-10-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway stood by her statements during a phone conversation with a Washington Examiner reporter that went viral.
  
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• Pakistan confirms arrest of activist following US criticism

  25-10-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan on Friday confirmed it detained the father of a prominent activist who has fled the country, in an incident that's fueled fears of a clampdown on dissent and sparked condemnation from the United States."Prof. Mohammad Ismail has been detained by the law enforcement authorities in Peshawar in a case of cybercrime as per our laws," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on Twitter."Being a citizen of Pakistan, Prof. Ismail is entitled to due process and right of defence provided
  
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• Judge Orders Release of Redacted Info from Mueller Report

  25-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to release certain materials from the Mueller investigation that have until now been redacted.The ruling marked a major victory for Democrats pursuing an impeachment investigation of President Trump. The House Judiciary Committee had previously requested to see materials from grand-jury testimonies collected during the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between Russian officials and the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.The Muelle
  
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• Backlash as US govt opens criminal probe into Russia investigation

  25-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats accused President Donald Trump on Friday of using the US Justice Department as a political tool after it opened a criminal probe into its own handling of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.News of the inquiry, which implied wrongdoing by justice officials in the previous administration of Barack Obama, leaked late Thursday as the White House struggled to push back against a Democratic-led impeachment investigation targeting the Republican president.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke 'open to the idea' of letting people use AR-15s, AK-47s at hunting clubs, gun ranges

  25-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke on Friday left the door open for allowing some people to keep assault-style weapons like AR-15s and AK-47s at gun ranges and hunting clubs.
  
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• How Israel’s Justice System Dealt With Alleged Jewish Collaborators in Concentration Camps—And Why That Still Matters Today

  25-10-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Only in recent years has the Israel State Archives made the transcripts of some of these trials publicly available
  
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• Firefighters battle fierce wildfires across California

  25-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters on Friday battled several wildfires raging across California that destroyed homes and forced evacuations, as more than 18 million people were under a red flag warning in the southern part of the state.Some 50,000 people were ordered to flee the flames near Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles, as the so-called Tick Fire scorched 4,300 acres (1,740 hectares) and was only five percent contained early Friday.New evacuations in the area were ordered early Friday as the fire that began Th
  
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• Esper: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields

  25-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday.It was the latest sign that extracting the military from Syria is more uncertain and complicated than President Donald Trump is making it out to be.
  
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• Some Stories Never Die

  25-10-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  This is an excerpt from episode 172 of The Editors podcast.Rich: Without further ado, let’s get into the week’s news. Jim Geraghty, the news that dominated this week was the testimony from acting Ukrainian ambassador William Taylor behind closed doors, although we’ve seen his 15-page opening statement, which, if you’re into these sort of things, is gripping reading. Seems more detailed and credible than the opening statements of Kurt Volker and then Sondland, whose f
  
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• Amnesty leaders condemn US's Remain in Mexico policy as 'disgrace'

  25-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders from US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said immigration program manufactured a crisis at borderAsylum seekers play at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on 18 October.Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty ImagesAmnesty International leaders from around the world on Friday decried the US policy of sending asylum-seekers back to dangerous Mexican border towns to wait for their immigration cases as an “international disgrace” that must be end
  
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• RNC says it 'wholeheartedly' backs Trump in impeachment

  25-10-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Republican National Committee moved Friday in an extraordinary vote to express that it "now more than ever wholeheartedly supports" President Donald Trump as he confronts House Democrats' impeachment probe. The national party's governing body expressed solidarity with Trump in condemning what it calls a "nakedly partisan impeachment investigation" in a symbolic show of support. The resolution comes as the White House has grown worried about GOP defections on Capitol Hill, and the president i
  
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• Big VIX Options Trade Braces for a 2008-Like Volatility Surge

  25-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Someone is betting big that the U.S. stock market is on track for the kind of turbulence not seen since the global financial crisis.Trading in call options on the Cboe Volatility Index, known as the VIX, outweighed puts by more than 2-to-1 on Friday with the index at its lowest level since July as stocks rallied. The standout trade was one block of 50,000 April $65 calls that were bought for 10 cents. Those contracts would imply a surge in the VIX of almost 500% from its current l
  
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• 67 killed in anti-Abiy protests, ethnic violence in Ethiopia: police

  25-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Violence in Ethiopia that began with protests against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and quickly morphed into ethnic clashes has left 67 people dead in Oromia state, a police official said Friday.The spike in the death toll came as the high-profile activist at the centre of the violence accused Abiy, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, of acting like a dictator and suggesting he might challenge him in elections planned for next year."The total number dead in Oromia is 67," said Kefyalew Tefera, t
  
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• Rudy Giuliani rants about money, Middle East and Bidens in accidental call to reporter

  25-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani can be heard discussing Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, former secretary of state John Kerry and a need for cash on two voicemails accidentally left on a reporter's mobile phone.Mr Giuliani had reportedly "butt dialled" NBC reporter Rob Shapiro when Mr Giuliani was in the middle of a conversation with another man about business in the Middle East, a few weeks after he had accidentally called the same reporter, leaving a voicemail attacking the Bid
  
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• In a massive win for Democrats, a federal judge ordered the DOJ to turn over Mueller's grand-jury material to Congress

  25-10-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats have been duking it out with the Justice Department for months over obtaining a full, unredacted copy of Mueller's report.
  
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• Why the U.S. Has Nuclear Weapons in Turkey—And May Try to Put the Bombs Away

  25-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  By publicly confirming that the weapons were in Turkey, Trump has raised the political stakes should he try to remove them, and made it more difficult for the United States and Turkey to strike a quiet deal to that effect.
  
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• Moscow, Damascus deploy forces to Syria-Turkey border

  25-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Damascus and Moscow deployed extra forces Friday to Syria's border with Turkey, even as Washington partially reversed a drawback to boost its own military presence near key Syrian oil fields.The United States earlier this month announced a pullout from Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria, allowing Damascus, Ankara and Moscow to carve up the Kurds' now-defunct autonomous region.
  
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• Judge validates Trump impeachment inquiry, orders Mueller document release

  25-10-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, handing a major victory to the Democratic-led House of Representatives, undercut an argument that Trump's fellow Republicans have made in attacking the impeachment inquiry.The U.S. Constitution gives the House wide latitude in handling impeachment.The judge gave the Justice Department until next Wednesday to provide the blacked out material from the Mueller report that was subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee.
  
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• DOJ Defends Its Whistle-Blower Finding: Impeachment Update

  25-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Impeachment investigators won’t hear testimony Friday on President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine because the House is adjourned for Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings’s funeral.On Saturday, Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state of European and Eurasian affairs, is scheduled to appear.Here are the latest developments:DOJ Defends Its Whistle-Blower Stance (3:20 p.m.)The Justice Department defended its position Friday that a whi
  
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• Officials Called It a Heart Attack. Inmates Saw a Bloody Beating.

  25-10-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK -- After spending nearly a quarter-century behind bars, John McMillon was counting down to the day that he would be eligible to be released on parole."I'm going home," a fellow inmate recalled him saying.McMillon suffered from mental illness and had disciplinary problems over the years. He was punished for assaulting a guard and for fighting with another inmate, but had then vowed to stay out of trouble, and was looking forward to his parole board hearing.He never made it there.One day
  
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• China Wants To Control What The American People Think

  25-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Can they do that?
  
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• As impeachment gathers steam, Trump allies throw whatever they have at it

  25-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's defenders have attacked the process of the impeachment hearings as well as Trump's own temperament when arguing he should not be removed from office.
  
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• Walmart’s Early Black Friday Deals on Tech Have Begun

  25-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Save on electronics, home appliances, and more for the holidays.
  
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• Republicans enabled the impeachment process they're now criticizing

  25-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The biggest problem with Republican critiques of the impeachment inquiry is that Democrats in the House are following a playbook for investigations that was first written by Republicans in large part over the past several years.
  
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• The Latest: Utility: Power off before fire near LA started

  25-10-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A spokeswoman for Southern California Edison says the utility had turned off power hours before a fire sparked in Southern California that now threatens more than 15,000 structures in suburban developments north of Los Angeles.Spokeswoman Susan Cox says Friday the utility "de-energized the power" in the Santa Clarita community of Canyon Country at about 8:50 a.m. Thursday.The blaze has scorched nearly 7 square miles (17 square kilometers) and is only 5% contained as 50,000 people were forced to
  
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• Fisher loses another $584 million from high-profile clients

  25-10-2019 20:42
  A Texas retirement system and Goldman Sachs Group Inc pulled a combined $584 million from Fisher Investments on Friday, after allegations that firm founder Ken Fisher made sexist comments at a...
  
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• Fiat Chrysler recalls 108,000 diesel Ram 1500 pickup trucks for coolant leaks

  25-10-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NVsaid on Friday it is recalling 108,000 Ram 1500 diesel-powered pickup trucks in the United States for coolant leaks tied to reports of some fires and four minor injuries.Fiat Chrysler said it will alert owners when they can get recall repairs.Until then customers should monitor coolant levels and contact dealers if they are consistently low.
  
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• Trump: Probe of Russia probe will reveal 'really bad things'

  25-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigating the investigators, the Justice Department is now scrutinizing the government's Russia probe as a criminal matter, raising Democrats' concerns that President Donald Trump may be using federal muscle to go after his opponents.Trump declared anew on Friday that the now-concluded special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was a "hoax" designed to discredit his presidency.Word of the criminal investigation comes as Trump is facing the
  
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• Ex-SS guard from Nazi camp on trial: I saw people led into gas chamber

  25-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp testified at his trial Friday in Germany that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door.
  
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• Hizbollah leader warns of civil war after days of Lebanon protests

  25-10-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Hizbollah on Friday warned Lebanon that nationwide protests calling for the overthrow of the government could lead to chaos and civil war.  Hassan Nasrallah praised protesters for achieving “unprecedented” economic reforms but also suggested foreign intervention had a role in the demonstrations.  Over a quarter of Lebanon’s population are reported to have taken to the streets in anti-corruption protests over the past week. Hizbollah supporters have in re
  
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• Pope asks forgiveness for theft of Amazon statues

  25-10-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis asked forgiveness Friday from Amazonian bishops and tribal leaders after thieves stole indigenous statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River in a bold show of conservative opposition to history's first Latin American pope.Francis insisted that the carved wooden statues of naked pregnant women were brought to the Vatican for display during his Amazon synod "without any intention of idolatry," undercutting conservative claims that they were symbols of paga
  
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• Trump looking to sell lease rights to Washington hotel: WSJ

  25-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump Organization is considering selling the lease rights to the luxury hotel it operates in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and one of President Donald Trump's sons, told the newspaper the company has hired real-estate firm JLL to market the Trump International Hotel.The newspaper said one of the reasons the company is considering the sale is criticism that the Trump Organization is violating ethics laws
  
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• More arrests after 39 bodies discovered in truck; Vietnamese nationals may be among dead

  25-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Police made more arrests Friday in connection with the investigation into 39 bodies discovered in the back of a truck outside London.
  
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• Pope asks forgiveness for theft of controversial Amazon statues

  25-10-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis asked for forgiveness from Amazon bishops and others at a Church assembly on Friday after conservative Catholic militants stole statues they considered pagan idols from a church and dumped them in the Tiber river."First of all, this happened in Rome, so as bishop of the diocese, I ask forgiveness from the persons who were offended by this gesture," he said at the start of the last session of the three-week assembly, known as a synod.The synod is discussing the future of the Church i
  
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• Funeral set for girl abducted, killed in Alabama

  25-10-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A funeral service is set for this weekend for a 3-year-old Alabama girl who was abducted from a birthday party and asphyxiated, and officials said Friday they are establishing a permanent reward fund in her memory. The service for Kamille McKinney was scheduled for Sunday afternoon, with burial to follow at Elmwood Cemetery. The funeral is planned for New Beginning Christian Ministry, where pastor Sylvester Wilson said the church has a 700-seat sanctuary and can use its fellowship hall as an ove
  
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• Pope apologises after Amazon statues thrown in river

  25-10-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Friday apologised for the theft of indigenous Amazonian statues from a Rome church, saying they had been found after thieves dumped them in the Tiber River.Anonymous individuals filmed themselves taking the five statues of a naked, pregnant woman from a church near the Vatican and throwing them from a bridge.The vandalism came during a meeting of bishops at the Vatican focused on the Amazon region, during which some ultra-conservatives criticised the display of what they call "pa
  
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• Lebanon Hezbollah warns protests could lead to chaos, war

  25-10-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah group said Friday that nationwide protests against the country's political class have been exploited by foreign powers and were no longer spontaneous, warning they could drag the country toward civil war.Hassan Nasrallah's comments came shortly after his supporters clashed with anti-government protesters in central Beirut.
  
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