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• Long-serving former Democratic U.S. congressman John Conyers dies at age 90

  27-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  John Conyers, a liberal Democrat who was the longest-serving African-American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving for more than half a century, died on Sunday at the age of 90. Conyers joined the House in 1965 and stepped down in 2017, after his reputation was sullied by sexual harassment accusations. The Detroit-area congressman was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
  
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• Former congressman John Conyers dies at age 90

  27-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  John Conyers, the longest-serving African-American member of the US Congress who resigned following sexual harassment allegations in 2017, died Sunday, his family said."Today, the city of Detroit, The United States and the world lost a fearless civil rights leader and hero," his family said in a statement.Conyers was a political powerhouse from Detroit who co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus and employed civil rights icon Rosa Parks on his congressional staff, where she worked for 23 years
  
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• Hundreds of police, supporters march in Haiti

  27-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Several hundred police and their supporters demonstrated Sunday in Haiti's capital for better salaries for law enforcement, as anti-government marchers also took to the streets.Separately, a man was beaten to death and then burned by some demonstrators who claimed that he opened fire on a crowd of marchers demanding that President Jovenel Moise step down.Prior to the protests, police officers had complained at the headquarters of the Haitian National Police (PNH).
  
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• U.S. lawmakers will press Boeing CEO for answers on 737 MAX crashes

  27-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of a U.S. Senate panel reviewing two catastrophic Boeing 737 MAX crashes told Reuters ahead of hearings this week that the plane would not return to U.S. skies until "99.9% of the American public" and policymakers are convinced it is safe.Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will testify for two days before Congress starting on Tuesday, which is the anniversary of the Lion Air 737 MAX crash in Indonesia, the first of two crashes within five months that killed a total of 346 peopl
  
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• Kentucky gov's race stirs clash over casino suicide claims

  27-10-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Entering the final days of Kentucky's bitter race for governor, Republican incumbent Matt Bevin exposed himself to a new attack by flatly denying his recorded claim that suicides happen nightly in casinos.Telling a debate audience Saturday night that the truth matters, Bevin challenged his opponent to produce a tape proving his denial wrong.Democrat Andy Beshear offered up the audiotape Sunday.
  
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• Raid Gives Trump Timely Win But Unlikely to Slow Impeachment

  27-10-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- An audacious military raid that ended with the death of the U.S. government’s most-wanted terrorist delivered Donald Trump a political boost just when he needed it most.Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s demise provided the president at least a brief respite from the House’s accelerating impeachment inquiry, and also served as a measure of redemption after a messy retreat of U.S. forces in Syria that had drawn criticism from both parties.Al-Baghdadi&rsqu
  
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• State of emergency as California fires spread

  27-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  California's governor declared a state-wide emergency on Sunday as a huge wind-fueled blaze forced evacuations and massive power blackouts, threatening tourist towns in the state's famed Sonoma wine region.The so-called Kincade Fire, north of San Francisco, spread to 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) overnight, with only 10 percent containment by early afternoon Sunday, state fire authorities said.The Kincade Fire -- the most devastating in California this year -- ignited Wednesday and spread quick
  
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• Trump says US forces cornered IS leader in dead-end tunnel

  27-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world's most wanted man, died after U.S. special operators cornered him during a raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday."Last night, the United States brought the world's No. 1 terrorist leader to justice," Trump announced at the White House, providing graphic details of al-Baghdadi's final moments at the helm of the militant organization.In a national addres
  
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• Samsung pseudo satellite falls out of the sky, lands in rural Michigan neighborhood

  27-10-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  According to a statement from Samsung, the landing was planned, and no injuries occurred when the "Samsung Europe's SpaceSelfie balloon" landed.
  
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• Pelosi slams Trump for cutting Democrats out of loop on Baghdadi raid

  27-10-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  * ‘Gang of Eight’ leaders not informed of strike against Isis chief* Killing of Baghdadi gives Trump lifeline amid political battleNancy Pelosi talks to reporters on Capitol Hill this week. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTop Democrats reacted with anger to Donald Trump’s decision to go ahead with the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid without giving them advance notice, on grounds that they were not to be trusted with such highly sensitive information.In a break with precedent
  
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• Prosecutors want black judge who criticized incarceration rates of African Americans removed

  27-10-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Iberia Parish judge Lori Landry has questioned the large number of black Louisianans incarcerated by the district attorney's office
  
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• 'Swing Set Susan' charged with impersonating a police officer after threatening to arrest Hispanic teens

  27-10-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Video of a white woman threatening to arrest a group of Hispanic teens at a park in Texas has been viewed more than 5 million times.
  
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• Situation Room: 2 photos capture vastly different presidents

  27-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Photos taken in the White House Situation Room during the killings of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Saturday and of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden eight years earlier capture the vastly different styles of two American presidents. The White House on Sunday released a photo of President Donald Trump with five of his senior national security advisers monitoring the Saturday night operation against al-Baghdadi in Syria. The photo invites comparisons to the Situation Room photo relea
  
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• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Dead. Here's What to Know About the Deceased Islamic State Leader

  27-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump described him as the “world’s number-one terrorist leader"
  
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• House Republicans Are Taking Another Shot At Reforming America's Healthcare

  27-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Is this the right policy for Americans?
  
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• IS spokesman killed in fresh north Syria raid: SDF official

  27-10-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Ain al-Baydah (Syria) (AFP) - The Islamic State group's spokesman was killed Sunday in northern Syria, a top Kurdish official said, hours after the jihadists' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was announced dead.The official with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces -- who asked not to be named because he is not authorised to speak on the issue -- said IS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir had been killed, after SDF chief Mazloum Abdi said he had been "targeted" in a fresh raid.
  
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• Donald Trump withheld details of ISIS raid from Nancy Pelosi, other congressional Democrats

  27-10-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump did not give House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or other congressional Democrats advance notice of a raid that ended in the death of ISIS leader.
  
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• Lebanon puts temporary ban on taking large sums of dollar cash out of country - NNA

  27-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese state prosecutor on Sunday banned traders and money exchangers from taking significant amounts of physical dollar currency out of the country at air and land borders, state news agency NNA said.The order, which it said was issued by Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat, imposed the ban until the central bank determines a new mechanism for regulating such transfers, NNA reported.People had previously been able to take large sums of dollar cash out of Lebanon with a permit from customs aut
  
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• 900 children test positive for HIV in Pakistani city

  27-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 900 children under 12 in the small Pakistani city of Ratodero were affected by an HIV outbreak that overwhelmingly affected children. Health officials initially blamed the outbreak on a single pediatrician, saying he was reusing syringes.
  
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• Islamic State leader leaves a legacy of terror

  27-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sought to establish a new Islamic "caliphate" across Syria and Iraq, but he might be remembered more as the ruthlessly calculating militant leader of the Islamic State group who brought terror to the heart of Europe and set up a short-lived organization so extreme that it was shunned even by al-Qaida.One of the few senior IS commanders still at large after two years of steady battlefield losses, al-Baghdadi died Saturday when he detonated his suicide vest in a tunnel while b
  
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• Democrats go after Barr over DOJ Russia investigation

  27-10-2019 20:50 via politico.com
  Democrats are accusingAttorney General William Barr of using the Justice Department to do President Donald Trump's political bidding.Democratic criticism of the attorney general comes amidmedia reports that a department probe into the FBI's investigation connections between Russia and the Trump 2016 campaign has now become a criminal investigation.Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, accused Barr on Sunday of “weaponizing” the Justice Departm
  
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• The CIA got key information for the raid on al-Baghdadi's ISIS compound after a wife of the leader and a courier were arrested

  27-10-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The agency worked with Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence officials to narrow down the leader's exact location and place local spies.
  
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• Trump's Baghdadi raid Situation Room photo has one big difference to Obama's bin Laden picture ⁠— and it tells you everything about their styles

  27-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The Situation Room photo of Trump during the raid against ISIS leader Baghdadi differs significantly from Obama's during the Osama bin Laden raid.
  
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• EU Proposes Brexit Extension to Jan. 31 Ahead of Envoy Talks

  27-10-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. The European Union is proposing to extend the deadline for Brexit by three months to Jan. 31, according to a draft declaration seen by Bloomberg that will be discussed by envoys in Brussels on Monday.Under the proposal, the U.K. would be able to leave the EU earlier -- on Nov. 30 or Dec. 31 -- if both sides ratify the divorce deal in time. It excludes any potential to renegotiat
  
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• Massive California blaze prompts more evacuations and power shutoffs

  27-10-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A huge wind-fueled blaze in northern California forced new evacuations and massive power blackouts on Sunday as it roared through the state's famed Sonoma wine region, threatening tourist towns, including the city of Santa Rosa.The so-called Kincade Fire, north of San Francisco, spread to 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) overnight with only 10 percent containment on Sunday, state fire authorities said.The blaze, the most devastating in California this year, ignited Wednesday and spread quickly tha
  
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• Pregnant Shawn Johnson squeezes into Olympics leotard at 40 weeks, reveals who baby looks like

  27-10-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Shawn Johnson, who is expecting a baby any day now, squeezed into her Olympic leotard. The couple invited fans to "see" what the child will look like.
  
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• Why Democrats Should Be Cautious About Breaking Up Big Tech

  27-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  More than antitrust.
  
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• Buttigieg Addresses Black Church, Taking Biden Voters Head On

  27-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Pete Buttigieg went straight to the heart of Joe Biden’s support in South Carolina on Sunday, bringing a message of healing and unity to a black church.The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, dressed in a crisp blue suit, joined parishioners in prayer at an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church worship in Rock Hill, before introducing himself and highlighting his plan for black Americans.This constituency is crucial, since African-Americans make up 60% of the Democra
  
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• After bishops call for married priests, pope urges new ways

  27-10-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Allowing married men to be ordained in remote Amazon areas with severe shortages of priests would chip away at the church's nearly millennium-old practice upholding priestly celibacy.A three-week-long Vatican gathering, or synod, on the special needs of Catholics in that South American region featured a vote by a majority of the more than 180 synod bishops who proposed the ordination of married men with established families to help minister to the region's far-flung faithful, where some Catholic
  
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• Germany's far-right AfD surges in eastern heartland vote

  27-10-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Germany's far-right AfD scored strong gains Sunday in the ex-communist eastern state of Thuringia, home to one of its most radical figures, beating mainstream parties such as Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU, exit polls showed.While popular premier Bodo Ramelow's far-left Die Linke party easily won with just under 30 percent, the Alternative for Germany scored at least 23 percent, according to public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, more than doubling its result in the previous election in 2014.
  
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• The ASEAN-U.S. Maritime Exercises Are More Important Than Ever

  27-10-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington, in turn, has been stepping up cooperation, including with regional maritime law enforcement agencies, some of which are relatively new, ill-trained and under-equipped to confront a myriad of security challenges facing them.
  
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• The Latest: California governor declares statewide emergency

  27-10-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency as wildfires and extreme weather conditions forced almost 200,000 people from their homes. The flames came dangerously close to homes in Vallejo. In the south, a wildfire in the Santa Clarita area north of Los Angeles has destroyed 18 structures, threatened homes and critical infrastructure.
  
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• UAE, Brazil ink deals in first visit for Bolsonaro

  27-10-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Arab Emirates and Brazil signed several agreements Sunday during President Jair Bolsonaro's visit to Abu Dhabi, which marks his first official trip to the Arab world."Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and I witnessed the exchange of agreements and MoUs between our countries," tweeted Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed after a meeting between the two men.
  
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• Kelly says he told Trump hiring 'yes man' would lead to impeachment

  27-10-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff, expressed regret Saturday about leaving the Trump administration and implied that he could have helped stave off the impeachment inquiry now threatening Trump’s presidency.
  
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• Number of bodies found near Mexican resort town rises to 42

  27-10-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Searching Mothers of Sonora uncovered a mass grave with the remains of 13 people inside, located near the popular beach resort town of Puerto Peñasco.
  
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• Iowa woman dies after gender-reveal-party explosion

  27-10-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iowa woman died after an explosion at a gender reveal party created debris that hit her. The Marion County Sheriff's office says that the explosion happened at a home in central Iowa around 4 p.m. on Saturday during a party to announce the gender of a baby a couple is expecting.
  
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• Firefighters struggle against massive, wind-whipped California wildfire

  27-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Crews lost ground on Sunday against a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of California's picturesque wine country and driven 180,000 people from their homes as they hoped for a break in the hot, dry weather.About 3,000 people were battling the Kinkade Fire, the worst of more than a dozen major blazes that have damaged or destroyed nearly 400 structures, and prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a statewide emergency.Newsom said its containment had "slipped" to about half of
  
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• National security adviser says 'Russia is not an ally of the United States'

  27-10-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  National security adviser Robert O'Brien said Sunday that despite President Trump’s acknowledgment of Russian cooperation with the U.S. mission that left Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead, the country "is not an ally of the United States.”
  
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• UPDATE 2-Firefighters struggle against massive, wind-whipped California wildfire

  27-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Crews lost ground on Sunday against a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of California's picturesque wine country and driven 180,000 people from their homes as they hoped for a break in the hot, dry weather.About 3,000 people were battling the Kinkade Fire, the worst of more than a dozen major blazes that have damaged or destroyed nearly 400 structures, and prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a statewide emergency.Newsom said its containment had "slipped" to about half of
  
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• UPDATE 1-Northern California wildfire evacuation orders rise to 180,000

  27-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The southward march of a Northern California wildfire toward the more populated areas above the San Francisco Bay led officials on Sunday to raise the number of residents ordered to leave their homes in the area to 180,000.The increase, from 130,000 earlier on Sunday, came as wind gusts pushed the Kincade Fire down from the rolling hills and wine regions of northern Sonoma County and threatened communities as far south as northern Santa Rosa, officials said.Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick, def
  
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• Barisha, the Syrian village where Baghdadi died

  27-10-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive leader of the Islamic State group and the world's most wanted man, met his demise near a small village in northwestern Syria called Barisha.Barisha is located less than five kilometres from Turkey and close to Bab al-Hawa, one of the main border crossings between the two countries.The house targeted in the overnight US special forces raid that US President Donald Trump says killed Baghdadi was on the edge of the village.
  
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• 'There was never a camera': Southwest denies lawsuit claiming pilots streamed plane bathroom video

  27-10-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A Phoenix-based Southwest Airlines flight attendant says she was retaliated against after reporting two pilots for livestreaming a plane's lavatory.
  
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• Israel's Gantz, Netanyahu hold talks to break gov't deadlock

  27-10-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's prime minister and his main rival opened a new round of unity talks Sunday in the latest effort to break a political stalemate and avoid an unprecedented third parliamentary election in less than a year.Israel has been paralyzed by political deadlock following an inconclusive election last month, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud nor the rival Blue and White party in control of a 61-seat majority in parliament.After nearly a month of efforts, Netanyahu last week sai
  
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• Booby-traps, firefights and a daring chase: inside the US special forces raid on Baghdadi's compound

  27-10-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The eight American stealth helicopters, carrying Delta Force and Navy Seals, came in fast and low over the olive trees in Barisha, a village of a few thousand people in Idlib province near the Turkish border. In the darkness around midnight they were fired on from the ground but quickly obliterated the source, before soldiers rappelled to the ground near the compound housing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted terrorist. Watching in the Situation Room at the White House Donald Trump wa
  
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• Russia: Trump’s Baghdadi Victory Lap Is Nothing But ‘Propaganda’

  27-10-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSAt the White House Sunday morning, President Trump profusely thanked Russia for its alleged involvement in the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Trump said: "[The Russians] were very cooperative, they really were good... Russia treated us great. They opened up, we had to fly over certain Russia areas, Russia-held areas. Russia was great."Russia didn’t seem to see it the same way.The Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, refut
  
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• Why the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500's Carbon Wheels Are Superior to the GT350R's

  27-10-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  It's more than just looks, although they are beautiful: the carbon-fiber wheels are as advanced as those on a Ferrari.
  
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• Storms to unleash snow, cold across the Midwest this week

  27-10-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm system bringing heavy snow to parts of the Rocky Mountains this weekend will be the first of a pair of storms to travel across the Plains and Midwest.
  
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• Comey: If reports are true, Trump engaged In 'shocking abuse of power'

  27-10-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  If news accounts are accurate about the facts concerning President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, said former FBI Director James Comey, then the president engaged in a “shocking abuse of power,” and “the House has no choice but to pursue an impeachment inquiry.”
  
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• Democratic senator: ‘No doubt’ Ukraine ‘felt pressure’

  27-10-2019 18:37 via politico.com
  Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday that Ukraine “no doubt” felt pressured to conform to President Donald Trump’s wishes and there is very clear evidence of a quid pro quo arrangement.The Trump administration has repeatedly dismissed allegations of quid pro quo regarding conversations asking Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
  
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• Trump falsely claims he predicted danger of Osama bin Laden before anyone else: ‘Nobody had ever heard of him’

  27-10-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has falsely claimed he predicted the threat posed by Osama bin Laden before anyone else.In a press conference announcing the death of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Mr Trump went on a bizarre tangent about his self-proclaimed foresight, claiming nobody listened to him when he said Bin Laden was dangerous before the 9/11 attacks.
  
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