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• Survivors say burning train took 20 minutes to stop, 74 dead

  31-10-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province on Thursday, killing 74 people, and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train's brakes.Conductor Sadiue Ahmed Khan told The Associated Press the train's emergency breaking system was in perfect working order and the train stopped within three minutes after the first signs of fire.Investigators said they will be looking at the train's
  
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• Hedge fund billionaire fires back at Warren: 'Your vilification of the rich is misguided'

  31-10-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Hedge fund mogul Leon Cooperman takes issue with Sen. Warren's plans for a wealth tax.
  
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• How a Freak Chemistry Accident Sunk One of Russia's Most Powerful Submarines

  31-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  In the end, the sinking of the Kursk appears to have been caused by a simple, freak accident of chemistry. The tragedy only reinforces how dangerous life aboard a submarine really is, and how important safety is in the underwater realm.
  
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• US judge dismisses case against legal brothels in Nevada

  31-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed a lawsuit that invoked sex trafficking laws in a bid to close the nation's only legal brothels.U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno said in her Tuesday ruling that she empathized with three women who claim they were victims of sexual violence in Nevada and other places."That plaintiffs were unlawfully forced into prostitution and sex trafficked in Nevada and other states is not sufficiently traceable to Nevada laws ... as opposed to other factors, namely
  
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• Ex-beauty queen accuses former Gambia president of rape

  31-10-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A Gambian former beauty queen on Thursday accused former President Yahya Jammeh of raping her to punish her for rejecting his marriage proposal, in evidence to the country's truth and reconciliation commission."What he wanted to do was to teach me a lesson, what he wanted to do is manifest his ego," Fatou Jallow said."There were words like 'who do you think you are?', that he is the president and that he gets any woman that he wants," Jallow told Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Co
  
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• Syria's Assad says he does not want Turkey as an 'enemy'

  31-10-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Thursday said he did not want to make an "enemy" of neighbouring Turkey despite the stand-off between their forces in the north of the country.Assad said however that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself was an "enemy" due to policies hostile to Syria and opposed by most of his country's political elite."We must ensure that we don't turn Turkey into an enemy and here comes the role of friends" such as Russia and Iran, the president said in a pre-recorde
  
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• Judge declines to delay South Dakota execution

  31-10-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge on Thursday denied a South Dakota inmate's request to delay his execution over concerns about the drug that the state plans to use, rejecting the man's contention that it doesn't act quickly enough.Charles Rhines, scheduled to die by lethal injection next week in the 1992 stabbing of a 22-year-old doughnut shop worker, had argued that pentobarbital is not an "ultra-short-acting" drug as required by state law.In fact, Sogn said, pentobarbital in lethal doses may even be faster to induce u
  
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• Impeachment Is About to Get Tough. For Democrats.

  31-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- On an almost entirely party-line vote, the House of Representatives on Thursday adopted procedures for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. As Congress scholar Josh Huder argues (see also Sarah Binder), the resolution is meant to properly organize the Democrats’ approach — in particular, by putting their most camera-friendly committee, Select Intelligence, in the spotlight for the public phase of the process.Speaker Nancy Pelosi had no constitut
  
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• Lawyer indicates Bolton won't testify in impeachment probe

  31-10-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The lawyer for former national security adviser John Bolton signaled Thursday that Bolton will not testify anytime soon in the House impeachment inquiry.Democratic lawmakers want to hear next week from Bolton over the administration's approach to Ukraine that is central to House proceedings that could lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.Charles Cooper, Bolton's lawyer, was in federal court Thursday on behalf of another client whose testimony the House also wants.
  
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• Spain's hosting of COP25 climate summit largely a done deal: Government Source

  31-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A formal decision on hosting the summit in Madrid will be taken on Monday in the German city of Bonn, the source said.Chile backed out of hosting the summit, which is aimed at fleshing out details of how to implement the Paris Agreement climate pact, due to a wave of violent protests in the country's capital.
  
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• Whither Kamala Harris? A Failed-State Senator’s Failing Campaign

  31-10-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The junior senator from California, Kamala Harris, is laying off dozens of campaign staffers and redirecting most of her dwindling resources to Iowa. In recent polls, Harris has cratered to just 3 percent, falling behind Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Harris memorably slighted Gabbard after a July debate. “I’m obviously a top-tier candidate,” she explained. “There are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate. . . . Especially when so
  
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• Tomi Lahren dressed up as AOC for Halloween

  31-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  “This Halloween I decided to dress up as the thing that scares me most, the Democratic Dimwit Darling herself,” the Conservative pundit wrote in an Instagram post.
  
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• Trump news: President rages over historic impeachment vote as White House expert reveals details of Ukraine policy

  31-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The House of Representatives has voted to formalise the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump by 232-196, firmly along party lines, establishing key ground rules for the ongoing investigation and setting up a potentially explosive public hearing phase.Before the ballots were cast, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff reminded members of the “solemnity” of the day before angry Republicans Devin Nunes and Steve Scalise accused the opposition of “acting like
  
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• UPDATE 1-Syria's Assad says Kurdish controlled northeast Syria must return to state authority

  31-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that his government's ultimate goal was to restore state authority over Kurdish controlled areas in northeast Syria after an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal but said this would happen gradually.In a state television interview Assad also said that a deal between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin to drive out the Kurdish-led YPG militia from a 30 km (19 mile) "safe zone" along the border was a "positive" step that w
  
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• The Latest: Sonoma County notes fire evacuation success

  31-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials say more than half of Sonoma County's staff of about 1,800 people worked to help evacuate residents and deal with emergency services, communications and other needs after the Northern California county declared a state of emergency because of wildfire.The Sonoma County Board reviewed its operations at an emergency board meeting Wednesday night.The Northern California wine country county has been aggressive about its disaster response preparation in the wake of a series of devastating w
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci and Steve Bullock trade jabs over prank endorsement

  31-10-2019 22:35 via politico.com
  Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump’s former, short-lived White House communications director-turned-detractor, saw his fame exploited Thursday in a campaign stunt by a Democratic presidential candidate.The stunt unfolded on Twitter when Steve Bullock — Montana’s governor and a long-shot candidate who’s failed to qualify for all but one Democratic primary debate this year — posted a video recorded by “The Mooch” for the celebrity-shout-out site Ca
  
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• Philadelphia Man Allegedly Confesses to Killing Four Relatives in Shooting at Family Home

  31-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  29-year-old Maurice Louis had bought the shotgun used a day beforehand
  
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• Kentucky Supreme Court dismisses gay pride T-shirt case

  31-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kentucky Supreme Court has sided with a print shop owner who refused to make a gay pride T-shirt because he says it was against his religious beliefs.The state's high court dismissed the claim after two lower courts also ruled in favor of Lexington print shop Hands-On Originals.The company declined a T-shirt order from Lexington's Gay and Lesbian Services Organization for the city's 2012 Gay Pride Festival.
  
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• Mexican president dismisses report alleging military discontent

  31-10-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Lopez Obrador took office late last year pledging to pacify the country with a security policy that deemphasizes armed confrontation, following years of military-led conflict with powerful drug cartels.Asked about a report published on Wednesday by newspaper La Jornada detailing a recent speech by an army general blaming Lopez Obrador for polarizing the country and offending the military's leadership, Lopez Obrador denied any widespread discontent within the ranks.Lopez Obrador's government was
  
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• Keystone oil pipeline leaks 383,000 gallons in North Dakota

  31-10-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  TC Energy's Keystone pipeline has leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in northeastern North Dakota, marking the second significant spill in two years along the line that carries Canadian tar sands oil through seven states, regulators said Thursday.Crews on Tuesday shut down the pipeline after the leak was discovered, said Karl Rockeman, North Dakota's water quality division director."Our emergency response team contained the impacted area and oil has not migrated beyo
  
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• North Korea says it conducted successful test of multiple rocket launchers

  31-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean state news agency KCNA said on Friday another test of super-large multiple rocket launchers a day earlier had been a success, but the test drew protests from neighboring Japan and South Korea.KCNA said the latest test of the "super-large multiple rocket launchers", following two tests of the same weapon in August and September overseen by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, indicated the progress of Pyongyang's weapons development while talks with the United States remain in limbo.The
  
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• Islamic State group names new leader, confirms Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death

  31-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The announcement was reported by the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors the online content of extremist groups.
  
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• Kurds call on US to block Turkish military drones from Syrian air space

  31-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  * Unmanned weapons ‘targeting anything they wish to’* Kurds say Turks have killed 509 civilians and 412 troopsA member of the Kurdish internal security services known as Asayish stands guard during a demonstration by Syrian Kurds against the Turkish assault on north-eastern Syria in Qamishli on 28 October. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesSyrian Kurds are asking the Pentagon to block US-controlled air space over north-eastern Syria to Turkish armed drones which they cl
  
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• ISIS says it has a new leader less than a week after US raid that left Baghdadi dead

  31-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Less than a week after President Donald Trump celebrated Baghdadi's death, ISIS has a brand new leader.
  
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• Islamic State group vows revenge against United States for al-Baghdadi killing

  31-10-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The Islamic State group confirmed on Thursday that its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a weekend raid by U.S. forces in northwestern Syria and vowed revenge against the United States.
  
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• The House voted for an impeachment inquiry, and Republicans failed a test of character

  31-10-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  There isn’t much more ground to cover between the historic vote on Halloween and the final immolation of the Republican Party.
  
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• Katie Hill blames scandal, resignation on 'double standard'

  31-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  California freshman congresswoman Katie Hill bid a defiant farewell to the House on Thursday, suggesting a double standard forced her resignation amid a messy divorce, "gutter" politics and nude photos made public.Leaving her apartment, she said, for the first time since the photos were published in a conservative publication, the scarlet-suited Hill cast her final House vote in favor of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.In her last floor speech, Hill apologized to supporter
  
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• Jail officer in coma dies after being attacked by inmate

  31-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An inmate's deadly attack on a Phoenix area jail officer was completely unprovoked, according to court documents made available Thursday.Maricopa County Jail video shows inmate Daniel Davitt talking with Officer Gene Lee on Tuesday outside a holding space before suddenly grabbing Lee by the throat, charging documents said.Davitt then pushed Lee backward and used his right leg to knock the officer off his feet.
  
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• Impeachment Probe Eyes Mulvaney’s Office in Early Effort to Hold Up Ukraine Aid

  31-10-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Win McNamee/Getty ImagesWhen the Trump administration first decided to sell Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, officials at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) moved to temporarily pause the effort, according to multiple sources briefed on the matter. The unusual move didn’t just foreshadow the huge fight that has President Donald Trump now facing impeachment. It also caught the eye of congressional investigators in the impeachment inquiry. This summer, OMB delayed the provision
  
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• Syria's Assad says Kurdish controlled northeast Syria must return to state authority

  31-10-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that his government's ultimate goal was to restore state authority over Kurdish controlled areas in northeast Syria after an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal but he expected it to happen gradually.In a state television interview Assad also said that a deal between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin to drive out the Kurdish-led YPG militia from a 30 km (19 mile) "safe zone" along the border was a "positive" step that
  
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• As Turkey Invades Northeast Syria, Christians There Are on the Brink

  31-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  After decades of stalling because of objections from Turkey, the U.S. House has recognized the genocide of the Armenian Christian population of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. In the resolution’s text, other Christian populations are referenced who were targeted in the genocide: Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, and Maronites. Each is a unique community with a unique history. Even as the ink is drying on the resolution, one of those communities, in northeast Syria, fa
  
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• Meet the Only Two House Democrats Who Voted Against Formalizing the Trump Impeachment Inquiry

  31-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Their votes were immediately seized upon by Republican critics of the impeachment process
  
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• Court considers voiding N. Carolina constitutional changes

  31-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina appeals court is considering whether to void changes to the state constitution that voters approved last year because they were placed on the ballot by lawmakers elected in racially gerrymandered districts, lawyers said Thursday.The state Court of Appeals will decide whether the Republican-controlled legislature lacked authority to put those constitutional amendments before voters.At stake is whether the actions of lawmakers elected from districts designed to disenfranchise unfr
  
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• Boy Scouts to boost annual youth fees by more than 80%

  31-10-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Facing a potentially ruinous wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America is increasing its annual youth membership fee by more than 80%.The group says the move, which has dismayed many of the Scouts' adult volunteer leaders who warn the increase is prohibitively steep for some, is needed to meet rising operating costs, notably for the liability insurance that covers all official Scouting activities.For years, the BSA has been entangled in costly litigation with plaintiffs who said
  
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• World’s Top Climate Gathering May Have Found a New Home: Madrid

  31-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Spain has swooped in with an offer to host the world’s largest climate summit after Chile canceled it in the face of widespread riots.The invitation to move the United Nations’ COP25 conference to Madrid may save the event, scheduled for December. UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said she hoped the conference’s board would consider Spain’s offer as soon as possible.“It is encouraging to see countries working together in the spir
  
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• Troops, armored vehicles enter Syria to protect oil fields from ISIS

  31-10-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon moved troops and armored vehicles into Syria Thursday to protect oil fields from exploitation by ISIS.
  
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• UPDATE 2-American Airlines flight attendants stand up to Boeing CEO on 737 MAX

  31-10-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines' flight attendants union still has safety concerns about the Boeing 737 MAX and is demanding an active role in the relaunch of the grounded aircraft, its president told Boeing Co's chief executive in a letter seen by Reuters."The 28,000 flight attendants working for American Airlines refuse to walk onto a plane that may not be safe and are calling for the highest possible safety standards to avoid another tragedy," Association of Professional Flight Attendants President Lori Ba
  
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• This is how the US military trains dogs for dangerous missions with Navy SEALs and Delta Force

  31-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  These dogs are selected and trained to handle the most stressful situations while keeping their cool. Even barking is forbidden.
  
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• Latest Impeachment Witness Contradicts Vindman’s Claim That Key Details Were Left Out of Ukraine Call Transcript

  31-10-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior White House official who listened to President Trump's controversial phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky testified Thursday in a closed-door impeachment hearing that the White House did not omit any key details of the conversation from the publicly-released transcript.The official, Tim Morrison, also told House lawmakers he did not think Trump discussed anything illegal on the call.“I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed,&rdq
  
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• Trump renews sanctions waivers to allow Russia, China and Europe to continue nuclear work in Iran

  31-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration will once again issue sanctions waivers to allow Russia, China and Europe to continue nuclear nonproliferation work in Iran, Reuters reported.The periodic waivers grant exemptions from US sanctions against Iran, and allow foreign companies to collaborate on the civilian nuclear programme with Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation.
  
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• Python found coiled around dead woman's neck in Indiana home owned by sheriff with 140 snakes

  31-10-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say a 36-year-old woman was found dead, with a python wrapped around her neck, in a house owned by the sheriff and filled with 140 snakes.
  
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• Ex-Starbucks manager says she was fired over race

  31-10-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A white former Starbucks manager filed a lawsuit against the coffee giant this week, alleging she was the victim of racial discrimination when she was terminated last year after the highly controversial arrests of two black men in a Philadelphia shop.
  
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• Kids of U.S. Immigrants Move Up Just Like Those 100 Years Before

  31-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Children of U.S. immigrants tend to earn more than their parents and have higher rates of upward mobility than their American-born peers.Those are some of the conclusions in a working paper circulated this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research that explores how immigrants often improve their children’s prospects in life -- and shows those born to recent immigrants are moving up just like those who came to American shores a century before.Many immigrants earn less
  
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• Leon Cooperman Says Elizabeth Warren Ignores Charity Efforts in Vilifying Rich

  31-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Leon Cooperman called out Elizabeth Warren for ignoring the charitable and societal contributions made by America’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, escalating his war of words with the Democratic presidential candidate.“However much it resonates with your base, your vilification of the rich is misguided, ignoring, among other things, the sources of their wealth and the substantial contributions to society which they already, unprompted by you, make,” Cooperman, the son
  
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• Syria's Assad says Kurdish controlled northeast of Syria to fall eventually under state control

  31-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday his country's ultimate goal was to restore state authority over Kurdish controlled areas in northeast Syria after an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal but said this would happen gradually.In an interview with state television, Assad also said that a deal this month between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin to drive out the Kurdish-led YPG militia from a 30 km (19 mile) "safe zone" along the border was a step that wo
  
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• Katie Hill delivers scathing resignation speech after Trump impeachment vote: 'I am leaving because of a double standard'

  31-10-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Katie Hill has unloaded with a scathing resignation speech, in which she claimed she is the victim of a gendered "double standard" in society that has punished her for her sexual life even as Donald Trump remains president in spite of bragging "about his sexual predation".Ms Hill, who was elected to Congress in 2018 as a part of a wave of women Democrats who took office that year, delivered her final speech in the House just after participating in a historic vote to formally launch the impeachme
  
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• Latest Impeachment Witness: I Wasn’t Worried That Trump Broke the Law With Call

  31-10-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesTim Morrison, a senior White House official who listened to President Donald Trump's controversial call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, said he did not worry Trump broke the law on the call. He also said he was not aware of any meaningful material being left out of the White House’s memo on the call.“I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed,” he said in a prepared statement to Congress obtained by T
  
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• Rep. Wasserman Schultz : Trump’s immigration policy reflects ‘white supremacist ideology’

  31-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a “white supremacist ideology.”
  
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• Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires

  31-10-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Animal team charged with eating through 13 acres of scrubland that could have fueled California’s Easy fireGoats are released at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, during a similar crisis in 2012.Photograph: Juan Carlo/APDiligent work by a team of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from wildfires that are ravaging parts of California.The library deployed the goat squadron during the spring in order to munch their way through around 13 acres
  
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• Rep. Katie Hill, freshman targeted by revenge porn, resigns with a blast at Trump

  31-10-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  During her final speech on the House floor Thursday, Rep. Katie Hill apologized for actions that led to her resignation while also boasting that her last vote as a member of Congress was in favor of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
  
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