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• 'Whistleblower' must testify under oath and in person: Rep. Jim Jordan

  05-11-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats’ impeachment push on anonymous, secondhand complaint is unfair, writes Jim Jordan, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.
  
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• White House lawyers expected to take lead in impeachment

  05-11-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  As House Democrats prepare for public impeachment hearings, President Donald Trump and his legal team are working to organize a defense that will rely heavily on White House attorneys and congressional Republicans to stave off the threat to his presidency.Democrats consider the hearings to be their best chance to put Trump's behavior on public display before a politically fraught impeachment vote.Trump's allies, for their part, see the hearings as an opportunity to take the fight to the presiden
  
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• Trump impeachment: Pompeo ‘rolled his eyes’ when told about Giuliani’s Ukraine involvement, diplomat says

  05-11-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  America’s top diplomat rolled his eyes when he was told about Rudy Giuliani’s back channel outreach to top Ukraine officials, impeachment investigators were told.Diplomacy and engagement with foreign nations is typically carried out by professional officials, under the direction of the state department.
  
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• China Tried to Curb Criticism in British Universities, Times Reports

  05-11-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- China has tried to curb criticism of its government in U.K campuses by pressurizing universities to limit academic freedom, the Times newspaper reported, citing a report from the Commons foreign affairs committee.Evidence of Chinese interference appears to be coming from the embassy in London, according to the report titled Defending Democracy in an Age of Autocracies.The battle for fees from Chinese students, which number more than 100,000, and other investment “should not
  
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• The Trump Organization reportedly can't get anyone to fill retail space in its Chicago hotel

  05-11-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Any takers?Apparently not for the Trump Organization, which can't seem to find anyone to fill the street-level retail space at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, The Washington Post reports.The hotel has reportedly been struggling on several fronts during Trump's presidency, with profits reportedly falling 89 percent between 2015 and 2018, but the vacant space is a stark reminder. The Post obtained documents the company filed with Cook County tax assessors showing how difficult i
  
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• California utility meets with governor amid bankruptcy case

  05-11-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  California's governor called the chief executive of a troubled utility to his office on Tuesday for a closed-door meeting as the company struggles to emerge from a high-profile bankruptcy while facing criticism for its practice of shutting off power for millions of people to prevent wildfires.A spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom says the first-term governor "spelled out in vivid detail" how the blackouts have prevented people from "refilling lifesaving prescriptions and power breathing machines" an
  
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• Trump OKs wider Syria oil mission, raising legal questions

  05-11-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has approved an expanded military mission to secure an expanse of oil fields across eastern Syria, raising a number of difficult legal questions about whether U.S. troops can launch strikes against Syrian, Russian or other forces if they threaten the oil, U.S. officials said.The decision, coming after a meeting Friday between Trump and his defense leaders, locks hundreds of U.S. troops into a more complicated presence in Syria, despite the president's vow to get America ou
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's wildfire tweets not grounded in facts

  05-11-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is scorching the facts about California's wildfires.The president in recent tweets blamed California and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the fires because of state forest management practices and said California's fires were too expensive and worse than in other states.The bulk of California's forests are also federally managed, and other parts of the U.S. are burning even more.
  
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• Donald Trump offers to send the US army to Mexico in response to Mormon murders

  05-11-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has offered to send in the US army to take on Mexican drugs cartels after at least three women and six children from an American Mormon community based in northern Mexico were killed in an ambush. Mr Trump tweeted that “the United States stands ready, willing and able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,” adding that “sometimes need an army to defeat an army!” He added: “This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United St
  
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• Georgia high court declines to hear condemned man's appeal

  05-11-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  After temporarily halting an execution last week, the Georgia Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a condemned man's appeal or block a new plan to give him a lethal injection next week.Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to be put to death Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson.The state says Cromartie also shot and seriously injured another convenience store clerk a few days earlier.
  
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• Roger Stone leaves Day 1 of trial early over food poisoning

  05-11-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Not long after the session resumed, Stone himself went home early, telling U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson that he had food poisoning.Stone, a longtime Republican provocateur, faces charges related to allegations he sought to collaborate with WikiLeaks to release emails hacked by Russia to damage Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign.The trial in Washington promises to revive the specter of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation as the impeachment inquiry against Trum
  
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• Trump calls for 'war' on cartels as Mormons murdered in Mexico

  05-11-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area -- and said the US stood ready to back its southern neighbor in a "war" on the drugs cartels.Gunmen ambushed the members of the LeBaron family -- a large clan of Mormons who emigrated to Mexico in the late 19th century -- on a rural road Monday between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, which border the United States."If Mexico needs or requests help in cle
  
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• Man killed at Popeyes in fight linked to popular chicken sandwich

  05-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death when a fight broke out in the chicken sandwich line at a Popeye's in Maryland on Monday night following the nationwide return of the popular food item.Police said the fight erupted as one man accused another of cutting the line designated for the chicken sandwich, which the chain brought back on Sunday after selling out of the new item during an initial release earlier this year.
  
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• 'Insidious': New impeachment probe testimony backs up quid pro quo allegations

  05-11-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  One key witness described the pressure on U.S. diplomats in Ukraine as “insidious,” while another said, “This becomes explosive in our domestic politics.”
  
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• Over 11,000 scientists around the world declare a 'climate emergency'

  05-11-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  “Scientists have a moral obligation to warn humanity of any great threat....From the data we have, it is clear we are facing a climate emergency.”
  
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• Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Looks to Kill Quarter-Miles in Dragon Snake Guise

  05-11-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Shelby American applies the Dragon Snake moniker to the tail of the latest GT500 and adds drag-ready power for the SEMA show.
  
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• 2 inmates escape California jail through hole in ceiling

  05-11-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials say two inmates accused of murder escaped a California jail over the weekend through a hole they made in a bathroom ceiling that's in a blind spot from the guards.
  
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• Trump leads Warren 49 percent to 27 percent among swing voters, poll shows

  05-11-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Swing voters are real, The New York Times reports, and they don't seem to be too keen on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) right now. In a new poll conducted alongside Siena college, the Times found that these swing, or "persuadable," voters -- whose most common attribute is that they're ideologically inconsistent -- represent about 15 percent of the electorate. The voters, a majority of whom are men, have a favorable view of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), but tha
  
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• The Air Force Has a Huge Basing Problem

  05-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  To scatter or to concentrate? That is the question.
  
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• Zuckerberg Challenged by Civil Rights Leaders on Misinformation

  05-11-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg was urged by civil rights activists during a dinner at his home to push the company to more aggressively root out election misinformation and voter suppression on its social-media platforms.Civil rights leaders, including Al Sharpton, also asked Zuckerberg to prioritize civil rights more vigorously inside the company. The dinner Monday, which lasted about two hours at Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto, California, home, included dis
  
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• Key Donald Trump impeachment witness changes testimony over Ukraine 'quid pro quo'

  05-11-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A key witness in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry has reversed his evidence, indicating he did believe there was a quid pro quo in which US military aid would be denied to Ukraine unless it publicly launched a corruption investigation into Joe Biden. Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, had initially denied any knowledge of a link between the $391 million in aid and Mr Trump's request that Ukraine launch an inquiry into his political rival. But in a revised statement Mr
  
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• More than a hundred years ago, Mormons — including Mitt Romney’s family — fled to Mexico so they could practice polygamy. They’ve been plagued by cartel violence, infighting, and murder ever since.

  05-11-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The victims, all women and children, were members of La Mora, a Mormon settlement in the Sonora state founded as an offshoot of the Mormon church.
  
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• Ponzi schemer 'King Perry' pleads guilty; had lived lavishly

  05-11-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The fraudster called himself "King Perry," and for a while he lived like royalty. Perry Santillo masterminded a long-running investment scam that collected more than $115 million from 1,000 investors around the country, using some of the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle of cars, casino junkets and houses in multiple states, according to federal securities regulators. At one point, Santillo threw himself a party at a Las Vegas club and had a song written for the occasion — the lyrics of
  
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• Passenger dies at Penn Station despite rescue efforts by doctor on train

  05-11-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The Amtrak Police Department is leading the investigation into the incident.
  
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• McConnell Dismisses Impeachment Updates: ‘It Would Not Lead to a Removal’

  05-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Just minutes after the House released testimony confirming a likely quid pro quo between the Trump Administration and Ukraine, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) told reporters that he will “withhold judgement on the daily revelations, charges, witnesses, and all the rest,” until the case reaches the Senate.McConnell’s comments came as Senate Republicans held a press conference to criticize Democrats for filibustering military funding and to warn Americans of the
  
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• A U.S. diplomat texted Ukraine a script for their president to say about the Biden investigation

  05-11-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  More revelations pertaining to the congressional impeachment inquiry flowed Tuesday after House committees released two more transcripts of testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, the former special representative to Ukraine. Volker also supplied text messages to House investigators, which included an exchange he had with Andrey Yermak, one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's top aides. In the message, Volker sent Yermak what was more or less a scr
  
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• Louis Eppolito: 'Mafia cop' who murdered people for infamous crime family dies in prison

  05-11-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  So-called “mafia cop” Louis Eppolito, who was convicted of murdering several people for the Lucchese crime family and who appeared in the mob movie Goodfellas, has died in federal prison while serving a life sentence. He was 71 years old.Eppolito was convicted of helping to orchestrate eight mob killings roughly between 1986-1990 along with his partner Stephen Caracappa.
  
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• Kuwait conveyed messages from Iran to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain: official

  05-11-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Kuwait’s deputy foreign minister Khaled al-Jarallah said on Tuesday that Kuwait conveyed messages from Iran to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain regarding the situation in the Gulf region, and "until now no answers have emerged".The Iranian Foreign Ministry had said last month that Iran is prepared to hold talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, "with or without the help of a mediator".
  
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• US navy prepares allies to 'protect navigation' in Gulf

  05-11-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is training Gulf allies to "protect navigation" in the region's troubled waterways, as Washington seeks to build an alliance of friendly nations to contain Iran.The US' three-week-long International Maritime Exercise (IMX) that began on October 21 comes after a number of commercial vessels were attacked in the Gulf from May, ratcheting up regional tensions.Washington and other Western powers blamed the incidents on Iran, but Tehran has denied any involvement.
  
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• Top Trump ally admits tying Ukraine aid to Biden investigation

  05-11-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A top ally of President Donald Trump admitted he told a Ukraine official that military aid was contingent on Kiev investigating Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden, testimony released Tuesday showed.In some of the most damning evidence to the House impeachment inquiry of Trump yet, Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, said he told a senior Ukraine official that US military aid would likely not be released until Kiev made clear it would investigate Biden and his son's ties to
  
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• The internet can't get enough of this betrayed cat

  05-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  No animal has ever looked so hurt as this cat watching its owner bond with a new kitten. The gray cat in question was seen absolutely steaming in a viral video, as his owner played with a new, younger, tinier (and, dare we say cuter?) blond. “The look of utter betrayal,” Twitter user @MerielMyers wrote on Monday, using some amazing pun work.
  
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• What Old Warplane Will Become the USAF's New 'Flying Arsenal'?

  05-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The B-52? C-17? Or the stealthy B-1B? Whoever is the winner, the plane will become a flying magazine for fifth-generation fighters, such as the F-35.
  
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• Gordon Sondland Suddenly Recalls the Ukraine Quid Pro Quo He Denied

  05-11-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  OLIVIER DOULIERYGordon Sondland can remember things so clearly now.The U.S. ambassador to the European Union edited his testimony to congressional investigators and now recalls that he told Ukrainian officials they should announce anti-corruption investigations if they wanted to get the U.S. military aid they were promised. That’s according to a transcript of his deposition released Tuesday, which makes it clear that the targets of the investigation were meant to include the company that e
  
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• Gordon Sondland Admits He Told Ukraine Aid Was Tied to Biden Probe

  05-11-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  OLIVIER DOULIERYIn a dramatic addition in his previous testimony, Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, now says he told Ukrainians they should announce anti-corruption investigations if they wanted to get congressionally-authorized U.S. military aid. When the push for the statement was being made, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was trying to persuade the Ukrainians to say they would probe a company whose board included former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. Sondland
  
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• Trump news: Released impeachment testimony describes Ukraine quid pro quo, as White House chief of staff called to testify

  05-11-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A key witness has agreed to cooperate with congress’ impeachment inquiry, as the president faces increasing congressional scrutiny over his behaviour.Lev Parnas, an indicted businessman who has been linked to the Ukraine scandal is prepared to provide testimony and records to congress, his lawyer said.
  
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• Teacher put on leave after video shows him in blackface as rapper Common for Halloween

  05-11-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  As part of a Halloween costume, the teacher mimicked Microsoft commercials in which the rapper showcases the future of artificial intelligence.
  
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• Scientists foresee 'untold suffering', another climate record falls

  05-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 11,000 scientists warned Tuesday of "untold suffering" due to global warming, even as another team said Paris carbon-cutting pledges are "too little, too late".The European Union, meanwhile, confirmed that last month was the warmest October ever registered, fast on heels of a record September and the hottest month ever in July.Three-quarters of national commitments under the Paris climate accord to curb greenhouse gases will not even slow the accelerating pace of global warming, accord
  
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• Gordon Sondland updated his impeachment testimony — with a description of a quid pro quo

  05-11-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  There's been a significant modification to the impeachment testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, The New York Times reports.In four pages of updated testimony released Tuesday, Sondland changed his tune, this time clarifying that he did have knowledge of a possible quid pro quo between the United States and Ukraine, in which military aid to Ukraine may have been withheld until Kyiv carried out anticorruption investigations that President Trump wanted, allegedly fo
  
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• New Research Suggests the Universe May Be a Giant Loop

  05-11-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  New research suggests our universe may actually be a closed loop instead of a never-ending expanse, but the theory has drawn criticism from other cosmologists.
  
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• Stone Faces Jury Pool in Trial for Lying About Clinton Leaks

  05-11-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Roger Stone, the Republican political operative who famously predicted a dump of embarrassing documents on the Clinton campaign in 2016, got his first glimpse on Tuesday of the jurors who’ll decide whether he lied to a congressional committee about his communications with WikiLeaks.The sometime confidant of President Donald Trump also gave the jury pool its first look at him, uncharacteristically silent as he entered the Washington courtroom. The judge has repeatedly ordered
  
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• Russian smuggling linked to 39 bodies found in truck in Britain

  05-11-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Two weeks after the shocking discovery of 39 bodies in a container truck in Britain, police in Vietnam announced another arrest in the case.
  
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• Trump wants people to read one of the most damning pieces of evidence against him in the impeachment inquiry

  05-11-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  One legal expert said Trump is trying to "normalize the call" and his insistence that the conversation was "perfect" amounts to a "Jedi mind trick."
  
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• Republicans break with Trump and Rand on whistleblower unmasking

  05-11-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Standing next to President Trump on Monday night, Sen. Rand Paul called for the media to unmask the Ukraine whistleblower and was cheered by rallygoers in Kentucky.
  
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• PHOTOS: Fire breaks out in busy market in Lagos, Nigeria

  05-11-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Balogun Market, where the fires erupted, is one of Nigeria’s largest textile markets. The Balogun market sprawls across many blocks on Lagos Island. Fires and other disasters are frequent on Lagos Island where the Balogun market is located.
  
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• Parasitic worms found in woman’s eye as scientists warn of ‘emerging’ disease

  05-11-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A parasitic worm typically found in cattle has been discovered in a woman’s eye in what scientists have warned may be an “emerging zoonotic disease” in the U.S. The 68-year-old woman is the second human to have become infected by the parasite.
  
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• Republicans break with Trump and Rand Paul on whistleblower unmasking

  05-11-2019 19:29 via yahoo.com
  Standing aside President Donald Trump on Monday night, Sen. Rand Paul called for the media to unmask the Ukraine whistleblower and was cheered by rallygoers in Kentucky. “Do your job and print his name!” Paul said as the president clapped and looked on approvingly. But on Tuesday morning, some of Paul’s colleagues were cool to the idea of exposing the identity of the person who helped launch the impeachment drive by detailing Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president.
  
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• Top House Democrat Says Removing Trump from Office Ahead of 2020 Election Will Hurt The Party

  05-11-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A top House Democrat is predicting that Democrats will suffer politically if President Trump is impeached and removed from office before the 2020 election.“As much as I believe that President Trump should be removed from office and represents an imminent threat to our democracy and our national security and many other things, politically it’s probably not a good thing to get rid of him,” House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth told The Hill.The Kentucky Democrat explained
  
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• Orphan in adoption scandal says she's a teenager, adoptive parents' claims are false

  05-11-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ukrainian orphan at the center of an adoption scandal in Indiana has broken her silence this week in an interview with Dr. Phil.
  
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• An ABC News anchor was caught on a hot mic saying the network killed her Epstein exposé in 2015 and that she thinks the sex offender was '100%' murdered

  05-11-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The video, which seemed to be shot between news segments in August, was leaked to the right-wing organization Project Veritas and published Tuesday.
  
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• An ABC News anchor was caught on a hot mic saying that the network killed her Epstein exposé in 2015 and that she thinks the sex offender was '100%' murdered

  05-11-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The video, which seemed to be shot between news segments in August, was leaked to the right-wing organization Project Veritas and published Tuesday.
  
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