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• New Jersey man who purposely faked slip and fall at workplace sentenced

  06-11-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man accused of faking a slip and fall at a New Jersey business in January was sentenced Monday to probation, community service and ordered to pay restitution.
  
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• The Latest: Bevin: Recanvass of votes to ensure 'integrity'

  06-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The election results currently show the Republican incumbent trailing Democratic challenger Andy Beshear by a little more than 5,000 votes.At an afternoon news conference, Bevin said his campaign is also in the process of getting affidavits about things that happened or didn't happen during the election.
  
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• Texas cop who shot woman was critiqued for 'tunnel vision'

  06-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Aaron Dean's supervisor commended him in his most recent evaluation, in April 2019, for working at the level of more experienced officers, exhorting him to "keep up the good work," according to records obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram .The records offer new insight into the 35-year-old who is facing a murder charge for shooting 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson through her back window after responding to a call about an open front door.During his 2017 police department job interview, Dean s
  
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• Iraq protesters storm Baghdad bridge, medic killed

  06-11-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Anti-government protesters in Iraq stormed a bridge Wednesday in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens.A medic was killed while aiding demonstrators.The military called on the protesters to stop blocking roads and ports, saying they had cost Iraq $6 billion, and it vowed to arrest those responsible.
  
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• Safety questions still swirl in Paradise year after wildfire

  06-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  There was "no way in hell" Victoria Sinclaire was rebuilding in Paradise.Sinclaire and tens of thousands of others in nearby communities fled the wind-whipped inferno that killed 85 people and incinerated roughly 19,000 homes, businesses and other buildings on Nov. 8, 2018.Despite her vow to stay away, Sinclaire's family was one of the first to rebuild, braving the enduring threat of wildfires, and now, repeated power outages as the nation's largest utility tries to prevent its equipment from sp
  
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• After Democratic legislative gains, Virginia governor vows new gun-control push

  06-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They want us to finally pass commonsense gun safety legislation, so no one has to fear being hurt or killed while at school, at work, or at their place of worship," Northam said hours after the election results.The United States has seen a steady stream of mass shootings in recent years, including the massacre of 58 people at a Las Vegas country music concert in 2017, and a pair of back-to-back shootings this past summer in Texas and Ohio that left 22 dead.
  
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• 'I'd wiped out half a family': F-16 pilot grapples with guilt after a bungled bombing mission in Iraq killed at least 4 civilians

  06-11-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Doing nothing is even worse," the F-16 fighter pilot said. "War is a game that we play because all else has failed."
  
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• Bill Gates addressed his multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein: 'I made a mistake in judgment'

  06-11-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates addressed his ties to Jeffrey Epstein Wednesday, saying that he "made a mistake in judgement" by associating with the convicted sex offender.
  
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• Motive one of the many questions after family is massacred in Mexico

  06-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid the horror, eight children survived the slayings on a road near Rancho La Mora in the Mexican state of Sonora.
  
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• Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape

  06-11-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An international team of researchers says the fossilized partial skeleton of a male ape that lived almost 12 million years ago in the humid forests of what is now southern Germany bears a striking resemblance to modern human bones.The findings "raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans," said Madelaine Boehme of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, who led the research.Boehme, along with researchers from Bulgaria, Germany, Canada
  
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• Top Republican McConnell says Twitter ban on political ads undermines free speech

  06-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday Twitter's basis for its recent decision to ban political advertisements boiled down to the same "misunderstandings" that he said have been used to undermine free speech in the past. Last month, Twitter announced the ad ban https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-ads/twitter-bans-political-ads-facebooks-zuckerberg-defends-them-idUSKBN1X92IK that would be effective from November, winning some praise from Democrats and scorn from U.
  
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• Russia may have taken Israel's most advanced missile from Syria — and could figure out how to defeat it

  06-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts worry that the Russian military could learn how to defeat the missile system or refine its air defense systems.
  
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• GOP files complaint against possible McConnell challenger

  06-11-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Republican Party of Kentucky has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against a radio host who is considering a run to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.The complaint, filed Tuesday, seeks an investigation of Matt Jones, who has announced an exploratory committee to run as a Democrat in next year's Senate race.The complaint alleges Jones is already a candidate and is using his statewide sports radio show to promote himself.
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey captured slain IS leader al-Baghdadi's wife

  06-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.Erdogan made the announcement while delivering a speech in the capital of Ankara but gave no other details.A senior Turkish official, however, said the woman was among a group of 11 Islamic State suspects detained in a police operation in Turkey's Hatay province, near the border with Syria, on June 2, 2018.
  
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• Giuliani lawyers up as impeachment probe deepens

  06-11-2019 22:17 via politico.com
  Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, announced Wednesday he’d obtained new legal representation as part of the House impeachment inquiry and amid federal scrutiny of his business dealings in Ukraine.Giuliani’s decision to hire new lawyers came even as he maintains he did nothing illegal in his efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to open investigations that could have benefited Trump politically.“The investigation I conducted concerning 2016 Ukrai
  
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• Taylor: Giuliani’s Dealings with Ukraine Focused on Biden ‘Irrespective’ of Broader Corruption Concerns

  06-11-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  William Taylor, the former top American diplomat in Ukraine, testified last month to Congress that the "informal" channel of communication between U.S. officials regarding Ukraine policy focused heavily on investigating Joe Biden "irrespective" of whether prioritizing that would contribute to solving Ukraine's corruption problem."The irregular channel seemed to focus on specific issues, specific cases, rather than the regular channel's focus on institution building," Taylor said during a closed-
  
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• Macron warns of 'profound shift' in Iran deal as new report finds Tehran is dominant power in Middle East

  06-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s breach of the 2015 nuclear agreement by enriching uranium at an underground facility “marks a profound shift” which could signal the ultimate collapse of the deal, Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.  The French president, who has worked vigorously to save the nuclear deal since Donald Trump withdrew the US last year, said he was deeply alarmed Iran’s decision to resume enrichment at Fordow, a nuclear facility carved into a mountain. “I think that for t
  
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• Beshear vs. Bevin: Kentucky governor's race could be decided by state legislature

  06-11-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin refused to concede to Andy Beshear, Senate President Robert Stivers said the legislature may get the final say.
  
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• Trump to rally in Louisiana in bid to unseat Democratic gov

  06-11-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  With voting complete in Mississippi and Kentucky, President Donald Trump is turning attention to the last gubernatorial contest of the year, bidding to drive out Louisiana's Democratic governor in a show of political influence ahead of the 2020 elections.The president is to travel Wednesday to the northeastern Louisiana city of Monroe hoping to muster votes for Republican businessman Eddie Rispone and keep Democrat John Bel Edwards from a second term in a crimson state Trump won by 20 percentage
  
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• Bolton thought Trump-Zelensky call would be 'a disaster,' Taylor said: impeachment inquiry latest

  06-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Taylor had testified about the quid pro quo established by the conditioning of military aid on the opening of investigations.
  
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• Wisconsin Assembly to attempt first overrides in 9 years

  06-11-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly was preparing Wednesday to attempt the first veto overrides in nearly a decade, targeting three partial budget vetoes by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.Democrats vowed to block the override attempts scheduled for Thursday.Republican Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke urged support of the overrides Wednesday, saying in a letter to lawmakers that it was a chance to "correct a mistake" made by Evers.
  
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• New poll qualifies Tulsi Gabbard for November debate and locks Amy Klobuchar in for December

  06-11-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A new Quinnipiac University poll out of Iowa on Wednesday surveying likely Democratic caucusgoers brought good tidings for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)The survey cemented Gabbard, who received 3 percent of the vote, as the 10th presidential candidate to qualify for the November Democratic primary debate. Meanwhile, Klobuchar, who had already clinched the November event, secured 5 percent in the survey, becoming the sixth to make the December debate stage. She jo
  
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• Bevin seeks vote recanvass while Beshear starts transition

  06-11-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Gov. Matt Bevin asked Wednesday for a recanvass of Kentucky election results that showed him more than 5,000 votes behind Democrat Andy Beshear, who discounted the challenge and began preparing to take office.Beshear, the state's attorney general, said he's confident in the election outcome, saying any review would show he won the hard-fought campaign."Whatever process that the governor chooses to go down, it's not going to change this overall number of votes," Beshear said at a news
  
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• Warning signs for Donald Trump as suburban voters abandon Republicans in statewide elections

  06-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been handed a warning ahead of his 2020 re-election bid after a string of statewide elections suggested Republican voters in the suburbs are abandoning the party.  In Kentucky, a state Mr Trump won by almost 30 percentage points in the 2016 election, the Democratic candidate for governor appeared to have won a narrow victory over the Republican incumbent. In Virginia, the Democrats flipped a string of Republican seats and now control the state legislature and the governorsh
  
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• Prosecutors charge man with hate crime in acid attack

  06-11-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A 61-year-old white Milwaukee man accused of throwing acid on a Hispanic man's face will be charged with a hate crime, increasing the possible sentence he may receive if convicted, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Prosecutors filed one charge against Clifton Blackwell — first-degree reckless injury — but added the sentencing enhancers of hate crime and use of a dangerous weapon. The victim, Mahud Villalaz, 42, said his attacker approached him near a restaurant Friday night and confro
  
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• AP Explains: Kentucky race for governor too close to call

  06-11-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  As the tally of votes in Kentucky's race for governor drew to a close late Tuesday night, Democrat Andy Beshear held a lead of a few thousand votes over Republican incumbent Matthew Bevin out of more than 1.4 million votes counted.Beshear's lead of a little over 5,000 votes is less than 0.4 percentage points.There is no mandatory recount law in Kentucky.
  
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• Donald Trump's son tweets alleged name of whistleblower who triggered impeachment inquiry

  06-11-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s son has tweeted the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint about the US president’s behaviour towards Ukraine kick-started the impeachment inquiry. For days now conservative websites have been publishing stories claiming to have discovered the identity of the CIA officer who filed a complaint about Mr Trump’s behaviour.  Amid a backdrop of growing partisan attacks on the whistleblower’s credibility, the president’s eldest son, Donald T
  
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• Trump Boasts of GOP Success Confirming His Judicial Nominees

  06-11-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump celebrated Republicans’ record on confirming federal judges on Wednesday, saying his administration has done better than any other in terms of “quality and quantity” of judges appointed to the bench.“We have a lot of great warriors in our party,” Trump said during an event at the White House, calling out Republican senators who have helped move the nominations through.The president’s comments came as the U.S. Senate is set
  
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• Johnson’s Election Troubles Grow as U.K. Minister Quits Cabinet

  06-11-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Things keep going wrong for Boris Johnson as he seeks to win a Conservative majority in the U.K.’s Dec. 12 general election.The prime minister’s bid was rocked by a cabinet resignation on Wednesday, just minutes before he launched the campaign. Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns quit after reports he knew about a former aide’s role in the collapse of a rape trial.The U.K.&
  
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• Sen. Tom Cotton says the only answer to heavily armed Mexican cartels is more bullets and bigger bullets

  06-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  If the Mexican government can't protect U.S. citizens in Mexico, the U.S. may have to take matters into our own hands, says Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  
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• Trump attempts to explain why candidate he backed suffered defeat in Kentucky race

  06-11-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump supporter and incumbent Republican candidate Matt Bevin lost yesterday’s election for Kentucky governor to Democrat Andy Bashear.Mr Trump supported Mr Bevin’s campaign for governor, hosting a campaign rally the night before the election.
  
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• Bill addresses pensions, health care for miners, retirees

  06-11-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is co-sponsoring a bill with West Virginia's two U.S. senators and others aimed at preserving the pensions of about 92,000 retired coal miners, as well as the health-care benefits of another 13,000 working miners.Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia announced the bill Wednesday.McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in the statement that he raised the issue of protecting miner pensions and health benefits with President
  
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• The Wrong Defense

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump’s impeachment defense isn’t working.True to his smash-mouth style, honed in years of litigation and tabloid wars in New York City, Trump has insisted he did nothing wrong, in fact that his call with Ukrainian president Zelensky was “perfect.” His most loyal allies have taken up this line, and supporters wearing “read the transcript” T-shirts have been arrayed behind Trump at his rallies.The problem with this defense on the merits is that the ca
  
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• Official: 2 escaped inmates arrested at US-Mexico border

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Two murder suspects who escaped from a jail on California's central coast eluded an intense manhunt, traveled hundreds of miles and crossed into Mexico but were arrested trying to walk back into the United States, authorities said Wednesday.Jonathan Salazar, 20, and Santos Fonseca, 21, were arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at a port of entry in San Ysidro — the nation's largest border crossing — early Wednesday, said Monterey County Sheriff's Office Capt.
  
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• Get Your History Book Out: The 5 Battles that Created India

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A military history from elephants to cannons.
  
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• Iranians plead guilty after arrest for spying on dissidents

  06-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men arrested last year for spying on Iranian dissidents in the United States have pleaded guilty to charges in a Washington court, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.Iranian-US dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian resident of California, tried to penetrate the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group of Iranian dissidents in exile, in New York and Washington from 2017-2018, according to the department.Doostdar traveled to the United States form Iran on thr
  
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• Great Sound Bar Speakers at Every Price

  06-11-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Most of the 200-plus sets in our TV ratings earn no more than a decent score for sound. That’s fine for routine sitcoms, talk shows, and the like. But for movies and TV dramas, you might want a b...
  
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• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard clashes with 'View' co-host

  06-11-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, a 2020 candidate who as of now is still running as a Democrat, returned to "The View" for the third time on Wednesday morning and immediately confronted co-host Joy Behar for accusing her of “being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or a useful idiot, ... which basically means that I am naive or lack intelligence.”
  
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• The defense secretary begged Trump not to pardon accused and convicted war criminals

  06-11-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has been tweeting about intervening in the war crimes cases of a Navy SEAL, an accused Green Beret, and a convicted Army lieutenant.
  
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• Huge DNA Database Just Waiting for Big Ol' Hack

  06-11-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's the one police used to catch the Golden State Killer.
  
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• House GOP Lawyer Tried to Out Whistleblower in Bill Taylor Interview

  06-11-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex WongThe lead impeachment inquiry lawyer for House Republicans named the alleged Trump-Ukraine whistleblower during a deposition with a key State Department witness. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor told the lawyer that he did not know the person and had not had conversations with him. But the fact that he was asked at all underscores what appears to be a longstanding strategy by committee Republicans to insert his name into the public record. The name of the individual ultimat
  
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• Gordon Ramsey Drives Dozens Of His Insane Cars On Track

  06-11-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  This includes his rare McLaren Senna,Gordon Ramsey is one of the biggest celebrity chef's in existence and is a household name spoken in living rooms across the world. Sure, the British chef is known for his no-filter lashings toward contestants on Hell's Kitchen and for his five-star restaurants found in major cities, but he is also a well-known car guy with quite the collection.For a day full of fun with family and friends, Ramsey heads to the Brands Hatch racetrack with a dozen of his cars in
  
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• The Trump impeachment is all about an allegation of quid pro quo. But what does that mean?

  06-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Quid pro quo. It's hard to say and a bit confusing to understand, but it's the phrase at the center of a contentious impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
  
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• Man arrested in Texas Halloween party shooting freed days after cop said he was '100%' guilty

  06-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Brandon Gonzales, a suspect arrested in the deadly shooting at a Halloween and homecoming party in East Texas, has been released from jail.
  
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• White House expects two new hires to bolster Trump impeachment defense: official

  06-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is expected to recruit two advisers to take a more aggressive posture in defending President Donald Trump in the congressional impeachment inquiry over his dealings with Ukraine, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.With the first public hearings https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/trump-impeachment-probe-to-enter-critical-public-phase-next-week-idUSKBN1XG1KC set for next week in the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives, the White House
  
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• Canadian man who lost eye after police beating says he had 'no chance to fight back'

  06-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Dafonte Miller speaks publicly for first time about 2016 incident in which two white men allegedly assaulted himDespite being off-duty at the time, Michael Theriault told three friends he was a police officer, and said he could ask them whatever he wanted. Photograph: Chris Helgren/ReutersA Canadian man who was beaten so badly by an off-duty police officer and his brother that he lost his eye, said he had “no chance to fight back” in the violent encounter that left him fearful he wou
  
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• Bill Taylor testimony transcript released in impeachment inquiry

  06-11-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Wednesday released a transcript of their closed-door interview with the top former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor.
  
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• The Latest: Mexico official says suspect not tied to attack

  06-11-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican officials say a suspect who was arrested in the border city of Agua Prieta with assault rifles was not involved in the killing of three American women and six children.Alfonso Durazo, a public security official, said Wednesday that preliminary information indicates that the suspect who was detained Tuesday is not linked to the attack.Criminal investigators in northern Mexico earlier said the suspect was under investigation for a possible connection to the killings.
  
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• Why offshoots of the Mormon church fled to Mexico

  06-11-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A deadly ambush in Mexico highlights the long history of fundamentalist members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country.
  
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• Graham now says Trump's Ukraine policy was too 'incoherent' for quid pro quo

  06-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after saying he wouldn’t bother to read the testimony, Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he did read it, and his conclusion is that the Trump administration’s Ukraine policy was too "incoherent" for it to have orchestrated the quid pro quo at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
  
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