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• 'My worst nightmare.' Ex-Trump aide describes concern on Ukraine policy - impeachment probe latest

  08-11-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The transcripts of impeachment testimony from Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and former NSC Russia expert Fiona Hill were released Friday
  
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• Lawyer: Bolton has knowledge about Ukraine not yet public

  08-11-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former national security adviser John Bolton was "part of many relevant meetings and conversations" pertaining to the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump that are not yet public, his lawyer said Friday.Charles Cooper made the revelation in a letter that suggests Bolton will appear before Congress only if a judge orders him to do so.The letter, addressed to the top lawyer for the House of Representatives, seeks to distinguish Bolton and former deputy Charles Kupperman from other c
  
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• The Berlin Wall: Then and now — 30 years later

  08-11-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nov. 9, 2019, will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which quickly led to the collapse of the communist East German government. Revolutions across other communist countries of the East bloc soon followed.
  
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• White House official says he heard U.S. envoy push for investigation of Bidens

  08-11-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An official on the White House's National Security Council said he heard the U.S. ambassador to the European Union explicitly press Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son, according to a transcript released on Friday by Democrats leading the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. Alexander Vindman, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Ukraine expert on the NSC, said Ambassador Gordon Sondland made it clear in a July 10 meeting at the White House that the investigations of t
  
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• Latest: Nurse charged in cognitively impaired woman's death

  08-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A criminal complaint says a cognitively impaired Illinois woman whose body was dumped in southeastern Wisconsin in 1999 suffered burns, abrasions, lacerations and broken bones at the hands of a nurse who employed her as a nanny and housekeeper.The victim's identity had been a mystery since her body was found in a Racine County cornfield, but officials on Friday identified her as 23-year-old Peggy Lynn Johnson.Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said Friday that Johnson met La Roche when
  
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• 'Fish fence' being tested in Kentucky to stop Asian carp

  08-11-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kentucky officials are hoping a noise-making, bubbling "fish fence" will help stop the spread of destructive Asian carp.At Kentucky's Barkley Dam on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others gathered to commission the new bioacoustic fish fence near a lock at the bottom of the dam.The $7 million, three-year field trial will help wildlife officials determine whether the device effectively keeps Asian carp from entering the lock and moving upstream.
  
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• The Ocean Cleanups Latest Invention Collects 110,000 Pounds of Trash From Rivers Each Day

  08-11-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Dutch non-profit helmed by Boyan Slat has the lofty goal of reducing 90-percent of plastic trash in the world’s oceans by 2040
  
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• Fiona Hill Details Relationship with Christopher Steele, Disparages Steele Dossier

  08-11-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During her testimony, former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill revealed that she had a three-year working relationship with Christopher Steele, the former British spy contracted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to produce the infamous Steele Dossier, but doubted the accuracy of his dossier, according to a transcript published Friday.“He was my counterpart when I was the director, the national intelligence officer,” Hill told Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio). &ldq
  
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• Family traveling to victims' funeral stop at scene of Mexico ambush, find bullet casings

  08-11-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Family members scouted the site, locating several bullet casings they believe were from the attack, in which gunmen killed nine people on Monday.
  
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• County resolution threatens journalists with prosecution

  08-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least one Wisconsin county official wants to warn any journalists who cover the upcoming release of a regional water quality study: Publish the county's news release summarizing the findings in its entirety without any alterations or risk criminal prosecution.The Lafayette County Conservation Committee plans to vote Tuesday on the resolution, which would warn reporters to print the upcoming news release without any edits or alterations or face prosecution.It isn't clear which committee member
  
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• Wisconsin Guard whistleblower says he's being discharged

  08-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Wisconsin National Guard sergeant said Friday that his superiors have decided to discharge him from the service and deny him retirement benefits in retaliation for complaining about sexual misconduct in his unit.Wisconsin Air National Guard Master Sgt. Jay Ellis' complaints about sexual assault and sexual harassment within the 115th Fighter Wing last year sparked two federal investigations."I just think it's funny how there is so much in the national news right now about whistleblowers, but no
  
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• How Trump's Visit to an Alabama Football Game Caused Controversy Before He Even Arrived

  08-11-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Students at the University of Alabama were warned not to be "disruptive" while Trump attends the Alabama-LSU game.
  
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• The Latest: Venezuela's Maduro celebrates Da Silva's release

  08-11-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is celebrating former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's release from jail as a step toward rebuilding unity in South America.Da Silva left the jail where he had been detained since April 2018 after a judge ordered his release.The judge's order followed a Supreme Court ruling that a person can be imprisoned only after all appeals to higher courts have been exhausted.
  
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• Wisconsin governor returns 'holiday tree' name to evergreen

  08-11-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has gone back to calling the evergreen on display at the state Capitol a holiday tree, reversing his predecessor who declared it a Christmas tree.The state Department of Administration places a huge evergreen in the Capitol rotunda every year ahead of Christmas.Politicians called it a Christmas tree until 1985, when they began referring to it as a holiday tree to avoid perceptions that they were endorsing religion.
  
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• Impeachment inquiry: Fiona Hill tells lawmakers she's received death threats

  08-11-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former top Russia expert at White House says harassment reached a peak after she agreed to testify in impeachment hearingsFiona Hill arrives for a closed door meeting as part of the House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, 4 November 2019.Photograph: Andrew Harnik/APThe former top Russia expert at the White House has said she has been subjected to a campaign of harassment and intimidation, including death threats, which reached a new peak after she agreed to tes
  
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• Steal Your Friend's Netflix Password While You Still Can

  08-11-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Streaming companies are finally ready to crack down on account sharing.
  
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• The Latest: Trump aims to pit black voters vs. immigrants

  08-11-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump is trying to pit the black community against immigrants, saying Democrats care more for people who have come to the U.S. illegally than African Americans. Trump says public benefits should be protected for American citizens and says today's Democratic Party has no idea how to help black Americans. Trump is trying to generate black support during a campaign event in Atlanta to launch a black voters coalition.
  
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• The Latest: GOP leader cautions Bevin about election dispute

  08-11-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Kentucky Senate's top leader says Republican Gov. Matt Bevin should concede to Democrat Andy Beshear if a recanvass doesn't significantly alter the vote count from Tuesday.Senate President Robert Stivers said Friday that Bevin's request for a recanvass of election results is appropriate.The recanvass is set for Nov. 14 to verify the vote count.
  
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• Factbox: The Trump impeachment inquiry: What we've learned so far

  08-11-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Testimony by Trump administration officials past and present, a rough transcript of the phone call released by the White House, texts between U.S. diplomats and other documents have largely confirmed the whistleblower's account.Trump denies wrongdoing and says he is the victim of a witch hunt by Democrats.- A rough transcript of the call on July 25 between Trump and Zelenskiy confirmed the whistleblower's most damaging allegation: that Trump asked Zelenskiy to investigate whether Biden, while vi
  
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• Intelligence community unveils plans for disclosing foreign electoral interference; promises no 'partisan politics'

  08-11-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New guidelines are designed to enable the prompt disclosure of information about threats.
  
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• A former NSC official revealed stunning details of a meeting at the heart of Trump's quid pro quo that ended with John Bolton storming out

  08-11-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You go and tell Eisenberg that I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up on this," Bolton said, according to Hill.
  
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• The B-21 Stealth Bomber is Almost Here (And It Will Be Glorious)

  08-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stealth technology is being pursued by a determined U.S. Air Force.
  
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• Testimony from Alexander Vindman and Fiona Hill caps a devastating week for Trump

  08-11-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The week ended on a sour note for President Trump, with the public release of testimony by two national security council staffers—one current, one former—who expressed alarm over the way Trump officials pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for political help at home.
  
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• Trump plan to save Syria's oil is shaping up to be a public-relations dumpster fire

  08-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Telegraphing to the world that your only interest in the Middle East is protecting oil is bulletin-board recruiting material," a US senator said.
  
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• Britain faces 'waste battery mountain' as electric car use surges

  08-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain faces a new waste crisis from a “ battery mountain” caused by the growing use of electric cars, according to an academic study. Researchers have calculated that the one million electric cars sold in 2017 alone will produce 250,000 metric tons, or half a million cubic metres, of unprocessed battery pack waste when they reach the end of their lives in seven to ten years’ time, enough to fill 67 Olympic swimming pools.  At present, the one million cars account for jus
  
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• Nicotine vaping age to go up as CDC calls discovery of THC additive in lungs a 'breakthrough'

  08-11-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said the legal age for vaping probably will be raised to 21 nationally when the much-anticipated rule on flavored vaping is released next week.
  
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• Mexican Mormons accuse local government of 'complicity' in massacre of nine relatives

  08-11-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A member of the Mormon family murdered in Mexico has accused the local authorities of complicity in the killings, mocking their claims that they took 10 hours to arrive on the scene because they didn’t have enough petrol. Julian LeBaron, who has urged Mexico’s president to accept US offers for help in investigating Monday’s massacre, said he had no faith in the local authorities. “The governments of Sonora and Chihuahua states are complicit in this murder,” he said.
  
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• Greta Thunberg shuts down heckler at climate rally

  08-11-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I think if you want to speak with me personally, maybe you can do it later,” the 16-year-old Swedish activist said to a woman who tried to interrupt her speech in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday.
  
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• Mick Mulvaney: new testimony draws Trump chief of staff into Ukraine scandal

  08-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress hears Mulvaney approved Trump-Zelenskiy meeting on condition Ukraine announced investigations tied to Joe BidenMick Mulvaney in October. Mulvaney himself said in a press conference the White House had conditioned military aid on investigations in Ukraine. He later denied he had said that. Photograph: Leah Millis/ReutersDonald Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney approved a White House meeting with the president for the Ukrainian president on condition Ukraine announced inve
  
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• Republicans Move Jim Jordan to Intel Committee ahead of Public Impeachment Hearings

  08-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican leadership have assigned Rep. Jim Jordan to serve on the House Intelligence Committee during the open impeachment hearings against President Trump next week.The Ohio congressman is currently the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee and has attended most of the closed-door impeachment hearings so far, but as a member of the Intelligence Committee he will be able to question witnesses.Jordan will temporarily replace Rep. Rick Crawford, (R., Ark) on the intellige
  
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• Trumpkins Accused Him of Being the Whistleblower. They Were Wrong.

  08-11-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Obama White House staffer R. David Edelman woke up Thursday to a bizarre new reality: many people on the pro-Trump internet were convinced that he was the anonymous whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment proceedings. And then the death threats started. “There were people threatening real physical harm, alluding to the fact that I will not live very long,” Edelman said. “That was obviously upsetting for my family.”Edelman, who is not the whistleblow
  
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• Bolton's lawyer says the ex-Trump adviser knows of undisclosed Ukraine meetings, conversations

  08-11-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One day after John Bolton failed to appear voluntarily before the House impeachment panel, his lawyer hints that Bolton could be a star witness.
  
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• Judge stays 'Texas 7' gang member execution for second time

  08-11-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Thursday stayed the execution of a "Texas 7" gang member who was convicted in the killing of a police officer because the state has refused to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the death chamber.
  
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• Bolton knows about meetings not yet investigated, lawyer says

  08-11-2019 21:17 via politico.com
  
  Former national security adviser John Bolton has knowledge of “many relevant meetings and conversations” related to the House’s impeachment inquiry that have not yet been disclosed to investigators, his attorney said Friday.In a letter to House General Counsel Douglas Letter, Charles Cooper underscored the importance of Bolton’s appearance before impeachment investigators, but emphasized his view that a federal court should decide whether Bolton must comply with the House
  
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• Why Is Lindsey Graham Clinging to the ‘No Quid Pro Quo’ Defense?

  08-11-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When the written record of President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky was released, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was adamant that there was no quid pro quo in which President Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless Zelensky opened official investigations into the family of Joe Biden and a conspiracy theory about the 2016 U.S. presidential election.“From my point of view, to impeach any president over a phone call like
  
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• US wants UN to take up Dalai Lama succession: envoy

  08-11-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States wants the United Nations to take up the Dalai Lama's succession in an intensifying bid to stop China from trying to handpick his successor, an envoy said after meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader.Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said he spoke at length about the succession issue with the 84-year-old Dalai Lama last week in the monk's home-in-exile of Dharamsala, India."I would hope that the UN would take the issue up," Brownback to
  
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• An upcoming cold 1-2 punch could hit your bank account, too

  08-11-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A motorist struggles to free his sedan after sliding off Interstate 70 in Aurora, Colo., Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)The parts of the United States that have been experiencing an extended warm fall are about to receive a brutally cold 1-2 punch this weekend and into next week.A weak storm will first dive southward from Canada into the central U.S. this weekend as temperatures continue to nosedive, with freezing weather predicted to take aim nearly all the way to
  
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• Rockets hit Iraq base with US troops; no word on casualties

  08-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A barrage of Katyusha rockets targeted an Iraqi air base that houses American troops south of the city of Mosul on Friday, two security officials said.The rocket fire appears to have originated in Mosul and struck the Iraqi army base in Qayyara, about 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Mosul, where a U.S.-led coalition is helping Iraqi forces battle remnants of the Islamic State group.Iraq announced victory over IS two years ago, but the extremist group is still active through sleeper cells and f
  
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• Bloodhound aims to be world's fastest car in South Africa

  08-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An earthbound jet known as the Bloodhound became one of the world's 10 fastest cars this week, on target for its goal to set a new land speed record."The feeling in this car is fantastic," driver Andy Green told The Associated Press on Friday, days after the Bloodhound hit 501 mph (806 kph) in South Africa's northern desert.Bloodhound's next goal is to reach 550 mph (885 kph), possibly in the coming week.
  
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• Trump's former Russia adviser 'shocked' at Ukraine phone call: 'It really was my worst fears and nightmares'

  08-11-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump‘s former Russia expert said she was shocked to read the partial transcript of his phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart because it was “pretty blatant” he was asking for his political opponents to be investigated.Fiona Hill told the impeachment hearings the call “really was kind of my worst fears and nightmares” in terms of being an effort “to subvert the national security process” and was “basically turning a White House meeting i
  
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• Vindman Burns Trump Booster John Solomon: ‘All the Key Elements’ of His Reporting ‘Were False’

  08-11-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  REUTERSImpeachment witness transcripts released Friday revealed that right-wing journalist John Solomon’s outsized role in jumpstarting Trumpworld’s Ukraine narrative was based on lies and false information.Solomon, who until recently was a columnist and executive vice president at The Hill, has found himself entangled in the impeachment inquiry as his Ukraine-related articles and frequent appearances on pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show helped fuel the president&rsqu
  
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• Rep. Matt Gaetz barged into Fiona Hill deposition

  08-11-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to transcripts released by House Democrats, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, in a heated exchange with Rep. Adam Schiff, was told to leave the closed-door Fiona Hill deposition.
  
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• Amazon just announced some of its Black Friday deals—and they're awesome

  08-11-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Time to start assembling your Black Friday shopping plan, because Amazon just revealed some of its deals for Kindles, Fire TV, Echo, Ring, and more
  
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• White House Official Testifies that Mulvaney Signed Off on Quid Pro Quo with Ukraine

  08-11-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill has testified that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney approved a quid-pro-quo in which President Trump would meet with his Ukranian counterpart if he first agreed to open investigations that would benefit Trump politically.Hill's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was released on Friday along with the testimony of NSC official Alexander Vindman."Ambassador [to the European Union Gordon] Sondland, in front of the Ukra
  
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• Las Vegas bans homeless people from sleeping rough if shelter beds available

  08-11-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Las Vegas has passed a law banning sleeping on the street if there are places in homeless shelters available.  To combat the growing number of homeless people in the city, the new law will impose punishments of a $1,000 fine and six months in prison. The ordinance - the latest in a series of measures by US cities to grapple with rising vagrancy - comes into force on Sunday, but its criminal provisions will not be applied until February. Sleeping on the streets of the gambling hub will only
  
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• Verdict due in landmark Indian holy site dispute

  08-11-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  India braced Saturday for a Supreme Court ruling over a holy site contested for centuries by Hindus and Muslims, which in 1992 sparked some of the deadliest sectarian violence since independence.Police were put on alert nationwide ahead of the ruling, with thousands of extra security personnel deployed and schools closed in and around the northern city of Ayodhya, centre of the spat.Hardliners among India's majority Hindus, including supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata
  
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• Impeachment transcript details intrusion by GOP Rep. Gaetz

  08-11-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff did not take kindly to a protest waged by Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.
  
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• Thunberg speech gets interrupted by rallygoer

  08-11-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a climate change rally in Charlotte, N.C., activist Greta Thunberg’s speech was interrupted by a rally participant. Thunberg responded by saying, “I think if you want to speak with me personally, maybe you can do it later.”
  
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• Polish cabinet reshuffle boosts control over state companies

  08-11-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Poland's nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party announced its governing cabinet lineup on Friday after winning a parliamentary election last month, setting out plans to consolidate control over state-owned utilities and financial companies.Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, a former banker, kept his job, but PiS dissolved the energy ministry formerly led by coal-advocate Krzysztof Tchorzewski, raising questions about the future of Poland's energy policy.The responsibilities for energy and minin
  
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• Trump officials considered resigning en masse in 'midnight self-massacre,' according to new book

  08-11-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior officials working for President Trump’s administration considered resigning en masse in a “midnight self-massacre” in protest against his behavior, an anonymous government official has said in a new book, according to the Washington Post.
  
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