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• Racial discrimination case against cable giant Comcast gets tentative support from Supreme Court

  13-11-2019 23:59
  
  The Supreme Court appeared likely to let a racial bias claim against the nation's largest cable TV company go forward, though it may be hard to prove.
  
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• Ex-Missouri police chief who rescued baby indicted

  13-11-2019 23:48
  
  A federal grand jury has indicted a former northwest Missouri police chief accused of striking a handcuffed man after the chief helped rescue the man’s infant daughter from a pond.Federal prosecutors said 50-year-old Greg Hallgrimson, of Kansas City, was charged Wednesday with violating the man’s civil rights.The indictment identifies the man only as “J.Z.” but Hallgrimson had previously been accused of using excessive force against Jonathon Zicarelli.
  
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• South African Airways cancels flights ahead of strike

  13-11-2019 23:47
  
  South African Airways (SAA) said Wednesday it was cancelling all its flights as thousands of workers vowed to press ahead with an indefinite strike the following day, after the troubled national carrier announced a major retrenchment plan.The looming shutdown forced SAA to announce in a late-night statement on Wednesday that it "has cancelled nearly all its domestic, regional and international flights scheduled for Friday, November 15 and Saturday, November 16"."We are embarking on the mother of
  
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• Powell’s Warning to Congress About the Next Recession

  13-11-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had a message for Congress in his testimony Wednesday before the Joint Economic Committee: The Fed won’t be able to fight the next recession all by itself — it’s going to need help from Congress.Powell is undoubtedly correct that fiscal policy will have to play a major role in any response to the next economic crisis. But he should also be realistic about what it can achieve. The Fed will also need a bett
  
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• Trump returns to Louisiana, trying to flip governor’s seat

  13-11-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leaving a Washington embroiled in an impeachment drama, President Donald Trump returns to the Louisiana governor’s race Thursday, testing his ability to sway an election by trying to oust a Democratic incumbent.Democrat John Bel Edwards is vying for a second term against little-known Republican political donor Eddie Rispone.Trump plans a Thursday night rally for Rispone in north Louisiana’s Bossier City.
  
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• Germany, France, UK, condemn North Korean missile launches

  13-11-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany, France and Britain on Wednesday strongly condemned the dozen sets of ballistic missile launches by North Korea since May and urged Pyongyang to engage in “meaningful negotiations” with the United States on its nuclear and missile programs.The three European countries said the tests, “including what appears to be a medium-range missile launched from underwater,” undermine regional security and violate unanimously adopted Security Council resolutions.
  
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• Erdogan says he returned Trump’s threatening letter on Syria invasion

  13-11-2019 23:36
  
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey dismissed questions on Wednesday about why he ignored President Donald Trump’s written demands to call off his invasion of northern Syria, saying he returned the letter to Trump.“This letter was re-presented to Mr. President this afternoon,” Erdogan said in a joint news conference alongside Trump at the White House.Erdogan did not directly answer a reporter’s question about why he ignored Trump’s request and proceeded with th
  
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• Fox News Host Whines He Can’t Name Whistleblower on TV, Names Him on Radio Instead

  13-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAUL LOEBFirst it was a Fox News guest. Then it was a Fox News contributor. And now a Fox News host has named the alleged whistleblower at the heart of the Trump impeachment inquiry—albeit only during his non-Fox radio show.During Tuesday evening’s broadcast of The Mark Levin Show on Westwood One radio, host Mark Levin—who also hosts a weekend Fox News program—repeatedly named the person right-wing media has identified as the whistleblower, calling on the person to come o
  
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• ‘Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself’

  13-11-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was just one more segment to fill out the hour, and thereby fill the long 24 hours of Saturday’s cable news on November 2. Or so it seemed. Navy SEAL Mike Ritland was on the Fox News program Watters World to talk to Jesse Watters about trained German shepherds like the one used in the raid that found al-Baghdadi. As the segment was wrapping up, he asked if he could sneak in a little “PSA real quick” The host nodded genially, “Real quick.” Ritland went into a stan
  
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• The Latest: Officer says Miranda failure was a mistake

  13-11-2019 23:15
  
  A police officer who obtained a confession from the suspect in the disappearance and death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts says she made an honest mistake by initially failing to read him his legal rights.Officer Pamela Romero testified Wednesday that she tried to read Cristhian Bahena Rivera his Miranda warnings from memory during the Aug. 20, 2018, interrogation.After several more hours of questioning, Rivera led police officers to a cornfield where they discovered Tibbetts&rsquo
  
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• Eleven charged in major drug ring bust: Country's largest seizure of carfentanil, police said

  13-11-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police said it was the country's largest seizure of carfentanil, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
  
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• Trump impeachment hearings: 5 key takeaways from the first day

  13-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first day of public impeachment hearings resulted in new evidence supporting the Democrats’ case that President Trump leveraged U.S. aid to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
  
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• The Navy Has Spent $13 Billion On An Aircraft Carrier That Can't Deploy

  13-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The delay could further inhibit the ability of the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet to deploy carriers.
  
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• The Wall Street Journal Profiles 1966 Ford GT40 Mk. II P/1046

  13-11-2019 22:49
  
  This car is owned by Rob Kauffman, who also owns classic car dealer RK Motors. With the release of the Ford V Ferrari movie nearing, interest in the Ford GT40 is absolutely skyrocketing. The Wall Street Journal recently profiled the 1966 Ford GT40 Mk. II P/1046 owned by Rob Kauffman of RK Motors. It was one of the three cars to dethrone Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans. How it ended up in Kauffman’s hands is a story worth telling.All this attention is getting the story of Ford running Ferrari o
  
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• Deadly Arctic blast breaks records set more than 100 years ago

  13-11-2019 22:47
  
  It was literally freezing in Florida and Alabama and parts of Maine, Michigan and New York were digging out a foot of snow. Blame an Arctic air mass.
  
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• ABC Chief Political Analyst: GOP Rep. Stefanik a ‘Perfect Example’ of the Failures of Electing Someone ‘Because They Are a Woman’

  13-11-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Matthew Dowd, chief political analyst for ABC News, suggested that Representative Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) was elected due to her gender after taking issue with Stefanik's line of questioning during the first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday.“Elise Stefanik is a perfect example of why just electing someone because they are a woman or a millennial doesn’t necessarily get you the leaders we need,” Dowd tweeted of Stefanik — the youngest Republican woman ever elected
  
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• Feds’ closing argument: Roger Stone made the House Russia report ‘not accurate’

  13-11-2019 22:41
  
  Roger Stone’s lies haven’t just put him at risk of being sent to federal prison.Jury deliberations are expected to begin Thursday morning in Stone’s case.“Stone not only tried, he succeeded in impeding the committee’s investigation,” Kravis said.
  
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• Trump aides retaliated against State staffer of Iranian descent, probe finds

  13-11-2019 22:40 via politico.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s political appointees inappropriately retaliated against a career civil servant at the State Department in part because of her ethnic background, her perceived political views, and the fact that she was in government during prior administrations, a federal watchdog says.In a report to be released publicly later this week, State Department Inspector General Steve Linick recommends that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo consider disciplining officials found to have viola
  
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• Three New York men charged in major drug ring bust: Country's largest seizure of carfentanil, police said

  13-11-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police said it was the country's largest seizure of carfentanil, a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
  
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• Venezuelan migrants need $1.35 bln in 2020 for basic services: NGOs

  13-11-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Funding of $1.35 billion will be needed to provide healthcare, education, nutrition and other services to Venezuelan migrants and to help their hosts in 2020, non-governmental organizations said on Wednesday.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said they would start a coordination and fundraising effort for next year for projects aimed at migrants and host communities in 17 countries.For European donors, the needs of Ven
  
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• AOC petitions to remove Stephen Miller from White House after white nationalist links leaked

  13-11-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is circulating a petition demanding the swift termination of senior White House advisor Stephen Miller following the revelation of hundreds of his emails promoting a white nationalist agenda and far-right, anti-immigrant ideology.She joins a growing chorus among Democrats calling for Mr Miller's resignation after documents obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center show that in the months leading up to Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, Mr Miller emailed righ
  
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• Electric Cars and Floods Stall Johnson’s U.K. Election Drive

  13-11-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson found himself arguing that Britain’s future was in making electric cars, just as Tesla announced they’d chosen Germany to build a factory over the U.K. He’s having that sort of campaign.The prime minister had started the day visiting flood victims in Northern England. They weren’t as pleased to see him as he might have hoped. “What more can we do?” he asked one woman. “It’s a little bit too late now,” she replied.
  
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• Pirates attacked an Italian ship off the coast of Mexico — the latest sign of a growing criminal industry

  13-11-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There's big money in stealing fuel in Mexico, and the thieves are willing to go offshore in order to find new targets.
  
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• Trump contradicts aides and says troops in Syria 'only for oil'

  13-11-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * President makes remarks as he hosts Recep Tayyip Erdoğan* Trump’s own officials say military is fighting IsisTrump meets with Erdoğan in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photograph: Evan Vucci/APDonald Trump has insisted that the US military presence in Syria is “only for the oil”, contradicting his own officials who have insisted that the remaining forces were there to fight Isis.Trump made his remarks while hosting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, just over a month after t
  
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• George Conway Blasts GOP’s ‘Incoherent’ Hearing Performance in MSNBC Debut

  13-11-2019 22:16
  
  George Conway—conservative lawyer, Trump critic and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway—got the first word on MSNBC after Wednesday’s impeachment hearing finally wrapped up just after 3:30 p.m. ET. And he did not paint a pretty picture for Republicans. “Yes, that George Conway,” Brian Williams said, introducing the new pundit. “I don't think the Republicans made much headway there,” Conway said. “You saw some non-partisan pr
  
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• Trump impeachment: Republican strategy relies on conspiracy theories — and calling the whole thing boring

  13-11-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While Democrats have focused on evidence provided by the two witnesses called before the House Intelligence Committee’s first public impeachment hearing, Republicans had a much different strategy.Instead of paying heed to observable realities, Republicans focused almost immediately on undermining the whole process, and giving national airtime to baseless conspiracy theories and distractions akin to the type of opinion coverage Americans have come to know well from conservative media person
  
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• McConnell Shuts Down Early Dismissal Option for Impeachment Articles, Says Senate Will ‘Have to Have a Trial’

  13-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday shut down an option floated by some Republicans to quickly dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump, saying he fully expects the matter to go to trial in the Senate."I don't think there's any question that we have to take up the matter. The rules of impeachment are very clear, we'll have to have a trial," McConnell said as the first public impeachment hearing was underway before the House Intelligence Committee."My own view
  
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• ‘I’m horrified, I’m appalled’: Kellyanne Conway’s lawyer husband, George, tears into President Trump over impeachment hearings

  13-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As senior diplomats William Taylor and George Kent gave their testimony before House investigators weighing the president’s impeachment on Wednesday, the husband of one of President Trump’s most prominent advisers made a rare appearance on television to tear into the commander in chief.
  
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• California launches investigation into public safety power shutoffs by PG&E, other utilities

  13-11-2019 22:06
  
  The investigation will focus on PG&E;, responsible for lines that sparked the deadly Camp Fire, along with  Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric.
  
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• Death toll surges on second day of Israel-Gaza violence

  13-11-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Exchanges of fire triggered by Israel's targeted killing of a top militant in Gaza killed 16 Palestinians on Wednesday, with the violence showing little sign of easing.The total death toll in the coastal enclave rose to 26 since Tuesday, according to Gaza's health ministry.New rounds of rockets were fired at Israel, which responded with strikes on what it said were Islamic Jihad militant sites and rocket-launching squads in the Gaza Strip.
  
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• America Wants Its Robot Warrior XQ-58A Valkyrie To Fight Alongside The F-35

  13-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Drones will improve pilots' ability to locate targets.
  
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• Republicans complained they can't question 'guy who started it all.' Democrat says Trump is 'welcome' to testify.

  13-11-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) would both love to question the person who "started" the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Welch just has someone different in mind.During the first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, Jordan complained that the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint about Trump's Ukraine phone call led to the House's official inquiry won't testify before Congress. Republicans including President Trump have been demanding this testimony, but House Inte
  
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• What Impeachment Really Reveals About Ukraine

  13-11-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ukraine is playing footsie with China even as Adam Schiff and William Taylor depict it as a staunch American ally
  
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• Here's What Iowa Republicans Think of the Impeachment Inquiry in Washington

  13-11-2019 21:55
  
  House Democrats are hoping that the public impeachment hearings will change voters' minds. They face an uphill battle in Iowa.
  
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• Advocacy group releases leaked emails from White House adviser Stephen Miller to Breitbart

  13-11-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  According to a report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Miller pushed white nationalist material to Breitbart and shaped news coverage.
  
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• Mysterious Professor at Heart of Russian Investigation Returns for Impeachment Proceedings

  13-11-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chip Somodevilla/GettyROME—Joseph Mifsud, the erstwhile professor from Malta whose promise to help then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign aide George Papadopoulos get his hands on Russian “dirt” about Hillary Clinton has reportedly resurfaced. On Wednesday, the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera posted a six-minute audio recording in English it says Mifsud sent from an anonymous email account late Tuesday night. A short time later, the Italian news agency Adnkrono
  
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• Trump news: President asked about Ukraine 'investigations', impeachment hearings told as Democrats reject effort to force whistleblower testimony

  13-11-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is beginning its first public hearings with Bill Taylor, acting US ambassador to Ukraine, and State Department official George Kent. Both witnesses delivered joint-testimony to Congress as the president derides the process as a “partisan sham”.Mr Trump has meanwhile reportedly been threatening to fire his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney over his recent blunders. He also previously considered axing Michael Atkinson, the inspector gen
  
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• UPDATE 1-Islamic Jihad offers Israel terms for Gaza ceasefire

  13-11-2019 21:49
  
  Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad offered terms on Wednesday for an Egyptian-mediated Gaza ceasefire with Israel, saying that if these were not met it could continue cross-border attacks indefinitely.Fighting erupted after Israel carried out a targeted air strike killing Islamic Jihad's top field commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.With ensuing strikes in response to a surge in Palestinian rocket fire, a total of 26 people in Gaza, mostly militants, have died.
  
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• The U.S. Is on the Verge of Testing a New Ballistic Missile

  13-11-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new missile is the first American intermediate range missile since the 1980s.
  
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• NTSB: Coast Guard ignored duck boat safety proposals

  13-11-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal transportation safety investigators criticized the U.S. Coast Guard Wednesday for ignoring suggestions over nearly two decades to improve tourist duck boats, changes they say might have prevented last year's Missouri accident that killed 17 people.The National Transportation Safety Board released a “Safety Recommendation Report” on the July 2018 accident, when a Ride the Ducks of Branson boat known as Stretch Duck 7 sank during a severe storm.Former World War II amphibious ve
  
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• McConnell suggests he will not cut short impeachment trial

  13-11-2019 21:46 via politico.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested Wednesday that the Senate would not cut short an impeachment trial.“The rules of impeachment are very clear when it comes to the trial,” the GOP leader said when asked whether he’d support dismissing the trial out of hand.“That, I think, assumes we would have to do what the Constitution calls for the Senate to do and that is to hear the arguments, to listen, take it seriously,” Thune said.
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan calls Macron's NATO comments 'unacceptable'

  13-11-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" recent remarks on NATO by French leader Emmanuel Macron, who claimed the alliance was experiencing "brain death" and deplored Turkey's actions in Syria.Hosting his counterpart in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said Erdogan was "very disappointed in the statement made by France" regarding NATO."I think that bothered the president very much," Trump said.
  
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• States where recreational marijuana legalized see increased problematic use

  13-11-2019 21:35
  
  Researchers looking at data on cannabis use between 2008 and 2016 found that rates of problematic use among teens and adults over age 26 rose faster in states where recreational marijuana had been legalized than in other states, according to the report published in JAMA Psychiatry."Other studies have looked at the effect of medical marijuana legalization," said the study's lead author Magdalena Cerda, an associate professor in the department of population health and director of the Center for Op
  
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• Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Patrick announces Dem presidential bid

  13-11-2019 21:25
  
  Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced Thursday he is running for president, making a late entry into the Democratic race less than three months before primary voting begins.Patrick made history as the first black governor of Massachusetts and has close ties to former President Barack Obama and his network of political advisers.
  
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• GOP Senator Says Republicans Don’t Have the Votes to Immediately Halt Senate Impeachment Hearing

  13-11-2019 21:19
  
  Senator John Cornyn (R., Texas) told reporters on Wednesday that Senate Republicans lack the votes required to immediately dismiss articles of impeachment, should they be approved by the House.Republicans have floated the possibility of striking down articles of impeachment immediately upon their arrival in the Senate, but Cornyn said that would be difficult to accomplish because a number of Senate Republicans would likely defect and vote to proceed with the hearing."There’s some people ta
  
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• Trump losing in Georgia to Biden, Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg and Harris, polls finds

  13-11-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A poll from The Atlanta-Journal Constitution finds Trump behind the five leading 2020 Democrats in Georgia, which has not gone blue since 1992.
  
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• Republicans are using the public impeachment hearing to reach a $3 million fundraising goal

  13-11-2019 21:12
  
  The GOP and the Trump campaign have been tweeting and sending emails to supporters asking for donations as George Kent and Bill Taylor testify.
  
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• New recall links ground beef to food poisoning from salmonella

  13-11-2019 21:09
  
  Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a multistate outbreak that linked ground beef to food poisoning from salmonella. It’s not the first bad news of its kind this year. Following 2018’s record-breaking number of ground beef recalls, 2019 is closing in on similarly disturbing amounts of contaminated meat.
  
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• Red tide, the toxic algae bloom that kills wildlife, returns to southwest Florida

  13-11-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Southwest Florida is warily watching the return of red tide, a toxic algae bloom that cost businesses nearly $150 million in losses last year
  
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• Dog born with tail growing out of its head

  13-11-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A puppy born with a second tail sprouting out of the middle of his face has been adopted by a dog rescue charity after it was found wandering the streets alone.The two-tailed pup has been named “Narwhal” in honour of his additional cranial appendage and has been described as a “little anomaly that’s absolutely perfect”.
  
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