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• As Supreme Court weighs DACA, Trump pushes fiction about 'hardened criminals'

  14-11-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the Supreme Court considers whether it is legal for the Trump administration to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, the president and his allies have begun spinning a familiar — and false — narrative about the program’s nearly 700,000 beneficiaries.
  
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• The Internet Thinks These Things Are Aliens. The Truth Is Much More Sinister.

  14-11-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A scientist reveals what makes the creatures so creepy—and incredible.
  
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• Federal judge rules U.S.-born 'ISIS bride' is not an American citizen

  14-11-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge ruled Thursday that 25-year-old Hoda Muthana, who lived in Alabama but left the U.S. in 2014 to join ISIS, is not an American citizen and therefore the country is not required to repatriate her.
  
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• DOJ investigating GOP Rep. Ross Spano over alleged campaign finance violations

  14-11-2019 23:33 via politico.com
  
  The Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into Florida GOP Rep. Ross Spano over alleged campaign finance violations.Spano has denied any wrongdoing.The revelation came in an announcement by the House Ethics Committee, which has been asked by DOJ to defer its own probe into Spano while the criminal investigation unfolds.
  
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• ‘Act like a stiff’: To fight impeachment, Trump tries to look presidential

  14-11-2019 23:32 via politico.com
  
  President Donald Trump typically mocks the idea of acting too presidential — equating it with being boring.It’s a shtick repeated over and over, including recently at a mid-October rally in Dallas just weeks after Democrats formally announced their impeachment inquiry.Acting like a stiff is exactly what Trump appears to be attempting this week during the first public impeachment hearings.
  
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• Impeachment Problems: Why Republicans Prefer to Portray Trump as a Victim

  14-11-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The impeachment clause is one of several powers given to Congress that allow it to oversee the executive and judicial branches.
  
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• Trump Admin. Prepares Court Filings to Seize Private Land in Texas for Border Wall: Report

  14-11-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration is preparing to submit court filings as early as next week as a necessary step toward seizing private land in Texas for its wall on the border with Mexico, NBC reported Thursday. Administration officials still haven't said how much the government will compensate affected landowners."I still think we're on track to get the land we need for 450 miles" of border wall, Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan told reporters on Thursday.The government
  
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• U.S. Senate foreign relations chairman wants to hold off on Turkey sanctions bills

  14-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Thursday he did not want lawmakers to pass legislation imposing sanctions on Turkey for now, to lessen friction during talks over Turkey's purchase of a Russian missile defense system."Probably it's best we don't pass a sanctions bill at this moment," Senator Jim Risch said during a meeting with reporters in his office.Risch was among a group of Republican senators President Donald Trump called to the White House on W
  
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• Saugus school shooting in California: What we know now

  14-11-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several people are injured, including the suspect, after a shooting at a high school outside Los Angeles. Here's what we know.
  
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• The Latest: School shooter gets life without parole

  14-11-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A school shooter who was 14 when he killed a first grader on a school playground in South Carolina has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.Judge Lawton McIntosh said Thursday he was worried Jesse Osborne showed little remorse after killing his father in their Anderson County home, then shooting at the playground at Townville Elementary School while a first grade class was celebrating a birthday party.Osborne had attended Townville Elementary.
  
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• The Latest: North Carolina Congress remap clears state House

  14-11-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A redrawn map of North Carolina’s congressional districts has cleared one chamber of the state legislature.Republican legislative leaders are reworking the lines because state judges blocked the use of the current map for the 2020 elections, declaring it was likely an illegal partisan gerrymander.Shifts in the proposed map would make it hard for Republican incumbents George Holding and Mark Walker to get reelected, giving Democrats the chance to pick up two more seats.
  
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• Roger Stone jurors reach no verdict after first day of deliberations

  14-11-2019 23:18 via politico.com
  
  Jurors in the Roger Stone trial spent more than five hours Thursday ensconced in the Washington, D.C., federal courthouse without reaching a verdict.The only indication of how the jury was leaning came via two notes passed to the U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, expressing confusion about what appeared to be just one of the charges against the longtime GOP strategist.The 12-person jury, composed of nine women and three men, will return Friday morning for a second day of deliberation
  
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• Iran starts gasoline rationing, hikes prices - state TV

  14-11-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran introduced gasoline rationing and price hikes on Friday with an official saying that the revenue would be used for subsidies for 18 million needy families, state television reported.Iran, which has some of the world’s cheapest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and the fall of its currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling to neighbouring countries.Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, head of the country's Plan and Budget Organization, told state TV that proceeds from the price hikes woul
  
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• Trump adviser Stephen Miller faces increasing pressure to resign after reports that he shared white-nationalist links with a Breitbart editor

  14-11-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A trove of recently published emails showed Miller exchanging white-nationalist links and ideas with a former Breitbart editor in 2015.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Says Finalized USMCA Deal ‘Imminent’

  14-11-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said during a press conference Thursday that the Trump administration’s renegotiated USMCA trade deal with Mexico and Canada will pass the House imminently.“I do believe that if we can get this to the place it needs to be, which is imminent, that this can be a template for future trade agreements. A good template,” Pelosi remarked, saying the key issue for Democrats is “enforcement,” a premier issue for labor unions.“I&r
  
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• Netflix to change Nazi guard documentary after Polish complaint

  14-11-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netflix said on Thursday it would make changes to maps in a documentary that showed German Nazi death camps inside the borders of modern Poland, after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki pressed the streaming and production company to act.The maps in the documentary series "The Devil Next Door" were criticized by Morawiecki earlier this week for implying that Poland existed at that time as an independent nation within its postwar borders and thus could share responsibility for the atrocitie
  
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• Lebanese media: major parties agree on ex-minister Safadi as PM

  14-11-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three major Lebanese parties have agreed on nominating Mohammad Safadi, a former finance minister, to become prime minister of a new government, the Lebanese broadcasters LBCI and MTV reported on Thursday.The agreement was reached in a meeting on Thursday between outgoing Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, Lebanon's leading Sunni politician, and senior representatives of the Shi'ite groups Amal and Hezbollah.There was no official comment from the parties or Safadi.
  
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• California School Shooting Leaves At Least Two Dead, Suspect in Critical Condition

  14-11-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A student opened fire on classmates at the Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California on Thursday morning, killing at least two students and wounding another three before shooting himself.The student, who has not been identified, is in custody and is being treated at a local hospital where he is in grave condition, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. The suspect turned 16 on Thursday, which means he was ineligible to purchase or possess a hand gun under California law.T
  
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• U.S. Senate Sets Up Expedited Vote on Hong Kong Democracy Bill

  14-11-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate is preparing for quick passage of legislation to show support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong by placing the city’s special trading status with the U.S. under annual review.The Senate is set to bring the bill to the floor under an expedited process that would allow for quick passage unless there is an objection, according to Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the lead sponsor. The bill could pass as early as next week, according to a Senate aide.&ldquo
  
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• U.S. Justice Kavanaugh upbeat in first major public speech

  14-11-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A gathering of conservative lawyers gave U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a rapturous reception on Thursday for an upbeat speech in his first major public appearance since sexual misconduct accusations almost derailed his appointment.Appointed last year to the high court by Republican President Donald Trump, Kavanaugh addressed the annual meeting of the conservative Federalist Society at Washington's Union Station.Kavanaugh thanked friends who stood by him during the contentious confir
  
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• There have been 366 mass shootings in the US so far in 2019 — here's the full list

  14-11-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As of November 14, 2019, there have been more mass shootings in the US than there are days. At least people have died in mass shootings this year.
  
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• 3 things to watch for in Friday's Trump impeachment hearing

  14-11-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is the next witness in the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
  
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• Trump impeachment: President angrily mocks career diplomats who testified against him as 'never-Trumpers' whose 'sinister plans will fail'

  14-11-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has angrily mocked two career diplomats who testified in a public impeachment hearing, falsely describing them as “never-Trumpers” whose “sinister plans will fail”.A day after the diplomats appeared on Capitol Hill to say they believed the president had placed his own political concerns ahead of the US-Ukraine strategic relationship, Mr Trump appeared at a rally in Louisiana where he attacked Democrats as “crazed lunatics” engaged in an impeachmen
  
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• Trump impeachment: President angrily mocks career diplomats over ‘sinister plans’ at rally

  14-11-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has angrily mocked two career diplomats who testified in a public impeachment hearing, falsely describing them as “never-Trumpers” whose “sinister plans will fail”.A day after the diplomats appeared on Capitol Hill to say they believed the president had placed his own political concerns ahead of the US-Ukraine strategic relationship, Mr Trump appeared at a rally in Louisiana where he attacked Democrats as “crazed lunatics” engaged in an impeachmen
  
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• To Save Berlin, Nazi Fighters Went Head-To-Head With America's B-17 Bombers

  14-11-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An incredibly costly fight.
  
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• Trump losing in Georgia to Biden, Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg and Harris, poll finds

  14-11-2019 22:08 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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• NASA warned of safety risks in delayed private crew launches

  14-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA auditors warned Thursday the space agency faces “significant safety and technical challenges” that need to be solved before astronauts fly in private capsules.In its report, NASA’s inspector general office noted Boeing and SpaceX are several years late in transporting crews to the International Space Station.The private capsules likely won’t be certified before next summer, according to the report, and NASA should set a realistic timetable to avoid compromising safet
  
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• Pelosi says Trump’s Ukraine actions amount to ‘bribery’

  14-11-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats are refining part of their impeachment case against the president to a simple allegation: Bribery.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday brushed aside the Latin phrase “quid pro quo” that Democrats have been using to describe President Donald Trump’s actions toward Ukraine.As the impeachment hearings go public, they’re going for a more colloquial term that may resonate with more Americans.
  
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• Southern Poverty Law Center Attacks Stephen Miller for Sharing Center for Immigration Studies Research

  14-11-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Southern Poverty Law Center on Thursday criticized White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller for sharing statistics released by the Center for Immigration Studies, which the civil rights group includes on its list of hate groups.Miller sent at least 46 emails involving CIS over a ten-month period to former Breitbart News editor Katie McHugh, the SPLC said in the second of a serious of lengthy reports based on roughly 900 leaked emails Miller sent to Breitbart during the
  
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• As Jeff Sessions bids for return to Senate, he strives to make his relationship with Trump great again

  14-11-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man Trump called "weak" and "ineffective" for his recusal in the Russia probe is campaigning on being the first senator to endorse Trump in 2016.
  
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• U.S. Farm Finances Worsen Despite Trump Trade War Aid

  14-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Farm finances deteriorated across a swath of agricultural states during the summer and early fall despite the Trump administration’s second round of trade aid payments and slightly higher prices, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reported Thursday.The report underscores the mounting economic pressure on a key Donald Trump constituency as he confronts a re-election ca
  
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• Jewish Groups Blast Fox News for Joe diGenova’s Anti-Semitic Soros Conspiracy Theory

  14-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox has come under fire from Jewish organizations following a Wednesday night segment on Fox Business Network’s Lou Dobbs Tonight in which Trump-boosting lawyer Joe diGenova seemingly trafficked in anti-Semitic tropes by accusing Jewish financier George Soros of controlling “very large parts” of the U.S. Department of State.Speaking with host Lou Dobbs—who has a history of peddling Soros-based conspiracies—diGenova dismissed the impeachment testimony of senior diplo
  
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• China-Friendly Strongmen Eye Return to Power in Sri Lanka Vote

  14-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A family of strongmen are eyeing a return to power in Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Saturday, an outcome that could also shift the island nation back toward China.The Rajapaksas, once a powerful force in the island nation’s politics who lost the presidency in 2015, are staging a comeback. This time Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 70, is running for the top job, backed by family members including his brother Mahinda, who enjoyed warm ties with Beijing during his 10-year rule
  
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• Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband's corpse in a bedroom freezer

  14-11-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities are searching for a woman after finding her husband’s corpse in a freezer in a bedroom inside her Missouri home, where it may have been stored for nearly a year. Barbara Watters of Joplin, Mo., was charged Wednesday with abandonment of a corpse, a felony that is punishable by up to four years in prison.
  
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• Police: No indication restaurant staff heard racial comment

  14-11-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police looking into an incident at a Chicago-area Buffalo Wild Wings found no indication that workers heard a white patron mention the race of a group of black customers when he asked that they not be seated next to him, but investigators said the employees had heard him make racist comments before.Some of the customers told to move to different tables were children who were there to celebrate a birthday.
  
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• New Jersey seeks $640M from Uber for misclassifying workers

  14-11-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Jersey is seeking more than $640 million from Uber in taxes and penalties, saying the ride-hailing company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors.The decision is the latest setback for Uber and other companies in the so-called “gig economy” that rely heavily on contract labor to deliver the services at the heart of their popular apps.New Jersey’s labor department told Uber it, along with its subsidiary Rasier, owes $523 million in overdue taxes form the last f
  
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• Florida gun activists rally amid California school shooting

  14-11-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dozens of students from across Florida descended on their state Capitol demanding action on gun control Thursday, a day when a deadly school shooting in California prompted panic, helplessness and determination.Two students were killed and three others were wounded when a fellow student opened fire at a Santa Clarita, California, high school.Aly Sheehy, a survivor of last year’s Parkland high school shooting that killed 17, found herself in disbelief at the news as she traveled to Tallahas
  
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• Mike Pompeo 'on shifting sand' as impeachment probe reveals his Ukraine role

  14-11-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's credibility has collapsed amid revelations in the Ukraine inquiry, former diplomats say.
  
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• Bolivia's interim president's indigenous-free cabinet heightens polarization

  14-11-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Rightwing Christian Jeanine Áñez vows to ‘pacify’ country* Disrespect for indigenous Wiphala flag stokes outrageJeanine Áñez, the opposition senator who has claimed Bolivia’s interim presidency, arrives at the government palace in La Paz. Photograph: Juan Karita/APBolivia’s controversial new interim president has unveiled a new cabinet which critics say could further increase polarization in the country still deeply split over the ousting of
  
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• Bolivia president's initial indigenous-free cabinet heightens polarization

  14-11-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Rightwing Christian Jeanine Áñez vows to ‘pacify’ country* Disrespect for indigenous Wiphala flag stokes outrageJeanine Áñez, the opposition senator who has claimed Bolivia’s interim presidency, arrives at the government palace in La Paz. Photograph: Juan Karita/APBolivia’s controversial new interim president has unveiled a new cabinet which critics say could further increase polarization in the country still deeply split over the ousting of
  
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• Saugus High School shootings: What you need to know about Santa Clarita, California

  14-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Santa Clarita is the third-most-populated city in Los Angeles County. It was named the third-safest city in America by Parenting Magazine in 2014.
  
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• Bill Clinton weighs in on how impeachment could affect Trump White House

  14-11-2019 21:32 via politico.com
  
  The former president phoned in to CNN to weigh in on a high school shooting in Santa Clarita, Calif., as he traveled to Washington to receive an award from the Brady Center for his work on gun control.Clinton used the opportunity to urge action on gun control, which appeared to have some momentum after a pair of mass shootings in August but has since stalled.
  
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• Democrats call Stephen Miller 'white nationalist,' ask for resignation after SPLC report

  14-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It’s clearer than ever that Stephen Miller is a far-right white nationalist with a racist and xenophobic worldview," the lawmakers said.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Some migrants waiting in Mexico for U.S. court hearings caught crossing illegally

  14-11-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Roughly one in 10 migrants pushed back to Mexico to await U.S. court hearings under a Trump administration program have been caught crossing the border again, a top border official said on Thursday.Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said during a White House briefing that migrants returned to Mexico under a program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) have a 9% recidivism rate.Many of those migrants intend to seek asylum in the United States.
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff says 2nd teen dies in school shooting

  14-11-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities say a second victim of a Los Angeles area high school shooting has died. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says a 14-year-old boy died at a hospital. Earlier, a 16-year-old girl died from the shooting at Saugus High School in the city of Santa Clarita.
  
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• Key Senator Sees Pause in Turkey Sanctions If Erdogan Nixes S-400

  14-11-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch said Thursday the Senate should pause plans to sanction Turkey for its latest invasion of Syria if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan eliminates the Russian S-400 missile defense system from his arsenal.“We think that there’s going to be movement relatively soon on the S-400s,” the Idaho Republican said in an interview the day after meeting with Erdogan at the White House. As long as there is positive movement, Risch said,
  
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• Students at the Santa Clarita school where 2 people were killed and 4 were injured in a shooting say their sense of safety 'will forever be ruined'

  14-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saugus High School sophomore Melissa Santillan and senior Tyler Nilson spoke to Insider about the shooting at their Santa Clarita, California, school.
  
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• Students at the Santa Clarita school where 2 people were killed and 4 injured in a shooting say their sense of safety is 'forever ruined'

  14-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saugus High School sophomore Melissa Santillan and senior Tyler Nilson spoke to Insider about the shooting at their Santa Clarita, California, school.
  
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• 42 people have died from a mysterious lung illness linked to vaping. Here’s where they're all from.

  14-11-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 42 people are dead across 24 US states plus Washington, DC after contracting vaping-related lung injuries. The youngest person was 17.
  
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• Second man dies during week of violence in Hong Kong

  14-11-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 70-year-old man became the second to die in a week of unrest in Hong Kong yesterday, after he was reportedly hit with a brick during a clash between pro-democracy protesters and government supporters.  The unnamed man was using a lunch break from his cleaning job to clear bricks from the streets that had been thrown in protests when he was caught up in a fresh outbreak of violence.  Protests in Hong Kong, now in their sixth month, have turned more violent turn this week after th
  
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