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• Look Out America: Russia's Hypersonic Avangard Nuclear Missile Is Going Live

  20-12-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Avangard is a nuclear-armed glider that travels at hypersonic (faster than Mach 5) speed.
  
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• Trump escapes chill of Washington for Florida holiday

  20-12-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump escaped the chill of Washington and his impeachment on Friday to celebrate Christmas and New Year's in sunny Florida with family and friends.One thing he isn't celebrating is the delay in his Senate impeachment trial.It's got him “mad as hell,” according to one ally.
  
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• Film documents Honduran family’s struggle to find asylum in U.S.

  20-12-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In "Towards the North," viewers get an intimate look into the daily battles of asylum seekers from Central America through the eyes of Nelly and her daughter, Joseline.
  
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• Australia's bushfires circle Sydney as temperatures soar

  20-12-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Catastrophic conditions fueled massive bushfires across Australia's New South Wales state on Saturday, with two blazes around Sydney burning at emergency level, while in South Australia one person was found dead in a fire zone.Some major roads heading to the south and west from Sydney were closed for part of the day and authorities asked people to delay travel at the start of the Christmas holiday period, warning of the unpredictability of the fires due to high winds and temperatures above 40C (
  
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• The U.S. Air Force’s New Helicopter Is Called 'Grey Wolf'

  20-12-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The helicopter will help safeguard America’s nuclear weapons.
  
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• U.S. transport chief said economic issues not a factor in 737 MAX's safety review

  20-12-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The economic impact of Boeing Co'splanned halt of 737 MAX production will not be considered by U.S. regulators in their ongoing review of when to end the grounding of a plane involved in two major fatal crashes, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said on Friday.In an interview with Reuters, Chao said the White House has not pressured the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to speed up its review.Chao also said the White House Council of Economic Advisers had conducted a study of the eco
  
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• U.S. conservative activist, Venezuelan pastor team up on aid effort

  20-12-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A conservative U.S. activist has teamed up with a prominent Venezuelan evangelical pastor to bring a $500,000 humanitarian aid shipment to the crisis-stricken country, the two men said in interviews this week.Randy Brinson, an Alabama-based gastroenterologist who also runs a voter-registration nonprofit, said the delivery of two shipping containers filled with medicine and ready-to-eat meals would arrive in January thanks to a deal brokered by the pastor, Javier Bertucci, with Venezuelan Preside
  
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• Trump says had 'very good talk' with China's Xi Jinping on trade deal

  20-12-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said Friday he'd had a "very good talk" with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on a partial resolution of the countries' huge trade war.
  
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• Beleaguered Boeing's Starliner returns early from failed mission

  20-12-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't achieve its mission objective of docking with the International Space Station, NASA said Friday, dealing a blow to the agency's plans to end US dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut taxi rides."We have made a final decision - Starliner will not dock with the @Space_Station and will return to White Sands on Sunday," tweeted NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.The failure of the mission, a final dress rehearsal before a crewed flight, will be seen as especi
  
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• Amid impeachment fight, Trump and Pelosi agree on Feb. 4 for State of the Union address

  20-12-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump accepted Nancy Pelosi's invitation to deliver the State of the Union address two days after he became the third American president to be impeached.
  
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• Forget about impeachment, Trump's conservative legacy has already been cemented as he quietly reshapes the courts

  20-12-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans and Democrats can agree on one thing: Trump is having a massive impact on the federal judiciary.
  
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• Biden: No regrets for talking openly about stuttering

  20-12-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden has been fighting a stutter since childhood, and he said Friday he has no regrets about talking openly about it after one of his responses in Thursday's presidential debate prompted a mocking tweet from former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.Sanders ridiculed Biden on Twitter after he appeared to imitate a stuttering child during the debate.The tweet was later deleted and Biden said he accepted Sanders' public apology for posting it.
  
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• Female candidates asked for forgiveness. Men, not so much

  20-12-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the final question of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate, the seven candidates were asked whether they would rather give a gift to someone on the stage.Or, they could ask for forgiveness.The men — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer — opted to give a gift.
  
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• A Navy SEAL admiral was so troubled by Trump's revoking security clearances that he dictated his fiery column while on a remote vacation

  20-12-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Navy Adm. McRaven learned Trump had revoked former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance during his vacation in Colorado.
  
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• France's Macron looks to give 'new force' to Sahel anti-jihadist campaign

  20-12-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Port-Bouët (Ivory Coast) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Ivory Coast on Friday to celebrate Christmas with French troops, saying Paris would work to give "new force" to the regional fight against Islamist militants.Away from weeks of protest strikes gripping France, Macron's personal chef travelled with him to cook dinnerfor around 1,000 troops at the military base in Port-Bouet, near Abidjan's airport."I hope we can give new depth, new commitments, a new force to this o
  
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• How to Protect Yourself From Influenza B

  20-12-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With 19 states experiencing high levels of flu—and surely more to come—experts are seeing something they usually don’t: The flu type predominating nationally is a strain of influenza B. That’s un...
  
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• How This Researcher Invented an Entirely New—and Entirely Badass—Field of Science

  20-12-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leda Kobziar and other pyroaerobiologists find life up in smoke. Literally.
  
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• Va. attorney general: Gun sanctuary resolutions have 'no legal effect'

  20-12-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Resolutions passed by local governments declaring themselves “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” have “no legal effect,” Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said Friday.
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. talks with GM over deploying self-driving cars without steering wheels

  20-12-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is holding talks with General Motors Coon the automaker's petition to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles on American roads without steering wheels or other human controls, the head of the agency said on Friday.Acting NHTSA Administrator James Owens said his agency aims to make a decision soon on GM's January 2018 petition as well as a request by Softbank Corp-backeddriverless delivery startup Nuro to deploy a limited number of
  
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• Exclusive: U.S. agency in talks with GM to deploy some cars without steering wheels

  20-12-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) acting chief said on Friday the agency is in talks with General Motors Coon its January 2018 petition to deploy a limited number of self-driving vehicles on U.S. roads without steering wheels or other human controls.Acting NHTSA Administrator James Owens told Reuters the agency hopes to make a decision soon on GM's petition as well as a request bySoftBank Corp-backeddriverless delivery startup Nuro to deploy a limited number of low-spe
  
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• Judge revokes grazing permit for ranchers pardoned by Trump

  20-12-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge on Friday revoked the grazing permit of two ranchers who were pardoned last year by President Donald Trump on an arson conviction for setting fire to federal lands.U.S. District Judge Michael Simon ruled in the long-running case after hearing arguments from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which granted a 10-year grazing permit to Dwight and Steven Hammond after Trump's July 2018 pardon.
  
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• Video shows final moments before toddler's fatal cruise ship fall

  20-12-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Security footage of toddler Chloe Wiegand's death on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship is a major part in two pending court cases.
  
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• Iowa woman ran down Hispanic teen with SUV because of her ethnicity, police said

  20-12-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nicole Franklin is charged with attempted murder for running down a 14-year-old as she walked to school. Police are considering hate crime charges.
  
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• D.E. Shaw's Orienteer strategy posts double-digit returns this year

  20-12-2019 22:22
  
  D.E. Shaw's Orienteer platform, the backbone of the $50 billion investment firm's multi-asset class offerings, posted high double-digit returns this year, the best ever in its six year lifetime.
  
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• Biden Says He Supports USMCA, Citing Provisions for Labor

  20-12-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden said Friday he supported the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade accord, praising the enforcement mechanisms of the deal a day after some of his top rivals expressed reservations about it.“What I’ve seen change is that the vast majority of the labor movement supported it,” Biden told reporters at a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles.Biden also pointed out that the deal passed by the House on Thursday was altered by Democrats, emphasizing the elimination of loophole
  
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• Klobuchar has to prove her electability every day. Why not Buttigieg?

  20-12-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He’s the 37-year-old mayor of Indiana’s fourth-largest city, yet he has risen to the top of the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire. She is the thrice-elected senior senator from a state Donald Trump nearly won in 2016, yet she has struggled to break out of the mid-single digits.
  
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• Exclusive: White House expected to nominate SEC lawyer for Democratic commissioner seat - sources

  20-12-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is expected to nominate Caroline Crenshaw, a Democratic attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to fill an SEC seat being vacated next year by Democratic Commissioner Robert Jackson, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has sent Crenshaw's name to the White House as a nominee for the post, the sources said.
  
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• California sheriff fires deputy who choked suspect that died

  20-12-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essicksaid in a videothat he found footage of the deputy's actions “extremely troubling.” The video released by the department includes the body camera footage of the violent encounter between Deputy Charles Blount and David Glen Ward, who had reported his car stolen.Ward’s half-sister, Catherine Aguilera, has said her brother used drugs and had health issues that began 20 years ago when a drunken driver hit him while he was riding a motorcycle, inclu
  
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• The Texas ex-police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson in her own home has been indicted on a murder charge

  20-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Atatiana Jefferson had been playing video games with her nephew on October 12 when the officer, Aaron Dean, shot her through her bedroom window.
  
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• Official: Gun sanctuary resolutions have 'no legal effect'

  20-12-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Resolutions passed by local governments declaring themselves “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” have “no legal effect," Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said Friday. Since Democrats won majorities in the state Senate and House of Delegates in November, more than 100 cities, towns and counties have passed such resolutions, vowing to oppose any new gun laws they believe violate the Second Amendment. On Friday, Herring issued an advisory opinion on the resolutions.
  
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• Brazil: Bolsonaro in homophobic outburst as corruption scandal swirls

  20-12-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Critics interpret president’s attack on journalist as attempt to divert attention from spiralling scandal involving son FlávioBrazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has launched a homophobic attack on a journalist from one of the country’s top newspapers in an apparent bid to divert attention from a spiraling corruption scandal involving his son.“You look terribly like a homosexual,” Bolsonaro – who has previously boasted of being “proudly&
  
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• ‘People Are Buying Their Memories Back’: The Christmas Ornament That Time Forgot

  20-12-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The short life of the Twinkler, which spun on trees for a few years in the 1950s before disappearing forever.
  
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• Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to take over voter purge case

  20-12-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A conservative law firm asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday to bypass a lower court and take the appeal of a ruling that ordered the purge of more than 200,000 voter registrations in the battleground state ahead of the 2020 election.A judge ruled in favor of conservatives last week and said the Wisconsin Elections Commission must immediately deactivate more than 200,000 voter registrations of people identified as possibly having moved.The state Department of Justice appealed to the state
  
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• Sen. Schumer predicts Mitch McConnell will block all Democratic Supreme Court picks

  20-12-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned about the stakes for the 2020 elections Thursday, saying that it’s imperative Democrats focus on winning back more than just the presidency and making sure that Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is no longer the majority leader.
  
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• Six killed as India endures bloodiest day of protests since 'anti-Muslim' citizenship law implemented

  20-12-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh confirmed six people were killed on Friday during protests against a new ‘anti-Muslim’ citizenship law, the bloodiest day since demonstrations erupted nine days ago. Protests again raged across much of northern India with people chanting for the prime minister to be removed at Delhi’s Jama Masjid mosque. Mobile internet has been cut in Uttar Pradesh and it also remains blocked in the southern state of Karnataka after two protest
  
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• Why the Allies Used 1000 Bombers to Eliminate Nazi Germany's Berlin

  20-12-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A huge fleet.
  
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• Pelosi and McConnell, masters of the congressional chessboard, face off over impeachment

  20-12-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The fate of the Trump impeachment — in fact, the fate of the entire Trump presidency — now rests on the outcome of a battle between the two ablest political generals in recent American history: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
  
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• Two cruise ships collide in Mexico forcing passengers to evacuate

  20-12-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least one person was injured following a dramatic crash between two massive Carnival cruise ships in Mexico where shocked onlookers filmed the slow-moving collision.In a company statement, Carnival said that the Carnival Glory vessel collided with the Carnival Legend near a Cozumel resort as the Glory manoeuvred to dock and accidentally "made contact" with the Legend that was motionless alongside it.
  
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• Klobuchar and Buttigieg had very different debate nights, survey shows

  20-12-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Who won Thursday's Democratic debate? It depends how you measure.Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) got the most speaking time, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) coming close behind — all at around 20 minutes. Former Vice President Joe Biden talked for just 15 minutes, oddly low given his consistent lead in the polls, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang and billionaire philanthropist Tom Steyer each got about 11 minutes with the mic
  
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• MS-13 arrests deal blow to gang leadership on Long Island

  20-12-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities said Friday they have dealt an unprecedented blow to the violent MS-13 street gang, announcing charges against nearly 100 of the group's members and associates on Long Island.Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini revealed a sweeping indictment that he said “decimated” the gang's leadership and drug suppliers on Long Island.The two-year investigation by state and federal authorities thwarted more than a half-dozen murder plots, Sini said, and also provided authorit
  
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• Vaping-related lung disease epidemic may be coming to an end

  20-12-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday with new confidence that vitamin E acetate seems to be largely to blame for the vaping-related lung illness outbreak that swept the U.S. — at the same time it announced the outbreak seems to be approaching its end.
  
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• A Mississippi man went on a window-breaking spree just so he could get arrested and stay in jail to escape the cold

  20-12-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A homeless man in Natchez, Mississippi, asked if he could stay in jail for shelter. Deputies told him he couldn't do so unless he was in custody.
  
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• Trump Accepts Pelosi’s State of Union Invite Despite Impeachment

  20-12-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump accepted an invitation from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver his annual State of the Union address to a joint meeting of Congress, two days after she oversaw his impeachment. The Feb. 4 speech may fall in the middle of Trump’s Senate trial for alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, or it may give Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell extra incentive to wrap up the proceedings.McConnell, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are wrangling
  
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• Impeachment explained: No, it won't nullify an election or allow a 3rd term

  20-12-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump and his supporters have floated several inaccurate and misleading theories about what impeachment means.
  
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• The Army and Navy's investigation is finally over: The academy students accused of flashing 'white power' signs were just playing the stupid 'circle game'

  20-12-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Naval Academy said one of the midshipmen texted their roommate "got em" in an apparent reference to seeing the gesture on TV.
  
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• U.S. Steel delivers unwelcome Christmas surprise to Michigan town

  20-12-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mayor of a Michigan steel town was attending his grandchildren's Christmas play Thursday evening when he got an unwelcome voicemail from an official of the town's top employer: United States Steel Corp .U.S. Steel was about to send out a press release announcing layoffs for 1,545 workers and the idling of a significant portion of operations at the Great Lakes Works facility, according to the voicemail received by Michael Bowdler, mayor of River Rouge, a city of 7,500 that sits on the Detroit
  
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• How the GOP broke ObamaCare — and the federal judiciary

  20-12-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just hours after ObamaCare's open enrollment ended for the year, a federal court of appeals threw the law into legal jeopardy based on a far-fetched lawsuit. Once again, the wellbeing of millions of people has been imperiled by the caucus of conservative federal judges intent on working hand-in-glove with Republican politicians to roll back universal health care in America.The latest lawsuit, Texas v. United States, is a bizarre posthumous attack on ObamaCare's individual mandate, which congress
  
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• Watch the absurdly slow crash of 2 mammoth cruise ships

  20-12-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Carnival cruise ships collided in Cozumel, Mexico, on Friday. The Carnival Glory was "maneuvering to dock," the cruise company reported, when it struck the Carnival Legend, which was already docked.Because these are modern cruise ships with weights in the range of 220 Statues of Liberty (a very normal metric), the crash was an oddly slow but certain disaster. That glacial pacing also allowed it to be caught on camera:> MORE: Dramatic video shows the moment two Carnival cruise ships collid
  
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• As U.S. vaping injuries taper off, new evidence points to vitamin E

  20-12-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a series of reports on Friday indicating that the outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries appears to be waning, as evidence mounts that vitamin E acetate, a cutting agent used in marijuana vape cartridges, is playing a role in the illnesses. In a telephone briefing with reporters, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, said evidence now suggests that vitamin E acetate was increasingly being added to cartridges contai
  
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• 'Vast majority' of vaping illnesses blamed on vitamin E

  20-12-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the “vast majority” of cases in the U.S. outbreak of vaping illnesses and they say doctors should monitor patients more closely after they go home from the hospital.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the updated advice Friday.The new medical advice is based on a close look at about 3% of vaping illness patients who returned to the hospital after discharge and seven who died after hospital discharge.
  
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