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• Trump ally and GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz comes out in strong support of a war-powers resolution limiting Trump's power to take military action against Iran

  09-01-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Engaging in another forever war in the Middle East would be the wrong decision, and that's why I'm voting for this resolution," Gaetz said.
  
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• Boris Johnson says Iran shot down Ukrainian plane, possibly by accident

  09-01-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson has said that Iran shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane in Tehran after Western intelligence agencies concluded that the downing of the jet was most likely an accident. US satellites reportedly picked up two surface-to-air missiles being launched shortly before the accident and US officials suspect there are missile fragments near the crash site where all 176 passenger died. Mr Johnson said: “There is now a body of information that the flight was shot down by an Irani
  
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• Iran's claims for why it couldn't have shot down a Ukrainian airplane aren't adding up

  09-01-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US officials reportedly said they saw Iranian radar systems lock on the aircraft before it was shot down.
  
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• Mexican man slits throat at U.S. border after being denied entry

  09-01-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Mexican man has died after slitting his own throat when he was denied entry to the U.S., according to Mexican officials.
  
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• McConnell Joins Hawley in Resolution to Throw Out Impeachment

  09-01-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became the 13th cosponsor of Senator Josh Hawley’s resolution to update Senate rules and dismiss the “bogus impeachment” against President Trump if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not send over impeachment articles in 25 days.Hawley, an outspoken critic of Democratic efforts over impeachment, was initially joined by ten other Republican senators in proposing the legislation on Monday, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, an
  
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• Police, villagers clash over land in Vietnam, leaving 4 dead

  09-01-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Residents of a Hanoi suburb used grenades, firebombs and spears Thursday in an attempt to stop soldiers from building a wall around a military airport on land they say is private, leaving three police and a villager dead, officials said.
  
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• Facebook to Give Users the Option to See Fewer Political Ads

  09-01-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. said it will soon give users the option to see fewer political and social issue advertisements in their feeds, but the company held firm on its controversial stance against fact-checking political ads despite months of criticism.The social network announced the new user setting, which will also be available in photo-sharing app Instagram, in a blog post Thursday, saying the update is part of an effort to give people more control over what they see ahead of the 2020 U
  
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• Prison 'inadvertently' deleted surveillance video outside cell during Jeffrey Epstein's first suicide attempt, feds say

  09-01-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors say prison authorities accidentally deleted surveillance video outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell during his first suicide attempt.
  
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• Trump wants NATO expanded to Mideast and renamed NATOME

  09-01-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump thinks NATO should be expanded to include nations in the Middle East. Speaking to reporters at the White House during an unrelated event, Trump said the U.S. had tamped down Islamic State militants, eliminating their control of territory and killing IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Trump said he also wants to see more NATO troops in the Middle East because problems there are international in scope.
  
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• Pelosi says she'll send Senate articles of impeachment against Trump 'soon'

  09-01-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “No, I’m not holding them indefinitely," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. "I’ll send them over when I’m ready. That will probably be soon."
  
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• UN authorizes cross-border aid to Syria only from Turkey

  09-01-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Friday limiting the delivery of cross-border humanitarian aid to Syria to just two crossing points from Turkey to the mainly rebel-held northwest as Russia demanded — a vote which potentially cuts off assistance from Iraq to over one million Syrians in the northeast.The divided 15-member council was facing Friday’s expiration of its mandate to deliver aid across borders, and the possibility of a halt to all cross-border aid.The U.N. hum
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein suicide attempt video accidentally deleted, prosecutors say

  09-01-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Surveillance footage taken outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been permanently deleted, federal prosecutors say.The sex offender was found semiconscious in his cell inside the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) in Manhattan in July, as he awaited trial over allegations of sex trafficking that threatened to see him behind bars for the rest of his life.
  
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• It's been 1 year since Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez had their relationship leaked to the world — here's the full story of their whirlwind romance

  09-01-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's been an eventful year for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend, TV host and helicopter pilot Lauren Sanchez.
  
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• Libya's Haftar says military ops won't stop amid ceasefire call

  09-01-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar Thursday said he would not stop military operations against forces loyal to a Tripoli administration, even as he praised a ceasefire initiative by Ankara and Moscow.In a statement read by his spokesman Ahmad al-Mesmari, Haftar claimed that a revival of the political process and the country's stability could only be assured by the "eradication of terrorist groups" and the dissolution of militia controlling Tripoli.An adviser to Haftar later told AFP that Ha
  
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• A Utah man unveils a hamburger he purchased from McDonald’s in 1999

  09-01-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's has responded to reports following the unveiling of David Whipple's 20-year-old burger. The Utah man bought the burger at a McDonald’s in Logan, UT. Although visually it looks the same, one of the fast-food chain's executives says the burger has definitely undergone some changes.
  
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• The Ukrainian flight that crashed in Iran was 'highly likely' shot down by a missile, according to reported US intelligence

  09-01-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US officials have said that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 appears to have been accidentally shot down by Iran, multiple reports said.
  
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• Mexican man kills himself on bridge after being refused entry to US

  09-01-2020 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Man who has not been identified had attempted to cross from Reynosa into Pharr, Texas, on WednesdayA Mexican asylum seeker has taken his own life on a bridge across the Rio Grande after being refused entry to the US, in an incident highlighting the often desperate plights of those being turned away by Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration.The man, who was reportedly in his 30s and has not been identified, had attempted to cross from the Mexican city of Reynosa into Pharr, Texas, on Wedne
  
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• Iranian TV reports a different version of missile attack on US bases in Iraq

  09-01-2020 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Iranian-born, United States-based academic has watched news coverage with concern following the U.S. airstrike that killed an Iranian general.
  
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham says Trump's Iran speech is comparable to Ronald Reagan's 'tear down this wall' address

  09-01-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Lindsey Graham, a strong ally of the president, said that Trump's national address of the tensions with Iran would be long remembered.
  
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• McConnell Says Senate Will Move on if Pelosi Does Not Submit Impeachment Articles by Week’s End

  09-01-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Thursday that the Senate would move on and "get back to the people’s business" if the House continues to withhold the articles of impeachment through the end of the week."This conversation is over," McConnell said from the Senate floor. "Should future House majorities feel empowered to waste our time with junior varsity political hostage situations? Should future Speakers be permitted to conjure up this sword of Damocles at will and leave it ha
  
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• U.S. vaping-related deaths rise to 57, cases of illness to 2,602

  09-01-2020 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As of Jan. 7, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 41 new cases from the illness associated with use of e-cigarettes, or vaping products.The agency released a series of reports last month 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.CDC has called vitamin E acetate as a "chemical of concern" and recommended
  
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• China believes new virus behind mystery pneumonia outbreak

  09-01-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China believes a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS, which killed hundreds of people more than a decade ago.Lead scientist Xu Jianguo told the official Xinhua news agency that experts had "preliminarily determined" a new type of coronavirus was behind the outbreak, first confirmed on December 31 in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of more than 11 million.It initially sparked fears of a resurgence of h
  
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• A vet's prosthetic legs were repossessed two days before Christmas. He got them back, but broken

  09-01-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Jerry Holliman tried to navigate what felt like a maze of paperwork from Medicare and the VA, it felt like his country was forgetting him.
  
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• Trump falsely accuses Pelosi of 'defending' Iran general Soleimani

  09-01-2020 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has alsely accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats of "defending" the Iranian general who was killed in a US drone strike last week.As Mr Trump spoke to reporters at an event to celebrate his administration's attempt to roll back environmental regulations, he was asked if he'd seek approval from Congress for additional military action against Iran.
  
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• Authors Stephen King and Don Winslow offer to donate $175,000 to St. Jude's Children's Hospital if Stephanie Grisham gives a 1-hour White House press briefing

  09-01-2020 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Donations to charity should never come with strings attached," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham responded.
  
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• After opioid overdose, poor teens rarely get addiction treatment

  09-01-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers examined data on more than 4 million youths aged 13 to 22 with coverage through Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor, between 2009 and 2015. During that period, 3,791 young people had nonfatal opioid overdoses. In the month after overdoses, 69% of these teens and young adults didn't receive any addiction treatment, researchers report in JAMA Pediatrics.
  
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• Airlines are avoiding airspace near Iran and Iraq after a passenger plane was reportedly shot down

  09-01-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After Iran fired missiles into Iraq, and later reportedly shot down a Ukrainian plane by mistake, airlines are avoiding the region's airspace.
  
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• Searchers find third body buried by Idaho avalanche

  09-01-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Buried under about 10 feet (3 meters) of snow after an avalanche this week at an Idaho ski resort, Bill Fuzak made peace with his predicament and prepared for death.Fuzak became one of four survivors extricated from Tuesday's avalanche at the Silver Mountain Resort near Kellogg, Idaho.Fuzak, a skier who lives in the nearby Spokane, Washington, area, said he was entombed in the snow for about 50 minutes, much longer than most avalanche survivors.
  
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• Trump floats expanding NATO to add Middle East

  09-01-2020 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he supported expanding the North American Treaty Organization to include Middle Eastern nations, as the United States seeks to limit its troop footprint globally."I think that NATO should be expanded and we should include the Middle East, absolutely," Trump told reporters at the White House.Trump proposed increased NATO involvement in the Middle East on Wednesday when he addressed the Iranian strikes against U.S. troops in Iraq, carried out in retalia
  
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• It looks like Iran is ready to start bombing its fake aircraft carrier again

  09-01-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran looks to have fixed its fake aircraft carrier after using it for target practice years ago, meaning it may be planning to start hitting it again.
  
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• U.S. House passes resolution to limit Trump's ability to wage war on Iran

  09-01-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from further military action against Iran, rebuking the president days after he ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian commander and raised fears of war.The Democratic-controlled House voted 224-194, mostly along party lines, sending the war powers resolution to the Senate.The partisan vote reflected the deep divide in Congress over Trump's Iran policy and how much of a say lawmakers should
  
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• Everything we know so far about the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 crash in Iran

  09-01-2020 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Ukraine International Airlines plane was still new and had recently been tested. US intelligence says an Iranian missile mistakenly shot it down.
  
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• Pelosi says she will send impeachment articles once McConnell discloses Senate rules

  09-01-2020 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will send articles of impeachment to the Senate “soon,” but still wants to see definitive details from the Senate on how it will conduct the trial.
  
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• Trump: Soleimani was ‘looking to blow up our embassy’

  09-01-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president on Thursday continued to defend his decision to order the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani without congressional authorization, claiming that Tehran was planning an attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq.
  
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• U.S. Intel: Iran Shot Down Plane, Then Realized Mistake

  09-01-2020 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday morning in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was shot out of the sky by one of Iran’s anti-aircraft missile systems, probably as the result of a horrifying mistake, according to U.S., Canadian, and European officials familiar with the intelligence. Intelligence indicates the Iranians came to see they had erred soon after the plane was downed, per two U.S. government sources.Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, a Boeing 737-80
  
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• Iranian Missile Blew Passenger Jet Out of the Sky, U.S. Suspects

  09-01-2020 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Ukrainian airliner that crashed on Wednesday morning in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was shot out of the sky by one of Iran’s anti-aircraft missile systems, probably as the result of a horrifying mistake, according to U.S., Canadian, and European officials familiar with the intelligence. Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, a Boeing 737-800 traveling from Tehran to Kyiv, went down in flames hours after Iran fired a ground to ground missile fusillade at two U.S.-use
  
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• Colombia eradicates record amount of coca fields last year, president says

  09-01-2020 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia, a top source of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, eradicated more than 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of the crop last year, President Ivan Duque said on Thursday.The Andean country has come under repeated pressure from the United States, an important destination for cocaine shipments, to reduce coca cultivation, especially as crop figures shot up in recent years.The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has praised Duque's stepped-up eradication efforts.
  
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• The first full moon of 2020 - known as the wolf moon - will rise Friday night

  09-01-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first full moon of the year – known as the wolf moon – will shine in the night sky Friday night.
  
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• Iranian officials maintain it's 'scientifically impossible' for the Ukraine International Airlines flight to have been shot down by a missile

  09-01-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Multiple US intel sources said Thursday that they believe Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 was hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.
  
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• UN Security Council declares commitment to 'international law' as tensions flare

  09-01-2020 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The UN Security Council on Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to "an international order based on international law" amid fears of armed conflict between the United States and Iran.The declaration was issued at the start of a debate on the UN Charter which had been tabled before the present crisis by Vietnam, a non-permanent member of the Security Council and which assumes the rotating presidency this month.
  
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• Pelosi’s Impeachment Blunder

  09-01-2020 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We are in the midst of an imaginary impeachment standoff between House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. “Both have drawn firm lines in the sand. Someone's got to give,” one reporter recently declared.There is, of course, nothing to “give.” Pelosi has no standing to dictate the terms of a Senate trial; no constitutional right or political leverage. Why she has put herself in a position that will ultimately end, one way or another, with her s
  
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• Pelosi Pushes Back on Pressure to Release Impeachment Articles

  09-01-2020 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday pushed back against mounting pressure from Democrats to release the articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate.Democratic Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Chris Murphy of Connecticut called on Tuesday for Pelosi to send the articles to the Senate after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) claimed he had gathered enough votes to determine the parameters of the impeachment trial without input from Democrats. Subsequently, Sena
  
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• Exclusive: Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand, Goop, is going to sea with Celebrity Cruises

  09-01-2020 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For Gwyneth Paltrow, spending time on a boat feels like an escape. Now, Paltrow's lifestyle brand, Goop, is going to sea with Celebrity Cruises.
  
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• DHS reviewing reports of Iranian-Americans delayed at border

  09-01-2020 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security's civil rights office will investigate reports that travelers of Iranian descent were singled out for extra scrutiny as they crossed the border from Canada into Washington last weekend, according to U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal.The Seattle Democrat's office said Thursday she had received assurances from DHS the matter is being reviewed and that the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties would send investigators to Washington.Civil rights groups and lawmakers
  
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• Bill Cosby asks Pennsylvania high court to review conviction

  09-01-2020 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Comedian Bill Cosby filed an appeal Thursday of a court decision last month that upheld his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home.The latest appeal — filed with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which does not have to take the case — focuses on four key trial issues, including the judge’s decision to let five other accusers testify and to send Cosby to trial despite what he called a binding agreement with an earlier prosecutor that he would not be ch
  
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• Republicans spread lie that Democrats 'mourn' Iranian general

  09-01-2020 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defending President Trump’s order to launch a drone strike that killed Iran's most famous general without congressional authorization, Collins stirred outrage by suggesting Democrats who planned to vote for a resolution limiting the president’s war powers are “in love with terrorists.”
  
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• Plight of the Uyghurs: Why Muslims Won't Speak Up for Their Brethren

  09-01-2020 18:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic world will remain deafening silent about the harrowing plight of over ten million Muslims whose Islamic belief and actions are being forcefully wiped out.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: 'I never wash my face'

  09-01-2020 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) might want to consider a big, structural change to her skincare routine.Sure, the 2020 candidate discussed health care policy, the ongoing Iran crisis, and student loan debt in an interview with Cosmopolitan published Thursday. But one of the most standout revelations stemmed from a signature Cosmo question: "What's your skincare routine?""Pond's Moisturizer," Warren concisely responded. "Every morning, every night. And I never wash my face."> Wait. WHAT??! htt
  
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• Dem Congressman Says He ‘Misspoke’ after Breaking Ranks with Pelosi on Impeachment Articles

  09-01-2020 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just hours after telling CNN that he thought it was time for Nancy Pelosi to send President Trump’s impeachment articles to the Senate, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D., Wash.) released a statement saying he “misspoke.”“If the Speaker believes that holding on to the articles for a longer time will help force a fair trial in the Senate, then I wholeheartedly support that decision,” Smith said in the statement.> I am concerned that Senator McC
  
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• AOC introduces adorable, sleepy new member to 'the Squad'

  09-01-2020 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has welcomed an adorable new member to "the Squad," announcing on Instagram that she has added a French bulldog to her team.
  
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