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• Roger Stone on Paul Manafort’s impending indictment

  25-09-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Yahoo News’ Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff sat down with Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Trump, to talk about Paul Manafort, former campaign chief for Trump, and his impending indictment in the Russia investigation.
  
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• Junot Diaz: If Puerto Rico Means Anything To You, You Have To Step Up

  25-09-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  Junot Diaz delivered an impassioned speech about the devastation currently plaguing Puerto Rico at La Fábrica Central in Massachusetts on Sunday.
  
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• Groom Heroically Saves Drowning Boy During Wedding Photo Shoot

  25-09-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  This heroic groom probably didn’t expect to play the role of Superman on his wedding day.
  
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• Police arrest and remove protestors with disabilities at Senate Graham-Cassidy hearing

  25-09-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  How do we say this nicely, Senator Cassidy and Senator Graham: everyone hates your dumb healthcare bill.  Well, at least a solid majority of Americans do, and pretty much everyone who came to watch the Graham-Cassidy hearing Monday afternoon. Activists from the grassroots disability rights group ADAPT disrupted the hearing multiple times, causing Senator Hatch to briefly recess the hearing and prompting Capitol Police to arrest protestors, some of them in wheelchairs. Their protest centered
  
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• Hasan Minhaj Comparing Donald Trump To Stereotypical Indian Uncles Is Gold

  25-09-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Comedian Hasan Minhaj took aim at President Donald Trump at GQ India’s Men of the Year Awards, proving once again that he can throw some serious shade while looking classy AF.  Minhaj was in Mumbai on Friday to accept the publication’s International Man of the Year award.
  
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• Suspected Church Shooter Was Known To Police Before Deadly Attack

  25-09-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Authorities are searching for a motive behind Sunday morning’s deadly shooting spree at a Tennessee church as new details about the suspected gunman’s past surface.
  
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• Man 'Pushed To Limit' After NFL Protest, Quits Job At Buffalo Bills Stadium

  25-09-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  While NFL players are taking a knee, Erich Nikischer is leaving the arena.Nikischer found himself so enraged by several Buffalo Bills kneeling during the national anthem on Sunday that he quit his job of almost 30 years at the team’s home stadium, New Era Field.Nikischer said he has no issue with players protesting prior to the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, but could not handle the kneeling during the song.
  
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• Wanted: 1 million people to study genes, habits and health

  25-09-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact — and to finally customize ways to prevent and treat disease.
  
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• Health care bill protesters descend on Senate hearing

  25-09-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  The typically hushed corridors of the Russell Senate Building echoed with noise Monday as protesters, upset by the Senate Republicans’ health care bill, descended on lawmakers’ offices to let their displeasure be known ― part of several such demonstrations around the U.S. Capitol.An initial crowd estimated at around 100 protesters split into smaller groups once inside the building, with each subgroup seeking out the offices of specific senators, some of whom are positioned to c
  
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• Chelsea Manning says she has been barred from entering Canada

  25-09-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier who served seven years in military prison after instigating one of the biggest breaches of classified data in US history, has said she has been barred from entering Canada.On Monday, Manning posted on Twitter a report from the Canadian government that identified her as a foreign national “who has not been authorized to enter Canada” due to prior convictions.“So, I guess Canada has permanently banned me?” wrote Manning – one of
  
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• 'We Are Outraged': Thousands Of Faith Leaders Oppose GOP Health Care Bill

  25-09-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  A contingent of over 3,000 faith leaders released a letter to members of the Senate on Monday urging them to vote against Republican legislators’ latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
  
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• Dozens of British fighters on the loose in Syria as Islamic State crumbles

  25-09-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  Dead. Captured. On the run. Those are the probable fates of the dozens of British citizens who travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the so called Islamic State terror group. But even as the so-called Caliphate crumbles, remarkably little is known about what has become of its British followers. Unmasked: The most notorious British figures in Isil 03:18 “It really is shrouded in mystery and guess work,” said Shiraz Maher, a researcher at King’s College London who has interviewed a
  
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• Attack on Titan 2 Coming to Nintendo Switch

  25-09-2017 21:36
  Koei Tecmo's Attack on Titan 2 will have a western release on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC via Steam, and Xbox One, the company announced at Tokyo Game Show 2017.
  The title serves as a sequel to 2016's Attack on Titan game (known as Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom in Europe), and is not to be confused with Spike Chunsoft's 3DS game Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates.
  Attack on Titan 2 is set during the show's second season and is a hack-and-slash affair, allowing players to
  
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• White House: If NFL protests are about police brutality, players 'should protest the officers on the field'

  25-09-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders suggested Monday that if NFL players who kneel during the national anthem at games are doing so because of police brutality, they should protest the officers instead of the song.
  
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• New travel ban leads Supreme Court to cancel Oct. 10 hearing

  25-09-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's efforts to restrict entry into the United States by residents of some mainly Muslim countries have been the subject of lawsuits almost since the moment he announced the first travel ban in January. The latest version of the ban, rolled out Sunday, is certain to attract more legal challenges and is already affecting the high court's review.
  
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• Roger Stone Threatens D.C. Lawmakers Ahead of Hearing

  25-09-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Roger Stone, a longtime Donald Trump confidant, will testify Tuesday about alleged Russian meddling in U.S. politics, but only behind closed doors.
  
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• Poroshenko signs disputed Ukrainian language law

  25-09-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law a controversial language bill which has sparked a standoff with Romania and other east European states.The law states that starting in September 2020, students will be taught exclusively in Ukrainian from the fifth grade onwards, though they can still learn their native languages as a separate subject.The legislation has also raised hackles in Ukraine's sizable Hungarian and Polish minorities.
  
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• White House denies Trump has declared war on North Korea

  25-09-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders pushed back against North Korea's assertion on Monday that President Trump's recent speech at the U.N. constituted a declaration of war. Sanders said that the United States had not declared war with North Korea, calling the entire notion "absurd."
  
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• The U.S. Navy's Nuclear Submarines Could Be Made Obsolete

  25-09-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  On a more human level, it would be interesting to go back in time to World Wars I and II, where a constant refrain of the sailors and airmen who hunted subs was the sheer tedium of the search.Hour after hour after hour of scanning the oceans, in the hope that a needle in the haystack would reveal itself as a sonar contact or a tiny periscope peeking above the surface.If nothing else, farming out sub-hunting to the robots will make chasing subs a bit less dull.
  
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• Americans in Puerto Rico Beg for Federal Help

  25-09-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on the still dire situation in Hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico and the inadequate response so far from the federal government, which has had to be reminded that Puerto Ricans are Americans.
  
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• Yooka-Laylee Switch Release Held Up By Engine Problems

  25-09-2017 20:49
  Yooka-Laylee still doesn't have a release date for Nintendo Switch because of engine issues.
  On Kickstarter, Playtonic touched on the team's problems bringing the action-adventure game to the hybrid system. While the developer promises it's "nearly there" with the Switch version of Yooka-Laylee, there are tech difficulties delaying a set timeframe for launch."... We've encountered some final technical hurdles and had been waiting for the arrival of Unity 5.6 in order to fix them," Playtonic said
  
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• WWE 2K18 Has a PC Release Date

  25-09-2017 20:42
  For the first time in the WWE 2K series' history, WWE 2K18 will be released on PC at the same time it is being released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The latest game in the popular pro wrestling series will be available on Steam, and at other PC game retailers, starting October 17.
  Both the standard and deluxe editions of the game will be available on that date. However, PC games will not have the ability to take advantage of the Early Access Deluxe Edition perk. That being said, if you preord
  
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• A Ranking of the Richest Women of the Kardashian-Jenner Clan

  25-09-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" is 10 this year. Here's how much the show has made for the women in the Kardashian-Jenner clan over the years.
  
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• 2 national anthem singers take knees during NFL Sunday games

  25-09-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  During Sunday's 14 NFL games many players, coaches and teams demonstrated their right to peaceful protest by kneeling or remaining in the locker room during the national anthem -- and they weren't the only ones to join in the protest.
  
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• Cardi B Is The First Female Rapper To Hit No. 1 Solo In Almost 20 Years

  25-09-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Cardi B is making (money) moves to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and breaking records on the way.
  
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• Manafort Working Against US Mission in Iraq

  25-09-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on Kurdish people voting on a referendum to become independent from Iraq, a situation the U.S. has fought to prevent but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been paid to promote.
  
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• What Kim Kardashian West Eats for Breakfast

  25-09-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  A look at food, wine and more in news.
  
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• Soldier saves lifeless puppy with CPR in tear-worthy viral video

  25-09-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  An emotional video making its way around the internet shows a Thai soldier giving CPR to a tiny lifeless puppy and eventually bringing him back to life.
  
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• US-backed forces say Russia attacked them in eastern Syria

  25-09-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria say Russia bombed their positions on Monday in a major natural gas field they recently captured from Islamic State militants.
  
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• Did Caitlyn Jenner's rep just confirm Kylie Jenner's pregnancy?

  25-09-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  Did Caitlyn Jenner's rep just inadvertently confirm Kylie Jenner's pregnancy?
  
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• Forza 7 Fate of the Furious Car Pack Revealed

  25-09-2017 19:25
  Turn 10 Studios, in collaboration with Universal Studios, has announced the Fate of the Furious Car Pack for Forza Motorsport 7.
  The DLC features 10 vehicles inspired by the most recent Fast & Furious film, which will be free to those who purchase the Forza 7 Ultimate or Deluxe Editions, according to Xbox Wire. The pack will also be available as a standalone download for $10 USD. Get a closer look at each of the new cars in the slideshow below.
  This isn't the first time these two racing
  
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• Watch: ISIS Leaders Laugh in Raqqa as World Hunted Them

  25-09-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  The British men included Jihadi John, executioner of three Americans, and Junaid Hussain, ISIS's cyber chief.
  
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• Funeral Director Charged After Allegedly Showing Off Photos of Corpses: Cops

  25-09-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  Angeliegha Stewart, 27, has been charged with abuse of a corpse.
  
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• North Korea Threatens to Shoot Down U.S. Bombers

  25-09-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  An escalating war of words between Trump and Kim raises specter of accidental confrontation.
  
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• Anthony Weiner Is Going to Prison for Sexting Scandal

  25-09-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  Former Rep. Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for sexting with a 15-year-old girl in a case that rocked Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House in the closing days of the race and may have cost her the presidency.
  
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• Estranged husband of Clinton aide gets 21 months for sexting teen

  25-09-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former US congressman and estranged husband of one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, was sentenced to 21 months in prison on Monday for sexting a school girl.The 53-year-old had pleaded guilty in May to sending explicit photographs and messages to a 15-year-old high school student last year as his wife worked on Clinton's presidential campaign.Weiner, whose wife Huma Abedin is divorcing him, found himself in the eye of a major political storm last October when the
  
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• Body Language Experts Explain Prince Harry's Strange Pose With Melania Trump

  25-09-2017 18:54 via yahoo.com
  But some onlookers apparently thought this one, of Prince Harry and Melania Trump at the Invictus Games in Toronto over the weekend, is worth 666.
  
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• This Destiny 2 player turned the weirdest exotic into a rage-inducing artform

  25-09-2017 18:53 via gamesradar.com
  One Destiny 2 player has committed themselves so fully to the strange Exotic Shotgun called Tractor Cannon that it may be the beginnings of a new martial art
  
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• 'Hundreds' dead in Ethiopia ethnic clashes

  25-09-2017 18:51 via yahoo.com
  Clashes that erupted in Ethiopia this month between two of the country's largest ethnic groups have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands more, the government said Monday.The killing of two local administrators coupled with long-running land disputes led to an outbreak of fighting between the Oromo and Somali peoples in the south and east, government spokesman Negeri Lencho said."We can say hundreds of the Oromo ethnicity were killed... and there were also deaths from the Somali side
  
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• Woman Previously Named 'Heaviest in the World' Dead at 37

  25-09-2017 18:47 via yahoo.com
  She underwent weight loss surgery in March.
  
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• Retired Air Force Medic Awarded New Harley

  25-09-2017 18:16 via yahoo.com
  Retired Air Force Medic Awarded New Harley Lisa Benjamin, a retired Air Force medic, was in for a big surprise at Cowboy’s Alamo City Harley-Davidson in San Antonio, Texas last week. Lisa was awarded a 2018 Harley-Davidson Model Street Glide Special, powered
  
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• How This Hospital Keeps Sick Turtles Safe During Hurricane Season

  25-09-2017 18:13 via yahoo.com
  A few days after Hurricane Irma slammed into south Florida ― while there were still tight travel restrictions and curfews in place ― Bette Zirkelbach stocked an ambulance with supplies and raced south.
  
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• Disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner Jailed for Sexting

  25-09-2017 18:07 via yahoo.com
  The former congressman will be behind bars for about two years.
  
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• Twitter Reacts To Trump Obsessing About NFL And Ignoring Puerto Rico

  25-09-2017 18:05 via yahoo.com
  The president's Twitter account was under scrutiny over the weekend.
  
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• Out This Week: SNES Classic Edition, Cuphead, Hive Jump

  25-09-2017 18:00
  
  With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
  Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.
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• Singer Jessie James Decker Voices Support For National Anthem Amid Protests

  25-09-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  Country singer Jessie James Decker spoke out in support of the national anthem amid NFL protests over President Donald Trump’s comments attacking players who choose to kneel during the patriotic song.
  
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• 'We will finally have our state': Iraqi Kurds vote in historic referendum on independence

  25-09-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  “Today we will finally be a nation, just like the UK,” Khano Darwesh said as he showed off his ink-stained finger. “Our people have been fighting for more than 100 years for this moment.” The 77-year-old joined more than three million other residents of Iraqi Kurdistan who went to the polls today for a historic referendum on independence. Women came dressed in their finest, men wore traditional Kurdish sarwal pants and sashes. For some of the older votes, emotions got the
  
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• As Puerto Rico reels from hurricane, Trump focuses on football

  25-09-2017 17:39 via yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico’s governor, its mayors, and its representative to Congress have all called attention to the island territory’s desperate situation, but the president hasn’t mentioned Puerto Rico on Twitter since the middle of last week. He has largely focused on NFL players instead.
  
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• No End in Sight For Puerto Rico Relief Effort After Hurricane Maria

  25-09-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  Roofs have blown off homes and lives have been torn apart across the island of Puerto Rico, which still has no power. “Everything is destroyed,” one resident tells NBC News’ Gabe Gutierrez.
  
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• Prince Harry Has A Twin, And It's Justin Trudeau's Photographer

  25-09-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  It turns out Prince Harry has a look-alke, and he’s Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s photographer.
  
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