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• Cynthia Nixon: Democrats need to let black women lead party

  04-04-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon said Wednesday black women are the cornerstone and backbone of the Democratic Party, and "we need to let them lead."
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey to keep pushing Kurds out of Syria's north

  04-04-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his military "won't stop" trying to oust Syrian Kurdish fighters from northern Syria, as he met with the leaders of Russia and Iran for talks on trying to resolve the conflict.
  
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• NOT REAL NEWS: No deputies slain on way to Clinton library

  04-04-2018 23:10 via yahoo.com
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An online story falsely claimed two deputies were killed in Arkansas on their way to the Clinton Presidential Library to deliver a search warrant.
  
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• NATO chief says alliance is not trying to isolate Russia

  04-04-2018 22:57 via yahoo.com
  By David LjunggrenOTTAWA (Reuters) - NATO is not aiming to isolate Russia after a nerve agent attack on a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain last month but had to crack down to show its unhappiness with Moscow, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.The alliance last week expelled seven diplomats from the Russian mission to NATO and cut the maximum size of the delegation to 20 from 30 after the attack, which the West blames on Moscow, although the Kremlin denies it."W
  
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• Russia loses vote to join spy poisoning probe; next stop UN

  04-04-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The international chemical weapons watchdog on Wednesday rejected Russia's call for a joint investigation with Britain of the nerve-agent poisonings of an ex-spy and his daughter in England.
  
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• Channing Tatum Alluded To Possible Marital Troubles Over 2 Years Ago

  04-04-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum announced Monday that they are separating
  
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• Kosovo parliament to probe arrests of Turkish nationals

  04-04-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Kosovo parliament voted on Wednesday to set up a committee to investigate how six Turkish citizens were arrested and deported to Turkey in a move that activists say violated human rights.The six Turkish nationals were arrested in Kosovo last week at Turkey’s request over alleged links to schools financed by the Gulen movement, which Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup.On Friday Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj sacked his interior minister and country's secret service chief for faili
  
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• Mueller's team finds more Russia ties

  04-04-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Lawrence O'Donnell looks at the New York Times report that a key cooperating witness in the Mueller probe has ties to Russia – and the special counsel's newest tactics to get information.
  
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• Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith divorcing: media

  04-04-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who rose to national fame in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and his third wife, Judith, are divorcing, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.After a 15-year marriage, Judith Giuliani, 63, filed a contested divorce proceeding in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, indicating an expected fight over their assets, including properties in New York and Palm Beach, Florida."It is with great sadness I can confirm that Judith and I are divorcing," Rudy Gi
  
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• Africa Is Splitting in Two, and Here's the Proof

  04-04-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  A piece of East Africa is expected to break off the main continent in tens of millions of years.The enormous crack appeared on March 19 and measures more than 50 feet (15 meters) wide and several miles along, Face2Face Africa and other news sources reported.The rift is likely a sign of things to come as the plate tectonics under Africa rearrange themselves.
  
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• This 4,000-Year-Old Mummy Just Solved a Century-Old Mystery

  04-04-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A team of forensic scientists has managed to extract DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy, and their finding has solved a century-old mystery of its ransacked tomb.The Egyptian mummy wasn't a fully preserved corpse, but rather a decapitated, mutilated, bandage-wrapped head that archaeologists found on top of a coffin when they excavated a tomb back in 1915.As the researchers explained in a paper published March 1 in the journal Genes, the tomb belonged to an Egyptian Middle Kingdom governor named Dje
  
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• How To Hit Sinclair Where It Hurts, According To An Anonymous Sinclair Anchor

  04-04-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  Last week, ThinkProgress and Deadspin both posted video compilations of
  
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• US soybean growers in crosshairs of US-China trade spat

  04-04-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  American soybean producers could be big losers if Beijing follows through on plans to impose tariffs on the commodity in retaliation for President Donald Trump's trade crackdown.China is the biggest buyer of US soybeans, ordering about $12 billion worth of the crop in 2017, or about 30 percent of US production.Beijing announced early Wednesday that it plans to impose levies on $50 billion worth of US exports.
  
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• Shooting motivated by video blogger's anger with YouTube, police say

  04-04-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with "injustice and diseases" opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday.In a series of Persian and English-language online postings, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, had railed against the video-sharing site owned by Alphabet Inc'sGoogle before wounding three people and killing herself on Tuesday at its offices in San Bruno, just sou
  
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• Trump to order National Guard to protect border with Mexico: official

  04-04-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump will sign a proclamation on Wednesday ordering the deployment of the National Guard to help protect the border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said."The president has directed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security work together with our governors to deploy the National Guard to our southwest border to assist the Border Patrol," Nielsen said at a White Housebriefing.
  
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• Sri Lankan PM survives no confidence vote

  04-04-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga SirilalCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday survived a no confidence vote in parliament after a majority of legislators voted to support his coalition government but the instability caused may damage its reform agenda.The opposition, eyeing fractures within the ruling alliance, had sponsored the trust vote against Wickremesinghe blaming him for failing to prevent an alleged scam https://www.reuters.com/article/sri-lanka-bond-ar
  
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• Chinese Defense Minister Says China will ‘Support’ Russia Against America

  04-04-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  China’s new defense minister Wei Fenghe has reportedly said during a visit to Moscow that China is ready to support Russia against the US.“I am visiting Russia as a new defense minister of China to show the world a high level of development of our bilateral relations and firm determination of our armed forces to strengthen strategic cooperation,” Wei said at a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu, according to a report by state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
  
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• What the Welsh Offer in Thrones of Britannia: Total War Saga

  04-04-2018 20:54
  We got a look at the Irish last time we saw Thrones of Britannia, the Total War Saga spin-off, and this time around the Welsh kingdom of Gwined and the viking realm of Northymbre were in the spotlight. The Welsh are led by King Anararaut, and start with a highly defensible position on the island of Ynis Mon - modern day Anglesey. Anaraut’s father, Rhodri the Great, was a great king who brought the Welsh together, but after his death, his sons have somewhat predictably fallen to infighting.
  
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• Boston sued over 2016 police shooting of mentally ill man

  04-04-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — The mother of a black man fatally shot by Boston police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to force a change in how first responders deal with people with mental illnesses.
  
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• Robert Mueller Tells President Trump He's Not a Criminal Target, Source Says

  04-04-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  The president is considered a subject of the investigation at the moment
  
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• A Trade War Could Cost The GOP At The Ballot Box

  04-04-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump opening a trade war with China may hurt
  
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• Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin: Teachers on strike are like 'teenagers who want a better car'

  04-04-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Teachers going on strike to demand a salary increase are like “a teenager wanting a better car,” according to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin.
  
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• Sea of Thieves New Patch Aims to Fix Respawn 'Griefing'

  04-04-2018 20:25
  Sea of Thieves' patch 1.0.2 goes live today, and with it, Rare is looking to fix one of the biggest issues players are having in the shared-world pirate game – having to fend off an endless number of respawning enemy ships.
  In a patch notes post on the Sea of Thieves forums, the developer has listed a number of fixes and changes being introduced in the patch, but first and foremost is the ship respawn distance.
  "When a ship sinks, we have significantly increased the distance at which the c
  
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• Negotiating with Israel would be big mistake: Iran's Supreme Leader

  04-04-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  Any move to negotiate with Israel would be an "unforgivable mistake", Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday, after Saudi Arabia's crown prince said Israelis were entitled to live peacefully on their own land.Saudi Arabia - birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines - does not officially recognize Israel, but Mohammed bin Salman's comments, quoted in the U.S. magazine The Atlantic, are a further sign of an apparent thawing in bilateral ties.
  
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• Police defend decision not to detain YouTube shooter hours before shooting

  04-04-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Nasim Aghdam, whom Northern California police found sleeping in her car early Tuesday, had been reported missing by her family in San Diego. But they say she was calm and cooperative.
  
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• Jury Finds Adam Shacknai Responsible for Rebecca Zahau’s Hanging Death in San Diego Mansion

  04-04-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  The hanging death of Rebecca Zahau in the Spreckles Mansion created a long-lasting mystery.
  
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• Migrants at U.S.-Mexico border say Trump's tough talk will not deter them

  04-04-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, the same day that U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy military to help patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, Edwin Valdez and four other Central American migrants were walking through dense brush at a south Texas wildlife reserve, hoping to escape notice.The men had illegally crossed into the United States that morning, guided by a smuggler who had since abandoned them.In vehicles nearby, U.S. Border Patrol agents had been alerted to migrants moving through the are
  
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• Russia requests Security Council meeting on spy poisoning

  04-04-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Russia has asked for a UN Security Council meeting over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Britain, the country's ambassador to the UN announced Wednesday.Vassily Nebenzia said Russia was requesting a meeting Thursday at 1900 GMT over the British government's implication of Moscow in the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.The Kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement in the March 4 attack, which Britain says was carried out with a military-g
  
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• Spyro the Dragon Return Possibly Teased by Mysterious Package

  04-04-2018 19:35
  
  Update #2: A new tweet from the Falcon McBob, which the official Crash Bandicoot account followed yesterday, could be offering yet another clue of Spyro's return, or a well-placed troll.
  "Good times," @SpyrotheDragon has tweeted at the official Crash account, with a close-up photo of Crash's face, seemingly from a Bandicoot costume used in some of that character's live-action commercials..@CrashBandicoot Good Times. pic.twitter.com/we1PmOrq94
  — Falcon McBob (@SpyroTheDragon) April 4,
  
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• How Did a Miles-Long Crevice Appear in the Earth Overnight?

  04-04-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  Scientists are torn about why the crack in the earth suddenly appeared outside Nairobi, Kenya.
  
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• Betsy DeVos Mulls The Fate Of Guidance Designed To Reduce Racial Bias In Schools

  04-04-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with a group of civil rights leaders,
  
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• Vive Pro Responds to Pricing Complaints with New Starter Bundle

  04-04-2018 19:31
  Today the Vive team announced it would begin offering the Vive Pro Starter Kit tomorrow, April 5, which is also the two-year anniversary of the Vive’s launch.
  The bundle will include the Vive Pro headset, two Vive 1.0 controllers, and two 1.0 base stations for a cost of $1,100. The controllers and base stations are required to use the Vive, and don’t come included with the Pro’s regular $800 price tag.This Starter Kit comes as a direct response to complaints about the price of
  
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• Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker warns party is at risk of Democratic gains in midterm elections

  04-04-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker has said his party is at risk of a Democratic wave of wins later this year after a liberal claimed victory in the state’s Supreme Court race.Rebecca Dallet trounced conservative Michael Screnock in the election for a 10-year term on Wisconsin’s high court, putting more wind in Democrats’ sails ahead of the midterm elections in November.Donald Trump won Wisconsin by one percentage point in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• Far Cry 5 Is Fastest-Selling Game in Franchise History

  04-04-2018 19:12
  
  Far Cry 5 has hit a major sales milestone, becoming the fastest-selling game in the franchise's history.
  As detailed by Ubisoft, the latest entry in the series has more than doubled Far Cry 4's first week sales, with digital distribution accounting for more than half of those sales.
  Far Cry 5 is also now the second biggest launch ever for a Ubisoft title. It trails only behind Tom Clancy's The Division, with $310 million USD in consumer spending over its first week.
  Additionally, players have st
  
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• Next-Gen Toyota 86, Subaru BRZ May Get More Power

  04-04-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Subaru has a new 2.4-liter boxer engine, and there's a new rear-drive sports coupe in the works. Sounds like the perfect pairing to us.
  
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• Nasim Aghdam: YouTube shooting suspect visited firing range hours before attack on California campus

  04-04-2018 18:44 via yahoo.com
  Hours before YouTube employees were sent fleeing from a shooter on their campus, the suspected assailant practised her aim at a shooting range.Shortly afterwards Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, strode into the video streaming giant’s headquarters and opened fire with a legally obtained Smith and Wesson semiautomatic handgun before fatally shooting herself, authorities said.An emerging timeline suggests that Ms Aghdam travelled from southern California to Silicon Valley in the days before the shoo
  
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• What to expect from the new generation Ford Focus

  04-04-2018 18:41 via yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, the American manufacturer will unveil the new generation Ford Focus.The new Focus will be available in the usual versions (hatchback, sedan and estate), but with slightly modified shapes.Under the hood, the 2019 Ford Focus is expected to benefit from a new three cylinder EcoBoost engine, and in time will be offered in hybrid and even 100% electric versions, as was the case with previous generations.
  
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• Women Who Kill: America's Most Shocking Female Mass Shooters

  04-04-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  After Nasim Aghdam opened fire at the YouTube headquarters, a list of other women mass shooters.
  
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• Shout 'Dilly Dilly' At The Masters And You'll Be Thrown Out On Your Can

  04-04-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  To combat disruptive fan behavior at golf tournaments, the Masters has banned
  
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• Turkey, Iran, Russia say will work for stability in Syria

  04-04-2018 18:31 via yahoo.com
  By Parisa Hafezi and Tulay KaradenizANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, Iran and Russia pledged on Wednesday to accelerate efforts to bring stability to Syria, underlining their joint commitment to the country a day after President Donald Trump raised the prospect of withdrawing U.S. troops.A statement by the three countries after a summit meeting of their leaders in the Turkish capital Ankara said they were determined to "speed up their efforts to ensure calm on the ground" in Syria.While their decision
  
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• Who is Nasim Najafi Aghdam? Suspect in shooting at YouTube headquarters identified by police

  04-04-2018 18:10 via yahoo.com
  Authorities identified 39-year-old Nasim Najafi Aghdam as the suspect in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California. Law enforcement sources confirmed Aghdam died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
  
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• Fortnite Devs Slow Down Patch Schedule to Improve Bug Fixing

  04-04-2018 18:07
  Epic Games has announced that they'll be slowing down their Fortnite patch schedule to once every two weeks to improve bug fixing.
  The fortnightly patch schedule will alternate with the new Content Updates, confirmed a PR spokesperson, and won't affect the weekly content for the game. Players will still get new features every week without the need for an update.
  "Starting this week, we are doing things a little differently. Every other week we will drop new content without the need for an u
  
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• Migrant caravan abandons plan to travel to US border

  04-04-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  Matías Romero (Mexico) (AFP) - A caravan of Central American migrants whose trek across Mexico infuriated President Donald Trump has decided not to travel to the US border, leaders said Tuesday."We will wrap up our work in Mexico City," said Irineo Mujica, the head of the migrant advocacy group People Without Borders (Pueblo sin Fronteras)."We have support teams at the border if there are people who need assistance there, but they would have to travel on their own," he told AFP in the tow
  
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• Marvel's Spider-Man Features Unlockable Suits, No Microtransactions

  04-04-2018 18:06
  Marvel's Spider-Man will feature unlockable Spidey suits, which come with distinct abilities - and you won't be able to get them through microtransactions, it seems.
  As part of a Game Informer cover feature, Insomniac revealed three new suits (some more certain than others) beyond the developer's own new costume: Spider-Punk - Part of the game's pre-order bonuses, this combination of a sleeveless denim jacket and a spike mohawk adds the strange ability of allowing Peter to pull out a guitar
  
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• Russia calls U.N. Security Council meeting on Salisbury attack

  04-04-2018 18:03 via yahoo.com
  Russia has requested the United Nations Security Council meet on Thursday to discuss British accusations that Moscow used a nerve agent to attack a former Russian spy in England last month, Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on Wednesday.Nebenzia said the meeting would be convened on the basis of a March 13 letter sent to the U.N. Security Council by British Prime Minister Theresa May, which said Moscow was "highly likely" responsible for the attack.
  
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• Turkey, Russia, Iran urge 'lasting ceasefire' in Syria

  04-04-2018 18:01 via yahoo.com
  The presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia vowed to work for a lasting ceasefire after over seven years of civil war in Syria, following a summit aimed at boosting both peace prospects and also their influence in the country.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iran's Hassan Rouhani and Russia's Vladimir Putin reaffirmed their commitment to cooperating for "the achievement of a lasting ceasefire between the conflicting parties", a joint communique said.The meeting in Ankara was the second such
  
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• Skybound Announces New Games Publishing Division

  04-04-2018 18:00
  
  Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment has announced Skybound Games, a new division of the multiplatform company dedicated to publishing indie games.
  Skybound’s new gaming venture will bring two previously released games to retail for the first time this September: Hinterland Studio’s The Long Dark and Monomi Park’s Slime Rancher, which have sold over 2 million and 1.3 million copies to date, respectively.The Skybound Games logoContinue reading…
  
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• Florida car crash: Audio emerges of emergency response to collision that killed British family

  04-04-2018 17:59 via yahoo.com
  An audio recording has emerged of the aftermath of a car crash that killed four members of a British family in Florida.The group were returning from a visit to the Kennedy Space Centre when they turned their rental car into the path of a black Ford pickup truck.“Colombia and Sisson, Colombia and Sisson, three people unconscious,” says one emergency responder in the recording.
  
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• Stocks dive as gloves come off in trade row

  04-04-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  Wall Street dived at the opening bell, with European and Asian markets also a sea of red.Investors around the globe are rattled by China's plans to hit major US exports such as soybeans, cars and small aircraft with retaliatory tariffs worth $50 billion in the escalating trade duel.China's threats came as a response to a US list of Chinese imports that could be targeted by tariffs, also worth $50 billion.
  
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• Martin Luther King Jr assassination: Did James Earl Ray really kill the civil rights leader in Memphis?

  04-04-2018 17:45 via yahoo.com
  When Martin Luther King Jr checked into Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel, one of the few in Memphis to give black Americans a friendly welcome, the eyes of the world were upon him.In the shared bathroom at the back of Ray’s boarding house, there was a window overlooking the Lorraine Motel.
  
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