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• Republicans Appear Ready To Push For Brett Kavanaugh Vote Despite Sexual Assault Claim

  16-09-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee appear ready to move
  
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• Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller removed from school curriculum by Texas School Board

  16-09-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  The Texas Board of Education has voted to drop Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from its history curriculum.
  
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• 'Worst yet to come': 17 dead as North Carolina faces Florence flooding

  16-09-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  Rivers swell to record levels while thousands are evacuated, stranded and left without powerHistoric flooding predicted as storm lingers – live coverage
  
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• Sessions calls family of MS-13 victim's mom killed by car

  16-09-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered his condolences to the family of Evelyn Rodriguez, who was struck and killed by a car after a heated confrontation with the driver at the memorial of her daughter killed by MS-13 gang members two years ago.
  
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• Republicans Asks Why Kavanaugh Accusations Have Come So Late as Democrats Seek to Delay Vote

  16-09-2018 23:26 via yahoo.com
  Chairman Grassley said the timing of the allegations is "disturbing"
  
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• Hurricane Florence cuts off road access to N. Carolina city

  16-09-2018 23:26 via yahoo.com
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Damage from Hurricane Florence left a North Carolina city popular with tourists cut off Sunday from road access, leaving authorities planning how to get food and water there by air and water.
  
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• Florence Flooding Breaches Makeshift Levee Reinforcement In North Carolina

  16-09-2018 23:25 via yahoo.com
  LUMBERTON, North Carolina -- In the days before Hurricane Florence struck,
  
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• Seven hurt, one critically, in brawl in southeast English town

  16-09-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  Seven people were being treated in hospital, one of them in a critical condition, after they were involved in a fight in a residential street in the southeastern English town of Luton on Sunday, police said.Police said on Twitter that they attended the scene after receiving reports of a large number of individuals fighting.
  
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• Michael Moore Thinks Donald Trump Or 'One Of His Minions' Wrote Anonymous NYT Op-Ed

  16-09-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore said he believes President Donald Trump
  
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• Alligator Casually Strolls Through Myrtle Beach-Area Neighborhood During Florence

  16-09-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Gators have to weather these storms too.
  
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• 'Predator' slays competition at N.America box office

  16-09-2018 22:22 via yahoo.com
  "The Predator" -- the latest installment in the long-running sci-fi action series -- chewed up its rivals to debut atop the North American box office this weekend, industry data showed Sunday.The movie, which comes more than 30 years after the franchise's original film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, courted controversy before its release when the studio cut a scene featuring an actor who was a registered sex offender.Star Olivia Munn had requested the change, saying she was unaware of the actor
  
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• Shark attack victim was engineering student, outdoorsman

  16-09-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) — A 26-year-old man who was killed in a shark attack off a Cape Cod beach had been a part-time engineering student who was engaged to be married and loved surfing and other outdoor activities, according to friends and school officials.
  
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• Mormon fighting to end youth interviews ousted from faith

  16-09-2018 22:13 via yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Mormon man who led a campaign criticizing the church's practice of allowing closed-door, one-on-one interviews of youth by lay leaders that sometimes included sexual questions has been kicked out of the faith following a disciplinary hearing.
  
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• Surreal Adventure Game The Gardens Between Releases Next Week

  16-09-2018 22:11
  The Gardens Between is an upcoming adventure game about two young best friends, Arina and Frendt, who take a magical journey through different islands where they manipulate time to solve puzzles.Each island has a surreal feel, with a giant analog television sitting atop a cliff or a popcorn bowl the size of a pond. The Gardens Between features no text or dialogue, relying on its emotive imagery to tell its narrative. The puzzles can be solved by tapping a single button.The Gardens Betw
  
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• Lisa Page: Collusion unproven at time of Mueller appointment

  16-09-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  According to a transcript reviewed by Fox News, Lisa Page testified that evidence of collusion had not been found at the time of the Mueller appointment; former federal prosecutor Steven Mulroy reacts.
  
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• Last stand: Syria's rebel Idlib prepares for a losing battle

  16-09-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — They dug trenches around towns, reinforced caves for cover and put up sand bags around their positions. They issued calls to arms, urging young men to join in the defense of Idlib, the Syrian province where opposition fighters expect to make their last stand against Russian- and Iranian-backed government troops they have fought for years.
  
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• Ethiopia, Eritrea seek to bolster truce at Saudi summit

  16-09-2018 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Ethiopia and Eritrea signed an agreement Sunday at a summit in Saudi Arabia, bolstering a historic peace accord between the two former Horn of Africa enemies, officials said.Authorities did not reveal exact details of the new deal signed in Jeddah, but sources close to the Saudi government said it would help strengthen the truce and enhance security in the wider region.Saudi King Salman hosted the signing ceremony which was also attended by his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and UN Secre
  
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• Thousands march to promote vote for Macedonia name deal

  16-09-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of people marched in Macedonia's capital Sunday to promote support for changing the country's name in an upcoming referendum that also could clear the way for NATO membership.
  
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• Baby-aspirin risks overwhelm benefits in healthy elderly

  16-09-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  The trial has "provided convincing evidence that aspirin is ineffective in preserving good health in elderly people without a medical (reason) to be using it," chief author Dr. John J. McNeil of Monash University in Melbourne told Reuters Health in an email.The results - which show that risks of major bleeding in low-dose aspirin users overwhelm any heart benefits - were reported online in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented Sunday at the European Respiratory Society International
  
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• Donald Trump has 'insecurity of a teenage girl' says John Kerry in attack on president

  16-09-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  John Kerry, the former US secretary of state, has torn into Donald Trump in response to the president accusing him of holding “illegal” meetings with Iran.The former Massachusetts senator used decidedly undiplomatic language, saying Mr Trump had “the maturity of an eight-year-old boy with the insecurity of a teenage girl.The attack came after Mr Trump tweeted that talks Mr Kerry held with Iran officials after leaving office were “to the detriment of the American people".
  
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• Protests as Steve Bannon defends Europe’s far right at New York appearance

  16-09-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Protesters gathered to voice their opposition to Steve Bannon as he used an appearance in New York to praise Hungary’s nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban and Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini.Speaking at a live debate at the Open Future festival organised by The Economist in New York, the former White House chief strategist applauded the leaders for trying to safeguard the “sovereignty” of their nations.“These individuals, these populist national mov
  
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• JPMorgan Chase chief: banking system healthy 10 years after meltdown

  16-09-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Sunday the US banking system has returned to full health 10 years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers plunged the world into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.Dimon, who traded barbs earlier in the week with Donald Trump, gave the US president "pretty good" marks for his handling of the US economy, noting that business and consumer confidence "skyrocketed" after his election."The banking system is very, very, very healthy.
  
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• Macron under fire after telling young jobseeker to 'find work by crossing the road'

  16-09-2018 19:02 via yahoo.com
  Emmanuel Macron has provoked ridicule and anger by telling an unemployed man that he could find him work "just by crossing the road”. The 25-year-old aspiring gardener complained of being unable to find a job when he spoke to the French president during a public open day at the Elysée Palace on Saturday.  Mr Macron advised him to change his line of work, saying jobs were readily available in catering or construction.  “Hotels, cafés, restaurants, I can fi
  
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• Lula’s guy: Brazilian Left’s new candidate Haddad rallies voters who barely recognise him

  16-09-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  As the new favourite to face far-Right candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian election race, there is only one question on the lips of Fernando Haddad's supporter base: who is he? Last week, jailed former president Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva - the firm frontrunner - officially stepped down as the candidate for the centre-left Workers’ Party, calling in running mate Mr Haddad as his replacement.  Now, the Workers' Party’s strategy is to transfer as much of these votes
  
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• Daily aspirin for healthy pensioners may do more harm than good, major new study finds

  16-09-2018 18:32 via yahoo.com
  Taking aspirin every day may cause pensioners more harm the good, a major new study has concluded. Research into nearly 20,000 older people found those who were generally healthy derived no  protective benefit from the blood-thinning pill - but it increased their risk of dangerous bleeds. In the UK, GPs generally do not advise aspirin for pensioners who have not previously suffered cardiovascular problems, such as a heart attack or stroke. However, experts warned last night that tens of tho
  
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• Deadly ethnic-based attacks erupt near Ethiopia's capital

  16-09-2018 18:20 via yahoo.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Government officials and residents said overnight ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, have killed several people and caused hundreds to flee their homes.
  
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• Kurds opt out of first local elections in Syria since 2011

  16-09-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria held its first municipal elections since 2011 on Sunday, amid tensions with the country's self-administered Kurdish region, which refused to allow polls.
  
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• Around 1,000 Hungarians protest against Orban at pro-EU rally

  16-09-2018 18:03 via yahoo.com
  The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to sanction Hungary for flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption in an unprecedented step that left Orban isolated from some powerful allies in the European Parliament.Hungary said it would seek legal ways to challenge the ruling which it described as "petty revenge".
  
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• Shattered buildings, swamped fields: the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut

  16-09-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  The skeleton of a shattered school, bare walls of homes stripped of their roofs and vast cornfields drowned in muddy floodwaters: this is the aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut as seen from the air.A day after the world's worst storm of the year carved a path of deadly destruction across the northern Philippines' agricultural heartland, AFP was able to fly over some of the damage in Cagayan province."I saw widespread damage to planted crops, mostly corn.
  
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• Texas set to eliminate Hillary Clinton from required state curriculum

  16-09-2018 17:57 via yahoo.com
  The Texas Board of Education has voted to eliminate Hillary Clinton and other historical figures from the required curriculum in an effort to “streamline” lessons.The vote does not prevent educators from teaching about Ms Clinton, deaf-blind activist Helen Keller, and Republican Barry Goldwater who was the first Jewish presidential candidate, but it is no longer compulsory for the state’s 5.4 million public school students to learn about them.The final vote on the matter is set
  
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• North Carolina Hurricane Shelter Residents Break Into Spontaneous Song

  16-09-2018 17:53 via yahoo.com
  Something uplifting out of disaster.
  
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• GOP Senator: 'Nothing We Can Do' About Brett Kavanaugh Allegation

  16-09-2018 17:42 via yahoo.com
  Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Sunday there's "nothing we can do" about an
  
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• UN's Yemen envoy in Sanaa, as 32 rebels killed

  16-09-2018 17:19 via yahoo.com
  Fresh clashes and air strikes around the Yemeni city of Hodeida have killed 32 rebels, hospital and medical sources said Sunday, as the UN envoy kept up peace efforts in Sanaa.A military source told AFP the Saudi-led coalition fighting alongside the Yemeni government against Shiite Huthi rebels carried out an air raid on a radio station tower in the port city of Hodeida.According to medical sources in Hodeida province, which is controlled by the Huthis, at least 32 insurgents have been killed an
  
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• FEMA Boss Defends Trump's Puerto Rico Death Toll Denial: 'Numbers Are All Over The Place'

  16-09-2018 17:15 via yahoo.com
  The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday defended
  
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• Florence's Death Toll Stands at 17 as It Weakens to a Depression

  16-09-2018 17:04 via yahoo.com
  Eleven people have died in North Carolina and six died in South Carolina
  
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• Samsung heir among business leaders joining South Korea's visit to Pyongyang

  16-09-2018 16:54 via yahoo.com
  The heir to the Samsung empire and the leaders of several other South Korean conglomerates will go to Pyongyang this week for an inter-Korean summit, Seoul announced Sunday. Samsung's Lee Jae-yong and the heads of the SK and LG groups will be part of President Moon Jae-in's delegation as he heads for a meeting with the North's leader Kim Jong-un, Moon's office said. Kim Yong-hwan, vice-chairman of Hyundai Motor Group - whose founder was a refugee from the North - will be among the entourage. Hyu
  
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• FEMA Will Test an Emergency System That Lets President Trump Send You Text Alerts

  16-09-2018 16:44 via yahoo.com
  The texts will be sent as "Presidential Alerts"
  
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• Trump Draws Fire From Joe Biden at Annual LGBT Dinner

  16-09-2018 16:09 via yahoo.com
  Speaker after speaker referred to Trump as a “bully and a bigot”
  
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• London Mayor Pushes For Second Brexit Vote

  16-09-2018 16:08 via yahoo.com
  Alarmed by the possibility of a bad or "no-deal" Brexit, London Mayor Sadiq
  
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• Flooding threatens the Carolinas as Florence is downgraded to a tropical depression

  16-09-2018 15:47 via yahoo.com
   A killer storm that left up to 13 people dead weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday, but authorities warned the devastation it caused -- including catastrophic flooding -- is far from over.
  
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• Bird's-eye abstraction: Iceland viewed from above

  16-09-2018 15:14 via yahoo.com
  Florian Ledoux captured these rare aerial views of the hills, water and craters of Iceland that look like abstract art compositions.
  
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• Authorities Name Border Patrol Agent as 'Serial Killer' in Murders of 4 Women

  16-09-2018 14:38 via yahoo.com
  A fifth woman managed to escape and alert police, officials said.
  
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• Palestinian teen dies from wounds in Gaza unrest: ministry

  16-09-2018 13:10 via yahoo.com
  A Palestinian teenager has died after being shot by Israeli forces last month during protests and clashes along the Gaza border, the health ministry in the enclave said.Saheeb Abu Kashef, 16, died late Saturday after being shot on August 3 east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the ministry.An Israeli military spokesman has meanwhile raised questions over the death of a 12-year-old Palestinian in the Gaza Strip during protests and clashes on Friday.
  
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• Russian Warships Are Probably Lurking Near Syria In Case Putin Orders Cruise Missile Strikes

  16-09-2018 12:20 via yahoo.com
  Another showdown coming soon? 
  
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• The Best Anti-Aging Skin Care

  16-09-2018 12:03 via yahoo.com
  L ike bones, skin often becomes more fragile with age. It may seem more delicate and prone to tears and irritation than it once did, and feel drier and itchier. “Many factors—including loss of co...
  
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• Israeli severely wounded in stabbing by Palestinian: army

  16-09-2018 11:40 via yahoo.com
  The incident took place at the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem.A military spokeswoman said she had no further details on the Palestinian's condition or whether the person had been shot.There is regular friction between Israeli settlers and Palestinians at the junction, which has been the site of numerous attacks.
  
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• US swimmer dies from suspected shark attack: police

  16-09-2018 10:56 via yahoo.com
  A swimmer has died from an apparent shark bite off the coast of Massachusetts in the northeastern United States, a police report on the rare incident said.The victim, in his mid-20s, "was bitten by what is believed to be a shark" while he swam at Newcomb Hollow Beach in the Cape Cod area, Wellfleet Police said in a statement Saturday."The town beaches are closed to swimming for the next 24 hours," the police said.
  
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• Typhoon Mangkhut closes in on Hong Kong

  16-09-2018 10:04 via yahoo.com
  Heavy rainfall and flooding hit Hong Kong, causing extensive damage, as "super typhoon" Mangkhut swirled by the city on Sunday. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• Massachusetts man dies in state's first shark attack fatality in over 80 years

  16-09-2018 10:01 via yahoo.com
  A man who was bitten by a shark in Cape Cod has died, becoming Massachusetts' first shark attack fatality in over 80 years.The 26-year-old and his friend were boogie-boarding off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet when the attack took place around noon on Saturday, Wellfleet Police Lieutenant Michael Hurley said.Joe Booth, a local fisherman and surfer, said that he saw the victim kick something behind him and the flicker of a tail in the water.
  
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• China tells Taiwan to halt all mainland spying, sabotage activities

  16-09-2018 09:34 via yahoo.com
  China on Sunday accused Taiwan's spy agencies of stepping up efforts to steal intelligence with the aim of "infiltration" and "sabotage", and warned the island against further damaging already strained cross-strait ties.The relevant agencies in Taiwan must end such activities immediately, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing An Fengshan, a spokesman of China's policy-making Taiwan Affairs Office.On Saturday, state television kicked off the first in a series of programs detailing cases in
  
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