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• Iranian marchers chant 'Death to America' on eve of U.S. oil sanctions

  04-11-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Students attending the government-organized rally in the capital Tehran, broadcast live by state television, burned the Stars and Stripes, an effigy of Uncle Sam and pictures of President Donald Trump outside the former embassy compound.State media said millions turned out for rallies in towns and cities, swearing allegiance to the clerical establishment and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Trump said the deal was weak and favored Iran.
  
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• Saudi Prince Alwaleed: Khashoggi probe will exonerate leader

  04-11-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an international businessman from the kingdom, said on Sunday that an official investigation into the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi will exonerate the country's leader.Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist critical of the Saudi government and its de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in early October.Saudi Arabia should publicly release the findings of the murder inv
  
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• Saudi king to make week-long domestic tour amid Khashoggi crisis

  04-11-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia's King Salman will embark on a week-long domestic tour on Tuesday, a senior government official told Reuters, as the absolute monarchy faces its worst political crisis in a generation over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.It is the first such trip for the 82-year-old king since he acceded to the throne of the world's top oil exporter in 2015, according to local media, which reported expected stops in the provinces of Qassim and Hail, both northwest of Riyadh.Online news site
  
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• Mike Pompeo insists US sanctions will not hurt Iranian people

  04-11-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Mike Pompeo speaks in New York.US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has defended the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran, saying the new tough controls on oil, shipping and banking that start on Sunday at midnight will force Tehran to stop sponsoring terrorism.Speaking to Fox News Sunday hours before the new sanctions went into effect, Pompeo said the move would cut off Iran from its oil market and target 600 individuals and companies in the finance sector.
  
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• Twitter Tributes Pour In On 10-Year Anniversary Of Barack Obama's Election: 'We Miss You!'

  04-11-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Ten years ago Sunday, Americans elected a young senator from Illinois named
  
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• Facebook Tamped Down on Hoax Sites, But Polarization Thrives

  04-11-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  YourNewsWire is still publishing.In the case of YourNewsWire, at least, Facebook has delivered on its promises in time for the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday.“In many ways, they’re an ideal test example in at least the limited scope of what Facebook said they wanted to do -- to see blatantly false news debunked, and reduce its reach,’’ said Alexios Mantzarlis, who leads the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute.
  
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• Synagogue shooting worst of many hateful attacks in October

  04-11-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Kevyn Perkins stopped cold when he saw the letters scrawled on the door to his dorm:"N----- go back" it said, inked in messy red marker. First he was blinded by confusion. Then rage. And then all he could think about was dropping out, finding a new school, escaping for good.
  
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• Sean Bean Stars In Live-Action Trailer For Hitman 2

  04-11-2018 21:40
  With Hitman 2's release date looming, IO Interactive has released a live-action launch trailer starring English actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, GoldenEye, Troy), who will be playing one of the in-game characters in the upcoming title.Bean is to play Mark "The Undying" Faba, the first Elusive Target mission to appear in-game on November 20.  Elusive Target missions are free for all players, giving you only one chance to kill a character during a 10 day period. Faba is a form
  
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• Sean Bean Stars In Live-Action Trailer

  04-11-2018 21:40
  With Hitman 2's release date looming, IO Interactive has released a live-action launch trailer starring English actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, GoldenEye, Troy), who will be playing one of the in-game characters in the upcoming title.Bean is to play Mark "The Undying" Faba, the first Elusive Target mission to appear in-game on November 20.  Elusive Target missions are free for all players, giving you only one chance to kill a character during a 10 day period. Faba is a form
  
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• Rebel Wilson is blocking critics on Twitter after her 'first plus size rom-com lead' gaffe

  04-11-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  Rebel Wilson caught some heat on Thursday for declaring herself the first plus-sized woman to be the lead in a romantic comedy. (Her new filmIsn't It Romantic comes out next Valentine's Day.)  She was wrong: Queen Latifah and Mo'Nique, for example, have taken on such roles in the past.I still can’t believe that Rebel Wilson doubled down on the lie that she’s the first fat actress to star in a rom-com. Like Mo’Nique didn’t snag a handsome doctor in Phat Girlz! Like Qu
  
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• Ethiopia's Desisa, Kenya's Keitany win 2018 NYC Marathon

  04-11-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia has won the New York City Marathon, holding off his countryman Shura Kitata by 1.99 seconds. Desisa finished in 2:05:59. Last year’s winner, Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya, finished third.
  
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• Britain's senior royals help UK prepare for life after Brexit

  04-11-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Taking tea with Osei Tutu II, the Asantahene or king of Ghana's Asante people, and a reception with paramount rulers is all in a day's work for the Prince of Wales.As heir to a throne occupied by his mother Queen Elizabeth II for almost as long as he has been alive, Prince Charles, who turns 70 this month, has spent his life at such occasions.London is scrambling for a deal before March 29 and Britain's most recognisable and trusted brand -- the House of Windsor -- is helping to prepare for life
  
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• Georgia's Brian Kemp Opens 'Cyber Crimes' Investigation Into State Democrats, 2 Days Before Election

  04-11-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  The Stacy Abrams campaign called the investigation, "a political stunt"
  
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• Pittsburgh Steelers Player Honors Synagogue Attack Victims With 'Stronger Than Hate' Cleats

  04-11-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Sunday donned custom-
  
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• 14 Idaho School Staffers Placed on Leave After Dressing Up as the 'Border Wall'

  04-11-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  Pictures of the controversial costumes went viral on social media, but have since been taken down.
  
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• Jewish nurse: I treated mass shooting suspect out of love

  04-11-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Jewish nurse who treated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect says that he saw confusion but not evil in the man's eyes, and that his own actions stemmed from love.
  
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• The Latest: Mexican townsfolk assist weary migrants

  04-11-2018 19:27 via yahoo.com
  ISLA, Mexico (AP) — The Latest on the caravans of migrants making their way through Mexico to the United States (all times local):
  
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• Fortnite's Cube Exploded and Threw Players Into an Endless Void

  04-11-2018 19:21
  
  Fortnite's beloved cube exploded and sent players witnessing the one-time event into a strange void.
  Players from around the world gathered in different matches at the same time to see the one-time event. The cube at the center of Leaky Lake began to spin uncontrollably before it unleashed a bright light and sent everyone into an endless void.
  Once in the void, players could move freely through the warped space. Butterflies made of rifts floated about the area and players who got close enough wo
  
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• Republican candidate’s children warn people not to vote for him: ‘He must be stopped’

  04-11-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  A Republican candidate’s own children have warned voters in Missouri against electing their “fanatic” father to the state assembly, just days before the midterms.“A lot of his views are just very out there,” Emily West said of her father, Steve West.“He’s made multiple comments that are racist and homophobic and how he doesn’t like the Jews,” she told the Kansas City Star this week.
  
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• Assad, Russia envoy discuss Syria constitutional committee

  04-11-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and an envoy from ally Russia on Sunday discussed "removing the obstacles" to forming a constitutional committee demanded by international powers to help end the seven-year war, the presidency said.The leaders of Russia, rebel backer Turkey, Germany, and France last week in Istanbul called for the committee to be formed by the end of the year to discuss a post-war constitution, "paving the way for free and fair elections" in Syria.On Sunday, Assad held talks with
  
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• Sri Lanka president summons Parliament amid political crisis

  04-11-2018 18:10 via yahoo.com
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president issued an order Sunday for Parliament to reconvene on Nov. 14, when lawmakers will get the chance to hold a confidence vote on the nation's former strongman who has been named prime minister.
  
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• U.S. warns its citizens in Tanzania before anti-gay crackdown

  04-11-2018 18:06 via yahoo.com
  In an alert on its website late on Saturday, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania advised Americans to review their social media profiles and internet footprints."Remove or protect images and language that may run afoul of Tanzanian laws regarding homosexual practices and explicit sexual activity," it said.The alert said any U.S. citizen who was detained or arrested should ensure the Tanzanian authorities informed the embassy.
  
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• Sri Lanka president prolongs political standoff

  04-11-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena announced Sunday that parliament would reconvene a week later than expected, prolonging a bitter power struggle that has crippled the country.Sirisena had on Friday promised that he would recall parliament on Wednesday to decide between two rivals claiming the lawful right to head Sri Lanka's government.The nation of 21-million has been gripped by constitutional turmoil since Sirisena sacked his former ally, prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and his ca
  
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• Trump Administration Goes To Trial To Defend Adding A Citizenship Question To Census

  04-11-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration is set to defend its controversial decision to add a
  
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• Midterms: Horrified by Trump's zero tolerance policy, the next generation are paving the way for immigration reform

  04-11-2018 17:55 via yahoo.com
  Hencer Naun Manchame Garcia and his eight-year-old son arrive at the Greyhound bus station in San Antonio holding a sign: “Please help me.“It was a very difficult trip,” Mr Garcia tells The Independent of his month-long journey to the US-Mexico border, where he and his son legally applied for asylum before being bussed to San Antonio with more than 20 other migrant families.Within minutes of their arrival, the two are escorted to a corner of the crowded bus station, where dozen
  
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• Pompeo says he will meet N.Korea number two in New York

  04-11-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday he will meet this week in New York with North Korea's number two, Kim Yong Chol, to resume denuclearization talks.Announcing the meeting on Fox News Sunday, Pompeo said it would be "a good opportunity to continue the denuclearization discussions" underway since US President Donald Trump's historic summit in June with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
  
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• Matt Dowd: If O'Rourke wins Texas, 'he becomes the biggest rock star in the country'

  04-11-2018 17:45 via yahoo.com
  George Stephanopoulos and ABC News' political team of correspondents, analysts and contributors debate what will happen Election Night and how those results will shape Congress's agenda.
  
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• Fortnite: Live Cube Event Scheduled for Today

  04-11-2018 17:40
  
  UPDATE: At 10:00AM PT, the cube exploded, and threw players into an endless void.
  Another one-time Fortnite event is set to begin today at 10 am PT/1 pm ET where players can watch the almighty cube make its next big move.
  Epic announced the in-game event earlier this morning with a simple tease of the cube's "overwhelming" power. Players expecting to watch the event through the Playground mode will be left disappointed as it appears Epic has disabled both the Disco Domination and Playground
  
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• Alec Baldwin Denies Punching Man in Parking Dispute

  04-11-2018 17:40 via yahoo.com
  Actor Alec Baldwin claims he never punched someone over a parking spot and it`s being reported "for the purposes of clickbait entertainment."
  
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• Stacey Abrams, Yale Law graduate, calls Trump’s attacks on her qualifications 'vapid'

  04-11-2018 17:26 via yahoo.com
  Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams defended herself against President Trump’s claim that she is unqualified to be governor on Sunday.
  
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• Stacey Abrams Slams Brian Kemp’s ‘Desperate’ Hacking Claim Against Georgia Democrats

  04-11-2018 17:19 via yahoo.com
  Stacey Abrams, Georgia's Democratic nominee for governor, lashed out against
  
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• Israel raids office of Palestinian Jerusalem governor

  04-11-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  Israeli forces raided the offices of the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem on Sunday, authorities said, after reports of an investigation related to a land sale.Israeli authorities confirmed the raid in Al-Ram, just on the other side of Israel's separation wall from Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, but provided few details.It came after Israel's detention of the Palestinian governor, Adnan Gheith, on October 20.
  
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• 2018 midterms: Despite federal court rulings, voter suppression in Georgia still ‘blatant’ and worrisome according to experts

  04-11-2018 16:36 via yahoo.com
  Despite court rulings striking down efforts to throw out ballots of thousands of US citizens in Georgia, the home of the civil rights movement, Emory University professor Dr Carol Anderson said there is still a “blatant” push for minority voter suppression in the state ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.“What looks really simple, really isn't and that is how voter [identification] has basically snaked its tentacles into the American psyche” and become voter suppression,
  
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• North Carolina woman at center of harassing rant in viral video turns herself in

  04-11-2018 16:34 via yahoo.com
  A woman who was seen in a viral video verbally harassing two residents standing outside of their Charlotte apartment complex has turned herself into police.
  
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• The 10 moments that made the midterms

  04-11-2018 16:33 via yahoo.com
  From the Women’s March to the Kavanaugh confirmation drama, here are the events that have shaped the 2018 midterm elections — and how they will reverberate in key races on election night.
  
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• Ariana Grande is cool with all her exes in new song 'thank u, next'

  04-11-2018 16:02 via yahoo.com
  PSA: Ariana Grande is not feeling salty about her breakup with Pete Davidson. In fact, she's feelinggrateful. Ariana released a new song, "thank u, next," on Saturday night, 35 minutes beforeSaturday Night Live aired. Despite this seemingly shady timing (Davidson is on the show), the track — which mentions her exes Big Sean, Ricky Alvarez, the late Mac Miller, and Davidson by name — is generous and kind. SEE ALSO: Ariana Grande's new video is three glorious minutes of her tiny pet pi
  
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• This Old Soviet Wreck Is China's First Aircraft Carrier. What if Beijing Never Purchased It?

  04-11-2018 15:43 via yahoo.com
  What if China had never acquired Varyag? What would China’s blue water navy look like today?
  
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• IS attack kills 12 US-backed fighters in east Syria: monitor

  04-11-2018 15:43 via yahoo.com
  The Islamic State group killed 12 US-backed fighters in a surprise attack Sunday from the jihadists' holdout in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border, a Britain-based monitor said.Twelve fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bombing and subsequent clashes in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.An SDF spokesman, however, denied any members of his Kurdish-led alliance had been killed.
  
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• Stacey Abrams, Oprah Winfrey Targets Of Racist Robocall Funded By Neo-Nazi Group

  04-11-2018 15:09 via yahoo.com
  After targeting Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for governor in Florida,
  
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• Charlotte woman at center of harassing rant in viral video turns herself in

  04-11-2018 14:54 via yahoo.com
  A woman who was seen in a viral video verbally harassing two residents standing outside of their Charlotte apartment complex has turned herself into police.
  
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• Sri Lanka Tamils push parliament to end crisis

  04-11-2018 14:48 via yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Sunday urged the president to reconvene parliament and end a worsening political crisis, as the minority ethnic community emerge as kingmakers in the power struggle.The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) could tip the balance should parliament be recalled this week to decide between two rivals claiming the lawful right to head Sri Lanka's government.The nation of 21-million has been gripped by constitutional turmoil since President Maithripala Sirisena sacked his forme
  
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• Iran marks '79 US Embassy takeover as renewed sanctions loom

  04-11-2018 14:32 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of Iranians rallied Sunday in commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the takeover and hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, just hours before the re-imposition of all American sanctions lifted by the nuclear deal.
  
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• Sen. Van Hollen: Dems have 'narrow path to a majority' despite difficult Senate map

  04-11-2018 14:05 via yahoo.com
  Two days before the midterm elections, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chair discusses Democrats' chances of winning the Senate on "This Week."
  
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• Police: Florida teen killed mom after arguing over bad grade

  04-11-2018 13:52 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say a 15-year-old Florida boy strangled his mother after getting into an argument over a bad grade he received.
  
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• The Latest: Macron: New Caledonians back keeping French ties

  04-11-2018 13:14 via yahoo.com
  NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — The Latest on New Caledonia's independence referendum (all times local):
  
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• What We Really Believe

  04-11-2018 12:30 via yahoo.com
  Not even that haunted houses exist.No, 25 percent of our fellow citizens report that their actual current residence is home to a poltergeist.It’s really quite amazing that the nation’s social scientists haven’t died of despair.
  
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• After years in the dark, Gaza's power woes ease

  04-11-2018 12:05 via yahoo.com
  The lights are going back on in the Gaza Strip, in a rare piece of positive news from the blockaded Palestinian enclave.In recent days, residents say they have received up to 16 hours of mains electricity a day, compared with as little as four previously.UN humanitarian officials report an average of between nine and 11 hours per day since October 25.
  
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• Are E-Gift Cards Secure?

  04-11-2018 12:00 via yahoo.com
  Physical gift cards for specific merchants and services are widely available at stores, but before buying one, always inspect a card’s protective stickers or coating for tampering and check wheth...
  
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• Data recovered from crashed Lion Air data recorder: official

  04-11-2018 10:56 via yahoo.com
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Investigators succeeded in retrieving hours of data from a crashed Lion Air jet's flight recorder as Indonesian authorities on Sunday extended the search at sea for victims and debris.
  
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• Local favorite Nasa Hataoka fires 67 to win Japan Classic

  04-11-2018 10:32 via yahoo.com
  SHIGA, Japan (AP) — Local favorite Nasa Hataoka shot a 5-under 67 on Sunday to win the Japan Classic for her second LPGA title of the season.
  
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