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• 'Stop whining,' Obama scolds Trump

  18-10-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Tuesday slapped down Donald Trump's claim that the 2016 presidential race is rigged, telling the Republican nominee to "stop whining" and get on with his campaign. In language usually used to scold a moody teenager, Obama discarded diplomatic decorum and skewered the mogul from the Rose Garden in front of visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The White House is increasingly concerned that Trump and his supporters will not recognize the outcome of the election, p
  
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• 'Pussy grabs back:' US women rally against Trump

  18-10-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters in Chicago and Philadelphia Tuesday, and a day earlier in New York, have been pushing back after the Republican nominee was caught, in a 2005 video, bragging that fame lets him grope women without their consent. "Just the fact that he's normalizing rape culture... is not cool with us," said Kristin Marks, one of the mostly-female crowd gathered outside skyscraper -- emblazoned with Trump's name -- in downtown Chicago. Blair Westover, who voted for Republicans George W. Bush and John M
  
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• Belgian minister's twitter feed hacked, amid trade deal tensions

  18-10-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The twitter account of Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders was hacked on Tuesday, his ministry said, just hours after EU ministers failed to agree on a trade deal with Canada due to opposition by Belgium. "The personal twitter account of MFA Didier Reynders was hacked. The hack took place just hours after the EU set a Friday deadline for the small Belgian region of Wallonia to accept the EU-Canada trade deal.
  
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• IS traps Mosul civilians as human shields, Pentagon says

  18-10-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Islamic State jihadists are trapping Mosul's civilians to use as human shields, the Pentagon said Tuesday as President Barack Obama warned of "significant" potential displacement as the offensive for the Iraqi city progresses. Authorities and aid agencies are bracing for a massive flow of civilians fleeing the northern Iraqi city as the fight to seize the last remaining IS stronghold in the country progresses. Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said IS had for weeks kept Mosul's estimate
  
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• Czech leaders reassure China as Dalai Lama visits

  18-10-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Czech leaders sought to stave off China's anger in a statement on Tuesday, a day after exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in Prague. The statement came as Chinese firms poured fresh investment into the Czech Republic, for a value expected to reach a total of several billion euros. The Czech president, prime minister and two parliamentary speakers said that the EU nation "respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of China.
  
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• Survey gives Ortega big lead ahead of Nicaragua vote

  18-10-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has a seemingly insurmountable lead in voter intentions ahead of elections in three weeks that are expected to deliver him a new term with his wife as vice president. Ortega, who is widely seen as being heavily influenced by his wife, Rosario Murillo, is refusing to allow in international election observers. Although being seen as increasingly autocratic, Ortega has broad public support including, crucially, from the business sector.
  
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• Obama disputes Trump on rigged election, tells him to 'stop whining'

  18-10-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON/COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama lacerated Donald Trump on Tuesday over his repeated assertions that the Nov. 8 election is rigged against him, telling the Republican presidential candidate to "stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes." With opinion polls showing him falling further back in recent days against his White House rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump has intensified his allegations, althoug
  
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• The issues: Where do Trump and Clinton stand on immigration?

  18-10-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the latest edition of “2016 The Choice,” Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga spoke to Yahoo News Political Consultant Brian Goldsmith about the divisive issue of immigration — and where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton stand.
  
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• UN peacekeeping chief to visit Western Sahara

  18-10-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous will travel to Western Sahara this week as the United Nations works to ease tensions with Morocco over its mission in the disputed territory. Ladsous told reporters on Tuesday that he will hold talks in Rabat, visit the headquarters of the UN mission MINURSO in Laayoune and cross into Algeria to visit the refugee camps in Tindouf. The visit will be the first by a senior UN official since Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a controversial trip in March, angerin
  
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• Last Clinton-Trump debate: what you need to know

  18-10-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump debate for the third and final time on Wednesday night, 20 days before Election Day.
  
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• 8-Year-Old Daughter Among Speakers at Slain Palm Springs Officers' Memorial Service

  18-10-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 8-year-old daughter of a slain Palm Springs, California, police officer spoke today at a vigil for her father and his fellow officer, who were both killed in the line of duty, saying it wasn't her father's turn to die. Officers Jose "Gil" Vega, 63, and Lesley Zerebny, 27, were fatally shot Saturday, Oct. 8, while responding to a domestic disturbance call at a home, police said. Vega, a 35-year veteran of the Palm Springs Police Department, was working on an overtime unscheduled shift.
  
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• Witnesses back People writer's account of Trump sex assault

  18-10-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — People Magazine reported Tuesday that a half-dozen people have come forward to corroborate its writer's account of being sexually assaulted by Donald Trump and its aftermath.
  
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• Cheer up, Americans, say Canadians _ you're great

  18-10-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — America's neighbors to the north — so often the butt of their jokes — are taking to social media to keep spirits up in the U.S. during this divisive election season.
  
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• New constitution before parliament 'very soon': Turkish PM

  18-10-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday said the government would "very soon" submit proposals to parliament for constitutional changes bolstering the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The chances of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) cobbling together such a majority increased on Tuesday when the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) indicated he might back the changes. "The necessary constitutional changes offered by the AKP will be presented to parliamen
  
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• Will things turn ugly if Trump loses?

  18-10-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many Americans are appalled by the prospect of Donald Trump winning the US presidency. By insisting the November 8 election is rigged, the Republican nominee has stoked fears that he's giving his supporters free rein for some kind of morning-after backlash if he loses to Democrat Hillary Clinton. What will actually happen if Trump loses is anyone's guess.
  
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• Utah governor candidate's wife strikes plea deal in pot case

  18-10-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hours after his wife pleaded guilty to misdemeanor pot-possession charges connected with two pounds of the drug found at their house, Utah's Democratic candidate for governor is expected to talk about the need for a broader legalization of the drug for medical use to address the health issues his wife and others face.
  
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• US judge 'strongly inclined' to back $15 bn VW settlement

  18-10-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US judge on Tuesday said he favored approving a $14.7 billion class action settlement in Volkswagen's sprawling emissions scandal. Judge Charles Breyer of the US District Court in San Francisco said he would rule on the matter next week but was "strongly inclined to approve" the proposed buyback of tainted diesel cars and compensation offer for owners. The settlement offer would concern nearly a half-million owners of 2.0 liter Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says ignore mainstream news media

  18-10-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Pence visits firebombed office, defends 'rigged' claims

  18-10-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican vice presidential hopeful Mike Pence is condemning the firebombing of a North Carolina Republican campaign office as an "act of political terrorism."
  
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• Shabaab assault on key Somali town leaves 10 dead

  18-10-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group launched a major attack on a strategic town near Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, including civilians, before retreating. Witnesses and officials reported heavy clashes between Shabaab militants and Somali troops in Afgoye, which lies just 30 kilometres (18 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu. The main target of the assault was a police post attacked with a car packed with explosives, and Somali army posts.
  
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• IS trapping civilians in Mosul, Pentagon says

  18-10-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon Tuesday accused Islamic State jihadists of barring civilians from leaving Mosul and using them as human shields, as President Barack Obama warned of the potential for "significant" displacement. Authorities and aid agencies are bracing for a massive flow of civilians fleeing the northern Iraqi city as the fight to seize the last remaining IS stronghold in the country progresses. Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis said IS had for weeks kept Mosul's estimated population of 1.5
  
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• Offensive on Mosul Has Not 'Stalled,' Says Pentagon Spokesperson

  18-10-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pentagon spokesperson Jeff Davis told reporters today that the coalition of forces fighting ISIS in Mosul has not stalled in its offensive despite reports of roadside explosives and booby traps. Ten-thousand Kurdish forces, 18,000 Iraqi forces and a few thousand Iraqi federal police are involved in the operation on Mosul. Kurdish forces captured a number of small, largely unpopulated villages to the east, according to the AP, who noted that ISIS had unleashed a series of suicide car and truck bo
  
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• Top US lawmaker vows to keep embargo on Cuba

  18-10-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress will keep a decades-old embargo on Cuba, the top Republican in the US House of Representatives vowed Tuesday, despite recent moves by President Barack Obama to ease sanctions against Havana. "I fully intend to maintain our embargo on #Cuba," House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a tweet. Obama issued an executive order last week that further loosened restrictions on trade with Cuba, nearly two years after Washington began the process of rapprochement with its former foe.
  
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• Pro-Trump group ad seeks to pit Michelle Obama against Clinton

  18-10-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Super PAC backing Republican Donald Trump is buying TV airtime in parts of Florida beginning this week for a commercial aimed at using first lady Michelle Obama’s words against Hillary Clinton to erode the Democratic presidential candidate's support from women voters in the battleground state. The ad – which the Super PAC has already been running online – shows Michelle Obama in 2007 saying, “If you can’t run your own house,
  
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• Mike Pence Calls Suspected Firebombing at NC GOP Office 'Act of Political Terrorism'

  18-10-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Everyone ... Republicans, Democrats or independents, universally condemn this attack," he said. The suspected firebombing at the GOP's Orange County office in Hillsborough happened early Sunday morning, police believe. Police said "a bottle containing flammable material was thrown through a front window" of the GOP office, damaging the inside and some furniture "before going out on its own." Graffiti was spray-painted on the side of a building next door.
  
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• Marco Rubio Says He'll Serve Full Term in Senate If Re-Elected

  18-10-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said Monday for the first time during his re-election campaign that he would serve a full six-year term if re-elected to the Senate, but did not shut the door on another presidential bid. In the first Florida Senate debate, moderated by ABC News' Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Rubio defended his record from criticism that he missed a significant number of hearings and votes in his first time while running for president. "I'm going to serve in the Sena
  
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• Ankara, coalition agree Turkish jets to join Mosul operation: minister

  18-10-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish jets will continue to take part in the air operation backing Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga to retake Iraq's second city of Mosul from jihadists after the defence minister said late Tuesday Ankara had agreed a deal with its coalition partners. "We have agreed with coalition forces for our air forces to take part in the Mosul operation," Fikri Isik was quoted as saying by the official Anadolu agency. "Without Turkey, it is impossible to make decisions on the future of Mosul," he added
  
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• Free trade flip-flop dogs Clinton in White House quest

  18-10-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's at the heart of Hillary Clinton's fight against charges that she will say anything to get elected: a history of flip-flopping over free trade that has proven powerful ammunition for rival Donald Trump. Three weeks before US voters choose their next president, Democrat Clinton has yet to explain her former support for the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact championed by outgoing President Barack Obama. As Obama's secretary of state during 2009-2013, Clinton supported TPP.
  
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• New boost for Roland Garros expansion

  18-10-2016 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The long-running saga over the expansion of Roland Garros, the historic but cramped home of the French Open, received a new boost on Tuesday after the Paris High Court confirmed work could go ahead. The Tribunal de Grande Instance (TGI) ruled that work on a 5,000-seater stadium in the historic Serres d'Auteuil in no way impacted on historic greenhouses by architect Jean-Camille Formige dating back to the 19th century. "For the second time in a week, the court noted the facts and the project and
  
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• Obama shoots down Trump claims of rigged election, telling him 'stop whining'

  18-10-2016 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayesha Rascoe and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama lacerated Donald Trump on Tuesday over his repeated assertions that the Nov. 8 election is rigged against him, telling the Republican presidential candidate to "stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes." With opinion polls showing him falling further back in recent days against his White House rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump has intensified his allegations, although numerous studies have sho
  
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• Down Ticket #21: Senate candidates finally face off in debates

  18-10-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senate candidates Katie McGinty, a Democrat, and incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey prepare for their debate in Pittsburgh Oct. 17. Down Ticket is Yahoo News’ complete guide to the most fascinating House, Senate and governors’ races of 2016. PITTSBURGH — Some of the most competitive Senate races in the country have seen their first rounds of debates during the past week.
  
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• US denies it urged Ecuador to unplug Assange's internet access

  18-10-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Tuesday denied charges from WikiLeaks that Washington asked Ecuador to cut the internet connection of the website's founder Julian Assange. WikiLeaks on Monday alleged that Assange's internet access was cut Saturday after it published private speeches by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs.
  
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• 'Humbled' ex-Pennsylvania attorney general seeks probation

  18-10-2016 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The former attorney general has been "humbled and embarrassed" by her perjury conviction and hopes to avoid jail time so she can raise her children, her lawyers said in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday.
  
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• Paris Agreement set to go into effect, but Trump can still upend it

  18-10-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Delegates from more than 190 countries will be meeting in Morocco for a landmark climate change conference at the same time the United States might elect a climate change skeptic as president.
  
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• Iraq makes gains in 'difficult' assault on IS-held Mosul

  18-10-2016 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces were making gains on the Islamic State group in Mosul Tuesday in an offensive US President Barack Obama warned would be a "difficult fight". With the crucial battle in its second day, Iraqi commanders said progress was being made as fighters pushed on two main fronts against the jihadists' last stronghold in Iraq. The US military, which is leading a coalition providing air and ground support, said Iraqi forces even looked "ahead of schedule" but senior Western o
  
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• The Latest: People says 6 friends back writer's Trump story

  18-10-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• IS group holding civilians in Iraq's Mosul: Pentagon

  18-10-2016 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Islamic State jihadists were barring civilians from leaving Mosul on Tuesday and using them as human shields, as the battle for the Iraqi city entered its second day, a Pentagon official said. "We know they are being used as human shields, absolutely," Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis told reporters. Authorities and aid agencies are bracing for a massive flow of civilians fleeing Mosul as the fight progresses.
  
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• Burundi set to quit ICC as president promulgates law

  18-10-2016 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Pierre Nkurunziza on Tuesday signed legislation enabling Burundi to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). A copy of the law seen by AFP and dated October 18 allows "the Republic of Burundi's withdrawal from the Rome statute", the ICC's founding treaty. The next step will be for the country to officially notify the United Nations, launching a year-long departure process that will make the country the first ever to quit the tribunal.
  
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• Shabaab fighters kill at least 10 in attack on Somali town: police

  18-10-2016 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mogadishu (AFP) - Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group killed at least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, during an attack on the strategic Somali town of Afgoye on Tuesday, local police said.
  
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• For IS jihadists, losing Mosul spells caliphate doom

  18-10-2016 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was in Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the Islamic State group's "caliphate" and its recapture would finally end that dream of statehood. When the IS supremo publicly proclaimed the caliphate from the minbar of the mosque in Mosul in June 2014, the group was inviting Muslims globally to move to an expanding new "state". After losing several key cities in Iraq and also in Syria, the jihadists' "state" is already looking threadbare and the loss of Mosul would
  
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• Obama rips Trump: 'Stop whining' about 'rigged' vote

  18-10-2016 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama issued a scathing rebuke Tuesday to Donald Trump on the eve of the final election debate, blasting him for "whining" about "rigged" elections and warning that such accusations are irresponsible. Trump and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton are set for their final presidential debate Wednesday, with three weeks to go before Americans head to the polls on November 8. It is seen as a last chance for the Republican nominee, dogged by accusations of sexual misconduct and sinking
  
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• Kerry welcomes 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen

  18-10-2016 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The cessation of hostilities between Yemeni forces and their Saudi backers, and Huthi rebels and allied forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh, is due to take effect Thursday. "This cessation requires all parties to implement a full and comprehensive halt to military activities of any kind, and help facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Yemenis across the country," Kerry said in a statement. Kerry echoed an urgent plea from UN special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Chei
  
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• President Obama weighs in on Donald Trump's praise of Vladimir Putin

  18-10-2016 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At a joint press conference with the Italian prime minister, President Obama was asked about Donald Trump’s recent claim that he’d meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin before his inauguration if he’s elected. Obama called Trump’s overtures to Putin “unprecedented” in American politics for either side of the aisle.
  
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• US claims trade victory over China over business jet tax

  18-10-2016 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama's administration said Tuesday it has scored another trade victory over China, after Beijing ended a disputed tax policy that favored Chinese-produced aircraft in violation of global trade rules. The US Trade Representative filed a dispute in December with the World Trade Organization, charging that China's 17 percent value-added tax on smaller aircraft, such as business jets, discriminated against imported aircraft. China's decision to end the tax exemptions for aircraft u
  
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• Clinton team mulled Apple's Cook for veep, emails show

  18-10-2016 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign considered tapping Apple chief executive Tim Cook to be her running mate, according to hacked emails published Tuesday by WikiLeaks. In an email dated March 17 to Clinton, campaign chairman John Podesta also proposed the mega-billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, his wife Melinda and General Motors chief executive Mary Barra as possible Democratic vice presidents. "Let me know if there are people you would like to see added or removed," Podesta wrot
  
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• Turkish designer sticks it to Trump on Tokyo runway

  18-10-2016 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Embattled Donald Trump got two fingers from the most unlikely of places Tuesday -- the Tokyo catwalk at a fashion show inspired by his bete noire: the working Mexican in Texas. Umit Benan, the Turkish designer born in Germany, educated in Switzerland and based in Milan, made his debut at Japan Fashion Week by transforming an Asian city runway into the Texan desert. This time, his inspiration came through a series of road trips through Texas and New Mexico.
  
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• Obama to Trump: ‘Stop whining’ about the election

  18-10-2016 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Obama says Donald Trump needs to “stop whining” about the election. “One of the great things about America’s democracy is that we have a vigorous, sometimes bitter political contest,” Obama said Tuesday during a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House.
  
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• The Gateses, Tim Cook on list for Clinton's veep

  18-10-2016 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates made the list. So did Apple chief executive Tim Cook. They were among nearly 40 elected officials, military leaders and corporate CEOs that Hillary Clinton's campaign considered for vice president last spring. The list was included among hacked emails from Clinton's campaign chairman disclosed Tuesday by WikiLeaks.
  
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• Stats show nearly 1 in 5 drivers in US is over 65

  18-10-2016 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says nearly 1 in 5 drivers in the U.S. is over 65 years old, thanks in part to the aging baby boomer generation and greater longevity overall.
  
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• Obama tells Trump to 'stop whining'

  18-10-2016 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Tuesday slapped down Donald Trump's claim that the 2016 presidential race is rigged, telling the Republican to "stop whining" and get on with his campaign. In language normally reserved for chastising a stroppy teenager, Obama discarded diplomatic decorum and skewered the mogul from the Rose Garden in front of visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Democrat Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Trump nationally and in key swing states three weeks before Elect
  
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