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• Alaska town's purr-fect unofficial cat mayor dies

  23-07-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  July 23 (Reuters) - Stubbs, the cat who became the unofficial mayor and a tourist attraction for the small Alaska town of Talkeetna, has died at 20, his owners said.
  
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• Leucadia shares could gain as Jefferies, National Beef rebound -Barron’s

  23-07-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  NEW YORK, July 23 (Reuters) – Shares of Leucadia NationalCorp stand to rise about 15 percent as some of theconglomerate’s key holdings bounce back, according to a Barron’sarticle published on Sunday.
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• Australian regulator investigating Takata airbag recall

  23-07-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  July 24 (Reuters) – Australia’s consumer watchdog said onMonday it is investigating the recall of Takata Corpvehicle airbags, a day after police said a man’s death in aSydney car crash could be linked to the faulty safety equipment.
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• Trump suggests Republicans should ‘protect their president’

  23-07-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  The president tweeted on Sunday that it is “very sad” Republicans are doing "very little to protect" him — and admitted that the ongoing Russia probe, while “phony,” may be “taking hold.”
  
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• Israel says Jerusalem mosque metal detectors to stay

  23-07-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  By Dan WilliamsJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday it would not remove metal detectors whose installation outside a major Jerusalem mosque has triggered the bloodiest clashes with the Palestinians in years, but could eventually reduce their use.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet on Sunday evening.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would halt security ties with Israel until it scraps the walk-through gates installed at entrances to Al-Aqsa mosque plaz
  
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• Jordanian man killed, two people wounded at Israeli embassy in Jordan: police

  23-07-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  By Suleiman Al-KhalidiAMMAN (Reuters) - One Jordanian was killed and two people, a Jordanian and an Israeli, were wounded in a shooting incident on Sunday in a building inside the Israeli embassy complex in Jordan's capital Amman, police said.The two Jordanians, working for a furniture firm, had entered the embassy compound before the shooting, the police said in a statement, adding that the dead man was killed by a gunshot and the two wounded men had been rushed to hospital.Israel has imposed a
  
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• Snooty, world's oldest known manatee, dies in aquarium accident

  23-07-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Snooty, the world's oldest known manatee in captivity, has died in an accident at a Florida aquarium just days after his 69th birthday, officials said on Sunday.
  
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• Doctor whose dog bit off girl's ear under fire again

  23-07-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey doctor whose dog bit off a young girl's ear in 2009 is facing allegations that his new dogs are terrorizing the neighborhood in a leafy suburb of Philadelphia.
  
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• Woman Shares Touching Photo of Walmart Employee Helping Blind Man Shop

  23-07-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  She said the heartwarming moment caught her eye.
  
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• Eight found dead in Texas truck, human traffickers blamed

  23-07-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Eight people were found dead on Sunday inside a sweltering tractor trailer parked at a Walmart store in San Antonio, Texas, and authorities said they were the victims of "ruthless" human traffickers.Another 30 people, many in critical condition and suffering from heat stoke and exhaustion, were also in the trailer, which lacked air conditioning or a water supply, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway explains what she meant by ‘alternative facts’

  23-07-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Six months after launching that infamous phrase into the cultural and political lexicon, President Trump’s counselor attempted on Sunday to define what she meant.
  
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• Jihadists take control of major Syrian city

  23-07-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Jihadists on Sunday took Idlib in Syria after rival rebels withdrew, strengthening their grip over the northwestern city and its province, one of the last beyond regime control.At the same time a car bomb exploded in Idlib killing 11 people, nine of them jihadists, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.The truce ended a week of fierce fighting between HTS and Ahrar al-Sham, which is backed by Turkey and some Gulf countries, that killed at least 92 people inc
  
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• Erdogan visits Gulf in bid to defuse Qatar row

  23-07-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Sunday, the Gulf states' official news agencies reported, as part of a diplomatic tour aimed at healing an Arab rift with Ankara's ally Qatar.Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imposed sanctions on Qatar last month, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
  
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• Sisters Give Birth to Babies on the Same Day: 'It Was Not Planned'

  23-07-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  They said the cousins will have joint first birthday party.
  
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• Donald Trump faces veto choice after US Congress agrees new Russia sanctions plan 

  23-07-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is facing a looming showdown with Congress after Republicans and Democrats agreed new sanctions on Russia designed to punish the Kremlin for interfering in last year's US election. The sweeping sanctions package, also intended to penalise Russia for its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria, set up a collision course with the White House which has sought to ease relations with Moscow. Mr Trump's has consistently made warm overtures to president Vladimir Putin amid ongoi
  
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• Jeff Sessions is preparing to crackdown on one major drug

  23-07-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  In an effort to reduce the number of violent crimes, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is getting ready to crackdown on marijuana growers, sellers and users, according to reports.
  
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• San Antonio: Nine people found dead in lorry outside Walmart were victims of 'horrific human trafficking crime'

  23-07-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Eight suspected illegal immigrants have been found dead inside a truck parked behind a Walmart store in Texas, authorities say.Many were suffering from heat stoke and exhaustion in the trailer, which lacked air conditioning or a water supply, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.Twenty people were airlifted to seven hospitals and their conditions were "critical to very critical", Mr Hood said.
  
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• Eight people found dead in lorry outside San Antonio Walmart were victims of 'horrific human trafficking crime'

  23-07-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Eight suspected illegal immigrants have been found dead inside a truck parked behind a Walmart store in Texas, authorities say.Many were suffering from heat stoke and exhaustion in the trailer, which lacked air conditioning or a water supply, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.Twenty people were airlifted to seven hospitals and their conditions were "critical to very critical", Mr Hood said.
  
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• 8 found dead in sweltering truck in immigrant smuggling case

  23-07-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities called to a Walmart parking lot found eight people dead and 20 others in dire condition in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer, victims of what police said Sunday was an immigrant-smuggling operation gone wrong.
  
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• You can help NASA out during this summer's solar eclipse

  23-07-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  A major solar eclipse will be taking place on August 21, and NASA needs your help when it comes to collecting data.  The GLOBE program, an educational initiative supported by NASA, has launched an app to encourage those along the path of the solar eclipse to help contribute their findings. With just a little bit of effort, you can participate in an actual scientific study. SEE ALSO: New solar eclipse simulator shows you what to expect this summer The solar eclipse will be seen across contin
  
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• Erdogan in the Gulf seeking to ease Qatar crisis

  23-07-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday began a key trip to the Gulf aimed at defusing the standoff over Turkey's ally Qatar, saying no one had an interest in prolonging the crisis.Erdogan, whose country has come to Qatar's aid in the dispute, had talks in Jeddah with King Salman who hailed the Turkish leader's "efforts in the fight against terrorism and its financing," Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
  
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• Scaramucci vows to stop White House leaks and calls leakers 'un-American'

  23-07-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s new communications director has called leakers of confidential White House material “un-American” and promised to take “dramatic action” to stop such information reaching the press.Two days after his appointment – which prompted the resignation of White House press secretary Sean Spicer – Anthony Scaramucci toured the Sunday news shows.
  
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• What Happens If You Eat Too Much Tuna Fish?

  23-07-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Tuna fish is healthy and tasty, but too much of it can be deadly.
  
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• Trump Lawyer: Supreme Court Decides If The President Can Pardon Himself

  23-07-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  Investigations into Russia have Trump's legal team exploring a lot of options for self-pardoning.
  
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• Trump sets record as first president not to reach 50 percent in 6 months

  23-07-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's historically low job approval numbers have been a persistent thorn in the administration's side since January, and now according to Gallup, Trump is the first U.S. president not to at least reach a 50 percent job approval rating in his first six months in office.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway says Trump-Russia investigation is 'not a big story'

  23-07-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that the ongoing controversy over President Donald Trump and his campaign's possible ties to Russia was "not a big story."
  
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• RPT-Wall St Week Ahead-Small-cap rally could shrink on earnings, tax reform hurdles

  23-07-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) – Optimism is souring aroundsmall-cap stocks for some investors, with a host of factorsconspiring to up-end gains that have taken them to record highs.
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• Republican strategy on healthcare bill in flux ahead of vote

  23-07-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  By Amanda BeckerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senate leaders aim to hold a procedural vote as early as Tuesday to take up legislation to repeal or replace Obamacare, but it remained unclear which version of the bill senators would vote on.President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans campaigned on a pledge to roll back former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, the 2010 Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.Senator John Thune, a member of the Republican leadershi
  
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• Russia is responsible for 'hot war' in Ukraine: US envoy

  23-07-2017 19:01 via yahoo.com
  The new US special envoy on Ukraine said Sunday that Russia is responsible for the "hot war" in the country's east, after fresh clashes between government forces and Russian-backed rebels.Kurt Volker, who was appointed this month as the State Department's special representative for negotiations to end more than three years of fighting, was visiting on the eve of telephone talks between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on how to stem a conflict that has claimed 10,000 lives."Thi
  
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• Scaramucci says Trump still not sure Russia interfered in election

  23-07-2017 18:56 via yahoo.com
  The president’s new communications director spent his first Sunday morning on the job sparring with CNN’s Jake Tapper, telling the “State of the Union“ host that his new boss is still not sure Moscow meddled in the 2016 campaign.
  
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• The Latest: Hamas leader praises 'heroic' knife attacker

  23-07-2017 18:47 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on developments in Israel and the Palestinian territories (all times local):
  
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• Wonder Woman Won Comic-Con

  23-07-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  Turns out, Wonder Woman can best the boys
  
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• Russian ambassador to US concludes assignment

  23-07-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak — a high-profile figure in the controversy over Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election— has concluded his assignment in Washington.
  
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• Eight found dead in Texas truck, human trafficking alleged

  23-07-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  By Jim ForsythSAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Eight people were found dead on Sunday inside a sweltering tractor trailer parked at a Walmart store in San Antonio, Texas, and authorities said they were the victims of "ruthless" human traffickers.Another 30 people, many in critical condition and suffering from heat stoke and exhaustion, were also in the trailer, which lacked air conditioning or a water supply, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.Temperatures outside the vehicle topped 100 degr
  
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• Latest Republican health bill 'a porkfest, a monstrosity', Rand Paul says

  23-07-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  Rand Paul has helped to block Republican efforts to introduce a new health bill.Rand Paul, one of the conservative senators who has helped to hold up Republican healthcare reform, on Sunday derided the current Senate bill as a “monstrosity” and a “porkfest” and said he would not vote for it to proceed to debate this week.With Donald Trump telling senators to stay in Washington until they have a replacement for Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), majority leade
  
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• Mom of Teen Who Went Missing at Sea with Friend Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Other Family

  23-07-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  She claims their negligence led to the boys' deaths in the suit.
  
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• US Congress to vote on Russia sanctions, tying Trump's hands

  23-07-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  The US Congress is poised to approve tough new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea this week after reaching a compromise deal, which the White House indicated Sunday it could support.In mid-June, the Senate overwhelmingly passed tough sanctions on Moscow and Tehran, but the text stalled in the House of Representatives, until agreement was reached on Saturday.The House is now set to vote Tuesday on a bill that targets Russia -- for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election and
  
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• MIDEAST STOCKS-Amlak boosts Dubai, Qatar pulls back from near pre-crisis level

  23-07-2017 17:14 via rocketnews.com
  DUBAI, July 23 (Reuters) – Islamic finance firm Amlak helpedto boost Dubai’s stock market on Sunday while Qatar pulled backafter events at the weekend failed to point to progress inresolving the diplomatic crisis between Doha and neighbouringstates.
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• Eight bodies found in overheated truck in a Walmart in Texas

  23-07-2017 17:13 via yahoo.com
  Eight suspected migrants were found dead early Sunday inside an overheated truck in a Walmart parking lot in Texas, and nearly 30 others were hospitalized, in what police said appeared to be a “horrific” human trafficking crime.
  
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• John McCain Went Hiking With His Daughter Following Cancer Diagnosis

  23-07-2017 17:07 via yahoo.com
  "Amazing hike with Dad this morning," Meghan McCain tweeted
  
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• Ohio set to resume executions, child killer awaits appeals

  23-07-2017 16:54 via yahoo.com
  Ohio is moving toward carrying out its first execution in more than three years.
  
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• Don't interfere in Turkish affairs, Erdogan tells Germany

  23-07-2017 16:44 via yahoo.com
  Germany has no right to interfere in Turkey's domestic affairs, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, his latest broadside in a blistering row sparked by the waves of arrests under the current state of emergency.Several German nationals are among those being held and Berlin has warned its citizens that their safety cannot be guaranteed in Turkey and that consular access is not assured in case of arrest.Throwing away any pretence at diplomatic nuance, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabri
  
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• Russia to blame for 'hot war' in Ukraine: U.S. special envoy

  23-07-2017 16:42 via yahoo.com
  By Natalia Zinets and Matthias WilliamsKIEV (Reuters) - Russian aggression is to blame for violence in eastern Ukraine, where people are dying in what should be seen as a "hot war" rather than a "frozen conflict", the U.S. special envoy to the Ukraine peace talks said on a visit to Ukraine on Sunday.Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, was appointed to his current role on July 7 to help resolve the conflict between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists, which haskilled more than
  
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• Who was Princess Diana and what happened on the night of her death?

  23-07-2017 16:39 via yahoo.com
  Who was Diana, Princess of Wales? Born Diana Frances Spencer on 1 July 1961, her father, Edward John Viscount Althorp, was the only son of the 7th Earl Spencer. Her mother, born Frances Ruth Burke Roche, was the youngest daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy.  The Spencers had served the Royal Family for generations. Diana's great-grandfather, the 6th Earl Spencer, was Lord Chamberlain to both Edward VII and George V. All four of her great-aunts on the Spencer side became members of th
  
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• Sri Lanka navy rescues two elephants washed out to sea

  23-07-2017 16:25 via yahoo.com
  Two young elephants washed out to sea were saved from drowning Sunday by the Sri Lankan navy in the second such incident off the island in as many weeks.The navy said the pair of wild elephants were brought ashore after a "mammoth effort" involving navy divers, ropes and a flotilla of boats to tow them back to shallow waters.Photos showed the elephants in distress, barely keeping their trunks above water in the deep seas about one kilometre off the coast of Sri Lanka.
  
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• Thoughts On Love From The Duggar

  23-07-2017 16:10 via yahoo.com
  Get Jana, John-David and Josiah Duggar’s thoughts on love and courtship.
  
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• Afghanistan's Shiites mark anniversary of deadly attack

  23-07-2017 16:07 via yahoo.com
  The site west of Kabul is the last resting place for victims of a deadly suicide bombing on July 23 last year -- the first claimed by the Islamic State group in the heart of Kabul against Afghanistan's Shiite Muslim Hazara ethnic minority.The line from Turkmenistan to Kabul, capital of energy-starved Afghanistan, bypasses the province of Bamiyan, a Hazara stronghold.For Hazara leaders the route is a further sign of discrimination against their community and their province, one of the least devel
  
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• New Trump communications director promises crackdown on major issue

  23-07-2017 15:34 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump's new communications director, said on Sunday that one of his first tasks will be to halt leaks and that staff on his team would be fired if the leaks do not stop.
  
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• Trump's immigration crackdown causing strain on courts

  23-07-2017 15:32 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's promised crackdown on illegal immigration has resulted in temporary reassignments of about one-third of the nation's immigration judges, a move judges and activists say is only further backlogging already jammed immigration courts.
  
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• Top Merkel aide says Turkey's conduct 'unacceptable'

  23-07-2017 15:28 via yahoo.com
  By Michelle MartinBERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey's behavior is "unacceptable" and Germany has a duty to protect its citizens and companies but also wants to maintain strong ties with Ankara, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff said on Sunday.Relations between the NATO allies have deteriorated since Turkey arrested six rights activists, including one German, two weeks ago as part of a wider crackdown since last year's failed coup against President Tayyip Erdogan."We want to have good rela
  
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