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• Former Model and Retired FBI Agent Father Convicted of Beating Her Husband to Death

  10-08-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  The father and daughter insisted the killing was self-defense, but a jury didn't see it that way.
  
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• Trump says he is 'doing military a great favour' with transgender troop ban

  10-08-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  Banning transgender people from serving in the American military would be “doing the military a great favour,” Donald Trump has said - a statement undercut by resistance to the proposal from current and former servicemembers.Mr Trump was seeking to defend his controversial prohibition on transgender troops, which he announced on Twitter to the reported surprise of military officials.After claiming to enjoy “great support from that community,” an apparent reference to tran
  
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• CNN fires pro-Trump pundit Jeffrey Lord for 'Sieg Heil!' tweet

  10-08-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
  
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• U.S. destroyer challenges China's claims in South China Sea

  10-08-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out a "freedom of navigation operation" on Thursday, coming within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials told Reuters.
  
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• The Latest: Detective grilled in Penn St. hazing death case

  10-08-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the court hearing in the death of a Penn State fraternity pledge following an alcohol hazing ritual (all times local):
  
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• Let’s all take a minute to enjoy this black iPhone 8

  10-08-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  There’s no way Apple will surprise us with the iPhone 8’s design come September. Sure, there are still many mysteries buried inside iOS 11 related to the way the iPhone 8’s unique features will work, even though some of them were partially detailed by the leaked HomePod software. But the phone’s overall design is not going to shock us.With that in mind, we have no reason to question the authenticity of the following iPhone 8 dummy unit. We’re looking at a short vide
  
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• Biker's GoPro Camera Captures His 250-Foot Fall Off Cliff, Which He Survived

  10-08-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  Matthew Murray fought back the pain of broken bones to climb back up the cliff to flag down a driver.
  
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• Man gets life for killing 2 who stopped to help him on road

  10-08-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge sentenced a 20-year-old man to life in prison Thursday for killing a couple who stopped to help him alongside a road on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation.
  
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• North Korea: Trump fire talk singes Tillerson's wings

  10-08-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  Will the United States defeat the North Korean nuclear threat through "peaceful pressure" or "fire and fury"?This week US Secretary of State and diplomatic good cop Rex Tillerson was in southeast Asia, working with allies to isolate and cajole Kim Jong-Un's regime.Tillerson's diplomatic track was already a steep and rocky trail -- despite early success last week with the UN Security Council's adoption of tough new sanctions against North Korea.
  
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• The Latest: Acquitted ex-officer to speak at cop convention

  10-08-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on a white former Tulsa police officer acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man going to work for the sheriff's office in a neighboring county (all times local):
  
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• 'Get back to work': Trump's vacation message to Mitch McConnell

  10-08-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  Trump tweeted on Thursday afternoon: ‘Mitch, get back to work and put Repeal & Replace, Tax Reform & Cuts and a great Infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing.Donald Trump has suggested that Mitch McConnell should step down if the Republican leader in the Senate does not successfully get the president’s agenda passed on Capitol Hill.
  
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• 'Son of Sam' David Berkowitz Reveals Advice to Younger Self: 'Turn Around Before It's Too Late'

  10-08-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  It's been exactly 40 years since the notorious New York City serial killer was taken into custody.
  
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• Climate scientists continue to sound the alarm: Global warming fueled record temperatures in 2016

  10-08-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  The latest international climate report released by the American Meteorological Society confirms 2016 was the third consecutive year of record global heat.
  
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• Kenya opposition demands Odinga be 'declared president'

  10-08-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Kenya's opposition demanded Thursday that its candidate Raila Odinga be declared president, rejecting results that showed him trailing incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta in a fraught election that has sent jitters through the east African nation.Celebrations erupted in opposition strongholds that have also seen angry protests over Odinga's rigging claims, which sparked a gloomy sense of deja vu in a country that witnessed disputed polls in 2007 and 2013.Britain and the US joined foreign observer missions
  
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• Trump just talked about North Korea like a dad talks about a bratty kid

  10-08-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  Oooooooooooooo North Korea's in troubleeeeeeeeeeeeee... So sayeth the president of the United States, anyway. SEE ALSO: Giant inflatable chicken with Trump’s hairdo lands near White House President Donald Trump spoke about North Korea from Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday just days after he threatened the nation with "fire and fury," and North Korea issued a threat against Guam, a U.S. territory. The president told reporters that perhaps his "fire and fury," comment wasn't rhetoric-y en
  
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• British police arrest jogger suspected of shoving woman in front of bus

  10-08-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  A 50-year-old man has been arrested in London after video footage showed him allegedly pushing a woman in front of a bus as he was jogging past her.The incident happened in May and the woman suffered minor injuries in the incident.
  
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• Kenya election dispute intensifies with conflicting claims

  10-08-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A dispute over Kenya's presidential election intensified Thursday when supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga said an unofficial tally showed that he won — a claim that conflicted with a provisional official result that put incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta in the lead.
  
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• US military plans B-1 Bomber strike on North Korea missile sites

  10-08-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  The American military is ready with a plan to strike North Korean missile sites in a preemptive attack if Donald Trump decides to do so.The plan involves flying a B-1B heavy bomber from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam accompanied by satellites, drones, higher jets, and aerial refuelling warplanes.“Of the military options … [President Trump] could consider, this would be one of the two or three that would at least have the possibility of not escalating the situation,” retired A
  
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• Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

  10-08-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  The Fiesta truly is a sight that can only be seen in Bristol.Held over four days in August at Ashton Court Estate, the event is completely free with charges made for parking on the event site.The event was first held in 1979 and is now one of the largest in Europe.
  
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• North Korea Is Threatening to Attack Guam. Why Guam?

  10-08-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  This isn't the first time Guam has found itself in the middle of conflict
  
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• UPDATE 2-Uber’s Graves stepping down from full-time job, stays on board

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Ride services company UberTechnologies Inc’s head of operations, Ryan Graves, along-time ally of former chief executive Travis Kalanick, isstepping down from his full-time job at the company, accordingto a copy of a letter from Graves seen by Reuters.
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• KeystoneXL opponents vow long fight as Nebraska hearing concludes

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  LINCOLN, Neb., Aug 10 (Reuters) – Opponents of the KeystoneXL pipeline vowed on Thursday to block construction of thecontroversial project if Nebraska regulators approve theproposed route later this year.
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• BRIEF-United Steelworkers ratify a new agreement with Teck Resources

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * United Steelworkers says has voted 84.5 percent in favourof ratifying a new agreement with Teck Resources Ltd
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• BRIEF-Sabina Gold & Silver Q2 net loss per share C$0.00

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Sabina Gold & Silver announces financial results for thequarter ended June 30, 2017
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• BRIEF-Lockheed Martin successfully integrates first modernized A2100 satellite

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Lockheed Martin successfully integrates first modernizedA2100 satellite
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• BRIEF-Leon’s Furniture reports Q2 adjusted earnings per share of C$0.25

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Leon’s Furniture releases financial results for the secondquarter ended June 30, 2017
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• BRIEF-Biorem announces new orders totaling $5 million

  10-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Says ‍company’s 2017 order bookings to date total $17.5million compared to $7.6 million of orders booked in first sevenmonths of 2016​
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• Why John Kelly is President Trump's Last Hope

  10-08-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  Morning Must Reads: August 10
  
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• Republicans willing to suspend 2020 US election if Trump asks, poll shows

  10-08-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  More than half of Republican voters surveyed said they would be in favour of suspending the 2020 election if Donald Trump asked for more time to weed out illegal voters, a new poll shows.According to the poll, run by two academic researchers and published in the Washington Post, 52 per cent of those Republicans would agree with postponing the election if the President felt it was necessary.The poll was conducted between 5 June and 20 June, comprising interviews of 1,325 Americans, with 650 self-
  
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• Suicide Notes of Mom Who Killed Kids and Herself Revealed: 'I Hope You Rot'

  10-08-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Police have released the suicide notes of a woman who killed her children, her estranged husband's girlfriend and herself.
  
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• Donald Trump says North Korea risks being 'in trouble like few nations have ever been'

  10-08-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  After days of escalating rhetoric between the Trump administration and North Korea over the threat posed by Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programmes, the President showed no signs of toning down his language, even as 60 members of Congress signed a letter protesting his “irresponsible and dangerous” statements.Mr Trump said earlier this week that North Korea faces “retaliation with fire and fury unlike any the world has seen before” if it continues to threaten the US, r
  
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• 'Maybe Putin is right': Republican Senate frontrunner on Russian leader

  10-08-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Roy Moore, the controversial former judge and a leading contender in Alabama’s Senate race, has said “maybe Putin is right” and “more akin to me than I know” given the Russian leader’s stance on gay marriage.Moore, who was propelled to fame in 2001 over his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments that he’d installed in state courthouse, is a leading contender to fill the vacancy left by Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions.
  
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• Analysis: Trump throws his own North Korea strategy a curve

  10-08-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just when President Donald Trump's strategy for North Korea was finally starting to show dividends, he threw it a curve.
  
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• U.S. judge deals blow to Texas 'sanctuary' city law

  10-08-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. district judge in Austin has rejected an effort by Texas to have a law that would punish so-called sanctuary cities be declared constitutional ahead of the measure taking effect next month.The Republican-backed law is the first of its kind since Republican Donald Trump became president in January, promising a crackdown on illegal immigrants and localities that protect them.Texas is the U.S. state with the longest border with Mexico.
  
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• Father Defends Wife Accused of Dragging Daughter's Body into Woods

  10-08-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  He says the woman seen dragging his daughter's lifeless body into a wooded area is not the woman he married.
  
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• New Orleans at risk of further floods after fire cuts power to pumps

  10-08-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  With heavy rains forecast for Thursday, New Orleans is in a “vulnerable position” following a fire at one of the power stations that runs the city’s flood-control water pumps, its mayor has said.“We are at risk if we have a massive rain event,” Mitch Landrieu said at an emergency 3am press conference on Thursday.New Orleans is still reeling from a day-long deluge on Saturday that caused flooding in several city neighborhoods, with waist-high accumulations on streets
  
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• Diet drinks and food actually trigger weight gain and diabetes, says new study

  10-08-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Diet drinks or foods may actually promote weight gain and trigger diabetes because the brain misreads the number of calories present and reduces metabolism, a new study suggests. Researchers at Yale University in the US discovered that the body stops burning energy from food if there is a ‘mismatch’ between food sweetness and calories. In nature, sweetness signals energy and the greater the sweetness the more calories are available, so the brain has evolved to expect the two to
  
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• London bus crashes into Lavender Hill high street shops in rush hour, trapping passengers

  10-08-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Two women were trapped on a bus, which crashed into shops on a busy Battersea high street during rush hour. They have now been rescued. The driver has been taken to hospital and a number of passengers were treated at the scene. Witness Matthew Corner‏ tweeted: "Bus crash on Lavender Hill looked awful. Hoping no one is badly hurt. Emergency services doing an excellent job. Lavender Hill." Two fire engines and three fire rescue units were sent to the scene. We have a number of a
  
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• Norovirus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Sickens 91 Passengers

  10-08-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  It was the fourth time this year the ship had an outbreak of the highly contagious stomach infection.
  
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• Consumer Reports: Microsoft Surface Tablets Are Unreliable

  10-08-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  Several Microsoft Surface models received low marks for reliability in a recent Consumer Reports survey.
  
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• American extreme right calls to 'unite' at rally

  10-08-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  A sizeable contingent of members of the extreme right and white nationalists are expected to descend on a small US university town Saturday -- and a fierce opposition front is uniting against it.Thousands of white nationalists, including supporters of the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group, and anti-fascist activists are expected to clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, a sleepy town planning to remove a statue of General Robert E. Lee, who led Confederate forces in the US Civil War.Last month a
  
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• Retail apocalypse continues at department stores

  10-08-2017 19:15 via rocketnews.com
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• How do I know what to invest in?

  10-08-2017 19:15 via rocketnews.com
  You’re not the only one feeling overwhelmed by the tens of thousands of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds out there.
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• MOVES-Newfleet Asset names institutional business development head

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  Aug 10 (Reuters) – Newfleet Asset Management, an affiliateof Virtus Investment Partners Inc, named William Irvinehead of institutional business development and senior managingdirector.
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• CORRECTED-BRIEF-Jagged Peak Energy announces appointment of COO

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Jagged Peak Energy Inc. announces appointment of chiefoperating officer
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• BRIEF-Vanguard Group reports 10.7 pct passive stake in Delek US Holdings

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * ‍Vanguard Group Inc reports a 10.7 percent passive stakein Delek US Holdings inc as of July 31, 2017 – SEC filing​Source text: (http://bit.ly/2wLKQmV)Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Update regarding proposed transaction between Smaart Holdings, Adira Energy

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Update regarding proposed transaction between SmaartHoldings Inc. and Adira Energy Ltd.
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• BRIEF-Qliro Group says Patrik Illerstig to leave Qliro Financial Services

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Qliro Group AB says Patrik Illerstig to leave Qliro Financial ServicesSource text for Eikon:Further company coverage:(Bengaluru Newsroom)
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• BRIEF-Potash Ridge appoints Ross Phillips as interim CFO

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Appointment of ross phillips as interim Chief FinancialOfficer to replace Petra Decher​Source text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Eldorado Resorts files for non-timely 10-Q – SEC filing‍​

  10-08-2017 19:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Eldorado Resorts Inc files for non-timely 10-Q – SECfiling‍​
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