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• Trump's plan to name Herman Cain to Fed meets Republican pushback

  09-04-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of the president's own party signal that the former Godfather's Pizza CEO faces an uphill confirmation battle.
  
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• Netanyahu, main rival Gantz, claim victory in Israeli election

  09-04-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Exit polls on two of Israel's three main TV channels showedGantz's centrist Blue and White Party won slightly more seats than Likud in the 120-member parliament, while a third survey forecast a tie.If he wins, Netanyahu, 69, will be on track to be the longest-serving prime minister in Israel's 71-year history.Gantz, 59, a former military chief, is a political novice.
  
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• Nielsen to face odd dynamics of post-Trump job market

  09-04-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As she heads out the door, departing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will confront the odd dynamics of the post-Trump job market.
  
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• President Trump Likes Acting Cabinet Members. Research Shows They May Hurt Him

  09-04-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The move allows the President to bypass Senate confirmation of his picks
  
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• Japan's air force loses contact with F-35 stealth fighter

  09-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Japan's military said on Tuesday it lost contact with one of its Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan.Japan's first squadron of F-35s has just become operational at the Misawa air base and the government plans to buy 87 of the stealth fighters to modernize its air defenses as China's military power grows.The advanced single-seat jet was flying about 135 km (84 miles) east of the air base in Aomori Prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT) on Tuesday
  
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• Boeing orders and deliveries tumble as Max jet is grounded

  09-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Boeing failed to win any orders for its 737 Max airliner in March as scrutiny of the plane increased following a second deadly crash in less than five months.
  
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• Mnuchin Says He Isn’t Afraid of Getting Fired Over Trump’s Tax Returns

  09-04-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  “I’m not afraid of being fired at all,” he told House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts has requested six years of Trump’s personal returns as well as those for several of the president’s business entities, citing a law that allows the chairmen of congressional tax-writing committees to request any filer’s returns.
  
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• Parents at UC Berkeley Easter-Egg Hunt Must Sign Waivers Due to Kids’ Risk of ‘Death’

  09-04-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Children were not allowed to participate in an Easter-egg hunt at the University of California, Berkeley without their parents’ first signing a waiver — due to the apparent risk of injury or even death.According to Reason, parents had to stand in line for up to half an hour to hand in the waiver before their kids could attend the 25th Annual Easter Egg Hunt Learning Festival. The waiver, which was obtained by Reason, listed risks including “minor injuries, such as scratche
  
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• Israel Elections a Cliffhanger for Netanyahu, New Hope for His Opposition

  09-04-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  GALI TIBBONJERUSALEM–It will be a long night in Israel, where initial exit polls Tuesday evening indicated a close electoral victory for opposition head Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff. But the prognosis for his chances to form a winning coalition block against right-wing parties led by the Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has held office for 10 years, and dominated Israeli politics for a generation.Both candidates declared immediate victory, though Gantz’s decl
  
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• Suit filed over gun controls inspired by synagogue shooting

  09-04-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gun rights groups sued Tuesday to block Pittsburgh from enforcing firearms legislation passed after a mass shooting at a synagogue, accusing city officials of blatantly defying the state's prohibition on municipal gun regulation.
  
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• UPDATE 4-U.S. judge defers ruling on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan

  09-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve a PG&E Corp plan to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees, saying he wants more details from the California power producer that is facing bankruptcy following last year's wildfires.Judge Dennis Montali of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco set April 23 as the next date for a hearing on the plan, saying he wants PG&E to give him a "tutorial" on it.The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of
  
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• U.S. judge defers hearing on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan

  09-04-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve or reject a motion by PG&E Corp to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees after the power producer said the plan excluded senior executives and would help it fight devastating wildfires.The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of a previously proposed 2018 bonus program for some 14,000 employees that PG&E scuttled after criticism from wildfire victims and their lawyers.The U.S. Trustee, the governme
  
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• Birdwatch: it's spring, and grebes are ready to do the 'penguin dance'

  09-04-2019 22:30
  Few British birds engage in such an elaborate courtship ceremony as the great crested grebeOf all the birds I would take to an imaginary desert island, the great crested grebe would be very near the top of my list. One of my earliest birding memories is, aged eight or nine, going on a nature walk to the local gravel pits with the rest of class 3T. I was walking along the path in a daydream, when my very first great crested grebe cruised right past me.I’ve seen plenty of grebes since that f
  
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• Actor Loughlin faces new charges in cheating scandal

  09-04-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. prosecutors filed fresh conspiracy and money laundering charges on Tuesday against 16 parents charged with paying bribes to secure their children seats in elite universities in the largest college admissions scam uncovered in U.S. history. Zachary Goelman reports.
  
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• Fox News’ Shep Smith and John Roberts Tag-Team to Fact-Check Trump Lies on Family Separation

  09-04-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Hours after President Trump falsely claimed his predecessor was the one responsible for separating migrant children from their families, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith and chief White House correspondent John Roberts tag-teamed to deliver a comprehensive fact-check of the president’s lies.During a press spray at the White House on Tuesday, Trump repeated the falsehood that President Obama’s administration instituted the specific policy of separating families at the border, wildly clai
  
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• Southwest flight canceled? Here's why the airline won't book you on another carrier

  09-04-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustrated Southwest Airlines passengers have bombarded the airline with questions in the wake of heavy Boeing 737 Max 8 flight cancellations.
  
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• Lori Loughlin and husband hit with new charge in college admissions bribery case

  09-04-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents were indicted on Tuesday on money laundering and mail fraud charges, the latest development in the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme. It comes a day after actress Felicity Huffman, 12 other parents and a coach originally charged in the case agreed to plead guilty - signaling an escalation in the case against the parents who are continuing to fight the allegations against them. The scandal involv
  
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• Mueller report will be released within a week: U.S. attorney general

  09-04-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  During a congressional hearing, Barr was repeatedly challenged by Democrats who raised suspicions that he may have misrepresented Mueller's report to paint the Republican president in a better light.Barr, an appointee of Trump who last month announced what he said were the main findings of the report, said he would be as open as possible about redactions of sensitive information when he hands over the full document."Within a week I will be in position to release that report to the public and the
  
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• Apple just made the experience of upgrading to a new Mac far less painful

  09-04-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  While the cost alone is a deterrent for many shoppers, the scariest risk when upgrading to a new computer is the risk of losing all of your data in the transfer process. Apple has made that process somewhat less painful by offering Data Migrations with the purchase of a new Mac, but charged a whopping $99 for the service. At least, the company used to charge $99, as the exorbitant fee has apparently been eliminated as of this month.According to TidBITS, the MacBook maker just recently made the c
  
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• Can we talk? McConnell says it's time for new spending pact

  09-04-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Tuesday it's time to kick off bipartisan talks on a new budget pact to fund federal agencies over the next two years.
  
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• Turkey says US move against Iran Guards creates 'instability'

  09-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Tuesday condemned the US move to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards a "terrorist group", saying the decision would create "instability" in the region.Washington's move against the Revolutionary Guards was the first time that the United States has branded part of a foreign government a terrorist group."These kinds of decisions will pave the way for instability in our region," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara.
  
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• The Mercedes Handbuilt By Porsche’s 959 Factory

  09-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  If someone asks you what sleeper you would have given the choice, most of us would throw out suggestions like an RS2, a V70R or maybe even a Mercury Marauder.When looking at Mercedes’ lineup of the last thirty years, nothing really screams sleeper to you, or does it?Porsche wasn’t doing too well in the late eighties, with their product range being rather aged.
  
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• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will now fly on Wednesday, hopefully

  09-04-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you were eagerly anticipating the second-ever launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket this past weekend, you were sorely disappointed when the company was forced to delay the launch. We had a feeling that might happen, and the launch was pushed back to today, Tuesday, April 9th, but now yet another delay has pushed it back even further.SpaceX now says that Falcon Heavy will likely launch tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10th. Today's would-be launch was scrubbed due to inclement weather, but Wednesd
  
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• Iraq says tried to stop US blacklist of Iran Revolutionary Guard

  09-04-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Baghdad tried to stop Washington from blacklisting Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "terrorist organisation," Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said Tuesday, warning that the decision could further destabilise the region.The United States declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "terrorist" group on Monday, prompting Tehran to quickly slap US troops with the same designation.
  
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• Stanford kicks out student linked to largest-ever college admissions scandal

  09-04-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A Stanford University student linked to the wide-ranging admissions scandal involving elite schools across the nation has been kicked out of school.
  
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• Lori Loughlin Hit With Additional Money Laundering Charge in College Admissions Scandal

  09-04-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos by GettyActress Lori Loughlin and more than a dozen other parents have been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges by a federal grand jury for their alleged roles in the massive college admission scandal, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. The 16 parents were charged in a second superseding indictment on Tuesday with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, honest services mail and wire fraud, and a new count of conspiracy to
  
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• New York City declares public health emergency, orders mandatory measles vaccinations

  09-04-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has "the power to do this."
  
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• Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected

  09-04-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The proposed class-action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticisms of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California.Koh said the original settlement was not "fundamentally fair, adequate and reasonable" because it had no overall dollar value and did not say how much victims might expect to recover.Yahoo, now part of New York-based Verizon Communications Inc, had been accused of being slow to disclose three data breaches affecting about 3 billion accounts from 2
  
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• Trump news: Attorney General interrogated by Congress over 'unanswered questions' in Mueller report, as Republicans round on president over 'mess'

  09-04-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  William Barr appeared before Congress to answer questions on the Justice Department's budget, but the hearing instead turned into a barrage of questions about the much-delayed release of the Mueller report.The attorney general told members of Congress at his first public appearance since receiving the special counsel’s report that his earlier projection of releasing a version by mid-April still stood.The nearly 400-page report is being scoured now to remove grand jury information and detai
  
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• The Latest: NRA backs suit on synagogue-inspired gun control

  09-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on Pittsburgh's effort to restrict firearms and ammunition (all times local):
  
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• Trump threatens tariffs on EU products over Airbus subsidies

  09-04-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the EU, vowing to impose tariffs on billions in imports over subsidies to the aviation giant Airbus, suddenly escalating a transatlantic skirmish that is more than a decade old.Trump had sparked outrage in Europe last year by imposing steep duties on steel and aluminum and threatening new ones on autos."The World Trade Organization finds that the European Union subsidies to Airbus has adversely impacted the United States, which will now put Tariffs
  
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• Stephen Miller, Trump's hardline anti-immigrant provocateur

  09-04-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephen Miller may have been denounced by fellow Republicans and his own family, but the White House anti-immigration ideologue has the one ear that counts: President Donald Trump's.Miller's influence was clear this week with the sweeping shakeup of the Department of Homeland Security, including the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, amid Trump's frustration at its failure to halt hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants from entering the country.The 33-year-old, s
  
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• UN Security Council to meet Wednesday on Libya

  09-04-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The UN Security Council will hold urgent closed-door consultations on Wednesday on the crisis in Libya, where fighting has derailed UN-led efforts to prepare for elections.UN envoy Ghassan Salame will brief the council on his decision to postpone a national conference aimed at drawing up an election roadmap, diplomats said.Thousands of people have fled Tripoli after forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar, who controls part of eastern Libya, launched an offensive last week to take the capital
  
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• William Barr: Attorney general says Mueller report will be released ‘within a week’ – here’s what it will look like

  09-04-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  US attorney general William Barr has told lawmakers they could expect a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report “within a week”.Mr Barr was speaking about the report into possible links between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill that yielded more questions than answers. The attorney general abruptly declined to answer further questions about the investigation halfway through the hearing, saying:
  
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• Nancy Pelosi once again mocks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for using Twitter for back-up support

  09-04-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a subtle jab towards Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her alleged dependency on Twitter for public support, insinuating that the freshman lawmaker is neglecting to do work required pass the Democratic agenda into laws.Ms Ocasio-Cortez has almost 4 million followers on Twitter and has often used Twitter as a tool to rally public support for her progressive proposals including the Green New Deal.Ms Pelosi, 79, told USA Today on Monday that she is running into issu
  
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• Grassley warns Trump may be 'pulling the rug out' from those helping him on immigration

  09-04-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Grassley was also critical of Stephen Miller, telling The Washington Post, "it would be hard for him to demonstrate he’s accomplished anything."
  
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• UPDATE 4-Boeing records zero new MAX orders following global groundings

  09-04-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing Co's orders and deliveries sank in the first quarter, with zero new orders for the 737 MAX following a worldwide grounding in March in the wake of two fatal plane crashes.The groundings forced Boeing to freeze deliveries of the MAX, which had been its fastest-selling jetliner until a March 10 crash on Ethiopian Airlines that killed all 157 onboard, just five months after a similar crash on Lion Air that killed all 189 passengers and crew.Total orders, an indication of future demand, fell
  
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• Man brings camel to Michigan PetSmart

  09-04-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A man took his pet camel for a stroll at a PetSmart in Michigan.
  
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• House Appropriations Committee questions Barr amid debate over Mueller report

  09-04-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney General William Barr appeared before Congress today saying he's expecting to release the redacted Mueller report within a week.
  
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• Barr stonewalls Congress on Mueller report but promises edited version 'hopefully within a week'

  09-04-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr’s calm was shaken by a barrage of questions about whether the president has seen the report.
  
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• Michael Cohen's usefulness to prosecutors may be drying up

  09-04-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — As Michael Cohen seeks another reprieve from his three-year prison sentence, there are mounting indications his usefulness to federal prosecutors is drying up.
  
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• CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Boeing quarterly orders halve, deliveries tumble on 737 MAX grounding

  09-04-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing Co said on Tuesday orders nearly halved in the first quarter and the planemaker handed over far fewer aircraft, as it struggled with the worldwide grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX jets following two fatal crashes.Total orders, an indication of future demand, fell to 95 aircraft in the first quarter from 180 a year earlier.The fall in order suggests that airlines had adopted a wait-and-watch approach as Boeing looks to ride out the worst crisis in its history.
  
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• Wynn Resorts scotches potential takeover of Crown Resorts

  09-04-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Wynn Resorts said Tuesday it was pulling the plug on a potential takeover of Australian gambling giant Crown Resorts that had been seen as fetching about $7.1 billion."Following the premature disclosure of preliminary discussions, Wynn Resorts has terminated all discussions with Crown Resorts concerning any transaction," Las Vegas-based Wynn said Tuesday.Shares of Wynn were down 3.2 percent at $140.23 at mid-morning in New York.
  
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• Iran calls U.S. blacklisting of guards “vicious move”

  09-04-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the United States’ designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, saying on Tuesday the Guards had confronted enemies at home and abroad, state TV reported. Yahaira Jacquez reports.
  
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• 'That's not a bag': man with dog bends New York subway rule and gets denied

  09-04-2019 17:08
  MTA rules state dogs must be ‘enclosed in a container’ but one conductor seems to think a dog in a sack pushes that definitionIn 2016, the Metro Transit Authority (MTA) in New York banned people from bringing their pets on the subway. The only exception was for animals “enclosed in a container and carried in a manner which would not annoy other passengers”.But New Yorkers love a loophole, and so while the MTA probably meant dogs carried in purpose-built crates, subway rid
  
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• Excessive consumption of some dietary supplements can reduce life expectancy

  09-04-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A new study demonstrates the ineffectiveness of dietary supplements in reducing the risk of death.Some may even have the opposite effect.Published in The Annals of Internal Medicine, this research was carried out on 30,899 adult Americans aged 20 and over who participated in a national survey on health and nutrition between 1999 and 2010.
  
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• Qualcomm loses court bid against EU antitrust regulators' demand for data

  09-04-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm on Tuesday lost a court challenge against a demand for it to provide EU regulators with data in a long-running antitrust case.The world's no. 1 chipmaker had already provided the information after being ordered to pay a daily fine for withholding it, but the Luxembourg-based General Court's ruling is expected to strengthen the Commission's hand in future similar cases.Qualcomm has been under the EU spotlight since 2015, when it was accused of predatory pricing between 200
  
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• UPDATE 1-United Airlines says using larger jets on 737 MAX routes is 'costing money'

  09-04-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  United Airlines' use of larger aircraft on routes previously flown by Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX jets is costing the carrier money in the short-term, the company's President Scott Kirby said in a letter to employees on Tuesday.Chicago-based United, which owns 14 MAX jets and has dozens more on order, has been using its larger 777 or 787 aircraft to cover routes formerly flown by the suspended MAX planes, without being able to fill the extra last-minute seats.
  
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• Kathie Lee Gifford gave 'Today' replacement Jenna Bush Hager this special gift

  09-04-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Kathie Lee Gifford had something special for Jenna Bush Hager, her successor for the fourth hour of "Today," rebranded as "Today with Hoda & Jenna."
  
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• Libya Is on the Brink of Civil War and a U.S. Citizen Is Responsible. Here's What to Know

  09-04-2019 16:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The offensive by the rogue general Khalifa Haftar, who has U.S. citizenship, has pushed Libya to the brink of civil war
  
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