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• Lyft shares hit new low as Uber IPO chatter revs up

  10-04-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Shares of recently listed Lyft Inc fell to a fresh low and closed the day down almost 11 percent on Wednesday on news that rival Uber Technologies Inc was close to filing its own initial public offering.In ride-hailing company Lyft's ninth day of trading its shares clocked their lowest closing price since going public on March 29.Reuters reported late Tuesday that rival Uber would seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in an IPO, and file the offering with regulators as soon as Thursday.
  
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• What's actually going on in that cryptic black hole photo?

  10-04-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have now seen the unseeable."These were the words spoken by astrophysicist Avery Broderick on Wednesday morning, one of some 200 scientists of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration who captured humanity's first image of a black hole -- a zone in space so gravitationally powerful that whatever light falls in can't possibly escape. "Black holes are gravity run amok," said Broderick.Yet, we now have a picture of "the unseeable."More precisely, we can see a prominent ring of super-heated gas
  
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• Yahoo to pay $117.5M in latest settlement of massive breach

  10-04-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential restitution in a legal settlement valued at $117.5 million.
  
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• Trump news: President admits he has not even read Mueller report, as key aide branded a 'scumbag'

  10-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has told reporters he had not seen or read a report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Speaking on the White House lawn before departing for a trip to Texas, the president told media “I won” while claiming he did not care to read the conclusion from the special counsel’s findings. His comments arrived as Attorney General William Barr arrived on Capitol Hill for another day of testimony in
  
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• Nipsey Hussle memorial: Rules, schedule and procession route

  10-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Updated details have been released for the Nipsey Hussle memorial service scheduled for Thursday at Staples Center and the public procession route afterward.
  
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• Owe the IRS? Here Are Your Options.

  10-04-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s never good news to find out you owe taxes to Uncle Sam. It’s even worse to find out you can’t afford to make the payment. Tax experts say that the most important thing to do if you owe the I...
  
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• Ford Recalls Trucks Over Faulty Engine Block Heater

  10-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford Recalls Trucks Again Over Faulty Engine-Block HeaterFord is recalling more than 130,000 pickup trucks to repair components that could have been broken as the result of another recent recal...
  
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• Wall Street ekes out gains as investors shrug off Fed minutes

  10-04-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The blue-chip Dow, held back by industrial stocks, squeaked into positive territory at the closing bell.The three major U.S. indexes were relatively unchanged following the release of the Fed's minutes, which reaffirmed the central bank's patience regarding future interest rate hikes."The Fed notes were kind of a nothing, exactly what the market was expecting" said Stephen Massocca, senior vice president at Wedbush Securities in San Francisco.
  
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• Trump's Homeland Security purge continues as acting ICE director leaves his post

  10-04-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s purge has continued at the Department of Homeland Security with yet another top official’s apparent removal being announced this week. Ron Vitiello, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would be leaving his post by Friday, a department spokesperson confirmed. The longtime border official’s nomination to oversee the agency was withdrawn last week as the president and his administration sought to clamp down on an increase in undocumented immi
  
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• Sanders relaunches 'Medicare for All' with Dems divided

  10-04-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a revamped "Medicare for All" plan on Wednesday, highlighting a divide among Democrats over one of their bedrock 2020 campaign issues — the future of health care in America.
  
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• Netanyahu win gives US peace plan 'better chance:' Trump

  10-04-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election victory improved the chances of a forthcoming US peace plan, despite deep skepticism from the Palestinians.Trump, who had enthusiastically backed the right-wing premier's bid for a fifth mandate, said that he telephoned Netanyahu to offer congratulations as results gave Netanyahu a narrow parliamentary majority."The fact that Bibi won, I think we'll see some pretty good action in terms of peace," Trum
  
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• States pushing near-bans on abortion, targeting Roe v. Wade

  10-04-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Emboldened by the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, anti-abortion lawmakers and activists in numerous states are pushing near-total bans on the procedure in a deliberate frontal attack on Roe v. Wade.
  
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• Candace Owens fumes at Rep. Ted Lieu's use of her Hitler comments

  10-04-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  "I think it's pretty apparent that believes that black people are stupid," Owens said in response to Lieu playing a clip of her comment on Hitler.
  
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• 'We have seen what we thought was unseeable': First photo of a black hole revealed

  10-04-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronomers released the first picture of a black hole. What we see in the image is gas and dust circling the hole, far enough away to be safe.
  
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• New Bentley Flying Spur Teased with a Retractable Hood Ornament

  10-04-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The third-generation of Bentley's "small" Flying Spur sedan will be revealed later this year.
  
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• Republicans falsely claim Ilhan Omar denied 9/11 attackers were terrorists

  10-04-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  US representative Dan Crenshaw fuels wave of abuse picked up by GOP chair and Fox News hostIlhan Omar called the attacks against her ‘dangerous incitement’. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA Republican congressman has spread false allegations that the US representative Ilhan Omar denied the September 11 hijackers were terrorists, as part of a new wave of abuse directed at her by some conservatives.Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas shared a tweet falsely reporting that Oma
  
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• Israeli PM Netanyahu poised for 5th term as rival concedes

  10-04-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main rival conceded defeat Wednesday, promising to wage a robust battle from the opposition after the ruling Likud party and its nationalist allies won a solid majority in parliamentary elections.
  
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• Free IRS software for filing taxes to be banned by US Congress in win for TurboTax

  10-04-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Congress is poised to pass a bill that would hand a major policy victory to the for-profit tax preparation industry, just in time for Tax Day in America.The bill, titled the Taxpayers First Act, is a wide-ranging bill that includes a provision that would ban the US government from developing a free electronic tax filing system, and is supported by companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block.Those companies have lobbied Congress for years now to block the Internal Revenue Serv
  
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• A look at the winners and losers in Israel's election

  10-04-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — After a campaign widely seen as a referendum on his rule, Benjamin Netanyahu is the winner of Israel's election as he heads toward a record-setting fifth term as prime minister.
  
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• Amid DHS Chaos, Ron Johnson Pleads for Honest, Policy-Focused Immigration Debate

  10-04-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  With Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s departure from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week, the future of the Trump administration’s immigration policy has been thrown into uncertainty, even as the situation at the southern border becomes increasingly unstable.According to a New York Times report, Nielsen’s relationship with the president worsened in recent months as he repeatedly blamed her for the ongoing surge in apprehensions at the border. The breaking point appa
  
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• Bernie Sanders's Bold Health Plan Puts Democrats in a Bind

  10-04-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders, an early front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, had initially called for phasing out America’s employer-based insurance system in favor of universal government coverage that’s free for patients (that is, outside of the higher taxes they’d pay to finance it).
  
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• Mnuchin Says He Didn’t Recommend ‘Wrong Person’ in Fed’s Powell

  10-04-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he was right to recommend Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman despite President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the central bank leader.“I don’t feel like I picked the wrong person,” Mnuchin said Wednesday in an interview on CNBC.The Fed’s interest rate increases in 2018 outraged the president, who went so far as to discuss firing Powell with his advisers late in the year.
  
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• Worst day of fighting as rebel army advances on Tripoli

  10-04-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting in Tripoli intensified drastically on Wednesday as rival armies brought tanks and multiple rocket-launch systems to bear in the deadly struggle for control of the Libyan capital. The escalation came as Fayez al-Sarraj, the prime minister of the internationally recognised Government of National Accord, issued an address to the nation urging Libyans to defend the capital city from renegade general Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army.  In an address distribute
  
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• Donald Trump Is Magnifying the Border Crisis

  10-04-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s time to face facts: Donald Trump is failing on his signature issue. There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The number of people crossing is surging to numbers not seen in a decade. In February, 76,103 undocumented immigrants either presented themselves at ports of entry or were apprehended at the border. That was the largest number since February 2007 — until March, when border officials stopped 103,000 undocumented immigrants crossing the border.Making matters f
  
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• The 2019 Audi TT RS Gets Some New Colors and Air Scoops, Starts at $67,895

  10-04-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Minor exterior and interior updates for the world's only five-cylinder sports car in production.
  
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• Fox News Hosts Back Mnuchin in His Testy Exchange With Maxine Waters

  10-04-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin engaged in a tense and fiery exchange with House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Fox News hosts Pete Hegseth and Katie Pavlich wholeheartedly backed the Trump cabinet official and called for a law limiting the length of congressional hearings.During a Monday committee hearing in which he was grilled over Democrats’ demand for President Trump’s tax returns, Mnuchin bickered with Waters over time constraints, c
  
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• US government 'spied' on Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, attorney general says

  10-04-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign was spied on by the US government, the country’s attorney general said on Wednesday, as he vowed to investigate whether rules were broken in the process.  William Barr, who took up the job in February, said he would look at how the FBI and US intelligence agencies set up the Trump-Russia probe before the 2016 presidential election.  “Spying did occur”, Mr Barr said during a hearing on Capitol Hill, noting at a
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu set to win fifth term as Israeli prime minister, opposition party concedes

  10-04-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon weighs in on what it Benjamin Netanyahu's likely reelection means for the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
  
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• Trump basks in Netanyahu's victory by highlighting their personal alliance

  10-04-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  US president tweeted a picture of people waving Trump banners at the Israeli leader’s election celebrations Donald Trump shakes hands with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on 25 March.Photograph: Leah Millis/ReutersDonald Trump welcomed Benjamin Netanyahu’s election victory by underlining the personal alliance between the two men, tweeting a picture of people waving Trump banners at the Israeli leader’s celebrations. As it became clear that Netanyahu would win a fifth term
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Raises $6M, Cooling Talk of a Stalled Campaign

  10-04-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Carlos Barria/ReutersSenator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) presidential campaign, much rumored to be in need of defibrillation, has found itself on solid footing in recent weeks after enjoying a wave of grassroots financial support.The Massachusetts Democrat announced on Wednesday that she had raised more than $6 million in the first quarter of 2019. Of that total, more than $1.4 million came in the last week of the quarter, suggesting that her policy-heavy messaging had broken through with vo
  
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• Hirono: Backers of Pain-Capable Abortion Ban Should Focus on Kids ‘Here Already’

  10-04-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Mazie Hirono said Tuesday that supporters of a ban on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy -- the point at which an unborn child can feel pain -- should instead focus on those kids "very much here already.""The word hypocritical does even begin to cover what is happening to women and children across our country," the Hawaii Democrat said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act introduced by Republican Lindsey Graham. "I hope supporters
  
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• New York mandates vaccine to contain Brooklyn measles outbreak

  10-04-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  New York's mayor declared a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn on Tuesday, ordering all residents to be vaccinated to fight a measles outbreak concentrated in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.The order concerns all people living or working in four zip codes of Williamsburg, northwest Brooklyn, where some residents oppose vaccines on religious grounds -- although neither Jewish texts nor local Jewish authorities advise against vaccination."It was time to take a more muscular approach
  
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• Scientists set to reveal first true image of black hole

  10-04-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The world is finally about to see a black hole -- not an artist's impression or a computer-generated likeness, but the real thing.Of all the forces in the Universe that we cannot see -- including dark energy and dark matter -- none has frustrated human curiosity as thoroughly as the invisible, star-devouring monsters known as black holes."Over the years, we accumulated indirect observational evidence," said Paul McNamara, an astrophysicist at the European Space Agency and project scientist for t
  
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• Netanyahu Remains Israel’s Indispensable Man

  10-04-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Can a national leader win re-election despite voter fatigue with his long tenure and with corruption indictments hanging over him? The answer for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Tuesday’s election was a resounding yes. The reasons for this have as much to do with a sea change in Israeli politics that has transformed the country in the last 20 years as they do with Netanyahu’s accomplishments in office.But his problem is that, although he is the beneficiary of a strong
  
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• Barr backs off explosive claim about FBI 'spying' on Trump campaign

  10-04-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. attorney general briefly touched off a firestorm during a hearing on Capitol Hill, saying he believes “spying did occur” in the federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu begins forming coalition as US hails prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace

  10-04-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday began negotiations to form a new Right-wing coalition after seeing off a centrist challenger in a close election and securing a fifth term as Israel’s prime minister.  Mr Netanyahu’s Likud party won the same number of seats as Blue & White, a centrist coalition led by former general Benny Gantz, but the victory of other Right-wing parties gave the prime minister a clear path to a majority government.  “I already began talks with the le
  
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• The Latest: Gantz's party concedes defeat in Israel election

  10-04-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the outcome of Israeli elections (all times local):
  
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• Need a new Wi-Fi router for your apartment? This one’s only $19.99

  10-04-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  If you live in a massive house, investing a few hundred dollars in a high-end home Wi-Fi system is a must. But if you live in an apartment, mesh systems are definitely a waste of money. You can enjoy great coverage and fast Wi-Fi speeds at the fraction of the cost of a mesh solution. In fact, the TP-Link TL-WR841N Wireless Router is on sale right now on Amazon for only $19.99!Here's more info from the product page:* Wireless N speed up to 300Mbps ideal applications for video streaming, online ga
  
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• Ilhan Omar Calls Out Fox News and GOP for ‘Dangerous Incitement’ Over Her 9/11 Comments

  10-04-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstRep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday called the conservative attacks lobbed against her “dangerous incitement” after Republicans and Fox News insinuated she was downplaying the 9/11 terror attack.Omar, a Democrat and Somali-American from Minnesota, is under fire by the right for comments she made last month. At a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles, Omar said, in part, that “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recogn
  
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• American Airlines flight attendant 'mortified' after spilling drinks on the airline's CEO

  10-04-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  An American Airlines flight attendant accidentally spilled drinks on a passenger − and that passenger turned out to be American CEO Doug Parker.
  
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• New York Is Trying to Release Trump's State Tax Returns. Here's Why That Might Not Work

  10-04-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  "It’s just not as useful as I think people are hoping"
  
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• Stephen Miller's uncle says Trump's immigration rhetoric 'demonises asylum seekers and stirs racist hatred'

  10-04-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The uncle of Stephen Miller – the White House official known for spearheading its hardline immigration agenda – has claimed Donald Trump’s rhetoric demonises asylum seekers and “stirs racist hatred”.This week the president oversaw a clean out of the department of homeland security, firing Kirstjen Nielsen and appointing a senior Customs and Border agency official, Kevin McAleenan, to oversee an even tougher approach to try and halt the number of Central American mig
  
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• Indian election authorities stop release of Modi's fawning Bollywood biopic as polls open

  10-04-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  India’s Election Commission has prohibited the release of a Bollywood biopic on Narendra Modi, the prime minister, a day before its scheduled release, claiming it would tip the balance of the general elections in his favour.   The Commission, which oversees India’s parliamentary and provincial elections, on Wednesday ruled that releasing PM Narendra Modi would give an “unfair advantage” to Mr Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that
  
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• Hezbollah warns U.S. over sanctions against Iran and allies

  10-04-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Hezbollah raised the prospect of retaliation by Iran and its allies over U.S. sanctions, saying on Wednesday that all options were on the table were Washington to take steps that "threaten our nation".Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the heavily armed Iranian-backed Shi'ite group, said the United States' move this week to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization reflected a failure of U.S. policy in the Middle East.Iran and its allies, which include Hezbollah
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu ‘the Magician’ Is Re-Elected Israel’s Prime Minister—but at What Price?

  10-04-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Sebastian Scheiner/GettyTEL AVIV–At exactly 2:00 a.m. in the deep dark before dawn on Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu finally strode on stage at a half-filled sports arena outside Tel Aviv and the crowd of supporters erupted in raucous cheers. “He’s a magician! He’s a magician! He’s a magician!” they chanted. The Israeli premier had done it again–securing a fourth straight term as prime minister (and fifth overall dating back to the 1990s), overcoming thre
  
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• Twitter CEO reveals secret to running two companies: daily meditation and eating just one meal a day

  10-04-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey has revealed he takes daily ice baths and eats only one meal a day in an in-depth interview about his extreme fitness routine. Appearing on a fitness podcast, the billionaire said the "biggest impact" on his mental health has been meditation but said he also does weekend-long fasts to give him the focus and energy to run two companies.  The 42-year-old has been meditating for 20 years and spends an hour each morning and evening on the spiritual practice
  
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• Walmart robot janitors will mop floors, scan shelves, sort items and more

  10-04-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart wants sales associates to help customers instead of mopping floors, unloading boxes, and passing off online orders. So it's adding robots.
  
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• Bodies Found in Dominican Republic Believed to be Missing NY Couple, Police Say

  10-04-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Dominican Republic authorities believe two unidentified bodies are those of a missing New York couple, according to National Police.
  
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• US attorney general: FBI 'spied' on Trump campaign

  10-04-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The US attorney general told Congress Wednesday he believes the FBI spied on President Donald Trump's election campaign and said he is opening an investigation into whether it was justified.Amid fresh charges by Trump that he was the target of an "attempted coup," Bill Barr told lawmakers the FBI may have gone too far in opening a counterintelligence probe into Trump's 2016 operation."Spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr told the Senate Appropriations Committee.
  
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• Ford Again Recalls F-150 and Super Duty Pickup Trucks for Second Repair over Engine-Block Fire Risk

  10-04-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The new recall will bring back more than 130,000 U.S.-market trucks for another fix; more than 400,000 pickups in the U.S. alone have been affected by the recall.
  
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