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• Older of two students arrested in Colorado shooting appears in court

  08-05-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The 18-year-old defendant being charged as an adult, Devon Erickson, sat silently at a small table with his head bowed and his hands shackled to his waist, flanked by two defense lawyers as a pair of sheriff's deputies stood just behind them.It was not immediately clear whether his accused accomplice, who is under the age of 18, would be charged in adult court or as a juvenile.The two teenagers are accused of opening fire on fellow students in two classrooms at the Science, Technology, Engineeri
  
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• Colorado school shooting: Family IDs student killed in Highlands Ranch; 2 suspects in custody

  08-05-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo says his son was the student killed in a shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch. He said his son was a hero and he wants people to know what a great kid he was.
  
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• U.S. targets Iran's metals for sanctions, Tehran relaxes nuclear deal compliance

  08-05-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran had announced hours earlier that it was relaxing some restrictions on its nuclear program, steps that stopped short of violating the deal with world powers for now, but threatening more action if countries do not shield it from U.S. sanctions.An executive order issued by Trump covers Iran's iron, steel, aluminum, and copper sectors, the government's largest non-petroleum-related sources of export revenue and 10 percent of its export economy, a White House statement said."Tehran can expect f
  
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• New York moves to release Trump’s tax returns and reduce his pardon powers

  08-05-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  New York state has steadily passed legislation in recent days that seeks to limit the president’s pardon powers and curtail his ability to withhold his tax returns from Congress. The state’s senate voted on Wednesday in favour of a bill that requires local agencies to comply with requests for state tax returns from the heads of Congress’s House ways and means committee, the Senate finance committee or the joint committee on taxation. New York’s senate also voted to suppor
  
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• Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran as nuclear tensions escalate

  08-05-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump ordered new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday hours after Tehran said it was relaxing some restrictions on its nuclear programme.The sanctions requested by the US president target Iran’s steel, aluminium, copper and iron sectors – worth around 10 per cent of the country’s economy, according to the White House.Iran had announced hours earlier that it was stepping up some of its nuclear capabilities - steps that stopped short of violating its historic deal with wor
  
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• Pixel 3a vs. Pixel 3: Great camera for the price makes Google's $399 phone the better buy

  08-05-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Google's Pixel 3a smartphones costs way ess than the Pixel 3. Yet you still get many of the same features, right down to the superior camera.
  
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• The Latest: NY Senate OKs giving US House Trump state return

  08-05-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on the New York state Senate voting to allow congressional investigators to access President Donald Trump's state tax returns (all times local):
  
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• Hey Google, stop trying to redefine privacy

  08-05-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Privacy was one of the themes of Google's I/O keynote this year, and that's understandable given what the competition has been doing all these years. Yes, Apple -- but also the various privacy-related scandals that affected Facebook over the last year as well as Google. Sundar Pichai then doubled down on privacy by penning an opinion in The New York Times that seems to be redefining privacy in a way that fits Google's interests.The CEO also makes it all sound like Google has been protecting the
  
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• Europe hints at sanctions while urging Iran to rethink nuclear deal departure

  08-05-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain and other European allies suggested they could be forced to reapply sanctions if Iran follows through with its threat to withdraw from the nuclear deal in 60 days.  Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, urged the Iranian regime to think “long and hard” about breaching the deal’s terms and warned there would be “consequences” to that move. French defence minister Florence Parly said the question of sanctions "will be raised" if the nuclear deal is not resp
  
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• 'This Is Unprecedented.' Why William Barr's Contempt of Congress Charge Matters

  08-05-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Tensions between the Trump Administration and Congress reached a low point when Democrats held Attorney General William Barr in contempt.
  
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• Low oxygen levels could temporarily blind marine invertebrates

  08-05-2019 22:35
  Scientists have found that low oxygen levels in seawater could blind some marine invertebrates. The results are the first demonstration that vision in marine invertebrates is highly sensitive to the amount of available oxygen in the water.
  
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• Donald Trump cites 'write offs' and 'depreciation' for $1 billion in business losses

  08-05-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump disputes New York Times story but doesn't say how it was wrong.
  
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• Pentagon Says It Now Has Money for 256 More Miles of Border Wall

  08-05-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon said Wednesday that it has enough funding to build 256 more miles of border wall in the near future, and will start construction at a rate of about a half mile a day over the next six months.“We now have on contract sufficient funds to build about 256 miles of barrier,” Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan said in testimony to the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee. “How you will see this materialize in the next six months is that about 6
  
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• House committee votes to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt

  08-05-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over an unredacted version of the Mueller report as President Trump exerts executive privilege.
  
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• The 2021 Ford F-150, Spied Testing, Looks Pretty Evolutionary

  08-05-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The new F-150 looks pretty much like the old F-150-a wildly popular traditional pickup truck, just like God and Henry Ford intended.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Intel shares drop, three-year outlook seen lagging rivals

  08-05-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Intel Corp shares declined 2.5 percent on Wednesday after executives forecast modest profit growth over the next three years, signaling it is likely to lag big rivals as the once-dominant chipmaker catches up in technology.Intel once dominated the most important chip market with more than 90 percent share for the brains of personal computers.As PC sales have stagnated, it has expanded into data center processors, memory and networking chips.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Late selling leaves stocks slightly lower

  08-05-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Where to get Meghan Markle's 'mummy' necklace — and 11 others like it under $100

  08-05-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duchess of Sussex has been spotted wearing a gold "mummy" necklace around her neck — shop it and other looks for less.
  
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• China Threatens Retaliation as Trump Touts Chances of Deal

  08-05-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. and China sent conflicting signals over trade, with President Donald Trump expressing optimism about the prospect of a deal and Beijing warning that it will retaliate if the U.S. follows through on a threat to hike tariffs.Trump said Wednesday that China indicated it hopes to “make a deal” when senior Chinese officials visit Washington for negotiations Thursday and Friday.The U.S. has said it will raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent o
  
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• Trump slaps new U.S. sanctions on Iran's metals industry

  08-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The announcement was made on the anniversary of Trump's unilateral withdrawal of the United States from a 2015 landmark deal between Tehran and world powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for easing some sanctions and hours after Tehran said it would no longer fully comply with the accord.Tensions were already high between Washington and Tehran when the Trump administration said last weekend that it was deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East, in response to what
  
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• The Latest: 9-year-old boy charged in mom's shooting death

  08-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  FAWN RIVER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on a 9-year-old boy accused in the fatal shooting of his mother in southern Michigan (all times local):
  
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• Russia planned to influence South African elections in favour of the ruling ANC, report suggests

  08-05-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kremlin-linked Russian misinformation outfit attempted to sway Wednesday’s general election in South Africa in favour of the ruling African National Congress, according to documents obtained by investigators. An organisation with ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman close to Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, allegedly drew up plans to discredit South African opposition parties, including the pro-western Democratic Alliance. The claims, which emerged as voting was underway in Sou
  
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• 'The FBI doesn't spy': Comey slams Barr for spying claim, 'misleading' Mueller summary

  08-05-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  "We investigated a very serious allegation that Americans might be hooked up with the Russian effort to attack our democracy," Comey said Wednesday.
  
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• Iran threatens more uranium enrichment if no new nuke deal

  08-05-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran threatened Wednesday to enrich its uranium stockpile closer to weapons-grade levels in 60 days if world powers fail to negotiate new terms for its 2015 nuclear deal, raising regional tensions as a U.S. aircraft carrier and bombers headed to the Middle East to confront Tehran.
  
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• Mike Pompeo urges UK to help rein in 'lawless' Iran over nuclear deal

  08-05-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  UK told ‘not to soothe the ayatollahs angry’ at US decision to abandon nuclear dealUS secretary of state Mike Pompeo (right) and UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt in London on Wednesday. Photograph: Hannah McKay/ReutersUS secretary of state Mike Pompeo has urged the UK to stand with Washington in reining in Iran’s “bloodletting and lawlessness”, as Tehran took the first conditional steps to extricate itself from the landmark nuclear deal it had signed with the west,
  
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• The Latest: Polls closing in South Africa's election

  08-05-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Latest on South Africa's elections (all times local):
  
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• From Trump claiming executive privilege to William Barr and the Mueller report - here's everything you need to know

  08-05-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The feud between Donald Trump and House Democrats is escalating, as critics of the president seek a vast trove of information related to the Mueller report, and the White House has signalled it has no plans to help in that endeavour.The latest escalation comes as Democrats have moved forward to find attorney general William Barr in contempt of Congress — an act that would make Mr Barr only the second sitting top law man in America to be hit with the charge — for failing to honour a s
  
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• Second suspect in Colorado school shooting is a girl, sheriff says

  08-05-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A juvenile female was identified as the second suspect in a shooting rampage at a suburban Denver school that left one student dead, authorities said.
  
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• Early F-150 Lightning Up For Auction With GT40 Cylinder Heads

  08-05-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  This 1993 Lightning comes in black and looks ready for both the builders merchant and the drag strip.Out of all the names seen on special production vehicles over the years, Lightning has to be one of the coolest.In 1993, Ford decided to drop their first performance orientated truck, the F-150 Lightning, like the one featured here by GAA Classic Cars.
  
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• The Next-Gen Honda Fit Debuts This October—but Will It Come to the U.S.?

  08-05-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The new Fit will offer a new hybrid drivetrain, but what we still don't know is when-or if-it will come to America.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Pompeo calls support in Britain for Venezuela's Maduro 'disgusting'

  08-05-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he was disgusted to see politicians in Britain, as well as in the United States, continue to support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.Responding to a reporter who asked about support for Venezuela's government by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Pompeo was blunt in his criticism.
  
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• Pompeo calls support in Britain for Venezuela's Maduro 'disgusting'

  08-05-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he was disgusted to see politicians in Britain, as well as in the United States, continue to support Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.Responding to a reporter who asked about support for Venezuela's government by Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Pompeo was blunt in his criticism.
  
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• Iran challenges Europe and China to stand up to US over nuclear deal

  08-05-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran is now giving them 60 days to take significant strides or face a potentially severe new crisis in the Middle EastThe initial two steps the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has announced are at the very low end of the scale of available measures. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesBy taking a couple of small, carefully calibrated steps towards the exit from the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran has given Europe and China a two-month ultimatum to stand up to the US on the world stage, or risk a s
  
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• 'Buses with fins': giant basking sharks reappear off California coast

  08-05-2019 20:08
  The marine behemoths, which can weigh more than 10,000 pounds, are returning in numbers not seen in decadesGiant basking sharks have reappeared off the coast of southern California in numbers not seen in decades.“The sight just takes your breath away – it’s magic,” said Lotti Keenan, who saw nearly a dozen basking sharks while on a whale-watching cruise in April. Three of them circled the boat. “We knew this was such a rare thing. And people on the boat were screami
  
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• Best Buy already has a great deal on Google’s brand new Pixel 3a phones

  08-05-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time, Google yesterday used its annual I/O developer event to introduce new smartphone hardware in the form of the Pixel 3a and the Pixel 3a XL. The names don't exactly roll off the tongue but the devices themselves are quite compelling. In a nutshell, Google's new Pixel 3a line is designed to give users a premium smartphone experience at a more affordable price point. In many ways, the Pixel 3a is being positioned in a similar vein as the iPhone SE that Apple inexplicably and frus
  
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• No time to go 'wobbly': Pompeo scolds Britain over China and Huawei

  08-05-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Britain on Wednesday it needed to change its attitude towards China and telecoms company Huawei, casting the world's second largest economy as a threat to the West similar to that once posed by the Soviet Union.Pompeo questioned the attitude of Prime Minister Theresa May's government towards Beijing and goaded London by saying that the late former British leader Margaret Thatcher, who was known as the Iron Lady, would have taken a much firmer line with Ch
  
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• Kendrick Castillo, student killed in Colorado high school shooting, was just 3 days from graduating

  08-05-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  An 18-year-old student who died in Tuesday's mass shooting at a Coloradocharter school was just three days away from his graduation
  
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• Pompeo Blasts Corbyn for Standing By Maduro

  08-05-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday expressed outrage at British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn's support of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's regime.“It is disgusting to see leaders, in not only the United Kingdom, but the United States as well, who continue to support the murderous dictator Maduro,” Pompeo said at a joint press conference with U.K. foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt in London. “It is not in either of our country’s best in
  
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• Google’s new accessibility features might be the most exciting highlight of I/O 2019

  08-05-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The main I/O 2019 keynote was filled with announcements and demos, but it was pretty dull. Google unveiled Android Q's main features as well as the mid-range Pixel 3a phone and the Nest hardware rebrand, and it explained the various innovations it's packing into Google Assistant. The company also talked at length about machine learning and artificial intelligence, giving practical examples of what it all means. On top of all that, Google made clear to everyone in the audience that privacy is now
  
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• Colorado teen who plans to become Marine tackled suspected shooter

  08-05-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Brendan Bialy, who plans to become a Marine, and other students helped stop one of the suspected shooters at STEM School Highlands Ranch.
  
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• Southwest Airlines updates family boarding policy after same-sex couple claims discrimination

  08-05-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men said they were stopped with their three young children and the children's grandmother during family boarding on a flight to Fort Lauderdale.
  
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• People Are Making the Same Jokes About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Royal Baby Archie

  08-05-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Royal Baby has gone viral
  
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• The Latest: School security guard detained 1 suspect

  08-05-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on the school shooting in Colorado (all times local):
  
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• Ominous Note on Colorado School`s Wikipedia Page a Possible Warning of School Shooting

  08-05-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Just over a week ago, someone added chilling notations to the Wikipedia page of the STEM School Highlands Ranch which was the site of a deadly school shooting on Tuesday.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton blast Georgia's 'heartbeat bill'

  08-05-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton heavily criticized the signing of Georgia's 'heartbeat bill,' one of the most restrictive abortion bills
  
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• Photo: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip meet royal baby Archie Harrison

  08-05-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have officially welcomed the latest additionto the royal family
  
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• U.S. expects every country to take back foreign fighters: Pompeo

  08-05-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States expects every country will work to take back their citizens who fought for Islamic State in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday during a visit to Britain.Earlier this year Britain removed the citizenship of a teenager who traveled to join Islamic State.Asked during a news conference with British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt whether he was frustrated by Britain's reluctance to take back its foreign fighters, Pompeo said: "We have an expectation that eve
  
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• House Speaker Pelosi: Trump making impeachment case by ignoring subpoenas

  08-05-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday President Donald Trump was moving closer to impeachment with his effort to thwart congressional subpoenas and obstruct lawmakers' efforts to oversee his administration."Every single day the president is making the case" and "he's becoming self-impeachable," Pelosi said in an interview with the Washington Post, when asked about the possibility of the Republican president being impeached by the House.Trump on Wednesday asserted e
  
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• Mueller’s Preposterous Rationale for Tainting the President with ‘Obstruction’ Allegations

  08-05-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  In gross violation of Justice Department policy and constitutional norms, a prosecutor neither charges nor recommends charges against a suspect, but proceeds to smear him by publishing 200 pages of obstruction allegations. Asked to explain why he did it, the prosecutor says he was just trying to protect the suspect from being smeared.This is the upshot of the Mueller report’s Volume II. It might be thought campy if the suspect weren’t the president of the United States and the stakes
  
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• China's Luckin Coffee Is More 7-Eleven Than Starbucks — And That Could Be a Big Problem

  08-05-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The high-tech Chinese coffee company is brewing up an IPO — but can it compete?
  
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