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• Dominican Republic authorities seek to calm fears following resort-related incidents

  11-06-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In the past year, sixAmericans have passed away under mysterious circumstances
  
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• National Transportation Safety Board Launches Investigation Into N.Y.C. Helicopter Crash

  11-06-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  They should have a preliminary report in two weeks
  
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• NASA addresses Trump’s bizarre Moon tweet, says everything is fine

  11-06-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  It was only a couple of months ago that Donald Trump sent Mike Pence to deliver a directive to NASA, publicly commanding the space agency to return crewed missions to the Moon within the next five years.The Moon 2024 mission is going to cost a ton of money that NASA doesn't have, and it'll take a near miracle for the agency to pull it off, but it's been doing its best to drum up support for a return to the lunar surface. Then, a few days ago, Trump fired off a tweet that threw it all into questi
  
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• US Catholic bishops convene to confront sex-abuse crisis

  11-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  How the bishops confront the problem "will determine in many ways the future vibrancy of the church and whether or not trust in your leadership can be restored," Francesco Cesareo, an academic who chairs a national sex-abuse review board set up by the bishops, said as the four-day gathering began.Key proposals on the agenda call for compassionate pastoral care for abuse victims, a new abuse reporting system, and a larger role for lay experts in holding bishops accountable. Votes on the prop
  
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• House bill would help media companies bargain with Facebook and Google

  11-06-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A House panel held its first hearing Tuesday to consider legislation that would attempt to give news companies great power to negotiate with major social and search platforms like Facebook and Google.
  
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• NYC helicopter crash pilot radioed that he was in trouble due to the weather, ABC News sources say

  11-06-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials are giving a press conference providing updates on Monday's crash.
  
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• Iran frees Lebanese man convicted of spying for US

  11-06-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran on Tuesday freed a Lebanese man detained in 2015 on charges of spying for the United States, a gesture that comes amid soaring tensions between Tehran and Washington.A US resident in his 50s, Nizar Zakka was arrested in September 2015 during a visit to Iran, where he was convicted the following July.Before his arrest, he had been taking part in a conference in Tehran at the invitation of Shahindokht Molaverdi, then vice president for women and family affairs, according to his family.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters begin night vigil as extradition anger mounts

  11-06-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Tensions rose in Hong Kong late Tuesday as hundreds of protesters began a nighttime vigil outside the city's parliament, just hours before lawmakers debate a divisive plan to allow extraditions to China.The sudden appearance of around 2,000 predominantly young protesters after 11:00 pm (1500 GMT), some carrying tents and supplies, was met by a marked increase in police reinforcements, many of them equipped with riot gear.The financial hub was rocked over the weekend by the largest protest march
  
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• Hong Kong’s Extradition Law: From a Grisly Murder to Mass Protests

  11-06-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  What started with a gruesome murder during a local couple’s Valentine’s Day holiday in Taiwan has become the latest flash point in the values clash between Beijing and the West.The legislation would give the Asian financial center power to enter one-time agreements with places like Taiwan to transfer criminal suspects, such as the Hong Kong man who escaped prosecution in the Valentine’s Day murder case by returning home.The boyfriend, a Hong Kong resident, admits to the murder
  
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• New leak gives us our best look yet at the Pixel 4 design

  11-06-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  With the official unveiling of Google's highly-anticipated Pixel 4 lineup now just a few months away, a number of high-profile leaks have recently shed a bit more light on what we can expect to see out of Google's next-gen smartphone models. And given how impressive Google's Pixel 3 line was, it stands to reason that the Pixel 4 will live up to the hype and will offer a premium user experience positioned to rival the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S10 series.Design wise, recent renders have reveale
  
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• House approves authority to sue Trump advisers who ignore subpoenas

  11-06-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to give lawmakers clear authority to sue Trump administration figures who defy congressional subpoenas, beginning with former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who is expected to face swift action.In an escalation of wide-ranging probes of President Donald Trump and his inner circle, lawmakers voted 229-191 along party lines to approve the measure.It authorizes House committees to file lawsuits in federal court seeking orders from j
  
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• Birdwatch: call of a cuckoo brings joy and sadness

  11-06-2019 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Hearing an increasingly rare visitor from the garden is reason for delight but also sorrow At first, I hardly noticed the sound at all. A pair of monosyllabic notes, somewhere far to the north. But had I just imagined it? Then I heard it once again; surely the call of a distant cuckoo. I dashed out of my garden office, binoculars in hand, and headed down the cow-parsley-strewn lane on my bike.Stopping briefly to listen again … yet nothing. But then, as I rode slowly along the lane, I coul
  
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• Mother of 5 slain children asks for mercy for ex-husband

  11-06-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The mother of five children who were killed by their father stunned a South Carolina courtroom on Tuesday by asking the jury to spare her ex-husband's life.
  
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• House Dems Abandon Bid to Axe Ban on Federal Abortion Funding from Spending Bill

  11-06-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Progressive Democrats have backed down from their push to scrap the decades-old ban on federal funding for abortions in a $190 billion budget bill.The House Rules Committee on Monday night prevented the so-called Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of taxpayer funds for abortions, from being removed from the appropriations bill convering the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services.Currently, the Hyde Amendment bars federal funding for abortions except in circumstances when the mother
  
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• Iran's Has the Most Ballistic Missiles in the Middle East

  11-06-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fateh-series missiles are the solid-fueled counterparts of Shahab missiles. Like the Shahab-1 and Shahab-2, the Fateh-110 and Faeth-331 are short-range and road-mobile. The Fateh-110 is a single-stage missile with a range of 210 kilometers. It is likely more accurate than some of the earlier Shahab variants, with some estimates suggesting a circular error probable (CEP) of one hundred meters. Iran began developing the Fateh-110 in 1995, with the first test coming in May 2001. The missile bec
  
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• Did Donald Trump Inadvertently Reveal a Secret Mexico Deal?

  11-06-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump may have an agreement with Mexico to commit to more "burden-sharing" on the handling of refugees.
  
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• Tariff deal gives momentum to 'Remain-in-Mexico' policy

  11-06-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  In a cramped San Diego courtroom, immigrant mothers cradled restless babies and toddlers as they waited to go before a judge.After a quick exchange, they were whisked back to Mexico where they face months, or possibly years, before their cases play out in the U.S.Hundreds of miles away, a judge in El Paso, Texas, noticed that an infant was fussing and let the child's mother stand up and burp the baby before shipping her and about a dozen others, including six pregnant women, back to the Mexican
  
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• Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband

  11-06-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Minnesota campaign finance officials said last week that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar misused campaign funds in violation of state rules.Q: What did Omar do wrong?A: The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said Thursday that Omar and her husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, filed joint tax returns for 2014 and 2015 — before they were actually married and while Omar was legally wed to another man.
  
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• CORRECTION - American Airlines cancels 737 MAX flights through September 3

  11-06-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  In our story dated June 9, para 4, please read that the figure refers to daily flight cancellations.American Airlines has canceled all scheduled flights with Boeing 737 MAX jets through September 3, extending the grounding of its fleet after two crashes involving the same aircraft model killed 346 people.The airline had previously canceled all 737 MAX flights through August 19 as it awaited recertification of the aircraft in the wake of the crashes.
  
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• Trump news: House votes to take Barr and McGahn to court, as president launches bizarre tirade over European tourism

  11-06-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has tweeted an article about a boom in European tourism as a means of continuing his attack on the US Federal Reserve, arguing domestic interest rates are too high and attacking its policy of “ridiculous quantitative tightening”, declaring: “They don’t have a clue!”This comes after the House Judiciary Committee announced it had struck a deal with the Justice Department to gain access to redacted interview notes from FBI special counsel Robert Mueller, i
  
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• A furious Jon Stewart tells Congress to support 9/11 first responders: 'It's an embarrassment'

  11-06-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The former host of "The Daily Show" wins praise from members of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution.
  
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• Lunar Module That's Been Floating Through Space for 50 Years May Have Been Found

  11-06-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Snoopy, which helped make the Moon landing possible, was thought to be lost after it was launched into orbit decades ago.
  
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• The Latest: Mom OK with jury decision on ex-husband's fate

  11-06-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother whose ex-husband killed their five children says she wouldn't choose to sentence him to death, but she will respect the jury's decision.Defense lawyers called Amber Kyzer to testify Tuesday.Under questioning, Kyzer also described how Jones hit her, spit in her face in front of their young daughter and threatened to chop her up and feed her to pigs during their marriage.
  
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• Facebook invests in renewables with Texas solar project

  11-06-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook is building a massive solar farm in West Texas that's believed to be one of the largest solar projects in the nation and the social media giant's first direct investment in renewable energy.Boston-based renewable energy developer Longroad Energy recently announced it was partnering with Facebook on the $416 million project, just as Facebook is finishing construction of a data center near Albuquerque.
  
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• Maybe we are alone after all: Planets that could sustain alien life much rarer than thought

  11-06-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  So, maybe we are alone after all. The number of planets in the universe that could sustain life is much smaller than had been thought, scientists said.
  
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• Democrats Signal Hope for Passing New North America Trade Accord

  11-06-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday is expected to formally name lawmakers to the working groups that will work with the administration on the labor, environment and pharmaceutical provisions that Democrats are seeking to strengthen.Pelosi has also emphasized the need for strong enforcement mechanisms in the accord that will overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement.Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, the Massachusetts Democrat leading talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer,
  
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• US resident released from Iran custody says it eases tension

  11-06-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese man with permanent U.S. residency who had been imprisoned in Iran for years on charges of espionage said Tuesday that he was subjected to "kidnapping, arbitrary detention and a show trial," adding that his release served to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran.In his first comments after arriving in his native Lebanon, Nizar Zakka denied reports that his release was part of a wider deal but suggested that it had helped avert further escalation in the region.Zakka's release c
  
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• Joe Biden Is Ahead in the Iowa Polls. But His Rivals Are Ahead on Organizing

  11-06-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is ahead of other Democrats in Iowa polls, but behind the scenes, he is still playing catch up.
  
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• Ortiz shooting suspect ID'ed as drug trafficker, says police

  11-06-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  25-year-old Eddy Feliz Garcia was detained in connection to the shooting of Red Sox legend David Ortiz.
  
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• Trump promises Kim Jong Un protection from CIA spying

  11-06-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The president once again lavished praise on Kim Jong Un while attacking former Vice President Joe Biden.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Pelosi is so 'done' with Trump, the 'diverter in chief'

  11-06-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she's "done" with talking about President Donald Trump and called him the "diverter in chief," saying he manufactured controversies to distract attention from more important issues.At a U.S. war cemetery in France, with the gravestones of fallen soldiers in the background, Trump said in a Fox News interview, "I call her Nervous Nancy ... Nancy Pelosi's a disaster, okay.
  
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• G20 won't produce 'definitive' US-China deal: Official

  11-06-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The Group of 20 summit later this month could lead to progress towards a trade deal with China but is not the venue for a "definitive agreement," US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Tuesday.President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Xi wants a deal "very badly" and repeated that he expects to meet with the Chinese leader at the summit in Osaka."They are getting hurt very badly by the tariffs," Trump told reporters at the White House.
  
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• The Moon’s largest crater is hiding something, and astronomers don’t know what

  11-06-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Compared to other bodies in our Solar System, Earth's moon isn't particularly huge. However, its relatively small size belies one of its most interesting features, which is a colossal crater measuring over 1,500 miles across. Now, researchers believe the crater, which forms a huge basin on the far side of the Moon near its south pole, is hiding something.In a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers reveal the discovery of a huge mass hiding beneath the crater. An incredi
  
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• Planned Parenthood sues U.S. to block rule that may limit abortions

  11-06-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Planned Parenthood and other nonprofits offering family planning services sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to block a new federal rule letting healthcare workers refuse abortions and other services because of religious or moral objections.The two lawsuits filed in Manhattan federal court said enforcing the "conscience" rule would encourage discrimination against women, minorities, the poor, the uninsured, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people by curbing access to legal
  
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• Fourth American reported dead at Dominican Republic resort in past two months

  11-06-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A fourth American tourist has been reported dead at a Dominican Republicresort in the past two months, according to Fox News
  
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• 'I'm done with him': Nancy Pelosi reacts to Donald Trump's comments she is 'nasty ... horrible person'

  11-06-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a D-Day celebration in Normandy, France was an inappropriate venue for President Donald Trump to hurl insults at her.
  
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• Pelosi is so 'done' with Trump, the 'diverter in chief'

  11-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she's "done" with talking about President Donald Trump and called him the "diverter in chief," saying he manufactured controversies to distract attention from more important issues.At a U.S. war cemetery in France, with the gravestones of fallen soldiers in the background, Trump said in a Fox News interview, "I call her Nervous Nancy ... Nancy Pelosi's a disaster, okay.
  
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• Back to the moon

  11-06-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Over the last half-century several nations have taken potshots at the moon, landing (or in some cases crashing) payloads onto the lunar surface.Artemis (in Greek mythology the twin sister of Apollo) would land a pair of astronauts, one expected to be a woman, on the lunar surface in 2024, ending a 55-year absence for humanity.Explaining why humans must go to the moon was an easier task for President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
  
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• Veteran pilot killed in chopper skyscraper crash

  11-06-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The pilot attempted a hard landing on a roof of a New York City building.
  
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• Juncker Slams Tory Pledges to Renegotiate Deal: Brexit Update

  11-06-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A record field of 10 British Conservatives are fighting to replace Theresa May as prime minister, with Brexit the dominant issue.Many are pledging to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement, though the European Union again ruled that out on Tuesday.Jeremy Hunt’s pitch to his colleagues was to warn them that they are in “grave peril” and will risk losing their jobs if the next prime minister fails to get a better deal out of the European Union before the Oct. 31 deadline.
  
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• White House Will Preview Mueller Evidence Before Nadler Review: Admin Officials

  11-06-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Cheriss May/GettyWhen House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced on Monday that he had reached an agreement with the Justice Department to view some of the underlying evidence behind Special Counsel’s Robert Mueller’s report. The announcement was hailed as a major breakthrough for the Democratic Party’s oversight efforts. But Nadler may get less than expected. That’s because the Trump White House will work with the Justice Department to decide what
  
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• Trump says will soon sit down with Democrats for immigration negotiations

  11-06-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would sit down soon with his Democratic opponents in the U.S. Congress for negotiations over U.S. immigration policy.Speaking to reporters on the White House South Lawn before departing for Iowa for the day, Trump did not explain what specifically he would talk about with the Democrats, amid stark differences over how to handle a surge of illegal immigrants along the U.S. southern border.A spokesman for House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said
  
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• Everyone Still Loves Our Long-Term Mercedes-Benz E-Class Wagon—for the Most Part

  11-06-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not easy to come up with negative things to say about our E450 wagon, but it can be done.
  
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• People are obsessed with this $25 drugstore anti-aging serum

  11-06-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Well, thanks to beauty giant L'Oreal Paris, we have finally tracked down an anti-aging product with incredible reviews and a $23.94 price tag. 
  
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• Nancy Pelosi says 'she's done' with Donald Trump: 'My stock goes up every time he attacks me'

  11-06-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi responded with aplomb when asked how she dealt with Donald Trump’s insults, declaring: “I’m done with him. I don’t even want to talk about it.”After the president launched a series of attacks on the Democratic House speaker, calling her everything from “disgusting” to “a disgrace to herself”, Ms Pelosi said she would rather not spend her time taking about him.“I’m done with him,” she said, appearing at an event
  
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• AOC’s push to ease limits on psychedelic research advances in House

  11-06-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Rules Committee voted Monday night send to the full House a spending bill for three federal agencies that removes a restriction on the study of psychedelic drugs.
  
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• Who’s to blame for the plight of hen harriers? | Letters

  11-06-2019 18:20 via theguardian.com
  Jonathan Wallace blames grouse moor managers, but Andrew Gilruth disagreesThe “brood management” scheme that is to be trialled on hen harriers nesting on grouse moors is not a serious conservation action but a measure to appease the people responsible for the hen harriers’ plight (Trial to take hen harrier chicks from nests splits bird experts, 7 June). The parlous state of the hen harrier population in England is entirely due to illegal persecution by grouse moor managers, and
  
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• Mike Pence says banning pride flags at US embassies is 'the right decision'

  11-06-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Pence said that he was aware of reports that only the American flag was allowed to be flown, and added, 'I support that.'
  
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• Delta flew 41 fifth graders after a canceled flight left group stranded in Oklahoma

  11-06-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Delta Air Lines came to the rescue after a group of Oklahoma students were stuck at an airport on their way to D.C. after their flight was canceled.
  
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• Stranger Accused of Breaking into Family's Apartment to Take Little Girl

  11-06-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Indiana police arrested a man accused of breaking into an apartment and trying to take a little girl.
  
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