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• US 2020 election: Who is Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson and what are her policies?

  29-06-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Self-help guru and US presidential candidate Marianne Williamson raised eyebrows at the second Democratic debate on Thursday night, not least for the way in which she bizarrely struck out at New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.Ms Williamson claimed her first act in the Oval Office would be to call Ms Ardern and "tell her, ‘girlfriend you are so wrong’, because the United States of America is going to be the best place in the world for a child to grow up”, taking i
  
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• Biden rejects 'old guy' label at Bay Area fundraiser

  29-06-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden, who is 76, is the second oldest Democratic candidate.
  
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• Woman 'who tried to kidnap two children' in Atlanta airport arrested

  29-06-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who attempted to kidnap two children at the Atlanta Airport has been arrested, police say. Esther Daniels, 26, from Kansas, was detained by police following an incident in which a woman attempted to wrestle a pram containing a baby girl away from her mother. CCTV footage showed a suspect approach a family of five in the terminal building and attempted to grab the stroller, before trying to pick up one of the other children, a 6-year-old boy, and run off. The father was seen tugging the c
  
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• Biden's Support Slipped 10 Points After Debates, Poll Shows

  29-06-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll also showed Harris gaining a significant number of supporters
  
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• Police in Hampton, Va., arrest mom of missing toddler; child believed dead

  29-06-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have arrested the mother of a missing 2-year-old in Hampton, Va., and charged her with three county of felony child neglect, police said.
  
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• Mother arrested amid dayslong search for Virginia toddler

  29-06-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Virginia have arrested the mother of a missing 2-year-old boy who authorities now believe is dead. Hampton Police Chief Terry Sult told news outlets at a Friday night conference that specific charges against 34-year-old Julia L. Tomlin are pending, and the search for Noah Tomlin is intensifying. Sult said the city's Child Protective Services department is working to make sure Julia Tomlin's other children are safe.
  
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• Trump dismisses Carter's attacks on his legitimacy

  29-06-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Saturday dismissed Jimmy Carter's swipe at the legitimacy of his election and said the charge was nothing more than a "Democrat talking point," while offering his own digs at the 94-year-old former commander in chief.Trump said he was surprised by Carter's comments alleging that Russian interference in the 2016 election was responsible for putting Trump in the White House.Carter made his comments during a discussion on human rights at a resort in Leesburg, Virginia on F
  
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• Luis Alvarez, former NYPD cop who advocated for 9/11 responders with Jon Stewart, dies

  29-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Luis Alvarez, a retired New York Police Department detective and 9/11 first responder died on Saturday after years battling cancer.
  
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• FBI encourages US universities to monitor Chinese students, report says

  29-06-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI has reportedly urged at least 10 US universities to actively monitor Chinese students and visiting scholars.The institutions, all members of the Association of American Universities, have been asked to closely monitor any students or fellows linked to several Chinese companies and research organisations, according to NPR.“We are being asked what processes are in place to know what labs they are working at or what information they are being exposed to,” said Fred Cate, vice pr
  
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• Pete Buttigieg returns to South Bend amid tension over police shooting

  29-06-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  * Mayor will attend peace walk and event for Eric Logan* Democratic candidate faces questions over race relationsPete Buttigieg speaks to Shirley Newbill, mother of Eric Logan, in South Bend on 19 June. Photograph: Michael Caterina/APPete Buttigieg returned to South Bend on Saturday to attend events in memory of Eric Logan, an African American man shot dead by a white police officer in the small Indiana city.It was the Democratic presidential candidate’s first visit to the city he runs as
  
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• Harvey Weinstein's new lawyer says women need to take responsibility for their actions

  29-06-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Harvey Weinstein's new lawyer has said women need to take responsibility for their actions, as she argued the  MeToo movement had done a disservice to the sex.  Donna Rotunno, who specialises in representing men accused of sex crimes, was hired by the disgraced producer along with Damon Cheronis to represent him at his upcoming trial on sexual assault charges. Ms Rotunno has critcised the MeToo movement which began after a string of celebrities came forward to make allegations against
  
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• Progressive Jewish group IfNotNow expands forces for 2020

  29-06-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  IfNotNow said the first 2020 contender it plans on questioning is Bernie Sanders.
  
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• Female candidates challenge electability question in debates

  29-06-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  For months, the names of white men have sat at the top of early Democratic presidential primary polls.While it's too early in the Democratic nominating process to know if they succeeded on that front, some of the women emerged as dominant forces on the debate stage, driving the policy discussions and insisting on being heard on issues despite the crowded field.Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and California Sen. Kamala Harris led the way and were widely seen as among the top performers.
  
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• Truce in US-China trade war as 2 rivals seek breakthrough

  29-06-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping agreed to a cease-fire Saturday in their nations' yearlong trade war, averting for now an escalation feared by financial markets, businesses and farmers. Trump said U.S. tariffs will remain in place against Chinese imports while negotiations continue. "We're going to work with China where we left off," Trump said after a lengthy meeting with Xi while the leaders attended the Group of 20 summit in Osaka.
  
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• Trump appeals U.S. judge's border wall funding ruling

  29-06-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Department of Justice lawyers said in a court filing that they were formally appealing Friday's ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals."[W]e're immediately appealing it, and we think we'll win the appeal," Trump said during a press conference on Saturday at a summit of leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies in Japan."There was no reason that that should’ve happened," Trump said.
  
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• Officer accused of raping 16-year-old homeless girl in city's outreach program

  29-06-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The teen says the officer told her she had warrants, but said he would not arrest her in exchange for sexual favors.
  
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• After deadly collapse, Congo vows to remove illegal miners from Glencore concession

  29-06-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Congo's interior minister vowed to remove all illegal miners by Sunday from a copper and cobalt mine run by Glencore following a landslide this week that killed at least 43 of them.Thursday's accident at the Kamoto Copper Company (KCC) concession near Democratic Republic of Congo's southern border with Zambia has focused attention on the dangers run by informal miners, who burrow dozens of meters below ground in search of ore using rudimentary tools.Glencore estimates that some 2,000 diggers ent
  
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• Why the Duchess of Sussex could be barred from entering the US if she wants to cut her tax bill

  29-06-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duchess of Sussex could be barred from re-entering the US in the future if she chooses to renounce her citizenship. The US government has started enforcing provisions of 1986 legislation allowing the country to exclude tax “refugees”. The rule targets Americans who drop their citizenship to avoid paying US tax on earnings they make overseas. According to figures released by the State Department, a small number of former Americans have already been barred from re-entering the US.
  
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• Atlanta airport to expand security checkpoint

  29-06-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport plans to expand a security checkpoint within the next year to help alleviate a crowded waiting area, officials said.Officials expect to open five additional lanes at the South Security Checkpoint within the next year, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .This would provide nine lanes for TSA screening near Delta Air Lines' check-in counters.
  
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• Bernie Sanders calls Trump 'a racist and a bigot' day after Democratic debate

  29-06-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after the Democratic debate, presidential candidate and Sen. Bernie Sanders courted the vote of black Americans in Cincinnati.
  
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• Iraq says it deserves more global support in rebuilding

  29-06-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraq's sacrifices fighting the Islamic State group have earned the country greater support in its reconstruction efforts from the international community, Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said Saturday.Abdul-Mahdi made his comments Saturday morning during a meeting with a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation, the first such visit to Iraq.The Security Council delegation included, among others, Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for t
  
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• Crater of Doom: Union Soldiers Tried to Tunnel Beneath Confederate Positions (Bad Idea)

  29-06-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The fresh Crater, which would soon become a horrendous death trap for thousands of Union soldiers, first entombed half of Pegram’s guns and crews and entire companies of Elliot’s command, as well as damaging part of the cavalier trench. A total of 278 Confederates were sent to their graves by the huge blast. Great clods of dirt, some as large as houses, littered the floor of the Crater along with the torn bodies of its erstwhile defenders. Some defenders were seen running from the tr
  
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• Best in show: artists' portraits of their pooches – in pictures

  29-06-2019 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Lucian Freud’s whippet, Pluto, Joan Jonas’s dog, Zina, and William Wegman’s elegant weimaraners are just some of the artists’ pooches that will appear in a new exhibition called Dog Show that marks the 35th anniversary of Southwark Park Galleries (formerly CGP), based in the south London park. “I wanted us to do an exhibition that celebrated the intelligence of dogs and their importance in our lives on a day-to-day basis,” says director and show curator, Judit
  
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• Trump Push for Hasty DMZ Photo-Op Risks Longer North Korea Problems

  29-06-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Donald Trump siphoned away attention from the cavalcade of Democrats vying to replace him with an audacious invitation for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to shake hands at the Demilitarized Zone.The offer -- naturally made over Twitter while the president attended the Group of 20 summit in Japan -- was an act of showmanship fraught with risk for U.S. efforts to dismantle Kim’s nuclear arsenal. Despite two historic photo-ops with the North Korean leader over t
  
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• Iran to soon exceed enriched uranium limit under nuclear pact - Fars news agency

  29-06-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran will soon exceed an enriched uranium limit under its nuclear deal, after remaining signatories to the pact fell short of Tehran's demands to be shielded from U.S. sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency cited an "informed source" as saying.Iran's envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by the deal."A
  
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• Death on the trail: More Americans visit national parks, but fewer rangers on patrol

  29-06-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Park Service ranger is a symbol of America's public lands. But budget cuts mean there are fewer today to keep animals and people safe.
  
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• Donald Trump blasts Jimmy Carter as a 'nice man' but a 'terrible president'

  29-06-2019 16:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Carter said a full investigation would show Trump did not win in 2016 and that, "he was put into office because the Russians interfered."
  
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• Republicans start donating to Marianne Williamson to keep her in future Democratic debates

  29-06-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Marianne Williamson's off-beat approach has some Republicans giving to her campaign as a way to keep her in future debates to make them less serious.
  
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• Newark Airport reopens after being shut down due to 'airport emergency'

  29-06-2019 16:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Newark Airport has reopened after it was shut down Saturday morning due to an "airport emergency."
  
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• Stonewall veterans return to New York City to celebrate pride, 50 years after infamous raid

  29-06-2019 15:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Five veterans of the Stonewall riots returned to NYC to discuss their experiences as LGBTQ activists 50 years after the initial raid.
  
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• Trump Invites Kim Jong Un to Meet Him at the DMZ This Weekend

  29-06-2019 15:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump said he’d cross into North Korea at the country’s border to meet Kim Jong Un this weekend as the U.S. president looks to restart stalled nuclear talks.“I will be in South Korea -- I let him know,” Trump told reporters in Osaka, Japan, after a tweet Saturday morning in which he invited Kim for a handshake. “We’ll see. If he’s there we’ll see each other for two minutes. That’s all we can, but that will be fine.&rdquo
  
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• Trump says Saudi crown prince is 'friend of mine' doing a 'spectacular job'

  29-06-2019 15:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has defended his decision not to confront Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.Mr Trump praised the Saudi crown prince as “a friend of mine” who was doing “a spectacular job” as they met on the side-lines of the G20 summit in Japan, but ignored reporters’ questions about his alleged role in the 2018 killing.The US president described the murder as “horrible”, but insisted that
  
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• Emergency landing by United flight briefly closes Newark Airport

  29-06-2019 15:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Flight 2098 took off from New York City's LaGuardia Airport bound for Houston and a short time later experienced hydraulic problems, prompting the emergency landing, Scott Ladd, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said in an email.
  
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• Ball in Europe's court on nuclear deal's future: Iranian state TV

  29-06-2019 15:28 via news.yahoo.com
  It is up to Europe to shield Iran from U.S. sanctions and prevent it from further scaling back its compliance with its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, Iranian state TV said on Saturday, with only days left on Tehran's ultimatum.Iran's envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to drop its plan to breach limits imposed by the deal.The United States unilaterally
  
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• Iran Strikes Back Against America. Is a War Coming to the Middle East?

  29-06-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  By most accounts, the United States and Iran came within minutes of armed conflict with each other on June 20, 2019. Around 4:30 AM that morning, a U.S. Navy RQ-4N Global Hawk spy drone flying a routine circuit over international airspace in the Persian Gulf was shot down by an Iranian Ra’ad surface-to-air missile system.Later that day, U.S. forces were ostensibly “ten minutes” away from striking three Iranian bases likely with air- and sea-launched missiles when President
  
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• Trump Bows to Xi Jinping's Huawei Demands at G20

  29-06-2019 14:47 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSThe United States will resume sales of products to Huawei Technologies, the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer, President Donald Trump said in his post-G20 press conference Saturday in Osaka.The action appears to be a surrender to publicly issued Chinese demands.Effective May 16, the U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei, the world’s largest telecom-equipment manufacturer, to its Entity List. As a result, no American company, without prior approval from the Bureau of Industry an
  
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• 2020 Democrats make bold promises to illegal immigrants

  29-06-2019 14:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Outrage grows as 2020 Democrats move to the far left.
  
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• 18 kidnapping victims found 'enslaved' in Houston home: Police

  29-06-2019 14:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities arrested and charged five people who allegedly kidnapped, smuggled and sexually assaulted multiple people in Houston.
  
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• How to keep your dog calm and safe during the Fourth of July fireworks

  29-06-2019 14:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fourth of July means a day off from work, lounging by the pool and barbecues with friends -- but unfortunately, the holiday may not be so relaxing for many pet owners.
  
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• The Latest: K-pop band greets Trump during Seoul visit

  29-06-2019 13:51 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is being welcomed to South Korea by its president — and one of its biggest K-pop boy bands.Trump's met with President Moon Jae-in (jah-YIHN') at the Blue House, where the South Korean leader has his offices and home.Trump also met EXO, a star pop group whose members gave the president a book.
  
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• Trump claims border wall would have prevented drowning deaths of father and daughter

  29-06-2019 13:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has suggested that if his border wall had been built along the US-Mexico border, the father and daughter found washed up on a river bed would not have died.Speaking in Osaka at the end of the two-day G20 summit, the US president was asked about the shocking image of Oscar Ramirez, 25, and, Angie Valeria, almost two years old, seen face down in the Rio Grande.“The father and the beautiful daughter who drowned ... if they thought it was hard to get in, they wouldn’t be com
  
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• Trump escalates spat with ‘forgotten president’ Jimmy Carter

  29-06-2019 13:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The remarks came one day after Carter questioned the legitimacy of Trump’s election, saying the president likely won because of Russian interference.
  
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• ‘I didn’t want them to go’: Mother remembers father and daughter who drowned in Rio Grande

  29-06-2019 13:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Rosa Ramírez pleaded with her son, urging him not to leave El Salvador and head north with his wife and young daughter. The risks were simply too high.He saw no other choice. Their neighbourhood was controlled by a gang that enriched itself through drug-dealing, extortion and violence.But most pressing of all, Ms Ramírez said, they could barely make ends meet on their jobs at fast-food restaurants, and had pinned their hopes on making it to the United States.They never did.Last Sun
  
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• Hello exotic egrets, farewell mountain butterflies as fauna revolution hits UK

  29-06-2019 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Colourful creatures are moving north from Europe into a warming Britain … but indigenous rivals risk being lost for everCattle egrets – birds once so exotic we rarely saw them north of the Mediterranean – are now nesting in a heronry near my home in Somerset. Flocks of them often gather in the nearby fields, feeding among Jerseys and Holsteins. They look as if they are quite at home on this side of the Channel – which nowadays they are.These small white herons, adorned w
  
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• Joe Biden and the Great Awokening

  29-06-2019 12:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden has led the national polls in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination since last year. He’s ahead in the first three contests, also, with leads ranging from seven points (Iowa) to 13 points (New Hampshire) to 28 points (South Carolina). He’s first in fivethirtyeight.com’s endorsement primary. And though he didn’t launch his campaign until the second quarter of 2019, at which point Bernie Sanders had raised the most money, his nonstop fundraising schedule, an
  
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• Who won the Democratic debates? Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren – and Trump

  29-06-2019 12:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats’ fragmentation, support for undocumented immigrants, and silence on issues affecting the heartland leaves a big opening for Trump‘Except for healthcare, the debates missed areas to challenge Republicans in the heartland or mobilize Democratic voters outside of the traditional progressive base.’Photograph: Byrnn Anderson/APAfter two nights, and four hours, of Democratic debates, it is now up to the pundits and spin doctors to convince Americans – the majority of
  
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• UPDATE 1-Putin says Britain's May tough on Skripal poisoning case

  29-06-2019 11:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he wanted to improve ties with Britain after they were strained by the poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil, but said Prime Minister Theresa May was taking a tough line on the issue.Putin met May at the G20 summit in Osaka on Friday.May's office said she asked Moscow to hand over the Russian suspects Britain blames for poisoning a former double agent and his daughter with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England last year.
  
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• Trump Says Neither Biden Nor Harris Won Debate Clash Over Race

  29-06-2019 11:31 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said neither California Senator Kamala Harris nor former Vice President Joe Biden came out ahead in a debate on Thursday in which they clashed over Biden’s record on race and segregation.“He didn’t do well, certainly, and maybe the facts weren’t on his side,” Trump said in a news conference following the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan. “I think she was given too much credit for what she did. It wasn’t that outsta
  
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• F-15s and F-22s Achieve An Amazing 41-1 Kill Ratio During Mock Combat

  29-06-2019 11:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Over 250 Airmen and 9 F-15 Eagles from the 104th Fighter Wing (FW), Massachusetts Air National Guard (ANG) recently deployed to Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB), Florida, to take part in Weapons Systems Evaluation Program (WSEP), alongside Canadian F-18s, F-35s, F-16s, and F-22s.As told by Master Sgt. Julie Avey, 104th Fighter Wing in the article 104th Fighter Wing Eagles on Target at United States Air Force’s Weapons Systems Evaluation Program, as a part of WSEP, the aircr
  
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• 4 weighted blankets on sale this weekend

  29-06-2019 11:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Gravity Blanket wasn't some newfangled invention when it debuted on Kickstarter two years ago; weighted blankets, also known as anxiety blankets, have been used as a form of therapy for people with autism and other mental health conditions since the late '90s. But when Gravity's campaign on the fundraising site took off -- as in, "surpassed its original goal by more than $4.7 million" -- it catapulted weighted blankets into mainstream popularity as a self-care and sleep aid.And that, ki
  
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