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• Beijing issues ominous warning after 'atrocities,' but Hong Kong protesters undeterred

  02-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Protests rocking Hong Kong were condemned by China's mainland government as a challenge to Beijing's authority, but activists were undeterred.
  
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• Trump administration to print census forms without citizenship question

  02-07-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the 2020 census questionnaire will be printed without a citizenship question.
  
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• House Democrats Sue Treasury, IRS Head for Trump Tax Returns

  02-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats asked a U.S. court to force the Treasury Department to turn over six years of President Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns.The long-expected lawsuit filed in a Washington federal court on Tuesday is Congress’s latest attempt to assert oversight over the executive branch, as the Trump administration has either rejected or ignored various subpoenas since Democrats took the majority in the House in January."In refusing to comply with the stat
  
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• Mexico deports 33% more migrants after deal with US

  02-07-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico deported 33 percent more foreigners month-on-month in June, officials said Tuesday, after the country agreed to take "unprecedented" steps to reduce migration in order to avoid tariffs threatened by US President Donald Trump.The total number of deportations from Mexico in June was 21,912, up from 16,507 in May, according to preliminary figures from the Mexican migration authority.The upswing came after Trump threatened in May to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods if the country did not d
  
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• Suspect in woman's death barred from campus, report says

  02-07-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man arrested in the death of a Utah college student whose charred remains were found in his backyard was banned from the campus of Utah State University in 2012, according to documents released on Tuesday.The school took the step after Ayoola A. Ajayi's student visa expired and he was arrested on suspicion of having a stolen an iPad, a misdemeanor, according to university police reports.Jail documents show Ajayi is now a U.S. citizen.
  
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• Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure review – joy, awe and orangutans

  02-07-2019 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Strap into your harness and scale the tallest trees in the rainforest with the empress herself. She will show you astonishing things – and leave you agogIt is amazing to see Judi Dench in the wild. Almost the last of her kind – there are thought to be only three or four grandes dames left in the country, mostly roaming round Downton Abbey – the ITV documentary Judi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure was a rare chance to see her unscripted and at play. Her natural habitat is th
  
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• Toyota Prius Stalling Problems Continue, Highlighted by a Dealer’s Lawsuit over Five-Year Problem

  02-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Three recalls to fix more than 800,000 cars have allegedly not remedied tens of thousands of reported failures.
  
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• Harris surges, Biden slips after debates: polls

  02-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The two Democratic presidential candidate debates appear to have reshuffled the deck in the crowded field, with California Senator Kamala Harris surging and former vice president Joe Biden slipping.Three polls conducted since last week's debates have shown eroding support for the 76-year-old Biden, who has been the frontrunner since entering the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in late April.Harris, the 54-year-old junior senator from California, picked up substantial backing
  
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• Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza troubles former military leaders

  02-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  "This looks like it’s becoming much more of a Republican Party event," says one retired general.
  
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• Iran Would Be Unwise to Play the Long Game with Trump

  02-07-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran is playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship by threatening to break the terms of the nuclear deal it struck with the United States and other Western nations. Tehran’s recent declaration that it had breached the deal’s limits on the amount of enriched nuclear fuel it could possess is heightening the foreign-policy establishment's panic, in Europe and America, that President Donald Trump will plunge the world into war.As the sanctions reimposed by Trump after his withdrawal of th
  
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• Silver Frost 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback Will Send Chills Down Your Back

  02-07-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Better act fast on this Fastback deal. Vintage Car Collector is pleased to announce this stunning 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback for sale. It will set you back about $44,000, but it’s worth it for such a rare and sought-after classic that will only go up in value from here. This silver-on-black ’66 Mustang Fastback has under 50,000 miles on the dash and its whole life ahead of it. You will get many smiles to the gallon for years to come, as well as heads turning no matter where you take
  
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• 'Help': Photos from US migrant detention centres reveal despair and overcrowding as people go a month without showers

  02-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Conditions at five US migrant detention centres in Texas have been described as a “ticking time bomb”, as photographs emerged of people crammed in their dozens into cells far too small for the purpose.Official investigators found thousands of people had been in Border Patrol custody for longer than the agency’s own 72-hour limit, while some had not been given access to showers for a month. Children at three of the five centres had no access to showers.Two sites did not give chi
  
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• Texas migrant detention facilities 'dangerously overcrowded' – US government report

  02-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Report from government’s own auditors includes images of children and adults penned into roomsA picture of an overcrowded area holding families at a border patrol facility in Weslaco, released as part of a report by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General. Photograph: Handout/ReutersNew images of children and adults in “dangerously” overcrowded US border patrol facilities in Texas have been released as part of a report from government auditors
  
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• The U.S. is 'headed to fascism,' says Ocasio-Cortez after tour of detention facilities at southern border

  02-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the conditions at U.S. migrant detention facilities “horrifying” in an interview Monday evening and doubled down on her comparisons of the situation at the border to World War II.
  
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• Nuclear War with North Korea Is Still Possible. Trump’s ‘Walk’ Across the DMZ Made That Less Likely.

  02-07-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump did the seemingly impossible by being the first sitting U.S. President to set foot in North Korea. On Sunday, Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ), where they held an hour-long summit. They also briefly stepped over the border together into North Korea and back again, replicating the same historic act previously carried out by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim. While many of Trump’s critiques called it nothing more than
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Calls AOC a Liar for Claim That Migrants Are ‘Drinking Out of Toilets’

  02-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Kellyanne Conway deftly pivoted from defending President Donald Trump’s photo-op with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to defending Customs and Border Patrol from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning.“Chuck Schumer wants to talk about photo-ops?” Conway said, referring to criticism of her boss from the Senate minority leader. “I saw one yesterday. And it’s called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going down to one of these facilities and making
  
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• Iran trying to 'blackmail' world by violating nuclear deal: Netanyahu

  02-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Iran of breaching the nuclear deal in order to "blackmail" the international community into relieving economic pressure on the Islamic republic."This week Iran openly violated the nuclear deal by increasing the stockpile of enriched uranium (to beyond that) allowed under the deal," Netanyahu said at an early reception in Jerusalem marking the United States' July 4 independence day.Iran said Monday it had exceeded a limit on its enriche
  
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• Solitude breeds aggression in spiders (rather than vice versa)

  02-07-2019 21:28
  Spiders start out social but later turn aggressive after dispersing and becoming solitary, according to a new study.
  
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• Last chlamydia-free koala population may safeguard future of species

  02-07-2019 21:28
  The last, large, isolated, healthy chlamydia-free population of koalas in Australia may have been identified on Kangaroo Island.
  
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• Kamala Harris Vaults Into Second Place as Joe Biden Slips After First Debate

  02-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The first debate shuffled the Democratic presidential race, vaulting Kamala Harris into second place and highlighting vulnerabilities for front-runner Joe Biden.Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren continues to rise and 2016 runner-up Bernie Sanders is slipping as voters search for alternatives in the historically large field of candidates.That’s the conclusion from four polls taken since last week’s debate that also show those four candidates clearly make up the top tier at th
  
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• Fire kills 14 Russian sailors aboard deep-sea submersible

  02-07-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire broke out on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles, and toxic fumes from the blaze killed 14 sailors aboard, Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday, although it released few details about the disaster or the vessel involved.The Defense Ministry did not say how many sailors were aboard the vessel during Monday's fire, whether there were any survivors or if it was submerged at the time.President Vladimir Putin, who came under criticism for his handling of the Kursk nuclear
  
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• UFOs: Where your state ranks for unexplained sightings

  02-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The five states with the most UFO sightings per capita are in the north, a new report says. The least frequent sightings of UFOs come from the south.
  
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• Harris surges, Biden slips after debate: new poll

  02-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris has received a surge in support among Democrats following last week's US presidential candidate debate while former vice president Joe Biden has slipped, according to a poll published Tuesday.Twenty percent of Democrats surveyed in the Quinnipiac University poll said they backed Harris, the junior senator from California, up from just seven percent in a June 11 Quinnipiac poll.Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama and has been seen as the frontrunner in the
  
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• Exclusive: Migrant children report verbal abuse, threats while in Border Patrol custody

  02-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant children kept in Customs and Border Protection custody have faced unsanitary conditions, verbal abuse and threats since arriving in the country, reports submitted to the Office of Refugee Resettlement by clinicians and case managers show.
  
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• The Honda e Urban EV Is a Small, Lightweight, and Torquey Recipe Destined for Fun

  02-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The little electric commuter packs 148 horsepower and 221 lb-ft of torque.
  
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• US vice president cancels trip, sparking speculation

  02-07-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A representative of Pence told an audience in New Hampshire -- where the vice president was scheduled to give a speech on drug addiction -- that he had been "called back" to Washington.The vice president was asked to return to Washington," said a Pence office representative, Randy Gentry, in a video posted online.
  
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• Biden Support Shrinks in Second Post-Debate Poll as Harris Rises

  02-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden is barely clinging to front-runner status and Bernie Sanders has fallen sharply as Democratic voters give new attention to Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren after their strong debate performances.Biden remains at the head of the pack of Democratic presidential contenders -- though barely -- in a Quinnipiac University national poll released Tuesday. The former vice president had support from 22% followed by Harris with 20%, a result within the margin of error. Warren had
  
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• Joe Biden's backing drops by third in new polls after debate clash with Kamala Harris

  02-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Support for Joe Biden’s presidential bid has dropped by a third after he was repeatedly challenged in the first debate between Democrats seeking the party nomination for the next US election, according to two polls.  The proportion of Democrats who said they would back Mr Biden, the former US vice president, to be their party's candidate in 2020 dropped from 32 per cent in May to 22 per cent according to a CNN poll.  That was mirrored by a surge in support for Kamala Harris, the
  
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• Senator Warren asks former FDA chief Gottlieb to resign from Pfizer board

  02-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren urged former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to immediately step down from Pfizer Inc's board, three months after his departure from the health regulator.Gottlieb, who won bipartisan support for his efforts to curb use of flavored e-cigarettes by youths, stepped down from the FDA in April, a role he had held since May 2017.
  
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• Man who claimed to have protected students during school shooting revealed to be a hoax

  02-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who gained media attention after claiming he saved students from a mass shooting while working as a substitute teacher never worked at the school, officials say.David Briscoe had spoken to numerous news organisations in the wake of the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas, which left 10 people dead and thirteen others wounded.He recounted stories of barricading children from an English class into their room, telling them to find cover and muffle their screams to avoid detection.
  
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• Can You Pet the Dog? The purity of petting pixelated puppies

  02-07-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  @CanYouPetTheDog has more than 250,000 followers, including game developers, but most are just digital dog enthusiastsGames often feature dogs but player interaction is generally limited to violent, negative verbs – attack, shoot, kill. Now one wildly popular Twitter account is dedicated to championing the games that allow us to interact positively with our pixelated pals.@CanYouPetTheDog is a journal of record initially inspired by the virtual strays of Ubisoft’s military shooter ga
  
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• Christine Lagarde continues to break glass ceilings

  02-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Christine Lagarde has made a career out of breaking glass ceilings in the halls of international finance and is now poised to break one more, leading the European Central Bank.The former lawyer was the first woman to serve as finance minister from any Group of Seven nation and then the first to lead the International Monetary Fund.The silver-haired Lagarde, 63, took the helm in 2011 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and is credited with steering the Washington-based IMF through tu
  
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• Mike Pence abruptly returns to White House as reports of ‘emergency’ situation spark online misinformation

  02-07-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence was sent back to the White House on Tuesday after originally being scheduled to attend an event on the nationwide opioid crisis in New Hampshire. The development of Mr Pence’s abrupt change in plans was initially reported by Fox News, which stated the vice president was returning to Washington due to an “emergency”. However, officials declined to publicly cite the reason for the change throughout the day, sparking confusion and apparent online misinfor
  
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• Cruz Asks DHS to Create Process for Collecting Donations to Migrants in U.S. Custody

  02-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Ted Cruz on Monday sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for the creation of a process that would allow DHS to accept donations meant for migrants in U.S. custody.Currently, no such process for collecting a distributing privately donated aid exists, which has caused generous citizens who have offered supplies to overcrowded migrant-detention facilities to be turned away.Curz called on Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan to "establish and publi
  
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• Yuge? Bernie Sanders outraised by newcomer Pete Buttigieg. But Donald Trump crushes both of them.

  02-07-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Pete Buttigieg edged out Sen. Bernie Sanders in the money race, underscoring the potential for new voices in the crowded 2020 Democratic field.
  
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• AP analysis: Trump smiles with North Korea, threatens Iran

  02-07-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  With North Korea, President Donald Trump puts on the charm.Nuclear weapons are at the heart of the difficult U.S. relations with both Pyongyang and Tehran.Kim Jong Un has seemed as willing to meet with Trump as the U.S. president has been to talk and shake hands for the cameras with him.
  
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• Pence's abrupt travel cancellation sparks speculation

  02-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Pence was previously scheduled to travel to Manchester, N.H.
  
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• Trump's Political Plan for the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

  02-07-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A few days after President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, unveiled the U.S. economic peace plan in Bahrain, Trump addressed the topic during a press conference at the end of the G20 summit in Japan. The president said that there would never be an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement if one is not negotiated during his presidency. He also opined that there is a “very good chance” his proposal for solving the decades-long conflict could succeed.The co
  
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• Secret Service agent who served president dies in tragic accident

  02-07-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Special Agent Stephanie Hancock died Saturday after her body was recovered around 9:30 pm, approximately six hours after she was last seen when her kayak capsized in a Maryland river. The veteran U.S. Secret Service agent, who had last served on a Presidential Protective Detail, was with her boyfriend at the time of the accident and, according to officials, he attempted to rescue her to no avail.
  
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• Know This: A U.S.-Iran War Would Not Be Fought Only in Iran

  02-07-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Residents in northern Cyprus were surprised on July 1 when a S-200 missile slammed into the side of a mountain in the wake of an Israeli airstrike in northern Syria. Israel has targeted Iranian bases and weapons transfers to Hezbollah more than a thousand times in the last seven years. Iran has threatened to respond, but Tehran now faces larger concerns as it wrestles with Washington and seeks to raise tensions in both the Gulf, Iraq and Yemen among its allies and proxies.An arc of simmering con
  
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• Australian man dies 10 days after eating gecko at party

  02-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  An Australian family is still grieving over the unexpected loss of their father, who fell gravely ill after allegedly eating a gecko on a dare.
  
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• Fox News hosts admits they would have criticised North Korea visit by Obama

  02-07-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News hosts were open about the conservative channel’s bias in a segment on Donald Trump’s visit to North Korea, admitting that “if it were the adversary” travelling to meet with Kim Jong-un, they’d have no praise.“Of course they’re going to attack him,” host Greg Gutfeld said on a Monday episode of The Five, referring to criticism of Mr Trump’s visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. “That’s what you
  
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• Poll: Kamala Harris surges in Iowa as Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders suffer after debate

  02-07-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A new Suffolk University/USA TODAY in Iowa, which holds the opening caucuses, shows Kamala Harris surging as Joe Biden struggles after the debate.
  
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• Biden’s Flip-Flops on China

  02-07-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has been ridiculed for his recent flip-flopping on China, but few have noticed that his original pronouncement actually revealed a disagreement with former President Barack Obama.Here is what Biden said while campaigning in Iowa in May: “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. . . . They’re not competition for us.”In New Hampshire, a few weeks later, he reiterated these sentiments: “Our workers
  
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• Democratic Lawmakers Outraged by 'Dehumanizing' Conditions at Migrant Detention Centers

  02-07-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats expressed outrage at the conditions in detention centers they toured July 1
  
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• Iran's Guards kill two militants in northwestern region - Fars

  02-07-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards killed two members of an "anti-revolutionary terrorist" group in a security operation in the northwest of the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.Fars did not identify the group but clashes are common in the area with Iranian Kurdish militant groups based in Iraq and the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), which has links to Turkey’s militant Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).
  
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• Nike pulls sneaker after Kaepernick objection, prompting Republican fury

  02-07-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ featuring 13 stars in a circle is embraced by white nationalists – Republicans criticize move, calling it ‘anti-American’Nike’s Air Max 1 sneakers, features 13 white stars in a circle. The flag has been embraced by white nationalists and the American Nazi party. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/ReutersNike has withdrawn a pair of shoes featuring an early version of the American flag that has been embraced by white nationalists, after former NFL quar
  
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• Automakers report dip in US sales through midyear

  02-07-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  US automakers reported a dip in sales for the first half of 2019 on Tuesday as higher vehicle costs offset generally solid economic conditions.General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota all experienced drops in sales through the year's midpoint, although Fiat Chrysler won a modest gain in sales in June."June auto sales aren't hitting the same levels that they did last year but they aren't dropping off a cliff either," Jeremy Acevedo, Edmunds' manager of industry said last week, forecasting a 2.5 p
  
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• National poll: Kamala Harris just 2 points behind Biden

  02-07-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The California senator's polling surge continues, but Joe Biden still leads nationally and in Iowa.
  
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• Mackenzie Lueck: Amazon Pulls Novel by Murder Suspect Ayoola Ajayi

  02-07-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspect in the killing of Utah college student Mackenzie Lueck self-published a novel about a teen who witnessed his friend and his neighbor burn to death, and began advertising the story one year before Lueck was killed.
  
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