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• 2 adults shot; 2 children died from smoke; man in custody

  10-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Two neighbors died from gunshots while two children found dead in one of the victim's home died from smoke inhalation from a fire set in the house, a coroner said Wednesday.Relatives said the two neighbors, a man and a woman, didn't really know each other.Officers first found David Cousin Jr. shot to death in a vacant lot and then found the bodies of the three others in a nearby house where they smelled smoke inside, police said.
  
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• U.S. Reveals Second Thoughts About Flynn’s No-Prison Deal

  10-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Michael Flynn’s hopes of avoiding a prison term could be in jeopardy after U.S. prosecutors said that his new legal strategy had prompted them to reassess their two-year-old cooperation agreement.Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, had been expected to testify against his former business partner, Bijan Kian. A trial for Kian is scheduled to begin next week in Alexandria, Virginia, on federal charges that he acted as an un
  
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• Baby delivered from dead donor's transplanted womb is North America's first

  10-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  In a first for North America, the Cleveland Clinic of Ohio announced onTuesday that it delivered a baby from the transplanted womb of a dead donor
  
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• Goats can distinguish emotions from the calls of other goats

  10-07-2019 23:14
  Goats can probably distinguish subtle emotional changes in the calls of other goats, according to a new study.
  
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• Alligator on the loose: Chicago searches for roaming reptile

  10-07-2019 23:06 via theguardian.com
  Authorities, aided by a volunteer named Alligator Bob, are trying to trap the animal spotted swimming in a city lagoonAll eyes in Chicago on Wednesday were on a man named Alligator Bob, who was paddling around a lagoon in the city searching for – well, you can guess.Alligators are, safe to say, not a common sighting this far north, and its appearance has both shocked and charmed. The alligator was probably kept as a pet – which is illegal under Illinois law – and then released
  
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• Christian Student Group Claims Anti-Religious Discrimination at Wayne State University

  10-07-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSA Christian student group on Wednesday argued in a federal court hearing in Michigan that public universities must “treat religious student groups equally with other campus groups,” in a case that has pitted the 142-year-old InterVarsity Christian Fellowship against Wayne State University. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is an organization with at least 1,000 individual chapters, and, according to its website, the purpose of the Wayne State InterVarsity chapter is to &l
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking targets: 'The more vulnerable the better,' investigator says

  10-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "Vulnerable children and girls are all he targets. The more vulnerable ... the better," claims private investigator Mike Fisten of Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Pemex in the Eye of the Storm With AMLO Ruling Mexico’s Economy

  10-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The surprise departure of Mexico’s finance minister has the state oil company’s watchers biting their nails.Carlos Urzua resigned Tuesday, citing conflicts of interest and policy disagreements within Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration. That sent the peso plunging as much as 2.3%, and stocks sliding. Yields on both sovereign and Petroleos Mexicanos bonds surged, reflecting the tight link between the nation and the oil giant.The first major cabinet loss s
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: How the sex-trafficking investigation could shed light on corruption

  10-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The wealthy financier pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking charges, but revelations about his past have sparked accusations of corruption.
  
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• Melbourne dog attack leaves man dead and woman badly injured

  10-07-2019 22:39 via theguardian.com
  Dead man’s daughter-in-law gives consent to destroy the pet, believed to be an American Staffordshire terrier
  A man is dead and a woman badly injured after a dog attack in Melbourne’s north.Police said the man’s body was found at the Mill Park home about 6.40pm on Wednesday and the woman, believed to be his wife, was taken to hospital. Related: 'It just went for me': victims of dog attacks tell their storiesContinue reading...
  
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• Secrets of a sex-changing fish revealed

  10-07-2019 22:34
  We may take it for granted that the sex of an animal is established at birth and doesn't change. However, about 500 species of fish change sex in adulthood, often in response to environmental cues. How these fish change sex has, until now, been a mystery.
  
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• Court rules against Florida officials on medical marijuana

  10-07-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida appellate court ruled that the state's approach to regulating marijuana is unconstitutional, possibly allowing more providers to jump into a market positioned to become one of the country's most lucrative.If the ruling stands, it could force state officials to lift existing caps on how many medical marijuana treatment centers can operate in Florida.Tuesday's ruling by the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee was another setback for Florida officials trying to regulate the burgeo
  
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• Inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion: 'Vast trove' of lewd photos, a life-size doll and other oddities

  10-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal agents who searched  the East Side mansion of sex  offender Jeffrey Epstein turned up a 'vast trove' of lewd photos of young-looking girls.
  
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• Mississippi Republican says gay female journalist covering his campaign must have male chaperone

  10-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Republican candidate for governor in Mississippi has banned a female reporter from riding along on a campaign trip unless she brought a male colleague to accompany her, citing concerns that the journalist could be used in a smear campaign alleging an extramarital affair.The reporter, Mississippi Today’s Larrison Campbell, wrote about the incident with state representative and candidate Robert Foster on Tuesday, noting that two other candidates in the state’s Republican primary agre
  
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• Secretary Acosta blames Palm Beach state attorney's office for Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal

  10-07-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Acosta, a former federal prosecutor in south Florida, says his office was forced to act when he learned that the Palm Beach state attorney's office was 'ready to let Epstein walk free'; Kristin Fisher reports from the Labor Department.
  
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• Two active-duty Marines accused of smuggling migrants from Mexico 'for financial gain'

  10-07-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Lance Cpls. Byron Darnell Law II and David Salazar-Quintero, both active-duty Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, were arrested by Border Patrol agents.
  
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• Toddler cruise ship death: Grandfather thought window was closed, lawyer says

  10-07-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  An attorney said that Chloe Wiegand's grandfather sat the 1-year-old girl on a railing in a play area near what he believed was a closed window.
  
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• Legalize it, marijuana advocates tell Congress

  10-07-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Marijuana, the subject of a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, has become increasingly uncontroversial, with even a majority of Republicans in a 2018 poll saying they wanted the drug made legal.
  
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• Indiana teacher fired for same-sex marriage sues archdiocese

  10-07-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A Catholic high school teacher who was fired because he's in a same-sex marriage sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday, accusing it of discrimination and interfering with his teaching contract.Joshua Payne-Elliott is suing the archdiocese in Marion County court and seeking unspecified compensatory, emotional distress and other damages.Payne-Elliott taught at Cathedral High School for 13 years and Cathedral renewed his annual teaching contract on May 21, his attorney, Kathleen DeLaney
  
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• Russian Navy Claims Sailors Prevented 'Planetary Catastrophe'

  10-07-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Was the damaged submarine’s reactor in danger of causing a nuclear accident?
  
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• New Orleans threatened by floods as big storm forms

  10-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The US city of New Orleans was under a storm-surge watch Wednesday along with a stretch of Louisiana coast as a tropical storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the region with potentially life-threatening rains."Conditions appear favorable for this system to strengthen to a hurricane as it approaches the central Gulf Coast by the weekend," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.A flash flood emergency was declared earlier Wednesday in New Orleans, part of which is built below se
  
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• Democrats tweet Obama-era photo of migrants to promote hearing about mistreatment

  10-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The photo was from June 2014 and showed migrants fenced in a facility with silver emergency blankets.
  
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• Indiana teachers offered $18K to drive school buses

  10-07-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Carmel Clay Schools and much of the country has struggled to find bus drivers for years. So administrators are trying an unusual strategy.
  
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• Ex-White House Counsel Gregory Craig Asks Judge to Toss Lobbying Case

  10-07-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Gregory Craig, the former White House counsel accused of misleading the U.S. about work he did for a pro-Russia government in Ukraine, asked a judge to throw out the two-count criminal indictment against him.Craig’s lawyers told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday the charges are technically flawed and their client is being accused of failing to disclose information he hadn’t been asked about and had no duty to reveal to enforcers of the Foreign Agents
  
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• Caterpillars turn anti-predator defense against sticky toxic plants

  10-07-2019 21:17
  A moth caterpillar has evolved to use acids, usually sprayed at predators as a deterrent, to disarm the defenses of their food plants, according to a new study.
  
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• Heavy rains flood New Orleans streets in taste of storm ahead

  10-07-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The weather system churning in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to intensify this week into the second named tropical storm of the year, and ultimately the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019 as it heads closer to land, forecasters said.New Orleans officials warned that a hurricane could bring a coastal storm surge into the mouth of the Mississippi River capable of raising the river's height to 20 feet (6 meters) above sea level, high enough to overflow some sections of the levee system protecting th
  
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• FOREX-Dollar slammed after Powell's bleak U.S. outlook

  10-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  * GRAPHIC-World FX rates in 2019: http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh* Fed's Powell says trade, global concerns weigh on U.S. economy* Dollar hits session low vs yen, euro after Powell remarks* Markets expect 25-basis-point cut later this month(Adds analyst comment, updates prices)By Gertrude Chavez-DreyfussNEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - The dollar retreated on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck a downbeat tone in congressional testimony, saying trade uncertainties and concerns ab
  
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• Body of Slain University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck Was Found Bound in Shallow Grave

  10-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has been charged with murder days after police found her body in a shallow grave, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.Ayoola Ajayi, a 31-year-old former Army IT specialist, was formally charged Tuesday with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a human body, and obstruction of justice. On June 3, authorities found Lueck’s body in a shallow grave about an hour from th
  
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• As standoff deepens, US tries coalition-building on Iran

  10-07-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  In seeking a coalition at sea to monitor Iran, the United States is hoping to present a united front at a time when its hawkish policy has aggravated tensions and key allies are at loggerheads.General Joseph Dunford, the top US military officer, said the United States would take the commanding role and provide surveillance as other countries escort vessels under their own flags.The budding coalition comes as tensions soar with Iran, which shot down a US spy drone and has been blamed by Washingto
  
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• Another Woman Has Come Forward Alleging Jeffrey Epstein Sexually Assaulted Her When She Was 15 Years Old

  10-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, 'please stop.'"
  
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• Tropical depression or storm expected to form along Gulf Coast, forecast to hit land as hurricane

  10-07-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The second storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to form Wednesday or Thursday along the Gulf Coast.
  
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• Court Dismisses Emoluments-Clause Suit against Trump

  10-07-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal appeals court handed President Trump a legal victory Wednesday, dismissing a long-running lawsuit alleging that Trump illegally profits from his official position when foreign dignitaries and diplomats stay at his Washington, D.C. hotel.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously ruled that the attorney generals of Maryland and the District of Columbia lacked the legal standing to bring a suit alleging that Trump violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution by co
  
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• Lindsey Graham blames press after Donald Trump causes UK ambassador’s resignation

  10-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Lindsey Graham blamed the press for Kim Darroch’s sudden resignation as the UK ambassador to the US shortly after Donald Trump angrily announced he would no longer work with the foreign official.Mr Darroch announced his resignation from the post on Wednesday morning after the president called him “pompous” and “stupid” in a series of tweets.The president’s Twitter attacks followed leaked memos that Mr Darroch sent to the US about Mr Trump, in which the UK amba
  
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• Iran, Russia pour scorn on US moves at UN nuclear watchdog

  10-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran and Russia on Wednesday poured scorn on America's call for Tehran to adhere to limits in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, at a special meeting of the UN's nuclear watchdog.The meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was requested by the US after it was confirmed last week that Iran had exceeded the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).The US Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott
  
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• As Beetle ends, iconic original thrives in Mexico City hills

  10-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Beetle is dead.Long live the Beetle.The modern edition of the iconic Volkswagen model ceased production Wednesday, but people in Cuautepec on the outskirts of Mexico City still rely on the original no-frills version, praising it for its affordability, reparability and, most of all, its dexterity at handling the district's steep streets.
  
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• World's major cities to face 'unknown' climate conditions by 2050

  10-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A fifth of the world's major cities will face "unknown" climate conditions by 2050, researchers warned on Wednesday, as rising temperatures heighten the risks of drought and flooding.Climate scientists at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at ETH Zurich, a science and technology university, analysed 520 cities across the world, including all capitals and most urban centres with a population of more than 1 million.Looking at current climate conditions in these cities - including precipitati
  
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• CORRECTED-World's major cities to face 'unknown' climate conditions by 2050

  10-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A fifth of the world's major cities will face "unknown" climate conditions by 2050, researchers warned on Wednesday, as rising temperatures heighten the risks of drought and flooding.Climate scientists at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at ETH Zurich, a science and technology university, analysed 520 cities across the world, including all capitals and most urban centres with a population of more than 1 million.Looking at current climate conditions in these cities - including precipitati
  
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• A man survives plunge over Niagara Falls

  10-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who was swept over the largest of the Niagara Falls has been recovered alive, found sitting on a rock in the river below with non-life threatening injuries, Canadian police said Wednesday.Niagara Park police responded to a call at 4:00 am Tuesday about a "man in crisis" on the brink of Horseshoe Falls, a 188-foot (57-meter) plunge."Male was found sitting on rocks after search of lower river w/non life threatening injuries," the police report said.
  
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• New research helps predict locations of blue whales so ships can avoid them

  10-07-2019 19:40
  A new model based on daily oceanographic data and the movements of tagged whales has opened the potential for stakeholders to see where in the ocean endangered blue whales are most likely to be so that ships can avoid hitting them.
  
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• Al Qaeda chief calls for unrelenting Kashmir jihad against India and says Pakistan cannot be trusted

  10-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Al Qaeda's chief has called on jihadists in Kashmir to launch unrelenting blows against India as he also attacked Pakistan's army, saying it could not be trusted to liberate the territory. Ayman al-Zawahiri used a video statement to call militants to wage attacks “to bleed the Indian economy and make India suffer sustained losses in manpower and equipment”. The statement was an attempt by the group to stake a claim to Islamist jihad in South Asia after competition from Islamic State
  
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• British Politicians and Former Diplomats Are Furious That Trump 'Bullied' Their Ambassador Out of Office

  10-07-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Politicians and former diplomats in the U.K. claim President Trump "bullied" ambassador Kim Darroch out of his job in Washington
  
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• Ilhan Omar responds to Tucker Carlson's rant about her: 'Racist fool'

  10-07-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  After cable news host Tucker Carlson claimed Representative Ilhan Omar “hates” America and is “dangerous to this country”, Ms Omar responded by calling the pundit a “racist fool”.During a segment on his Fox News show titled “Dems want you to believe America is an awful place”, Mr Carlson cited the freshman representative as an example of how modern immigration laws have become harmful to America.Mr Carlson said: "Virtually every public statement sh
  
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• Ilhan Omar calls Tucker Carlson a 'racist fool'

  10-07-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  After cable news host Tucker Carlson claimed Representative Ilhan Omar “hates” America and is “dangerous to this country”, Ms Omar responded by calling the pundit a “racist fool”.During a segment on his Fox News show titled “Dems want you to believe America is an awful place”, Mr Carlson cited the freshman representative as an example of how modern immigration laws have become harmful to America.Mr Carlson said: "Virtually every public statement sh
  
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• Picking up Branson’s rocketing carbon bill | Letters

  10-07-2019 19:24 via theguardian.com
  Virgin Galactic | Headlines | Women’s tennis | Saw joke | Bull run | IzalI was surprised to find no mention in your report (Floating into space: Branson reveals plans to list Virgin Galactic on stock exchange, 10 July) of the environmental costs of using a huge aircraft and a rocket ship to give super-rich clients a few minutes in space. How many hard-working families do we need to persuade to give up their annual holiday in the sun to offset the carbon footprint of one of Branson’s
  
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• 'Criminal act' caused Crete death of likely American victim

  10-07-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Antonis Papadomanolakis told The Associated Press Wednesday that final confirmation was still needed to confirm the identity of the body found Monday outside the port city of Chania, but he added it was highly likely it was Suzanne Eaton, a 59-year-old molecular biologist, who was reported missing last week."The only thing we can say is that the (death) resulted from a criminal act," the coroner said.Eaton, who worked at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, had been attending a conferen
  
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• Hong Kong activists hold vigil for deceased supporters

  10-07-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong held a memorial vigil Wednesday night for deceased supporters of the movement that has brought hundreds of thousands of residents of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory into the streets in protest in recent weeks.Dozens of participants sang hymns and lit candles in remembrance of protesters, one who fell after hanging a banner and at least one other, in an apparent suicide, who left a message on a wall asking others to keep up the fight.Zita Lo, a friend of
  
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• Woman dies after 10-inch metal drinking straw impales her eye

  10-07-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  "Clearly great care should be taken when using these metal straws," assistantcoroner Brendan Allen noted in a July 8 judicial inquest
  
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• US-made missiles found at base used by Libyan rebels to attack Tripoli are ours, France admits

  10-07-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  France on Wednesday admitted that it is the owner of American-made anti-tank missiles found at a rebel military base in Libya, raising awkward questions about European involvement in the civil war. France's Army Ministry said the four Javelin missiles discovered at a base used by General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army were intended for "self-protection of a French military unit deployed to carry out intelligence and counter-terrorism operations." "Damaged and unusable, the armaments
  
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• Illinois mother accused of driving with kids on top of SUV in inflatable pool

  10-07-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  An Illinois woman was arrested after authorities say she was spotted driving around with her kids sitting in an inflatable pool on top of her car.
  
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• Ex-education secretary, 5 others held in Puerto Rico probe

  10-07-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico's former secretary of education and five other people were arrested Wednesday on charges of steering federal money to unqualified, politically connected contractors, federal officials said.The alleged fraud involves $15.5 million in federal funding between 2017 and 2019.
  
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