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• FEMA’s response to Tropical Storm Barry

  13-07-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Tropical Storm Barry brings heavy rain and winds to the Gulf Coast.
  
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• UK police identify suspect behind leaked envoy memos: Sunday Times

  13-07-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspect behind the leak of confidential memos from Britain's Washington ambassador, which sparked a major diplomatic rift with the United States, has been identified, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.Last week, Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper published memos from Kim Darroch in which he described Donald Trump's administration as "inept" and "dysfunctional", prompting an angry response from the U.S. president and causing the envoy toannounce his resignation.British officials have launch
  
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• Ex-Fox Friends co-host Clayton Morris leaves country amid fraud allegations, lawsuits

  13-07-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Morris and his wife say they plan to fight lawsuits from abroad. He has moved with his family to a coastal resort town in Portugal.
  
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• Why Canada Must Protect its 5G Networks from Huawei

  13-07-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The introduction of 5G technology, along with its promise and challenges, has led to a transformational debate in Canada—as it has amongst many of Ottawa’s partners and allies around the world. Front and centre for Canada is the potential role of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in such a next generation network. In order to address this question, the government of Canada has been conducting an intensive security review—which remains ongoing—on the implications of
  
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• Russia's Real Reasons for Partnering with Iran

  13-07-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Will Iran crack under American pressure? Don’t count on it. Iran has grown accustomed to living under America’s recent economic sanctions and continues to pursue its own policies at home and abroad despite the restrictions associated with the latest U.S.-Iranian crisis. Tehran can rely on substantial domestic support and has a large army—including auxiliary paramilitary Basij forces—with access to air fleet, heavy forces and undersea arms. It also has revolutionary guards
  
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• Sriracha lawsuit: California pepper grower awarded $23.3 million by jury

  13-07-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury has awarded $23.3 million to a California pepper maker in a fiery battle with the manufacturer of world-famous Sriracha hot sauce.
  
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• Inside Jeffrey Epstein's press machine: How the financier tried to rehab his image post-conviction with donations and pay-for-play journalism

  13-07-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Epstein spent 13 months in jail after being accused of sexually abusing girls as young as 14 in 2008, but he was able to preserve his reputation.
  
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• A magazine retracted an essay with 'inappropriate and invasive content' about Pete Buttigieg after sparking backlash

  13-07-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  After an opinion essay for The New Republic titled 'My Mayor Pete Problem' received backlash after its publication, the magazine soon retracted it.
  
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• Two escape from Florida farm where a couple was preparing for Armageddon, police say

  13-07-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The females reported they were physically and sexually abused by the couple, who stockpiled "food rations and weapons" in case of disaster.
  
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• Levees overtopped as Tropical Storm Barry soaks Louisiana

  13-07-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  None of the main levees on the Mississippi River in the state have failed or been breached so far.
  
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• Cuba passes law to improve governance that keeps one-party system

  13-07-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Communist-run Cuba passed a new electoral law on Saturday that restructures governance including creating the role of prime minister and provincial governors while retaining the one-party system.The law, which enacts changes already announced in the new constitution and was passed unanimously by the national assembly, aims to lighten the load on single figureheads such as the president and boost policy execution.Some Cubans wish the political reform under Miguel Diaz-Canel, who took the presiden
  
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• Thousands protest Trump immigration policies in Chicago

  13-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Several thousand protesters have marched through downtown Chicago to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies, including planned sweeps in several American cities, including Chicago, over the weekend.The protesters at Saturday's march belted chants critical of President Donald Trump and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
  
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• Employees on Jeffrey Epstein's private island compound say they had to stay out of sight of the financier and were never allowed in his office

  13-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex trafficking on Monday, bought Little St. James Island off of St. Thomas more than two decades ago.
  
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• Curiosity rover is seen creeping up a rugged Martian mountain

  13-07-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A satellite zooming around Mars spotted a lone machine, the Curiosity Rover, exploring the rugged Martian terrain. The car-sized rover, which has traveled almost 13 miles on Mars over the last seven years, is now carefully inching up the base of Mount Sharp, a 3.5-mile tall mountain sitting in the middle of the sprawling Gale Crater. The rover has been busy scouring rock samples in an area that planetary scientists suspect was once blanketed in wet clay."It's just one of many stops the rove
  
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• UK says Iran tanker will be freed after guarantees on destination

  13-07-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt sought to ease tensions with Iran on Saturday, saying a tanker held by Gibraltar would be released if Tehran guaranteed it was not heading to Syria."I reassured him our concern was destination not origin of the oil on Grace One," a tanker seized off the coast of the tiny British territory of Gibraltar on July 4, Hunt tweeted.
  
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• Coast Guard gives update on Barry

  13-07-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  According to officials, more people die in tropical storms from high water than from high wind.
  
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• Michigan Man Allegedly Shot Two Men ‘Because They Were Gay’: Prosecutors

  13-07-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Leon Neal/GettyA Michigan man was charged Friday for allegedly shooting two men he contacted through a dating app “before they were gay.” Demetris Nelson, 26, was charged with several crimes, including first-degree murder, after allegedly trying to rob and fatally shoot Brian Anderson, 31, and critically wounding 26-year-old Malcolm Drake, Wayne County prosecutor’s office said. Authorities say Nelson used the popular dating app, Grindr, to target and locate the two men.&nb
  
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• Police: Man dies after attacking immigration prison

  13-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities said.The Tacoma Police Department said the officers responded at about 4 a.m. to the privately run Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security detention facility that holds migrants pending deportation proceedings.The detention center has also held immigration-seeking
  
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• Tropical storm Barry: What to know about Barry's path, landfall, winds, flooding and more

  13-07-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Some 14 trillion gallons of rainwater are forecast to fall on Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas during Barry. Three million people may be impacted.
  
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• Mike Pence got a first-hand look at border detention facilities in McAllen and Donna, Texas. What he saw

  13-07-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Mike Pence's visit gave Americans a sense of the stench, crowded rooms, and the sounds of shouting men at the center of the border controversy.
  
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• Ex-Arizona teacher sentenced to 20 years for molesting teenage student

  13-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Arizona teacher Brittany Zamora has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty for molesting a 13-year-old student.
  
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• Trump is expected to sign order to send people seeking asylum in the US to Guatemala instead, according to report

  13-07-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Under the new agreement, asylum seekers wouldn't have a chance to make their case in the US. Instead, they'd make their case in Guatemala.
  
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• Egypt opens two ancient pyramids, unveils new finds

  13-07-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt on Saturday opened two ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of newly found sarcophagi, some containing well-preserved mummies.Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani told reporters the Bent Pyramid of King Sneferu, the first pharaoh of Egypt's 4th dynasty, and a nearby pyramid would be reopened to visitors for the first time since 1965.
  
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• Sprawling storm Barry intensifies into a hurricane

  13-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The lopsided storm Barry is now a hurricane. The National Weather Service expects Hurricane Barry, packing 75 mph winds, to pummel portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, other nearby regions with extreme rain and flooding on Saturday and Sunday. Barry might not be a major hurricane, but it has capitalized on exceptionally warm ocean waters to load itself with moisture -- which will soon douse the region."It's going to rain hard," Jeff Weber, a meteorologist with the University Corporation for
  
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• Vatican mystery over missing girl deepens as bones are found

  13-07-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery.The Vatican said it had discovered two sets of bones under a stone slab that will be formally opened next week.The new discovery came after Vatican on Thursday pried open the tombs of two 19th-century German princesses in the cemetery of the Pontifical Teutonic College in hopes of finding the remains of Emanuela Orlandi
  
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• A dramatic satellite photo shows Hurricane Barry enveloping the Gulf of Mexico just before making landfall in Louisiana

  13-07-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Since the photo was taken around 10 AM Friday, the storm has since strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane.
  
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• California boy, 4, who died begged his great-grandmother not to be reunited with birth parents

  13-07-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A 4-year-old California boy who mysteriously died under his birth parents'care had begged his great-grandmother not to be reunited with them, KTLAreports
  
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• Clashes as Hong Kong protesters vent at China border traders

  13-07-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Clashes broke out between police and Hong Kong demonstrators Saturday as the latest anti-government protests took aim at traders coming across the border from mainland China.Police used pepper spray and batons against masked protesters in Sheung Shui, a town near the border with China, after thousands marched to complain about "parallel traders".Sheung Shui boasts dozens of pharmacies and cosmetic stores that are hugely popular with mainland merchants who snap up goods in Hong Kong -- where ther
  
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• UPDATE 2-UK to facilitate release of Iranian tanker if it gets Syria guarantees-Hunt

  13-07-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt told his Iranian counterpart on Saturday that Britain would facilitate the release of the detained Grace 1 oil tanker if Tehran gave guarantees it would not go to Syria.The tanker was seized last week by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria.Iran on Saturday reiterated its call for the ship's release.
  
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• A car sank into the sand at an Alabama beach after its owner parked close to the shore ahead of Hurricane Barry

  13-07-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The owner of the car made the mistake of parking it close to the beach as then-Tropical Storm Barry caused tides to rise suddenly on Friday.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein Dodged Questions About Sex With His Dalton Prep-School Students

  13-07-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Police Handouts“I’m teaching a bunch of little brats next year.”—Jeffrey Epstein, 1974-75 Dalton School YearbookIt took a clandestine FBI-NYPD joint sting operation to arrest the elusive convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein on Saturday July 6th on the tarmac of Teterboro airport in New Jersey (a story first broken by The Daily Beast). Simultaneously, a sledgehammer was used to break the entry to his massive $77 million New
  
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• A US congressman wants better food and drink standards in the Dominican Republic after several US tourist deaths

  13-07-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  US Rep. Adriano Espaillat, who was born in the Dominican Republic, visited the country from July 1 to July 6 to evaluate its tourism situation.
  
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• Hurricane Barry is hitting Louisiana as the first hurricane of 2019. Here's why storms are getting stronger, slower, and wetter.

  13-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Barry is moving over the Louisiana coast. Here's how climate change is making storms stronger, wetter, and more frequent.
  
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• Unprecedented fires burn the Arctic

  13-07-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Smoke is rising over the forests of Alaska and Siberia.The World Meteorological Organization called the wildfires now burning around the Arctic "unprecedented." The United Nations agency noted that over 100 intense fires burned in the Arctic Circle alone over the past six weeks, releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than Sweden does in an entire year. A rare fire even ignited in Greenland, amid unusually hot and dry weather.Amplified wildfires are an expected, predictable conseq
  
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• Hurricane Barry could breach New Orleans' river levees. Here’s how the levee system works and how much it can withstand.

  13-07-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Barry could raise the Mississippi River 19 feet in New Orleans. The levee system might not be able to hold it. Here's how it works.
  
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• Live videos, webcams show Barry's landfall near New Orleans and the Louisiana coast

  13-07-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Live feeds from New Orleans and the Louisiana coast give a glimpse of conditions on the ground as Barry is predicted to make landfall as a hurricane.
  
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• 'The crisis is real': Mike Pence sees 'tough stuff' and 'compassionate work' at Texas border facilities

  13-07-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence and a group of Senate Republicans toured a pair of border facilities in Texas amid concerns over conditions at such centers.
  
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• House Democrats infighting escalates with late-night tweet

  13-07-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  "Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice. She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue."
  
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• Woman suing landlord for evicting her after ‘having African American guest over’

  13-07-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A white mother says she was evicted because she invited African American guests to a playdate.Victoria Sutton had her black co-worker visit with their five-year-old son, so that the youngster could play with her two daughters.After one of the playdates, a new lawsuit says, landlord Allen McCoy knocked on the door of her Georgia home and called her a "n***** lover.”She also claims he threatened to call Child Protective Services over her having a "n***** on their property."The lawsuit - file
  
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• US service member killed in action in Afghanistan

  13-07-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  An American service member was killed in action in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Saturday without offering details about the service member's identity or the circumstances surrounding the death.In a telephone interview, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said the militant group was behind the killing, even as U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has been holding talks with the Taliban in recent weeks to try and negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan.The current conflict began in 2001 wi
  
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• Iranian foreign minister heads to New York for U.N. conference: IRNA

  13-07-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to New York on Saturday to a United Nations conference, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported, amid rising tension between Washington and Tehran.The United States and Iran are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program and Washington has blamed Iranian forces for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf region, a charge Tehran denies.
  
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• Flesh-eating bacteria killed an elderly man two days after he vacationed in Florida. Experts say this will become more common as ocean water warms.

  13-07-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A species of flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio is gaining a larger foothold in the US as oceans heat up.
  
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• Alaska Lawmakers Fail to Override Unprecedented University Cuts

  13-07-2019 16:04 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The University of Alaska will consider a rare declaration of financial exigency after lawmakers failed to override Republican Governor Michael Dunleavy’s veto of $130 million in funding for the system.Dunleavy’s veto last month drove a nearly 41% cut in state funding, an unprecedented pullback that the University of Alaska warned could result in layoffs and slashed programs. Credit rating companies Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings had warned t
  
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• Rare sea turtles smash nesting records in Georgia, Carolinas

  13-07-2019 15:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Rare sea turtles are smashing nesting records this summer on beaches in the Southeast, with scientists crediting the egg-laying boom to conservation measures that began more than 30 years ago.Giant loggerhead sea turtles weighing up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms) crawl ashore to dig nests in the sand every summer along the southern Atlantic coast.While nesting typically occurs from May through August, record nest counts set in 2016 have already fallen in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina
  
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• 5 reasons why you should avoid getting gas at Costco

  13-07-2019 15:31 via news.yahoo.com
  It's usually hard to beat Costco's gas prices. But Costco isn't necessarily the best place for every American to fill their tank.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein reportedly hired private investigators to intimidate and silence accusers, witnesses, and prosecutors

  13-07-2019 15:30 via news.yahoo.com
  In the first investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in Florida, police reported that he hired private investigators to intimidate accusers and witnesses.
  
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• Most Germans say Merkel's health is a personal issue

  13-07-2019 15:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 60 percent of Germans feel that Chancellor Angela Merkel's bouts of uncontrolled shaking are a personal matter, according to a survey published on Saturday.Apoll published in the Augsburger Allgemeinen newspaper found that 59 percent of those questioned felt that trembling seen three times in public in the past month concerns Merkel's"private" life, while 34 percent said it was a matter of public interest.Merkel will celebrate her 65th birthday next Wednesday and has been at the head of t
  
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• Meet Sturmgewehr 57: Sig Sauer's Very First 'Battle' Rifle

  13-07-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  While Sig Sauer, Inc. may have entered the battle rifle market recently, the original company—SIG, Schweizer Industrie Gesellschaft—produced a variety of them. SIG’s most famous was the SIG SG 510, otherwise known as the Sturmgewehr 57.Though the Sturmgewehr 57 was a very early battle rifle that retained many vestiges of Swiss bolt action rifles before it, it also featured many thoughtful features and is considered to be among the best battle rifles in the world.More than anyth
  
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• Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties

  13-07-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian federal authorities arrested a top executive at the retail conglomerate Future Group, one of the largest retailers in the country, on customs fraud charges involving more than $2 million of unpaid customs duties on garment imports, a government statement said on Saturday.The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, part of India's finance ministry, arrested Dinesh Maheshwari, executive director and chief financial officer of Future Enterprises Ltd, for flouting import rules that allow duty-fr
  
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• There are 2 dozen 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, but it's really only a 5 person race

  13-07-2019 14:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg are the only 2020 candidates who have consistently polled viably.
  
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