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• The Latest: Protesters mark anniversary of Garner's death

  17-07-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Latest on the U.S. Justice Department's decision not to prosecute the officer involved in Eric Garner's death.Several hundred people marched in lower Manhattan to mark the five year anniversary of Eric Garner's death.The marchers on Wednesday chanted and held signs saying "I Can't Breathe," a reference to Garner's dying words, as they marched past federal courthouses.
  
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• 'The Squad' renews feud with Nancy Pelosi

  17-07-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Progressive Democratic Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib warn Speaker Pelosi to watch her words; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• What caused mysterious gray spots to appear on Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 moon landing glove?

  17-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Years ago, people wondered about the gray spots on Neil Armstrong's right hand glove from Apollo 11. Conservators have solved that mystery.
  
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• Epstein Says Friend Gave Him Fake Foreign Passport Used in 4 Countries

  17-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers said Thursday that the fake, foreign passport found in his safe was given to him by a friend and had already been used when he got it.Their claim, in a letter to the judge who will decide if Epstein gets bail, came in response to a prosecution filing that revealed the passport contained stamps from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.Prosecutors have cited the passport—which was issued in Austria but had a Saudi Arabia address, a fake name an
  
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• Former President Barack Obama surprises students in Chicago

  17-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama surprised a group of students participating in the Obama Youth Jobs Corps in Chicago on Tuesday.
  
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• Arrested reporter slams conditions at US detention centers

  17-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A Spanish-language reporter who was recently released from immigration custody said Wednesday he was held for 15 months in detention centers that were plagued by insects and he had to bathe with cold water from water hoses.During a news conference, Manuel Duran discussed what he called inhumane conditions at immigration detention facilities in Louisiana and Alabama.Duran was released from an Alabama facility on bail last week as immigration courts consider his request for asylum.
  
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• Mexico says migrant numbers down but warns of impending crisis

  17-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of undocumented migrants entering Mexico in the hope of reaching the United States dropped by almost a third in June, the foreign office said Wednesday, warning that a crisis was still on the way if the numbers didn't fall further.Some 100,000 people, mostly Central Americans, entered Mexico in June, compared with 144,000 the month before, Deputy Foreign Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean Maximiliano Reyes told reporters.Under the threat of export tariffs from Washington if
  
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• Prosecutors say father intentionally drove boys off pier

  17-07-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A man was charged Wednesday with capital murder after prosecutors say he drove his family off a Los Angeles pier, killing his two severely autistic sons.Ali Elmezayen (EL-mah-ZION) faces two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and there's a special circumstance allegation that the killings were carried out for financial gain, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.Elmezayen is in federal custody on insurance fraud charges related to the 2015 pier plunge.
  
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• Prosecutors drop groping case against Kevin Spacey

  17-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016 after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information supporting the actor's claims of innocence. Spacey was charged with indecent assault and battery last year in the only criminal case that has been brought against the actor since his career collapsed amid a slew of sexual misconduct allegations. Spacey denies groping the man, whose mot
  
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• Poll: Most Americans call Trump's tweets targeting 4 congresswomen 'un-American'

  17-07-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  In a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll, 68% call Trump's attacks on four congresswomen offensive, but most Republicans say they agree with him.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi planning to meet one-on-one

  17-07-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Earlier this month, Nancy Pelosi downplayed four votes from a group of progressive Democrats against a border funding bill.
  
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• Dozens of whales stranded on Georgia island remain at sea after rescue effort by beachgoers

  17-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of pilot whales beached themselves on a Georgia shore and most were rescued by authorities and onlookers.
  
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• Apple may bring an exciting new feature to the 2020 iPhone’s rear camera

  17-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  If the myriad rumors and reports are to be believed, the next major iPhone evolution won't take place until 2020. This year's iPhone will certainly be a step up, but far more dramatic changes are coming next year. One of those changes will apparently be a time-of-flight 3D rear camera, according to a new DigiTimes report.Sources tell the site that Apple is working with supply chain partners to bring vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VSCEL) components to future iPhone models. This is the sa
  
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• The F-35 Has A New Problem That Won't Be Easy To Solve

  17-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. military’s growing fleet of F-35 stealth fighters will fall short of the 80-percent readiness goal that former defense secretary James Mattis instituted before quitting in protest of Pres. Donald Trump’s foreign policy in January 2019.Former secretary of the army Mark Esper, who is Trump’s nominee to replace Mattis, in mid-July 2019 told a Senate committee the roughly 300-strong fleet of F-35s belonging to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps “is not expecte
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. removing Turkey from F-35 program after its Russian missile defense purchase

  17-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said on Wednesday that it was removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program, a move that had been long threatened and expected after Ankara began accepting delivery of an advanced Russian missile defense system last week.The first parts of the S-400 air defense system were flown to the Murted military air base northwest of Ankara on Friday, sealing Turkey's deal with Russia, which Washington had struggled for months to prevent."The U.S. and other F-35 partners are aligned i
  
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• North Carolina father of 7 dies trying to save his drowning children at beach

  17-07-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina father drowned Sunday while rescuing two of his youngchildren who were swept away by a wave while walking on a submerged jetty atWrightsville Beach
  
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• Lords Vote to Block Suspension of Parliament: Brexit Update

  17-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s House of Lords backed a move designed to make a no-deal Brexit more difficult by stopping the next prime minister from closing down Parliament. The plan won’t become law until it has also been passed by members of Parliament in the Commons, where it is likely to face stronger opposition from pro-Brexit politicians.Key Developments:House of Lords passes amendment designed to stop next PM suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal split Pound rises Brexi
  
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• French prosecutors want Air France tried for 2009 Rio crash

  17-07-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  French prosecutors want Air France to stand trial for manslaughter in the 2009 crash of a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris that killed all 228 people aboard, a judicial official said Wednesday.Prosecutors also have asked that the case against Airbus, maker of the doomed aircraft, be dropped for lack of sufficient evidence.Air France Flight 447 left Rio de Janeiro for Paris but crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009.
  
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• Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows

  17-07-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Statistics are a blow to country’s biggest pharmaceuticals that paid millions of dollars in out of court settlementsPurdue sold $3bn of its high-strength branded drug, OxyContin, which in 2010, was about one-third of the opioid market by value at its peak. Photograph: Toby Talbot/APDrug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s epidemic of painkiller addiction and deaths surged to record levels, according to previo
  
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• Woman killed while riding in SUV with husband was just minutes from home before shooting

  17-07-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  'You have taken an angel from us' Saron James and her husband Cleveland had been married for 40 years before someone opened fire on their SUV and killed her.
  
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• Notorious drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán sentenced to life. And U.S. wants his $12.6B fortune.

  17-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera was formally sentenced Wednesday to life in prison on drug trafficking charges.
  
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• Afghan colonel killed in 'insider attack' near US forces

  17-07-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  American troops opened fire after an "enemy insider" shot and killed an Afghan commander in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said, in yet another deadly Taliban-claimed infiltration.According to the Afghan defence ministry, Colonel Mateen Mujtaba, who headed the 3rd army division in Ghazni province, was conducting a security assessment in Qarabagh district when an Afghan soldier started shooting.Mateen was "killed by an army soldier who was in fact an enemy insider," the defence minis
  
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• New tuberculosis tests pave way for cow vaccination programs

  17-07-2019 20:23
  Skin tests that can distinguish between cattle that are infected with tuberculosis (TB) and those that have been vaccinated against the disease have been created by an international team of scientists.
  
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• PHOTOS: Rebuilding Notre Dame

  17-07-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Three months after a fire ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, a rare glimpse inside the burned masterpiece on Wednesday revealed it to be eerily empty and with rubble still littering the nave. Paris prosecutors said in June that a poorly stubbed-out cigarette or an electrical fault could have started the fire and opened an investigation into criminal negligence, without targeting any individual.
  
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• The Latest: Iran FM says US sanctions 'economic terrorism'

  17-07-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke Wednesday at a sustainable development forum.The U.S. re-imposed tough sanctions on Tehran's oil exports after withdrawing last year from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and several world powers.The sanctions exacerbated an economic crisis that has sent Iran's currency plummeting.
  
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• Top diplomat: Iran must build missiles for defense

  17-07-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has no choice but to manufacture missiles for defense purposes — comments that come after a remark by the top diplomat that seemed to suggest the missiles could be up for negotiations.Iran has long rejected negotiations over its ballistic missile program, which remains under the control of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The foreign minister's remarks seemed to su
  
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• Kremlin Opens Door to Changing Constitution as Succession Looms

  17-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The Kremlin raised the possibility of changing Russia’s Constitution after a top lawmaker proposed bolstering parliament’s powers, in a move that could help to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule.The idea of constitutional amendments, including allowing parliament a say in forming the government, received “a widespread response” and are “a matter for discussion,” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on a conference cal
  
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• Senator Tim Kaine Calls on FBI to Open Khashoggi Investigation

  17-07-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Yasin Akgul/GettySenator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is calling on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist and Virginia resident who was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after going missing in October 2018. “This investigation is more important than ever to achieve true accountability and justice for this horrific crime,” Kaine said in a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday, which
  
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• The Latest: Man who lost daughter questions FAA inspections

  17-07-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A man whose daughter was killed when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashed in March called on legislators to end the Federal Aviation Administration's use of aircraft manufacturer employees to conduct safety inspections.Michael Stumo, whose daughter Samya died in the crash, told a subcommittee of the U.S. House Transportation Committee that the FAA should return to a system where the inspectors are paid by the FAA but report jointly to the agency and the company.Rep. Garret Graves, R-La.,
  
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• Citing Brexit, Ireland to oppose EU move to scrap spring/autumn time change

  17-07-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Ireland will oppose an EU proposal to stop moving the bloc's clocks forward by an hour in spring and back again in the autumn, as it fears Brexit could otherwise leave the island split into two time zones.The European Union has observed the practice of daylight saving time since 2001.
  
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• Meghan McCain Blasts George Conway, Claims She Wouldn’t Let Her Husband Say Racist Comments

  17-07-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The View’s Meghan McCain made it clear on Wednesday that she is not a fan of George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. And she brought up her own marriage to The Federalist’s publisher Ben Domenech as a comparison point.With the panel discussing Kellyanne Conway bizarrely asking a White House reporter what his ethnicity is after he asked a question about President Donald Trump’s racist attacks on congresswomen of color, McCain immediately targeted th
  
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• Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman accuses US government of 'torture' as he is sentenced to life in prison

  17-07-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has been sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years by a judge in New York. Guzman pleaded with Judge Brian Cogan to be lenient, telling the court - in his first public remarks - that he had been subject to "torture" while in US custody. “I’ve been forced to drink unsanitary water. I’ve been denied access to fresh air and sunlight. The only sunlight I have in my cell comes through in the air vent,” he said. Guzman, who used a translator, continued
  
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• What Rare Earths Tell Us about China's Competitive Strategy

  17-07-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The recent debate over whether or not China will carry through on its threats to stop exporting rare earth minerals to the United States is an important one. It raises deeply unsettling questions about the strength of America's defense industrial supply chain. But Beijing’s monopolization of the global rare earths industry gives it far more than a card to play in an escalating trade war. The game is far bigger and the stakes higher than even many national-security experts seem to realize.I
  
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• Mumbai attack 'mastermind' arrested as Imran Khan prepares to meet Donald Trump

  17-07-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has welcomed the arrest of a cleric accused of masterminding the Mumbai attacks, but faced mockery for saying it took years to find the suspect, when he is notorious for living openly in Pakistan. Hafiz Saeed was held on suspicion of terrorist financing offences just days before Mr Trump is due to welcome Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, to the White House. The founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group has a $10m US bounty on his head for his alleged role behind the 2008 M
  
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• Feds’ probe into Trump hush money payments is over, judge says

  17-07-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  At issue is an investigation led by the Southern District of New York connected to Michael Cohen.
  
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• Gunmen in restaurant in northern Iraq kill Turkish diplomat

  17-07-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Unknown gunmen opened fire inside a Turkish-owned restaurant in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Wednesday, killing at least one Turkish diplomat stationed in Ankara's consulate and one Iraqi civilian, Turkish officials and Kurdish security forces said.The rare shooting in broad daylight jolted the normally quiet city and sent security forces into the streets in an effort to catch the perpetrators, who apparently got away.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the "hateful" attack t
  
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• Eric Garner's Family Demands Justice as Officer Won't Face Federal Charges in Chokehold Death

  17-07-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Five years ago, Eric Garner uttered his last words, "I can't breathe" during a confrontation with the NYPD. He later died. One day before his death anniversary, the New York Justice Department made the decision not to pursue federal charges against the officer in the 2014 chokehold death.
  
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• UK raises alarm after mother held by Iran is taken to mental ward

  17-07-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  London demanded the immediate release Wednesday of a jailed British-Iranian aid worker whose husband said she has been transferred to the mental ward of a public hospital in Tehran.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case has roiled Britain's relations with the Islamic republic since her 2016 arrest and conviction on sedition charges over which she has held a series of hunger strikes."We are extremely concrned about Nazanin's welfare and call for her immediate release," Prime Minister Theresa May's spok
  
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• Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Complains That Calling Trump a Racist ‘Is Personally Offensive’

  17-07-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The morning after the House of Representatives voted to condemn President Donald Trump’s racist comments against a group of Democratic congresswomen of color, Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade complained that it is “personally offensive” to call the president a racist.Discussing Tuesday’s chaos on the House floor when Republicans logged parliamentary objections against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for reading the title of the resolution—which labels the presiden
  
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• ‘There’s a crisis called AOC’: Ocasio-Cortez faces challenge from three Republicans at next election

  17-07-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A Republican businesswoman and Jamaican immigrant is the latest candidate to announce a bid to unseat freshman Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the 2020 elections. Scherie Murray, a 38-year-old New Yorker, launched her primary campaign in Queens on Wednesday, becoming the third Republican challenger vying for a shot at competing against the liberal congresswoman in the upcoming general elections. Ms Murray, a supporter of Donald Trump, told Fox News in a phone interview on Wednesday: “
  
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• Pakistan arrests US-wanted terror suspect in Mumbai attacks

  17-07-2019 17:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan on Wednesday arrested a radical cleric and U.S.-wanted terror suspect implicated in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, officials said, just days ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan's trip to Washington.Hafiz Saeed was taken into custody in Punjab province while traveling from the eastern city of Lahore to the city of Gujranwala, according to counterterrorism official Mohammad Shafiq.Saeed founded the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, which was blamed for the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
  
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• From Iraq to Yemen, drones raise U.S. alarm over Iranian plans

  17-07-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  GENEVA/WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - The increased use of drones by Iran and its allies for surveillance and attacks across the Middle East is raising alarms in Washington.The United States believes that Iran-linked militia in Iraq have recently increased their surveillance of American troops and bases in the country by using off-the-shelf, commercially available drones, U.S. officials say.
  
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• A Military Flyboard Doesn’t Make Any Sense

  17-07-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  They’re not useful on the battlefield—even if France might think otherwise.
  
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• Ukraine's Russian-speaking president gives glimmer of hope to war-torn east

  17-07-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  DONETSK/SLOVYANSK, Ukraine, July 17 (Reuters) - In one of his first acts as Ukrainian president, comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelenskiy held out a symbolic olive branch to people in Ukraine's mostly Russian-speaking Donbass region, by switching from Ukrainian to Russian.Language was a factor in the outbreak of the conflict in 2014, with Russian speakers in Donbass saying they feared Kiev would impose the Ukrainian language on them.
  
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• Sabre-Rattling: Israel Warns Its Stealthy F-35I Can Reach Iran and Syria

  17-07-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel has long seen Iran as its greatest threat, while Iranian officials regularly threaten to destroy the Jewish state.On Jul. 9, 2019 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran that Israeli Air Force (IAF) F-35I fighter jets can reach “anywhere in the Middle East,” following threats against his country in recent weeks by senior Iranian officials, The Times of Israel reports.“Lately, Iran has been threatening Israel with destruction,” Netanyahu said, standi
  
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• Italy, FBI raids target resurgent Cosa Nostra family

  17-07-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian anti-mafia police and the FBI in New York have arrested 19 people, in coordinated raids on historic mobster families bidding for power within the Cosa Nostra, investigators said Wednesday.Raids in both countries targeted links between the Sicilian Mafia -- known as the Cosa Nostra -- and US organised crime, said an Italian police statement.Italian police said 18 people had been arrested in Italy and one in the United States.
  
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• New York businesswoman and Jamaican immigrant Scherie Murray launches campaign to unseat Ocasio-Cortez

  17-07-2019 16:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "There’s a crisis in Queens and it’s called AOC," said Scherie Murray, a Republican businesswoman who is challenging Ocasio-Cortez in 2020.
  
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• Seattle-based restaurant chain declares bankruptcy, cites high minimum wage

  17-07-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Restaurants Unlimited says high wage expenses for workers could not be offset by profits; Dan Springer reports as the House prepares to vote on a federal minimum wage hike.
  
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• Immaculate Turbo Toyota Pickup Oozes ‘80s Goodness

  17-07-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  With a manual transmission, roll bar, KC lights, and beefy tires, this is a fantastic example of one of the era’s best pickup trucks. In the mid-‘80s, Toyota established itself as arguably the best compact truck manufacturer on the market. With plenty of capability, reliability and simple but handsome styling, Toyota had something special on its hands, but many these trucks succumbed to rust issues, meaning a clean example holds its value strongly in today’s market. Fortunately
  
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• Ukraine says transport organizer of missile that shot down MH-17 plane in jail

  17-07-2019 16:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine said on Wednesday a rebel who organized the trailer carrying the missile that shot down a Malaysian airliner in 2014had been captured two years ago and was now serving a sentence in Ukraine.Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine during a rebellion by Russian-backed separatists, killing all 298 people on board.A Dutch-led team of investigators has blamed Russia for supplying the surface-to-air missile that shot it down.
  
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