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• Puerto Ricans gather for largest protest yet to oust Gov. Ricardo Rossello

  23-07-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of Puerto Rican flags fluttered in the morning breeze as demonstrators arrived from across the island Monday for what many expected to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the U.S. territory.
  
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• Corrects: Principal's Death-Bone Marrow Donation-The Latest

  23-07-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story July 22 about developments in a lawsuit against Hackensack University Medical Center, The Associated Press in some instances erroneously reported the procedure that preceded a high school principal's death.It was a bone marrow donation, not a blood marrow donation.
  
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• When ICE Tried to Arrest an Undocumented Man in Tennessee, Neighbors and a Network of Volunteers Formed a Human Chain to Protect Him

  23-07-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The man was with his 12-year-old son
  
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• They exist: rare clip shows uncontacted tribe under threat in Brazil

  23-07-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Rare video of one of Brazil's last uncontacted indigenous tribes has been released to help raise awareness about threats to their survival, campaigners said on Tuesday.The footage, shot by indigenous filmmaker Flay Guajajara and lasting about 1 minute, shows an Awa tribe member in the woods holding a knife, seemingly unaware he is being filmed."This video shows that they do not want to be contacted, not even by the Guajajara," said the filmmaker, himself a member of the Guajajara tribe and part
  
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• France tells Iran to return to compliance in nuclear deal -foreign ministry

  23-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  France's foreign ministry told a senior Iranian envoy on a visit to Paris on Tuesday that Tehran had to return to compliance to the nuclear deal and take the necessary steps to ensure the de-escalation of tensions in the Gulf.Iran's deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi met President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.Macron has tried, but struggled, to initiate a mediation between Tehran and Washington over tensions in the region.
  
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• Jon Stewart's face as Mitch McConnell walks by him is priceless

  23-07-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Every so often a photograph captures a facial expression so priceless that you feel compelled to print it out, frame it, and do something really dramatic like sneak it into the Louvre. Today I am pleased to announce that I had one of those moments.The museum-worthy photograph to which I'm referring was taken on Tuesday afternoon by Roll Call photojournalist Bill Clark. He happened to be standing by the Ohio Clock Corridor in the Capitol at the absolute perfect time, and was able to capture
  
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• Immigration roundup that targeted 2,100 nets 35 arrests

  23-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump billed the operation targeting families as a major show of force as the number of Central American families crossing the southern border has skyrocketed.Of those arrested, 18 were members of families and 17 were collateral apprehensions of people in the country illegally encountered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.While the effort was demonized by Democrats as a full-force drive to deport families and trumpeted by Republicans as a necessary show of force to prove there
  
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• The Latest: CSX agrees on blame for deadly 2018 Amtrak crash

  23-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  CSX is agreeing with federal officials who say the company and one of its train crews were responsible for an Amtrak crash that killed two people and hurt nearly 100 passengers in South Carolina in 2018.CSX spokeswoman Cindy Schild says the company's rules and procedures were not followed when a CSX crew parked a train on a side track near Columbia and then didn't flip a switch to move the tracks back to the main line.The Amtrak train then went down that side track at full speed and hit the park
  
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• 2021 Cadillac Escalade's Interior Spied for Real

  23-07-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The next-gen SUV will be getting a large curved touchscreen atop the dashboard.
  
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• Iraq exhumes bodies thought to be Kurds killed by Saddam

  23-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraq on Tuesday began exhuming the remains of dozens of victims, including children, likely killed during ex-dictator Saddam Hussein's campaign against the country's Kurds, a forensics official told AFP.The mass grave was uncovered in Tal al-Sheikhiya, about 300 kilometres (200 miles) south of Baghdad, said Zaid al-Youssef, the head of Baghdad's Medico-Legal Directorate which is tasked with identifying the remains."More than 70 bodies including women and children, ranging from newborns to 10 yea
  
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• Afghanistan seeks clarification after Trump '10 mn' war dead claim

  23-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Tuesday the United States should clarify remarks President Donald Trump made about Afghanistan, including a claim he could easily win the war but didn't "want to kill 10 million people".Trump made several controversial statements a day earlier alongside Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House, including that he could end the war in a matter of days but "Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth".The war-weary and traumatised population
  
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• CEO: Schools reject offer to pay students' late lunch bills

  23-07-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The president of a Pennsylvania school board whose district had warned parents behind on lunch bills that their children could end up in foster care has rejected a CEO's offer to cover the cost, the businessman said Tuesday.Todd Carmichael, chief executive and co-founder of Philadelphia-based La Colombe Coffee, said he offered to give Wyoming Valley West School District $22,000 to wipe out bills that generated the recent warning letter to parents.
  
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• Iran vows to secure Strait of Hormuz, urges diplomacy

  23-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran will secure the Strait of Hormuz and not allow anydisturbance in shipping in the key oil transport waterway, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday during a visit to Paris, the state new agency IRNA reported.France, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark support a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, three senior EU diplomats said on Tuesday,after Britain proposed the idea following Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker
  
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• Sorry, AOC: Moderate House Democrats Have Their Own Climate Plan

  23-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats rolled out a climate agenda Tuesday as their caucus attempts to draw a distinction between New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s approach to tackling global warming and a more moderate plan.Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee announced they would pursue legislation calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a far less ambitious plan than the Green New Deal, which aims to complete the emissions target by 2030. Democrats criticized Ocasio-C
  
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• A dad fatally shot his daughter's boyfriend for smoking weed with her at a party, police say

  23-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Pennsylvania man Michael D'Biagio was arrested Friday in connection to the death of Darren Jevcak outside of a pizza shop.
  
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• Fact: U.S. and Israeli F-15s Went to War in a Simulated Fight. Who Won?

  23-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Noteworthy according to Times of Israel IAF Red Air gave the Blue forces a tough time during defensive missions to protect Blue forces and installations.Twelve F-15Es assigned to 494th Fighter Squadron from Royal Air Force (RAF) Lakenheath, England recently completed biannual training in Israel in support of exercise Juniper Falcon. As told by Tech. Sgt. Matthew Plew, 48th Fighter Wing Public Affairs, in the article U.S. Forces complete Juniper Falcon 17-2, the Strike Eagles flew missions with t
  
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• No charges in Georgia lawmaker grocery store dispute

  23-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  No charges will be filed in the dispute between a black Georgia lawmaker and a white man she accused of verbally assaulting her for having too many items in an express checkout line at a grocery store, police said Tuesday.In a widely shared Facebook video, a tearful state Rep. Erica Thomas accused a man later identified as Eric Sparkes of a racist attack.Thomas, a Democrat from Austell, said she was with her 9-year-old daughter at the time.
  
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• Send in the F-22s: Why Iran's F-14s Are No Joke

  23-07-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Navy retired its last Tomcat in 2006. But with its long range and powerful radar, the F-14 remains one of the world’s most capable fighters. For that reason, the Americans for many years have been trying to ground the Ayatollah’s F-14s.Tensions have escalated in the Persian Gulf region in the aftermath of U.S. president Donald Trump’s decision unilaterally to withdraw the United States from the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear program.The U.S. military has impli
  
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• Disney employee punched in face by park guest angry over FastPass at Tower of Terror

  23-07-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a brawl world, after all
  
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• Trump calls Rep. Tlaib a 'crazed lunatic' and rails against 'Squad' in fiery speech

  23-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump took his feud with four progressive congresswomen to a new level in a speech on Tuesday afternoon, with incendiary attacks that included false accusations.
  
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• Thanks to climate change, parts of the Arctic are on fire. Scientists are concerned

  23-07-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Satellite images are showing that areas of the Arctic have been catching fire. These wildfires, while not uncommon, are concerning scientists.
  
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• Robert Mueller’s Testimony: How to Watch the Live Stream Online

  23-07-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex Wong/Getty ImagesU.S. lawmakers will get their first opportunity to publicly question Robert Mueller on Wednesday, as the former special counsel is set to testify in two separate back-to-back hearings.Mueller has only publicly addressed his report one other time: During a surprise press conference in May, the ex-FBI chief appeared to discourage lawmakers from seeking testimony from him, stating that he would only answer questions within the parameters of the lengthy report published by his
  
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• France seeks European surveillance to secure Gulf traffic

  23-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  France says it's working with its European partners on an observation mission to ensure maritime security in the Persian Gulf, where tensions have climbed with Iran's seizure last week of a U.K.-flagged oil tanker.Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made no mention of a Europe-led "maritime protection mission" announced a day earlier by his British counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, offering instead what seems to be a softer version.France is working "at this moment on a European initiative" with Britain
  
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• Videos of water being dumped on police officers create stir

  23-07-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Cellphone videos of people brazenly dousing uniformed New York Police Department patrolmen with water have sparked outrage and led police officials to urge the force not to tolerate the behavior.Asked about the dousings in an interview Monday with local news channel NY1, de Blasio responded that "they are two very different incidents, one of which was not confrontational, the other of which was.
  
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• Lawmaker, conservative group seek ethics probes of Rep. Omar

  23-07-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A Minnesota state legislator and a conservative group announced Tuesday that they are seeking ethics investigations into U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar for a range of alleged offenses.Steve Drazkowski, a Republican, and Judicial Watch both say Omar may have committed immigration fraud by marrying someone they say is her brother.Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, previously denied the allegation and called such claims "disgusting lies." A spokesman didn't immediately
  
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• Iowa couple receives 3-year probation after dehydrated infant found with cocaine in system

  23-07-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iowa couple was sentenced to three years of probation last Thursday aftertheir then-3-month-old baby girl tested positive for cocaine, according to theDes Moines Register
  
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• 'Racist'? UPenn Prof. Amy Wax says U.S. better with more white than non-white immigrants

  23-07-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Amy Wax said more immigration leads to dirtier cities. Penn Law's dean said comments were bigoted and possibly racist, but didn't address her tenure.
  
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• A priest, a car crash and bags full of stolen parish money

  23-07-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Emergency workers responding to a car crash in a California town last month found a priest with a fractured hip and, much to their surprise, bags of cash he allegedly stole from the local parish.The Diocese of Santa Rosa, north of San Francisco, said in a statement on Monday that $18,000 in church collections were found in Father Oscar Diaz's car at the time of the accident on June 17.It added that further investigation revealed "a prolonged history of theft," with more than $95,000 stolen from
  
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• Prince Harry warns that buying vegetables wrapped in plastic is a 'dirty habit'

  23-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke of Sussex has warned that the purchase of fruit and vegetables wrapped in plastic is a “dirty habit” that has “become normalised.” He questioned how it had become so common to buy peeled, pre-packaged vegetables, noting “it doesn’t make any sense”. The Duke was speaking to a small group of young activists at a conservation event at Windsor Castle, spearheaded by leading primatologist Dr Jane Goodall. He urged them to question supermarket staff a
  
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• Missing Canada teens now suspects in murder of tourists

  23-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Lucas Fowler, 23, an Australian citizen, and Chynna Deese, 24, from Charlotte, North Carolina, were found shot dead on July 15 on a highway in northern British Columbia, 20 km (12 miles) from Liard Hot Springs.Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been missing since July 19.
  
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• FBI Director: White-Supremacist Violence Accounts for Majority of Domestic-Terrorism Arrests Since Last October

  23-07-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  FBI director Christopher Wray told Congress on Tuesday that the majority of domestic-terrorism arrests since last October have been linked to white supremacy."I will say that a majority of the domestic-terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white-supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well," the FBI chief said in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.Wray explained that since October, the FBI has arrested a
  
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• Kyoto Animation arson killings didn't get much attention because we couldn't demonize guns

  23-07-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kyoto Animation killing left 34 dead, but it didn't have much impact because we don't pay attention to mass killings without guns. We should.
  
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• Republicans Aren’t Happy: Mueller Makes Last-Minute Request Ahead Of Testimony

  23-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Former special counsel Robert Mueller asked Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to swear in his longtime deputy as a witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday, according to multiple reports.Mueller asked that Aaron Zebley, who served as deputy on the special counsel’s probe, be sworn in as a witness in order to address any questions that he is not able to answer, according to sources familiar with the matter, The New York Times and CNN reported.Mueller is sche
  
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• University of Mississippi student Alexandria Kostial, 21, found dead in apparent homicide, suspect in custody

  23-07-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A Texas man is in custody after police found missing University of Mississippistudent Alexandria "Ally" Kostial dead by a remote lake in an apparenthomicide
  
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• EXCLUSIVE-Britain wins early European support for Hormuz naval mission

  23-07-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  France, Italy and Denmark gave initial support for a British plan for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, three senior EU diplomats said on Tuesday after Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker.The backing at a meeting of EU envoys in Brussels contrasts sharply with the lukewarm response shown by European allies to a similar American call first voiced at NATO in late June, when countries feared they could make U.S.-Iranian tensions worse."Britain
  
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• NAACP calls for impeaching Trump

  23-07-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Delegates at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual convention in Detroit voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling for the president’s impeachment.
  
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• Agreement affirms North Carolina transgender restroom rights

  23-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge approved a legal settlement Tuesday affirming transgender people's right to use restrooms matching their gender identity in many North Carolina public buildings.The consent decree between the state's Democratic governor and transgender plaintiffs covers numerous state-owned buildings including facilities run by executive branch agencies that oversee the environment, transportation and Medicaid, among others.In return, the plaintiffs have agreed to drop pending legal action agains
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein Confronts Legal One-Two Punch in Bid to Get Out of Jail

  23-07-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Freeing Jeffrey Epstein on bail might be a strategic shot in the arm for the accused child sex trafficker’s defense -- but it’s a long shot for his legal team.The advantage: freedom to help marshal a complicated case against charges that could put the 66-year-old money manager in prison for the rest of his life if he’s convicted.But “the facts are against them, the law is against them and the appellate standard is against them. They are running uphill again
  
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• Each special in its own way: bird spotting on Australia's islands

  23-07-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Sue Taylor has visited spots as remote as Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean and as familiar as Phillip Island in Victoria in search of raritiesThe Guardian/Bird Life Australia bird of the year poll will be back in October
  There’s something very romantic about islands. For a start there’s the wonderful isolation, the feeling of relaxing remoteness, the total absence of bustling city commuters. Picture tropical palm trees waving above pristine white beaches, lapped by sparkling tu
  
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• Trump could be the clown who solves the 70-year Kashmir crisis. India and Pakistan should let him try

  23-07-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Few places so mesmerising carry the pain of Kashmir. The Himalayan region, contested for seven decades by India and Pakistan, has been a hideout for Islamabad-backed militants; witnessed the forced expulsion of a Hindu community as authorities did nothing; and seen a Muslim-majority area become home to 500,000 Indian troops reportedly responsible for widespread abuses. It is place burdened both by history and the desire for something better. Into this mix now steps Donald Trump. Meeting this wee
  
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• Japanese military scrambles fighters to intercept Russian and Chinese planes

  23-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Japan's military scrambled fighter aircraft to intercept Russian and Chinese planes, Japan officials said on Tuesday, including an observation jet at which South Korean forces fired warning shots after it entered airspace over an island claimed by both Seoul and Tokyo.
  
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• UPDATE 2-U.S. military took defensive action against second Iranian drone last week

  23-07-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Navy ship took defensive action against a second Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz last week, but did not see the drone go into the water, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.The United States said on Thursday that a Navy ship had "destroyed" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the vessel, but Iran said it had no information about losing a drone."This was a defensive action by the USS Boxer in response to aggressive interactions by two Iranian UAS plat
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. may have brought down second Iranian drone last week -U.S. general

  23-07-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Navy ship may have brought down a second Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz last week, the head of U.S. Central Command said on Tuesday.The United States said on Thursday that a Navy ship had "destroyed" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the vessel, but Iran said it had no information about losing a drone."We are confident we brought down one drone, we may have brought down a second," General Kenneth McKenzie told CBS News in an interview.
  
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• Russia says Venezuela's opposition is in contact with Moscow

  23-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition, including representatives of its leader Juan Guaido, has been in contact with Moscow, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on its website on Tuesday."We've been actively talking to representatives of Venezuela's political landscape - government, opposition figures, including J. Guaido's people, who are reaching out to us," the ministry said, citing interviews given by the minister Sergei Lavrov to the media in Latin America.
  
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• US officials say USS Boxer may have downed 2 Iranian drones last week in the Strait of Hormuz

  23-07-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Defense official says sailors and Marines onboard the USS Boxer saw one of the drones go down, the other disappeared from radar and was believe destroyed; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon.
  
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• Sanders Won’t Say Whether You Can Keep Your Doctor under Medicare for All

  23-07-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Bernie Sanders declined to say Tuesday whether his Medicare for All plan would cause some to lose their doctors, instead emphasizing that every American will have access to a doctor.The Democratic presidential contender dodged during a CNN appearance when pressed on whether some doctors would decide to make themselves available only to the wealthy and not to see Medicare patients."That is not the way the system is going to work," the Vermont senator said. "The system is going to wor
  
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• President Trump knocks Rashida Tlaib for 2016 speech: 'This is not a sane person'

  23-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump mocks progressive 'Squad' member Rep. Rashida Tlaib at a summit for the conservative student group Turning Point USA.
  
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• U.S. to pay $15 minimum per acre to farmers hurt by China trade war

  23-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. government will pay a minimum of $15 per acre to farmers hurt by President Donald Trump's trade war with China under an aid package to be unveiled before the end of the week, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Tuesday."We'll have information for you before the week ends," Perdue told reporters when asked about the aid, which is planned to total about $16 billion.U.S. farmers, a key Trump constituency, have been among the hardest hit in the trade war between the world's two large
  
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• Israel condemns attacks on Saudi guest

  23-07-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli government officials on Tuesday condemned Palestinians who hurled abuse and chairs at a Saudi blogger visiting Jerusalem as a guest of the Jewish state.The Saudi visitor, named by Israeli public radio as Mohammed Saud, was one of six invitees from Arab states brought to Israel by its foreign ministry to give them fresh viewpoints on the country.Hassan Kabia, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, called it "barbaric" behaviour.
  
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• ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Apparently Believes McDonald’s Workers Make Tips

  23-07-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Reacting to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) calling for the federal minimum wage to be raised to $20 an hour, Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt insisted on Tuesday that minimum wage jobs were meant to give workers a start in the workforce before falsely claiming that fast-food workers supplement their incomes with tips.Following the House of Representatives passing a bill last week that would raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour, Tlaib said that due to the price of goods and service
  
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