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• 'I promise you, you're wrong': Fox News' Wallace shuts down Mulvaney claim Mueller vindicated Trump

  28-07-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  "The record will show what it shows. I promise you, you're wrong," Wallace said after Mulvaney claimed Mueller had cleared Trump of obstruction.
  
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• Donald Trump 'richly deserves' to be impeached, says top Democrat on House committee

  28-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump "richly deserves" to be impeached, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee which can unilaterally launch proceedings to remove the president from office has said. Rep. Jerrold Nadler has previously said that Mr Trump was guilty of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" - the benchmark for impeachment - but these were his strongest comments yet. "My personal opinion is that [Trump] richly deserves impeachment," Rep. Nadler told CNN's 'State of the Union'. "He has done many i
  
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• Puerto Rico chaos: Governor-apparent Wanda Vázquez doesn't want the job

  28-07-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The woman in line to become governor of Puerto Rico said she hopes Gov. Rosselló appoints a secretary of state who would then serve as his successor.
  
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• Trump doubles down on Cummings attacks, shares vulgar comment about Baltimore on Twitter

  28-07-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump doubled down on his attacks against House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, whose district he called a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” by retweeting a comment from a British columnist who referred to Baltimore as a “proper sh*thole.”
  
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• Liberal groups seek to make Supreme Court an issue in 2020 presidential race, and conservatives exult

  28-07-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate over the shape and structure of the high court threatens to upend the presidential race and further politicize the nation's judiciary.
  
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• Chaser: ‘World’s smartest dog’, which knew over 1,000 words, dies aged 15

  28-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Many owners struggle to teach their dogs to sit, fetch or even bark on command, but John Pilley, a retired psychiatrist, taught his border collie to understand more than 1,000 nouns, a feat that earned them both worldwide recognition.In 2004, Mr Pilley bought a black-and-white border collie he named Chaser.For three years, Mr Pilley trained her for four to five hours a day. He showed her an object, said its name up to 40 times, then hid it and asked her to find it.He used 800 cloth animal toys,
  
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• Two-year-old boy missing after both parents found dead in apparent 'murder-suicide'

  28-07-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are looking for an Oregon toddler who remains missing after his parents died in what is believed to be a murder suicide. The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for Aiden Salcido, aged two, whose parents Daniel Salcido and Hannah Janiak died after fleeing from police. The couple, who had felony burglary warrants for their arrest, were found dead on Wednesday in Kalispell, Montana. Shortly before, officers had stopped a car and identified Salcido and Janiak inside. How
  
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• Bernie Sanders denounces 'greed' of American drug companies

  28-07-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accused American pharmaceutical companies Sunday of letting diabetic patients die out of "greed," after he accompanied a group of Americans to Canada to buy insulin.Sanders joined the group, which took a bus from the US city of Detroit to Windsor, Ontario to restock on insulin, which costs 10 times more in the United States than in its northern neighbor."How come the same exact medicine, in this case insulin, is sold here in Canada for one-tenth of the price
  
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• Julian Castro Is ‘Hypercritical’ Of Trump Immigration Policies He Once Praised Under Obama

  28-07-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, a fervent opponent of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, was called out for his past praise of former President Barack Obama’s immigration enforcement policies.“I want to ask you about immigration which you have made a part of your campaign focus,” said “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan Sunday. “When you were mayor of San Antonio, you testified before Congress and you called for increased
  
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• The Latest: Teens' schools react to officer's Rome killing

  28-07-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A high school and a community college in California have issued statements about the two American teenagers who are being held in the slaying of a police officer in Italy.J.C. Farr, principal of Tamalpais High School north of San Francisco, confirmed 18-year-old Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth and 19-year-old Finnegan Lee Elder graduated in 2018.
  
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• Nigeria bans local Shi'ite group after protests

  28-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigeria's government has banned a Shi'ite Muslim group whose followers have been holding protests to demand the release of their detained leader, accusing the group of inciting violence.At least 20 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria have been killed over the past week during a series of protests that have shown little sign of abating, raising pressure on the government.Nigerian police have responded with teargas and gunfire to the protests and a court on Saturday granted the government p
  
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• Police: 1998 Arkansas school shooter killed in crash

  28-07-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who was 11 years old in 1998 when he and a friend fatally shot four students and a teacher at their Arkansas middle school has died in a crash on a northeastern Arkansas highway, the State Police said.Drew Grant, 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden and had been living in Jackson, Missouri, died at around 9 p.m. Saturday, television station KAIT reported.Three other people were injured in the crash and taken to hospitals, according to a State Police preliminary summary o
  
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• 'Pink Lady Bandit,' wanted by FBI after string of bank robberies along the East Coast

  28-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the suspect who robbed four banks along the East Coast.
  
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• Brazil miners kill tribal leader in Amazon land invasion

  28-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Armed miners have reportedly invaded a village in a remote part of Brazil and killed a tribal leader. Villagers fled but were planning to return, sparking fears of a "bloodbath," according to local reports. The violence began last week when the indigenous leader was reportedly stabbed to death in an area belonging to the Waiapi tribe in Amapa state, in the north of the country. It came as around 50 miners, known as "garimpeiros," were said to have overrun the Waiapi village of Mariry. The leader
  
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• Death toll in Nigeria Boko Haram attack up to 65: official

  28-07-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday."It is 65 people dead and 10 injured," local government chairman Muhammed Bulama said.Bulama said more than 20 people died in the initial attack on a funeral gathering.
  
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• Kenya governor of president's home area held for corruption

  28-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The governor of President Uhuru Kenyatta's home region has been detained by authorities, a lawyer said Sunday.It is the latest of a series of arrests of top government officials in a push by Kenyatta to crackdown on runaway graft.Governor Ferdinand Waititu surrendered himself Sunday to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission following prosecution orders issued Friday by the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji, said his lawyer Kipchumba Karori.
  
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• Trump wins SCOTUS case to allow Pentagon funding to build border wall

  28-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Retired ICE supervisor Thomas Kilbride says the Supreme Court did the right thing, this is a big victory for the president.
  
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• Emmett Till memorial will be made bulletproof after photo of gun-toting students surfaces

  28-07-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Emmett Till's memorial will be bulletproof after outrage over a photo of three gun-toting Ole Miss students posing in front of the sign.
  
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• Romania suspect admits murdering two teenage girls

  28-07-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A man in Romania has admitted to killing two teenage girls including a 15-year-old whose disappearance this week shook the country and claimed the scalp of the police chief, the suspect's lawyer said Sunday.The suspect, named as 65-year-old Gheorghe Dinca, "has confessed his crimes", lawyer Alexandru Bogdan was quoted as saying by Agerpres news agency.After initially refusing to answer any questions, Dinca eventually caved and admitted to the murders of Alexandra who vanished on Wednesday and 19
  
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• Woman wakes up in hotel, finds snake on her arm: 'I won't be sleeping for a while after this'

  28-07-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk about a rude awakening: A woman staying at a Hampton Inn in Memphis, Tennessee, woke up to find a snake stretched across her arm.
  
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• Indian villagers beat tiger to death after attacks

  28-07-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  An investigation has been launched in India after a tigress blamed for injuring a number of villagers was clubbed to death in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The killing was compared to a “lynching” by Indian media and online commentators after news channels aired footage of over 40 villagers beating the tiger to death with sticks and clubs. Forestry Department officials said they tried to intervene and remove the animal from the game reserve that bordered the village in Uttar P
  
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• Vietnam detains 380 Chinese people in illegal online gambling bust

  28-07-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Vietnam on Sunday detained more than 380 Chinese people accused of running the country's largest-ever underground online gambling ring, the government said.Gambling is illegal in Vietnam in most cases, though foreigners are allowed to gamble at local casinos.Last year, Vietnam said it would allow some local citizens to gamble at selected casinos on a trial basis.
  
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• Blast, gunbattle at Afghan VP candidate's office, 2 dead

  28-07-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The political office of the Afghan president's running mate was hit by a large explosion and stormed by several gunmen who remained holed up inside, Afghan officials said Sunday.The attack in the capital, Kabul, killed at least two people and came on the first day of campaigning for presidential elections, scheduled for late September.Vice-presidential candidate and former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh was "evacuated from the building and moved to a safe location," said Nasrat Rahimi, the in
  
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• Trump campaign appoints beauty queen who was ‘stripped of title over offensive tweets about Muslims and black people’

  28-07-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A student who lost her beauty queen title over tweets about Muslims and black people is joining a Trump campaign advisory board.Kathy Zhu said she was crowned Miss Michigan but lost her title after organisers discovered her tweets.“It has been brought to the attention of Miss World America (MWA) that your social media accounts contain offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content,” MWA appears to have said, in an email Ms Zhu posted online.The organisation stated the removal of th
  
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• Baltimore Sun Slams President Trump After Attacks: 'Better to Have a Few Rats Than to Be One'

  28-07-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  "Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics"
  
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• F-15s Attack!: Israel Shot Down 88 Syrian Fighter Jets In this Famous Battle

  28-07-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  By June 1982, the Lebanese Civil War had been going on — off and on — for seven years. It began as a conflict between Christian Planange Party militia and various Muslim factions, including, the PLO (which had been in Lebanon since 1970, following its ousting from Jordan). As explained by Steve Davies and Doug Dildy in their book F-15 Eagle Engaged,  in May 1976 the Syrians added their troops, tanks and aircraft to the mix, ostensibly to stabilize the situation but ult
  
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• 'Abortion is freedom': Pro-choice billboard adverts protest all-male council declaring city ‘sanctuary for the unborn’

  28-07-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Almost overnight, a small town nestled in the heart of the Southern Bible Belt has become a battleground for America’s deeply divisive debate over women’s reproductive rights.There are no abortion clinics in Waskom, located near the Louisiana border, but last month an all-male city council passed an ordinance largely written by an anti-abortion group declaring it a “sanctuary city for the unborn”.Officials insisted it was a preventive measure, designed to allay the counci
  
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• 'I'm going to faint'; Family, friends react to arrest of Bay Area men charged with murder of Italian police officer

  28-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian authorities say Elder and Natale Hjorth have confessed to being involved in a violent altercation that resulted in the stabbing death of the officer.
  
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• Trump Deserves Impeachment But No Decision Made Yet, Nadler Says

  28-07-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached, but the House Judiciary Committee is still investigating to determine whether to report resolutions to the full House, the panel’s chairman said.“He richly deserves impeachment. He has done many impeachable offenses. He’s violated the law six ways from Sunday,” Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” one of two TV appearances on Sunday. “The questi
  
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• Arizona lawmaker criticized for saying US might look like South America

  28-07-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Sylvia Allen, a Republican from Snowflake, made the comments at an event celebrating Mormon political pioneers, according to the Phoenix New Times.
  
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• British man who ‘faked death’ while facing rape charges arrested in US

  28-07-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A British man has been arrested in the US after allegedly faking his own death while facing rape charges in Scotland.Kim Gordon, also known as Kim Vincent Avis, disappeared in February after his son reported that he had not come out of the sea after swimming at a Californian beach.But investigators said the boy’s account “fell apart” and he could not say how they supposedly travelled to Monastery Beach, which is locally nicknamed Mortuary Beach because of frequent drownings.The
  
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• Vatican says no recent bones found in search of ossuary

  28-07-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts say they have found no recent bones in their examination of a ossuary as part of a search for a teenager who disappeared 36 years ago, Vatican officials said Sunday.A Vatican spokesman said a team of specialists, who completed their work Sunday, had found no bones old enough to match those of Emanuela Orlandi, the missing teenager.Forensics specialist Giovanni Arcudi, who led the team, said they had found "no bone structure dating back to a period later than the end of the 19th century,"
  
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• The Second 2020 Democratic Debate Is Almost Here. Here’s Everything You Need to Know

  28-07-2019 16:19 via news.yahoo.com
  20 presidential candidates will face off in Detroit
  
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• Supermarkets told to shut the door as it emerges open fridges use one per cent of Britain's electricity

  28-07-2019 16:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Supermarket fridges should be closed, campaigners have said, as it emerges that the appliances use up one per cent of all UK electricity. Most shops use open fridges, which use far more energy to stay cool than alternatives with doors. These are favoured by supermarkets because it means customers are able to grab products quickly. However, they have been criticised by campaigners and MPs as a "massive waste of energy and money" which are contributing to global warming. A study carried out with t
  
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• Michigan voters slam Joe Biden on CNN panel

  28-07-2019 15:41 via news.yahoo.com
  One Michigan voter calls Joe Biden 'Hillary Clinton 2.0.'
  
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• Family, supporters cheer as father leaves custody one day after Bronx twins' hot car death

  28-07-2019 15:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Police said twin babies died inside a car in the Bronx after their father told police he forgot they were there, went to work for the day, and found them hours later.
  
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• ‘Doomsday prepper’ held twin daughters captive and sexually abused them for years, police say

  28-07-2019 14:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida couple described as “doomsday preppers” allegedly abused their adopted twin daughters, subjecting them to beatings, sexual assaults and a restricted food intake, police said.Mirko and Regina Ceska were arrested on 12 July for charges including sexual assault and neglect.Their 22-year-old daughters escaped from the family’s home in Wakulla County on 28 June 2019 after 11 years of suspected abuse.The women were adopted from the foster case system in 2008 at the age of 1
  
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• UPDATE 1-Beijing says millions of tonnes of U.S. soy shipped to China in trade consensus

  28-07-2019 14:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries' leaders met in June, Chinese state media said on Sunday, an apparent sign of goodwill before trade talks in Shanghai this week.The U.S.-China trade war has curbed the export of U.S. crops to China, with soybean sales falling sharply after Beijing slapped tariffs of 25% on American cargoes.China has made enquiries to U.S. suppliers for the purchase of soybeans, cotton, pork sorghum and other agricul
  
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• Baltimore paper blasts Trump after his attacks on city: 'Better to have a few rats than to be one'

  28-07-2019 14:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Baltimore Sun editorial board lit up President Trump Saturday night for his Twitter tirade against its city and Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful Democrat who represents Maryland’s Seventh District.
  
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• Are Democratic presidential candidates underestimating the importance of faith to American voters?

  28-07-2019 13:57 via news.yahoo.com
  As 2020 Democrats prepare to take the debate stage, will faith be a part of the discussion? Reaction from Fox News contributor Jonathan Morris.
  
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• Beijing says China stepping up U.S. soy imports, yet to show up in U.S. data

  28-07-2019 13:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese state media said on Sunday the United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries' leaders met in June, although U.S. government data shows that the volume was much less.The U.S.-China trade war has curbed the export of U.S. crops to China, with soybean sales falling sharply after Beijing slapped tariffs of 25% on American cargoes.U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data shows that just 1.02 million tonnes of soybeans were shipped to China for
  
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• Dozens of migrants still stuck on vessel in Italy port

  28-07-2019 13:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian coastguard vessel stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 130 migrants aboard has been allowed to dock in the eastern Sicilian port of Augusta but Rome on Sunday refused to let them disembark until a deal is struck with the EU."The Gregoretti berthed in the port of Augusta overnight, as is normal procedure for a military vessel.Now the EU has to act because the migration question concerns the whole continent," Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said in a statement.
  
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• Cyprus frees Israelis in rape case, accuser arrested

  28-07-2019 13:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Cyprus police Sunday released from detention seven Israelis and said the British teenager who accused them of gang rape would face court on suspicion of making a false allegation."All seven Israelis have been released, since 10:00 am," police spokesman Christos Andreou told AFP.Earlier, a police source said the British teenager had been arrested.
  
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• Man Who Claims He Started ‘Storm Area 51’ Facebook Page Reveals Identity

  28-07-2019 13:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The reported creator of the viral Facebook page “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” revealed his identity to KLAS-TV of Las Vegas on Thursday.Matty Roberts, a California resident, claimed he created the satirical Facebook page, which calls on people across the nation to raid Area 51, the top-secret Air Force facility in Nevada on Sept. 20, 2019. Roberts said he never expected the page to attract so much attention. Since its launch on June 27, 1.6 million people resp
  
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• U.K. Deploys Destroyer to Protect Shipping in Strait of Hormuz

  28-07-2019 13:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. has deployed one of its Type 45 warships to help escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British vessel amid heightening tensions with the West.The frigate, HMS Duncan, will operate alongside the Royal Navy’s HMS Montrose Type 23 to shepherd British-flagged ships through the strait, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The air defense destroyer will operate until late August, it said.Tensions have been flaring in the Strait o
  
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• One Pilot Tells Us How to Shoot Down a B-52 Bomber

  28-07-2019 13:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In response to the North Vietnamese “Easter Offensive” into South Vietnam in 1972, President Nixon suspended peace talks on May 8 and ordered Operation Linebacker, the renewed bombings of North Vietnam and the aerial mining of its harbors and rivers. When North Vietnam seemed ready to talk peace in October, Nixon directed yet another bombing halt. North Vietnam then balked for two months over cease-fire provisions. So, Nixon eliminated the sanctuaries and ordered the heaviest bombing
  
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• Duterte Visits Quake-Hit Philippine Area as Tremors Continue

  28-07-2019 12:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Rodrigo Duterte visited the northern Philippine province of Batanes on Sunday, a day after earthquakes struck the region and killed at least eight people including a newborn.Duterte conducted an aerial inspection of the damage and order authorities to ensure supplies are provided to victims, the Manila Bulletin said on its Twitter account. He pledged 40 million pesos ($783,000 million) to the province, after his spokesman Salvador Panelo said early Sunday that the presid
  
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• Trump Fed pick’s push for gold troubles lawmakers

  28-07-2019 12:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Prominent economists agree that a return to a gold-linked dollar would not be better for the average American.
  
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• Some Questions for the Democratic Candidates

  28-07-2019 12:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic presidential circus pitches its tent in Detroit this week. It will be especially entertaining if the presidential aspirants are asked some questions like these:For Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders especially, but others, too: Three of Barack Obama’s few large achievements were the twelve-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Affordable Care Act — the most significant expansion of the social safety net since 1965 (Medicare and Medicaid) &mdas
  
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• How Mueller’s Lawyers Spun the OLC Guidance on Indicting a Sitting President

  28-07-2019 12:30 via news.yahoo.com
  This is Part Two of a two-part series. In Part One, we took a look at the OLC guidance that bars the indictment of a sitting president. (The OLC is the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.) In particular, we looked at (a) how, in investigating President Trump for purported obstruction, special counsel Robert Mueller’s staff distorted the guidance into a prohibition against even considering whether an offense occurred; and (b) the futile hope of congressional Democrats, durin
  
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