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• Ex-McConnell staffers lobbied for Russian-backed Ky. project

  31-07-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Two former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department for the development of a new Kentucky aluminum mill backed by the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, according to a new lobbying disclosure.
  
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• US immigration agency names Venezuelan minister among 'most wanted'

  31-07-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  United States immigration officials have added Venezuelan government minister Tareck El Aissami, a suspected drug smuggler, to their list of most wanted fugitives, they said Wednesday."Have you seen this #mostwanted #fugitive?," Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) posted on its Twitter account, alongside a picture of the industry minister and former deputy to President Nicolas Maduro.US federal authorities in March charged El Aissami with drug trafficking and dodging sanctions imposed by W
  
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• Democratic debate - LIVE: Trump loses yet another Republican congressman as Biden and other candidates prepare for 2020 showdown

  31-07-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is attacking a CNN anchor of colour for bringing up tweets the president launched against minority politicians and civil rights leader that were largely viewed as racist.He referred to journalist Don Lemon as “the dumbest man on television” for discussing the tweets at Tuesday night’s Democratic debates, adding, “I am ‘the least racist person in the world,’" appearing to quote his own previous claims about himself.The president found himself under
  
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• Top law enforcement official in Texas accused of rape, fired

  31-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  One of Texas' top law enforcement officials has been charged with sexual assault after a woman said he raped her after taking her into the woods during a party at his house. John Jones, a former Navy SEAL, was chief of intelligence and counterterrorism for the Texas Department of Public Safety until his arrest and firing on Tuesday. Jones caught the attention of President Donald Trump earlier this year when participating in a border security meeting with the president.
  
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• 'Please stay with me,' kidnapped Romanian girl begged police

  31-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a 15-year-old Romanian girl kidnapped earlier this month and now presumed dead has released recordings of her desperate calls for help to authorities whose handling of the case has caused public outrage and dismissals of officials.A mechanic from Caracal in south Romania has confessed to killing Alexandra Macesanu, who went missing on July 24, and another 18-year-old girl last seen in April.With authorities taking 19 hours to locate Macesanu after she made three calls to the emerge
  
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• U.S. puts sanctions on Iranian foreign minister Zarif, who says they won't affect him

  31-07-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, targeting the country's top spokesman and potentially hurting chances of diplomatic talks amid rising tensions between the two countries.Zarif, a critical figure in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, dismissed the action and said it would not affect him.U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal last year and ramped up sanctions to put pressure on Iran's economy.
  
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• 'Love hormone' has stomach-turning effect in starfish

  31-07-2019 21:59
  A hormone that is released in our brain when we fall in love also makes starfish turn their stomach inside out to feed, according to a new study.
  
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• Baby spiders really are watching you

  31-07-2019 21:59
  Baby jumping spiders can hunt prey just like their parents do because they have vision nearly as good. A new study helps explain how animals the size of a bread crumb fit all the complex architecture of adult eyes into a much tinier package.
  
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• A voracious Cambrian predator, Cambroraster, is a new species from the Burgess Shale

  31-07-2019 21:59
  Fossils of a large new predatory species in half-a-billion-year-old rocks have been uncovered from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. This new species has rake-like claws and a pineapple-slice-shaped mouth at the front of an enormous head, and it sheds light on the diversity of the earliest relatives of insects, crabs, spiders, and their kin.
  
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• George W. Bush paintings to go on display at Kennedy Center

  31-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Paintings of wounded US military veterans by former president George W. Bush are to go on display this year at a Kennedy Center gallery, the Washington-based national cultural center said Wednesday."The Kennedy Center is proud to share these works -- painted by a living president -- that honor the men and women who defend our freedom," its president Deborah Rutter said in a statement.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein reportedly told prominent scientists he wanted to impregnate 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch in order to 'seed the human race with his DNA'

  31-07-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly has discussed the idea since the early 2000s at dinners, conferences, and other gatherings.
  
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• Mapping Oregon coast harbor seal movements using wearable devices

  31-07-2019 21:38
  Wearable devices fitted to harbor seals reveal their movements around the Oregon coast, for a population that has been increasing following the implementation of marine reserves and protection acts.
  
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• Tim Ryan explains he 'wasn't protesting' by not putting his hand on heart during anthem at Democratic debate

  31-07-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  "Congressman Ryan wasn’t protesting and didn’t mean to make any statement last night in Detroit," read an email from the Ohio lawmaker's campaign.
  
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• Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope

  31-07-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  TESS, a space telescope searching for alien worlds, helped astronomers discover a potentially watery new planet. It's one of the nearest known worlds.
  
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• 3-year-old Chinese boy falls from six stories, gets saved by blanket-wielding crowd below

  31-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A three-year-old boy who fell from the sixth floor of a building on Monday wassaved after a crowd of bystanders used a blanket to catch him, China's CCTVreported
  
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• Report: Hamza bin Laden, Osama’s Son and Potential Successor, Is Dead

  31-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. has received intelligence that suggests Osama bin Laden's son and potential successor, Hamza, is dead, NBC News reported Wednesday.The three U.S. intelligence officials who spoke with NBC declined to share when, where, or how the younger bin Laden died, and would not say whether the U.S. was at all involved.The news, if confirmed, would dispel fears widely-held in the intelligence community that Hamza bin Laden was poised to succeed his father as the spiritual and tactical leader of al-
  
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• Gun store owner puts up billboard mocking 'the Squad': 'The 4 Horsemen are idiots'

  31-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Cherokee Guns, a gun store run by Doc Wacholz, put up a sign mocking "the Squad" of freshman U.S. representatives. "They're socialists," he said.
  
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• Fox News Show Blows Up Over Whether Trump Is Racist or Not: ‘This Is Insane!’

  31-07-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News’ early-afternoon gabfest Outnumbered went completely off the rails Wednesday as lone liberal panelist Jessica Tarlov tangled with her conservative colleagues over whether or not it is fair to describe President Trump as racist.Discussing the president’s days-long attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore, things quickly heated up when co-host Dagen McDowell was openly miffed when fellow panelist Lisa Marie Boothe continued to correct her as she tried to make a poi
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez responds to critics in Democratic debate

  31-07-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended progressives and her Green New Deal proposal from moderates' attacks after the party's presidential debate this week.
  
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• 'Everything changed,' says woman forced to be a child bride in America

  31-07-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Ashley Duncan got married on what started out as a typical school day school. She said she didn't realize "how big of a commitment I was making" when her aunt took her to the courthouse.
  
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• This math equation is dividing the internet, and no one can agree on an answer

  31-07-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  8 ÷ 2(2+2). Simple, right? WRONG. As someone who hasn't calculated anything more difficult than a restaurant tip in years, may I say that I can't believe we've made math trend on Twitter. You're all really gonna make me pull out my dusty TI-48 graphing calculator, huh. I'm really gonna have to dig through my post-grad brain like SpongeBob's memory files, burnt to a crisp, and calculate this equation. OK, I guess we're doing this. Pop quiz folks -- can you solve this controversia
  
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• Al Sharpton Is Not a Civil-Rights Hero

  31-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Imagine David Duke being a regular, esteemed guest and former honored host on Fox News Channel. Imagine every Republican presidential candidate scrambling to praise him whenever he’s in the news. Imagine David Duke being given a prime speaking slot at the Republican National Convention or President Trump welcoming him to the White House and openly soliciting his support. Imagine Duke appearing on White House visitor logs more than 70 times during Trump’s administration.Imagine all of
  
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• Ancestry will let you search online for relatives who were displaced by the Holocaust

  31-07-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust persecution records and making them searchable online for free.
  
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• 10-year-old girl's quick action saved 3-year-old during Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting

  31-07-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A 10-year-old is being hailed a hero for her quick thinking that may have saved a toddler from the gunman who opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
  
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• 10-year-old girl's quick action saved 3-year-old during Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting

  31-07-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A 10-year-old girl is being hailed a hero for her quick thinking that may havesaved a toddler from the gunman who opened fire at the annual Gilroy GarlicFestival in California on Sunday
  
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• Iranian women defy prison threats by sending veil videos - activist

  31-07-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Iranian women are sharing videos of themselves flouting laws forcing them to wear headscarves in public, despite a ruling they could face up to ten years in jail for doing so, a prominent activist said on Wednesday.Masih Alinejad, a U.S.-based Iranian journalist, started a social media campaign in 2014 encouraging women in Iran to share self-portraits without the Islamic veil, which she then shares on her Facebook page, "My Stealthy Freedom"."Today I have received lots of videos from inside Iran
  
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• Israel approves hundreds of Palestinian homes in West Bank amid reports of US peace plan rollout

  31-07-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel has made an unusual move to approve hundreds of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank amid reports the US is preparing to roll out its long-awaited peace plan.  Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, granted permits for 700 Palestinian houses but tried to appease his Right-wing base by also approving 6,000 housing units for Jewish settlers.   Israel rarely grants building permits to Palestinians and the move was seen as a potential concession to the White House
  
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• Boris Johnson’s Belfast Brexit Message Leaves Dublin and EU Cold

  31-07-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson went a long way toward cementing his working majority in the U.K. Parliament with a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday, but did little to break the Brexit impasse with Dublin and Brussels.The new prime minister met with the region’s main political parties in Belfast on the latest leg of a nationwide tour after taking office last week. He reiterated his plan to leave the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without a deal, while promising not to add infrastruct
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein appears in court for first time since reported jail injuries

  31-07-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  * Financier showed no ill effects after reported neck injuries* Prosecutors seek June 2020 trial on sex trafficking chargesJeffrey Epstein looks on near his lawyer Martin Weinberg and Judge Richard Berman during a status hearing in his sex trafficking case, in this court sketch in New York on Wednesday. Photograph: Jane Rosenburg/ReutersFinancier Jeffrey Epstein looked physically healthy when he appeared in court in New York on Wednesday in his sex trafficking case, about a week after reportedly
  
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• Animal friendships 'change with the weather' in the Masai Mara

  31-07-2019 18:54
  When it comes to choosing which other species to hang out with, wild animals quite literally change their minds with the weather, a new study reveals. The findings could help conservationists better predict the risk of extinction faced by endangered species.
  
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• Hours-old newborn baby found abandoned in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania police say

  31-07-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania are asking for the public's help after they say a newborn baby was found abandoned on Tuesday.
  
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• This equation has 2 wildly different answers depending on what you learned in school, and it's dividing the internet

  31-07-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  People keep getting different answers to this viral math equation. Here's how to solve it.
  
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• What the Protests in Russia Mean for President Putin

  31-07-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Protests in Russia were put down brutally. What the response reveals about President Putin's popularity and control.
  
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• Lyft driver fatally shot on 52nd wedding anniversary. He had just called his wife to celebrate

  31-07-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Harold Treadwell, 71, was driving for Lyft around 12:30 a.m. Sunday when someone outside of the vehicle shot him, Phoenix police said.
  
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• Fox News Proves Pete Buttigieg Right That All Democrats Will Be Called Socialists

  31-07-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSDuring Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared that it is time for Democrats to “stop worrying about what the Republicans will say” because no matter what agenda they embrace, “they’re going to say we’re a bunch of crazy socialists.”Following the debate, a number of conservatives and Republicans on Fox airwaves have already gone out of their way to prove the mayor right.Discussing the debate
  
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• Kane, once Pennsylvania attorney general, released from jail

  31-07-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Pennsylvania attorney general who was convicted of leaking grand jury material and lying about it is out of jail, walking free Wednesday after serving eight months behind bars.Kane resigned after being convicted in 2016 of perjury, obstruction and other counts for leaking grand jury material to a Philadelphia newspaper and lying about it.Kane won in a landslide in 2012, becoming the first woman and first Democrat to win the office.
  
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• Brazil inmates 'suffocated' during transfer after jail riot

  31-07-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Four inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots suffocated while being transferred to another jail, officials said Wednesday, taking to 62 the number killed over two days.The men were among 46 prisoners removed from the Altamira Regional Recovery Center in the northern state of Para on Tuesday, a day after clashes between rival drug factions left 58 dead, according to the latest death toll.On Tuesday, 30 prisoners were handcuffed and put in four cells on a bus that was to take th
  
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• India’s ‘coffee king’ found dead

  31-07-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of billionaire Indian coffee magnate V.G. Siddhartha was found by a river in southern India on Wednesday, a day after a letter revealed his concerns over deep financial problems and perceived harassment from tax authorities.
  
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• Gunman in 4 Wisconsin deaths may have imitated abduction of Jayme Closs

  31-07-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Ritchie German Jr., 33, killed his mother, brother and nephew and later killed a 24-year-old woman at another home before killing himself, police say.
  
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• Escape bids by rebel princesses throw spotlight on UAE rights

  31-07-2019 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Princess Haya, who is battling her husband Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum in a UK court, is the third princess who has sought to escape the Gulf emirate in recent years.Activists say the attempts by Haya and two of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters to escape the United Arab Emirates (UAE) throw a harsh spotlight on the country's rights record, even as it tries to present a glitzy and modern image to the West.In 2000, Sheikha Shamsa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum tried to esca
  
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• Poisonous grasses and livestock

  31-07-2019 17:29
  Stories of mass poisoning incidents of livestock due to toxic grasses made headlines especially overseas. Animal ecologists have studied whether this hazard is also lurking on German pastures.
  
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• Prosecutors have dropped an assault charge against a 10-year-old boy accused of throwing a ball at another child during recess. Outraged citizens had raised $15,000 for his legal defense.

  31-07-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The case sparked nationwide backlash over the severity of criminal charges against such a young child in what appeared to be a schoolyard conflict.
  
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• Tim Ryan: Democrats will 'lose 48 states' on a 'Medicare for All' platform

  31-07-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Ryan called the "Medicare for All" proposals a "potential disaster" for the party.
  
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• Philippines approves plan to build new Manila airport

  31-07-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The Philippines on Wednesday approved a plan to build a new airport near Manila, in a bid to ease congestion with the capital's existing airport operating at full capacity.Philippine conglomerate San Miguel will build the airport in Bulakan town, north of Manila Bay, that will feature four parallel runways and serve 100-200 million passengers a year, a government statement said."This new international airport is important in helping ease the congestion of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (
  
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• Why would a woman marry her dog?

  31-07-2019 16:42 via theguardian.com
  Elizabeth Hoad and her dog, Logan, tied the knot live on This Morning earlier this week – and they’re not the first to do so
  A woman married her dog. Eamonn Holmes gave the bride away. The groom, a golden retriever, wore a top hat. Love Island’s Kem Cetinay acted as a ring-bearer. It played out live and like a David Lynch fever dream on ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday. One viewer called it “deeply uncomfortable viewing”. “There has to be law against marryi
  
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• Match.com attacker found guilty of rape for lying to woman about having a vasectomy

  31-07-2019 16:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Match.com attacker has been found guilty of the rape of a woman he lied about having had a vasectomy to convince her to sleep with him, in the first case of its kind.  One of the worst serial rapists in Britain, Jason Lawrance had contacted thousands of women on the dating site Match.com or its partner company Dating Direct between 2009 and 2014, attacking 13 of them to "satisfy a selfish sexual need". The 54 year-old, who was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years and six
  
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• Family of Filippo Tenerelli still questioning Charles Manson's involvement in his death

  31-07-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of Filippo Tenerelli is still grappling with the possibility of his murder at the hands of Charles Manson’s satanic crew.
  
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• Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands

  31-07-2019 16:21
  More than one million plant and animal species worldwide are facing extinction, according to a recent United Nations report. Now, a new study suggests that Indigenous-managed lands may play a critical role in helping species survive.
  
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• The 14 Russian sailors who died aboard a top secret spy submarine could have probably made it out

  31-07-2019 16:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Rather than evacuate, the crew shut the hatch and fought the fire with everything they had it. An explosion is believed to have killed the crew.
  
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• Philip Pocock’s best photograph: Miriam the Berlin punk – and her rat Bestia

  31-07-2019 16:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘The punks were sceptical of my presence. One guy even headbutted me. In retrospect, I think it was a sign of acceptance’I was in my mid-20s when Cornell Capa, director of the International Center of Photography in New York, recommended me for a job documenting life in the American sector of Berlin while the city was still divided. As a young photographer, I was so nervous. All of these senior German officials were swanning around my studio inspecting my work.I blurted out that I was
  
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