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• Mental evaluation sought for school traffic shooting suspect

  11-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors are seeking a mental evaluation for a man accused of opening fire during a traffic dispute with another father during student drop-off at an Alabama elementary school.Court records show prosecutors requested a mental evaluation for 38-year-old Isaiah Johnson.Prosecutors wrote in a court filing that a friend of Johnson's had expressed concern for his mental stability since his wife died.
  
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• A Minnesota father told police he dropped his 5-month-old boy on his head for being 'fussy.' The baby died

  11-08-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Matthew Hoisser, 35, complained that his son was "difficult" and "fussy," according to court documents. He dropped the baby on his head, killing him.
  
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• Manhunt over: Escaped Tennessee inmate Curtis Ray Watson captured, death penalty possible

  11-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Curtis Ray Watson, 44, was charged with the murder of a correctional administrator after he escaped in the midst of a 15-year kidnapping sentence.
  
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• Eric Shawn: Joe Biden... and who?

  11-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly half of Democrats say he can beat President Trump.
  
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• DHS chief regrets 'unfortunate' timing of ICE raid of food processing plants in Mississippi

  11-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The sweep took place less than a week after a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that targeted Hispanics.
  
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• Trump administration defends Ice raids and says timing was 'unfortunate'

  11-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting head of homeland security admits raids in Mississippi were badly timed after El Paso attacks targeting Mexicans Acting secretary of homeland security Kevin McAleenan, right, speaks on the US-Mexico border in Arizona. Photograph: Randy Hoeft/APTrump administration officials are defending last week’s mass immigration raids in Mississippi, including emotional footage of a girl pleading with authorities to let her father go.Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner Mark Morgan a
  
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• Dayton bar patrons commemorate 1 week since mass shooting

  11-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  People who gathered at the scene of the Dayton mass shooting observed a moment of silence Sunday in tribute to the victims.Nine people were killed in the Aug. 4 attack that injured more than 30 people in the city's historic Oregon District.Investigators say Connor Betts, 24, opened fire with an AR-15 style gun outside the district's businesses.
  
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• Man loses leg while changing tire on Houston freeway causing chain-reaction crash, police say

  11-08-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Police initially reported the incident as a fatal crash, but they say the man lost a leg and is expected to live.
  
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• Goldman Sachs economists say fears rise that U.S.-China trade war leading to recession

  11-08-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "We expect tariffs targeting the remaining $300bn of US imports from China to go into effect," the bank said in a note sent to clients.U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 1 that he would impose a 10% tariff on a final $300 billion worth of Chinese imports on Sept. 1, prompting China to halt purchases of U.S. agricultural products.China denies that it has manipulated the yuan for competitive gain.
  
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• UAE-backed separatists pull back after seizing Yemen's Aden

  11-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemeni separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in the southern port city of Aden.Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that's been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015.
  
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• Probe of Michigan Police Officer's KKK Document May Lead to New Investigation of 2009 Shooting

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A prosecutor says an internal investigation of a white police officer whose house had an apparent Ku Klux Klan document on display will help determine whether there will be further review of the officer’s 2009 fatal shooting of a black man.
  
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• Police arrest white supremacist for threatening Walmart attack

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A white supremacist has been arrested after he posted a message on Facebook threatening a shooting at a Walmart in Florida, police have said.Richard Clayton, 26, was arrested after making an online threat on Friday, according to police, just days after a gunman stormed a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. That suspect, Patrick Crusius, reportedly posted an anti-immigrant screed on the online messaging forum 8chan shortly before the mass shooting. Mr Clayton reportedly wrote on Faceboo
  
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• Another 81 migrants rescued by charity ship off Libya

  11-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  French charities SOS Mediterranean and MSF rescued another 81 migrants off the coast of Libya on Sunday, who joined 130 others aboard the ship the Ocean Viking, an AFP reporter said.The young men, mostly Sudanese, who had left Libya late Saturday in a blue rubber dinghy, clapped and cheered as the ship came into view.The ship, jointly operated by SOS Mediterranean and Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has been patrolling international waters some 50 nautical miles off the coast of Tripoli.
  
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• Bolsonaro: Brazil doesn't need Germany's biodiversity funds

  11-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday dismissed the importance of Germany's funding of sustainability projects in the South American country's forests, as the European nation weighed withdrawing from the region."The country doesn't need this," the far-right president known for his ties to agribusiness told reporters about a possible loss of German funding in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest.Citing Environment Minister Svenja Schulz, German daily Tagesspiegel reported Saturday the governmen
  
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• No money, no sheep: lockdown hampers Eid in Kashmir

  11-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Tradition dictates that Muslims slaughter a sheep during Monday's Eid al-Adha festival, and despite the military lockdown in Kashmir's main city Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad was determined to respect the custom.Muslim-majority Kashmir is set to celebrate Eid al-Adha on Monday, exactly a week after India's Hindu nationalist government scrapped the restive region's special autonomy status and imposed a curfew.Locals mark Eid by buying tens of thousands of sheep and goats to kill in an annual ritual that
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Unveils New Plan to Reduce U.S. Gun Deaths by 80%

  11-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Some of her plan's details, like the elimination of the Senate filibuster, might have difficulty finding legislator support
  
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• Tanzania lays to rest dozens killed in fuel tanker blast

  11-08-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Tanzania on Sunday laid to rest most of the 71 people who died while trying to collect leaking petrol from an overturned fuel tanker that exploded.The deadly blast, which took place Saturday near the town of Morogoro, west of the economic capital Dar es Salaam, is the latest in a series of similar disasters in Africa.President John Magufuli declared a period of mourning through Monday.
  
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• Russia honors 'national heroes' killed in mysterious rocket blast

  11-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia has bestowed posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city.U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vladimir Puti
  
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• CORRECTED-Russians killed in rocket blast put forward for awards

  11-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia will consider bestowing posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.Officials have been drip-feeding information about the blast on a platform in the White Sea off northern Russia that caused a radiation spike in a nearby city.U.S.-based nuclear experts said they suspected the explosion occurred during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile vaunted by President Vl
  
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• For rescued migrant, Libya stay was worst ordeal on way to Europe

  11-08-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A young Ivorian mother endured a string of hardships before finally boarding the Ocean Viking rescue ship, but she says she would rather have died at sea than have to return to a Libyan detention centre where beatings were routine.The 28-year-old, who would give only her first name Bintu, was rescued Friday along with two of her children, aged one and three, and is now recovering aboard the charity ship Ocean Viking.Libya has been mired in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and kill
  
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• 'The feel-good story we need today': Flight attendant helps passenger with screaming baby

  11-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Screaming baby on a plane? No problem for one Frontier Airlines flight attendant, who gave a mom a break and adorably helped her baby calm down.
  
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• Salvini could take Italy out of EU, former PM warns

  11-08-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Matteo Salvini, who plunged Italy into turmoil by pulling out of a coalition government, could eventually take the country out of the EU, a former prime minister warned Sunday.Interior Minister Salvini, who said last week that he was pulling his anti-immigrant League party out of an increasingly acrimonious coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), "has no principles," Enrico Letta told AFP.With Salvini, an Italian 'Brexit' is not impossible," said Letta, who was Italy's pr
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein is 'gone, but justice still must be served': Accusers say they feel robbed

  11-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  After the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, women who say he raped them are angry and want authorities to continue the investigation.
  
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• Hajj transport poses challenge for Saudi hosts

  11-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  "We have reached nearly 2.5 million pilgrims this year and transporting all of these pilgrims is a challenge", Saudi Transport Minister Nabil al-Amoudi told AFP.According to the minister, "7,400 planes full of pilgrims arrived this year via Jeddah and Medina airports" and "more than 18,000 buses were mobilised" for the hajj.One of the largest gatherings in the world, the hajj is a set of rites unchanged for 14 centuries that takes place over five days between the holy city of Mecca and the surro
  
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• ‘Eagles need to eat too’: grouse moors take new approach to shooting

  11-08-2019 20:06 via theguardian.com
  Big Highland estates turn away from driven shooting in the name of rewilding
  It was over in seconds. High over the grouse moor two hen harriers wheeled slowly around each other before, suddenly, the female darted underneath her mate to catch a freshly caught meal dropped from his talons and took it back to their chicks.“That was a food pass,” said David Frew, the property manager of Mar Lodge, a vast Highland estate near Braemar in the southern Cairngorms. “You’re really
  
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• ‘#ClintonBodyCount’: Trump’s sharing Epstein conspiracy draws outrage

  11-08-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump drew widespread backlash after sharing a baseless conspiracy theory tying the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected convicted sex offender, to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  
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• '#ClintonBodyCount': Trump's sharing of Epstein conspiracy theory draws outrage

  11-08-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump drew widespread backlash after sharing a baseless conspiracy theory tying the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected convicted sex offender, to Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. adviser Bolton to urge tougher UK stance on Iran and China

  11-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, arrived in London on Sunday for talks at which he is expected to urge Britain to toughen its stance on Iran and Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei.As the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, its biggest geopolitical shift since World War Two, many diplomats expect London to become increasingly reliant on the United States.
  
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• The Arctic town at the centre of a Norway-Russia 'spy war'

  11-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  When Frode Berg was a guard on the border near Kirkenes, Norway, in the 1990s and 2000s, relations with neighbouring Russia were so good that he would do joint patrols and go fishing with his colleagues from across the line. They drank vodka toasts after holding an annual cross-border ski race. But in recent years this town of 3,500 on Norway's Arctic coast has found itself caught up in a geopolitical chess game between Nato and Russia. Mr Berg became the first pawn to be captured when he was ar
  
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• Versace apologies in flap over T-shirts sold in China

  11-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian fashion house Versace apologized Sunday in China for selling T-shirts that it said attached incorrect country names to cities, after being attacked on social media for challenging China's territorial integrity. Versace did not identify the T-shirt in its own post on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media site, but the Global Times newspaper said the item mislabeled Hong Kong and Macao as countries. Both are former European colonies that were returned to China in the late 1990s.
  
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• Beto O’Rourke says Trump retweeting Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies to distract from ‘terrorist attack in El Paso’

  11-08-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke has lashed out at Donald Trump for retweeting a conspiracy theory connecting Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison, saying the president was distracting from “an epidemic of gun violence” occurring “every single day” under his watch.The former Democratic congressman from Texas called out Mr Trump and “unfounded conspiracy theories” in an interview with CNN on Sunday after the president retweeted a post over the
  
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• Jaipur protest demands end to use of elephants to carry tourists

  11-08-2019 19:25 via theguardian.com
  About 100 animals transport visitors along kilometre-long cobbled path to the city’s iconic Amber FortAnimal rights protesters took to the streets on bicycles in the Indian city of Jaipur on Sunday, demanding an end to elephants being used to carry tourists to one of the country’s top attractions, the iconic Amber Fort.Encouraging the use of bicycles rather than burdening elephants was the aim of the protest, organised by the animal charity World Animal Protection (WAP) to mark World
  
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• Bannon Floats Idea of Michelle Obama Run Against Trump

  11-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Democrats eager to oust President Donald Trump in 2020 could pin their hopes on an eleventh-hour bid by former first lady Michelle Obama rather than the roughly two dozen candidates now in the mix, former White House strategist Steve Bannon suggested.“I don’t see anybody that’s on this stage right now that can take President Trump one-on-one,” Bannon, a key player in Trump’s 2016 victory, said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
  
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• Law enforcement officials capture an escaped Tennessee inmate

  11-08-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The manhunt for an escaped Tennessee prison inmate has come to an end. Police captured the man after catching him on a home surveillance camera.
  
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• Steve Scalise: Don’t blame Trump for mass shootings

  11-08-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president's no more responsible for that shooting as your next guest, Bernie Sanders, is for my shooting,” the Louisiana congressman said.
  
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• Fascist anthem played as bullfighting returns to Mallorca

  11-08-2019 19:02 via theguardian.com
  Far-right Vox leader shows support while animal welfare activists protest
  Hundreds of animal rights activists protested outside the bullring in Palma de Mallorca at the weekend as bullfighting returned to the island for the first time since it was outlawed in 2017.Around 400 protestors chanted: “It’s not art, it’s torture” and “No to bullfighting”, while inside the ring 12,000 people waited to watch some of Spain’s top toreros (bullfighters) enter the ri
  
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• Canada cable car cord severed in 'likely sabotage'

  11-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian police are investigating an apparent act of vandalism after a cord carrying cable cars was severed, sending all 30 of them crashing to the ground.The company said the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish, north of Vancouver, was not operating at the time of the incident, and that no guests or staff members were injured.The attraction’s manager told Canadian broadcaster CBC that maintenance on the line had been recently carried out “and it was a big, thick, beautiful healthy rope&r
  
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• UPDATE 1-Hundreds chant anti-India slogans in seething Kashmir on eve of Eid

  11-08-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people protested in Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Sunday against India's decision to curb its autonomy, despite new restrictions on travel and a seventh straight day of communications blackout.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government locked down the Muslim-majority region last Sunday, cutting off communications, detaining more than 300 political leaders and activists, and putting a "virtual curfew" into force with numerous roadblocks stopping movement.Seeking to tighten
  
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• India promises to ease Kashmir curfew as Pakistan accuses New Delhi government of 'ethnic cleansing'

  11-08-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian security forces said they had eased a week-long curfew and restrictions on movement in Kashmir ahead of a major Muslim festival on Monday. The move came as police denied carrying out a violent crackdown against protesters in the region, despite the emergence of footage showing troops firing into a crowd. Jammu and Kashmir police said on Sunday that “not a single bullet had been fired in the last six days” and called the reports “mischievous and motivated news”. The
  
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• Home equity lines of credit: How do they work, and should you get one?

  11-08-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A home equity line of credit is a way to borrow money against the value of your home and pay it back plus interest. Here's what that really means.
  
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• Ask the Captain: How dangerous is a cracked cockpit windshield? How do pilots handle one?

  11-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Should you worry if your plane experiences a cracked windshield or cabin window? Captain John Cox explains how they're built and how pilots respond.
  
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• CNN's Jake Tapper: Trump Spreads Conspiracies to Amplify the ‘Worst of Us’

  11-08-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  CNN anchor Jake Tapper blasted President Trump for amplifying conspiracy theories following accused serial sex-abuser Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide, noting that the president repeatedly uses his outsized voice to elevate the worst aspects of public discourse. After Epstein was found dead in his New York cell on Saturday, conspiracies quickly began to spread on social media about how the disgraced financier had supposedly been murdered in jail by the Clintons, with the hashtag Cli
  
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• Brazil ex-billionaire Batista out of jail: officials

  11-08-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Once one of the world's richest men, Brazilian entrepreneur Eike Batista was out of jail Sunday after having been detained for violating terms of his house arrest, prison officials said.Batista, 62, had been under house arrest pending an appeal of a 30-year jail sentence.Then on Thursday he was arrested in Rio de Janeiro on suspicion of insider trading and money laundering, the news portal G1 said.
  
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• Harris decries Trump's 'campaign of terror' against immigrants

  11-08-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, said President Trump’s administration is running a “campaign of terror” against immigrants.
  
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• ‘We live with scars’: accusers demand Epstein’s death not derail investigations

  11-08-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Anger and regret after Epstein was found dead in jail by apparent suicide: ‘He will never face the consequences of his crimes’Alleged victims Annie Farmer and Courtney Wild look on as their lawyers speak to the press at federal court following a bail hearing for Jeffrey Epstein, on 15 July. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesVictims of an international sexual trafficking scheme allegedly operated by Jeffrey Epstein reacted to his death with expressions of outrage and regret, and de
  
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• Republicans can find common ground on guns, Kellyanne Conway says

  11-08-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is "actively talking to Republicans and Democrats" on background checks, Conway said.
  
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• Former Billionaire Eike Batista Released From Prison in Brazil

  11-08-2019 17:14 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest man, was released from jail Saturday, as an appeals judge revoked a temporary arrest order that expired on Monday.He had been detained last week as part of the ongoing corruption probe known as Carwash. His detention was ordered amid worries Batista might hinder the investigation into financial markets and privileged information.The appeal justice cut short the arrest, ruling his detention can’t be used as a tool to constrain the def
  
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• Tear gas fired in Hong Kong with no end in sight to protests

  11-08-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Police fired tear gas Sunday inside a train station and in several other Hong Kong neighborhoods where protesters occupied roads in another weekend of anti-government demonstrations.Protesters hurled bricks at officers and ignored warnings to leave before tear gas was deployed in the Sham Shui Po area, police said, calling a march there an "unauthorized assembly." Nearby, protesters wearing gas masks gathered outside a police station in Cheung Sha Wan, as officers wearing their own protective ge
  
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• Kellyanne Conway on Epstein’s death: Trump wants everything investigated

  11-08-2019 16:48 via news.yahoo.com
  She addresses the president’s retweet of a Clinton conspiracy theory.
  
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• Epstein suicide sparks fresh round of conspiracy theories

  11-08-2019 16:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide Saturday morning in a federal jail launched new conspiracy theories online in a saga that has provided fodder for them for years, fueled by Epstein's ties to princes, politicians and other famous and powerful people.Online theorists Saturday quickly offered unsubstantiated speculation — including some retweeted by President Donald Trump — that Epstein's death wasn't a suicide, or it was faked.The combination created fertile ground for theories and m
  
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