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• Risk of clashes at rally mobilizes Portland, Oregon, police

  13-08-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Portland police are mobilizing to prevent clashes between out-of-state far-right groups planning a rally here and the homegrown anti-fascists who oppose them as America's culture wars seep into this progressive haven.Saturday's rally — and the violence it may bring — are a relatively new reality here, as an informal coalition of white nationalists, white supremacists and extreme-right militias hones its focus on Oregon's largest city as a stand-in for everything it feels is wrong wit
  
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• US homeland security chief: Racism is fueling some terrorism

  13-08-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  White supremacist ideology is helping fuel domestic terrorism in the United States, the head of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan appeared in Jackson, Mississippi, for a forum about preventing violence against religious groups. "The attack in El Paso and the violent white supremacist ideology that inspired it offends us all," McAleenan said Tuesday.
  
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• Did the Dayton gunman target his sister? Police can't agree

  13-08-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the first victims struck by the Dayton shooter during his 32-second rampage that left nine people dead was his younger sister, but whether he intentionally killed her remains unknown more than a week later, the Ohio city's police chief said Tuesday. Investigators have "radically different views" on whether Connor Betts targeted his 22-year-old sister, Megan, two hours after they arrived with a friend at a popular strip of nightclubs, Chief Richard Biehl said at a news conference. "There's
  
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• Shooting of two ICE offices in San Antonio was a ‘targeted attack,’ FBI officials say

  13-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  An ICE official blamed “misinformation” spread about the agency by politicians, media and activists.
  
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• Latest: Hong Kong police: 5 arrested after airport protests

  13-08-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong police say they have arrested five people for unlawful assembly, assaulting police officers and possessing weapons after a second day of mass protests at the city's airport.Officials said in a statement that some protesters detained, harassed and assaulted a traveler and a journalist, and obstructed ambulance workers from taking the two men to the hospital.Hong Kong's busy airport was the latest setting for large-scale pro-democracy protests that have rocked the city for months, with a
  
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• Lawmakers urge Trump to stop deportations to Iraq after Michigan man's death

  13-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The lawmakers say the president is risking causing more “preventable deaths” if he continues the deportations.
  
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• Google reportedly has a massive culture problem that's destroying it from the inside (GOOG, GOOGL)

  13-08-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Google has faced issue after issue over the past several years, and it sounds like a major reason for that is the company's culture.
  
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• Russia warns of 'foreign meddling' after protests

  13-08-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian lawmakers will hold a special session next week to discuss alleged "meddling" by foreign powers after huge protests in Moscow, following a government warning to YouTube. The speaker of the lower house State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Monday that "facts of meddling in domestic issues in our country" would be debated on August 19. Russia has accused foreign governments and media of backing the demonstrations, which have seen tens of thousands rally in recent weeks demanding free loc
  
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• Pakistan seeks urgent UN meeting on India action in Kashmir

  13-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan called Tuesday for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council, saying India's decision to strip its part of disputed Kashmir of autonomy poses "an imminent threat" to international peace and could lead to ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Muslim-majority region.Quereshi accused India in a letter to the council obtained by The Associated Press of implementing a "racist ideology" aimed at turning its part of Kashmir from a Muslim-majority into a Hindu-majority territory.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez Chides Barstool Sports for Anti-Union Tweets

  13-08-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chided Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for a series of tweets that several legal experts say violate federal labor law.“If you’re a boss tweeting firing threats to employees trying to unionize, you are likely breaking the law & can be sued, in your words, ‘on the spot,’” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.Portnoy then tweeted back, “Hey @aoc welcome to the thunder dome. Debate me.” Barstool, whi
  
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• Egyptian tycoon and Mubarak ally Hussein Salem dies

  13-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Hussein Salem, one of Egypt's most prominent businessmen and an ally of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, died in Spain on Tuesday, his niece and state media said.Salem was arrested in 2011 under an international warrant in Spain, where he fled in the aftermath of the 18-day popular uprising that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule.In 2016, Salem, who also holds Spanish citizenship, struck a deal to allow him and his family to return to Egypt without facing prosecution in return for giving up 75 percent
  
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• Massachusetts judge allowed to keep $181K salary amid federal charges for obstructing ICE

  13-08-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In a reversal, a Massachusetts judge indicted for allowing an undocumented immigrant to evade ICE will be able to keep her $181,328 annual salary.
  
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• Kansas City, Kansas, police fatally shoot rifle-toting man

  13-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Kansas City, Kansas, police shot and killed a man on Tuesday who told a hotel manager that he had killed his wife and was heading to a popular shopping and restaurant area.The "very angry and distraught" man entered the Country Inn & Suites near the Legends Outlet shopping area said he had killed his wife, said Jacob Honeycutt, general manager of the business.You better call police,'" Honeycutt told The Associated Press.
  
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• Beijing 'preparing tanks at Hong Kong border', warns Trump as protesters clash with police at airport

  13-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump warned that China was moving troops to the Hong Kong border as protesters clashed with riot police at the city's international airport for a second time on Tuesday night. Scuffles broke out after protesters allegedly detained two men, accusing them of being undercover Chinese officials. One of the men was bound with cable ties and appeared semi-conscious as protesters displayed his belongings on the floor. Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, said the man wa
  
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• The Latest: Police divided on whether gunman targeted sister

  13-08-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Police investigating the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, say the gunman's sister was among the first people he shot, but investigators are divided on whether he intentionally killed her.Chief Richard Biehl says evidence is so far inconclusive on whether 24-year-old Connor Betts targeted his 22-year-old sister Megan two hours after they arrived at the city's Oregon entertainment district together with a male companion.
  
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• New York Times columnist recalls Jeffrey Epstein saying that sex with teenage girls was historically acceptable and that criminalizing the act went against cultural norms

  13-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  James B. Stewart wrote about an "on background" conversation he had last year with Epstein in a piece published on Monday.
  
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• Sheriff: Ex-DOT official Hardee thought he had deal with a prostitute. It was a cop

  13-08-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  “These people out here like John Hardee and the other 13 who are out here buying sex, they’re promoting human trafficking,” Sheriff Leon Lott said.
  
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• Man kicks dog 15 feet in the air, attacks lifeguards at California beach, cops say

  13-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A Southern California dog is lucky to be alive after it was kicked 15 feet in the air during an unprovoked attack last week, according to police.
  
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• Blockade, beating, pepper spray on second day of Hong Kong airport chaos

  13-08-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Chaos gripped Hong Kong's airport for a second day Tuesday as pro-democracy protesters staged a disruptive sit-in that paralysed hundreds of flights, saw police fire pepper spray, and a mainland journalist beaten.Demonstrators defied warnings from the city's leader, who said they were heading down a "path of no return", and US President Donald Trump called for calm, saying his intelligence had confirmed Chinese troop movements toward the Hong Kong border.The latest protest led to ugly scenes at
  
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• FBI raids Jeffery Epstein’s ‘paedophile’ island as Justice Department announces staff shakeup at prison where he died

  13-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI has conducted a raid on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, according to reports, as two guards assigned to watch the disgraced financier before his apparent suicide in prison were put on administrative leave. Federal officials were seen spreading across the island of Little St James by US vessels and on golf carts, just two days after the disgraced financier died of an apparent suicide in a New York prison. Epstein was facing new sex trafficking and conspiracy
  
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• Sheriff: Deputy was on duty when he tried to have sex with minor in predator sting

  13-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The deputy showed up in his patrol car, but it wasn’t a teenage girl waiting, Sheriff Leon Lott said.
  
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• Quarter-size hail, 65-mph gusts, isolated tornado expected with Charlotte area storms

  13-08-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Severe storms could deliver quarter-size hail, 65-mph gusts and an “isolated tornado” to parts of the Charlotte region and the NC foothills and mountains Tuesday afternoon and evening, according to National Weather Service warnings.
  
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• 'It's not right': 7-year-old boy shot to death in St. Louis

  13-08-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Xavier Usanga was supposed to start second grade Tuesday.Instead, grief counselors were consoling his would-be classmates at Clay Elementary School, after the 7-year-old boy became the 11th child killed by gunfire in St. Louis since June.Xavier was shot Monday afternoon while standing near a teenager and two other children on the city's north side.
  
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• Woman tries to take child from mom’s arms and assaults parents at NC park, police say

  13-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Witnesses stepped in to help the parents after this incident at a popular central Asheville park.
  
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• Ten dramatic images from the Hong Kong airport protests and clashes with police

  13-08-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Protests at Hong Kong International Airport escalated for a second day, causing flights to be canceled at one of the busiest airports in the world.
  
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• US sued over legal access, better conditions for migrants

  13-08-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers are asking a federal judge to order U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide legal access to detainees and improve conditions in detention cells where reports of fetid conditions have sparked outrage.The request for a preliminary injunction was filed Monday in federal district court in Brownsville, Texas, on behalf of detainees who allege they have been held for weeks or months in fenced-in pens without the ability to call their relatives or lawyers.CBP, which includes the Border Pa
  
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• Muslim pilgrims pray in Mecca as haj winds down without incident

  13-08-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions of haj pilgrims began heading back to Mecca for final prayers on Tuesday as the world's largest annual gathering of Muslims wound down without incident despite the logistical challenges and escalating regional tensions.Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam’s holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and its organisation of the pilgrimage.Pilgrims participated in a symbolic stoning of the devil, part of the haj rituals, in Jamarat before returning to Mecca, where t
  
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• Russia told residents living near the site of last week's failed missile test to evacuate but then mysteriously canceled the order

  13-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Local residents living near the test site were told to evacuate for unspecified military activities, but then the order was canceled hours later.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 'boasted of collecting compromising material on the rich and famous'

  13-08-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein boasted about having compromising material on “an astonishing number” of rich and famous people, it has been claimed, while his British confidante Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly told friends that she and Epstein were videotaping everyone who visited Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean. The claims come as expectation mounts that his long-term companion Miss Maxwell, 57, could be sought by New York prosecutors for questioning as a potential witness, as th
  
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• Trump news: Fox News to air advert blaming mass shooting on president 'stoking fire of racists'

  13-08-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump will face a shock on Wednesday morning when his favourite breakfast show Fox and Friends runs an attack advert paid for by 2020 Democratic presidential challenger Julian Castro in which the candidate accuses him of “stoking the fire of racists” and inspiring the El Paso mass shooting.As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, Donald Trump says he has “no idea” if Bill Clinton was involved in the disgraced financier’s death, accusing former Preside
  
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• Trump immigration official offers revised version of 'give me your poor' Statue of Liberty inscription

  13-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  One of Donald Trump’s top immigration official has offered a revised version of the famous Statue of Liberty inscription which welcomes the world’s poor to justify a new tightening of the rules. Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, was asked whether the words of Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus poem found at the statute’s base still hold true today.  The poem’s final lines read: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled
  
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• Trump doubles down on baseless conspiracy theory linking Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein's death

  13-08-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Tuesday that he has “no idea” whether a conspiracy theory he promoted on Twitter claiming that former President Bill Clinton was somehow responsible for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a New York federal prison is actually true.
  
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• Someone who may have had inside information on the death of Jeffrey Epstein reported his apparent suicide on 4chan before the news went public

  13-08-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  An anonymous poster on a notorious online message board might have leaked medical information about Epstein's death before the news became public.
  
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• GOP challenger Weld denounces Trump's 'pathetic' boasting in El Paso

  13-08-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor and now a Republican presidential candidate, called President Trump “pathetic” for bragging about crowd sizes while visiting victims and medical staff at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, after a mass shooting left 22 dead and dozens injured.“He went out, as he should have, to the sites of the shootings and he said, ‘Boy, you should have seen the respect that was paid to the office of the president of the United States.If he doesn&rs
  
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• San Jose mayor wants gun owners to get liability insurance

  13-08-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The mayor of San Jose has proposed requiring gun owners in the nation's 10th largest city to carry liability insurance to cover taxpayer costs associated with firearm violence.If approved, Mayor Sam Liccardo's strict new measure proposed Monday would be the first of its kind in the nation to curb gun violence, the Mercury News reported .The city of 1 million was home to two children killed in a July 28 mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
  
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• These Bosnian refugees came to Charlotte 20 years ago. Why doesn’t it feel like home?

  13-08-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  When Almedina Suljicic Ijaz had her son a year ago, sadness almost overcame her joy.In that moment, she couldn’t help but think of the mothers in Srebrenica, a small town in Ijaz’s home country of Bosnia in eastern Europe.The Srebrenica massacre was 24 years ago, but it’s still not easy to talk about.
  
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• Suspect in student death charged separately with child porn

  13-08-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A tech worker accused of killing a Utah college student was charged Tuesday with 19 unrelated counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after investigators said they discovered child pornography on his computer.Ayoola Ajayi had images of children as young as 4, prosecutors said in charging documents.Investigators took the computer as part of the investigation into the death of 23-year-old University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck.
  
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• Ohio teen who had 10,000 ammo rounds arrested for threatening ‘every’ agent, FBI says

  13-08-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio teen was arrested on Wednesday after making a number of threats to law enforcement online, officials say.
  
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• The Latest: McConnell rival's campaign donations prosecuted

  13-08-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A prosecutor says the father of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes funneled corporate money into her failed U.S. Senate campaign in violation of federal law.Jerry Lundergan's attorney told a federal jury on Tuesday that mistakes were made in reporting the contributions, but no laws were broken.Prosecutors allege that Jerry Lundergan paid for campaign consultants and vendors through his business account without seeking reimbursement.
  
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• No teeth cleaning needed: Crocodiles shed old teeth, grow new ones

  13-08-2019 19:04
  Having one of the most powerful bites in the animal kingdom, crocodiles must be able to bite hard to eat their food such as turtles, wildebeest and other large prey. Now, researchers have found that crocodiles -- and even their plant-eating ancestors -- had thin tooth enamel, a trait that is in stark contrast to humans and other hard-biting species. These findings could suggest new approaches for dealing with people's teeth.
  
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• Joe Dirt's Dream Car: Rendered Charger Daytona Truck

  13-08-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Now that's some serious business in the front!In the imaginary world of digital rendering, the sky is the limit, so with that in mind, we now have an idea of what a pickup truck version of the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona would look like. This rendering combines the aero bits of the Daytona with the iconic muscle-car-meets-pickup shape of the second-gen Chevrolet El Camino.The digital artist behind Abimelec Design took the nose and rear wing off a Charger Daytona and grafted them onto the El Camin
  
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• DOJ accuses Dems of trying to 'game the system' in 'so-called' impeachment probe

  13-08-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Justice Department criticizes the Democrats' attempt to link the Don McGahn and Mueller grand jury cases as an attempt to search for a friendly judge.
  
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• Cop shoots and kills man who ‘rammed’ stolen tractor into patrol car, NC officials say

  13-08-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The deputy is on administrative leave, authorities say.
  
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• Tom Steyer reaches donor threshold for September debates

  13-08-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Billionaire Tom Steyer is one step closer to the September Democratic primary debates in Houston. He needs just one more poll to qualify.
  
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• Moscow court allows opposition candidate to run after protest: TASS

  13-08-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The Moscow city court cancelled a decision by an election commission to bar a Russian opposition candidate, Sergei Mitrokhin, from running in a municipal election in September, TASS news agency reported.The court ruled in favour of Mitrokhin three days after tens of thousands of protesters turned out at a rally in Moscow, in which Mitrokhin also took part.A month of demonstrations over elections for the Moscow city legislature have turned into the biggest sustained protest movement in Russia sin
  
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• Paris urges Putin to reply to Ukraine 'offers' ahead of Macron talks

  13-08-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  France hopes President Vladimir Putin will respond positively to moves by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to end the five-year-old conflict in the country's east, a French presidency official said Tuesday.French President Emmanuel Macron is due to host Putin for talks at his holiday residence in Bregancon in southern France next Monday, a rare bilateral visit by the Russian strongman to the West after years of growing tensions."President Zelensky has made offers to which -- it seems
  
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• 'Sorry for the inconvenience': Hong Kong protesters apologized to furious passengers after the city's airport was paralyzed for a second day

  13-08-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong protesters used carts to block departure gates, sending a message to the government and drawing attention to alleged police brutality.
  
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• Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture: family

  13-08-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody, her family said on Tuesday.Hathloul, along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists, were arrested over a year ago as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, which many of the detainees had long campaigned for.Some of the women appeared in court earlier this year to face charges rel
  
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• Trump: Give CNN's Cuomo a 'red flag' for his 'Fredo' rant

  13-08-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Tuesday suggested Chris Cuomo should be banned from owning a firearm after the CNN host was seen in a profanity-laced viral video confronting a man who called him “Fredo.”
  
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• 'I am absolutely committed': Kamala Harris fighting notion that she's overlooking Iowa voters

  13-08-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  In recent months, some Iowa party organizers haven’t always felt sure about Kamala Harris’ strategy in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
  
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