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• French hiker missing in Italy nine days found dead

  18-08-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of a French hiker who disappeared nine days ago south of Naples was found Sunday, local Italian authorities said. "The body of Simon Gautier has been found a short while ago," the authorities in Sapri, near Belvedere di Ciolandre where the 27-year-old hiker was found dead. Gautier called for help on August 9, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs, but was unable to give his location other than "in the middle of nowhere, on the coast".
  
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• Far-right and antifa groups both claim victory at Portland

  18-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  With both the left and the right declaring victory following a long-hyped rally that had Portland, Oregon, on edge it seems the liberal city will continue to be a flashpoint in an increasingly divided country.City officials were mostly relieved that a downtown gathering Saturday of more than 1,000 far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators wasn't as violent as feared."I'm grateful this was largely a peaceful event," Mayor Ted Wheeler said.
  
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• FEC chairwoman calls out Trump over New Hampshire voter fraud claims

  18-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "To put it in terms a former casino operator would understand: There comes a time when you need to lay your cards on the table or fold," Weintraub wrote.
  
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• Migrant rescue ship stuck off Italy rejects Spain port offer

  18-08-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A charity vessel carrying 107 rescued migrants and stuck in limbo off Italy on Sunday rejected an offer to go to Spain as "absolutely unrealistic" because of the "humanitarian emergency" on board.Spain had offered to take in the Proactiva Open Arms ship anchored off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, slamming Italy's "inconceivable" refusal to allow it to dock after 17 days at sea.Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, has refused to allow migr
  
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• 'Fox is different': Donald Trump slams Fox News, questions favored network's poll

  18-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump blasted Fox News, questioning what has long been a favored network for the president after a recent poll found his approval rating slipping.
  
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• 4 Louisiana men to plead guilty in Mississippi bribe scheme

  18-08-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Four Louisiana men say they'll plead guilty to charges that they tried to bribe a Mississippi sheriff with $2,000 in casino chips, seeking lucrative jail contracts.Michael LeBlanc Sr. of Baton Rouge, Michael LeBlanc Jr. of Prairieville, Tawasky Ventroy of Opelousas and Jacque Jones of LaPlace have filed notices this month in federal court in Jackson saying they will change their previous not guilty pleas.All are accused of scheming to win contracts to sell inmates phone service and commissary go
  
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• Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana governor during Katrina, dies at 76

  18-08-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Blanco was the first elected female governor in Louisiana's history. She died Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
  
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• Hundreds answer husband's viral post to attend funeral of El Paso mass shooting victim

  18-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Margie Reckard, one of 22 killed in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, was honored by more than a thousand people.
  
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• The Latest: Families bury their dead after wedding attack

  18-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States envoy who is negotiating with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan says the peace process needs to be accelerated in the wake of a deadly attack on a wedding in the capital, which was claimed by the local Islamic State affiliate.Zalmay Khalilzad said in a Twitter post Sunday that success in the peace process — one that includes the Taliban talking with the Afghan government and other Afghans — will put the country in a "much stronger" position to defeat the IS
  
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• Cathay Remains Under Scrutiny After CEO Takes Fall for Protests

  18-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is counting on the resignation of its British chief executive officer, Rupert Hogg, to move beyond the tumult that saw its employees’ participation in the Hong Kong protests draw the ire of Beijing. But will it be enough?Incoming CEO Augustus Tang has the delicate task of continuing to placate China, an increasingly important market for the 72-year-old airline, while also minimizing the fallout from staff, customers and investors as the unrest in
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march for democracy in latest Hong Kong protest against China

  18-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Heavy rain failed to keep hundreds of thousands of protesters from swarming Hong Kong streets Sunday to rally against the Beijing government.
  
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• Massachusetts RMV suspends 869 more drivers two months after deadly N.H. motorcycle crash

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Massachusetts RMV has now suspended more than 2,400 drivers for out-of-state violations that weren't processed. More are likely.
  
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• Drug dealer spared jail after telling judge his baldness had ruined his life

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge spared a drug dealer from jail after hearing his alopecia had led to a life of ridicule and that selling drugs was a way of making friends. Cameron Bridges started selling drugs after being frozen out by his peers for much of his school life and to support his £150 a day cocaine habit. Bridges, of Polperro, Cornwall, admitted possession of cocaine, ketamine and cannabis with intent to supply, as well as possession charges and assaulting an emergency worker. Truro Crown Court h
  
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• Syria regime forces enter key town amid fierce clashes: monitor

  18-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian regime forces entered a key northwestern town on Sunday amid intense fighting with jihadists and their rebel allies which has left dozens of combatants dead, a war monitor said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported "fierce clashes" as it said regime ground troops penetrated Khan Sheikhun in Idlib province for the first time since they lost control of it in 2014.The latest fighting, which broke out overnight Saturday to Sunday, has already killed at least 59 jihadists and allied
  
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• White House economic adviser: 'I sure don't see a recession'

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow dismissed fears about a possible recession after a roller-coaster week for stocks.
  
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• Yuba City man dies in apparent suicide in standoff after police answer assault call

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A 29-year-old man died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Yuba City apartment during a standoff with police on Friday, according to a Yuba City police press release.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi warns cuts in foreign aid could jeopardize budget deal

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Pelosi warned that such a package could be approved only by Congress.
  
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• Migrants jump off rescue boat to try to reach Italian island

  18-08-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government's hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to let the 107 passengers disembark."We have been warning for days, desperation has its limits," said Open Arms founder Oscar Camps, who released a video showing four migrants wearing orange life vests swimming toward Lampedusa island.In the evening, Open Arms urgently requested permission to enter Lamped
  
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• Mexico City assesses monument damage after anti-rape march

  18-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City's iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous protest over a string of alleged rapes by police.The deputy director of artistic patrimony at the National Fine Arts Institute, Dolores Martínez, said at the base of the statue that officials were assessing the damage to the Angel and other points in the capital that protesters attacked.Protesters wrote phrases like "They don't take ca
  
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• San Francisco homeless man accused of attacking woman wearing ankle monitor

  18-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC7 News has confirmed that the man accused of attacking a woman outside her San Francisco apartment building has been fitted with an electronic monitor.
  
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• Far-right Proud Boys claim 'mission success' in antifa protest, vow to hold monthly Portland rallies

  18-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The far-right Proud Boys claimed success and vowed monthly protests in Portland after an 'End Domestic Terrorism' rally in Oregon's largest city.
  
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• 7 shot after random Snapchat invites to ‘instant house party,’ Texas cops say

  18-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  An “instant party” in Texas ended with a car chase and several people shot, police say.
  
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• UK strips citizenship from dual national 'Jihadi Jack'

  18-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain has revoked the citizenship of a dual national Muslim convert to the Islamic State group dubbed "Jihadi Jack" being held in northern Syria, leading Canada to accuse the UK of off-loading its responsibilities.The move targeting Jack Letts, 24, who was a dual UK-Canadian national, has prompted a diplomatic row with Ottawa, Britain's Mail on Sunday reported.
  
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• Kuwait says emir recovered from 'setback'

  18-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Kuwaiti state media on Sunday reported Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had "recovered", shortly after Iran's foreign minister indicated that the 90-year-old was unwell.The emir "has recovered from a setback and is in good health now", Kuwait's official news agency KUNA said, citing a palace statement, without specifying the nature of the "setback".Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier on Sunday wished Sheikh Sabah a "speedy recovery" after talking with the Gulf state's of
  
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• 'That is ridiculous': Andrew Gillum rips Rick Santorum for claiming guns aren't 'problem' in mass shootings

  18-08-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum slammed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's stance on gun control as “ridiculous” for saying guns are not the “problem” in mass shootings.
  
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• Sacramento files lawsuit to ban 7 men from business district

  18-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of Sacramento has filed an unusual lawsuit to ban seven men considered to be a "public nuisance" from a popular business corridor.The lawsuit alleges the men are "drug users, trespassers, thieves ... and violent criminals" who have illegal weapons and ammunition and have forced police to dedicate an "excessive amount" of resources to the Broadway corridor.City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood filed the suit Aug. 9 in Sacramento Superior Court, according to a copy posted online by The Sacrame
  
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• Hours-old baby abandoned in Maryland woods found by passerby, hospitalized in stable condition

  18-08-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The infant was left in a wooded area in suburban Washington on a 90-degree day without so much as a diaper, according to police.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell's sister spotted packing up bags near home where socialite was rumoured to be staying

  18-08-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Ghislaine Maxwell's sister has been spotted packing up bags near the secluded beach front mansion the British socialite had been hiding out in after her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein was rearrested for child sex trafficking charges. Ghislaine, 57, was thought to have been staying at the property owned by Scott Borgerson, in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts for some time but has not been seen in the area for several weeks amid intense scrutiny. However The Daily Telegraph observed her
  
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• Dick Cheney to appear at Trump 2020 fundraiser as Republican establishment bows to president

  18-08-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Dick Cheney will appear at a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to an invitation for the event, in a sign that the Republican establishment will publicly back his re-election bid.Mr Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 as an outsider and has often clashed with senior figures in the party, such as Mitt Romney and the late John McCain.However, an invitation to a luncheon fundraiser in Jackson, Wyoming, shows Mr Cheney will appear alongside Iva
  
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• UK standards on biosecurity are second to none | Letters

  18-08-2019 18:48 via theguardian.com
  The government is committed to strengthening the UK’s biosecurity, writes Defra minister John Gardiner. Plus letters from Jim Pratt, Karen Lloyd and David HeadGeorge Monbiot (Free trade in plants is lethal for our forests. We must ban it, 15 August) writes that the UK’s biosecurity inspection regime is “random” and calls for a ban on plant imports into the UK. As biosecurity minister, I agree that one cannot overstate the importance of robust biosecurity to the UK. We wil
  
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• Sudan's former dictator Omar al-Bashir due in court for corruption trial

  18-08-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Omar al-Bashir, the ousted former president of Sudan, is expected to stand in court on Monday for the first stage of a corruption trial which could see him jailed for many years. Bashir took power in a 1989 coup but was deposed in April after mass protests and security forces deciding to withdraw support for his brutal regime, which was behind an alleged genocidal campaign in the Darfur region. The 75-year-old former dictator is in prison awaiting the trail, where he faces allegations of po
  
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• The Latest: Hong Kong protesters disperse peacefully

  18-08-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters gathered outside Hong Kong's government headquarters have peacefully dispersed after fellow demonstrators urged them to go home.Sunday's pro-democracy rally, attended by hundreds of thousands, concluded a rare peaceful weekend in the city, which has been beset by violent clashes between protesters and police.Many protesters, however, did not follow the pre-approved guidelines laid out by the authorities.
  
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• Ohio Police Arrest White Supremacist Who Allegedly Threatened to Attack Jewish Community Center

  18-08-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly threatening to attack a local Jewish community center.
  
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• Earthquake cluster slams Kansas county with 11 quakes in 5 days

  18-08-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A county in central Kansas experienced a pretty shocking uptick in seismic activity last week — 11 earthquakes in five days.
  
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• Iranian tanker sets sail from Gibraltar after US detention request rejected

  18-08-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iranian tanker caught in a standoff between Tehran and the West left Gibraltar on Sunday night, shipping data showed, hours after the British territory rejected a US request to detain the vessel further. British Royal Marines seized the tanker in Gibraltar in July on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria, a close ally of Iran, in violation of European Union sanctions. That triggered a series of events that have heightened tensions on international oil shipping routes through
  
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• Pete Buttigieg says Trump voters are 'looking the other way on racism'

  18-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Americans who vote to re-elect President Donald Trump in 2020 are, at best, "looking the other way on racism," said Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg.
  
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• Argentina Faces Fresh Turmoil From Resignation, Debt Downgrades

  18-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Life just got a whole lot tougher for Argentina’s Mauricio Macri a week after his shock primary-election defeat sent markets into a tailspin.The embattled president is suddenly grappling with the resignation of his economy minister and a double downgrade to the nation’s debt. Meanwhile, his opponent Alberto Fernandez, now favorite to win the presidency on Oct. 27, is calling on Macri to renegotiate the terms of a record $56 billion credit line with the International Mo
  
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• 10,000 homeless after fire razes Bangladesh slum

  18-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday.The fire broke out at in Dhaka's Mirpur neighbourhood late on Friday and razed around 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire services official Ershad Hossain told AFP.Many residents -- largely low-income garment factory workers -- were not in the slum as they had left their homes to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday with their fa
  
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• Toll from Tanzania fuel truck blast rises to 95: hospital

  18-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll from a fuel truck explosion in Tanzania has climbed to 95, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.A massive fireball engulfed a crowd thronging to collect petrol from an overturned tanker last Saturday near the town of Morogoro, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) west of Dar es Salaam, the financial capital.It was a man who succumbed to his injuries," said Aminiel Aligaesha, a spokesman for the National Hospital in Dar es Salaam.
  
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• Trade war's losers could include microchips, energy, banks

  18-08-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Looking across the stock market, it's hard to find a company that isn't vulnerable in some degree to the U.S.-China trade war.Stocks of companies that do lots of business with China, such as chipmakers and other technology companies, are obvious candidates for investors to sell when trade worries rise.The damage has been widespread since Trump shocked investors on Aug. 1 by saying he planned soon to extend tariffs across virtually all Chinese imports.
  
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• Scaramucci turns on POTUS

  18-08-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Ex-Aide wants him off 2020 ticket.
  
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• Right-wing leader threatens to return to Portland every month after 13 arrested in weekend violence

  18-08-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of the Right-wing protesters who were embroiled in violent clashes with Left-wing counter-demonstrators in Portland over the weekend has threatened to return to the city every month. Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the “Proud Boys”, escalated the long-running feud between white supremacists and Antifa, a loose coalition of Left-wing and anarchist groups, which has brought mayhem to the streets of a number of American cities. He said his group would stage further demonstrations
  
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• US and China seeking to revive trade talks: Trump advisor

  18-08-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington (AFP) - Washington and Beijing are working actively to revive negotiations aimed at ending the trade war that has rattled world markets, Donald Trump's chief economic advisor said Sunday.
  
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• Trump supporters say he 'would probably lose voters...if he goes too far' on gun control

  18-08-2019 17:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's supporters in New Hampshire respond to proposals for new gun control legislation on "This Week."
  
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• Portland protests: Woman pinned to ground by police officers after spitting towards them

  18-08-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman was pinned to the ground by six police officers after she spat towards them during a day of protests between duelling far-right and anti-fascist activists in Portland.Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed the Oregon city at the weekend for a widely publicised right-wing rally that attracted the attention of Donald Trump.In video circulating online, a woman can be seen walking towards police and spitting at them once before she is wrestled to the
  
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• At least 1 dead following plane crash in New Castle County, officials say

  18-08-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials said the plane's pilot radioed in that he needed to land but then communication with the pilot was lost; the plane was found in a wooded area a short time later.
  
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• Jordan summons Israel envoy over Jerusalem 'violations'

  18-08-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Jordan summoned Israel's ambassador on Sunday in protest over "violations" at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the foreign ministry said.It summoned envoy Amir Weissbrod to voice its "condemnation and rejection of Israeli violations" at the highly sensitive site, where Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinian worshippers last week.Jordan, the only Arab country apart from Egypt to have a peace agreement with the Jewish state, supervises Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.
  
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• Sen. Graham: The dream of every leftist is to have a liberal court enacting laws from the bench

  18-08-2019 16:55 via news.yahoo.com
  South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says expanding the court is code for liberals packing the court.
  
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• Thousands Begin Dispersing After Rainy Rally: Hong Kong Update

  18-08-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters defied a torrential downpour and gathered in centrally located Victoria Park for the weekend’s major rally, after two nights of demonstrations ended peacefully and without police firing tear gas.Sunday’s rally was organized by the Civil Human Rights Front, which said more than 1.7 million people turned out. That would make it one of the biggest demonstrations yet. The police, which confined demonstrators to the park, didn&rsquo
  
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• Buttigieg: opposition to gay marriage will 'wash away' among black Americans

  18-08-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful says change will occur when voters see his policies will work in their interests2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, South Bend, Indiana Mayor, Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign event at the Smokey Row coffee shop in Oskaloosa, Iowa on 15 August. Photograph: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty ImagesOpposition to gay marriage among African Americans will “start to wash away”, Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday, when such voters “struggling to get on to
  
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