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• Jet catches fire in Northern California; 10 aboard unhurt

  21-08-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  All 10 people aboard a small jet escaped injury Wednesday after the aircraft aborted its takeoff at a small Northern California airport, went off the runway and burst into flames, officials said.The pilot of the twin-engine Cessna Citation jet aborted its takeoff at Oroville Municipal Airport for unknown reasons shortly before noon, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.The plane was carrying two pilots and eight passengers, and "all were accounted for, no injuries," said Joe
  
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• Trump revives suggestion he'd end birthright citizenship

  21-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was looking "very seriously" at ending the right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil.Trump spoke to reporters as he departed the White House for a speech in Louisville, Kentucky.This isn't the first time Trump has claimed he'd do away with it — he said something similar in October.
  
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• Florida Family in Virginia Searching for Missing Mother

  21-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida family is in Virginia Beach searching for a loved one who has been missing for months.
  
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• Venezuelan officials reached out to discuss Maduro exit: US

  21-08-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido said Wednesday his rival Nicolas Maduro had been made to look ridiculous by insisting he had authorized back channel talks with Washington, only for a top US official to reveal it was Caracas who had made the initial approach behind the president's back.The sole aim of the secret talks was to discuss Maduro's exit from power and organizing free elections, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday.Bolton's comment came after Maduro said he h
  
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• Parasite needs chemical (lipid/nutrient) in cat intestines for sex

  21-08-2019 23:37
  Toxoplasma gondii is a microbial parasite that infects humans and but needs cats to complete its full life cycle. New research shows why: the sexual phase of the parasite's life cycle requires linoleic acid, a nutrient/lipid found at uniquely high levels in the felines, because cats lack a key enzyme for breaking it down.
  
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• Newark man faces child sex charges; mummified remains found

  21-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Police responding to a call about child sexual abuse said they found mummified remains and an altar to an unknown deity in the home of a man who is now facing multiple charges.Robert Williams is scheduled for an initial court appearance Friday.According to the Essex County prosecutor's office, Newark police investigated after receiving reports that the 53-year-old Williams had been abusing a 13-year-old child for several months.
  
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• California mother suspected of killing 2 daughters

  21-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  An infant and her teenage sister found dead at their California home are believed to have been killed by their mother, who left two suicide notes and was unresponsive in a hospital Wednesday, police said.Among the evidence is a "suicide note by the mother indicating that she intended to kill the children and to kill herself," police Sgt. Bill Russell told reporters.
  
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• Parkland students unveil gun violence prevention plan: 'Policymakers have failed, so survivors are stepping up'

  21-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  March For Our Lives, the group formed by the Parkland students in the wake of the mass shooting at their school in February 2018, has unveiled a new plan for gun control.The Peace Plan is a six-step proposal focused on changing gun laws in America to prevent mass shootings, which continue to ravage the country. The students call their steps C.H.A.N.G.E., with each letter spelling out a goal.
  
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• Iceland's leader won't be around to welcome Pence

  21-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Iceland's leader has announced that she will skip U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's visit to her Nordic nation, opting instead to keep "prior commitments" by attending a trade union conference and meetings in Sweden.Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said that she's planned for months to give the keynote speech for the Council of Nordic Trade Unions' annual meeting in Malmo, Sweden, on Sept. 3 — the day before Pence's arrival.
  
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• Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave

  21-08-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The will that Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577 million in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult for his dozens of accusers to collect damages. "This is the last act of Epstein's manipulation of the system, even in death," said attorney Jennifer Freeman, who represents child sex abuse victims. Epstein, 66, killed himself Aug. 10 in New York while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
  
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• Police: Child unknowingly brings cocaine to kindergarten

  21-08-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A 5-year-old boy unknowingly brought cocaine to a kindergarten in a New Orleans suburb, leading to the arrest of a man and a woman, police said Wednesday.A teacher saw the child holding a bag of a white powder Tuesday and called in the school resource officer, who found one bag of powdered cocaine and two of crack cocaine, Slidell police spokesman Daniel Seuzeneau said.Angelica Stanley, 23, and Ellis Cousin, 51, were arrested on charges of cruelty to a juvenile, possessing drugs with intent to d
  
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• Canada accused of unlawfully questioning Huawei's Meng

  21-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou alleged in court documents released Wednesday that she was unlawfully detained and questioned by Canadian border agents in Vancouver last year.Border agents detained her under the pretense of an immigration matter and never alerted her to a US warrant for her arrest, questioning her for hours before eventually handing her over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the lawyers said."From the outset of the applicant's detention," the RCMP and border
  
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• Trudeau says Canada will push back in China row, urges de-escalation in Hong Kong

  21-08-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that Canada will stand up to China in a deepening diplomatic and trade spat, while renewing calls for de-escalation of Hong Kong protest tensions."We must recognize that China is a growing power and increasingly assertive towards its place in the international order.The two nations have been locked in a feud since December 2018 when Canada detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a flight stopover in Vancouver.
  
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• A Michigan Court Case Shows the Right of Armed Self-Defense Is Broader Than You Might Think

  21-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Yesterday the Michigan Court of Appeals handed down a decision in a highly public and very controversial case that gun owners across the United States should applaud. In short, it demonstrates and validates the value of armed self-defense even when you do not pull the trigger and -- crucially -- have no cause to pull the trigger. It justifies the brandishing of a gun as pre-emptive measure to block the use of unlawful force.What do I mean? Hang with me for a moment, because this case is a bit co
  
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• 'I am the Chosen One': Trump defends China trade war

  21-08-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump proclaimed himself "the Chosen One" Wednesday as he defended his trade war against China, indicating that it was his destiny to take on Beijing.Trump -- who had earlier approvingly retweeted a description of himself as the King of Israel -- said his predecessors had allowed the United States to be taken advantage of on trade and intellectual property and it had befallen him to undo the damage.This is a trade war that should have taken place a long time ago by a lot of o
  
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• Mitch McConnell slams China over Hong Kong, threatens a global confrontation that could tank the finance hub

  21-08-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  "Sooner or later, the rest of the world will have to do what the protesters are doing—confront Beijing," McConnell wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
  
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• A Mexican judge says 2 people can legally use cocaine — but they can't buy or sell it

  21-08-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A court in Mexico ordered the government to allow plaintiffs to "possess, transport and use cocaine," but not to sell or buy it.
  
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• India's ex-finance minister arrested at home in dramatic raid

  21-08-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  High drama unfolded in New Delhi late Wednesday as officers from India's equivalent of the FBI scaled the walls of a former finance minister's home to arrest him on corruption charges, local media reported.Earlier in the day, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had alerted airports to prevent Palaniappan Chidambaram, finance minister from 2004-2008 and again from 2012-2014, from leaving the country.Chidambaram, 73, earlier this week failed to secure bail and had not been seen since Tuesday
  
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• Syria regime forces take full control of key town

  21-08-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian regime forces took full control of a key northwestern town Wednesday, surrounding rebel-backing Turkish forces at a nearby observation post, a war monitor said.The advance on the town of Khan Sheikhun in Idlib province comes after months of air strikes on the area by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally."Regime forces took full control of the town of Khan Sheikhun and are currently clearing it of mines," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
  
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• Brexit: Boris Johnson warned US trade deal 'highly unlikely' if Ireland has hard border

  21-08-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A post-Brexit trade deal with the US would be "highly unlikely" if there is a hard border on the island of Ireland, Boris Johnson has been warned.The Congressional Friends of Ireland, a group in the US Congress which supports and promotes peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, has written to the prime minister warning that it will oppose any US-UK trade deal if it risks undermining the Good Friday Agreement.
  
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• Trump again says he is 'very seriously' looking to end birthright citizenship

  21-08-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight months after first raising the idea, the president said his administration is again “very seriously” looking into ending the practice of conferring U.S. citizenship on anyone born in the United States.
  
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• Iraq paramilitary units blame US for base attacks

  21-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraqi paramilitary units said Wednesday they held the US responsible for a string of mysterious blasts in recent weeks at their bases, renewing fears of a possible proxy war.Over the past month, alleged attacks have targeted four training camps and arms depots used by the Hashed al-Shaabi, a network of mostly-Shiite, pro-Iran paramilitary units opposed to the US.On Wednesday, the paramilitary group said in a statement it had carried out its own investigation and pointed the finger at the US mili
  
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• Here's How Aliens Might See Earth

  21-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  It looks a bit different from the pale blue dot.
  
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• Ford's "Mustang-Inspired" Mach E Electric SUV Steps Out in Prototype Form

  21-08-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Said to arrive next year, this new battery-powered crossover promises 300 miles of range and a relatively affordable starting price.
  
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• Trump: 'mentally stable' Americans should be able to own guns

  21-08-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that all "mentally stable" Americans should be able to own firearms amid reports he retreated on plans to toughen gun purchase background checks in the wake of a string of mass shootings."I want guns in the hands of people that are mentally stable," Trump told reporters.Trump denied media reports that on Tuesday he had promised National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre that he would not press Congress for a law tightening background checks on people
  
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• Are Max 737s closer to flying? FAA 'looks forward' to international panel's findings as grounding drags on

  21-08-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The FAA "looks forward" to a panel's findings on the Boeing 737 Max jets but stands by the process that certified a key component of the aircraft.
  
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• Source: Jeffrey Epstein ordered 3 couples in his entourage to get married

  21-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Business Insider has learned of a previously unreported marriage between two women in Jeffrey Epstein's entourage — one a US citizen, the other from Eastern Europe.
  
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• Drivers in Idaho keep harassing busloads of immigrants' children on their way to pre-school

  21-08-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  One driver reported experiencing threatening incidents with other drivers while she was driving a busload of children under the age of five.
  
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• Russia, China ask U.N. Security Council to meet Thursday over U.S. missile developments

  21-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia and China have asked the United Nations Security Council to meet on Thursday over "statements by U.S. officials on their plans to develop and deploy medium-range missiles," according to the request seen by Reuters.Moscow and Beijing want to convene the 15-member council under the agenda item "threats to international peace and security" and have requested that U.N. disarmament affairs chief Izumi Nakamitsu brief the body.The Pentagon said on Monday it had tested a conventionally-configure
  
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• During Johnson visit, Merkel voices hope on avoiding Brexit chaos

  21-08-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope to visiting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the EU and UK could reach an agreement to avoid a chaotic no-deal Brexit.Merkel said perhaps an agreement would be possible within "30 days" for Britain to leave the EU, if a solution could be found to the thorny issue of the Irish border.The British prime minister has been adamant that he will not accept the "backstop" border plan agreed under his predecessor Theresa May
  
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• Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway, and other top Trump aides have had their White House offices relocated to remove potential asbestos

  21-08-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Part of the White House is undergoing construction to remove potentially dangerous materials and several top Trump advisers have been relocated.
  
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• Detectives: 1994 technology slowed search for serial killer

  21-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  It wasn't hard for Daytona Beach police to figure out who killed John Hardy Roberts in March 1994: Gary Ray Bowles left a probation document at the scene and also was caught on an ATM camera trying to withdraw money from Roberts' account."One of the things that's always stayed in the back of my mind is how horrible we feel that we didn't solve it quickly when we were the first," said Alison Sylvester, a former Daytona Beach police detective who investigated Roberts' death.Bowles is scheduled to
  
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• Trump wanting to buy Greenland is yet another sign of Putin’s puppetry

  21-08-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Greenland didn’t just bubble into Trump’s mind randomly – it’s very much on Russia’s radar for its unknown supply of oil, gas and rare metalsIcebergs float behind the town of Kulusuk in Greenland on 16 August 2019.Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty ImagesThe last time Americans felt hostility to anything remotely Danish was when the pompous old Duke of Weselton launched a trade-war-turned-palace-coup against the warm-hearted ice queen known as Elsa. Even the
  
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• Denmark reacts with shock and anger as 'disrespectful' Trump cancels trip over Greenland sale row

  21-08-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Denmark’s political leaders and royal family have expressed shock after Donald Trump cancelled a state visit to the country over their refusal to consider selling Greenland. Mette Frederikse, the Danish prime minister, said she was “disappointed” by the decision while a spokesman for the Danish royal palace admitted it had been taken by “surprise”. Less diplomatic responses came from former politicians and opposition figures who said the US president's behaviour was
  
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• Florida slingshot ride snaps moments before launch

  21-08-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Two riders at a Florida amusement park received a scare when a cable on a slingshot-style ride snapped just before it started.News outlets report the two men at the Cobra Adventure Park in Panama City Beach were strapped into the Vertical Accelerator ride when the cable frayed just before an operator was set to launch the ride.Krissy Hurst took a video and tells Fox 13 it was an acquaintance and his brother-in-law on the ride.
  
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• Man set to be executed for killing of Texas college student

  21-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Texas death row inmate who has always maintained his innocence and contends his conviction was based on junk science is set to be executed for the abduction, rape and murder of a suburban Houston college student more than 20 years ago.Larry Swearingen, 48, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday evening for the December 1998 killing of Melissa Trotter.Prosecutors said they stand behind the "mountain of evidence" used to convict Swearingen in 2000.
  
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• Trump dismisses criticism of his dual loyalty comments: 'It's only anti-Semitic in your head'

  21-08-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump Wednesday expanded on his views about how Jews who vote for Democrats are “disloyal” and dismissed any criticism of his comments.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's ex-cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione alleges threats, wants to be moved from MCC

  21-08-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The accused killer who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein appeared in federal court in White Plains Wednesday seeking protection after he claims federal guards have been threatening him.
  
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• 2016 Ford Mustang Roush Stage 3 Is A Wild Pony

  21-08-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Here's your chance to get a babied, one-owner Roush Mustang at no reserve.Before Ford announced the return of the Shelby GT500 for the 2020 model year, the most performance you could squeeze out of a Mustang was from the aftermarket tuning world. The 2016 Ford Mustang Roush Stage 3 is a perfect example of how far the modern Mustang can be pushed, and this gorgeous, one-owner Roush Mustang will be auctioned off at no reserve by GAA Classic Cars.The highest of the Roush tuning levels, the Stage 3
  
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• France's Macron says no-deal Brexit would be Britain's fault

  21-08-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said a no-deal Brexit would be of Britain's own making and not the European Union's, adding that any trade pact London cut with Washington would not mitigate the cost of leaving the bloc without a deal.The French leader said the demands made by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for a renegotiation of the divorce deal, including the removal of the Irish backstop, were not workable.
  
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• Trump Claims He Is ‘Seriously’ Considering Ending Birthright Citizenship for Children of Illegal Immigrants

  21-08-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Wednesday that he is “seriously” considering issuing an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump argued that it is “frankly ridiculous” that the U.S. affords citizenship to babies born to immigrants who entered the country illegally.“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land — you
  
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• Indian investigators arrest key opposition leader

  21-08-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal investigators on Wednesday arrested a key opposition Indian National Congress party leader at his home in the Indian capital in a suspected money laundering case.Palaniappan Chidambaram was taken into custody on suspicion of conspiring with a Mauritius-based firm to illegally obtain money for his son's company while he was India's finance minister in 2006.Abhishek Dayal, a spokesman for the Central Bureau of Investigation, confirmed the arrest.
  
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• NYC Rules Ease Affordable Housing Path for Undocumented Migrants

  21-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio is making it easier for New York City’s undocumented immigrants to qualify for scarce city-subsidized affordable housing.New eligibility rules de Blasio unveiled scrap credit-rating, Social Security and taxpayer identification requirements if applicants can show 12 consecutive monthly rent payments.“For too long, families without access to credit have faced barriers to the affordable housing they need,” de Blasio said Wednesday. “By all
  
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• Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defense project

  21-08-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon to destroy incoming missiles.The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change.The announced reason for canceling the Boeing contract, effective Thursday, was that the project's design problems were so significant as to be either insurmountable or too costly to correct.
  
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• Spacewalking astronauts add parking spot to space station

  21-08-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Spacewalking astronauts added another parking spot to the International Space Station on Wednesday.NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan successfully installed a docking port delivered by SpaceX last month.It will be used by SpaceX and Boeing once they start launching astronauts to the orbiting lab late this year or early next year.
  
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• The Latest: Farm chief warns UK that EU will not be divided

  21-08-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union's agriculture chief says if British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lets the UK crash out of the EU without a deal on Oct. 31 it will create a "foul atmosphere" that will spill over into any negotiations on a future trade deal between the two.EU Farm Commission Phil Hogan said Tuesday that Johnson should not count on any divisions among the EU's 27 other nations as the deadline for a disruptive and economically chaotic no-deal Brexit departure draws near.Speaking in his native Ir
  
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• Ivanka Trump had to move out of her office in the White House because the ceiling might be contaminated with asbestos — here's why that's concerning

  21-08-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Renovations underway at the White House are sparking fears of asbestos contamination in the offices of Ivanka Trump and Kellyanne Conway.
  
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• America has no good options in Afghanistan and is literally negotiating with terrorists because of it

  21-08-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's officials have been negotiating with the Taliban to get out of Afghanistan, while the Taliban has been attacking Afghans.
  
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• Farmer's threat prompts U.S. Agriculture Department to pull staff from crop tour

  21-08-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  CORALVILLE, Iowa/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday it had pulled all staff from an annual crop tour after an employee was threatened, and three sources said the threat of violence was made during a phone call from an angry farmer.U.S. farmers have complained this month that a government crop report did not reflect damage from historic flooding this spring.Lance Honig, crops chief at the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, was among the USDA staffe
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro claims without evidence that NGOs are setting fires in Amazon rainforest

  21-08-2019 19:11 via theguardian.com
  Brazilian president claims green groups behind rise in blazes, but offers nothing to support his assertionThe Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has accused environmental groups of setting fires in the Amazon as he tries to deflect growing international criticism of his failure to protect the world’s biggest rainforest.A surge of fires in several Amazonian states this month followed reports that farmers were feeling emboldened to clear land for crop fields and cattle ranches because the
  
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