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• UPDATE 1-U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker -State Dept official

  22-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• France watching Kashmir rights, Macron tells Modi

  22-08-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  France's Emmanuel Macron had a "frank" exchange with India's Narendra Modi about tensions in divided Kashmir on Thursday, telling him Paris would remain attentive to the rights of people living both sides of the ceasefire line.As tensions soared in the flashpoint region, the French president said he would also have a similar exchange with Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan in the coming days.
  
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• U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker: State Department official

  22-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• Brexit Held at the Border

  22-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  In the last two days Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that Ireland temporarily leave the European Union to align with the economic rules of a post-Brexit U.K. German chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested, somewhat flippantly, that the U.K. could figure out a special trading arrangement for itself and Ireland in the next 30 days. And French president Emmanuel Macron has said that there’s still room for negotiation between the U.K. and the EU, but he’s willing to be “th
  
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• Mexico struggles: whether to talk to vigilantes or jail them

  22-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's government appears to be split about whether it should talk to armed vigilante groups, or treat them as criminals.President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he disagreed with his assistant interior secretary's decision to attend a ceremony with vigilantes, who often call themselves "self-defense" groups.The debate came to a head Wednesday when Ricardo Peralta, an assistant secretary of the interior, attended the groundbreaking of an agricultural processing plant in the v
  
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• Mexican reporter says police hit her after attempted rape

  22-08-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  At least two police officers were under investigation Thursday after a television reporter in western Mexico said police hit her and held her in jail after she reported an attempted rape.A video posted on social media showed CB Television reporter Mitzi Torres with severe bruises around both eyes as she described the incident.Torres said Wednesday that she had asked municipal police in the city of Morelia for help after someone attempted to rape her Tuesday.
  
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• Duke of York should 'answer questions,' father of alleged Epstein victim says

  22-08-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke of York must "answer questions" about allegations he had sex with Jeffrey Epstein's teen "sex slave," the girls's father said. Virginia Giuffre alleged in court papers in Florida that she was forced to have sex with the Duke when she was 17, which is under the age of consent in the state. Buckingham Palace has vehemently denied the allegations. But Sky Roberts, her father, put further pressure on the Duke, telling The Daily Telegraph he believed the royal family was complicit in blockin
  
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• Modi Ally Calls for Boycott of China Companies on Kashmir, Trade

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Indians should stop buying from Chinese companies and the government should reconsider trade concessions to its biggest neighbor after China allied with Pakistan on Kashmir, according to an economic policy group linked with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.Companies like technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. should be barred from accessing the Indian market in the future and Chinese companies should be banned from state tenders, Ashwani Mahajan, co-convenor of the Swadeshi Jag
  
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• Lone Analyst Who Cut Cathay to Sell Says He Faces Huge Pressure

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The analyst who issued a report warning investors to dump shares of embattled Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. before they tumble to their lowest levels since 1998, is getting a lot of blowback after his controversial call.“Never before in my 12 years of investment analyst career have I received this much pressure on a particular stock rating,” Zhao Dongchen, who last week issued his inaugural report on Cathay with a “strong sell,” said in an emailed response to
  
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• Overstock.com CEO Resigns after Disclosing Relationship with Russian Agent Maria Butina

  22-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne stepped down Thursday amid the backlash to his disclosure of a romantic relationship with Russian agent Maria Butina.Byrne caused Overstock's shares to plummet last week after he admitted to carrying on a romantic relationship with Butina from 2015 to 2016. The fallout from his disclosure complicated “all manner of business relationships,” he said in a statement announcing his resignation.“Thus, while I believe that I did what was necessary
  
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• What's killing sea otters? Parasite strain from cats

  22-08-2019 22:50
  Many wild southern sea otters in California are infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, yet the infection is fatal for only a fraction of sea otters, which has long puzzled the scientific community. A new study identifies the parasite's specific strains that are killing southern sea otters, tracing them back to a bobcat and feral domestic cats from nearby watersheds.
  
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• The Paleozoic diet: Why animals eat what they eat

  22-08-2019 22:50
  In what likely is the first study on the evolution of dietary preferences across the animal kingdom, researchers report several unexpected discoveries, including that the first animal likely was a carnivore and that humans, along with other omnivores, belong to a rare breed.
  
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• Parking lot shooter told detectives he feared severe injury

  22-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors played Michael Drejka's interview with Pinellas County detectives during his manslaughter trial in Clearwater, Florida.Drejka, who is white, shot while on his back from close range seconds after McGlockton shoved him as Drejka argued with McGlockton's girlfriend.Pinellas County Sheriff's Detective Richard Redman testified that Drejka, 49, willingly spoke to him and Detective George Moffett about five hours after the shooting without an attorney.
  
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• How red-eared invaders are hurting California's native turtles

  22-08-2019 22:50
  Western pond turtles got fatter and healthier after scientists removed nearly 200 invasive red-eared slider turtles from the UC Davis Arboretum, reports a new study. The study is the first to quantify competition between these two species in the wild.
  
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• Utah Man Put in Medically-Induced Coma from Vaping-Related Lung Disease

  22-08-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A Utah man is on life support after vaping gave him lipoid pneumonia, his family said.
  
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• New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation

  22-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 meters (135 feet) for six minutes before it hit the surface.Ryugu is just 900 meters wide and so its gravity is 66,500 time
  
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• Man arrested for holding woman as sex slave and keeping her eight-month-old baby captive

  22-08-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina man has been arrested after holding a woman and her 8-month-old baby captive for over a month, authorities said.The Pender County Sheriff’s department said in a press release they received an emergency call on 9 August from a woman who said she was being held against her will at a home in Willard, North Carolina.
  
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• Report alleges sex abuse by 40 Vermont priests since 1950

  22-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A report released Thursday by Vermont's Roman Catholic Church found there were "credible and substantiated" allegations of the sexual abuse of minors against 40 priests in the state since 1950.All but one of those allegations occurred prior to 2000, and none of the priests is still in ministry, the report said.Most of the priests who were named in the report are now dead.
  
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• Trump Invited Himself to Denmark Before Canceling Trip, Danes Say

  22-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettySpeaking to reporters on the White House’s South Lawn in late July, President Donald Trump revealed that he was “looking at” a stop in Denmark after an upcoming trip to Poland to attend a World War II commemorative ceremony.For officials in Copenhagen, the comment came as a surprise. Although it is customary in Denmark for there to be a standing invitation for the U.S. president—and though officials in both countries had
  
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• North Dakota court overturns life term in cut from womb case

  22-08-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge overstepped by giving a life prison sentence to a man whose girlfriend cut the baby from the womb of an unsuspecting neighbor, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled Thursday, ordering that the man be resentenced.William Hoehn, of Fargo, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the August 2017 attack on Savanna Greywind, who died of her injuries but whose baby survived.Hoehn's girlfriend, Brooke Crews, admitted that she sliced Greywind's baby from her womb.
  
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• 'This Case is Hot': Key Evidence from Boat Possibly Linked to Illinois Girl Missing for 23 Years

  22-08-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Moline say they're getting closer to answers as the FBI investigates what could be a key piece of evidence tied to the prime suspect in the case of Trudy Appleby.
  
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• Should I stay or should I run? Pompeo under pressure over U.S. Senate seat

  22-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican pressure on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for the U.S. Senate next year to help keep the party's majority intact is coming up against President Donald Trump's hope of keeping one of his most trusted aides in his administration.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans believe the former U.S. congressman from Kansas would be a strong candidate should he decide to run for one of the state's Senate seats in 2020."Secretary Pompeo would clear the field an
  
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• Judge hurries U.S. naturalization as pregnant woman gets contractions

  22-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge in California had to speed up the naturalization of a pregnant immigrant on Thursday when the woman, anxious to become a U.S. citizen because of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, started experiencing contractions.The 31-year-old Armenian-American woman, who was scheduled to give birth to her second child next week by cesarean section, said she started to feel contractions after a walk to a Los Angeles convention center where the judge was naturalizing about 3,200 immigrants.
  
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• Trump’s new press secretary was arrested for DUI while working on the 2016 campaign during her rocky rise to the White House

  22-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephanie Grisham has taken an unconventional approach to her White House post, and hasn't held a single on-camera briefing since taking over in July.
  
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• We should welcome deep digs into 1619. Slavery and white supremacy shaped today's America.

  22-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  You don't have to be black to see the importance of slavery to the American story. It has fundamentally shaped who we are. Erasing that erases history.
  
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• Federal judge rules that immigration law is unconstitutional

  22-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to "encourage" or "induce" immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional.KCUR-FM reports that U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia issued his ruling from the bench Wednesday before throwing out the convictions of Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo and Mauro Papalotzi.Kansas isn't governed by the Ninth Circuit, but Murguia found the argument persuasive.
  
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• AP NewsBreak: Police say suspect arrested in campus killing

  22-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing death of a man at the California State University, Fullerton campus, police said on Thursday.Fullerton police Lt. Jon Radus told The Associated Press that a suspect was arrested in the death of 57-year-old Steven Shek Keung Chan.
  
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• After 11 tons of trash taken off Mount Everest, officials ban single-use plastics

  22-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Mount Everest has become littered with trash and bodies as more adventurers try their luck at scaling the natural wonder.
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro blames Amazon fires on NGOs as Twitter erupts

  22-08-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes.Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter."No matter how successful we are, if our Earth dies, we all die," posted one Twitter user.
  
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• Hispanic Journalism Group Boots Fox News Over Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric

  22-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin HagenA major organization for Hispanic journalists on Thursday gave Fox News the boot from its upcoming conference in response to the network’s use “invasion” rhetoric when discussing immigration.Fox News was set to appear as a sponsor at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ confab next month in San Antonio, but in a letter to the group’s members, NAHJ President Hugo Balta said that invitation has been revoked.“The line between commentary an
  
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• Beijing fires back after Trudeau vows to stand up to China

  22-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Beijing on Thursday accused Ottawa of worsening relations after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to stand up to China amid deepening diplomatic and trade disputes.
  
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• Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets

  22-08-2019 20:19
  Even when taking in fewer calories and nutrients, humans and other mammals usually remain protected against infectious diseases they have already encountered. This may be because memory T cells, which are located throughout the body and required to maintain immune responses to infectious agents. A new study in mice also found that animals undergoing dietary restriction were better protected against tumors and bacterial infections than animals with unrestricted diets.
  
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• Genes tell the story of how the Asian tiger mosquito spread

  22-08-2019 20:19
  Over the last 40 years, the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has invaded every continent thanks to the transportation of its eggs via human trade and transportation. Researchers have now used the genomes of the mosquitoes to track the history of the invasion and expansion of the species through Albania, Italy, and Greece.
  
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• A single gene determines whether a fly has a good sense of sight or a good sense of smell

  22-08-2019 20:19
  Trade-offs in the sizes of visual and olfactory organs are a common feature of animal evolution, but the underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms have not been clear. A study reveals that a single DNA variant that affects the timing of sensory organ development in fruit flies could explain the size trade-off between eyes and antennae, potentially providing a quick route to behavioral changes and adaptation.
  
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• Israel warns Hamas further attacks risk more Gaza suffering

  22-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army on Thursday warned the Gaza Strip's residents and its Hamas rulers that further attacks on Israel could incur tougher conditions for the coastal territory.The warning came in a tweet from the army's chief Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee, hours after Israeli aircraft hit Hamas targets in retaliation for overnight Palestinian rocket attacks.Hamas launched two rockets at Israel late Wednesday -- bringing to six the number of strikes from Gaza in less than a week -- the arm
  
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• Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences

  22-08-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The arrests won't fully or permanently stop a person determined to inflict mass death — and the US is nowhere near close to tackling the root causes.
  
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• Trump fumes over emissions deal between automakers and California

  22-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The president decried a deal between the most populous U.S. state and four major automakers.
  
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• Death row inmate who always maintained his innocence has been executed

  22-08-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A death row inmate who always maintained his innocence has been executed for the abduction, rape and murder of a student more than 20 years ago.Larry Swearingen received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in the Texan city of Huntsville for the 1998 killing of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter.
  
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• The rights and wrongs of training your baby like a dog | Letters

  22-08-2019 19:05 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to Chitra Ramaswamy’s review of a Channel 4 programme that featured techniques to make children behave betterI was surprised at Chitra Ramaswamy’s strongly worded condemnation of C4’s Train Your Baby Like a Dog (G2, 21 August). Perhaps I’m naive, but I found Jo-Rosie Haffenden, the animal trainer, to be sensitive to the needs of these children and their parents, who were, like so many of us, unaware of their failure to meet their children’s basic nee
  
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• China Buys American Soybeans after Vowing to Boycott U.S. Farm Products

  22-08-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  China purchased a comparatively small amount of U.S. soybeans several days ago after promising to boycott U.S. farm products amid deteriorating trade negotiations with the Trump administration.Beijing reached agreements last week to buy 9,589 metric tons of American soybeans for the current marketing year and 66,000 metric tons for the following year, which starts September 1, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Thursday.An August 5 statement from Ch
  
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• The Latest: Portugal offers to take 35 people from Med. ship

  22-08-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Portugal is offering to take 35 people from the Ocean Viking rescue ship, following an appeal by the European Commission.The Portuguese government said in a statement Thursday that France, Germany, Romania and Luxembourg are also ready to take some of the 356 people, mostly Africans, who were rescued in the Mediterranean off Libya.The Ocean Viking carried out four rescues off Libya from Aug. 9-12.
  
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• Wildlife summit votes down plan to allow sale of huge ivory stockpile

  22-08-2019 18:49 via theguardian.com
  Some African nations at Cites conference argue sales would provide much-needed incomeAn audacious attempt to allow a huge sale of stockpiled elephant ivory has been defeated at an international wildlife conference. The rancorous debate exposed deep divisions between African nations with opposing views on elephant conservation.About 50 elephants are still being poached every day to supply ivory traffickers and all countries agree the world’s largest land animal needs greater protection. But
  
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• Town near Barcelona uses wolf urine to keep wild boar away

  22-08-2019 18:39 via theguardian.com
  Lack of rain may be forcing animals to seek food from rubbish bins in AiguafredaA small town outside Barcelona is using wolf urine to deter wild boar that have been coming in from the surrounding countryside.After trying a variety of deterrents, the town council of Aiguafreda has agreed, in association with the local hunters’ association, to see if the smell of the pheromones of the wild pigs’ principal predator will keep them at bay. Related: Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing Eu
  
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• Brown bear that is killing livestock and startling hikers in Italy's Dolomites is wanted, dead or alive

  22-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A bear that is raiding beehives, attacking livestock and startling hikers in the Dolomite mountains of Italy is now wanted dead or alive. The brown bear is known to scientists as M49 but was nicknamed Papillon, after the Henri Charrière novel about escaping from Devil’s Island in French Guiana, when it managed to climb over a 16ft-high fence and flee an enclosure last month. It had been captured just a few hours before after being identified as a problem bear which po
  
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• Giant panda Bei Bei, soon to go bye-bye, turns four in US

  22-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The birthday celebration for Bei Bei -- his name is pronounced "Bay Bay" -- could be viewed live thanks to the zoo's "Panda Cam," which broadcasts scenes of the four-year-old and his siblings and parents from their enclosure round-the-clock.Bei Bei will soon be returned to China, under terms of the agreement that brought him to the US zoo on loan.Under the loan agreement, the zoo pays China $500,000 a year to support conservation efforts there, and any panda cubs born at the zoo may stay until a
  
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• US has half a million fewer jobs than believed after big government revision

  22-08-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  There were 501,000 fewer jobs created from April 2018 to March 2019. Jobs in retail, hospitality and professional services were revised down sharply.
  
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• Pompeo meets Trudeau, says China detention of two Canadians 'wrong'

  22-08-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  American officials are working to secure the release of two Canadians held by China, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday as he sat down with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.The two Canadians -- former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor -- were detained in December and accused of espionage.The detention came nine days after Canada had arrested Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant.
  
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• The Media Should Stop Encouraging Mass-Shooting Phobias

  22-08-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Suppose an otherwise bright and promising young person told you she was terrified of food. She was having difficulty sleeping at night. Every meal time was a source of anguish. She couldn’t stop thinking about choking to death on food. Fear of choking to death was interfering with her relationships, making it difficult for her to do her job, warping her life.You would advise such a person to seek counseling, or counsel her yourself. You would tell her to look at the numbers. You would poin
  
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• Newt Gingrich says slavery needs to be put 'in context,' calls 1619 project a 'lie'

  22-08-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "There were several hundred thousand white Americans who died in the Civil War in order to free the slaves," Gingrich argued.
  
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• Dem. N.C. Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Local, State Cops to Cooperate with ICE

  22-08-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  North Carolina's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required local and state police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.Under the legislation, which passed the state House along party lines on Tuesday, local and state police would be required to detain illegal immigrants in their custody until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could retrieve them.“This legislation is simply about scoring partisan political points and using
  
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