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• Epstein's private island just missed direct hit from Hurricane Dorian, forecasts show

  29-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The private island owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was in Hurricane Dorian's path but appeared to miss a direct hit, forecasts show.
  
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• US discards thousands of donated kidneys each year as patients die on waitlist, study says

  29-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  About 12 people die every day waiting for a kidney, while at least 10 kidneys are discarded daily.
  
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• The Pentagon was apparently blindsided by a Trump administration move that affects some children of deployed troops

  29-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A new policy affecting the citizenship of children born to some US service members appears to have surprised the Department of Defense.
  
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• Mattis suggests he might not like Trump 'one fricking bit' but says he's holding fire on him — for now

  29-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The widely respected former defense secretary says he is keeping his criticisms of Trump to himself for now, but this won't last "forever."
  
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• Surgeon General to teens and pregnant women: Weed is way too risky for developing brains

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  'No amount of marijuana use in pregnancy or adolescence is safe,' said Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
  
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• Prosecutors are looking into the network of women they believe Jeffrey Epstein used to recruit underage girls for sex-trafficking

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The convicted sex offender was charged with sex trafficking and accused of molesting dozens of underage girls. The case was dismissed after his death.
  
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• Why President Trump Cut a Methane Regulation That Even Big Oil Companies Wanted to Keep

  29-08-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The decision to side with a group of smaller fossil fuel producers shows the influence these companies retain within the administration
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Florida declares state of emergency as it awaits storm's arrival

  29-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico was spared, but storm is expected to land in Florida Sunday night, potentially as a category 4 hurricaneFlorida governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Wednesday for counties in the path of destruction as Hurricane Dorian swept across the Caribbean towards the US east coast.Photograph: Jose Romero/AFP/Getty ImagesFlorida is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Dorian with weather experts on Thursday proclaiming the state’s entire east coast at risk.A state of emerge
  
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• North Korea says it won't give up arms modernization

  29-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea accused the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday of meddling in its "self-defensive measures for arms modernization," saying the West will make "no greater mistake" than thinking Pyongyang will give up its right to have weapons that it says are needed to ensure peace.The North's official Korean Central News Agency circulated a statement from Kim Son Gyong, an adviser at the Korea-Europe Association, in response to a joint statement Tuesday from the three important U.S. alli
  
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• Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955. Now, a new app honors his memory

  29-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Emmett Till, 14, was abducted Aug. 28, 1955, three days after Carolyn Bryant Donham said he grabbed and wolf-whistled at her.
  
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• Israel Is Escalating Its Shadow War With Iran. Here's What to Know

  29-08-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel-attributed attacks on targets in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq highlight the risks of a wider confrontation
  
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• Rep. Biggs: We've rarely seen somebody so delusional and self-serving as James Comey

  29-08-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs reacts to former FBI Director James Comey deeming himself vindicated after the DOJ declines to prosecute after the release of the IG report.
  
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• Yemen President urges end of UAE strikes, fears secession

  29-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's president urged Saudi Arabia on Thursday to rein in the United Arab Emirates after warplanes from his former ally staged airstrikes on Yemeni government troops, killing and wounding dozens as they headed to retake the key southern port city of Aden from separatists backed by the UAE.In a rare statement, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi condemned the UAE, a former ally, for "blatant intervention" in Yemen by providing "support, money and plans" for separatists who aim at "dividing up" th
  
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• US targets Lebanon, Oman financiers for Hezbollah

  29-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Thursday announced sanctions in Lebanon and Oman aimed at shutting down financing to the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas militants.Powerful US financial sanctions were imposed on the Jammal Trust Bank in Lebanon, which was accused of acting as a key financial institution for Hezbollah, which opposes US ally Israel.
  
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• Woman cleared of murder charges after 35 years in prison gets $3 million

  29-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didn't commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her attorney said Wednesday.
  
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• Ohio man accused of planning to attack Jewish center faces federal charge

  29-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  James Reardon, 20, whose case is one of many thwarted potential mass shootings reported by U.S. law enforcement in recent weeks, faces one count of transmitting threatening communications via interstate commerce, federal prosecutors said as his indictment was unsealed on Thursday.Federal authorities said their investigation is ongoing.
  
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• 'This ain't your mother's marijuana,' surgeon general says

  29-08-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use.Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana "a dangerous drug." Officials said President Donald Trump has donated $100,000 — one-quarter of his annual government salary — toward a digital campaign
  
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• Puerto Ricans who fled to Florida from storm face new storm

  29-08-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Jose Santiago was worried about his two adult daughters as Hurricane Dorian threatened Puerto Rico midweek."One of them told me, 'Daddy, this isn't going to hit Puerto Rico directly, but now I'm worried about you,'" said Santiago, who drives cars for an auction house in Orlando.Like Santiago, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans moved to Florida after Hurricane Maria to escape the devastation of the Category 4 storm.
  
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• Israel says Iran seeking to build precision missiles in Lebanon

  29-08-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli army on Thursday accused Iran of collaborating with Lebanon's Hezbollah to assemble precision-guided missiles that could cause "massive" human casualties in Israel.Tehran and the Shiite movement plan to convert "stupid rockets into precision-guided missiles", Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists in a conference call.Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria against what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah targets.
  
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• White House slams Comey for violating FBI policies and falsely claims the Russia investigation was launched because he 'shamefully leaked information to the press'

  29-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was well underway by the time Comey shared his memos with the media.
  
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• Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for participating in blackface skit in college

  29-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes," Ivey said.
  
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• Woman Claims She Gave Birth Alone in Denver County Jail Cell with No Medical Treatment

  29-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman has filed a lawsuit after she said she was forced to deliver a baby alone on a bench in a jail cell at the Denver County Jail.
  
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• North Carolina student arrested with guns in his dorm room was planning shooting spree, police say

  29-08-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old freshman arrested in his dorm room at a North Carolina university with two firearms was planning a shooting spree, police say.
  
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• Brigitte Macron speaks out against sexism amid G7 Amazon fire funding row with Brazilian president

  29-08-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, hit back on Thursday at mockery of her age and appearance on Jair Bolsonaro’s Facebook page amid a war of words between the Brazilian president and her husband that has left £18m in emergency funding for the Amazon in limbo. Her comments came as Mr Bolsonaro, accused by critics of allowing tens of thousands of fires to rage unchecked in the Amazon rainforest, announced a two-month ban on fires deliberately started by farmers. Critics have a
  
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• Crouching lion, hidden giraffe

  29-08-2019 21:20
  The behavior of giraffe groups with calves is influenced more strongly by the risk of predators than is the behavior of all-adult groups, which is mostly determined by the availability of food.
  
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• Longest-ever wrongfully imprisoned woman in US history gets $3m in lawsuit settlement

  29-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit has been awarded $3m (£2.5m) as a partial settlement in her civil rights case, according to her lawyers.Cathy Woods, 68, was released from prison in 2015 after she was exonerated due to new DNA evidence found on a cigarette stub.
  
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• El Salvador busts alleged migrant smuggling network, nabs 25

  29-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 25 people were arrested across El Salvador on Thursday, including businesspeople, lawyers and a former police officer, as part of an operation to break up an alleged migrant smuggling network.Authorities said they conducted raids in a number of municipalities and seized 23 vehicles and 14 properties with a collective value of about $1 million.The director of the attorney general's office anticorruption unit said 32 arrest warrants were issued.
  
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• US intelligence suggests Russia was fishing Putin's doomsday missile out of the sea when it mysteriously exploded

  29-08-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Sources familiar with an intelligence report told CNBC that Russia was trying to recover the weapon after another unsuccessful flight test.
  
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• Israeli PM, libertarians hash out weed deal ahead of polls

  29-08-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a deal with a far-right party which agreed to withdraw from elections next month in exchange for a pledge to legalise medicinal cannabis.Zehut, a libertarian Jewish nationalist party, was also promised a ministerial portfolio in exchange for not putting up candidates for the September 17 legislative elections, its head Moshe Feiglin said.The veteran Israeli prime minister and Likud party chair is trying to secure right-wing votes fo
  
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• Regime forces inch forward in northwest Syria: monitor

  29-08-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian-backed regime forces seized several towns and villages in northwest Syria Thursday, as deadly air strikes hit the jihadist-held bastion, a monitor said.Seven civilians died in air strikes in the south of the stronghold, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after regime air strikes killed 12 others -- including six children -- in a town.Eight years into Syria's war, the Idlib region of some three million people is one of the last holdouts of opposition to President Bashar a
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to shooting man in the head inside car while on Facebook Live

  29-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Sentencing is scheduled for a later date, which will include statements from the victim.
  
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• Idaho artifacts show human presence in Americas 16,600 years ago

  29-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Artifacts including stone tools and animal bone fragments found in Idaho dating back about 16,600 years represent what may be the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas and offer insight into the routes people took as they spread into the New World.Scientists on Thursday said they used a technique called radiocarbon dating to determine the age of artifacts unearthed at an archeological site called Cooper's Ferry along the Salmon River in western Idaho near the town of Cottonwood.People were p
  
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• 'Extremely dangerous': What we know about Dorian, which may grow into a Category 4 hurricane

  29-08-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  What we know about Dorian, which is expected to become a bigger threat as it heads toward Florida, possibly as a Category 4 hurricane.
  
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• Judge ends case against Epstein, with a nod to the accusers

  29-08-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, but not without a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the financier.U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman took the procedural step of adding his initials to an order dismissing the indictment that charged the 66-year-old Epstein with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking of minors in the early 2000s in Florida and New York.In requesting the action 10 days earlier, U.S. Attorney
  
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• 5 things that make Dorian a dangerous hurricane

  29-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian is forecast to hit somewhere along the east coast of Florida this weekend. Here is why it's so treacherous.
  
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• A 360-pound alligator that snuck up on a kayaker was captured after a 3-hour hunt

  29-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The alligator chased Bo Storey out of the pond. Hours later, it was caught because it was deemed to be a nuisance due to its size and demeanor.
  
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• Magnitude 6.3 earthquake rumbles 150 miles off Oregon coast

  29-08-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday off the Oregon coast but did not generate a tsunami or cause any damage or injuries, authorities said.The quake was caused by slipping along an offshore fault called the Blanco Fracture Zone and has nothing to do with the more well-known Cascadia fault, which is believed to be overdue for a major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, said Paul Bodin, manager of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington.The slips along the Casc
  
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• Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro: Dems Plotting to ‘Replace American Citizens With Illegals’

  29-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  MIKE THEILERNearly a month after an accused shooter reportedly said he deliberately targeted “Mexicans” while killing more than 20 people in El Paso, Fox News personalities are still echoing the same talking points from the gunman’s racist manifesto, in which he complained about a “Hispanic invasion” of America.Appearing on Fox Nation’s The Todd Starnes Show on Thursday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was asked by Starnes—who recently likened migrants to a
  
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• U.S. officials defend new citizenship rules for some military families

  29-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. immigration officials on Thursday defended a new policy that ends automatic citizenship for some children born to U.S. citizens stationed abroad as government employees or members of the U.S. military, saying it would only affect a "handful" of families every year. Under current policy, children of service members and other officials stationed abroad are considered to be "residing in" the United States, so they receive the same automatic citizenship as if they were born on U.S. soil.
  
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• 'Well heck, I'm not doing anything': This Arizona couple moved to Iowa to volunteer for Tulsi Gabbard

  29-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawn signs, billboards and a very dedicated volunteer corps make up Tulsi Gabbards' Iowa campaign
  
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• Trump administration barring tours of migrant detention centers, Democrats say

  29-08-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday said the Trump administration is blocking investigators from touring immigrant detention facilities nationwide after recent visits revealed what they called “serious ongoing problems” concerning how detainees are being treated.Representative Elijah Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said committee staff were barred from visiting 11 U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities days after previous
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson that DNC debate criteria isn't transparent

  29-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is among the many Democratic presidential candidates who did not qualify for September’s debate round by yesterday’s deadline.
  
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• China keeps calling Trump's bluff in trade war, and farmers take the hit: Today's talker

  29-08-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The financial security of the American farmer was already on shaky ground before President Trump started his trade war with China. Now, it's worse.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian could hit Florida as a major hurricane

  29-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian is now forecast to be a major category 4 storm as it crosses Florida later this weekend or early next week.
  
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• Satellite photos show burning Iran space center launch pad

  29-08-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A rocket at an Iranian space center that was to conduct a satellite launch criticized by the U.S. apparently exploded on its launch pad Thursday, satellite images show, suggesting the Islamic Republic suffered its third failed launch this year alone.State media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the incident at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province.In previous days, satellite images had shown officials there repainted the launch pad blue.
  
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• In a Major Milestone, the James Webb Space Telescope Is Whole at Last

  29-08-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Engineers have successfully connected the two halves of NASA's troubled Hubble successor.
  
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• Another Iranian rocket launch has ended in failure after it apparently blew up on the launch pad

  29-08-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has tried three times this year to put a satellite into space, but each time, something has gone wrong with the rocket.
  
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• Most powerful hurricane in US history was a nameless storm that rocked Florida on Labor Day 1935

  29-08-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  On Labor Day that year, some 500 people died as the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S. ripped the Upper Florida Keys to shreds.
  
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• Democrats' Medicare for All plans must consider union-negotiated health plans: AFL-CIO chief

  29-08-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic White House hopefuls should ensure their Medicare for All proposals honor union-negotiated private insurance, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of the largest federation of U.S. labor unions, said on Thursday.How to best extend health coverage to millions of uninsured or under-insured Americans has been one of the early issues defining the Democratic nominating contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in November 2020.The issue is increasingly cropping up on the campa
  
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• Democrats' Medicare for All must consider union-won plans: AFL-CIO

  29-08-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic White House hopefuls should ensure their Medicare for All proposals honor union-negotiated private insurance, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of the largest federation of U.S. labor unions, said on Thursday.How to best extend health coverage to millions of uninsured or under-insured Americans has been one of the early issues defining the Democratic nominating contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in November 2020."You can't ask the American worker, who sacrificed
  
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