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• 'Sickening and troubling': Senators press VA for top-to-bottom probe in suspicious death scandal

  30-08-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers want to see what the Veterans Affairs Inspector General concludes about suspicious deaths at a West Virginia VA hospital before taking action.
  
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• California deputies rescue wailing bear trapped in dumpster

  30-08-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  When a late-night trip to a trash container left a wailing bear cub stuck inside near a Lake Tahoe motel, deputies were called upon to help the cub reunite with its family.The cub can be heard crying from inside the metal dumpster in video recorded by Placer County Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday.It then climbs on the side of the trash container but fails to open the heavy lid.
  
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• Trump sends Iran 'best wishes' after its rocket explodes on the launchpad in a 'catastrophic' failure

  30-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has tried three times this year to put a satellite in space, but each time something has gone terribly wrong with the rocket.
  
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• Delta Air Lines pilot charged with alcohol violation

  30-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Delta Air Lines pilot from Minnesota was charged Friday with operating an aircraft under the influence of alcohol.Tests confirmed that 37-year-old Gabriel Schroeder, of Rosemont, had a blood alcohol level between 0.04% and 0.08% when detectives arrested him on a plane at the Minneapolis airport just as it started boarding for a flight to San Diego on July 20, according to the criminal complaint.The limit set by the Federal Aviation Administration is 0.04%, which is half the legal limit for dri
  
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• Illinois' John Shimkus won't seek reelection

  30-08-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  "It has been the honor of my lifetime to be asked by the people of Illinois to represent them in our nation’s capitol," he said.
  
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• UPDATE 1-FAA panel reviewing 737 MAX certification will take additional time

  30-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday a blue-ribbon panel of experts around the world will need a few more weeks to finish its review into the Boeing 737 MAX certification.Boeing Co has said it hopes to receive regulatory approval for updated flight control software at the center of both crashes in October, but it could take a month or two for airlines to train pilots on the new software and prepare the jets for commercial flight after sitting idle for months.In September the NTSB p
  
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• Mexican president backs official accused of suspect real estate purchases

  30-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday expressed support for Manuel Bartlett, the head of national electricity company CFE, despite accusations that Bartlett has improperly accumulated nearly two dozen luxury properties."I have confidence in Mr. Bartlett," Lopez Obrador told reporters at his morning news conference.The president tapped Bartlett, a veteran politician with a controversial past, to lead Mexico's state-owned power utility.
  
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• Samsung may offer up to 1TB of internal storage on the Galaxy S11

  30-08-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The most surprising moment at the Samsung media event I attended earlier this month was when the company reps revealed that the Galaxy Note 10 would not feature a microSD card slot. The biggest Android vendor in the world just eliminated an expansion slot on a flagship phone, and even though the pricier Galaxy Note 10+ retained the feature, this seemed like a sign of things to come. And a new rumor adds credence to that idea.SamMobile reports that the Galaxy S11 series will have four different s
  
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• 5,000 bodies found in unmarked graves in Mexico since 2006

  30-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 5,000 bodies have been found in more than 3,000 unmarked graves since Mexico deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, the government said Friday in its first comprehensive report on the carnage.Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence since launching the so-called "drug war," and activists and family members of the country's 40,000 missing persons have been denouncing mass graves for years.It found 3,024 unmarked graves nationwide, with at least 4,974 bodies, Karla Quintana,
  
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• Swedish teen climate activist leads protest near UN

  30-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg drew crowds on land Friday after her two-week sail across the Atlantic as the 16-year-old Swede led a protest march in front of the United Nations.Hundreds of activists, many of them teenagers, surrounded her outside U.N. headquarters, chanting, "Fossil lobbyists have got to go" and, "It's too hot!" — referriang to global warming.It was the New York edition of her weekly Fridays For Future, the student school strikes she has inspired in about 100 cities
  
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• Hurricane Dorian gains strength, expected to hit FL as Category 4

  30-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Storm preparations are underway in Florida in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: What's the forecast for Florida vacation spots?

  30-08-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  What the forecast is saying about the impact Hurricane Dorian will have on a number of popular vacation spots.
  
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• What's really behind Trump's surprising tweet on Iran's 'failed satellite launch'

  30-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has claimed that the US had nothing to do with reports of a failed Iranian satellite launch - and sent his "best wishes and good luck" in determining what happened at the site in Semnan.He tweeted: "The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One."
  
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• Arkansas police probe 911 dispatcher after caller drowns

  30-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Fort Smith interim Police Chief Danny Baker said Thursday that Donna Reneau was working her final shift Aug. 24 when Debra Stevens died. Reneau had given her notice two weeks earlier.Police spokesman Aric Mitchell said Friday that Reneau dispatched emergency personnel to find Stevens, 47, who'd driven into an apartment complex parking lot to try to avoid flooding.In the 911 recording, released by police as part of the internal investigation, Stevens was heard crying and begging for help, saying
  
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• Three 2020 Democrats quit the presidential race in one week, and Elizabeth Warren stands to gain the most from their exits

  30-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren stands to gain big from the departures of Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee, and Seth Moulton from the 2020 Democratic race.
  
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• Trump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany

  30-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The critical comments happened at an off-the-record dinner.
  
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• US service member killed in Afghanistan: NATO

  30-08-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An American service member was killed in Afghanistan, the US-led NATO mission said Friday, the latest US fatality as talks between the US and the Taliban continue."A US service member died during combat operations in Afghanistan, August 29, 2019," NATO's Resolute Support mission said in a statement.The death brings to at least 15 the number of members of the US military to be killed in action in Afghanistan this year, just as Washington is seeking a way out of its longest war.
  
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• New York investigators reportedly zero in on Epstein recruiter as net tightens around his 'enablers'

  30-08-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  New York investigators examining Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network are turning their attention to a woman who served as his teenage recruiter, it has been claimed. Haley Robson was 16 when she was approached at a swimming pool near her home in Florida by a high school acquaintance who offered her the chance to make some money. Miss Robson, now 33, was told she had to give massages to a billionaire in Palm Beach. She went to Epstein’s house and gave him a massag
  
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• Police admit white powder seized during drugs bust at Gatwick airport is actually cake mix for vegan bakery

  30-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have admitted that white powder seized during a "huge" drugs bust at Gatwick airport is actually cake mix for vegan bakery. Vegan pizza restaurant Purezza was transporting ingredients in a suitcase when a member of staff was stopped by the police on August 28. The white powder, which was divided into 25 blue bags, was sent for tests before officers accepted it was not illegal. British Transport Police said: "'Officers were called to Gatwick Airport station at 1.34pm on August 28 after a s
  
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• Kamala Harris Attended LA Fundraisers The Same Day She Missed Endorsement Interview

  30-08-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethan Miller/GettySen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had been scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session with the left-wing Working Families Party on August 22 as part of the organization’s endorsement process. She did not attend, and as a result of missing the session—and not being able to reschedule before a planned endorsement vote next month—she is now out of contention for the party’s endorsement, as first reported by NBC News. That same day, Harris d
  
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• 1st charges filed in string of child homicides in St. Louis

  30-08-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been charged with killing a 15-year-old in the first case filed in a string of recent child homicides in St. Louis that have drawn attention to gun violence in Missouri.Joseph Renick, 54, was jailed on $500,000 bond after being charged Thursday with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm in the death of Sentonio Cox.Sentonio is the latest of at least 13 children killed by gunfire in St. Louis this year, leading the mayor to demand changes in gun
  
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• Trump Denies U.S. Involvement in Failure of Iranian Rocket Launch

  30-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Friday that the U.S. was not involved in the failure of an Iranian rocket test last week, and added that he wishes the state terror sponsor luck in investigating the explosion.> The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One. pic.twitter.com/z0iDj2L0Y3> > -- Donald J. T
  
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• Ukraine Is Struggling to Make Sense of Trump and Bolton's Conflicting Messages on Russia

  30-08-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  After Trump stalled millions in military aid, Ukraine officials are having trouble making sense of the Administration's stance on Russia.
  
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• The Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Is the Perfect Phone for Writers, Note-Takers and Scribblers

  30-08-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  It's got a great camera and brilliant screen to boot
  
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• The Northern Lights Could Be Visible Across the Northern U.S. This Weekend. Here's How to See the Aurora

  30-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Dress warmly, get to a dark spot and look to the north
  
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• Mexico uncovers 3,000 secret graves hiding bodies of drug war victims

  30-08-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  * New data reveals nearly 5,000 bodies found across the country* Disappearances common amid extreme drug-related violenceThe data on hidden graves nationwide was released to coincide with the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Photograph: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 3,000 secret graves containing victims of Mexico’s raging drug wars have been found across the country, according to the first ever official tally of the phenomenon.A total of 4,874 bodie
  
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• 2020 Vision: 'Gaffe machine' in high gear, Biden's campaign says it doesn't matter

  30-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A new poll shows Trump trailing the top Democratic contenders in a hypothetical 2020 general election match-up. The next step for Democrats is a strong debate performance on Sept. 12. Also crucial is a campaign’s follow-through.
  
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• Trial of Accused 9/11 Masterminds Set for 2021

  30-08-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The trial of five men charged with planning the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 will begin in 2021, a military judge ruled Friday.The selection of a military jury for the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others accused of planning the attacks will commence on January 11, 2021, the judge in the case, Air Force colonel W. Shane Cohen, said in a ten-page trial-scheduling order. Cohen has also ordered prosecutors to provide certain materials to the defense teams by October 1 in
  
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• Condemned Tennessee inmate will be spared execution

  30-08-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee inmate is leaving death row eight months before what would have been his execution date, after a judge approved an agreement Friday to convert his death sentence to life in prison.Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman(ah-BOO'-ah-LEE') (AHB'-dur-RAK'-mahn) signed the agreement with prosecutors Wednesday, but Nashville Criminal Court Judge Monte Watkins did not announce his approval until Friday morning.The agreement comes after Abdur'Rahman, who is black, petitioned to reopen his case, presenting evid
  
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• Joe Biden under fire for war hero story 'filled with inaccuracies'

  30-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential hopeful, is facing renewed questions over his memory and whether he is too old for office after telling an anecdote about a war hero that appears to be littered with inaccuracies.  The former US vice president faced scrutiny after recounting an emotive story of how a soldier he once presented with a medal did not want it because the person colleague tried to save had died.  Speaking in New Hampshire last week, Mr Biden recalled how he once visited
  
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• Judge: No bail for suspect in Nevada sledgehammer attack

  30-08-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of killing a woman with a sledgehammer while she was calling 911 for help told police who arrested him about "smashing people" and said the woman asked him to hit her, a prosecutor told a judge on Friday."The violence is almost unspeakable," Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Peter Thunell said while Clinton Earl Taylor, 36, stood in custody before Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman.The Clark County coroner has not yet identified the woman, who Las Vegas police say told a
  
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• Trump accused of tweeting image from secret intelligence briefing as he says US not involved in Iran satellite launch failure

  30-08-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has tweeted what appears to be a new, high resolution image of the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch, claiming that the United States had nothing to do with the incident.The image was posted shortly after Mr Trump was scheduled to receive an intelligence briefing, and experts say was likely taken from briefing documents. It has the reflection of what appears to be a flash in the centre, suggesting the image may have been photographed from separate materials.
  
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• ‘I could not ask for better children,' mom said on Instagram before killing adult kids in apparent murder-suicide

  30-08-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Atlanta police silent on more details in the apparent murder-suicide deaths of Christopher Edwards Jr., sister Erin Edwards and mom Marsha Edwards.
  
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• How to See the Northern Lights This Weekend

  30-08-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Capture stellar views of the geomagnetic storm.
  
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• Fox Business Host Stuart Varney Tells Joe Walsh: Trump Has Never Lied

  30-08-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox Business Network host Stuart Varney proclaimed with a straight face on Friday morning that President Donald Trump has never lied to the American people, asserting that Trump has only ever exaggerated and spun.During an interview with former one-term tea party Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), who recently announced a long-shot primary bid against Trump, the Fox host took issue with Walsh’s insistence that Trump is a pathological liar, asking the ex-congressman for specifics.Walsh, meanwhile, poin
  
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• Pence: 'The Bible stays' at veterans hospital facing lawsuit

  30-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  "We will always respect the freedom of religion of every veteran of every faith," Pence said in a speech addressing the American Legion National Convention in Indianapolis on Wednesday.The military religious freedom foundation that originally objected to the Bible called the president a "repulsive and repellent fundamentalist Christian" bully.
  
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• U.S. Navy Sends 6 Ships Out to Sea to Ride Out Hurricane Dorian

  30-08-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The USS Shamal left Naval Station Mayport on Wednesday, while USS Lassen, USS Paul Ignatius, USS Farragut, USS Billings and USS Milwaukee will leave today. These ships will go to areas of the Atlantic where they will not be in the storm's path
  
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• Hong Kong police round up activists as major demo called off

  30-08-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists including three lawmakers were arrested Friday in a protest crackdown -- a move described by rights groups as a well-worn tactic deployed by China to suffocate dissent ahead of key political events.The latest protest had been due to mark the fifth anniversary of Beijing's rejection of a call for universal suffrage in the semi-autonomous city, sparking the 79-day Umbrella Movement in 2014.Hong Kong has been locked in three months of political crisis, with i
  
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• Biden Says He Would Prefer a Woman or Person of Color as Running Mate

  30-08-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Joe Biden said Tuesday that he would prefer to choose a woman or a person of color as his running mate should he win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.“Whomever I pick, preferably it will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender, but I’m not making that commitment until I know that the person I’m dealing with I can completely and thoroughly trust as authentic and on the same page,” Biden said.He added, however, that the main qu
  
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• 'Nobody cared': Woman gave birth alone in Denver jail cell after her cries for help were ignored, lawsuit says

  30-08-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A Colorado woman has filed a federal lawsuit after deputies and nurses allegedly ignored her cries for help while she was in labor.
  
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• President launches rant over 'stolen time' by FBI as Hurricane Dorian approaches U.S.

  30-08-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has responded after a report by the Justice Department inspector general found that ex-FBI Director James Comey had broken federal rules by leaking a memo on his meetings with the president but did not recommend his prosecution.
  
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• German nurse under investigation for murdering patients

  30-08-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  German prosecutors are investigating a male nurse suspected of murdering numerous patients in a case reminiscent of one of the country's worst serial killers, it emerged Friday.Following reports in local media, the state prosecutor in Saarbruecken confirmed that the suspect, identified only as B., was under investigation on five counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.The case bears similarities to that of Niels Hoegel, the serial killer nurse who was handed a life sentence last June
  
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• Buttigieg Denounces ‘Hypocrisy’ of Pence, Other Christian Politicians

  30-08-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg blasted Vice President Mike Pence and other Christian politicians this week for adopting what he charged were un-Christian political stances.Asked by Religion News whether he would call "sinful" those Christian politicians who supported the Trump administration's since-scrapped policy of separating families arrested after crossing the southern border illegally, Buttigieg declined to go that far."I’ll be careful to use that word to kind of po
  
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• More than 900 people at immigration detention centers have gotten mumps, an incurable virus that can cause severe brain inflammation and deafness

  30-08-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Mumps outbreaks occur when large groups of people are kept in close contact for long periods of time.
  
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• National Rifle Association Calls NRATV a ‘Failed Endeavor’ in New Lawsuit

  30-08-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  DOMINICK REUTERThe National Rifle Association is suing its estranged former ad firm, Ackerman McQueen—again. The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Dallas, Texas, demands that the ad firm remove any reference to the NRA from its website. And it blasts a central product the firm created for the gun group: its often-controversial, now-defunct streaming service, NRATV. “[T]he NRA recently concluded, despite years of false reporting from defendants, that NRATV was a fail
  
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• Tropical Storm Erick, approaching Hawaii, set to become a hurricane by late Monday

  30-08-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The weather system is likely to bring heavy rainfall and local flooding to Hawaii this week.
  
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• Correction: Immigration-Citizenship story

  30-08-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story Aug. 28 about a new policy for military members, The Associated Press misidentified the name of a military news site.It is Task and Purpose, not Task and Report.The Trump administration has unveiled new rules that will make it harder for children of some immigrants serving in the military to obtain citizenship.
  
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• Man charged after making gun gesture with finger has appeal rejected

  30-08-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  On a warm day in June 2018, Stephen Kirchner was walking with a fellow neighbour when they came up on Josh Klingseisen's yard.They were not friendly with Mr Klingseisen. In fact, the woman walking with Kirchner, Elaine Natore, had a "no contact" order against Mr Klingseisen, who happened to be outside mulching in his yard in Manor Township, Pennsylvania, as the two neighbours passed. Kirchner stopped, and the two men made eye contact.
  
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• What If Obama Endorses Warren?

  30-08-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Barack Obama thinks about his brand and his legacy a lot, and he dreads what Joe Biden might do to it. This month alone, Biden mistook New Hampshire for Vermont even though the sole reason he was in that part of the country was the first-in-the-nation primary, which is famously not held in Vermont. He said RFK was assassinated in the 1970s. He said he couldn’t remember the name of the British prime minister in the midst of bragging about his foreign-policy chops. And he speculated about wh
  
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• The Invasion of Poland Wasn't Hitler's First Aggression. Here's Why That Move Marked the Beginning of WWII

  30-08-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Roughly 1.5 million German soldiers, 2,000 airplanes and 2,500 tanks crossed the Polish border on Sept. 1, 1939
  
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