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• Boris Johnson Humiliated by Parliament in First Brexit Vote

  03-09-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSLONDON—Theresa May’s abject humiliation over Brexit was three years in the making as she endured failed negotiations, misfiring political gambles, and a series of internal revolts. Boris Johnson got there in just one vote. The biographer of Winston Churchill entered Downing Street breathing rhetorical fire just one day before parliament was closed for the summer. On his very first day back in Parliament, he lost his majority in the House of Commons and was then defeated by his
  
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• Democrats in the House Are Split on Impeachment. That Could Come to a Head This Fall

  03-09-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of members in support of action on impeachment has reached 137
  
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• Mexico: Main suspect absolved in 2014 student disappearances

  03-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the main suspects in the 2014 disappearance of 43 teachers' college students in southern Mexico has been acquitted, a human rights attorney said Tuesday, as justice remains elusive for one of the darkest moments of the country's recent history.Santiago Aguirre, director of the human rights center known as Prodh and a lawyer for victims' relatives, said the judge absolved Gilberto López Astudillo due to "insufficient evidence" and the suspect was released from custody Saturday with
  
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• Pilot trainee lands plane after instructor passes out

  03-09-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A pilot-in-training is being hailed as a hero for landing a plane after his instructor passed out.
  
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• North Carolina court strikes down state legislative map as unconstitutional gerrymander

  03-09-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A three-judge panel in Wake County Superior Court said the state Senate and state House district lines discriminated against Democratic voters in violation of the state constitution's free elections, equal protection and free speech clauses.The decision is a victory for election reform advocates considering legal challenges to partisan gerrymandering in state courts despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year blocking such cases in federal courts.State Senate Leader Phil Berger, a Repu
  
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• FBI: Texas shooter 'on long spiral down.' Here’s what we know

  03-09-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting began with a routine traffic stop where the gunman opened fire on police, then took off shooting randomly for more than 10 miles.
  
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• Devastation in Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian crawls towards US coast

  03-09-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Weakening slightly but still packing a powerful punch, Hurricane Dorian churned towards the southeastern coast of the United States on Tuesday after delivering a devastating blow to the Bahamas.Bahamas National Security Minister Marvin Dames said several children were among the five deaths reported in the Atlantic archipelago from the monster storm and predicted more fatalities.Aerial footage of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas broadcast by CNN showed scenes of catastrophic damage, with hundred
  
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• The Taliban Scoff at Trump’s Afghan Peace Talks Bluff

  03-09-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/ReutersDOHA, Qatar—The American negotiator trying to cut a deal with the Taliban that might let Donald Trump get all uniformed troops out of Afghanistan before next year’s election says that the two sides have an “agreement in principle.”But Taliban officials and diplomats here in the capital of Qatar, where the talks have been held, told The Daily Beast that after Round 9 last week, there was still no deal the Taliban would sign. Trump’s ma
  
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• Cheerleader Accused of Murdering, Burying Newborn Goes on Trial

  03-09-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo Courtesy Warren County Sheriff's OfficeIn July 2017, police in small-town Ohio uncovered an unmarked infant’s grave in the backyard of a prominent family. On Tuesday, jury selection began in the case of the alleged murderer—a high school cheerleader accused of killing her newborn baby to protect her good-girl image.Brooke Skylar Richardson, now 20, is charged with is charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, and three othe
  
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• Renewing or applying for airport fast pass Global Entry? Brace for lengthy delays

  03-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The Global Entry trusted traveler program has been plagued by lengthy application delays. Some travelers report over 100 days to renew.
  
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• Chris Hayes and Progressives’ Lack of Respect for the Constitution

  03-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Last week, conservatives in the Twitterverse had a good chuckle at the expense of MSNBC host Chris Hayes for something he said about the Electoral College on his show.“The weirdest thing about the Electoral College,” he offered, “is the fact that if it wasn't specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.”This is one of those things that sound a lot better in your head than they do coming out of your mouth! We’ve all been guilty o
  
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• Florida is ready, but where is the hurricane?

  03-09-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Houses and businesses are boarded up, bridges to barrier islands are blocked and many residents of Florida's beachside communities are long gone."The uncertainty is a little nerve wracking," says Drew Gabrielson, clutching his trembling Chihuahua Rodney as he looks across a beach at the roughening surf.On Tuesday, Dorian began moving at five miles per hour (eight kilometers per hour), a positively jaunty pace after being stuck at a near standstill for the better part of two days as it battered t
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro warns of Colombia attack, orders military exercises

  03-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday ordered the armed forces to be on alert for a potential attack by Colombia's government and announced military exercises on the border amid the rearmament of a group of former guerrilla commanders.Former FARC guerillas on Thursday announced a rearmament in a video that Colombian authorities believe was filmed in Venezuela, spurring concern of a worsening of the Colombian armed conflict and expansion of armed groups in Venezuela."I've ordered the str
  
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• Parliament Debates Plan to Block No-Deal Split: Brexit Update

  03-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his House of Commons majority as he faces a showdown with members of his Conservative Party that will determine the U.K.’s exit from the European Union and the length of his premiership.Johnson has vowed to leave the bloc on Oct. 31, but his political enemies are fighting to stop him from doing so without a divorce deal. Tonight is the first of a series
  
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• Grand Bahama waterlogged in Hurricane Dorian before and after satellite photos

  03-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Next-generation satellite technology capable of penetrating cloud cover shows widespread flooding from slow-moving Hurricane Dorian.
  
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• Sen. Manchin says he won't run for West Virginia governor

  03-09-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced Tuesday he will not run for governor, ending speculation on whether the moderate Democrat would challenge a Trump-backed incumbent in his deep-red home state."Ultimately, I believe my role as U.S. senator allows me to position our state for success for the rest of this century," he said in a statement, pledging to work on energy legislation and steer federal dollars to West Virginia from his perch on the appropriations committee.The 72-year-old senator pr
  
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• Mississippi wedding venue cites 'Christian belief' in refusing interracial couple

  03-09-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The business owner has since apologized after being captured on video saying she wouldn't allow an interracial couple to get married at her venue.
  
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• Waves from Hurricane Dorian pound 2nd story of home in Bahamas | VIDEO

  03-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Video shows waves from Hurricane Dorian pounding on the second story of a home in the Bahamas.
  
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• The Latest: Baby, 2 children among victims in family slaying

  03-09-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A 14-year-old Alabama boy faces murder charges in the slayings of five members of his family, including an infant brother, two other siblings, ages 5 and 6, and his father and stepmother.Limestone County Sheriff's spokesman Stephen Young said Tuesday that the teen is being held in a juvenile facility and faces five counts of murder in the juvenile court system.The adult victims were identified as the suspect's father, 38-year-old John Sisk, and Mary Sisk, the boy's 35-year-old stepmother.
  
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• Mom arrested in connection to 5-year-old's body found decaying in hidden closet in Houston

  03-09-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say her mother confessed to hiding the child's body for nearly a week. She says the girl, identified as Sierra Patino, died from ingesting chemicals.
  
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• How to Spot a Serious Gun-Crime Proposal

  03-09-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  There was another massacre, this one in Midland and Odessa, Texas. As usual, tragedy was followed by stupidity.The New York Times, in its poetical mode, observed that the crime “clashed with the typically serene and dusty rural landscape of the region.” In reality, Odessa is the most dangerous city in Texas, with a murder rate about twice the national average. So much for “serene.” It is not particularly rural, either, though you pass through a good deal of rurality on th
  
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• Walmart Asks Shoppers to Stop Openly Carrying Guns in Stores in Wake of El Paso Mass Shooting

  03-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The company will also halt sales of handgun and short-barrel rifle ammunition
  
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• Ford Recalling F-150 and Other Models for Potentially Dangerous Seat Defect

  03-09-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly half a million vehicles are involved, including new and recent F-150, Super Duty, Explorer, and Expedition models.
  
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• Fiat Is Killing the 500 Minicar in the U.S.

  03-09-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The iconic Italian two-door says "arrivederci" after the 2019 model year.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: 'Catastrophic' damage in Bahamas leaves 60,000 needing drinking water

  03-09-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescue workers are scrambling to reach the northern Bahamas as Hurricane Dorian pounded the region for another day, leaving a trail of “unprecedented” destruction.  At least five people have been killed in the area and more than 60,000 are expected to need drinking water in the coming days after the “catastrophic” damage.  On Grand Bahama island and the Abaco islands, among the worst affected, more than 13,000 homes were severely damaged or destroyed – som
  
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• UPDATE 4-Walmart halts ammunition sales for assault-style rifles; Kroger calls for gun safety

  03-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart Inc, the nation's largest retailer, said on Tuesday it would stop selling ammunition for handguns and some assault-style rifles in all its stores across the United States, and called for action on gun safety after a string of mass shootings, including at Walmart stores in Texas and Mississippi.Walmart also called for a strengthening of background checks for gun buyers and action to take guns out of the hands of those who pose a risk of violence, which was followed by an almost identical
  
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• Bahamas minister says more deaths expected from Hurricane Dorian

  03-09-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian weakened slightly as it crawled towards the southeast coast of the United States on Tuesday after leaving at least five people dead and a swathe of destruction in the Bahamas.Video footage showed catastrophic damage from the powerful hurricane on the islands of Grand Bahama and Great Abaco in the northern Bahamas including shattered homes, fields of debris and flooded streets.The runways at Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, the island's largest city, were under wat
  
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• Tropical Storm Fernand forms in Gulf as it moves toward Mexico

  03-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The low spinning in the Gulf near Mexico has intensified into a tropical storm.It is expected to move into Mexico Wednesday evening.
  
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• Curfews and covert surveillance: SA councils declare war on 'nuisance' cats

  03-09-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Mount Barker council in Adelaide will introduce limit of two cats per property but mayor says rules are not intended to vilify the animalA council in South Australia has vowed to crack down on the “nuisance behaviour” of local cats, passing new regulations to limit the number of felines per property and forcing owners to keep their pets inside at night.Residents of Mount Barker in Adelaide will face penalties if their cats are found roaming the streets at night after the local counci
  
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• Curfews and covert surveillance: SA council declares war on 'nuisance' cats

  03-09-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  South Australian council will also introduce limit of two cats per property but mayor says rules are not intended to vilify the animalA council in South Australia has vowed to crack down on the “nuisance behaviour” of local cats, passing new regulations to limit the number of felines per property and forcing owners to keep their pets inside at night.Residents of Mount Barker in Adelaide will face penalties if their cats are found roaming the streets at night after the local council p
  
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• 20 bodies recovered after California dive boat disaster

  03-09-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities on Tuesday suspended the search for survivors of a scuba diving boat disaster off the California coast after recovering 20 bodies and spotting another four to six trapped in underwater wreckage."Today we will begin the process of mapping DNA profiles of the 20 victims that we have recovered so far, so that they can be compared with family samples," Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference.The boat had been on a diving excursion around Santa Cruz Island, just wes
  
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• PHOTOS: Hurricane Dorian bashes the Bahamas

  03-09-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Strong winds move the palms of the palm trees at the first moment of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Sept. 1, 2019. (Photo: Ramon Espinosa/AP) Bahamians rescued victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups tried to get food and medicine to survivors and take the most desperate people to safety. Airports were flooded and roads impassable after the most powerful storm to hit t
  
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• Comparing primate vocalizations

  03-09-2019 19:47
  The language of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than previously realized. Even so, it displays constraints that reinforce the singularity of human language, according to a new study.
  
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• U.S. judge orders big drug companies to face opioid trial

  03-09-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, who oversees roughly 2,000 opioid lawsuits by states, counties and cities, said the plaintiffs can try to prove that drugmakers' deceptive marketing of the painkillers caused a harmful, massive increase in supply that pharmacies and distributors did not do enough to stop."A factfinder could reasonably infer that these failures were a substantial factor in producing the alleged harm suffered by plaintiffs," the Cleveland-based judge wrote.
  
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• 7 fatally shot, 34 wounded in Chicago during Labor Day weekend gun violence

  03-09-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Gun violence over the Labor Day weekend has left seven people dead and another 34 wounded in Chicago.
  
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• Iran oil tanker pursued by US turns off tracker near Syria

  03-09-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian oil tanker blacklisted and pursued by the U.S. turned off its tracking beacon off the coast of Syria, leading to renewed speculation Tuesday that its oil will end up there, despite earlier assurances it wouldn't.The disappearance of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, follows a pattern of Iranian oil tankers turning off their Automatic Identification System to try and mask where they deliver their cargo amid U.S. sanctions targeting Iran's energy industry.Its disappeara
  
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• Ford Recalls Pickup Trucks and SUVs for Seat Problem

  03-09-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford is recalling 483,325 vehicles in the U.S., 58,712 in Canada, and 8,149 in Mexico because the mechanism that controls how the front driver and/or passenger seatbacks recline may have been imp...
  
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• Millions ordered to evacuate as Dorian grows in size and bears down on US

  03-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions of Americans have been ordered to evacuate their homes after Hurricane Dorian – having relentlessly battered the Bahamas for days, leaving at least five fatalities and dozens of injuries in his wake – picked up speed and size and started bearing down on the southeastern coastline.Officials on the Bahamas said at last 13,000 homes had been destroyed by massive flooding and powerful winds, that blasted the nation with a force not matched since 1935. Prime minister Hubert Minni
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Millions ordered to evacuate as storm bears down on US

  03-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions of Americans have been ordered to evacuate their homes after Hurricane Dorian – having relentlessly battered the Bahamas for days, leaving at least five fatalities and dozens of injuries in its wake – picked up speed and size and started bearing down on the southeastern coastline.Officials in the Bahamas said at last 13,000 homes had been destroyed by massive flooding and powerful winds that blasted the nation with a force not matched since 1935. Hubert Minnis, the prime min
  
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• Tropical Depression No. 7 forms in Gulf as it moves toward Mexico

  03-09-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The low spinning in the Gulf near Mexico has intensified into a depression and could be a tropical storm before moving into Mexico Wednesday evening.
  
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• The Latest: French diplo warns against Iran deal retreat

  03-09-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A French diplomat warns that Iran would send a "bad signal" if the country takes additional steps away from the 2015 nuclear agreement on Friday.France is leading diplomatic talks to try to save the nuclear deal — from which the United States withdrew — and get a de-escalation of tensions in the Gulf region.The French diplomat, who was speaking anonymously because he was not allowed to speak publicly on the sensitive talks, said Iran seeks to get $15 billion through oil exports.
  
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• Trump hardens tone on China as trade war rattles economy

  03-09-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid fresh signs his trade wars are rattling the US economy, President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent stern warnings to China, urging the Pacific power not to drag its feet in trade negotiations. After a month of escalations in the year-long battle with Beijing, Trump sent a Twitter blitz saying Chinese negotiators may be holding out for a better deal in hopes he will be voted out in next year's presidential elections. The latest invective from the White House ended the more conciliatory tone stru
  
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• Mexican president says referendums could decide fate of ex-presidents

  03-09-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday the public should have the right to choose whether ex-presidents should face trial once a bill has passed Congress making it easier to hold referendums.Speaking after an official said an investigation had been opened on a 2014 scandal that battered the reputation of his predecessor, Enrique Pena Nieto, Lopez Obrador said he did not want to pursue former presidents in court."And once (the constitution) has been reformed and these refer
  
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• Another Birmingham TV series that’s worth a look | Brief letters

  03-09-2019 19:09 via theguardian.com
  Marilyns and Norma Jeane | Veganism | BBC Gangsters | Screen tourism | Boris Johnson’s puppyIt’s unusual for Pass notes to get it wrong, but Marilyns were, indeed, thought to be named after Norma Jeane (G2, 3 September). They are defined as isolated peaks with a prominence above 150 metres and first appeared in Alan Dawson’s book The Relative Hills of Britain (1992). The name is said to be a play on their better-known cousins, the Munros. Whether there is any other link between
  
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• Hurricane Dorian edges 'dangerously close' to Florida after battering Bahamas

  03-09-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  * Five dead as island nation suffers ‘historic tragedy’* Follow the latest live updates on Hurricane DorianRain brought on by Hurricane Dorian continues to pour in Freeport, Bahamas, on Tuesday. Photograph: Tim Aylen/APHurricane Dorian was edging “dangerously close” to the US mainland on Tuesday, after its catastrophic two-day stall over the Bahamas destroyed thousands of homes and left at least five people dead.Despite weakening to a category 2 storm with sustained winds
  
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• Meghan McCain Clashes With ‘View’ Co-Hosts: ‘I’m Not Living Without Guns’

  03-09-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Returning for its 23rd season on Tuesday morning, The View started off right where it left off this summer: With conservative co-host Meghan McCain clashing with her colleagues on a hot-button social issue while grousing about being outnumbered by her liberal cohorts.Discussing this past weekend’s mass shooting in Odessa that left at least seven people dead, the panel noted that the shooter had actually failed a federal background check but was able to purchase a firearm due to the gun-sho
  
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• Nigeria summons S.African envoy over 'deep concern' for xenophobic attacks

  03-09-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's government on Tuesday summoned South Africa's envoy and said it would dispatch a delegation to Pretoria to express "deep concern" over attacks on Nigerians in a wave of xenophobic violence.The decision came after mobs descended on business hubs and townships in various parts of South Africa, looting dozens of shops and torching trucks driven by foreigners in an outburst of anti-migrant anger.Buhari "has noted with deep concern, reported attacks on Nigerian c
  
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• Activists Call Upon U.S. Treasury Department to Probe Department Coziness With Fox Business Network

  03-09-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIA left-leaning advocacy group is putting pressure on the U.S. Department of the Treasury to investigate whether the agency violated federal law in its interaction with conservative media outlets.Last month, advocacy group Democracy Forward released emails between Treasury officials and Fox Business Network employees after obtaining the messages through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The emails underscored the often cozy relationship that exists between Fox News or
  
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• Slowed metabolism helps migrating geese soar

  03-09-2019 18:39
  Researchers have shed new light on how some geese can fly high for long periods of time, according to a new study.
  
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• China warns it could unilaterally impose emergency rule on Hong Kong

  03-09-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  China on Tuesday refused to rule out military intervention in Hong Kong and said that it could unilaterally declare a state of emergency rule in its sternest warning since pro-democracy protests began thirteen weeks ago. The government’s top office overseeing Hong Kong threatened to apply national Chinese laws in the semi-autonomous territory and call on the military should the chaos that has seen millions take to the streets continue to escalate. The spokeswoman for the Hong Kong and Maca
  
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