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• Trump's Taliban invite another bold risk that's unraveled

  08-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's weekend tweet canceling secret meetings at Camp David with the Taliban and Afghan leaders just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is the latest example of a commander in chief willing to take a big risk in pursuit of a foreign policy victory only to see it dashed.What had seemed like an imminent deal to end the war has unraveled, with Trump and the Taliban blaming each other for the collapse of nearly a year of U.S.-Taliban negotiations in Doha, Qatar.Th
  
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• Hiker climbing Yosemite's iconic Half Dome dies in 500 foot fall

  08-09-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Danielle Burnett, 29, of Lake Havasu City, was scaling the steepest part of the popular Half Dome trail
  
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• NEWSMAKER-New Saudi energy minister: a royal with decades of experience in OPEC cuts

  08-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  When former Saudi oil minister Ali al Naimi crushed oil prices in 2014 by adding to global oversupply, one man in the kingdom stood firmly against this strategy.Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, King Salman's son and a veteran oil official, who on Sunday was named as new Saudi energy minister, is known in the industry for decades of work helping to foster OPEC production cuts.As he takes the reins at the world's largest oil exporter from Khaled al-Falih, Prince Abdulaziz faces intensifying demands fr
  
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• Mass protest in Santiago against abuses of Pinochet era

  08-09-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Santiago on Sunday to honor the victims of General Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, in a march that started peacefully but ended in violence.Although it has been 46 years since the military coup that brought Pinochet to power, his memory still divides Chileans.The protest began in central Santiago, with many demonstrators carrying red carnations and holding photos of loved ones who were killed or disappeared during the Pinochet years.
  
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• GOP will stop shooting survivor Gabby Giffords' husband, 'dead in his tracks,' official says

  08-09-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Kelly, Arizona Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who survived a mass shooting near Tucson.
  
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• Trump shares bizarre cat meme about his altered hurricane map

  08-09-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump prolonged a weeklong controversy over Hurricane Dorian, sharing cat video late Saturday night that mocked coverage of his incorrect claims about the storm’s path.
  
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• A disgruntled mechanic has been charged with sabotaging an American Airlines flight

  08-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  All of us have had a beef with the boss or disagreements and other assorted unpleasantness at work from time to time, which is the nature of being at the mercy of someone who's in charge of your productivity, never mind whether that intersects with your happiness.But it's probably fair to assume that most people don't act on those feelings and certainly don't take it out on innocent people. Which is, unfortunately, exactly what happened recently when a disgruntled American Airlines mechanic was
  
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• UPDATE 1-Former Hezbollah official found dead in Beirut flat

  08-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday.Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic doctor to determine the cause of death, National News Agency said, giving only the initials of the man.A Hezbollah official who requested anonymity confirmed the death of Ali Hatoum and told Reuters an investigation was under w
  
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• Poland's foreign ministry condemns attack on Israeli students

  08-09-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland's foreign ministry on Sunday condemned violence against a group of Israeli students beaten at a Warsaw nightclub early on Saturday, following criticism that Polish leaders are not doing enough to denounce antisemitism.Earlier this year, the World Jewish Congress condemned the burning of an effigy of Judas in the Polish town of Pruchnik and hundreds of far-right supporters marching in Warsaw against a U.S. law on restitution of Jewish property seized during or after World War Two.Poland wa
  
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• A Muslim man told a Starbucks barista his name was 'Aziz.' The employee wrote 'ISIS' on his cup

  08-09-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Muslim man said his name is "Aziz." A Starbucks barista wrote "ISIS." Was it a mistake or discrimination?
  
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• Defamation suit over Haiti sex abuse claim settled

  08-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A defamation lawsuit against an activist who accused an orphanage founder in Haiti of being a serial pedophile has been settled, ending a lawsuit that has dragged on for six years, an attorney said.Paul Kendrick's insurance companies agreed to pay $3 million to Hearts With Haiti, but nothing to orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld, attorney Mark Randall, who represents Kendrick, told The Associated Press.Hearts With Haiti and Geilenfeld dropped their defamation claims, he said.
  
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• More than 2,000 attend Sarajevo's first Gay Pride march

  08-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  More than two thousand people turned out in Sarajevo Sunday for the city's first Gay Pride march to protest hate crimes suffered by the LGBT community in Bosnia.More than 1,100 officers, including riot police, sealed off the route of the march through the city centre to protect participants from a counter protest by about 150 people.Activist Lejla Huremovic celebrated the fact that members of the LGBT community had been able to make themselves more visible.
  
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• The Latest: Dorian death toll rises to 44 in Bahamas

  08-09-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen by one to 44.Officials have warned that the number of deaths is likely to rise as security forces and other teams search devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.The government also announced a telephone hotline where Bahamians can call to report family members who have been unaccounted for since the storm.
  
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• Zimbabwe announces Mugabe funeral amid row over burial site

  08-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe’s government has announced a date for Robert Mugabe’s funeral amid a row over where the former president will be buried.  A government memo declared the funeral will be at Harare National Sports stadium on Saturday, September 14th but gave no location for the burial to follow the next day.  Members of Mr Mugabe’s family are battling with the ruling Zanu PF party over its plan to bury Zimbabwe’s liberator-turned-despot in a cemetery for heroes of the lib
  
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• Beekeepers are suing Trump administration over decision to allow wider use of insecticides

  08-09-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Beekeepers are suing the Trump administration over its decision to allow the wider use of an insecticide linked to the deaths of entire honeybee colonies.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed restrictions on sulfoxaflor in July and approved a host of new uses for the chemical.
  
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• Macron, Putin discussed Ukraine, Iran by phone

  08-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Sunday ahead of a meeting of the joint Franco-Russian Council on security issues scheduled for Monday in Moscow, the French presidency said in a statement.
  
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• British Airways tells passengers not turn up at airports, as airline's biggest ever strike begins

  08-09-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  British Airways has told its passengers not to turn up at airports as the biggest strike action in the airline’s 100 year history begins today. More than 1,500 flights have been cancelled as the company was accused of bullying its own staff by union bosses, who warned they could continue the action until the end of the year. Some 280,000 people will be affected by the strike which is set to continue tomorrow, costing BA £80m in lost revenue. BA and The British Airline Pilots’ A
  
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• Cruise lines contribute as survivors mull next steps

  08-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Survivors of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas say that they don't know how long it will take for Freeport, Great Abaco and other areas to recover from the Category 5 storm.Patrik Dahlgren, the senior vice president for global marine operations with Celebrity Cruises, says the cruise line is using all of the resources at its disposal to deliver relief supplies to Freeport, including 10,000 meals.By Sunday, a week after one of the strongest Caribbean hurricanes on record plowed into the archipelago
  
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• Warren Gains on Biden in Perceived Electability in CBS Poll

  08-09-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren is gaining both in probable Democratic convention delegates and in perceived electability, a CBS News/YouGov tracker poll showed on Sunday, even as former Vice President Joe Biden leads in an estimate of likely delegates from early-voting states.Among those considering supporting the Massachusetts senator, the percentage who think she would probably beat President Donald Trump in 2020 has jumped 16 percentage points since June, to 55% from 39%. That cuts into Bide
  
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• California GOP opens alternative pathway for 2020 delegates

  08-09-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  California Republicans have approved a rule change intended to ensure the party can send delegates to the GOP's national convention next summer, even if President Donald Trump is kept off the state's 2020 primary ballot.The measure was drafted in response to a state law signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in July that requires presidential candidates to release their tax returns, a move aimed squarely at the Republican president.Republican National Committee member Shawn Steel said he was con
  
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• Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shocked Chicago

  08-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  It stands as one of Chicago's most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and killed there. Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to send a me
  
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• Florida man, 82, called 'Holiday Bandit' arrested in burglaries of luxury NYC apartments

  08-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An 82-year-old from Florida was charged with 11 counts of burglary following a decade-long crime spree that reportedly netted $400K worth of items, police say.
  
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• Donald Trump Tweets Bizarre Cat Meme About Doctored Hurricane Dorian Map

  08-09-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Tweets Cat Video About Hurricane Dorian
  
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• Billionaire Tom Steyer clears hurdle to join U.S. Democratic debate in October

  08-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The 62-year-old former hedge fund manager from San Francisco, who is not well-known beyond political circles, will be one of 11 candidates who has met the Democratic National Committee's minimum requirements to participate in the Ohio debate on Oct. 15-16."It’s now more clear than ever that Tom’s message is resonating with Americans across the country — that it is time to break the corporate stranglehold on Washington and bring democracy back to the American people,” Stey
  
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• University of Tennessee turns bullied kid's homemade shirt into their newest merch

  08-09-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The college football season got a wonderful, heart-warming story to start the season when a student who was bullied for his homemade t-shirt got to see his favorite team make the shirt part of their official merch. Laura Snyder, an elementary school teacher in Florida, shared on Facebook the story of one of her students who wore a homemade shirt to support the University of Tennessee's football team for the school's college colors day.The student was excited to wear a bright orange shirt (t
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch decries lack of access to justice for many Americans

  08-09-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The nation's youngest Supreme Court justice, in a new book and USA TODAY interview, warns of problems in the justice system and a crisis in civility.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters call for help from Donald Trump

  08-09-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustrated Hong Kong protesters appealed directly to the United States for help yesterday, calling on President Donald Trump to help “liberate” the city.  Riot police fired tear gas after tens of thousands of protesters marched to the US consulate, waving American flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner.  The protests were the biggest since Carrie Lam formally announced the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill that set off months of unrest. The move was large
  
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• Saudi king tightens grip with promotion of another son

  08-09-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi King Salman on Sunday promoted one of his sons to the pivotal role of energy minister, strengthening his family's grip on the levers of power from oil to finance and defence.The appointment of Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman as the new energy minister mirrors the ascent of his half-brother Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler.Prince Khalid bin Salman, their younger brother, is effectively in charge of the defence ministry.
  
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• Female prisoner who asked for help says she was 'beaten so badly' she was paralyzed

  08-09-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A female inmate in a Florida prison who said she was beaten by four guards has sued the state’s corrections agency. Cheryl Weimar said the alleged beating left her paralyzed, ane with with “serious and life-threatening injuries, including a broken neck,” in a complaint filed in district court on Tuesday.
  
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• Thousands of lightning strikes hit Washington State, triggering delays, power outages

  08-09-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of Washington was rattled by an estimated 2,200 lightning strikes during a thunderstorm that triggered widespread power outages Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.Most of the strikes were recorded in the western area of the state; 200 of those were recorded in the Seattle metro area from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. PDT. According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Renee Duff, the thunderstorms erupted in western Washington as a strong push of cool air from the Pacific Ocean moved ash
  
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• Thousands of lightning strikes hit Washington state, triggering delays and power outages

  08-09-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of Washington was rattled by an estimated 2,200 lightning strikes during a thunderstorm that triggered widespread power outages Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.Most of the strikes were recorded in the western area of the state; 200 of those were recorded in the Seattle metro area from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. PDT. According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Renee Duff, the thunderstorms erupted in western Washington as a strong push of cool air from the Pacific Ocean moved ash
  
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• GOP senator urges Trump to set guidelines for gun legislation

  08-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president needs to step up here and set some guidelines for what he would do,” Roy Blunt says.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: more than 23 members of Sidney Poitier's family missing

  08-09-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 23 of Sidney Poitier’s family members are feared missing in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, the actor’s nephew as said. Jeffrey Poitier,66, said that they were still waiting for news from the relatives, including his sister Barbara and his adult children in Freeport, Bahamas. The family is one of hundreds desperately scrabbling to locate their loved ones a week after the category 5 hurricane wreaked devastation across the islands.   In some cases entire familie
  
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• Matteo Salvini to join protest against Italy's new government as it moves to undo hardline policies

  08-09-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy’s former interior minister Matteo Salvini will take to the streets on Monday in a far-Right protest against the new coalition government’s moves to undo his signature hardline policies. Last week the 21 members of the new cabinet signalled a softer approach to immigration at their first meeting.  One of their first moves was to challenge anti-migrant measures introduced in the northeastern region of Friuli Veneto Giulia, a stronghold of Mr Salvini’s far-right League
  
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• The graying of America's prisons: 'When is enough enough?'

  08-09-2019 17:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Inmates over 55 are among the fastest growing population. They burden prisons and taxpayers, but pose the lowest threat to society.
  
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• Bangladesh university suspends student for being Rohingya

  08-09-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP) - A Bangladesh university has suspended a student for being Rohingya, officials said Sunday, as impatience with the refugees grows following a second failed attempt to repatriate them to Myanmar.Formal education in Bangladesh is forbidden for refugees.Cox's Bazar International University said it had suspended Rahima Akter Khushi, 20, and would investigate her case after local media said she hid her Rohingya identity to enrol.
  
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• Dorian still slamming eastern Canada at hurricane force

  08-09-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees.There were no reported deaths in Canada, though the storm was blamed for at least 49 elsewhere along its path.
  
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• New Jersey man scammed $2M from women by posing as a soldier on dating sites, prosecutors say

  08-09-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say the 35-year-old New Jersey man worked with conspirators in Ghana to deceive the victims.
  
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• Putin’s Party Braces for Verdict of Angry Voters in Russia Polls

  08-09-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- What was supposed to be a sleepy round of off-cycle regional elections on Sunday has turned into a referendum on President Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party.Initial results in a few races for governor appeared to show good news for the Kremlin even as its candidates faced unusual opposition in several regions across the country amid stagnant incomes and unpopular reforms. Elections for Moscow’s largely toothless city council this summer sparked Russia’s
  
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• Housing aid for Puerto Rican evacuees close to running out

  08-09-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  In the months after Hurricane Maria destroyed her home in Puerto Rico, Ashley Gonzales moved to Connecticut, where federal and state aid helped her and her longtime partner avoid homelessness.Connecticut, which saw over 13,000 people arrive from the U.S. Caribbean territory after the hurricane hit in September 2017, was unique in providing almost a million dollars in aid to help families after the Federal Emergency Management Agency's support ran out last year.The supplementary state aid fund, o
  
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• Joe Biden's latest verbal slip up targets 'Donald Hump'

  08-09-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden had yet another verbal slip-up on the campaign trail on Saturday but at least this time he could laugh it off as it presented quite a silly -- and appropriate? -- twist on Donald Trump's name.Speaking alongside other 2020 Democratic candidates at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's state convention, Biden mistakenly called Trump, "Donald Hump" while lambasting the current president and his administration as an "abhorrent" moment in time. > "Freudian slip.
  
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• Tehran says Iranian tanker unloaded cargo on Mediterranean coast

  08-09-2019 16:39 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iranian tanker at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers has delivered its cargo after docking somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, Iran's state news agency IRNA quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying."The Adrian Darya oil tanker finally docked on the Mediterranean coast ... and unloaded its cargo," IRNA quoted the spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, as saying.
  
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• Student with stoma accused of taking drugs in disabled toilet by Wetherspoons staff

  08-09-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A student with a stoma has written to a Wetherspoons pub calling for better awareness of invisible disabilities after she was accused of taking drugs in a disabled toilet. Amber Davies, 21, said door staff at The Dragon Inn in Birmingham "very happily and very openly accused me of snorting, dealing and having sex” in the toilet. She said the letter, posted on Instagram, is a “word of advice” for those who only see disability as a term used to describe wheelchair users. The chai
  
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• CNN’s Tapper to Mike Pompeo: Wouldn’t You Be Mad If a Democrat Invited the Taliban to Camp David?

  08-09-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  On Sunday, State of the Union anchor Jake Tapper repeatedly confronted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he abruptly called off secretive peace talks with the Taliban, asking the nation’s top diplomat why the president would invite the Taliban to Camp David days ahead of the 9/11 terror attack anniversary.Pompeo, who was booked to appear on all five Sunday shows, defended the president’s decision to initially welcome leaders of
  
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• Iran says British oil tanker could be released soon

  08-09-2019 16:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran could be released after the imminent completion of legal proceedings against the tanker, Iranian state television reported on Sunday.Iran seized the British tanker near the Strait of Hormuz for alleged marine violations two weeks after British forces detained an Iranian tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of shipping oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions."I hope the procedures will be completed soon and this tanker will be released," F
  
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• A new 2020 Democratic primary poll shows Warren surging alongside fellow frontrunners Biden and Sanders

  08-09-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A new 2020 Democratic primary poll from ABC News and The Washington Post shows Biden and Sanders slumping, Warren gaining, and Harris falling.
  
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• Police Fire Tear Gas, Protesters Start Blazes: Hong Kong Update

  08-09-2019 15:26 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters who built barricades, started blazes and paralyzed traffic in the city’s prime business area on Sunday as unrest becomes increasingly difficult to contain.Riot police dispersed demonstrators in parts of Central only for them to regather in other districts. Officers fired tear gas in the busy shopping neighborhood of Causeway Bay where protesters had massed after some started a fire in Central at an entrance to one of the city&rsq
  
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• Alive but lost: In Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian survivors wonder what next

  08-09-2019 15:26 via news.yahoo.com
  MARSH HARBOUR/NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) - Days after fleeing their crumbling home and breaking into a vacant apartment to take shelter while Hurricane Dorian rampaged over the Bahamas' Great Abaco Island, Samuel Cornish and his family caught a rescue flight to Nassau.By Sunday, a week after one of the strongest Caribbean hurricanes on record plowed into the archipelago nation of 400,000 people, the capital city faced a wave of thousands of evacuees fleeing hard-hit areas including Marsh Harbour
  
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• 4 crew members missing from flipped cargo ship

  08-09-2019 15:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Cargo ship overturns off the coast of Georgia, Coast Guard rescued 18 other crew members.
  
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• Democrats: Americans Won’t Pay Your Carbon Taxes

  08-09-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Much has been made of the willingness of Democratic presidential candidates to risk taking positions that aren’t popular with voters at large in order to boost themselves in the primaries. Democratic politicians and strategists are aware that most people don’t want to see private health insurance banned, for example, but such leading contenders as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have come out for it anyway.There has been less focus on the political
  
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