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• Poll: Sanders leads Biden, Warren in New Hampshire

  11-09-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The poll shows that 29 percent of likely Democratic voters in the state said they support the Vermont senator.
  
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• Epstein faced 2nd probe, seen with underage girls in '18

  11-09-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A previously undisclosed federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein included an examination of whether he was traveling with underage girls as recently as last year, newly released documents show.U.S. Marshals Service investigators spoke in July with an air-traffic controller who said she saw Epstein get off his private jet at an airport near his U.S. Virgin Islands retreat with two girls who appeared to be 11 or 12, according to the documents.The air-traffic controller said she saw Epstein anot
  
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• Immigration attorney talks difficulties of asylum system in America

  11-09-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Foster LLP U.S. and Global Immigration Services attorney Kymberly Baranzyk explains the complicated process of immigrants seeking asylum.
  
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• Britain looks to restore ship-building industry with new frigates

  11-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain will announce on Thursday the preferred bidder for the design of the new Type 31 frigate, the government said, as it looks to rebuild its once-mighty shipbuilding industry.Babcock, BAE Systems and Atlas Elektronik UK have all submitted designs for the frigate."(The) UK is an outward-looking island nation, and we need a shipbuilding industry and Royal Navy that reflect the importance of the seas to our security and prosperity," Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement.
  
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• For the first time, a timeline reveals what happened in the minutes and hours after the asteroid crash that killed the dinosaurs

  11-09-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The dinosaurs' extinction was spurred by an asteroid that struck Earth. By studying the crater, scientists now know what happened after the impact.
  
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• On anniversary of 9/11, al-Qaida leader pushes for attacks on the U.S., slams ex-jihadis

  11-09-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, al-Qaida's leader called on Muslims to carry out similar attacks on Western targets.
  
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• O'Rourke bets on new approach to revive flagging campaign

  11-09-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke was back at Keene State College, but the large crowd that flocked to see him six months ago was not.Far removed from the whirlwind opening days of his presidential campaign, the former Texas congressman faced a far smaller, quieter gathering.The joke was emblematic of the campaign's troubles since O'Rourke has already undertaken two major campaign reboots since first coming to Keene State in March — and his latest is built on a national approach to running for president that
  
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• Proposal would buy bus tickets for Seattle-area homeless

  11-09-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  As the Seattle area tries to tackle its homelessness crisis, an official wants to spend $1 million to expand a strategy of buying bus tickets out of town for people living on the streets.The concept of sending homeless people back to where they say they're from or may have support has been in place for decades in parts of the U.S. struggling to get people off the streets.The city of Seattle and community organizations already offer free bus tickets as part of their broader approach to homelessne
  
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• Trump vows to hit Taliban 'harder' than ever as US marks 9/11

  11-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump pledged to hit the Taliban "harder" than ever as America on Wednesday marked the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that led the country into war in Afghanistan.Trump's remarks came after he aborted what would have been a historic Afghanistan peace summit, and as relatives remembered the victims of the deadliest terror attacks on US soil at ceremonies in New York and Washington.Trump spoke at a Pentagon event honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks -- anno
  
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• Swimsuit controversy: Alaskan swimmer who was disqualified for 'curvier' figure gets win reinstated

  11-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The high school swimmer who was disqualified over a controversial "uniform violation" has had her victory reinstated.
  
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• Poll: Biden down 5 points, while Warren edges past Sanders

  11-09-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The latest numbers come a little over 24 hours before the top three contenders appear on the same debate stage for the first time.
  
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• More than 40,000 years ago, giant kangaroos roamed Australia. Their jaws were surprisingly similar to those of pandas, a new study found.

  11-09-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Extinct Australian kangaroos weighed more than 250 pounds and had powerful jaws to crunch through tough vegetation, much like today's giant pandas.
  
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• US jets smashed an island ISIS was using 'like a hotel' and troops found rockets and bombs stashed in caves

  11-09-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 25 ISIS fighters are dead after a successful US air strike that dropped 80,000 pounds of ordnance, an Iraqi CTS spokesperson told Insider.
  
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• Trump: 'Mr. Tough Guy' Bolton made 'very big mistakes' before being fired

  11-09-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The president cites his differences with the man he picked to be his national security adviser.
  
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• Caught on Camera: Woman sneaks item, possibly a wallet, from elderly victim's purse in Walnut Creek store

  11-09-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  PLEASE SHARE: Surveillance video shows the woman standing behind an elderly woman as she is hunched over, looking intently at the shelves. She waits a few seconds, reaches into the unsuspecting woman's purse, and walks off.
  
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• Arizona state trooper arrested on 61 counts of sex abuse, kidnapping and harassment

  11-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Tremaine Jackson, a 13-year DPS veteran, is facing 61 criminal counts of sex abuse, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and more, officials said.
  
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• Mainer gets 58 years for raping, killing former classmate

  11-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who was captured on video hauling the lifeless body of a former high school classmate into the woods was sentenced to 58 years in prison on Wednesday for raping and killing her.Jalique Keene was seen on surveillance video carrying the woman over his shoulder as she kicked her legs and then later carrying her limp body into the woods, where she was found last year.Keene and 19-year-old Mikaela Conley knew each other from Mount Desert Island High School.
  
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• Homeless Ordered Off Rat-Infested Lot in Downtown Sacramento

  11-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Sacramento County Health officials have ordered homeless people to leave a vacant city-owned lot because of a major rat problem.
  
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• Trump news: President revives claim he was at ground zero after 9/11 despite fire chief saying he was 'never' there

  11-09-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump followed a tweet paying respects to those killed in 9/11 on the 18th anniversary of the terror attack mere moments later with a fresh assault on Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve, calling the economist a “bonehead” and raising questions about the sincerity of his memorial message.The president's decision to appoint Charles Kupperman as his acting national security adviser, replacing the outgoing John Bolton, has come under fire after it emerged he has long-running tie
  
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• Trump threatens to ‘use power the likes of which the United States has never used before’ on anyone who strikes America in rambling 9-11 speech

  11-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump threatened to “use power the likes of which the United States has never used before” against anyone who strikes America.In a speech on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, he said: “If anyone dares to strike our land, we will respond with the full measure of American power and the iron will of the American spirit and that spirit is unbreakable."
  
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• Kristin Cavallari called out for 'super insensitive' 9/11 post, fires social media staffer

  11-09-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  'Very Cavallari' star Kristin Cavallari is parting ways with her social media manager after a debacle on September 11.
  
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• A man sees the unimaginable while watching Hurricane Dorian on AccuWeather

  11-09-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Roman Sawyer knew the Abaco Islands, knew the neighborhood around his family's block - "That's my home," he said - but he couldn't comprehend what he was seeing as he watched TV footage of Hurricane Dorian's destruction."I know the landscape, I know the layout, I know where everything was," Sawyer told AccuWeather's Jonathan Petramala, "and I'm seeing all of these aerial pictures, and it's like, ‘Where is this?' This is not my home."Sawyer, now living in West Palm Beach, Florida, was watch
  
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• Math shows why animals can see at night

  11-09-2019 20:28
  By combining mathematics with science, an interdisciplinary team found how changes in the shape of DNA structure affect the nuclei of nocturnal animals. Their findings could help explain how nocturnal animals, such as mice, see at night.
  
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• Hoary bat numbers declining at rate that suggests species in jeopardy in Pacific Northwest

  11-09-2019 20:28
  The hoary bat, the species of bat most frequently found dead at wind power facilities, is declining at a rate that threatens its long-term future in the Pacific Northwest, according to a novel and comprehensive research collaboration.
  
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• Crushing bite of giant kangaroos of ice age Australia

  11-09-2019 20:28
  An in-depth analysis of the skull biomechanics of a giant extinct kangaroo demonstrates that the animal had a capacity for high-performance crushing of foods, suggesting feeding behaviors more similar to a giant panda than a modern-day kangaroo.
  
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• Biology of bat wings may hold lessons for cold-weather work, exercise

  11-09-2019 20:28
  The muscles in bats' wings are much cooler than the muscles in their core, a new study finds -- and this research could one day enhance our understanding of human muscle.
  
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• Reconstructing the evolution of all species

  11-09-2019 20:27
  By looking into fossil teeth from almost 2 million years old rhinos, researchers have launched a new molecular method for studying the evolutionary history of fossil species dating back millions of years.
  
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• Digital records of preserved plants and animals change how scientists explore the world

  11-09-2019 20:27
  There's a whole world behind the scenes at natural history museums that most people never see -- millions upon millions of dinosaur bones, pickled sharks, dried leaves, and every other part of the natural world. These specimens are used in research by scientists trying to understand how different kinds of life evolved and how we can protect them. A study shows how scientists are using digital records of all these specimens in their research.
  
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• Echoing Trump, speaker at 9/11 ceremony questions Muslim congresswoman's patriotism

  11-09-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A speaker at New York City's Sept. 11 commemoration ceremony on Wednesday assailed U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, a Muslim member of Congress who has often been the target of false slurs by President Donald Trump and right-wing media outlets. The speaker's remarks were an unusual deviation into partisan politics and religious division at the somber annual ceremony held at the lower Manhattan site where Islamist al Qaeda hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center in 2001, killing nearly 3
  
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• 73-Year-Old Maryland Woman Charged With Killing 82-Year-Old Neighbor With Brick

  11-09-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Police said the 73-year-old woman struck her 82-year-old neighbor with a brick after a dispute.
  
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• AOC reveals her student loan balance and makes payment during congressional hearing

  11-09-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a payment towards her student loan debt during a committee meeting and called on Congress to take swift action on the issue.“I literally made a student loan payment while I was sitting here at this chair, and I looked at my balance and it was $20,237.16 (£16,410.62),” the New York Democrat said at a meeting of the financial services committee focusing on student debt.
  
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• Al-Qaida chief in 9/11 speech calls for attacks on West

  11-09-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri called Wednesday on Muslims to attack U.S., European, Israeli and Russian targets in a speech on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks online activity of jihadist groups, reported that in a video released by the militant group, the 68-year-old al-Zawahri also criticizes "backtrackers" from jihad, referring to former jihadis who changed their views in prison and called the 9/11 attacks unacceptable because innocent
  
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• Mississippi man pleads guilty to cross burning, sentenced to 11 years in federal prison

  11-09-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Louie Revette pleaded guilty in April for his part in burning a cross outside the home of a black family in Seminary, Mississippi.
  
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• Iran urges US to 'put warmongers aside' after Bolton firing

  11-09-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's president urged the U.S. on Wednesday to "put warmongers aside" as tensions roil the Persian Gulf amid an escalating crisis between Washington and Tehran in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.Hassan Rouhani's remarks signaled approval of President Donald Trump's abrupt dismissal of John Bolton as national security adviser, a man routinely pilloried by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as part of a "B Team" that targeted Iran.
  
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• Man who lost mother on 9/11 blasts Rep. Ilhan Omar during memorial service

  11-09-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A man whose mother died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks criticized Rep. Ilhan Omar during a memorial service held at Ground Zero.
  
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• Papillomaviruses may be able to be spread by blood

  11-09-2019 18:51
  Researchers found that rabbit and mouse papillomaviruses could be transferred by blood to their respective hosts, raising the possibility that human papillomavirus (HPV) may also be transferable by blood in humans.
  
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• A Swedish scientist suggested the climate crisis could lead people to consider eating human flesh. It's not the first time a scientist has suggested the idea.

  11-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  As our food supply faces more stress, behavioral scientist Magnus Söderlund said, humans might consider eating corpses.
  
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• 'Trickery, deception and lies': Gov. Cooper blasts Republicans after secret vote on budget veto

  11-09-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The North Carolina House of Representatives held a surprise emergency session on September 11 and voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the General Assembly's proposed budget.
  
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• Badger cull in England extended to ‘unimaginable scale’

  11-09-2019 17:44 via theguardian.com
  Ministers approve culling in 11 new areas, with 64,000 animals likely to be killed this autumnThe controversial badger cull in England has been expanded to an “unimaginable scale”, according to a leading expert who warned the government is paying far too little attention to the transmission of tuberculosis between cattle when they are traded.Ministers approved culling in 11 new areas on Wednesday, taking the total to 43. Up to 64,000 animals are likely to be killed this autumn, up fr
  
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• Police raid offices and seize documents of Ukraine's PrivatBank

  11-09-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine's largest lender, PrivatBank, said police had raided its headquarters on Wednesday after a court allowed them to do so as part of a criminal investigation into whether some of its officials had overstepped their authority.PrivatBank's fortunes are closely watched by investors as a bellwether for the business climate under Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has business ties to the bank's former owner, Ihor Kolomoisky.The International Monetary Fund could freeze new aid to
  
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• It's all a blur.....why stripes hide moving prey

  11-09-2019 17:30
  Scientists have shown that patterns -- particularly stripes which are easy to spot when an animal is still -- can also help conceal speeding prey.
  
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• Burying beetle larvae know the best time to beg for food

  11-09-2019 17:30
  It's easy to imagine an adult bird standing over youngsters with mouths open wide for a pre-mashed meal. It's more difficult to picture a beetle doing this, but the burying beetle Nicrophorus quadripunctatus feeds its young by the same mouth-to-mouth regurgitation technique. Researchers found that burying beetle larvae can sense when the mother beetles emit a pheromone, 2-phenoxyethanol, when they are ready to feed their young.
  
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• Brazil fires official after comments on illegal Amazon mining fight

  11-09-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A regional head of Brazil's environmental authority was fired on Wednesday, a week after being named, after he made public comments saying he would no longer burn machinery, some of it seized from illegal miners, in an area heavily affected by forest fires.Evandro Cunha dos Santos was tapped to run environmental enforcement in the northern state of Pará.The environmental agency he left, known as Ibama, and the ministry that oversees it, did not immediately respond to questions about his d
  
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• Son of 9/11 victim addresses Ilhan Omar during memorial: 'Show respect in honoring them, please'

  11-09-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Nicholas Haros Jr., the son of a victim in the World Trade Center, wore a T-shirt with the words "Some people did something" at Wednesday's ceremony
  
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• Iran 'wants to swap British-Australian women for Iranian jailed in US'

  11-09-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran is believed to be holding two British-Australian women captive in the hope of exchanging one of them for an Iranian imprisoned in the US on charges of evading American sanctions. Tensions between Britain and Iran escalated dramatically after it emerged the women were being held in the first recent case of Tehran arresting British citizens who do not also hold Iranian nationality.  One woman, a travel blogger, was arrested this summer while visiting Iran with her Australian fiancé
  
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• Hundreds of Nigerians board plane to leave South Africa

  11-09-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of Nigerians boarded a free flight from Johannesburg to Lagos on Wednesday, following a week of violence targeting foreigners in South Africa that has stoked tensions between Africa's two largest economies.It was not immediately clear how many people were on board the flight, operated by the private Nigerian airline Air Peace, but Nigeria's government said it estimated 313 people would board.In total, 640 Nigerians living in South Africa had registered at Nigerian missions to take the fl
  
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• US sees Russia behind murder of Georgian in Germany: report

  11-09-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States sees Moscow behind the murder in Germany last month of a Georgian man who had fought against Russian forces in Chechnya, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday."The United States believes that Russia is responsible for this assassination," one of several unnamed US officials told the newspaper, without saying which Russian group or agency undertook the killing.German police arrested a 49-year-old suspect from Russia's Chechnya republic, where Moscow waged two bloody wars th
  
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• Wall Street bankers ‘shaking in their boots’ about Elizabeth Warren winning presidency in 2020, experts say

  11-09-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Wall Street executives are “shaking in their boots” at the prospect of Elizabeth Warren entering the White House, experts have claimed.Bankers believe the Democratic presidential hopeful would “make life hell for them through regulatory process”, with some warning she “has got to be stopped”, according to commentators.
  
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• Is Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Really That Impressive?

  11-09-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Let's find out.
  
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• Florida 'fortune teller' ordered to repay $1.6 million to woman she convinced was cursed

  11-09-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The woman was also sentenced to more than three years in federal prison after she convinced a Texas woman of the curse, authorities say.
  
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