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• Houston area preparing for heavy rain, flooding from Imelda

  17-09-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in the Houston area were preparing high-water vehicles and staging rescue boats Tuesday as Tropical Storm Imelda moved in from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump up to 18 inches of rain in parts of Southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana over the next few days.The storm, which formed Tuesday, made landfall near Freeport, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist and director of flood operations for the Harris County Flood Control District in Ho
  
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• Georgia homeowner kills three teens wearing masks in possible 'stand your ground' case

  17-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The fatal shooting of three teens by a Georgia homeowner this week could be a 'stand your ground' case, the Rockdale County Sheriff says.
  
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• Tropical Storm Imelda makes landfall near Freeport

  17-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm system soaking the greater Houston area is Tropical Storm Imelda, and it has already made landfall near Freeport.
  
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• US sanctions Italy, Panama and Colombia firms over Venezuela ties

  17-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 16 companies linked to Colombian businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran, an associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.The move is the latest US escalation of sanctions targeting the inner circle of Maduro, who is grappling with a political and economic crisis that the United Nations says has left a quarter of Venezuela's 30 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
  
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• A North Carolina sheriff allegedly plotted the death of his own deputy because the officer had a tape of him making 'racially offensive' comments

  17-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins urged someone to kill a deputy, saying, "The only way you gonna stop him is kill him," an indictment says.
  
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• Trump on Cokie Roberts: She 'never treated me nicely' but she was a 'professional'

  17-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts was a veteran and award winning journalist who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75.
  
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• Belgian F-16s scrambled to intercept 2 Russian nuclear-capable supersonic bombers over the Baltic Sea

  17-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Belgian Air Force intercepted two Russian Tu-160 supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers at close range in Baltic airspace.
  
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• Judge refuses to free extremists who attacked protesters

  17-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Tuesday refused to free members of a white supremacist group on bond while they appeal their convictions for attacking protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.U.S. District Judge Norman Moon ruled that Rise Above Movement members Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis and Thomas Gillen haven't adequately shown that releasing them from custody wouldn't pose a danger to others.All three men pleaded guilty to riot conspiracy charges stemming from violence at the Unite the Ri
  
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• Rare 10 million-year-old fossil unearths new view of human evolution

  17-09-2019 22:01
  Near an old mining town in Central Europe, known for its picturesque turquoise-blue quarry water, lay Rudapithecus. For 10 million years, the fossilized ape waited in Rudabánya, Hungary, to add its story to the origins of how humans evolved. What Rudabánya yielded was a pelvis -- among the most informative bones of a skeleton, but one that is rarely preserved.
  
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• Teen activist to lawmakers: Forget praise, work on climate

  17-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of Congress hailed Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg as a "superpower" for her work to spark a worldwide, youth-driven push to fight climate change.Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said the 16-year-old Thunberg and other young activists bring "moral clarity" to the fight against global warming.Thunberg was not impressed.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez backs liberal challenger to one of the most conservative House Democrats

  17-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York congresswoman will support Marie Newman’s bid to oust Dan Lipinski of Illinois.
  
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• Retired federal judge gets fined and barred for 2016 anti-Republican comments

  17-09-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel ruled against Carmene ‘Zsa Zsa’ DePaolo, a former immigration judge, for comments she made during a 2016 immigration hearing. Her comments reflected her beliefs that a Clinton administration would do more for immigration reform. She was fined the maximum possible civil penalty of $1,000 and slapped with a 30-month debarment from federal service.
  
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• Israel election: early exit polls suggest Netanyahu is in trouble

  17-09-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel was holding its breath on Tuesday after early election exit polls suggested Benjamin Netanyahu’s centrist rivals had won more seats in parliament, potentially endangering the prime minister’s 13 years in power.  While no final results were available, two out of three early exit polls indicated that Mr Netanyahu’s Likud had fallen slightly behind Blue & White, the centrist coalition led by former army general Benny Gantz. A third poll showed the parties tied
  
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• Costly Saudi defenses prove no match for drones, cruise missiles

  17-09-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry.Saturday's assault on Saudi oil facilities that halved production has exposed how ill-prepared the Gulf state is to defend itself despite repeated attacks on vital assets during its four-and-a-half year foray into the war in neigh
  
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• Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75

  17-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, died Tuesday of complications from breast cancer.ABC broke into network programming to announce her death and politicians including former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama offered sympathy.Roberts devoted most of her attention to covering Congress, where her father Hale Boggs was a House majority leader who died in 1972 when his plane
  
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• Costly Saudi defences prove no match for drones, cruise missiles

  17-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  RIYADH/DUBAI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry.Saturday's assault on Saudi oil facilities that halved production has exposed how ill-prepared the Gulf state is to defend itself despite repeated attacks on vital assets during its four-and-a-half year foray into the war
  
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• Yemen Houthi drones, missiles defy years of Saudi air strikes

  17-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  At a weapons exhibition in July in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, military officials whipped silken sheets off what they said were newly-developed drones and missiles.The theatrical gesture revealed the proud slogan "Made in Yemen" spray-painted onto the weapons' bodywork.The moment was a celebration of sorts for Yemen's Houthi fighters.
  
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• Trump arrives in Bay Area for first time as president

  17-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has arrived in the Bay Area for the first time as Commander in Chief and is expected to attend a fundraiser in Silicon Valley.
  
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• 29 bodies found in plastic bags in Mexico mass grave

  17-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday.Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered earlier this month in a remote area known as La Primavera, about a 45-minute drive outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second city."We have 13 complete corpses and 16 incomplete, for a total of 29 bodies," said Gera
  
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• Sheriff indicted for plotting to kill deputy who had tape of his 'racially offensive' remarks

  17-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina sheriff was indicted for obstruction of justice for allegedly plotting to kill one of his deputies.
  
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• Bill Gates says he regrets meeting Epstein after his conviction and agreeing to donate $2m to MIT

  17-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates said he regrets meeting with Jeffrey Epstein and giving a $2 million donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through him after the financier was convicted of sex offences. Mr Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, met with Epstein in 2013, five years after he pleaded guilty to two charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and later made an an anonymous donation to MIT's Media Lab. Focus has fallen on the pair's relationships after US media reports suggested Epstein
  
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• Trump lists familiar White House faces as possible Bolton successors

  17-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday listed five possible replacements for recently fired national security adviser John Bolton, most of whom are already familiar faces from within his administration.The national security adviser provides advice to the president on defense, security and diplomatic issues.The job, the highest White House position on national security, does not require confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
  
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• DEA agent accuses Chavez of easing drug trafficking to US: Spain court

  17-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent accused late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez of cooperating with Colombian rebel group FARC to ease the shipment of cocaine into the United States, a Spanish court ruling published Tuesday showed.The accusation was cited in a ruling by Spain's National Court, the country's top criminal court, rejecting a US request to extradite Venezuela's former military intelligence chief, General Hugo Armando Carvajal, on drug trafficking charges.The ruling includes a
  
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• Las Vegas man faces weapons charge in synagogue, other plots

  17-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A former security guard accused of compiling bomb components and guns to kill people at a Las Vegas synagogue and of drawing up plans to attack a bar catering to LGBTQ customers or a fast-food restaurant has been indicted on a federal firearm charge, court records show.Conor Climo's court-appointed attorney, Paul Riddle, said Tuesday that Climo plans to plead not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday on the one-count indictment filed Sept. 11 in U.S. District Court in Nevada.Climo, 23, was arreste
  
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• Trump news - live: Impeachment hearing exposes 'absolute coverup by White House', as former top aide dodges questions

  17-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee have launched the first impeachment hearings into allegations that Donald Trump obstructed justice and abused power, with the president's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski appearing before the committee as the first witness to testify on questions that were raised by the Mueller report released earlier this year.The witness had been gagged by the White House, however, and two more aides – Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter – were reportedl
  
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• Iran could be risking war over the Saudi oil fields because it deliberately wants to spike up the price of oil

  17-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If Iran was responsible for the shocking attack, it falls in line with a pattern of dangerous escalations to harm the US for its harsh sanctions.
  
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• Donald Trump’s re-election campaign goes after Joe Biden’s gaffes in new video

  17-09-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump 2020 video ends on a phrase from Cory Booker: "There are definitely moments when you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder.”
  
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• Triple threat: Tropical Depression 11 to swamp Texas, Humberto nears Bermuda and TD 10 forms in Atlantic

  17-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  While Hurricane Humberto nears Bermuda, there's flooding in Texas due to Tropical Depression 11 and Tropical Depression 10 is spinning up in the Atlantic
  
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• Mother's selfie saves her after she collapses, suffers stroke

  17-09-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A mother took a selfie just minutes before she collapsed and suffered a stroke, and now her family is crediting the photo for saving her life.
  
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• Genomic migration analysis shows antibiotic resistance moving from humans to animals

  17-09-2019 19:30
  New results show that human-acquired antibiotic resistance genes are being transmitted to livestock, companion animals and wildlife. Researchers analyzed a global set of 901 genome sequences of the bacteria Streptococcus agalactiae (aka group B Strep) from nine different host species -- humans, cows, dogs, fish, frogs, gray seals, dolphins, goats and a camel -- to better understand the transmission process. Streptococcus agalactiae can cause life-threatening illnesses.
  
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• Biden's 1960s gang fight yarn: Son of 'bad dude' Corn Pop confirms his father knew Dem frontrunner

  17-09-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The saga of Joe Biden’s mysterious story from the 1960s, in which he and a man called Corn Pop almost battled with a knife and a chain but ultimately did not, may have been confirmed.Mr Biden has told the story of a 1962 confrontation with a man who frequented a public pool in Wilmington, Delaware where he was a lifeguard several times, including in his book. But a video of him retelling it at an event in 2017, at the pool’s dedication ceremony after it was renamed for him, resurface
  
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• US-Russia nuclear war would kill 34 million people within hours and is increasingly likely, Princeton study concludes

  17-09-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 90 million people would be killed or injured in a nuclear war between the US and Russia if a conventional conflict went too far, according to a new simulation created by researchers.Such a scenario has become “dramatically” more plausible in the last two years because the two countries have dropped support for arms-control measures, according to a team from Princeton University.
  
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• France gives more people iodine pills in case of nuclear accident

  17-09-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  France will soon start distributing radioactivity-blocking iodine pills to an additional 2.2 million people living near the country's 19 nuclear power plants, to be taken in case of accidental radiation leaks, regulators said Tuesday.The ASN nuclear safety authority had announced in June an extension of the safety radius to 20 kilometres (12 miles) of each plant, up from 10 kilometres set in 2016, when some 375,000 households were prescribed the pills.The watchdog said Tuesday that affected resi
  
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• California woman who dreamed about swallowing engagement ring woke up to realize she actually did

  17-09-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A California woman had her dreams come true earlier this month — although probably not in the way she would have liked.
  
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• The High-Risk Strategy That Could Hand Democrats the White House

  17-09-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic voters live in clusters — but there's a way to take advantage of that
  
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• Flash Flood Watch for parts of southeast Texas including Houston beginning 1 p.m. today

  17-09-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Most areas will get 4-10" of rain this week but a few areas could get as much as 15" or more.
  
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• Migrants anxious before court dates in Texas tents

  17-09-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Abel Oset was seized with panic.The two were to plead their case in a court set up inside a tent in Laredo, beamed via video conference to a judge in another city — the latest attempt to clear a massive backlog of asylum cases.Oset dreaded the very real possibility that he and his 22-year-old son would be sent back over the international bridge, back to Nuevo Laredo and its cartels and violence.
  
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• Ex-Ukraine central bank chief's home burnt down in attack

  17-09-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukrainian police on Tuesday investigated a fire that destroyed the house of a reformist former central bank chief, who along with the bank called it an act of "terror".Valeria Gontareva said her country home in a village north of Kiev burnt to the ground after being struck with a Molotov cocktail on Tuesday morning."The terror continues," Gontareva told Interfax Ukraine from London, where she now lives.
  
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• UCLA Parent Is Latest to Be Charged in U.S. College Scandal

  17-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Another parent was charged in the college admissions scandal as the Justice Department expands a probe into the biggest scam of its kind ever prosecuted in the U.S.Xiaoning Sui, whom prosecutors identified as a 48-year-old woman from British Columbia, was arrested in Spain and charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, according to the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts. Sui, the 35th parent to be charged in the sprawling case, is under arrest in Spain, prosecutors said, adding that the
  
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• Couple reveal they are raising child 'gender neutral' and haven't even told close family their baby's sex

  17-09-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A couple have decided to keep their baby’s sex a secret from close relatives in a bid to avoid gender bias.  Hobbit Humphrey, 38, and Jake England-Johns, 35, refer to their 17-month-old child, Anoush, with the pronoun, "they", and dress them in both girls' and boys' clothing. The married couple, who are members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion, have been accused of “virtue signalling”. However, they are keen to let their child, Anoush, choose their own gen
  
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• HK activists take cause to US Congress, urge pressure on Beijing

  17-09-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement on Tuesday appealed directly to US lawmakers to exert pressure on Beijing, warning that an erosion of the city's special status would embolden China's leaders around the world.In an appearance likely to infuriate Beijing, young people at the forefront of Hong Kong's mass protests testified before a congressional commission in support of US legislation aimed at defending Hong Kongers' civil rights."This is not a plea for so-called 'foreign interferenc
  
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• Afghan president narrowly avoids Taliban bomb in worst violence since collapse of US negotiations

  17-09-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 48 people and wounded dozens more in two blasts Tuesday - one at a campaign rally for the president and the other in Kabul - with the insurgents warning of more violence ahead of elections. The first attack saw a motorcyclist detonate a suicide bomb at a checkpoint leading to a rally where Ashraf Ghani, the president, was addressing supporters in central Parwan province, just north of the capital, killing 26 and wounding 42. Just over an hour later another
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.N. Security Council overcomes Chinese veto threat to renew Afghanistan mission

  17-09-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed on Tuesday to extend a U.N. political mission in Afghanistan after last-minute talks overcame a Chinese threat to veto if there was no reference to Beijing's global Belt and Road infrastructure project."To our regret a few countries refused to keep the text of consensus previously agreed," said China's U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun, describing the adopted resolution as a technical rollover.The resolutions mandating the mission in 2016, 2017 and
  
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• South Korea drops Japan from 'white list' in trade row

  17-09-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  South Korea Wednesday officially dropped Japan from its "white list" of trusted trade partners, the latest move in a bitter row stemming from Tokyo's use of forced labour during World War II.Seoul had already warned Tokyo it would reciprocate following a similar move by Japan in late August to downgrade South Korea's trade status.Local companies shipping strategic goods to Japan would now have to submit more documents and approval would take around 15 days instead of five, Yonhap news agency rep
  
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• How much of corals' nutrition comes from hunting?

  17-09-2019 17:54
  When it comes to feeding, corals have a few tricks up their sleeve. Most of their nutrients come from microscopic algae living inside of them, but if those algae aren't creating enough sustenance, corals can use their tentacles to grab and eat tiny prey swimming nearby.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Russia detains two N.Korean vessels after one opens fire - reports

  17-09-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian border guards have detained two North Korean boats in Russian territorial waters in the Sea of Japan after one of them attacked a Russian patrol, local media cited the Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying on Tuesday.A Russian border patrol discovered two North Korean schooners and 11 motorboats fishing illegally off its far eastern coast and detained the first vessel, prompting the second one to open fire, the FSB was quoted as saying.Three Russian border guards were wounded in the i
  
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• Wisconsin brothers charged with operating counterfeit vaping cartridge operation

  17-09-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Tyler and Jacob Huffhines ran an operation that cranked out 3,000 to 5,000 counterfeit vaping cartridges each day, authorities say.
  
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• GM stops paying for health insurance for striking union workers; talks continue

  17-09-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors Coshifted health insurance costs for its striking workers to the United Auto Workers union as its members walked the picket line for the second day on Tuesday.The UAW on Monday launched the first company-wide strike at GM in 12 years, saying negotiations toward a new national agreement covering about 48,000 hourly workers had hit an impasse.This year's talks between the union and GM, Ford Motor Coand Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA)were expected to be tough, with thorny issues s
  
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• If you have an iPhone 6 or older, it's finally time to upgrade — but not necessarily to the new iPhone 11

  17-09-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The iPhone 6 and older iPhones aren't getting iOS 13, so if you care about the latest and greatest iOS features from Apple, it's time to upgrade.
  
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• Fighting for survival: Keys to Netanyahu's return to power

  17-09-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is in a race for political survival as the country holds repeat parliamentary elections Tuesday.If Netanyahu's Likud party and his smaller allies can secure a narrow 61-seat majority in the 120-seat Knesset, he will be well on the way to forming a coalition of hard-line religious and nationalist parties.Most critically for him, such a coalition would be expected to grant him immunity from prosecution on a series of expected corruption charges.
  
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