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• Iraq cleric Sadr demands government resign as deadly protests spike

  04-10-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr called on the government to resign as violence spiked Friday across the country and protesters clashed with police on the fourth day of deadly demonstrations against corruption and unemployment.The former Shiite militia leader, whose bloc is the biggest in parliament, said in a statement that in order to avoid further deaths "the government should resign and early elections should be held under UN supervision".At least 60 people have died over four days of blo
  
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• Catholic bishop in N.Z. quits over sex complaint

  04-10-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A New Zealand Catholic bishop has resigned after a young woman accused him of engaging in "unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature", the Church said.It said Bishop Charles Drennan, who oversaw the North Island diocese of Palmerston North, tendered his resignation after an independent investigation into his conduct."The young woman has requested that details of the complaint remain private," the Metropolitan Archbishop of New Zealand, Cardinal John Dew, said in a statement released late Friday.
  
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• Woman charged with false rape report faces trial in Kansas

  04-10-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A University of Kansas student who is charged with making a false rape report will go on trial this month after a judge denied motions to dismiss charges and suppress portions of the case, much to the chagrin of defense attorneys who say police botched the investigation. Judge Amy Hanley's ruling on Thursday means the trial will begin as scheduled on Oct. 28, The Kansas City Star reported.
  
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• Meet John Durham, The Man Tasked With 'Investigating the Investigators'

  04-10-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s fixation on the Mueller investigation and Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election is filled with dubious characters, pitched Twitter spats and bombastic TV…
  
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• Border Agent Harasses Journalist at U.S. Customs—Again

  04-10-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSA U.S. Customs and Border Protection official reportedly refused to allow a reporter through customs on Thursday unless he answered the repeated question “You write propaganda, right?” in the affirmative, at least the third such incident involving harassment of a journalist by a passport official this year.Ben Watson, a news editor at Defense One, was returning to the United States from a reporting assignment in Denmark when a USCBP official, after asking whether Watson was ca
  
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• Andrew Yang Shouldn’t Retreat from His Past Success in Revitalizing Depressed Cities

  04-10-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  As Peter Beinart has trenchantly observed in The Atlantic, formerly moderate Generation X Democratic candidates Cory Booker and Kamala Harris have chosen to turn their backs on policies they once championed. Booker no longer talks up his successful expansion of charter schools as mayor of Newark, while Harris has run away from her common-sense decision, as San Francisco district attorney, to enforce truancy laws as a means to get the attention of parents of disadvantaged students.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg says people will see this period in American history as 'an aberration'

  04-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said people will look back at this period of American politics as “an aberration”.The 86-year-old judge made the comment during an event at Amherst College, Massachusetts, according to The Boston Globe.
  
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• Inside Ukraine’s ‘Audit’ of Hunter Biden Company Investigation

  04-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Pablo Martinez Monsivais/APKYIV–Ukraine is reviewing 15 probes related to Burisma Holdings, the energy firm where, for five years, Hunter Biden served on the board. This might look like “favor” that President Donald Trump asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky for in a now-infamous July 25 phone call. But it is far too early for Trump to rejoice. Things are never simple in Ukraine’s evolving, reforming institutions.Ukraine’s new Prosecutor General R
  
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• Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News: Powerful men like Trump 'want to silence' young climate activists

  04-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News that youth climate activists are "making a difference."
  
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• Fourteen-year-old shot in clashes between Hong Kong protesters and police in wake of face mask ban

  04-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A 14-year-old boy was shot as clashes broke out between protesters and police in Hong Kong on Friday in the wake of a blanket ban on face masks.  Demonstrators stormed the city’s shopping district and set fire to Chinese banks.  Police said a 14-year-old boy was shot in the thigh, but said it was unclear if he was hit by a stray bullet or shot by a police officer who fired his gun after being attacked by a group of protesters. The Hospital Authority said a 14-year-old boy was tak
  
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• APNewsBreak: Wrestler vying for House had 3 assault reports

  04-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A former professional wrestler running in a Republican primary for a U.S. House seat in Nevada has been accused of assault three times, according to police records obtained by The Associated Press.Florida court records and sheriff's office documents detail three incidents from 2010 through 2013 where Dan Rodimer was accused of punching or throwing someone to the ground in disputes at nightclubs and restaurants.Rodimer had previously acknowledged a 2010 incident at a Waffle House restaurant in Na
  
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• Jodi Arias' murder conviction could be overturned because of prosecutor misconduct claims

  04-10-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The Arizona Court of Appeals will consider how allegations of misconduct against prosecutor Juan Martinez could overturn Jodi Arias' conviction.
  
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• Household bleach inactivates chronic wasting disease prions

  04-10-2019 21:52
  A 5-minute soak in a 40% solution of household bleach decontaminated stainless steel wires coated with chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions, according to a new study. The scientists used the wires to model knives and saws that hunters and meat processors use when handling deer, elk and moose - all of which are susceptible to CWD.
  
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• Dallas ex-cop's conviction: Was justice served?

  04-10-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of her neighbor Botham Jean. Guyger said she had accidently entered Jean's apartment thinking it was her own and shot him because she believed he was an intruder.
  
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• New Atlantic City mayor's vow: I'll follow the law

  04-10-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Marty Small began his tenure as acting mayor of Atlantic City by setting a seemingly low bar for himself, yet one that has tripped up many of his predecessors in the ethically challenged city.Small was speaking at a ceremonial swearing in-ceremony in City Hall a day after his predecessor, Frank Gilliam Jr., admitted stealing $87,000 from a youth basketball team he had founded.Gilliam resigned hours later.
  
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• Iran claims 'victory' after bank compensated by Britain

  04-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran claimed a "victory" on Friday after one of its banks received compensation from British authorities over "illegal" sanctions.According to the UK daily The Times, London paid Bank Mellat "1.25 billion pounds sterling ($1.54 million) with interest".The settlement was announced on Twitter by Tehran's ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad.
  
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• Second man found guilty in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in Chicago

  04-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  On Friday, Corey Morgan was found guilty of first degree murder in the killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in Chicago.
  
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• The Latest: Iraq Parliament speaker says he supports demands

  04-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric has called on the government to resign and early elections be held to bring the country out of a crisis that has left more than 50 dead in four days.Earlier in the day, al-Sadr's Sairoon political bloc in parliament that came in first in last year's national elections said it was suspending participation in parliamentary activities until the government introduces a program that serves Iraqi aspirations.Since the spontaneous rallies began Tuesday, security force
  
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• On 'The View,' Meghan McCain accuses Joy Behar of spreading 'fake news' about the economy

  04-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  During Friday’s broadcast of "The View," Meghan McCain reignited her long-standing on-air battle with Joy Behar, accusing the liberal co-host of peddling “fake news” that the economy is slowing down.
  
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• The Entire World Knows That Protester Was Shot in Hong Kong

  04-10-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Beware Beijing: Everyone is watching you now.
  
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• Juror: Botham Jean wouldn't have wanted 'harsh vengeance'

  04-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Two members of the jury that convicted a white Dallas police officer of murder in the fatal shooting of her black neighbor said the diverse panel tried to consider what the victim would have wanted when they settled on a 10-year prison sentence.Prosecutors had asked jurors to sentence Amber Guyger to 28 years, which was how old her neighbor Botham Jean would have been if he was still alive."We all agree that (the shooting) was a mistake, and I don't think Bo would want to take harsh vengeance,"
  
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• Lou Dobbs Stands By as Joe diGenova Trashes His Colleague Chris Wallace

  04-10-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Days after Fox News anchor Chris Wallace dropped a scoop that two frequent Fox guests—husband-wife lawyer team Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing—worked “off the books” with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to dig up Ukrainian dirt on Joe Biden, the two attorneys roasted Wallace during a Fox Business Network appearance—and Trump-boosting host Lou Dobbs largely stood by.Appearing on Thursday night’s broadcast of Lou Dobbs Tonight, the pro-Trump lawyers were asked abo
  
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• 'I've never had a crystal': Marianne Williamson demands to be taken seriously

  04-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Marianne Williamson wants you to know she’s not a “crystal woo woo lady.”
  
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• Exclusive: Trump Shows 'No Interest' in New North Korea Missile Threat, Prepares Diplomatic Offer

  04-10-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Sources tell TIME that President Trump "didn't care" about a new North Korea missile threat and wants to move forward with talks with North Korea.
  
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• Russia's Su-35S: The Real Stealth Killer (As In Russia's Su-57?)

  04-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Fitting a gap in Russia's air force.
  
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• Legionnaire's outbreak linked to hot tubs kills one, sickens dozens in North Carolina

  04-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The 120 people who have fallen ill with Legionnaire's, and eight who contracted its milder version Pontiac Fever, attended or worked at the fair, the state's Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement on Thursday.The infected were likely exposed to Legionella bacteria as they walked by a hot tub display at the North Carolina Mountain State Fair, the statement said.Lab results confirmed that water samples from the state fair event center contained the bacteria that causes the dis
  
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• Sen. Marco Rubio, an outspoken critic of China, says Trump's call for it investigate Joe Biden was not a 'real request'

  04-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  "I don't think it's a real request," Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said to reporters on Friday. His GOP colleague, Sen. Ben Sasse, strongly disagreed.
  
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• Man walking his dogs nearly killed by lightning strike

  04-10-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A quiet dog walk nearly turned fatal on Thursday night for a man in Spring, Texas, located about 25 miles from Houston. Thanks to quick actions by witness Bill Wilson, the man is expected to survive.The unnamed victim is in his late-20s, according to officials. He was heading toward the local dog park when a lightning bolt struck him. As can be seen in the video, the shock was severe enough that it left a fist-sized hole in the concrete."He was face down on the ground, we rolled him over and che
  
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• Former 'Fixer Upper' stars Chip and Joanna Gaines to open boutique hotel in Waco, Texas

  04-10-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Chip and Joanna Gaines, owners of Magnolia Homes and the former stars of HGTV's show 'Fixer Upper,' have a new project.
  
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• Iraq Set to Join China’s Belt and Road Project amid Violent Anti-Government Unrest

  04-10-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi announced during a state visit to Beijing on Sept. 23 that Iraq will sign on to China’s “Belt and Road” international infrastructure project, according to the Asia Times.“Iraq has gone through war and civil strife and is grateful to China for its valuable support,” Mahdi said during a visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to Chinese state news agency Xinhua, trade between the two countries recently exceeded $30 bill
  
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• 'It's extremely depressing': tiny turtle dies after eating 104 pieces of plastic

  04-10-2019 19:56
  Florida clinic says the problem is so common that they have a drop-off point for residents to leave sickly turtlesWhen Emily Mirowski took in a tiny loggerhead turtle that had been washed up in Boca Raton, Florida, she knew it wasn’t healthy. It was lethargic, almost lifeless, with a drooping head – healthy turtles are normally so full of energy that they are hard to hold.But she hoped it would live: its shell was immaculate and healthy looking, a beautiful orange brown, and the turt
  
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• Payouts for Vegas victims a 'cold, mathematical calculation'

  04-10-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  They may have been united by a love for country music, but the people gunned down two years ago at a Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement.The administrator overseeing the process will have the icy task of calculating the value of a life based on how much victims earned, the gravity of survivors' wounds and the hazy concepts of pain, suffering and emotional distress."It is a cold, mathematical calculation," said attorney Kenneth
  
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• Pro-Trump group takes credit for woman talking about eating babies at AOC town hall

  04-10-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  At a town hall for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a woman in a T-shirt that read “Save the planet Eat the Children” stood up and suggested people should eat babies to fight climate change. A pro-Trump group, LaRouchePAC, took credit for the stunt.
  
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• 2011 murder of eastern Missouri woman to get new look

  04-10-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Lincoln County Sheriff's Department Lt. Andy Binder on Friday confirmed an investigation by the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis in the death of Betsy Faria.Faria was stabbed 55 times in February 2011, soon after Hupp became beneficiary of Faria's $150,000 life insurance policy.The conviction was overturned and Russ Faria was acquitted at retrial in 2015.
  
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• National Taco Day 2019: Where to get free tacos, $1 tacos and deals Friday

  04-10-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Oct. 4 is National Taco Day, and chains are marking the taco lovers' fiesta with free tacos or specials, including Del Taco, Taco Bell and Taco John's.
  
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• Romney rips Trump: 'Wrong and appalling' to ask China and Ukraine to investigate Biden

  04-10-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Sen. Mitt Romney issued a stern rebuke of the president's call for foreign governments to investigate Joe Biden.
  
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• How 1 Parade Proves China's Military Is Becoming Very Dangerous

  04-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Drones, missiles and much more.
  
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• Atheist group says Texas judge 'crossed the line' when she handed a Bible to Amber Guyger

  04-10-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed a complaint after Texas Judge Tammy Kemp gave Amber Guyger a Bible after being convicted of murder
  
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• Iran says it will release Russian journalist accused of espionage

  04-10-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran agreed to release a Russian journalist detained on suspicion of spying for Israel, in a rare concession that defused a potentially damaging diplomatic rift with its key ally. The announcement came just hours after Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Iranian ambassador in Moscow to account for the arrest of Yulia Yuzik, who was seized from her Tehran hotel room by members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps earlier this week. Iran has been accused by several W
  
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• U.S. airlines grapple with 'unfair tax' that adds to aircraft supply disruption

  04-10-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. airlines are scrambling to digest a new 10% tariff on European-made Airbusplanes that threaten additional havoc in a market already reeling from frozen deliveries of Boeing Co's737 MAX.The tariff on Airbus planes creates uncertainty for aircraft delivery terms much like the global grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX in March after two fatal crashes and comes at a time of threats to international air travel demand in the midst of slowing global economic growth and tr
  
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• Palestinians to resuming taking Israeli collected tax money

  04-10-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority (PA) will once again accept tax revenues collected on its behalf by Israel, after rejecting the money for months, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Friday.The PA had stopped taking the money because of a dispute with Israel over stipends paid to the families of Palestinians militants killed or jailed by Israel.The change of policy could help the PA relieve a deepening financial crisis.
  
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• 2020 Vision Friday: Will Trump's $10 million ad onslaught bury Biden?

  04-10-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s clear, at this point, that President Trump should be very worried about Ukraine, with a flurry of damning details emerging recently. But how worried should Joe Biden be?
  
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• Supreme Court to hear dispute over encouraging illegal immigration

  04-10-2019 17:39 via politico.com
  The Supreme Court will take up a dispute over a federal law that makes it a crime to encourage foreigners to enter or reside in the United States illegally, the court announced in an order today.The Trump administration called on the high court to take up the matter after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit invalidated part of the law in December.The appeals court found that the law violated the First Amendment because it criminalized constitutionally protected free speech.
  
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• Death toll from vaping-linked illness now at 19 in US

  04-10-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll in the United States from illnesses linked to e-cigarette use has risen to at least 19, health authorities say, as more than 1,000 others have suffered lung injuries probably linked to vaping.A report by clinicians in North Carolina last month pointed to the inhalation of fatty substances from aerosolized oils, but a new study by the Mayo Clinic published this week found patients' lungs had been exposed to noxious fumes.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday
  
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• National Taco Day 2019: Where to find all the best freebies and deals

  04-10-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Did you wake up this morning with some extra spring in your step, but you couldn't quite put your finger on why? Well, it's obvious that you subconsciously knew today is National Taco Day, which is... umm... well, we actually have no idea what National Taco Day is or when it started. Who cares? The bottom line is you get to enjoy a bunch of discounts on tacos and other food sold alongside tacos, and there are even some freebies out there to enjoy.As it always does, Offers.com scoured the web and
  
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• Joe Biden’s foreign policy adviser says Kurt Volker was highly regarded

  04-10-2019 17:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Antony Blinken, Joe Biden’s foreign policy adviser, says Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, was highly competent and well regarded.
  
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• Trump Trade Adviser Peter Navarro: ‘I Am Never Disappointed in My President!’

  04-10-2019 17:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Reacting to reports that President Donald Trump promised China he would stay quiet on the Hong Kong protests while mentioning his potential political rivals, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Friday refused to answer whether he brought up former Vice President Joe Biden to China—proudly declaring he’s never been “disappointed in my president.”Appearing on CNN Newsroom on Friday morning, the White House official was pressed early on by host Jim Sciutto about the p
  
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• Thousands protest mask ban as HK leader toughens stance

  04-10-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Violence erupted across Hong Kong as defiant masked protesters rampaged and police fired tear gas Friday, hours after the city's embattled leader invoked rarely used emergency powers to ban masks at rallies in a hardening of her stance after four months of anti-government demonstrations.Challenging the ban, set to take effect Saturday, thousands of protesters crammed streets in the central business district and other areas, shouting "Hong Kong people, resist." Pockets of angry protesters later a
  
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• The U.S. Shouldn’t Try to Save Iraq’s Prime Minister

  04-10-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The most charitable thing to be said for Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi’s response to the protests wracking Iraq is that it was ill-advised. But perhaps this was to be expected, since one of his senior advisers has declared that “there is no real answer” to the country’s problems.Mahdi, a lugubrious figure in the best of times, delivered an especially dismal performance in the most important speech of his career on Friday, after his security forces
  
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• Scientists uncover genetic similarities among species that use sound to navigate

  04-10-2019 16:56
  Insect-eating bats navigate effortlessly in the dark and dolphins and killer whales gobble up prey in murky waters thanks in part to specific changes in a set of 18 genes involved in the development of the cochlear ganglion -- a group of nerves that transmit sound from the ear to the brain, according to a new study.
  
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