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• Trump dismisses concerns about leaving Kurds at the mercy of Turkey

  09-10-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump was unconcerned about what is widely characterized as a betrayal of the Kurdish fighters who bore the brunt of the battle against ISIS.
  
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• 14,800 pairs of fake Nikes worth more $2.2 million seized by customs agents at LA/Long Beach Seaport

  09-10-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  More than $2.2 million worth of fake Nike shoes have been seized at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport, authorities said.
  
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• 'PG&E clearly hasn’t made its system safe.' California lawmakers slam utility amid widespread power outage

  09-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  As millions in California lose power during a fire-prevention blackout, lawmakers charge that PG&E; didn't take proper safety steps ahead of time.
  
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• Sanders: It's 'nonsense' to suggest his campaign was hiding his heart attack

  09-10-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders also said he will not be scaling back his presidential campaign.
  
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• Trump Order Targets Rules From ‘Unaccountable Bureaucrats’

  09-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday to limit the use of memos, letters, and other federal guidance from agencies saying they represented an unchecked “pernicious kind of regulation imposed by unaccountable bureaucrats.”Conservatives and business groups have long complained that the agencies use the process to establish “stealth regulation” that circumvents Congress and avoids public scrutiny. Unlike formal government rules
  
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• EPA: Our goal is to improve California’s air quality

  09-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  'If the EPA disapproves ... that triggers statutory clocks for highway funding sanctions. ... We request a response from (California) by Oct. 10'
  
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• Warren jumps ahead of Biden in latest 2020 polls

  09-10-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is leading the crowded pack of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic primary nomination for the first time, according to new results from polling aggregation website RealClearPolitics, which averages poll data from across the US. The numbers released on Wednesday show the progressive Massachusetts senator polling at 26.6 per cent, with former Vice President Joe Biden slightly behind her at 26.4 per cent.The latest numbers follow Tuesday’s Quinnipiac University poll, whi
  
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• Trump-Ukraine scandal puts spotlight on Rudy Giuliani's business ties. Is he a 'foreign agent'?

  09-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani's emergence as a central figure in the impeachment inquiry has raised questions about his business ties with foreign governments.
  
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• Yes, America Probably Has Secret Stealth Drones Around Iran

  09-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  So much spying.
  
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• Police search homes for 2nd suspect in Kansas bar shooting

  09-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A fugitive suspected of taking part in a mass shooting last weekend at a Kansas bar that killed four people and wounded five others was given probation last year for trafficking contraband in prison instead of more time behind bars.Hugo Villanueva-Morales could have faced up to nine years in prison for the trafficking contraband conviction.Instead, he was freed by the same Leavenworth County, Kansas, judge who made news this year when he reduced the sentence of a convicted sex offender because h
  
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• Remainer Speaker John Bercow Met With EU Counterpart to Stymie A Clean Brexit

  09-10-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  British Parliament Speaker John Bercow met with European Union President David Sassoli to discuss how best to prevent Britain from making a clean break with the EU, Sassoli revealed on the floor of the European parliament on Wednesday.Sassoli, whose position is equivalent to Bercow's former post as Parliament speaker, revealed on Wednesday that the two met in Brussels and were on the "same wavelength" regarding Brexit."We share an awareness that a chaotic exit of the UK from the EU would work to
  
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• Arizona Official Smuggled Pregnant Women Into the U.S. and Paid Them to Give Up Their Babies: Authorities

  09-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastAn Arizona official faces charges in two states for his alleged role in an international adoption fraud scheme that involved smuggling pregnant women into the U.S. from the Marshall Islands and then paying them to give up their babies, according to court documents.Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen was charged Tuesday night with 11 felony offenses, including human smuggling, the sale of a child, and communications fraud, the Utah Attorney General’s
  
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• Pay freeze at the UN? Trump administration owes the United Nations $1 billion

  09-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump brushed aside a warning from the U.N. that the organization risks being unable to pay its staff and bills if member countries don't chip in.
  
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• Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Ban of Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

  09-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  SOPA Images/GettyA small group of Activision Blizzard employees walked out of work Tuesday afternoon to protest the company’s actions against a gamer who expressed support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong during an official livestream.The game publisher behind online multiplayer hits like World of Warcraft and Overwatch banned Hong Kong-based professional Hearthstone player Chung Ng Wai from thegame’s lucrative pro league for a year on Tuesday. Chung, who uses the handle &ld
  
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• Fossils of 'shark-toothed' carnivorous dinosaur found in Thailand

  09-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Fossils of a large carnivorous dinosaur that was a top predator about 115 million years ago have been unearthed in Thailand --a brute that was among the early members of an impressive group of flesh-ripping dinosaurs known for their shark-like teeth.Siamraptor, the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered in Thailand, lived during the Cretaceous Period in an environment centered on a meandering river system and preyed on plant-eating dinosaurs, the researchers said.Paleontologist Duangsuda C
  
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• California gov. calls for Trump's removal

  09-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has all the evidence to believe "completely corrupt" President Trump should be removed from office by Congress, but with Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate he says the best way to boot Trump from the White House is at the ballot box.
  
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• Company Selling Big Stash Of Nissan Skylines

  09-10-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The cars are currently sitting in a secret Warehouse in Japan. With R32 and R33 Skylines now legal to import into the United States, and the mighty R34 not too far off, Americans are looking for deals on these cars. There’s a secret location in rural Japan where a company called Trust Kikaku has been stashing Skylines, and they’re going for prices you won’t believe.This was all documented by a YouTube user called SAMMIT, a British car enthusiast living in Japan. It starts in a
  
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• Biden calls for Trump's impeachment for first time

  09-10-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “He’s shooting holes in the Constitution,” the former vice president said in a speech in New Hampshire on Wednesday. “And we cannot let him get away with it.”
  
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• Turkey begins offensive aimed at Kurdish fighters in Syria

  09-10-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey launched airstrikes and fired artillery aimed at crushing Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, paving the way for an assault on forces that have long been allied with the United States.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of the campaign, which followed an abrupt decision Sunday by U.S. President Donald Trump that American troops would step aside to allow for the operation.Trump's move, which has drawn harsh bip
  
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• Back from the dead: Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming

  09-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time ever, scientists have found corals that were thought to have been killed by heat stress have recovered, a glimmer of hope for the world's climate change-threatened reefs.The chance discovery, made by Diego K. Kersting from the Freie University of Berlin and the University of Barcelona during diving expeditions in the Spanish Mediterranean, was reported in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.Kersting and co-author Cristina Linares have been carrying out long-term monitori
  
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• Teacher at Elite Boarding School Used Nightly ‘Check-In’ System to Molest Sleeping Students, Cops Say

  09-10-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Nelson Almeida/GettyA teacher at an elite boarding school in New Jersey used his position as a dorm “duty master”—who is responsible for nightly check-ins with students—to molest two teens while they slept, police said.Dominic Brown, a 23-year-old history teacher and water polo coach at The Lawrenceville School, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a Mo
  
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• Opioid makers' latest legal woe: West Virginia handyman

  09-10-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A small home-improvement company in West Virginia is taking on the nation's opioid giants in a lawsuit blaming the drugmakers for a rise in insurance costs. The handymen at Al Marino Inc. filed the federal class-action suit last week in U.S. District Court against Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and a host of other companies. The case claims the drug businesses created a public health crisis that increased the need for expensive medical treatments, leading to skyrocketing health insurance c
  
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• U.S. arrests counterterrorism analyst over leaks to journalists

  09-10-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A counterterrorism analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested on Wednesday over charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign country's weapons system to two journalists in 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Justice Department said in federal court filings on Wednesday.Information that 30-year-old Henry Kyle Frese passed to the journalists appeared in at least eight different news stories, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for t
  
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• Trump: US doesn't 'endorse' Turkey's assault on Syria

  09-10-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's written statement was issued hours after Turkey, a NATO ally, launched an offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria, who have helped the U.S. against the Islamic State but are viewed by Turkey as terrorists.Trump's recent decision to pull back U.S. troops leaves those fighters vulnerable.
  
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• Hush, little baby: Mother right whales 'whisper' to calves

  09-10-2019 19:23
  A recent study explores whether right whale mother-calf pairs change their vocalizations to keep predators from detecting them.
  
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• Antibiotic resistance in food animals nearly tripled since 2000

  09-10-2019 19:23
  Researchers report that the growing appetite for animal protein in low- to middle-income countries has resulted in a smorgasbord of antibiotic consumption for livestock that has nearly tripled the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing bacteria between 2000 and 2018. The researchers found that antibiotic resistance in livestock was most widespread in China and India, with Brazil and Kenya emerging as new hotspots.
  
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• Lindsey Graham says Trump's 'shameless' abandonment of Kurds will revive ISIS terrorists

  09-10-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Trump’s strongest allies, on Wednesday said Kurdish fighters in Syria had been “shamelessly abandoned by the Trump Administration” in its sudden decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria.
  
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• Shooting in Germany was anti-Semitic attack - interior minister

  09-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that a shooting in eastern Germany was anti-Semitic, adding that federal prosecutors who have taken on the investigation thought there were signs that it could be a right-wing extremist attack.According to the federal prosecutors' office, there are enough indications that it was possibly a right-wing extremist motive.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren defends story that she was fired for being pregnant after more details surface

  09-10-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  2020 Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren is now asking supporters to share their own stories of pregnancy discrimination.
  
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• These are the fugitives on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list — and how they got there

  09-10-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list constantly changes. Individuals come and go as they're captured. Here are the 10 who are now on the list.
  
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• Trump's approach to the impeachment inquiry bears a striking resemblance to how the mafia operates

  09-10-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The mafia "did everything Trump is doing, but he's doing it on a much larger scale," said a former federal prosecutor who dealt with organized crime.
  
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• Humpback whale found dead in Thames was hit by a ship

  09-10-2019 18:04 via theguardian.com
  Investigators say it is unclear whether wound happened before or after its deathA humpback whale that died after swimming into the Thames was hit by a ship, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has said.However, it is not clear whether the wound on the juvenile female was inflicted before or after its death. Continue reading...
  
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• Turkey State Banks Prop Up Lira Ahead of Syria Incursion

  09-10-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The lira weakened as Turkey began a military offensive into northeastern Syria, stymieing efforts by state banks to buttress the currency through dollar sales.The Turkish currency reversed earlier gains to fall almost 1% after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the cross-border operation. The losses picked up even as state lenders increased the amount of dollars they were selling to the market, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified
  
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• More women have come forward in a new book to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct

  09-10-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Karen Johnson, a Mar-a-Lago regular, said Trump pulled her behind a tapestry and kissed her without her consent during a party in the early 2000s.
  
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• Trump defends diplomat's wife who killed teenage Briton in crash: 'It happens'

  09-10-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has defended the wife of a US diplomat who killed a British teenager in a road accident, suggesting it is difficult to drive on the other side of the road and that "we've all done it".Speaking at the White House after a conversation with prime minister Boris Johnson, during which he apparently rejected a request to consider waiving the woman’s diplomatic immunity and her returning to Britain to face the police, the president said he wanted to try and bring about "healing".
  
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• Facebook refuses to remove Trump ads that smear Biden

  09-10-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook is allowing the Trump campaign to post false information about former Vice President Joe Biden, a policy change that came after CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a White House meeting with the president.
  
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• Harry Dunn death: Family left ‘angry and frustrated’ after ‘publicity stunt’ meeting with foreign secretary

  09-10-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a teenager killed in a car crash involving a US diplomat’s wife have said they have been left “angry and frustrated” after meeting with Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, which they described as a “publicity stunt”.Harry Dunn, 19, was killed when his motorbike collided with a car in Northamptonshire on 27 August.
  
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• Majority of Americans back impeachment inquiry, new polls show

  09-10-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House says the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is “baseless” and “unconstitutional.” But five new national surveys find most Americans support the probe. And a Fox News poll shows a majority support his removal.
  
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• Mayor in Mexico tied to a truck and dragged through streets for ‘failing to fulfill campaign promises’

  09-10-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Angry farmers in Mexico abducted the mayor of their village and dragged him through the streets after claiming he went back on key campaign promises.Police intervened to free Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández, who suffered no major injuries after the ordeal.
  
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• Boston jail to stop housing federal immigration detainees

  09-10-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Boston's sheriff is ending his office's longtime relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying his jails will stop housing hundreds of federal detainees in order to house more female inmates.Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins maintained the move, which he announced late Tuesday, is not a political statement but an effort to improve the lives of incarcerated women, which he said is the fastest-growing incarcerated population in the country.
  
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• Protests over Bangladesh student death as PM vows to punish killers

  09-10-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Bangladesh's prime minister on Wednesday vowed to mete out the "highest punishment to the killers" of a university student who died after he criticised a deal the leader made with India.The killing of 21-year-old Abrar Fahad on Monday, allegedly by members of a student branch of the country's ruling Awami League party, has sparked two days of protests in Dhaka and other cities.Some 13 students, including 10 from the Awami League branch, have been detained by police over his death.
  
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• Egypt denounces Ethiopia for moving ahead with Nile dam amid water: shortage fears

  09-10-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt denounced Ethiopia on Wednesday for moving forward with building and operating a hyropower dam on the Nile, which Cairo worries will threaten already scarce water supplies.Ethiopia, the source of the Blue Nile which joins the White Nile in Khartoum and runs on to Egypt, says the dam will not disrupt the river's flow and hopes the project will transform it into a power hub for the electricity-hungry region.Egypt relies on the Nile for up to 90% of its fresh water, and fears the dam, which i
  
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• China destroys dozens of Uighur cemeteries in drive to 'eradicate' cultural history of Muslims

  09-10-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Even in death there is no respite for the Uighurs, one of the world's most persecuted minorities, according to a new investigation that has revealed China is destroying burial grounds where generations of families have been interred. Over the past two years, tombs have been smashed and human bones scattered in dozens of desecrated cemeteries in China’s northwest region, research by Agence France Presse and satellite imagery analysts Earthrise Alliance has revealed. While the official
  
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• China's Stealth J-20 Isn't The U.S. F-35 (But It Still Has Asia On Edge)

  09-10-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  And the Navy is paying attention.
  
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• Lights out? PG&E plans to shut off power for more than 800K customers in California to reduce wildfire risk

  09-10-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison may shut off power for nearly a million customers in an effort to prevent wildfires.
  
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• An NBC reporter's young son adorably wandered onto set during her live broadcast

  09-10-2019 16:44 via news.yahoo.com
  NBC News' national security and Pentagon correspondent Courtney Kube was able to sneak a little extra family time in while she was live on air Wednesday.Kube was in studio reporting on the Turkish military offensive in northern Syria, when her young son, who was visiting the studio, popped up behind her and stole the spotlight. Kube couldn't help but crack a smile as the camera cut to a graphic. She handled the rest of the report like a pro, too, diving right back into a detailed explanation of
  
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• Trump needs Republicans to survive. Now, he's in danger of losing their support

  09-10-2019 16:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Because of his standoff with Congress, Trump may be in danger of losing Republicans who still think of themselves as constitutional conservatives‘Support for the impeachment inquiry has risen 21 points among Republicans since July.’ Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersThe White House announced on Tuesday that it will not cooperate with the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, calling it unfair and unconstitutional. By refusing to allow ad
  
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• Victor the eagle's bird's eye view of the Alps raises climate change awareness

  09-10-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Victor, a nine-year old white-tailed eagle, set off this week on a mission to raise awareness of climate change in the Alps, which have already been hard hit by the rise in global temperatures.Equipped with a 360-degree camera mounted on his back, Victor soared above Mont Blanc and was set to take in five countries in five days, filming some of the world's most spectacular scenery.Victor is part of the Alpine Eagle Race project, which aims to raise awareness of melting glaciers and other effects
  
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• Sean Hannity slams impeachment inquiry as a 'compulsive, psychotic witch hunt' and falsely calls it an 'attempted coup'

  09-10-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Hannity described all of the Democratic investigations into Trump as "insane, obsessive, compulsive, psychotic witch hunts rooted in rage."
  
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• A secret Russian assassination squad has proven 'they can get to anyone' in Europe but there's just one problem — they're really sloppy about it

  09-10-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Everything you need to know about "Unit 29155".
  
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