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• Free Speech Isn’t Dangerous, but Minimizing It Is

  10-10-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A piece published late last week in the New York Times argues that our free-speech rights are literally endangering us -- but the truth is, they keep us safe.In a piece titled “Free Speech Is Killing Us,” Andrew Marantz argues that “noxious speech is causing tangible harm,” using tragedies such as Heather Heyer’s murder in Charlottesville, the massacre at the Walmart in El Paso, and the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, as evidence of this. Marantz then declar
  
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• Turkey presses Syrian assault as thousands flee the fighting

  10-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey pressed its air and ground assault against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria on Thursday for a second day, pounding the region with airstrikes and an artillery bombardment that raised columns of black smoke in a border town and sent panicked civilians scrambling to get out.It was a wrenchingly familiar scene for many who had fled the militants of the Islamic State group only a few years ago.There were casualties on both sides: Turkish officials in two border provinces said mort
  
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• Man gets 100 years in prison for killing, dismembering woman

  10-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Jared Chance, 30, had turned down a plea deal that would have made him eligible for parole after 31 years.Ashley Young's torso was found in December in the basement of Chance's Grand Rapids rental home.Chance and Young knew each other and were last seen together at a Grand Rapids bar in late November.
  
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• ICE, sheriff say immigration ruling threatens public safety

  10-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday criticized a judge's ruling barring his agency from relying solely on databases that have at times led to the wrongful detention of American citizens.Speaking Thursday at the White House, Matthew Albence called the September ruling an example of "judicial overreach" that threatened public safety.Following Albence was a Texas sheriff who suggested the ruling would require releasing jailed immigrants who were "drunks" and
  
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• Migrant Alleged to Have Raped Woman Immediately after Sheriff’s Office Ignored ICE Detainer and Released Him Is Arrested

  10-10-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An undocumented Salvadoran immigrant accused of raping a woman immediately after he was released from custody by the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, which failed to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement order to detain him, was arrested by ICE agents on Wednesday, the agency has announced.Antonio Ulises Perez, 38, was released from the Oklahoma County Jail on Wednesday and went "almost immediately" to the house of the woman he is accused of raping. ICE arrested Ulises Perez later
  
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• Evidence from ex-Dallas police officer's murder trial fuels mistrust

  10-10-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Evidence from the trial of a former Dallas police officer convicted of killing her neighbor has fueled new questions about whether accused officers are treated differently than other suspects, including testimony that a camera in the cruiser where the officer sat after the shooting was flipped off and that her sexual text messages with her partner were deleted.
  
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• Trump EPA proposes overhaul of lead in drinking water rule, critics call plan weak

  10-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration on Thursday proposed retooling a 1991 rule on lead and cooper contamination in drinking water, butcritics said the change slows by 20 years the timeline for removing aging lead service lines that could expose children to a toxin known to harm developing brains.Under the rule, community water systems would be required among other things to identify the most impacted areas to find and fix sources of lead when a sample in a home exceeds 15 parts per billion.The EPA said wat
  
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• Boxer Tyrone Spong faces charges over escape of 'extremely dangerous' cougar

  10-10-2019 23:12 via theguardian.com
  Cat was found wandering in Florida suburbs in JanuarySpong faces 23 charges over failure to care for big cat The heavyweight boxer Tyrone Spong has had 23 charges filed against him over the escape of an “extremely dangerous” cougar in Florida.According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, wildlife officers had to tranquilize the 60lbs cat in January after it was found sunbathing on a driveway before jumping into a backyard in Parkland, Broward County. It was initially thought to be an
  
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• Kia Telluride, Subaru Forester Owners Complaining to NHTSA about Windshields

  10-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  NHTSA has received dozens of complaints of broken or cracked windshields on the two vehicles, along with beefs that it takes too long to get replacements.
  
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• Syria's Kurds: Turn to Damascus or concede to Turkey?

  10-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Syria's most powerful Kurdish group is grappling for friends after its ally, the United States, abandoned it to an invasion by Turkey, whose warplanes, tanks and artillery are raining shells onto its stronghold in the north of the country.The Kurdish fighters have few options.The Turkish military operation, backed by warplanes and a formidable mobilization, has already targeted dozens of locations along a stretch of nearly 200 miles along the Syrian-Turkish border in its opening salvo.
  
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• WWII Lesson for Trump: Turkey Was in Bed With the Nazis

  10-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Nazis melted gold dental fillings from concentration camp victims and found the best price for it was in neutral Turkey.At the same time, Turkey kept selling Germany the chromium ore it needed to build weapons and continue the war. But in harkening back to World War II in an effort to justify giving Turkey a green light to crush the Kurds, President Donald Trump ignored such damning truths. He instead said of the Kurds, “They didn't help us with Normandy.”Never mind tha
  
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• George Conway, other conservative lawyers say Trump's acts 'threaten our democracy'

  10-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The lawyers said President Donald Trump's "factually undisputed" requests for foreign governments to investigate his political opponents pose a threat to American democracy.
  
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• Climate Change Is Shaping Up As an Utter Disaster for Much of America's Bird Life

  10-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Two thirds of American bird species are at risk, according to a new report
  
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• Parking-space enforcer in Florida 'stand your ground' case sentenced to 20 years in prison

  10-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A white man who cited Florida's "stand your ground'' law in the killing of an unarmed black man after a parking dispute was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Outrage in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo over Handke's Nobel win

  10-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Austrian writer Peter Handke's Nobel literature prize win on Thursday sparked outrage in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo, where he is widely seen as an admirer of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.In the 1990s, Handke emerged as a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia, even comparing them to Jews under the Nazis, a remark he later retracted."Never thought would feel to vomit because of a Nobel Prize," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter.
  
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• California hospital chain going to court over high prices

  10-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  One of California's largest hospital systems is facing a trial over accusations that it has used its market dominance to snuff out competition and overcharge patients for medical bills.The antitrust lawsuit against Sutter Health, which operates 24 hospitals with 5,500 doctors across Northern California, was first brought by employers and unions amid growing frustration over the rising cost of health care in 2014.California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed a similar suit last year follow
  
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• The Media Scramble the Jets for Elizabeth Warren’s Lies

  10-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is telling a lie about herself. Again. The media are covering for her. Again.It is by now well established that Elizabeth Warren is a serial liar. She lied about her parents having to elope because of racism against her mother, who was white. She lied about being the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey (which doesn’t keep such records). She lied about being a “single mom” when she met her second and present husband (she was still married, an
  
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• California power outage: Isn't there an easier way?

  10-10-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses has been cut off, affecting millions of people in California.Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said a forecast of extreme wind and dry weather has created fire danger of an unprecedented scope, prompting it to initiate the largest preventive outage in state history to reduce the risk of wildfires sparked by faulty power lines.HOW LONG WILL THE POWER BE OUT?
  
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• Activists Can't Agree on How to Fight Climate Change. The IMF Says Just Do Something.

  10-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The IMF says a carbon tax is best to fight climate change but says countries should do what works best for them — so long as they do something.
  
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• The Royal Caribbean has named the world's next biggest ocean liner, set for China

  10-10-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Make that five: Royal Caribbean's Oasis class, which is synonymous with some of the biggest cruise ships in the world, will officially welcome in 2021 its newest creation, the name of which was unveiled on October 10, during a keel-laying ceremony held at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France.Come 2021, the Royal Caribbean cruise line will be the proud owner of a new ocean liner, dedicated to the Chinese market.It will also be the first of the Oasis class to cruise the
  
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• UPDATE 2-GM CEO Barra takes role in talks to end UAW strike

  10-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra met with senior United Auto Workers officials to discuss the No. 1 U.S. automaker's most recent proposal to end a more than three-week-old strike that has cost it over $1 billion, a union spokesman said on Thursday.Barra met with UAW President Gary Jones and senior union negotiator Terry Dittes on Wednesday at a time when GM had not yet received a formal response to a new offer made on Monday morning, sources briefed on the matter said.GM declined to com
  
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• Ukraine's Zelensky 'breaks record' for world's longest press conference

  10-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular comedian before he was elected president of Ukraine this spring, promised to bring a fresh kind of politics to the ex-Soviet nation.Around eight hours into the marathon event, Zelensky's first major press conference since coming to power in May, a representative of the agency stood up to deliver the news.The previous record was held by Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, with a press conference that lasted over seven hours, Ukrainian media reported.
  
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• California proposes new rules to enforce state privacy law

  10-10-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  California proposed regulations Thursday that would give consumers more control over how businesses collect and manage their personal information, including requiring a "Do Not Sell My Info" link on companies' websites or apps.California Attorney General Xavier Becerra detailed the draft regulations for the state's new privacy law, due to take effect Jan. 1, which he said will allow people to "pull the curtains back" on information companies have collected on them.The law allows people to reques
  
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• GM, UAW clash over how to reach deal to end lengthy strike

  10-10-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motorsand the United Auto Workers (UAW) union clashed late Thursday over how to end a 25-day strike that has cost the company over $1 billion, according to letters seen by Reuters.GM urged the UAW to agree to around-the-clock negotiations to try reach a deal, while the union insisted on dealing with five specific issues first before it responded to a broader proposal from the company.The UAW began strike action on Sept. 16, with the union's 48,000 members s
  
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• Egypt discovers archaeological industrial zone in Luxor's 'Valley of the Monkeys'

  10-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt on Thursday unveiled two archaeological discoveries in Luxor including an industrial zone at the southern city's West Valley, also known as the Valley of the Monkeys.Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 30 workshops in the industrial area, the Ministry of Antiquities said in a statement.The area is "composed of houses for storage and the cleaning of the funerary furniture with many potteries dated to Dynasty 18," the excavation team's leader, Zahi Hawass, said in the statement.
  
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• In wake of Turkish offensive, France calls for urgent meeting of anti-Islamic State coalition

  10-10-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called for an emergency meeting of the coalition created to fight Islamic State to discuss Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militias in northern Syria.Le Drian said on France 2 television that the coalition, which includes more than 30 countries, needs to discuss a range of issues because Islamic State could take advantage of the changes on the ground to re-emerge."It (the coalition) needs to say today what are we going do, how do you, Turkey, want to
  
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• Key uncertainties identified for models of mosquito distribution in the US

  10-10-2019 20:20
  A computational analysis has identified key regions in the United States where model-based predictions of mosquito species distribution could be improved.
  
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• Swath of Atlantic still at risk for tropical development into next week

  10-10-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  While the window for tropical systems to brew will soon be closing for some zones in the Atlantic, the risk of tropical development is shifting southward into next week."Two areas we have been monitoring for tropical or subtropical development just off the East Coast of the United States to east of Bermuda are running out of time," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski explained.This image, taken on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, shows much of the tropical Atlantic Basin. There was a non-tropica
  
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• The Latest: Security Council fails to agree on Turkey

  10-10-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A divided U.N. Security Council has failed to agree on a statement following a closed meeting on Turkey's incursion into northeast Syria.The five European council members who called Thursday's meeting — there are 15 member countries — urged Turkey in a joint statement afterward "to cease the unilateral military action." They say it threatens progress against the extremist Islamic State group by a global coalition.Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, whose country is a key Syria
  
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• 'Trey is a joke among us': Gowdy is a divisive addition to Trump's legal team

  10-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The president’s decision to bulk up his legal team with former Rep. Trey Gowdy amid a widening impeachment inquiry is drawing criticism from one of his high-profile supporters.
  
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• Top Israeli court nixes house arrest for Australian sex-crime suspect

  10-10-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's Supreme Court overturned on Thursday a lower court order that a former Australian school principal suspected of sexual assault, and who Australia is seeking to extradite, be released from prison to house arrest.Malka Leifer poses a flight risk and should remain behind bars until extradition proceedings conclude, Justice Anat Baron ruled, finding in favor of prosecutors' appeal against the Jerusalem District Court's Oct. 2 order.Leifer fled from Australia in 2008 with what Australian aut
  
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• A NASA image shows the center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail. Expect far more revealing photos from a soon-to-launch telescope.

  10-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will bring "the highest quality image ever obtained of the galactic center," one researcher said.
  
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• Thousands of tarantulas are emerging from the ground in the San Francisco Bay Area, looking for mates

  10-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Each year, tarantulas emerge in the Rockies and California to look for mates. A spate of warm weather in the Bay Area has extended that mating season.
  
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• Ethiopia turns former palace, torture site into tourist draw

  10-10-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A palace that once housed Ethiopia's emperors and also served as a torture site under the communist Derg regime is to open to the public in a controversial government tourism project.The palace compound in Addis Ababa, which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government has rebranded "Unity Park", was formally launched Thursday and will be open from Friday.Abiy's office said on Twitter Thursday that the project "symbolises our ability to come together".
  
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• Pence attempts to explain away what the world heard Trump say on White House lawn

  10-10-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president said it on the lawn,” replied a reporter, referencing Trump's call on the White House lawn last week for China and Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.
  
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• John Bolton is writing a book about the Trump administration — and White House officials are reportedly concerned

  10-10-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former National Security Adviser John Bolton looks ready to have his say.Exactly one month after his exit, Axios reported Thursday Bolton is planning to write a book about his time in the Trump administration. He's reportedly being represented by Javelin's Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn, who previously represented former FBI Director James Comey.President Trump and Bolton parted on bad terms, to say the least, with Trump announcing in September he fired Bolton, only for Bolton to immediately begi
  
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• Trump is calling Mitch McConnell up to 3 times a day and raging about GOP senators he views as disloyal: CNN

  10-10-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump calls Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell up to three times per day in a frenzy over the congressional impeachment inquiry, CNN reported, citing a person familiar with the conversations.
  
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• Electric-Car Owners Hard Hit by Massive California Power Shutdown

  10-10-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla's Elon Musk promises battery and solar solutions for the many EV owners who can't charge their cars.
  
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• Amazon Executive’s Comments Draw Ire of President Trump’s Son

  10-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc.’s top spokesman Jay Carney criticized the administration of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, questioning the patriotism and honesty of the current White House and criticizing it for trying to influence the Federal Reserve. His comments drew the attention of Trump’s son, and Carney responded by praising government officials on Thursday.In a 30-minute interview at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Carney drew distinctions between the current administrat
  
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• Warren Calls for Imprisoning Trans Inmates with Biologically Female Inmates in New LGBTQ Rights Plan

  10-10-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren called for placing transgender prisoners in detention facilities designed for the opposite biological sex in a new LGBTQ rights plan released Thursday."I will direct the Bureau of Prisons to end the Trump Administration’s dangerous policy of imprisoning transgender people in facilities based on their sex assigned at birth," Warren wrote in the plan.Under the plan, transgender inmates would be placed in detention facilities that correspond to their gender identity r
  
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• US sanctions family accused of rampant graft in South Africa

  10-10-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on members of the Gupta family who face wide-ranging corruption allegations in South Africa during former president Jacob Zuma's tenure.The U.S. said it had placed Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta and close associate Salim Essa on its sanctions list, describing them as "members of a significant corruption network." It said the Guptas used bribery and other acts to influence government contracts and misappropriate state assets.Outrage in South
  
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• 500 Years Later, MIT Proves That Da Vinci's Bridge Design Works

  10-10-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  If accepted at the time, the design would have likely revolutionized architecture.
  
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• Tracking wild pigs in real time and understanding their interaction with agro-ecosystems

  10-10-2019 18:56
  A new study investigates how the success of a wild pig invasion may be dependent on how they use their surrounding food resources, and how when it comes to agriculture, the pigs continue their destructive trend.
  
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• Light-based strategy effectively treats carbon monoxide poisoning in rats

  10-10-2019 18:56
  Investigators recently developed a phototherapy strategy that was highly effective for removing carbon monoxide in rats.
  
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• Migrant protesters occupy U.S.-Mexico border bridge, close crossing

  10-10-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  MATAMOROS-BROWNSVILLE BRIDGE, U.S.-Mexico border, Oct 10 (Reuters) - U .S. asylum seekers camped out in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading to the closure of the crossing, witnesses and authorities said.Hundreds of the migrants have been camped for weeks on the end of the bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, a city known for cartel control of people trafficking and gang violence.Many of those camped out are awaiting court dates for hearings in the
  
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• UK, Irish leaders see 'pathway' to elusive Brexit deal

  10-10-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The leaders of Britain and Ireland said Thursday they had spotted a "pathway" to an elusive Brexit deal, keeping hopes of a breakthrough alive just three weeks before the U.K.'s deadline to leave the European Union.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish leader Leo Varadkar provided a status update on the issue after a private lunch meeting in northwest England that lasted for several hours."Both continue to believe that a deal is in everybody's interest," they said in a joint statement.
  
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• Pakistan arrests four aides of alleged mastermind of Mumbai terror attacks

  10-10-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested four aides of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, the suspected mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terrorism financing charges, counter-terrorism police said.Saeed, arrested on the same charges, has been on judicial remand since July, a move welcomed by U.S. President Donald Trump who wants Pakistan to do more to crack down on militancy.
  
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• UAW, GM negotiators meet until early morning hours, talks intensify

  10-10-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  UAW and General Motors bargainers were at it until around 3 a.m. Thursday before recessing and resuming talks midmorning.
  
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• Gabbard considering boycotting October debate, claims DNC and media are 'trying to hijack' election

  10-10-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Tulsi Gabbard said she will announce whether she will officially boycott the Democratic debate in the coming days.
  
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• Turkey and the Kurds: It’s More Complicated Than You Think

  10-10-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  On Monday, President Trump announced that a contingent of fewer than 100 U.S. troops in Syria was being moved away from Kurdish-held territory on the border of Turkey. The move effectively green-lighted military operations by Turkey against the Kurds, which have now commenced.Some U.S. military officials went public with complaints about being “blindsided.” The policy cannot have been a surprise, though. The president has made no secret that he wants out of Syria, where we now have a
  
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