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• State Dept. ordered to turn over Ukraine documents

  23-10-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  In what could prove a highly consequential ruling, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to start turning over documents regarding potentially improper influence on Ukraine diplomacy.
  
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• Best-Selling Author of ‘Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations’ Gets Prison Time in College Scam

  23-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Brian Synder/ReutersThe Los Angeles marketing executive and best-selling author Jane Buckingham, who honest-to-god wrote a book entitled The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations, was sentenced to three weeks in prison on Wednesday for her role in the college-admissions scandal.A judge also ordered the 51-year-old to fork over a $40,000 fine after she pleaded guilty in May to fraud and conspiracy after agreeing to pay $50,000 for a test proctor to take the ACT exam for her son in 2018,
  
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• 'Who gives a s--- about Afghanistan?': Trump stunned officials with his comments during a military briefing, former aide says

  23-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump made the remarks during a meeting with top military officials, according to Jim Mattis' former speechwriter, Guy Snodgrass.
  
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• The Army Wants to Bring the "Linebacker" Bradley Back from the Grave

  23-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
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• Women to be banned from seeking abortions in South Carolina even in cases of rape or incest

  23-10-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Republicans in South Carolina have voted to proceed on a measure that would strip abortion exemptions in cases of rape or incest, and criminalise the procedure almost entirely as soon as a foetal heartbeat is detected.The proposed bill is the latest attack on abortion rights throughout the United States, in an effort by conservatives keen on bringing the issue before the Supreme Court. There, they hope, they may finally be able to make good on a long held dream of repealing some or all of the la
  
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• Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser to investigate Baltimore police

  23-10-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A former federal prosecutor who represented one of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's accusers has been picked to lead an independent review of a corruption-plagued unit of the Baltimore Police Department, the department's chief announced Wednesday.Michael Bromwich will have "full autonomy" to conduct the review of the department's Gun Trace Task Force "without interference from us," said Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.Bromwich was the Justice Department's inspector general from
  
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• Trump lashes out at William Taylor after damaging testimony

  23-10-2019 22:32 via politico.com
  Taylor on Tuesday directly tied Trump for the first time to a quid pro quo with Ukraine and provided House Democrats with a roadmap of other potential witnesses who could further substantiate allegations Trump withheld foreign aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.In a series of tweets Wednesday, Trump sought to distance himself from Taylor and cast doubt on the diplomat and the political motivations of his lawyer, John Bellinger.
  
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• Toyota Recalls More Than 900,000 Vehicles to Replace Their Airbags Again

  23-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Toyota is entering the final phase of its Takata airbag replacement efforts with the announcement of a recall involving 928,000 Toyota, Scion, and Lexus models. These vehicles previously had thei...
  
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• Meet the Fox reporter who is bedeviling Trump on Syria

  23-10-2019 22:12 via politico.com
  When President Donald Trump claimed in a Monday Cabinet meeting that “we never gave a commitment to the Kurds,” the U.S. ally recently abandoned in northern Syria, an immediate rebuke came from a source not easily dismissed as “fake news”: a Fox News correspondent.“Not true,” Jennifer Griffin tweeted.“According to a former top senior military adviser to President Trump, ‘We told them over and over ‘We are your friends.
  
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• A Single Bird Takes Down the U.S. Navy's 'Doomsday' Plane

  23-10-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Built for nuclear war, but not errant bird strikes.
  
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• Trump's plan to leave some US troops in Syria to guard its oil is now doomed, thanks to Putin

  23-10-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  "The implementation of this memorandum will strongly interfere with these plans," a Russian official said. "We will work to nullify them."
  
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• Cummings lying in repose at historically black college

  23-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.A tan hearse with a U.S. House of Representatives seal carrying Cummings' body arrived Wednesday morning at Morgan State University's Murphy Fine Arts Center.A group of mourners led by Cummings' widow, Maya Rockeymoore, followed pallbearers who wheeled the black casket with silver tr
  
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• Trudeau rules out coalition as he forms new Canadian government

  23-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday ruled out forming a coalition government despite an election victory that left his Liberals short of a majority.Trudeau said he would consult with leaders of the Canada's other parties on their priorities, and how they might work together.Trudeau's Liberals emerged the winners in Monday's ballot, but lost their comfortable majority in the House of Common after a close race with the Tories.
  
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• Missouri farmer Garland Nelson charged with murder in deaths of Wisconsin brothers

  23-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Wisconsin brothers Nicholas and Justin Diemel were reported missing after they missed a flight back to Wisconsin following a business trip in July.
  
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• Former ICE Head Slams L.A. Police for Releasing Illegal Immigrants

  23-10-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The former head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Tom Homan slammed the Los Angeles police department on Tuesday after an ICE spokesman testified to Congress that L.A. police were releasing as many as 100 illegal immigrants from custody per day.The L.A. police chief "has taken a political stance," Homan asserted during an interview on Fox and Friends. "He forgot the oath he's taken; he stopped being a cop and became a politician."During a Monday Senate Judiciary Committee he
  
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• Understanding local attitudes to snow leopards vital for their ongoing protection

  23-10-2019 21:03
  Local people in the Nepal Himalayas value snow leopards as much for the potential personal benefits they gain from the animals' conservation as they do for the intrinsic value of this charismatic species.
  
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• Marmoset monkeys can learn a new dialect

  23-10-2019 21:03
  Monkeys and other animals communicate through calls that can differ depending on region. The common marmoset is one such animal that communicates using regional dialects. Researchers have now found out that they even adapt their dialect when they move to a different area.
  
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• U.S. attorney general calls for counseling, intervention to prevent mass shootings

  23-10-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday announced a new effort to prevent mass shootings through court-ordered counseling and supervision of potentially violent individuals. The effort, announced in a memo to federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials, follows dozens of deadly mass shootings in the United States this year, including a massacre of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and another just one day later in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed. The FBI was
  
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• Kim Orders 'Shabby' South Korean Hotels in Resort Town Destroyed

  23-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Wednesday that its leader, Kim Jong Un, had ordered the demolition of South Korean hotels and other buildings in a resort complex that the two countries once operated together.The resort town at Diamond Mountain, or Kumgang, just north of the inter-Korean border, opened in 1998, at a time of reduced tensions between the Koreas. Until it was closed during a dispute in 2008, it served as a major source of foreign currency for the cash-starved North, frequentl
  
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• 'Johnny Reb' no longer welcome in Norfolk: Virginia city gets OK to move Confederate statue

  23-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia's attorney general says the city of Norfolk can move its "Johnny Reb" Confederate statue from a busy downtown intersection to a cemetery
  
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• As teachers strike, Chicago mayor touts $838M deficit fix

  23-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who's still trying to settle a nearly week-old teacher's strike, proposed a combination of debt refinancing, tax and fee hikes and assistance from the state Legislature on Wednesday to close a massive $838 million budget deficit.
  
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• Democrat Buttigieg used marijuana 'a handful of times'

  23-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that he's used marijuana "a handful of times a long time ago," and that it's time for the U.S. to legalize marijuana. Buttigieg, speaking to reporters after touring a legal pot dispensary in suburban Las Vegas, was asked about whether he'd ever used marijuana. A handful of times a long time ago," he said.
  
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• Trump signed off on GOP crashing impeachment testimony, Bloomberg says

  23-10-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of the conservative Freedom Caucus stormed the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and blasted Democrats for conducting closed-door interviews in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
  
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• Elijah Cummings lies in repose; visitors pay respects

  23-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.A tan hearse with a U.S. House of Representatives seal carrying Cummings' body arrived Wednesday morning at Morgan State University's Murphy Fine Arts Center.A group of mourners led by Cummings' widow, Maya Rockeymoore, followed pallbearers who wheeled the black casket with silver tr
  
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• The Latest: Employee: Brothers' were lured to their deaths

  23-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An employee of two slain Wisconsin brothers says he believes a Missouri cattleman promised to give the men money to lure them to his farm so he could kill them.Twenty-five-year-old Garland Nelson, of Braymer, was charged Wednesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 35-year-old Nick Diemel and 24-year-old Justin Diemel, of Shawano County, Wisconsin.Rob Chubb managed the feeder cattle side of the business operated by the brothers.
  
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• Former acting AG: 'Abuse of power is not a crime'

  23-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Following Tuesday’s House testimony by Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, about President Trump allegedly pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate the Biden family, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker defended the president by claiming that “abuse of power is not a crime.”
  
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• Rats and Mold in Kushner-Managed Apartments, Maryland Claims

  23-10-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- An apartment management firm run by Jared Kushner’s family was sued by Maryland’s attorney general, who claims the company engaged in numerous “illegal and harmful” practices.Westminster Management lied about the quality of rental units and the level of maintenance the company would provide, routinely failing to address hazardous conditions in the properties, including infestations by rodents and other vermin, water leaks and mold growth, Attorney General B
  
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• Indicted Giuliani Henchman Lev Parnas Raises Executive Privilege in Federal Court

  23-10-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSLev Parnas, a Soviet-born business associate with ties to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, raised the issue of executive privilege during a court proceeding Wednesday, arguing it could apply to some of the evidence gathered in his campaign-finance case in New York.The issue was raised during an arraignment for Parnas and Igor Furman, who pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges in a four-count indictment that accused them of funneling money through straw donors in
  
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• Phoenix police officer involved in viral video stop of couple fired

  23-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Phoenix Chief Jeri Williams announced that the officer involved in a viral video stop of Dravon Ames and Iesha Harper has been fired.
  
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• Ukraine just threw a huge wrench into Trump's key defense denying a quid pro quo

  23-10-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukrainian officials knew in early August that President Trump had frozen military aid — all while pushing for politically motivated investigations.
  
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• Russian forces patrol Syrian-Turkish border

  23-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian forces in Syria conducted their first patrols near the Turkish border Wednesday to ensure Kurdish fighters withdraw under a deal between Moscow and Ankara ousting them from the minority's entire heartland.US President Donald Trump hailed the agreement as a "big success" and announced his administration was lifting sanctions it had imposed on Turkey after it launched its offensive against Kurdish armed groups earlier this month.Kurdish forces, who previously controlled nearly a third of S
  
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• Americans Are Unhappy at Work After Years of Economic Gains

  23-10-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.The economy has added millions of jobs and pay gains have accelerated in recent years, but Americans aren’t crazy about their work.A poll released Wednesday showed just 40% of employed Americans say they’re in good jobs, versus 44% in mediocre jobs and 16% in bad jobs. How respondents ranked the quality of their job had a strong correlation
  
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• Italy PM says Barr's meetings with Rome intelligence were legitimate

  23-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday confirmed that U.S. Attorney General William Barr held two secret meetings with Italian intelligence officers in Rome and described the encounters as "legal and correct".The meetings, which took place on Aug. 15 and Sept. 27, have been widely reported as being part of an investigation by President Donald Trump's administration into the origins of an inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 American election.
  
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• Thai king fires six senior palace officials over 'evil actions' days after stripping consort of titles

  23-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has dismissed six palace officials for “extremely evil” conduct, a palace announcement said on Wednesday, in a shake-up that come days after the sacking of the king's royal consort. The six included a woman, a senior police official and two royal guards, all of whom worked in the palace. Two separate announcements published in the official royal gazette accused the six of severe disciplinary misconduct that caused harm to the royal s
  
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• Corden: Trump may have just alienated his three black voters

  23-10-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The comics take a look at the latest in impeachment proceedings, including outrageous tweets, in Best of Late Night.
  
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• Boeing confirms 737 MAX timetable as profits tumble

  23-10-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in third-quarter earnings due to the 737 MAX grounding but said it still expects regulatory approval this year to return the plane to service."Our top priority remains the safe return to service of the 737 MAX and we're making steady progress," said Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg.
  
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• Netanyahu rival Gantz accepts mandate to try to form Israeli government

  23-10-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Former military chief Benny Gantz received an official mandate on Wednesday to try to form Israel's next government, but with no easy path to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's long hold on power.After inconclusive elections in April and September, Gantz's nomination marked the first time since 2008 that someone other than Netanyahu, 70, has been asked by Israel's president to build a ruling coalition.Head of the centrist Blue and White party, Gantz will have 28 days to complete the task
  
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• AOC's reelection campaign says it refunded two mysterious $500 donations from former Facebook exec and Trump supporter Palmer Luckey

  23-10-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Oculus founder Palmer Luckey regularly donates to far-right causes, but he donated to AOC without explanation.
  
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• Trump claims he saved lives of 'thousands' in Syria as he declares end of US involvement in the war

  23-10-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has claimed the US had saved the lives of “thousands” in Syria and took credit for the ceasefire, in a barnstorming speech declaring the end of American involvement in the war. “This is an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else,” he said, addressing reporters at the White House a day after Turkey and Russia brokered a deal for Kurdish-held north-east Syria without the US president. Mr Trump green-lit a Turkish-led offensive along
  
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• "A better life somewhere else": Europe-bound African migrants wait in Rwanda

  23-10-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  At the United Nations emergency transit centre next to a serene lake south of Rwanda's capital on Wednesday, the quiet mood was broken by the sobs of a group of female migrants from Ethiopia.“They were evacuated from Libya but they don’t want to live here," said a U.N. refugee agency translator.“Brighter future is not only resettlement in Europe," said Elise Villechalane, a UNCHR spokeswoman in Rwanda.
  
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• Mexico Misleads on Failed Arrest of ‘Chapo’ Son: Ex-DEA Official

  23-10-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s government isn’t being truthful about the botched attempt to capture the son of the world’s most notorious drug trafficker, according to a former head of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.The administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hasn’t revealed that while trying to bring Ovidio Guzman Lopez into custody, security forces had caught another son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mike Vigil
  
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• Bitcoin plunges to five-month low vs dollar after Zuckerberg testimony

  23-10-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Bitcoin's price dropped on Wednesday to its lowest level against the dollar since the middle of May after Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerbeg, in testimony before Congress, expressed doubts about whether the company's cryptocurrency project Libra was going to work. Bitcoin's price on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange was last down 6.95% at $7,471 , after hitting a five-month low below $7,300. Appearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Zucker
  
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• Trump declares 'major breakthrough' in Syria, lifts sanctions on Turkey

  23-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Wednesday declared his strategy in Syria a success amid bipartisan anger over the president's decision to pull U.S. troops from the region.
  
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• Trump Announces New Syria Plan: Blood for Oil

  23-10-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSPresident Donald Trump announced Wednesday he’s keeping a small U.S. force in northeastern Syria, even as he declaimed responsibility for fighting the so-called Islamic State there.“Let someone else fight over this long bloodstained sand,” Trump said from the Oval Office, in what sounded like a victory speech over an outcome negotiated between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ratifying the Turkish invasion that began
  
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• Trump news: President abruptly drops sanctions on Turkey, as Republicans storm impeachment hearings

  23-10-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump continues to froth over the impeachment inquiry on Twitter as Laura Cooper, deputy assistant US secretary of defence for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, becomes the latest senior official to appear before the House panel on Capitol Hill to testify about the conduct of diplomatic relations with Ukraine.On Tuesday, Bill Taylor, acting US ambassador to Ukraine, told the inquiry he was informed military aid to the country was “dependent” on president Volodymyr Zelensky agreeing
  
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• House Republicans Literally Storm the Impeachment Hearings

  23-10-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Alex Wong/GettyHouse Republicans took their impeachment grievances to a more confrontational level on Wednesday, barging in to a secure facility during a closed-door witness deposition and refusing to leave until Democrats held open hearings.The gambit—cooked up by the pro-Trump brawler Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and endorsed by House GOP leadership—derailed the closed-door deposition of Laura Cooper, a Pentagon official with jurisdiction over Ukraine policy, before it even started. And
  
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• India Is Slowly Easing Its Lockdown in Kashmir. But Life Isn't Returning to Normal

  23-10-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Over two months since the repeal of Kashmir's special status, citizens are bracing themselves for what's next
  
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• After El Paso and Odessa shootings, my plan to reduce mass violence: Sen. John Cornyn

  23-10-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  No person, family, or community should endure the heartbreak caused by the recent mass shootings in Texas. It’s time to answer their call for action.
  
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• What If Macron Blocked a Brexit Delay? His Reasons to Be Tempted

  23-10-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Emmanuel Macron is playing the tough guy on Brexit again.As the European Union discusses whether to give Prime Minister Boris Johnson the Brexit delay he has asked for but doesn’t really want, the French president has signaled he’s ready to block it.With any postponement of the U.K.’s departure needing the unanimous support of EU leaders, the man in the Elysee Palace has the power to dictate Britain’s future.“The Oct. 31 deadline must be met,” M
  
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• Ambassador's Ukraine testimony leaves Trump struggling to respond

  23-10-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  President attempted to discredit Bill Taylor with quote from John Ratcliffe: ‘You can’t have a quid pro quo with no quo’* Chaos erupts as Republicans barge into Trump impeachment inquiry hearingDonald Trump at the White House in Washington DC, on 21 October.Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesDonald Trump launched a relatively lackluster attack on Wednesday morning against the impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine and the devastating testimony on Cap
  
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