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• Pro-Touring 1965 Ford Mustang GT Up For Grabs

  25-10-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  There's just something extra special about the first-gen fastback Mustangs.We see so many six-figure restomods and pro-touring cars these days that they've almost lost the shock value. If you're yearning for a classic that has an old-school look and feel with a modernized ride and improved handling, then this 1965 Ford Mustang GT Fastback that will be going up for auction online through All Collector Cars Auctions starting this weekend is a great fit.From the outside, there's little to signify t
  
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• The Latest: 'Dangerous' tornado reported in Alabama

  25-10-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A tornado has been reported on the ground in southwestern Alabama.The National Weather Service on Friday afternoon issued a tornado warning for Mobile County.The National Weather Service in Mobile tweeted that a there was a large and dangerous" tornado on the ground near Semmes, Alabama and people should seek shelter immediately.
  
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• Woman arrested for murdering sister-in-law in 15-year-old Nash Co. cold case

  25-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Nash County made a break in a 15-year-old cold case on Thursday, finding the remains of a missing woman and charging a person of interest with her murder.
  
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• U.S. bars airline flights to all Cuban airports except Havana from December 10

  25-10-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/HAVANA (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Friday it would bar U.S. airlines from flying to all destinations in Cuba besides Havana starting on Dec. 10 as the Trump administration boosts pressure on the Cuban government.The move will bar U.S. air carrier flights to any of the nine international airports in Cuba other than Havana and impact about 8 flights a day.
  
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• Trump speaks at South Carolina HBCU at forum on criminal justice reform

  25-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump delivers remarks at a forum on criminal justice reform at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, S.C.
  
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• Georgia high court declines to hear appeal or halt execution

  25-10-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52 is scheduled for a lethal injection Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson.Cromartie maintains his innocence, and his lawyers asked the Georgia Supreme Court for permission to appeal a lower court's rejection of a request for DNA testing and a request for a new trial.Cromartie still has other requests for relief pending in the courts.
  
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• Schiff, Nadler Criticize Durham for Elevating Russiagate Probe to Criminal Investigation

  25-10-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Representatives Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) and Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) criticized the Justice Department late Thursday after the DOJ upgraded its inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe into a criminal investigation.The investigation, which is expected to delve into the origins of the counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, is led by U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham, and was opened by U.S. Attorney General William Barr."These reports, i
  
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• Reps. Schiff, Nadler criticize DOJ for elevating Russia probe to criminal investigation

  25-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., criticized the Justice Department late Thursday after the DOJ upgraded its inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway defends her comments in viral phone interview: 'Exactly none of it is anyone's business'

  25-10-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway stood by her statements during a phone conversation with a Washington Examiner reporter that went viral.
  
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• Pakistan confirms arrest of activist following US criticism

  25-10-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan on Friday confirmed it detained the father of a prominent activist who has fled the country, in an incident that's fueled fears of a clampdown on dissent and sparked condemnation from the United States."Prof. Mohammad Ismail has been detained by the law enforcement authorities in Peshawar in a case of cybercrime as per our laws," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on Twitter."Being a citizen of Pakistan, Prof. Ismail is entitled to due process and right of defence provided
  
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• Judge Orders Release of Redacted Info from Mueller Report

  25-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to release certain materials from the Mueller investigation that have until now been redacted.The ruling marked a major victory for Democrats pursuing an impeachment investigation of President Trump. The House Judiciary Committee had previously requested to see materials from grand-jury testimonies collected during the Mueller investigation into alleged collusion between Russian officials and the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.The Muelle
  
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• Beto O'Rourke 'open to the idea' of letting people use AR-15s, AK-47s at hunting clubs, gun ranges

  25-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke on Friday left the door open for allowing some people to keep assault-style weapons like AR-15s and AK-47s at gun ranges and hunting clubs.
  
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• Flynn’s Lawyer Claims FBI Tampered with Interview Notes, Demands Charges Be Dropped

  25-10-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Former national-security adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer claims in a new bombshell court filing that the FBI tampered with notes from his 2017 interview, during which Flynn pleaded guilty to lying.In a 37-page motion, attorney Sidney Powell called on the court to “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct” over allegations that FBI agents manipulated a form summarizing Flynn's statements to investigators.The interview dealt with Flynn's contacts with Rus
  
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• How Israel’s Justice System Dealt With Alleged Jewish Collaborators in Concentration Camps—And Why That Still Matters Today

  25-10-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Only in recent years has the Israel State Archives made the transcripts of some of these trials publicly available
  
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• Some Stories Never Die

  25-10-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  This is an excerpt from episode 172 of The Editors podcast.Rich: Without further ado, let’s get into the week’s news. Jim Geraghty, the news that dominated this week was the testimony from acting Ukrainian ambassador William Taylor behind closed doors, although we’ve seen his 15-page opening statement, which, if you’re into these sort of things, is gripping reading. Seems more detailed and credible than the opening statements of Kurt Volker and then Sondland, whose f
  
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• Amnesty leaders condemn US's Remain in Mexico policy as 'disgrace'

  25-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders from US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said immigration program manufactured a crisis at borderAsylum seekers play at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on 18 October.Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty ImagesAmnesty International leaders from around the world on Friday decried the US policy of sending asylum-seekers back to dangerous Mexican border towns to wait for their immigration cases as an “international disgrace” that must be end
  
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• The Problem with President Pence

  25-10-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican senators will soon be receiving an invitation to tear apart the GOP ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.It’s a trope of pro-impeachment commentary that it should be simple for Republican senators to swap out President Donald Trump, who puts them in awkward positions every day, for Vice President Mike Pence, an upstanding Reagan conservative who could start with a fresh slate in the runup to the 2020 election.The only flaw in this scenario is t
  
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• In a massive win for Democrats, a federal judge ordered the DOJ to turn over Mueller's grand-jury material to Congress

  25-10-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats have been duking it out with the Justice Department for months over obtaining a full, unredacted copy of Mueller's report.
  
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• Why the U.S. Has Nuclear Weapons in Turkey—And May Try to Put the Bombs Away

  25-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  By publicly confirming that the weapons were in Turkey, Trump has raised the political stakes should he try to remove them, and made it more difficult for the United States and Turkey to strike a quiet deal to that effect.
  
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• DOJ Defends Its Whistle-Blower Finding: Impeachment Update

  25-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Impeachment investigators won’t hear testimony Friday on President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine because the House is adjourned for Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings’s funeral.On Saturday, Philip Reeker, the acting assistant secretary of state of European and Eurasian affairs, is scheduled to appear.Here are the latest developments:DOJ Defends Its Whistle-Blower Stance (3:20 p.m.)The Justice Department defended its position Friday that a whi
  
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• The Latest: Trump offers condolences to Cummings' family

  25-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has offered his "warmest condolences" to the family of Rep. Elijah Cummings from afar as the Maryland congressman's funeral took place in Baltimore. Trump spoke from South Carolina, where he was addressing a forum on criminal justice reform. Trump recalled meeting with Cummings in the Oval Office about decreasing prescription drug prices and praised the congressman for his "very strong passion" on the issue.
  
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• Officials Called It a Heart Attack. Inmates Saw a Bloody Beating.

  25-10-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK -- After spending nearly a quarter-century behind bars, John McMillon was counting down to the day that he would be eligible to be released on parole."I'm going home," a fellow inmate recalled him saying.McMillon suffered from mental illness and had disciplinary problems over the years. He was punished for assaulting a guard and for fighting with another inmate, but had then vowed to stay out of trouble, and was looking forward to his parole board hearing.He never made it there.One day
  
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• China Wants To Control What The American People Think

  25-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Can they do that?
  
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• As impeachment gathers steam, Trump allies throw whatever they have at it

  25-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's defenders have attacked the process of the impeachment hearings as well as Trump's own temperament when arguing he should not be removed from office.
  
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• Walmart’s Early Black Friday Deals on Tech Have Begun

  25-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Save on electronics, home appliances, and more for the holidays.
  
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• Republicans enabled the impeachment process they're now criticizing

  25-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The biggest problem with Republican critiques of the impeachment inquiry is that Democrats in the House are following a playbook for investigations that was first written by Republicans in large part over the past several years.
  
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• Australian water rats cut cane toads open with 'surgical precision' to feast on their hearts

  25-10-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Scientists say native rodents in Western Australia have discovered how to kill and eat parts of the poisonous pestsAustralian water rats have learned how to kill cane toads, eat their hearts and carve out their organs with “surgical precision”.In only two years, highly intelligent native rakali in the Kimberly region of Western Australia discovered how to safely destroy the deadly toad – by removing its gallbladder and feasting on the heart. Related: Snorkelling grandmothers un
  
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• Discovery in monkeys could lead to treatment for blindness-causing syndrome

  25-10-2019 20:53
  A genetic mutation that leads to a rare, but devastating blindness-causing condition called Bardet-Biedl Syndrome has been discovered in monkeys for the first time. The finding offers a promising way to develop gene and cell therapies that could treat people with the condition, which leads to vision loss, kidney disfunction, extra fingers or toes, and other symptoms.
  
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• Nearly 50,000 ordered to evacuate Los Angeles-area homes as Tick Fire picks up speed, jumps freeway

  25-10-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 50,000 people near Los Angeles are evacuating due to the Tick Fire; meanwhile in northern California, the Kincade Fire has grown to 25 miles.
  
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• Trump: Probe of Russia probe will reveal 'really bad things'

  25-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigating the investigators, the Justice Department is now scrutinizing the government's Russia probe as a criminal matter, raising Democrats' concerns that President Donald Trump may be using federal muscle to go after his opponents.Trump declared anew on Friday that the now-concluded special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was a "hoax" designed to discredit his presidency.Word of the criminal investigation comes as Trump is facing the
  
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• Ex-SS guard on trial: I saw people led into gas chamber

  25-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp testified at his trial Friday that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door. Bruno Dey, a former SS private, went on trial Oct. 17 at the Hamburg state court. Asked Friday by the presiding judge what exactly he saw from his sentry's watchtower, Dey replied: "That people were led in, into the gas chamber, that the door was locked," news agency dpa reported
  
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• Ex-SS guard from Nazi camp on trial: I saw people led into gas chamber

  25-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp testified at his trial Friday in Germany that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door.
  
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• Hizbollah leader warns of civil war after days of Lebanon protests

  25-10-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Hizbollah on Friday warned Lebanon that nationwide protests calling for the overthrow of the government could lead to chaos and civil war.  Hassan Nasrallah praised protesters for achieving “unprecedented” economic reforms but also suggested foreign intervention had a role in the demonstrations.  Over a quarter of Lebanon’s population are reported to have taken to the streets in anti-corruption protests over the past week. Hizbollah supporters have in re
  
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• Pope asks forgiveness for theft of Amazon statues

  25-10-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis asked forgiveness Friday from Amazonian bishops and tribal leaders after thieves stole indigenous statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River in a bold show of conservative opposition to history's first Latin American pope.Francis insisted that the carved wooden statues of naked pregnant women were brought to the Vatican for display during his Amazon synod "without any intention of idolatry," undercutting conservative claims that they were symbols of paga
  
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• More arrests after 39 bodies discovered in truck; Vietnamese nationals may be among dead

  25-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Police made more arrests Friday in connection with the investigation into 39 bodies discovered in the back of a truck outside London.
  
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• Pope asks forgiveness for theft of controversial Amazon statues

  25-10-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis asked for forgiveness from Amazon bishops and others at a Church assembly on Friday after conservative Catholic militants stole statues they considered pagan idols from a church and dumped them in the Tiber river."First of all, this happened in Rome, so as bishop of the diocese, I ask forgiveness from the persons who were offended by this gesture," he said at the start of the last session of the three-week assembly, known as a synod.The synod is discussing the future of the Church i
  
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• Funeral set for girl abducted, killed in Alabama

  25-10-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A funeral service is set for this weekend for a 3-year-old Alabama girl who was abducted from a birthday party and asphyxiated, and officials said Friday they are establishing a permanent reward fund in her memory. The service for Kamille McKinney was scheduled for Sunday afternoon, with burial to follow at Elmwood Cemetery. The funeral is planned for New Beginning Christian Ministry, where pastor Sylvester Wilson said the church has a 700-seat sanctuary and can use its fellowship hall as an ove
  
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• Pope apologises after Amazon statues thrown in river

  25-10-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Friday apologised for the theft of indigenous Amazonian statues from a Rome church, saying they had been found after thieves dumped them in the Tiber River.Anonymous individuals filmed themselves taking the five statues of a naked, pregnant woman from a church near the Vatican and throwing them from a bridge.The vandalism came during a meeting of bishops at the Vatican focused on the Amazon region, during which some ultra-conservatives criticised the display of what they call "pa
  
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• After woman set ablaze at Taco Bell in Florida, police investigate string of other fires

  25-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Tallahassee police responded to the Taco Bell Wednesday after a suspect allegedly doused the woman in gasoline and lit her on fire.
  
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• Bernie Sanders releases marijuana legalization plan that includes billions in federal grants

  25-10-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The plan includes billions in grants for areas disproportionately affected by the war on drugs and outlines a path to expunge some criminal records.
  
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• LA police almost let Charles Manson get away with multiple murders. Here's how.

  25-10-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The gristly Manson Murder spree marked the end of a carefree era. Los Angeles law enforcement nearly bungled up the whole case.
  
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• Brian May: Queen won't play Glastonbury without badger cull apology

  25-10-2019 19:45 via theguardian.com
  Guitarist rules out 50th anniversary headline slot because of rift with festival founderBrian May has said Queen will not play Glastonbury next year after clashing with the festival’s founder over the controversial badger cull.The 72-year-old guitarist and animal rights campaigner rubbished claims that his band had been booked to headline Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary event next year. Related: Badger cull in England extended to ‘unimaginable scale’Continue reading...
  
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• Trump Asks Top Court to Toss California Immigrant Sanctuary Law

  25-10-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that restricts local police from helping federal authorities round up and deport people who are in the country illegally.In an appeal filed this week, the administration said the 2017 measure undermines federal immigration enforcement efforts.The law “makes it more difficult for federal officers to identify, apprehend, detain, and remove aliens under t
  
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• 'He led from his soul': Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton remember Elijah Cummings in Baltimore

  25-10-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Former presidents and world leaders delivered powerful eulogies at the funeral for Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who died on Oct. 17 at age 68.
  
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• Giuliani associate will have tough time keeping documents from prosecutors: experts

  25-10-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, Lev Parnas pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to using a shell company to donate money to a pro-Trump election committee and illegally raising money for a former congressman as part of an effort to have the president remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, has said Parnas and his co-defendant Igor Fruman helped Giuliani's push to investigate the president's Democratic political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and Biden's son'
  
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• Impeachment investigators issue subpoenas to 3 top Trump officials

  25-10-2019 19:18 via politico.com
  House impeachment investigators issued a subpoena to President Donald Trump’s acting budget director Russ Vought, part of a round of subpoenas sent by the House Intelligence Committee.Also subpoenaed were Michael Duffey, a senior official in the Office of Management and Budget, and T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, counsel at the State Department.All three men declined recent requests by investigators to testify voluntarily.
  
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• Presidential hopeful Klobuchar wants community college to be free but not four-year college

  25-10-2019 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar wants to make community college and programs designed to teach technical trades free, but stopped short of joining fellow Democratic hopefuls in backing proposals that would make a four-year college degree free.Klobuchar, who has tried to embrace a moderate lane in the crowded Democratic presidential primary, has criticized some of her opponents, including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, for pledging to make four-year college degrees free and erasing student debt.
  
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• Hezbollah Followers Fill Streets to Oppose Protest Demands

  25-10-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Followers of Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah took to the streets Friday, waving the armed movement’s yellow flags and defending its leader against criticism after nine days of nationwide protests demanding the ouster of the political elite.In a televised speech, Hassan Nasrallah said the revolt was being exploited by political parties and unspecified foreign embassies and agencies, and could drag the country into chaos and civil war.“Today the situation in Leb
  
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• Russia says it sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria

  25-10-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia has sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria to help patrol the country's Turkey-Syria border after a deal between Moscow and Ankara, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.The ministry said about 300 military police have arrived in Syria to patrol the northeastern areas along the border with Turkey and oversee the pullout of Syrian Kurdish fighters from there.After Turkey invaded northeastern Syria this month, an offensive enabled by President Donald Trump's abrupt pullout of U.S. t
  
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• Vanna White's 'Wheel of Fortune' fans and family helped her through miscarriage, fiance's death

  25-10-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Vanna White shared that she was able to find solace from "Wheel of Fortune" fans following the loss of her fiance and a miscarriage.
  
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