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• U.S. military envisions broad defense of Syrian oilfields

  28-10-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will repel any attempt to take Syria's oil fields away from U.S.-backed Syrian militia with "overwhelming force," whether the opponent is Islamic State or even forces backed by Russia or Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.The U.S. military announced last week it was reinforcing its position in Syria with additional assets, including mechanized forces, to prevent oilfields from being taken over by remnants of the Islamic State militant group or others.U.S. Defense Secretary Mark
  
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• Best Sam's Club Black Friday Deals on TVs and Computers

  28-10-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  We've already reported on early Black Friday deals from BJ's, which have now started. But you'll have to wait until Saturday, Nov. 9, if you're a Sam's Club member—or intend to become one. That's...
  
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• Feds: Brothers with alleged Hezbollah ties are 'dangerous'

  28-10-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors say two brothers charged with conspiring to export drone parts and technology from the U.S. to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon are "dangerous" and should remain in custody while they await trial, according to a court document filed Monday.Usama and Issam Hamade are charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws.Usama Hamade is also charged with smuggling.
  
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• Popeyes' Ultra-Popular Chicken Sandwich Is Coming Back to the Menu

  28-10-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Its popularity will likely be the stuff of 2019 legend
  
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• Near Record-Breaking Venomous Snake Found in West Tennessee

  28-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A near record-breaking copperhead snake was found in Hardeman County. The venomous snake measured 49.5 inches long, just about three inches shy of the world record. Unfortunately for the snake, it's life came to an untimely end.
  
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• Schiff to handle impeachment witness testimony in break from precedent

  28-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Under past precedent in 1974 and 1998 — the last two times the House conducted an impeachment inquiry — the House Judiciary Committee was the hub for investigations, hearings, and a committee vote on articles of impeachment.
  
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• Here's What California's Kincade Wildfire Looks Like From Space

  28-10-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The Bay-area's Kincade wildfire has grown so large that a satellite can record the plumes from 23,000 miles away in space.
  
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• South Dakota asks court to let execution proceed

  28-10-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of South Dakota asked a judge Monday to reject an inmate's objection to the lethal drug scheduled for use in his execution.Charles Russell Rhines is scheduled to die next week for the 1992 fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old doughnut shop worker during a robbery.Rhines moved last week to block the execution by arguing that pentobarbital, commonly used to euthanize animals, doesn't act quickly enough.
  
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• Congresswoman's exit prompts question of equity amid scandal

  28-10-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The resignation of a female Democratic congresswoman over a consensual, sexual relationship with a campaign aide has sparked questions about whether women are held to higher standards in public life.At the center of the controversy is Katie Hill, a first-term lawmaker from California and a rising Democratic Party star.In a video released Monday, Hill said she was stepping down because she was "fearful of what might come next" following the online publication of explicit pictures that outed her r
  
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• U.S. Spies Say Turkish-Backed Militias Are Killing Civilians As They Clear Kurdish Areas in Syria

  28-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials fears the groups could be using American-made weapons to conduct potential war crimes
  
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• The World’s Largest Treehouse Burned to the Ground in Less Than 15 Minutes

  28-10-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators are still unsure what sparked the fire in Crossville, Tennessee
  
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• Bernie Sanders won key endorsements from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib by defending them when few others would

  28-10-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The key endorsements were motivated by personal loyalty and a mutually beneficial political relationship between the lawmakers.
  
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• Baby Shortage Prompts China’s Unwed Mothers to Fight for Change

  28-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.For generations, a Chinese woman who gave birth out of wedlock was shunned by society and discriminated against by authorities. Now, as the Communist Party seeks to boost a slowing birthrate, that is starting to change.Yue Li, based in the southern port city of Guangzhou, thought she would face a range of obstacles in getting her son legal documents after she gave birth last year follow
  
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• Pelosi Says House to Vote This Week on Impeachment Inquiry

  28-10-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The House of Representatives is set to take its first vote to support the ongoing impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump, a move that aims to nullify Republicans’ main complaint that the process is illegitimate.“We are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the Trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas, or continue obstructing the House of Representatives,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in
  
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• Chicks born with ability to distinguish and avoid different dangers

  28-10-2019 21:43
  Chicks are born with the knowledge to flee from predators rather than learning it from experience, according to a new study.
  
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• Judge to allow portion of Nick Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post to continue

  28-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge is allowing a portion of Covington Catholic student Nathan Sandmann's lawsuit against the Washington Post to continue.
  
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• Bannon to escalate Trump impeachment defense with his own political operation

  28-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is launching an increasingly aggressive defense of President Trump, promising to soon open a staffed “war room” that will forcefully counteract the fast-moving Democratic impeachment effort.
  
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• Pelosi announces full House vote on impeachment inquiry

  28-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought Monday to deprive President Trump of a legal and political argument against the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, announcing she would hold a vote in the full House this Thursday that “affirms the ongoing, existing investigation.”
  
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• Impeachment: DOJ appeals order to release secret evidence gathered by Robert Mueller in Russia investigation

  28-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice says it shouldn't turn evidence over to a House committee contemplating Trump's impeachment because it wouldn't be kept confidential.
  
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• Former Boston College student charged in suicide death of boyfriend, echoing Michelle Carter case

  28-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Boston College student was charged in connection with the suicide death of her boyfriend, drawing comparisons to the Michelle Carter case.
  
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• Meet the LRASM: The U.S. Navy's Powerful New Missile

  28-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a killer.
  
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• Democrats just dropped a big hint that they have everything they need to impeach Trump

  28-10-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats said they wouldn't pursue court cases after a former top national-security official refused to testify.
  
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• US deploying more troops around Syria oil fields after killing of Isis leader

  28-10-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has said he hopes to secure a US share of Syrian oil revenues, which is potentially a war crimeA convoy of US military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives along a road in the countryside of Syria’s north-eastern city of Qamishli on 26 October 2019. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US military has started reinforcing its positions around oil fields in eastern Syria, saying the new deployments are part of its continuing counter-terrorist mission after the k
  
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• Woman in 'total control' of boyfriend charged in his suicide

  28-10-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Inyoung You, 21, was "physically, verbally and psychologically abusive" to fellow Boston College student Alexander Urtula during an 18-month relationship
  
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• Over 40 skulls found in den of Mexico cartel suspects

  28-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Police found more than 40 skulls, dozens of bones and a fetus in a glass jar next to an altar in the den of suspected drug traffickers in Mexico City during a raid this week, authorities said on Sunday.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty in deaths of 4 sleeping on NYC streets

  28-10-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A homeless man charged in the beating deaths of four men as they slept on the New York City streets may pursue a mental health-related defense, his lawyer told a judge Monday at his arraignment.Randy Santos, 24, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges during a brief excursion to court from the psychiatric ward, where he has been held since shortly after his arrest in the Oct. 5 killings in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood.Santos appeared in an orange jail suit and gray undershirt with h
  
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• Venezuela Defaults on Its Last Bond, Setting Up Legal Showdown

  28-10-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The team advising Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaido skipped a payment Monday on the nation’s only bonds not in default, setting up a legal showdown with creditors.Rather than pay the $913 million due on Petroleos de Venezuela’s 2020 notes, Guaido’s advisers say they will take legal action against investors to fight any efforts to seize the collateral on the bonds -- 50.1% of Citgo Holding Inc.’s shares. Their argument is that the debt is il
  
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• Trump says al-Baghdadi died 'screaming and crying.' U.S. officials aren't sure how he knows that.

  28-10-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Gen. Mark A. Milley, who watched the raid with Trump in the Situation Room, told reporters at the Pentagon that he doesn't know "what the source of that was."
  
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• Russian Defense Ministry: Trump’s al-Baghdadi victory lap is nothing but ‘propaganda’

  28-10-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  At the White House Sunday morning, President Trump profusely thanked Russia for its alleged involvement in the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but Russia has disputed his claims.
  
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• New tricks: dogs catch flying discs – in pictures

  28-10-2019 19:40 via theguardian.com
  Claudio Piccoli, an Italian photographer, takes action shots of canines in midairContinue reading...
  
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• Read Cyntoia Brown-Long's note to her 16-year-old self facing life in prison

  28-10-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  On CBS This Morning, Cyntoia Brown-Long read a note to her 16-year-old self when she was convicted for the Nashville death of Johnny Allen.
  
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• Chair of Joint Chiefs doesn’t know source of Trump’s ‘whimpering and crying’ remark about al-Baghdadi

  28-10-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  At a Pentagon briefing, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said two men were captured and are in U.S. custody after the raid on a compound where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding and died. Gen. Milley also said he didn’t know where the president received the information stating that al-Baghdadi was “whimpering and crying,” as Trump described on Sunday, when faced by U.S. troops.
  
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• NRA leadership thought its own TV channel was airing 'distasteful and racist' content

  28-10-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  "One particularly damaging segment featured children's cartoon characters adorned in Ku Klux Klan hoods," the court filing stated.
  
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• Woman killed in gender reveal explosion was 45 feet away from device, died instantly

  28-10-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Family members were looking for ways to make a fun announcement of a child's gender, but inadvertently created a pipe bomb.
  
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• Why Aren’t Women’s Groups Talking About Katie Hill’s Resignation?

  28-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/GettyThe resignation of Rep. Katie Hill was the talk of Capitol Hill this weekend, but you wouldn’t know it from the glaring lack of public statements by women’s rights groups or Hill’s fellow Democrats. Even two years after the explosion of the MeToo movement, Hill’s unique case proved too complicated for many anti-harassment advocates to address.Hill—one of a record number of women elected to Congress in 2018, and the first openly bis
  
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• Donations to NRA PAC Surge after Dems Contemplate Gun Confiscation

  28-10-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The NRA's political action committee had an explosive month of fundraising in September after Democratic 2020 presidential candidates openly backed confiscating legally-owned firearms, according to Federal Election Commission documents.The PAC raised $1.3 million in September, a $400,000 increase over previous month's fundraising total. Donations of under $200 accounted for $981,277 of the total, the Washington Free Beacon noted.Candidate Beto O'Rourke set off a firestorm in September after vowi
  
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• Joe Biden is more disliked than Bernie Sanders: Polling

  28-10-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is more unsatisfactory for Democratic primary voters than fellow 2020 candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, according to recent polling from Insider.
  
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• Senior House Republican Walden will not seek re-election

  28-10-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Representative Greg Walden, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said on Monday he will not seek re-election in November 2020, the latest Republican to announce his retirement.Walden, 62, who previously chaired the committee and oversaw many legislative efforts, said in a statement released by his office that he believes he would have been re-elected if he had run.Walden, who is from Oregon, has been in Congress since 1999 and is deputy chairman of the National Rep
  
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• Trump: 'Afghanistan is a safe place by comparison' to Chicago

  28-10-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump used his first trip to Chicago as president to disparage the city and its police chief, who had boycotted his appearance.
  
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• Why I'm voting No 1 galah in the bird of the year poll | Tracy Sorenson

  28-10-2019 18:00 via theguardian.com
  My riotous childhood confidante has, in adulthood, become my talisman. All I have to do is follow the pink and grey trail
  Vote here in the Guardian/BirdLife Australia 2019 bird of the year pollOne night I had a strange dream. I dreamed the pet pink and grey galah of my childhood gently lifted the little gate on her cage with her beak, and hopped out on to the ground. Her clipped wing forgotten or perhaps no longer relevant, she soared straight up into the subtropical sky over Carnarvon, the tiny
  
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• Why I'm voting No 1 galah in the bird of the year poll | Tracy Sorensen

  28-10-2019 18:00 via theguardian.com
  My riotous childhood confidante has, in adulthood, become my talisman. All I have to do is follow the pink and grey trail• Vote here in the Guardian/BirdLife Australia 2019 bird of the year pollOne night I had a strange dream. I dreamed the pet pink and grey galah of my childhood gently lifted the little gate on her cage with her beak, and hopped out on to the ground. Her clipped wing forgotten or perhaps no longer relevant, she soared straight up into the subtropical sky over Carnarvon, th
  
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• Greg Walden to retire in latest sign of GOP doubts about retaking House

  28-10-2019 17:59 via politico.com
  Rep. Greg Walden, the top Republican on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, will retire at the end of this Congress — the latest sign that Republicans see a struggle to retake the House in 2020.The 62-year-old Walden, who was first elected in 1998, said he was confident he'd win reelection but decided instead to end his congressional career in Jan. 2021.
  
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• The Latest: Tougher checks for ports of Zeebrugge, Purfleet

  28-10-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain's home secretary says enforcement efforts will be stepped up in two ports used by traffickers responsible for the deaths of 39 people found in a refrigerated truck container last week.Priti Patel told Parliament Monday that UK border officials will increase operations in Purfleet, the English port where the container arrived.Britain's prime minister has signed a condolence book honoring the 39 people who died in a refrigerated truck container in southeastern England last week.
  
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• Kamala Harris Argues Racism, Sexism Jeopardize Her Electability

  28-10-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris described electability as the “elephant in the room” of her campaign and pondered whether America is ready for a woman of color to be commander in chief."Essentially, is America ready for a woman and a woman of color to be president of the United States?" Harris said in an interview with Axios on HBO. "There is a lack of ability or a difficulty in imagining that someone whom we have never seen can do a job that has been done 45 tim
  
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• NJ Transit’s Angry Riders Prompt Crew Training to Stem Assaults

  28-10-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A soaring number of physical assaults on New Jersey Transit employees have led the agency to step up anti-violence training as bus and train riders vent about crowding and cancellations.Twenty-seven personnel have reported assaults either on board trains or on NJ Transit rail property from January through July, according to Federal Railroad Administration data. That’s four more than for calendar years 2016-2018 combined. Assault data for bus workers weren’t immediately
  
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• Netanyahu says Iran seeking means to attack Israel from Yemen

  28-10-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Monday of seeking the means to launch precision-guided missiles at Israel from Yemen, a signal that the war-torn Gulf Arab country could come under pre-emptive Israeli attack.Netanyahu made his allegations, which were short on details, as he hosted a senior U.S. delegation and following days of unusually voluble warnings in Israel that war could break out with Iran or its allies on more than one front.Neither Iran nor the Yemeni Houthi fi
  
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• Every person alive today descended from a woman who lived in modern-day Botswana about 200,000 years ago, a new study finds

  28-10-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Modern humans emerged in Africa around 200,000 years ago. Now, a research team has figured out where on the continent our ancestors originated.
  
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• Nearly 200,000 people have fled their homes in California's Sonoma County as the Kincade Fire continues to grow

  28-10-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 66,200 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.
  
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• An 11-year-old girl in Zimbabwe jumped on top of a crocodile and gouged its eyes out when it attacked her 9-year-old friend

  28-10-2019 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Rebecca Munkombwe jumped on top of the croc and gouged its eyes out, which caused it to lose its grip on Latoya, who escaped with just minor injuries.
  
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• US police sergeant told to 'tone down the gayness' wins $20m in damages

  28-10-2019 17:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Keith Wildhaber, who was allegedly passed over for promotion 23 times, wins discrimination lawsuit against St Louis county policeSergeant Keith Wildhaber. Jurors in St Louis county court also heard that a police captain had called Wildhaber ‘fruity’. Photograph: Cristina M Fletes/APA gay Missouri police sergeant has been awarded nearly $20m in damages after he was told if he wanted to be promoted he should “tone down the gayness”.Keith Wildhaber, a sergeant with St Louis
  
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