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• Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse

  29-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017.Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement.Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are di
  
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• Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict

  29-10-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates.The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination.The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Antho
  
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• Trump impeachment: Democrats respond to Republican attacks by unveiling new procedures for inquiry

  29-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats unveiled new procedures for the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump Tuesday, responding to Republican demands for due process by setting out rules for future public hearings delving into whether Trump should be removed from office.The resolution backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hands the lead role to the House Intelligence Committee and its chairman, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who would have broad latitude to organize extended questioning of potential pu
  
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• Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings

  29-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic "soviet
  
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• Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines environmental award

  29-10-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday refused to accept an environmental award, saying the climate movement needed people in power to start to "listen" to "science" and not awards.The young climate activist, who has rallied millions to her "Fridays for Future" movement, was honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation.Thunberg had been nominated for her efforts by both Sweden and Norway and won the organisation's an
  
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• Democrats release impeachment resolution that calls for open hearings

  29-10-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats have released a resolution that calls for “open and investigative proceedings” in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump for his alleged political interference in foreign aid to Ukraine.
  
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• The 1 Way Iran Could Start a War with America

  29-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Impeding global shipping.
  
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• Trump mimics Dayton shooting during first visit to Chicago as president: 'Boom boom boom'

  29-10-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Monday mimicked officers killing a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio, who murdered nine people with a semiautomatic rifle in August. "Boom, boom, boom," the president said. "They were out there. Perfect. There was no fear. There was no anything. They reacted."
  
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• Top Border Patrol Official Warns Border Situation Could Return to ‘Crisis Level’

  29-10-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior Border Patrol official is warning that the immigration situation at the southern border could return to "crisis level" if courts block Trump administration policies intended to deter heavy flows of migrants attempting to enter the country illegally.“We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,” said Brian Hastings, the Border Patrol's chief of law enforcement operations. “It is kind of a new norm. We’re at ris
  
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• Hyundai's Hydrogen Semi-Truck Concept Will Take on Tesla

  29-10-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Hyundai HDC-6 Neptune concept should also be a solid contender in the green semi-truck wars.
  
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• Millions of people are more vulnerable to rising seas than previously thought

  29-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Worldwide, some 300 million people live where climate-triggered flooding will occur by mid-century, a new study suggests.
  
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• Eric Swalwell and Mark Meadows reportedly got into a shouting match during the Vindman hearing

  29-10-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Things reportedly got heated between House Democrats and Republicans during Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's impeachment testimony Tuesday, CNN reports.Considering the consequences of the hearing (Vindman, the National Security Council's top expert on Ukraine, testified about his concerns regarding the Trump administration's interactions with Kyiv), it's not a shocker that the atmosphere in the closed-door hearing was tense, but the lawmakers reportedly took things to another level with a "shou
  
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• House Democrats took an important step in the impeachment inquiry, throwing a wrench into the GOP's biggest defense

  29-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The new rules laid out by House Democrats significantly undercut many of the Republican criticisms of how the impeachment inquiry has been conducted.
  
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• $16.8M in campaign funds have gone to Trump businesses, records reveal

  29-10-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Not only have the U.S. and foreign governments spent money at properties owned by Donald Trump, but the president’s own political campaign and affiliated political committees have also spent about $16.8 million at his businesses since he launched his 2016 bid for the presidency, according to an analysis of federal election spending records.
  
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• Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records

  29-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.
  
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• Frustration mounts as California is hit with more blackouts

  29-10-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California as the state's biggest utility began another round of fire-prevention blackouts Tuesday that could leave millions of people without electricity, some for five days or longer. The shut-offs, aimed at keeping windblown electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, came as fire crews raced to contain two major blazes in Northern and Southern California before the winds picked up dangerously again. The fires have destroyed dozens of homes in S
  
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• British shark bite victims recovering after Australia attack

  29-10-2019 20:32
  Alistair Raddon had foot amputated while Danny Maggs suffered lacerations to his legA British tourist whose leg was bitten by a shark while snorkelling in Australia has been pictured smiling while being loaded into a rescue helicopter.Danny Maggs, 22, from Plymouth, and Alistair Raddon, 28, were attacked by a shark while swimming at a popular snorkelling spot in the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, during a day trip on a tourist boat. Continue reading...
  
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• Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower

  29-10-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Congressional Democrats are struggling to protect the identity of the U.S. government official who filed a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. And those efforts have fueled friction behind closed doors. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) ruled in a closed-door deposition Tuesday morning that any questions that might lead to the revelation of the whistleblower’s identity were out of order, according to two sources familiar
  
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• The Far Right Lost Power in Italy Two Months Ago. So Why Are Migrant Rescue Boats Still Being Refused Entry?

  29-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Two months after anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was ousted, migrant rescue boats like the Ocean Viking are still stuck at sea
  
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• Senators grill Boeing CEO over plane involved in 2 crashes

  29-10-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg faced withering questions from senators Tuesday about two crashes of 737 Max jets and whether the company concealed information about a critical flight system."We have made mistakes, and we got some things wrong," Muilenburg conceded.Some members of the Senate Commerce Committee cut Muilenburg off when they believed he was failing to answer their questions about a key flight-control system implicated in both crashes.
  
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• China Is Finishing Its First Large Helicopter Assault Ship

  29-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  What will that mean for America?
  
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• AP Explains: What's next after Lebanon PM resigns

  29-10-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday meets a key demand of Lebanon's anti-government protesters but will also plunge the country into even greater uncertainty, with no clear path to resolving its growing economic and political crisis.The political settlement that ended Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war distributes power and top offices among the country's Shiites, Sunnis and Christians.The Western-backed Hariri had served in a national unity government dominated by rival factions
  
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• The Obama Foundation Has Just Unveiled a New Set of Renderings of the Presidential Center

  29-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Tod Williams and Billie Tsien respond to previous criticism of the project with their latest designs
  
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• Catholic priest says he denied Joe Biden Holy Communion at Mass in South Carolina because of abortion views

  29-10-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching." Rev. Robert Morey said in a statement.
  
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• Trump news – live: Key impeachment witness gives 'extremely disturbing' testimony about Ukraine call

  29-10-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the US National Security Council, is testifying to the House impeachment inquiry over concerns he raised about Donald Trump’s 25 July phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky and the administration’s bid to pressure the country into investigating the son of domestic political rival Joe Biden.The president has meanwhile taken to Twitter to join right-wing media pundits in questioning the patriotism and political loyalties of the decorated Iraq Wa
  
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• Rep. Devin Nunes: Reporters asking me questions about Ukraine scandal are 'assassins'

  29-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Devin Nunes on Monday announced he is now refusing to answer journalists’ questions about President Trump’s Ukraine scandal, labeling reporters who ask him about the story “assassins.”
  
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• Why Are There So Many Fires In California?

  29-10-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A perfect storm of conditions have created an environment ripe for fire.
  
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• London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial

  29-10-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said.Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said.A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of o
  
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• Poll: Who's sticking with President Trump, through trouble and tweets? His seemingly unshakable base.

  29-10-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Even as support for impeachment grows, President Trump is backed by unshakable supporters who deny he has done anything wrong. Here is who they are.
  
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• Mexico ex-governor's wife detained in London

  29-10-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife of jailed former Veracruz state Gov. Javier Duarte has been detained in London, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.A Mexican official who was not authorized to speak about the case said that Karime Macias was detained Tuesday.Macias had been with him at the time.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Iraq's Sadr calls on rival to join him in ousting PM

  29-10-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Populist Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has invited his biggest political rival to work with him on ousting the country's prime minister as thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets for a fifth day.In a statement on Tuesday Sadr, who leads parliament's largest bloc, asked Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the second-largest, to help him introduce a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi."To answer brother Abdul Mahdi, I thought asking you to call an early electio
  
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• Global leaders, tycoons flock to Saudi 'Davos in desert'

  29-10-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia drew top finance moguls and political leaders to its Davos-style investment summit Tuesday, in stark contrast to last year when outrage over critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder sparked a mass boycott.Organisers say 300 speakers from over 30 countries, including American officials and heads of global banks and sovereign wealth funds, were attending the three-day Future Investment Initiative (FII), nicknamed "Davos in the desert".A strong turnout at the event, aimed at projecting the insu
  
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• In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun

  29-10-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria.AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province.IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.
  
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• Warren Knocks New York Dems’ Attempt to Edge Out Third Parties, Saying it Will ‘Benefit Republicans’

  29-10-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) on Tuesday slammed a proposal reportedly being pushed by the chairman of the New York State Democratic Party that would place more hurdles in front of third parties seeking to appear on the ballot, calling the plan “deeply undemocratic.”The proposal, which targets the New York Working Families Party, would dramatically hike the voter threshold for third parties to appear on the gubernatorial ballot from 50,000 votes to 250,000 votes, alleviating t
  
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• Daylight saving time is ending this weekend. These states want to make DST permanent

  29-10-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Adjust your clocks back one hour Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. — lest you wake up an hour early to everything in the days ahead. But some states might change that.
  
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• Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there

  29-10-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.
  
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• Israel not responsible for Palestinian suffering: Kushner

  29-10-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel is not responsible for all Palestinian hardships, US presidential advisor Jared Kushner said on Tuesday, as the Palestinian Authority faces a crippling financial crisis."Israel is not the cause of all the suffering of the Palestinian people," Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, told the Future Investment Initiative conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
  
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• What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters

  29-10-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of globa
  
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• This timeline shows exactly what happened on board the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max that crashed in less than 13 minutes, killing 189 people

  29-10-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Documents released by Indonesia in late October have given a definitive picture of what happened on board the plane as it entered its fatal descent.
  
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• Border arrests hit 11-year high, U.S. seeks to expedite deportations

  29-10-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Immigration arrests at the U.S. border with Mexico soared 88 percent in fiscal 2019 in what U.S. officials on Tuesday labeled a crisis while unveiling their latest measure to combat the trend: expediting the deportation of asylum seekers.Nearly half all those detained in September were children or families, many of them led by human-trafficking cartels, said Robert Perez, deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan said the average 1,400 people appre
  
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• Backlash after Mexican taco truck serves lunch to ICE Workers.

  29-10-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  It seemed like a standard request for the Lloyd taco truck, a local favorite in Buffalo, N.Y. Last week, a building on the outskirts of the city asked the truck to park outside around midday so its employees could have Mexican food for lunch. But the building in Batavia, N.Y., was a federal detention center run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the hungry workers were mostly ICE employees.
  
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• Correction: Puerto Rico-Cruise Ship Death story

  29-10-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story Oct. 28 about (topic), The Associated Press reported erroneously that a child who died in a cruise ship incident was 2 and the man's niece.SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A man who police say dropped his young granddaughter from the 11th floor of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico in July has been accused of negligent homicide.
  
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• Do you know an owl from an albatross? Test your bird knowledge in this quiz

  29-10-2019 18:00
  What Australian bird has a sharp, five-inch toe that is capable of disembowelling you? Take this quiz to find out if you’re a fully fledged bird nerd or someone who needs to look up in the trees a bit more oftenVote here in the Guardian/Birdlife Australia 2019 bird of the year pollWhich of the following is not a real Australian bird?Howard’s duckLatham’s snipeBourke’s parrotAbbott’s boobyWhat Australian bird has a sharp, five-inch toe that is capable of disembowelli
  
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• Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears

  29-10-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.
  
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• Teen's family says he complained of bullying before death

  29-10-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a 13-year-old says he complained to an administrator that he was being bullied at his Southern California middle school days before the assault that killed him. Juana and Felipe Salcedo, the aunt and uncle of Diego Stolz who raised the boy since his parents died, filed a legal claim against the Moreno Valley Unified School District, the Los Angeles Times reports Tuesday. The claim, which lists damages of $100 million, said Stolz and an adult cousin met with a Landmark Middle School
  
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• PHOTOS: Saving endangered mountain gorillas in Rwanda

  29-10-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Instead of decreasing, the number of mountain gorillas — a subspecies of eastern gorillas — has risen from 680 a decade ago to just over 1,000 today. The population is split between two regions, including mist-covered defunct volcanoes within Congo, Uganda and Rwanda — one of Africa's smallest and most densely populated countries.
  
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• Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported

  29-10-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.
  
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• The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has forced nearly 200,000 people to flee their homes. Here are the latest updates.

  29-10-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 75,415 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.
  
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• Russia's Risky Game Plan for Syria

  29-10-2019 17:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Moscow had hoped to be rewarded with the opportunity to base additional military equipment inside Syria in exchange for standing by Bashar al-Assad.
  
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• Hyundai's Hydrogen Semi-Truck Concept Is Built to Take on Tesla

  29-10-2019 17:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Hyundai HDC-6 Neptune concept is beautiful and should also be a solid contender in the green semi-truck wars.
  
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