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• New Jersey man who purposely faked slip and fall at workplace sentenced

  06-11-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of faking a slip and fall at a New Jersey business in January was sentenced Monday to probation, community service and ordered to pay restitution.
  
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• The Latest: Bevin: Recanvass of votes to ensure 'integrity'

  06-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The election results currently show the Republican incumbent trailing Democratic challenger Andy Beshear by a little more than 5,000 votes.At an afternoon news conference, Bevin said his campaign is also in the process of getting affidavits about things that happened or didn't happen during the election.
  
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• Texas cop who shot woman was critiqued for 'tunnel vision'

  06-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Aaron Dean's supervisor commended him in his most recent evaluation, in April 2019, for working at the level of more experienced officers, exhorting him to "keep up the good work," according to records obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram .The records offer new insight into the 35-year-old who is facing a murder charge for shooting 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson through her back window after responding to a call about an open front door.During his 2017 police department job interview, Dean s
  
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• Iraq protesters storm Baghdad bridge, medic killed

  06-11-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Anti-government protesters in Iraq stormed a bridge Wednesday in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens.A medic was killed while aiding demonstrators.The military called on the protesters to stop blocking roads and ports, saying they had cost Iraq $6 billion, and it vowed to arrest those responsible.
  
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• After Democratic legislative gains, Virginia governor vows new gun-control push

  06-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  "They want us to finally pass commonsense gun safety legislation, so no one has to fear being hurt or killed while at school, at work, or at their place of worship," Northam said hours after the election results.The United States has seen a steady stream of mass shootings in recent years, including the massacre of 58 people at a Las Vegas country music concert in 2017, and a pair of back-to-back shootings this past summer in Texas and Ohio that left 22 dead.
  
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• 'I'd wiped out half a family': F-16 pilot grapples with guilt after a bungled bombing mission in Iraq killed at least 4 civilians

  06-11-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Doing nothing is even worse," the F-16 fighter pilot said. "War is a game that we play because all else has failed."
  
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• Bill Gates addressed his multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein: 'I made a mistake in judgment'

  06-11-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates addressed his ties to Jeffrey Epstein Wednesday, saying that he "made a mistake in judgement" by associating with the convicted sex offender.
  
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• A suspect was arrested in the murder of 9 American Mormons in Mexico, and police think it might be a case of mistaken identity

  06-11-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities announced Wednesday that it had detained an individual who was holding two hostages in Agua Prieta, a town in the Mexican state of Sonora.
  
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• Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape

  06-11-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An international team of researchers says the fossilized partial skeleton of a male ape that lived almost 12 million years ago in the humid forests of what is now southern Germany bears a striking resemblance to modern human bones.The findings "raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans," said Madelaine Boehme of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, who led the research.Boehme, along with researchers from Bulgaria, Germany, Canada
  
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• Russia may have taken Israel's most advanced missile from Syria — and could figure out how to defeat it

  06-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts worry that the Russian military could learn how to defeat the missile system or refine its air defense systems.
  
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• GOP files complaint against possible McConnell challenger

  06-11-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Republican Party of Kentucky has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against a radio host who is considering a run to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.The complaint, filed Tuesday, seeks an investigation of Matt Jones, who has announced an exploratory committee to run as a Democrat in next year's Senate race.The complaint alleges Jones is already a candidate and is using his statewide sports radio show to promote himself.
  
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• Rapamycin prevents age-related brain vascular deterioration in rats

  06-11-2019 22:25
  A newly released study found that rats of advanced age, treated with the drug rapamycin, maintained superior blood flow to the brain compared to younger, untreated rats. The treated rats also exhibited improved memory.
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey captured slain IS leader al-Baghdadi's wife

  06-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.Erdogan made the announcement while delivering a speech in the capital of Ankara but gave no other details.A senior Turkish official, however, said the woman was among a group of 11 Islamic State suspects detained in a police operation in Turkey's Hatay province, near the border with Syria, on June 2, 2018.
  
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• Taylor: Giuliani’s Dealings with Ukraine Focused on Biden ‘Irrespective’ of Broader Corruption Concerns

  06-11-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  William Taylor, the former top American diplomat in Ukraine, testified last month to Congress that the "informal" channel of communication between U.S. officials regarding Ukraine policy focused heavily on investigating Joe Biden "irrespective" of whether prioritizing that would contribute to solving Ukraine's corruption problem."The irregular channel seemed to focus on specific issues, specific cases, rather than the regular channel's focus on institution building," Taylor said during a closed-
  
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• Macron warns of 'profound shift' in Iran deal as new report finds Tehran is dominant power in Middle East

  06-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s breach of the 2015 nuclear agreement by enriching uranium at an underground facility “marks a profound shift” which could signal the ultimate collapse of the deal, Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.  The French president, who has worked vigorously to save the nuclear deal since Donald Trump withdrew the US last year, said he was deeply alarmed Iran’s decision to resume enrichment at Fordow, a nuclear facility carved into a mountain. “I think that for t
  
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• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard clashes with 'View' co-host

  06-11-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, a 2020 candidate who as of now is still running as a Democrat, returned to "The View" for the third time on Wednesday morning and immediately confronted co-host Joy Behar for accusing her of “being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or a useful idiot, ... which basically means that I am naive or lack intelligence.”
  
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• New poll qualifies Tulsi Gabbard for November debate and locks Amy Klobuchar in for December

  06-11-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A new Quinnipiac University poll out of Iowa on Wednesday surveying likely Democratic caucusgoers brought good tidings for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)The survey cemented Gabbard, who received 3 percent of the vote, as the 10th presidential candidate to qualify for the November Democratic primary debate. Meanwhile, Klobuchar, who had already clinched the November event, secured 5 percent in the survey, becoming the sixth to make the December debate stage. She jo
  
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• Warning signs for Donald Trump as suburban voters abandon Republicans in statewide elections

  06-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been handed a warning ahead of his 2020 re-election bid after a string of statewide elections suggested Republican voters in the suburbs are abandoning the party.  In Kentucky, a state Mr Trump won by almost 30 percentage points in the 2016 election, the Democratic candidate for governor appeared to have won a narrow victory over the Republican incumbent. In Virginia, the Democrats flipped a string of Republican seats and now control the state legislature and the governorsh
  
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• Prosecutors charge man with hate crime in acid attack

  06-11-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A 61-year-old white Milwaukee man accused of throwing acid on a Hispanic man's face will be charged with a hate crime, increasing the possible sentence he may receive if convicted, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Prosecutors filed one charge against Clifton Blackwell — first-degree reckless injury — but added the sentencing enhancers of hate crime and use of a dangerous weapon. The victim, Mahud Villalaz, 42, said his attacker approached him near a restaurant Friday night and confro
  
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• AP Explains: Kentucky race for governor too close to call

  06-11-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the tally of votes in Kentucky's race for governor drew to a close late Tuesday night, Democrat Andy Beshear held a lead of a few thousand votes over Republican incumbent Matthew Bevin out of more than 1.4 million votes counted.Beshear's lead of a little over 5,000 votes is less than 0.4 percentage points.There is no mandatory recount law in Kentucky.
  
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• Sen. Tom Cotton says the only answer to heavily armed Mexican cartels is more bullets and bigger bullets

  06-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  If the Mexican government can't protect U.S. citizens in Mexico, the U.S. may have to take matters into our own hands, says Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  
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• Donald Trump's White House plans to add two staff members to fight impeachment

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Ex-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and ex-Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh are expected to work on "proactive impeachment messaging."
  
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• Iranians plead guilty after arrest for spying on dissidents

  06-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men arrested last year for spying on Iranian dissidents in the United States have pleaded guilty to charges in a Washington court, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.Iranian-US dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian resident of California, tried to penetrate the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group of Iranian dissidents in exile, in New York and Washington from 2017-2018, according to the department.Doostdar traveled to the United States form Iran on thr
  
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• Germany's Kramp-Karrenbauer wants Merkel to stay until 2021

  06-11-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  There is no reason for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to leave office before her planned departure in 2021, her protegee and would-be successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said as they both face criticism from fellow Christian Democrats.Party veteran Friedrich Merz ripped into Merkel after the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) slumped in a state vote last month.Merz, an erstwhile Merkel rival, narrowly lost to Kramp-Karrenbauer in a contest for the CDU leadership last December, when Merkel steppe
  
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• Canadian man who lost eye after police beating says he had 'no chance to fight back'

  06-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Dafonte Miller speaks publicly for first time about 2016 incident in which two white men allegedly assaulted himDespite being off-duty at the time, Michael Theriault told three friends he was a police officer, and said he could ask them whatever he wanted. Photograph: Chris Helgren/ReutersA Canadian man who was beaten so badly by an off-duty police officer and his brother that he lost his eye, said he had “no chance to fight back” in the violent encounter that left him fearful he wou
  
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• Liver-chip identifies drug toxicities in human, rat, and dog models

  06-11-2019 20:48
  Liver toxicity is a big problem in the drug, food, and consumer products industries, especially because results in animal models fail to predict how chemicals will affect humans. A new Liver-Chip successfully predicts how different drugs impact rat, dog, and human models, and could help get the most effective drugs to patients faster.
  
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• Bill Taylor testimony transcript released in impeachment inquiry

  06-11-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Wednesday released a transcript of their closed-door interview with the top former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor.
  
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• Why offshoots of the Mormon church fled to Mexico

  06-11-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A deadly ambush in Mexico highlights the long history of fundamentalist members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country.
  
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• Pilot accidentally hits hostage alarm, causing lockdown at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport

  06-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A pilot accidentally triggered a hijacking/hostage taking alarm in a plane's cockpit, causing a major security lockdown on Wednesday at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, one of Europe's busiest."In a plane (set to fly) from Amsterdam to Madrid tonight an alarm was accidentally activated which set off safety protocols at the airport," Spanish-owned Air Europa said.
  
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• Graham now says Trump's Ukraine policy was too 'incoherent' for quid pro quo

  06-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after saying he wouldn’t bother to read the testimony, Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he did read it, and his conclusion is that the Trump administration’s Ukraine policy was too "incoherent" for it to have orchestrated the quid pro quo at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
  
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• The Latest: 2 escaped inmates arrested at US-Mexico border

  06-11-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  An official says two murder suspects who escaped a California jail were captured Wednesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents as they tried to enter the United States from Mexico.Monterey County Sheriff's Office Capt. John Thornburg says authorities received a tip that 20-year-old Jonathan Salazar and 21-year-old Santos Fonseca had been spotted in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, and had alerted federal officials.Thornburg says the two are in the custody of Monterey County of
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Thinks Voters Are Stupid

  06-11-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bad news is, Elizabeth Warren has some barmy ideas about raising your taxes. The good news is, she’s a proven coward. She says she likes to “nerd out” on the policy details. Okay, let’s do that.Warren estimates that her health-care scheme would cost about $2 trillion — every year, forever. As often is the case when we are talking about the federal budget, the numbers sound incomprehensible to many people: millions, billions, trillions, squidillions, whatever. To
  
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• DOJ Admits in Michael Flynn Case That FBI ‘Mistakenly Identified’ Peter Strzok Notes

  06-11-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The attorneys prosecuting former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were forced to admit in a Tuesday letter to Flynn’s legal defense that the notes which formed the official document describing Flynn’s January 2017 interview were not written by agent Peter Strzok, as they've maintained throughout the case.“We were informed that the notes we had identified as Peter Strzok’s, were actually the other agent’s notes (see Surreply, Exhibit 1), and what w
  
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• The Reason Russia Wants Its Own Scary “Spookovik” Gunship

  06-11-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Could it be as spooky as America's AC-130?
  
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• Manchin, Tester Vow They’ll Never Nuke the Legislative Filibuster

  06-11-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  If Democrats take control of the White House and the Senate in 2021, repealing the Senate’s legislative filibuster would be necessary for Democrats to enact a host of their legislative priorities. Several Democratic presidential candidates, including Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have called on the Senate to scrap the 60-vote rule for that very reason. But a crucial bloc of Senate Democrats is speaking up and promising they will never vote to repeal the Senate’s legislative fil
  
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• Teacher suspended for 'segregating students based on religion and mocking them for their beliefs'

  06-11-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A teacher in North Carolina has been suspended for allegedly segregating her students based upon their religious beliefs, as well as their views on gay marriage and abortion.According to local media reports, Julia Lopp, a Spanish language teacher at South Johnston High School, first divvied up the students based on their religion. Then, she asked them about abortion. Finally, she asked them for their views on LGBT rights, according to the Johnston County Report.
  
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• Polish citizens to travel visa-free to US from next week

  06-11-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Polish citizens will be able to travel to the U.S. without a visa from next week, officials said.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that including Poland — a "trusted partner" — in the Visa Waiver Program was testament to the two countries' "special relationship" and close cooperation on security issues.Poland becomes the 39th nation to be covered by the program.
  
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• Israel approves controversial Jerusalem cable car

  06-11-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel’s government has approved a controversial Jerusalem cable car that will ferry thousands of passengers an hour over Palestinian homes in the east of the city to within a few hundred yards of the Western Wall. The plan, which was given the green light this week, imagines a cable car beginning in west Jerusalem and swooping over a valley towards the Old City, where it will deposit visitors at the 16th-century Dung Gate.  The cars will carry up to 3,000 people an hour and Israel&rs
  
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• Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walking

  06-11-2019 19:38 via theguardian.com
  Bavarian fossils of likely common ancestor of humans and apes ‘put back start of bipedalism by millions of years’The distinctive human habit of walking upright may have evolved millions of years earlier than thought, according to researchers who uncovered the remains of an ancient ape in southern Germany.Excavations from the Hammerschmiede clay pit in Bavaria turned up fossilised bones belonging to a previously unknown baboon-sized ape that lived nearly 12m years ago, long before hum
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard Clashes With Joy Behar: Are You Calling Me ‘Stupid’?

  06-11-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  When Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was on The View earlier this year, Meghan McCain called her an “Assad apologist” who is “spouting propaganda from Syria.” After Hillary Clinton insinuated that the Russians were “grooming” Gabbard to run on a third-party ticket, Joy Behar called her a “useful idiot.” The 2020 candidate, who as of now is still running as a Democrat, returned to The View for the third time on Wednesday morning and immediately confr
  
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• Family tells how 13-year-old boy hid siblings in Mexico massacre

  06-11-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  After watching gunmen shoot dead his mother and two brothers, 13-year-old Devin Langford hid six surviving siblings in nearby bushes and walked for miles in a rugged expanse of northern Mexico to get help.The harrowing account was given by members of three Mexican-American Mormon families that suffered a brutal attack by suspected drug cartel hitmen on Monday which claimed the lives of three women and six children and sparked outrage and condemnation in the United States.The families, members of
  
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• ABC News Refuses to Give on-Air Coverage to Anchors’ Allegation that Execs Killed Epstein Reporting

  06-11-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC News will not further investigate one of their anchors' claims that company executives killed her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and will not comment on the situation on-air.ABC News told journalist Yashar Ali that they would not provide further commentary or reporting on the situation on Wednesday. The refusal to engage further comes just one day after the network denied all allegations of wrongdoing in a statement issued in response to the release of a leaked video showing anchor Amy Robach
  
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• Blade of glory: The mystery around a late president's sword

  06-11-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio sheriff wearing white gloves displayed a sword wielded in the American Revolution and by a future U.S. president in the War of 1812, and pledged Wednesday an exhaustive investigation to determine whether it's the one that disappeared from Cincinnati four decades ago.It's believed the sword Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil held up was carried in battle by President William Henry Harrison and before him, Continental Army Col. John Cleves Symmes, Harrison's future father-in-law.Police in Co
  
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• Consulting Firm Hired by Burisma Leveraged Biden’s Name to Secure Meeting with State Dept.

  06-11-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A consulting firm representing Burisma Holdings used the Biden name to leverage a meeting between the gas company and State Department officials, according to documents released this week.The firm, Washington-based Blue Star Strategies, mentioned the name of Hunter Biden, who then sat on Burisma's board, in a request for the Ukrainian natural gas company executives to meet with State Department officials, according to internal State Department email exchanges obtained by journalist John Solomon
  
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• Horses blink less, twitch eyelids more when stressed

  06-11-2019 19:03
  A horse will blink less and twitch its eyelids more when it's under mild stress, the research team found -- a new finding that could offer handlers a simple, easy-to-spot sign their animal is becoming agitated.
  
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• Tesla Cybertruck Will Be Unveiled on November 21

  06-11-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Elon Musk tweeted that the highly anticipated Tesla pickup will be revealed in Los Angeles.
  
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• Yoga teacher barred from using church hall as practice not 'compatible' with Christianity

  06-11-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A yoga teacher has been barred from using a church hall for her classes after a clergyman claimed the practice was not "compatible" with Christianity.  Atsuko Kato, 54, has run sessions at a range of venues for 25 years, building up a client base across Devon. But when she looked for new venues to host classes in Barnstaple she was rejected from hiring a church hall in the village of Pilton due to religious reasons.  Reverend Nigel Dilkes said St Mary's Church could not accommodat
  
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• Lebanon's Hariri meets Bassil, all ideas on table -source close to Hariri

  06-11-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister last week, had a positive meeting with leading politician Gebran Bassil on Wednesday and all ideas were discussed for getting the country out of economic crisis, a source close to Hariri said.Hariri's resignation was prompted by an unprecedented wave of protests against the ruling elite that has swept Lebanon since Oct. 17, tipping it into political turmoil at a time of acute economic crisis.Bassil, a son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, w
  
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• New findings on gut microbiome's interactions with GI diseases

  06-11-2019 18:41
  A study offers new insight on how the gut bacteria of dogs interact with a healthy vs. unhealthy GI tract, which could contribute to the development of new therapies for GI diseases in both dogs and humans.
  
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• ICE Rounds Up Illegal Alien Opioid Dealers In Four-Day Massachusetts Sting Operation

  06-11-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have concluded a four-day operation in Massachusetts which resulted in the arrest of 19 illegal immigrants previously convicted or charged with criminal offenses.Several of the illegal immigrants had been released by local law enforcement agencies without notifying immigration authorities, according to ICE."This operation clearly shows that ICE’s enforcement efforts continue to target criminal aliens with serious drug offenses who clearly r
  
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