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• Magpies pick me up and sweep me away into family memories | Anna Sublet

  07-11-2019 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  I go searching for them in old picture books at op-shops, and in the children’s stories of my great-grandfather• Cast your vote in bird of the year 2019 hereThe magpies used to greet me as I arrived at the beach shack, and as we left they’d re-assert their place once more, striding back into the front garden. But they seem to have moved on down the road these days. In their place, we have the bullet-proof bodies of the currawongs, beady-eyed, tough-beaked, sleek-winged, with the
  
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• Bird of the year 2019: cassowary vote surges as willy wagtail's top 10 spot threatened – live

  07-11-2019 23:53 via theguardian.com
  
  The galah and the wedge-tailed eagle are locked in a battle for the final spot in the top 10. Which will go forward to the second round?Cast your vote for the Australian bird of the yearFull story podcast: what’s the big deal about bird of the year? 10.53pm GMT The eagle is 42 ahead of the galah – barely a change since 8am (AEDT). But the galah is now only 55 behind the wagtail. It was 102 behind at 8am. Could this be goodbye wagtail? 10.50pm GMT The latest: Last chance to get this r
  
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• Fox News Guest Lars Larson Breaks Network Rule Against Naming Alleged Whistleblower

  07-11-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Conservative radio host Lars Larson blurted out the name of the alleged whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment inquiry Thursday afternoon on Fox News, breaking the network’s recently implemented rule against doing so.Appearing on Outnumbered Overtime alongside liberal Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall, Larson ranted about the impeachment inquiry process and casually dropped the name of a person right-wing media has publicly alleged to be the whistleblower.Fox News anchor Harris F
  
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• Man serving life sentence says it ended once he died, was revived in medical emergency

  07-11-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Iowa man convicted of murder was rushed from prison to a hospital where his heart was restarted five times. He claims he should be freed.
  
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• Kamala Harris introduces bill to extend school day until 6 p.m. with after-school programs

  07-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Family Friendly Schools Act would alter the traditional school day to align with parents’ work hours through a pilot program in low-income schools.
  
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• The Latest: Pilot dies as plane crashes into California home

  07-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police say the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a Southern California home has died.Upland police Capt. Marcelo Blanco said Thursday that authorities believe the pilot was the only person aboard the single-engine Cirrus SR22.Blanco says authorities don't know what caused the plane to crash into the residence, igniting a fire.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren challenges Bill Gates on 'wealth tax'

  07-11-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren offered to meet Bill Gates after the Microsoft billionaire expressed skepticism about her proposal for a "wealth tax" affecting the richest Americans -- and assured him he would not have to pay $100 billion.Gates would pay $6.37 billion from a net worth of $107 billion, according to the calculator, slightly less than the $6.697 billion that would be owed by Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos.
  
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• Divers Salvage 100-Year-Old Liquor from WWI Shipwreck

  07-11-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  And it might still be drinkable.
  
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• Ukrainians Teased U.S. Officials About Trump’s Obsession With Biden

  07-11-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alex WongAs U.S. diplomats expressed concern to a top Ukrainian official that the country’s president was showing openness to investigating a former political rival, that official had a quick rejoinder at hand. The Trump administration, he explained, was doing the exact same thing. That exchange was revealed by George Kent, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, in his impeachment inquiry testimony. And it underscores the degree to which
  
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• Charges: Chinese surveillance goods illegally sold to US

  07-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised "a grave concern" over cyber security, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said.The equipment made in China and sold by Aventura "as purportedly U.S.
  
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• Woman claims she was 'slut-shamed' by airline

  07-11-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Australian woman said she was “publicly slut-shamed” by two Jetstar airline employees while trying to board a flight at Sydney Airport.
  
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• Child seats in Italy to be fitted with alarms after spate of deaths of children trapped in hot cars

  07-11-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Parents of babies and toddlers will be required to use special alarmed child seats under a new law in Italy, in response to a spate of children dying in cars from extreme heat. Parents who fail to buy the alarmed car seats, or buy alarm attachments, face fines of up to €326 and five points being docked from their driving licence. If, within two years, a parent is caught again without the special seat, their driving licence will be suspended for two weeks. The special car seats wor
  
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• Targeted gene modification in animal pathogenic chlamydia

  07-11-2019 22:06
  Researchers successfully performed targeted gene mutation in the zoonotic pathogen Chlamydia caviae.
  
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• Study finds sex bias in bird conservation plans

  07-11-2019 22:00
  After pairing up and raising chicks, males and females of some bird species spend their winter break apart. At the end of their journey to Central or South America, you might find mostly males in one habitat, and females in another. Yet conservation strategies have typically overlooked the habitats needed by females, putting already-declining species in even more peril.
  
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• Sounds of mosquito mating rituals could lead to quieter drones

  07-11-2019 22:00
  Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two other critical purposes: to generate sound and to point that buzz in the direction of a potential mate, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered. Their findings about the aerodynamics of mosquito wings could have implications for building quieter drones and for devising nontoxic methods to trap and exterminate the pests.
  
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• Dirty Indian Politics Have No Answer for the World’s Most Toxic Air

  07-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The politics of pollution in India’s capital New Delhi are as noxious as city’s air.While Delhi chokes, politicians squabble in an annual phenomenon that lasts for an intense few weeks at the start of winter, then dies down as pollution levels fall. What they haven’t done is come together to find sustainable solutions to one of the world’s worst air pollution problems that by the World Bank’s calculations costs the country as much as 8.5% of its GDP,
  
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• Dirty Indian Politics Has No Answer for the World’s Most Toxic Air

  07-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The politics of pollution in India’s capital New Delhi are as noxious as the city’s air.While Delhi chokes, politicians squabble in an annual phenomenon that lasts for an intense few weeks at the start of winter, then dies down as pollution levels fall. What they haven’t done is come together to find sustainable solutions to one of the world’s worst air pollution problems that by the World Bank’s calculations costs the country as much as 8.5% of its G
  
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• Harry Dunn's family claims Donald Trump was ready to write cheque during meeting over teenager's death

  07-11-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump tried to pay off Harry Dunn’s grieving parents when they visited the White House, the family spokesman has said. The President was “standing by, ready to write a cheque” during the meeting at which the teenager’s parents lobbied for his alleged killer to return to the UK to face justice. The 19-year-old died after his motorbike was hit by a car being driven on the wrong side of the road by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American intelligence agent who then cla
  
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• Looking for a hero: shirtless Chilean protester, police-hating dog rise to fame

  07-11-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A hooded, muscular man shielding himself with a traffic "Stop"sign during a clash with police amid protests in the Chilean capital has gone viral on social networks, with the man being lauded as a romantic hero of the struggle that has raged for the past three weeks.The image of "PareMan" or "Captain Pare," as he has become known - pare means stop in Spanish - was first captured on Oct. 30 by Reuters photographer Jorge Silva during protests on Santiago's central Alameda thoroughfare.The phrase #
  
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• Al-Baghdadi's wife revealed ISIS group secrets after capture

  07-11-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The wife of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed "a lot of information" about the jihadist group's "inner workings" after she was captured last year, a Turkish official said.
  
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• UPDATE 2-In Trump adviser trial, comedian contradicts Stone's account, regales jury with jokes

  07-11-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Comedian Randy Credico testified in the trial of President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone on Thursday where he told jokes, did a Bernie Sanders impression and said he never served as a backchannel between Stone and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.Credico is a key witness in the government's case against Stone, who is charged with obstructing justice, witness tampering and lying to the House of Representatives intelligence committee in its investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 e
  
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• Ohio police officer shot while executing search warrant has died, department said

  07-11-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Detective Jorge DelRio was carrying out a search warrant when he was shot. The injuries suffered were "tragically not survivable," police said.
  
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• Mexican killings spotlight Mormon history with polygamy

  07-11-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church's struggle to distance itself from plural marriage, which has a history in the faith but has long been denounced.The victims' connection to Mormonism featured prominently in headlines this week about the drug cartel attack on a caravan of American women and children living in Mexico, though there's no indication they were targeted for their religio
  
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• Mystery surrounds the last person missing from Camp Fire that left 85 dead in California

  07-11-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sara Martinez-Fabila is the last person still considered missing from the Camp Fire that killed 85 people and nearly destroyed a town in California.
  
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• Photos from space reveal what climate change looks like, from melting Arctic ice to rampant California fires

  07-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires are linked to climate change. Such phenomena can be seen from space.
  
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• Retired Detective Murdered His Wife to ‘Enjoy’ Retirement With New Lover: Prosecutors

  07-11-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  APU GOMES/GettyA retired Massachusetts detective fatally shot his wife—then staged her murder as a suicide—so he could be with another woman and keep his pension all for himself, prosecutors alleged in court Thursday. Brian Fanion, a 55-year-old former Westfield Police detective, pleaded not guilty in Hampden Superior Court Thursday morning to a first-degree murder charge in connection with the May 2018 death of his wife, Amy. Authorities at the time ruled the 51-year-old’
  
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• Hillary Clinton slams Sanders's and Warren's wealth-tax plans as 'incredibly disruptive' and 'unworkable'

  07-11-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton called the wealth taxes proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren "unworkable" and said they would be "incredibly disruptive" if enforced.
  
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• Indigenous Mexicans tortured in migrant crackdown win public apology

  07-11-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Quartet were accused of being undocumented Guatemalans* Immigration agents handed out beatings and electric shocksOn Thursday, Mexico’s current immigration (INM) chief admitted the four indigenous Mexicans were subjected to human rights violations as a result of racial profiling. Photograph: José Luis González/ReutersFour indigenous Mexicans who were illegally detained and abused by immigration agents during a US-backed crackdown have received a rare public apology by the M
  
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• Trump must pay $2 million for misusing namesake charity - NY judge

  07-11-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A New York state judge on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay $2 million for misusing his namesake charitable foundation, resulting in funds being used to advance his 2016 presidential campaign.Justice Saliann Scarpulla, of the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, directed the payment to eight non-profits, in connection with a lawsuit by the state's attorney general against the president and three of his adult children over the now-dissolved Donald J. Trump Foundation.A spokesman fo
  
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• Trump ally Lindsey Graham says Ukraine policy 'incoherent' and White House 'incapable' of putting quid pro quo together

  07-11-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lindsey Graham slammed the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump while claiming the White House policy towards Ukraine was so “incoherent” that the administration could not have formed a quid pro quo even if it tried.The South Carolina Republican described the impeachment as “sour grapes and politically driven” when speaking to reporters on Wednesday, calling the process “a sham” and the investigation “manufactured”.
  
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• One of the world's thickest mountain glaciers is melting because of global warming

  07-11-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For half a century, Taku had been the one known Alaskan glacier to withstand the effects of climate change – until now.
  
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• Johnson, Grassley ask State Department for Hunter Biden docs

  07-11-2019 20:05 via politico.com
  
  Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley are asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to release any State Department records related to Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.As President Donald Trump faces a House impeachment inquiry for pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, Republicans are focusing on Hunter Biden’s role on the board the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings while his father was vice president.
  
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• Democrat Sanders vows to halt immigration raids, deportations if elected president

  07-11-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders said on Thursday he would put a moratorium on deportations from the United States and end raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on his first day in office. Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a centerpiece of his presidency and accuses Democrats of supporting "open borders." ICE has stepped up its activities, arresting more than 2,300 people in the 2018 fiscal year, compared with just over 300 the year before.
  
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• In Trump adviser trial, comedian contradicts Stone's account, regales jury with jokes

  07-11-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Comedian Randy Credico testified in the trial of President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone on Thursday where he told jokes, did a Bernie Sanders impression and said he never served as a backchannel between Stone and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.Credico is a key witness in the government's case against Stone, who is charged with obstructing justice, witness tampering and lying to the House of Representatives intelligence committee in its investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 e
  
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• Bolivia: Protesters cut off mayor’s hair, cover her in red paint and drag her through the streets

  07-11-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anti-government protesters have reportedly attacked a mayor from a small Bolivian town, covering her in red paint and cutting her hair.Patricia Arce, a member of the ruling Mas party, was dragged barefoot through the streets by demonstrators before being taken away by the police.
  
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• Orangutan Sandra granted personhood settles into new Florida home

  07-11-2019 19:42 via theguardian.com
  Judge’s landmark 2015 ruling declared Sandra, who was born in Germany and spent 25 years in Argentina, is a non-human personA 33-year-old orangutan granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina is settling into new surroundings in central Florida. Related: Bones of ape living 12m years ago point to genesis of upright walkingContinue reading...
  
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• 'Prepare to die' Trump adviser Stone texted witness, trial jury hears

  07-11-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors on Thursday unveiled threatening text messages by U.S. President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone to radio host Randy Credico in which Stone urged Credico not to testify about their communications over Stone's efforts in 2016 to learn when WikiLeaks might release more damaging emails about Trump's rival Hillary Clinton."Prepare to die ..." Stone wrote in one profanity-laced text to Credico.In text messages, shown as exhibits during Stone's criminal trial in federal court in Washing
  
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• Former Trump adviser Bolton threatened to sue if subpoenaed to testify in impeachment probe: committee

  07-11-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, threatened to sue if congressional committees issued a subpoena to compel him to testify in their impeachment probe, a House of Representatives committee said on Thursday. Bolton had been asked to appear for testimony behind closed doors on Thursday, but failed to appear. "His counsel has informed us that unlike three other dedicated public servants who worked for him on the NSC (National Security Council) and have comp
  
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• Bolivian Mayor Has Hair Forcibly Cut by Masked Protesters as Post-Election Violence Continues

  07-11-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vinto Mayor Patricia Arce was covered in red paint and had her hair cut in violence after President Evo Morales's contested election.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Former Trump adviser Bolton threatened to sue if subpoenaed to testify in impeachment probe -committee

  07-11-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, threatened to sue if congressional committees issued a subpoena to compel him to testify in their impeachment probe, a House of Representatives committee said on Thursday.Bolton had been asked to appear for testimony behind closed doors on Thursday, but failed to appear."His counsel has informed us that unlike three other dedicated public servants who worked for him on the NSC (National Security Council) and have compli
  
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• NY Tech Firm Sold Chinese Equipment to U.S. Military after Falsely Claiming It was American-Made

  07-11-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Long Island tech firm sold Chinese equipment to the U.S. military while fraudulently claiming the products were American-made, according to New York's NBC 4.Federal agents arrested six current and former executives and employees of Aventura Technologies on Thursday morning, and subsequently raided the company's headquarters. Agents representing the FBI, Customs, the IRS and other agencies were seen carrying out the raid.The suspects are expected to appear in Brooklyn federal court."As alleged,
  
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• Iran alleges UN inspector tested positive for explosives

  07-11-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran alleged Thursday that the U.N. inspector it blocked from a nuclear site last week tested positive for suspected traces of explosive nitrates.The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, disputed Iran's claim.The allegation made by Iranian representative Kazem Gharib Abadi came as Iran injected uranium gas into centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear complex early Thursday, taking its most-significant step away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
  
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• A New Arab Spring Is Unfolding in Iraq and Lebanon. But Things Could Get Bloody If Iran Gets Its Way

  07-11-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Arab Spring is unfolding in Lebanon and Iraq as citizens lead protests. But Iran's involvement could be dangerous for protesters.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren willing to show Bill Gates how much she'd tax him: 'I promise it's not $100 billion'

  07-11-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates joked on Wednesday that "when you say I should pay $100 billion, OK, then I'm starting to do a little math about what I have left over."
  
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• If You Got a Strange Text Last Night, Here's Why

  07-11-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mystery of the 4 a.m. ghost text, solved.
  
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• Man linked to killings of New Hampshire couple at Texas beach captured in Mexico, extradited

  07-11-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Law enforcement caught Adam Williams in Mexico, according to a Mexican newspaper. He is accused of theft in connection to the Butlers deaths in Texas.
  
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• Chicago's top cop retiring after turbulent 3-plus years

  07-11-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced Thursday that he's retiring after more than three years as the city's top cop, a post he took over during one of the most violent chapters in the city's history and amid public outcry over the release of a video showing an officer shooting a black teen 16 times.Johnson made the announcement at a news conference a couple hours after department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed the speculation that the 59-year-old Johnson would be stepping
  
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• Brazil for first time votes against U.N. call for end to U.S. embargo on Cuba

  07-11-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil voted for the first time with the United States on Thursday against an annual United Nations resolution condemning and calling for an end to Washington's economic embargo on Communist-ruled Cuba, while Colombia and Ukraine abstained.The 193-member General Assembly still overwhelmingly adopted the resolution for the 28th year with 187 votes in favor.U.S. ally Israel also voted no and Moldova did not vote.
  
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• Trump: Joe and Hunter Biden ‘must testify’ in impeachment inquiry

  07-11-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In his latest pushback against the impeachment inquiry in the House, President Trump on Thursday said investigators should call former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter to testify in the probe.
  
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• Hillary Clinton slams Bernie Sanders' and Elizabeth Warren's wealth-tax plans as 'incredibly disruptive' and 'unworkable'

  07-11-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I don't see other examples anywhere else in the world where it has actually worked over a long period of time," Clinton said.
  
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