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• MUGSHOTS: 12 alleged gang members arrested in Brooklyn turf war

  08-06-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Twelve alleged gang members are under arrest in what authorities call a Brooklyn turf war that left seven people injured in 10 separate shootings.
  
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• Prosecutor urges Venezuelans to reject constitution rewrite

  08-06-2017 23:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Venezuela's chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz says she has asked the country's supreme court to annul the government's effort to rewrite the constitution.
  
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• Merkel in Argentina talks Trump, trade and climate change

  08-06-2017 23:49 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel was discussing trade and climate change on Thursday during a visit to Argentina.
  
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• Chief prosecutor urges Venezuelans to reject Maduro's constitution rewrite

  08-06-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Maduro ordered the national electoral council to convene the assembly, stating it was his constitutional right, a position the opposition rejects.Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has called the country’s people to reject President Nicolás Maduro’s push to rewrite the nation’s constitution and urged the supreme court to annul the process immediately, further deepening her divide with the government.
  
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• The Latest: Remains of WWII vet returned to Georgia

  08-06-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the return of a WWII veteran's remains to Georgia 73 years after he went missing (all times local):
  
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• Exploring Hong Kong's greenest island

  08-06-2017 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  Crossing a road on Hong Kong's Lantau Island can sometimes be a challenge -- but not because of the traffic.
  
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• Picture Shows Dad Moments Before He Died Trying to Save Son From Drowning: 'He's a Hero'

  08-06-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Malik Williams can be seen sitting on a green bucket as he fishes in the Mississippi River, his little boy to his left looking at the camera.
  
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• Merkel in Argentina hopes for S. America trade deal

  08-06-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Germany and Argentina voiced hopes Thursday for a free trade agreement between the European Union and South America as German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Buenos Aires.In talks with Argentine President Mauricio Macri, Merkel discussed bilateral commerce and efforts to strike a deal with the Mercosur grouping of South American countries.
  
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• The Latest: Witness returns to site of London Bridge attack

  08-06-2017 22:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Latest on the attacks in the London Bridge area that killed eight people (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Britain's counter-terror chiefs are launching a major drive to train festival workers in the wake of three deadly attacks in the country.
  
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• House Republicans working on key bill struggle to escape Comey's shadow

  08-06-2017 22:42 via yahoo.com
  
  On Thursday, House Republicans passed the Financial Choice Act, but the attention of the political world was focused on the testimony of James Comey.
  
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• Cyprus president: US vice president offers peace talks help

  08-06-2017 22:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Cyprus' president says U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has offered his personal help in ongoing talks to reunify the ethnically divided island.
  
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• Scottish Episcopal Church to allow same-sex weddings

  08-06-2017 22:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Scottish Episcopal Church has voted to allow its clerics to marry same-sex couples, the first Anglican branch in Britain to permit gay weddings in church.
  
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• James Comey punched back hard – and put Trump's truthfulness centre stage

  08-06-2017 22:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Before Comey spoke, it seemed likely that firing the FBI director was one of Trump’s poorer decisions. By the time the hearing was over, that was beyond doubt• Read the full report on Comey’s testimony on Trump, Flynn and RussiaThe line started forming outside Room 216 of the Senate’s Hart Building just after 4am and kept growing. By nine o’clock, it stretched out 50 yards along a long corridor. The crowd was made up mostly of young congressional interns, given leave
  
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• Australian dog gets new job after failing police pup training

  08-06-2017 22:26 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An Australian dog that was training to be a police dog and now is the Vice-Regal Dog of Queensland, Australia.
  
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• China just built the world's biggest floating solar project

  08-06-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  China has installed a massive field of solar panels on a particularly poignant site: a lake formed by the collapse of abandoned coal mines. The world's largest floating solar project can produce enough power to light up a nearby city in China's eastern Anhui province. The local government wants to expand the initiative to more than a dozen sites, which together would generate the same amount of electricity as a full-size nuclear reactor, theNew York Times reported this week. SEE ALSO: Prince's s
  
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• Teen Allegedly Goaded Into Suicide by Girlfriend Took 20 Minutes to Die: Medical Examiner

  08-06-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  It was implied that Michelle Carter would have had plenty of time to call police as her boyfriend Conrad Roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
  
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• The Latest: Egypt seeks UN probe of alleged Qatar ransom

  08-06-2017 22:12 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The latest on the Gulf crisis after Saudi Arabia and other nations cut ties to Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism (all times local): 6:30 a.m.
  
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• 'Gays For Trump' Banned From Pride Parade

  08-06-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The organization reserves the right to refuse applications from groups that “do not reflect the mission, vision and values of our organization."
  
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• Judge asked to shield well-known immigrant from deportation

  08-06-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge in Georgia is considering whether to temporarily restore protection from deportation to a Mexican woman who became a well-known figure in the illegal immigration debate as a college student seven years ago.
  
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• 5 Scientologists detained in St. Petersburg

  08-06-2017 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A court in Russia's second-largest city has ordered the spiritual leader of the city's branch of the Church of Scientology held in detention for two months.
  
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• Whoa: Apple made a computer you can actually upgrade

  08-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple unveiled new iMacs and MacBooks during its annual WWDC keynote, which are faster than ever. If you’re looking for a new macOS machine, now’s the time to buy one — even the dying MacBook Air got a boost. But, it turns out, Apple did not share all the details about its machines during the keynote, leaving a major surprise out of it announcements. The 21.5-inch iMac (Retina 4K 2017) can be upgraded. Not only can you bump up memory yourself, but you can also replace the CPU.T
  
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• iOS 11: Best 5 Features For The Upcoming Apple Update

  08-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple introduced iOS 11 at WWDC this week. Here are the features we're most excited about.
  
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• Pro-Syria regime drone shot down after it fires on coalition

  08-06-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  A US warplane shot down a pro-regime drone in Syria on Thursday after it fired at coalition forces, officials said, marking a new escalation of tensions in the war-torn country's south.No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred near the coalition's At-Tanaf garrison close to the Jordanian border, spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told Pentagon reporters.Coalition forces use the area -- just northeast of the Jordanian border -- as a training and staging area for attacks against the Islamic State
  
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• Dramatic footage released showing deadly London attacks

  08-06-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Dramatic video footage released Thursday captures the moment when armed police swooped into a busy market area near London Bridge on Saturday night and shot dead three attackers who had just left a trail of bloodshed, killing eight people and wounding scores.
  
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• 'Manspreading' is now a no-no in Madrid

  08-06-2017 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  Along with signs for 'no smoking' or 'no littering,' commuters in Madrid will soon see a new unfamiliar one: No manspreading.
  
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• Winners and Losers from Comey's testimony

  08-06-2017 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  In the highest profile Congressional testimony in decades, fired FBI Director James Comey spent nearly three hours detailing his interactions with Donald Trump -- a forced and awkward relationship defined, according to Comey, by a series of lies told about him by Trump.
  
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• S. Korea leader warns North after latest missile launch

  08-06-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea's latest launches of several suspected anti-ship missiles were short-range and landed well short of past efforts, but they still served as a defiant message for its enemies that Pyongyang will continue to pursue a weapons program that has rattled its neighbors and Washington.
  
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• Qatar won't back down in face of pressure: minister

  08-06-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Far from backing down in the face of unprecedented pressure from Gulf rivals, Qatar's foreign minister said Thursday that no other country could determine its policies.In an interview with AFP, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani described as an attempt at "collective punishment" a decision by Saudi Arabia and its allies to cut ties with Qatar over alleged financing of extremist groups.Qatar would not yield to it, he said.
  
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• McCain explains confusing Comey questions: ‘Maybe going forward I shouldn’t stay up late’

  08-06-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Too much Diamondbacks? Sen. John Mcain, acknowledged that his questioning of former FBI Director James Comey “went over people’s heads” as the Arizona lawmaker stayed up too late.
  
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• Boy slowly healing after Utah shooting killed mom, brother

  08-06-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  SANDY, Utah (AP) — A Utah shooting that killed a mother and son and critically injured the boy's brother marks the latest blow for a mourning family that's watching a son who survived a brain aneurysm last year again fighting for his life, a family spokesman said Thursday.
  
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• READ: What Trump's lawyer said

  08-06-2017 21:17 via cnn.com
  
  I am Marc Kasowitz, Predisent Trump's personal lawyer.
  
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• Up to 1 in 20 babies born to mothers with Zika have birth defects, report says

  08-06-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  The Zika virus is still spreading locally in some areas, including Puerto Rico.As many as one in 20 babies born to mothers infected by Zika have birth defects, a new report from by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.The risk jumped to nearly one in 13 when mothers were found to have Zika in the first trimester, the CDC stated.
  
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• A Relieved Wall Street Touches Record High After Comey Testimony

  08-06-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  The Dow tickled all-time highs as the former FBI chief wrapped up his testimony.
  
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• The Guardian view on James Comey: grace under pressure | Editorial

  08-06-2017 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  The devastating testimony of the former FBI director exposes the threats to American democracyPresident Donald Trump’s dealings with James Comey, the former director of the FBI, make a story which demands the talents of one of the great American crime novelists. It would open with a scene beyond most fiction writers’ imagination: a conversation between the director of the FBI and the director of national intelligence as to which of them would have to break to the president-elect the
  
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• US shoots down pro-Assad drone that opened fire on coalition forces

  08-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters unload boxes of ammunition supplied by the US-led coalition.The United States has shot down a pro-Syrian government drone that opened fire on US-led coalition forces in Syria, a military spokesman said, in a major escalation of tensions between Washington and troops supporting Damascus.No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred near the coalition’s At-Tanaf garrison, coalition spokesman Colonel Ryan Dillon told Pentagon reporters.
  
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• McCain didn't make much sense while questioning Comey during testimony

  08-06-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Sen. John McCain confused many while questioning former FBI Director James Comey during his testimony. At one point, McCain even referred to Comey as "President Comey."
  
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• Southwest Airlines is offering one-way flights for as low as $49 today

  08-06-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Let's not beat around the bush here: it's been one heck of a week. Between Apple's WWDC announcements, the continued rumor flood of future OnePlus and Samsung devices, and the little matter of the former FBI director testifying in front of Congress regarding potential wrongdoing by the President of the United States, you might just want to kind of get away. Southwest Airlines is offering a deal that will help you do just that, and for a ridiculously low price of just $49.Southwest's current prom
  
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• Ex-convict arrested in death of 12-year-old Florida girl

  08-06-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — An ex-convict from Alabama was arrested early Thursday on charges of kidnapping, killing and disposing of the body of a 12-year-old Florida girl.
  
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• Comey hoped leak would lead to special counsel on Russia

  08-06-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  Former FBI director James Comey testified Thursday that he orchestrated the leak of his accounts of conversations with President Donald Trump because he thought it might lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor to lead the Russia investigation.
  
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• Polling station pooches

  08-06-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  It’s polling time in the United Kingdom and so is the trend #DogsAtPollingStations craze rightly back. Brits can’t stop tweeting about their adorable puppies waiting for them while they go to vote inside the polling stations. And unlike previous years it is not just dogs who are getting all the attention but horses, cats and rats too. And the cute beings unitedly are making election day look cuter like never before. (Reuters)
  
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• Iranian-Backed Militias Employ Drone Against U.S. Forces in Syria

  08-06-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  
  American troops are engaging in a widening war with Iranian proxies in Syria.
  
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• Verizon finalizes Yahoo acquisition, instantly starts laying people off

  08-06-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  In a vote today, Yahoo's stockholders formally approved the sale of sad former internet company Yahoo to telecoms giant Verizon. The sale values Yahoo at about $4.5 billion, a price that was reduced by hundreds of millions in February, after details of a major Yahoo security breach leaked.
  As the vote took place today, details also leaked out about staff reductions that Verizon is imposing on its new acquisition. Around 2,100 positions are reportedly being cut across Yahoo and AOL, the current V
  
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• Trump Lawyer Botches Comey Memo Timeline

  08-06-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Michael Schmidt, New York Times reporter whose work was central to today's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump's lawyer got the Comey memo timeline wrong in his accusation against the New York Times.
  
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• US says drone fired on US-backed forces near Syrian camp

  08-06-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A drone that U.S. officials say was likely connected to Iranian-supported Hezbollah militias fired on U.S.-backed troops Thursday near a military camp in southern Syria where the U.S.-led coalition is training Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group.
  
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• 33 Russian Mobsters Trafficked 10K Pounds Of Chocolate

  08-06-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Two of the defendants were overheard discussing a 10,000-pound shipment of stolen chocolate on a court-ordered wiretap in March, according to the indictment.
  
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• Boy, 2, Accidentally Shoots and Kills 7-Year-Old Cousin: Cops

  08-06-2017 20:05 via yahoo.com
  
  The little boy was found holding a pistol, cops say.
  
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• Earn minimum wage in the US? You can afford to live in exactly 12 counties

  08-06-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A person working a full-time minimum-wage job will find it virtually impossible to rent an affordable home anywhere in the US, according to a study that sheds new light the country’s housing crisis.The report reveals that there is not a single county or metropolitan area in which a minimum-wage worker can afford a modest two-bedroom home, which the federal government defines as paying less than 30% of a household’s income for rent and utilities.This applies even in places that have r
  
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• White House: Just a ‘regular Thursday’ despite Comey firestorm

  08-06-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Though fired FBI Director James Comey sparked national headlines with Senate testimony, Sarah Huckabee Sanders described the day as a "regular Thursday."
  
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• The Latest: White House has no plan to curb Russia sanctions

  08-06-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
  
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• What on Earth Was John McCain Asking James Comey?

  08-06-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The lawmaker, a special invitee to the intel panel hearing, seemed to confuse Russia’s campaign meddling with Clinton’s email inquiry.
  
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