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• Woman Says United Airlines Employee Kicked Her In The Head

  15-06-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  
  He allegedly didn't want her to miss her flight.
  
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• WATCH: Students use kites to help teacher propose

  15-06-2017 23:54
  
  Keegan Shorey's students spelled out his marriage proposal to Alexandra Maroney on top of their kites.
  
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• Russia tries to shed hooligan image for Confederations Cup

  15-06-2017 23:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Football fever rises in Russia ahead of the curtain-raiser tournament for 2018's World Cup.
  
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• EU jihadist arrests rise for third year - Europol

  15-06-2017 23:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Europol says arrests for Islamist terrorism has risen, although the number of attacks has fallen.
  
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• Most Americans Think Trump's Tweets Are Hurting His Cause

  15-06-2017 23:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Most Americans believe President Donald Trump is hurting his cause by tweeting, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.
  
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• Zimbabwe's breakdance king who uses a wheelchair

  15-06-2017 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When Zimbabwean Blessing Fire was born, he was told by doctors he would never be able to walk like a "normal child", but no-one said anything about breakdancing.
  
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• May orders inquiry into London tower fire

  15-06-2017 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The PM says people "deserve answers" over the fire which killed at least 17 people, as the first victim is named locally as a Syrian refugee.
  
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• Otto Warmbier's rare condition explained

  15-06-2017 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year, is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" said doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. CNN's Sanjay Gupta explains.
  
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• Gupta explains Otto Warmbier's rare condition

  15-06-2017 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year, is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" said doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. CNN's Sanjay Gupta explains.
  
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• Student pulls all-nighter helping tower victims, then takes exam

  15-06-2017 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  It was 1:45 in the morning on Wednesday and Rory Walsh was supposed to be sleeping. After all, the most important exams of his life would start in a little over six hours.
  
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• Student pulls all-nighter helping Grenfell Tower victims, then takes exam

  15-06-2017 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  It was 1:45 in the morning on Wednesday and Rory Walsh was supposed to be sleeping. After all, the most important exams of his life would start in a little over six hours.
  
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• Rep. Steve King Says Obama Is Partly To Blame For Alexandria Shooting

  15-06-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is pointing a finger at former President Barack Obama for the attack on Republican lawmakers at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday.
  
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• Erdoğan decries 'unacceptable' US arrest warrants for staff in Washington brawl

  15-06-2017 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Twelve members of Turkey president’s security detail accused of involvement in assault on protesters in Washington DC, which left nine injuredTurkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has furiously condemned the US decision to issue arrest warrants to 12 members of his security detail because of their involvement in a bloody brawl with peaceful protesters in Washington DC last month.In a dramatic escalation of tensions between two Nato allies, Erdoğan said on Thursday that
  
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• 2017 Porsche 718 Boxster S

  15-06-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Driving is never a chore in the right car.
  
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• What will Trump change about US-Cuba relations?

  15-06-2017 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump is announcing a new Cuba policy - what should you expect?
  
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• Families appeal over missing relatives

  15-06-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Family and friends of missing people have appealed on social media for news of their loved ones.
  
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• Hawaii Governor says he is 'looking forward' to Trump's travel ban going to Supreme Court

  15-06-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  The Governor of Hawaii is looking forward to the seemingly inevitable Supreme Court showdown between his state’s Attorney General and Donald Trump’s administration over the President’s controversial travel ban.Governor David Ige says that the diversity in his state is something to be celebrated – not curtailed – and that his state government is willing to push back against the isolationist impulses coming out of the White House.
  
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• WATCH: Trump on Rep. Scalise: 'He's in some trouble'

  15-06-2017 23:29
  
  The president said this morning that Scalise's condition is "much more difficult than people even thought at the time."
  
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• Davy Klaassen: Everton complete £23.6m signing of Ajax midfielder and captain

  15-06-2017 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Everton complete the £23.6m signing of Ajax captain and Netherlands midfielder Davy Klaassen on a five-year deal.
  
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• Senate votes for new Russia sanctions while limiting Trump's ability to lift them

  15-06-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  The Senate voted in an overwhelming majority to sign into law new sanctions on Russia, undermining Donald Trump's ability to lift them and signalling that Republicans and Democrats are putting “politics aside”.The bill now goes to House for a vote and ultimately to Mr Trump’s desk for signature - .With a 98-2 vote, the Senate showed that “it is in the national interest to penalise Russia for its interference in the 2016 election,” Eddie Fishman, a nonresident Fellow
  
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• The Hourly Income You Need To Afford Rent Around The U.S.

  15-06-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Full-time workers who make minimum wage can’t afford a two-bedroom rental home in any state in the U.S. without spending more than the recommended 30 percent of their income, according to a report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
  
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• Illinois will lose Powerball, Mega Millions without budget

  15-06-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Lottery officials say players in the state could see the end of Powerball and Mega Millions games this month if Illinois doesn't end its budget impasse.
  
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• Georgia Congressional Candidate Receives Threatening Package

  15-06-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Police are investigating after Georgia congressional candidate Karen Handel and her neighbors received packages Thursday containing threatening letters and a suspicious substance.
  
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• ‘Crooked H destroyed phones’: Trump tries to change the topic to Clinton after report of possible obstruction probe

  15-06-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  In a pair of tweets Thursday, President Trump decried the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia and complained he was the subject of disproportionate scrutiny compared to his election foe from last year, Hillary Clinton.The latest target of his Twitter ire: A Washington Post report the day before that said the Justice Department special counsel is looking into whether he obstructed justice by firing FBI Director James Comey to interfere with the bureau’s Russia probe.
  
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• Serbia to have first gay prime minister as Ana Brnabic is chosen

  15-06-2017 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ana Brnabic will also be the country's first woman prime minister in a sign of increasing tolerance.
  
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• Tiny, Wild-Styled 2018 Kona Expands Hyundai's SUV Lineup

  15-06-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. The 2018 Hyundai Kona won’t ever be mistaken for a wallflower in the rapidly expanding field of subcompact SUVs. Based s...
  
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• 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' Director Masterfully Trolls Marvel Executive Impersonator

  15-06-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The plan was simple: Open an Instagram account under the name Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios and producer of a gazillion blockbusters, and begin messaging James Gunn, director of the fantastically popular “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, thinking no further about a producer and a director of such caliber using Instagram’s chat feature as a standard medium of communication.
  
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• Eurozone ministers strike deal to release funds to Greece

  15-06-2017 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The deal would release 8.5bn euros but still requires final approval from the IMF.
  
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• The Latest: Turkey asks US envoy to oppose arrest warrants

  15-06-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. decision to charge Turkish security agents over melee in Washington (all times local):
  
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• This is the kind of wireless charging we want to see in the iPhone 8

  15-06-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Rumors are a-swirlin' that the iPhone 8 is going to feature some kind of wireless charging. Although Android phones have had wireless capabilities for years, it's a very particular kind of wireless capability: you have to physically place your phone on a special pad, and taking your device more than a couple millimeters away from the pad takes it off charge.
  Sure, it's 10% more useful than charging with cables, but I can't imagine Apple copying a feature that debuted with the Galaxy S4. So if Ap
  
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• Escaping civil war, dying in London blaze

  15-06-2017 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A Syrian refugee who escaped civil war for a better life in the UK has been named one of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London, the UK-based Syria Solidarity Campaign said Thursday.
  
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• Bill Cosby Jurors Deadlocked After Deliberating for More Than 30 Hours

  15-06-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  The jurors told the judge that they couldn't reach a unanimous decision, which may result in a mistrial.
  
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• The Latest: Pawn shop tip was key to capture of Lyle Jeffs

  15-06-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on the capture of fugitive polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs (all times local):
  
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• Warmbier 'shows no signs of awareness of his surroundings'

  15-06-2017 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  Otto Warmbier, the college student who was detained in North Korea for more than a year, is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" and tests show extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain, according to Dr. Daniel Kanter at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
  
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• Tesla will begin Model 3 test drives in ‘late 2017’, but there’s a catch

  15-06-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Barring any unforeseen circumstances, mass production on Tesla's Model 3 will kick off sometime next month. And though Tesla has missed every production deadline it's ever set -- first with the Roadster, and next with the Model S and Model X -- Elon Musk has assured analysts, investors and consumers alike that the company has learned from its past mistakes and that Model 3 production and deliveries will remain on track.
  During Tesla's recent earnings conference call, Elon Musk said that reservat
  
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• Donald Trump says the 'theft of American prosperity has come to a screeching halt'

  15-06-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has said that the “theft of American prosperity has come to a screeching halt” in a speech about improving US infrastructure.The President was speaking in Cincinnati, Ohio on improving America’s roads, bridges, and water infrastructure and how the US is “spending money all over the world except here”.Projects will be completed using “American energy, American iron, American steel,” he noted.
  
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• Trump delivers one-two punch to Hillary Clinton in afternoon tweets about ‘obstruction of justice’

  15-06-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  On Thursday afternoon, President Trump delivered a one-two punch to Hillary Clinton in two tweets about “obstruction of justice.” They follow Trump’s earlier tweets where he denounced a Washington Post report about an investigation into his possible obstruction of justice. After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who was leading the investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel for t
  
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• Kabul mosque attack claimed by so-called Islamic State

  15-06-2017 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four people were killed in a suicide bombing targeting worshippers ending their daily Ramadan fast.
  
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• Syrian refugee named as London fire victim

  15-06-2017 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mohammed Alhajali is the first named victim of the Grenfell Tower fire. His brother Omar survived.
  
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• US doctors dispute N Korean coma story

  15-06-2017 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Medics say freed American student Otto Warmbier shows no signs of botulism, as North Korea claimed.
  
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• Cause of US student's brain injury in N.Korea still unknown: doctors

  15-06-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Doctors treating Otto Warmbier, the comatose US student released from North Korean detention this week, said Thursday the 22-year-old had suffered extensive brain damage, the cause of which remains unknown.An MRI scan revealed "extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain," Kanter said.Warmbier's medical team said they had found no evidence of botulism, the explanation given by the North Korean regime for how the young man fell into a coma shortly after being sentenced in March 201
  
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• Blimp flying over US Open golf contest crashes

  15-06-2017 21:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Spectators capture footage as a blimp plunges from the sky less than a mile from the US Open.
  
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• White House without a plan to address debt ceiling

  15-06-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House lacks a unified plan to increase the government's borrowing cap as a likely September deadline is drawing near, said Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
  
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• US Open 2017: Blimp crashes as Fowler sets early pace

  15-06-2017 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  The blimp fell out of the sky and burst into flames as the world's best golfers competed in the first round of the 117th US Open Championship in Wisconsin.
  
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• Windfall From Trump Health Care Tax Cut Could Subsidize Layoffs

  15-06-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The GOP aims to permanently repeal a medical device tax, saying the cut will create jobs — but after the tax was suspended, many firms slashed jobs.
  
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• Who's got it in for the Little Mermaid - and why?

  15-06-2017 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Copenhagen's iconic statue has been beheaded, blown up and covered in paint - but survived it all.
  
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• Deputy Attorney General's Perplexing Statement On Media Reports

  15-06-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein issued a statement warning Americans about unspecified media reports using anonymous sources or that don't indicate which country the source is coming from, raising more questions.
  
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• Champions Trophy: India captain Virat Kohli wary of resurgent Pakistan for final

  15-06-2017 21:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pakistan's turnaround in the Champions Trophy has been "magnificent", says India captain Virat Kohli after his side set up a final against their fierce rivals.
  
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• Bodycam shows shooting of black man by Milwaukee officer

  15-06-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bodycam video from a former Milwaukee police officer on trial for killing a black man shows the officer yelling "stop reaching" even as the man was not moving on the ground.
  
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• Russia accuses US of deploying missiles in Syria

  15-06-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia on Thursday accused the US-led coalition of deploying missiles against Syrian troops at a garrison in the east of the country, where rebels battling the Islamic State group are being trained."Forces of the US-led anti-IS coalition have repeatedly issued strikes on Syrian government forces fighting IS near the Jordanian border."It's not hard to guess that similar strikes will be continued against contingents of the Syrian army in the future using HIMARS," it said.
  
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