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• Susan Rice agrees to testify before House intelligence panel

  29-06-2017 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  The House intelligence committee plans to interview Susan Rice next month as part of its investigation into Russia meddling in the US election last year, a high-profile target for Republicans who accuse President Barack Obama's former national security adviser of improperly handling classified intelligence reports, according to sources familiar with the private talks.
  
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• Apple is suspiciously interested in Fisker’s electric car

  29-06-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the unusual step of confirming Apple's interest in developing self-driving car technologies. During a recent interview with Bloomberg, Cook was asked about Apple's aspirations in the automotive space. Responding quickly, Cook said: "We’re focusing on autonomous systems. It’s a core technology that we view as very important. We sort of see it as the mother of all AI projects." Notably, there have also been reports that Apple's interest in de
  
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• Qatar working with U.S., Kuwaitis on response to Gulf demands: minister

  29-06-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  DOHA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Qatar said on Thursday it was working with the United States and Kuwait to respond to a list of demands presented by Arab states who have accused Doha of supporting terrorism, an allegation that ignited a regional crisis between the U.S. allies.The feud erupted on June 5 when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic and travel links with Qatar, accusing it also of courting regional foe Iran.
  
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• Shkreli Investor Testifies 'Pharma Bro' 'Betrayed' Her

  29-06-2017 23:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  Shkreli isn't on trial for drug prices, but he might as well be. Here's how his 'Ponzi-like' scheme allegedly worked.
  
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• Missing student's family has theories on disappearance

  29-06-2017 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Yingying Zhang is so cautious, she warned her aunt in China to "be careful" when going out and to avoid using shared ride services.
  
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• Verizon customers claim they’re being booted off Unlimited plans for using too much data

  29-06-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Verizon has made a lot of noise about its new Unlimited plans. They're not actually unlimited in the true sense of the word, but rather they only slow you down once you use your 22GB data allowance, rather than cut you off.
  But some customers in rural areas claim that Verizon has cut them off the Unlimited plan altogether, thanks to excessive data usage. A number of customers on Howard Forums have shared stories about Verizon shutting down Unlimited accounts after data usage got too high, which
  
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• Coroner Dies After He's Accidentally Dragged by Truck Driven by His Father

  29-06-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Carlton Utley, the Colbert County coroner, was caught in a trailer behind his father's truck.
  
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• Born in 1997... in Hong Kong

  29-06-2017 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hong Kong was handed over from Britain to China 20 years ago, ending over 100 years of colonial rule.
  
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• Climate change up close: Southern, poor counties to suffer

  29-06-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Poor and southern U.S. counties will get hit hardest by global warming, according to a first-of-its-kind detailed projection of potential climate change effects at the local level.
  
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• Venezuela prosecutor charging ex-national guard chief

  29-06-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's renegade chief prosecutor charged the former head of the country's national guard Thursday with systemically violating human rights during three months of anti-government protests that have left nearly 80 people dead.
  
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• Child Found Dead In Car, Couple Living Inside Vehicle Arrested

  29-06-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  When authorities searched the car, they pronounced the 3-year-old girl wrapped in blankets dead on the scene.
  
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• Senate GOP Considers Dumping Some Tax Cuts in Health Bill

  29-06-2017 22:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  As negotiations progress on a new version of a Senate GOP health care bill, one issue seeing growing consensus is keepingsome of the taxes on the wealthy.
  
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• Florida Boys Lost At Sea Planned To Go To Bahamas

  29-06-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Investigators pieced together their intent through interviews and social media activity.
  
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• Congress Must Make Russia Pay for Attacking U.S. Elections

  29-06-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Democrats and Republicans should take decisive action now.
  
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• These Scientists Have a Plan To Save the Dying Brain

  29-06-2017 22:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Resurrecting the dead may be out of the question, but new research points to better ways to care for patients with critical brain injuries.
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders does her best to defend Trump’s attack on Mika Brzezinski

  29-06-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  
  White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparred with reporters Thursday over President Trump’s incendiary tweets attacking the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
  
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• Trump focuses on looks of his female critics

  29-06-2017 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  When faced with a female criticism over the years, Donald Trump has repeatedly responded in a way that references his accusers' appearance.
  
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• The Latest: Couple arrested in death of girl in California

  29-06-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a child found dead in an SUV in Northern California (all times local):
  
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• Would-Be Robber Scared Away By Quick-Thinking Store Clerk Who Scares Him With Pipe

  29-06-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Police are searching for a would-be robber who met his match when he tried to hold up a store clerk in Texas.
  
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• This 1-Year-Old Has the Frizziest Hair Ever, Thanks to a Rare Genetic Condition

  29-06-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  "Throughout the day, I try and spray stuff in it to keep it down, but within 30 minutes it's spiky again," the girl's mom said.
  
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• One bedroom 'Fixer Upper' home lists for $950K

  29-06-2017 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  A couple featured on HGTV's hit show "Fixer Upper" is listing their home in Waco, Texas, for nearly $1 million.
  
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• Venezuela in crisis: Was the helicopter attack for real?

  29-06-2017 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  Downtown Caracas was the scene of an alleged audacious attempt to destabilize the faltering government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this week.
  
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• Khamenei's representative says Islamic state's Baghdadi 'definitely dead': IRNA

  29-06-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Iran's state news agency quoted a representative of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday as saying Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was "definitely dead"."Terrorist Baghdadi is definitely dead," IRNA quoted cleric Ali Shirazi, representative to the Quds Force, as saying, without elaborating.
  
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• WATCH: Pregnant SUV driver arrested after allegedly running down suspected thief

  29-06-2017 21:30
  
  The 26-year-old expecting mother was charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
  
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• WATCH: Possible tornado rips through county fair

  29-06-2017 21:14
  
  A possible tornado tore through a county fair in Central City, Iowa, forcing attendees to take cover.
  
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• Pacific Alliance explores single passport for member nations

  29-06-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  The Pacific Alliance trade group will explore whether to create a single passport for its four member nations in a bid to encourage tourism and trade across the world, Colombia's migration director said on Thursday.The alliance, which comprises Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru and was formed in April 2011, has already abolished transit visas for their more than 230 million joint inhabitants.Alliance members are among the keenest proponents of free trade in the Americas and have backed Mexico aft
  
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• Trump will meet Putin next week, U.S. officials say

  29-06-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump will meet with Russian President Putin next week, their first face-to-face talks since U.S. intelligence declared that Moscow had meddled in the 2016 election.
  
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• Trump Allies Work to Discredit FBI, Probe

  29-06-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Matthew Miller, former chief spokesman for the Justice Department, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump allies going on offense to discredit the FBI officials and the Trump Russia investigation.
  
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• Listen While You Work: How Music Affects Our Productivity

  29-06-2017 20:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Want to blast through your next project? Create a playlist that compliments the work you're doing.
  
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• CNN’s Ana Navarro calls Trump a ‘crazy, lunatic, 70-year-old man-baby’

  29-06-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  “You are now the president of the United States. The commander in chief. And you need to stop acting like a mean girl.”
  
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• Through darkness to light: Photographs along the Underground Railroad

  29-06-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad,” a traveling exhibition by photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images taken in the dead of night that reveal historical sites, cities and places that freedom-seekers passed through, including homes of abolitionists who offered them sanctuary.
  
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• Pentagon: Russia Very Much a Threat to the United States

  29-06-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  
  In a new report, the Defense Intelligence Agency highlights Moscow’s fear of regime change and increased military spending as reason to take Russia seriously.
  
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• Field studies fuel dispute over whether banned pesticides harm bees

  29-06-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  By Kate KellandLONDON (Reuters) - Two major studies into how bees are affected by a group of pesticides banned in Europe gave mixed results on Thursday, fuelling a row over whether the chemicals, called neonicotinoids, are safe.The studies, one conducted across three European countries and another in Canada, found some negative effects after exposure to neonicotinoids in wild and honeybee populations, but also some positives, depending on the environmental context.Scientists who conducted the Eu
  
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• Sexual Assault On Cruise Ships Poses Danger To Minors

  29-06-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Many sexual assaults on cruise ships are barely investigated and never prosecuted, according to a new report.
  
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• Liberation of Mosul from ISIS is 'imminent'

  29-06-2017 20:02 via cnn.com
  
  Iraqi forces are locked in an intense battle for the final few blocks of western Mosul still under ISIS control.
  
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• GOP Operative Sought Russian Hacker Help: WSJ

  29-06-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Shane Harris talks with Rachel Maddow about his new reporting about Peter Smith, a Republican activist who sought the help of Russian hackers who may have found Hillary Clinton's e-mails, and implied he was working with Donald Trump aide Mike Flynn.
  
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• GOP Gov. John Kasich faces health care clash at home in Ohio

  29-06-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican legislators in Ohio are bracing for a veto fight with GOP Gov. John Kasich as the national health care debate hits the 2016 presidential contender on his home turf.
  
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• Pete Souza is trolling Trump for his Mika tweets

  29-06-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Oh hey, would you look at that? Pete Souza is trolling the president again! This time, the Insta-shade came in the form of two photos of former president Barack Obama speaking to a group of women in the oval office.  SEE ALSO: Pete Souza shares adorable, perfectly-timed photo of the Obamas The caption on the first photo is simple, but a major jab at Donald Trump for his latest Twitter spectacle. It reads, "Respect for women." Respect for women. A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza)
  
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• Syrian US-backed forces seize last route into Raqqa

  29-06-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed fighters have seized the last road into Raqqa and are moving eastward along the river south of the city, almost completing the siege on the militants' de-facto capital, U.S. officials and a Syria war monitor said Thursday.
  
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• Trump's bullying of Brzezinski crosses big line

  29-06-2017 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  A high-profile and powerful man takes to social media -- where he has tens of millions of followers -- to allege a prominent woman was "bleeding badly" after a plastic surgery operation.
  
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• Trump's bullying crosses big line

  29-06-2017 19:28 via cnn.com
  
  A high-profile and powerful man takes to social media -- where he has tens of millions of followers -- to allege a prominent woman was "bleeding badly" after a plastic surgery operation.
  
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• U.S.-backed SDF sees big risk of clash with Turkey in northwest Syria

  29-06-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) - The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces warned on Thursday of the prospect of fierce confrontation with the Turkish army in northwestern Syria if it attacks SDF areas, and said this would undermine the assault on Islamic State at Raqqa.Naser Haj Mansour, a senior SDF official, told Reuters the SDF had taken a decision to confront Turkish forces "if they try to go beyond the known lines" in the areas near Aleppo where the sides exchanged fire on Wednesday."Certainl
  
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• Pence to replace chief of staff with top campaign aide

  29-06-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff will leave the White House and be replaced by a senior Pence campaign adviser who has been helping lead a pro-Trump group.
  
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• Killing people over cows 'not acceptable', says India's Modi

  29-06-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned on Thursday a string of murders targeting minorities under the pretext of protecting cows, which are considered sacred by many Hindus, after critics accused the government of turning a blind eye.
  
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• The new food capital of the world

  29-06-2017 19:00 via cnn.com
  Paris perhaps? Or maybe New York, Rome or Tokyo?
  
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• Home Invader Crawls Into Woman's Bed to Ask If He Can Stay the Night: Cops

  29-06-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  A woman in New Jersey may have been visited by a serial stalker, cops say.
  
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• Mexican Green Card Holders Among Least Likely to Become U.S. Citizens

  29-06-2017 18:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  A newly released survey by the Pew Research Center found that Mexican immigrants are among the least likely to naturalize, and about half cite barriers like cost and language.
  
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• Man Catches Shark With Bare Hands

  29-06-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  
  He is shown jumping into the water, grabbing the shark with his bare hands and throwing it onto the dock.
  
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• Iraq declares end of caliphate after capture of Mosul mosque

  29-06-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  
  By Khaled al-Ramahi and Maher ChmaytelliMOSUL/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of Islamic State's de facto capital Mosul, and the prime minister declared the group's self-styled caliphate at an end.Iraqi authorities expect the long battle for Mosul to end in coming days as remaining Islamic State fighters are bottled up in just a handful of neighborhoods of the Old City.The seizure of
  
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• Cyberbullying opponent Melania Trump defends president’s Brzezinski tweets

  29-06-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  
  After saying during the campaign she’d fight cyberbullying, the first lady took no action until today, when she backed her husband’s latest harsh tweets.
  
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