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• Michigan Official Says He Won't Apologize for Sharing Anti-Muslim Facebook Posts

  12-07-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  "I don't expect everyone to see things the way I do"
  
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• Brazil's ex-president Lula sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for corruption

  12-07-2017 23:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Two-term president found guilty in scandal linked to oil giant PetrobrasLawyers attack sentence and say ‘conviction came without any truth’Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once the most popular president in Brazil’s recent history, has been sentenced to nine years and six months in prison after being found guilty on corruption and money-laundering charges.Although Lula, as he is universally known, will remain free pending an appeal – and his supporters denounced the sent
  
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• Pregnant Reporter Rips Viewer Who Body-Shamed Her: 'Do I Really Look Disgusting?'

  12-07-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  She wrote a blog post about an encounter.
  
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• US intelligence 'detected Russian officials discussing meetings with Trump associates in 2015'

  12-07-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Newly revealed intelligence shows Russian officials discussed meeting with associates or advisers to Donald Trump in 2015 just months before he declared his candidacy to become president, the Wall Street Journal reports.At that time, intelligence analysts didn't really know what to make of the intercepted conversations, since Mr Trump was a global celebrity who had done business in Russia before.In light of recent emails posted on Twitter by Donald Trump Jr that detail a conversation to facilita
  
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• The unanswered questions from Donald Trump Jr's Russia emails

  12-07-2017 23:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Democrats have proclaimed it as clear collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow – but the greater significance of the email chain remains unclearDonald Trump Jr’s email chain, which revealed his enthusiasm for a meeting with a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton, has been greeted as evidence of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Moscow. Related: Democrats clamor for Jared Kushner's security cle
  
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• Brazil's ex-President Lula convicted of corruption

  12-07-2017 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former president is sentenced to nine years in prison in a case linked to the state oil company.
  
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• Slovenia, Croatia fail to agree on border dispute

  12-07-2017 23:31 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Croatia and Slovenia have failed to reach an agreement on implementing an international arbitration ruling in a long-standing border dispute that has caused tensions between the European Union neighbors.
  
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• Indian mutiny: Remembering farmers who fought British rule

  12-07-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Revisiting the time when Indian farmers fought alongside rebel soldiers in 1857.
  
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• Nigeria's leader to return 'very shortly:' Acting president

  12-07-2017 23:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Nigeria's acting president has met with President Muhammadu Buhari in London, where he has been for more than two months for medical issues as concerns grow about his health.
  
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• 19 killed in Boko Haram attacks in northern Nigeria city

  12-07-2017 23:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Police in Nigeria say 19 people have been killed in a series of attacks by Boko Haram suicide bombers.
  
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• Lawsuit claims US has threatened and misled immigrants seeking asylum

  12-07-2017 23:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Legal groups brought suit against Homeland Security and Border Patrol, saying people at US-Mexico border have been blocked from asylum processUS border officials have systemically blocked asylum seekers from accessing the asylum process, in violation of US and international law, according to a lawsuit filed by immigration advocates on Wednesday. A collection of legal groups brought the suit, which claims that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) hav
  
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• Sana Mir, Pakistan's female cricket star

  12-07-2017 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pakistan's Sana Mir reflects on changing perceptions towards female cricketers in her home country.
  
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• Video shows Trump with associates tied to email controversy

  12-07-2017 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  Video obtained exclusively by CNN offers a new look inside the web of relationships now at the center of allegations of collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russia.
  
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• Education Dept. Civil Rights Head: 90% of Campus Sexual Assaults Amount to 'We Were Both Drunk'

  12-07-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Betsy DeVos will meet with advocates about campus sexual assault on Thursday
  
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• Angry Grenfell residents demand arrests and resignations at meeting

  12-07-2017 23:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Kensington and Chelsea council meeting sees people express rage and contempt for officialdom at investigation’s slow progressAngry residents demanded police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire make arrests and called for the resignation of the new leader of Kensington and Chelsea council at a crowded and chaotic public meeting in the borough on Wednesday evening. Related: Talk of Grenfell 'remains' leaves shattered son upset and confusedContinue reading...
  
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• What's next in Qatar standoff?

  12-07-2017 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in the Middle East hoping to ease tensions between Qatar and four Arab nations that accuse it of supporting terrorism.
  
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• Kenya: 6 police officers killed by herders in land invasions

  12-07-2017 22:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Kenya police report says six police officers have been killed by herders in volatile Laikipia County, where at least 40 people have died this year due to clashes over land.
  
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• Alaska bride surprised by her late son's heart recipient

  12-07-2017 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Becky Turney said the meeting was the best gift and thanked Jacob Kilby for caring for her son's heart.
  
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• White House misspells word 'inaccurately' in video attacking CBO for being inaccurate

  12-07-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House has deleted and reissued a video that misspelled the word "inaccurately" in an attack on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for being inaccurate.The 45-second spot, which the White House issued via their YouTube channel, was meant to cast doubt on the independent agency’s health care projections.The White House quickly deleted the video and uploaded a version with the correct spelling.
  
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• 'Dance Moms' Star Abby Lee Miller Goes on Last Hurrah Before Reporting to Prison

  12-07-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  She was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to bankruptcy fraud.
  
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• T20 Blast: Sussex's David Wiese smashes pint with huge six

  12-07-2017 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch Sussex batsmen David Wiese smash a fan's pint with a six during his side's 19-run defeat by Hampshire.
  
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• Apparent earthquake off of North Korea's coast

  12-07-2017 22:33
  The earthquake occurred out at sea, according to the USGS.
  
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• Trump suggests Putin would have preferred Clinton

  12-07-2017 22:32
  
  Claim came during his new interview with Pat Robertson from "The 700 Club."
  
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• Person of interest in disappearances of 4 young men arrested for 2nd time

  12-07-2017 22:29
  
  Cosmo DiNardo, 20, was arrested Wednesday on a stolen property charge.
  
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• Amelia Earhart Theory Challenged by Japanese History Enthusiast

  12-07-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  There's evidence that a photo crucial to the theory was published two years before Earhart even went missing
  
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• ‘We were both drunk’: How a top civil rights official describes most Title IX campus rape accusations

  12-07-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  A top civil rights official in the U.S. Department of Education characterized “90 percent” of campus sexual assault accusations that rise to the level of a federal Title IX investigation as amounting to “we were both drunk."
  
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• Jeff Sessions addresses 'anti-LGBT hate group,' but DOJ won't release his remarks

  12-07-2017 22:26
  
  Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the DOJ is refusing to reveal what he said.
  
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• Pair Of House Democrat Introduce Articles Of Impeachment

  12-07-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  It's near impossible, but the two congressmen hope for a shot across the bow for the Trump administration.
  
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• Sicily tourist resort evacuated as Italy wildfires spread

  12-07-2017 22:17 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Italian news reports say hundreds of tourists at a beach resort in Sicily have been evacuated by boat due to wildfires that are blazing across a huge swath of southern Italy.
  
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• Democrats call for Jared Kushner's security clearance to be revoked

  12-07-2017 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Ethics experts describe omission of meeting with Donald Trump Jr and Russia lawyer as ‘consciousness of guilt’ and say it warrants re-evaluation of clearanceJared Kushner’s White House security clearance should be “re-evaluated” after the revelation that he attended a now notorious meeting with Donald Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer, according to a former White House ethics tsar. Related: Who is Natalia Veselnitskaya: low-level lawyer or Kremlin power broker?Continue
  
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• Wimbledon 2017: Murray's misery, Federer's fan club & wounded Djokovic

  12-07-2017 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the quirkier moments from day nine at Wimbledon as defending champion Andy Murray is knocked out in the quarter-finals by Sam Querrey on Centre Court.
  
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• Trump says he gets along 'very, very well' with Putin

  12-07-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump said in an interview Wednesday that he has a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after the two met for more than two hours in Hamburg last week.It doesn't make sense not to have some kind of a relationship," Trump said.Trump, who has come under criticism for his reluctance to criticize Putin directly over Russia's meddling in US elections last year, said the two had an "excellent meeting" on the sidelines of the G20 summit last Friday.
  
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• ISPs surprise net neutrality fans on protest day

  12-07-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T has a surprise for tech firms and internet activists supporting net neutrality, the principle that bars internet service providers from playing favorites with websites and apps.
  
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• WATCH: Police video shows 25-car pileup due to dust storm

  12-07-2017 22:11
  
  Six people were killed and several others were injured in a 25-car pileup on Interstate 10 near Lordsburg, New Mexico.
  
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• Hungary buys 2nd half of Roman-era silver treasure

  12-07-2017 22:11 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Hungary's prime minister says the government has bought the remaining seven objects of a Roman-era silver treasure believed to have smuggled out of the country in the 1980s.
  
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• Peru protesters strand tourists at Machu Picchu

  12-07-2017 22:09 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Protesters in Peru have blocked the train line to the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, stranding thousands of tourists.
  
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• General: Plane at cruising altitude before problems, crash

  12-07-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The military transport plane that slammed into soybean fields Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing 15 Marines and a Navy sailor, appears to have developed problems while high in the air, a Marine general said Wednesday.
  
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• White House launches preemptive strike on CBO, anticipating report on health care bill

  12-07-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, left, and Keith Hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office.Awaiting a new Congressional Budget Office score on the latest rewrite of the Republican health care bill expected next week, the White House has launched an attack on the nonpartisan group.
  
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• Hungary: Government ending disputed anti-Soros ad campaign

  12-07-2017 21:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Hungarian government says it will end its disputed ad campaign against Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.
  
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• Once-loyal prosecutor emerges as hero in Venezuela protests

  12-07-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro who have taken to the streets day after day in Venezuela now find themselves rallying in support of an unexpected hero: the chief prosecutor who helped throw many of them into jail.
  
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• US troops inside Raqa, IS Syria stronghold: official

  12-07-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  United States military advisers are operating inside the city of Raqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a US official said Wednesday.The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an "advise, assist and accompany" role to support local fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces as they battle IS, said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a military spokesman.The troops are not in a direct combat role but are calling in air strikes and are working closer to the fight tha
  
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• Italy warns EU must keep door open to Balkan members

  12-07-2017 21:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  European Union leaders are meeting with their Western Balkan counterparts to press ahead with economic integration amid Russia's increasing influence in the region and the EU's own troubles with Brexit, migration and security fears.
  
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• Tour de France 2017: Marcel Kittel wins stage 11, Chris Froome retains overall lead

  12-07-2017 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Marcel Kittel wins stage 11 to take his fifth stage victory of this year's Tour de France, as Chris Froome retains the yellow jersey.
  
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• Photographer uncovers Italy’s most extraordinary abandoned buildings

  12-07-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  A young photographer from the Netherlands has been exploring deserted structures in Italy and has found provocative sights.
  
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• Presidential impeachment in the USA: How often has it happened?

  12-07-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump would be joining a very small presidential club if he was ever to be impeached. Brad Sherman, a Democrat congressman from California, on July 12 became the first to launch official impeachment proceedings - although even he admitted it was a long way away. The embattled president has described calls for his impeachment as "ridiculous", saying he has done nothing to warrant criminal charges. He lashed out after days of political tumult, which culminated in the Jus
  
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• Greece: Suspects in tourist's fatal beating held for trial

  12-07-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Five of nine men suspected in the beating death of a 22-year-old American tourist outside a bar in Greece have been jailed pending trial on murder charges.
  
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• Before Trump Meeting, Russia Quietly Gobbled Up a Tiny Chunk of Georgia

  12-07-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Moscow’s meddling isn’t limited to eastern Ukraine or U.S. elections — it’s still encroaching on another former Soviet republic.
  
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• Wimbledon 2017: Novak Djokovic out after retiring injured against Tomas Berdych

  12-07-2017 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Novak Djokovic is out of Wimbledon after retiring with injury during his quarter-final against Tomas Berdych.
  
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• Amazon wants to give you $10 for free. You should take it.

  12-07-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Remember Kozmo.com? Talk about an idea ahead of its time. The service launched in the late 1990s and used huge warehouses to store tons of goods that it could then deliver to customers within a few hours of ordering. It was a great idea, but it was the wrong approach. Partnering with local establishments is definitely the way to go to create a service like this, and that's exactly what Amazon has done with Prime Now.
  This awesome service lets users in 32 different cities across the country order
  
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• 2 Americans volunteering with Syrian Kurds, die battling IS

  12-07-2017 21:18 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia says two American volunteers were killed fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria last week.
  
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