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• Trump's 'offf the record' briefing to reports on Air Force One

  13-07-2017 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is open to his eldest son testifying before Congress to address questions about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
  
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• Trump's 'off the record' briefing to reporters on Air Force One

  13-07-2017 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is open to his eldest son testifying before Congress to address questions about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
  
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• Donald Trump in new sexism row as he tells Brigitte Trogneux she is in 'such good shape'

  13-07-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  
  It may have been meant as a compliment, but whether Brigitte Trogneux, the wife of French president, Emmanuel Macron,  appreciated being told she was in 'such good shape' was a matter of conjecture. Last month the  US president just about got away with telling Caitriona Perry - the Irish broadcaster RTE's Washington correspondent,  that she had a "nice smile". The Irish journalist posted a video on Twitter describing the incident as a "bizarre moment", but did not appear to h
  
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• Gambia sets up commission to investigate ex-leader's assets

  13-07-2017 23:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Gambia's president says the government has formed a commission to investigate assets of Yahya Jammeh, his predecessor as the West African country's leader.
  
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• UN envoy warns of instability in Sahel and Lake Chad basin

  13-07-2017 23:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The U.N. envoy for West Africa and the Sahel says instability in Mali is spilling over into Burkina Faso and Niger while insecurity in the Lake Chad basin, where Boko Haram remains active, is proving equally challenging.
  
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• Education Official Apologizes for Sex Assault Comments

  13-07-2017 23:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Education Department's civil rights chief apologized after comments she made regarding campus sexual assaults drew backlash.
  
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• Tillerson leaves with Qatar crisis unsolved

  13-07-2017 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left Doha for home on Thursday after an unexpected return to Qatar, extending his tour of the crisis-embroiled Gulf as the standoff between the gas-rich nation and the Saudi-led quartet showed no signs of abating.
  
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• Scalise Has New Operation After Shooting, Condition Fair

  13-07-2017 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Steve Scalise underwent surgery to manage infection after he was shot by a gunman at a baseball practice, the hospital said. He is in fair condition.
  
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• Iraq collectively punishing Islamic State families: rights group

  13-07-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Human Rights Watch accused Iraqi security forces on Thursday of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged Islamic State members to a closed "rehabilitation camp" as a form of collective punishment.Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced victory over Islamic State in Mosul on Monday, three years after the militants seized the city and made it the stronghold of a "caliphate" they said would take over the world.Iraq's government now faces the task of preventing revenge attacks against p
  
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• China’s Seen Globally As Gaining Ground on United States

  13-07-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The world is souring on the U.S. and Trump and taking a shine to China despite all its struggles.
  
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• China, US equally unpopular worldwide

  13-07-2017 23:00 via cnn.com
  
  The world's reigning and emerging superpowers are neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes, according to a new report on China's global image released Thursday.
  
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• This Is How the GOP Plan Would Change Health Care Coverage

  13-07-2017 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  Senate Republican leaders released a new version of their health care bill Thursday and could vote on it next week. Here's how it would affect your health care.
  
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• Dem who actually won a special election: We don’t need more career politicians

  13-07-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Oklahoma state senator Michael Brooks, a rare Democrat who's won a special election, has a message for his party: voters reward a focus on local issues.
  
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• Weary Syrians trickle back home to government-held areas

  13-07-2017 22:21 via feeds.foxnews.com
  They left their homes to escape the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and now they are going back.
  
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• Jet Blast Kills Tourist at Caribbean Seaside Airport

  13-07-2017 22:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  The unidentified New Zealand woman was trying to feel a jet blast at Princess Juliana International Airport on St. Maarten.
  
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• The Latest: 'Quartet' group expresses concern over Gaza

  13-07-2017 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on developments concerning Israel and the Palestinians (all times local): 12:20 p.m. President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt announces that Israel and the Palestinians have reached a water agreement linked to a massive planned Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline project.
  
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• The Latest: Iraq investigating after images of Mosul abuses

  13-07-2017 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on the situation following the declaration of full victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul (all times local): 6:15 p.m. Human Rights Watch has condemned videos circulating on social media purportedly showing Iraqi forces killing and beating men suspected of being Islamic State group fighters.
  
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• No one has ever died from a pot overdose, but the DEA is taking no chances

  13-07-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Studies suggest that legalizing marijuana for medical purposes correlates with lower numbers of opioid prescriptions and overdoses. The DEA remains unmoved.
  
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• Doctors, nurses among hundreds charged with defrauding U.S. health programs

  13-07-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  More than 400 people, including doctors and nurses, have been charged with defrauding Medicare and other federal healthcare programs of $1.3 billion, with many accused of illegally distributing opioids and other narcotics, the Justice Department said on Thursday.A total of 412 people, including almost 115 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, have been charged in the sweeping enforcement action, the biggest ever by the multi-agency Medicare Strike Force, the Justice Department said in
  
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• Serbian leader Vucic presses EU for accession timetable

  13-07-2017 22:07 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Serbia's president says his country is pressing the European Union to provide a clear timetable for his country's accession to the bloc.
  
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• Mom Whose Baby Went Limp on Hot, Delayed United Flight: I Thought I Was Going to Lose Him

  13-07-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Emily France said she feared for her 4-month-old son's life.
  
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• French court rejects ban on magazine for Nice attack photos

  13-07-2017 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  France's anti-terrorism prosecutor has taken the picture magazine Paris Match to court in an urgent effort to stop sales of its latest edition showing gruesome photos of the terror attack in Nice a year ago that killed 86 people.
  
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• New Senate Health Care Bill Already Meeting GOP Opposition

  13-07-2017 21:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  The changes to made to the Republican health care plan are narrow and might not be enough to gain the support of 50 senators.
  
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• New York Man Dies From 'Exceedingly Rare' Tick Virus Transmitted Within Minutes

  13-07-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The Powassin virus can be transmitted by a tick in as few as 10 to 15 minutes
  
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• 'Something could happen': Donald Trump suggests he could change position on Paris climate agreement, after talks with Emmanuel Macron 

  13-07-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump appeared to hold the door open to reversing his decision to pull America out of the 2015 Paris climate change agreement after a charm offensive from his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in the French capital. On a visit to France for July 14 Bastille Day celebrations to mark the centenary of America's entry into the First World War, Mr Trump was asked about whether he might review his position on climate, which drew widespread response from other world leaders, F
  
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• The Iran Nuclear Deal Has Been a Blessing for Israel

  13-07-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Two years on from the signing of the agreement to curtail Tehran’s nuclear program, Israel and the region are safer than ever from the threat of mullahs with a bomb.
  
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• Huge blue whale skeleton unveiled

  13-07-2017 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  London's Natural History Museum has a new centerpiece: A massive blue whale skeleton.
  
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• Trump Tells French First Lady She's 'In Such Good Shape'

  13-07-2017 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump was overheard complimenting the French first lady, noting her physical condition and appearance during a live video in Paris on Thursday.
  
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• Emmy nominations 2017: Is your show on the list?

  13-07-2017 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced Thursday morning and it looks to be the year of the freshman in one of the biggest categories.
  
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• Melania Trump takes her own path in Paris visit

  13-07-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. first lady Melania Trump took her own path through Paris on Thursday as she and President Donald Trump began a two-day visit to the French capital, starting at a children's hospital.
  
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• Trump says 'something could happen' on Paris climate accord

  13-07-2017 21:04 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump said Thursday that "something could happen" regarding the Paris climate accord following his decision to withdraw from the landmark global agreement to limit climate change.Trump was speaking at a joint news conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, who had earlier said he hoped to persuade the US leader to change his mind."Something could happen with respect to the Paris accord," Trump said, six weeks after announcing that the United States would abandon
  
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• 'SNL,' 'Westworld' Lead Pack of Emmy Contenders

  13-07-2017 21:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Emmys are scheduled to air Sept. 17 on CBS, with Stephen Colbert as host.
  
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• Read Texts About 4 Missing Pennsylvania Men From Person Of Interest Cosmo DiNardo

  13-07-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  "He's a pill-popping junky who had 2 duis... He prob just jumped parole," DiNardo texted a friend.
  
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• New Photos the Grievous Damage Done to the USS Fitzgerald

  13-07-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  The USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship three times its size.
  
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• 2018 Jaguar E-Pace: Designed to Cross Over

  13-07-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Poised to leap into the lucrative mainstream.
  
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• Trump says 'something could happen' on climate accord

  13-07-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Lough and Ayesha RascoePARIS (Reuters) - President Donald Trump held the door open to a reversal of his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord on Thursday, but did not say what he would need in return to persuade him to do so.Trump, who has made few friends in Europe with his rejection of the 2015 Paris agreement and his "America First" trade stance, met with French President Emmanuel Macron as both leaders sought common ground to reset an awkward relations
  
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• Liu Xiaobo's family by his side when he died: doctors

  13-07-2017 20:55 via yahoo.com
  
  The family of China's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo was by his side when he died on Thursday after his condition abruptly deteriorated days earlier, his doctors said.Liu was "primarily saying goodbye to his wife" and telling her to "live well" in his last moments, doctor Teng Yue'e told a news conference hours after the democracy advocate died.Liu, who died aged 61, was transferred from prison to First Hospital of China Medical University in the northeastern city of Shenyang aft
  
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• Greece jails man, frees 2 on bail in tourist's beating death

  13-07-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Serb man was ordered jailed pending trial and two others were released on bail Thursday after appearing before an investigating judge on the Greek island of Zakynthos in the beating death of an American tourist.
  
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• Political prisoner, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at age 61

  13-07-2017 20:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Officials say China's most prominent political prisoner, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has died.
  
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• UN considers new base in South Sudan's troubled Yei region

  13-07-2017 20:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The United Nations says it is considering putting a peacekeeping base in South Sudan's troubled Yei region, the first such expansion since civil war began in 2013.
  
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• Trump tells French president’s wife: ‘You’re in such good shape’

  13-07-2017 20:37 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump complimented 64-year-old Brigitte Macron’s appearance following a welcome ceremony and tour of a museum near Elysee Palace, calling her “beautiful.”
  
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• Landmark Srebrenica war crimes trial halts in Serbia

  13-07-2017 20:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Serbian appeals court has stopped a landmark trial of eight former Bosnian Serb police officers charged with taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
  
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• Jet Blast Kills Tourist At World Famous Caribbean Beach

  13-07-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  The 57-year-old New Zealand woman was reportedly holding onto a fence to feel the blast of a jumbo jet in St. Maarten.
  
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• Ex-defense minister says 'corrupt' Israeli PM should quit

  13-07-2017 20:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A former defense minister says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "corrupt" and should resign over a possible conflict of interest related to the purchase of German submarines.
  
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• Trump hopes for second Syrian ceasefire

  13-07-2017 20:25 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he is working with Russia to establish a second regional ceasefire in Syria, nearly a week after the US, Russia and Jordan brokered a first ceasefire in southwestern Syria.
  
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• Britain's Natural History Museum unveils huge whale skeleton

  13-07-2017 20:23 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Britain's Natural History Museum in London has suspended a gigantic blue whale skeleton in its main entrance — drawing attention to vanishing species in an environment under strain.
  
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• Did Samsung just accidentally reveal the Galaxy Note 8 early?

  13-07-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  
  The past few months have been absolutely swamped with Galaxy Note 8 leaks, from schematics and components to release date rumors and concept images. Through all of these leaks, including our own exclusive leak, we've managed to piece together a fairly complete picture of the upcoming phablet. But on Thursday morning, without warning, Samsung's official Exynos Twitter account shared an image that appears to feature the Galaxy Note 8. After all that build up, Samsung spoiled the surprise itself.On
  
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• Donald Trump says 'something could happen with the Paris Agreement'

  13-07-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has opened the door to a reversal of his decision on the Paris Agreement on climate change saying that “something” could happen regarding the deal during his trip to France for Bastille Day.Mr Trump withdrew the US from the global climate agreement which nearly 200 countries signed in December 2015 in an effort to combat global warming and help poorer countries adapt to an already-changed planet.“If it happens that will be wonderful and if it doesn't that will be o
  
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• Videos appear to show Iraqi troops killing Mosul detainees

  13-07-2017 20:14 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Human Rights Watch says Iraqi security forces have forcibly relocated dozens of families with alleged links to Islamic State group.
  
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• The Latest: Trump, Macron to dine at Eiffel Tower

  13-07-2017 20:09 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on President Donald Trump's visit to Paris (all times local): 8:45 a.m.
  
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