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• NASA video lets you soar over Pluto, and it's pretty amazing

  14-07-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Want to know what Pluto’s terrain looks like? Spoiler alert: It’s really cool.  Using data from the New Horizons spacecraft and digital elevation models of both the planet and its largest moon, Charon, scientists were able to develop these awesome flyover movies. SEE ALSO: NASA's newest treasure trove of alien planets will help us find our place in the galaxy A flight over Pluto shows the highlands and the planet's nitrogen icy plain, Sputnik Planitia. Viewers then get to see th
  
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• FBI: Fugitive lawyer linked to social security fraud spotted

  14-07-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal agents tracking a fugitive Kentucky lawyer involved in a massive Social Security fraud case released surveillance photos Friday indicating that his escape route took him to New Mexico.
  
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• US forces killed emir of ISIS-K: Pentagon

  14-07-2017 23:45
  
  U.S. forces killed emir of ISIS in Afghanistan on Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Police saw no problems day before 4 killed

  14-07-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  EASLEY, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on four bodies found in two South Carolina shootings (all times local):
  
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• Beyoncé shares first photo of twins

  14-07-2017 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  Forgive the Beyhive if they are tired on Friday.
  
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• Clinton found hiding between Bushes

  14-07-2017 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  If you thought former President Bill Clinton is happiest when frolicking among balloons, think again.
  
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• Russian-American lobbyist: I just strolled into Trump Jr. meeting

  14-07-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who attended a controversial June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr., said he was there by chance
  
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• Jamie Gorelick exiting Kushner-Russia case

  14-07-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo News reports that the White House is undergoing a legal team shakeup amid growing Russia-related investigations. Jamie Gorelick, a powerful Democratic Washington, D.C., attorney who's been representing Jared Kushner, will be exiting the Russia case. The White House is bringing in the prominent D.C. attorney Ty Cobb as special counsel to handle all things Russia-related.
  
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• Tulsa Cop Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Black Man Resigns

  14-07-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Officer Betty Shelby will resign effective August 3
  
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• Congressional Russia investigations: A look at where they stand

  14-07-2017 22:47
  
  A look at where the various inquiries stand.
  
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• US moves to seize $140 mn from Nigerian oil corruption

  14-07-2017 22:42 via yahoo.com
  
  The yacht and a $50 million condominium overlooking New York's famed Central Park were among the riches tied to dirty contracts awarded by Nigeria's former oil minister between 2011 and 2015, the US Justice Department said statement."The United States is not a safe haven for the proceeds of corruption," acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco said.The assets were purchased using proceeds of oil sector contracts awarded by Nigeria's former minister for petroleum resources, Diezani Alison
  
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• Leader of Afghan IS branch killed in US strike: Pentagon

  14-07-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  
  US forces have killed the head of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan branch, the Pentagon said Friday, marking the third time in a year the franchise has lost its leader.Abu Sayed was killed in a July 11 strike in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunar on the headquarters of IS-Khorasan Province (IS-K), which also killed additional jihadists, the Pentagon said in a statement."You kill a leader of one of these groups and it sets them back," Pentagon chief Jim Mattis told reporters.
  
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• Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan killed: Pentagon

  14-07-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday.Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement that other members of the Islamic State group were also killed in the strike on Tuesday.U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters, "The significance is you kill a leader of one of these groups and it sets them back ... it is obviously a victory on our side in terms of set
  
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• Top House Republican says budget plan to move ahead

  14-07-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving ahead with their long-overdue budget blueprint, even as divisions between moderates and conservatives over cutting programs like food stamps threaten passage of the measure.
  
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• Sessions releases heavily redacted record of foreign contacts

  14-07-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday released a government form dealing with contacts he has had with foreign nationals, including Russian government officials, but much of it was redacted.
  
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• 10 Essential Estate Planning Tips Everyone Should Know

  14-07-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  The death of both parents in an accident can leave their children's fate up to a judge.Estate planning can save you from all those unfortunate outcomes.Nearly everyone should do some basic estate planning, even those with few assets.
  
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• FBI: Buried body is fugitive accused in police chief slaying

  14-07-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A decadeslong search for a fugitive charged in the 1980 killing of a Pennsylvania police chief came to a dramatic end Friday as authorities positively identified remains found buried in a Massachusetts yard as the man they have long suspected in the fatal shooting.
  
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• When Drug Trafficking Is Your Only Option

  14-07-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  As it gets harder to cross the border, the mafia is helping ever more migrants enter the United States — for a price.
  
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• Stalled Russia sanctions bill hits North Korean snag in U.S. Congress

  14-07-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill that many lawmakers hoped would send a message to President Donald Trump to keep a strong line against Russia hit a new snag in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, as Republicans proposed combining it with sanctions on North Korea.The Russia sanctions bill passed the Senate on June 15 by 98-2, but it has not come up for a vote in the House.The chamber's Republican leaders initially said there was a technical problem with how the bill was
  
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• Tulsa cop cleared in killing of unarmed black man resigns

  14-07-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A white Oklahoma police officer recently acquitted of fatally shooting an unarmed black man submitted her resignation from the Tulsa police department Friday, saying the desk job where she had been assigned made her feel isolated from fellow officers.
  
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• Bastille Day: Macron vows merciless fight against terror

  14-07-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  NICE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday vowed to "fight without mercy" inside and outside France to end extremist attacks like the one that killed 86 revelers on Bastille Day in the Riviera city of Nice one year ago.
  
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• Trump and Macron: An unlikely friendship is born

  14-07-2017 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Donald Trump forms a close alliance with President Emmanuel Macron during his Paris trip.
  
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• Iraqi Kurds Look to Form Independent Country

  14-07-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Hoshyar Zebari, an Iraqi Kurdish politician, about the desire by Iraqi Kurds to break away and form their own country, and what that would mean for Iraq's oil.
  
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• Macron and Trump mark France's Bastille Day

  14-07-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  President Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump marked France's national day together on Friday at a military parade which clearly delighted the US leader and showcased warming relations between the two men.Trump was Macron's guest of honour at national day celebrations in the capital as this year also marked the centenary of the United States entering World War I."Nothing will ever separate us," the 39-year-old Macron said from the reviewing stand, adding that Trump's presence by his side was "the s
  
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• Egypt beach resort attack kills two foreigners

  14-07-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  
  The governor of Red Sea province, where the resort of Hurghada is located, said two "foreign residents" of the city were killed in the attack, a cabinet statement said.Although the attacker's motives were unclear, the stabbing will come as a blow to Egypt which has been trying to woo back tourists after years of unrest and deadly attacks.There was confusion about the nationalities of the victims, with Egyptian officials and state media initially saying the two women killed were Ukrainian which K
  
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• Republican health bill: latest draft would scrap contraception mandate

  14-07-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The latest version of the US Senate’s bill to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act would eliminate the so-called birth control mandate, handing a long-sought victory to conservative activists who have spent years assailing the regulation.The mandate is one of the most controversial benefits of the Obama administration’s enforcement of the ACA.
  
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• Wimbledon 2017: Three-racquets Federer, battling Cilic & man in a dress

  14-07-2017 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the weird and wonderful moments from day 11 at Wimbledon as Roger Federer beats Tomas Berdych to set up a final with Croatia's Marin Cilic.
  
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• Federer reaches 11th Wimbledon final

  14-07-2017 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  Marin Cilic may lack the flamboyance of Goran Ivanisevic but he is one win away from emulating his fellow Croatian and winning Wimbledon.
  
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• White House shakes up legal team as probe gathers steam

  14-07-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Under intensifying fire over its handling of the Russia investigations, the White House is shaking up its legal team, bringing on board a veteran Washington criminal defense lawyer just as another high-profile attorney turns over responsibilities for representing a senior official in the cross hairs of the criminal probe.Ty Cobb, who has represented multiple figures in Washington scandals dating back to the Clinton administration, will be joining the White House staff at the end of this mon
  
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• US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan

  14-07-2017 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon said Friday that US forces have killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's Afghanistan affiliate.
  
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• Egypt attacks: 2 German female tourists, 5 policemen killed

  14-07-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Two German female tourists were stabbed to death while four other foreigners were wounded in an attack Friday at a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, an Egyptian security official said.
  
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• WATCH: Trump's lengthy handshake with Macron ends his Bastille Day visit

  14-07-2017 21:09
  
  President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shared a lengthy handshake following the Bastille Day parade in Paris.
  
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• Taiwanese lawmakers launch water balloons, brandish chairs in floor brawl

  14-07-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  A fracas broke out on the Taiwanese parliament floor Friday as lawmakers exchanged blows over an infrastructure project for the second day in a row.
  
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• Trump campaign data chief to talk to House Russia panel

  14-07-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The data and digital director for President Donald Trump's campaign said Friday he will speak with the House Intelligence Committee later this month as part of its Russia probe.
  
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• 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Trump Jr. and Kushner had others beyond Russian lawyer, sources say

  14-07-2017 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included more people beyond the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, a source familiar with the circumstances tells CNN.
  
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• WATCH: Purse snatching suspect jumps onto subway tracks

  14-07-2017 20:42
  
  A suspected purse snatcher jumped onto the Manhattan subway tracks after being chased by Good Samaritans.
  
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• Sidelined healthcare lobby stymies Republican healthcare effort

  14-07-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  By Yasmeen AbutalebWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans pushing to overhaul Obamacare largely ignored key players in the debate over insuring the poor: the health insurers and hospitals charged with carrying out the law if it gets approved.Instead, conservative groups such as Heritage Action for America won the ears of Senate Republicans when it came to changing the Medicaid insurance program for the poor and disabled.The snub is fueling health industry opposition to the new plans for Medic
  
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• Grandmother Convinces Escaped Inmate To Give Himself Up

  14-07-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Cops say 24-year-old Revantae Williams fled Wednesday night.
  
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• Animal first: wild lioness photographed nursing leopard cub

  14-07-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ed StoddardJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Scientists long assumed lions were hard-wired to kill leopards on sight, until a wild lioness was caught on camera this week nursing a leopard cub.The startling photographs, taken in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area, are the first evidence of such inter-species bonding between predators that are normally mortal enemies."There is no other recorded case where a big cat in the wild has suckled a cub belonging to another species," Luke Hunter, president
  
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• JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says 'it's almost an embarrassment being American'

  14-07-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  The chief executive of the US’s largest bank has voiced his frustration with political gridlock in Washington and said it was sometimes “an embarrassment being an American citizen”.Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co, is known for his frequently outspoken comments.Last year, he turned down an opportunity to become Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary.
  
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• Woman's selfie causes $200,000 of damage

  14-07-2017 20:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Next time you're in an art gallery, don't do this.
  
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• State lawmaker accused of sexually assaulting teenage girl

  14-07-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A state lawmaker has been charged with sexually and physically assaulting a 16-year-old girl last year under the guise of discussing her interest in politics.
  
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• House backs massive increase in defense spending

  14-07-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of a massive annual defense bill on Friday, leaving out controversial amendments on transgender troops and climate policy but backing President Donald Trump's desire for a bigger, stronger military.The vote was 344-81 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets military policy and authorizes up to $696 billion in spending for the Department of Defense.Underscoring bipartisan supp
  
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• Five hurt in acid attack robberies in London, two teenagers arrested

  14-07-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  
  By Costas Pitas and Paul SandleLONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested two teenagers on Friday after five acid attacks on moped riders in less than 90 minutes across east London left several people with facial burns, including one with horrific injuries.Two assailants on a moped pulled up alongside a 32-year-old man in the Hackney area of east London at 2125 GMT on Thursday and threw acid in his face before one of the pair made off with the victim's moped.In the next hour and a half, three ot
  
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• U.N. urges Venezuela to allow dissent as asylum requests soar

  14-07-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  
  By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Venezuela's government to let people take part in an unofficial referendum on the constitution on Sunday and to make sure security forces do not use excessive force against protesters.Opposition groups have called the plebiscite after months of protests, saying Venezuelans should have their say on President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution.The U.N. human rights office said six to eight million people were expect
  
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• The Latest: Lawmaker charged with sexually assaulting teen

  14-07-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on a New Hampshire lawmaker charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl (all times local):
  
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• AT&T to run wireless, media as separate units - source

  14-07-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  AT&T Incwill run its wireless and DirecTV satellite television businesses separately from Time Warner Inc'smedia assets following its $85.4 billion acquisition of the entertainment group, a source told Reuters on Friday.Buying Time Warner gives AT&T control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets.
  
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• British baby Charlie Gard to be evaluated by US doctor

  14-07-2017 19:14 via cnn.com
  
  A British judge said Friday that Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old baby with a rare, terminal medical condition who has been the center of an ongoing legal battle, can be evaluated by a doctor from the United States.
  
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• Who is Rinat Akhmetshin? The mystery man at Trump Jr's Russia meeting

  14-07-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Rinat Akhmetshin was not one to hide his connections to Russian intelligence.During his years working in the shadowy Washington DC world of corporate intelligence, his connections to former Russian agents were pitched as a valuable asset to private clients.Akhmetshin – who courted journalists and politicians alike – was known for speaking as candidly about his years of military service in Afghanistan as his objectives on Capitol Hill.
  
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• And So Jaguar Built Its Entry-Level SUV Hot Hatch

  14-07-2017 19:06 via yahoo.com
  
  The F-Pace has been a huge hit for Jaguar, so now it's getting a baby brother.
  
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