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• Russia says ready to retaliate after U.S. talks end without deal

  18-07-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia said on Tuesday that it reserved the right to retaliate against the United States after a meeting in Washington ended without an agreement to return Russian diplomatic property the U.S. had seized.
  
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• GOP Rep. Rohrabacher gets to the bottom of Martian civilization: There wasn’t any

  18-07-2017 23:48 via yahoo.com
  
  A Republican lawmaker asked a panel of NASA scientists Tuesday for opinions on whether Mars could have had civilized life “thousands of years ago.”
  
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• Saudi Arabia woman arrested for wearing miniskirt, sparking public outcry

  18-07-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  The woman, whose name was not given, was detained by police in the capital, Riyadh, for wearing "immodest clothes" that contradicted the country's conservative Islamic dress code, state media reported Tuesday.
  
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• What's Next for Health Care if GOP Can't Repeal Obamacare?

  18-07-2017 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Senate's quest to repeal and replace Obamacare is dead for now. But that's not the end of the story: Here's what's next for health care.
  
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• U.S. prepares to sanction Venezuela officials, Maduro defies threat

  18-07-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  By Matt Spetalnick and Andrew CawthorneWASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) - The Trump administration is preparing sanctions against several senior Venezuelan officials, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to abort plans for a controversial congress foes say would cement dictatorship.Maduro's leftist government vowed to proceed with the July 30 vote for the new Constituent Assembly despite what it called a "brutal interventionist" threat from its ideological foe.
  
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• House Republicans Have a New Budget. Here Are 3 Ways it Could Affect You

  18-07-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  It would cut Medicare and Medicaid and could pave the way to tax reform
  
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• Illinois teenager arrested in Uber slaying could face more charges

  18-07-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  
  An Illinois teenager arrested for fatally stabbing an Uber [UBER.UL] driver may face additional criminal charges for her violent behavior while detained, prosecutors said on Tuesday.Eliza Wasni, 16, who was charged in June with murdering Grant Nelson, has been involved in 40 reported incidents at the Chicago juvenile detention facility where she is being held, Diann Sheridan, a lawyer with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, said during a court hearing.Nelson, 34, was killed early on May
  
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• NATO, Russian Troops Rattle Swords Along Hundreds of Miles of Borderland

  18-07-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Across Eastern Europe, Moscow and the transatlantic alliance are staging large-scale exercises to show they mean business
  
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• After healthcare failure, Republicans face similar divisions on tax reform

  18-07-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  
  By David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress unveiled a fiscal 2018 budget plan as a first step to major U.S. tax reform on Tuesday, only to face the same divisions between conservatives and moderates that helped killed their efforts to replace Obamacare.The $4 trillion spending blueprint, released by the House of Representatives budget committee, could become a new flashpoint for Republican in-fighting because it links future tax cuts for businesses and individuals with $203 bi
  
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• Non-Citizens Used to Be Able to Vote in U.S. Elections. Here's What Changed

  18-07-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The Commission on Election Integrity may be meeting for the first time, but voter-fraud claims about immigrants have a long history
  
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• Charlie Gard doctors remain 'unconvinced' after flying visit by US neurosurgeon who said he could treat him

  18-07-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The British doctors caring for Charlie Gard are understood to remain unconvinced by an American neurosurgeon who claimed he could treat the little boy. Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) staff spent five and half hours on Tuesday locked in discussions with Dr Michio Hirano, a US specialist who flew back to the US on Tuesday night. Charlie’s mother Connie Yates was also present at the meeting to determine the best course of action for her 11-month-old son. Dr Hirano had flown to London on
  
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• Under Sessions' Plan, More Property Will Be Seized

  18-07-2017 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions told prosecutors that he plans to increase civil asset forfeitures, in which the federal government seizes suspects' property.
  
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• Chinese internet censors crack down on ... Winnie the Pooh

  18-07-2017 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  One of the most pressing questions facing millions of Chinese internet users right now seems to be: Have the authorities banished a honey-loving teddy bear from China's cyberspace?
  
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• Dad with giant face tattoo gets laser removal, reveals he's landed first job

  18-07-2017 22:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A teenage lad who complained his huge ‘DEVAST8’ face tattoo was ruining his chance of finding a job is getting it lasered off for free.
  
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• Insurers Fear Latest Chaos Over Health Care

  18-07-2017 22:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The healthcare industry is not out of the woods yet.
  
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• Miami Boy, 10, May Have Died After Exposure to Fentanyl

  18-07-2017 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  It's unclear how he came across the drug, which has prompted warnings by law enforcement that breathing in or even touching a small speck of it can be fatal.
  
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• Eighth person at Trump Jr meeting was accused of money laundering

  18-07-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Irakly ‘Ike’ Kaveladze, once accused of laundering more than $1.4bn, was a participant in the notorious get-together at Trump Tower in June 2016A Russian American businessman once accused of laundering more than $1.4bn into the US from eastern Europe attended the meeting where Donald Trump’s son expected to receive secret information from Moscow.Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze was the eighth participant in the notorious get-together at Trump Tower in Manhattan on 9 June 2016
  
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• Trump admin again keeps Iran deal but adds sanctions

  18-07-2017 22:23
  
  The Trump administration has once again kept the Iran deal alive.
  
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• America’s Not First. It’s Third.

  18-07-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States slips behind France and the U.K. in this year’s soft-power ranking.
  
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• Ohio drops case against ex-cop in shooting of unarmed man

  18-07-2017 22:13
  
  An Ohio prosecutor won't try for a third time to convict a white police officer.
  
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• Authorities: Man killed daughter for dating a Muslim

  18-07-2017 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  An Israeli-Christian man is accused of stabbing his teenage daughter to death because, authorities say, he didn't approve of her relationship with a Muslim man.
  
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• The Afghan Vice President Was Just Denied Entry to Afghanistan

  18-07-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  It’s the latest sign of a political crisis roiling the country.
  
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• Iraqis hold suspected militants in cramped, stifling prison

  18-07-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Hundreds of suspected Islamic State members swept up by Iraqi forces in Mosul are being held in a cramped and stifling prison just outside the city.
  
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• US senator criticizes Pruitt in Oklahoma ethics probe

  18-07-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Democratic member of the U.S. Senate committee that conducted confirmation hearings for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a letter Tuesday that Oklahoma's former attorney general presented "inconsistent and contradictory statements" to the panel.
  
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• Political spin: Russia claims 'addictive' fidget spinners are tools of opposition

  18-07-2017 21:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Consumer watchdog warns that children’s toy could have negative health consequences after state TV show calls spinners a ‘form of hypnosis’Russia’s state consumer watchdog has warned that fidget spinners could be harmfully addictive, after state TV said the toys could make people susceptible to the messages of the political opposition. Related: Fidget spinners are not just a fad – ask any ballpoint-pen clicker | Katherine IsbisterContinue reading...
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About the Chipotle Outbreak

  18-07-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Is it safe to eat at Chipotle?Customers reported experiencing painful norovirus symptoms ranging from severe stomach discomfort, nausea, dizziness, and dehydration to vomiting and diarrhea—which even drove two victims to the hospital."We are working with health authorities to understand what the cause may be and to resolve the situation as quickly as possible," Jim Marsden, Chipotle's executive director of food safety, told Business Insider.
  
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• Ann Coulter Claims Delta Incident Was Politically Motivated

  18-07-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Ann Coulter believes Delta Air Lines targeted her for political reasons.
  
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• Too Cruel? Inmates Ask High Court to Stop Ohio Executions

  18-07-2017 21:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ohio has not held an execution in three years but plans to kill Ronald Phillips on July 26.
  
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• Malala Yousafzai condemns China over treatment of Liu Xiaobo

  18-07-2017 21:24 via theguardian.com
  
  After dissident died in custody, Yousafzai, speaking on a trip to Nigeria, criticises ‘governments that deny people freedom’The Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has condemned China over its treatment of her fellow peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo following his death from liver cancer in custody last week. Liu was jailed for 11 years in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” after he helped write a petition known as “Charter 08” calling for sweeping politica
  
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• ‘Let Obamacare fail’: Donald Trump lays out healthcare plan – video

  18-07-2017 21:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Donald Trump says he is ‘disappointed’ by his party’s failure to agree on legislation that would have repealed and replaced Barack Obama’s signature healthcare act. Speaking to reporters after support for his bill fell apart, the US president said his administration was ‘in the position where we’ll let Obamacare fail’Trump pivots from Obamacare repeal to ordering Republicans to ‘let it fail’Continue reading...
  
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• Minneapolis officer who allegedly shot Justine Damond offers condolences

  18-07-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Mohamed Noor confirmed to the Guardian as Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot unarmed Australian woman Justine Damond on Saturday.The officer implicated in the fatal police shooting of Australian national Justine Damond in Minneapolis has issued a statement extending his condolences to her family, as senior local law enforcement sources confirmed to the Guardian that Mohamed Noor, an officer with only two years’ experience, opened fire on the unarmed 40-year-old.
  
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• WATCH: State trooper caught on video appearing to speed wrong way down highway

  18-07-2017 21:16
  
  Carisa Lynn says she “freaked out” while capturing the video in Catawba County.
  
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• Senate GOP lacks votes for Obamacare repeal, Trump says to let it fail

  18-07-2017 21:16
  
  Three GOP senators said they wouldn't vote to repeal without replacement.
  
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• Bodies of couple believed found in glacier 75 years after their disappearance

  18-07-2017 21:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The remains of a Swiss couple who disappeared while walking to feed their cattle are believed to have been recovered from a retreating glacier, local media reported Tuesday.
  
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• Against All Odds: Ballerina Michaela DePrince's Remarkable Journey

  18-07-2017 21:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Michaela DePrince has come a long way: From living in a Sierra Leone orphanage to dancing world class stages as a professional ballerina.
  
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• How to Take a Vacation That Actually Benefits Your Health

  18-07-2017 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  How to take time off that actually benefits your health.
  
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• Putin shows off Russian advances at MAKS-2017 Aviation and Space Salon

  18-07-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  The MAKS airshow and exhibition is a major international event in the aerospace business. Here are photos from the first day of this year’s gathering.
  
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• 8th person in Trump Jr. meeting identified as Ike Kaveladze

  18-07-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Ike Kaveladze’s attorney confirmed that his client was the eighth person at the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Kaveladze, who believed he was attending the meeting as a translator, is senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development company run by Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov.
  
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• More Americans want Trump's impeachment than Nixon's amid Watergate, poll finds

  18-07-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  More Americans would like to see Donald Trump impeached than wanted Richard Nixon impeached amid the Watergate scandal that led to that that president’s resignation.For Republicans, 12 per cent support Mr Trump’s impeachment, compared to 7 per cent who supported the same for Nixon six months into his second term.Just 34 per cent of Democrats wanted to impeach Nixon, compared to a whopping 70 per cent who want to see Mr Trump impeached, according to a poll from the Monmouth University
  
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• Kushner's security clearance in jeopardy?

  18-07-2017 21:01 via cnn.com
  
  Concerns over the fate of Jared Kushner's final security clearance have begun to creep into the West Wing.
  
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• 'Star Wars' galaxy hotel to open

  18-07-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  Hold on to your light sabers, Disney has unveiled a new way to experience the universe of Jedi, droids and wookiees -- an immersive "Star Wars"-themed hotel.
  
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• Teen electrocuted after playing on phone in bathtub

  18-07-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  As she often did, 14-year-old Madison Coe ran a bath to unwind before bed.
  
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• Case dropped vs. Cincinnati ex-cop in unarmed man's shooting

  18-07-2017 20:50
  An Ohio prosecutor won't try for a third time to convict a white police officer.
  
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• British man dies in Italy after attempting to rescue daughter in sea

  18-07-2017 20:44 via theguardian.com
  
  The 48-year-old, along with an Italian man, died off the coast of Ostuni in the Puglia region of southern ItalyA British man has died in Italy after attempting to rescue his daughter when she got into difficulty in the sea, according to reports.The tourist had rushed into the water along with an Italian man working at the Bosco Verde beach, Ostuni, in the Puglia region of southern Italy, according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump admin tries to thread its own needle on Iran

  18-07-2017 20:42
  
  The Trump administration has once again kept the Iran deal alive.
  
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• Ford Powershift Class Action Settlement

  18-07-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  
  The class action settlement should be rather good for owners and previous owners of Fords equipped with the troublesome Powershift gearbox.
  
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• Trump disowns Obamacare again as GOP repeal plan effectively collapses

  18-07-2017 20:28 via yahoo.com
  
  The president says that neither he nor Republicans are going to take the blame for problems related to America’s current health care law hours after the bill to repeal and replace it was rendered dead in the Senate.
  
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• Security robot meets its end after drowning on the job

  18-07-2017 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  It was one small step for security technology, but one giant leap in the wrong direction for robotkind.
  
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• Fugitive on the Lam for 4 Years Gets Arrested After Flagging Down Cop for a Ride

  18-07-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Jansen Simon, 30, had been wanted for aggravated second-degree battery since 2013.
  
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• U.S. Military: North Korean Missiles Can Reach America, Lack Guidance

  18-07-2017 20:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  The rogue regime now has the range to hit the U.S. but not the guidance technology to ensure such an attempted strike would be aimed accurately.
  
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