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• Illinois man charged with Chinese scholar kidnapping pleads not guilty

  20-07-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  An Illinois man charged with kidnapping a female Chinese scholarwho has been missing for more than a month pleaded not guilty during an appearance in a U.S. court on Thursday.Brendt Christensen, 28, is accused of abducting Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old visiting scholar at the University of Illinois from southeastern China, who disappeared on June 9.Zhang, who had been studying photosynthesis and crop productivity, was last seen when a security camera recorded her getting into a black car that au
  
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• Police Dispatcher Asks Cops to Help Him Propose During Traffic Stop

  20-07-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  A Texas woman was shocked when a police officer pulled her over.
  
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• Great White Shark Gets Shockingly Close To Paddle Boarders Near California

  20-07-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Paddle boarders came dangerously close to a great white shark in Califonia waters.
  
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• Person Who Ate at Chipotle in Northern Virginia Tests Positive for Norovirus

  20-07-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  The location was closed for cleaning after customers reported illnesses
  
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• Moon Photobombs Mars In Hubble Images For NASA

  20-07-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  This moon photobombed Mars as the Hubble Space Telescope was trying to take some photos of the planet and they made for some cool shots.
  
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• Iraqi Forces Carry Out Revenge Killings Against ISIS Suspects

  20-07-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  
  As Iraqi forces gain upper hand, Sunni Muslims become the victims of further sectarian crimes.
  
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• 300,000th Mercedes-Benz G-Class rolls off the assembly line

  20-07-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  Magna-Steyr's Austrian factory behind the Mercedes-Benz G-Class has reached a milestone after producing the 300,000th example of the boxy, brick of an off-road SUV.Although the United States wasn't introduced to the iconic Gelandewagen until 2002, the G-Class reigned supreme in Europe for years.Magna still builds a pickup version for Mercedes-Benz's military customers, however.
  
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• Sessions vows to stay despite Trump rebuke

  20-07-2017 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he plans to continue in his job despite President Donald Trump's comments that he'd have picked someone else had he known Sessions would recuse himself from the Justice Department's Russia investigation.
  
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• US warns South Sudan regional plan is last chance for peace

  20-07-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  The United States warned Thursday that a new regional plan to shore up South Sudan's failing peace agreement was the last chance for Juba's leaders to end the war, now in its fourth year.US Deputy Ambassador Michele Sison told the UN Security Council that Washington will reconsider its support for the deal signed two years ago by President Salva Kiir and rival Riek Machar, if the latest effort fails.The remarks highlighted growing impatience by the US administration with leaders in South Sudan,
  
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• Six African teens missing at robotics test

  20-07-2017 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Police are searching for six teens who were visiting Washington for an international robotics competition and have been reported missing.
  
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• Saudi king overhauls security services following royal shakeup

  20-07-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  By Hadeel Al SayeghDUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman on Thursday decreed the consolidation of counter-terrorism and domestic intelligence under a new body, in a major overhaul of the security apparatus weeks after the interior minister was ousted from the royal succession.The string of late night royal decrees also ordered a shakeup of senior personnel, replacing the head of the elite royal guard and elevating the head of the newly created Presidency of State Security, Abdulaziz bin Mohammed a
  
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• GOP senators dismayed at Trump's criticism of DOJ officials

  20-07-2017 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  A group of Republican senators criticized President Donald Trump on Thursday, a day after the President rebuked top law enforcement officials in an interview with The New York Times.
  
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• World history according to Trump

  20-07-2017 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  The President would like to provide some context.
  
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• Fighting kills 6 Ukraine soldiers in fresh spike of violence

  20-07-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Clashes with Russian-backed rebels killed six Ukrainian soldiers Thursday, officials said, in the bloodiest surge in fighting along the volatile frontline in recent months.The violence flared several days after a top rebel leader announced a plan to form a new "state" that Kiev warned could put a long-stalled peace plan further in jeopardy.Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said rebel shelling killed six servicemen and wounded two more around the insurgents' de-facto capital Donetsk.
  
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• Millions heed anti-Maduro shutdown in Venezuela

  20-07-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Cawthorne and Girish GuptaCARACAS (Reuters) - Many Venezuelan streets were barricaded and deserted on Thursday for a strike called by foes of President Nicolas Maduro to demand elections and the scrapping of plans for a new congress they fear will consolidate dictatorship in the OPEC country.From the Andes to the Amazon, millions joined the 24-hour shutdown, staying at home, closing businesses or manning roadblocks in a civil disobedience campaign the opposition hopes will end nearly t
  
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• Trophy Hunter Fatally Shoots Cecil the Lion's Son, Xanda

  20-07-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Xanda was killed just outside the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.
  
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• For 1st time, over half of people with HIV taking AIDS drugs

  20-07-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  For the first time in the global AIDS epidemic that has spanned four decades and killed 35 million people, more than half of all those infected with HIV are on drugs to treat the virus, the United Nations said in a report released Thursday.
  
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• Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington dead at 41

  20-07-2017 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Chester Bennington, the lead singer of the rock band Linkin Park, was found dead Thursday according to a spokesman for the LA County Coroner.
  
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• Cancer Survivor Says John McCain Can Fight Brain Tumor: 'It Doesn't Have to Be a Death Sentence'

  20-07-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Patients with glioblastoma tumors live an average of 15 months after receiving their diagnosis.
  
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• O.J. Simpson granted parole after serving 9 years in prison

  20-07-2017 22:24 via yahoo.com
  The Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners unanimously voted to grant parole to O.J. Simpson. Simpson has served almost nine years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery in 2008. He will be released from Lovelock Correctional Facility in October.
  
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• Trump's envoy picks hesitate on question of Russian meddling

  20-07-2017 22:10
  
  Several of President Donald Trump's nominees for key ambassador posts declined Thursday to say unequivocally whether Russia sought to interfere in the presidential election
  
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• GOP senator: We don’t have ‘luxury’ of knowing what health care plan we’ll move on

  20-07-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Senate Republicans are asking members to allow debate on their plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, but it's not clear what that plan is.
  
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• Chester Bennington, Linkin Park Frontman, Dead at 41

  20-07-2017 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said Chester Bennington, 41, apparently committed suicide.
  
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• Why traffic lights are better in Germany

  20-07-2017 20:58 via cnn.com
  A city in western Germany may soon be home to a rather unusual pedestrian light.
  
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• Trump Finances Part of Russia Investigation

  20-07-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  Greg Farrell, investigative reporter for Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about Special Counsel Robert Mueller including Donald Trump's personal business and finances as part of the Trump Russia investigation.
  
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• Factors considered in the OJ Simpson parole decision

  20-07-2017 20:49
  
  The Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners explained to O.J. Simpson that they will consider various "mitigating" and "aggravating" factors before making their decision.
  
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• OJ Simpson's Lawyer Malcolm LaVergne Is Key Figure In Parole Hearing

  20-07-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  Malcolm LaVergne could help O.J. Simpson become a free man after his parole hearing.
  
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• China expands reach: Ships in Baltic for drills with Russia

  20-07-2017 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  One of China's most-advanced warships is leading a small flotilla to the Baltic Sea, where it will engage in exercises with the Russian Navy.
  
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• Surviving Child Describes Horror of Mother's Alleged Family Stabbing Rampage

  20-07-2017 20:28 via yahoo.com
  In new Division of Family and Children's Services documents, Diana Romero, 9, recalls the sight of her mother getting a knife out of the kitchen.
  
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• WaPo: Trump Seeks Advice On Pardoning Himself

  20-07-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Ashley Parker, reporter for The Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that Donald Trump is trying to undercut Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and is asking advisers about pardoning himself, aides and family members.
  
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• That buzz around the VP's residence? Bees

  20-07-2017 20:00 via cnn.com
  
  Soon after Karen Pence arrived her new home in Washington, she made an addition of a new colony of bees.
  
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• For Trump to Fire Mueller, Sessions Has to Go

  20-07-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow looks at some of the background of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort that is being looked at in the Trump Russia investigation and notes that if Trump is afraid the investigation is getting to close.
  
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• McCain faces greatest battle in brain cancer

  20-07-2017 19:47 via cnn.com
  
  John McCain has always lived for the fight. Now he's facing his toughest battle.
  
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• Doctors Say a Third of Dementia Cases Could be Prevented

  20-07-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  Some effective ways of preventing dementia don’t involve high-tech or expensive strategies
  
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• OJ Simpson's Finances Under Scrutiny

  20-07-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  He is worth approximately $250,000, down from over $10 million in the early 1990s.
  
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• The 'other' breast cancer genes

  20-07-2017 19:10 via cnn.com
  
  When Samantha Golkin-Nigliazzo was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, she wasn't surprised. Instead, it was the results of her subsequent genetic tests that left her in shock.
  
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• WATCH: Small plane makes emergency landing on Long Island highway

  20-07-2017 18:46
  
  A Cessna plane pilot is being praised for his successful emergency landing on a Long Island highway that included flying under an overpass.
  
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• New US embassies make an architectural statement

  20-07-2017 18:45 via cnn.com
  Later this year, the new US Embassy in London will open, a giant glass cube on a formerly industrial site south of the River Thames.
  
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• Germany vows economic steps against Turkey as row escalates

  20-07-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  Germany on Thursday vowed stinging measures hitting tourism and investment in Turkey and a full "overhaul" of their troubled relations, signalling its patience had snapped after Ankara's arrests of human rights activists.The government stepped up its travel advisory for the NATO ally as Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned it could no longer guarantee its citizens' safety in the face of "arbitrary" mass arrests, a step set to hit a sector crucial to Turkey's ailing economy.A day after his mini
  
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• India ready for talks with China on border standoff

  20-07-2017 17:57 via yahoo.com
  
  India said Thursday it is ready to hold talks with China if both sides pull back their forces to end a standoff along a disputed territory high in the Himalayan mountains.
  
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• North Korean Defectors Detail Public Executions, Mass Graves, Prison Camps

  20-07-2017 17:55 via yahoo.com
  A human rights organization hopes to use the testimony as prosecution for crimes against humanity.
  
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• Opinion: Trump is the blamer in chief

  20-07-2017 17:37 via cnn.com
  
  The new moniker for President Donald Trump should be the "blamer in chief." When confronted with challenges and problems, there is nothing the President likes to do more than lash out against someone else.
  
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• 2018 Pirelli calendar features all-black cast

  20-07-2017 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  For over half a century the Pirelli calendar has given us dozens of memorable images, from Norman Parkinson's photograph of a young Iman for the 1985 cover and Herb Ritts' beachside nudes of Helena Christensen and Kate Moss to Peter Lindbergh's monochrome portraits of Lea Seydoux and Jessica Chastain last year.
  
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• After Trump rebuke, Sessions shows up for work, will stay ‘as long as that is appropriate’

  20-07-2017 17:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein dodged questions about their future with the Department of Justice following criticisms from President Trump.In an interview with the New York Times published Wednesday evening, Trump said that he would not have appointed Sessions as attorney general if he knew Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation.“We in the Department of Justice will continue every single day to work hard, to se
  
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• Trump Slams Rod Rosenstein For Being From Baltimore

  20-07-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  "There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any."
  
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• The first lady of Japan may have pretended not to speak English to avoid Trump

  20-07-2017 17:19 via yahoo.com
  In aNew York Times interview released Wednesday, Donald Trump claims he was not able to converse with Japanese first lady Akie Abe at a G20 summit dinner.  After all, he said, despite being a "terrific woman," she "doesn't speak English." "Like, nothing, right? Like zero?" Times reporter Maggie Haberman asked him. "Like, not 'hello,'" Trump replied.  Except ... it appears that Akie Abedoes speak English. In fact, here's a video of her delivering an entire keynote address in English. SE
  
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• A Chicago club crawl with a bus-driving bluesman

  20-07-2017 17:10 via cnn.com
  Toronzo Cannon has more energy before 5 a.m. than some people can muster all day.
  
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• Prince William triumphs over Duchess of Cambridge in boat race

  20-07-2017 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's sporting rivalries have surfaced again, with the royal couple facing off against each other in a boat race in Heidelberg, Germany.
  
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• Prince William beats wife in boat race

  20-07-2017 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's sporting rivalries have surfaced again, with the royal couple facing off against each other in a boat race in Heidelberg, Germany.
  
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• Saving a Spaceman from Drowning

  20-07-2017 16:12 via nbcnews.com
  An astronaut's helmet was flooding with water. Lucky for him, his crewmate Karen Nyberg was there to help.
  
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