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• WATCH: Snake pops up in the middle of Australian newsroom

  31-07-2017 23:44
  The snake was discovered behind a computer.
  
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• App-downloading app breaks app-downloading record on app store

  31-07-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  The Google Play services app, a back-end Android app that makes the Google magic happen on your phone, has broken five billion downloads on the Google Play Store. That's a record and a major milestone for Google's third-party app store, so it's only fitting that it's broken by a Google-owned app that most people probably haven't heard of.The Google Play Services framework is a key part of Google's presence on Android devices. It's a required component of any officially-sanctioned phone that uses
  
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• Serena Williams sheds light on the black woman's experience during Black Women's Equal Pay Day

  31-07-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  It's the last day of July which means, thanks to a pesky thing called inequality, that black women are only now catching up to their male counterparts earnings from 2016.  That's right—according to the Economic Policy Institute, it takes seven months of additional work "in order to be paid the same wages as her white male counterpart was paid last year." Because of this, July 31 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. Serena Williams is one of the many drawing attention to the dramatic
  
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• Sanders says Trump joking about police brutality

  31-07-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House defended President Donald Trump's recent remarks that police shouldn't be too nice when transporting suspects, saying Monday that the president was "making a joke."
  
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• Alabama police hunt for inmate after peanut butter jail break

  31-07-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Walker County Sheriff James Underwood said in a phone call that 11 of the 12 missing prisoners had been recaptured, some at a highway truck stop, but 24-year-old Brady Kilpatrick remained a fugitive.Kilpatrick had been in jail facing charges of marijuana possession.Underwood said the men had managed the escape by using peanut butter to switch lettering on cell and outside doors, then told a guard in a control booth, a new employee with only a week on the job, to open the door leading to their fr
  
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• Venezuela defiant as US moves to sanction president

  31-07-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's socialist government on Monday claimed a popular mandate to dramatically recast the country's political system even as condemnations of the process poured in from governments around the world and the opposition at home.
  
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• U.S. embassy in Moscow says locked out of diplomatic property

  31-07-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. embassy in Moscow accused Russian authorities on Monday of barring diplomatic staff from a property on the outskirts of Moscow, after having earlier agreed to grant access until midday on Tuesday for them to retrieve belongings.A Russian foreign ministry official, quoted by state news agency RIA, said the U.S. embassy had sent in its trucks without first obtaining permits which, the official said, are required by law because the property is in a conservation area.The property, in a pict
  
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• White House communications director Scaramucci leaves in order to 'clean slate'

  31-07-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  The White House said on Monday that Anthony Scaramucci, named by President Donald Trump as communications director only 10 days ago, was leaving the post.The change comes days after Scaramucci delivered a profanity-laced tirade against other top Trump aides - and hours after Trump swore in John Kelly, a new chief of staff, to bring discipline to his West Wing."Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team," the White House s
  
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• The meteoric rise and fall of Anthony Scaramucci

  31-07-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Anticipating a role in the incoming administration of then president-elect Donald Trump, Scaramucci moves to avoid any potential conflict of interest by selling his stake in his global investment firm, SkyBridge Capital.Scaramucci is blocked from a White House position, however, by Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon, both of whom were reportedly not overly fond of the brash Wall Street financier.
  
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• Police Officer Killed in the Line of Duty After Walking His Son to First Day of Kindergarten

  31-07-2017 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Lt. Aaron Allan had worked for the department for six years.
  
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• Head Spinning? Who's In and Who's Out at the White House

  31-07-2017 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  Steve Bannon is the latest in a line of shakeups in the White house. Who has left the administration since Trump was sworn in?
  
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• Top Kenya election official 'tortured and murdered'

  31-07-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  A top official overseeing Kenya's electronic voting system was found tortured to death just over a week before national polls, the election commission's chairman said Monday.Rights groups reacted with outrage, with one saying the victim had received death threats and demanding a quick inquiry into the death of the official, who had a key role in combating election fraud.The body of Chris Msando, an information technology manager at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), was
  
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• John Kelly was angry about James Comey’s dismissal: report

  31-07-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset by the dismissal of FBI director James Comey that he considered resigning from his position as secretary of Homeland Security, according to a new report.
  
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• US hits 'dictator' Maduro with sanctions over disputed Venezuela vote

  31-07-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  The United States hit Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with direct sanctions on Monday over a disputed and deadly weekend vote that, while consolidating his power, has largely isolated him at home and abroad as the "dictator" of a failing petro-state.The US measures were unusual in that they targeted a sitting head of state, but their reach was mostly symbolic, freezing any US assets Maduro might have and banning people under US jurisdiction from dealing with him."Maduro is a dictator who dis
  
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• Sam Shepard could do everything

  31-07-2017 22:02 via cnn.com
  Because we don't exactly live in a Renaissance era, it is difficult for us to imagine what it's like to have Renaissance people in our midst. By these, we mean artists who achieve prominence, or even command, in more than one field.
  
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• WATCH: Man, dog rescued from raging floodwaters

  31-07-2017 21:50
  Firefighters in Colorado rescued a man and his dog from a submerged vehicle caught in a flash flood.
  
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• WATCH: Teacher invites 20 of her students to serve as flower girls, ring bearers in her wedding

  31-07-2017 21:43
  Indianapolis teacher Marielle Slagel Keller asked her young students be part of her June 24 wedding.
  
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• WATCH: Lava flows in time lapse video

  31-07-2017 21:43
  Stunning time lapse video shows lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano.
  
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• How Kelly could really end White House chaos

  31-07-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Despite President Trump’s proclamation that there is no chaos in the White House, new chief of staff John Kelly has a lot to do. Yahoo News talked to experts to find out what Kelly needs to do to ensure his tenure is longer than that of his predecessor.
  
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• 'Eclipse chasers' travel globe to see sun go dark

  31-07-2017 21:41 via cnn.com
  These people travel the world to experience "totality." Now what they love most -- a total solar eclipse -- is happening at home on August 21.
  
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• US hits Nicolás Maduro with sanctions after Venezuela's 'sham' election

  31-07-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Sanctions freeze Venezuelan president’s assets under US jurisdiction and prevent US citizens from doing business with him Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro celebrates the results of the election in Caracas. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images
  
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• See Samsung’s new flip phone powered on for the first time

  31-07-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Galaxy Note 8 leaks have been dominating the headlines of tech blogs for months now. We've seen renders, cases, release windows and rumored specs sheets, but it's easy to forget that the Note 8 likely won't be the only other phone Samsung releases in the second half of the year. Along with the S8 Active, Samsung is also reportedly working on two smart flip phones, both of which could launch in 2017.
  We highlighted the Samsung flip phone leaks last month, but over the weekend (via Slashleaks), ph
  
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• Army Chief Outlines Future Tank Features

  31-07-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Railguns, drone modes, and ultralight armor top the list.
  
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• Incoming chief of staff upset by firing of FBI chief

  31-07-2017 21:23 via cnn.com
  New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning, according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey.
  
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• Election official slain days before vote

  31-07-2017 21:23 via cnn.com
  A senior Kenyan election official has been found dead just days before the country goes to the polls.
  
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• Election official killed days before vote

  31-07-2017 21:23 via cnn.com
  A senior Kenyan election official has been found dead just days before the country goes to the polls.
  
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• Chief of staff threatened to quit over firing of FBI chief

  31-07-2017 21:23 via cnn.com
  New White House chief of staff John Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning, according to two sources familiar with a conversation between Kelly and Comey.
  
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• The Spectacular Self-Destruction of Anthony Scaramucci

  31-07-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  Anthony Scaramucci’s reign as White House communications director—a reign of terror and vulgarity, marked by two outlandish interviews and the departures of two top West Wing officials—has ended, just 10 days after it began.
  
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• A state-by-state look at juvenile life without parole

  31-07-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  States are responding to U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have found mandatory life-without-parole sentences unconstitutional for juveniles except for the rare homicide offender incapable of rehabilitation. After the latest ruling in January 2016 said those serving such terms must have a chance to argue for release one day, dozens of inmates have won new sentences — and some, freedom — while others wait or fight to have their sentences reviewed.
  
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• White House says Anthony Scaramucci leaving to give new Chief of Staff John Kelly a 'clean slate'

  31-07-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  The White House has said that former Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was removed from his position after just 10 days in order to give incoming Chief of Staff John Kelly a "clean slate and the ability to build his own team".The brief explanation came minutes after the New York Times reported Mr Scaramucci's dismissal.Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later expanded on this, saying Donald Trump had been troubled by Mr Scaramucci's boasts about reporting directly to the President,
  
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• Battle of Passchendaele centenary: Prince Charles honours 'courage and bravery' of British soldiers

  31-07-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  The Prince of Wales spoke of the "courage and bravery" of British soldiers killed at Passchendaele as he led centenary commemorations of the First World War battle. Exactly 100 years after thousands of British and Commonwealth troops went "over the top", Charles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prime Minister Theresa May joined the King and Queen of Belgium and some 4,000 descendants of those who fought, for a ceremony at the enormous Tyne Cot cemetery near Ypres. In his address to the gat
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci resigned and everyone is hahahahahahahahaha

  31-07-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Every Monday I wake up with the rest of the United States and say to myself, "I really don't think the country's week can be any more insane than it was last week," and by about Monday afternoon or Tuesday, latest, I am shaming myself for being so foolish.  Here we are again.  SEE ALSO: Quiz: Who said it? Anthony Scaramucci or a Real Housewife? New White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci resigned on Monday barely a week after he took the job and a few weeks before his of
  
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• Hotel asks why ex-officer wasn't arrested for punching valet

  31-07-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida hotel manager is questioning why a former police officer has not been arrested for punching and knocking out a valet parking attendant during a dispute over an $18 charge.
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci out as White House communications director; John Kelly has ‘full authority’

  31-07-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  President Trump’s volatile communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been removed from his position just 11 days after he was brought into the West Wing.
  
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• Too Mooch, Too Soon?: Anthony Scaramucci Out as Communications Director After Just 10 Days on the Job

  31-07-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  His ouster was reportedly ordered by new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
  
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• 'Time for talk is over': US grapples for new approach on N. Korea

  31-07-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  North Korea's test of a long-range missile that could hit major US cities drew condemnation from the US, China, Japan and South Korea, and calls for a rethink in tactics toward Pyongyang, given the dramatic escalation in its capabilities.
  
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• President Trump Just Called Back to 'The Apprentice' in a White House Meeting

  31-07-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  'We'll see you in the boardroom. We're having a Cabinet meeting'
  
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• Does Princess Diana have a right to privacy?

  31-07-2017 20:46 via cnn.com
  Here in Britain, hardly a day has gone by this summer without a royal row. The 31st of August, a month from now, will mark the 20th anniversary of the premature death of Diana, Princess of Wales. For weeks already, the British broadcasters have scheduled extra programming, trailing tell-all documentaries, while Diana's sons, William and Harry, have organized carefully choreographed events and interviews designed to burnish their mother's memory as a humanitarian.
  
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• NASA will get to test its planetary defense system way sooner than we thought

  31-07-2017 20:42 via yahoo.com
  NASA is extremely interested in building a true astroid defense network that could spring into action as soon as a threat is detected, destroying or diverting a space rock before it can do any serious damage here on Earth. The actual development of a protection system is still in its infancy — with many proposed plans for dealing with troublesome astroids but no real-world testing to back any of them — but that won't stop NASA from testing its detection capabilities during an upcomin
  
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• WATCH: Black water bubbles up at Niagara Falls

  31-07-2017 20:18
  An inky blob that grew for hours over the weekend, and caught business owners and tourists off guard, is legal discharge from a local wastewater treatment plant, officials said.
  
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• Utilities ditch reactors that launched U.S. nuclear renaissance

  31-07-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  South Carolina utilities said on Monday they are abandoning two unfinished reactors that were hailed as the start of a U.S. nuclear power renaissance before they were dogged by billions of dollars in cost overruns.The twin-reactor project known as V.C. Summer is majority owned by SCANA Corp, with state-owned utility Santee Cooper owning 45 percent."We arrived at this very difficult but necessary decision following months of evaluating the project from all perspectives to determine the most prude
  
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• 2017 Mercedes-Benz SL450

  31-07-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  This relic still has plenty of charm.
  
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• Trump's reaction to North Korea can't be nuclear

  31-07-2017 20:06 via cnn.com
  Last Friday, North Korea conducted a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears capable of reaching American cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. This new development is a cause for concern, but not panic or rash aggressive action.
  
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• Trump's reaction to North Korea cannot be nuclear

  31-07-2017 20:06 via cnn.com
  Last Friday, North Korea conducted a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears capable of reaching American cities, including Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago. This new development is a cause for concern, but not panic or rash aggressive action.
  
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• Jailed journalist 'patient' despite 150 days of solitary, wife says

  31-07-2017 20:02 via cnn.com
  When TV producer Dilek Mayaturk decided to marry her long-time partner, journalist Deniz Yucel, it wasn't a dream wedding.
  
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• Trump promises to ‘handle’ North Korea

  31-07-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Following North Korea’s Friday launch of a second ballistic missile in less than a month, President Trump said he wasn’t worried about a possible nuclear threat from the belligerent regime.
  
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• No worries: Trump promises to “handle” North Korea

  31-07-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  Following North Korea’s Friday launch of a second ballistic missile in less than a month, President Trump said he wasn’t worried about a possible nuclear threat from the belligerent regime.
  
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• Trump's Worst Week Yet

  31-07-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  There hasn’t been a single smooth week in the Trump presidency, but last week was, by popular consensus, the worst of them so far. Given the struggles of this president, that’s no small statement. What was remarkable was the breadth of Trump’s troubles. His top legislative priority was, once again, knocked flat. He had to replace Reince Priebus, making Priebus the shortest-tenured chief of staff to serve in the heart of a term. He publicly feuded with Republican senators, saw h
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci's wife files for divorce

  31-07-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  "The View" co-hosts discuss the news about the White House director of communications.
  
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• Qatar makes legal complaint to WTO over Gulf trade boycott

  31-07-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  Doha makes formal complaint against ‘coercive attempts at economic isolation’ by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and UAEQatar has filed a wide-ranging legal complaint at the World Trade Organisation to challenge a trade boycott by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates, Qatar’s WTO representative Ali Alwaleed al-Thani has told Reuters. Related: Qatar diplomatic crisis – what you need to knowContinue reading...
  
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