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• The Poem on the Statue of Liberty Was 'Added Later' But There's More to That Story

  02-08-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"
  
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• US deportation raids under Trump lead to huge rise in arrests of immigrants without criminal records

  02-08-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  US immigration officers have arrested 650 people in communities across the US in the latest deportation sweep, but the vast majority of those picked up by law enforcement don’t have a criminal record — an apparent break from the organization’s stated priority to focus on “criminal aliens”.In a crackdown that came close in size to a large-scale sweep earlier this year, Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 650 people over a four-day span last mont
  
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• Explosion in breakaway Georgia republic injures dozens

  02-08-2017 23:33 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Dozens of people were injured by explosions that ripped through a munitions depot in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Wednesday, officials said.
  
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• US control board to probe Puerto Rico debt, ties to crisis

  02-08-2017 23:23 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A federal control board overseeing the finances of Puerto Rico's government says it will investigate the U.S. territory's debt and its relationship to the island's economic crisis.
  
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• U.S. governors urge Trump to make insurance payments

  02-08-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  By Susan CornwellWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic and Republican U.S. governors on Wednesday urged the Trump administration, as well as Congress, to continue funding payments to health insurance companies that make Obamacare plans affordable, calling it critical to stabilizing the insurance marketplace.Republican President Donald Trump, frustrated that Obamacare survived attempts to repeal it, has threatened to cut off about $8 billion in subsidies that help control costs for low-income America
  
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• White House aide Stephen Miller calls CNN journalist 'ignorant' – video

  02-08-2017 23:15 via theguardian.com
  During the White House press briefing on Wednesday, Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller called the CNN journalist Jim Acosta ‘ignorant’ and accused him of ‘cosmopolitan bias’
  White House aide gets into heated argument with CNN anchor Jim AcostaContinue reading...
  
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• Massive rattlesnake blocked unsuspecting hikers out on a stroll

  02-08-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  A couple hiking in Brown county, Indiana, were briefly blocked on a trail by a massive rattlesnake. Abigail Kerns and her boyfriend Clayton Fleener were enjoying the day outdoors near near Lake Ogle on Saturday when the incident occurred, but fortunately, they were prepared. SEE ALSO: Fearless coworker picks up snake hiding in office desk There were other reports of timber rattlesnakes in the area, so the couple says they were on the look out, but not for a snakethat big, Fox 59 reports.  "
  
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• Dad Illustrates The Ups And Downs Of Parenting In Hilarious Cartoons

  02-08-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  Many parents document the first years of their kids’ lives through photo albums, home videos and baby books. But Jonathan Jui has his own way of remembering the ups the downs: drawing cartoons.
  
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• Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech

  02-08-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with a firm denial from the Boy Scouts, the White House on Wednesday corrected President Donald Trump's claim in an interview that the head of the youth group called him to heap praise on a politically aggressive speech Trump delivered at the Scouts' national jamboree.
  
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• Rights groups assail Justice Department over college race probe

  02-08-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  Civil rights groups slammed the Trump administration on Wednesday over a U.S. Justice Department plan to probe whether colleges' racial-preference admissions programs discriminate against white and Asian-American applicants.Affirmative action programs in higher education were meant to address America's historic racial discrimination problem.The Supreme Court has ruled that universities may use affirmative action in admissions policies with the aim of helping minority applicants get into college.
  
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• Canada asylum seekers housed at Montreal's Olympic Stadium

  02-08-2017 22:43 via feeds.foxnews.com
  So many asylum seekers are crossing into Canada from the United States that Montreal's Olympic Stadium has been opened to house them.
  
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• WATCH: MTA officer punches suspect during arrest

  02-08-2017 22:42
  Officers say the man became violent as they attempted to question him.
  
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• Trump is stacking the deck against himself

  02-08-2017 22:42 via cnn.com
  President Trump is a defense lawyer's worst nightmare -- and a dream defendant for special counsel Robert Mueller.Revelations the President may have personally dictated a misleading statement given to The New York Times about his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer is the latest example why.
  
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• White House: Statue of Liberty Doesn't Represent U.S. Immigration Policy

  02-08-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  "The poem that you're referring to was added later"
  
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• 1 dead in Minneapolis school building collapse

  02-08-2017 22:40
  The explosion caused a fire that has since been put out.
  
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• CNN reporter, Trump adviser spar over immigration plan

  02-08-2017 22:36 via cnn.com
  CNN's Jim Acosta's exchange with Trump adviser Stephen Miller after asking if President Trump is trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming to America, citing the English requirement of the new merit-based immigration system.
  
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• Arkansas Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Neighbors' Donkeys

  02-08-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  An Arkansas man is behind bars after allegedly trespassing onto his neighbors’ property in order to sexually assault the couple’s donkeys.
  
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• Mexico says it's willing to talk on sensitive NAFTA issues

  02-08-2017 22:24 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Mexico says it is willing to talk about tough issues in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is set to start Aug. 16.
  
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• Community Reenacts Mass Lynching as a Call for Justice

  02-08-2017 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  Every year, activist actors recreate the night two black couples were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1946 Georgia
  
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• Stephen Miller calls CNN's Jim Acosta immigration questioning 'ignorant and foolish'

  02-08-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, CNN's Jim Acosta asked White House senior adviser Stephen Miller about how the administration's new immigration policy represents the ideals written on the Statue of Liberty. Miller dismissed the question and later called one of Acosta's comments "one of the most outrageous, ignorant and foolish things you've ever said."
  
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• Court complicates Trump's threat to cut 'Obamacare' funds

  02-08-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's bold threat to push "Obamacare" into collapse may get harder to carry out after a new court ruling.
  
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• Welcome to ‘Little Pompeii’, the Roman neighbourhood discovered in France

  02-08-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  French archaeologists have discovered a “little Pompeii” — the remarkably well preserved remains of an entire district of an ancient Roman town — in the east of the country. Villas and public buildings have been unearthed in what Benjamin Clément, the archaeologist leading the dig, described as “undoubtedly the most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years.” The site was classified as an "exceptional discovery" by the French Culture
  
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• Major U.S. transgender case remanded after student graduates

  02-08-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  The case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy who was denied use of the boys' room at his school in Gloucester County, Virginia, had once been set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and could have been a landmark case on transgender rights.Grimm argued that the county school board's policy of assigning restrooms based on students' sex assigned at birth rather than gender identity was a violation of the right against sex discrimination under Title IX of the education code and the constitutional r
  
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• Victoria's Secret Model Vita Sidorkina Wore The Same Gorgeous Wedding Dress Two Ways

  02-08-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Victoria’s Secret model Vita Sidorkina married millionaire property developer Valerio Morabito on Italy’s Amalfi Coast on Saturday, and by all accounts it was a fairytale celebration:  A post shared by Matilde Carli (@supermatinyc) on Jul 30, 2017 at 12:15am PDT A post shared by NADEJDA (@nadejdasavcova) on Jul 29, 2017 at 6:30am PDT A post shared by Anastasia Eremenko (@anastasia_eremenko) on Jul 29, 2017 at 2:07pm PDT
  
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• Donald Trump announces support for plan to reduce legal immigration and prioritise highly-skilled workers who speak English

  02-08-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trumphas announced that he backs a plan to reduce legal immigration to the United States, reducing the number of green cards for extended family members and seeking to create an system based more on merit and skills than family ties. Mr Trump said the measure, reducing the number of green cards by half, would represent "the most significant reform to our immigration system in half a century." The proposal, introduced by David Perdue of Georgia and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, wo
  
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• Video Captures Dallas Man Attacked On Train By Teenagers

  02-08-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  A video showed teens allegedly attacking a man after he asked them to stop smoking on the train.
  
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• Despite Galaxy Note 8 Release, Galaxy Note 7 Loyalists Maintain Underground Market

  02-08-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Who’s afraid of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7? Not these loyalists who have kept their devices for nearly one year after handsets began malfunctioning.
  
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• Deputy rescues 2 colleagues after shootout near pot farm

  02-08-2017 21:21
  A sheriff's deputy ran into a house in Northern California to pull two wounded colleagues to safety after a shootout with a suspect near a marijuana farm belonging to a Rastafarian church
  
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• 2 missing after explosion, collapse at Minneapolis school

  02-08-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two people were unaccounted for after a natural gas explosion caused part of a building to collapse on Wednesday at a college prep school in Minneapolis, authorities said.
  
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• Italy to deploy naval ships to Libya as migration crisis grows

  02-08-2017 21:20 via cnn.com
  Italy will deploy two military ships to Libya in an effort to deter illegal migration and human smuggling into Europe, the Italian government announced Wednesday.
  
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• 1st safe repair of disease-causing gene in human embryos

  02-08-2017 21:20
  In a first, scientists safely repaired a disease-causing gene in human embryos, a step toward one day preventing inherited diseases
  
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• China tests missiles during the weekend, US officials say

  02-08-2017 21:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  In a brazen broadside to America, China performed a dramatic series of missile tests this weekend -- targeting mock United States missile batteries and jets -- as the superpower flexes its muscles amid global tensions with North Korea and the threat of U.S. intervention, U.S. officials told Fox News.
  
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• Trump and Putin are locked in a hellish standoff

  02-08-2017 21:14 via cnn.com
  Vladimir Putin waited a long time to get his face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump. But when it came last month at the G20 summit in Germany, it appears to have been worth his while.
  
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• Journalists lightly wounded in IS blast in Syria's Raqqa

  02-08-2017 21:13 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A car bomb detonated by the Islamic State group lightly wounded several journalists in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on Wednesday and totally charred one of their vehicles, activists and media officials said.
  
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• Royal chef: What Queen really eats and drinks

  02-08-2017 21:08 via cnn.com
  At 91, Queen Elizabeth II of England is the longest-serving monarch in British history, having celebrated 65 years on the throne this year. A glance at her calendar is like entering a Jane Austen novel -- with a multitasking heroine. Her list of duties includes attending banquets and jubilees, appointing officials to obscure high offices, and receiving and entertaining visitors including assorted ambassadors, archbishops, ministers, generals, chiefs of state and various excellencies.
  
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• Prince Philip attends final public event

  02-08-2017 21:02 via cnn.com
  After 22,219 solo engagements since 1952, 96-year-old Prince Philip attended his final public event, a Royal Marines parade at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. CNN's Nick Glass reports.
  
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• Minnesota school building collapses after explosion

  02-08-2017 21:02 via cnn.com
  Two people were unaccounted for and five were taken to the hospital Wednesday after an apparent natural gas explosion shook Minnehaha Academy and collapsed part of a building, officials in Minneapolis said.
  
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• Pentagon: 2 US service members killed in Afghanistan blast

  02-08-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday left two American service members dead, a Pentagon spokesman said, despite repeated refusals by the U.S. military in Afghanistan to say whether there were any deaths in the assault claimed by the Taliban.
  
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• Don't look down: Swiss open new foot bridge near Matterhorn

  02-08-2017 21:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  This bridge is not for the acrophobic.
  
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• Is the U.S. Ready for Russia’s Largest Military Exercises Since the Cold War?

  02-08-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are bracing for the appearance of up to 100,000 Russian troops in Belarus and western Russia.
  
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• Donald Trump's Approval Rating Just Hit a New Low

  02-08-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  More than half of American voters are "embarrassed" to have him as president
  
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• Italy seizes NGO rescue boat for allegedly aiding illegal migration

  02-08-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  By Wladimiro PantaleonePALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian coastguards seized a migrant rescue boat operated by a German aid group in the Mediterranean suspected of aiding illegal immigration from Libya, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.Video showed the Iuventa, which is run by Jugend Rettet, arriving at the island of Lampedusa surrounded by several coastguard vessels after it was stopped at sea before dawn.Jugend Rettet said on Twitter it had received no information about the investigation.
  
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• French Parliament gives govt carte blanche on labor reform

  02-08-2017 20:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The French parliament has given President Emmanuel Macron's government free rein to go through with its proposed labor reform, a highly sensitive issue in the country.
  
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• Mexico seizes 720 drums of meth precursor chemical from ship

  02-08-2017 20:49 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Mexican authorities say they have seized almost 40,000 pounds (18,000 kilograms) of a methamphetamine precursor chemical from a ship that sailed to the country from China.
  
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• Booker Seeks Nation-wide Pot Legalization

  02-08-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Senator Cory Booker talks with Joy-Ann Reid about the injustice of unequal marijuana law enforcement and the facts learned so far about the benefits of legalization in states that have done so, leading him to propose national legalization.
  
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• WATCH: Video shows airport worker struck by lightning on tarmac

  02-08-2017 20:37
  Austin Dunn, 21, was hospitalized after the July 22 strike.
  
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• WATCH: Curious elephant seal found roaming Australian town

  02-08-2017 20:37
  A community ranger led the elephant seal back to the beach of Port MacDonnell.
  
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• Plane crash-lands on Portuguese beach, killing man, girl

  02-08-2017 20:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An afternoon at the beach ended in horror Wednesday when a small plane made an emergency landing amongst the crowds on the sand outside Lisbon, killing a 56-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl who were sunbathing.
  
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• Small plane crash-lands on packed Portuguese beach, kills 2

  02-08-2017 20:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Portuguese media report that a light plane has made an emergency landing on a packed beach near Lisbon, killing a 50-year-old man and an 8-year-old girl who were sunbathing.
  
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• Sunbathers killed as plane makes emergency landing on Portuguese beach

  02-08-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  A light plane made an emergency landing on a packed beach near Lisbon on Wednesday, killing a man and an 8-year-old girl who were sunbathing, authorities said. Hundreds of sunbathers were on the beach at Caparica, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Lisbon, and witnesses said some sunbathers ran into the sea to avoid the plane. Aterrizaje de emergencia de una avioneta en la playa de São João de Caparica, cerca de Lisboa, causa dos muertos pic.twitter.com/vmV5i2dCxU— Miguel Gil
  
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