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• 'The perfect Alabama candidate': Republicans warm to Vladimir Putin – video

  09-08-2017 23:58 via theguardian.com
  Vladimir Putin’s favorability ratings have tripled among Republicans in recent years. To find out why, Paul Lewis travelled to deeply conservative Alabama, before next week’s Republican Senate primary to choose a replacement for Jeff Sessions. Could Putin’s rising popularity be explained through the Christian evangelicals backing Roy Moore, the famed ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ turned Senate frontrunner? Continue reading...
  
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• Canadian army builds 500-person border camp as asylum-seeker numbers rise

  09-08-2017 23:57 via theguardian.com
  Number of asylum seekers entering Canada from US has risen sharply this yearDelays at border means migrants have been forced to wait in area with no bedsThe Canadian military has been deployed to build a 500-person camp at a remote location at the border as authorities grapple with a growing number of asylum seekers crossing into Canada by foot from the United States.On Wednesday, nearly 100 soldiers were sent to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle – just across the border from Champlain, New York &n
  
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• UK defence contractor billed US more than $50m in expenses

  09-08-2017 23:56 via theguardian.com
  Expenses included luxury cars and salaries paid to ‘significant others’ of company’s top executives, according to PentagonA British company hired to help train Afghan intelligence officers billed the US government for more than $50m (£38.4m) in expenses that included luxury cars and salaries paid to the “significant others” of the company’s top executives, according to a Pentagon audit.
  New Century Consulting (NCC) also spent $42,000 on automatic weapons
  
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• 1st Atlantic Hurricane of the Season Moves Toward Mexico

  09-08-2017 23:55 via nbcnews.com
  The National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded the storm to a hurricane late Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Russia probe: FBI raided Manafort's home

  09-08-2017 23:47 via cnn.com
  FBI agents raided a home of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort last month, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
  
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• Store Owner and Son Take On Armed Robbers Who Attempted to Hold Up Shop

  09-08-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  The armed pair encountered a business owner and son who were ready to fight back.
  
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• Scientists finally give the biggest dinosaur that ever lived a name

  09-08-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  There's a new king of the dinosaurs. Researchers working with bones found half a decade ago in Argentina have finally classified and named the new species that is thought to have been the largest of all the mighty reptiles. It's called Patagotitan mayorum, and it was so incredibly huge that it would have made even fearsome carnivores like the Tyrannosaurus rex look downright tiny by comparison. 
  Patagotitan mayorum — whose name is derived from Patagonia, Argentina, where its fossils w
  
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• North Korea-US tensions: How worried should you be?

  09-08-2017 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Here are three reasons why you should take a deep breath and not panic, for now.
  
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• Unarmed Russian jet flies over Washington

  09-08-2017 23:29 via cnn.com
  An unarmed Russian Air Force aircraft overflew the US Capitol, the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Base Andrews at low altitude as part of a longstanding treaty that allows US and Russian militariesto observe one another from the air, according to two people familiar with the flight.
  
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• Makwala to run time trial after being barred

  09-08-2017 23:25 via cnn.com
  Botswana's Isaac Makwala, the athlete who was barred from running at the IAAF World Championships on medical grounds after a norovirus outbreak, will run an individual time trial on Wednesday in a bid to qualify for the 200m semifinals.
  
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• Former Pakistan PM Sharif says ouster was 'insult to voters'

  09-08-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the Supreme Court's decision to depose him last month was a "joke" and an insult to voters as he addressed a rally in Rawalpindi late Wednesday.The speech marks the first time Sharif has publicly commented on the court's ruling and comes as the former prime minister leads a defiant procession from Islamabad to his party's stronghold in the eastern city of Lahore."No prime minister in Pakistan has ever been allowed to complete his term.
  
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• US expels two Cuba diplomats and looks into claims US officials were purposely deafened

  09-08-2017 23:13 via theguardian.com
  Source says investigators looking into whether Cuban government placed sonic devices around embassy staffers’ houses, causing ‘variety of physical symptoms’The US state department has expelled two diplomats from the Cuban embassy in Washington following a series of unexplained incidents in Cuba that left US officials there with physical symptoms that one official said includes potentially permanent hearing loss.Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that the Cubans were asked to leave
  
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• Fact Check: No, Trump Did Not 'Modernize' U.S. Nukes

  09-08-2017 23:12 via nbcnews.com
  Amid growing anxiety about North Korea's nuclear weapon capabilities, President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday that one of the first things he did on assuming the presidency was to "modernize" the nation's nuclear arsenal.
  
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• Thousands attend events for ousted Pakistani prime minister Sharif

  09-08-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  By Asif ShahzadISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of people attended a rally and procession in support of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday as he embarks on a show of political power following a Supreme Court decision to disqualify him from office over undeclared assets.Sharif launched the so-called "caravan" procession from Islamabad to his eastern hometown of Lahore, despite the concerns of advisers about security.After being driven 12 hours surrounded by supporters shower
  
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• Yemen: dozens drown off coast as smugglers force refugees into water

  09-08-2017 23:02 via theguardian.com
  Women and children among the 29 dead and 22 missing from group of Somali and Ethiopian migrants Smugglers forced more than 120 Somali and Ethiopian migrants into rough seas off Yemen on Wednesday, leaving 29 dead and 22 missing, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Related: All roads lead to Djibouti as refugees flee Yemen even as migrants head thereContinue reading...
  
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• The Game Is Over and North Korea Has Won

  09-08-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump can whine all he wants, but we're now living in a world where American power is less relevant than ever.
  
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• Atlantic hurricane season to be busiest since 2010?

  09-08-2017 22:49 via cnn.com
  Unseasonably warm ocean temperatures and a no-show from El Niño will contribute to what may be the busiest Atlantic hurricane season in seven years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Wednesday.
  
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• Atlantic hurricane season could be busiest since 2010

  09-08-2017 22:49 via cnn.com
  Unseasonably warm ocean temperatures and a no-show from El Niño will contribute to what may be the busiest Atlantic hurricane season in seven years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Wednesday.
  
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• Fired Google memo writer gives first big interviews to rightwing YouTubers

  09-08-2017 22:42 via theguardian.com
  James Damore, the engineer fired this week for his criticism of diversity, spoke with two YouTube personalities who have espoused anti-feminist views James Damore went from an unknown software engineer at Google to widespread internet notoriety when the technology company fired him for writing a memo criticizing diversity initiatives. But as mainstream journalists across the globe reached out to him for interviews this week, Damore largely ignored the queries and instead selected two rightwing Y
  
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• Deadly Fentanyl Easily Available for Online Purchase

  09-08-2017 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's 50 times more powerful than heroin, can be found using a simple internet search.
  
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• Indiana man accused in officer death may face death penalty

  09-08-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis man accused of fatally shooting a police officer who was trying to help him following a car crash could face the death penalty if he's convicted in the officer's slaying, a prosecutor said Wednesday after the suspect made his first court appearance.
  
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• Netanyahu faces the political crisis of his life

  09-08-2017 22:34 via cnn.com
  In Israeli politics, the old saying goes, you can be dead or dead and buried. There are rarely second acts. But then there is Benjamin Netanyahu -- a man who has survived defeat, scandal and now, in his fourth term, stands to become the longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister in Israel's short history. In doing so he would surpass the towering figure of David Ben-Gurion.
  
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• Netanhayu faces the political crisis of his life

  09-08-2017 22:34 via cnn.com
  The Israeli prime minister is facing a slew of investigations that could upend Israeli politics; but don't bet against him yet; he's a survivor, writes Aaron David Miller.
  
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• Man shot and arrested after car rams Paris soldiers – video report

  09-08-2017 22:32 via theguardian.com
  French police officers searching for a driver who ploughed into soldiers patrolling an upmarket Paris suburb have shot and arrested a man on a motorway north of the city. Security sources told Agence France-Presse the arrest was linked to Wednesday morning’s attack, which injured six members of the 35th infantry regiment, though there was no official confirmationParis attack: police make motorway arrest after car driven into soldiersContinue reading...
  
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• Kenya election chief rejects opposition's hacking claims as protests erupt

  09-08-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  By Humphrey Malalo and Rajiv GollaNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's election commission dismissed claims on Wednesday by opposition leader Raila Odinga that its systems and website had been hacked to produce a "fictitious" lead for Odinga's long-time rival President Uhuru Kenyatta.Angry protests erupted in opposition strongholds in the capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu as the counting of votes from Tuesday's election continued, but the election commission said the election had been free a
  
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• Huge Black Hole Helps Put Einstein to the Test

  09-08-2017 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  Astronomers use supermassive black hole and giant star near the center of our galaxy to show that the famous physicist was right about gravity.
  
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• Hot words after New Orleans flood, pump problems revealed

  09-08-2017 22:25 via yahoo.com
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As volunteers hauled soggy insulation out of a flooded store that belongs to a prominent New Orleans social club Wednesday, the group's president said city pumping problems implicated in weekend flooding were unacceptable.
  
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• Scientists Name Prehistoric Croc After Lemmy From Motörhead

  09-08-2017 22:14 via nbcnews.com
  "We'd like to think that he would have raised a glass to Lemmysuchus," London's Natural History Museum curator said of the late Motörhead frontman.
  
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• Donald Trump Is Dropping Bombs at Unprecedented Levels

  09-08-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  The candidate who once warned America about Hillary Clinton's hawkishness is turning into a war machine.
  
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• Trump endorsement puts new spin on fierce Alabama Senate race

  09-08-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  As voters head to the polls next week, Luther Strange is fighting to be one of the top two vote-getters in the GOP primary and ensure he advances to the runoff.
  
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• CVS Accused of Jacking Up Drug Cost if You Have Insurance

  09-08-2017 21:48 via nbcnews.com
  A California woman is suing CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in America, for allegedly charging more to customers who use insurance to pay for generic drugs.
  
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• D.C. Metro Sued Over Refusal to Run Some Ads

  09-08-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  The transit authority rejected ads that included an abortion pill and Yiannopoulos’s book.
  
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• Paul Manafort's Home Was Raided by FBI Agents. Here's What That Could Mean

  09-08-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller carried out an early-morning search on the home of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
  
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• 'Son of Sam' killer was arrested 40 years ago this week

  09-08-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — For a year, David Berkowitz terrorized New York.
  
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• Meet 'Alesi', the 13-million-year-old baby monkey which scientists say is mankind's earliest ancestor

  09-08-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  A baby ape discovered in Kenya could be an example of the earliest ancestors of all living humans, scientists believe. The little creature, whose skull is roughly the size of a lemon, lived around 13 million years ago and came from a family which may have eventually evolved into man and apes. 'Alesi' the baby ape, the earliest complete skull from the line which led to humans  Credit: Fred Spoor  It was discovered by Kenyan fossil hunter John Ekusi in ancient rock la
  
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• Washington Metro sued by diverse groups over issue-oriented ad ban

  09-08-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union and groups across the political spectrum sued Washington's Metro transit system on Wednesday, saying its ban on issue-oriented ads violated U.S. constitutional guarantees of free speech.The suit was filed in federal court in Washington by the ACLU, women's healthcare collective Carafem, far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos' company, and animal rights nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
  
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• Lawsuit Opposes Trump's Ban on Transgender Military Service

  09-08-2017 21:23 via nbcnews.com
  The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on behalf of five transgender service members with nearly 60 years of combined military service.
  
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• Florida man discovers huge snake has been living in his attic for years

  09-08-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Out of all the stuff that can go wrong in Florida, finding out that a snake has been hiding out in your attic is probably low on the list. Bob van der Herchen recently had the pleasure of discovering a 6-foot boa constrictor living in the attic of his home in Englewood, Florida, rent free. According to WFLA, van der Herchen's son and wife often complained about noise coming from the attic, but he payed no attention to it. SEE ALSO: Commuting snake hitches a ride home on a Boston train “He
  
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• Trump Fires Back at Mitch McConnell Over 'Expectations'

  09-08-2017 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  President Trump fired back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying the president has unrealistic expectations about how Washington works.
  
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• How to survive a nuclear attack in your area

  09-08-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  North Korea might have nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles at its disposal, and the President of the United States is talking smack to its leader like some kid on Xbox Live. It's a scary time, and as much as we'd all like to think that anti-missile defense systems could spring into action at the first hint of a launch, you should still probably brush up on your nuclear blast survival knowledge. Here's how to protect yourself if the absolute worst does indeed happen.It's important to realize that i
  
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• Fox & Friends & Trump: North Korea crisis puts cozy relationship in spotlight

  09-08-2017 21:08 via theguardian.com
  As rhetoric over nuclear war suddenly ramped up this week, Trump and the Fox News show set about amplifying each other to a worldwide audienceThe crisis in relations between the US and North Korea has put Donald Trump’s symbiotic relationship with his favorite morning TV show, Fox & Friends, firmly back in the spotlight.As rhetoric over nuclear war suddenly ramped up between the US president and North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, on Tuesday night and the US media began intense
  
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• 'Africa Has Its Time Now': Rapper Young Paris Redefines Fashion

  09-08-2017 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  Young Paris is a successful rapper known for his elaborate face paint. It's an homage to his father and his African roots — influences he's bringing to the larger world of fashion.
  
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• WATCH: 7 taxis robbed by man on bicycle, police say

  09-08-2017 21:02
  A suspect riding a bicycle is wanted in connection to seven yellow cab robberies in Manhattan, the New York Police Department said.
  
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• Hugo Chavéz's brother among eight Venezuelans placed under US sanctions

  09-08-2017 20:57 via theguardian.com
  Fresh sanctions aim to punish individuals for their role in creating President Maduro’s new constituent assembly, which has been widely condemnedThe Trump administration has imposed sanctions on eight more Venezuelan officials, including the brother of late socialist leader Hugo Chávez, to punish them for their role in President Nicolás Maduro’s creation of a new legislative superbody, US officials said. The US targeted individual politicians and security figures but st
  
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• Details of Manafort Raid Raise New Questions

  09-08-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about what an be inferred from the details and the timing of the FBI raid on the home of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
  
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• Senator Suggests McCain's Brain Cancer May Have Clouded Health Care Vote

  09-08-2017 20:55 via nbcnews.com
  Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., took a sharp jab at Sen. John McCain's health in a radio interview Tuesday, questioning whether the Arizona Republican's brain tumor affected his judgment when he voted against a GOP bill to repeal Obamacare.
  
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• Wounds are still raw in Ferguson, three years after Michael Brown

  09-08-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Three years after the death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, Missouri is a city still traumatized by its turn in the national spotlight, but hopeful that new police leadership will heal its wounds — and a nation that has reluctantly been forced to come to grips with a problem it thought had been resolved a half-century ago.
  
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• Transgender service members sue over Trump ban

  09-08-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  Five active duty transgender service members filed the first lawsuit Wednesday against President Donald Trump's directive -- expressed on Twitter -- to prohibit transgender individuals from serving in the armed forces.
  
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• Why We Need to Let Our Kids Fall, Scrape and Fail

  09-08-2017 20:51 via nbcnews.com
  The trick is allowing your kids to have an "oh, crap!" moment and learn from their mistakes.
  
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• Immigration Raids Are Sweeping Up More People Who Weren't Targets

  09-08-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  New enforcement priorities under President Trump's Administration say that no one in the country illegally is exempt from removal.
  
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