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• VP Pence: No tolerance for 'white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK'

  13-08-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  A series of White House aides on Sunday looked to explain President Donald Trump's statement the day before that failed to condemn white supremacists or the "alt-right" for violence that left three people dead in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Trump allies try to explain his silence on white supremacists

  13-08-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  A series of White House aides on Sunday looked to explain President Donald Trump's statement the day before that failed to condemn white supremacists or the "alt-right" for violence that left three people dead in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Pence: No tolerance for neo-Nazis

  13-08-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  A series of White House aides on Sunday looked to explain President Donald Trump's statement the day before that failed to condemn white supremacists or the "alt-right" for violence that left three people dead in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• The Latest: US condemns killing of 7 White Helmets in Syria

  13-08-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
  
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• Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says

  13-08-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  Victim in Virginia melee wept for social justice, her boss says
  
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• Canadian pastor faced 'overwhelming loneliness' in NKorea labor camp

  13-08-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  A Canadian pastor recently freed from imprisonment in North Korea spoke Sunday of the "overwhelming loneliness" and harsh conditions he experienced during his two-and-a-half years in a labor camp.Hyeon Soo Lim, 62, was imprisoned by Pyongyang in January 2015 for carrying out "subversive activities," a charge steadfastly denied by Ottawa which sent a high-level delegation this week to secure his release.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Outlines Left Push Of Democrats, Abandoning Clinton-Era Policies

  13-08-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren might be dropping some hints at a 2020 platform.
  
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• US students make music at the DMZ

  13-08-2017 22:55 via cnn.com
  As the war of words between the US and North Korea gets louder, musicians at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea try to drown out the noise. CNN's Alexandra Field reports.
  
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• Bagel murder suspect had been cut out of family fortune weeks before killings, documents show

  13-08-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  A son suspected of stabbing to death his mother and sister at their £1.5m home had been cut out of the family's bagel baking fortune just weeks earlier. The wealthy bakers were found murdered in the family's home in Golders Green at 8.50pm on Friday in what police have described as "a devastating attack". Joshua Cohen, 27, was arrested in a park on Saturday after his mother Leah, 66, and sister Hannah, 33 were killed. He was charged with murder on Sunday night, and has been remanded in cus
  
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• US-backed Syria forces battle IS in Raqa Old City

  13-08-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  US-backed fighters fought pitched battles Sunday with Islamic State group jihadists inside their Syria bastion Raqa, an AFP correspondent said.The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Arab-Kurd alliance, first entered Raqa two months ago and have since captured more than half of the northern city, but their progress has met fierce resistance from IS.On Sunday, the two sides battled inside Raqa's Old City, trading volleys of mortar rounds and heavy machinegun fire, said the correspondent who was on the
  
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• Woman Charged For Allegedly Throwing Newborn Baby in Garbage Pleads Guilty

  13-08-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  The incident happened last year.
  
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• White House pushes back against criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response

  13-08-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  After the president’s initial remarks about Saturday’s violence were criticized as too vague, the White House issued a follow-up Sunday.
  
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• 'Meet a Muslim' events hope to dispel misconceptions

  13-08-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — When Moina Shaiq realized even her friends were scared to ask her about her religion for fear of offending her or sounding uneducated, she put an advertisement in a California newspaper: "Questions and answers about being Muslim."
  
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• Warlike talk on North Korea is huge risk

  13-08-2017 21:44 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump has caused the world to tremble and stock markets to drop with his off-the-cuff threats against North Korea. Although most commentators have naturally argued that this is another "unprecedented" moment for America, that's not exactly accurate.
  
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• Theresa May condemns 'racism, hatred and violence' in Virginia

  13-08-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  Theresa May has condemned the violence which erupted in Virginia between white-supremacist groups and counter-protesters, leaving three people dead.In a tweet from the Prime Minister’s official Twitter account, Ms May said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with #Charlottesville.Donald Trump belatedly condemned white supremacist groups that took part in violence scenes, but only following widespread criticism after he initially spoke out against hatred on “many sides”.
  
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• Charlottesville Victim's Mother: I Want Her Death to be 'a Rallying Cry for Justice'

  13-08-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  She said Heyer fought for an end to injustice
  
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• Lion rescued from Syria zoo gives birth in Jordan reserve

  13-08-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  SOUF, Jordan (AP) — The odds had been stacked against Hajar, a lion cub born just hours after her mother Dana, rescued from a defunct zoo in war-torn Syria, was released into a wildlife reserve in Jordan.
  
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• America is still hooked on the drug of white supremacy | Carol Anderson

  13-08-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  ‘It took more than 36 hours – and a killing believed to have been carried out by a Neo-Nazi – for the White House to denounce them.The United States is in a tailspin.White supremacists are on the march – and have left a trail of blood and destruction in their wake.
  
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• Violence in Charlottesville exposes nation's divisions

  13-08-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, is reeling after violent clashes erupted between a large gathering of white nationalists and hundreds of counter protesters. Three people were killed amid the turmoil that has exposed the nation's roiling racial and political divisions.
  
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• Drunk American punched for 'Nazi salute'

  13-08-2017 20:34 via cnn.com
  An American man suffered minor injuries in Dresden after being punched for making a Nazi salute while drunk in a bar, German police said Sunday.
  
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• The Guardian view on Donald Trump and racism: a moral failure that shames America | Editorial

  13-08-2017 20:32 via theguardian.com
  No previous US president of modern times would have failed to condemn his country’s white nationalists. This one didAs George W Bush’s speechwriter put it this weekend, it is one of the “difficult but primary duties” of a political leader to speak for a nation in traumatic times. A space shuttle explodes, a school student goes on a shooting spree, a terrorist flies a plane into a building, a hurricane floods a city. When such things happen, Michael Gerson wrote in the Was
  
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• More NGOs follow MSF in suspending Mediterranean migrant rescues

  13-08-2017 20:30 via yahoo.com
  By Gavin JonesROME (Reuters) - Two more aid groups have suspended migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, joining Doctors Without Borders, because they felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard.Save the Children and Germany's Sea Eye said on Sunday their crews could no longer work safely because of the hostile stance of the Libyan authorities.Doctors Without Borders - or Medecins sans Frontieres - cited the same concern when it said on Saturday it would halt Mediterranean operations.
  
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• White House defends Trump's response to Virginia violence

  13-08-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups.A young woman died and 19 people were injured in the city of Charlottesville when a car plowed into a crowd of people after a rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists turned violent.A full day after the violence
  
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• At least 94 dead in monsoon disasters in Nepal and India

  13-08-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  Monsoon floods and landslides have killed at least 94 people across Nepal and India but officials fear that figure could rise sharply as rescuers search for dozens believed lost under mud and in submerged villages.Authorities Sunday upgraded the death toll from flash flooding across landlocked Nepal to 49 as the water kept rising, forcing thousands to flee for higher ground.Search and rescue works are underway but the water levels have not declined yet," said Shankar Hari Acharya, the chief of N
  
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• Lebanon's Hezbollah says U.S. can't hurt it, dismisses sanctions

  13-08-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday dismissed the prospect of tougher U.S. sanctions against his group, which is backed by Iran, and said the U.S. administration had no way to harm it."The American administration, with all available and possible means, will not be able to damage the strength of the resistance," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address to mark the anniversary of the end of Hezbollah's 2006 war with Israel.Nasrallah said Lebanon was being subjected to intimidati
  
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• NASA’s Golden Records Coming Back to Life, 40 Years Later

  13-08-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  Golden records were brought aboard the Voyager space shuttle. Each record contained greetings in 55 languages, music and images - the idea was to give extraterrestrials an idea of life on earth. They are now being recreated as a box set and a book.
  
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• Protests Against Charlottesville Violence and White Nationalists Break Out Across the United States

  13-08-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of violence at the Charlottesville, Virginia White Nationalist rally, protests took place across the country spreading messages of unity and anti racism.
  
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• Mourning and acts of solidarity for the victims of the Charlottesville attack at a white nationalist rally

  13-08-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  After a deadly clash at a protest on Saturday, people across the country came together to mourn and to condemn the violence in Virginia.
  
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• Charlottesville mayor largely blames Trump for white supremacist violence

  13-08-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  After violence and death at a rally in Charlottesville on Saturday, the city’s mayor pointed the finger at the president and his campaign.
  
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• Buying Opioids Online: A Look Into the Thriving Industry

  13-08-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is killing Americans every day as the nation’s opioid epidemic reaches a national emergency. But, online, the drug is easily available to purchase and get shipped.
  
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• Confederate Monuments at Center of Nationwide Protests

  13-08-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Organizers of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville said it was meant to save a Robert E. Lee statue that the city ordered removed in April. It is one of many contentious monuments being removed in cities across the country.
  
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• White House Responds to Pressure After Fallout from Trump Remarks

  13-08-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  After Republicans and Democrats demanded the president place the blame on white supremacist groups for Saturday’s violence, the White House issued a terse statement that said the president condemned “all extremist groups.”
  
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• Why Trump won't stand up against hate

  13-08-2017 19:31 via cnn.com
  With one dead and 19 others injured in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Donald Trump has responded to his first domestic crisis with the cowardice of the bully he has always been. Instead of standing up to the violent white nationalists who terrorized a peaceful city, he made them morally equal to those who allied against the hate.
  
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• Charlottesville Violence: Investigation Begins as Victim Revealed

  13-08-2017 19:31 via yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating a car crash that left one dead and many injured — the victim was identified Sunday as Heather Heyer.
  
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• Ex-spy chief: Accept nuclear N. Korea

  13-08-2017 19:26 via cnn.com
  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN contributor, said Sunday that he does not foresee a scenario where North Korea relinquishes its nuclear weapons.
  
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• Mueller Focuses on White House Staff in Russia Probe

  13-08-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus is among those said to be of interest to the special counsel.
  
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• Virginia Governor Delivers Defiant Speech Against White Supremacists: 'We Are Stronger Than Them'

  13-08-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  McAuliffe encouraged Virginians to denounce bigotry
  
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• Fairtrade chief defends cocoa sourcing scheme with Cadbury owner

  13-08-2017 18:55 via theguardian.com
  Michael Gidney insists monitoring will ensure farmers are not worse off under Cocoa Life partnership with MondelēzThe chief executive of the Fairtrade Foundation has defended a controversial partnership with Cadbury owner Mondelēz and the creation of a rival sustainable cocoa sourcing scheme.In his first public comments since it was announced that Cadbury’s Green & Black’s range is launching a new chocolate bar that is neither Fairtrade nor organic, Michael Gidney said
  
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• Boko Haram gunmen kill four in Nigeria village raid

  13-08-2017 18:44 via yahoo.com
  Boko Haram gunmen have killed four people and torched homes in a nighttime raid on a village in restive northeastern Nigeria, local sources said Sunday.The militants stormed Amarwa village, while lies about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and birthplace of Boko Haram.According to a leader of a local militia fighting the jihadists, the gunmen shot indiscriminately at villagers and set fire to homes in the raid late Saturday.
  
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• Vega: Trump 'has yet to offer a full rebuke' of Charlottesville 'even in the face of near universal condemnation'

  13-08-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Cecilia Vega and Pierre Thomas analyze President Trump's response condemning bigotry "on many sides" following white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Top South Korean official: U.S. government moved from 'strategic patience' to 'strategic confusion'

  13-08-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports on the North Korean nuclear threat from Seoul, South Korea.
  
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• How Will Mexican Drug Kingpin El Chapo Pay His Lawyer?

  13-08-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  The reputed Mexican drug kingpin may be worth as much as $14 billion, but the issue of payment could be crucial to his case and any asset forfeitures.
  
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• Driver Who Struck Protestors In Charlottesville Virginia Identified, Charged

  13-08-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  Violence erupted in Virgina as far-right groups met with counterprotests.
  
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• Opinion: This was an act of domestic terrorism

  13-08-2017 18:30 via cnn.com
  On Saturday, a 20-year-old man from Ohio allegedly rammed his car into a group of people gathered to protest a white nationalist rally, killing a 32-year old woman and injuring 19 others. If James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, indeed intended to harm the counter-protesters, then his act deserves to be branded domestic terrorism.
  
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• Killing was act of domestic terrorism

  13-08-2017 18:30 via cnn.com
  On Saturday, a 20-year-old man from Ohio allegedly rammed his car into a group of people gathered to protest a white nationalist rally, killing a 32-year old woman and injuring 19 others. If James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, indeed intended to harm the counter-protesters, then his act deserves to be branded domestic terrorism.
  
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• Charlottesville killing was act of domestic terrorism

  13-08-2017 18:30 via cnn.com
  On Saturday, a 20-year-old man from Ohio allegedly rammed his car into a group of people gathered to protest a white nationalist rally, killing a 32-year old woman and injuring 19 others. If James Alex Fields Jr., of Maumee, Ohio, indeed intended to harm the counter-protesters, then his act deserves to be branded domestic terrorism.
  
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• Top Somalia jihadist turns himself over to government

  13-08-2017 18:17 via yahoo.com
  A one-time deputy leader and spokesman for Somalia's Shabaab insurgents defected to the country's government on Sunday, a local official said.Muktar Robow was the subject of a $5 million bounty from the United States for his role with the Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants."Muktar Robow defected from Shabaab and he is now in Hudur meeting with government officials," district commissioner Mohamed Moalim told reporters, referring to the Bakool district capital.
  
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• Photographer captures moment car slammed into counterprotesters in Charlottesville. It was his last day on the job.

  13-08-2017 18:13 via yahoo.com
  Photojournalist Ryan M. Kelly’s final assignment was covering a rally. It turned violent, and his images captured part of the story.
  
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• Trump Unveils New Ad, Blasts Democrats and Media

  13-08-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  The advert also hit out at Democrats and the media.
  
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• U.S. Company Offers To Help Restart the Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

  13-08-2017 17:59 via yahoo.com
  Seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity said Friday it had offered to take the financial risk of a renewed search for the missing Malaysian airliner.
  
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