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• PayPal Shuts Down Access For Richard Spencer, Other Right-Wing Extremists

  16-08-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  PayPal says it will cut off its services to hate groups and other users collecting donations to promote violence and racial intolerance in the wake of Saturday’s deadly clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• As the President digs in his heels after Charlottesville comments, lawmakers and aides weigh price of loyalty

  16-08-2017 23:46 via cnn.com
  Republican lawmakers and administration aides found themselves again Wednesday weighing the costs and benefits of remaining loyal to President Donald Trump, whose equivocal statements about neo-Nazis and white supremacists marked a dramatic shift in presidential rhetoric.
  
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• Ex-CIA director slams Trump's 'dangerous' comments

  16-08-2017 23:40 via cnn.com
  Former CIA director John Brennan slammed President Donald Trump's "dangerous" and "ugly" comments on the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend -- writing a personal letter to CNN's Wolf Blitzer after "The Situation Room" anchor spoke publicly about the fact that he lost all four grandparents to the evils of Nazism.
  
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• Iran general slams Iraq referendum plan during Erdogan talks

  16-08-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  Iran's Armed Forces chief of staff said Wednesday after talks with Turkey's president that a referendum on independence in Iraq's Kurdish region would trigger conflict and negative consequences for the entire region.General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri's remarks, carried by Iran's official IRNA news agency, underlined the firm opposition shared in Tehran and Ankara to the poll next month."Both sides stressed that if the referendum would be held, it will be the basis for the start of a series of tens
  
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• At least 7 dead in alleged gang attack on Guatemala hospital

  16-08-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Attackers stormed one of Guatemala's largest hospitals with guns blazing Wednesday to free an imprisoned gang member, officials said. At least seven people were killed and five were arrested.
  
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• Fox's Shep Smith Can't Find A Republican Willing To Defend Trump

  16-08-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Need proof that GOP officials are trying to avoid talking about President Donald Trump?
  
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• These Are the Warning Signs That Would Indicate War in Korea Is About to Start

  16-08-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  Hint: none of them have happened yet.
  
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• Trump Says Kids Shouldn't Come To U.S. Illegally. He's Also Limiting Their Legal Options.

  16-08-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Central American immigrants in the U.S. already had few ways to legally bring their children over to join them.
  
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• Natalee Holloway's Dad Having Human Remains Tested For DNA

  16-08-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  The father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway says he is awaiting the results of DNA testing on bones found in Aruba.
  
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• Has Natalee Holloway's Body Been Found? Remains Reportedly Discovered in Search for Missing Teen

  16-08-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  The Alabama teen vanished during a school trip in 2005.
  
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• Why BMI is not a good measure of fat

  16-08-2017 23:14 via cnn.com
  When Kate Townsend took her kids for their back-to-school health checkups last month, she got a surprise.
  
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• Are probiotics safe?

  16-08-2017 23:09 via cnn.com
  Probiotic supplements may be a growing trend among health-conscious consumers, but the tiny bacteria that have been stuffed into capsules and stacked on pharmacy shelves coexisted with us before we were even aware of them.
  
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• Maryland judge denies DC sniper Malvo's bid for new sentence

  16-08-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager participated in the sniper attacks that killed 10 people and terrorized the Washington region, will not get a new sentence in Maryland, a judge said in a ruling released Wednesday.
  
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• None Of The 10 Best Cities To Live In The World Are In The U.S.

  16-08-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s policies are partly the reason that none of the 10 most liveable cities in the world are in the U.S., according to a new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit.
  
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• Man Whose Heart Was Pierced by 3-Inch Nail Drives Himself 12 Miles to Hospital

  16-08-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Doug Bergeson says common sense told him not to pull the nail out.
  
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• KKK denied permit to burn cross atop symbolic mountain in Georgia

  16-08-2017 22:39 via theguardian.com
  Stone Mountain Park, site of the second founding of the KKK in 1915, says it ‘condemns the beliefs and actions’ of the white supremacist group Georgia’s Stone Mountain park has denied the Ku Klux Klan’s request to burn a cross at the top of the mountain, where the second KKK was founded in 1915.
  Joey Hobbs, of the Sacred Knights’ Ku Klux Klan, submitted a permit application request for 20 people to attend a cross-burning on top of the mountain, which is notorious fo
  
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• Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says

  16-08-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  By Ed CropleyJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace whipped two South African women in a Johannesburg hotel room with an electric cable, the mother of one victim said, adding that the attack must be punished.Debbie Engels told Reuters her daughter Gabriella, a 20-year-old model, suffered a gash on her forehead that required eight stitches and another on the back of her head that needed six.Engels did not witness the attack and Reuters has not been able to verify
  
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• Twitter Points Out Other Times When 'Both Sides' Were Clearly Incomparable

  16-08-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, many Americans were left reeling after recent remarks made by President Donald Trump in the aftermath of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Opinion: How can decent people serve in Trump's cabinet?

  16-08-2017 22:26 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump was not standing alone on the podium when he informed the world that some participants in the Charlottesville neo-Nazi march were "very fine people."
  
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• VP won't say whether he agrees with Trump on 'both sides'

  16-08-2017 22:24 via cnn.com
  Vice President Mike Pence avoided directly answering a reporter's question about whether he thought, like President Donald Trump, that there were "good people on both sides" who participated in the Charlottesville, Virginia, protests over the weekend that resulted in the death of one woman.
  
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• After brinkmanship, a diplomatic opening with North Korea

  16-08-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  For more than two decades, North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them long distances has prompted recurring international crises.Sudden bursts of heightened tension, primarily between the North and the United States, were interspersed with diplomacy that never definitively halted the gathering storm.After a week of brinkmanship and escalating rhetoric between the two sides, Pyongyang and Washington suddenly found themselves at perhaps the most dangerous momen
  
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• Scholars say Trump went afoul in lumping Lee with founders

  16-08-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families.
  
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• Drone shows Sierra Leone mudslide aftermath – video

  16-08-2017 22:07 via theguardian.com
  Drone footage taken on Wednesday silently shows the devastation wrought by the mudslides in Freetown, once-bustling capital of Sierra Leone. Rescuers are still searching for hundreds of missing people after the devastating mudslide and floods engulfed the capital and the surrounding areas on MondaySierra Leone: fears of second mudslide as week of national mourning begins
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• Trump has a point on pulling down statues

  16-08-2017 22:06 via cnn.com
  "Repulsive" was the word used by House of Representative Speaker Paul Ryan.
  
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• Even if statues come down, demons remain

  16-08-2017 22:06 via cnn.com
  "Repulsive" was the word used by House of Representative Speaker Paul Ryan.
  
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• Scientists solve mystery of ‘Frankenstein dinosaur’

  16-08-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  A dinosaur that puzzled researchers thanks to the incredibly puzzling design of its body finally has its place in history thanks to a team of scientists from Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London. The Chilesaurus, which has been nicknamed the "Frankenstein dinosaur" due to it appearing as though it were patched together from other, unrelated dinosaur species, has now been labeled a transitional species that helps to bridge the gap between herbivorous dinosaurs and the more iconic me
  
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• Woman Arrested for Running Raffle Ticket Scam Using Image, Name of Boy Who Died of Cancer

  16-08-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Tracey Jacqueline Weir is accused of selling phony raffle tickets to support children's cancer research in the name of 4-year-old Nolan Scully.
  
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• Families wait in rain to ID lost loved ones in Sierra Leone

  16-08-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Hawa Stevens spoke through tears of the 28 family members she lost after surging mudslides and floodwaters swept through Sierra Leone's capital, killing hundreds and leaving hundreds more missing.
  
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• Takiyah Thompson, Hailed As 'Hero,' Showered With Support For Toppling Confederate Statue

  16-08-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Takiyah Thompson, a 22-year-old student activist who participated in tearing down a Confederate statue during a protest in Durham, North Carolina has been released from jail.
  
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• US will 'know how to face' anti-Semitism: Israel president

  16-08-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expressed shock Wednesday over anti-Semitism at a recent US white supremacist rally, but said American leaders would succeed in dealing with "this difficult challenge".Rivlin wrote to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to convey his "support and solidarity for the American Jewish community" after the unrest in Charlottesville."The very idea that in our time we would see a Nazi flag -- perhaps the most vicious symbol of anti-Semitis
  
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• Family: FBI knew Oklahoma bomb plot suspect is schizophrenic

  16-08-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The family of a man accused of attempting to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank says he is a paranoid schizophrenic and that the FBI knew it.
  
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• 5 missing after US Army copter crash

  16-08-2017 21:52 via cnn.com
  An Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down during a training exercise about 2 miles off the Hawaiian island of Oahu, according to the US Coast Guard.
  
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• Grace Mugabe claims diplomatic immunity in S.Africa assault case

  16-08-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has claimed diplomatic immunity after being accused of assaulting a 20-year-old model, South African police said Wednesday, in an incident that could test cross-border relations.The 52-year-old wife of President Robert Mugabe is accused of attacking Gabriella Engels on Sunday evening at a Johannesburg hotel where the first lady's two sons were staying.Engels has registered a police case alleging assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, saying she suffere
  
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• Officials In Legal-Weed States Push Back Against Jeff Sessions' Marijuana Criticisms

  16-08-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  Government officials from Alaska and Washington have pushed back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who sent threatening letters to the states and questioned the efficacy of their marijuana legalization and regulatory programs.
  
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• Christian School Reportedly Told 12-Year-Old His Alleged Rape Was ‘Boys Being Boys’

  16-08-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  A prestigious Christian school in Tennessee is under fire for allegedly doing nothing after a male student reported that he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by four older classmates.
  
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• Solar Panels Are Going Green — Literally. Here's Why That's a Big Deal

  16-08-2017 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  Tiny particles make bluish-black photovoltaic panels bright green, bringing high-efficiency solar panels of many colors a step closer to reality.
  
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• George Bush issues joint statement with father condemning 'racial bigotry and hatred' in Charlottesville

  16-08-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Two former US presidents have issued a strong statement condemning the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – one day after President Donald Trump failed to do so.“As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city’s most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights,” the prominent Republicans wrote.The statement comes on the he
  
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• Donald Trump praises North Korea's Kim Jong-un for 'wise' decision on Guam

  16-08-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a "wise" decision not to fire missiles towards the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, which has eased escalating tension between the two countries. Reclusive North Korea has made no secret of its plan to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the United States to counter what it perceives as constant U.S. threats of invasion. Trump warned North Korea last week it would face "fire and fury" if it threat
  
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• Natalee Holloway Disappearance: New Human Remains Found In Aruba

  16-08-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Her father discovered the remains in an unspecified location provided to him by an informant.
  
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• Donald Trump's Support Wanes With CEO Departures

  16-08-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Two of the president's business councils were in tatters following his latest remarks on Charlottesville. The business community has had enough with Trump, but have his supporters?
  
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• The Health Risks of Too Much Salt

  16-08-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  Most Americans, including older adults, consume too much salt—or more accurately, sodium—than they should. In fact, a ­recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that...
  
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• German Car Companies Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff

  16-08-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  "Made in Germany" used to mean reliability. Now it means collusion.
  
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• Home evacuated after sinkhole appears in West Midlands driveway

  16-08-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Three-metre wide and 3.65m deep depression in Wednesbury is in area honeycombed by old mine workings A three-metre (10ft) wide sinkhole has opened up beneath a driveway at a house in the West Midlands, and appears to be growing.What began as a small depression underneath the front tyre of the homeowner’s car in Wednesbury, near Walsall, is now 3.65 metres deep. Continue reading...
  
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• SeaWorld Orca Dies After Long Battle With Lung Infection

  16-08-2017 20:55 via yahoo.com
  An orca at SeaWorld San Diego was euthanized Tuesday evening after a long battle with a bacterial respiratory infection.
  
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• In rare move, top military brass weigh in to condemn racism

  16-08-2017 20:53 via cnn.com
  In a rare move, top commanders in the US military are speaking out in the wake of the deadly violence that erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
  
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• Yara Shahidi answers 'Grown-ish' questions from a fan

  16-08-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  Actress Yara Shahidi shares how she plans to handle college life
  
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• Man arrested on hindering charge in Missouri officer killing

  16-08-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man charged with hindering prosecution in the killing of a western Missouri police officer told an informant that he dropped the suspected gunman off at a nearby marina after the shooting, according to court records.
  
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• Venezuela mulls 'law against intolerance,' aimed at dissenters

  16-08-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  By Hugh BronsteinCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans who express "hate or intolerance" will be jailed for up to 25 years under a bill pending in the country's newly-formed constituent assembly, a measure the opposition fears will be used by the government to further crack down on dissent.President Nicolas Maduro has faced a cacophony of international criticism - from the United Nations to Pope Francis - since he installed the 545-member assembly stacked with Socialist Party allies earlier this month
  
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• More arrests made in toppling of Confederate statue

  16-08-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More protesters were arrested Wednesday for participating in a demonstration that toppled a Confederate statue in North Carolina, and more monuments were vandalized as well.
  
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• 'If you're not outraged you're not paying attention': Charlottesville says farewell to Heather Heyer amid national outrage

  16-08-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  The city of Charlottesville has celebrated the life of Heather Heyer, a passionate, righteous young woman who “made us pay attention” and who was killed during a neo-Nazi-led protest that has turned into Donald Trump’s latest, distracting controversy.Five days after she was killed when an accused white supremacist allegedly drove into her with a car, hundreds of people packed into the city’s Paramount Theatre to hear from family and friends, and the people she worked with
  
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