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• Merkel attacks Turkey's 'misuse' of Interpol warrants

  20-08-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Turkey's use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer in Spain, telling an election town hall event on Sunday that this amounted to abuse of the international police agency.Dogan Akhanli was stopped in Spain on Saturday after Ankara issued a "red notice".The German-Turkish writer was released on Sunday but must remain in Madrid while Spain assesses Turkey's extradition request.
  
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• Donald Trump to announce new strategy on Afghanistan in major speech

  20-08-2017 23:28 via theguardian.com
  US president to deliver address to troops and the nation at the Fort Myer military base on Monday nightDonald Trump will announce his decision on America’s strategy in Afghanistan on Monday night in an address to US troops and the nation almost 16 years after the war began.
  The US president will “provide an update on the path forward for America’s engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia” in an address to be delivered at 9pm ET from the military base at Fort Myer, south-w
  
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• Protesters March To The Tune Of 'Move Trump, Get Out The Way'

  20-08-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  An estimated 2,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Atlanta on Saturday to peacefully protest the racism and hate on display the previous week in Charlottesville, Virginia.
  
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• Border Patrol Finds 60 People Hiding in Tractor-Trailer, Driver Arrested

  20-08-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  There were citizens from four different countries inside.
  
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• President Trump Disbanded a Federal Panel Aimed at Fighting Climate Change

  20-08-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  The panel formed in 2015
  
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• Moroccan suspect in Barcelona attack turned more conservative in past year: family

  20-08-2017 22:37 via yahoo.com
  By Samia ErrazzoukiMRIRT, Morocco (Reuters) - A suspect still at large after the Barcelona van attack began showing more religiously conservative behavior within the past year and refused to shake hands with women during a visit to his birthplace in Morocco in March, family members say.The relatives expressed shock and anger on Sunday after discovering the alleged involvement in the Barcelona attack of Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, as well as his brother and two cousins, all originally from the small
  
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• Millions pour into US towns in path of total eclipse

  20-08-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  On Monday, when a total solar eclipse sweeps across the United States for the first time in 99 years, people gathering in Charleston, South Carolina, will be the last on the continent to experience it.Historic Charleston, with its cobblestone streets and elegant antebellum mansions, was clearly a-bustle on Sunday, in full pre-eclipse mode.Its restaurants were packed and downtown parking was at a premium as excited locals and tourists -- possessors of the prized solar glasses that make eclipse-vi
  
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• The President will address the nation on a new US strategy in Afghanistan on Monday

  20-08-2017 22:31 via cnn.com
  Secretary of Defense James Mattis confirmed Sunday that a decision has been made on a new US strategy in Afghanistan.
  
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• North Korea's bold wave of propaganda art - in pictures

  20-08-2017 22:11 via theguardian.com
  The searing propaganda is aimed to embolden the country and urge its people to resist US imperialism – with an arsenal of missiles eyed as the ultimate threatContinue reading...
  
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• 'Catching' a U-2 fresh back from America's air wars

  20-08-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  By Phil StewartAL DHAFRA AIR BASE, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - It may not sound possible to "catch" an American spy plane while driving a Dodge Charger.The plane itself was designed in the 1950s to grip the lightest parts of the atmosphere some 70,000 feet above the Earth, so, in the words of one of the U-2 pilots, "it really doesn't want to stop flying."Enter the Dodge Charger, which along with another so-called "chase car" helped guide the spy plane down to the runway, speeding at about 9
  
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• Kasich urges Trump to end staff chaos and 'settle it down'

  20-08-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop the staff chaos at the White House and "settle it down."
  
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• Spain attacks: The imam who 'ate up the brains' of youths

  20-08-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  In a little Spanish town by the Pyrenees mountains, a Moroccan imam has come under intense scrutiny, accused of creating the terror cell that allegedly launched the twin attacks in Spain.The blast likely changed the plans of the attackers, who instead used vehicles to smash into pedestrians on Barcelona's busy Las Ramblas boulevard and in the seaside resort town of Cambrils."On Tuesday morning, he left saying he was going on vacation to Morocco," said fruit-seller Nordeen El Haji, 45, who four m
  
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• You probably think your dog is cool and yet, can it even shop for groceries?

  20-08-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  There's not much to this post, and yet it is perhaps the most important thing I have ever written. Here is what I know: there is a dog, somewhere (perhaps the Bay Area, California), and that dog is pushing a shopping cart around in a grocery store. The dog appears to be a German Shepherd, and the grocery store appears to be well-stocked. SEE ALSO: Extremely excited pup just can't wait to catch the bus to doggy schoolYou may be thinking, "So what? It's a fluke, the dog just happened to jump up on
  
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• Plenty To Know Before The Solar Eclipse

  20-08-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Monday's solar eclipse has generated a great deal of attention.
  
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• People Need to Calm Down About Their Pets and the Solar Eclipse

  20-08-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Do your cat and dog need glasses? We asked an expert.
  
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• Unity and defiance at memorial mass for Barcelona victims

  20-08-2017 20:47 via cnn.com
  It's 8 a.m. on Sunday, and as tired partygoers spill out of Barcelona's nightclubs, a line is forming at Antoni Gaudi's spectacular Sagrada Familia cathedral -- the jewel in Barcelona's crown.
  
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• Iraq launches operation to take back IS-held town near Mosul

  20-08-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  ABU GHADDUR, Iraq (AP) — U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country's war on the Islamic State group.
  
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• Russian court rejects Siemens' plea to seize its turbines in Crimea

  20-08-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  A Moscow court has rejected a request by Siemens to seize its gas turbines, which have turned up in Crimea contrary to EU sanctions, and to ban their installation ahead of preliminary hearings next month, the court's ruling showed on Sunday.The ruling by Moscow's Arbitration Court responded to a lawsuit filed by the German engineering firm Siemens against a Russian state firm in July after four turbines which it had sold for use in Russia turned up in the Moscow-annexed region.
  
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• Oxford University employee and US professor charged with murder

  20-08-2017 20:33 via theguardian.com
  Police rule out love triangle saying more disturbing motive lies behind stabbing of 26-year-old hair stylist in ChicagoDetectives have ruled out a love triangle between an Oxford University employee, a US professor and their alleged murder victim, who was found with more than 40 stab wounds, police have said.Somerville College’s Andrew Warren, 56, and Professor Wyndham Lathem, 42, have been charged with murdering hair stylist Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in Lathem’s Chicago apartment.Co
  
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• Billionaire Carl Icahn Resigned As Trump Adviser Ahead Of Critical Story

  20-08-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who resigned as President Donald Trump’s special adviser on regulations on Friday, did so just hours before The New Yorker magazine published a critical article that detailed his potential conflict of interest and questioned whether he had acted illegally.The New Yorker, however, reported on Friday that Icahn had been pushing to overturn an environmental regulation the investor considered onerous and one that had been costing him hundreds of millions of dol
  
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• German writer held in Spain on Turkish warrant granted conditional release

  20-08-2017 20:22 via theguardian.com
  Turkish-born author Doğan Akhanlı, who has written about human rights in Turkey, was arrested while on holidayGermany welcomed the release on Sunday of a German writer detained in Spain on a Turkish warrant and accused Turkey of abusing the international system used to hunt down fugitives.Turkish-born writer Doğan Akhanlı, who has German citizenship, was arrested on Saturday while on holiday in southern Spain. Akhanlı was conditionally released after a court hearing on S
  
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• Three Lebanese soldiers killed in landmine on Syria border: security source

  20-08-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded on Sunday when their armored vehicle hit a landmine on the Lebanese-Syrian border, a security source said.The area where the soldiers were killed was near a border stronghold close to the mountains of Arsal, where Shi'ite Hezbollah militia recently forced Sunni Syrian militants to leave in a joint cross-border operation with the Syrian army, the source added.The Lebanese army had launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islam
  
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• Grace Mugabe flies home to Zimbabwe with diplomatic immunity

  20-08-2017 20:12 via theguardian.com
  Wife of president Robert Mugabe returns to Harare despite facing allegations of assault on model in JohannesburgGrace Mugabe, the wife of the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, flew home from South Africa on Sunday after being granted diplomatic immunity from being prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a young model in Johannesburg.State broadcaster ZBC showed her greeting government and military officials at the airport in Harare after returning on an Air Zimbabwe plane with her husband, who ha
  
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• South Africa grants Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity after she allegedly attacked young model

  20-08-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe, returned home last night from South Africa after being granted diplomatic immunity after being accused of assaulting a model with an extension cable in a Johannesburg hotel. However last night lawyers announced they would launch a legal challenge this week to the immunity which allowed Mr Mugabe to escape facing any charges of assault. The immunity, granted after she arrived in South Africa more then a week ago on private business was a political de
  
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• Jerry Lewis, king of comedy, dies at 91

  20-08-2017 20:09 via theguardian.com
  Much-loved American comic behind hit films such as The Nutty Professor has died in Las Vegas•Peter Bradshaw on Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life Related: Jerry Lewis: a life in pictures Jerry Lewis, the “king of comedy” who dominated 1950s Hollywood, has died at the age of 91. Continue reading...
  
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• Deadly rocket fire hits near Damascus trade fair

  20-08-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Six people were reported dead on Sunday when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Syria's capital Damascus being held for the first time in five years.The Damascus International Fair was once the leading event on Syria's economic calendar but had not been held since shortly after the outbreak of the country's war in March 2011.
  
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• Invisible speedbumps: can these cheap tarmac Banksys slow drivers down?

  20-08-2017 20:02 via theguardian.com
  London hopes optical illusions painted on busy roads will trick motorists into reducing their speed. The locations are secret, but we tracked some down It’s an odd look, the one people shoot you when you tell them you’ll be spending the afternoon driving over illusory speedbumps.
  Well, fake speedbumps may not be real, but that doesn’t mean they don’t work. TfL trialled them in Newham, London in 2014, cutting traffic speeds there by 3mph. They are painted humps on the roa
  
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• Elderly Swiss couple found murdered in Kenya's Mombasa city

  20-08-2017 19:46 via yahoo.com
  By Joseph AkwiriMOMBASA (Reuters) - The bodies of an elderly Swiss couple were found dumped by a country road in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa with severe injuries on Sunday, police said, and the caretaker of a property where they had been due to stay was being sought for questioning.Regional police chief Larry Kiyeng identified them by name and said they had flown into Kenya on Saturday and had planned to stay at a private residence in Nyali, an upmarket estate in Mombasa.The couple, who appe
  
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• Nursing aide who raped patients going to jail

  20-08-2017 19:30 via cnn.com
  At first, no one believed them when they said the charming, well-liked aide in the nursing home where they lived had raped them.
  
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• The eclipse: From ancient paganism to American history, it's been a thing

  20-08-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Nothing reminds us that we are on a celestial island surrounded by the abyss like watching our planet's energy source turn into a gaping black hole.  But don't take my word for it. From occult and pagan lore to American history and yes, Hollywood, solar eclipses have been harbingers of doom, transformation, and revolution since time immemorial.  And can't you just ... feel it? SEE ALSO: 20 questions you're too embarrassed to ask about the solar eclipse At a time when the fabric of Amer
  
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• Anti-Isil offensives: Soldiers fighting terror show solidarity with Barcelona victims as Tal Afar assault begins

  20-08-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Jubilant Lebanese forces staged a show of solidarity for the victims of the Barcelona terror attack on Sunday, waving the flags of both Spain and Lebanon over captured Isil positions on the Syrian border.  The UK and US-backed forces killed 20 militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil), capturing a third of their territory from areas on the border with Syria, according to a Lebanese military spokesman. The fighting, which left three Lebanese soldiers dead, has be
  
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• Iraqi forces advance on Isis-held city of Tal Afar

  20-08-2017 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Military leaders are confident of recapturing one of the last remaining Islamic State strongholds in the country but humanitarian groups fear for civiliansIraqi forces have pushed into the outskirts of one of the last Islamic State-held areas in the country – the north-western city of Tal Afar.
  The operation comes just over a month after Mosul was retaken from the terror group, ending a three-year rule over Iraq’s second city and confining the extremists to ever-shrinking pockets of
  
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• Fallen forensics: Judges routinely allow disavowed science

  20-08-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Two hairs that looked like the victim's; some dirt on a truck like that taken from the crime scene; a pattern on the bumper that resembled a design on the victim's popular brand of jeans. The case against Steven Barnes in the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl seemed circumstantial, at best.
  
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• 7-Year-Old Australian Boy Who Was Missing After Barcelona Van Attack Confirmed Dead

  20-08-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  His mother was also seriously injured in the attack.
  
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• Behind olive trees, Spain terror cell's bomb factory

  20-08-2017 18:57 via yahoo.com
  "I should have listened to him," said Groby, who saw all the windows of her home in Spain shatter when a massive explosion detonated in the house next door on Wednesday.It turned out that house hidden behind olive trees was likely the bomb factory of suspected jihadists who used vehicles to mow down pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils hours later.
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' actor: Winter is coming

  20-08-2017 18:52 via cnn.com
  In "Game of Thrones" -- the television show in which I play fictional knight Jaime Lannister -- one of the many stunning visual images on regular display is an overwhelmingly massive wall of ice. I know all too well that, were "Game of Thrones" a nonfiction world, that wall of ice would be seriously imperiled by climate change.
  
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• Total solar eclipse: When is it, where is it happening and how to watch in the UK

  20-08-2017 18:26 via yahoo.com
  What's happening? On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will witness an eclipse of the sun for the first time in 99 years, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across swathes of the Earth's surface. Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, the moment will see the Sun, the Moon and the Earth become perfectly aligned in a once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle seen from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. Although we won't see a perf
  
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• Balz: Judgment on Trump has been 'extremely harsh' from fellow Republicans

  20-08-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  The Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics on "This Week."
  
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• Couple Who Engaged In Sexual Act Aboard Southwest Airlines Flight Questioned

  20-08-2017 18:24 via yahoo.com
  The airline said the incident occurred on a flight from Atlanta to Las Vegas and apologized to other passengers aboard the flight.
  
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• Erasing history?: The debate over Confederate monuments

  20-08-2017 18:23 via yahoo.com
  ABC News' Martha Raddatz sits down with Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, co-CEO of the American Civil War Museum Christy Coleman, and Charlottesville City Councilor Kristin Szakos to discuss the debate over Confederate monuments.
  
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• Canada's Trudeau warns against entering country 'irregularly'

  20-08-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  "Canada is an opening and welcoming society," he told reporters in Montreal following talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.Entering Canada irregularly is not an advantage.More than 3,100 people walked across the border illegally in July to file refugee claims and were arrested, up from 884 in June, the federal government said.
  
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• Falwell Jr. defends Trump's response to Charlottesville

  20-08-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  “He doesn’t say what’s politically correct — he says what’s in his heart,” Falwell said. “He does not have a racist bone in his body. I know him well.”
  
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• Saudi says Qatar blocks planes from transporting pilgrims

  20-08-2017 17:46 via yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia on Sunday said Qatar had refused to allow its planes to land in Doha to transport Qatari Muslims to Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage."Saudi Arabian Airlines director general Saleh al-Jasser has said that the airline has thus far been unable to schedule flights to transport Qatari pilgrims from Hamad International Airport in Doha," read a report on the SPA news agency."Qatari authorities have not allowed the aircraft to land as it did not have the right paperwork, although the pa
  
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• Survivors hail discovery of the USS Indianapolis, 72 years after it was torpedoed with the loss of 880 lives

  20-08-2017 17:45 via yahoo.com
  For decades survivors of the USS Indianapolis, sunk by Japanese torpedoes at the end of World War Two, believed the remains of the heavy cruiser and their ship mates would never be found. But as news emerged that an underwater expedition had discovered the wreck 18,000 feet below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean, they described a mix of emotions as they remembered the hundreds of sailors and marines who died in one of America’s worst naval disasters. Arthur Leenerman, a 93-year-old s
  
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• Community Helps Man Arrested After Leaving Kids Home Alone to Go to Work

  20-08-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  His wife reportedly has stage four cancer.
  
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• Trump has 'inside information' on who protested in Charlottesville: Falwell Jr.

  20-08-2017 17:38
  Jerry Falwell Jr. defended Trump's saying 'fine people' were on both sides.
  
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• Crowds rally in Hong Kong after activists jailed

  20-08-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of supporters of three jailed young democracy activists took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to protest their sentences.Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow, leaders of the 2014 Umbrella Movement rallies, were sentenced to six to eight months in jail Thursday for their role in a protest that sparked the months-long demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.People took on the scorching summer heat to stream from the district of Wan Chai to the Court of Final Appeal in the heart
  
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• Iran reformist leader calls for politicians' release

  20-08-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  Iran's ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday asked supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to intervene in the case of two reformist politicians under house arrest without trial for the past six years.The two high-profile reformists -- Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi -- have been under house arrest since 2011 for their part inmass protests that rocked the regime two years earlier."I want to request the supreme leader to intervene to ensure that the house arrest is resolved," said Khatami,
  
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• 'Mother of Satan' TATP found in Spain bomb factory

  20-08-2017 17:16 via yahoo.com
  Traces of the easy-to-make but deadly explosive TATP -- known as the "mother of Satan" -- have been found in a house where the alleged attackers in the twin assaults in Spain were believed to be building bombs, police said Sunday.Used by jihadists everywhere from Paris and Brussels to the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, the dangerously unstable TATP has become the explosive of choice for the Islamic State group, which claimed the attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils.Investigat
  
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• US Governor: We're all rooting for Trump to 'get it together'

  20-08-2017 17:15 via cnn.com
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich denied Sunday that he is planning to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, saying he hopes the President can steer his White House from chaos to stability.
  
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