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• 'Beating, Butchering and Burning': Myanmar Accused of Ethnic Cleansing

  11-09-2017 23:49 via nbcnews.com
  Channel 4 News' Jonathan Miller reports from Bangladesh on the ethnic violence that has forced Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to flee across the border.
  
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• Hyperlapse Video Shows Hurricane Irma's Entire Destructive Path

  11-09-2017 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  This hyperlapse video shows the entirety of Hurricane Irma's destructive path, along with the creation of hurricanes Jose and Katia.
  
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• Death toll from southern Mexico's big earthquake rises to 96

  11-09-2017 23:47 via abcnews.go.com
  The death toll from Mexico's 8.1 magnitude earthquake has risen to 96 as more victims were confirmed in the hard-hit southern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas and residents worked to repair shattered homes and small businesses
  
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• Syrian Army, U.S-Backed Forces Rub Shoulders In Eastern Syria

  11-09-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Fighters from opposite camps converge on the ISIS stronghold of Deir Ezzour — with potentially explosive consequences.
  
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• Here's What We Know About The Florida Keys After Hurricane Irma

  11-09-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Irma had been downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it crawled north out of Florida on Monday.
  
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• Police: 9 dead, including suspect, at suburban Dallas home

  11-09-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  PLANO, Texas (AP) — Nine people, including a suspect who was fatally shot by an officer, have died after a man opened fire during a gathering to watch football at a suburban Dallas home, police said Monday.
  
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• Supreme Court justice temporarily preserves Trump refugee ban

  11-09-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday provided a temporary reprieve for President Trump's order blocking most refugees from entering the United States, putting on hold a lower court's ruling loosening the prohibition.Kennedy's action gave the nine justices more time to consider the Justice Department's challenge filed on Monday to the lower court's decision allowing entry to refugees from around the world if they had a formal offer from a r
  
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• Eight victims killed by gunman in Texas were gathered for party

  11-09-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  A gunman who fatally shot eight people at a Dallas-area house knew at least some of the victims gathered there to watch a football game, authorities said on Monday.The shooter in Plano, Texas, was killed by the first police officer to arrive at the scene on Sunday, Plano Police Chief Gregory Rushin said at a news conference.The officer discovered seven victims who had been fatally shot, and two others were taken to a hospital.
  
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• Bossert says the link between climate change and recent hurricanes to be analyzed 'at a later date'

  11-09-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  During a briefing on Monday, Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert dodged a question about the connection between climate change and the recent hurricanes. He said the “causality is something outside my ability to analyze.”
  
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• 'Little People, Big World' Stars Jeremy And Audrey Roloff Welcome Baby Girl

  11-09-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  The “Little People, Big World” stars are now parents to a baby girl, Jeremy’s rep confirmed to People.
  
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• Volunteer shooters to help thin Grand Canyon bison herds

  11-09-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The National Park Service plans to thin a herd of bison in the Grand Canyon through roundups and by seeking volunteers who are physically fit and proficient with a gun to kill the animals that increasingly are damaging park resources.
  
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• Group Founded By Obama Administration Alumni Says Joe Arpaio Pardon Was Unconstitutional

  11-09-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― An advocacy group run by former government attorneys says President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is unconstitutional, and is urging a district court judge to refuse Arpaio’s request to vacate his contempt of court conviction.
  
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• Supreme Court justice puts hold on Trump refugee ban ruling

  11-09-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday put a temporarily hold on limits imposed by a lower court on President Donald Trump's order barring most refugees from entering the United States.
  
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• Yes, sitting too long can kill you, even if you exercise

  11-09-2017 23:02 via cnn.com
  Take a movement break every 30 minutes, say experts. No matter how much you exercise, sitting for excessively long periods of time is a risk factor for early death, a new study published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine found.
  
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• Three men including two soliders charged with being members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action

  11-09-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Three men, including two British soldiers, have been charged with terror offences as part of an investigation into the banned neo-Nazi group National Action. Five men, including four soldiers, were held on suspicion of terror offences last week and two have since been released without charge. West Midlands Police said Alexander Deakin, 22, Mikko Vehvilainen, 32, and Mark Barrett, 24, have been charged with being members of a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 11 of the Terrorism Act. De
  
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• Rescuers Save Adorable Baby Seal Abandoned by Her Mom

  11-09-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  The pup was only a day old.
  
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• Texas man arrested in ex-wife's disappearance day of Harvey

  11-09-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  The body of a Texas real estate agent was found in a marshy wooded area Saturday more than two weeks after she disappeared the day Hurricane Harvey made landfall, authorities said.
  
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• US Navy ships in deadly collisions had dismal records

  11-09-2017 22:06 via cnn.com
  The two US Navy destroyers involved in deadly collisions in the Pacific this summer both had lengthy records of failure to fulfill key training requirements, according to Government Accountability Office data provided to Congress and obtained by CNN.
  
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• WATCH: Florida officer picks up American flag amid hurricane winds and rain

  11-09-2017 22:00 via abcnews.go.com
  "Even in the midst of a storm, we are reminded of the love for our country and community," tweeted the Coral Springs Police Department with a video of the incident.
  
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• The Latest: Person hospitalized in Texas shooting dies

  11-09-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  PLANO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the deaths of at least eight people, including the suspect, after a shooting at a Texas home (all times local):
  
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• Democrats Aren't Happy About Hillary Clinton's Return

  11-09-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Morning Must Reads: September 11
  
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• Banksy's new artwork takes aim at arms trade

  11-09-2017 21:38 via cnn.com
  A new piece of art by Banksy was unveiled in London on Monday in a protest targeting one of the world's largest arms fairs.
  
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• Debate Heats Up Over Search for Life on Mars

  11-09-2017 21:35 via nbcnews.com
  Some scientists worry we'll 'infect' the red planet with microbes from Earth — or bring dangerous microbes back here.
  
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• Prosecutor: Man who killed Holly Bobo lived in 'dark world'

  11-09-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  SAVANNAH, Tenn. (AP) — A man who lived in the "dark, dark world" of methamphetamine and morphine abducted a Tennessee nursing student from her rural home in 2011, then drugged, raped and shot her before discarding her body and bragging about it, a prosecutor said Monday.
  
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• Police: Woman kept children in makeshift cages, filth

  11-09-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  ACCOMAC, Va. (AP) — A woman kept two of her five young children in makeshift cages and all of them lived in a home full of trash, rotting food and fleas on Virginia's Eastern Shore, authorities said.
  
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• California Sues Trump Administration Over DACA Elimination

  11-09-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO ― California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) announced Monday he is suing President Donald Trump’s administration to block it from ending protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Hurricane Irma exposes racial tensions on smashed St. Martin

  11-09-2017 21:25 via abcnews.go.com
  Hurricane Irma evacuation exposes racial tensions on devastated island of St. Martin
  
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• Pence: Flight 93 passengers might have saved my life on 9/11

  11-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence told relatives and friends of the victims of United Flight 93 attending the 16th anniversary ceremony Monday in Pennsylvania that the passengers might well have saved his life.
  
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• Russia Scoops US Media on Trump Meeting Again

  11-09-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump meeting with new Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov in the White House, but not telling U.S. press about it until it was already reported by Russian state media.
  
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• Cuba counts the cost of deadly Hurricane Irma

  11-09-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Cuba emerged from a 72-hour thrashing by Hurricane Irma on Monday with three-quarters of the population without power, as the country began the task of restoring basic infrastructure and services.Among the worst-hit areas were Havana, where at least seven bodies were recovered, and the coastal towns of Caibarien and Cojimar.Dazed citizens like Yanmara Suarez surveyed the devastation in the historic old town of Havana, largely submerged by a wind-whipped tidal surge that left many people wading i
  
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• 'Goodbye Spain': Huge rally for Catalan independence before vote

  11-09-2017 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands of Catalans rallied on Monday to demand their region's secession from Spain, in a show of strength three weeks ahead of an independence referendum which has been banned by Madrid.Draped in red, yellow and blue separatist flags -- with one banner reading "Goodbye Spain" -- they marched through central Barcelona in what many hope will be the last protest before independence.Around one million people took part in the event, Barcelona's municipal police said in a Twitter post.
  
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• Supreme Court lifts restriction on Trump 'Muslim ban', barring 24,000 people from entering US

  11-09-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  The US Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily lift restrictions on the President's travel ban, quashing an opportunity for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the country.At the request of the Justice Department, the Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling that would have exempted some people for the administration's ban on refugees.In a one-page ruling, signed by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court announced that the exemption would be stayed, pe
  
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• The Latest: Condemned killer won't appeal judge's ruling

  11-09-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on last-minute appeals by a condemned Ohio killer scheduled to die Wednesday (all times local):
  
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• Nancy Pelosi Rips Into Trump At GLAAD Gala

  11-09-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Count House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is among those “appalled” by President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender recruits from enlisting in the military.
  
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• Trump Aides Facing Mueller Query Lawyer-Up

  11-09-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  Maddow looks at current and former Trump White House staffers who have hired lawyers as Special Counsel Robert Mueller has turned his attention their way, and considers what can be gleaned about the Trump Russia investigation from recent developments
  
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• Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court on refugee ban

  11-09-2017 20:32 via abcnews.go.com
  The Trump administration is back at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to continue to allow strict enforcement of a temporary ban on refugees from around the world
  
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• After Charlottesville, Sen. Scott to meet with Trump

  11-09-2017 20:18 via yahoo.com
  "The View" co-hosts discuss what effect a discussion with Tim Scott, the only black Republican senator, could have on the president.
  
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• Jeff Sessions reportedly considering lie detector test

  11-09-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  "The View" co-hosts discuss the ramifications of using a lie detector test to uncover leaks from the National Security Council.
  
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• The German Election Is a Christian Civil War

  11-09-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Germany’s far-right is saying out loud what Angela Merkel’s party has always quietly believed: that Christian culture depends on Christian demographics.  
  
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• N Korea: US will pay price if harsh sanctions agreed at UN

  11-09-2017 20:01 via cnn.com
  The United States will pay a "due price" if harsh sanctions against North Korea are agreed at a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York Monday.
  
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• Russian Pol: Russia Elected US President

  11-09-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow rounds up some of the day's major headlines, including news of a Russian parliamentarian saying on a TV show that U.S. intelligence "slept through" Russia electing the U.S. president.
  
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• Planned Parenthood Kansas City Gets Its Abortion License Back

  11-09-2017 19:54 via yahoo.com
  Planned Parenthood Great Plains (PPGP) ― the PP affiliate that provides health services in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma ― has been licensed to start performing medication abortions at its Kansas City center, according to a Monday press release.
  
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• Around one million rally for Catalan independence from Spain

  11-09-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  By Sam EdwardsBARCELONA (Reuters) - Around one million Catalans rallied in Barcelona on Monday, waving red and yellow striped flags and banging drums, in a show of support for independence after Madrid moved to block a referendum on the region's split from Spain.Sept. 11 marks the 'Diada', Catalonia's national day, which commemorates the fall of Barcelona to Spain in 1714 and is traditionally used by pro-independence activists to call for secession for the northeastern region with a distinct lan
  
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• Mexico Reverses Hurricane Harvey Aid Offer to Texas

  11-09-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  After a series of natural disasters in Mexico, the country is reversing its offer of aid to Texas victims of Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• How Irma unfolded: the hurricane by the numbers

  11-09-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  Irma set several meteorological records, with 37 hours of sustained 185mph winds in the Caribbean. Here’s a look at some more of the key figures A damaged boat at the Dinner Key marina after Hurricane Irma passed through. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
  
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• Teenage Partygoer Found Dead in Hotel's Walk-In Freezer

  11-09-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Kenneka Jenkins was pronounced dead at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont on Sunday.
  
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• Trump Doesn’t Understand the Economics of Immigration

  11-09-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  The United States is facing an aging population and a lack of skilled workers. The president's immigration policy is only going to make it worse.
  
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• The 5 Best Jobs for People With ADD and ADHD

  11-09-2017 19:20 via yahoo.com
  For adults who have problems focusing at work and have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, here are the top 5 jobs that work with your disorder.
  
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• Hunter S. Thompson's 9/11 Essay Is Still Chillingly Accurate 16 Years Later

  11-09-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  When terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, no one knew exactly what the future would hold.
  
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• Trump administration launches bid to lift restrictions on 'Muslim ban'

  11-09-2017 19:11 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene once again on behalf of the President's partially reinstated travel ban.The Justice Department filed an emergency application to bar a 9th Circuit Court ruling that would allow refugees to enter the country if they have a formal agreement with a refugee resettlement agency.Mr Trump's travel ban, which the Supreme Court partially reinstated in June, bars residents of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US unless they ha
  
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