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• Rice sheds light on why she unmasked Trump officials

  13-09-2017 23:59 via cnn.com
  Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN. Manu Raju has the details.
  
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• Brock Turner's mugshot used to illustrate definition of 'rape' in criminal justice textbook

  13-09-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  The mugshot of Brock Turner, the student who was convicted of sexual assault and served half of a six-month sentence, has appeared in a criminal justice textbook in a reference to “rape”.The former Stanford University student was released from jail a year ago after serving three months.At the time, there was intense criticism of what was considered a lenient sentence, handed to him by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.
  
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• Hurricane Irma leaves 'nuclear landscape' in Caribbean

  13-09-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  Residents of far-flung Caribbean territories and former colonies devastated by Hurricane Irma last week have a message for their longtime rulers: Don't forget us.
  
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• Liverpool 2-2 Sevilla

  13-09-2017 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Liverpool's first game in the Champions League since 2014 ends in a draw with Sevilla at Anfield.
  
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• Irma: Eight dead at Florida nursing home left without power

  13-09-2017 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Three people are found dead at the care facility and five others die after reaching hospital.
  
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• A week after Irma, Caribbean devastation is laid bare

  13-09-2017 23:34 via cnn.com
  Before it hit Florida, Hurricane Irma crashed through the Caribbean, causing catastrophic damage.
  
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• Spain Catalonia: More than 700 mayors summoned to court

  13-09-2017 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Prosecutors order council leaders to appear for questioning over the banned independence referendum.
  
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• Theresa May to deliver Brexit speech in Florence

  13-09-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Speech in Italian city will be scrutinised to see if UK stance has softened after tricky start to talks with EU27A speech by Theresa May billed as an important moment in the Brexit negotiation process is to take place in Florence next week, Downing Street has announced.May will speak in the historic Italian city on Friday 22 September “to update on Brexit negotiations so far”, the prime minister’s spokesman said. Continue reading...
  
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• Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Borussia Dortmund

  13-09-2017 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Harry Kane scores twice as Tottenham get their Champions League campaign off to a positive start against Borussia Dortmund.
  
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• Fast-food worker charged with trying to kill baby in toilet

  13-09-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California prosecutors said Wednesday that a fast-food restaurant cashier gave birth to a baby girl while at work and then tried to kill her by flushing her down a toilet.
  
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• Collection of Wild, Exotic Animals Found in Arkansas Warehouse: 'It's a Really Weird Story'

  13-09-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  The animals had been purchased from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.
  
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• Australia Day celebrations axed by third Melbourne council

  13-09-2017 23:23 via theguardian.com
  Moreland city council votes in favour of dropping all references to Australia Day and to join the push to change the dateA third Melbourne council will dump official Australia Day celebrations, with one councillor calling the day “grossly insensitive”.But Moreland city council will continue to hold citizenship ceremonies on the date to avoid losing its right to host them altogether. Continue reading...
  
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• Fury at 'Bodega' tech startup that aims to put corner shops out of business

  13-09-2017 23:22 via theguardian.com
  Tech firm markets glorified vending machines where users can buy groceriesStartup boasts: ‘Eventually, centralized shopping locations won’t be necessary’What does your local shop mean to you? Tell usA tech startup called Bodega that hopes to replace mom-and-pop shops with unmanned boxes that rely on an app and artificial intelligence is facing a massive backlash from immigrant business owners and skeptics across Silicon Valley. The company, founded by two former Google employee
  
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• What’s it like to be awake during brain surgery?

  13-09-2017 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Lisa Upton had brain surgery to remove a tumour and was wide awake throughout the entire process.
  
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• Clinton: Comey 'forever changed history'

  13-09-2017 23:09 via cnn.com
  Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CNN on Wednesday, said James Comey permanently changed history by getting involved in the 2016 election, effectively claiming that the former FBI director's actions led to her loss to Donald Trump.
  
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• Brazil's ex-leader Lula appears in court in corruption case

  13-09-2017 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The former president, who wants to run again in 2018, denies the accusation that he took bribes.
  
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• Cruz on porn video 'liked' on his Twitter account: 'It was not me'

  13-09-2017 23:03 via cnn.com
  Sen. Ted Cruz denied Wednesday that he was the one who liked a pornographic video from his Twitter account.
  
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• Man who killed estranged wife, 7 others had drinking problem

  13-09-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  PLANO, Texas (AP) — Meredith Hight had gathered friends at her suburban Dallas home for a day of grilling and watching football when her estranged husband showed up and opened fire, killing her and seven others before a police officer killed him.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo: Seven reasons why Real Madrid star 'CR7' is ridiculous

  13-09-2017 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The Champions League is back and Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated by helping himself to two goals in Real Madrid's 3-0 win over Apoel Nicosia.
  
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• Air Berlin scraps more flights as pilots call in sick

  13-09-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  Insolvent Air Berlin cancelled dozens more flights Wednesday as pilots again called in sick, despite warnings from the airline that the wildcat action could jeopardise rescue talks.The mass "sick-out" comes ahead of a Friday deadline for potential investors to submit bids for Air Berlin assets."More than 30 flights" had to be scrapped early Wednesday as some 150 pilots handed in sick notices for a second day, an Air Berlin spokeswoman said.
  
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• U.S. will not issue some visas in four nations in deportation crackdown

  13-09-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  By Arshad Mohammed and Yeganeh TorbatiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to some citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone because the nations are not taking back their citizens the United States wants to deport.The new policies, laid out in State Department cables reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday and described in a department news briefing, are the latest example of U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to crack down
  
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• The Latest: Neighbor: Slain patient loved hearing kids laugh

  13-09-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on a Rhode Island man accused of fatally shooting his mother at New Hampshire's largest hospital (all times local):
  
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• Trump dines with Democrats to talk tax

  13-09-2017 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  President Donald Trump says he is ready to work with the opposition Democratic party on tax reform.
  
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• 'Repugnant' taco company cashes in on Mexico's child heroes

  13-09-2017 22:38 via theguardian.com
  After a fast food chain lampoons one of the nation’s most cherished tales, Mexicans wonder whether if the past is still sacredEvery year, Mexicans pay solemn tribute to los Niños Heroes – six boy soldiers who disobeyed orders to retreat as enemy soldiers advanced during the country’s 1847 war with the US. One of the boys, Juan Escutia, is said to have wrapped himself in the Mexican flag and thrown himself from the ramparts of the Chapultepec Castle to prevent the colours
  
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• WATCH: Discovery of baby gator in pool produces screams

  13-09-2017 22:31 via abcnews.go.com
  Police fished a baby alligator out of a swimming pool in Cocoa, Florida, after Hurricane Irma.
  
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• Donald Trump on his tax plan: 'The rich will not be gaining at all'

  13-09-2017 22:31 via theguardian.com
  The president pledged Wednesday he would not cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, contradicting his tax reform outline released in JulyDonald Trump pledged Wednesday that his tax reform plan would not cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans – contradicting an earlier proposal his administration put forward in July.“The rich will not be gaining at all with this plan,” Trump told reporters while meeting with the bipartisan Congressional Problem Solvers Caucus at the White House
  
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• Canada chess officials protest after player condemned for wearing shorts

  13-09-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Anton Kovalyov, a Ukrainian-born Montrealer, says he was called a gypsy before forfeiting the tournament: ‘The issue was not the shorts, but how I was treated’“Canada’s chess federation is preparing to lodge a formal complaint with the sport’s world governing body after the country’s top prospect was berated for wearing shorts and called a “gypsy” by an official at a recent World Cup.Anton Kovalyov, a Ukrainian-born Montrealer, travelled to Tbilisi
  
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• Kaspersky: US government removes Russian security software

  13-09-2017 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Officials are concerned that Kaspersky Lab has ties to the Russian intelligence services.
  
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• Mother gets 30 to 80 years in sons' bathtub drownings

  13-09-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman who drowned her two youngest sons in their bathtub because she felt that would enable her to be a better mother to their older brother was sentenced to 30 to 80 years in prison.
  
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• Sanders: Republican party has 'no credibility' on healthcare – video

  13-09-2017 22:22 via theguardian.com
  Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders slammed Republicans on Wednesday as he unveiled legislation that would expand the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly to all Americans. ‘To my Republican colleagues, please don’t lecture us on healthcare,’ Sanders said at an event on Capitol Hill. ‘You, the Republican Party, have no credibility on the issue of healthcare’Bernie Sanders unveils universal healthcare bill: ‘We will win this struggle’
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• Orrin Hatch Hails the Benefits Of Medical Marijuana

  13-09-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Orrin Hatch (R), the 83-year-old conservative senator from Utah, made a strong case Wednesday for more federal research into the benefits of medical marijuana.
  
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• North Korea's Latest Nuclear Test May Have Been Twice As Powerful As Previously Reported

  13-09-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  New analysis of North Korea’s Sept. 3 nuclear test ― the regime’s sixth-ever and most powerful to date ― suggests it could have been twice as strong as previously thought.
  
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• Cassini's 13-year Saturn mission ends Friday

  13-09-2017 21:57 via cnn.com
  In the early morning hours of September 15, NASA's 13-year mission exploring Saturn and its moons will come to an end as the spacecraft deliberately dives into Saturn's atmosphere and plunges itself into the planet.
  
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• Trump FEMA Pick Out After NBC Questions Falsified Records

  13-09-2017 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  President Donald Trump's nominee for the No. 2 spot at the Federal Emergency Management Agency withdrew from consideration on Wednesday after NBC News raised questions about a federal investigation that found he had falsified government travel and timekeeping records when he served in the Bush administration in 2005.
  
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• Let Hillary Clinton roar

  13-09-2017 21:54 via cnn.com
  Something very strange is going on in post-mortems about the 2016 election. On the one hand, the hard evidence is piling up that a combination of factors largely outside of Hillary Clinton's control were responsible for her loss to Donald Trump. On the other hand, many apparently don't want Hillary Clinton to talk about any of that.
  
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• 22 Ways To Decorate With Mud Cloth, The Trendy Textile That's Anything But New

  13-09-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Mud cloth might be trendy, but it’s anything but new.
  
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• Hosts of 2024 and 2028 Olympics revealed

  13-09-2017 21:47 via cnn.com
  After three failed attempts and 12 years after the demoralizing and disheartening loss to the London bid in 2005, Paris has finally been awarded the Olympic Games it has craved.
  
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• Hosts of 2024 and 2028 Olympics confirmed

  13-09-2017 21:47 via cnn.com
  After three failed attempts and 12 years after the demoralizing and disheartening loss to the London bid in 2005, Paris has finally been awarded the Olympic Games it has craved.
  
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• Trump administration orders purge of Kaspersky products from U.S. government

  13-09-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  By Dustin VolzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday told U.S. government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their networks, saying it was concerned the Moscow-based cyber security firm was vulnerable to Kremlin influence and that using its anti-virus software could jeopardise national security.The decision represents a sharp response to what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as a national security threat posed by Russia in cyberspace, following an elect
  
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• Rohingya crisis: Humanitarian situation catastrophic, UN says

  13-09-2017 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The UN secretary general urges Myanmar to suspend military action in Rakhine state.
  
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• French baby boy banned from having name containing tilde

  13-09-2017 21:28 via theguardian.com
  Brittany court rules name’s spelling cannot feature non-French characters (ñ) even though region has its own languageA French court has banned a couple from giving their baby a name containing a tilde, ruling that the character ñ was incompatible with national law. The couple from Brittany wanted to call their newborn boy Fañch, a traditional name in the northwestern region which has its own language. Continue reading...
  
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• British territories hit by Irma 'too wealthy' to receive aid budget funds

  13-09-2017 21:25 via theguardian.com
  Criteria enshrined in UK law means Treasury will have to foot aid bill Anguilla and British Virgin Islands, rather than Department for International AidThe British government has said it is unable to use its substantial aid budget to fund the hurricane rescue effort in the Caribbean since the British overseas territories affected are too wealthy to qualify for aid under official international criteria. The criteria for overseas development assistance, enshrined in UK law, are set by the OECD thi
  
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• Boeing lands $600M contract to design new Air Force Ones

  13-09-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday awarded Boeing a contract worth just less than $600 million to begin the preliminary design of the next Air Force One planes.
  
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• Introducing Serena Williams' baby daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr

  13-09-2017 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Serena Williams uses social media to introduce her baby daughter to the world and document her pregnancy.
  
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• ESPN Host Committed 'Fireable Offense' With Trump 'White Supremacist' Tweet: White House Aide

  13-09-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — ESPN should consider firing host Jemele Hill for calling President Donald Trump a “white supremacist,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says.
  
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• Anthony Weiner And Huma Abedin Appear In Divorce Court

  13-09-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK ― Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) met his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, for their first hearing in divorce court Wednesday, months after he pleaded guilty to sending explicit text messages to a minor.
  
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• Philip Hammond tells the City he will protect its global position

  13-09-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  UK chancellor hints he won’t tolerate protectionist measures from EU aiming to lure business awayThe UK will not water down rules to protect its financial services sector in the wake of Brexit, the chancellor said on Wednesday as he sent a message to his counterparts in the EU that he would not tolerate protectionist measures being imposed to lure business way.Philip Hammond also told his audience of financiers in a set-piece speech in the City that his priority was to devise policies that
  
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• Congress pushes Trump to condemn white supremacists

  13-09-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  Congress is sending a bipartisan joint resolution condemning the Charlottesville violence -- as well as "white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups"-- to President Donald Trump for his signature.
  
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• Irma's wrath was especially hard on Keys, Jacksonville

  13-09-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Irma seemed to inflict special wrath on some unlucky communities, even though it didn't cause the catastrophic destruction that was feared in Florida and the rest of the Southeastern United States.
  
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• Olympic Games: Paris & LA to host 2024 & 2028 respectively

  13-09-2017 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Paris and Los Angeles are named as hosts of the 2024 and 2028 Olympics respectively by the International Olympic Committee.
  
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