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• Bali volcano in danger of erupting

  25-09-2017 23:51 via cnn.com
  Thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Bali have been evacuated from their homes amid fears that Mount Agung could erupt for the first time in over 50 years.
  
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• The US is not at war with North Korea

  25-09-2017 23:33 via cnn.com
  Such is the state of world affairs that it was news Monday when Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary told reporters that, no, the US has not declared war on North Korea.
  
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• Roger Stone on Paul Manafort’s impending indictment

  25-09-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Yahoo News’ Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff sat down with Roger Stone, a former adviser to President Trump, to talk about Paul Manafort, former campaign chief for Trump, and his impending indictment in the Russia investigation.
  
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• Rapper wants to prove the Earth is flat once and for all

  25-09-2017 23:17 via cnn.com
  Last year, rapper B.o.B. used Twitter to jump on the 'flat Earth' bandwagon, and it looks like he's been riding it ever since.
  
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• Kurdish referendum: Iraq parliament OKs use of force to maintain 'unity'

  25-09-2017 23:15 via cnn.com
  Iraqi Kurds have started casting their ballots in a controversial independence referendum Monday as tensions between Iraq's largest ethnic minority and the Iraqi government in Baghdad intensifies.
  
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• Junot Diaz: If Puerto Rico Means Anything To You, You Have To Step Up

  25-09-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  Junot Diaz delivered an impassioned speech about the devastation currently plaguing Puerto Rico at La Fábrica Central in Massachusetts on Sunday.
  
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• Pope Francis accused of spreading heresy -- a first since 1333 AD

  25-09-2017 23:11 via cnn.com
  Several dozen conservative Catholic scholars and clergy have charged Pope Francis with spreading heresy, a bold but perhaps futile salvo against Francis and his reform-minded papacy.
  
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• The man who played football in North Korea

  25-09-2017 23:05 via cnn.com
  Midfielder Erik Paartalu tells CNN's Christina Macfarlane about Indian Super League side Bengaluru FC playing in North Korea.
  
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• Groom Heroically Saves Drowning Boy During Wedding Photo Shoot

  25-09-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  This heroic groom probably didn’t expect to play the role of Superman on his wedding day.
  
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• Venezuela calls new travel ban 'psychological terrorism'

  25-09-2017 22:59 via cnn.com
  Venezuela's government fired back Monday after the Trump administration included the South American country in its latest travel ban.
  
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• Hasan Minhaj Comparing Donald Trump To Stereotypical Indian Uncles Is Gold

  25-09-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  Comedian Hasan Minhaj took aim at President Donald Trump at GQ India’s Men of the Year Awards, proving once again that he can throw some serious shade while looking classy AF.  Minhaj was in Mumbai on Friday to accept the publication’s International Man of the Year award.
  
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• Anthony Weiner Gets 21 Months in Prison. It Could Have Been Worse.

  25-09-2017 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  Anthony Weiner was sentenced in federal court Monday to 21 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty. He got lucky.
  
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• U.S. appeals court allows part of Texas law targeting 'sanctuary cities'

  25-09-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday issued a mixed decision on a Texas law to punish "sanctuary cities," allowing a section requiring localities to abide by federal requests for checks on detainees' immigration status to take effect, but blocking other parts.The Republican-backed law is the first of its kind since Republican Donald Trump became president in January, promising to crack down on illegal immigration and communities that protect the immigrants.Te
  
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• Suspected Church Shooter Was Known To Police Before Deadly Attack

  25-09-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  Authorities are searching for a motive behind Sunday morning’s deadly shooting spree at a Tennessee church as new details about the suspected gunman’s past surface.
  
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• US should 'negotiate with the Taliban' says cricketer turned politician Imran Khan

  25-09-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Cricket legend and potential Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Monday criticized the United States’ new strategy for Afghanistan and said that the US should negotiate with the Taliban instead of aiming to destroy it. "More fighting and bloodshed is not the answer," Khan said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, "I said it 17 years ago and I am still saying this now," Khan, who is considered a likely contender for premier after next year’s parliamentary elections,
  
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• Man 'Pushed To Limit' After NFL Protest, Quits Job At Buffalo Bills Stadium

  25-09-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  While NFL players are taking a knee, Erich Nikischer is leaving the arena.Nikischer found himself so enraged by several Buffalo Bills kneeling during the national anthem on Sunday that he quit his job of almost 30 years at the team’s home stadium, New Era Field.Nikischer said he has no issue with players protesting prior to the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner, but could not handle the kneeling during the song.
  
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• Wanted: 1 million people to study genes, habits and health

  25-09-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact — and to finally customize ways to prevent and treat disease.
  
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• Health care bill protesters descend on Senate hearing

  25-09-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  The typically hushed corridors of the Russell Senate Building echoed with noise Monday as protesters, upset by the Senate Republicans’ health care bill, descended on lawmakers’ offices to let their displeasure be known ― part of several such demonstrations around the U.S. Capitol.An initial crowd estimated at around 100 protesters split into smaller groups once inside the building, with each subgroup seeking out the offices of specific senators, some of whom are positioned to c
  
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• Church Shooting Suspect Has History of Alleged Domestic Disputes

  25-09-2017 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  Emanuel K. Samson, 25, the man suspected of shooting members of a Tennessee church on Sunday had previous suicidal thoughts and domestic disputes, police records show.
  
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• Chelsea Manning says she has been barred from entering Canada

  25-09-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier who served seven years in military prison after instigating one of the biggest breaches of classified data in US history, has said she has been barred from entering Canada.On Monday, Manning posted on Twitter a report from the Canadian government that identified her as a foreign national “who has not been authorized to enter Canada” due to prior convictions.“So, I guess Canada has permanently banned me?” wrote Manning – one of
  
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• 'We Are Outraged': Thousands Of Faith Leaders Oppose GOP Health Care Bill

  25-09-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  A contingent of over 3,000 faith leaders released a letter to members of the Senate on Monday urging them to vote against Republican legislators’ latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
  
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• Dozens of British fighters on the loose in Syria as Islamic State crumbles

  25-09-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  Dead. Captured. On the run. Those are the probable fates of the dozens of British citizens who travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the so called Islamic State terror group. But even as the so-called Caliphate crumbles, remarkably little is known about what has become of its British followers. Unmasked: The most notorious British figures in Isil 03:18 “It really is shrouded in mystery and guess work,” said Shiraz Maher, a researcher at King’s College London who has interviewed a
  
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• Palestinian leader tries to put Trump on notice with warning

  25-09-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Overshadowed by last week's showdown between the U.S. and North Korea, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued an ominous warning in his address to the United Nations: With hopes running out for an independent Palestinian state, the Palestinian leader said he may have no choice but to seek a single, binational state with Israel.
  
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• White House: If NFL protests are about police brutality, players 'should protest the officers on the field'

  25-09-2017 21:33 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders suggested Monday that if NFL players who kneel during the national anthem at games are doing so because of police brutality, they should protest the officers instead of the song.
  
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• Venezuela: Trump acted like 'the world's emperor' at UN

  25-09-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Venezuela's top diplomat accused U.S. President Donald Trump Monday of acting like "the world's emperor," batting back Trump's biting rebukes of Venezuela on the global stage of the U.N. General Assembly.
  
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• Poroshenko signs disputed Ukrainian language law

  25-09-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday signed into law a controversial language bill which has sparked a standoff with Romania and other east European states.The law states that starting in September 2020, students will be taught exclusively in Ukrainian from the fifth grade onwards, though they can still learn their native languages as a separate subject.The legislation has also raised hackles in Ukraine's sizable Hungarian and Polish minorities.
  
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• 14 important issues Trump is sidelining to focus on the NFL

  25-09-2017 21:23 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump devoted much of the online portion of his weekend to attacking NFL player-protesters and boosting calls for a boycott of the league.
  
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• North Korea says U.S. 'declared war' warns it could shoot down U.S. bombers

  25-09-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  North Korea's foreign minister said on Monday that President Donald Trump had declared war on North Korea and that Pyongyang reserves the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S. bombers even if they are not in its air space.
  
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• 97-Year-Old WWII Vet Took a Knee — and Goes Viral

  25-09-2017 21:14 via nbcnews.com
  Photo of John Middlemas, 97-year-old WWII veteran, taking a knee in support of NFL protests goes viral on Twitter.
  
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• The U.S. Navy's Nuclear Submarines Could Be Made Obsolete

  25-09-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  On a more human level, it would be interesting to go back in time to World Wars I and II, where a constant refrain of the sailors and airmen who hunted subs was the sheer tedium of the search.Hour after hour after hour of scanning the oceans, in the hope that a needle in the haystack would reveal itself as a sonar contact or a tiny periscope peeking above the surface.If nothing else, farming out sub-hunting to the robots will make chasing subs a bit less dull.
  
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• Short on Votes, GOP Health Care Push Moves Forward

  25-09-2017 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  The GOP's last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare heads into an all-important week hanging by a thread and short of the votes needed to pass.
  
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• White House Rejects N. Korean Claim That Trump 'Declared War'

  25-09-2017 20:58 via nbcnews.com
  Ri Yong Ho said that Pyongyang would consider shooting down American bombers even if they were outside North Korean airspace.
  
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• North Korea threatens to shoot down US planes

  25-09-2017 20:55 via cnn.com
  North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country by tweeting over the weekend that North Korea "won't be around much longer."
  
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• White House fires back: 'The suggestion of that is absurd'

  25-09-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  The White House responds to North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho's accusation of US President Donald Trump declaring war on North Korea.
  
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• White House fires back: No we didn't

  25-09-2017 20:52 via cnn.com
  The White House responds to North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho's accusation of US President Donald Trump declaring war on North Korea.
  
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• WATCH: Man to backyard bears: 'I need you guys to go'

  25-09-2017 20:51 via abcnews.go.com
  A man in British Columbia in Canada was incredibly polite when addressing a family of bears on his property.
  
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• Protesters in wheelchairs removed by police after disrupting health bill hearing

  25-09-2017 20:50 via abcnews.go.com
  Protesters chanted: "No cuts to Medicaid! Save our liberty!"
  
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• Kim Jong Un is a 'madman,' Trump tweets

  25-09-2017 20:36 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a "madman" Friday morning, the latest escalation in their combative rhetoric.
  
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• A Ranking of the Richest Women of the Kardashian-Jenner Clan

  25-09-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" is 10 this year. Here's how much the show has made for the women in the Kardashian-Jenner clan over the years.
  
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• LeBron James defends NFL protests: 'It's not about the disrespect of our flag'

  25-09-2017 20:25 via abcnews.go.com
  The NBA champion said the protests are "about equality."
  
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• US not seeking regime change in N. Korea: Official

  25-09-2017 20:23 via abcnews.go.com
  The Trump administration says it is not advocating regime change in North Korea after the U.S president tweeted that leader Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer"
  
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• 2 national anthem singers take knees during NFL Sunday games

  25-09-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  During Sunday's 14 NFL games many players, coaches and teams demonstrated their right to peaceful protest by kneeling or remaining in the locker room during the national anthem -- and they weren't the only ones to join in the protest.
  
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• One thing to know about the latest travel ban

  25-09-2017 20:18 via cnn.com
  CNN's Nic Robertson explains the one thing you need to know about the Trump administration's latest travel restrictions.
  
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• Violence in US rises for 2nd straight year

  25-09-2017 20:15 via abcnews.go.com
  New FBI data show violent crime in the U.S. rose for the second year in a row.
  
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• OPINION: North Korea's other weapon -- cyber warfare

  25-09-2017 20:11 via cnn.com
  North Korea has launched 22 missiles in 15 tests in 2017.
  
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• North Korea's other weapon -- cyber warfare

  25-09-2017 20:11 via cnn.com
  North Korea has launched 22 missiles in 15 tests in 2017.
  
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• 'World's heaviest woman' dies

  25-09-2017 20:09 via cnn.com
  Eman Abdul Atti, once believed to be the "world's heaviest woman," died on Monday due to complications from heart disease and kidney dysfunction, according to a statement from Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.
  
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• Trump Dangerous Bellicosity Raises War Risk

  25-09-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Joe Cirincione, MSNBC nuclear security analyst, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump's insult-comic threats against North Korea have only escalated the threat of war with North Korea.
  
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• US stealth fighter jets adding more firepower

  25-09-2017 20:07 via cnn.com
  The US military gave North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a rare sneak peek at its fighter jet of the future this week when four F-35 Joint Strike Fighters equipped with a full payload of live bombs and missiles conducted a training flight over the Korean peninsula.
  
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• Manafort Working Against US Mission in Iraq

  25-09-2017 20:03 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reports on Kurdish people voting on a referendum to become independent from Iraq, a situation the U.S. has fought to prevent but Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has been paid to promote.
  
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